Significance of the Name "Pracheta" The name "Pracheta" is derived from two Sanskrit words: "pra" meaning "before" and "chetas" meaning "mind" or "consciousness." Thus, Pracheta can be translated as "forethinker" or "one who has foresight." This name signifies a person who possesses a forward-thinking mind, someone who anticipates and plans for the future. In the context of Hindu mythology and philosophy, such a trait is highly valued as it implies wisdom, prudence, and a deep understanding of the consequences of one's actions. Role in Hindu Religion Pracheta, the father of Valmiki, holds a significant yet subtle role in Hindu religion. Valmiki, often referred to as the Adi Kavi (the first poet), is the revered author of the epic Ramayana. Although Pracheta himself is not a central figure in Hindu mythology, his role as the progenitor of Valmiki ties him to the vast narrative of Hindu religious and philosophical thought. The foresight implied by his name suggests that he may have possessed qualities that he passed down to his son, Valmiki, who later became an enlightened sage and a master storyteller. Pracheta’s foresight can be symbolically linked to the prophetic nature of Valmiki’s poetry, which foresees the moral and ethical dilemmas of humanity and offers profound lessons through the story of Lord Rama. According to legend, Valmiki was a notorious highwayman before his transformation into a sage. His encounter with the divine sage Narada marked a turning point in his life. Narada's teachings and the mantra "Mara" (meaning "kill" in Sanskrit) led Valmiki into deep meditation. As he repeated "Mara," it gradually transformed into "Rama" (the name of the divine prince in the Ramayana). This shift in his consciousness symbolised the metamorphosis from a life of sin to one of spiritual awakening. This narrative underscores the power of transformation and the eternal resonance of divine names, illustrating how even the most sinful can attain enlightenment and contribute to the spiritual heritage of humanity. Parallels with Prometheus Prometheus, a figure from Greek mythology, shares a strikingly similar epithet to Pracheta. Prometheus's name is derived from the Greek "promētheus," meaning "forethought." Like Pracheta, Prometheus is celebrated for his forward-thinking and his contributions to humanity. In Hindu philosophy, the concept of foresight is intertwined with dharma (righteousness) and karma (action and its consequences). Pracheta, as the forethinker, represents the ideal of living a life guided by wisdom and prudence, ensuring that one's actions align with the greater cosmic order. Similarly, in Greek philosophy, Prometheus is best known for his defiance of Zeus by stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mankind, an act that symbolises the transmission of knowledge and the overcoming of ignorance to progress toward a more enlightened state of being. Interestingly, the son of Pracheta was given the name Agni at birth, meaning fire, and only later became known as Valmiki. It is worth noting that both Prometheus and Pracheta are associated with the gift of fire to humanity. The discovery of fire was a pivotal moment in human evolution, profoundly impacting brain development and cognitive abilities. Cooking food made it easier to digest and increased its nutritional value, allowing for more efficient energy use. This dietary shift contributed to a smaller gut, freeing up metabolic energy that supported larger brain growth. The enhanced brain size and function facilitated advanced cognitive abilities, social behaviours, and tool-making skills, setting the stage for the complex societies we have today. Fire not only provided warmth and protection but also fuelled the evolutionary leap that shaped human intelligence and societal progress.
As a child, I was given quite an unusual piece of advice by my parents regarding my career choices. When the time came to select my subjects in high school and later in college, my mother, with her gentle wisdom, said, "Study what you want." My father, standing firm beside her, echoed her sentiment but added his own pragmatism: "Study what you want, but make sure you earn your degree." In a country like India, this was a strangely bold and forward-thinking piece of advice to give a child on the cusp of choosing a career path. Most of my peers were steered toward careers that promised good earning prospects, stability, and societal respect. Broadly speaking, the only careers that met these criteria were engineering, medicine, law or public service. It was, and often still is, believed that any other field was for those who couldn’t achieve the marks to pursue these esteemed professions. At this juncture, let me be clear — I believe it is wise and practical advice to steer a child toward these professions. Most of the people I work with, and many of my friends, studied these very subjects. Today, they enjoy well-paying, respectable, and stable careers in the private or government sectors. One undeniable advantage of choosing these fields is the likelihood of securing a job immediately after completing your course. This isn't the case if, for instance, you're a history or an English major, as I am. For us, the path is longer and more winding: a master's degree, perhaps even a PhD, a teaching credential, numerous internships, and other hurdles before landing a job. India stands apart from many Western nations in that nearly everyone pursues a college education, at least earning a bachelor's degree. This holds true even for those hailing from villages or impoverished backgrounds, as tuition fees at government colleges in one’s home state are often negligible—unless, of course, one aims for the top institutions. Whether the degree carries any real value is a different story altogether. I’ve encountered engineering graduates who struggle with the simplest math, history majors who are oblivious to India’s past before the Mughal era, and political science graduates who seem to believe Lenin was really onto something. To add to the confusion, a host of so-called pseudo-disciplines, like queer studies, have emerged—though this was not the case during my school days. Back then, such courses existed, but garnered little serious interest from those dedicated to genuine education or any pursuit of significance. Without a college education, one might turn to a trade or find work in sectors where skilled labour is unnecessary, like waitressing at a McDonald's or bagging groceries at the local supermarket. Yet, in a society that venerates education, such jobs carry little respect. Many of my friends who studied abroad held these positions alongside their degrees, but to do the same in India would be unthinkable for them. Another significant drawback is that as degrees become as common as buttons, you encounter bricklayers and janitors who proudly declare themselves to be engineering graduates, adding to the tangled fabric of expectations and reality. These are still less obvious drawbacks. My mother’s advice, though well-intentioned, felt a touch unrealistic and impractical, especially in my early twenties when the notion of "follow your passion" clashed with my responsibility to provide for a dependent parent. I have wavered in my assessment of that guidance throughout my life, yet I would be less than truthful if I claimed it brought me no benefit at all. When you’re encouraged to pursue what you want in a profession, you don’t shut the door on the myriad opportunities that so many of my peers did, all because they were told they were destined for greater things. I watched countless friends spend their twenties chasing after competitive exams—truly competitive in India—year after year, clinging to the hope of landing that perfect government job. Others poured their fortunes into one degree after another, emerging from college burdened with loans the day they graduated. Even when they found success, the race was never over. They secured good jobs yet remained perpetually on the lookout for something better, updating their CVs every few months. Many poured their time, money, and energy into self-improvement, and still remained unsatisfied, boosting their self esteem by one upping their friends at Saturday night parties. The ones who were unsuccessful often redefined success as survival, and confused status security with financial security. They genuinely believe they are fighting for their existence, despite the ease with which an engineering degree can land them a job. Even a humanities degree can open doors if approached wisely. Yet, some remain unemployed for a decade, holding the right degrees and connections from college, all while grappling with paralysing anxiety about their financial future. For them, taking a regular job in a smaller company or exploring freelance work isn’t even on the table. I’ve never shared that sentiment. I’ve always felt surrounded by endless options and opportunities, despite having just one degree in the humanities. When they do take temporary work to make ends meet while pursuing their dreams, they intentionally underperform, afraid to shift their goals and lose sight of what they truly desire. My father’s words carried weight as well. He often reminded me that one must earn even what is given by birthright. Rights come not as gifts but through the burden of responsibilities. Citizenship is a privilege earned through service and adherence to the laws of the land. He impressed upon me that if I held a degree—any degree—it should represent the knowledge I had truly acquired. I should have studied deeply enough to claim that title with integrity. "Educating yourself is your responsibility," he would say, "whether we're footing the bill for your tuition or the state is paying your teachers." His principle was clear: never accept anything without earning it. A friend of mine once said, “Right now, we’re all in school together. We laugh at the same jokes, we share our lunches, we pass notes in class. But once we graduate, we may find ourselves in entirely different economic classes. One day, you might be in the top 1%, while I’m struggling in the lower middle class, and we may not even recognize each other. Even if we do, even if we remain friends, our lives will be so different that we won’t relate to each other at all.” Her words linger in my mind still.
Marxism’s Appeal Posted on July 3, 2024 by john Dear friends, It seems to me, Marxism appeals to the elite because communism and socialism empower the powerful, by justifying their authority. They need unlimited power to run the economy… for the best interest of the workers, then African Americans, and now, LGTBQ++ migrants. Abandoning, and eventually alienating each special interest group they used to pander to, as they evolve. Nevertheless, the elite who embrace the political might that communism bestows on them, assure us they only serve the interests of others and never their own… even when it looks like they’re serving themselves. “While it was illegal for an animal to sleep in a bed, the pigs had started…” -George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The elite need luxury and opulence to magnify their power. Justified by Marx himself. No wonder they love him. The very term command and control economy says it all. How can one command anything without the authority to? Control, well, the word says it all, doesn’t it? There needs to be people with the authority and power to command and control the command and control economy, ie, a communist or fascist one. It’s like telling a pretty girl she’s pretty, flattery will get you everywhere, because the flattered want to be flattered. Like telling a would be despot, the power and authority he or she lusts after is rightfully theirs, and justified by how they seek to use it! Any counter arguments are mere details to be ironed out after the revolution. That’s why the elite, who openly seek power over us, are so drawn to Marxism, it justifies the authority they seek to usurp and makes them heroes for doing it. The naked exercise of political power requires a distraction. As long as the elite can claim they’re acting on someone else behalf, they can oppress at will… and call it just. As Thrasymachus said they would. The despotic Marxist or Fascist for that matter, never tyrannizes for their own benefit, far be it! They tyrannize for the benefit of a politically favored group. Never mind they created that group from whole cloth, decorated it with patterns of victim hood, and then draped it over their naked despotism. Hiding themselves from the world and appearing to be what they aren’t. This masquerade has worked for over a century now. The con has swindled many a nation out of prosperity and into want. All it takes is a victim group to be created, made politically favored with propaganda, and voila… a costume. There’s no way to get someone to agree with you faster or more completely then to convince them they’re great, wise and deserve unlimited power over others… for their own good. As Marx and Hitler did. The totalitarian despotic Marxist or Fascist can simply use the same argument on the people that’s so enamored them. From the Bronze age on, kings, tyrants and presidents have told their people they deserve to rule the world. All they need do is grasp it and it’s there’s. The same strategy that justifies unlimited power of the elite… justifies conquest. Do you think the Mongols conquered half the world, in an hour and a half, because they didn’t think they deserved it? Flattery works as well on a plebeian as it does on a patrician. Maybe better since plebeians aren’t used to it. What is a wonder then, isn’t that the elite adore Marxism, but that it’s ever been eschewed by any elites. Offering Marxism to an elite is like offering candy to a toddler. Few have the wisdom to deny themselves. The elite will never give up on them no matter how many times Fascism and Marxism fail. The elite’s love of Marxism and Fascism isn’t contingent, it’s absolute. Because it tells them what they want to hear. Their lust for power is good, because they can command and control the economy, to help some politically favored group. The luxury bestows magnificence to the ruler in the eyes of the ruled. Moreover, the same flattery that so beguiles the elite, is used to justify wars of aggression. And so… Marxist and Fascist ideology in truth, appeals to all egoists, big and small. Sincerely, John Pepin
Modern Bigots Posted on July 19, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, a society that gives special treatment to certain groups of people, is at it’s core bigoted. That’s how you can tell which groups have political favor. The elite as a group always have political favor. Due to their status as elites. Others however can become politically favored. By acting as a group, garnering sympathy, and inflicting violence. A way to gauge the political favor of a group is to examine if it’s illegal or uncouth to call it or its members names. Anyone you’re not allowed to criticize, is someone who the political establishment considers more equal than you. Proven by their special treatment of that group and its members. Moreover, those members of groups that are called names by the elite, have negative political favor, proven by the name calling, by the politically favored. To be bigoted doesn’t mean only to be racist, sexist or any other kind of ist… it’s holding some groups as superior and others as inferior. It’s group politics. The definition of the members of that superior or inferior group is irrelevant. As in the Star Trek OS episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. A bigot then, is someone who judges others by the irrelevant, while ignoring the relevant. Enlightenment thinkers pointed this out when it comes to appeal to authority, civil rights and the social contract. Appeal to authority is when we’re to believe the mutterings of a certain group because they’re the authorities. Civil rights is all about the rights of groups in politics. Then there’s the social contract. Where the rulers have an unwritten “contract” with the ruled. Each an example of group politics. The problem with vilifying group politics, as the term bigoted does, is that there are bigots who desire to wield the power of group politics. So they do it anyway and gaslight us about it. Calling it protecting the weak. That way the bigots claim their bigotry is virtue. As they’ve always done. Meanwhile, modern bigots openly demagogue their political foes. Calling us the worse names they can come up with. The most privileged justifying their attacks on us as attacks on privilege. Even as they use violence to silence. State coercion. Used against their political foes while they call citizens the enemy of the state. The real perversion of this practice is illustrated when two politically favored groups go at it. The elite go spastic trying to pander to both sides and attack them at the same time. Modern bigots use the law instead of burning a cross on your lawn. Say the wrong thing on Facebook in Europe and the police will knock on your door. With an arrest warrant. Because you called the wrong people names. They can call you anything they want, they have Rights, but you better keep your mouth shut. You don’t. The bigots in the police department will come knocking. In the US, a joke writer is in prison today, because he ridiculed Hillary voters as stupid. While a democrat posted the exact same meme ridiculing Trump voters, and she was lauded for it, not imprisoned. The law has always been the tool of the powerful… aimed by self interest. From slavery, to whistle blowers having to flee the nation, the law has always been the tool of the bigoted despot against their political enemies. The definition of what’s a politically favored group is irrelevant. The relevant fact is that there are politically favored groups. Proven by the fact there are some people and some groups we’re simply not allowed to criticize, let alone call names. This practice has profoundly negative effects on mankind. It’s clearly not human hearted. Nor is it civilized. Using the law and manipulation to enforce bigotry is itself an evil. Plus, forbidding politically disfavored groups from using rhetoric, is hypocrisy writ large. Since the bigot would never tolerate any diminishment of their Rights. Bigots using the law and manipulation to create politically favored groups, will never go away… until the incentive goes away. The only way to derail the incentive is to stop obeying the bigots and call them what they are. Sincerely, John Pepin
I have worked on
computers and systems since I was 14 years old. My first run into a
major problem was crashing the main-frame at my high school just
trying to load a paper-tape program. Now I am an Application Support
Engineer where my primary duty is to Evaluate the Performance of
customer’s applications. In other words, I look at numbers to
verify trends. One of the tangents of my work is to identify problems
and offer solutions. Most of what breaks is due to changes in code,
the rest is due to undefined behavior such as content changes,
platform changes, network changes, OS patches, and even user
behavior. Some of these translate into outages, some translate into
degraded performance. In order for me to effectively do my job, I
need a flexible tool-set that allows me to directly look at the raw
metrics. I can tell the difference between a subset of tools that
point to a problem area and when a tool is needed to recognize a
potential problem area. This last part requires a query language and
pattern recognition. Many tools assume they know this. Sometimes they
get it right but I know when they get it wrong. This is experience.
