IF “pathocracy” means “the type of political system in which psychopaths rule”1 would we recognize it if we saw it? And if we did recognize it, would we do anything about it or would we prefer to affix a label: “conspiracy theory”2 as we continued our stumbling stroll down the serpent-strewn “garden path”3?
Frankly, nigh all of us have been on the garden path for some time; that's why we are in these dire straits of ignorance, distraction, denial, apathy, and misplaced trust; so here are two short upgrades to our awareness base:
#1: The Psychology of Psychopaths - Predators who Walk Among Us
In the concluding paragraph, the Academy of Ideas speaker gives this warning (beginning circa min. 11:44):
While psychopaths have plagued all societies throughout history, the problem of their existence is amplified by contemporary trends toward political centralization. Governments are reaching their tentacles into ever more areas of life, global institutions are attempting to place the entire globe under the same yoke of tyranny, and developments in technology are creating the potential for a form of totalitarian rule that is far more invasive than anything that has come before. As psychopaths crave power, as they are naturally charismatic, skilled liars, and unconstrained by empathy, fear, anxiety, and guilt, it is reasonable to surmise that some psychopaths gravitate towards, or are actively established in, positions of political power. In his book Political Ponerology, the Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski proposed the name pathocracy for the type of political system in which psychopaths rule, and unless more people are aware of the threat of this predatory class, this type of rule may become a full-blown reality.
“I shall accept the denomination of pathocracy for a system of government…wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people….if an individual in a position of political power is a psychopath, he or she can create an epidemic of psychopathology in people who are not, essentially, psychopathic…Under such conditions, no area of social life can develop normally, whether in economics, culture, science, technology, administration, etc. Pathocracy progressively paralyzes everything.”
Andrzej Łobaczewski, Political Ponerology
Does this list of professions help explain the last three years and the “epidemic of psychopathology in [other] people who are not, essentially, psychopathic”?
By knowing these things, will we be any better prepared for the next double-barreled assault by people without conscience (aided by their naïve or infected acolytes) managing another “crisis of caring” — a crisis that must not be allowed to go to waste4?
Let us pray (every day, all day) for a great awakening to the reality of our national and global pathocracies.
(*Faux-woke being actions and words that invert the original meaning of woke.1)
It pretty much had to happen. You cannot take people who believe in freedom of speech, thought, expression, conscience, etc., and aggressively bully them into publicly and privately affirming and submitting to pretentious, self-obsessed diva / divo (SOD) narratives without eventual blow-back. Those of the fwoke class have been seduced by SOD activists whose tyrannical inversions of reality and reason have descended so far into the mockingly absurd2 that even those they pretend to care about have seen through the faux-empathy into the core pursuit: narcissistic supply. Witness the “damage” the faux-woke and their SOD activists have done and are doing to their alleged cause:
In a prior post (“Let Us Be Clear!”1), Déjà Vu - Times II named the corruption and inversion of 1930's “woke" principles as “new woke” (nwoke) to distinguish it from the original woke, but on reflection and observation of numerous SOD2 activists and their adherents over the past month, the more descriptive term is not “new woke” (nwoke), but faux-woke (fwoke) since most everything the SOD activists pursue is inverted and regressive of what woke stands for. In fwoke DEI-ology, diverging from SOD opinions is not allowed. Equity vanishes in the special acknowledgements, affirmations, privileges, and exceptions they demand for themselves and seek to compel others to accept and honor. Anyone, regardless of race, age, profession, status, etc., who does not affirm their life choices is to be excluded from all the rights, privileges, and freedoms they claim for their special group.
Let us not affirm the misuse and abuse of words such as “woke” when its meaning has been corrupted. Let us begin using faux-woke or fwoke to identify and expose the appropriation, inversion, and corruption.
Has the "stay woke" of the 1930s (perhaps in use as early as the 1860s1) been appropriated by an assortment of tyrannical characters whose dei-ology plays out as a great pretense — an exercise in aggressive gas-lighting?
How can we not see that for most “woke-usurpers”2 there is only one diversity that matters — the diversity of spectrum-ized sexual orientation preached by SOD (self-obsessed diva / divo) activists and their acolytes. No matter your skin color, your birth gender, your age, your politics, your status, your worldly success; (your whatever), if you do not kowtow to the SOD dei-ology, you have no equity in their system; you have no inclusion; you have no voice. In their view, your diversity (whoever you are) is anathema, intolerable, hateful, racist, and phobic. Under an umbrella (mis)labelled WOKE, the SOD activists have sharpened and weaponized the umbrella shaft for a single purpose — to tyrannize and normalize an imagined sex spectrum. And ironically, the chant of dei-ologists against all thoughts or opinions (diversity!) that do not affirm their narrative is: Die! Die! Die! They are the ones who hate (just listen to them), and if criticism is given in response to the tyranny of their language and demands, they seem oblivious to their own culpability and self-deception. They label even the mildest of criticism as hate; everything is viewed though the lens of a ruminated victim dei-ology.
