Again, if you're not LDS, please be respectful. That's all I can ask.

I sat in our ward council, and I was flabbergasted. Fear had taken hold of some of our hearts. Fear of the "delta variant". Fear of what happens when kids pick each other's noses. Fear of the vaccine, or not getting the vaccine.

The prophet's message that "urges" us to get vaccinated and wear masks, and we see a significant number of the members outright refusing? What does that mean? Is the church going to fall apart because the prophet has given advice that people don't want to hear?

And then we hear of people staying home because they are afraid of getting sick, or of getting others sick...

Folks, FEAR is the enemy. FAITH is the solution.

• The delta variant will kill us, or grandma, or our babies? I can tell you 100 things way more dangerous than the delta variant. I don't know if the story of my dad's heart stopping after getting a bad case of the flu and then pneumonia helped people put things in perspective: There are dangerous things out there and they WILL kill you, eventually. And most of them are not called COVID.
• Am I going to get sick? The answer is always yes. The question should never be "will I get sick" but "how will I respond?" Or rather, how can I prepare my body for the diseases that are out there? Well, we have Section 89 the Word of Wisdom for a reason, right? And if that doesn't work, you can always get medical help and a priesthood blessing. And doesn't the Lord promise us that if the righteous get sick and die, that they die in the Lord?
• Am I going to get others sick? The answer is always yes! So should we cower and hide ourselves from each other? NO! I remember a time when people would rather see their friends and get sick than live isolated lives. We know that living in isolation is not healthy, and socially distancing, mask wearing -- at best SLOWS the spread, but it cannot stop it.
• What about those who won't "follow the prophet"? Of all the things to worry about... I just have no words for people like this. Don't you think people who have made decisions seemingly contrary to the will of God haven't spent time on their knees and searching and studying to discern for themselves what is best for them? Are we supposed to nitpick and second-guess each other, or put each other in hierarchies of who is more righteous than whom? Guess what: the world is full of "wicked" people, and you have to learn to deal with it.

FEAR is the enemy. What if? What about? What will happen next? WHO CARES? We KNOW how it all ends. We KNOW what we have to do. So let's do it, and let God worry about the details while we do the best we can with what limited information we have.

I posted recently about the First Presidency's message. I got an email sent stake-wide from our stake president suggesting a lot of members of my church are struggling with their testimony. I have heard some things about Facebook as well, though I do not spend any time there anymore.

Here's some of my simple testimony. Hopefully it will encourage you, and maybe be a source of inspiration for others.

In times like these, I hold on to the following fundamental facts:

1. The ONLY important thing is your relationship with Christ. Hold on to that. Everything else is secondary.
2. The purpose of the church, prophets, even the scriptures, is to bring you closer to Christ. If something is driving you away from Christ, cut it off, pluck it out, get rid of it. The grand test is whether we are faithful to Christ.
3. I was taught that we follow the prophet when he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost. We are under no requirement to obey the prophet when the spirit doesn't confirm it to us. We are free to experiment by faith, but we are not obligated to do things that we don't have a testimony of. It was the same during the period of polygamy -- if you were a member of the church and you didn't believe in polygamy, you didn't have to follow it, teach it, endorse it, or anything like that. We have never ever tested our membership based on their willingness to obey every random little thing.

If you feel like the first presidency or members are driving you away from the church -- just assess whether you believe you are doing what Christ wants or something else. Re-orient yourself, hold true to the things you know, and make it your purpose to follow Christ above all else. I am sure the same advice would've applied in the 1800s as well as it does today. Being a member of this church is not meant to be a pleasure cruise, but a crucible where Christ is trying to refine us until we can be worthy to inherit the mansions he has promised us.

Hold on, things will only get harder, not easier.

I am not good at sharing these things.

When I read the Bible, much as anyone else, sometimes I see things in my mind, and sometimes I feel that these things come from God.

This last reading of Revelation put a few images in my mind, and the more I ponder on them, the more I realize it is probably true.

Keep in mind, that I am one of those who believes that any faithful Christian of any period of time can read Revelation and should think that the end times are just around the corner. We should all be living our lives every day as if it is our last, and that the Savior is going to return at any moment in our day.

That said, I can't help but compare the whore of all the earth in Revelation with the evil cabal that has been working behind the scenes, trafficking in women and children, waging countless wars, putting their sights on the things of this world that do not matter such as gold and fine clothing.

This group has likely been around for a very long time, and I am sure the early Christians were more than a little familiar with them, as they didn't have to operate as secretly as they have done recently.

I can't help but see Donald Trump whenever I read about a trump sounding. I can't help but feel like he is part of this plan, put in place at the ideal time to take the ideal actions to speed along the work of God and bring about the ultimate salvation of the earth and all those who will worship Christ.

That is all. I don't have anything specific, just a general sense that we are here in the end times, that we are witnessing things that John could only express through metaphor and allegory.

Follow Christ until the end. That is all we can do.

And I will not get the jab. If it means I have to starve to death, I will do so praising God that I can be counted worthy to be persecuted as our ancestors were for their witness.

What does this mean?

I really want to limit this discussion to more-or-less faithful members of the LDS church. It's going to focus on what we are taught vs. what the first presidency has recently said.

Here is the statement:

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-message-covid-19-august-2021

Here's my 2 cents:

We have been taught since childhood that we only follow the prophet when he is inspired. The Holy Ghost will confirm for each of us whether the words he speaks are true.

We are never under any obligation to follow any teaching of the church unless it is confirmed by the Spirit to us. We can experiment with faith and see if a teaching or doctrine is true by trying it, but we are not saved or condemned based on our obedience to any law, except the ordinances of the gospel (faith, repentance. baptism, etc...) Remember that the Book of Mormon warns us not to teach more or less than this as the gospel.

