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Mueller investigation finds no evidence of collusion after 2 years of digging.
The reaction of the Fake Stream Media….MSNBC talking head Rachel Maddow has crying breakdown on set.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/big-tech-strikes-again-twitter-suspends-account-with-viral-tweet-of-rachel-maddow-crying-on-air/
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words:
http://www.terrellaftermath.com/uploads/1/0/9/4/109471485/suicidewatch2webcr-3-4-19_1_orig.png
The reaction of the hacks on the local ABC ‘news’ was hilarious. The feminazis in particular, still in mourning for their banshee, blood-soaked, harridan, demi-goddess, Clinton, were truly cackling (in tribute to their idol’s well-known sense of humour). You really would have thought that Mueller had found Trump guilty of everything. And the lunatic trope that the (very near non-existent)’Russian meddling’ had thrown the election to Trump, once thought too bizarre even for the dementors of the media, is now, naturally, asserted by one and all, with utter conviction. They even seem to be turning on their little mate, Mueller, too.
Saw an episode of PBS Newshour, with a hack outlining all the ‘evidence’ of ‘Russian meddling’. It was a real tour de farce of lies, misrepresentation and fake news. Then I saw a brief video of Chomsky, sitting under a framed poster of Bertie Russell, (the same one that I had as an enfant horrible), describing the ‘Russian meddling’ faery story as, basically, a pile of bull-dust. He outlined, briefly but succinctly, why it was ordure, and that was that.
Russia has just had the joyous annual “Масленица” celebration, the spring welcoming “festival of pancakes” – the oldest surviving Slavic holiday!
https://bestgif.ru/_ph/40/2/651169403.gif (“Не всё коту масленица”)
https://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/maslenitsa/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslenitsa
OK, I’l put my comment about free will here on the table in the corner, then I’ll continue with a poem :
The free will is, partially, an illusion. I know, many will attribute this thought to the nonsense category, but before somebody comes to such definitive conclusion, just think a bit further (as a side-line, just ask mundo, who has a better knowledge in astrology), everything is embedded in a time-line, for each individual. There is no prototype for all people to have an equal path of their life, each one has its own path, we (the lunatics as I am) call it Faith. This has logic only when you accept the idea (reality !?) of having lived many times. On the other hand, to attribute everything to fate when you have only one life, it would be absurd, because comes the question of inequality with your fellow human beings and you have no answer to your own problems, some of which are very, very painful. The human beings are blessed with the capacity to think and those who do that are trying to find answers. At the end of the day, they themselves discover that the real answers are lacking something, the essence, or the truth – if you wish.
But what is the Truth ? we may never know, this life is too short. Then what can we do ? the only thing we can do, is to expand our logical thinking, demolish our internal mental barriers, built so nicely in years of learning under the influence of our society in which we grew up. But that is a step in the Unknown – you may say. Yes, it is, but that first step is necessary if we want to be really Free. As you know, those at the helm of Darkness, are doing everything possible for a very long Time to persuade our mind to accept what they teach us, actually we consume almost everything what they have cooked to us – cause we are babies without teeth and we need only baby food, well chewed in advance by the Masters. Not having teeth (own thought based on logic) how can we chew a food which is not prepared for us ? that is wishful thinking and we may continue to swirl around the same tree of knowledge, without picking the fruit. Many are saying : religions are based on Faith and not Logic – that’s true, but in the same time, those peoples are believing all kind of nonsense coming out from the mouth of the Masters – which is also a faith – contradicting themselves. You are in the same way faithful that your job is safe and it will be so, you are faithful that your money will not lose its value, you are faithful that you won’t have an accident, you are faithful in the day after tomorrow…you can continue if you wish, the examples are multiple, just Think on that. If I am a bit tough, I would say : this kind of faith means Blindness. For 2000 years, a man named Jesus, came to heal this Blindness, He was a Reformer, a Real One, The Beginning.
He is the number One Enemy of the forces of Darkness, from the first day. Jesus never taught a Religion in an earthly sense, why do you think he has so many enemies until this day ? He told a truth which is anathema for this world, for the powers may be, who are still trying – more or less successful – to keep our mind and soul in Darkness. Do you have the free will to change your course ?
Thank you very much my friend. We are all here eternally indebted to you.
The answer is, however inevitably still 42, can\t be any different, ever.
Unfortunately we cannot leave like dolphins and say” thank you for all the fish, but we leave now, sorry, bye.”
We are in for a much tougher ride due to our lack of (fill in the blanks, please), and incalculable individual obstacles/crossroads/karmatic obligations hardly (or not visible) etc.
The maze is infinite and strictly individual, but do have a lot of converging points (linear time) with others (like here) as a sort of help desk or guide-lines, for which I am so grateful.
Still a maze though.
Kent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhbQ7AhwFdU A Perfect Circle – So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (Lyrics) [HQ]
here is another, with the same music background :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkHSmDxX1t4 A Perfect Circle – So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish (Official Video)
and here is a different version :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj_-qaqQQc8 H2G2: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish – Jazz version
Thank you.
Epitaph
The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
And laugh
But I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying
Between the iron gates of fate,
The seeds of time were sown,
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known;
Knowledge is a deadly friend
If no one sets the rules
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools
The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
And laugh
But I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying
Crying
Crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFsqacN1ZCY
Kent
“Do you have the free will to change your course ?”
Leaving aside the question of reincarnation for now, at least.
The teaching of God (of which Jesus is, allegedly, an integral part) implied in Rev 21:4 is that those who go to be with “him” will no longer sin. We are also told that the wages of sin (i.e. transgression of God’s will) are death so, for discussion, we must assume that there is no more sin in Heaven.
So, the individual, in heaven, is either unable to sin or does not want to do that. Either one or other of these sets of circumstances are enforced by an external agent (God) i.e. our nature has been changed from our current state and not via the simple action of our own “free will” – we have limited free will in Heaven.
A better question therefore, to start, might be – are Christians looking forward to having their free will limited, with respect to sin, in heaven?
Allegedly, there is total free will for pre-death humanity to make the choice between sin and no sin (although we are told every mortal chooses to sin) so, a second question for Christians should be whether they are happy being provided such free-will on earth but not in Heaven.
If they answer “yes” to both questions, and still “love” God, they should seriously consider psychiatric treatment.
As I told, the man Jesus has not funded a Religion, what he told is absolutely clear message for all “blind” people to wake up and see. Christianity, as Religion (as many other religions) has been made by people – in the case of Christianity, by followers of Jesus teachings – as an earthly-spiritual guide because life is short and whatever sinner or saint you’d be, death is awaiting at the end. Has a few months old or a few years old baby had a chance to sin ? and yet many babies and children are dying…is there any mercy ? not to talk about the circumstances and the causes…
So, if those babies and children had to die without committing any sin what was the purpose of God with them if it would be as you say : “We are also told that the wages of sin (i.e. transgression of God’s will) are death so, for discussion, we must assume that there is no more sin in Heaven.” ?
If I follow this logic you just described, it would imply that those children have committed a sin well before they were even born. Doesn’t sound this a bit harder to understand ? well, this is a hard question and even harder to find an answer, that’s why the thinking path of “it has to be more than what I know”.
“we have limited free will in Heaven” – you say. We have limited free will here, we just not realize that, only partially, only when our skin is burned (so to speak). Do you have free will to speak out whatever you want, whenever you want or to do whatever you want, anywhere ? what you can say here for example, you cannot say it elsewhere in your social life only with precautions – mostly the political views – because the society will not endure your free will, at least, will not appreciate it. You know that, i know that and all of us here know that, otherwise we won’t be here. How can we have absolute free will ? that’s nonsense. Your free will has been slowly and relentlessly hold back beginning with your childhood when you went to school, then hold back by your government in a long process, continuing all the way until this day. Actually we are nothing just a number. If someone loves to be just a number and is totally satisfied with his/her pedigree forced by the powers may be and still not thinks on a higher existence where a real freedom exists, if is not opening its own mental borders but chooses to stay in its habitual conveniences, well, what can be said then ? then it is totally futile to use such words as Spirituality or Soul.
As for the Christians (in the way you think on them) what they chose, its up to them, I cannot speak or write on their behalf.
“Christianity, as Religion (as many other religions) has been made by people”
I agree – as far as I am concerned it is a fable.
“Has a few months old or a few years old baby had a chance to sin ?”
My goal is to outline how ridiculous the fable is (Romans 3:23).
“If I follow this logic you just described, it would imply that those children have committed a sin well before they were even born.”
That was not my intention – can you please explain further why you think it was (i.e. an entity with no existence has had no ability to do anything until existence begins)?
“We have limited free will here”
Of course – I would love to fly like the birds (but my comment purposely referred to free-will as it pertains to sin).
“I cannot speak or write on their behalf.”
Yourself, for now, would be fine if wish to reply to my 2 questions. I’d like to understand more of the Christian nature that you believe to be the truth.
After years of asking the same questions, having the same attitude as someone who looks interested in finding out some tangible information in the discussed issue, you still are in the same pace, asking the same questions and, as usual from your part, making your point with irony, holding a spotlight on certain lines thus being very careful to avoid other parts of the story. In the past, this had been called “framing” (the informal meaning).
I have doubts if you are really interested in any kind of religion as such or in their related philosophy, you probably have your own and that’s the most important for you, so why then spend time by surfing in waters which are so muddy and contradictory in your view ?
But, if you still want details, ask an exercising Christian who has a much better knowledge of the Bible for your 2 questions.
“ask an exercising Christian”
I thought you were, admittedly of the Ortho-reincarnationist variety though.
I am an exercising Christian of the Lutheran-Calvinist strain.
When it comes to sin
We exist here in no win
Sin of commission
Versus
sin of omission ?
Just Check me in
To a looney bin.
If my best isn’t good enough
Then you know where to stuff
This chuff
The question is there free will in heaven is best answered by the books of the Bible. I will only use the Book of Job as an example. As everyone knows, Satan has been given permission to “have a go” at Job. And Job pretty much loses everything, except for his life.
Let’s put this destruction of Job in the context of today’s positive thinking, “do the right thing and the right thing will happen,” or better yet, the idea of “magical thinking” is think positive and manifest good things. And yet here is Job, sitting in the ashes and soot of his home, covered in boils and sores. He will not curse God. He only wants to talk to God.
Along comes Job’s “friends.” They sit in silence for a week. Job finally speaks. Then the friends start to talk to Job. They basically say the same thing, which is, “What did you do wrong Job? Everyone knows that if you’re good like us, good things happen.” And Job isn’t buying their b.s.
Finally, God sends an angel, who aside from putting the fear of God into everyone, sums up the situation for Job. It sort of goes like this: “Job, I’m not here to answer your questions, because your questions will never cease. They will never cease because you will not be able to fathom the complexities of the spiritual world, let alone the physical one. It is beyond you, and it is beyond all your world’s combined wisdom. Trust me. Trust God.”
The angel tells Job to pray for his friends lives because they are pompous jerks who think they know something. in other words, there are people in this world who think they can answer all the questions of life, and yet cannot fathom the simple question of what is humility (hint: the answer to humility is found somewhere between ‘walk a mile in his shoes’ and ‘thou shalt not judge.’).
I do not have the ability to answer the many questions the theologians ask. And yet, somewhere in the Bible’s books, we find glimpses of His divine thinking. I am content with that.
Teachings of God. Where can I find those? Direction please. There’s a really old book, full of stollen histories, from many peoples that were almalgamated into one story of the ‘choosen’. That book and it’s collection of stollen stories was; for the choosen, writen by the choosen. It does not at any point cover free will, although many of it’s followers use their free will, at will, to destroy the will and lives of other non-choosen.
Jesus was aReligous, was not about religion, wealth, accumilation of possessions. He was about caring for fellow humans, the poor, the sick, the ‘un-choosen’. The ‘will’ to freely choose to help others less fortunite. His empathy (love really) knows no bounds………..even today.
@ioan………….humbled by your insight.
Thank god, another Irishman that wants to throw the Bible away. Dennis will not be happy that Catholicism is going out of favour here though.
“@ioan………….humbled by your insight.”