Just observe how “Woke” has been squeezed by the SOD activists into an endless parade of SOD characters and their captured sycophants — people without apparent memory or conscience. The genuine dysphorics get thrown under the SOD bus driven by drama queens and kings.
Genuine dysphorics just want to live their lives without demanding that the world affirm, applaud, and pay bending homage to their choices. They wish to attend social, sports, or other functions in their chosen persona without fanfare and without the narcissistic need to have the entire event and all actors, athletes, and audience roll out the rainbow or lavender carpet in spectacular welcome, which, by the way, violates every one of their trumpeted mantras: diversity, equity, inclusion. Where is the diversity and equity in excluding everyone who is not SOD in the special recognition and affirmation of their life choices? Where is the DEI in their vociferous demands for special privilege and exemption from criticism or challenge or hurt feelings? There was little push-back, in recent years, against private, personal choice until the SOD activists took strident centerstage.
Thinkers and scholars have given warning:
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within” — Will Durant.3
“ The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it ” — Selwyn Duke.4
“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now” ― Arnold Joseph Toynbee.5
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history” — Unknown.6
“[T]he simple step of a simple courageous man is not to partake in falsehood, not to support false actions!” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.7
“I have always held that social justice, even to the least and lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force” ― Mahatma Gandhi.8
Let us take warning and refuse to participate in the great pretense that DEI-ology trumpets, but inverts (to die-ology).
You may not realize this fact, but every time you use the phrase “conspiracy theory” when posing a gotcha question to a politician or any other person, you are demonstrating a woeful and / or willful deficit of knowledge and integrity. The entire science and history of power and power-abuse for millennia is riddled with conspiracy upon conspiracy.*
So FYI-NB: The obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination has plagued every age of history and your unthinking, lip-syncing with liars and deceivers is unconscionable. You and your thoughtless colleagues (who imagine “conspiracy theory” to be the perfect end-of-discussion, end-of-reputation trope) form the supine base of the power-abuse pyramid. The use of this phrase to discredit others, immediately discredits YOU. It is prima facie proof that YOU cannot be trusted to know or report anything of value; anything of relevance to truth.
Except, there is still hope, if you will:
WAKE-UP to history. WAKE-UP to patterns of power-abuse. WAKE-UP to reality. WAKE-UP to your own integrity.
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*Use the Search This Blog box for “conspiracy fact” and “false flag” to get a small sampling of real conspiracies in history at https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/
How many times have we been advised recently to purchase gold and silver as a hedge against hard times? But what critical thing is being ignored in such advice? Even prepping advice concerning food, fuel, medicine, water, etc. seems to ignore that critical thing: the unchecked power of psychopathic, authoritarian “experts” to make up mandatory rules on the fly to achieve “the greater good.” In this age of massive data files — cataloguing and documenting every purchase from aspirin to zucchini, from Ag supplies to zinc tablets — your private “horde” of whatever-is-deemed-needful for the survival and safety of “thy neighbor” during the unfolding, orchestrated “supply shortage” can and will be targeted for confiscation for “the greater good.”
And do not be naïve; whatever is confiscated for the sake of “thy neighbor,” is unlikely to be seen by thy neighbor. Scarcity is a powerful tool. Hand out rationed items to the compliant and you get more compliance; you get SICO+ scores for being a Socially Indexed Credit Obedient.1
And if we think to hide our “stashes” or deny their existence, the data banks will bear witness against us. And if our SICO score is negative (for being a Socially Indexed Credit Offender), those data banks may even lie for the State and insist we have what we never had, to justify and speedify our internment.
Have we forgotten? If privately-owned gold of the 1930s could be so easily confiscated,2 why do we imagine the powers will be more ethical in 2022 after what we have just witnessed these last two years?
So, let us be prepared mentally. Anything and everything can be made illegal (even rights and freedoms) by psychopathic, authoritarian “experts.” We can be left with nothing but faith in God, and even that they will try to make illegal, untenable, or corrupted. That's just the déjà vu of a forever-recycling domination system. And since we have allowed and continue to allow treason, domination, and crimes against humanity to get above us and to prevail, our last defense may only be prayer.
So much seems to witness that we are moving into another age of chaos and crime with signs in heaven and earth. If so, do not be afraid: all the confiscation, theft, and orchestrated scarcity by the powers may come to naught if God gives a manna déjà vu. Who knows what God will do? what we should pray for?
Except, let us continue to pray that the powers will be brought to confession and repentance, and if they refuse, may they be brought to exposure, to judgment, and to justice.
IF ONLY every soul would listen / watch / read1 this 16 minute presentation multiple times! — but for those who won't, please take 2 minutes to read these quoted or summarized excerpts2:
“Only a deluded ruling class will believe that they possess the knowledge, wisdom, and acumen to completely control society in a top-down manner. And only when under the spell of delusions would anyone believe that a society composed of power-hungry rulers, on the one hand, and a psychological regressed population, on the other, will lead to anything other than mass suffering and social ruin.”