We are not and never were a church of blind obedience first last and always. We are a church of revelation.

Speaking of which, nowhere did the FP say that this was a revelation. Nowhere did they cite any spiritual revelation or manifestation.

If they were dictating church policy, then as a church officer, I would be required to follow that policy, and if I could not for some reason, then I would best resign my position as an officer. But this is not that sort of message either. And besides, every change in policy has always had a "We prayed and received direction that..." clause on it.

As such, I treat this message the same as I treat any other message from a church leader that doesn't claim spiritual revelation: It goes in the round file as mere opinion. If I wanted the medical opinion of the first presidency, I would be paying them for their medical advice. If I wanted their legal opinion, I would be hiring them as a retainer for their legal advice. Since I have done none of those things, their opinion means nothing to me.

There are several obviously false statements in the FP message, besides.

• "We find ourselves fighting a war against the ravages of COVID-19 and its variants, an unrelenting pandemic." A war with a virus that is hardly harmful (compared to other actually dangerous diseases)? The coronavirus is just another flu, at worst, or a cold (more likely) -- yet why are we fighting an impossible to win war against these viruses that we have been "battling" for all of known history? The real war is with misinformation, and the reason why COVID-19 is even a thing is because Donald Trump was going to be re-elected.
• "We know that protection from the diseases they cause can only be achieved by immunizing a very high percentage of the population." This is obviously false. We have already seen 100% immunized populations explode with the new variant viruses -- if we can trust the tests at all (which we can't.) Indeed, many medical professionals are saying that the new variants were caused by the immunizations, and many are even saying that it doesn't even exist. Besides, for other vaccines, we have in recorded history seen vaccinated people carry the disease that they would've otherwise never had -- so if these were vaccines (they're not) they could actually be spreading the disease.
• "To limit exposure to these viruses, we urge the use of face masks in public meetings whenever social distancing is not possible." This is absurd advice, given medical research.
• "To provide personal protection from such severe infections, we urge individuals to be vaccinated." I know that the vaccines claim to eliminate severe infections, but given the data we have now, this is not what the vaccines are actually doing. Vaccinated people are showing up in the hospital in droves, while the unvaccinated are unaffected.
• "Available vaccines have proven to be both safe and effective." This is obviously false as well. How many have died from these vaccines now?
• "We can win this war if everyone will follow the wise and thoughtful recommendations of medical experts and government leaders." And what do "wise and thoughtful recommendations" say? There is no virus, the vaccines are very dangerous, and we shouldn't wear masks or socially distance. We should follow the Sweden model, which was the universal recommendation for responding to this type of disease in the first place.

So, pretty much the entire message contradicts what we can obviously see for ourselves.

Who do I report this crime to? Ballots should NEVER be forwarded!

I sense something changing, something big, and it's not just in our community.

When I told people on November 4th, 2020 that it was time to revolt, that we should all declare ourselves free of the US and state governments and start afresh by abolishing the existing governments, people looked at me like I was some crazy kook who was probably some kind of fed poster or something. Even my own family, who knows that I don't come to conclusions lightly, were putting me in the "clearly deranged" category.

The truth is I had known for most of my adult life that something was terribly wrong with the governments. Elections were being stolen, it was clear as day, and no one seemed to care. The laws were designed and implemented to abuse free citizens and protect corrupt people. Foreign governments had greater power in our government than the people did.

The "Great Awakening" isn't about us understanding enough of what is going on to allow people to do what needs to be done, perhaps even to help. At most, 1-2% of the population is going to be informed enough about what is going on to know what needs to be done. But that percentage is too small and is not enough to do anything.

It is imperative on those who understand to awaken those who don't, and get them ready for what needs to be done, either to stand on the sidelines and observe or to participate.

The events that lead up to 1776 cannot be completely described. We only retain some of them in our history books. Most of the things that happened died when the people who experienced them died, buried and forgotten. Regardless, we can piece together what happened given our own understanding of human nature as well as what few historical bits we can collect.

Communities across the now united states, but were then British colonies, began to awaken. How did this happen? Individuals within those communities became incensed with the British government in defense of their own natural rights. They decided for themselves that either the British government be altered or it be abolished, and a new form of government be put in place.

These people corresponded with each other, learning how to communicate with their neighbors until their neighbors began to listen to them. At that point, organization was the limiting factor, and so people began forming various committees. The committees of correspondence were the most noteworthy, but I do not doubt that similar organizations were found everywhere.

Along with this, colonial governments were changed. New leaders were found and appointed, people who were bold and outspoken in the defense of natural rights, even if it meant condemning the British government. This point cannot be underestimated! The Revolution was not "the people" vs. the British government. It was the colonial governments versus the British government. Only a government can oppose a government. The people are like sheep, easily frightened and controlled.

By the time 1776 rolled around, we had already seen fighting erupt, with the British striking the first blow. Their soldiers moved to take the arms of the Americans, arms that were stolen from the British. The Americans refused to yield, and were willing to fight and die rather than surrender their ill-gotten arms. When the colonies sent their representatives to the continental congress, it was clear that there were only two orders of business: (1) should we declare independence? and (2) how do we win the war?

The rest is, as we say, history.

What lies ahead for us? Given the unique circumstances, we are faced with a government that has NO constitutional authority. The King of England claimed the right to rule Great Britain and her colonies by divine right, as evidence by his ability to command an army and conquer. The US government and the state governments have NO SUCH ABILITY and NO SUCH RIGHT. Their only claim to legitimacy is in the very documents they deny and contradict!