You seem honoured by each other but, in the meantime, can you really simply state what these insights are – after all you may be a leprechaun but, apparently, at least one says, I am a lepretard.
Not much use for the bible…has enormous btu value if collected in quantity. Don’t see Catolics mentioned in the Bible, not sure how that equates………like the infiltrated subverted catolic church that still defers to a ‘jewish tome’? As for ‘insight’……………can’t be explained………you either have it, or you don’t. Or perhaps, find a fairae tree, sit under it for as long as it takes, should a lightening storm break out, move from under the tree………..that’s a form of insightful enlightenment. Hey, it’s Monday, free craic for all!
The Wages of Sin is death-but the hours are good!
Please first define your concept of “free will”, especially “total free will”. And is your present will really “totally” free?
Let’s narrow the playing field on free will. Certainly there are ingrained in all of us prejudices, false beliefs, that lead us to inflict our will upon others. But, what is at play here, is the idea that morality, God’s laws are ingrained in the heart and soul of every human being. That sin is the breaking of His laws. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not murder, and on it goes.
One can make the argument that most cultures if not all shall the same values as found in the Ten Commandments.
I think most of us are able to determine freely what is murder and what is not. Wrong from right. However, pride leadeth before a fall, and so it leads the list of deadly sins. Perhaps it is our ego (Edge God Out) that dooms us to revisit the sins of the past. Man learns many things. We learn we are not to sin. But we sin.
We know what not to do, and we know what to do. Our problem is that we are unable to obey the law. We rebel.
Free will inevitably involves knowing what you are doing is wrong. It is in our DNA to know what we have done is wrong or right.
Let’s not play games here. Keep it simple.
But why you rebel and why you think you would keep rebelling in Heaven? Or want to keep rebelling in Heaven?
ioan, sometimes one just wants to put your thoughts out there and just let them sit for awhile. So, there is no response from me at this moment – let the thoughts just sit there for a while. Of course many of us have meditated deep and long on these same issues. Some have found peace, and others claimed peace. Some are still wrestling. So for me, I’ll just let it simmer for awhile.
Peace Out!
From the Islamic point of view we believe humans are given free will, but this does not negate the Will of God. So there is both free will, and also somethings are fate in a sense. I can’t do justice to this topic, as I am incapable of talking about it, in great depth. So i looked for a knowledgeable Muslim scholar’s explanation of the topic. The topic from the book i found was rather long, so i copied important parts of the subject. Its a really long and complex subject. The book is called Tafsir al-mizan by Allamah Tabatabai, you can find an online version which is partially translated.
AN ESSAY ON COMPULSION AND DELEGATION
The sentence, “but He does not cause to err by it (any) except the transgressors”, explains how Allãh manages the actions of His servants. Does He compel them to act in a pre-determined way? Or, has He delegated to them all powers in this respect? It is better to solve this knotty problem here and now, by the guidance of the Qur’ãn.
Allãh says: Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is Allãh’s (2;284); His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth (57:5); to Him belongs the kingdom, and to Him is due (all) praise (64:1). These and other similar verses prove that to Allãh belongs the whole universe; His ownership is unconditional and unlimited. A man owns a thing, let us say, a donkey; he may use it and take its advantage to a certain extent- only. For ex-ample, he may ride it or use it as a beast of burden; but he can-not starve it to death, nor can he burn it alive. Why? Because his ownership is not absolute; society would condemn him if he were to commit such atrocities. His ownership allows him certain advantages only; and not every possible use.
But when we say that Allãh is the Owner of the worlds, we mean absolute, real and unrestricted ownership. There is no owner except Allãh; the things own, or control, for themselves neither any harm nor any profit, neither life, death no resurrection. It is only Allãh who owns and controls every affair of every creature; He may do with them whatever He pleases; no one can ask Him why; He cannot be blamed or questioned for anything He does, because He is the absolute Owner. He has, of course, allowed some of His creatures to use some other things to a certain limits; but both the user and the used are His property; and the user cannot exceed the authorized limit. Allãh, as the absolute Owner, cannot be questioned about His dispositions; but others have to give account of how they exercised their authority. Allãh says: who is he that can intercede with Him but by His permission? (2:255) ; there is no intercessor except after His permission (10:3) ; . . . that if Allãh please He would certainly guide all the people? (13 :31) ; And if Allãh please He would certainly make you a single nation, but He causes to err whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases . . . (16:93) ; And you do not please except that Allãh please (76:30) ; He cannot be questioned concerning what He does and they shall be questioned (21:23). Allãh disposes and manages His property in any way He pleases; no one can use any other thing except with His permission, because He is the real Owner and Sustainer of everything.
Now we come to the rules and laws which Allãh ordains for His creatures. He uses the same method which has been adopted by the human society — ordaining what is good and praising and rewarding its doers; forbidding what is bad and condemning and punishing its doers. For example, He says: If you give alms openly, it is well (2:271), . . . evil is a bad name after faith (49:11). Obviously, the laws ordained by Allãh look at the good of man, and aim at perfecting the human society. Allãh says: . . . answer (the call of) Allãh and His Apostle when he calls you to that which gives you life (8:24); that is better for you, if you know (61:11); Surely Allãh enjoins the doing of justice and the doing of good (to others) and the giving to kindred, and He forbids indecency and evil and rebellion (16:90); Surely Allãh does not enjoin indecency (7:28). There are many such verses; and they show that the principles which the laws are based upon are always the same — be it a divine commandment or a human legislation. What is good in itself and ensures the good of the society is allowed, enjoined and prescribed; and what is evil in itself and endangers the social structure is forbidden; man is praised and rewarded for doing the former, and blamed and punished for doing the later. Some of those principles are as follows:
People do whatever they do because of its underlying wisdom and good. Legislation of laws is no exception to this rule; the laws too are made because of their underlying good and benefit. They reward the law-abiding citizens and chastise, if they so wish, the law-breakers. The said recompense must be correlated to the action done — in its quantity and quality. Also, it is accepted that the enjoinment and prohibition can be addressed to him only who is not under any duress or compulsion who has got freedom of will and choice. The above-mentioned recompense too is related to such actions only which emanate from free will and choice. Of course, if someone, by his own action, puts himself in a tight corner, in a difficult position where he has to transgress a law, he may be justly punished for that transgression, and his plea of helplessness will not be heeded at all.
Allãh uses these same principles in His dealing with His creatures. He does not compel the man to obey or to disobey the divine commands. Had there been any compulsion, rewarding the obedient ones with the paradise and punishing the disobedient ones with the hell would have been absolutely wrong: the reward would have been an unprincipled venture, and the punishment an unmitigated oppression and injustice — and all of it is evil according to reason. Moreover, it would mean favouring one against the other without any justification, without any cause — and this too is a demerit according to reason. Furthermore, it would provide the aggrieved party with a valid argument against Allãh; but Allãh says: . . . so that people should not have an argument against Allãh after the (coming of) apostles (4:165); . . . that he who would perish might perish by clear proof, and he who would live might live by clear proof (8:42).
The above discourse makes the following points clear :
First: Divine laws are not based on compulsion. These rules have been made for the good of man in this life and the hereafter. And they have been prescribed for him because he has freedom of will, he may obey the rule if he so wishes, and may disobey if he so chooses. He will be fully recompensed for what-ever good or bad he does by his free will.
Second: There are things and actions which are not in conformity with the divine sanctity, yet the Qur’ãn attributes them to Allãh, like misleading, deceiving, scheming against some-one, leaving him wandering on in his rebellion, letting the Satan overpower the man and become his associate. All these actions are related to various kinds of misleading and misguidance. But Allãh is above all defects and demerits, and, therefore, these words when attributed to Him, should convey a meaning in keeping with His sacred name. Initial misleading, even in the sense of making inattentive and forgetful, cannot be ascribed to Allãh. What the above-mentioned expressions actually mean is this: When someone by his own free will, opts to go astray, chooses the wrong path and commits sins, then Allãh leaves him in that straying, and, thus, increases his error — it is done as a punishment of his wrong choice. Allãh says: He causes many to err by it and many He leads aright, by it, but He does not cause to err by it (any) except the transgressors (2:26). . . . when they turned aside, Allãh made their hearts turn aside (61:5). Thus does Allãh cause him to err who is extravagant, a doubter (40:34).
Third: The divine decree does not cover the actions of the man inasmuch as they are attributed to him — they are done by the doer, although not created by him. We shall further explain it later.
Fourth: Now that it has been seen that the divine law is not based on compulsion, it should be clearly understood that it is not based on delegation of power either. How can a “master” issue an authoritative command if he has delegated all his powers to the servant. In other words, this theory of delegation negates the comprehensive ownership of Allãh vis-à-vis many of His possessions.
TRADITIONS
A great number of traditions (narrated from the Imams of the Prophets Household — a.s. says: “There is neither compulsion nor delegation (of power), but (there is) a position between these two (extremes).”It is reported in `Uyunu ‘l-akhbãr, through several chains: When the Leader of the faithful, `Ali ibn Abi Tãlib (a.s.) returned from Siffīn, an old man (who has participated in that battle) stood up and said : “O Leader of the faithful ! Tell us about this journey of ours, was it by Allãh’s decree and measure?” The Leader of the faithful said: “Yes, O Shaykh! By Allãh you did not ascend any elevation, nor did you descend to any valley but by a decree of Allãh and by His measure.” The old man, there-upon said : “I leave to Allãh all my troubles (of this journey), O Leader of the faithful!” (`Ali — a.s.) replied: “Have patience, O Shaykh! Perhaps you take it to mean a firm decree and a compulsory measure! If it were so, then there would be no justification of reward or punishment, no sense of command, prohibition or admonition, no meaning of promise or threat; there would not be any blame on an evil-doer nor any praise for a good-doer. Nay, the good-doer would have been rather more deserving of blame than the evil-doer, and the evil-doer rather more worthy of grace than the good-doer. (Beware!) this is the belief of the idol-worshippers and the enemies of the Beneficent God (who are) the Qadariyyah of this ummah and its Majũs. O Shaykh! Verily Allãh ordained (the sharī‘ah)giving freedom of will (to men) and prohibited (evil) to keep us on guard; and He gave plentiful (reward) on meagre (deeds); and He was not disobeyed by being overpowered, nor was He obeyed by compulsion; and He did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them in vain; that is the opinion of those who disbelieve on account of the fire.”
The author says: The topics of the speech of Allãh and His decree and measure were among the earliest about which the Muslims differed among themselves. This second dispute may be described as follows:
The eternal divine will govern every thing in the universe. These things are transient in their quiddity; but when they do exist, they do so because the will of Allãh decreed their existence — and in this way their existence becomes essential —otherwise, the divine decree would be meaningless. Conversely, when a thing does not exist, it is because Allãh did not decree its existence — and in this way its existence becomes impossible — otherwise, the divine will would be meaningless. In short, whatever exists, exists because Allãh has decreed its existence, -thus turning it into an essential being. This principle applies everywhere. But the difficulty arises when it comes to such a human action that issues from our own will and choice. We know that we can do it if we so desire, and can ignore it if we so wish. Their doing and not doing is equally possible to us. The balance is tipped in favour of either side by our own will and choice. Our actions are based on our choice, and our will brings them into existence. The difficulty that arises at this point is this: We have earlier seen that nothing comes into being without the will and decree of Allãh, which turns the thing into an essential being — if so, then how can any action of ours be termed as “possible” one? It must exist because the divine will has decreed it ! Moreover, how can our will affect it in any way when it is governed by the will of Allãh? Also, in this background, it cannot be said that man had power to do a certain work before he did it. And, because he did not have that power, Allãh could not give him any order or command for or against that work. Going a step further, if Allãh gave him an order and he did not comply, it would mean that Allãh Himself had not wanted that thing to happen; so it was impossible for it to happen. Then the question would arise: How could Allãh order him to perform an impossible task? Conversely, if someone complied with that order, it was because Allãh Himself wanted it to happen. Then why should the man be rewarded without any valid reason? By the same reasoning, a sinner should not be punished, as it would be against justice, a naked oppression. One may go on enumerating the difficulties arising out of this subject. A large number of Muslims felt obliged to admit, and believe in, all these absurdities. They said that:
Man does not have power to do a work before the time comes to do it. The reason has nothing to do with the merit or demerit of any action. Whatever Allãh does becomes good; and whatever He forbids becomes evil.