“[N]o delusion is more attractive to the power-hungry, than the delusion that they can, and should, control and dominate a society. When a ruling elite becomes possessed by a political ideology of this sort, be it communism, fascism or technocracy, the next step is to induce a population into accepting their rule by infecting them with the mass psychosis of totalitarianism.”
How the power-hungry prime a population for the crime of menticide (“killing of the mind”):
▪ sow fear (“when an individual is flooded with negative emotions, such as fear or anxiety, he or she is very susceptible to a descent into the delusions of madness”);
▪ use propaganda to spread misinformation and to promote confusion;
▪ censor the flow of unwanted [counter] information;
▪ isolate the victims; disrupt normal social interactions;
▪ offer a way out and a return to order in a world that seems to be moving rapidly in the opposite direction [problem, reaction, solution model].
What a perfect, precise description of what the world is experiencing in these very hours. So how do we — those wishing to escape the psychosis — counter the pscience-driven,3 menticide agenda?
▪ firstly, spread information that counters the propaganda as far, and as wide, as possible;
▪ “use humour and ridicule to delegitimize the ruling elite”;
▪ construct “parallel structures”;.
▪ “active and concerted effort by thousands to move the world back in the direction of freedom.”4
The more we and others can discern the methodology that pscience is using, the less likely the deluded power-hungry will be able to continue their crimes against God and humanity.
SO, we, USians, insist that the virus be named the Wuhan Virus, or we won't sign a joint international statement about the “crisis”!1 Let us thank those foreign ministers who refused to kowtow to the pomposity of Mr. “We lied, We cheated, We stole ... .”2 If we USians won't stand up to our own [p]elites (as in pretend / pseudo / pompous / perfidious / psychopathic, etc., etc.), then at least someone has (but for how long?).
As to the source of the virus and its name, should we not be looking for “Patient Zero” or first (suppressed) manifestations or braggart researchers / authorities or patents to give us clues? Could someone actually be looking? Could someone be analyzing who benefits the most in stripping human rights from the “free” world? How about:
Past time to WAKE-UP to the psychopathy of our [p]elites and reject them outright — unrelentingly calling out their crimes as Pompeo insists on doing to the rest of the world as he reiterated in his Texas A&M speech (at the times noted below in the U.S. Dept. of State podcast*) where those who know the real history of US imperialism and mendacity will witness the tragic hubris and hypocrisy that characterizes this corrupted nation and its [p]elites. Yes, Secretary of State (SOS), “We should never shy away from calling [you / US] out” (30:16; 30:34; 31:46). And if we wish a complete compendium of “bad actors,” (30:22; 30:50) history will undoubtedly rank US as lead actor. There is a mountain of published evidence already, if only we would inform ourselves.
Could some warnings to Old Testament psychopaths,3 apply to our psychopaths if they would only listen?
Ex-CIA director Pompeo: 'We lied, we cheated, we stole' (GrayZone: April 24, 2019; 0:26 from Q&A at Texas A&M University) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPt-zXn05ac
(also Secretary Pompeo:"Lying, Cheating, & Stealing reminds you of the glory of the American experiment" (10Beads: Time: 0:1:50) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE9zczFARuM
3. Old Testament | 1 Kings 14:9-10 ~ But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. Old Testament | 1 Kings 21:21-22 ~ Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
So here we go: if the CoCF1 can't find evidence (“facts”) to compromise, smear, threaten, or blackmail every living soul, they can now (and probably since the 1990s) manufacture nigh unimpeachable evidence (proof?) of whatever they can imagine. (Like unto the days of Noah2? Like unto the times and Tower of Babel3?)
Numerous studies have shown that power is an aphrodisiac for almost all humans.4 Thus, if we continue in the present course, can there ever be an end to what the CoCF (and eventually others) may resort to to augment power and control through technology.
How long till we acknowledge that every invention and patent have the potential to be weaponized against humanity in service to the CoCF and their source inspiration?
Are we prepared to consider the reality (and consequences) of the unreal5?
Can we awaken to the awful reality and power of technocrats without conscience?
We are presented every day with two witnesses: one is a mega-corp whose bottom line is power and profit; the other, a researcher / investigator whose career and reputation is subject to destruction if s/he reveals unwelcome truths about the mega-corp, as in this example:
So why do we put up with the lies, distortions, stunts, sycophants, and rampant psychopathy of these mega-corps: like the vaccine industry (and lobby)? Why do otherwise rational people (like politicians, governors, etc.) spout the mega-corp propaganda as if history were not also a déjà vu witness of how the obsessive pursuit of gain will distort and corrupt every truth.
The simple truths of vaccine have been so corrupted for the sake of power and gain, that every thinking soul should KNOW that the voice (and puppet voices) of the vaccine industry CANNOT be trusted in any degree. And any politician or spokesperson who accepts money from the industry cannot be trusted either. Plain and simple. If we can't figure out the voices we should trust, then I suppose we shall continue to reap the "rewards" of trusting in lies and liars.