Instead, WE THE PEOPLE have absolute authority in this matter. We created the constitution, we can, if we so desire, revoke it. AND WE DO NOT DESIRE IT. Therefore, the constitution is the law of the land, and any government that denies this denies themselves the right to govern.

We have three action items:

1. We must learn to communicate effectively.
2. We must organize ourselves into extra-governmental committees.
3. We must elect good and honorable men who are OUTSPOKEN in their defense of basic rights AGAINST the current so-called governments who "rule" the land.

If we get these partially right, we will win this war. And make no mistake -- IT IS A WAR. When anyone seeks to limit our rights, or curtail our freedoms, they are assaulting the very foundation of our country, just as if someone threatened the King of England it would be considered and act of WAR against Great Britain. Our sovereign is God, and his commandment is to enjoy the rights he has assigned to us, and anything that threatens those rights is an affront to our God and a threat to the very essence of our country.

Imagine, for a moment, a nation.

Let's give it everything a nation might have: land, infrastructure (roads, power plants). Maybe it has access to the ocean.

But suppose, for a moment, that that nation is missing one critical ingredient: the PEOPLE. Would you even call it a nation?

Of course not. It would be empty space on a map. Population: 0.

A nation without its people is NOTHING. It is a fiction. There are plenty of nations you can imagine, but none of them have any people, and so they are entirely imaginary.

The people who would be our masters and rule over us, to exert their will upon us against our wishes and desires, know this. Sometimes we, the PEOPLE, forget this fact!

Government which does not govern by consent of the governed cannot exist. It is an oxymoron. It is like an ocean without water; a forest with no trees; a cattle ranch with no cows. CONSENT of the governed is a critical element, not because it is nice to have, but because if it doesn't exist, government doesn't exist.

The point of the Great Awakening is to awake the PEOPLE to the facts of what those who suppose themselves our government has done to us. It is to awaken us to a sense of our moral imperative to hold our governments accountable. And most especially, to call as a question whether we consent to this.

As for me, I do not consent, I do not consent, I do not consent.

Thinking more deeply about the whole retorsion vs. reprisal and 11.3 referring to the laws of warfare manual...

The founding of this republic was upon the notion that LAWS, not men, should be sacrosanct. That is, when laws are properly instituted through the appropriate channels so that it reflects the will of The People (not just a majority at the time), then we must adhere to the laws as if our very survival depends on it. Because it does.

Our Founding Fathers did a comprehensive survey, of such a depth and honesty that I doubt we will ever be able to do it again. (Similar to how the council that put together the KJV did a better job than any modern council can do, partly because of the needs of the time and the expertise that was available that just doesn't exist anymore.)

Their findings, broadly summarized, were that:

• Governments constantly shift between different forms. Democracies tend to Monarchies, Monarchies tend to Aristocracies, Aristocracies tend towards oligarchies, and oligarchies tend towards democracies.
• Each government form has its bonuses, which in certain conditions make them more desirable than other forms. But each form also has severe limitations.
• In all cases, governments fail to do what they are supposed to do, which is to secure the rights of individuals.
• The closest we ever got in history is when we had governments that were comprised of multiple forms in competition with each other. IE, Rome's republic, where you had a dictatorial consul and the aristocratical senate but you also had democratic elements, along with the ability of the wealthy to do pretty much as they pleased, even raising armies if the occasion warranted it.
• Thus, the system of checks and balances. We are a government made of parts set in opposition to each other, and only when the rights of the individual were being protected could the parts come into alignment and interests meet.
• However, the Founding Fathers warned us that even our government would eventually fall to corruption and not just fail in its mission, but become antithetical to it. The Founding Fathers left no good solution, except vague directions such as watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots from time to time.

The genius of The Plan is that we don't need to go to mass warfare to protect the republic and restore it to its original purpose. The founding documents are indeed good enough, and only in extreme circumstances should they be set aside temporarily. Those extreme circumstances include warfare.

What's become clear is that we are at war, and the nature of the enemy isn't well-defined (at least for the mass public.) We call it the "deep state", but really it involves foreign and domestic actors either using or being used by foreign and domestic governments. What is clear, however, is that they do not swear allegiance to the constitution or our founding principles. That is enough to label them an enemy and to wage war on them.

Of course, you can't just declare war willy-nilly. There are rules for this sort of thing, rules that congress and the president have agreed to, and written down in the warfare manuals. The MOST CRITICAL aspect of such a war is that the military does not declare itself a government in the United States. Every step of the way, they must act according to the laws of our nation, so that we remain a nation of laws and not of men.

It is extremely tempting to just name someone dictator, either temporarily or permanently, and just let that person try and pull us through this crisis. However, history shows us, again and again, that certain crises are WAY BEYOND the capacity of an individual to solve, and what ends up happening is you go from one dictator to another, until the entire nation collapses because there is no longer any governing force that can unify the nation together. The Roman Republic devolving into a dictatorship and eventually falling apart is evidence of this. There are numerous other cases.

I think what will surprise people the most is when politicians, public figures, etc... get named as national enemies as their crimes are exposed. It's not just stealing elections -- these people have been subverting the United States, attempting to overthrow the constitution and our rule of law. Whether they are working for a foreign power or not is moot -- the ideas they espouse make them foreign, as our constitution is what defines our nation-hood. Absolute loyalty to it on the part of government figures is essential and no coup can be initiated unless it is started constitutionally.

The "game" used to be to have the best arms and strongest men and then remind your neighbors of that fact by periodically beating them to death, stealing their cattle, and raping their women.