This is a skill. When a company is
looking for someone with certain skills, let’s say, C#, many have
knowledge of the syntax of this language, many don’t. I personally
don’t. But if I was asked to write a program in C# that did ‘such
and such’, I would learn the language on the fly. I don’t not
need to be a C# expert. I need to know enough to get the job done. In
this case, this is an example of C# being a tool. The experience that
matters is how to you translate the problem into steps using the
canonical structures of decision, repetition and loops. The flow of
an application is dictated by imposition of flow as written in the
code. AI, on the other hand, is a hybrid but is eventually dictated
by the data fed into the ‘program’. Knowing how to dissect a
problem into steps is a skill. Knowing how to traverse your dataset
is a skill. You DO NOT need to be an expert in the tool used for this
task. This ability is a skill. I have many
cognitive algorithms based on a duality of data representation and
the pattern that is created. I will not get into details because I’m
not one to thrown away my ideas and work without compensation.
However, the problem I have is that I cannot monetize my ideas
without losing my work to the ether. Since I also have run into the
wall of my limitations (I prefer boundaries), I need to remove
tertiary problems that drain my needed time to get back on track. I
know I have an IQ limitation (even though my number at age 30 was
142), my ability to juggle more than 6 deeply complex ideas becomes
stressful. Not to mention that I have to spend time on things I see
as trivial and a waste of my abilities. I’ll stop there. My
research has shown me that a high IQ is not necessary, but only a
sufficient IQ is needed. E.G. you may understand the timing of
components of an internal combustion engine but you do not need to
know the tolerances of pistons inside the cylinder or the length of
the push rod and how that impacts power output measured in torque.
Your knowledge to rebuild an engine does not need former. Knowing
this difference is also a skill. No AI or gatekeeper
software to a resume can even pick this up. At best, you may run into
a person that could push solutions\ideas forward, but your system is
not designed to look for them. There is a probabilistic equation that
describes this but the “Antiquated Corporate Model” refuses to
look. This is where the widget counters will fail a company into
Enron. Thinking dimensionally is a skill. Do you have that
capability? I do.
The First Trump Assassination Attempt Posted on July 14, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, the Trump assassination attempt exposes the secret service, and indeed the administrative state, as the abject failures they are. The Secret Service failed Trump, the courts fail justice, and our leaders fail us. It’s a system of failure from the top down. Of course there’s the stochastic terrorism angle. Where the elite have been vilifying Trump so hard an assassination or an attempt was all but guaranteed. Making the elite themselves complicit in the attack. Moreover, the very people who’s failure and rhetoric led to the assassination attempt, claim to be smart and wise enough to run the world. No wonder the world is failing so badly, it’s being run by abject failures, stochastic terrorists and criminals of the highest order. The assassination attempt itself was proof of failure of the Secret Service. Which makes them fit right into the administrative state, where failure isn’t an option, it’s a standard feature. Top to bottom the singular attribute of the deep state is it’s failure at everything. Look at the results of three years of bureaucratic rule of the US. The economy is a shambles, as are our Constitutional Rights, we’re in a two fronted war, with another front possibly opening up any time, crime is rampant, kids are dying in the streets of Fentanyl overdoses, inflation is wasting the savings of the few that did save, border patrol abets illegal crossings, the DOJ abets the Biden crime family and the Secret Service abets an assassination attempt on Trump. By ignoring warnings of a man with a gun at a Trump rally. The assassination attempt wouldn’t have happened without the elite and the media pushing the “Trump will end the world” narrative. Projecting their own policies and results on him. The press has gone wall to wall detailing how Trump will start WWIII, destroy the economy and end democracy. The easily manipulated will find this rhetoric to be captivating. While most of us realize democrat rhetoric are just lies they make up to smear their political enemy, the insane don’t. They take it very seriously. Remember when the media vilified Sara Palin when Tulsi Gabbard was shot? Because on one of her campaign ads there was a target over Arizona. The press claimed she caused the attack by that ad. Which makes one wonder, why the Biden ads in Pennsylvania have been pulled, and memory holed? At some point stochastic terrorism becomes a punishable crime. The bar is very low for you and I but apparently very high for the elite. Regular people are charged with incitement at the slightest provocation, while the politically favored can outright call for an assassination, and it’s their first amendment Right. Because in Amerika today some are more equal than others. Every night all night on CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the media that calls itself unbiased, establishing themselves as liars right out of the gate. Can you imagine how the deep state would have treated Julian Assange had they been able to tie and actual assassination attempt to him?!?! Then again, what am I thinking, in the double standard legal system we live under, such things are common. This assassination attempt proves the elite are worthless and have the integrity of a pile of dry sand. By their insane rhetoric against Trump, open double standards and proven incompetency. These same villains claim to be smart enough, wise enough and dog gone it, better people… who should run the world without oversight, consequence or limit. They’re that smart. Yet,we’ve given the elite the benefit of the doubt all throughout this article, and they come across as the wrong people for any job, let alone to run the world. The benefit of the doubt? We could say this was an actual assassination attempt by the deep state against Trump. It would fit with their raising the stakes, starting with election fraud, then weaponizing the law and now… assassination. So you see, I have given them the benefit of the doubt. Sincerely, John Pepin
A Flawed System Posted on July 7, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, a system where what’s legal and what’s illegal, doesn’t rest on common sense, justice, or human heartedness, but on how a microscopic group of elites think it should be… is fundamentally flawed. Flawed in a way so deep and profound that the flaw is a feature. Human systems will naturally have a human element. Even in an AI system of law. Someone had to program the AI. Where a flaw must be introduced, that flaw should be kept as small as possible so it won’t negatively effect the final product. In law however that flaw is magnified not mitigated. Law rests entirely on a judge’s opinion. Certainly not on public opinion. Because, even had the public agreed with Buck v Bell back then, we would have certainly rescinded it by now. Judges, not so much. The US system isn’t unique in this respect. All legal systems have at their core the opinions of a few powerful people. Who follow Thrasymachus’ version of justice… not that of Socrates, Confucius or Jesus. In what universe does it make sense, for an “International Court,” to fine a nation that produces under 3% of the world’s CO2… because it hasn’t done enough to stop global warming? While a pass is given to the nation that single handedly is responsible for over 30% of the CO2 emissions? Where are the rulings condemning the Armenian genocide in Nargono Karabackh? Would you say the courts in Iran are fair? Justice is a tool the powerful use to justify their avarice. Everywhere. How could I say such a thing? Judging by their actions above and rhetoric below. The incessant assault on populism by the elite is an example of anti justice rhetoric. How could an elitist judge, who orbits the right circles, find for a populist over an elitist? In that case what is just isn’t expedient. Moreover, that inexpedience is because of the earlier rhetoric. Judges in the US today take stands on political questions all the time now. (As long as they’re politically correct stands). Judge Merchan had a literal monetary stake in the outcome of the Trump trial he oversaw. Yet the system had no problem with that at all. Giving up even the appearance of fairness. Very progressive. Destroying the appearance of justice for the exercise of power. Even as the rest of us are expected to cheer the innovation in despotism. All of which proves that judges are a flawed instrument of justice. Then there’s the flawed idea of “standing.” A legal innovation to forbid politically disfavored plaintiffs from legal remedy. This flawed notion has been exploited to great effect, in the religious exemption vaccine cases, the 2020 election cases, and even disputes between states themselves! Which is the kind of thing that leads to literal war between the states. Nevertheless, the lazy experts in the legal system claim, standing is a vital doctrine to lower their case load. Because they would rather use their OP authority to step on the downtrodden, than to settle the big questions of law in the name of justice. That would be self harming, and no elite would do that. They didn’t get to be the rich and powerful by charity. Unless they ran a charity fraud like the Clinton’s red barn con in Haiti. All systems of law can be turned on a dime by a court ruling. Constitutional Rights can be nullified, precedent can be overturned and whole new rights created. Like gold from base metal. All at the clap of a gavel. By people with a stake in perverting the system to their own benefit. Self interest goes a long way in effecting human behavior. We see this in cases like Wickard v Filburn, where the court gave the government unlimited power to regulate. Buck v Bell so the government can sterilize us at will against our wishes… and has been used as a silent genocide of Indians as well as the mentally deficient. Until the human element of the legal system is removed, all law will ever be, is the manifestation of the despotic power of the few, masquerading as legitimate authority over the many. Sincerely, John Pepin
The Hypocrisy Of Inclusive Language Posted on July 17, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, “inclusive” speech is bullying, pretending to be kindness. The proponents of inclusive wording claim the rest of us have to use the language they demand we do else they’ll punish us… for the greater good. The term “illegal alien” is offensive to those who came here illegally. So they demand we don’t use the word, illegal alien. I suspect a rapist finds the word rapist offensive too, and so do the thought police. In my SEO plug in, inclusive language is included in the SEO assessment. I take great pride in trying to always fail on inclusive language. Which is one of the reasons I use words like stupid, despot, retard, half wit, fool, pervert, hypocrite, etc… to describe the thought police. Bullies like the thought police deserve our ridicule if we’re to be the least reciprocal. We think in pictures, emotion and words. Experts claim the smartest among us think in pictures. They’re able to create and manipulate complex objects in their minds. Observing them from different angles inside and out. It’s how many engineers are able to think. Others have empathy and are able to feel the actual feelings of others. They use emotion as a limb. Then there’s the rest of us, who think in words. We all use pictures and emotion sometimes, but mostly, I think, we think in words. That’s why I also believe that the language we speak has a profound effect on our cognition. But that’s a different subject. When the words we can use are robust and wide ranging, our thoughts can be robust and far ranging. But when our words are hemmed in… so are our thoughts. Hemming us in by controlling our words is conniving. If someone else controls our words, they control a major aspect of our thought, and that makes them our master. Take the example of illegal alien versus migrant. Both are true enough depending on the level of interpretation. They are indeed migrating so they can be called migrants. Which is one level of interpretation. They are also crossing borders illegally which makes them illegal aliens. Which is another level of interpretation. When we’re only allowed to think of them as migrants, and not illegal aliens, that traps us in the poor migrant level of interpretation. Closing off our ability to see them in a more nuanced way. This channelization technique controls how we feel about the situation, outside our own organic self interested interpretation. Controlling our thoughts makes us slaves to their will. Taking illegal immigration further, when people who are negatively effected by illegal migration are forced to think only in ways that benefit the illegal, and to their own detriment, can’t be considered in any way human hearted, just, or reciprocal. It’s a naked self interested manipulation of people to act against their own interest. The way slaves are forced to act in ways that are antithetical to their self interest. Because only the slave master’s interests matter… or the hypocritical thought police’s. The yoke and lash is too obvious, and triggers many to rise up, so the scum bag despots have thought up a solution. Control what we say, and think, therefore control us. Brilliant… but evil. Putting the thought police in the same league as sewage. The despotic thought police always call up the “greater good” to justify their usurpations of our very thoughts. Because the retards are so much smarter, wiser and dog gone it, just better people than the rest of us. Maybe not in action but definitely in the stupid fool’s own minds. No hypocrite who advocates we follow their rules of speech, and therefore thought… would ever submit to their own words and thoughts being controlled by us… for the greater good. Which is why refusing to participate in our own subjugation by the half witted thought police, is not only justified… it’s an obligation. Because, do we really want, stupid, half witted, foolish, retarded hypocrites, ruining the world through running our minds? If not, then speak as you want, or shackle and yoke your own mind to serve them. Sincerely, John Pepin
Astonishing Hypocrisy Posted on June 27, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems astonishing to me, that Israel is supporting Azerbaijan, in its genocide of Armenians!? I thought the words, “Never again,” rang in the minds of Jews across the world? Is it the case that the phrase is hollow? Depends on your definition of “never,” and “again.” While I fully support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself… I don’t support this move. Moreover, Israel is being charged with genocide of Gazans, in their war with Hamas, as a strategy to weaken it. A charge that’s mere rhetoric. Because if they are, Israel is the worse genocider in history. The population of Gaza is growing fast… not shrinking. Like the population of Nagorno Karabackh. Yet Israel is actually guilty now of abetting genocide. Not of Gazans, but of Armenians. Like I said… astonishing! When Hitler proposed the final solution, the genocide of Jews in Europe, he was asked by an astonished OKH, what would history think of Germany for such a heinous act? Hitler slammed his fist on the table and shouted, “What does history say of the Armenians?!” Meaning, no one cared, that the Young Turks had systematically exterminated every Armenian they could get their hands on. Especially relishing cutting the babies from pregnant women, in front of their husbands and fathers. To show their superiority. Since history had recorded these atrocious crimes against humanity, and has passed judgment… that it was perfectly acceptable, Hitler thought exterminating the Jews in a far more humane way, gas chambers, would be even more acceptable. Boy was he wrong. While the continued liquidation of Armenians by famine, is acceptable by the world elites, the arming of Armenia against genocide is not. The world is livid that France had the audacity to send arms to Armenia. The globalist shills in the media are already exclaiming Armenia will attack Azerbaijani occupation forces in Nagorno Karabackh! Where Armenians have been systematically exterminated since it was surrounded by Azerbaijan. As the Armenians are exterminated, their cemeteries are plowed under, their homes razed and their churches burned to the ground. All traces of the existence of Armenians in former Armenia are destroyed. Total erasure of the people, culture and past. As if they never existed. Which is what Hitler wanted to do to the Jews, Gypsies and Russians in Leningrad. None of this would be possible without the coordinated efforts of the unbiased media. The presstitues whore themselves out to the globalist elites, for money, prestige and privilege. While there are lots of articles vilifying France for hindering genocide, and many praising Israel and Azerbaijan, Nargono Karabackh is never mentioned. I suppose, because letting the masses know there is an actual genocide going on there, right now, might change their perspective. Just remember, everything the media tells us is a lie. A lie of omission, commission or yellow gaslight. Even as the media laments the continued war in the Caucuses, because it distracts from the wars in Ukraine, Middle East and the pending war in Taiwan. You can count on the press to lie when the truth would serve them better. Even as the media shouts about a fake genocide, and covers up a real one, we’re left wondering what’s true and what’s not. We become agitated when propaganda is applied in liberal doses. Becoming a mindless mob instead of mindful men. Which is the idea. Bernays would be proud of today’s media. Making genocide palatable and self defense a crime is a rhetorical coup. Which makes it all the more astonishing that Israel, the former victim of genocide, and the present victim of propaganda, is hiding behind the media’s propaganda and abetting genocide. Supporting Israel’s right to exist and right of self defense, as well as Armenia’s right to exist and Armenia’s right of self defense, is no inconsistency. To support Israel, and not support Armenia however, is the acme of inconsistency. It’s hypocrisy. Sincerely, John Pepin
