This Is What Scares Me in Oklahoma

Posted on July 16, 2010 by ehurst

Either they are completely stupid, or testing some kind of Orwellian mass control scheme.

The other day on our local TV news channels, which I watch only so I know what lies are being promoted by the establishment, there was this all serious, frightening story about kids using a new technique to get high. They called it “i-dosing” or something, and spoke about how these binaural tones could induce euphoria. Then they insisted this was a really big problem in the schools, etc. Oh my! Make sure you keep your kids away from this!

Yeah. Two things for a reality check. First, search “binaural” on the web, and soon enough you’ll find some scholarly descriptions of unusual auditory perceptions based on some unknown characteristic of the human mind. By playing frequencies close to each other in opposite ears, but within a specific range, you can hear pulsations or beats which aren’t actually there. It does not cause euphoria. Second, work in any secondary school for more than a day or two, and you’ll realize kids will hype all sorts of things. Even if they have to fool themselves, it will become all the rage in a closed population bored to death with what passes these days for “education.” Folks, I was certified to teach and did so in schools in Oklahoma and Texas.

So very quickly we have this deeply embarrassing exposé posted on the web about stupid Okies, including, of all places, an AV software company blog! Yes, it is entirely possible the officials here are just that stupid in actually believing this crap. Or, this may have been a very poorly disguised stupid attempt at playing Orwellian games. Either way, “stupid” is the appropriate adjective for this story splashed on the news channels, and for the suckers who believed it and supported the story, and for anyone else who takes seriously those officials. I’m willing to bet neither the officials nor the news folks will issue any kind of retraction. For all I know, they are still pushing this idiocy with all seriousness.

Look, unless you plan to come help us get rid of such a fraudulent waste of oxygen, don’t bother coming here to Oklahoma.

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The Iconoclast: Crushing False Dreams

Posted on July 15, 2010 by ehurst

If this life is all we have, then Western Civilization was right all along. When you strip it bare down to the core, the very heart and soul of Western Civilization is anti-Christian materialism. Everything about it assumes there can be no value to anything which does not promote creature comfort in this life. It utterly rejects the notion of the Fall, of human sin nature, and assumes you must make the most of things here and now. Even with all the nice words about eternity, Western Civilization perverts the notion so it means nothing.

Thus, we in America today are so wrapped around this devilish lie, we can hardly be taught to do what’s right. It requires massive plowing and destroying what stands in order to heal it down deep at the roots. An entire epoch of human history is built on sand, and that is Western Civilization.

Everything you dream of as the goals of your life are probably utterly sinful, whether you are a full blown Spirit-filled Christian or not. The Bible says we must give our entire focus to the Life beyond this world, and the only thing which matters here is how well we advertise that truth. I’ll cite some prime examples.

Sexual fulfillment is not a human need, not a right. It is an appetite of the flesh, and God has tightly, strictly ruled how it shall be fulfilled. Any other route is evil. No, God says you have no right to expect good sex or even bad sex, because you have no business demanding it in the first place. Your proper attitude is accept what He provides with grateful heart, and don’t let it own you. Sex is marriage in God’s eyes, so all the rules about marriage applies. The only reason we think this is cold and ruthless, that calling it life and joy is somehow perverted, is because our cultural perversion regarding sex runs all the way down to the roots, the very soil itself. No, I’m not promoting what you may think is Victorian or Puritanical, because that’s just a false counter raised to scare you. The real deal in God’s eyes is so foreign, I’m not sure writing a book or two would be enough to dispel the mythology.

Clinging to his life is evil. For folks who are spiritually dead, this life is all they have, and eternal torment is what follows. That is the natural concern of those who don’t know Christ. But for us who know Him, we can’t wait to escape this world. God keeps us here at His pleasure, and it is neither punishment nor a blessing to live long. What is a blessing is having a long train of good testimony of divine truth, of a life which reveals Him. For us, this life is not precious; it is to be endured. We aren’t here to grab a little gusto. It would appear to be some sort of gusto though, because we value it so lightly, we would bravely face almost anything for His name. It will seem we are a candle burning brightly and burning out quickly, and fatalism is awfully close to the truth. Children dying is not a tragedy to the children, but to us who love them. Children suffering is a tragedy because they tend not to understand, but tragedy is a good basic description of this life, because suffering is built into the nature of things. We don’t need to pursue what makes for a good life, but what makes for a good witness.

Your dreams are lies. Do you dream of a good education, a good career, a home and kids, and the same stuff for them? You are deluded, and God is not pleased. If your career matters much at all to you, God will have a very hard time using you. Retirement? It’s just a tool: useful, but not worth much effort. Economic rootlessness is not a sin, contrary to everything we are taught. It’s not irresponsible to be poor in the face of economic opportunity. It’s irresponsible to think it matters at all. If God has given you children, He does not require you to sacrifice everything for their apparent welfare and happiness. Try to understand this line from an obscure song: “We would rather our children be martyrs than murderers.” That’s godly; that’s biblical. Insofar as you are in charge of your children’s lives, God holds you accountable to Him for your commitments, not what you manage to do, and He demands sacrifice from the heart, which means you place them in His hands. Do what your conscience demands, and if that deprives them of the American dream, you have done well by them nonetheless, because they will have seen the truth of things. If they react poorly, that is not your problem, because the only thing you owe them is truth, not happiness.

