Sin of Secrets

Secrecy is sin.

If you have to hide something, you are surely doing something evil. I happen to know first hand: The vast majority of government secrecy is covering up crime. Particularly military secrecy, it’s almost never denying the enemy information, but denying the humanity of victims and troops. It’s as if to say, “We know what’s best, even if we have to manipulate you like some robot to make you do unconscionable evil.” The only time troops are told “need to know basis” is when it’s something troops won’t accept if they know. This reluctance is seldom because they are malingering, but their chain of command knows it’s immoral and are unwilling to do what’s right.

I’ve been praying specifically that God would rip the cover off everything hidden. The divine principle is to reveal, not hide things. The only reason anything in the Bible is a mystery is because people simply reject the underlying assumptions. I would say God has no trouble granting my request; if nothing else, there is a vast horde of people devoted to embarrassing others by revealing secrets, and such is merely the other edge of the same blade of cutting things off with secrecy.

The latest scandals support my contention it’s always about hiding crimes, or at the very least, putting the spotlight on people who say and do things without the support of their own convictions. Neurosis is denying the truth to yourself. Embarrassment is being forced to confront your own contradictions. The best way to avoid embarrassment is simply taking the time to know yourself. Anything you say will be used against you in this world, so make sure your private correspondence contains mere privacy, not secrecy. Privacy is for civility, by withhold information which is of no use to the rest of the world, not to hide stuff which actually affects other people. Be in public what you are in private, not what you believe folks expect.

Sure, plenty of stuff is taking things out of context. Let’s get one thing straight: It is so rare for the news agencies to give an honest account, you should assume every news report is a lie. In my dealings with news folks, they only want something they can sell, and they are never on your side. Use them, but never, ever trust them. Make sure whatever you say to them will be twisted and put in the worst possible light; otherwise they can’t justify taking up their valuable time talking to you. If you do find them seeming to support your side of things, it could only be because you are already neck deep in the wrong side of any particular issue. They could not exist if they didn’t support the rulers of this world (which rulers do not care about you or anyone else but themselves).

Aside from the problem of context and propaganda, the best defense against scandal is holding an open mindset. That is, assume your every word is being recorded. When you say something which is sure to be controversial, make sure you really do believe it, and why you believe it. Don’t say something to anyone you aren’t willing to back up in public. In particular, this goes for email and IM chatter. Nothing electronic is private. As your influence rises, so does the interest in your private affairs.

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Building FreeBSD 8.0 (Updated)

My desktop was running CentOS 5 on one drive, but I had another on which Win7 was installed. Since I put that copy back on the Inspiron my wife is using, I had to nuke it off my machine. However, Win7 did some weird stuff with my SATA drive, so I had to use CentOS and the dd command to erase the whole thing, and fill it with zeros. Once that was done, the FreeBSD installer worked normally. I used the Netinstall disk because I like to build it from scratch.

If I’m going to fool with rolling release, I might as well have it my way. So I’ve spent the last couple of days building FreeBSD 8.0 on my machine. It seemed best to stay with i386 architecture and simply optimize make on k8. This evening, I finally finished with GNOME 2.28 and got it working. You have to manually insert the command to run the GNOME background stuff in your boot configuration. Of course, GDM comes with zero config and it didn’t allow me to login normally. Also, you have to make sure to mount the proc file system, manually putting it in fstab, as well, and give your user account permissions to mount things like flash drives.

That’s the FreeBSD way of things. You have to do a lot of reading just to get stuff done which is typically automated elsewhere. But I think it’s worth it. Got sound and nVidia support without trouble. Next, I’m going to install HPLIP and set up my printer, but that requires compiling a particular driver out of the kernel first. I suppose in a few days I’ll have it. Again, I feel it’s worth it.

Update: It’s a bust. That is, I can’t get the printer to work. It requires the latest HPLip package, and somewhere in the big pile of print-related software I had to install, the whole thing failed to even recognize the device. Without the printer, it’s about useless to me. Otherwise, it was truly fine software.

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Implications of the Moonbat Theory

Re: Moonbat Conspiracy Theory —

Should you be as crazy as I and agree with the substance of my theory, what would be a sensible plan of action?