Accordingly, Allãh may choose an action without any justification; He may give reward without any cause; He may ordain laws beyond the capacity of the doer or agent; He may inflict punishment on a disobedient servant even though the said disobedience and transgression was not of his doing . It appears that the old man, who had asked the question, thought that the belief in the divine will and decree meant that there was no merit or demerit in any action and that man had no right of any reward (or punishment). Naturally he was dis-appointed when he heard that the journey was by the decree of Allãh; that is why he said: “I leave to Allãh all my troubles.” What he meant was this: My journey to Siffīn and back and my fighting in the way of Allãh had no benefit for me as it was governed and done by the will of Allãh; my share in all this venture was only the trouble and the inconvenience which I underwent. Therefore, I shall leave it to Allãh to balance my account, as it was He Who put me through all these troubles. The Imam (Ali) replied to him by saying, “If it were so, there would be no justification of reward or punishment . . .” The Imam pointed to the rational principle on which the legislation is based. And at the end he reasoned that Allãh did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them in vain. If Allãh could will the man’s actions in a way as to deprive him of his freedom of will and choice, it would mean that He could do things without any purpose and aim; then He could create the whole creation aimlessly and in vain. This in its turn would render the principle of resurrection and reward and punishment invalid too.
It is narrated in at-Tawhīd and `Uyunu ‘l-akhbãr that ar-Ridã (a.s.) was asked about compulsion and delegation, and he said: “Should I not teach you in this regard a principle by which you shall never differ (among yourselves), and no one will argue with you on this subject but that you shall defeat him (by it)?” We said: “(Teach it to us) if you so please.” Thereupon he said: “Verily Allãh is not obeyed through compulsion, nor is He disobeyed by overpowering; and He did not leave the servants remiss in His kingdom; He (still) owns what He has given into their possession, and has power on what He has put into their power. Now, if the servants decided to obey Him, He would not prevent them from it, nor would he put any obstruction to it; and if they decided to disobey Him, then if He pleased to bar their way to it He would do so, and if He did not hinder it and they committed it, then it was not He Who led them into that (sin).” Then the Imam said : “Whoever would accurately delineate the boundaries of this speech would surely overcome his adversary.”
The author says: Why did “al-Mujabbirah” say what they said? It was because they pondered on the divine decree and measure, and it led them to the conclusion that when Allãh decrees a thing it must happen inescapably. Their deliberation of this subject was correct, and so was the conclusion arrived at. Where they fell in error was in correlating that conclusion with reality; they did not understand the difference between a reality and an idea based on subjective approach; they forgot the distinction between essentiality and possibility.
It is correct to say, on the basis of the divine decree and measure, that nothing happens in this world unless it turns an essential being; it is because every thing and every affair comes into being when it is decreed by Allãh, according to the measure prescribed by Him; and then it cannot fail to happen, otherwise the decree of Allãh would fail. At the same time, it should be kept in mind that a transient or possible thing becomes essential because of its sufficient cause. When looked at in conjunction with its sufficient cause, it would be called “essential”; but separated from that cause, it would remain as it was before — a transient or possible thing. Let us look at an action of man which he does by his free will and choice. When we look at it in relation to all things that are necessary to bring it into being — knowledge, will, proper tools and organs, the material, formal, efficient and final causes, and all the conditions of time and space — it will become an essential being; and it is in this context that it becomes subject of the eternal divine will. In other words, it becomes an essential being when all aspects of its sufficient cause are complete. But, looked in relation to each of those aspects separately, it remains only a transient and possible thing. If it is seen vis-à-vis its efficient cause only, that is, in relation to the doer only, it will retain its characteristics of transience and possibility — it will not become an essential being.
It is now clear to see at which point the believers in “compulsion” have deviated from the right path. They thought that, inasmuch as the human action was subject to the divine will and decree, man had no power on it; he was not a free agent; he was rather a helpless tool in divine hands. But they did not take into consideration the fact that the divine will takes it into hand only when all aspects of its sufficient cause are complete, and not before that. The divine will decrees that a certain action be done by Zayd — not unconditionally, but on the condition that it is done by Zayd’s free will, at a certain time and a certain place. Therefore, its relation to the divine will itself demands that it should be an action of a free agent, done by his own free will and choice.
Doubtlessly, that action will be called an “essential” one if seen in relation to the divine will; but at the same time and by virtue of the same divine will, it will be a possible and transient action when related to the doer, that is, the man. In other words, there are two wills — the human and the divine; they do not run parallel to each other; the divine will comes after and above the human will — they are in a vertical, and not a horizontal position to each other. Therefore, there is no competition or collision between the two wills. It was a short-sightedness on part of the believers in compulsion to negate the human will in order to establish the divine one.
The Mu`tazilites said that human actions are done by man’s free will. But they went to the other extreme, and fell in an error no less objectionable than that of al-Mujabbirah. They too said that if human action was subjected to the divine will man would not have any freedom of will and choice. And then they took a position diametrically opposed to that of al-Mujabbirah, and came to the conclusion that the divine will had no relation whatsoever to the human action. Thus they had to accept another creator — the man himself — for human actions. In this way, they accepted dualism without knowing what they were doing. Going further they fell into traps more harmful than the belief of al-Mujabbirah. As the Imam has said: “The poor al-Qadariyyah, they wanted to emphasize the justice of Allãh, so they removed Him from His power and authority . . .”
A master, showing kindness to one of his slaves, married him to a slave-girl of his; he bestowed on him a property, gave him a well-furnished house and provided him with all the necessities of life. Then there came some people there, looked at his property, and began arguing among themselves. Someone said: “Even though the master has given this property to his slave and has made him its owner, the slave has no right in, or authority over, this property at all. Does any slave own any thing? The slave together with all his belongings belongs to the master.”
Another said : “No. You are wrong. The master has bestowed on this slave the right of property. Now the slave is its absolute owner, and the master has lost all his rights, and authority over this property. We may say that he has abdicated in favour of his slave.”
The former was the opinion of al-Mujabbirah; the later that of the Mu`tazilites.
But both were wrong. The correct view would have been to say: The master has got his status of mastership; the slave his position of servitude and bondage. The master has made the slave owner of his (i.e., master’s) property. The property belongs to the master at the same time that it belongs to the slave. There are two ownerships — one over the other. This is what the Imams of Ahlu ‘l-bayt (a.s.)have taught us to believe, and what the reason supports.
Abãyah ibn Rib‘i al-Asadi asked Ali, the Leader of the faithful, the meaning of “capability”. The Leader of the faithful asked a counter question: “Do you have that capability without God or with God?” When `Abayah remained silent, he told him, “Tell me, O `Abayah!” He said: “What should I say? O Leader of the faithful!” He said : “You should say that you have got that capability by (grace of) Allãh, to Whom it belongs and not to you. If He made you its owner, it would be of His bounties, and if He took it away from you, it would be a trial from Him; and He is the Owner of what He gave into your possession, and has power over what He put under your power . . .” (al-Ihtijãj )
The author says: Its meaning may be understood from the preceding explanation.
al-Mufīd reports in his Sharhu ‘l-‘aqã’id:It has been narrated from Abu ‘l-Hasan, the third, (a.s.) that he was asked whether the actions of the servants were created by Allãh. He (a.s.) said : “If He were their creator, He would not have dis-owned their liability. And He (Allãh) has said: Verily, Allãh is free from liability to the idolaters . . . (9:3). It does not mean that Allãh was not responsible for the creation of the idolaters; what Allãh has disowned any responsibility of, is their idol-worship and their evils.”
The author says:There are two aspects of a deed — its actual existence, and its relation to its doer. It is only when an action is seen in relation to its doer that it is called obedience or disobedience, good or bad, virtue or sin. So far as actual existence is concerned, there is no difference between marriage and fornication. What distinguishes one from the other is the command of Allãh — marriage conforms with the divine law, and fornication goes against that law. Someone is killed without any reason; another is killed by a lawful authority in reprisal of a murder. A teacher punishes an orphan in order to guide him aright; an oppressor hits at the same orphan unjustly. In all these examples, the actual movements of the actions are identical. But one group is called sin because it does not conform with the divine law or goes against the common weal of the society.
Allãh says: Allãh is the Creator of everything. . . (39:62). Every action is a “thing” inasmuch as it exists. And the Imam has said: “Whatsoever may be called a thing is created, except Allãh . . .” Also, Allãh says: Who made good everything that He has created . . . (32:7). It may be inferred that everything is good because it is created. Creation and goodness are inseparable factors. But at the same time, we see that Allãh has named some actions as evil. For example, He says: Whoever brings a good deed, he shall have ten like it, and whoever brings an evil deed, he shall not be recompensed but only with the like of it . . . (6:160). These are obviously the actions done by man; not the factor of recompense which cannot apply to divine actions. Such a deed is called sin. It is evil because it lacks some thing; because it is a nullification of a spiritual virtue or social good. In other words, a sin is sin because it is a negation , a non-being; otherwise it would have been good.
Now, let us look at the following verses of the Qur’ãn: No misfortune befalls on the earth nor in your own souls, but it is in a book before We bring it into existence . . . (57:22); No affliction comes about but by Allãh’s permission; and whoever believes in Allãh, He guides aright his heart . . . (64:11); And whatever affliction befalls you, it is on account of what your hands have wrought, and (yet) He pardons most (of your faults) (42:30); Whatever benefit comes to you, it is from Allãh, and whatever misfortune befalls you, it is from yourself (4 :79) ; . . . and if a benefit comes to them, they say: “This is from Allãh:” and if a misfortune befalls them they say:“ This is from you. ”Say: “All is from Allãh;” but what is the matter with these people that well-nigh they do not understand what is told (them)? (4 : 7 8 ) . On pondering upon these verses, it becomes clear that these misfortunes are relative evils. A man is bestowed with the bounties of Allãh, like security and peace; health and wealth, and so on; then he loses one or more of these bounties. This misfortune, in relation to that man, is evil because it has nullified some existing things, that is, the bounties which he had previously enjoyed. Thus, every misfortune is created by Allãh, and at that stage it is not an evil. But it is an evil when seen in relation to the man who loses an existing bounty because of it.
Likewise, every sin is a negative factor, and as such, it is not to be attributed to Allãh at all; though it may be attributed to Him from another angle, inasmuch as it happens by permission of Allãh.
Thank you Ahmed for your great contribution to this indeed complicated topic, which has been and it is still being debated by those whom are searching for essential answers in this earthly life and beyond.
@ ioan
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed it my friend. I was copying the rest of it, because i felt bad about only giving part of the text. Some of the ideas were still left open without explanation, so i decided to format the rest of it, I just finished. I will post it below, so you can read the complete idea the author was trying to convey. It also has a philosophical discussion on this topic, but i will remember to share that with you at a later time. When i do post that part i will make sure to link these two parts that i posted here, so you can read it all together. By the way it is good to look for answers on these topics, many people in the world stopped asking questions like the one you bought up. Plus the world is so crazy and hectic, i really believe the “elites” don’t want people to find the answer to many questions, or even ask them. Higher truths always expose the elite, who can only control through lack of information. Take care. Here’s the rest of it:
al-Bazanti said: I told ar-Ridã (a.s.) that some of our fellows believe in compulsion and some of them advocate the (belief of) capability. Thereupon he told me: “Write down (as I say): Allãh, Blessed and High is He, has said: `O son of Adam! By My will you have become such that you wish for yourself what you wish; and by My power you discharged the duties imposed by Me (on you); and by My bounty, you got power to disobey Me; I made you hearing, seeing (and) powerful. Whatever benefit comes to you, it is from Allãh; and whatever misfortune befalls you, it is from yourself. And it is as it is because I have more right on your good deeds than you have yourself; and you are more liable to your sins than Me. And it is because I cannot be questioned concerning what I do and they shall be questioned. Thus, I have arranged for you everything that you want . . .’ ” (Qurbu ‘l-asnãd) This, or nearly the same, tradition is narrated through other chains, of the Sunnis as well as of the Shi‘ahs. In short, the deeds that cannot be attributed to Allãh, are the sins per se. It further explains the sentence of the preceding tradition: “I f he were their creator, He would not have disowned their liability . . . What Allãh has disowned any responsibility of, is their idol-worship and their evils . . .” Abu Ja’far and Abu `Abdillãh (a.s.) said: “Certainly, Allãh is too Merciful to His creatures to compel them to sin and then to punish them for it. And Allãh is too powerful for anyone to think that He would will a thing and it would not happen!” (The narrator) said: “Then they (a.s.) were asked: ‘Is there a third position between the (positions of) compulsion and (independent) capability?’ They said: ‘Yes, broader than (the space) between the heaven and the earth.’ ” (at-Tawhīd )
Muhammad ibn `Ajlãn said: “I asked Abu `Abdillãh (a.s.) whether Allãh has delegated (the authority of) the affair to the servants. He said: ‘Allãh is too honourable to delegate (the authority) to them.’ I said: ‘Then has He compelled the servants in their deeds?’ He said: ‘Allãh is too just to compel a servant on a deed and then to punish him for it.’ ” (ibid.)