There is no significant difference between violence by police and violence by criminals. Not every act of violence is unwarranted by either group, but a great many times both will assault and kill people for entirely personal gratification. Crooks don’t want your resistance for their nefarious deeds, and neither do police. That the police are paid by the government has no bearing on the issue, only that it means they are more likely to get away with it. When the public demands a criminal be punished, the state will comply only if it matches state needs. Often they simply won’t bother. The state rarely offers a policeman the same penalties for precisely the same criminal acts as non-state violators. Simply because a policeman followed official policy does not make it right; it simply means you and I have no input on those policies. The state is almost entirely unresponsive to public demand, and certainly less responsive than almost every criminal who lives. Confront a professional crook with minimal force and statistics show he’ll move on to easier targets. Resist the state and you will most certainly be killed, especially more so when the cop and/or state is wrong. The difference is the state refuses to admit what it does is wrong.

We have a long, long way to go to get it right.

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Your Own Resistance

Posted on July 14, 2010 by ehurst

Those who understand it best refer to the “Committee of One” — you don’t have to organize to be effective in resisting evil government.

Forget parties and the typical definitions of liberal and conservative, since it is all artificial. What you see in the mainstream information outlets is entirely fake, never mind how ardently such a vast horde of people truly believe. If you don’t think the system here in the US, and in the West generally, is completely broken, then I have nothing to say to you. For the rest, you already know we are moving in a very, very bad direction. Official government itself, regardless of what it may have been in the past, has now become inherently evil. It does far more harm than good, and honest people — yes, even Ron Paul — are corrupted by being involved. (Ron Paul’s decisions did not reflect the will of the people, nor their best interest, and allowed the perverted campaign to continue unchallenged. That’s irresponsible. That’s politics.) The whole thing is implacably the foe of humanity.

So an honest conscience requires resistance. It’s inevitable. Naturally, there is a wide range of resistance open to you, starting with the simple passive refusal to participate in the evil government demands. If you simply go along, you aren’t fully human. Even if your methods are altogether furtive, waiting for the right time to escape, it’s still resistance. When you operate on the principle of Committee of One (Co1) you get to choose. That there will be widespread resistance is inevitable, and all resistance is, if not good, at least different from the evils of government. We will focus on principled resistance for this discussion, since the crooks have a totally different ethos for all this.

It does help if the many Co1s are operating from the same basic principles, but I think that’s too much to hope, not realistic. However, the mere act of resistance alone is at least temporarily an alliance with your Co1. The choices open to you remain flexible, both in fundamental orientation and in choices you make to answer surprises. Don’t pretend for now there is any hope of restoring anything we may or may not have had in the past. It’s gone forever. We’ll have to start from scratch. Go ahead and dream, but try not to become too wrapped up in it, because you probably can’t imagine what it will be like down the road.

Then again, if all you do is react to the immediate challenges, you’ll probably end up in quite a mess. If that’s okay with you, then at least you know. In my own case, I don’t expect anything in particular except trouble of some sort. It’s just too obvious things I cannot do will be demanded of me all too soon. I’d rather not get involved in bloodshed, or even mild roughing up of other humans. I may escape that entirely, particularly if the resistance is truly wide and deep, or more precisely, wide spread and based on deep commitments. TPTB in their evil hold a lot of cards we cannot see. There will be advantageous leaks, and I insist it is right and proper to pray the cover be torn off everything. Still, there is a certain layer of evil at work none of us can imagine. So for someone like me who has actually served that evil as an enforcer in times past, while little will surprise me in the sense of cynicism, it’s hardly impossible to catch me off guard. Understand this: A very key element in government evil is the unjustified secrecy over things which would easily justify lynching every one of the officials. I’ve seen a huge number of government and corporate secrets, and every one of them was a matter of covering up someone’s sins. It was never a matter of denying the enemy operational intel.

So we know there will be some real surprises, because evil can also be intelligent and resourceful. Back off a moment and see yourself as part of the whole scene. Chances are very favorable you’ll get hurt regardless of how you act. Most of us will get hurt more than once, and in different ways. A few of us will surely die unnaturally in the next few years. The proportions will vary with geography — cities will be more dangerous, coastal conurbations most dangerous of all. A uniformity of threat is impossible, since this involves real humans, evil though they may be on various levels. Some will not be able to go through with it, and in various ways bail out on the process. Let me warn you the folks in government who are most religious will dominate the extremes, while less religious folks will take up the middle range of things in having a conscience. You have to understand this in terms of deeply held convictions, not whether they belong to any religious institutions, though the overlap is huge. So the one thing you can expect is the unexpected.

