Haiku OS Progressing

I’m still running Debian Etch because just about everything else so far has failed me. Most of the more recent Linux distributions are utterly unusable on this old laptop. But as the final days of Etch tick down, it seems all hope is not lost. Haiku OS is approaching a useful state, particularly for laptops.

According to the various notices on their website, one developer just recently got a prototype wifi stack working. It’s capable of using an Atheros card to connect to open wifi nodes. Encryption, client services and other drivers will come later. And ACPI code is progressing, but no one claims it works for many laptops yet. I tested a previous incarnation before the project was merged with others and called Haiku. Aside from the lack of drivers then, it was beautiful, and worked just fine for my habits.

What makes Haiku worth watching is it lacks none of the Unix-type boondoggles which still plague Linux. The GUI was taken from BeOS, and is vastly superior. Also, it’s a darn sight faster than all but the most ancient releases of XFree86, never mind the current X.org fork of that. For people who don’t really care all that much about eye candy, and simply want the thing to work without spending a couple hundred to a couple grand on hardware, Haiku may become one of the best things just over the horizon.

I thought about trying to contact some of the folks in the project for an interview, but I’d much rather let them code their hearts out to get it ready for at least a beta release soon. For now, they consider it in an alpha release state.

Go, Haiku!

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Noah and the Power of Islam

Why would God allow Islam to spread so relentlessly around the world? Because so many nominal Christians have no answer for this, they have concluded God wants them to destroy the Muslims through war. Isn’t Islam and evil religion?

Islam is not a religion, per se. It is best to view Islam as a social milieu with a religious component. Further, the cultural and intellectual foundation of Islam is rather close to the ANE. As such, we find Islam produces a society much closer to Noah than just about any other society currently in existence. Islam is not good; it is simply better. In terms of the Covenant of Noah, it is by far vastly superior to Western Civilization as it now exists.

For God to remain consistent in His promises under Noah, He must grant a preference to it as the best game in town. Barring the rise of something more precisely observant of Noah, it will eventually take over most of the world. It is hardly a secret the Christian faith slices through the religious component of Islam like a hot knife through butter, as it does every other belief system on this planet. Genuine Christianity is based entirely on the miracle of God’s grace bringing life to dead souls. Wherever the gospel is presented with any degree of accuracy, God uses it to open the spiritual graves and bring His Son’s Spirit into the new born spirits. No other religion could possibly offer that. Our grand mistake is not going farther to claim the better understanding of Noah, and building a social structure to reflect it. Instead, we spin our wheels promoting the failed Western rationalist society. That society is powerless to resist the superior covenant embrace of Islamic culture.

Western Evangelical ignorance and confusion about the actual requirements in the Bible provokes us to hideous behavior which God cannot support, even as we carry His Spirit in our faith.

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Sample Application of Noah

For those who have been following the posts here about the implications of the Covenant of Noah, I find I am about to run out of track. Given the nature of this type of publishing, it would be difficult to proceed much farther. I would openly invite questions for the sake of clarification on things, but the most important thing you can do is take off on your own wings, as it were. The point is not to constrain your understanding, but to offer you my understanding to provoke your own sincere search for the truth.

Today I’m offering a sort of “workshop” to apply the theory. Let’s review key items of that theory:

  • God revealed Himself within a particular culture matrix, which culture He fostered and developed Himself as the best setting for conveying truth on His terms, to a fallen world which no longer instinctively knew Him. That culture is labeled variously as Ancient Near Eastern (ANE), Hebraic, Semitic, etc.
  • Modern Jewish culture is vastly different from the ancient form, having passed through the corrupting influence of Hellenism and the Greek philosophers. As early as Jesus’ time, it was already too far gone. Much of the conflict He had with Jewish leaders and scholars was because they failed to see their own Law of Moses through the unique epistemology of the ancient Hebrew intellectual climate.
  • Modern Western Christianity has likewise bought into the Hellenistic rational assumptions about what man can know of God. This analytical bias is read back into the Bible. The entire frame of reference is built on the wrong foundation, and we would naturally expect most of the particulars to miss the mark, to one degree or another — not totally wrong, but structurally flawed. It may not be possible to reform the Western churches, but we are obliged to seek that unique spiritual logic by which the Bible is rightly understood.
  • The most difficult part of this is realizing we have to dismiss just about the whole of mainstream organized Christian religion in order to reconstruct what it ought to have been. We cannot avoid being painted as radicals, extremists, and general nut-cases. We don’t become enemies, but it often feels that way gauging by their response to us. They aren’t evil, just woefully misguided, and in many ways an embarrassment to the Eternal Realm. They view us the same way.
  • The ANE understanding of the Covenant of Noah is far more expansive than appears on the surface, as is typical of ANE assumptions. The modern Jewish scholarship appears to be correct in this, at least, listing Seven Noahic Laws which are reflected in the reasoning by the Early Church leaders (Acts 15). It is the Early Church who point out the Law of Moses was essentially closed by the Cross. Jesus became the entire sacrificial and ritual basis for approaching God, and His teaching corrects the false understanding of the social codes in the Law. His teaching indicates Moses was in some respects actually looser than was intended under Noah. We rightly view Moses as a subset, an example, a specific application of Noah within a given circumstance. Generally, when Israel/Judah was faithful to Moses, they were also faithful to Noah, and vice versa.
  • The Laws of Noah allow for no exceptions for any nation. Governments either comply, or they do not. In standing before God as nations, there is one standard which applies equally to all mankind. This covenant includes established provisions for both defiance (curses) and obedience (blessings). Those provisions come to us as explaining the nature of the universe, in terms of moral obligations. As much as we may seek to understand the mechanisms by which the universe operates, it is not possible to gain a full grasp without seeking to know the moral nature of it. Humans, particularly as nations, need not have a spiritual awareness to understand and implement the basic provisions for gaining the best possible life on this earth.
  • Those of us who possess a spiritual awareness are obliged to Noah as the symbolic manifestation of what it means to embrace God’s Spirit and all the obligations attached. For us, the ultimate truth will always remain above explanation, and everything concrete is at best a parable of those higher truths. Thus, we present the Laws of Noah as the markers to indicate the Spirit, as the gateway God granted for entry into the Spirit Realm. To awaken a human spirit remains entirely the prerogative of God Himself, but the best place to stand for seeking this is the repentance call under Noah. Christ is found in Noah.

Let us explore briefly an example of how we can apply this understanding to the situation before us in the world today. The conclusion will be startling.

Afghanistan is not a nation, but a geographical abstraction. It’s a country which includes numerous nations. By now you should realize the nations there adhere to a tribal structure, which is the fundamental requirement under Noah. Aside from our intervention, these tribes have generally experienced some tension and warfare as far back as anyone can find records. What laws exist are culturally based. Virtually the entire population of all tribes are some brand of Muslim.

It’s odd how the modern Western world finds that situation barbaric, since each modern nation hardly blinks at their own mass slaughters using weapons of mass destruction. We are blind to their essential liberty of spirit, and the broad willingness to keep what they have in preference to our Western moral and material decadence. What is most frightening to our minds is realizing they are far, far closer to Noah than any Western nation-state. The flaw, of course, would be their adherence to Islam.

Islam was founded by a very intelligent young fellow who traveled a good bit in the Middle East and Near East some six centuries after Christ. He brushed up against Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and a broad mixture of pagan religions, and appears to have read their sacred writings, observed their practices. His own people mostly served a pagan moon god. From this exposure, he developed a syncretic religion of his own. We should assume he sincerely believed what he taught, though we naturally discount some of the mythical claims of Islam regarding winged horses and Mohamed’s travel on them. What we should not discount is how very much it all reflects the ANE worldview. Arabs in general, and Muslim Arabs in particular, are culturally closer to the ANE than any mainstream branch of Judaism, in part because Mohamed rejected much of the latter’s Hellenism. Any critique of Islam based on Western intellectual and cultural assumptions is simply ludicrous.

By no means should we consider Islam a good implementation of Noah. In summary, it’s easy to see sharia courts are inhumane by God’s standard, a horrific extremist enforcement. However, we should realize it is yet much closer than any part of the Western world. While extreme, those courts are asserting fundamentally decent and just requirements. For example, demanding the burkha is patently silly. At the same time, modesty is certainly God’s command. The very concept of “modesty” is inherently relative, but even from a Noahic viewpoint, the burkha is extreme and unjustified, albeit fundamentally correct. Frankly, the Taleban are generally welcomed by everyone in Afghanistan except the hedonist thugs, who seek the most despicable libertine behavior for themselves, even as they are more oppressive and capricious than the Taleban.

