You’re right of course.
Scintilate scintilate Globule vivific Fain do I fathom Thy nature specific Distantly poised In the aether capacious
Like a diamond in the sky
The so called Mandela effect is BS
Another distraction.
Focus! RTFB.
10 years ago he’d have been silenced, or branded a lunatic “conspiracy theorist”. There was the “Satanic Panic” phase back in the ‘80s but it got discredited through disinformation campaigns. This time we had Podesta’s own emails to confirm it all, for those with eyes to see, anyway. Watch for a massive social shift back into the Church. That’s something I’m observing even now. Orthodox catechism classes are growing exponentially. Something wondrous is unfolding. Rejoice! “For He is a merciful God who loveth mankind”.
Recently had someone I tried to tell about all this back in 2016 tell me he thought I’d gone crazy then and now realizes I was just way ahead of the curve. I congratulated him for breaking out of “the matrix”. Told him to talk to people and not be afraid of being considered crazy. Shadilay, centipedes!
I remember being regarded as a loon for asserting that politics was equivalent to professional wrestling in that the outcome is predetermined, and the contestants have more in common with each other than their fans. I also asserted that if America was legitimately operated we’d all be cashing dividend checks instead of sending checks to the IRS every year.
As an old man I’ve become a “religious fanati and regularly attend Orthodox Divine Liturgy and it’s the only sane place I’ve ever found in this crazy world.
Any time money is being handed out people will line up to get “theirs”. It’s human nature. End all these fake compassion programs. It’s the only way to keep them from being exploited by parasites. Let the politicians fund their own campaigns iykwim.
I worked at a place where clients were provided with expensive restaurant catered meals. Unused food containers were taken to the shipping department after the clients had finished eating where a mob would descend on them. Everybody there sacrificed their dignity for a “free meal”. The price was too high for me. I’m not rich or even well off but I could afford to provide modestly for myself. I had to work with these people so I kept my contempt for them in check by reminding myself I’m worse in many ways, but it reassures me that “God is merciful and loves mankind”. I’ve got plenty to repent myself, but don’t feel obligated to live beneath a cloud of shame. Lord have mercy.
Yes, I collect Social Security now, but it’s money they took from me coming back, so not a “free meal”. Had what they collected from me been placed in a Dow index fund in my name I’d be a millionaire now, but instead I squeak by on 2K/month. I could have invested for myself but didn’t. My fault. Had I the chance to do it over knowing what I do now I might have. I do recommend it. Also don’t tell anyone especially your family you’ve done it, or your own kin will regard you as a “free meal”. Lord have mercy.
Check out the OCA website if you’re at all curious.
The structuring of these revelations to ordinary citizens is a delicate thing. This has been known by many of us for a looong time but for Trumps administration to strike them like lightning without explanation and try to justify it afterwards would look needlessly vindictive and politically motivated to the folks in Rio Linda. I’m optimistic.
For tribal cultures what we regard as fraud isn’t wrong, it’s virtuous. It’s like harvesting fruit in the jungle. Nobody owns it except who gathers it, and they are obligated to share it with the tribe, with the chief getting first cut. That’s why as a Ghanan you can’t open a store in Ghana. Your tribe will help themselves to your stock because they’re actually entitled. You have no inherent right to prosper. It may not be wrong to them but it’s essentially unAmerican. That cultural norm has no place here. We’re just free range antelope to them. They gleefully slaughter us with zero remorse. Send them home, where they can be among those who operate as they do. Or put them on reservations and “take care of them” like with the tribal cultures we conquered here. They can come off the reservation to work or live, but as individuals, not as a tribe. Unfortunately they’re a “voting block” and pols must kowtow to them to stay in office. Out! Jail Walz! Deport Omar! (After a lengthy stay in Gitmo for funding terrorists).
I was in church for the Feast of the Nativity this morning. So, yes indeed. And may you and yours enjoy many many years of many many blessings.
Look up the “New Jerusalem Diagram” from John Michell. I was all up in that “sacred geometry” stuff before converting. Also you may find Stan Tenen’s work on the Hebrew alphabet interesting especially his “3:10 Torus Knot” treatise.
I have come to regard all this as a potential distraction, and am trying to stop being a Mr. Smartypants, but those inquiries led me inevitably toward Orthodoxy so they were of inestimable value to me. May your own curiosity result in your finding Truth himself. If it hasn’t already…. God Bless.