My first step is to make sure we completely wash away any notions of saving the Constitutional Republic. I’m not sure exactly how much, but the global elite forefathers were already exercising control when our First Constitutional Convention met. Some of our most famous founders were either members or servants. At the very least, they provoked the Civil War to destroy the notion of states’ sovereignty. It doesn’t matter the Constitution was clearly a voluntary compact, and the resulting federal government was designed to be a servant of the multiple states. Lincoln turned that upside down with the myth of the sacred and unbreakable Union. So for at least the past 150 years, the Constitution has been a myth. Stop pretending there is any use quoting it and demanding folks act according to it.

Secondly, I would like for everyone to stop fidgeting about loss of rights. It doesn’t matter if you have this or that right, because no government on earth will honor it. It’s not a matter of the theory of rights and governments bound by God to honor them. Most of the rights listed by either side are drawn from a false Aristotelian epistemology. Just to make sure you understand, both Natural Rights and Human Rights are bogus. God doesn’t see things according to either or both, so stop pretending He’s going to work with you to preserve or restore them. From the revealed Laws of God (Noah), you should expect God to hold governments accountable on His level. There is a sort of expectation of just revolt, but that would be foolish to engage without a very substantial portion of citizens or a very substantial external support. The latter is simply no longer possible, unless you happen to be playing into the hands of the global elite.

In particular, don’t get too huffy about information gathering. For anyone who has served in the military since WW2, they already have more on you than you know. Any members of your immediate household during those years of service are equally compromised. All this fussing about your SSAN, the details of your income, your ethnic background, where you work or why you don’t, etc. — it’s a waste of time. If they decide they need to know, they’ll find it. That is, unless you are part of that tiny group of people who have already gotten off the grid. That means you have no valid ID, no bank account, no street address, no utilities services, nothing, not even a library card. There is no paper trail and you officially do not exist. That’s a hard life. Between that and full compliance there isn’t much room. If you plan to fight it, get ready to lose. There is no real principle at stake, given the two previous points.

Chances are very good, unless you are involved in something pretty much market-proof, the best jobs in the near future will be government, specifically with the Federal Government. If you can get on the dole in some fashion, it might be wise. I expect the VA to stay alive, but reduce benefits. I can’t speculate how long it will last, but I honestly believe seniors will suffer most as benefits are cut. I foresee things like Social Security and Medicare being broken off around the edges rather quickly in the next two years. Such organizations as the AARP are lying to you about almost everything, because those folks are paid to keep you dependent mentally. At some point, it won’t be worth the trouble any more, so you should consider researching ways to become as independent as you can. Start learning how to garden wherever you live, how to keep domestic food animals, etc.

By all means, building informal communities for support is absolutely critical. Don’t you dare organize and give this thing a structure, because then it becomes a target. Leaderless is life. If your resources and opportunities there are limited, you should have already moved to another location where you can get a better fresh start.

Meanwhile, if you are of a mind to accept federal employment, just keep a wary eye on requirements which might compromise your real principles. For example, even if they begged me or held a gun to my head, I would not let them put me in a position to directly support the rape of other countries. So even if the standards changed and they offered me big rank, I would not deploy. On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind working in life support operations. You draw the line where your conscience demands. Don’t expect it to be logical, and don’t try to defend it with calculating logic. The only thing you need to know is whether you can be at peace with what the job demands; nobody has a right to question you on that.

We will have a North American Union (NAU). That Trans-American Corridor is already under construction, though they don’t call it that. For those of us here in OKC, I don’t know if they have decided where it will run. Having seen all the heavy investment along Interstate 35 already, my bet is either they will run the corridor together across the far west side of the county (near the civilian airport), or split up the different modal threads and run each across a different route. Frankly, I-35 is not a good route, unless there is a god-awful lot of power and money willing to rip down things like that massive Native American Heritage Center (not yet finished), the Oklahoma River/Bricktown recreational zone (where we host major sporting events), and all those hospitals, sky scrapers and brand new roadwork on the Interstate itself. I can’t guess how it will affect other cities along the proposed route to Kansas City; all the more so for the route(s) north of there.

Keep in the mind the number one issue for government is keeping folks dependent mentally, in the sense they aren’t likely to actually gather a significant force in armed revolt. The reason for proposals to encourage immigration across our southern border is partly to relieve pressures ahead of the NAU. Also, it lowers the average age, and brings in a much more dependent population, much more willing to work for less. This shifts the balance so bringing the continent under slavery is easier. It will all look and smell like socialism or communism, but it will actually be fascism. Profits and property will aggregate in corporate hands, while losses are shifted to the public purse. TARP, anyone? Thus, the state and the corporation merge. We have already failed to resist the past few blatant acts of fascism, so it’s too late to stop it.