The only preparation which really counts is knowing yourself. There are some things which only circumstance can reveal, but the more you know about your own deeply held convictions, not just what you hope they are, the more likely you can make full use of those quiet moments when your actions can be shaped in deliberation. At some point in the game, every moment will see a change in expectations. You’ll be cut off from all the previous inputs by which you guided your life, and you’ll have only what’s inside, responding to the immediate context. At some points, probably in most points, your guesses will be wrong, but things may well work out in spite of that. Or it simply won’t make a bit of difference. Be ready for that. The one and only hope you have for any kind of peace and safety is not the external kind, but the kind which means you didn’t catch yourself compromising because someone or something suckered you.

And they will surely try. Remember that G20 business in Canada? The alternative press was full of stories about false-flag police provocateurs. When big things go wrong in big ways in the near future, consider Toronto a dress rehearsal. We’ve seen it elsewhere in the past, but this time the activists were ready and caught a lot of good photos and videos of it. This is the primary reason organizing is a mistake. Anything organized is a target for subversion by the state. The longer and more involved it is, the more certain it will happen. A critical element in mysticism is not trusting yourself, much less anyone else. It doesn’t require hostility, nor even direct assertive resistance, but simply the assurance of human failure at the worst possible moment. So even if the state does not plant a mole, someone in any group of two or more is vulnerable to bailing out, and it may be you. By not organizing, you guard yourself from failure of others, and guard others from your own failings. If all you do is mess things up for yourself, you can keep a clear conscience.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking results matter. That’s a Western materialist obsession, part of what got us into this mess. There is no measurable objective which can hold all the variables. This is not about dreams of a brighter tomorrow, a better world, because that is utterly impossible. It never was, nor ever will be. The only thing that can ever matter is being true to your best self in the process. The results will always be purely a matter of God’s sovereign will.

That’s the whole point behind resisting. I can’t tell you how much and what kind of resistance is right. That’s between you and God. Even if I tell you I’m a pacifist, that doesn’t mean God can’t ever move me to harm another human for some divine purpose I can’t imagine. It’s altogether unlikely, but I do know a lot about weapons of all sorts, and I’m physically large, and currently working out quite regularly. I want the Spirit of God to have full access to me as an asset. My current expectation is to review all I’ve learned about escape and evasion. That is actually more work than fighting. I don’t like seeing people suffer, and I’ve seen plenty of it people hurting to know for sure how I feel about it. Whether fighting or fleeing, it has to fit my sense of what causes the least suffering for all involved.

That there will be more suffering is beyond question. Whatever we might have done at some time in the past, it’s too late to fix what exists. It’s going to be very messy, very soon. God help us.

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Christian Mythology of Marriage

Posted on July 13, 2010 by ehurst

I agree with Vox in his disdain for typical marriage talk in churches. Were I to say anything on the list of statements he quotes from yet another blog, my wife would know it was hyperbole.

You have to understand I am very eclectic and lyrical, often using drama, including broad satire, and all sorts of other thespian devices to express myself. You may not see such displays at first, but as soon as I think I can get away with it, and there appears some reason for it, however frivolous, I’ll act crazy.

Thus, you should understand some things about my marriage.

I am the last person to quibble over semantics, but within the context of this discussion, let’s make clear Vox rightly distinguishes between “just deserts” and “worthiness.” If I got the former, I would suffer a short and miserable life, a long and painful death, followed by eternity in Hell. Worthiness is an attribute of God alone. Where the Lord can be found, there is worthiness. If you find Him in me, then worthiness will be found in me.

This confusion of terminology ends up becoming an excuse for a very twisted, perverted middle class American evangelical culture. It’s a parody, something which vaguely approaches the ideals of Western Civilization at times, but seldom bears any resemblance, even in caricature, of the New Testament model drawn from a frankly Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) intellectual framework.

Real men in the Bible do not take themselves seriously, but their duties are the essence of life, the excuse for which God has not yet taken their lives. My duty to my wife is to remain utterly committed to Christ. If she does not see in that devotion something worthy of her devotion, I hope she has the good sense to put some distance between us.

Jokingly, I’ll tell her I’m awesome, and seconds later grovel dramatically at her feet. Neither is the reality of what I am, or what I do. Yet both bear an element of truth. No, I don’t deserve someone so wonderful as my wife, but if there is no worthiness in me, she had better get packing. And that works both ways. Were she not committed to the same things as I, there would not have been a first date.

The one most important thing about marriage is the planning. Not in the details, but in the spiritual ground upon which it stands. Were the people involved both spiritually dead, marriage remains in theory the one place where God can demonstrate His love for us even if we don’t accept that love. Lost folks can know something of Jesus through marriage. That they seldom get that something of Jesus is proof they need Him, but that’s another matter. God’s gift still stands with no strings attached; it’s only what you make of it on the purely human level.