In the same book Mihzam is reported as saying: “Abũ`Abdillãh (a.s.) said: ‘Tell me what is that concerning which our followers (whom you have left behind) have differed among themselves.’ I said: ‘About the compulsion and the delegation?’ He said: ‘Then ask me about it.’ I asked: ‘Has Allãh compelled the servants to (commit) sins?’ He replied: ‘Allãh is too over-powering to do it to them.’ I asked: ‘Then has He delegated (the authority) to them?’ He replied: ‘Allãh has too much power over them to do so.’ I asked : ‘Then what is it (i.e., the correct position)? May Allãh make your affairs right for you!’ ” (The narrator says:) “The Imam turned his hand twice or thrice, then said: ‘If I were to answer you concerning it, you would not believe.’ ”
The author says: “Allãh is too overpowering to do it to them”: Compulsion means that a force majeure subdues the subject in such a way that his power of action is nullified. “Too overpowering” (or, more overpowering than that) is the predominant will of Allãh — He has willed that the action would emanate from the doer by his free will and choice, and this is what is actually happening in the world. The divine will has given the man freedom of will; neither the divine will negates the human will, nor the human will collides with the divine will.
It is reported in at-Tawhīd that as-Sãdiq (a.s.) said: “The Apostle of Allãh said: ‘Whoever thinks that Allãh enjoins the evil and indecency, he tells a lie against Allãh; and whoever believes that the good and bad (do happen) without the will of Allãh, he removes Allãh from His authority.’ ”
It is reported that al-Hajjaj ibn Yũsuf wrote to al-Hasan al-Basri, `Amr ibn `Ubayd, Wãsil ibn ‘Ata’ and ‘Ãmir ash- Sha‘bī, asking them to describe what they had got (and what has reached them) in respect of (divine) decree and measure. al-Hasan al-Basri wrote to him: “The best thing that has reached me is that which I heard the Leader of the faithful, `Ali ibn Abi Tãlib (a.s.) saying: ‘Do you think that He Who has forbidden you has (also) acted cunningly against you? Rather, your lower and higher (parts) have cunningly deceived you, and Allãh is free from its liability.’ “And `Amr ibn `Ubayd wrote to him: “The best thing I have heard about the decree and measure is the saying of the Leader of the faithful, `Ali ibn Abi Tãlib (a.s.): ‘If perfidy were in reality decreed, the perfidious man, if punished, would have been op-pressed.’ ” And Wasil ibn `Ata’ wrote to him: “The best I have heard about the decree and measure is the saying of the Leader of the faithful, `Ali ibn Abi Tãlib (a.s.): `Do you think that He would guide you to the path and (then) obstruct you (from moving on)?’ ” And ash-Sha’bi wrote to him: “The best thing I have heard concerning the decree and measure is the word of the Leader of the faithful, `Ali ibn Abi Tãlib (a.s.): ‘Whatever you have to seek Allãh’s pardon for it, it is from you; and what-ever you thank Allãh for it, it is from Him.’ ” When their letters reached al-Hajjãj and he studied them, he said: “Certainly they have taken it from a clear spring.” (at-Tarã’if)
It is narrated in the same book that someone asked Ja‘far ibn Muhammad as-Sãdiq (a.s.) about the decree and measure, and he replied: “Whatever you may blame the servant (of Allãh) for it, it is from him; and whatever you cannot blame the servant (of Allãh) for it, it is the work of Allãh. Allãh will say to the servant: ‘Why did you disobey? Why did you transgress? Why did you drink liquor? Why did you fornicate?’ This is, therefore, the work of the servant. But He will not say to him: ‘Why were you sick? Why were you of short stature? Why did you become white? Why were you black?’(He will not ask it) because it is the work of Allãh.”
Ali (as.) was asked about monotheism and justice (of Allãh), and he said: “Monotheism is that you should not imagine Him; and justice is that you should not accuse Him.” (Nahju ‘l-balãghah)
The author says: There are numerous traditions on this subject; but those quoted above throw light on all the aspects of the topic.
The above-mentioned traditions show various special methods of argument regarding the subject matter.
a) Some of them argue on the basis of legislation itself — order and prohibition; punishment and reward etc. — that man has freedom of will, without any compulsion or delegation of power. See, for example, the speech of the Leader of the faithful, ‘Ali (a.s.), replying to the old man. It is similar to the argument we have inferred from the words of Allãh.
b) Others bring in evidence the verses of the Qur’ãn which cannot be reconciled with the theory of compulsion or delegation of power. For example: And Allãh’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth (3:189); and your Lord is not in the least unjust to the servants (41:46). Also, there is the verse, Say: “Surely Allãh does not enjoin indecency” (7:28).
Poser: A deed may be described as unjust or indecent if it is seen in relation to us. But when it is attributed to Allãh it is not called unjust or indecent. Therefore, even if all “our” deeds were actually done by Allãh, it would be perfectly right to say that He is not unjust and does not enjoin indecency.
Reply: The sentence seen in the context leaves no room for such misconceptions. The complete verse is as follows: And when they commit an indecency they say: “We found our fathers doing this and Allãh has enjoined it on us.” Say: “Surely Allãh does not enjoin indecency. Do you say against Allãh what you do not know?” Look at the sentence, “and Allãh has enjoined it on us.” The pronoun “it” clearly refers to the indecency committed by them; and it is the same deed which is referred to in the sentence, “Surely Allãh does not enjoin indecency.” Allãh does not enjoin what is termed as indecency in context of human activities; it does not matter whether in other framework it is called indecency or not.
c) A third type of reasoning is based on the divine attributes. Allãh has given Himself many good names, and has described Himself with many sublime attributes, which cannot be squared with compulsion or delegation of power. Allãh is the Subduer, the Omnipotent, the Benevolent and the Merciful. These attributes can only be believed in if one believes that everything depends on Allãh in its existence, and that its defects and shortcomings can-not be attributed to Him at all. (Refer to the traditions quoted from at-Tawhīd.)
d) Yet others refer to seeking the pardon of Allãh as well as to the blame which society directs at the wrong-doer. If sin were not from the man himself, there would have been no meaning in asking for divine pardon. If all our actions were done by Allãh why should be we blamed for only some of them and not for the others?
e) Lastly, there are the traditions which explain the words, like causing to err, sealing the hearts and misleading, when they are attributed to Allãh:
ar-Ridã (a.s.) said explaining the words of Allãh, and He (Allãh) left them in utter darkness — they do not see: “Allãh is not described as leaving something as His creatures do. But when He knew that they would not return from disbelief and error, He held back His help and grace from them and let them alone with their choice.” (`Uyũnu ‘l-akhbãr)
The same book narrates from the same Imam in explanation of the words of Allãh, Allãh has set a seal upon their hearts: “It is setting a seal on the hearts of the disbelievers as a punishment of their disbelief, as Allãh has said: . . . nay! Allãh has set a seal upon them owing to their disbelief, so they shall not believe except a few (4:155).”
as-Sãdiq (a.s.) said concerning the words of Allãh, Surely Allãh is not ashamed to set forth any parable. . .:“This divine word answers those who think that Allãh makes (His) servants go astray and then punishes them for that straying . . .” (Majma`u ‘l-bayãn )
The author says: Its meaning may be understood from previous explanations.
Falling Asleep
by ioan
I’m so tired, I got weak
Now I’ll turn the other cheek,
On the pillow, in my bed
I shall sleep another week
Until blessings fall from sky,
On that oak tree in Ojai
And an old friend who lived there
Meets The Lady in the square
Kissing her in brothers name
In that Valley full of fame.
Turned on side I fall asleep,
In the shadow of a week
Followed by my friend, the pillow
In the valley, in the meadow,
Music for my ears I hear,
How my love is coming near,
Whispering a well-known song
Now forgotten, all along
On a way between two worlds,
Without masters, without lords.
Eyes are closed, I feel the breeze
Then I move and fly with ease,
Without fear from muddy showers
Without need to find a cover,
On the waves of angel song
I shall fly where I belong
In a place with sun and green,
Human eyes have never seen
There is waiting yet, my love,
In my dreams, but well above!
I shall take her in my arms
We shall dance around the stars,
From the morning until evening
Ever young and never ending,
Never tired, no one sleeps
No one counts the days and weeks,
In that place with green and blue
Where the love is always true,
We were happy, safe and clean
In my journey, in my dream.
ioan is asking the most important questions and up pops this video:
https://youtu.be/bImdyQn43s8
Did The Universe Make A Mistake With The Ego?
Tolle sometimes makes perfect sense to me. Other times the difficulty of certain exercises he proposes one do….thought exercises to have no thought……..for example……verge on the impossible…..unless one works at not working at it…but allowing one to subtly notice…a distinctly different, fleeting state of awareness.
Because of ioan’s essay and his poem today and the synchronicity of the Return of the Prodigal Son artistic theme by Rembrandt, previously discussed here in regard to Kiev…..the Birthplace of Rus….and the recent days’ startling investigation there….and Tolle’s choice of that theme in his explanation …….let’s make it social in this Cafe….since my Return of the Prodigal Son comment in regard to Lost Ukraine prompted ioan to email me….some months ago …. as to whether I loved art.
I was rushed at the time. This is continuation……..
Meanwhile, Life Got In The Way, amarynth….and I can’t get to a comment over in the National Zionism article….time moves on and the Saker has already turned the page with newer articles.
That’s why the Café is so ideal…almost timeless in its rest and repose…….and second chances,
The Germ of An Idea Will Have To Wait To Sprout
Blockade Removed is an advancement.
New Sanctions on North Korea rolled back by Trump, almost immediately……
Wasted no time.
The pace just might pick up now with blockade removed.
Careful now. Things that were not possible before 5 pm Friday are now much, much more possible
This has to be the best poem of yours, at least of those I’ve read. Congratulations!
Btw; I noticed a freer, looser energy in the last two stanzas, same as I experienced in my own poem below. After ‘staking down the stage’, the heart of the story came out in a single breath in the last three stanzas. This is one of the special gifts of entering ‘the creative fray’, to be sure…
… a music break …
Улетай на крыльях ветра
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RXicSioA4s&list=RDiU0nF90VPrE&index=33
The Place that I’ve been Called
well the night was dark and gloomy
word to the soothsayer was sent,
he came with a frown as he sat down
said what he said then went
the strangest zeal overtook me then
but nothing i did could ignore
the words of the seer as cold as lead –
soon I would be no more!
when the sun it finally came
t’was clear its warmth had somehow fled
as I called my wife and only child
to be with me by my bed
what does the humble man bequeath?
a ring to the love of my life
and because its song has served me well –
to the baby I leave my fife
is life no more than a wayward dream
haunting the broken minds of men?
a flickering flame that endures the winds
for three score years and ten?
my lover’s eyes and my baby’s kiss
I’ll surely miss in this life forestalled,
but if this were all I’ll gladly go
to the place that I’ve been called
This piece is known as “The Fifer’s Lament”. A fife is a small piccolo like flute, often used with drums in military bands.