Military Versus Economic Might Posted on June 29, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, instead of being the military engine of the world, perhaps it would behoove the US, to become the economic engine of the world again? Not by financial shenanigans, or service sector growth… but by becoming an industrial power house again. Of course the government would have to get out of the way. That’s the biggest challenge. Regulation and taxes have chained down US entrepreneurs. How do I know this? Ask your friends, “If they’re not, why aren’t they an entrepreneur?” They’ll generally answer, “It’s too hard to start and run a business today.” Proving the point. The elite would ask, why should the US become an economic power house, instead of a military monster? Because, there’s no future in military might, but there is in economic superiority. Financial shenanigans have kept the US economy afloat for the last few decades but they’re losing their effectiveness. How could I say such a thing? Because of the huge budget deficit. If we take the elite Keynesian economic experts at their word, that deficit spending is a means to shore up dwindling aggregate demand to keep up with aggregate supply, then apparently, the US has been in a near permanent recession since the 1970’s. Since we’ve had deficit spending every year since then, with the exception of the years Gingrich was speaker of the House. Lacking the huge deficits shoring up the otherwise crumbling economy, and the literal gaslighting of the government, (as proved by Wikileaks), the US economy would grind to a halt under the friction of regulation and taxes. Regulation and taxes are like a car’s brakes and emergency brake. Regulation is the emergency brake because once they’re in place the friction never goes away. As taxes are the brakes, because they’re raised and lowered depending on the administration. But are never fully released. Which means the government is constantly holding back our economy. Like a granny that rides the brakes with the emergency brake on. Who complains her brake pads are constantly worn out and she gets terrible gas mileage. Failing to see how her own actions are causing the problem. That granny would freak out at the mere thought of lifting her foot from the brake peddle. The car could careen out of control! Which is exactly the reaction we get from the elite when faced with lowering regulation or taxes. Being the world’s policeman is not only a thankless job but a self serving one at that. When you treat people like children they act like children. It’s human nature. We do what’s expected of us. So when the US treats the rest of the world like children, in need of spankings, time outs and naps, the rest of the world is aggravated and lashes out… like children. Meaning, the simple fact the US has become the world’s policeman, makes the world a less mature place. Add to that, most nations across the globe are on US foreign aid… and you get a world ruled by teenagers. With all the negative outcomes associated with it. Living in their parent’s house (receiving US financial aid), eating their parent’s food (getting US food aid) and being defended by the US (military aid)… why grow up? Being a military superpower requires the economy to back it. Deficit spending will only maintain a military for so long. Moreover, hollowing out the population’s wealth, isn’t conducive to recruitment. In order for the US to remain a superpower it needs a roaring economy. But the elite are terrified of lifting their foot off the brake. Like that Granny. Maybe if they also lifted their foot off the Keynesian accelerator, the economy might normalize. Because national power comes from the worn handle of a tool, not the hot barrel of a gun. Many military powers have been swept away by history… but not one economic powerhouse. Until they hollowed out their economy with regulation and taxes. Like Rome. Of the two, leading by example bests leading by might, every time. Our elites should try it. Sincerely, John Pepin
Goals And Results Posted on June 30, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, the world needs idealists, but it can’t be run by them… for that it needs pragmatists. Moreover, idealism is best when the idealists idealize human goods, not the means to them. Because an idealist thinks in terms of ideals not reality. So, when reality diverges from their theory, its reality that’s the problem to be solved… not their theories. They’re ideal. That’s why we have so many people committed to the administrative state. They idealize their imagined outcome… and ignore the reality it delivers. So an idealist will claim regulations make capitalism “fair.” By fair, they mean a politically favored person or group will get an advantage, in an otherwise free and fair exchange. Because idealists focus on goals and ignore outcomes. So they make the same mistakes over and over. Idealism isn’t bad or good, it simply is. When idealists focus on human hearted goods they serve their purpose exquisitely. When they focus on the means to those goals, however, they become single minded despots. Why wouldn’t they? To an idealist their ideal is the wharp and whoof of their life. Climate change zealots honestly believe the world will burn up any second and we’ll all die. If you believed that, wouldn’t you destroy a painting, if you thought that would save us? If you honestly believed communism is the ideal system… it just hasn’t been tried yet, wouldn’t you be a communist? A true sycophant of the administrative state, only sees their ideas of what it could do… not what it has, does or will do. Because they’re not pragmatists, they’re idealists. Pragmatists don’t focus on goals they focus on results. If an action results in a bad outcome, a pragmatist will eschew it in the future, for a different strategy. An idealist will try again and again, because they could care less about results, they’re goal oriented. That’s why we need pragmatists having a say. To control the headlong rush of idealists. Protecting us all. Since pragmatists judge by outcome, when given a goal by an idealist, the pragmatist is in the only position to make the idealist’s dreams come true. Because pragmatism allows us to understand what works and what doesn’t. If a plan doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, no matter how many times it’s tried, or zealously applied. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results… is the bailiwick of idealists. Pragmatists/realists and idealists are on opposite sides of the philosophical spectrum. To the unwise pragmatist, idealists are insane, and to the unwise idealist, pragmatists are killjoys. Because the unwise don’t see the world as it is, therefore they don’t understand it. A wise idealist will recognize the value a pragmatist brings to the table as a wise pragmatist understands the value of idealism. Both are required for mankind to advance. Idealists set the goals and pragmatists achieve them. When pragmatists are shut out of the process though the process fails. Because, idealists can’t be bothered with results, the world is at stake! A functional society and culture then, needs both idealists and pragmatists… with no one having unlimited power. The end of slavery, civil rights and indeed all the advances of the Enlightenment were born of idealist minds. It was pragmatists that realized those dreams though. Idealists however don’t see the value in pragmatism. The pragmatist is a wet blanket. “Socialism doesn’t work…” a pragmatist tells an idealist, who thinks, “What an idiot, how can we help the poor without socialism, he must hate the poor!” So an unwise idealist will censor, beat down and even jail a pragmatist who gets in their way. The world is at stake! Never understanding, being idealists, that both are needed. An unwise pragmatist on the other hand will try to hold the world in stasis. Which is another fools errand. A healthy civilization needs both idealists and pragmatists, staying in their lanes, and recognizing the value of the other. Sincerely, John Pepin
Advantage In War Posted on July 9, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, history records that in war, the side that commits the most war crimes, loses. During WWI Germany was pretty decent, as far as war goes, but they allied with Turkey, that committed genocide against the Armenians. Which doomed them both. In the war between the states, as much as I agree with many of the points of the South, their war crimes in Andersonville undid them. The crimes of the Nazis are well documented, and again, damned them too. How do I explain the historical examples? I’m not saying the side that’s good wins, nor am I saying the side that’s the defender wins… no, I’m saying the side that respects human rights, has an advantage. Because war is a complex system. In such systems subtle inputs often makes all the difference. Like the fluttering of wings. My understanding of complexity theory is that it seeks to explain complex systems. Such as ecologies, economies, bird flocks, etc… as well as war. Complex systems have a few attributes in common spanning the multitude of regimes complexity theory is applicable. A complex system is made up of individual parts, interconnected, interdependent, with a lack of hierarchy and are self organizing. From these basic components arise an astonishingly effective analogue of reality. Complex systems are resilient, and adaptive. From them are born “emergence.” Explaining the wax and wane of species in an ecosystem, the boom bust cycle of the economy, and the uncanny movement of flocks of birds. In this analogue, war is both an emergent phenomenon and a complex system in itself. When war emerges from the complex system of international politics, it is emergent and itself a complex system. We look at the obvious in war, winning battles. Yet wars have been lost with every battle won. Instead we should look at the intangibles. The will to fight largely depends on the justness of the fight. In the minds of the contestants as well as bystanders. Because in complex systems like war seemingly small inputs can have out sized effects. War crimes have a negative effect on the will to fight of the side that commits them, and enhances the will to fight, in the side that’s victim of them. Plus they turn public opinion against the criminal. To sharpen the point, in a fight between a wolverine and a grizzly, the grizzly will always back down, because the will to fight in a weasel is unmatched. How can war crimes effect the will to fight of people who don’t know about them? Quite easily if you agree with Jung’s collective unconscious. In his theory of collective unconscious, Jung asserted that there is a deep layer of consciousness, the collective unconscious, or as the Kabalists call the unconscious, the super conscious… that’s the foundation of human cognition. We see it manifested in art, literature and iconography. A paleolithic fat woman statue for example. Crimes against humanity then, must be recorded in the collective unconscious… if it exists. Making the knowledge available to everyone. If only as a vague feeling of unease. Intuitive people will understand this more intuitively, than sensing people will sense it, but intuition is available to everyone. What are we to make of this then? Was Jesus right in saying turn the other cheek? Even as he told his disciples to hammer their plowshares into swords? Righteous fighting in war bestows an advantage. An edge that’s subtle and impossible to quantify. Yet cuts like a razor. War crimes lurk in the collective unconscious… nagging at us. Not just at yours, and not only mine… but mankind’s. Every war crime is a butterfly’s flutter in the hurricane of war. As is every act of humanity. History agrees with me. The short term advantage of barbarity becomes a liability. When reality agrees with hypothesis, that hypothesis must have some merit. Else it wouldn’t agree with empirical examination. War crimes are detrimental to a war effort. Unless war crimes are the point. Which would make victory a secondary goal. Sincerely, John Pepin
Viktor
Orban is Hungary's bigger-than-life Prime Minister. Never one to back
away from conflict, Orban gained national attention when, as a
student, he called for the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops from
Hungary in 1989. Just a few months later, the Soviet troops returned
home. Hungary was free and independent, and the country had a new
hero. Nine years later, Orban, as head of the Fidesz Party,
became Prime Minister. Trained as a lawyer, Orban, nonetheless, has a
real sense of free market capitalism. During his first term in
office, he reduced inflation and brought the government's deficit
under control. Under Orban's leadership in 2010, Hungary joined the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. So, it should be like old
times for Orban when he attends the 75th Annual NATO Summit this week
in Washington.But I don't expect it to be without
controversy. As we'll see in a moment, Orban is again caught in a
swirling cloud of diplomatic consternation. Since July 1,
Orban has also been the President of the "Council of the
European Union" (not to be confused with the European Council
(UGH!)) or simply the Council. This group consists of 27 national
ministers, each representing their respective countries. The
President of the Council rotates among each member nation, and
currently, it is Orban's turn. In terms of international
diplomacy, the President of the European Council, now Orban, is
considered the lead diplomatic representative of the EU. Although, in
real terms, the senior bureaucrats of the EU, such as Charles Michel
and Ursula von der Leyen, make the real decisions, this current
position gives Orban the "ticket" to visit heads of state
on behalf of the EU. And that's just what Orban's been doing.
Wasting no time, Orban accepted an invitation that Volodymyr
Zelenskyy had extended some time ago to visit Ukraine. Just the day
after assuming the Presidency of the EU Council, Orban flew to Kyiv.
Orban is a man on a mission, wasting no time to begin. Orban
wants to end the conflict in Ukraine; his immediate goal is to bring
about a ceasefire. Although this comes as no surprise to any careful
observer, it may have caught Zelenskyy off-guard. Although Zelenskyy
had welcomed almost all European leaders to Kyiv, this was the first
time anyone wanted to talk about peace. All the rest had pledged some
sort of military or economic support for Ukraine. But Orban
came in search of a way to stop the fighting, not promote it. In a
joint press conference, standing next to Zelenskyy, Orban disclosed
his objective: "I asked the president to consider
whether... a quick ceasefire could speed up the peace
talks." https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hungarys-orban-visits-ukraine-with-aid-tensions-running-high-198035 Someone
from the West talked about a ceasefire for the first time in this War
between Russia and Ukraine. Unthinkable from most of the other NATO
countries. For his part, Zelenskyy rolled with the moment,
mumbling something about common European priorities and a just peace,
but it became apparent that he had no clue where Orban was
going. What came next caught the entire European Union, to say
nothing about all of NATO, by complete surprise. Orban flew to
Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. To the
collective West, this was a complete breach of decorum and
dangerously close to seeing Russia as a responsible member of the
global family of nations. If Orban, as titular head of the European
Council, met with President Putin, it would give Russia the mantel of
respectability that the West has tried to deny for two and a half
years. The BBC called Orban "Russia-Friendly."
LeMonde noted that it triggered "anger" throughout the EU
and amounted to mere "capitulation" from Ukraine. France 24
said that Orban's efforts were "mere appeasement."
Zelenskyy outright repudiated Orban, saying that only "strong
alliance" members could negotiate for Ukraine. There were even
rumblings that the EU may revoke Orban's Presidency of the Council,
an unprecedented move. Such was the heated rhetoric coming
from throughout the Atlantic alliance. It was the standard "kill
the messenger" reaction that we've seen throughout the
Russia-Ukraine War. Anytime anyone discusses ending this conflict,
they are met with hostility, as if peace is such a bad thing. As
Orban noted in Moscow: "The number of countries that can
talk to both warring sides is diminishing," Orbán said.
"Hungary is slowly becoming the only European country that can
speak to
everyone." https://apnews.com/article/hungary-russia-orban-putin-visit-ukraine-4755f85d49703be7971b262c18707222 Orban
continued his whirlwind tour with a visit to China and talks with Xi
Jinping. At the end of these discussions, Xi responded: According
to Chinese state media, Xi told Orban, "The international
community should create conditions for the resumption of direct
dialogue and negotiations between the two sides and provide
assistance.It is in the interest of all parties to seek a political
solution through an early
ceasefire." https://www.reuters.com/world/china/hungary-pm-orban-arrives-beijing-talks-with-chinese-president-xi-2024-07-07/ In
a week, Orban had visited three capitals, meeting with the leaders of
the two belligerents (Russia and Ukraine) and the two principal
leaders of the Global South, China and Russia. Two of the three
leaders, Putin and Xi, had indicated their desire to bring peace to
Ukraine. Only Zelenskyy had diminished Orban's efforts. Today,
Orban will be in Washington, D.C., the capital of Ukraine's principal
ally. It will be the 75th Summit Meeting of NATO, an organization
that Hungary joined while Orban was Prime Minister for his first
term. However, it is likely that his reception will be less than
friendly. NATO has invested substantially in Ukraine's ultimate
victory; anything less than that, like an immediate ceasefire, will
no doubt draw the ire of many. There is only one thing that
Orban might do that would draw more anger, and that is to visit
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. Therefore, many Orban observers
feel that's precisely what he'll do. Orban's mission is to
bring peace to Ukraine, and he'll let nothing get in his way. Follow me here on ThinkSpot for more stories from the ValueSide.
Last
Tuesday, “A
federal district court ruled... to halt the
Biden administration’s illegal attempt to rewrite Title IX while
the lawsuit, State of Kansas v. U.S. Department of Education,
continues.” According
to Alliance
Defending Freedom, “The injunction covers not
only the states of Kansas, Alaska, Utah, and Wyoming but also every
school across the country attended by plaintiff Katie Rowland, the
members of Female Athletes United, the members of Young America’s
Foundation, and the minor children of the members of Moms for
Liberty.” The states could lose billions in federal funding for
their public schools if they don't comply.