For believers, it is utterly essential you pay attention to it before the time comes. The New Testament makes utterly clear this is a one-shot deal in this life. You are permitted only one partner once your spirit comes to life, and any previous partner will have a claim on you regardless of their spiritual condition. If you’ve had more than one, you’ve made a mess of things which can’t be undone, but you can salvage something if you truly trust the Lord to make it work for His glory. That’s the only reason anything regarding marriage can work — His glory. Chances are, if it’s too messed up, you should prepare to do without. Harsh, but that is the biblical standard.

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The Iconoclast: Military Departure

Posted on July 13, 2010 by ehurst

There was a reception. Not fancy of course, just the ad hoc stuff pulled from the exchange shelves using a slender portion of unit funds. None of the men for whom the reception was organized were of the rank for which military protocol required such expense, nor were any of their awards such high honors. Rather, it was because there were so many of them. Rotation policies had changed yet again.

Their departure would take a bite out of the community. That was the only real reason any of them drew any attention. But one man in particular, who seemed to have breathed some fresh subtle hint of life into things when he came, would be surely missed when he was gone. But the plans to honor him were borged by the the commander who was the ultimate politician. The reception was more military than community. To no one’s surprise, this did not hinder that particular man at all.

Most of the men mumbled a few standard phrases when given their awards and a chance to address the crowd. Two even managed to sound very close to the standard military ideal, if the leadership manuals meant anything. Nice speeches with a fresh bite, not entirely predictable, and even funny at points, but ending on a sober patriotic note. Then it was his turn, because the civilians demanded he be last on threat of a very ugly revolt of sorts. The commander had wanted to do this one first and get it out of the way. He dreaded what the fellow might say. This one had not given him one shred of military reason for official disfavor, but the man was totally alien. So while it was never anything dramatic, it was always obvious just the same. Always on protocol, this soldier was still scared him.

The award was presented, and the man was asked to speak. The commander’s jaw tightened and his brow lowered just a bit over his eyes.

It’s not possible to find words for what I feel today. I would, therefor, not normally speak to you all. However, an iconoclast never misses a chance, and I hope you’ll indulge me a few seconds with my sledge hammer. The plaque has little value in itself, and I’m not the sort who will wave it people’s faces after today. I’ll keep it because it will form a symbolic anchor point, a way to recall all the things I found worthy of the time I spent here, and the people I’ve come to love. A few of you understand well what has driven me.

We cannot ever know what we are. And what we do is always fraught with imperfections in the eyes of someone somewhere, if not our own eyes. It remains for others to say why it was this plaque should be given to me. But just one more time I want to declare for the record: This is merely a bit of stuff which represents to me the things to which I am committed. It would change nothing if I left without any plaque, and without a chance to speak.

The other awards will go on my record, and someone somewhere will count them in the standard military bureaucratic fashion, measuring me against an ever changing, yet always lifeless, standard for serving under the authority of human government. They matter only in the sense of their utility. What matters to me is the irreplaceable opportunity to operate under commitments bigger than any of us, or all of us, or all humanity together. That is something needed everywhere, at all times. What matters to me is demonstrating what really does matter. Such a thing is its own reward, so the rest of this matters little. For your cooperation, such as it was, I am truly grateful.

It wasn’t code language, but of the couple thousand whose presence in that foreign land depended on a shared mandate from their government, only a dozen or so understand what he had said.

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Illegal Israel

Posted on July 12, 2010 by ehurst

This is a follow up to Poor Little Me.

It makes no difference if Israel can justify their actions regarding the Gaza Flotilla and subsequent aid missions under modern laws and human expectations. One standard alone matters: Was it according to the Covenant by which they claim to be a nation?

Israel is quite secular, but she claims to be a nation of Jews. The Bible doesn’t actually use that word “Jew,” since it wasn’t written in English. Still, we all know the term is derived from what should have been translated “Judean.” The identity of a nation since ancient times was a matter of affiliation recognized by the in-group. To be a Judean meant you placed yourself under the laws of Judeans, that being the Covenant of Moses, however corrupt their understanding might be at different times. (BTW, the Treaty of Westphalia and it’s provisions regarding what constitutes a legitimate state and government are all completely against the Bible.)

The God of the Bible permits little argument on this point: To be a member of the Nation of Israel — or what was left of it after God removed the northern kingdom — means obeying His Law. In other words, there is no such thing as a secular Jew. If you are not faithfully practicing the Laws, you are not a Jew. The Law requires ceremonially ostracizing anyone who refuses to abide by the Law, unless they do something to justify execution. The term “Jew” requires being under the Law of Moses. Thus, the entire modern state is illegitimate, as noted in the previous post. However, since it’s all on the stage now, let’s deal with the reality of things. If the modern state of Israel acts contrary to the Law of Moses, they are wrong. Simple as that.

They are judged by the standards well established in the Old Testament. Viewed as a whole, we know modern Israel failed at every step of the way. They did not have a mandate to conquer the inhabitants of the land simply because those inhabitants weren’t Canaanites who sacrificed their children on the altar of Molech, nor worshiped any Baals or Ashtartes, etc. They didn’t have temples with prostitutes of any persuasion, nor did they sin in any of the ways God found worthy of genocide. In other words, whomever was there back in 1900 or so were just fine, and God didn’t call anyone to remove them. The notion there was no one there is a blatant lie.

