The YouTube pages says "explosive" speech.
Comments at YouTube are fun to read. Recommended.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Ptahhotep Maxims 11, 12, 13 and 14
In two videos.
Maxim 11 is treatment of one's son. It's gross. We get a good idea of where Norman Mailer got his bizarre idea from about reincarnation through magic. When I read that in Ancient Evenings I thought, man, that sounds particularly Egyptian. He's internalized their way of thinking. And now it's shown in hieroglyphs in pornographic form.
12 is how to behave in court. Allen is at his best in notes. He has a lot of good insight that I don't see anywhere else. We learn that local court was held in the wide entrance gateways to the temples.
13 is about how to behave toward neighbors. The idea is look to their needs before your own.
14 is about how to be a good messenger. It was the most difficult so far. In places the transliteration of presumed sounds does not match the hieroglyphs shown, letters out of place, positions switched, then translations do not match the tranliteratons and the definitions do not match the translations, with portions omitted, portions doubled, lines overlapping, and other portions added elsewhere, prepositions thrown in where they're not shown, key glyphs ignored. In places I had to just throw up my hands and accept what is given.
Their is clearly an "n" and he's saying it's an "i."
It shows "gtf" and he's saying it's "gft." That sort of thing throughout.
It's a small thing but it makes a huge difference when you're looking up each thing.
Want to hear something incredibly stupid?
I woke up this morning from dreaming very convincingly. A person I was speaking to was talking about flags. He told me this bears on the exercise I had just finished. I wanted to add a little animation to the front of it. He said, use flags. They're explained in your notes. He said that some nation's flags are derived from their state flags, an element in the canton of a state flag used as the Nation's entire flag, the reverse of how it usually goes. Like Australia. He said there are dozens of examples. I should show an Egyptian at a sewing machine with flags pouring out the front side and displayed to the viewer. He told me the word for this reversal.
I woke up thinking that was real. I looked back in the notes but nothing is there about flags. I looked online and researched the flag of Australia. Then I read a flag glossary. Nothing matched. And then I was baffled about where in the heck did I come up with something so strange as that. The dream person seemed very real. I thought I had a good idea there, but it just wasn't.
Now I'm having that déjà vécu thing happening again massively. Did I show you this already? Because it feels like I did. Ignore if you saw this before. And apologies.
Maxim 11 is treatment of one's son. It's gross. We get a good idea of where Norman Mailer got his bizarre idea from about reincarnation through magic. When I read that in Ancient Evenings I thought, man, that sounds particularly Egyptian. He's internalized their way of thinking. And now it's shown in hieroglyphs in pornographic form.
12 is how to behave in court. Allen is at his best in notes. He has a lot of good insight that I don't see anywhere else. We learn that local court was held in the wide entrance gateways to the temples.
13 is about how to behave toward neighbors. The idea is look to their needs before your own.
14 is about how to be a good messenger. It was the most difficult so far. In places the transliteration of presumed sounds does not match the hieroglyphs shown, letters out of place, positions switched, then translations do not match the tranliteratons and the definitions do not match the translations, with portions omitted, portions doubled, lines overlapping, and other portions added elsewhere, prepositions thrown in where they're not shown, key glyphs ignored. In places I had to just throw up my hands and accept what is given.
Their is clearly an "n" and he's saying it's an "i."
It shows "gtf" and he's saying it's "gft." That sort of thing throughout.
It's a small thing but it makes a huge difference when you're looking up each thing.
Want to hear something incredibly stupid?
I woke up this morning from dreaming very convincingly. A person I was speaking to was talking about flags. He told me this bears on the exercise I had just finished. I wanted to add a little animation to the front of it. He said, use flags. They're explained in your notes. He said that some nation's flags are derived from their state flags, an element in the canton of a state flag used as the Nation's entire flag, the reverse of how it usually goes. Like Australia. He said there are dozens of examples. I should show an Egyptian at a sewing machine with flags pouring out the front side and displayed to the viewer. He told me the word for this reversal.