In other words, this world stinks and it won’t ever get any better. Don’t pretend you can fight it very much as long as the global elite live and have their control over wealth. Getting rid of them would mean a truly global catastrophe worse than what they plan for us. The only thing left is to decide it all really doesn’t matter. Truth makes His own path. When you embrace Truth, you realize all this stuff is just shadow boxing. Save your energy for things which really matter — those things aren’t in this world. Live Truth and eventually make your escape when He calls you home.

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Moonbat Conspiracy Theory

A couple of questions arose regarding my post, Imperial Base America. I realize it was a little disjointed here and there, so I wanted to clarify and expand on the theory.

Again, let me note nothing here proposes to offer advice on any particular plan of action, much less some kind of organized resistance. If anything, let me assure you only genuine Leaderless Resistance has any hope at all. That is, if a significant number in one place at one time come to believe and understand things pretty much the same way, each fully versed and truly committed, you might have some hope of staying out of the worst of this. If it requires centralized coordination, you’ll never get there. I’m pretty sure the global elite rulers know this, because Leaderless Resistance is virtually impossible at this point.

First, understand they are already in control. Not in the totalitarian sense, but sufficient control to get what they want in the long run. These folks work across multiple generations, and the plan remains essentially the same. Tactics, and even strategy, have evolved to account for unexpected events and a better understanding. However, the fundamental plan to make the bulk of humanity willing slaves is on track.

Please notice what has been destroyed at every juncture in the past couple of centuries. In the West, it was the individual self-reliance. The key to this is promoting the triad of evil: (1) depravity, (2) dependence, and (3) herd instinct. Now it’s for sure there has to be more than one herd, since different folks are drawn to different things, but they have managed to prepare a number of different controlled herding operations. People with a social conscience end up drawn to various forms of socialism and communism — AKA, progressive, liberal, etc. People with ambition tend to be drawn to capitalism, fascism, conservatism, etc. There are also smaller groups under populism (totalitarian control of both economic and social behavior) and libertarians, even anarchists. Each group has been structured with various canonical orthodoxies, each of which permits some degree of the triad of evil. So while a conservative wants economic liberty, they are suckers for social controls which tend to prissy middle class materialism. Libertarians are easily suckered into intellectual ivory tower dreams drawn from Aristotelian certainties. Liberals are profligate sinners, and populists are psychotic. And so on.

Powerful servants are needed, but they must remain under control. So it comes out every institution, organization, or individual who is allowed to rise in power and influence is always drawn into one or another vulnerability. The creeping sexual perversion among the Catholic priesthood is no accident, any more than it is among Protestant mega-pastors and best selling authors, Hollywood, TV, and politicians. So just about anything goes, particularly as long as it permits control and encourages everyone to join a herd.

Some forces in this world naturally resist the evil triad. For example, Islam. Yes, the elite managed to plant some greedy perverts in positions of power here and there, but it’s nowhere nearly enough. Too many ordinary Muslims simply will not fall for that stuff. So in places where immorality makes Islam impotent, except as a means to herd forming, there is little real pressure to change. In countries where Muslims tend to resist such controls, you’ll see Western military forces, or plans to put them there soon. Thus, while faithful Muslim clients are allowed to rattle their own cages impotently, Islam itself is generally demonized in the West, and is the primary excuse for attacking non-client countries.

Christianity began as a force to resist the evil triad, but has been hijacked in most expressions. The vast majority of believers are divided between Christian Zionism or Christian Liberalism. Israel is the current single greatest distraction used by the global elite. That compromise has disemboweled biblical faith one way, while liberalism guts it the other way. These days the majority of humanity has been conditioned to find genuine mysticism too hard to swallow. Those who can resist on the basis of mysticism are simply marginalized as freaks. Frankly, Aristotle has turned out to be the global elite’s best friend, ruling out any honest consideration of anything not confined by human rules of logic. Anything approaching an other-worldly mindset is just too dangerous.

The US is particularly materialistic. America would have been utterly useless had the Civil War ended differently. Lincoln served his purpose, but dared to defy his masters on the issue of banking, so had to die once his mission was finished. When we became massively wealthy and powerful, we became the most powerful tool of tyranny on earth. That’s how we are being used right now. Almost from the beginning, we have started every war utterly unjustly. Each time we won, we lost another piece of our national soul. We didn’t have that much in the first place, so it’s long gone now. We are just a machine for carrying out the initial task of gaining de facto military control, to enable economic control by the global elite.