For Jews to move into the land, they were obliged to do so peacefully. They were obliged to avoid provoking their neighbors, and certainly were not permitted to engage in terrorism. But they did. Look up the name “Irgun” — current members of the Israeli political scene were members of that terrorist organization. Now, granted some of their terrorist acts were against the UK, which was part of the arrogant Western nations thinking they had some divine right to make everyone in the world behave according to their own unbiblical standards, but the point is those claiming to be Jews badly mistreated the local population with zero justification under God’s Laws.

They still do. Look, everyone with an ounce of intellectual honesty can see this whole thing is fake. Mossad is responsible for Hamas (in the same way al-Qaeda is a CIA creation), responsible for every stinking toy rocket flying out of Gaza and the West Bank. Almost everything which appears in the mainstream press, including Wikipedia, is a lie. I don’t say that lightly. I really do wish there was a Jewish population in Palestine living according the Law of Moses. It would prove to all the world how nations ought to conduct their business. Deception is not part of that, yet Mossad’s own motto is “By deception will you make war.” The very meaning of “Orwellian” lies, reversing the standard meaning of words in every language, is drawn from the example of Mossad and Israel. Even the missiles coming out of Lebanon are mostly launched by agents of Mossad. Almost everything you hear in the mainstream press about Israel is a lie, because modern Israel wants to fool the whole world.

So it won’t matter a whit how various nations, maritime laws, etc., view what Israel does with Gaza and the flotilla, because every justification is one Israelis created themselves. What matters is whether Israel is acting according to Moses. I’ll give you hint: They are not even close.

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JavaScript Still a Mistake

Posted on July 11, 2010 by ehurst

In my research, I read an awful lot of sites I really don’t recommend. Most of them for the content, but a few have infuriating use of JavaScript (AKA JScript or ECMAScript). Some sites are run by technicians who clearly hate most of humanity. One page in particular I can detect something scripted chugging away in the background, hammering my Athlon X2 at 20% steadily. The script does nothing at all, and as soon as I turn off scripting on that page, the chugging stops and it makes not a whit of difference in how the page displays. But I read that site because the author has a peculiar viewpoint which serves as a reference point on many issues I follow. He is usually partly correct, while reliably wrong in the same consistent fashion every time.

Because I don’t tolerate peripheral animation of any kind on any webpage, it requires learning to use several different tools. I’ve contacted that peculiar author about his page, and he refuses to respond. For example, his server blocks the Lynx browser, which is a common error among webmasters who wrongly associate such tools with cracking. It’s the same class of webmaster I accuse of intellectual laziness, paying no heed whatsoever to user complaints about how a page works. If they like it themselves, public be damned. That so many writers are not also webmasters means the pairing of interesting output with hateful service all too often.

A few times, my close friends have played with JScript features which hammered my system. At such a high cost, I would sometimes avoid their sites, until I began learning how to “fight back” as it were. Sites which rely on heavy scripting are simply wrong-headed when the scripting requires continuous or frequent response by the browser. With inhumane webmasters and the culture of “that’s so cool,” gee-whiz crap on their pages, you can’t let them drive you away. It takes a little work, but the tools are available.

As noted previously, when a server blocks Lynx, try Elinks (or on Windows, WebbIE). If you really do need a partially graphical output because the page is incomprehensible in a text browser, I highly recommend you check out the latest release of Opera browser. It’s different, and frankly deficient in many ways, but it has one big advantage: built in customizing of the interface toolbars.

Here’s what I do. Right-click on the bottom toolbar in a blank space; your one option is “Customize”. Click that and select from the submenu “Appearance.” You’ll get a menu window with all sorts of options. Click the tab which says “Buttons” and in the right-hand window pane, select “Preferences”. Full drag-n-drop here. Drag from that display the buttons you want to see on your bottom toolbar; I prefer to push them all to the far right against the built-in controls for zooming. I keep the following, which ends up looking like check boxes with text to the right:

  • Enable Animated Images
  • Enable JavaScript
  • Enable Plug-Ins
  • Enable Cookies

On the fly, you can simply disable any of those features by removing the checkmark in the box. Most of the time I leave cookies turned off, and turn them on for sites I trust. If I notice on any particular page some heavy CPU use in my GKrellM monitor, I click off JScipt and that usually stops the CPU churning immediately. If I need to see a video, I can turn on the plug-ins for that page only.

Once you feel sure you’ll be visiting a particular site often, you can always right-click on any blank spot in the page and select “Edit Site Preferences” which allows you toggle a large number of options for that site only. If a page includes elements you never want to see, that same right-click menu allows you to select “Block content”. All the typical media elements are highlighted and the rest of the page goes dim. Pick the one which annoys you and tell Opera to block the source everywhere you go. That’s how I prevent seeing racy pictures and such. Some sites I end up having no graphics at all, just color and layout, because they just can’t behave themselves.