I woke up thinking that was real. I looked back in the notes but nothing is there about flags. I looked online and researched the flag of Australia. Then I read a flag glossary. Nothing matched. And then I was baffled about where in the heck did I come up with something so strange as that. The dream person seemed very real. I thought I had a good idea there, but it just wasn't.
Now I'm having that déjà vécu thing happening again massively. Did I show you this already? Because it feels like I did. Ignore if you saw this before. And apologies.
Friday, August 24, 2018
McCain discontinues cancer treatment
The article at the Treehouse features a photo of McCain with Chris Stevens showing McCain striding toward the camera smiling with everyone surrounding him apparently concerned about their movement through a residential area with photos of men such as seen elsewhere for martyrs and of missing loved ones, hanging outside windows and all over exterior walls.
There's nothing else to the Treehouse article except a link to the originating article at NBC. Treehouse commenters who followed the link remark only on the tweets within the article, from Ryan, Romney and Jan Brewer.
I do not understand the comments at the Treehouse to the notification.
They baffle me. The commenters there are seething with hatred. Bubbling, boiling over. And they're ostensible Christians.They write praise of the lord and prayers to the hurting and condemnation in the same sentence. Half of them talk about McCain going to hell. Others about facing his maker, the same as themselves, and others, many others, about hoping he repents.
One commenter said his mother told him not to speak ill of the dead (nearly dead), and then that became another discussion. People are citing scripture. The book of Revelation (ugh). Others post videos of McCain in session coming unglued in his obstructing an investigating committee that looked into Vietnam records on prisoners and missing in action. Another video about Vietnam vets remarking how McCain blocked their efforts at getting to government records, and halting the search for MIAs.
Their hatred is visceral, and I suspect most of the commenters voted for him. They're saying he treated his own voters like he treated his first wife.
They're talking about three planes he crashed, then another said six, and about him nearly destroying a carrier, and about him being directly responsible for the deaths of sailors, some 130 or so .
They come up with suggestions who the WH should send to represent them, Pence, not Melania, because the anticipated eulogies would be too much to sit through. They're anticipating eulogies, anticipating guests. They're agreeing the only people eulogizing will be people who didn't vote for him. They're anticipating days on end of all his friends on the left speaking highly of his service while the people who actually voted for him glad that he's gone. All this in near future. Will be relieved that he's gone.
Why does a Christian express hope that someone repents? Sanctimonious people feel no need themselves for that, thinking they've been behaving righteously all along. It's the people demanding repenting who need repenting themselves for making such insistence. The God they are praying to is a lot more forgiving than they are themselves.
One commenter says they should re-read their bible. The lake of fire is not for the condemned. Such mythology. They have it wrong. Then subsequent commenters tell him, no, he should re-read it himself.
Fine. [bible, lake of fire] If this goes to Revelation then you're all just flat full of shit.
UGH!
Revelation 19:20 - 21:8 It's about second death.
Okay, that does it. Nobody knows what they're talking about. They cite Revelation so that means they talk nonsense.
Brimstone is the key. The Zebedee brothers were the fire and brimstone obsessed apostles. They were the two most fierce and spiteful toward enemies and wanted Jesus to bring down brimstone on everyone who opposed them. They were very easily excited, very eager for Jesus to make damage brought down on their antagonists. You read "brimstone" you think, John Zebedee. Revelation is a bad dream of overly excited John Zebedee. The words of Jesus in Revelation are John's words for Jesus in his dream. And John had remarkably bizarre symbol-ridden particularly excitable dreams, so far remote from Jesus' actual teaching that it's not even funny. How John's bad dream made it to scripture can be ascribed to the meanness of early assemblers. So that the collection concludes, believe all we've shown you or go to hell.
In one of the McCain videos, McCain is shown traducing a woman who wants the investigative committee to continue. He is unbearable to listen to because he begins by demanding he not be interrupted like the previous speaker was, then lists the service record of another admiral or general and his conclusion that supported McCain's decision. I'm watching and thinking a sitting Senator is relying heavily on argumentum verecundiam. Instead of his own authority. McCain says, 40 years of service, highest of rank, this medal, that medal, and I say, "we try not to hold all that against him." All that is who he was then, and this is now. (Back then) Then he contrasts that with the woman's lack of such illustrious record in argumentum ad hominem, "even such a lady as you." He is literally impossible to listen to for his rhetorical violations.