By the way, I just thought I might mention something: From the divine perspective, the Devil was the one who carried God’s whip. This was a demotion from the top position — Covering Cherub who processed all communications between God and every other being — down to the bottom as God’s Lictor. Being now Satan’s own whip to lash the nations is not a glorious distinction on this earth.

The one genuine chance this can be stopped is if a critical mass of states manage to secede, or at least assert genuine nullification against the federal government. It varies with the region, but I’m going to guess at least a half-dozen states would be required, and they would almost have to be contiguous. I consider this so unlikely, it approaches zero probability. This very moment, as states prepare measures of asserting various levels of independence — totally justified by the Constitution, by the way — measures are being taken to prevent their effectiveness. In some cases, such as California, the level of utter dependence is simply too great. Wyoming is thinly populated, lacking sufficient forces to resist. Each case offers any number of opportunities, most of them left in place long ago just for this reason.

So with my moonbat crazy theory, I hope I can convince folks to focus on the few things left each of us. There is little you can do to turn this around, so your first responsibility is to engage your skepticism and cynicism. As noted here in the past, you may not be able to break every dependency, but you should never trust anyone — mainly because you can’t even trust yourself. Rather than fearfully trying to stay out of reach, it should help you form more realistic expectations. If no failure surprises you, it also can’t distract you much. So you can relax and expect the government will go to war against Iran any day now, and it won’t surprise you. All the intensity of emotional investment can just stop. You might as well attempt to halt a runaway freight train with a feather.

In fact, let’s get our mortality out of the way, too. We already know the global elite plan eventually to reduce world human population to about a half-billion. They stand a very good chance of getting this at least begun in the current generation. Your individual chance of dying in the next two decades, regardless of your age, is very high. Find something worth dying for, and you’ll have something which justifies living for as long as you do. Let me suggest the Kingdom of God, particularly as I have described it here since this blog was first opened. The reason I suggest that is it’s the only thing which can make any difference.

You see, the one thing the global elite cannot plan for is God’s hand. We realize the West in general, and America in particular, are under God’s wrath. Preserving this huge mountain of crap is not worth a moment’s thought. But restoring as much of God’s plan (AKA, the Covenant of Noah) is well worth trying. As we examine the events around us daily, keep an eye on ways you can withdraw your participation in evil. I’ve already written several long articles and a small book outlining ways I plan to do so. If you don’t know where to start, take a look at what I’m doing, then come up with something more fitting your sense of what really matters.

One way or the other, pay no attention to all the prognostications fed you by the mainstream media. A little truth does leak out, but only by accident while they keep the majority distracted from the real story. The global elite are not through with America by a long shot. Whatever happens in the future will be shaped to their ends. At any point, you can expect God to throw a monkey wrench or two into the works, but by all means, do not work to preserve some lost vision of America, because it was never anywhere close to what God had in mind.

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Imperial Base America

In case you haven’t noticed, there’s already been a coup in the U.S. Our government was taken over long ago by folks who have little concern for us and our wishes. We are not ruled by the Constitution, not a nation ruled by laws, but a tiny elite who seldom show their faces as the real power here. Everything you think you see regarding politics is a fraud.

Now, while I have said often here I regard all modern states as illegitimate, this particularly applies to the government of the U.S. No, I have no plans to take any particular action to fight anyone, not even in the simple pacifist activist sense. It’s all a waste of time. If you really feel a burning need to prepare for future disasters, then create a bug-out bag. There’s a lot of survivalist literature on the Net about it. Then start training yourself to flee in various different ways should things become impossible where you live. If you are in or near any urban center, chances are good you will need to execute such a plan in the next five years. If you are out in the rural area, plan to stay put. Otherwise, I’m not promoting any form of resistance, per se.

Rather, I am encouraging awareness. It comes to my attention we are nationally ripe for a continuing slide into the grip of this elite group. They’ll use any means of mass manipulation to steer the bulk of the population into directions they consider useful. Right now, there is a huge effort aimed at military expansion, planting permanent bases all over the world. This is our contribution for the plans to rule the world later. Our infrastructure in far flung places will become the basis for exerting their wishes over the populations which are not so easily ruled as the U.S.

Naturally, these elite expect to use our troops, but I’m sure they’ll add more from other places at some point. Our military is simply the current avenue of approach to the target. Our industrial development for military purposes is one of the last few fields of actual production we have here. They’ll need to break us completely so they can gain our cooperation in the next couple of years. Right now, the emphasis is military recruiting, of course. When enough folks starve, and troops get to eat, don’t you think a draft is almost a waste of effort?