How many more witnesses will it take before massive numbers of peoples in every nation join in unremitting protests in the
▪ streets,
▪ ballot boxes,
▪ social media,
▪ courts, and
▪ every other venue available
against the criminality and psychopathy of those who are obsessed with pursuing and protecting power, gain, and “pleasure” at any cost to others? How much destruction? how much murder and mayhem? how much transparent fabrication and suppression? how many teflon politicians and (un)civil servants will we tolerate before we cast everyone of them out of office and begin afresh? with simple, honest folk who care for God, family, and constitution?
Here are two more witnesses to the psychopathy of those who lead and those who follow their orders:
Have we not, for decades now, allowed déjà vu on déjà vu of take-downs and take-overs of truth-tellers, witnesses, whistle-blowers, and once-sovereign nations by leaders and followers without care or conscience? How complicit are we by our ignorance? our fear? our silence? our choosing to see not? to hear not? to speak not?
Note: If this episode vanishes from YouTube, as is more frequently the case now with unwelcome exposés, just search for other interviews with Robert (Cody) Snodgres.
If this was the state of things two years ago (particularly as described by Dr. Roberts), what is the current state? Is it not all to obvious that drama upon drama is constructed to distract us from the cascading destruction of law and liberty?
More and more we hear “opinionators” wax eloquent about the need to rid modern society of the plague of false / fake news, fantasies, “crackpotism” and conspiracy theorists. Today's example was broadcast on CBC's “The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright” found at
Here Kurt Andersen, author, journalist, and interviewee, critiques (with some justification) the shaping of “American” (more accurately, “USian”) character and beliefs. The great irony, however, is how insensible Kurt Andersen seems about his own fantasies and alternative reality. How naïve (perhaps?) — (yea, how historically “unscientific”) to disparage with such lightness the perpetual déjà vu that wherever there is even one person without conscience who can con, conscript, or control others, and whose life-mission is to pursue and protect power and gain, there will be and has always been CONSPIRACY. Even a cursory overview of history establishes this REALITY: secret combinations have always been the reality of a power-and-gain-obsessed world.
Indeed, the current reality is that many on the Left and Right are deeply engaged in secret conspiracies and abominations in pursuit and protection of power and gain (and for some, also, the pursuit of extended / eternal life without death). Credible, fact-based witnesses exposing high-level corruption, crime, and conspiracy are everywhere, if we would but listen.
But Mr. Andersen is transparently amongst the many who hearing, refuse to hear and seeing, refuse to see the déjà vus; one who sports his own fantasies with (apparent?) unawareness.
WE, too, live in a fantasy of ignorance if we imagine that Mr. Andersen is not an establishment crier (whether witting or unwitting) on the road to criminalizing so-called “false news, fantasies, and crackpotism.” It doesn't take much exposure to all kinds of media to realize that belief in God, religious expression, and moral values fall more and more into the despised categories of false and unacceptably oppressive. Already we see it in the shadow-banning, smearing, targeting, and outright banning of unwelcome exposures and truths about those who are pursuing and protecting power and gain and self. Ethics, morals, standards, and just laws have always been the anathema of psychopathic agendas.
So as a suggestion to Mr. Andersen: it might prove enlightening to apply his own Moynihan quote:
“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
Yes, folks, it is past time to acknowledge the empirical, déjà vu reality of power and gain agendas and to get on with exposure from the roof-tops and accountability in the courts for corruptions, crimes, conspiracies, and abominations.
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government, that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. Government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The plans detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. Cities.[2] The proposals were rejected by the Kennedy administration.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods (Bold emphasis added; reference #s refer to wiki website)
So, in the spirit of déjà vu, how long before we recognize that Operation Psychopath is but the umbrella reality of hundreds, if not thousands, of CIA / DoD / FBI / HSA / JCS / JTTF / NATO / NSA / ETC., ETC., Operations that were NOT rejected? And how many that were rejected, if any, became operational nonetheless, in secret?
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Lyman (!!) Lemnitzer (1899-1988) was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and signatory to the 1962 Operation Northwoods proposal — the same Lyman who worked his way up through the U.S. ranks and decorations to four-star general in 1955. Does this serene visage give any hint as to the mind that could propose committing acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets with the intent of blaming such acts on another government in order to justify war (or Strategy of Tension,2 or p-r-s3) against the blamee?
Do we imagine this proposed false flag4 MO was just a Lyman aberration, peculiar but confined to 1962? What other deco-laden (left) breasts (on right-wing generals) might have a large measure of Lyman psychopathy flowing in red, white, and blue veins? Could one of those be that charming four-star general, ex-CIA director David BetraeUS?5 (Pardon the spelling.) Or as one writer describes him: “the poster boy for toxic leadership.”6
David H. Petraeus
And how about all those NATO generals that rubbed shoulders and schemes with Lyman during his tenure as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO from 1963 to 1969?