Then Treehouse commenters cite Revelation. Making themselves impossible to read further. If they knew the voice that they've studied so long and cite so often, then they'd recognize the words printed in red in Revelation denoting the voice of Jesus is definitely not Jesus speaking. His voice is consistent and then at the very end it suddenly changes dramatically. How John can change the voice so strangely contrary to Jesus' genuine teaching, to suit his own vision, is just bizarre. The whole book is straight up affront to all that precedes it. It violates all of the new teaching presuming the voice of the teacher. When readers cannot see that then there is no point in even discussing anything with them.
But then.
Imagine the art it inspired. Dante's Divine Comedy (where he places everyone he dislikes in their unique spots in Hell, the center being ice, not fire, to Hieronymus Bosch whose plagues are much like Hell, to a show that I watched on Netflix last night staring Kenau Reeves called Constantine wherein the visions of hell and of demons are impressively imaginative and well executed.
But just that. Imagination.
God doesn't do such things.
The teaching of Jesus that precedes John imagining Jesus speaking is brilliantly clear on this. It's remarkable reading from Old Testament to New Testament, it's a light that goes on that fills the whole room with lightness and life. Suddenly the religious voice changes from drudgery to beauty. God can be understood as your father. Who loves you. As earthly fathers love their own children. That is the analogy Jesus taught consistently.
He doesn't condemn people to hell.
The whole point of your spiritual evolution is for you to keep getting better so that eventually you can join God, pure enough to take such an awesome event wherein all of the decisions made by your unique personality align with the way of God, to fuse with your inner God fragment so that you can actually encounter God. God wouldn't waste that just because you messed up while developing as spiritual infant on Earth.
<<<Anecdote>>>
I was invited to a party of strangers. We're outside in summer under a tent cover with open sides. We're having backyard grill fare, hot dogs, hamburgers, baked beans, coleslaw and the like. Paper plates. Plastic utensils. Beer and cocktails for thee, Coca-Cola for me. A lull fell on the group. Silence under the tent.
"Say. I have a bizarre question."
That got everyone's attention. The people I don't know suddenly interested in this stranger.
Apparently they were eager to answer a bizarre question.
"If Hitler went to heaven and came face to face with his maker, would God say, 'Go straight to hell' or would God say, 'I think we can work with this.'"
Not a single person said that God would say "Go straight to hell." Everyone agreed, all strangers to me and apparently eager to assure me, drawing on their Christian training as they understand it, that God would allow Hitler his second life, and work to make Hitler a better spirit.
<<</Anecdote>>>
And if God would do that for Hitler then God would do that for me. No matter what. And God will do that for McCain no matter how we view McCain's mistakes.
There's nothing else to the Treehouse article except a link to the originating article at NBC. Treehouse commenters who followed the link remark only on the tweets within the article, from Ryan, Romney and Jan Brewer.
I do not understand the comments at the Treehouse to the notification.
They baffle me. The commenters there are seething with hatred. Bubbling, boiling over. And they're ostensible Christians.They write praise of the lord and prayers to the hurting and condemnation in the same sentence. Half of them talk about McCain going to hell. Others about facing his maker, the same as themselves, and others, many others, about hoping he repents.
One commenter said his mother told him not to speak ill of the dead (nearly dead), and then that became another discussion. People are citing scripture. The book of Revelation (ugh). Others post videos of McCain in session coming unglued in his obstructing an investigating committee that looked into Vietnam records on prisoners and missing in action. Another video about Vietnam vets remarking how McCain blocked their efforts at getting to government records, and halting the search for MIAs.
Their hatred is visceral, and I suspect most of the commenters voted for him. They're saying he treated his own voters like he treated his first wife.
They're talking about three planes he crashed, then another said six, and about him nearly destroying a carrier, and about him being directly responsible for the deaths of sailors, some 130 or so .