“The
Biden administration’s radical redefinition of sex won’t just
rewire our educational system. It means girls will be forced to
undress in locker rooms and share hotel rooms with boys on overnight
school trips, teachers and students will have to refrain from
speaking truthfully about biological sex, and girls will lose their
right to fair competition in sports,” said ADF
Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau. “The court was
right to halt the administration’s illegal efforts to rewrite Title
IX while this critical lawsuit continues.” According
to the Southeastern
Legal Foundation, “In May 2024, Moms
for Liberty and Young
America’s Foundation sued the Biden
Administration to stop its overhaul of Title IX—an unconstitutional
attempt to gut Title IX’s guarantee that America’s schools afford
girls the same opportunities as boys and protect girls and boys with
sex-separate private spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms.
Represented
by Southeastern
Legal Foundation, the two organizations assert
the claims on behalf of their members whose First Amendment rights
are being trampled by the Biden Department of Education’s new
regulation, which threatens to punish students for voicing their
beliefs in biological sex and forces them to affirm views on gender
fluidity, transgenderism, and queer theory.” The
“Biden Rule” would redefine “Sex” Southeastern
Legal Foundation’s article continues, “Biden
issued an Executive
Order unilaterally changing the definition of
“sex” to include “gender identity” and ordered the Department
of Education to rewrite Title IX regulations to forever remove equal
access and other legal protections. Soon after, the Department of
Education proposed changes to Title IX, claiming it had authority to
do so as part of its rulemaking powers. “The
Department of Education (DoE) sought to change the definition of
“sex” to include gender identity, lower the standard for finding
harassment, force individuals to use incorrect pronouns that are not
based on biology, and centralize all investigative and disciplinary
authority under one campus Title IX coordinator.
“…the
Department of Education forged ahead and ignored the public’s
concerns, issuing a final
rule (the “Biden Rule”) in late April 2024,
which Moms for Liberty and Young America’s Foundation now challenge
in court.” In
State of Kansas et al. v. U.S. Department of Education, “the states
and organizations argue that the Biden Rule violates the
Administrative Procedure Act and separation of powers because the
Department of Education changed Title IX without congressional
authority; that the Rule violates students’ First Amendment rights
because it will compel them to affirm other students’ so-called
“gender identity” and discriminates against opposing views; and
that the Rule violates other provisions of the Constitution,
including the Spending Clause and the Tenth Amendment.” “The
states and organizations are asking the Kansas federal court to
declare the Biden Rule unlawful and unconstitutional and to stop its
enforcement.” The
Purpose of Title IX: Protecting Biological Women As
the judge noted in his
ruling, “Significantly, the purpose of Title
IX was to protect “biological women from discrimination in
education[;] [s]uch purpose makes it difficult to sincerely argue
that, at the time of enactment, “discrimination on the basis of
sex” included gender identity, sex stereotypes, sexual orientation,
or sex characteristics’; The DoE’s reinterpretation of Title IX
to place gender identity on equal footing with (or in some instances
arguably stronger footing than) biological sex would subvert
Congress’ goals of protecting biological women in education
(emphasis added).” “...Plaintiff
Organizations assert that the Final Rule violates the First Amendment
rights of individuals by compelling speech that aligns with
Defendants’ ideology, censoring speech through content-based
restrictions and viewpoint discrimination, chilling speech through
vague and overbroad language, and forcing individuals to engage in
speech that violates their sincerely held beliefs.” “The
Final Rule’s interpretation of sex and discrimination are therefore
contrary to the statute and historical context of Title IX. The court
finds that Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claim that the
DoE exceed its statutory authority in expanding the definition of sex
discrimination in the Final Rule… The DoE simply lacks authority to
expand sex to mean gender identity.” ACT
NOW: Join one of the plaintiff organizations before July 15 In
addition to the four states involved in the lawsuit—Alaska,
Kansas, Utah and Wyoming—the
injunction covers ALL schools attended by the children of members of
Moms for Liberty, as well as the members of Young Americans for
Freedom and Female Athletes United.
Washington
parents concerned about protecting freedom of speech and the rights
of biological women under Title IX can join Moms for Liberty here.
Students can join Young Americans for Freedom here.
Student athletes and their supporters can join Female Athletes
United here.
According
to the order,
“Plaintiff Organizations are directed to file a notice in the
record identifying the schools which their members or their members’
children, as applicable, attend on or before July 15, 2024.”
Take action today and join one of the plaintiff organizations before
July 15 in order to protect your child’s school from the Biden Rule
while this important lawsuit continues!
Nancy
Churchill is a writer and educator in rural eastern Washington State,
and the state committeewoman for the Ferry County Republican Party.
She may be reached at DangerousRhetoric@pm.me. The opinions expressed
in Dangerous Rhetoric are her own. Dangerous Rhetoric is available on
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and Substack. Support Dangerous Rhetoric Sources:Exempt your school! Join one of these
organizations by July 14, 2024 1) Moms for Liberty: https://bit.ly/3zJrGna 2) YAF: yaf.org/membership-request-form 3) Female Athletes United:
www.femaleathletesunited.org 4) ORDER – Preliminary Injunction GRANTED: STATE
OF KANSAS, et al., v UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, et al.,
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Link A third judge blocks the feds' addition of gender
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Link ADF represents Female Athletes United, ADF May 14,
2024, Link Redefining ‘Sex’ Threatens Title IX, ADF, May
30, 2024, ADF Legal, Link Moms for Liberty Succeeds in Halting Title IX
Changes, Moms for Liberty, Link
The Coming Bird Flu Pandemic Posted onJuly 12, 2024 by john Dear friends, It seems to me, as ex-CDC Director Robert Redfield said, “We will have a bird flu pandemic… just a matter of time…” because the government and elite are working diligently to make it happen. We know they had bio weapon labs across Ukraine. That’s proven and admitted. Moreover, Covid was a gain of function experiment that escaped, or was set free, we don’t know yet. Then there’s the monkey pox virus, that the experts are doing their best to make more deadly, and transmissible. To protect us from it. Bird flu is the gold standard of gain of function though. It can kill a cow, chicken or person. At least it can, now, with the billions I’m sure that’s been spent on improving its transmissibility. I believe an expert, when they say there will be a pandemic, like an arsonist who threatens to start a fire. The elite claim that they have to do gain of function to protect us. If they don’t create novel and deadly viruses in a lab, how could they research vaccines for them? Of course, they skirt the elephant in the room, there’s no need of a vaccine for a virus that doesn’t and will never exist. So the experts solve it… by creating them. If a few escape and kill millions, oh well, that’s the price the elite are willing for us to pay, to advance the science of the weaponization of viruses, er… gain of function. Billions of dollars are spent on this noble research… how to exterminate mankind by disease. To protect us from randomly occurring mild colds. The inflation for food, housing and clothing is partially a result of all that spending. No need to thank the elite, they’re happy to do it. Since gain of function has become a dirty word, due to the millions of deaths from Covid, the elite defined it into non existence, so they can continue creating ever more deadly and transmissible viruses, for fun and profit. Fauci claimed in his testimony before Congress, that the NIH never funded gain of function… by their definition. Which is like a bank robber claiming in court, “I didn’t rob the bank at gun point… by my definition.” Both are self serving lies. The progressive faction demanded Roger Stone spend the rest of his life in prison, for a politically motivated perjury frame. That injured no one but Stone. Even as they defend Fauci for actual perjury, and his lies cost millions of people across the planet… their very lives. Hypocrisy at it’s finest. Then there’s the vaccine that isn’t. It provided little or no protection, at a cost of heart enlargement, turbo cancers, eel like blood clots and strange diseases that baffle doctors. A minor trade off when you consider that Fauci made millions for his efforts. A dollar a human life. Not a great trade for the dead but wonderful for Fauci and big pharma. Meanwhile, the latest research shows that the vaccinated are far more likely now, to get and die of Covid… as well as cancer, heart disease, stroke, etc… But hey, Fauci and big pharma meant well, right? I’m sure if your well meaning meth lab created a cloud of poison gas that killed millions, then the meth you cooked up killed a few more million… the government would be as forgiving of you. Even your perjury over it would be allowed. Wouldn’t it? Which brings us to the fact, no one has been punished for anything related to the crime against humanity, that was Covid… so why wouldn’t they release monkey pox and Bird flu on us next? A bank robber who’s allowed to get away with it… isn’t likely to stop. The villains have no motivation to cease creating ever more deadly and transmissible pathogens, and releasing them on us by stupidity, or malevolence. Especially when there’s so much profit in the vaccine. Both immediate, and long term, in treating the life altering side effects. Without actual consequences for killing millions of people across the planet, it’ll happen again… if not now. That’s why I agree with director Robert Redfield, that we will have a bird flu pandemic. Because the experts and elite are working diligently to make it happen. Sincerely, John Pepin
Plausible Deniability Is A Conspiracy Theory Posted on July 24, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, the only people in America that get the presumption of innocence, are the elite. The rest of us are guilty until proven not guilty. The charged are forever unconvicted criminals. No matter how obvious the crime and the criminal, if the perpetrator is an elite, any accusation is a conspiracy theory. Then again, if not for the double standard in law, lawyers would have no standards. If the elite seek to oppress someone, all they need do is point out the man, and the KGB er, Gestapo, no… the FBI will find the crime. Take for example Trump. They started with the Russian collusion hoax, impeached him by anonymous witness, the Mueller lawfare, perverting FISA courts, etc… all went by without consequence, for the villains. Only the victims paid a price. So the villains are still in charge. The assassination attempt itself was proof of ineptitude or malevolence. There are no shades between. Because, if it happened without the knowledge of the SS, they’re inept, and if they allowed it, they’re involved. The only other possibility is the SS is both corrupt and inept. By ineptly allowing the shooter to get that close, then allowing him to get a shot off, before they took action. But, saying out loud the SS is corrupt and or inept, is a conspiracy theory. Until it isn’t. Jim Jordan and others are pushing to get answers. Had the bullet been discharged a mile away, from inside a blind, that would be different. But the story now is the post was abandoned because the SS officer was hot? Multiple snipers fired? Spectators pointed the assassin out? That conspiracy theory is rapidly becoming conspiracy fact. Covid came from a lab, was a conspiracy theory… until it wasn’t. The experts, scientists and press went spastic over it. Anyone who mentioned the gain of function lab at the epicenter of the Covid pandemic was vilified. Their speech censored as misinformation and disinformation. The pangolin story, though absurd, was driven down our throats. Turns out the laboratory that was up grading bat coronaviruses to infect people… caused it. Then there was the vaccine that wasn’t. Any mention of side effects was conspiracy theory, misinformation and disinformation, of the most dangerous kind. It could cost people their very lives!! Resulting in many being forced to take it and prove they had. Turns out the vaccine cost more young people their lives than Covid. Who’s been punished for it? That the 2020 election was the most secure in history was common knowledge… until it wasn’t. The courts refused to hear a single election related case. Even the Georgia court that was legally obliged to hear Trump’s case, within a month… sat on their hands. You try that, when the law gives you a deadline to act, see how your treated by that same court. With zero evidence the 2020 election had any integrity, and mountains of evidence it was fraud through and through… the loud mouths of public opinion claimed it was the most secure in history. Blinding us by the gaslight. Then the elite went a step further and imprisoned anyone who had the audacity to protest a stolen election. Many are still in prison. Despite the Supreme Court ruling most didn’t break the law. Has anyone been punished? Jeffery Epstein strangled himself with suicide proof paper sheets, is the narrative we’re expected to believe… against every whit of common sense. Anyone who’s watched a single episode of Hogans Heroes knows how that was done. Slip a micky into the guards coffee, disable the cameras, unlock the doors in that wing… and your hit man stationed in the next cell strangles him, making it look like suicide. The coroner knows better than to challenge the narrative. He could suddenly become despondent in a parking garage and beat himself to death with an iron pipe. So we live in a world where, we’re guilty until proven innocent, while the elite are innocent even when proven guilty. Which is why the elite are so utterly, totally and completely corrupt… they can be. Until they can’t. Sincerely, John Pepin
Notes from a parent Sorry Millennials and such. Perhaps it was the drugs, but
somehow my Boomer generation really dropped the ball. After the sixties, we
pulled ourselves out of the purple haze, straightened up and went to work. We found Truth
after years of running from it. We never told our kids the disturbing details;
we just told them to accept the truth we had found because we didn’t want them
to experience a repeat of our wasted youth. We protected them with church,
sports, activities, hobbies, video games, before sending them off to trusted
institutions where one lefty unraveled all our hopes and dreams in one semester.
What we couldn’t possibly imagine was that the original Devil was back at work
and “his desire was for” our kids in a new and diabolical way. Like I say, it may have been the drugs, but some of the old Boomers
who embedded themselves into dependent clusters of liberalism and government
had discovered some new technology with which they could experiment on a
generation of confused minds and bodies. Like an “accidental” release of a man-made
virus, a cross-media "gender" ideology escaped from the former Psych labs and spread
like Kudzu while at the same time, plastic-surgery-on-demand was popularizing “reality”
TV, and depressed female patients over-dosing on prescribed hormones were
sprouting mustaches. Only the Devil (them-self) could mash these trends into a hellish
strategy to cancel a generation in its tracks. Well, that’s pretty much what happened… as I remember it. My
family wasn’t spared. Unfortunately, the “experts” do not even hint at the collateral
damage done to family, friends, reality, reason, etc., so for the benefit of
those who think the Devil (and fiends) somehow missed their family, I have
taken some notes along the way and am raising them here in two categories for the potential trans-parent
to gaze upon, hopefully before the fiery serpents bite them. Here they are in
no particular order (but note you will generally find out about them in the
past tense): The Rejections Rejection of biological and scientific reality Rejection of traditional psychology Rejection of physical reality (limitations) Rejection of truth (measurable, proven) Rejection of meaning (language) Rejection of functionality Rejection of participation in biological future (humanity) Rejection of family (name, history, non-compliant members) Rejection of historical data Rejection of common sense (common side-effect of
affirmation) The Affirmations Affirmation by sacrifice of healthy tissue Affirmation by human sculpting, manipulation Affirmation by cross-sex hormones Affirmation by re-programming of thought and speech Affirmation by a new legal name (identity) Affirmation by sterilization Affirmation by psychological non-treatment Affirmation by controlled, group filtered exposure to the
world Affirmation by public policies (education, human resources) Affirmation by law (enforcement, lawsuits and intimidation) Now, if you are to remain in their life, what all must you
affirm or reject? So far (and it’s been five years), I’m okay affirming the new
name (in public); I’m just not willing to make self-delusional pretense a
permanent feature of my self-perception or personality. I have become adept at
pronoun avoidance, rather than falling into the pit of “He’s my daughter,”
which, while capturing the preferred pronoun and my relationship to it
perfectly, is probably unacceptable in borderline-woke company. Like anyone else, I pretend at many things, but as a child,
I learned to stop the pretense when playtime is over. I can’t easily forgive
those who continuously and publicly pretend at being understanding influencers,
healthcare providers, legal support, teachers, and woke politicians but are
corrupting the seed of the future with harmful and deadly “treatments,” propaganda
and vacuous pride. You have received your attention and your financial reward;
enjoy it while you can. You have caused troubled and confused children to
stumble, and their Creator will be your judge - when playtime is over.