If one doesn't know about the secret machinations of NATO, read
Gladio, Nato's Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis
by Richard Cottrell (2015)
If one doesn't believe that American government (and nigh every government) has been corrupted to the core read:
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition
by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall (2017)
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
by David Talbot (2015)
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
by Douglas Valentine (2016)
The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote by Sharyl Attkisson (2017)
Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir
by Sibel D Edmonds (2012)
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by Annie Jacobsen (2014)
or the myriad other whistle-blowers and witnesses who are being denied, suppressed, stonewalled, smeared, or eliminated.
Our world seems to have become one déjà vu after another of highly orchestrated “Operations” disguised as lone-wolfers, crazies, extremist cells, and freedom-haters. Deceptions, manipulations, and truth suppression by our psychopathic elites have been so successful, they seem almost not to care how sloppy their “Operations” unfold.
YES, it's time we woke up, folks, and ceased Sleepwalking Through History,7 whether we sleep on the right, on the left, in America, Europe, Asia, or anywhere between, above, or below because
“The time is far spent and there is little remaining” time to repair US and the world.
WHY do we fear the label “conspiracy theorist”? Throughout history, conspiracies and secret combinations have always been the MO of those pursuing or protecting power and gain. If we deny this reality, we will never truly understand or effectively counter it. Finding truth in these cases is a science. One observes, theorizes, and follows (adapts to) the unfolding evidence – of money and power plays.
Consider this account* from pre-Columbus North/South America (circa 26 A.D.).
15 Now the cause of this iniquity of the people was this—Satan had great power, unto the stirring up of the people to do all manner of iniquity, and to the puffing them up with pride, tempting them to seek for power, and authority, and riches, and the vain things of the world. ...
21 Now there were many of the people who were exceedingly angry because of those who testified of these things; and those who were angry were chiefly the chief judges, and they who had been high priests and lawyers; yea, all those who were lawyers were angry with those who testified of these things. ...
27 Now it came to pass that those judges had many friends and kindreds; and the remainder, yea, even almost all the lawyers and the high priests, did gather themselves together, and unite with the kindreds of those judges who were to be tried according to the law.
28 And they did enter into a covenant one with another, yea, even into that covenant which was given by them of old, which covenant was given and administered by the devil, to combine against all righteousness.
29 Therefore they did combine against the people of the Lord, and enter into a covenant to destroy them, and to deliver those who were guilty of murder from the grasp of justice, which was about to be administered according to the law.
30 And they did set at defiance the law and the rights of their country;
Now compare this to the research of Charles Ortel, Catherine Austin Fitts, Dr. Jerome Corsi, George Webb / Jason Goodman /Trish Negron, and many others and consider whether we are in a deep déjà vu where criminal elites and PWOCs** have combined against the people and are again being delivered from the grasp of justice?
So, let us embrace the reality of conspiracies and secret combinations and keep on with the work of exposure, accountability, and justice for both the left AND the right.
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* Full text of Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 6:10-30:
10 But it came to pass in the twenty and ninth year [after the prophesied sign had occurred] there began to be some disputings among the people; and some were lifted up unto pride and boastings because of their exceedingly great riches, yea, even unto great persecutions;
11 For there were many merchants in the land, and also many lawyers, and many officers.
12 And the people began to be distinguished by ranks, according to their riches and their chances for learning; yea, some were ignorant because of their poverty, and others did receive great learning because of their riches.
13 Some were lifted up in pride, and others were exceedingly humble; some did return railing for railing, while others would receive railing and persecution and all manner of afflictions, and would not turn and revile again, but were humble and penitent before God.
14 And thus there became a great inequality in all the land, insomuch that the church began to be broken up; yea, insomuch that in the thirtieth year the church was broken up in all the land save it were among a few of the Lamanites who were converted unto the true faith; and they would not depart from it, for they were firm, and steadfast, and immovable, willing with all diligence to keep the commandments of the Lord.
15 Now the cause of this iniquity of the people was this—Satan had great power, unto the stirring up of the people to do all manner of iniquity, and to the puffing them up with pride, tempting them to seek for power, and authority, and riches, and the vain things of the world.
16 And thus Satan did lead away the hearts of the people to do all manner of iniquity; therefore they had enjoyed peace but a few years.
17 And thus, in the commencement of the thirtieth year—the people having been delivered up for the space of a long time to be carried about by the temptations of the devil whithersoever he desired to carry them, and to do whatsoever iniquity he desired they should—and thus in the commencement of this, the thirtieth year, they were in a state of awful wickedness.
18 Now they did not sin ignorantly, for they knew the will of God concerning them, for it had been taught unto them; therefore they did wilfully rebel against God.
19 And now it was in the days of Lachoneus, the son of Lachoneus, for Lachoneus did fill the seat of his father and did govern the people that year.