They come up with suggestions who the WH should send to represent them, Pence, not Melania, because the anticipated eulogies would be too much to sit through. They're anticipating eulogies, anticipating guests. They're agreeing the only people eulogizing will be people who didn't vote for him. They're anticipating days on end of all his friends on the left speaking highly of his service while the people who actually voted for him glad that he's gone. All this in near future. Will be relieved that he's gone.
Why does a Christian express hope that someone repents? Sanctimonious people feel no need themselves for that, thinking they've been behaving righteously all along. It's the people demanding repenting who need repenting themselves for making such insistence. The God they are praying to is a lot more forgiving than they are themselves.
One commenter says they should re-read their bible. The lake of fire is not for the condemned. Such mythology. They have it wrong. Then subsequent commenters tell him, no, he should re-read it himself.
Fine. [bible, lake of fire] If this goes to Revelation then you're all just flat full of shit.
UGH!
Revelation 19:20 - 21:8 It's about second death.
Okay, that does it. Nobody knows what they're talking about. They cite Revelation so that means they talk nonsense.
Brimstone is the key. The Zebedee brothers were the fire and brimstone obsessed apostles. They were the two most fierce and spiteful toward enemies and wanted Jesus to bring down brimstone on everyone who opposed them. They were very easily excited, very eager for Jesus to make damage brought down on their antagonists. You read "brimstone" you think, John Zebedee. Revelation is a bad dream of overly excited John Zebedee. The words of Jesus in Revelation are John's words for Jesus in his dream. And John had remarkably bizarre symbol-ridden particularly excitable dreams, so far remote from Jesus' actual teaching that it's not even funny. How John's bad dream made it to scripture can be ascribed to the meanness of early assemblers. So that the collection concludes, believe all we've shown you or go to hell.
In one of the McCain videos, McCain is shown traducing a woman who wants the investigative committee to continue. He is unbearable to listen to because he begins by demanding he not be interrupted like the previous speaker was, then lists the service record of another admiral or general and his conclusion that supported McCain's decision. I'm watching and thinking a sitting Senator is relying heavily on argumentum verecundiam. Instead of his own authority. McCain says, 40 years of service, highest of rank, this medal, that medal, and I say, "we try not to hold all that against him." All that is who he was then, and this is now. (Back then) Then he contrasts that with the woman's lack of such illustrious record in argumentum ad hominem, "even such a lady as you." He is literally impossible to listen to for his rhetorical violations.
Then Treehouse commenters cite Revelation. Making themselves impossible to read further. If they knew the voice that they've studied so long and cite so often, then they'd recognize the words printed in red in Revelation denoting the voice of Jesus is definitely not Jesus speaking. His voice is consistent and then at the very end it suddenly changes dramatically. How John can change the voice so strangely contrary to Jesus' genuine teaching, to suit his own vision, is just bizarre. The whole book is straight up affront to all that precedes it. It violates all of the new teaching presuming the voice of the teacher. When readers cannot see that then there is no point in even discussing anything with them.
But then.
Imagine the art it inspired. Dante's Divine Comedy (where he places everyone he dislikes in their unique spots in Hell, the center being ice, not fire, to Hieronymus Bosch whose plagues are much like Hell, to a show that I watched on Netflix last night staring Kenau Reeves called Constantine wherein the visions of hell and of demons are impressively imaginative and well executed.
But just that. Imagination.
God doesn't do such things.
The teaching of Jesus that precedes John imagining Jesus speaking is brilliantly clear on this. It's remarkable reading from Old Testament to New Testament, it's a light that goes on that fills the whole room with lightness and life. Suddenly the religious voice changes from drudgery to beauty. God can be understood as your father. Who loves you. As earthly fathers love their own children. That is the analogy Jesus taught consistently.
He doesn't condemn people to hell.
The whole point of your spiritual evolution is for you to keep getting better so that eventually you can join God, pure enough to take such an awesome event wherein all of the decisions made by your unique personality align with the way of God, to fuse with your inner God fragment so that you can actually encounter God. God wouldn't waste that just because you messed up while developing as spiritual infant on Earth.