Monotheistic Faith Systems: Unity and the Problem of Exclusion Monotheistic faith systems, which centre around the worship of a single deity, offer the benefit of a uniting principle placed at the apex of a hierarchical structure. This unifying element can foster a sense of cohesion and shared purpose among adherents. The singular focus on one deity can create a clear, consistent moral framework and a strong collective identity. For example, in Christianity, the belief in one God provides a foundation for universal moral guidelines, promoting a sense of brotherhood and shared values among believers. However, the rigidity of monotheism can also lead to significant dangers. The exclusivity inherent in monotheistic systems can lead to an "us versus them" mentality, where those outside the faith are viewed with suspicion or hostility. This can lead to social fragmentation, intolerance, and even conflict. The emphasis on a single truth can stifle diversity of thought and practice, potentially leading to authoritarianism where dissenting voices are suppressed. Polytheistic Faith Systems: Diversity and the Problem of Integration Polytheistic faith systems, like Hinduism, worship multiple deities, each representing different aspects of life and the universe. This multiplicity allows for a rich diversity of beliefs, practices, and rituals. The pluralism inherent in polytheism can encourage tolerance and acceptance of different perspectives, fostering a more inclusive and harmonious society. However, the diversity within polytheism can also lead to potential dangers. Without a single unifying principle, there is a risk of fragmentation and lack of cohesion among followers. The various deities and their respective mythologies can sometimes lead to conflicting beliefs and practices, creating divisions within the community. Additionally, the absence of a centralised authority can make it challenging to maintain a consistent moral framework, potentially leading to ethical ambiguity. How do the polytheistic Hindus achieve unity? At the heart of Hindu philosophy lies the concept of Brahman, the ultimate reality or universal spirit. Brahman is the singular, all-encompassing divine presence that transcends individual deities and is the source of all existence. This principle is encapsulated in the ancient Vedic saying, "Ekam Sat, Vipra Bahudha Vadanti," which means, "Truth is one, the wise call it by many names." This idea suggests that while the divine can be experienced and expressed in countless forms, all these forms are manifestations of the same underlying reality. Thus, whether one worships Vishnu, Shiva, Lakshmi, or any other deity, they are ultimately connecting with Brahman. This philosophical cornerstone fosters a sense of unity among believers, despite the surface-level diversity of their worship practices. In Hinduism, deities represent various aspects of life and cosmic principles. For example, Saraswati embodies knowledge and wisdom, while Lakshmi signifies wealth and prosperity. This multiplicity allows individuals to relate to the divine in a way that is personally meaningful to them. Yet, these deities are not seen as isolated or competing entities but rather as different expressions of the same ultimate reality. How did the polytheistic Ancient Greeks achieve unity? Ancient Greek religion, characterised by a pantheon of gods and goddesses, found unity through philosophical integration. Heraclitus introduced the idea of logos, a rational principle that governed the cosmos, bringing order and harmony to the ever-changing world. Heraclitus is often credited with introducing the concept of logos as a fundamental principle of change and stability in the universe. For Heraclitus, logos represented the rational structure that underlies all reality. He famously stated, "You cannot step into the same river twice," emphasising that while everything is in a state of flux, there is a consistent order or pattern to these changes, governed by logos. Plato saw logos as the principle of rationality that connects the world of Forms (the true reality) with the material world. In his dialogues, Plato often uses logos to refer to reasoned discourse and the process of logical thinking. By viewing each deity as an aspect or expression of logos, the Greeks could maintain a coherent religious framework that embraced a variety of divine forms while recognizing an underlying unity. For instance, Apollo, associated with prophecy, music, and healing, could be seen as an embodiment of the rational and harmonious aspects of logos. Athena, the goddess of wisdom and warfare strategy, represented the intellectual and strategic dimensions of logos. This understanding allowed for a cohesive theological system where the gods were not isolated entities but interconnected parts of a larger rational order. How do the monotheistic Christians achieve diversity? Christianity, while rooted in the monotheistic belief in one God, achieves a diversity through the philosophical integration of unity and fringe elements. A proper unity must leave room for the fringe because the limits of the unity are defined by the fringe. Without the fringe, unity risks becoming tyrannical, stifling creativity, and excluding those who do not conform. Conversely, without a central unity, the fringe can become dominant, leading to chaos and the collapse of clear definitions. The fringe, often seen as the stranger or the marginal, plays a critical role in enriching and challenging the core, preventing stagnation. The cherubs placed at the edge of Eden with a flaming sword represent the boundaries and the mysterious, powerful fringe of God's creation. These figures symbolise the limits of human experience and understanding, reminding believers that there is a divine mystery and power at the fringes of their existence. These boundaries define and protect the sacred space, just as the fringe defines and strengthens unity. Gargoyles, often grotesque and unusual, serve not only as architectural features but also as symbolic protectors of the sacred spaces they adorn. They represent the fringe, the strange and the monstrous, guarding the purity of the central unity. Their presence on sacred buildings suggests that what is marginal or grotesque is integral to the protection and definition of what is sacred. Strangers, or those outside the immediate community, play significant and often important roles in the Biblical narrative. These figures often serve as catalysts for change, sources of wisdom, and symbols of God's inclusive love and justice. Jethro is a prime example of how a stranger can significantly influence the trajectory of God's people. As Moses' father-in-law and a priest of Midian, Jethro was an outsider to the Israelite community. However, his counsel and wisdom were crucial in shaping Moses' leadership and the governance of Israel. This principle of unity and fringe extends beyond religious contexts into political and social realms. A society that embraces its marginal elements—the stranger, the artist, the outcast, the unconventional thinker—becomes more vibrant and resilient. Marginal elements challenge the status quo, inspire innovation, and prevent the tyranny of uniformity. It is this balance—where unity acknowledges the role of the fringe and diversity is anchored by a unifying thread—that fosters a truly enriched and harmonious existence.
The Nuclear Family Posted on July 25, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, the nuclear family is under attack by the cultural elite, whether intentional or not. One could argue that dysfunctional families are a font of story. Moreover, they create characters that are broken enough to function in a tale. So the attacks are masked as the only source of story. Utilizing the David Copperfield approach. Though that’s not the only source of character flaw. Many people born of and raised by wonderful families, are terrible people, and many who are thrown aside, are wonderful human beings. For our culture to focus only on bad fathers, oedipal mothers and narcissistic families, eschewing all other sources of story, shows their blindness or malintent. Whether or not the cultural elite know what they’re doing, the effect is the same, the nuclear family is under attack. TV shows today that get multiple seasons generally seek to replace the nuclear family with a hybrid structure. Created because of the horrible childhoods of the protagonists. Disparate people come together as a family to replace the family they, never had, escaped from, or yearned for. Normalizing hybrid structures and establishing a nuclear family as bad. It’s a thing you escape from. You would never seek to be in one. A subtle, subconscious manipulation, that’s almost certainly lowered the population. I am in favor of people experiencing life in the best way they can. If a hybrid structure is all that’s available, then so be it. But a hybrid structure is not the ultimate nor is it ideal. The nuclear family, honed over a million years of human development, is the ideal. Though sometimes warped. The escaping from your family narrative plays well to a teen aged audience. People in the midst of an existential crisis of existence are open to manipulation in ways they wouldn’t be before or after. Teaching the youth that having a family is a bad thing then encourages them not to have families. Instead turns the energy God gave them for pairing up and having children, careers and lives… to self destructive narcissistic behavior. Because, someone smoking crack, on welfare, masturbating to porn in a basement, and considering strangers on Facebook family… is far better than living the American dream. Girls have a time limit on having children just as men who die in their twenties are limited too. Shilling a childless hybrid existence to teens filled with angst is like offering candy to a baby. The cultural elite are bolstered by the state in their efforts against the nuclear family, wittingly or unwittingly. How? By creating laws and court precedent that increasingly makes it self destructive for a man to get married. In divorce, his rights don’t exist. Nor do the child’s. The mother’s interests are of little concern to the state as well. The only concern of the state… is the state. How many children disappear into the state system never to be seen again? More than you could imagine. Taken from broken homes and put into the hands of slavers. For their own good. There are reports that over fifty thousand unaccompanied minors have disappeared in the last few years. Wittingly or unwittingly then, the legal system has created perverted legal incentives, against marriage, children and families. In the West, the birth rate isn’t close to the replacement rate. The aborted children have been replaced by migrants. Instead of starting families and having lives, many of us lived the slut life, aborted our kids and will die alone, lonesome, and terrified to face judgment for what we’ve done. Most of our unmarried women today are Eleanor Rigbys. Tragic, angry and befuddled why they’re so tragic and angry. We have a few generations of sad useless men without skill, gumption or hope. The cultural elite have us reaping what they’ve sown. Yes, we’re victims, but we couldn’t have been made victims, without our witting or unwitting consent. Maybe its time to change the paradigm, legal, social and cultural? So… exalt the nuclear family, fathers and mothers, to save the scarce next generation. Sincerely, John Pepin
Emergent Self Government Posted on July 10, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, I’ve been thinking about alternative ways humanity could organize itself, other than hierarchical government. It must be possible to utterly change the paradigm of government from a hierarchy to a self organizing system. I have an idea of how such a thing would work but a real plan will take someone a lot smarter than me. One reason it’ll take a genius to come up with is because we’re programmed from birth to think we need a hierarchical structure. Because that’s the way it’s always been. And maybe that’s the way it will always have to be. But perhaps not. It would be a culture based society, where individuals are not only empowered to take matters into their own hands, in full view and approval of the public, but are obligated to… whenever an exigency is recognized. A top down government of the kind we’ve become inured to isn’t the only possible game. Though all the systems we talk about are hierarchical. Monarchy, aristocracy, polity/democracy, tyranny, oligarchy and a republic. All types of governments we’re used to are some derivation of these hierarchical systems. The government orders the people take their place. In a complex system, no one would rule, yet all would rule and no one would. People would be absolutely free, within the constraints of the culture, and if that’s too constraining, they would be free to leave for a hierarchical system elsewhere. Meaning ostracism might have to be a thing in a self organizing system. Since there may be people unable to self control, but I think a lack of self control is a childhood issue, carried to adulthood. I’m not talking about hippy communes. A complex system of organization would need a culture that’s conducive, feed backs to limit behavior, like instant punishment at the hands of peers, and rewards for good behavior. Good and bad predicated on it’s effect on everyone else. Judged by the aggregate opinion of the people… not a judge. The basic idea of a complex system of organization, as I see it darkly, would be a culture. Early American Christian culture as Tocqueville explained it, might form a basis. They would have to be combined with cell phones and internet for the transparency required for such a system to work though. Total transparency of public actions would be necessary. For public opinion to be useful. It would be a system of equals, enforced by equals, with great men ostracized. Thrasymacus’ great men would stand in the way. They would argue, how are the immediate hard decisions made? By prime time TV voting? Showing they’re stuck in hierarchical thinking. Democracy itself is a form of hierarchy. It’s simply the majority that tyrannizes the minority, instead of a despot or oligarchy. A complex system wouldn’t need to be led. Like a flock of birds it would self direct. If attacked the system would react like an organism does to infection. Such a system would have to embrace free enterprise since there wouldn’t be anyone to direct us… but ourselves. In this the culture driven feed backs would self limit the avarice of capitalist actors. How? By transparency producing public outrage. That outrage leading to immediate punishment. If only as a general boycott. Replacing hierarchical government with self organization may not be possible. It does make a good thought experiment though. Moreover, perhaps someday it may be possible. Given the right confluence of events… the right culture, along with sufficient moral, philosophical, metaphysical and scientific advancement. Maybe such a self organizing system could be implemented on another planet, if we get that far, before the elite bring on the Beast system and the End times. A system without police, courts, or government to direct us, let alone a command and control anything, is at the periphery of human comprehension. Focusing on it might draw it closer to the middle. Pragmatically… from it, ideas how to limit our present hierarchical governments might be gleaned. Sincerely, John Pepin
A Simple Rule Predicts The Future Posted on July 11, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, a measure of the barbarity or civilization of mankind, is how much is built versus how much is destroyed. It’s a pretty simple measure. A metric that’s easily quantified… but is it accurate? I propose it’s not only accurate, it predicts the future. It’s accurate because history tells us it is. Human history is nothing but the record of civilizations rising and falling. When they rise there’s always construction, and when they fall, there’s always destruction. The two are interconnected. They’re not concurrent they’re consequent. The obliteration of cities characterizes the rise of barbarism. Moreover, barbarians don’t create they destroy. Because a barbarian is the avatar of the toddler knocking over a sand castle. A castle carefully built by someone else. If we look at human history from the earliest record of it, we see humanity rising and falling. The collapse of the Bronze age was one such event. While no one knows who the “Sea Peoples” were, there is agreement they were consequential to the collapse. Waging war on The Hittite Empire, the Levant and Egypt. Perhaps driven from their homes by climate change, because of their copious use of fossil fuels for smelting tin and copper. Else they could have been merely conquerors. Nevertheless, we see that the Hittites were ready to collapse due to corruption. So when the Sea Peoples showed up… they collapsed. While Egypt fended them off. The barbaric age that followed didn’t see much construction.. but a lot of destruction. The future can only be gleaned close at hand, due to the rapid onset of chaos in a dynamic system, like history. But we can presume yesterday plus today equals tomorrow. Or a facsimile of it. Using the barbarism civilization measure, of construction versus destruction, we can tell where we are in the cycle. When the amount of destruction is accelerating while construction is decelerating, we can surmise we’re in the destruction phase, and barbarism is coming, if it’s not already here. If there’s more construction, than destruction, then we can presume we’re in the civilization phase. When in the civilization phase, there’ll be good times ahead, and if in the barbarism phase, poverty, crime and want, lurk in the future. We have to look at construction and destruction in the aggregate though. Elitist theory, the theory I subscribe to as opposed to class theory, says that before a civilization collapses, that civilization has been hollowed out by the elite, abandoning their societal myth. In the case of the Sea People’s, had the Hittites been at their zenith the Sea Peoples would have ended up enslaved, instead of conquerors. The conquerors are interested only in conquering. So they ushered in a dark age. This is an important lesson. A force can be considered civilized or barbarian by it’s proclivity to build or destroy. Leading us to the vista of what their advance to power would mean. Barbarians usher in dark ages while civilized people bring civilization to barbarism. Civilization however wouldn’t be vulnerable to barbarians were it not for the elite’s corruption. Looking at the world today, construction is dropping off in China, Europe and elsewhere. Meanwhile war is destroying Ukraine wholesale as well as parts of Russia. The Middle East is struggling to outpace the destruction of war. Even with their riches from oil. American cities are crumbling with abandoned infrastructure rusting in the rain. South America, the Middle East and Africa are and will remain economic basket cases due to their cultures. Who are the conquerors of today? The Islamists and globalists. Neither of which have shown any interest in building… only in conquering. Which means, judged by the measure of building versus destroying, the Islamists and Globalists are, and will, usher in a new dark age. With toddlers in control again, we’ll see if this scale still predicts dark ages. Sincerely, John Pepin
On October 7, 2003, Hamas unleashed one of the most horrific terrorist acts against Jews since the Holocaust. Of course, Israel retaliated with missile strikes on the Gaza Strip. Israel continues to send missile strikes because Hamas is still holding over 100 people captive in that part of Palestine. Hamas leaders really thought that Israel should not have retaliated even though Hamas started this conflict nine months ago. Their Islamic thinking had Hamas leaders so deluded that they believe that they should be allowed to terrorize anyone throughout the world without an inkling of retaliation. That's not how the world works. If someone starts a fight with you, then you have the green light to fight back. Their wayward thinking explains why Muslims follow a religion in which its main prophet was a pedophile who married a six-year-old while he was in his 50's. The biggest concern now is the next conflict in the Middle East after Israel finishes the job and totally demolishes the Gaza Strip by the end of this year. The next conflict that should start in 2025 between Israel and Hezbollah,the Lebanese group, over the Golan Heights will escalate quickly. We have seen a preview of this new conflict after Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets into Israel back in April of this year with almost all of the rockets blocked by the Iron Dome defense. Israel retaliated with rockets of their own, but almost all of those rockets were blocked by Hezbollah. Both parties have been in a stalemate since their conflict in 2006. However, this conflict between Israel and Hezbollah will escalate next year because Hezbollah is continuing to become stronger and stronger due to them being backed by Iran and Syria. Iran is not vulnerable to an attack, but Syria is vulnerable to a sneak attack. The book of Isaiah talks about a war in the future that will take place between Israel and Syria. The first part of the battle is listed in Isaiah Chapter 17 where Damascus will be destroyed. In Isaiah Chapter 22, it states that the forces of Elam and Kir will retaliate and will uncover the shield (Iron Dome). Ancient Elam is modern-day Iran; ancient Kir is modern-day Syria. They will torch Jerusalem. The destruction that will be unleashed on Jerusalem will be so furious that the Dome of the Rock will be destroyed. That will allow for Israel to build the 3rd temple on that spot in the future. Finally, as listed in Isaiah Chapter 23, the entire nation of Syria will be destroyed when Israel retaliates after Jerusalem is struck. I was able to put this prophecy into poetic form in order for the masses to gain a better understanding as to what will happen next in the Middle East. You may be reading this and may be thinking that this is all a bunch of malarkey, but the new US defense bill states that every American between 18 and 26 are automatically placed into a military draft. Major war in the Middle East is coming soon.