We've progressed as a society since then, but it's helpful to see how that evolved into our current state of affairs. In Roman times, Rome was a city who collectively decided that they wanted to make sure everyone paid them tribute and in exchange they would make sure they wouldn't have to play "that game". You provincial people, put down your weapons (or pick them up for Rome) and we'll make sure you won't have to endure constant tribal infighting.

Fast forward to medieval times, and the game had evolved yet again. You pay your fealty to your lord, who pays it to their lords, all the way up to the king. Whether it was wheat or cows or horses or even men-at-arms, as long as you paid you were under their protection.

The end of the middle ages was the beginning of the age of nations. Now people decided that tribal warfare was stupid and instead they should send their kids off to join the military and in exchange they can live their lives free from the terrors of war as their boys would fight in distant lands against distant foes for reasons that couldn't be entirely understood.

The modern age we live in is a direct descendant of that. Now we live in a world where people have "rights" and they get to do things like choose their own leaders and write their own laws to protect those rights. This is an awfully hard game to play, especially if you want easy money and power. But there are people who think they are smart enough to manipulate the masses so they can continue to suck them dry and abuse them all for their selfish purposes. They think that the people will take it and enjoy it.

What we have learned is that a lot of people won't take it. In fact, they'll pick up rifles and RPGs and make IEDs and that's really hard for a modern military to deal with. And when the soldiers come back in caskets and bodybags people start asking questions like, "Why are we fighting this war again? And why are we acting like the bad guys?"

Pretty soon it's a full time job to keep the masses persuaded to send more young boys and money and to endure even stricter living conditions all in the name of "freedom" (What freedom? people wonder, as they lose right after right, privilege after privilege.)

The game we are in is the game of statecraft. There are very powerful people who have meticulously built their powerbase on lies and deceit. They have been using every trick in the book to convince the people that they are legitimately elected and have the best interests of the people in mind.

Well, the cover is blown. Not just a few people are now starting to understand what is really going on.

This is the new game: How can we restore the right of the people to rule themselves, elect their own leaders, write their own laws, without having a massive civil war that may involve nuclear weapons and hundreds of millions of dead?

This is the game you are playing.

Make your moves wisely.

The crimes we have already uncovered reveal the fact that the people who supposedly were elected are in fact not just traitors, but enemies, come here to destroy our nation.

We cannot be sure which nation, if any, they are working for. It is entirely possible that the CCP is running the US government for all we know. The evidence I have seen points to a much larger cabal of several nations and states, INCLUDING OUR OWN. Or rather, actors with positions of authority in those states.

What we do know, for a fact, is that they have not only taken actions of WAR to occupy their positions of power in our own country, but to enact policies meant to KILL us. That's right -- they are using WARFARE to do what they are doing to us!

They do not want to rule -- they want to destroy us and our way of life. They will not be happy until we have been bled dry and killed, sacrificed on their altars, or made into permanent slaves.

We are at WAR and have been for some time!

The military is the only way because we are in WAR. There is no appealing to authorities for resignations, no laws we can write, nor any lawsuit we can win that will ever right the wrong that has been done. We can throw them all in jail for 30 years and still it will not be fit for their crimes.

The enemy must be defeated, wholly and completely. They must be compelled to sign an article of surrender, or be killed as an enemy combatant. That enemy being what we are told is the US government, members of the media, many if not all of the state governments, appointed officials at every level in every department, even business, charity and religious leaders of all stripes and kinds.

The victory conditions for us are likely only possible if ALL of them are dead and we are not. I do not see a way we can peaceably exist with these people in the future.

When I hear about demands for resignations, or trials for the guilty, or prison time or fines, I am not pleased. It is not enough. It hints at coverup and concealment, not justice.

After 1/21, it seems that the military has become "woke". Like they are actively out there hunting down any Trump supporter in the military and driving them out. At least, that's what the news reports say, and what we see on Twitter, etc...

I can't help but think of how valuable it is to keep your enemies deceived. Sometimes this means you have to keep your allies in the dark too. IE, when we invaded Normandy in WWII, we had Hitler totally convinced that we were going to send the bulk of our forces through Calais, the traditional invasion point of Europe from Great Britain. Even after Hitler heard reports of fighting in Normandy, he refused to move his troops from Calais fearing that the fighting was a distraction.

I have long taken the stance that anything you hear in the media is false. There is no reason anyone has to publish the truth. It is not to their advantage. There are very few honest people in this world, and honest people tend not to be in charge of things, and even if they were, what moral good would be served by being honest with people trying to kill them? The only thing we know for sure is that nothing we hear is real. That's why you have to verify everything for yourself.

Is the military pro-Trump or anti-Trump? Is the military pro-child sacrifice or anti-child sacrifice? Is it split apart into warring factions? Who knows?

And frankly, what does it matter? If one case or the other is true, how will it affect your decisions today or tomorrow? That's what we really should be asking yourself.

Granted, there has been some effect. Two years ago I told my son that I think a career in the military would be a good option. This year I am telling him now is probably not a good time. Things like that can and do happen, but for the most part, what I eat for breakfast, where I choose to live, what jobs I decide to take -- that has nothing to do with whether the military is part of the Satanic cabal or not.

The "big revelation" we need is not that the AZ elections were sloppy and prone to fraud. We are not trying to uncover small crimes here.

The "big revelation" is what Mike Lindell has been trying to get us to understand: Our elections have been stolen by foreign powers, and it's been that way for some time.

What we need to uncover in AZ is not just enough votes to prove that Trump won -- that is mostly a moot issue knowing what we know now. (It's moot because whether Trump is president or not doesn't change the fact that foreign actors have stolen our elections for some time!)