<<<Anecdote>>>
I was invited to a party of strangers. We're outside in summer under a tent cover with open sides. We're having backyard grill fare, hot dogs, hamburgers, baked beans, coleslaw and the like. Paper plates. Plastic utensils. Beer and cocktails for thee, Coca-Cola for me. A lull fell on the group. Silence under the tent.
"Say. I have a bizarre question."
That got everyone's attention. The people I don't know suddenly interested in this stranger.
Apparently they were eager to answer a bizarre question.
"If Hitler went to heaven and came face to face with his maker, would God say, 'Go straight to hell' or would God say, 'I think we can work with this.'"
Not a single person said that God would say "Go straight to hell." Everyone agreed, all strangers to me and apparently eager to assure me, drawing on their Christian training as they understand it, that God would allow Hitler his second life, and work to make Hitler a better spirit.
<<</Anecdote>>>
And if God would do that for Hitler then God would do that for me. No matter what. And God will do that for McCain no matter how we view McCain's mistakes.
Miyazaki Mangos
We just heard the mango is Irwin variety originating in Florida while the following video tells us it originated in Japan. The technique originated in Japan, extremists as they are, not the mango variety.
They attach little aluminum reflectors at the base of each net.
Irwin is a dwarf variety. They don't say this but that's why they chose it. Better for greenhouse farming and better for their intense hands-on technique.
They attach little aluminum reflectors at the base of each net.
Irwin is a dwarf variety. They don't say this but that's why they chose it. Better for greenhouse farming and better for their intense hands-on technique.
While back in Florida they have their own obsession with varieties while they grow mangos wholesale in scores of varieties.
Everyone talks funny. I shut them off before halfway. The Americans tend to ramble and speak as with hatchets, while the Australians land heavy emphasis at the points of their distortions. The Latin kid with the actual "duck" bill hat speaks as if every single mango variety is Spanish.
Dredlocks Dude eats a mind-blowing Irwin mango in Thailand. (Talks funny)
Cheerful duckbill hat guy shows us mango farm in Florida. (Talks funny)
American samples family mangos. (Rambles with hatchet speech)
Lady emphasizes dwarf species. (Talks funny)
I like all these lovely mango people. I can tell they're all very nice. I wish they would all take up sign language.
Conclusion: Mango people are a little bit fruity.
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Weather report
It was raining when I started mowing my lawn yesterday. It stopped, and I completed the task, but the wet grass clumped up and clogged the mower deck. I hate it when that happens.
Today dawned clear and cool. The air was noticeably drier than it has been lately. We had a bit of wind and by this afternoon the grass was actually looking dried out. That was a big change in a short time. Tonight's low temp is forecast to be 57 degrees. It is August. What's up with that? Not that it's a problem - I am getting some work done. Is autumn arriving early this year?
Today dawned clear and cool. The air was noticeably drier than it has been lately. We had a bit of wind and by this afternoon the grass was actually looking dried out. That was a big change in a short time. Tonight's low temp is forecast to be 57 degrees. It is August. What's up with that? Not that it's a problem - I am getting some work done. Is autumn arriving early this year?
This morning's sunrise:
A bowl I made this week:
That is a walnut bowl surmounting a red mulberry head with a quilted red maple base and an octagonal silver maple transition piece. This piece is the result of trying to tap into something other than conventional bowl design.
Two very different pieces of music.
One Punch
One Punch man is a Japanese anime featuring Saitama, who's experiencing an existential crisis for being too powerful to get any thrill from defeating monsters that attack Japan. He wins all his fights.
But this is about Antifa knocking out a Sander's supporter in Portland for carrying an American flag. The story is everywhere, but this is the comments at Legal Insurrection.
* JD: I still think that Antifa needs to run into some real bad asses. It would be poetic if we started seeing media displaying injured Antifa members being hauled out on stretchers.
** STO: EMS be earning their pay that day when/if it ever happens.
** A:Doesn’t even have to be “badasses”, any normal person can take them.
They’re mostly made up of mama’s boys from colleges. The type of SJW that will end up slinging coffee at Starbucks because they couldn’t get a real job with their grievance-studies degree.
They’re like the “Pajama-boy” from the Obama-era ad.
Just look what happens whenever anyone takes one of their masks off. Their ‘courage’ dissolves faster than toilet paper circling the bowl.