We never forget God remains the Ultimate Sovereign, and we will often find His choices inscrutable. Barring some purpose and plan we cannot grasp, we are left with this conclusion: The Afghani Taleban are far more compliant with Noah than the US, or any Western allies. According to the standards of Noah’s Covenant, we should expect God to give the Taleban victory over US troops. This, of course, requires we understand military victory in ANE terms. It’s not a matter of who slaughters the most, but who is left standing on the battlefield. I predict, based on the Bible, the US will be forced to withdraw in disgrace, much as the Soviets before us, who had ten times our number of boots on the ground.

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The Obligation to Resist

Truth is a Person. You cannot have truth detached from God, as all truth (as truth) reflects God or it is a lie. So all truth is God’s truth. Truth cannot exist separate from His Person. The fundamental nature of the entire universe is personal, as it was all created as a reflection of God’s self-revelation. The key to understanding existence, of being itself, is to understand it remains rooted in someone living.

Among other things, the source of all sorrow and sin seeks to kill, to degrade and enslave all those living. Not just that, but to destroy the essence of what it means to live.

It’s all cut from the same cloth. We are aware the foundation of Western intellectual culture is mostly in Greece, with the Greek Philosophers. The two most frequent names are Plato and Aristotle. In a certain sense, we could say the entire foundation of Western Civilization really stands on Aristotle, in particular. His entire epistemology assumes nothing worth knowing can remain outside man’s intellectual grasp — given sufficient time and inclination, man can know everything worth knowing. Man is the measure of all things. Modern materialism, and lots of other “-isms” arise from these assumptions, directly or indirectly. In the process, ultimate truth becomes a dead, objective entity.

You find this assumption behind all the arguments about religion which forcefully declare there is some objective standard to which conceptions of God can be measured. In such a world, God is reduced to something made by man’s mind, or He must be rejected.

From such a background comes the modern rejection of all God has ever commanded. The notion we could remove the personality from things is the reason we have the modern nation-state, also called Westphalian Sovereignty: the notion we can have an impersonal State, which is more or less sacrosanct.

This is the foundation for creating a concept of government which does not include the persons doing the governing. We create offices and structures, and the persons carry a very limited liability for decisions made while in that office. It removes the soul from government, so that you cannot possibly come back and require accountability, except in the most impersonal form of merely changing the rules and laws. As if that fixes things.

It also allows the legal fiction of corporations as “persons” under the law. This means the evil of the corporate officers will never cost them, so long as what they do can be found by some twisted logic to be legal. Instead, it costs the corporation, which means the stockholders and customers. The crooks running the thing get off with a golden parachute.

It presents the fiction no one needs to be concerned with standing before God, at least not in this life, because there is probably no God. If there is, it’s of no consequence because it won’t affect you here and now.

That’s the ultimate lie. That people seem to grow old and die unscathed is only apparent, but that issue is used to hide from accountability to God for the good fortune of being in the driver’s seat. Just as surely as God promises various levels of reward in Heaven, so there are various levels of punishment in Hell, though such could hardly be understood on this side. Worse, that lie tries to ignore how wrath accumulates to the nation as a whole.

Not a single government operating under the principles espoused in the Peace of Westphalia — that whole business of the modern nation-state — is acceptable before God. Each of them begins with a rejection of God’s requirements under Noah. Only the tribal nations have any hope.

Rising up in revolt against the nation state, an organized armed rebellion, is nothing more than one criminal government replacing another, trading one sin for another. There is no compelling requirement under Noah to do that. However, there is a compelling interest in resisting the unjust demands of such a government. To have standing before God when opting for such resistance, you must first embrace Noah, not so much in the fulfillment, as in the commitment and intention.

Some implications of such resistance can be found in this article, Biblical Rebellion. As you would expect, the discussion includes both earthly and spiritual applications. If you are going to take that route, you might as well do it right. When you seek to resist bad government God’s way, you can fully expect His support.