Then there are the massive FEMA camps which I expect to become slave labor centers. This is where they’ll round up and gather the more difficult sort, because most of the population unfit for military service will gladly take up slave work just to survive. Control need not be total, just sufficient. When a critical mass of people are enslaved, the rest will simply be the cost of doing whatever business they are planning. Obamacare will ensure the cost of herd maintenance doesn’t get out of hand.

The risk of economic collapse is itself a red herring. Total banking failure won’t happen, but total banking reduced into fewer hands will. Bankrupting state and local governments will reduce resistance coming over various Ten Amendment challenges to the Federal behemoth. The whole idea is to dissolve anything capable of interfering with the further conglomeration and centralizing of control. The federal bureaucracy will grow as DC continues to find ways to pretend they have the funds. As long as people keep taking paychecks denominated in US dollars, and contractors don’t argue with it, the Feds will maintain their power. The federal enforcement ranks will swell dramatically. Lots of folks who don’t make the cut for the law enforcement or military will join the burgeoning Civil Service, or whatever they call it next month.

I’m guessing the final “legal” act of enslavement will be aimed at settling the improbable federal debt. Private property will be confiscated in terms of legal ownership, as will all future labor output, etc. We will all become titular federal property. Legitimate or not, the majority are likely to go along with it.

Thus, we become the base from which this elite globalist government grows and borgs everyone else. If Russia resists, it’s not too hard to provoke Islamic terrorism funded by our CIA and their friends. Nor is it too hard to find a good solid supply of illegal drugs to rot the social fabric faster than the old communist spy network (which still exists to a large degree). Naturally, we are ensuring a very strong supply by keeping the Taliban from shutting down the poppy fields in Afghanistan. A primary function of our troops there is protecting the heroin supply for use against Russia.

China will be a little more tricky. Still, I’m sure there are some plans to handle them, as well. Every large state suffers numerous unresolvable dependencies. Most small ones, too.

Welcome to the New World Order, slave.

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Seamonkey 2 on CentOS 5

I prefer Seamonkey to other web browsers. The generic tarball build offered for Linux on the Seamonkey website doesn’t work quite right on my machine. Currently I find no one building it for CentOS 5, and certainly not tracking the current releases. For example, just yesterday, Seamonkey saw version 2.0.4 released. (Please be sure to check for later versions. Seamonkey releases age rather quickly.)

Because my machine is adequate, I wanted to see how hard it would be to build it for myself. Somebody had already prepared some notes, and I simply followed the advice for Fedora regarding dependencies. However, I’m not such a fan as to keep track of it like a developer, so I follow a simplified scheme.

Get the source. You can find links for the latest source here. Currently that’s a huge wad nearly 60MB. I move it to /usr/local/src/ and do the un-bzip and un-tar routine. It opens out to a directory named comm-1.9.1, which is not what you’d expect.

Navigate into that directory. My simplified instructions are:

  1. echo ‘ac_add_options –enable-application=suite’ > .mozconfig
  2. echo ‘mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=”-j4″‘ >> .mozconfig
  3. make -f client.mk
  4. make install

If you don’t have at least a dual core processor in your computer, maybe you should change that second line at the end to "-j2" but be sure to keep the trailing single quotation mark (‘). My Athlon dual-core churns away smoothly for about a half-hour, then the prompt returns with no errors. After the make install I find the Seamonkey binary in /usr/local/bin and create a custom launcher on the desktop for it.

I check a couple of times every week and repeat the process for each new release. It simply overwrites the previous installation. I note a particular nice thing is, since having fixed the bytecode hinting in my Freetype2 libraries, and building on them, the fonts display on Seamonkey is sharper than anything pre-packaged for CentOS.

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CentOS: Fixing Ugly KDE Fonts

On CentOS/RHEL 5 in particular, I found the fonts in KDE 3 were ragged, and unresponsive to efforts to clean them up via recompiling Freetype2 libs with bytecode hinting turned on. After reading up on it a bit, I decided it might be possible to fix it by recompiling the basic Qt libraries from the source RPM.

As of this writing, the current SRPM is qt-3.3.6-23.

If you follow the canonical method, you’ll place the source RPM in /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/ and install from there:

rpm -ivh qt-3.3.6-23.el5.src.rpm

Then you navigate to /usr/src/redhat/SPEC/ and run the command:

rpmbuild -bb qt.spec

If you are missing any build requirements, it will complain and you can install them using yum. Run the RPMbuild command again. After a while, you’ll get the prompt back, hopefully indicating nothing went wrong.