** C: You want a badass? How about the dude who punched an antifa so hard, he sent him flying on his back with just one punch?
** For a video with better quality, look for “Antifa One Punch”.
Okay. That sounds like fun.
But this is about Antifa knocking out a Sander's supporter in Portland for carrying an American flag. The story is everywhere, but this is the comments at Legal Insurrection.
* JD: I still think that Antifa needs to run into some real bad asses. It would be poetic if we started seeing media displaying injured Antifa members being hauled out on stretchers.
** STO: EMS be earning their pay that day when/if it ever happens.
** A:Doesn’t even have to be “badasses”, any normal person can take them.
They’re mostly made up of mama’s boys from colleges. The type of SJW that will end up slinging coffee at Starbucks because they couldn’t get a real job with their grievance-studies degree.
They’re like the “Pajama-boy” from the Obama-era ad.
Just look what happens whenever anyone takes one of their masks off. Their ‘courage’ dissolves faster than toilet paper circling the bowl.
** C: You want a badass? How about the dude who punched an antifa so hard, he sent him flying on his back with just one punch?
Look for “Portland Antifa Soy Boy Knocked Out in One Punch Riot” on YouTube.
** For a video with better quality, look for “Antifa One Punch”.
Okay. That sounds like fun.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Swedish Death Cleaning
"Paring life down to the essentials and focusing on creation serves multiple purposes: It liberates us from awareness of self and time; it allows us to become immersed in an activity that we experience as extrinsically meaningful. Along with Jacques we can say that it allows us to come symbolically to terms with our mortality, while at the same time, it sustains our defenses against mortality awareness."
https://zdoc.site/paring-down-life-to-the-essentials.html
I've heard of Swedish Death Cleaning. I think it might be something they do in Sweden. Getting rid of years of accumulated crap so your kids don't have to deal with it. Sounds like plan.
Oh, so that's the dude who lost his sh*t
I kept seeing the video all over the place but didn't recognize him by his picture in the key frame. He was a colonel or something and he speaks with a voice that I use to imitate a ventriloquist. High pitched. Like an excited Barney Fife made it to officer rank. The colonel whom other colonels make fun of. Because of his voice.
I didn't want to see a guy go insane publicly. I had enough of that already. So I've avoided watching the video, and then I'm taken to American Thinker where Russ Vaughn writes about Ralph Peters cashiering himself.
That's where an officer is stripped of his buttons, and ribbons and medals, and epaulettes, and rank insignia, all stripped off his uniform ceremoniously in front of everyone to embarrass him as much as possible. Russ Vaughn says that Ralph Peters did that to himself.
It's a good article. With no video.
While reading the text of the charges Peters makes against Trump and Trump supporters I have to wonder, where was this guy the previous eight years? Everything he says applies directly to Obama and not at all to Trump. Not one bit. Are we even experiencing the same administrations? He's talking about Earth, right?
I knew draining the swamp would be painful but I had no idea it would be this noisy. People go out kicking and screaming. And these aren't metaphors either. It's an actual swamp, a city built on a swamp, and it's actually being drained again, of government life-timers, and it's actual kicking and actual screaming.
Washington is stuffed to full capacity with control freaks. Threaten their control and they freak right out.
YouTube [ralph peters freaks out]
This isn't working.
Oh!
I was confused.
Russ Vaughn is talking about another incident.
The video I'm seeing all over is Phillip Mudd. He's the person whom I don't recognize.
YouTube [phillip mudd freaks out]
I can enjoy this better knowing it's happening out in the distance without watching it. I'm pleased all these people's lives are disrupted, shaken right out of their shoes, because their involvement in government has done our lives no good at all. They're all using government for fame and for fortune, collectively, to our grief.
I must now pray.
"Lord, please help these people find something useful, productive, or pleasant to do. Amen."
I didn't want to see a guy go insane publicly. I had enough of that already. So I've avoided watching the video, and then I'm taken to American Thinker where Russ Vaughn writes about Ralph Peters cashiering himself.
