Tag Archives: war

You're On Your Own

For a Christian Mystic, not every question is so easily answered. I’m one who takes the Bible very seriously as a record of God’s revelation. It’s as much as anyone can really know intellectually about God, and all we are … Continue reading

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Mysticism and Disentanglement

One of my provisional Three Pillars of Christian Mysticism is disentanglement. Try to keep in mind, I don’t take seriously the particular way I think about this, in the sense I promote those three key points — “pillars” — as … Continue reading

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We Get Stories

What can you believe? Steve Quayle and a handful of echoes are telling some wild story about Chinese troops, or at least Chinese forward battle equipment storage, just south of Laredo, Texas. Supposedly a truck driver delivered a load of … Continue reading

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Popular Already: March 2012

An awful lot of stuff is being promised for next month. Not even in sight yet, and already March is very popular with an awful lot of folks. You got Half-Past Human promising foreboding events that month. There’s the promise … Continue reading

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Technocracy of War, Part 10

Early that next morning, Thad was clawing up from a deep and troubled sleep to realize his phone was ringing. Struggling to be alert enough to respond intelligently to whatever it was so important to wake him just after dawn. … Continue reading

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Year End Economic Tea Leaves

This is actually a rather minor note to clarify things of which most people seem unaware. You may understand the noise about WW2 fixing the Great Depression is pure nonsense. What fixed the Great Depression was the US was about … Continue reading

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Predictions for 2012

Things will get worse than they are now for most humans on this earth. That’s about as close as I can come to a real prediction. If you ask me what I’m doing to prepare as the new year comes … Continue reading

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American Military Fiction

The most effective combat troops in the US military are those least military. There is a place for a highly uniform military service. It’s the perfect place for those who simply lack the character and personality to become professional troops. … Continue reading

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The Real Enemy

I’m not going to help you much with fixing what’s wrong with the world. We are at war. Only a fool would deny it. Bad things are going to happen and your life will be afflicted with unwanted changes, and … Continue reading

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Not Quite the Apocalypse

We are in deep doo-doo, and it will get worse, but it’s not the End of the World. Having once tasted civilization, humans are loathe to go back to something less. Granted, most of humanity haven’t seen that “something less” … Continue reading

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