Let me name drop just a little; John Michell, Livio Stecchini, John Martineau, Robin Heath, etc. etc. There’s a lot of chaff hiding the kernels of wheat in all those books, but the wheat is there. Make good bread of it. They all refer back to Plato and his “World Soul” and the number 5040. (Has its own Wikipedia page, lol). I also get a huge kick out of the Antikithera clockwork computer, and recreations of ancient automata, but suffice it to say humans haven’t gotten smarter over the centuries. Not to even mention Barabar and other anomalous ancient architecture.
Still, I’m most impressed by John 21:11 which according to my current understanding refers to the number 156, the 17th triangular number, which is a reference to Archimedes proofs of π. It means, to me anyway, that Jesus tells the apostles to ignore the Pharisees and Saducees, and convert the Helenics, who would likely have read Archimedes btw, because the Greeks had “natural wisdom” which would be contained by the Gospel without tearing it. Paul went to Athens straight away. See Pseudo Dionysius for what happened there.
Many blessings to you TaQo, and a warm and happy Nativity Feast to you and yours.
Thank you for this. I’m deeply sympathetic to all dedicated antiquarians. Been interested in ancient calendars, ancient metrology, and ancient astronomy for a long time. My library was once vast and varied. There remain many resources for deep exploration of how and what our ancestors thought of our place in the cosmos which to some degree point out that we moderns are the ignorant savages mired in superstition. It’s all in common use but goes unrecognized, like the names of our days for instance. I’m firmly convinced, after a long and deeply curious life of inquiry that our world truly is the “center” of the universe, regardless of Jupiters many moons, and humanity is and always was the “reason” for the entirety of creation. It’s all necessary for us to have been possible. We are the crown of creation. Our struggle for discernment and ultimate understanding is, in my humble opinion the whole point. Cynics might say we’re the punchline of the cosmic joke, but personally I consider our creator, (the maker of heaven and earth and all things visible and invisible to quote the creed) is foremost omnibenevolent, as well as omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. He’s also ineffable. We can’t even hope for more than a hint. We can’t handle the Truth. Faith is far superior to knowledge.
In January 1968 the North Vietnamese army thought they’d trigger a massive popular uprising against the American military in South Vietnam by invading and staging surprise attacks in Hue, and Saigon among other places. They were certain the South Vietnamese would join them against America. It started promisingly with the surprise attacks catching US Marines unprepared, but failed miserably when the Marines fought back so fiercely, and no popular support materialized. In short they went all in, and lost it all. The NVA and Viet Cong were wiped out. Ho Chi Minh was about to surrender.
Then Walter Cronkite went on CBS news and told America the war was unwinnable and would stretch on indefinitely.
Ho reversed his plan to surrender because he knew we’d just snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with bad PR. Thanks Walter. You really can’t hate the media enough. Now or ever.
Oh, yes you can.
Remember the Glendale California Fire Marshall’s statewide torching spree in the ‘80s and ‘90s? John Leonard Orr. 2000+ fires including multiple murders. Supposedly wanted to increase funding for fire departments.
On Whyfiles some time ago AJ told a story about a researcher type guy who lived close to a military installation of some sort contacted the USAF when he intercepted transmissions he was sure were “alien”’in nature. They gaslit him, assigned him a case officer, (who has a shady history of his own) pretended to agree with him, even took him to witness a staged “UFO landing” and if I remember correctly he suicided as a result. They literally made him go crazy. Why?
That’s my opinion on government disclosing UAP/UFO information. It’s an intentional mindfuck.
Not that they’re not doing all sorts of weird shit, but they’re using misdirection like a stage magician.
Of course that’s just my opinion, and I admittedly believe in lots of things empiricists would find ridiculous. I’m an admitted religious fanatic but if it’s gaslighting from the Church at least it’s been a consistent narrative for 2000 years. There’s no scientific basis for believing in prayer, for instance, but I couldn’t imagine trying to go back to living without it now. “Finding out” there are hylomorphic (semi material) entities wouldn’t be news to me. It’s foundational to my admittedly non-empiricist faith. I just wouldn’t rely on the US Government for an accurate assessment of their nature or purpose.