Often when reading a passage from a different translation, I catch
new words or ideas that I have never seen before. Perhaps this is the
translation’s or translator’s fault, or maybe, the original language
used a word that conveyed something more that this translation wants to
draw out. Whatever the reason, this passage includes a word and an idea that I have not ever noticed before. In verse 27, we read Jesus’ promise, and see this “new” word/idea: “I’m
leaving you peace. I’m giving you my peace. I don’t give you the kind
of peace that the world gives. So don’t be troubled or cowardly.” (John 14:27 GW) Jesus tells us not to be cowardly? What does that have to do with the peace He promises? Some might believe that God gives us peace in situations where we
have no power to change the circumstances. This is often the case. But
where people go too far in their thinking is that God’s peace excuses
them from being engaged. Receiving God’s peace is not a sign that we can
now retreat. That would be “cowardly”. The peace God has promised comes on a deeper level. His peace fills
your heart. His peace assures us that we are loved, forgiven, saved, and
now empowered to act. His peace says that He will be with us as we face
whatever the future holds. Peace that the world gives is different. This peace is bartered and
temporary. It could be the lull in a storm of circumstances. The world’s
peace is nice, but it cannot fill our lives like God’s peace. God’s
peace is present when things get out of control. God’s peace remains
when the world’s peace has expired and left. God’s peace is peace that I want. When life throws us doubts
and uncertainties, with Jesus’ peace, we can be empowered and freed to
move forward – and moving forward with God is not cowardly! This post first appeared on ReflectiveBibleStudy.com What do you think? Do you agree/disagree? Leave your thoughts below.
Make Public Opinion Matter Again Posted on July 26, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, the elite are indignant, the people of Europe and America are unwilling to lower our standard of living, so the elite can feel good about themselves. How selfish of us. Which brings us to the evil of public opinion. The elite hate to have to consider the will of the governed. Especially when that opinion conflicts with their plans. The globalist elite plan to lower the population, the survivor’s standard of living, and trap us in fifteen minute cities. We’ll own nothing and be happy… or else. That the will of the people conflicts with this goal is a conundrum. Unremarkably, the will of the people is always the same boring thing, a good standard of living, peace and safety. All of which conflict with the goals of the elite. Making us the problem. By every measure our lot is going down. Driven down intentionally by the powerful. Inflation is eating away our wages, crime is diminishing our quality of life, and disease is now a problem where it wasn’t before. All done to stem climate change, reduce our burden on the planet and make more gold available to the rich. That we don’t like it, isn’t a problem for the elite… it’s a problem for us. The elite are perfectly happy with inexorably driving down our standard of living. It’s public opinion that creates issues. Which is another reason to lower the population… to lower the power of the will of the people. If there are less people, we have less power. Moreover, the opinion of the victims can be mitigated with judicious propaganda, vilification of truth tellers and outright lawfare. The elite think our living too high on the hog is dangerous… to their privilege. Therefore our lives have to be made harder. So theirs can be marginally better. They want to put those of us that survive the culling in fifteen minute cities. Where we’ll live in tenements like Cabrini Green, have no cars, and no hope. But the elite think if we’re given unlimited access to debauchery we’ll be happy. That’s why they say, we’ll own nothing and be happy. Because we’ll be in a ditch, hopped up on drugs, riddled with VD and too stupid to know better. If the fifteen minute city plan creates a feedback loop, that wipes out mankind, so be it. The elite want to replace us with AI anyway. Public opinion is speciesist. So why pay attention to selfish people who would rather live than be replaced by AI. The speciesist will of the people then is only a problem when it’s heeded. As long as the elite pay no attention to the masses, with torches and pitchforks, our opinion is irrelevant. More to the point, it’s dangerous. We all know, things that are dangerous need to be eliminated, like free speech, freedom of association, and the freedom of self protection. So the elite are working diligently night and day to demolish those roadblocks. While their storm troopers in Antifa and BLM busy themselves with rioting, iconoclasm and terrorism, the top is using the courts to eviscerate our Rights. Justified because bigots like us who think our right to exist, trumps the elite’s right to do as they please, need to be put in our place. A pine box buried in the ground. Else we could use our opinion and will to fight back? While the elite would be incensed at our arrogance, they would have to bend, or break. Since public opinion is so obvious, people want decent lives to raise a family, it should be easy to meet. If we demand it be met. If instead, we continue to allow the elite their head, they’ll continue to run out of control. Until we’re swept off and land in a pile. So I say it’s time to pull back on the reigns. Get them under control. Then force absolute transparency on government, limit their power and prosecute those elites who’ve broken the law. Making examples of them. That’s the way to make public opinion matter again. Only if the will of the people forces change on the elite… will the elite change. Until then we’re riding a crazy horse headed for a chasm. Sincerely, John Pepin
A Human Hearted World Posted on July 13, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, if we envision human heartedness as a house, it’s roof is reciprocity, and the Golden rule is the foundation. Reciprocity, or returning the deeds of others, is a form of justice. A kind of justice even a dog understands and is capable of. Reciprocity emerges in spontaneous play among children as well. Therefore, we can presume that reciprocity is a deeply ingrained understanding of a feeling tied to action, that we call justice. Before we have the ability to reciprocate the actions of another, often we must act. In that case, the Golden Rule should be our guide. Would we live a good life we need to be human hearted. Start an interaction in a way so that if the other reciprocates, it shows humanity, while if they don’t, they prove themselves cads. Then we can reciprocate appropriately. The goal of everyone should be the best life they can have given the circumstances. How can we do that when we’re manipulated into following the goals of another? By being human hearted. Grounding ourselves in right thinking and acting has a way of focusing us on right goals. That was the basic philosophy of Ben Franklin anyway. In Poor Richards he often opined how right action leads to right outcomes. More eloquently than I. When we use the golden rule, then reciprocate, we’re using right action to get right outcomes. The golden rule sets the tone of engagements and reciprocation shows our ductility to change. Everything we ever get comes from others, so if we seek to get good from others, then it’s up to us to give good, and reciprocate, to be human hearted. Reciprocity is an appropriate response in any circumstance. If you follow the golden rule and offer your hand in peace, then they try to stab you, reciprocation is warranted, or if they offer you a meal, reciprocation in some way is also warranted. Reciprocity allows the other the ability to reset the interaction to their way of communicating. Sass is returned for sass, as respect is returned for respect, no matter their station. Moreover, if you can tell the character of a person by how they treat the help, then reciprocity is the measure used. The reason I came up with the idea and term, “reciprocal attribution,” is as a way to reciprocate appropriately to positive and negative attitudes, that lead to actions. Including reciprocal attribution to inhuman as well as human heartedness. Human heartedness is a translation of a Confucian term, “jen,” that I’ve commandeered for my own philosophy. Mirroring much of what I believe Confucius meant by it. But since I can’t read ancient Chinese, and therefore have to rely on second hand accounts of what he said and meant… it’s impossible for me to know, only presume. It’s also been translated as “Ritual and righteousness” and “Man to manedness.” In it Confucius highlights the right way to live in the world as he saw it. If everyone lived in a human hearted way, the world would be great. That’s impossible though because of the multitude of personalities. Some compatible with human heartedness and others incompatible with it. How to get the majority to be human hearted when some are incorrigible? To benefit us all. Confucius said that people follow their leaders… in morality and in villainy. If we accept this maxim, then it follows that if the elite, the leaders, are examples of human heartedness, then the rest of us will follow and become human hearted. The same logic works in reverse though. If the elite are dirt bags… we’ll follow and be dirt bags. The trick then is to force the elite to be human hearted. If some guy is a dirt bag, that sucks for him and his family, but if our leaders are, that sucks for all of us. In more ways than merely being oppressed. Their injustice makes us as inhuman hearted as they… forcing us all to dwell in a house of horrors. While human hearted elites would put us in a mansion of miracles. It goes both directions, we can reciprocate inhumanity to force the inhuman, to be human hearted. Sincerely, John Pepin
Zeitgiest, the preivew movie to the dar k web, it's mind, i'ts imagination. analsysis in the dark web, requires seriesis imagination. what does sidezgeist access as infomation. how does it mak ethings go. what is the spirit of the gzegietist. i's whati do. nevertheless the darkweb has to go somewhere. it has to *do something* let the darkweb do something, let it make things happen. whats so unique about the zodiac kindom? IT's a rela calendalr that resultz in the power to time travel? how can a hole religion exist just to generate power? That's the native americans. DIscrimination has to end, obama has to be president. go at it maichelle obamma, win the end in this lie. from the nothing that is something, another lie, the truh that is discrimination, also a lie itself. dont read if you can't swallow those 2 thoughts/ Wjat s sp speical about horrus? Ot's a powerul thought god, big deal, that's religion. IS horrus in their religion of the dead truely the most powerful thought? these powerful religions must mean power of aort. niatve religions umt be about power. what about acnestral recall, there is the power. the alpha omega, the mostpoweful worlds ever used to describe god. that is religion SOmething is eprfecet about the trinity, it's not subhc and observation. that is more to science or religion.? JEsus was part of a perfect tirnity. THe writing about him in religion is poerfect. that is part of chists perfection comprheneded. Teh alpha omega the beginning and ht eend, the most poweufl words do describe god.