Sweet!
You guys are making it very difficult to get to work in the material world.
Sweet and Sour…….. would be my theme if I were to try to chime in on these sweet notes. In the microcosm and the macrocosm.
For the moment I can only listen to the resonance and reflect:
For ioan:
“Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!”
….and Dimitar:
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:”
Of course from: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn
……….for those with the time for the classics.
Sweet irony from one who died so young, but whose sweet spirit still echoes strong.
And a bit more sweetness from Tolle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk14R4A_p9w
Eckhart Tolle talks about What Happens When We Die
Yes brother, it flows freely like music of the fife, like music of life, play it play it all along, what can go bad, what can be wrong ?
“…what can go bad, what can go wrong?” Whatever it is, there’s a solution, so never worry, never fear, the answer is always somewhere near. We’re never given more than we can handle, so if we can identify the problem, we can find a solution, ( though those solutions aren’t always to our liking )…
re: Dimiter Ok. Such cliche from such a truth teller? “We are never given more than we can handle?” Perhaps in your experience but I would beg you not to use the royal “we”. But keep your sweet illusions if they feed such wonderful poetry and if they have proven to be true for you, well then, more power to you! ( hortatory cliche on my part). In my experience:
Some people are given events that crush them, destroy them or leave them gasping, thrashing like fish thrown most brutally from the waters of life.
But I still whistle in the dark.
Dear one, maybe there’s a lot more to us than we think or even know.
When I say, ‘we are never given more than we can handle’ I say it from experience.
Something to consider is that as a spiritual being, we have a certain agenda or mission in a particular lifetime, comprising a set of experiences that in the end transform us entirely as individuals. From what I can see the process of life transforms us from “I can’t, I dare not go there…” to, “okay then, bring it on…”
In its most subtle sense, life transforms us every day. I am not the person I was when I wrote the poem above, yesterday morning. So any limitations we experience are because we ourselves have placed them in our way. Is this a little clearer?
Best, D.
music and song … light and serious …
DJ Valer – Рио Рита
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejJX_1DQvx4&index=35&list=RDiU0nF90VPrE
Широка Страна Моя Родная
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7pGaCfeVvk&list=RDiU0nF90VPrE&index=27
… White Swan …
Tu-160 Ту-160 на “боевой” уходят от истребителей НАТО !!! vk.com/kino_vks_vmf_ross Ту-160
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Vvgu8AMlk
Recent Haiku
a portrait of basho
by hokusai; overripe
wheat cracking
this autumn –
a year since mother’s passing,
gone too soon
trails in melting snow
stags baying in the distance –
spring thaw
a midsummer’s night
one more soiree on the lake;
frogs singing in rounds
The Bristol Brabazon …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhbMZbh_O0
We are told the original piston engines were becoming old technology, so the Brabazon was fitted with gas turbine engines which were troublesome.
How the gas turbines were troublesome is not explained and we are left wondering.
Gas turbines are in use today and are not troublesome to the point any airplane has to be scrapped.
I don’t buy the story told in this documentary and elsewhere.
Fitted out with suitable gas turbine engines this plane, with its vast interior space would have made for comfortable Atlantic crossings for well to do people not pressed for time.
What the real motive was … you figure it out …
“By October 1953, the Bristol Brabazon was scrapped completely. It wasn’t even preserved for museum use. That’s how much of an embarrassment it was.
Less than a year later, the Boeing 367-80, the prototype for the Boeing 707, took flight. The resulting design, which brought air travel to the masses, revolutionized the way the world was seen.
But it’s not like the Brabazon was a total waste. It had a fully pressurized cabin, it had fully powered hydraulic systems, and electric controls, all pioneering developments of its day.
Those advances, however and that gorgeous fuselage, weren’t enough to save it from the scrap heap.”
https://jalopnik.com/the-bristol-brabazon-was-the-prettiest-piece-of-useless-1625961379
The Bristol Brabazon … in 1949 at the Farnborough air show …
https://youtu.be/M3J73O03IGM?t=535
Cost millions and was sold for scrap for ten thousand pounds.
Would have made money as a museum exhibit at least …
but taking things out of sight also takes them out of mind.
The Bristol Brabazon was quickly and effectively disappeared.
Indeed, beautiful airplane.
I do not know about the GT problems in BB aircraft, but similar airplane, Constellations, I do know something about.
I was told by engineers who worked on the project to re-power constellation aircraft with GT engines that the specific alloys of aluminum used in airframe for constellations was suitable for the vibration characteristics of the big radials, but suffered serious fatigue and cracking when the GT vibrations were encountered.
Of course the frequencies and harmonics from GT and their reduction gears are entirely different from radials and their reduction gears. Further, synchronization is far more problematic with GT and their reduction gearing and props, thus inducting multitude of beat frequency vibrations that may also contribute to early fatigue.
This is airframe problem, not GT problem, Early GT’s were also quite liable to turbine failure at the inlet. Radial fail often, but they seldom explode. GT’s explode in some modes of turbine failure.
BB aircraft was simply a bit ahead of it’s time, and obsoleted by advances in jet-turbine, which were themselves soon eclipsed by bypass fan jet turbine – which have good P/W ratio and good specific fuel consumption – close to as good as the end-stage compound radials, Maintenance is also simpler and less frequent with the modern fanbypassjet-turbine engines. Vibration characteristics are much better too as there is considerable compression-effect damping within each engine.
Another dead-end was “Jake’s Jeep” a piston driven axial compressor jet…that did work pretty well. Uneconomic, they said. Small “motor-jets” are an interest of my own. So are pulsejets. Very limited applications. These have terrible pressure ratio, and thus terrible fuel consumption is a given. “Jake’s Jepp” had a ration something like 5:1 (I believe) not bad for the day, and for a MJ engine…pretty respectable.
Yesterday’s morning’s dawn presented the dance of Brother Sun and Sister Moon, he rising in eastern rosy red and she retiring to her western bed on cloudless day. Today is overcast. Regardless, I see sun, moon, stars and earth as I read about the gathering storm clouds in the articles and comments of sakerites. The sun, moon and stars always shine above the dark clouds of war on earth.
The Windhover
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
To Christ our Lord
I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon [Saker], in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind [of Empire]. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a [Saker] bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
I need encouragement after Trump’s signing over Golan and Gaza to his friend Netanyahu, and his slighting Ilhan Omar over Judge Jeanine. If there’s a silver lining in this fiasco, it’s that “the higher they rise, the harder they fall.” When things come to a head, that head can be beheaded, a task that falls to sakerite swords of honor.
The theme of this week in the natural earth calendar is “Heroine.” We sakerites supporting Saker are heroes and heroines trying to overcome Empire. “We shall overcome.” There are good videos on youtube about “The Hero’s Journey.” The following quotes from Joseph Campbell and myself from thirty years ago illustrate the changes we go through on our journeys.
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form – all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“This week’s theme is the Heroine of Hope; one of the characters to help us cope; from Muhammed Ali with his rope-a-dope to the robed and sceptered Catholic pope. If we can’t make it, we think they can; Heroes and Heroines are part of the plan. We are all Heroines to some degree, dying like Jesus upon a tree. The path of a Heroine is a lonely road, she has the job of carrying everyone’s load. I think twice before starting that path; about being the stock of everyone’s laugh. But I don’t see how to avoid that choice; not if I’m going to truly follow my consciousness voice. Most of the Heroes turn out to have feet of clay; they are just part of this consciousness play. They serve a useful purpose here on this earth to teach us all what we are worth. It’s not a mistake to follow the stars; the ones in the movies and behind the bars; as long as I remember that I’m a star too; shining in the heavens right beside you. My Heroes and Heroines are in ordinary life; the faithful husband and trustworthy wife. Those who set out to break the ice are neither naughty, nasty or nice; they’re ordinary people following their dreams and walking around the hollowing schemes. I’m a Hero in my own eyes, riding the sun in my inner skies. A true Heroine is called a Dope; many are hanged with a knotted rope. Would be Heroines are usually co-opted; caught in the racks until they are dropped dead. The Dope of this world is deadly malicious; while sold on the shelves as bedly delicious. I’ll be a Hero if I can live on Love’s Dope; the nectar of Love is no false lover’s Hope. My only real Hero is the Love of my heart; she’s decked in the beautiful cards of my art. Most of our Heroes are Dopes in disguise; buyer beware is a word for the wise. I take from these models their pearls of Hope; and leave out the oddballs and kernals of Dope. Lover, you’re my Hero of the sacred circle zero.”
— Dennis the Menace Leary the Leprebard
Saker has a profoundly perceptive article on “the great fraud of National Zionism.” It’s not pretty but precocious. Our western cultural civilization is being systematically killed to make room for the Anglo-Zionist nightmare dream of total control over the non-Jewish goyim, a replay of David killing Goyim Goliath with the talmudic philosopher’s stone. Not all Jews are bad but most have been had, as silent enabler beneficiaries and aipac contributers. Puts me in mind of Zimmerman’s “License to Kill”:
Man thinks ’cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please
And if things don’t change soon, he will
Oh, man has invented his doom
First step was touching the moon
Now, there’s a woman on my block
She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for life
And they set him on a path where he’s bound to get ill
Then they bury him with stars
Sell his body like they do used cars
Now, there’s a woman on my block,
She just sit there facin’ the hill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
Now, he’s hell-bent for destruction, he’s afraid and confused
And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill
All he believes are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies
But there’s a woman on my block
Sitting there in a cold chill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
— Dylan Zimmerman Bob
So, we’ll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we’ll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.
— Anonymous or Lord Byron?
And here’s a keeper to keep in mind from the above mentioned article straight from the Saker:
Dear Azra,
Thank you for your very kind words!
However, please don’t lose hope in your fellow human being or your fellow Croatian. Yes, right now we are living through some very dark times, but we ARE resisting and we ARE winning (and the Empire losing). Look around you, your city or town, or on the Internet – we have allies everywhere and while our society us ugly and nasty, there are a lot of kind, honorable, beautiful people out there, they are just not shown on the media.
So please don’t lose hope and, instead, locate your allies :-)
Kindest regards
The Saker
A Patristic Russian Saint could not have said it better but here’s one who comes close: “God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or anyone else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.” (St. John Chrysostom)
“the fall of pax britanica, the fall of pax americana and so we have entered pax judaica” by Alexandra puts it in a ammo nutshell.
Someone mentioned Jewish Khazarians. I think I’ll be brave, dust off and republish my updated first chapter of the Count Khazar novel, Evil Empire Incarnate.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this whole Game of Thrones and Drones is coordinated by the Unipolar Top Guns with Russia as the last outpost of resistance. However we’re entering the “game over” phase of Pax Judaica, so sakers all: to be forewarned is to be forearmed. Putin’s Russia is infiltrated by fifth column Trojan Horses, as you well know. Yuri Bezmenov gave the game away in ’85:
1. Infiltrate which could be years or centuries.
2. Confuse, demoralize, and split into fighting groups.
3. Bring the brew to a climactic war or collapse.
4. Renormalize the situation as savior.
Odds and ends, odds and ends; lost time will not be found again. To add to Katherine’s list of Russians in Europe, I would add Sergei Rachmaninoff and put Anna Fedorova with him for beauty’s sake.
Tulsi and Ilham are beautiful women which is one reason why Empire Patriarchs would want to control and use them. Rep Gabbard is ex-military; once military, always military. Why is she raising money as a Democrat? Ilham called out Israel by name; not sure if Tulsi did likewise. Omar is not taking money to be President; not yet anyway. Smart woman.
[Lo and behold, after I wrote that, a new post went up by Saker: “Tulsi Gabbard now and then.” Saker was kind: “People change. Maybe she changed. Maybe not. I am deeply skeptical and simultaneously deeply sympathetic, but I reserve judgement.” The Saker.]