We need to show that pretty much all of those people who won their elections won it through foreign interference. Not a few dollars here and there, or a few stolen ballots, but we need to show MOUNTAINS of ballots, telling the AZ voter that their votes were NEVER counted and NEVER mattered.

This is the sort of awakening we need: Elections never mattered, not for a long time. The people in power were put there by people trying to destroy us. And the ONLY way to fix this is the military.

Now that we live in an age where we can't even trust our doctors, I'm going to give you some advice just like my mom gave me (she was all into herbs and food as medicine.)

The #1 guiding force in your decisions of what to put in your body (or keep out) should be your inner voice. Some call it the Holy Ghost. When you spend time in your daily prayers, ask God whether you should take supplements, herbs, food, medicine, whatever, and he'll tell you, you just have to listen for those feelings of peace and love that can only come from God.

However, given #1, you cannot excuse ignorance! You must read everything you can on these topics and think about them deeply. Reading isn't hard -- after you've read 20 or so scientific papers you will know the drill and know what to look for. Wikipedia is a FANTASTIC resource on the various drugs out there, particularly the lesser-known ones that are used extensively for mammals. You must seek out ideas and advice and try them out, experiment with them, and then take responsibility for your own decisions.

AVOID EXTREMES! Extremes are never the answer. I take that back: Extremes are only useful in extreme situations. IE, you broke your arm, now we are going to have you put your arm in a splint and maybe set your arm and guess what limb you are not using for the next month! The goal is to live a plain, normal life, not jump from one extreme to another. So try to stay balanced and don't veer off the road. Some people just bounce back and forth between extremes and never find the happy middle.

When changing your diet, EXPECT that your body will react in mysterious ways. IE, if you decide to start grinding your own wheat and make your own bread from natural ingredients, you WILL experience changes to your digestive system. Give things time to work, sometimes your body can adjust on its own, sometimes it needs a little help. TIME cures a lot of problems, so sometimes you just need time to cure your diseases.

God put the answers you need in front of your face. Just like a good dad, if we need bread and ask for it, he isn't going to give you a stone or a serpent. Look around at what you already have. The answer is often staring right at you.

We are going to have to audit one state at a time. Why? Because there are only so many experts and so many resources to defend against shenanigans.

While I would LOVE to see states like WA get audited, I must be patient.

AZ will open the floodgates. When the exact nature and scope of the fraud is revealed, we'll have plenty of ammunition to challenge elections everywhere.

When I was a kid, I read stories from the Bible with my family just like many other kids. And I had questions.

For instance: If Adam and Eve never ate the fruit, then they would never need a Savior, and so Jesus would never need to come to reclaim mankind from sin. So why didn't Satan just leave Adam and Eve in the garden for all eternity, thus frustrating the whole necessity of Jesus Christ to begin with?

Or when Jesus was on the earth, why didn't Satan just stay out of his way? If Jesus never hung and bled from the cross, he could never redeem mankind. The worst possible result in Jesus' life was for everyone to bow down and worship him. He would never get to demonstrate his love for fallen man.

So many things like this occur in the Bible. Satan's attempt to change Job into a creature that would curse God and wish to die only ended up bringing Job closer to God, and to reveal more of his mind and will to mankind. David's Goliath brought David from a shepherd to a leader in Israel. Canaan's wickedness gave rise to justification for God to purge the land and give it to Israel.

In so many cases, if Satan just stopped being Satan for 5 minutes, God's plan could've been frustrated.

And you can look throughout the world for more examples of insanity, even in this modern age. Had the Japanese not bombed Pearl Harbor, not only would Japan become a dominant power in the Pacific, but Hitler may have won WWII. Had Hitler not invaded France, he would've only had to deal with the Russians and not the allied forces. And so on and so on...

The reason why I tell you this is because you who have come to understand God's love, even in part, will find the thought process of people ensnared by Satan's influence to be mystifying. That said, it is imperative that you understand it. It is not possible for evil people to understand good people, but good people can and should understand evil people. (The darkness cannot comprehend the light.)

The first barrier to understanding evil is admitting to yourself that evil exists. The exact cause of evil isn't important for this discussion, only that something somewhere is evil and it is influencing people to do evil things. Whether you blame George Soros or Satan for the evil in the world is really not very important, but you must have a clear understanding that there is evil and it is very real.

The next barrier is understanding what motivates evil. Why does evil do what it does? "Good" thinking is constructive. "I want to drive a Lamborghini, so I am going to work hard and build an ice cream store that everyone loves to bring their family to". "Evil" thinking is destructive. "If I can't drive a Lamborghini, then NO ONE CAN!"

The story of the baby in King Solomon's court is very enlightening. There were two women living together (probably prostitutes) and they each had a son. One of the sons died, and both women claimed the survivor as their own. When they were brought to King Solomon, he ordered the baby be cut in two and each half given to each woman. As a result, one woman was delighted and eager to see the baby killed, while the other begged King Solomon to give the baby to the other rather than kill it. Obviously, the woman who begged for the child's life was found to be the mother in this case. (Even if she wasn't, she was the only woman deserving to be called mother!)

This destructive impulse, this desire to hurt and destroy, is the true motivating factor behind all of the world's political philosophies except one. It is the true motivating factor behind much of the business world -- and when you see it, you will be disgusted by it. (If you do know businessmen who are creative rather than destructive, you should hold on to them.)

Be careful, though. Satan would love to deceive us and confuse the destructive impulse with justice. Justice is destruction done in accordance with the law, to reconcile some evil already done. IE, execute the murderer as he has murdered and life is required for life. Restore the property (and then some) to the victim at the expense of the thief. Justice is the last resort when there is evil and nothing can be done to rectify the situation.