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Forest of Deceptions

Let me give you a hint. Reality, the Ultimate Truth of “Life, the Universe and Everything,” can never be objectified. To speak of it as something is utterly misleading, because it’s a someone — a Person. In our lore, persons are flighty, variable things, and we aren’t comfortable with depending on a Person for everything. We want something solid, objective, even if ever so impossible to know. We like the idea it remains unchanged and unchanging, because to imbue it with life associates in our culture with variability, untrustworthiness. Yet, Truth is by nature paradoxical. Truth is the Unchanging Person, the Ultimately Trustworthy Living Being.

What that means is when you come back to measure your understanding of things against the touchstone of all Reality, you may not get consistent results. Actually, the problem lies within us, and our limitations for understanding. Regardless of acknowledgments we don’t yet get it all, there is some assumption we could, in theory at least, some day get it. Won’t happen. Ever.

There is a God, and none of us is Him.

However, He has promised to help us gain just enough of what it takes to make Him happy with us if we simply pay attention to Him. In other words, comparing our understanding with the standard of ultimate truth requires we maintain the awareness everything is personal. Ultimate objective reality is a chimera. You’ll have enough to walk on solid footing, but you aren’t permitted to even imagine you’ll one day really understand it. That comes only when there are no more days — AKA, the End of Time. The big lie of “objective reality” is a part of the prison in which most people live. We want the facts so we can decide for ourselves the importance of things. And we will never get them that way.

Got that?

Now, digging for facts is not a waste of time, as long as you remember they are only indicators of importance. For example, you and I should realize by now there is an awful lot of people in the world who want things which will ultimately hurt you and I, and they seem to be making progress in getting them. On the one hand, just saying, “Satan rules the world” can be dismissive in itself. Who could argue with that? So, on the other hand, we do lots of research trying to find out whom Satan is using to get the job done. We want to flesh out the observable reality to make the threat more real in our minds. We find there is a nebulous group of people who operate on some level of malicious genius we can’t match head to head. We might know some names, but it seems the genius is not confined to individuals, but is shared across this mysterious group, and across multiple generations of them.

We talk about the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Conference, the CFR, the Trilateral Commission, the Rockefellers and Rothschilds, Freemasons, Communists, and on it goes. On the list of favorites is Bohemian Grove. Let me assure you, I seriously question some of the allegations regarding that meeting which happens to be going on right now, this week. It’s not a complete waste of time surveying the facts and allegations, but it is if you plan to act on those facts. As with all such things, what really matters is not the facts, but what they signify. The whole event is symbolic anyway, but for those of us who embrace Truth as a Person, it serves as a parable of what matters, a mere pointer.

Fundamental to current Satanic efforts to control Western Civilization is the Blackmail Principle. It’s not as simple as it seems, because it assumes and underlying common moral standard. The trick is to build a fake one. God’s standards regarding human sexuality are expressed quite matter-of-factly, yet are quite prudish. The fake standards make bogus assertions which appear to match God’s standards, but only if you assume an utterly childish, shallow understanding of it. This takes us back to the false idea truth can be objectified, because the notion we can formulate absolute rules assumes there is no God. Formulating concrete social mores is actually mocking the personal accountability we all have to the living God. It’s a shortcut. It’s choosing to avoid Him and His commands by cooking up some artificial construct so we can nail it down and quit worrying about it. “Here, God; take it or leave it!” I’m sure He’s really impressed with that.

So we have this lingering phony Victorian veneer of prudery, utterly impossible to maintain without serious neurosis. Which is precisely the goal. You can be wacko or you can get real and get down-n-dirty. It’s a false dichotomy, designed to make us all schizophrenic to the core. And even when people wisely seek to moderate the polarity, they still end up buying into the basic assumptions of one side or the other — people must be either animals, angels, or a mixture of the two. God’s true standard is buried under a thousand flavors of falsehood. With the best of intentions, even truly devoted Christians stumble into marriage with a massive collection of neuroses they may never untangle, and attend a hundred Marriage Enrichment seminars, all without ever finding the Ultimate Truth, because the underlying assumptions are false.