Sometimes I really need to see the textual content, and I’m willing to take a second or two to manipulate how that page runs in my browser. There are similar controls available for Firefox, but I find them far less simple to use. Google’s Chrome browser has precious few controls, even in the add-ons. For example, there is absolutely nothing you can do about animated graphics. I can assure you this is the Orwellian advertiser/marketing side of Google showing through; that is Google’s main source of income, after all. Like Microsoft, users are the product delivered to advertisers — that’s the nature of their business. So if you really need to see something on a site which seems intent on demanding too much from you, take advantage of some of the better features in web browsers.

My number one complaint remains oppressively heavy JScript pounding on my system resources. There simply is no excuse for that. Yes, advertising is necessary to pay for some sites, but I reserve the right to block unacceptable material and scripting as the steward of my Lord’s computer, and thus the eyes and mind He gave me. His concerns outweight yours every time.

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Poor Little Me

Posted on July 10, 2010 by ehurst

While it’s obvious not every one in the world carries this particular weakness, far, far too many can be driven into a defensive mindset. Put them together in a group, and it gets downright ugly. Then there are those who make it the primary assertion of their religion. (Caveat: Only fools will struggle with my choice of terms here. Wise people will allow the context to define the words. Semantic wrangling is foreign to true faith.)

Scan the writings of those who profess Judaism, and you will see throughout history those writings carry a sense of sorrow over oppression. In recent centuries, this is inevitably paired with a militant spirit of fighting back on some level. In ancient times, bearing sorrow was taken for granted. Do the right thing and you’ll always be in trouble. The very existence of Judaism is a slap in the face of all other religions. Of course, when you realize the Bible says that was partly the whole point of revelation, you take it for granted.

In other words, God made it clear from the very start walking in His ways would always bring you trouble from those who don’t. It’s never going to be so simple as you’ll have nothing but trouble, because the Word of God promises there are distinct benefits in this life of seeking to obey His Laws. And those Laws tend to make a nation rather friendly to others, mostly by teaching you to leave other folks in peace when you can. Share the revelation of God, but live it first so they’ll ask. Show them how well it works. If they react with uncomprehending envy, God will defend you. If they pay attention, God will make you a witness. You can’t choose for them how they will react.

But to assume the worst is not part of that revelation. Bad times come and go, and you don’t get too wrapped up in either the good or the bad. You get wrapped up in doing what’s right regardless of the costs. Somewhere along the way, the Nation of Israel slipped away from that ancient attitude, and fully embraced the wisdom of fallen man. At the same time, they bought into the common arrogance of nations, thinking they were the center of the universe, bearing the only really right way of living. So when they went away from God’s call to depend entirely on Him, they were most sure they were right. Their prophets say that. The problem was they drifted so very far away, they completely lost touch with the ancient mindset, so that they hardly understood any longer what the Law was actually demanding of them.

When God sent His own Son to correct that problem, they rejected Him. At this point, they no longer even knew their own God, and He decided their purpose on earth was done. They rejected that, too, of course. Their false concept of God would not permit it. In reality, they had some other god, one which was a product of their imagination. That imagination included an unbreakable closed circle of logic: They alone understood God and any suggestion of misunderstanding was blasphemous on the face of it. Their understanding included a lot of things Jesus criticized, but the smug self-assurance, elitism, and racist arrogance (as far back as Jonah) made them intolerable to the rest of the world. They mistook insufferable hatred for holiness, and turned inward, so that any effort to continue the mission of showing truth to the world would naturally fail.

Today we have some Jewish folks who are so very reasonable, decent and civilized, trying to represent a religion which is anything but. Granted, there are threads within that religion, various schools of thought, but what the world sees is the nasty stuff associated with the Pharisees of Jesus’ day. Bluntly stated, Judaism has only the most tenuous connection with the Old Testament religion of Moses. So it stands to reason the current perversion is an open insult to God, and He’s not going to help them with that. Whatever is going on right now with Jewishness is more likely the result of God’s disfavor. But at the same time, you can expect more than the normal amount of disfavor from the rest of the world. True holiness draws some negative response, but a hateful caricature of it draws universal despite, and justly so. It gains none of the promises of God.

But the Jews as a whole don’t see that. They are pawns under the manipulating hand of an elite group who actually hates them, even as it embraces something which is theirs. It’s using them and their broken religion to serve Satan, with all the hatred of life, love, liberty, truth, beauty, etc. It’s a lie, within a lie, within a lie…

Thus, Judaism itself is characterized by this sense of beleaguered persecution. Lacking the peace of internal justice from God, they have chosen to be defensive with a vengeance. Instead of embracing and owning the world, which was their spiritual birthright, they defy the world by clinging to one of the things God Himself took from them — the homeland in what we now call Palestine. By man’s power they have taken it, and are taking more of it. Even the poor benighted pagans of this world can see how every step of the way this has been utterly contrary to God’s Laws. But to help justify this, some very rich and powerful Jewish elites have ginned up a huge lie even they don’t believe, taking advantage of the ignorance of a bunch of folks who didn’t understand Jesus any better than Jews themselves. Utterly cynical. We now have several generations of highly educated fools who are wholly owned by the silly notions of Dispensationalism, because they bought into the same assumptions as the Pharisees about a lot of things. This is simply a way of enslaving a bunch of Gentiles to their dream, a bodyguard of powerful thugs who embrace the self-righteous nastiness as justified.