Constitutional Rights Posted on June 28, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, now the precedent has been set that a constitutional Right can be removed, by criminal statute, we can expect to see a full assault on them all. Via criminal law. Since anyone can have their constitutional Right to keep and bare arms removed by a complaint of criminal intent, why not the freedom to speak, freedom of association or of religion? Should those charged with wire fraud be allowed freedom of speech? How can we tolerate crackpots preaching disliked ideas, when all we need do is charge them with something, to remove that Constitutional Right? Why should any criminal have any rights? Then all the state need do is make everyone a criminal, and voila, Constitutional protections only apply to politically favored people. As the elite want. The US Supreme Court recently ruled, all it takes to have one’s second amendment rights removed, is an allegation of domestic abuse. Not a conviction… merely and allegation. Rest assured however, that while an allegation would be sufficient to get you or I disarmed, a criminal conviction wouldn’t be enough to have an elite’s guns taken away. The hypocrites need them for self defense. Bestowing the power on all angry women to have their ex-husbands abused at the hands of the State. Now that’s progressive! Especially because, to remove someone’s firearms over an allegation, negates all Constitutional protections. The politically disfavored already have little access to protection against state abuse, and with this ruling, they’ll have none whatsoever. This ruling shows that our Constitutional Rights are subject to allegations of intent. An ex charged with domestic abuse, who is disarmed, is being charged with the intent to do a crime… not a crime itself. Apparently, our courts are mind readers… or corrupt. Because only a mind reader can know if someone is about to commit a crime. Else are so corrupt they deny their obligations. Now this example has been set, this tactic can be used against all of our Constitutional protections. Freedom of speech could be taken away by the mere allegation of intent to misinform. How is that any different? The mere allegation of intent to do a crime is now enough to have a Constitutional Right removed, therefore, any allegation of intent will be sufficient. SCOTUS has taken us on a slippery slope wearing skis. Why not use the same strategy on all our Constitutional Rights? That simply follows logically. How can we be safe in our person or papers… if there is an allegation we’re considering doing a swindle? That allegation alone should be sufficient, under the new rules, for government to search our premises without warrant or court order. You have to admit, that would be much more effective at law enforcement. The fact violent crimes aren’t prosecuted in many cities now, depending on who the victim is and who the attacker is… only serves to enhance the despotism. What if someone is charged with wanting to start a cult? Can their freedom of religion be taken away? Of course it can! Now that SCOTUS has negated our Constitution, as it pertains to citizens, we’ve entered a brave new world. Constitutional protections are only for the elite and illegal aliens today. Citizens are on the outs with our courts. Today, if the police order you to self incriminate, SCOTUS stands behind them 100%. Proving our Constitution is merely pacifying prose written on friable paper. Hiding their naked despotism behind a cheesecloth of court rulings. We can fight back though. Follow the tactic they used in Scotland. Use the elite’s own despotism against them. Demand local prosecutors charge national elites with their obvious crimes, and order their weapons removed… as well as their security detail. Who are essentially a weapon. Remove their constitutional rights, and you’ll find our Constitution is important to protect after all. But only when their rights are at stake… not and never ours. Sincerely, John Pepin
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7 NIV) “Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord. There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.” (Proverbs 23:17-18 NIV) “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” (Proverbs 19:21 NIV) This past week, many people faced disappointment as something that they expected to happen didn't. This thing could be something in their personal lives, or something happening in the broader world. Since the political state of the world is at or near the top of many minds, this weekend is a great time to share a simple reminder: God > politics. We could just as easily write: • God > politicians • God > democrats • God > republicans • God > liars • God > cheaters • God > evil • God > sinners (i.e. every human living today) In Romans 3:23, Paul reminds those in the early church that all have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory (i.e. God’s standard). Every person living today, you and I included, has missed reaching the standard God set for us. We all have failed. Equally challenging is assuming that we know exactly what God’s preferred outcome is in a situation we don’t understand. Some people might feel that if they had done more to push for a different outcome in a situation they faced, then God’s will would have been brought about, rather than what happened. However, it is dangerous for us to assume we know the outcome God wants in any situation. Take Jesus’ crucifixion weekend. The religious leaders planned to skip arresting Jesus that weekend (Matthew 26:5, Mark 14:2). However, God’s plan was for that weekend to be remembered for eternity. Also, on the night of Jesus’ arrest, Peter insisted he would never deny Jesus (Matthew 26:31-35). Instead, just like Jesus predicted, Peter denied Him all three times. Even the Old Testament prophet Jonah, when he ran away from God’s mission for him, had his experience with the enormous fish transformed into a foreshadowing of Jesus on crucifixion weekend (Matthew 12:40). Each of these situations happened differently than what sinners planned — but each of these situations landed firmly within God’s plan. When things appear to not follow our preferred plan, remember that God is greater, His plan is greater, and He knows more than we do about how to set the stage for Jesus’ return and the end of sin. Even while the events of this past week might not have conformed to what you would have liked to have happened, it would be a mistake to assume that God was not involved. Just like God was involved in redirecting the plans of sinners back onto His plan during crucifixion weekend, it is much safer to believe that He was behind what has been happening recently — and that He has a bigger purpose in mind for it. Together, let’s take the disappointment and reframe it into one more reason we can trust God — because God is greater! 🙏 📖 ✝️ 👍
Wisdom And Stupidity In Action Posted on July 16, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems odd to me, that someone could care less about hunger in their own town, but are livid over “starvation” in Gaza. That’s acting to stop a thing you have no control over while ignoring a thing you do. It’s so demented it’s almost Satanic. To fixate people on that which can’t be solved keeps us from solving that which we could. You and I are capable of lending a hand in our towns, donating to charity or better yet, giving charity directly to those we know need it. That’s how we solve hunger. By grappling with the close at hand. But the distant is glittering, and since the press keeps it front and center, ignoring the suffering in our backyards, so it’s all we see. That our neighbor’s bad decisions leading to their poverty is no more damning than the bad decisions foreigners made. There are problems we can solve and those we can’t. Wisdom is, in part, knowing the difference. We only have power over the proximate, the close at hand, not and never the distant in space or time. No matter how upset and motivated you may be over injustice 200 years ago… there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it today. You’re powerless because of distance in time. If you’re watching a live stream, and the streamer is murdered on camera, there’s nothing you can do to stop it. You can call the police… if you know which police to call. But due to distance in space you’re input to the situation is zero. It’s only when a crime happens in your presence that you can stop it. Only when the injustice is in the now can you stop it. Our power is with the close at hand and we’re powerless with the distant. Bonhoeffer said stupidity is harming ourselves and harming others without malicious intent. If that’s the case, then spending effort on that which we are powerless to solve, at the detriment of that which we can… is the definition of stupidity. The opposite must also be true. Those who benefit themselves and others, without trying, are wise. How to benefit ourselves and others? By acting on the close at hand to end poverty, stop injustice and using our energy effectively… not wasting it. By this definition, protesting to stop a fake famine across the world is stupid while feeding your neighbor is wise. Because the one effects actual want while the other creates want by wasting effort. Bonhoeffer would be deeply impressed by today’s sophists. Like the press. The media wants us to focus on the distant unsolvable problems at cost to the close at hand solvable ones. I suppose to keep them unsolved. If your livelihood rested on chaos, then you’d protect chaos too. No one willingly destroys their career. Even to save the world. It’s not in our nature. Which means, the energy we waste protesting global warming, famine among the overweight in Gaza and slavery from 200 years ago… the less energy we have to solve solvable problems. Protecting those solvable problems from the threat of solution. When Covid could have been cured by quick administration of Ivermectin, as the science now proves, the media, experts and politicians universally rejected that solution. For a pie in the sky vaccine, with technology they could never make work… and still haven’t. Stupidity is harming ourselves and others, while meaning to do good, and wisdom is it’s opposite. Therefore, simply by acting in the world the wise make it better, while the stupid make it worse. If we’re wise then, we solve the problems we can, while paying attention to the ones we can’t. Because it improves our lives and the lives of those around us. While expending energy on unsolvable problems is emotionally satisfying, it creates more problems, and solves none. The elite won’t help in this regard, their livelihoods rest on the chaos… keeping us malleable, afraid and weak. Which is why no societal problem ever gets solved, new ones are simply added to the bag of old ones, and we carry them too. Until the burden becomes more than we can bare and society collapses. Which is why I find it odd. Sincerely, John Pepin
What is "thinking"? I think most people never take the time to think about what thinking really is. Of course, this is some kind of "meta-thinking". But still, there are important thoughts to think about here: What is it to "think"? Ultimately, wouldn't "thinking" be something like "playing with how to connect ideas"? You may not think correctly. You may not think exhaustively. But really, to "think" is to put ideas together and see how well they work. Well, what are "ideas"? Ultimately, wouldn't "ideas" be basically ANYTHING? Anything can be an idea. A word. An
action. A random description. A picture, even. All of it. Any of it. Anything is an idea. Even when you reason with ideas, that's technically an idea in and of itself. Ideas are necessary, but you also should WANT to reason with them in order to fit them together into better ideas. But what is "reasoning"? Ultimately, isn't "reasoning" trying to perfectly connect ideas? By trying to reason, you are trying to come up with the "correct" way to connect ideas. If there is some connection that is "inferior"—something that doesn't work—you tend to throw it out. It's not consistent. You can't depend on it or really use it to do anything useful. If there's an inferior connection, you don't use it because it may or may not work. It's not dependable, something to count on. So really, when you "think", you are trying to correctly connect ideas (anything) together in a perfect way. You are playing with connecting ideas, seeing what works and what doesn't. It's not exact. It's not perfect. It's the PROCESS of working toward perfection. BUT, reasoning is something that you can actually categorize into two categories: 1) There are absolutes, connections that will always work, will always be true, will always be consistent—simply based on the nature and structure of the connection! 2) There are connections that are (more often than not) correct; they may not always work, but they are generally correct, generally true, generally consistent, but they are NOT absolute. These two categories are more basically simplified into 1) absolutes and 2) non-absolutes (things that are probabilities instead). You may know these more commonly as 1) deduction and 2) induction. Ultimately, this captures EVERY mode of reasoning. Even bad reasoning (sometimes called "abduction") is really just misled induction—reasoning from probabilities, but badly performing your probability calculations. Logic is this fundamentally "best" way to reason. It is the best way to orient your connections between ideas. It's funny that "logic" comes from the Greek root logos. It is the thing that connects other things. Logos can mean "ratio". I'm not sure how mathematically minded you are, but a ratio is a comparison of two things. It connects two things (a numerator and a denominator). Thus, LOGIC—reasoning, correctly connecting ideas—is based on having the proper comparison of two things. It's funny that the apostle Paul frequently called Jesus Christ (whom John called the logos) our "high priest" (check out his Hebrews epistle). The reason I find it a bit "funny" is because the priest is the mediator—the CONNECTION—between man and God (the Father). So we have ideas (anything) that are connected by reason (logic/logos). EVERYTHING that is of meaning, which we do in life, is entirely about communication. It's entirely about relationship. It's entirely about the connection of ideas. We communicate with one another. Even experiencing a beautiful piece of music is communication of one idea to the listener. Every child is born of a mother—there is that connection they have, even if not relationally, they still have that connection physically. The DNA of the father and mother communicate with a back and forth to create new genetics in the child. When we enjoy a physical sensation, our body is communicating to our brain. When we work with our hands, we are communicating our idea to the real world. Any ACTION we take is a communication between two things. Spiritually, when we pray we communicate with God. If we don't recognize that communication is necessary, that reasoning is necessary, and that relationship is necessary, we won't see that life is necessary.
“May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.” (Psalm 90:17 NIV) “Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who minister by night in the house of the Lord. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord.” (Psalm 134:1‑2 NIV) “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.” (Isaiah 49:15‑16 NIV) When my kids were younger, for a Christmas gift, they received kid’s tool boxes. However, far from being “play” tools, the tools in these kits were real hammers, screwdrivers, pliers and more. These tools were just a little smaller, making them kid friendly even though I will admit that I've used them occasionally when my tools were not as close. Several months later, my wife asked me if I could find some scrap wood for them to play with, so they can hammer nails and screw screws in to make things. While I don’t have much scrap wood lying around at home, I found some scrap wood destined for a dumpster at the place I work. However, this scrap had a slight problem: Each piece also came with a half dozen long staples sticking out one end — which is less ideal for kids aged 5 & 7. But this problem also came with an opportunity: this could be the first project for this pile of wood. Yesterday, for about two hours, the three of us worked together to pull the staples out of the pieces of wood using hammers, pliers, and screwdrivers. As we worked on this project, making a little assembly line for progress, I could not help but think of the skills being taught as we worked with our hands. We learned some problem solving, how to pick the right tool for each task, and even teamwork, as some of us were better than others at various tasks. And all of this happened without the aid of anything electronic. This even also reminded me of three other things. First, for many years, perhaps even over two decades of His developing life, Jesus likely worked with His hands helping Joseph with carpentry. Second, this event reminded me of how we can use our hands to praise God, as the psalmist wrote at the beginning of Psalm 134. Third, this event reminded me of God’s message through Isaiah that we are engraved on the palms of God’s hands. Being engraved on God’s hands is very relevant! This statement foreshadowed the nail scars Jesus would gain from facing the cross. These scars would come because Jesus was paying the debt of sin that He did not owe. Also, being engraved on God’s hands challenges us to do God’s will and to show God’s character in the world around us. If we need an example to follow, model Jesus, who modeled God the best! As we look forward to Jesus returning, let’s use our hands to show His love to those He brings our way! 🙏 📖 ✝️ 👍
Biden Is A Deep State Asset Posted on July 2, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, since the deep state is so protective of Biden and his criminal enterprise, it leads me to conclude, he’s a deep state asset. Why else would they go so far to protect the man? The Biden laptop lie letter, signed by top intel bureaucrats, proves they will even destroy their own reputations to defend Biden. Turns out many are actual spooks on the payroll! Obviously this breaks a multitude of laws protecting our bureaucracies from being partisan. Which proves the point all the more. Why put yourself in jeopardy for no reward? Unless it’s a function of your already dangerous job. Then there’s the obvious unindicted disclosure of classified information the Biden docs case proves… I, and any rational person can only conclude, Biden must be a deep state asset. People don’t do work to help another unless they have something to gain. That’s simply human nature. When was the last time you put great effort into helping someone for nothing? Even charity gets the laborer a ticket to heaven, goodwill or a tax write off for a donation. Moreover, those who signed that letter put themselves at risk for it. Both reputational and criminal. People who rise to great heights in a bureaucracy don’t put themselves at risk. Certainly not those who’ve scaled the heights of the signers of the Biden laptop lie letter. That’s not the way the game is played. Plus, many are still on the CIA’s payroll! Making their signatures a literal criminal offense. Since the action is apparently so against logic, precedent and self interest… there must have been a powerful reason for it. Those in the national security apparatus are prickly about national security. At least acting as if they are. Going to great lengths, to jail anyone who discloses even the most mundane fact to the public, let alone our enemies. They raided a former President’s house with orders to shoot to kill anyone who balked, even Secret Service agents. Despite those documents being in a secure location and the legal property of that former President. Showing how serious they must take national security in general and secret papers in particular. Which is in stark contrast to the way the same people didn’t lift a finger, to get top secret documents out of a Delaware university, the Penn Biden Center and even Biden’s garage next to his corvette. Until we found out. What explains this disparity in action? Both examples, the lie letter and allowing our national enemies to have access to top secret papers via Biden’s bribery scheme, makes any sense… is if Biden is a deep state asset. The national security apparatus must want that top secret information to be fed to our enemies. They need to protect him at their own risk, maybe because he’s part of a disinformation campaign against the CCP. The huge bribe to the tune of 30 million is simply smoke to cover the operation. Spooks are willing the throw themselves on their own sword to keep a CIA operation going. No matter the cost. Which explains their zealous defense of the criminal… because he’s their criminal. Is that the whole story though? While it wraps up the enigma in a pretty blue bow… there maybe more to it. We have to ask ourselves, “who’s really in charge up there?” Clearly, it’s not Biden. There was no question to anyone with their eyes open before the debate. Now even those with their eyes firmly closed and humming the Star Spangled Banner, see and hear it. It’s the deep state that’s in charge. So, while the deep state may or may not be protecting him because he’s an operational asset… it looks like he’s an actual asset, like a rental property. He pays dividends. Which brings the circle of logic to its start. Of course the administrative state loves Biden, whether or not he’s an operational asset… because he allows them to run the show. They’re not selflessly protecting a disinformation operation, they’re serving themselves. Adding political to their already mighty bureaucratic power. Sincerely, John Pepin
While Jesus wanted to be clear with His followers, sometimes we as
His followers can get things twisted in our minds when reading some of
the things that He has said. As an example, a simple reading of a
statement Jesus shares with His disciples prior to being arrested and
crucified may cause us to be confused over what He actually meant. During this final conversation with the disciples before His arrest, Jesus tells them, “I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” (John 16:24 NIV) The next big thing to happen was Jesus’ death, and if we look for
evidence that says Jesus went to the Father at death, we may find some
verses that could help support that theory. However, just three days
later, Jesus clearly stated that He had not yet returned to the Father.
Jesus tells Mary, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet
ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am
ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (John 20:17 NIV) According to what Jesus told Mary, it was following the resurrection
that Jesus ascended to heaven. Did He do this before meeting them in the
upper room and while fishing on the lake, or was this a statement that
foreshadowed the official ascension forty days later? I don’t know the answer to this, but the clear truth John shares in
His gospel is that Jesus did not leave to go to the Father at His death.
Instead, Jesus’ death and resurrection marked the completion of His
earthly ministry, and signaled the start of His heavenly ministry on our
behalf. This means that Jesus is in heaven right now looking at our life’s record.
Jesus isn’t doing this to find reasons to keep us out of heaven. There
are too many reasons to keep us out of heaven than even He could count. Instead,
Jesus is looking for reasons that give us entrance into heaven – and
the only reason we have that works is having accepted the free gift God
has offered to us through Jesus’ death on the cross. We accept His gift
by placing our faith, hope, trust, and belief in Jesus, and when God
finds this declaration in our life’s record, we are able to be saved for
eternity. This post first appeared on ReflectiveBibleStudy.com What do you think? Do you agree/disagree? Leave your thoughts below.