Thus, even the best of God’s servants are ripe for blackmail. Somewhere is that one chink in their armor which can be exploited, sold to them one way or another, and they fall into temptation. Just getting them that far is a mighty victory, but way too many surrender just enough to be trapped. Someone has that one bit of leverage over them, to either ruin them or enslave them, and most often both. The importance of Bohemian Grove is in revealing to us the one basic point of failure in Western society, particularly America: sex. And across the whole gamut of conspiracy studies, we keep running into that one element of human nature: Sabatean Franks are obsessed with sex as a religious act, openly Satanic cults and many pagan religions feature sex as a major element of religious practice, sex becomes a major element in every public downfall of religious leaders, pornography is often on the leading edge of Internet technology, etc. Across the board, in every sector of our modern culture, sex is a fundamental consideration, blown out of proportion, turned into a god itself. In a perverse way, it remains the god of Victorian prudery.

It would take a book or two to correct the false understanding we have about human mating. We keep reading our false assumptions back into the Bible, so we end up with a crippled grasp of it. The main mistake is making it so significant, even as we tend to cheapen it. Maybe some day I’ll write that book, but it will have to come after several others, building a foundation of understanding which peels away the vast lies which constitute our Western culture and epistemology. Meanwhile, let me warn you: When you gaze upon the political class, know in your heart of hearts, rarely does any person join that club without moral compromises, particularly sexual in nature. The mechanisms of the system by which people take positions of power in the US make it nearly impossible for honest people to get in the door. As you look at the faces in the news, you can bet the vast majority have compromised somewhere, and has a sexual Sword of Damocles over their heads.

On a lower scale, your one best hope for obeying God is remaining entirely skeptical of all human government. The Apostles were not joking when they suggested total abstinence was a reasonable consideration in this fallen world. The one greatest key in our world to your ultimate freedom from evil domination is sexual purity on God’s terms.

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Line in the Sands of Time, Continued

This continues yesterday’s post. By now, it should be clearly established how utterly illegitimate is the current ruling regime in the eyes of God. Not only do the laws of the land directly attack what He requires under the Law Covenants, but our entire Western culture seems designed to prevent us even understanding those covenants. The government, and all major industries, are complicit in making this culture all the more so. The very essence of obedience to God, and loyalty to His Laws, make you a rebel and criminal. While there may be tactical reasons for going with the flow at some points, you will invariably come to the place where you have to  say, “No, I will not do that.”

In the broad sense of God’s standards, there is no sin in resisting the will of the US government.

Keep in mind, this thing called “government” is not some objective entity, as we are taught to believe. Government is people, people who have separated themselves from any personal liability in carrying out whatever policy seems to please the various dreams and aspirations of some particular ruling class. That those who govern are scarcely aware of the will of the governed, nor inclined to pay them any mind, is manifestly obvious. These people don’t care what you want or need; they will decide what you need and you darned sure better like it.

So when that American battle flag is marched before you, the slightest hesitation in falling down to worship this emblem of the State is justification for all manner of vilification. Should you pretend the Cross is a higher symbol of a higher Realm, you should expect to be oppressed. Should you dare to suggest the Cross of Christ demands something other than the will of the governing class, you are a branded a heretic, even by the folks who fill most churches.

You know where this is leading: Do not volunteer to serve in the government, to include in the military forces. As a general principle, such service is placing yourself under the authority of Christ’s enemies. By no means do I suggest military service itself is sinful. Military service under the current regime is a sin. There was a time I would have said if you felt called, go enlist or whatever. I can’t say that any more. That’s because you cannot make that choice without committing yourself to the vast evil enterprise of our current senseless wars.

You’ve read about the Israeli ships steaming into the Persian Gulf? After all the sabre-rattling of the past few years, only a fool would imagine it’s just a training cruise. And only a bigger fool would imagine any action by Israeli war craft against Iran won’t suck us into it. Don’t pay any attention to what the various mouthpieces in the US government say. Look at what they do. They keep sending those huge checks to Israel, tons of advanced munitions, etc. We keep Israel under the paint job of sainthood.

Never mind how big the lies about Iran’s nuclear ambitions — we can’t afford it! Not only does all this warfare drain the treasury, but it’s sucking in the lives of our most productive people. Not just the body bags, but the vast numbers crippled in mind and body. Now, volunteers are one thing; if their conscience allows them to go, let them. But it will simply be utterly impossible for us to support a war against Iran, much less actually invade, without a draft. Can’t be done. The military doesn’t have enough troops for the current commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan. All the Draft Boards have been reactivated recently. Yep, they are geared up to turn on that huge sucking machinery.