That's why you hear angry mobs marching down the street destroying everything shouting "Justice!" But there is no justice in harming innocent people, or taking your vengeance upon a group of unrelated people. That is just pure evil.

Keep this in mind. The end game for the evil elements in our society is not victory. They do not want to "win". They want to destroy. They want to destroy everything they can. They might lie to themselves and tell them it is a precursor to creation, or justice, or some other pablum, but at the heart is the desire to see the world burn.

And that should explain most of what the deep state and cabal is doing right now. They are not trying to preserve themselves, or create a situation where they can rule.

They just want to kill everyone.

The number everyone is concerned about with COVID-19 are CASES and CASE MORTALITY.

NEITHER number is meaningful in any way. They don't mean anything!

The number that EVERYONE should be worried about is TOTAL MORTALITY. That is, what is the chance that I (or someone I love) will die from the disease?

The way you calculate this number is you need 2 other numbers: INFECTION RATE and INFECTION MORTALITY. The infection rate will tell you how many people will get the disease. Infection mortality tells you how many will die if they are infected.

The infection rate is based on how many people an infected person will spread the disease to, as well as how many people are already immune to the disease. Already immune? Yes, your immune system is NATURALLY immune to all sorts of diseases it has never encountered before because of the way your immune system works. Some people have estimated that as many as 60% of the population are ALREADY IMMUNE to COVID-19, meaning that the total infection rate can never exceed 40%.

What about cases? Doesn't cases correspond to infections? NO, not in the slightest! INFECTED people are those who actually have the disease. CASES are people we suspect might have the disease. IE, they tested positive or one of their close friends or family tested positive. That's right -- you don't even need to test positive to be a case!

And when it comes to testing -- what is the false positive and false negative rate? That is, how many times will it say "NO" when the person is indeed infected and "YES" when they are not! This is important data that has been WITHHELD from the public. Anyone who understands the first thing about Bayesian probabilities knows that if you test positive for a super-rare disease, you still likely DON'T have that disease!

What about case mortality? Here again, this is the number of CASES that die with the disease. You might think of this as the number of people who test positive then die -- because that's what they are counting as a "COVID" death. Car accident? Gunshot wound? If you test positive, or even if we think you MIGHT have the disease -- you are counted as a victim of COVID. Note that we are asking "What is my chance to get the disease and die FROM it" not "What is my chance of becoming a case and then dying for one reason or another?"

If you want to get an idea of the infection rate, there are a number of things you can do:

• Measure how quickly the disease spreads. This number will drop as more and more people become immune.
• Take a random sample of the population and test them. Although not every positive test will mean that you have a positive infection, it does give you enough information to estimate how many people actually have the disease -- even if the tests are highly inaccurate (PCR tests are incredibly inaccurate!) Take the random sample every interval (1 week, 1 month, whatever) and you can see the infection rate change in the population, and figure out how many people are likely to get infected in the future.
• Count the number of people who would otherwise not have died except for the fact they had the disease. THIS number, my friends, is a TINY FRACTION of so-called COVID deaths.

Note that in handling a crisis like this, where community transfer is inevitable, it is POINTLESS to test people and try to create isolation wards. I mean, you can try, but unless you have a very accurate test, it's pointless. If there's a 5% chance your negative is false, then after 20 visitors, guess what? You just let someone in who has the disease but tested negative! Maybe, in the first stages of the disease, when it is only present in small populations and quarantine is still a viable strategy, you can quarantine entire populations, but even then -- if it's very quick to spread, this is a futile exercise!

So folks, ask the following questions:

• What is my chances of ACTUALLY having the disease if I test positive? And what is the chances of ACTUALLY being clear if I test negative? This is NOT the false positive / false negative rate! Use Bayesian math to figure this out.
• What is my chance of catching the disease? That is, what is the INFECTION RATE?
• What is my chance of dying due to the disease (NOT with the disease)? This is the TOTAL MORTALITY.

I can tell you folks, having done the math, testing positive for COVID-19 actually means you will live longer. You are LESS likely to die with the disease than you are to die without it. You can make up all sorts of reasons why this is, but you cannot deny the fact that in any given 2-week period, you are MORE likely to die if you don't have COVID.

Latest post by Awaken with JP got me thinking: https://youtu.be/wCIaIk4FiZs

I'll share a quick story and then I'll propose some possibilities to you.

Back in 2010-2012, I met a guy who worked on a very prominent democrat's campaign on the technical side. I asked him if he would work on this democrat's campaign again, and he told me he would never work on any political campaign ever again, because they are all so horribly corrupt and irredeemable.

I don't know what the person's personal politics were, but I got the sense that he cared at least a little bit about the truth.

Now for the possibilities:

Leaving aside whether or not the man you see on TV is Joe Biden or not (it's irrelevant), I want to ask you what you think of his handlers.

Keep in mind these are people who are coaching the most powerful man in the world (if Joe is actually president and the US is still functioning.)

a) The people are incompetent, getting paid to do something they don't know how to do.

b) The people are competent but want to make Joe look like a fool.

I can believe (a). Communists are notorious for being exceptionally poorly qualified. However, I can't imagine that someone didn't say something like, "You know, it's really important that we make Joe seem presidential. Why don't we hire so-and-so who is actually competent and have him help us get it right?" Maybe feminism and wokism is so prevalent in his administration that they are at the Soviet level of incompetence, but I find that hard to believe, especially when they are in such a precarious position and they have virtually unlimited funding.

The problem I have with (a) is that it just seems implausible. Possible but not probable, in other words.