Navigate to /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ and choose the folder containing files matching your hardware architecture. Mine was i386, where I found the newly made qt-3.3.6-23.i386.rpm.

You’ll have to use the --force switch because RPM can’t tell this is different from the one already installed:

rpm -Uvh --force qt-3.3.6-23.i386.rpm

Once it’s installed, you’ll need to restart any part of KDE currently running to get the full effect. Just for good measure, I used the same procedure and rebuilt the kdelibs package on the new Qt libraries. However, I doubt it really makes that much difference in the results. As far as I can tell, Qt handles most of the font rendering operations in KDE. Something in the way it builds under RedHat and clones requires building Qt with the changed Freetype libraries.

Caveat: I have tested KDE 4 on other systems and hate it, so don’t waste your time with comments insisting it’s better. That’s entirely subjective. KDE 3 was fine, basically, but the developers never bothered to fix everything, just abandoned it and moved onto the next, even buggier release. That’s the way Open Source works, and I accept that, but the criticism still stands. When you have a system which is developer-centric, the user will never be satisfied because the developers don’t care about users, for the most part.

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Implications of the Decalogue: Conclusion

The Covenant of Moses was closed at the Cross. In that sense, God today holds no one accountable to the Law of Moses. We keep it around, referring to it historically, so that we may learn about His Laws in general. Moses was a specific example and application of the Covenant of Noah.

Noah is still in force today. All human governments are bound by it, measured against that standard. Because the Decalogue is rather general in nature, we can see it as a reflection of the broader standard of Noah. It’s not a waste of time to continue citing its provisions.

On the mystical level, what we can learn from it is most assuredly binding on every believer in this world. It helps us grasp the nature of God’s mind regarding things.

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Implications of the Decalogue: Ten

You shall not covet your neighbor’s property. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.

The Hebrew word “covet” carried more weight than simple envy in this context. At that time, the Nation of Israel still suffered a tremendous amount of superstition common to that part of the world. For example, the notion there was only One God was revolutionary, and Hebrew people as a whole never quite embraced that until after the Exile. In this case, the concept of covet included a background of what we would call petty black magic, where one might seek to employ the likes of “the evil eye” to bring harm to someone they envied or despised for any reason.

We know today the reality of such things as God viewed it. Someone obsessed with the property or comforts of another would give room to Satan and his demons for all sorts of mischief. The Suzerain was demanding His people keep their spiritual doors locked against evil by simply learning to accept their lot in life, trusting Him for all their needs.

The mystical lesson is obvious. God alone, through His Spirit, can prompt people to fight circumstances. However, we do that only for the most other-worldly purposes. We don’t fight with the expectation of winning, but we fight because God commands it, regardless of the outcome. When it comes to mere personal property and creature comforts, this should be the last thing we care about. Under His Laws, whatever is really needed for His purposes is always provided quite generously. Under His grace, we outgrow the concern for such things and take what comes as our basic assumption, and fight it only when we can’t avoid it.

Wanting stuff is the root of all sorts of evil. Taking offense at someone else’s relative prosperity is sin by definition. You should rather rejoice with them in their good fortune, and celebrate the simplicity of your own life. If you are on the lower rungs of material prosperity, thank God for the lack of complexity, and get on with serving your Master.

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Implications of the Decalogue: Nine

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

The Suzerain does not permit dishonesty. Since it would require more than one witness in court to meet the minimum evidence of a crime, it would invariably be collusion and conspiracy to offer a false accusation or account.

But it’s far more than just the narrow application of a trial court. This includes rumors, unjustified hatred, or any of the thousands of ways we take life and sanity from people one tiny sliver at a time. The security and safety of your neighbor is your own. When it becomes every man for himself, every man dies — literally in some measure, but most fully in the figurative sense.

This is a mystical God speaking His demands in a mystical culture to a people acquainted with mystical logic. Truth is Our God, and if we are not committed to the Truth, we are His enemy. Speaking a lie against God is blasphemy, but speaking a lie against His declaration is hardly less of a sin. God says if you aren’t willing to suffer for His Truth, you can’t gain the safety of lies. Thus, the symbolism: In court cases, those caught lying will receive the punishment they hoped to gain for the person against whom they perjured themselves. When you begin digging into anything contrary to God’s revelation, you have chosen death.

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