If you have already registered for the draft, prepare to avoid it. If you have not, consider ways to avoid that. Get some practical advice. If it involves your kids, do all in your power to stop it. To paraphrase Vox Day, “Render not your children unto Caesar.” In this case, it’s tantamount to tossing them in the arms of the glowing idol to Molech. In recent decades, no significant portion of our military activity has actually done anything to defend us and make us safer. Quite the contrary; we have created a bunch of new enemies by our senseless failure to protect the innocent.

This is not the same as counseling hostility to the troops. Don’t forget the basic, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” For believers, that includes, “Love your enemies.” Pity them, comfort them, but don’t support their mission. You’ll have to work out for yourself where to draw the line in the sand.

But that there should be a line drawn in the sand is not up for discussion. Military draft resistance is not a sin.

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Line in the Sands of Time

It’s time for another line-in-the-sand.

Pay attention when you read the Old Testament. You will notice: Every command from God under the Covenants assumes a tribal social structure. You cannot obey any of God’s Laws without it. As always, for Christians, the reality is symbolic of a higher standard. So that means when you come together in Christian fellowship, you are required by Christ to construct a spiritual tribal structure before you are permitted to call it “church.” In other words, for a church, DNA is not required, but the social structure is still the same.

There is no place in modern Western Civilization for recognizing this requirement. Try it, and every law of man will come against you. Satan hates it when we obey God, even if all we do is execute the mere worldly obedience to the Laws of God under Noah. The very foundation of the American judicial system, and all the assumptions, stated or unstated, condemn the tribal structure and lifestyle, as if it were the same as crime, moral turpitude, etc. When Western law speaks of “society” and it’s justified expectations, it’s just code language for the state as it dictates to the conscience of the citizen. “These are our social standards because we say so.” All this posturing from so-called Christian legal minds and philosophers, seeking to promote a society with no household larger than the “nuclear family” are just fools operating in the service of Satan.

No human on earth is under any moral obligation, or spiritual obligation, to give allegiance to such a government. There may be compelling tactical reasons for playing along, but in the end, obedience to God is rejecting the Modern State. It is only in the Modern State you would have some central authority proposing to force subjects to accept inoculations. Only the Modern State would make it a virtue to shield drug manufacturers from liability, because only the Modern State makes it so easy for those manufacturers to purchase laws favoring their corporate profit. Anyone in a tribal setting who tried to pull a stunt like this would be justly lynched by their tribe, the people of their own kin to whom they are responsible. Only in the Modern State can we imagine a barrier protecting the rulers from the ruled.

So let’s get this out, bluntly and in the open: I would encourage you, in the name of God Almighty, to refuse to cooperate with any further inoculation programs promoted by our secular government. In case you haven’t already realized it, let’s make sure you understand from here on out, there is no possible justification for the current programs other than profit. It has absolutely no grounds in genuine health needs, and those who insist otherwise are fools or clients of the profiting drug makers. It is too easy to find factual scientific studies debunking the official lies. The primary falsehood is the safety of these “medicines.” Most include poisons which serve no other purpose than convenience and profit of the manufacturer. I’ll bet you could find a lot of other links, yourself.

God is with you if you choose to resist.

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Line in Sand of Your Mind

A basic rule of locker-room talk is those who really know how don’t bother talking about it. It’s not just a matter of sexual conquests, or targets thereof, but anything about which testosterone fires the boasting. Most common is discussion of martial exploits. Few who make threats are actually capable of carrying them out.

Recent photo image of the author

Recent photo image of the author

I am told by some this photo tends to project the image of a dangerous thug. That was meant simply as humor. The face belongs to a teddy bear kind of guy. Look at the background — those are my books. Most of them are Bibles or books about the Bible. Some of them are merely classical literature. I no longer get queasy at the sight of blood, but that’s only because I spent several years as a Military Police Traffic Investigator. My primary mission was taking photos of stuff you don’t want to see. Sometimes I still weep over the memories, just as I weep over injuries I witness in the present. I don’t talk much about what I saw, nor do I boast about the other stuff I had to do while wearing that big black brassard on my shoulder.