What about (b)? I know you've all seen the memes of Joe being told to do or so something retarded and the crew telling him to do it laughing about it. It's a successful meme because it is mostly true. Why would someone want to make Joe look like a fool? And why are they doing it so subtly? It certainly isn't someone from the Deep State, the Cabal, or anyone like that. I mean, unless they want to completely destroy any faith and confidence in the US government on behalf of the American people. (Improbable since the US government is actively pushing the cabal's position forward.)

So I am left to believe that Joe, or whoever is playing Joe on TV, is being told what to do by white hats, people opposed to the Deep State and the cabal, and they are intentionally leaving subtle hints that Joe is incompetent, not in control of the country, and that he is being played by a group that know a great deal about how to do these sorts of things really well.

It sort of calls into question the authenticity of any public figure. Who's to say they aren't being told what to say and do, or that they aren't part of a larger script?

At this point, the question becomes: What is the script? Why is it written that way and not some other way? But most especially, when do we get our country back and what do we need to do today?

One of the ways we solve very complicated physics problems is to propose all possible scenarios and see which scenarios fit the facts. It's sort of like Sherlock Holmes saying, "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

I could go on and on about how we use this technique mathematically to charge seemingly impossible problems in theoretical physics, but it has very practical applications in experimental physics. If we have two versions of reality that both conform with our experiments, then we derive a new experiment to reveal which it is by finding some disagreement between the versions of reality.

In that spirit, I've been trying to wrap my head about what's going to happen by proposing possible realities and trying to see which conforms better with the facts as I observe them (Seeing is not believing. Observing is what you do after you've accounted for human error.)

Here's the scenarios I think are most likely.

Trump is not president right now, Biden is. This reality requires that every branch of government, every individual who has power (or rather, the vast majority of them) believe that Biden won the election fair and square, and either refuse to look at the facts or have looked at them and found them lacking.

Given my observation that (a) the media lies, about everything, all the time, and (b) the government is deeply divided and not at all united, I find this reality to be one of the least likely. After all, the statement "the media never gets anything right about physics, ever" is true and I have yet to see any evidence contrary to it. I have asked experts in other fields if it is true in their field as well, and they agree. So the statement, "The media is wrong about everything all the time" is true.

But also, a whole lot of things don't make sense. Why did the Supreme Court refuse to hear the case? Can the Supreme Court be legitimate and at the same time refuse to take on the case? I can't imagine any universe or reality where a Supreme Court could do such a thing, in any country. Refusing even to hear the evidence or look at the case is insulting at best, treasonous at worst.

If I were trying to steal a government, I wouldn't refuse to hear the case. I would instead let the case play out in front of everyone, and then bring in my own "facts" to deceive the people, or at least muddy the waters enough so that when the decision came down in my favor, I can claim some form of authenticity. It is imperative that I leave my opponents the possibility of victory through legal means in the future, so that they "go along to get along" until the next election or whatnot.

Maybe the government is retarded and full of incompetents who don't deserve the ability to govern. Maybe they thought, in their infantile minds, that stealing the election then refusing to hear the case would be the best possible avenue. I can imagine the depths of government stupidity, but this would take the cake!

President Trump is still president, but he's pretending not to be. This one is even more mysterious than the former. If Trump won, and became president, why not say so? The evidence is on his side, and he can win any case against the government.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me fully explore what this means. It means that the inauguration was faked. There was a secret inauguration where Trump was sworn in for his second term. It means all the military and federal officers have to pretend Biden is president but secretly get orders from Trump. Or at least their senior-most commanders. But why would Trump open the Southern border and do all the things that Biden signed?

What would be the point of this charade? Is there a massive insurrection he is preventing? Are there more people he needs to catch before he can show himself as president? Is there some cataclysmic event he is trying to prevent by hiding?

There is no federal government, but people in power don't want the people to know this yet. This reality requires that there be a massive cover up of epic proportions. Probably 10 moon landings, if you believe that was faked. Is it possible to get thousand and thousands of people to cooperate to pull the wool over the people's eyes?

Yes, yes it is possible. After all, the Allied Forces fooled Hitler into believing that the invasion would be at Calais, and even after invading Normandy, he refused to move his units from Calais because he believed it was a feint. How did the Allies get away with it? They took control of pretty much every avenue of information available to Hitler. All his top spies were really Allied double-agents.

Well, how do we get our information? Aside from a few citizen-journalists, it's not impossible to control pretty much everything we see and hear.

This begs the question: Why is the federal government disbanded, who is in charge, and when will this fact be revealed? I can only surmise that perhaps the level of invasion into our government(s) was so high that President Trump declared the entire thing unsalvageable. This would be what I would do if I were president, and I would've done it a long time ago, probably in the 90s.

This is where it gets interesting.

White hats are in charge. Like the "President Trump is still president" scenario, one has to wonder why the white hats would let things get so bad? Again, what cataclysmic event are we preventing?

Black hats are in charge. This would explain a lot, actually. Because they do not have "real" government power they are madly trying to secure their powerbase through a series of short-sighted but historically effective techniques.

Of course, with no federal government, you have to ask yourself if there are people who oppose the current government? if so, what are they doing and how do they intend to accomplish it?

I'm not conclusive in my analysis, but I believe an analysis like this suggest the following is true:

1. There is no federal government. It has collapsed. That fact is being hidden from us.
2. There are bad actors in charge of the country right now, and they are likely using a fake government to try and rule over us.
3. There are good actors behind the scenes who have some ultimate plan to play the ultimate UNO reverse card. Hence, the urgency from the bad actors and their desperation and short-sightedness.