I am more judgmental. Tulsi strikes me as a Manchurian Candidate, vetted from youth to play her part. Either that, or she has a twin. It wouldn’t be the first time Empire used twins. I’d say she is being groomed as President, Post Trump, gaining experience now. She’d be a perfect relief after the bombastic Donald; a smooth talker like Obama. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Same with the Mueller report. All this fake filler is to distract from what is really going on. I can’t go into detail for politeness sake but I can give a general overview of what I think is going on beneath the surface which may appear as gobbledygook to others. I can’t help it; I see what I see imperfectly, ‘through a glass darkly.’
In my 79 years I have gone through major changes in what I calI the Vio (‘vio’-lent) War on the Bio World, now spearheaded by the Zio Warlords. I have been forced to change my ways many times which were influenced by subterranean subterfuges of the Vio Disorder upon the Bio Order by Zio Overlords. We are not going to win this war for Civilization unless we go down like hero/ines into the dark underground of Vio beneath the Zio level undermining the Bio. Nothing vital will change if human nature does not.
Don’t muss or fuss, fidget or fret, what I don’t do now after years of doing the opposite is not necessarily what you can do or wish to do. I am not suggesting that anyone has to change one iota or micromillimeter; in fact, don’t change on my account or I will be held to account as being a Viosphere in the Biosphere. As persons, we are on our own individual path while walking the broader social one. I don’t need the karma of telling anyone what to do; I have enough of my own.
Home returning wasn’t done in a day. I live with Barb and Ed, my sister and bro-in-law; I go to Catholic Mass with them, watch Fox News with them and follow Milwaukee Bucks Basketball with them for society’s sake. It’s not my preferred lifestyle or mind fame, so I reframe the game with updates to the basic goodness within the structure–and so with the world at large.
The problem with the world is that goodness itself, as well as the badness. Both block understanding of the deeper machinations of Empire, what I call the Vio vile underground. 99% of people are aiding and abetting Empire by their ignorance of basic mechanics of morality imo. Why else is Empire so firmly entrenched from age to age? The masterminds know this and use it against us.
I hear Trump and his cronies are gathering this weekend at Mar a Lago and that Netanyahu is visiting the US; perhaps these buddies are together. I imagine being a fly on the wall there. This is where the Powers That Be get their instructions from emissaries on high and pass them to proxies below, in the Grand Chessboard Pyramid Game.
The game is based on Fear because nobody knows who’s really on top but they sure know who’s on the bottom and they don’t want to drop down there. So they play along. In a fake world, the best way to describe reality is through fiction. There might be only one man in this world, sitting on top of the heap–like Count Khazar.
The real powers can’t be seen visibly; “powers of the air” St. Paul called them. That’s the Vio level I’m alluding to. I think I can sense these powers in myself and in the world because I feel their influence. Fortunately I can do the same with the Love Army. Call it what you will, it’s the same game still. Words fail but how else can one sail?
Last evening I was part of a family dinner with three generations present. I was amazed by the younger ones with their cell phones in twitter and snapshot mode. What will the fourth gen be like? There was little I could say in a language foreign to my ears but we were all family or courting family, so there was a bond beyond words. They likely thought I was an old fogey behind the times, and perhaps I am; but I wouldn’t like to be growing up in the contemporary culture which has problems as bad as the one I had.
So with larger families like this cafe vineyard. It’s what goes on beneath the words that counts. At the word level, we might be different as day from night but “vive la difference.” We are united in our desire to contravene Empire. We have different methods of doing so which we share here.
I know you don’t entirely agree with me or you disagree entirely. I respect you for that. You have to follow your path and I mine, as I have to follow mine, not yours. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong but that we can each sing our song–in harmony or dulcet discord. We can still walk the wider path of defeating empire in our own individual ways. Freedom is essential to combating the bosses and minimizing our losses, opposite to Empire’s lockstep forced marches. We can be cafe friends in our own unique ways. Asymmetric warfare does not bunch up but spreads out; in an information war each person is an army; at best, a Love Army.
It’s a restless hungry feeling
That don’t mean no one no good
When ev’rything I’m a-sayin’
You can say it just as good
You’re right from your side
I’m right from mine
We’re both just one too many mornings
An’ a thousand miles behind
—The Poet
Every hair and sparrow falling is numbered, as is every word and thought or lack thereof.
I gaze into the doorway of temptation’s angry flame
And every time I pass that way I’ll always hear my name
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand
“I was older then, I’m younger than that now.” I have to keep in mind yesterday’s morning’s dance of sun and moon when the blues hit me within with imperial missiles and I want to throw in the towel and call it quits. Fortunately, I have a guardian angel Beatrice for my journey through Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio to Paradiso; I call her Joy.
Trump is thumping my patience with his Emperor No Clothes Act. To his credit he is exposing the Empire’s naked underbelly. He helps us to “know your enemy,” a necessary requisite for success.
[Late entries: Bro 93: “Despite the emotional disapproval of Dennis Leary, Anonymouse. and the cynical fellow that proclaimed that the Illuminatti have all of us, including 1.3 billion Chinese under their thrall in perpetuity (therefore, “Resistance is Futile!” and OBOR in that sense is a waste of time…..)”]
Bro, please don’t lump me in so indiscriminately like a lumpen. obor is not a total waste of time; it is a reality unfolding in time; just one I don’t agree with. There are better ways to achieve its supposed goal of a one world web for the good of all. You apparently do not see the back end or collateral damage of such a project. That’s ok: in a cafe we can leisurely debate its merits, even though minds can be like: “between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.” (Luke 16:26). With True Care, seeming chasms between us, or between us and Empire can be unfixated. The truth will set us free.
This cafe has bolted out of the starting gate and is already rounding the bend ahead. I’m still stuck on the past, which I dearly love and hate; but if my muses allow and my energies follow, I’ll catch up somehow. Cheers and pub beers on me; I’ll go Dutch on cafe feast of food for thought, since I’m vegan.
Leo Szilard @ Harvard…”Are We On the Road to War?”
(well, when were we not?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCWRPMZCFww
Syria Militant Attack Leaves 21 Hospitalized With Poisoning Symptoms – Reports
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201903231073492165-people-delivered-syria-hama-hospital-militants-poisoning/
“A reported 21 people were delivered to the Al-Suqaylabiyah hospital in Hama, suffering from asphyxia, thought to be caused by the use of poisonous gas by militants who fired several shells at the city, the Ikhbariya broadcaster reported, citing a head of the local hospital.
Syrian forces in the province of Hama reportedly regularly repel militant attacks from Idlib, one of the last strongholds of anti-government fighters in the country. At the moment, the city is a part of a demilitarized zone negotiated in last September 2018 by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.”
The zionazi-gays sure love their chemical warfare…
See also for further details:
Breaking: Jihadist rebels attack northwest Hama with suspected chemical weapons, 20+ hospitalized
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-jihadist-rebels-attack-northwest-hama-with-suspected-chemical-weapons-20-hospitalized/
“The jihadist rebels launched several rockets and artillery shells towards the government-held towns of Raseef and Aziziyah in northwestern Hama this evening.
The source said the Suqaylabiyeh Hospital reported that most of the victims were suffering from asphyxiation after one of the jihadist projectiles landed in a civilian area.
He added that the Syrian military believes chemical weapons were used by the jihadist rebels during tonight’s attack.”
Army inflicts losses upon Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in countryside of Hama and Idleb
https://sana.sy/en/?p=161519
21 people suffer from asphyxiation due to inhaling gases following terrorist attack with
shells in Hama countryside
https://sana.sy/en/?p=161578
Army kills 10 terrorists, destroys their dens and weapons in countryside of Idleb, Hama
https://sana.sy/en/?p=161616
Authorities find weapons and ammo left behind by terrorists in several areas
https://sana.sy/en/?p=161592
Japan and Germany do not recognize “Israeli” annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan
https://sana.sy/en/?p=161635
Al-Jaafari informs Guterres on Syria’s rejection of Trump’s statements on occupied Golan
https://sana.sy/en/?p=161632
Arab Inter-parliamentary Union condemns US President statements on Golan
https://sana.sy/en/?p=161564
Al-Jaafari: Trump’s statements will not change the fact that the Golan always
was and always will be Syrian
https://sana.sy/en/?p=161464
A good (and amusing) article on the upcoming “elections” in Ukraine,interesting times ahead: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/03/23/in-ukraine-presidential-vote-joker-wild.html
Here are a few tidbits from the article:
“…Zelensky seems to have hit a nerve with a public sick of the same old, corrupt faces. “People want to show the authorities the middle finger, and he is playing the role of this middle finger,” says one Ukrainian analyst. Donald Trump would understand.”
“No one better embodies the old guard than the perennial Queen of Diamonds, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Long a fixture in Ukrainian politics, Tymoshenko, also known as the “Gas Princess” (for her prominent role in the shady natural gas industry), “goddess of the Revolution” (for her firebrand image in Ukraine’s turbulent post-Soviet history), and the “Princess Leia of Ukrainian politics” (for her trademark folk-motif braids) maintains both her populist base and her high-style image: “a kind of Eva Peron figure,” according to one US analyst, “on the side of the poor but in a fur coat.”
“Coupled with his hard line on Russia demonstrated by the Kerch Strait naval confrontation in November 2018, Poroshenko’s religio-nationalist campaign theme of “Army! Language! Faith!” seemed to give him a boost last month. ”
“Jokester Zelensky accordingly provided his own interpretation of Poroshenko’s slogan: “To steal from the army, to selectively split people by language, so that there will be no faith in you.”
Another great article on the upcoming Ukrainian vote.By an old friend of the Saker blog Eric Zuesse:
“Three Neo-Nazis Lead Ukraine’s Presidential Contest: Gallup Finds Ukrainians Despise All the Candidates”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/03/23/three-neo-nazis-lead-ukraine-presidential-contest-gallup-finds-ukrainians-despise-all-the-candidates.html
The ego is so ridiculous.
I’m thinking that it explains the curious attraction many people have for horror films. The unpleasantness depicted, the evil, the ugliness is an ego-stroke for the viewer. By contrast, they are so, so much better! Don’t you see??
This becomes the ego-stroke that they crave.
Without any self-love or self-respect, the normal person cannot motivate him or herself to carry on, with any sort of gusto for life! Particularly if there is any guilt creeping into one’s house, neighborhood, or nation because of clear macro-evil afoot for all the world to see, casting doubt unto the goodness of the micro-personalities, the little people under any roof, or inhabiting any land……those people will come up with a natural defense…..namely to say ….and show….that they are good…in contrast to what is increasingly recognized…..by more and more people like themselves……. as bad, about their house or neighborhood or country of residence.
It also explains MAGA….both pro and con…to a significant degree, in my view.
Those clowns haven’t been very good at all for many decades and now they are aiming to be “great”??
Don’t make me laugh!
You have the most ridiculous conspiracy theory in US History clouding more than the first two years of the Trump presidency and it is said that Adam Schiff, a reputed part owner of the Standard Hotel in Los Angeles, a place of alleged sex-trafficking, murder and child sacrifice, will subpoena Mueller to investigate how Trump (or “the Russians” lol) got to Mueller, corrupted his report, and made the self-evidently “good” dyke, Rachel Madow weep with disappointment, last Friday evening…..because of five little words from the Mueller Investigation Into Trump-Russian 2016 US Election Collusion: “no new indictments are recommended”.
Boo-hoo!
I’m so honored to have been nominated by Anonymouse for membership in the “Little Englanders Club”! In that club we have elevated this psychological defense mechanism to a great art. Tony, and my shipmate One Minion …and many more of us little englanders and I can express sheer horror and disgust at the AZ-Empire to the degree that most visitors to the Vineyard of the Saker probably are starting to believe that the “A” stands for “American”…..and not “Anglo”.
I mean seriously, it is such a horror show over there in the colonies that embarrassments like the Skripal fiasco and such, can ONLY be explained, you see, by the intense pressure put on our society by those Bloody Yanks!
Sure, our royals bestow knighthoods on the ones that serve our interests…and they love to bend their knee to our Evil Rulers…..for wealth and honors…….but never mind THAT!
Where The Blame lies, is clear to we Little Englander Friends of Russia! Over there!
Don’t look here for the origins of anything bad. Not here! Good heavens, no! We are too little! “Over there!:
They are both very BIG and very BAD!”