20 And there began to be men inspired from heaven and sent forth, standing among the people in all the land, preaching and testifying boldly of the sins and iniquities of the people, and testifying unto them concerning the redemption which the Lord would make for his people, or in other words, the resurrection of Christ; and they did testify boldly of his death and sufferings.
21 Now there were many of the people who were exceedingly angry because of those who testified of these things; and those who were angry were chiefly the chief judges, and they who had been high priests and lawyers; yea, all those who were lawyers were angry with those who testified of these things.
22 Now there was no lawyer nor judge nor high priest that could have power to condemn any one to death save their condemnation was signed by the governor of the land.
23 Now there were many of those who testified of the things pertaining to Christ who testified boldly, who were taken and put to death secretly by the judges, that the knowledge of their death came not unto the governor of the land until after their death.
24 Now behold, this was contrary to the laws of the land, that any man should be put to death except they had power from the governor of the land—
25 Therefore a complaint came up unto the land of Zarahemla, to the governor of the land, against these judges who had condemned the prophets of the Lord unto death, not according to the law.
26 Now it came to pass that they were taken and brought up before the judge, to be judged of the crime which they had done, according to the law which had been given by the people.
27 Now it came to pass that those judges had many friends and kindreds; and the remainder, yea, even almost all the lawyers and the high priests, did gather themselves together, and unite with the kindreds of those judges who were to be tried according to the law.
28 And they did enter into a covenant one with another, yea, even into that covenant which was given by them of old, which covenant was given and administered by the devil, to combine against all righteousness.
29 Therefore they did combine against the people of the Lord, and enter into a covenant to destroy them, and to deliver those who were guilty of murder from the grasp of justice, which was about to be administered according to the law.
30 And they did set at defiance the law and the rights of their country; and they did covenant one with another to destroy the governor, and to establish a king over the land, that the land should no more be at liberty but should be subject unto kings. ()
** PWOC = person/people without conscience
If one is following the George Webb1 / Jason Goodman2 search for truth, exposure of wickedness in high and low places, and the depleted uranium threat, here is a doc to get up to speed on DU.
Another witness to the psychopathy of a world-gone-mad is Guinea Pigs: Technologies of Control by John Hall.
To discern reality is such a world, we must inform ourselves. We must follow the money and power plays; then unitedly stand up, speak up, and act out against all the evils, harms, and deceptions.
How much empowerment are we contributing by our ignorance of psychopathic traits and structures?
How much are we and others suffering because we are drowning in distractions, oblivion, fear, and confusion?
How will we ever survive if we don't know about or believe in the reality of spiritual warfare—of
» imitation
» infiltration
» co-option
» intimidation
» deception
» secrecy
» conspiracy, and
» the myriad other manoeuvres of the enemy;
AND if we can't bring ourselves to stand informed and united against them?
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* New Testament | Revelation 12:9 ~ And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 6:15-16 ~ Now the cause of this iniquity of the people was this—Satan had great power, unto the stirring up of the people to do all manner of iniquity, and to the puffing them up with pride, tempting them to seek for power, and authority, and riches, and the vain things of the world. And thus Satan did lead away the hearts of the people to do all manner of iniquity; Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 22:23 ~ For the time speedily shall come that all churches which are built up to get gain, and all those who are built up to get power over the flesh, and those who are built up to become popular in the eyes of the world, and those who seek the lusts of the flesh and the things of the world, and to do all manner of iniquity; yea, in fine, all those who belong to the kingdom of the devil are they who need fear, and tremble, and quake; Book of Mormon | Helaman 12:4–5 ~ O how foolish, and how vain, and how evil, and devilish, and how quick to do iniquity, and how slow to do good, are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the words of the evil one, and to set their hearts upon the vain things of the world! Yea, how quick to be lifted up in pride; yea, how quick to boast, and do all manner of that which is iniquity; and how slow are they to remember the Lord their God, and to give ear unto his counsels, yea, how slow to walk in wisdom's paths!