That's where an officer is stripped of his buttons, and ribbons and medals, and epaulettes, and rank insignia, all stripped off his uniform ceremoniously in front of everyone to embarrass him as much as possible. Russ Vaughn says that Ralph Peters did that to himself.
It's a good article. With no video.
While reading the text of the charges Peters makes against Trump and Trump supporters I have to wonder, where was this guy the previous eight years? Everything he says applies directly to Obama and not at all to Trump. Not one bit. Are we even experiencing the same administrations? He's talking about Earth, right?
I knew draining the swamp would be painful but I had no idea it would be this noisy. People go out kicking and screaming. And these aren't metaphors either. It's an actual swamp, a city built on a swamp, and it's actually being drained again, of government life-timers, and it's actual kicking and actual screaming.
Washington is stuffed to full capacity with control freaks. Threaten their control and they freak right out.
YouTube [ralph peters freaks out]
This isn't working.
Oh!
I was confused.
Russ Vaughn is talking about another incident.
The video I'm seeing all over is Phillip Mudd. He's the person whom I don't recognize.
YouTube [phillip mudd freaks out]
I can enjoy this better knowing it's happening out in the distance without watching it. I'm pleased all these people's lives are disrupted, shaken right out of their shoes, because their involvement in government has done our lives no good at all. They're all using government for fame and for fortune, collectively, to our grief.
I must now pray.
"Lord, please help these people find something useful, productive, or pleasant to do. Amen."
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Rant
MamaM's free style swim through a pool of thoughts churned something in my head. She wrote about how "funny" some people act as they approach death back here. This immediately reminded me of Helmuth James von Moltke, a remarkably little known Christian martyr who was murdered during the last year of WW II. I say "murdered" because while technically he was executed for treason, in truth he was murdered solely for being a true Christian. His story still gives me the chills when I reread it. I tried to distill the gist of his trial in his own words here.
Helmuth James von Moltke held a very unique position in Berlin during WW II. He was involved in the minutia of war without himself being a Nazi. And he had what might today be called "security clearance." He secretly wrote to his wife Freya in August 1941:
Today we have the Mueller squads going around, not shooting people in the head, but essentially holding guns to the heads of former Trump associates and convicting them of crimes for no other reason than political ones. Their sole intent is to get Trump. And yet they call us Nazis. Their physical henchmen -- antifa -- are more literally shedding blood under the same banner. Both don't seem to realize that they are spreading political blood-guilt that cannot be atoned for in any future election.
Helmuth James von Moltke held a very unique position in Berlin during WW II. He was involved in the minutia of war without himself being a Nazi. And he had what might today be called "security clearance." He secretly wrote to his wife Freya in August 1941:
The news from the East is terrible again. Our losses are obviously very, very heavy. But that could be borne were we not burdened with hecatombs of corpses. Again and again one hears reports that in transports of prisoners or Jews only 20% arrive, that there is starvation in the prisoner-of-war camps, that typhoid and all the other deficiency epidemics have broken out, that our own people are breaking down from exhaustion. What will happen when the nation as a whole realizes that the war is lost, and lost differently from the last one? With a blood-guilt that cannot be atoned for in our lifetime and can never be forgotten, with an economy that is completely ruined? Will men arise capable of distilling contrition and penance from this punishment, and so, gradually, a new strength to live? Or will everything go under in chaos?That passage may seem like old news, but, it was prescient: Note the early date: August 1941. Operation Barbarossa was barely a year old. Stalingrad -- the conventional turning point in the war against the Germans -- was 16 months in the future: 1942-43. We Americans were not even in the war yet.
Today we have the Mueller squads going around, not shooting people in the head, but essentially holding guns to the heads of former Trump associates and convicting them of crimes for no other reason than political ones. Their sole intent is to get Trump. And yet they call us Nazis. Their physical henchmen -- antifa -- are more literally shedding blood under the same banner. Both don't seem to realize that they are spreading political blood-guilt that cannot be atoned for in any future election.
These are not the droids you're looking for
Onion-like, I fell for this at first. Scroll down at link for footage:
https://www.cnet.com/news/robot-video-terrifies-twitter-but-the-apocalypse-isnt-here/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)