Never mind the Balfour Declaration …Our British Israelites and that stupid Orange Freak’s tweet about us trying to foment conflict between the US and Russia…..the MONSTER is over there, not over here!
Although we’ve forced the Buffoon to carry out aggressions and unfriendly behavior against Russia just to kind of prove he’s not Putin’s Bitch…don’t you believe for even one second That Empire and Colossal EGO are not 100% the essence of that man!
Well, that could be! That most certainly could be.
There is so much deception and maskirovka afoot in the world these days that the whole planet seems enshrouded in fog. Nothing is clear, except that WE are good. And the proof of that is that we are the most horrified!
Which makes us “really on to something”.
No, not about human compromise blackmailing practically every significant western banker and politician.
We’re horrified by Trump! Saving us from that or ANY thing, for that matter!
And you shan’t take that away from us!
And his Q-base coming up with horrible things about Cannibalism, Moloch Worship with Child Rape and Human Sacrifice. This is ALL simply really annoying competition in the struggle for WHO …is Most Horrified!
And therefore…..The Best!
It just HAS to be us!
How could it be otherwise??
Rachel Chandler?
100 times Allison Mack? According to Q?
Who cares??
I don’t know. It’s less than 48 hours since BLOCKADE REMOVED and Rachel Maddows tears. Much, much tougher now to continue with Russia, Russia, Russia!
I don’t know about the most horrifying things being looked into by the Q _Army….I’m with my fellow Little Englanders there! While I can well imagine that or something like that compromises and disables the conscience of many a “player” making policy in the world today, there has got to be court-admissible evidence (DNA, Video, audio of good quality, etc) before I will claim that I know for absolute certain that that Evil exists and Trump is any good…because he’s crushing it. Or even conceivably might ever do so, if not hindered and harrassed daily.
That is most unappetizing, unpalatable fare, for us!
The investigating has barely started.
And we little Englanders have some serious competition, over there in the colonies. They are busy as bees getting even more horrified than we are about them!
An email I sent to my Red Pilled (former Liberal!) sister “Over There”:
I wrote:
“A bit long, but a good example of what anons digging can do ….FAST!”
https://youtu.be/0gkotgmtrlg
MUST WATCH – EXPOSING Fashion’s Underbelly of DARKNESS! Naming Names!.
..in ONE good day of digging………..quite a bit unearthed! And you’re watching him do it, right over his shoulder….scroll, mouse click,,,,,scroll….. And you’ve got growing LEGIONS of these people!
My eldest sister wrote back:
“pretty good… he spent a lot of time on one I don’t think Q mentioned, but then came around to Chandler again.. they are ‘all’ connected in many ways.. I’ll watch some of the other ones from yesterday when I get time.. a LOT of this was starting to come out from anons very quickly, cause like I said, Q posted most of this almost a year ago.. early April 2018.. so they are digging now below what they already had dug up then… and then quite a few are getting extremely good at the digging.. but those aren’t the ones on YouTube and the ones on YouTube have a wide range of proficiencies accessing 8chan.. I know I’m lost on 8chan..
btw.. supposedly a high school classmate of Chandler’s contacted one on the anons.. said their high school was an extremely expensive one, that Chandler’s father owns/ed the LA Times ? and that she ran in stratospheric circles very early… the rest of the school kids were more ‘normal’ elite school kids and no one ran with Rachel.. just gaga at her stories of who she spent time with without the gruesome details.. “
Duh!
I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked except about my own slowness! Geez, I knew Chandlers = Los Angeles Times 35 years ago!
= Hollywood = The Crown = The Empire of Evil
…and my sister and some classmate of Rachel Chandler’s contacting some anon who is 8 chan proficient is the flint that finally strikes a spark in my little old brain.
All those Deplorables so energetically “digging” horrifying shit up, Intent on freeing up Orange Man for MAGA:
He even wants the Koreas to be united and Great Again.
That’s not us, either. We are the only ones supposed to have “great” in our name
Yikes! What’s going on over there? The stuff of nightmares!
Horrible! Deplorable!
‘Desiderata’ (Latin: “things desired”) is an early 1920s prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.
Thank you, one minion, for posting Desiderata in its entirety.
Brother Nathanael, Brother Farrakhan, and Sister Omar
Who controls the US Congress and hates all three?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxRK5Q50j1w
The criminal regimes of the US,Israel,Argentina,and Brazil,caught in a web of collusion to undermine governments in Latin America:
“Don’t Spy for Me Argentina”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/03/20/dont-spy-for-me-argentina.html
“Don´t Cry For Me Argentina”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfRvliXdAL4
I posted this over on the saker’s “The fraud of nationalist Zionism” article. Wanted to post over here for more eyeballs.
https://youtu.be/6vWulcZcdDE
Ahmed, this was a good video. Thanks!
No problem, glad you enjoyed it.
A very sober analysis of recent hasty meeting ‘tween E. Abrams and Sergei Ryabkov An article
@
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/03/22/russia-gives-us-red-line-venezuela.html
Evidently the Dark Force and the Light Force are at daggers drawn over Venezuela – and nobody gunna back down – because neither force has no other options, considering that the Dark Force is delusional and believes they’re authorized by god…sorta like the Blues Brothers, but black…
Excerpt>
“… After the Rome meeting, Ryabkov said bluntly: “We assume that Washington treats our priorities seriously, our approach and warnings.”
One of those warnings delivered by Ryabkov is understood to have been that no American military intervention in Venezuela will be tolerated by Moscow….”
I think this conflict-couple was baked-in when they recognized the fraud-stooge…
No body’s going to back down. Because they can’t.
This would add to the seriousness of the red line:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-24/russian-troops-aid-arrive-caracas-trump-leaves-military-intervention-venezuela
I don’t find this anywhere else but zerohedge – so, a little caution is in order here.
Also (or maybe a different event?) here on Japan Times (apparently from Reuters):
https://japantoday.com/category/world/update-1-russian-air-force-planes-land-in-venezuela-carrying-troops-reports
From the article is seems to me to be technical assistance but I am not knowledgeable about military matters so may be reading it incorrectly.
Here from the beginning of the article:
“Russian air force planes land in Venezuela carrying troops
Today 04:05 am JST
Two Russian air force planes landed at Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to media reports, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.
“A flight-tracking website showed that two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for Caracas on Friday, and another flight-tracking site showed that one plane left Caracas on Sunday.”
continues…
Reuters > https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/russian-air-force-planes-land-in-venezuela-carrying-troops-reports-idUSKCN1R50NB
But I agree, maybe it’s not what it seems. Maybe it’s “fake” – but the metaphysics of conflict based on long lines of observation in the realm of reality say that, true or not, a fight is a sure thing. The nature of the fight remains to be revealed by Time… ( Richard Rhodes at the library of congress> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fsnyyVGJfQ Does come to mind… (The Twilight of the Bomb ))
Yet the fundamentals indicate that Russia’s Policy stated by VVP and restated recently by VVP is that Russia will defend her allies. This is a specific. Further, the Empire cannot allow it to be seen to retreat and has also made public claims that seem to guarantee that it cannot back down…after gathering about 50 starapies and making the ultimatums.
Its looks as if there is something here. Pompeo is having pompous fits. “A group of Russian military personnel has arrived in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas to take part in consultations with the country’s government officials on bilateral defense industry cooperation, a diplomatic source in Caracas told Sputnik.”
https://sputniknews.com/world/201903251073524212-pompeo-venezuela-russia-tensions/
Completing my brief comment to rootman regarding the video of Thierry Baudet’s victory speech, I listened to his speech a second time.
Thierry Baudet is a remarkable orator and delivered a compassionate and all-encompassing speech. As a Swiss citizen, I fully undersign his party’s promise for binding referenda, popular initiatives and for elections on all levels of government. I also acknowledge the need to ameliorate the Euro fundamentally – because otherwise the Euro will have to be abolished entirely once it becomes obsolete due to its self-destructive forces.
However, denying the need to wean society and economy from depleting resources, in particular to wean them fast, is as self-destructive/self-defeating in the mid- to long-term as denying the need to fundamentally reform the Euro and the EU. The party FvD will become obsolete much sooner than its members could possibly estimate if WW III breaks out over scarcer and scarcer resources.
As I wrote before, I understand that promising the continuity of an unsustainable lavish lifestyle racked in additional support during these elections. Unfortunately, any serious attempt of maintaining our current lifestyle and our current rate of burning through depleting resources will end in disaster. If the FvD moves in this direction, its actions would copy the party cartel’s actions in this matter. If one monitors the actions instead of the “heavenly” words of our main-stream politicians, one will note quickly that hardly any politician is taking the resource (and climate) issue serious enough to effect real change. So, the true climate heresy is not in the promises but in the near-total lack of enabling actions.
I wish the FvD success in general but failure of the ecologically disastrous busyness as usual.
May I observe, fellow Englanders, that this Q business is getting truly alarming!?
This bloke with a Fawkes mask on, Vincent Vendetta, calls for dissolving our Parliament, sending our “Royals” packing (Q did say, “May neutralized, Royals seeking shelter.” some months ago…….) and doesn’t actually say “Q” at any point (no “drops”, no “bread crumbs”, no annoying riddles) but I swear that in little faint letters near the top of the screen (I rubbed my eyes…it wouldn’t ….just would NOT go away!) there it said “Q Anon WWG1WGA”.
Is this some kind of horror flick we are living through???
https://youtu.be/c5zZk98yq8s SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN
The videos of Diana suffering through a “ceremony” featuring Phillip and Sir Edward Heath are quite telling…and God Save Us!…the comments are full of englanders just like ourselves saying things such as:
chunkyification
1 week ago
William of Orange(33) known cannibal, crossed over with 11000 mercenaries following the death of Cromwell. The government rolled over and let them invade. We are under the incredible situation of being our own captors before these unspeakable dregs who own us and use us as food and entertainment and protection. They are the crown in the evil NWO cabal. We need Q style warfare from anyone still loyal to Britain within the armed forces. The police are a potent part of the problem.
JJ sassey
5 days ago
So why as Andrew been arrested corrupt policing again. The royals should be kicked out of the country back to Germany and we should become a Republic.
les goss
4 days ago
Last night I watched a 1961 movie entitled “Jack the Giant Killer”. It was a B-grade action movie including a few British actors. There was a line in the movie where the female lead said, “Imagine the queen of England as a witch!” In 1961, those who saw that movie and heard that line probably thought nothing much about the statement in its context as part of the fictional story. But, last night, as I heard the line spoken, I recalled that it was in 1961 (I believe) that Queen Eliz. II and Prince Philip visited Canada where 10 children disappeared from an orphanage the very day that the two visited that place. Many of you know the story behind that sordid event. That movie line made much more sense to me last night than it would have 58 years ago.
Q- Tube
6 days ago
MOUNTBATTEN LIKED LITTLE BOYS
12
UK NEWS
UK NEWS
1 week ago
princess Diana knew about this
Another one of Vinny’s little videos has a bunch of englanders wishing that……” a man like Putin were among us, to save us from these demons”.
It’s all very confusing!
A few more.
https://youtu.be/TXE3p2TfCtc UNITED KINGDOM OF AMERICA
and this one on the Russia issue
https://youtu.be/xD3yX708UDQ THE UK GOV IS A THREAT TO GREAT BRITAIN
Skripal and all that. OMG….the comments among our fellow englanders are quite alarming! (They like Russia!)
Mass Strike. OMG this last one is awful for the anti-Trumpers across the pond too, our Tory friends!
The AIPAC seance begins with the whining, the knee walking, the whimpering, mixed in with the bombast:
https://www.sott.net/article/409773-AIPACs-Howard-Kohr-Intense-hatred-of-Israel-is-moving-from-the-margins-to-the-center-of-US-politics
The Syrian representative at the UN delivers some withering sarcasm toward Saudi Arabia, which thought it would help shape a new constitution for Syria:
https://twitter.com/walid970721/status/957142684027809793
… Welcome to “New Europe” …
Focus: Women made to keep low profile in some French suburbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gZFGpNdH1A
(not just about fuel prices and cost of living but about life in general)
A shirt worn by a very burly man on a Harley:
“What doesn’t kill me best run like Hell”
Funny Samoan show at the Polynesian cultural centre 2019 | FULL SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITDY-djWso0
Trump is exonerated, the media made a fool of, a smashing awakening leverage. Don’t believe fake news, none of it, nor fake online London make-up marches approving a nonbrexit, ( general consensus states Brits smouldering with contempt for non leadership, betrayal of vote to leave EU. the rest don’t care and are getting on with their lives as best they can.)