1. Although Russ Dizdar is a pastor seeking to educate people in recognizing and overcoming the dark-side, it is still imperative that each person sincerely “Prove all things [by their own searching, and] hold fast that which is good.” (New Testament | 1 Thessalonians 5:21) Every one of us, including Dizdar and this writer, is subject to error because of enculturation, misinformation, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, misapprehension, dogma, ideology, deception, etc., even when we think we are discerning right. God tutors and educates us step by step, line upon line, so when Dizdar (and other good, sincere people) claims certain things about other religions, it behooves seekers to “not trust in the arm of flesh” but to read and study for themselves the doctrines (and fruits) of those religions as they are taught (and manifest) by those religions, and not as construed by outsiders or the disaffected. Perhaps this advice can apply to seekers, everywhere:
And when ye shall receive these things [anything given of God?], I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent [to actually listen and accept what is revealed], having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things. (Book of Mormon | Moroni 10:4-5)
In the Old Testament Book of Job, we read how one called Satan sought to destroy a “man [who] was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.”*
The pattern was this:
1. devastating financial ruin;1
2. loss of his children / family;2
3. destruction of his health;3
4. loss of the support of his wife;4
5. friends falsely accusing him of wrong-doing, paranoia, etc.;5
6. strangers harassing him;6
7. traumatic dreams, visions, nightmares, confusion, terror, despair;7
8. no one truly listening to / understanding his reasoning and complaints;8
9. no apparent relief, not even when appealing to the highest form of justice (i.e., God).9
With the aid of modern technology, this Job pattern of disrupt and destroy has never been so pervasive and global as in our time. Millions, if not tens of millions, worldwide are becoming targeted individuals (TIs) or associations (TAs) by gang-stalkers as
▪ propaganda, lies, false witness, and moral decay surfeit our world;
▪ compromised / corrupted persons or authorities participate out of fear or favor;
▪ rising unemployment (often deliberately crisis-created) disposes people to become paid dupes or willing / unwilling servants of scripted, unlawful, disrupt and destroy agendas;
▪ free-markets merge with skyrocketing numbers of psychopaths pursuing command and control structures like monopolies and oligopolies;
▪ power elites become frantic to control or destroy anyone opposed to or in competition with their power and gain obsessions;
▪ ethnic-, religious-, or ideological-phobias / malice; and ex-partner hostilities find incredible opportunity for life disruption;
▪ secret combinations team up with the adversary of all good to recreate a world in his image and control;
▪ NWOs (7-headed?) pursue their psychopathic agendas of mind-control;
▪ “WE, the People” allow ourselves: 1) to remain in ignorance of the dire state of our world; 2) to disregard the crimes and injustices of our economic and governmental systems; 3) to be bought and sold like slaves and robots; 4) to remain silent in fear10; and so forth.
Of course, there may be some TIs and TAs whose paranoia is not entirely based in fact, but part of the gang-stalking agenda is to exacerbate disruption and paranoia in subtle, distressing ways that may seem individually innocuous, but in the persistent aggregate are meant to devastate. With the aid of the internet, many witnesses are trying to raise awareness of the “unbelievable”; and to end targeting and bullying.
Could it be that our awareness of and zero tolerance for targeting is vital to saving this world?
Of course, many will dismiss gang-stalking as ridiculous “conspiracy theory,” but when disrupt and destroy agendas11 coincide with historical déjà vus, patterns, and warnings, the willfully ignorant (who are mocked and scorned by psychopathic insiders) will, in time, learn truth by sad experience.
Perhaps, in a campaign to STOP organized harassment, the initial vital steps for most people are: 1) to become aware of this historical (latter-day accelerated) disrupt and destroy agenda; 2) to acknowledge that “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”;12 and 3) to seek to access the only protection possible when confronting powers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints (New Testament | Ephesians 6:13-18; bold emphasis added).
NOTE: There are some out there who claim the Law of Attraction governs this gang-stalking “perception.” Do NOT be deceived. There is a First Law of Attraction that supersedes the world's so-called LoA13 that so many deceptively espouse. The superseding First Law of Attraction is this:
The Devil [and his cohorts are] more obsessed with persons striving to do and be good than with persons who are not.
So know this: disrupt and destroy is a universal plan of devils and demons opposite to a Divine Plan for growth in Faith, Hope, and Charity. Each individual's Divine Plan unfolds (or not) as s/he exercises agency in confronting the natural man14 and the demonic powers and promises that entice.
A corollary to this First Law (in a world where psychopaths are obsessed with accumulating ever more power, gain, and control) is that any one who manifests integrity, altruism, independence of thought, spiritual / special gift, or poses any kind of perceived threat to “command and control” agendas will be targeted.
How long till we understand that there is no sure safety or help to be found when we look to the arm of flesh alone?
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint (Old Testament | Isaiah 40:28–31).