Today, we have this singularly troublesome state in the Middle East, highly accomplished in espionage, torture, terror, Orwellian lies, and a brand of Judaism which hates everyone who isn’t a member — Israel. Always whining about threats, they own enough nuclear weapons to destroy half the world single-handed, and their elite leaders own virtually all the banks in the world. Why don’t they just take over? I’m not sure, but I sense there is some perverted pleasure of toying with those who are so far beneath them. What kind of unspeakable dishonesty does it take for them to say they are threatened? They already rule all but a handful of nations via the banking system. And if that’s not enough, they own the companies which provide the means to control virtually every means of communication in existence. For example, they bought out Zone Labs (ZoneAlarm firewall) and rewrote the software which, even now, protects most government computer systems in the world which run Windows. In other words, the biggest single threat to all the world is Israel.

Yet they keep whining about how they are so alone and threatened.

Just sitting here reflecting on it, I find myself in little ways infected by this awful mindset. Sometimes I feel very much alone because everything I read out there either denies, lies and repeats the mantra of poor little Israel, or I see massive vile ugliness about hating Jews. If I run across Jews who embrace Moses and eschew the Talmud, and manage to read the Torah from the original Hebrew mindset (ANE Mysticism), I’ll be first in line to support them. If they just take a step in that direction, I’ll support them. How many people can simply sit down, without some big agenda to push, and discuss openly this madness which threatens to take the whole world down in flames? It has already destroyed the US, but something so big as America takes awhile to hit the ground, and it won’t happen all at once. But it makes you a little crazy when there are so few who dare to say what you are thinking, and I am not permitted by God to remain silent.

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Warning: Before It’s Too Late

Posted on July 9, 2010 by ehurst

Given the climate of things in US government, as well as that in a few other places, my ability to connect regularly to the Internet and keep this blog alive could simply stop some day without warning. At the same time, other things could happen in my life to stop my posting here, also without warning. Then again, on a different level, I’m not sure we have much room left for discussing these things. We may all soon be very busying doing, as in doing everything we can to survive.

No, it’s not hyperbole. I’m not predicting anything in particular because I’m not privy to any special plans you can’t discern for yourself. But we all have this tendency to think things are going to roll along pretty much the same, simply as a subconscious assumption. What I will say is this is the time to examine all your assumptions about life, because a great many of them may be lies told by someone else. Question your own sanity while you’re at it, but the point is you would benefit greatly by pulling more of that stuff out in the open. Conscious consideration of those things we’ve always taken for granted might save you a lot of time when you compare it with what now approaches.

If I had to guess, I’d say 6 to 12 months will see our world turned upside down. I hardly know precisely what will change, but there are some general trends. I’ll list a few on my mind right now.

Don’t assume any goodness or sanity in the US government, nor even your own state government. People in the ruling circles and those who rub shoulders with them tend to quickly isolate themselves from our daily reality. Put bluntly, they might as well be your worst enemies. Increasingly, they are less interested in simply fooling us and more interested in bluntly forcing compliance with their plans. Those plans bear no relation to our best interests.

For example, a great many tax deductions and cuts which have been in place for a long time are set to expire this year. It will feel to most of us like a huge tax increase. At the same time, a lot of state and local governments are broke, or dangerously close to it. Most of them don’t have the sense to discuss cutting programs. Indeed, if anything, most of them will be increased, particularly military budgeting. It may not have anything to do with the cause or conspiracy, but a very real result of 9/11 was killing a bunch of people and destroying records for an audit at the Pentagon of trillions of dollars gone, for which no one could account. The recent bailout did nothing to help anything except folks who already had all the wealth of the US in the first place.

The military draft has been introduced again, and conditions favor it passing for the first time in many years. There is talk of a civilian draft of sorts. And with the virtual certainty we will start a war with Iran in the next few weeks or months, warm bodies with boots on the ground there will be a necessity, without taking them from our other illegitimate warfare (colonizing efforts) around the world. It won’t matter whether those wars actually protect us from anything; there won’t be anything here worth protecting. Meanwhile, regular jobs will continue fading into the air. Obamacare will make all jobs much more expensive for those who still work.

Prices for just about everything will go up. We just had a ginned-up IMF audit of sorts on the US as a cover for excusing genuine tax increases. Life will get very expensive in every way. That evil Carbon Cap-n-Trade is going to come one way or another. While the current trend is to offer some thin cover of justification, the first time a real protest or genuine stiff resistance comes against these things, the blood will run in the streets. Some of that military-civilian draft will be for troops on our own soil who will guarantee bloodshed.