This Is An Historic Election Year Posted on July 5, 2024 by john Dear friends, It seems to me, this is a critical election year for nations across the planet. Britain just had an election, where Reform received 4 million votes and 4 seats, while Lib Dems received 3.2 million votes and 71 seats. Proving the British elite have saved democracy. In France, National Rally is the biggest vote getter in the first round of elections, and their victory is met with riots from the left. Imagine the outrage if the conservatives rioted in Britain because they lost? Then there’s the US. The administrative state has its hands full. Since deep state Biden is failing at everything. Saving democracy from the voters this year is going to be tough. If they don’t though, and Trump should get elected, the elitists will have their storm troops riot, and make America ungovernable again. Like in 2020. In France Marine LePen’s National Rally is set to win big. Which is a shocking result if you think about it. They’ve faced decades of wall to wall propaganda against their policies, slandered in the press without mercy, and the elite have even talked of banning them. Like they’re talking openly about banning the AFD in Germany. In Europe, nothing speaks of defending elections, more than democracy affirming banning of populist parties. Because everyone should only seek the best interests of the elite. This outrage, the election of National Rally, has so infuriated the left, they’ve called out their “Sturmabteilung” to burn France down. Punishing the French for their treachery. One wonders if the left will get away with it in France, under National Rally, like they have everywhere else? In Britain, the people are so fed up with the communistic policies of the Tories, they’ve voted in Marxists to replace them. Labor will increase the migration crisis, raise taxes and regulations, while rejoining the EU, to insure the British people never get a say in Britain again. Should the conservatives riot however, the press would be quick to call for their arrests, and imprisonment without bail or trial, to make examples of them. Like American fascists did to Jan 6th protesters. Even as Islamists are given room to vent in London. Britain will be in a world of hurt in a year. It may not even exist as a sovereign nation in 10 years. Under Labor it could become the British state of Europe. Like Tibet is a state in China. Britain will be a vassal state under the wise and despotic leadership of Labor. In the US this years election is shaping up to be a hum dinger. In every other avenue the introduction of digital computers has created huge gains in efficiency. Except elections. When we cast paper ballots, counted by hand, the results were known the next morning… now with digital, it takes sometimes weeks. Which is handy when it comes to election fortification by fraud. You don’t want to introduce too many votes into the system, else it becomes obvious… and too few, loses the election. So they need the delay to figure out how many votes are required to win by 10k. With 8 million illegals poised to cast votes in the election the democrats thought they had it in the bag. Except, with Biden crashing and burning, 18 million may not be enough… let alone 8 million. Causing the deep state to panic. What is becoming obvious though, is that where populists win, there will be riots, arson and iconoclasm. To punish the voters. Where the elitists win, there will be despotism, poverty, war and suffering on a national scale. Regardless of who wins an election, the progressive elitists are determined to lower the lot of humanity… whether in power, or out. It’s the left that’s pushing the agenda of chaos, war, socialism, crime and migration. We see it in France with the riots, in Britain with Labor’s policies and in the US, with deep state Biden dismantling our Constitutional system. Yup, this year will show if elections have any ability to change the direction of a nation, despite the wishes of the elites that run it. Giving our votes unprecedented power to make history. Sincerely, John Pepin
When we look at the fishing trip the disciples took after Jesus’
resurrection, we can see an amazing picture of how God moves, and how He
may choose to work in our lives. When everything has been finished,
there is no question left in our minds whether it was God working or not
– we just know it. After this miracle, John tells us that Jesus invites them for breakfast. John also adds that, “None of the disciples dared ask him, ‘Who are you?’ They knew it was the Lord.” (John 21:12b NIV) With the massive catch of fish after a night filled with
disappointment, every disciple who was present at that breakfast meal
had no doubt that the person sitting with them was Jesus. They may not
have recognized Jesus as clearly in His resurrected body, but there was
no doubt in their minds that it was Him. This detail John includes in this event is important for us to remember. With
this detail, we can learn that just because we don’t recognize Jesus
moving in an event, this does not mean that He is absent. Just because
an event does not line up with our picture of God, we should not
discount the possibility that God has a purpose in mind through what
happened. This even is the case in horrible events as well. Note that God does
not cause bad events to happen, but in every bad event that He allows to
happen, I believe that He has a way of bringing good from it. What
happened may not have been our first choice, and it definitely was not
His first choice, but if He allowed it, He can use it for His glory. In this miracle, none of the disciples truly recognized Jesus like
they knew Him before. Following the catch of fish, an unnamed disciple
(assumed to be John), identified that the man on the shore must have
been Jesus. Prior to that, none of the disciples recognized Him. Even sitting on the shore next to Jesus, it seems as though the
disciples didn’t recognize Him clearly. It seems as though John tells us
that each disciple had the question in their minds to ask Jesus who He
is, but none of them were brave enough to actually ask – and also
because they all believed the man to be Jesus. This brings us back to this big idea: Just because we don’t
recognize Jesus moving in an event does not mean that He is absent. Just
because an event does not line up with our picture of God, we should
not discount the possibility that God has a purpose in mind through what
happened. This post first appeared on ReflectiveBibleStudy.com What do you think? Do you agree/disagree? Leave your thoughts below.
Often in my life, I find myself praying, and then waiting for God to answer. Perhaps you can relate with this experience. Sometimes these prayers receive a clear response, while other times, I
am left waiting for a really long time, and even today, I have some
prayers that I’m still waiting to receive or observe an answer for. However, while we often wait on God, have you ever thought of the
idea of God waiting for us? While I’m sure for many, He is waiting for
them to repent and return to Him, but I’m actually talking about a
different sort of waiting. In our passage for this entry, have you ever noticed one of Jesus’ most amazing promises: “For
I tell you, I will never eat it until it is given its full meaning in
the Kingdom of God. . . I tell you that from now on I will not drink
this wine until the Kingdom of God comes.” (Luke 22:16, 18 GNT) Jesus promised His disciples that He will wait for them before doing
the two most symbolic parts of the last supper ever. Jesus is waiting
for His second coming before taking part in communion with us – though
when He returns, and we have the big communion feast, there will be an
exponentially larger crowd present than the original disciples. This
means that Jesus is waiting for you and I as His followers as well. So what does this mean for us today? God has a different frame of time than we do. Jesus has been
“waiting” for close to 2,000 years and this is because He wants as many
people as possible to experience His second “communion-feast”. While we
often wait on God, He is also waiting for you and me. When
we arrive in Heaven, there will be a feast prepared, and chances are,
it will begin with communion – Jesus’ adaptation of the Passover supper. What are you doing to get ready for that special day? This post first appeared on ReflectiveBibleStudy.com What do you think? Do you agree/disagree? Leave your thoughts below.
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Holding Ourselves Back Posted on July 21, 2024 by john Dear friends, It seems to me, the reason we don’t get ahead, is because we hold ourselves back. We do this individually, communally and as a species. One way to hold ourselves back is by relearning lessons we’ve already learned. Getting us stuck in a loop. Often we don’t think we’re capable and so don’t even try. Other times we race blindly into the dark, holding scissors, and are shocked when we’re horribly wounded. The ways we hold ourselves back are myriad and countless. Advancement starts with the individual, continues through society and culminates in the philosophical advancement of us as a species. Why? Because a species cannot be philosophically advanced if it’s populated by barbarians. Which means, as we advance individually, we drive mankind forward. Individually we hold ourselves back all the time. Psychopaths would confuse this as limiting ourselves by ethics. Because psychopaths and sociopaths have no integrity and assume no one else does either. Those unfortunates are doomed to cycle in the loop of relearning lessons forever. Ethics and morality are the aggregate of centuries of learned wisdom. Others hold themselves back because they have no self confidence. Confidence is a trait that’s grown though, it needs to be nurtured, and not allowed to be smothered by the weeds of self doubt. Fear is another factor that holds us back as people. We fear taking that first step. Fear the outcome should we lose… and fear the outcome should we win. But it’s fear of the unknown that binds us firmly to mediocrity. Communally we hold ourselves back as well. Our culture is subject to some of the problems individuals are… with an added few that are more problematic. Since communities are run by the elite, they reflect the personalities of the elite. Elites don’t hold themselves back by a lack of self confidence, fear or “ethics.” So communities act without regard to these things. Trapping cultures in the doom loop of relearning lessons already learned. Often at great cost. The lack of integrity of the elite always leads the people to display a shocking lack of morals. The elite’s failure to humility creates corruption which obliterates advancement. Moreover, arrogant community leaders nurture an arrogant community. All of which holds back a community, and its culture, often for centuries. As a species we’re held back by our elites and the barbarians among us. The elites with their corruption and barbarians by their crimes. Often, the crimes of the barbarians facilitate some Hegelian manipulation of the elites, so it’s enabled. Which, clearly, holds us back as a species. Then there’s war. The elite love their wars. Happily slaughtering whole generations for fun and profit. A great deal of profit. Wars however destroy, they don’t create anything, other than barbarism. So war doesn’t hold us back as much as it forces us to retreat. Losing hard won ground in the ongoing struggle to advance mankind to a better place. For us as a species to advance we need a confluence of events. Individual growth and cultural advancement lead to our growth as a species, in philosophy, science and wealth. Wise advancement is the goal then. As a species today, our philosophy is far more advanced than that of the Middle Ages. Just as their philosophy was more advanced than that of the Bronze age… and so forth. That advancement in philosophy, individually, communally and species wide, has allowed us to advance to become the science, economic and tech giants we are. From here we could advance or we could retreat. It depends on us. Are we going to retreat as a species? Will we have to relearn the lesson of morality again? Are we going to ruin that which our forefathers built by war? Will we diminish the human genome by slaughtering whole generations and races? Or will we advance as people, a culture and therefore as a species? It starts with us. By not holding ourselves back. Sincerely, John Pepin
During a response Jesus gave to a group of Jewish leaders, He shares a
statement and concept that is incredibly profound when we stop to think
about it – and in this statement is something that we can all apply in
our lives 2,000 years later. While giving His response, Jesus told the Jewish leaders, “If
I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who
testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.” (John 5:31-32 NIV) Perhaps you have known someone who seems to speak highly of
themselves and their accomplishments. Individuals like this will brag
about things they have done, who they know, what they own, or any number
of other things that help them look good in whatever conversation they
are having. However, the principle Jesus shares is that testimony about oneself
should always make us cautious about believing it because it is rarely
ever true. When someone else says something positive about the
individual, it is more believable. Jesus says that His testimony about Himself, if it were by itself,
would not be valid, but there is another who testifies about Him, making
Jesus’ claims valid. While we might be quick to point out John the
Baptist, who was Jesus’ cousin and forerunner in ministry, Jesus
immediately acknowledges but discounts John by saying, “You have
sent to John and he has testified to the truth. Not that I accept human
testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. John was a lamp that
burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.” (John 5:33-35 NIV) Jesus mentions John the Baptist as a secondary witness that would be
someone everyone would know of – including the non-believing Jewish
leaders. However, Jesus Himself does not need to rest on John’s
testimony. Jesus continues His response by saying, “I have
testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has
given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the
Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified
concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, nor
does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.” (John 5:36-38 NIV) God the Father is Jesus’ second witness, and God the Father validated
Jesus’ ministry by giving Him the power to do the tasks that He had
send Him to do. God the Father even spoke from heaven on a number of
occasions, but those present who didn’t believe did not understand what
was being proclaimed. The key in Jesus’ words to learning the truth about Him and
the key to being able to hear the Father is simply by believing in the
One He sent and by paying attention to the truth He has already shared
in the past. These Jewish leaders did not believe in Jesus, and
because of this, they missed out on seeing, hearing, and experiencing
what He was doing during their lifetimes – and their unbelief led them
to crucify their own Messiah. For us, we should focus on the testimony we have been given
regarding Jesus and on the truth God has revealed through the Bible, and
when we have these two things in place, we can move forward through
life with Him by our side directing our steps. This post first appeared on ReflectiveBibleStudy.com What do you think? Do you agree/disagree? Leave your thoughts below.
A Warning To European Leftists Posted on July 23, 2024 by john Dear Friends, It seems to me, European leftists who just won would be wise to look at the Biden administration, as an example of where they’ll be in four years. They’re high on fumes right now but that’ll wear off soon enough. The moment they enact their policies the economy of Europe will go into free fall. Which will be exhilarating. Soon rampant crime will be normalized making business impossible in many places. The civil war between diverse factions and races will be hard to stop. The elite in Europe think this will manipulate the people to turn to an all powerful state. In Hegelian fashion. Yet, in their transcendent ignorance, the elite fail to consider how self interested those factions are. Which will lead to the loathing of the leftists… as the democrats are experiencing today in the US. Evil always destroys itself… if not by malevolence, then by stupidity. European leftists will not only continue their war on farms but will double down. Attacking their food source with gusto. Which, most would agree, is the summit of stupid. Even if famine is the desired goal, that proves stupidity and malevolence, wrapped up in one putrid package. Of course, the open borders, free welfare to all comers and sharia courts pretending to be European, will sow the seeds of open civil war. Not a war between states, as WWI and WWII were, but a true civil war. A kinetic war between factions within the state itself. Looking at Ireland, Britain, France and Germany, and judging their future trajectory by their past, makes this prediction inevitable. As long as leftist governments are in charge. The economy of Europe will continue to fall… but that fall will accelerate to 9.8 M/S^2. As the childless natives age and retire, with only immigrants who refuse to integrate to replace them, there will increasingly be a shortage of skilled workers. So, not only will the culture be replaced by the migrants, so will the economy. No longer will Europe be a value added economy but an area barely able to sustain itself… until it can no longer. Because there’s no oil in the ground, the coal has been mined and the minerals are played out. The only thing left is to build things. And that takes a culture of innovation, hard work and education. Replacing all three with a culture of conquest, sloth and zealotry, will result in poverty. That’s why so many people have fled it for European welfare. Leftists think they can simply ban parties that disagree with them. Until leftist’s are the only one left. Like in China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union. We see the stirring of this in Germany with calls to ban the AFD. If they manage to get that passed, then expect a wave of party banning to travel across Europe, like bubonic plague. Because leftists have a fundamentally different view of the role of law. They see it as Thrasymachus, Han Fei and Engles did. As a tool of political power. Not as Solon, Socrates, Confucius, Solomon and Christian thinkers have… as a tool to promote social concord, through justice. That’s why leftist parties are so quick to exploit the power of law to political ends. It’s the role of law in their eyes. Which is also why leftist parties always become totalitarian. All adding up to a general revolt in a few years against leftist rule across Europe. Even the factions they’ve empowered will turn on them. Because nothing is as revolting as total utter and complete failure at everything. Economic disaster isn’t magnetic. Civil war doesn’t speak to the wisdom of the rulers. Just as government imposed famines tend to alienate the populace. After a few years of the left’s evil rule, they will have thoroughly destroyed themselves, Europe and their reputations. No amount of legal warfare will stop the seething anger of the people who’ve been subject to the stupidity. So in the end, the leftists will rue the day they finagled this election, to get power. Because, like Biden, being too stupid to keep their tongue out of the socket… that power will electrocute them. Sincerely, John Pepin