I’d rather make you laugh talking about such things as the day I had to physically inspect and read every single ID card for every single human passing through the gates one day during a high THREATCON. I was wearing one of the new cold-wet jackets, which didn’t have a place for name tags. After about three hours of this, someone asked me my name, and I had to pause for some long painful seconds before I could answer. It got a good laugh, and relieved a lot of tension. More tension relief came when reviewing the video tape of my performance, because in that jacket I bore a favorable likeness to a brick wall painted green. I’m only average height, but pretty bulky.

That means I’m simply a really big teddy bear. I’m the little boy who never grew up, and I roll on the floor with my granddaughter, matching her enthusiasm.

I worry about that tiny girl. I worry what the various government agencies have planned for her. It’s bad enough the public school system wants to turn her brain to mush. They also want to see her body filled with dangerous chemicals, most of which provide no real benefit to her, and some which are downright harmful. The call them “vaccinations.” I’m already working on a plan for homeschooling her, provided her parents agree when the time comes. I’m not too pleased with how the system wasted several years of life from her parents, and things could surely have been better. But it’s the inoculations which loom as the larger threat.

Indeed, it looms for all of us. Say what you like, but I have seen enough evidence that flu vaccines, particularly when mandatory, are far more dangerous than any flu. And yes, there’s all that other information out there the mainstream press refuses to report, such as how Baxter sent vials of active flu virus all over the world, how everyone not chained down with a government provided, or government controlled, paycheck says the current flu virus could not evolve on its own, but had to come from a lab. And then there are the hundreds of experiments conducted by the US government on her own population without bothering to tell them they had been exposed to biological agents… No, I do not trust any part of the U.S. federal government. I worked next to government bureaucrats in the military, and it was shocking how many of them would willingly pull the switch to kill thousands or their fellow citizens if so ordered. It gets worse as their authority increases, as if it were a requirement for promotion.

I can’t identify all the different lines a government might cross, all the various forms of oppressive tyranny, or downright stupidity and incompetence, but I can assure you those lines are there. When something comes across them — God help me — the teddy bear becomes a grizzly. I’m not sure when or how, but a part of me hasn’t forgotten there are a thousand ways to bring fear into the hearts of an army of tyrants and the people who serve them.

It’s too late for stockpiling, too late for building defenses or setting up escape routes. Any day now the full force of human evil will burst like a dam. No one living on this earth can predict the time, place, or form it will take. There are some actually hoping for it, actively planning how to profit from it, but they don’t hold all the cards. Do you know it would only take an hour for some banking mogul somewhere on this earth to reduce the US dollar to less than 10,000 to one euro? And does anyone really know what Big Pharma might have cooked up in the labs, which could be slipped into every municipal water supply overnight? Or any number of other nightmare scenarios? Even without direct intervention by elite hands hidden from view, we are already going to suffer a deep slide into economic depression. While I was writing this, two more banks were being closed by the FDIC. Depression is a given, regardless. No power on earth can stop it now.

So I’m waiting, simply because there’s nothing else I can do. You can only be so proactive before your efforts dissipate in the mists of all the unguessable possibilities. The only real preparation that matters is inside you. Set aside the locker room exploits you find on the Net, or in your social circles. Look in the mirror of your soul. What really matters to you? If there aren’t some hard lines drawn in the sands of your mind, you might as well roll over and pretend nothing will happen. Hug your teddy bear and go back to sleep.

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Kdrive/SmallX — Buried in Obscurity

In my on-going research for alternatives to the X.org full server, I ran across references to a “TinyX” which led me to SmallX, AKA Kdrive. Aside from one, very obsolete reference written for mere mortal users, the whole thing is buried in code-jockey talk. The standard blurb is fairly clear about having one set of drivers for keyboard, mouse and graphics hardware, but little else. I see references from a few years ago about 2D acceleration, and sometimes notes about ancient cards no longer available. I see nothing I can use right now on my Radeon-based system.

This strikes me as a good alternative for low-powered machines, such as my Inspiron 4100. I dug into it freshly and found my Radeon M6 has only 16MB VRAM, so it’s all the more interesting if I can just find out what I can do with Kdrive on something like Lenny or Squeeze. Sadly, there’s nothing I can understand.