Yes, things could change, but it would only be a change to a different set of threats. Either way, things will get a lot tougher very soon. This is not meant to scare, but simply awaken. I’m still a pacifist with no intention of preparing for armed resistance. I may be moved to shoot some marauding thieves and such, but that’s another matter. I can afford to sacrifice my own safety and life, but I can’t neglect the safety of neighbors who might not be so ready for death. Still, I am in general rather eager to see Jesus, and have no hesitation facing death for the right reason. This world is not worthy of much concern, but as long as He keeps me here alive, I have a mission about which I do care very much. I hope you’ll join me in this commitment.

Meanwhile, keep your eyes and ears open — wise as serpents, harmless as doves. Almost no one really knows what is going on, and those who do will not likely tell the whole story. Most of those telling anything are lying. There is more to gain from stirring false fears than there is to from keeping disaster under cover, but both seem to show up at the same time. Most of what you are led to believe is a really big deal is just misdirection. But that we are headed for tribulation is not in doubt. Most of the important things I could say about tribulation have already been said.

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Progress toward Death

Posted on July 8, 2010 by ehurst

Progressive — another word for inhumane communist.

It assumes that we somehow are better than mankind was thousands of years ago. So much does this view pervade our society it becomes necessary to produce a whole library of work to counteract the big lie, and show, not only has mankind not progressed at all, but is fully incapable of it. Civilization has not risen from height to height, but has declined deeper and deeper. Each wave in the cycle is more pedestrian and empty. All it takes is a few years of reading the great works of the past translated from ancient tongues. Even then, you still have to show how the very frame of reference itself as declined, and we hardly understand greatness itself. A fool measures wise people against his folly.

Even the relatively small shift from our nation’s founding on the fervor of the Enlightenment to the current Progressive humanism is painfully obvious to those who bother to look.

By rejecting the existence of natural rights, accordingly, the Progressives consciously repealed this limit: “It is not admitted that there are no limits to the action of the state,” Merriam observed, “but on the other hand it is fully conceded that there are no ‘natural rights’ which bar the way. The question is now one of expediency rather than of principle…. Each specific question must be decided on its own merits, and each action of the state justified, if at all, by the relative advantages of the proposed line of conduct.” In devising the content of the law, legislators need not worry about respecting the individual’s natural right to rule himself, because “there are no ‘natural rights’ which bar the way.”

Look where it has brought us:

In other words: when we decide that an American citizen is Guilty of Terrorism, there is no need for a trial, or due process, or even any public presentment of evidence. It suffices that we have concluded this in secret, with no checks or external review. Once we decide that, the death penalty is imposed and we will execute it ourselves. We are literally Judge, Jury and Executioner. And, despite the fact that we have been continuously wrong in our accusations of Terrorism and have even knowingly imprisoned innocent people, you’ll just take our word for it, on blind faith, that the citizen we want to kill is really an Evil Terrorist. Yes, it’s true that you refused to accept that same rationale when the Bush administration used it merely to eavesdrop on or detain American citizens — in fact, you screeched that those less extreme policies were tyranny and a shredding of the Constitution when they did it — but you should nonetheless accept this mentality when we use it to murder your fellow citizens who have never even been charged with any crime.

And that seems to be fine with our political class. All because there are a few hundred people hiding in caves in remote tribal areas who are really, really Scary: who will get you if don’t acquiesce to endless war, the transfer of enormous amounts of money to fight those wars, and the most unlimited and unchecked government powers imaginable. And even when they come right out and say that this is all about nothing more than a few hundred people — many of whom are motivated by the very violence we’re perpetrating — it changes very little. Fear is an extremely potent motivating force, overwhelming all reason and skepticism of power. That’s why political leaders — in all eras and all places — like it and use it so much.

We don’t even know half the time what our so-called Founding Fathers believed half the time. So we have these wild characterizations such as Thomas Paine as a libertarian, when the man wrote proposing the welfare state, social security, population control, etc. He was a socialist, but his ideas were couched in older terms, and the Progressives consider him rather backward. Thus, the Progressive grip on public education taints Paine as a “conservative” and only mentions stuff he said which might sound that way.

Now those things Paine suggested arise from a concern for human welfare, and that is a given. The problem is how you implement that concern, and the measures you take to provide for human life and comfort. You see, the Enlightenment presumes to take it’s ideas from the Classics — Greece, Rome and so forth at their height. If they felt like getting funky, they could add Persian and Egyptian culture, but no one seems to have much of a clue about Hebrew culture or its biblical predecessor. The Enlightenment is a rejection of the Bible and faith to begin with, so any presumption by Christians to embrace the Enlightenment means rejecting the Christ of the Bible.

Folks, ancient man did not have our technology, but it seems that lack is what prevented them from being such shallow fools as we are today. For all our modern assumption this life is all there is, does it not seem odd how life is so much cheaper to self-important government elites? Ancient man felt death was simply the world beyond, but seemed to do a much better job of treasuring life. They thought a battle was a really big thing if so much as a hundred died, but we kill thousands and never bat an eye.

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