I think the above also reconciles very well with what Q has been writing. Are the good guys in control? Yes, but not directly at the moment.

It may also explain why Trump and good actors are behaving the way they are: There is a cataclysmic event (civil war) that they desperately want to prevent, so much so that they are willing to step aside and let bad actors take control for a moment.

My dad just got his stimulus check and he reported it said it is from President Donald Trump and signed by Admiral Robinson.

Can anyone confirm? I can't find anything online about this.

Communists are able to succeed in taking over a country by getting the population to believe a lie. Not everyone, just enough that the majority of the rest simply go along rather than fight it.

It doesn't matter what sort of lie it is -- the important bit is to convince people to stop using logic and reason and relying on their senses and memories.

IE, the 1619 project is basically telling everyone to ignore everything written on the subject of American history, ignore what actually happened and how people interpreted it at the time and later, and replace it with a completely bogus and meaningless narrative. Do you think communists actually believe that America was founded to oppress black people? Do you think communists really care one whit about black people?

This latest Biden hand green screen thing is an example of how they try to get people to believe a lie. We all saw the video. We all know exactly what it means. We don't know why someone would go through the trouble of doing this -- maybe they are trying to cover up some horrible fact like Biden is already dead or in prison or whatever -- but that's not important to the communist.

They MUST get a significant portion of the population to reject what they see. Then they MUST get a significant portion of the remainder of the population to go along with it. They must know that it is a green screen and say, "It is not a green screen", and the reason why they say it does not matter.

Communism is built on lies, and needs a society so divorced from reality and truth to bear it up.

PLEASE force this issue on others. If they refuse to see it, make fun of them, mock them, call them names, and question their sanity and mental capacity. Others who say you don't need to be so mean about it -- shut them up as well and explain that when society cannot speak the truth, then we might as well kill ourselves and save Satan the bother.

If enough of us behave this way, it completely deflates the communist agenda and brings people to question what other unspoken truths need to be spoken.

For instance: There is a HUGE correlation between children being molested and becoming "gay", and homosexual men are responsible for something like half of all child molestations. There is also ABSOLUTE PROOF that there is no racial divide in America -- the reason why blacks commit so much crime and are so poor and their IQs so low is because their marriage rates are so low. MARRIAGE, not skin color, determines success in children and society.

And most importantly: There is no benefit to breaking God's most fundamental laws: don't murder, don't steal, don't commit adultery, and don't covet!

Something I'm noticing about the behavior of democrats for the past few months...

You know how there is what conservatives actually want to do vs. what leftists think they want to do? Same goes for leftists: there's what they actually want to do vs. what conservatives think they want to do.

The Obama administration was very eye-opening. Obama was supposedly so popular that he could get away with anything, but in the end, his agenda wasn't nearly so dangerous to our liberties as conservatives warned us it would be. For instance, when it came to gun control, Obama did surprisingly little, and the democrats were remarkably quiet.

Now with the Biden months, it appears that the leftists are doing everything conservatives warned us about. They are going full-bore to discriminate against people based on their skin color and political preferences, and they are now assaulting every gun right we have left.

To flip things around, perhaps to make more sense: Suppose republicans took power, and suddenly wanted to introduce legislation making Islam illegal, or making Christianity the state religion, with state funding for churches. Absurd, right? But that's what leftists think conservatives want to do.

Suppose you were a leftist, and you had complete control over the actual policies the conservatives pursued when they were in power, but the caveat is you had to make them pursue their agenda. An ill-informed leftist would propose such radical policies, because that's what they think we really want.

I believe something similar is happening on the left. The left aren't in control. There's no way they would ever push their agenda so hard and so fast, and besides, the issues that leftists are taking on in the country are wildly unpopular and they know it is political suicide to attempt them.

So what's really going on? I suspect that a bunch of conservatives are telling the left what to do, if not doing it for them, with the intention to make leftists so radical and far left that they will have no friends by the time the next elections roll around.

It's what I would do if I were to gain control over the left.

ABSOLUTELY, I would have them endorse having MTF trannies competing in sports at a national level with women. And appointing beasts and failures to every cabinet position I could think of. And yes, I would go after all the guns, even the pellet guns and make people prove they are not insane before they can so much as touch any ammo. And I would totally start paying reparations to black people.

This would make the left unelectable for decades at least.

I have become convinced, likely as many of you have, that the evil we face today is actually an ancient evil, the same evil that God condemned to genocide back when Israel took the land of Canaan.

The old gods are still around, still being worshipped. God warned Israel about them, told the Israelites to slaughter those who kept their idols or picked up their practices.

The Bible, the Old Testament especially, describes some of the things they were doing, and how the people responded, how God responded, how God commanded us to respond and what happens when we obey God or when we ignore him.

After Old Testament times, Jesus warned us about the people in the New Testament. Even though the Romans had never picked up the particular brand of evil that inhabited Canaan (renamed Palestine), there were people who kept on to these ancient practices, and unfortunately, it seems the spread of Christianity also brought with it the virus of that evil as well. Soon, Europe got infected, and the Middle Ages are really a story of people trying to fight against the same evil that Israel fought against in ancient times.

And now we are living in modern times, and these practices are being exposed, little by little. It used to be absurd to believe that people were doing these things, but now it's absurd to believe they are not. The symbolism is all out in the open, and multiple witnesses have testified with their lives to the great evil.

I wish it weren't so, but like Frodo in the Lord of the Rings, we don't get to choose which time we live in. We get to choose how we intend to act.

And how do we act?

I think it is time to return to God who warned ancient peoples about this great evil, and gave them a way to cleanse it from their people. It's time we start turning back to the old commandments and old ways, the ways of our ancestors.