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* Old Testament | Job 1:1
Also, Old Testament | Job 1:8 ~ And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Old Testament | Job 2:3 ~ And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
1. Old Testament | Job 1:14–17 ~ And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 2. Old Testament | Job 1:18–19 ~ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 3. Old Testament | Job 2:7–8 ~ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. Old Testament | Job 30:16-31 ~ And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. 4. Old Testament | Job 2:9 ~ Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 5. Old Testament | Job 4:7–9 ~ [Eliphaz:] Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. Old Testament | Job 8:2–6 ~ [Bildad:] How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. Old Testament | Job 11:2–3, 13–14 ~ [Zophar:] Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? ... If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. Old Testament | Job 15:2–6 ~ [Eliphaz:] Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. Old Testament | Job 18:2–4 ~ [Bildad:] How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Old Testament | Job 22:5, 21-23 ~ [Eliphaz”] Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? ... Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. Old Testament | Job 34:35–37 ~ [Elihu:] Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom. My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men. For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God. Old Testament | Job 12:4 ~ [Job:] I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. 6. Old Testament | Job 30:1, 8–15 ~ [Job:] BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, ... They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 7. Old Testament | Job 7:11, 13–15, 20; 10:15 ~ [Job:] Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ... When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. ... I am a burden to myself? ... I am full of confusion; 8. Old Testament | Job 19:2-3, 5-22 ~ [Job to his “friends”:] How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. ... If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Old Testament | Job 21:1–3; 34 ~ [Job:] ... Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. ... How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? 9. Old Testament | Job 16:9–14, 16, 20 ~ [Job:] ... mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. ... My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; ... My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
To read the full of Job's complaints, see particularly chapters 3, 6-7, 9-10, 12-13, 16-17, 18-21, 23-24, 26-31. 10. New Testament | 2 Timothy 1:7 ~ For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 11. http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2017/02/disrupt-and-destroy.html 12. New Testament | Ephesians 6:12 13. http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2009/10/to-sick-and-afflicted.html http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2009/09/why-i-doubt-law-of-attraction.html 14. New Testament | 1 Corinthians 2:14–16 ~ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19 ~ For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us." (OT:Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)
"Dwell in the past and you'll lose an eye. Forget the past and you'll lose both eyes." (Old Russian Proverb)
(Subject to change over time: experience/learning/ evidence)
▪ Life is a three-act drama with pre-mortal, mortal, and post-mortal stages. ▪ The second act boils us down toward test one:[1] the test of power. ▪ Abusers of power lose it in Act Three when justice and equity take the bench. ▪ Tipping points happen—over time and a fulcrum. ▪ Motes and beams are everywhere.[2] ▪ Folly is a shadow of every ism, including capitalism. ▪ Money talks louder than morals—all the way to the tipping point. ▪ The direction you are facing, matters.[3] ▪ Extremism in the defense of liberty is extremism.[4] ▪ When the blind follow the blind, it is time to blow the whistle.[5] ▪ Opposites attract the same lobbyists. ▪ Solon of Athens espoused, “Nothing in excess;” laissez-faire capitalists pursue “Everything in excess” (except the costs of gross profit). ▪ “Simplify” displayed on the counter-top of a new 21,000 sq. ft. home does not compute. ▪ High fructose corn syrup is not the staff of life. Unfortunately, sweets can twirl your teeth. ▪ Revolving doors between government and business do not admit sufficient fresh air. ▪ The common good doesn’t seem to be very common. ▪ N. American football is a testosterone pageant in tights.[6] ▪ Exploitation is a delusion of grandeur. Stewardship is a grander conclusion. ▪ The excesses of major religions occur when members fail their espoused values. The excesses of ideological tyrannies occur when tyrants act upon theirs.[7] ▪ Praise is best deflected toward God. ▪ Too many who say, “I do, I do,” don’t. ▪ Electronic media has become the Roman Coliseum of the 21st Century. ▪ The First Law of Attraction[8]: the Devil is more obsessed with persons striving to do and be good than with persons who are not. ▪ The trans-rational[9] is beyond most of us, so if it’s “turtles all the way down,”[10] maybe it is “revelation all the way up.”[11] ▪ Egoism accounts for 80% of human problems. The remaining 27% lies with rhetoric and propaganda.
In the near words of Groucho Marx, “These are my [views]; if you don’t like them, I have others.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1]New Testament: Matt. 4:2-4—The first temptation presented to Jesus, to misuse His power to satisfy self-interest/-will/-gratification. [2] Ref: Matthew 7:3-5 [3]Old Testament: Jer. 32:33 [4] A Barry Goldwater phrase “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” A phrase applauded by some of the GOP. (Suggestion: reverse liberty and justice to see if it sounds more palatable, or is the latter half merely castor-oil for the first?) [5] Ref: Matthew 15:14 [6] Observation of a friend, MS, who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. [7] Ref: Ravi Zacharias [8] Ref: Adam & Eve; Biblical Job; Jesus in the Wilderness; CS Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, etc., etc., etc. [9] Ref: Flatland by Edwin Abbott. In summary, circles, squares and other flatlanders can’t get a fix on spheres and cubes; can’t quite reason themselves into the properties of those in 3-D space. Enlightenment of things beyond (i.e., trans-) Flatland takes condescension from those above & beyond. Any parallels here in 3-D? [10]Google this phrase if you have not heard of it. It’s just one way of saying we don’t have a rational explanation for some things. [11] Conditional on the will of the Revelator and the willingness/ ability of the revelatee to receive.
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A few 6-to-7-Word Memoirs: ▪ Hope for the world comes and goes. ▪ Loves to read more than eat. ▪ Loves to think more than eat. ▪ Eats too much while reading and thinking. ▪ Always running out of time and daylight. ▪ Finds extremes too far from the center. ▪ Troubled by the world’s failure of memory. ▪ Has a tendency to counsel God. ▪ Learned gratitude before it was too late. ▪ Apparently hasn't learned enough gratitude yet.
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