Okay, so I understand it’s part of the Puppy. Great; I don’t want to use the simple framebuffer, I want to take full advantage of my wimpy Radeon chip. Oh, yeah — the procedure for getting a Radeon driver on Puppy is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t used it for at least a year.

It reminds me of INX and all the other Linux projects. If the thing you seek is in any way out of the ordinary or mainstream, you get no help at all. You can either install the latest and greatest rolling-release, a good solid but stodgy distro, or you can become a coder and forget having any chance of actually using your computer — that is, using it for anything besides coding. At this point, I’m about ready to try some fund-raising to pay someone to help produce a real console distro, something with stability and long-term care for users. Oh, wait, the economy is crashing. No spare money available.

*sigh*

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Mostly Charade

It’s not as if fiction is a complete waste of time. For example, parables are essentially fiction. They propose an event which didn’t actually happen as a way to emphasize something which cannot be told. But it’s still fiction, just like my my little story about the man seeking to explain the inexplicable. A great deal of fiction is like that; who hasn’t at least heard of the novel 1984? It was the attempt by a genuine believer in communism to warn folks the pure vision of communist Utopia could be perverted like any other political structure. But wiser minds see it as the inevitable failure of something which cannot work because it ignores too much truth. How about Frank Herbert’s The Dosadi Experiment? That series of short stories indicates humans are amazingly adaptable to the most horrific conditions, particularly when they’ve never known anything else. Fiction can both reveal and hide.

As you view the news with a practiced skepticism, you could easily note most of what governments do is theater, designed to hide things. TSA is security theater, and has nothing to do with actually protecting flights. Much of the computer security software is security theater, too. Reality TV is anything but reality. All TV is pretty much theater, because it’s just too easy to show only what they want you to see.

So far, the theater is working. How often do people refer to something they saw in a fictional video as their basis for reasoning, as if it were real? How likely are the people in your circle of acquaintances to listen to discussions of cover-up in 9-11? Never mind the theories of what did happen, just mention the obvious lie of the buildings collapsing under heat stress from jet fuel. Most people prefer the fiction to reality, because it’s less work that way.

As long as the theater serves a purpose, it will continue. We have this massive pretense of trying to follow the US Constitution, but anyone who can read knows this is one of the biggest fictions of all. As long as the rabble are fairly quiet, this will continue. Rather like Herbert’s Dosadai world, we are slowly adapted to increasingly worse conditions, and it’s simply too much work even to contemplate how we might stop the slide into a full blown police state. If history is any guide, we all know there will come a point when it will be too much, and a significant portion will rise up to resist, even as the majority scream at them to stop, or at least try to hide away from the conflict. Eventually, the fiction breaks down, though.

To the degree you want to believe there is some “Illuminati” steering some events in this world, they are quite happy for America to waddle along its current path. It’s a lot less expensive than actually having to apply oppressive measures nakedly. Nobody I trust can claim to know the breaking point. Even the alleged Illuminati can’t control everything; they aren’t gods, regardless of what they might imagine about themselves. However, I’m pretty sure they don’t suffer from the mainstream addiction to the likes of Reality TV. They don’t drink fluoridated water, they don’t consume vast quantities of pharmaceuticals, but eat all organic foods, as far as anyone can find out. And while they may well be some of the most intelligent minds on earth, they can’t argue with God. He allows them to rule largely because we, the human race as a whole, prefer them to Him. We have bought their sales pitch.

While it’s possible you and I as individuals won’t survive the coming months as things get uglier, we can decide to take the path which sets us truly free. We don’t have to drink the koolade. Nor do we have to arm ourselves to the teeth, build bomb shelters and stockpiles of food and drink. Those things aren’t necessarily harmful in themselves, but they aren’t the real answer. You don’t even have to really buy into the Kingdom of Heaven business, and “get saved”, either. All you have to do is realize, from the beginning of time, there was Someone in charge, the Designer. Never mind what follows this world, your one true chance at a sane life here is to follow that way of life laid out so long ago no one really knows when it was. Nor does it matter. What matters is that sense of justice which stands at the very foundation of all human life.

As you probably already know, I’m referring to the justice system under the Laws of Noah. It’s the way the universe was designed to operate, and the universe itself will cooperate with your attempts to live that way.

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