Its all good.
LU
I couldn’t have commented any better of little englanders, a gem worth repeating /the-great-fraud-of-national-zionism/#comment-627431
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Snow Leopard on March 22, 2019 · at 9:11 pm EST/EDT
Mulga; As usual, I completely agree with you in this matter. The way I see, it the bourgeois collective mentality of England is practically incapable of sustaining the resistance you call for. It seems to me that the mentality of the English (they created bourgeois capitalism and see it as part of their national identity) is so all round and complete that resistance to it is seen by the English as a form of anti patriotic evil. This makes for a happy hunting ground for the Anglo-Zionist ego maniacs.
remaining long quote removed .. use link above …. mod
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Mueller? a simple psyop /moveable-feast-cafe-2018-08-02/#comment-545803
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vot tak on August 03, 2018 · at 2:05 am EST/EDT
With knowledge of Mueller’s past, people can see that he is not in the news today to reveal important information about Russia and the Trump Administration. To the contrary, Mueller is in the news to divert attention away from important information and, most likely, to prevent the Trump Administration from being scrutinized in any real way.”
IE: mueller is there not to skewer trump, but run a bogus misdirection psyop intended to keep the zionazi/nazi meme of Russia as bad guy playing. While in the meantime prevent any real scrutiny of the trump regime’s role as a front for the israeli extremists, and their extremely corrupt aligned oligarchical/corporate interests. Other aspects of the psywar are to present trump as victim of persecution to the dittoheads (“rally round the trump, boys”), and thereby reinforce their backing.
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Thousands of Brit soldiers are running the Saudi airbases and piloting planes that bomb Yemenis in the dirty Saudi war against Yemen. The UK papers have revealed that UK special forces are also on the ground there:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6843469/Five-British-Special-Forces-troops-wounded-Yemen-advising-Saudi-Arabia-campaign.html
Maybe the Brits can help kill a whole load more Houthis when the Russian TOS-1A flame systems arrive (as part of the S400 deal).
Service Information (updated)
‘No one is going anywhere
Traffic is stationary
Go home
Make bread
Make jam
Eat it
That’s all.’
Brits also have humour–you gotta be in it to win it !
LU
The Barr notes on the Mueller report exonerates Trump from colluding with the Russians. But, it still firmly states that Russia interfered with the 2016 elections, that Russia hacked the Hillary emails and dropped and distributed them with the help of Wikileaks.
https://www.scribd.com/document/402973432/AG-March-24-2019-Letter-to-House-and-Senate-Judiciary-Committees#from_embed
This gives Trump more ammo to go against the media (which he did not need as he did it in any event), ammo to go against the democrats who are insisting they will continue investigations but they are imploding anyways, and brings no relief on the relationship with Russia, or a break for Julian Assange, or for Venezuela or for Syria or for the Balkans or Nato or for anywhere else.
There is a bunch of real ‘left’ i.e., socialist in their leanings who are real happy, as they insisted all along that Russiagate was a hoax and of course anyone that had a brain left, knew this. (I’m talking about people like Jimmy Dore and the small but legitimate leftist contingent although that term is just nonsense these days – progressive is perhaps a better word).
And of course, the Trump supporters read only one sentence, i.e., there was no collusion, and forgot about the rest. This Barr recommendation says only that Trump did not collude with the Russians while they were interfering in the elections. But read it and you will see that perhaps a deal was made here.
Those that think that some barrier has fallen or some ‘blockade’ has been removed could re-think in the light of the full Barr document on the link. Trump has a little more room to take a cudgel to the media and the democrats.
To my mind the delusional nature of US internal politics and the belief that the US can do what they want in the world, will continue without pause. It is this same media and these same democrats that support Trump in all warmaking activities. All that will change, is that it will become more delusional, if even that is possible.
CJ Hopkins and Caitlin Johnstone both tell the story from different directions with gusto and true journalistic emotional zeal.
http://www.unz.com/chopkins/mueller-dammerung/
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-mueller-report-is-in-they-were-wrong-we-were-right-a915d23a6d82
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/russiagate-skeptics-rightly-boast-about-being-proven-100-correct-f222592f2f82
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/trump-is-going-to-repeat-this-until-november-2020-thanks-msnbc-6d0613859ebc
Today I believe Trump is going to sign some document that says the US recognizes the Golan Heights as Israeli asset or property or something and the US ‘drang nacht Venezuela and the whole South of the American continent and the rest of the world’, continues unabated. This is what needs to change to keep us out of the many wars.
I have not seen anyone pick up on Trump’s reversal of new sanctions on North Korea (perhaps somebody did while I fell asleep on the job and took some offline time lol).
There has not been a solid confirmation on the story that Russian troops landed in Venezuela. As far as I could trace it was a Reuters report – but I’m waiting for something from Venezuela or from Russia in confirmation.
This week there are again negotiations on the Trade War US vs China, but this is really being taken out of the news cycle. Let’s see. China is playing things close to their chests and their media is telling their people that they may have to depend economically more on internal trade for a time, while the overall Chinese plan is to trade with everyone.
I’d be interested in anyone letting me know if you think anything material or substantive has changed with Barr’s comments on the Mueller report. (Preferably your own thoughts please).
Finally, it seems we are on the verge of another Israeli ‘demolition’ of Gaza. This is all very strange – Trump claiming the Golan Heights, to make Bibi look strong, and suddenly a rocket shot into Israel from Gaza – something that could be really a provocation to get Bibi to perhaps win the next election and show strength by pummeling Gaza just before the elections.
Killing ‘two-legged animals’ and ‘mowing the grass’ ie Gazan children, plays well with Satan-yahoo’s base.
Amarynth:
Good comment.
I personally do not have firm ideas as to whether anything has changed with barr letter. I post a link to a guy who has dissected the letter and has gone back several years-he has generally been fairly objective but he is in the trump camp so take that with a grain of salt, maybe a lump of salt as I personally have completely lost any confidence or hope for the trump camp with their thugs in suits and kushner, the zionist el supremo.
With that said, he does make the point or two with which that I completely agree:
-mueller and rosenstein are not honorable men, they are part of the swamp filth;
-there was no hacking of dnc or for that matter, any serious effort by russians to influence the election-the midgets on horseback just will not let this one go; dnc was leaked, prob by seth rich, russian influence, nada, zilch.
but anyway, here it is (long, too much detail, but FWIW:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/03/25/a-review-of-the-barr-principal-conclusion-notification-overlaying-three-years-of-background-research/#more-161648
The following are my replies to some comments, all wrapped up in one place for the convenience of a summary review. Thanks for sharing all your thoughts and feelings. I am a boring old fool I suppose but if I bore through the boredom, I might come out the other side to something better. This brief summary does not do justice to the complete comments so go for the whole enchilada.
I enjoyed ioan’s essay on free will, one of our key faculties for good and evil. Without that who are we but empire zombies and puppets?
Anonymous responds by pointing out some contradictions in religion. I have been involved in these conundrums for many years; and finally had to take the best of religions and ignore the rest, ending up with a reasonable religion I can live with, built upon the ironic truth of “in order to reason I must have faith in reason; unless that’s redundant.
The root meaning of religion is to “tie back or re-tie” into the source of life itself, which Jesus preached was Love. Using that base, I have characterized Love with practical, logical and mechanical-like specifications which contradict everything Empire stands for.
ioan replies that religion is made up by people to meet their needs and entails contradictions; and observes that free will is not as free as it seems — sort of an “unfree will.”
Religion and Logic can easily tie itself up in knots, and avoid tying itself to Love, which is usually avoided when it strikes too close to home and demands major changes.
Teranam 13’s reply to this chuff stuff is to pitch it into the looney bin. I try to shuck the grain and chuck the chaff to said looney bin for recycling.
amarynth joins the discussion and suggests letting deep thoughts simmer. I agree but then contradict myself by chiming in. Such is life in the lost lane.
ioan reverts to poetry; this caught my eye:
“On that oak tree in Ojai
And an old friend who lived there
Meets The Lady in the square
Kissing her in brothers name
In that Valley full of fame.”
Oh, ioan, you know how to stroke heartstrings that sing with sweet memories. Those were the days my friend; we thought they would never end. Thanks for the reverie of those good old days. Your full poem “Falling Asleep” made my heart sing before it melted.
Bro 93 put up a video by Eckhart Tolle, with Bro’s usual reservations, hesitations and qualifications. I am not quite so kind in my judgments.
Eckhart is a fine specimen of new age mumbo jumbo which rests on confusion at its philosophical and religious base. I’ve been there and done that for most of my life. Despite much money and time, it does not work in my experience. The Empire promotes this kind pseudo-thinking because it destroys both logic and religion, which if rightly practiced, does offer resistance to the lords of existence. These kind of Tolle unsubstantial smooth talkers, and that’s being kind to them, put up zero opposition to the masters. They use the canard of evolution to attack humanity’s ego, which means “I”, the very thing we are; talk about destroying your own self! I’ve paid the price for supporting such shallow opportunists, but by dint of hard intellectual work have slipped that trap. I have to guard against slipping into something worse: the really devious entanglements of imperial mind manipulators. Politicians, drug pushers, therapists of every persuasion and even big religion make a lot of money in the racket of faking and making people feel pseudo-good. My long experience tells me such ‘adjustment’ just drives problems deeper down and ends up protecting Empire.
That being said, Bro is a brother when it comes to my remedial education here at Cafe Central. Here’s a gem for refrigerator doors or bumper stickers:
“That’s why the Café is so ideal…almost timeless in its rest and repose…….and second chances…” I love it; I get a second chance; I second that, with the reservation that I want unlimited second chances and continual advantageous advances. Thanks.
The Fifer’s Lament touched me in places even Keat’s misses. Here’s another sleeper keeper from Dimitar:
“the heart of the story came out in a single breath in the last three stanzas. This is one of the special gifts of entering ‘the creative fray’, to be sure…”
This cafe is brimming with poesy and creative fray. Silence is the best tribute but my mind insists on having its say. Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty as Keats, via Bro, reminds us. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that’s not hard to see but where is Truth nowadays? Ah, there’s the rub, at least for me. Pilate asked Jesus what truth was but Jesus declined to answer then, in view of his impending trial. Later he said that he was the truth.
That’s the kind of saying that leads to endless church debates. I think it comes within a genre of “sayings” that have symbolic meanings, not literal, fundamentalist ones. Church authority would differ but I interpret it to refer to each one of us as a truth teller and bearer, with Jesus as a universal sign for each and all of us insofar as we “are truth,” since how can one know truth unless one is truth? — not truth in an absolute sense but a human one. Jesus was after all human and divine, which leads down another path of inquiry. Love stops the endless spinning unless we reduce it to “just a four letter word.”
The talk about the Bristol Brabazon and related science is beyond me. In my broadest view, most technology is “reinventing the wheel,” driven by the masters for whom “knowledge is power.” Presumably, our ancestral creators perfected enough technology to give us a garden paradise to live in. Reinventing all that tech is therefore unnecessary except for power purposes. Why not enjoy what we were given with the technology that came with the gift? At least keep technology within the template of our original creation. Empire has wiped such thoughts from our collective memory in its drive for power and endless progress. The ecosystem is dying; it’s a debatable question whether that or human hubris will kill us first. As individuals there’s always the escape hatch of love and free will.
I enjoy “reading, writing and ‘rithmetic” here in this cozy cafe with the likes of you; not much else to do in my later days that interests me. Call it love, call it crazy but poet philosophers and lovers are my role models for a happy and fulfilled life which is grounded on earth and always will be imo, as bodies and souls or whatever in a post-Empire world. Who is to say the earth is not the center of the universe?
On the other hand, I can see how reverse engineering of the already invented wheel can be a beautiful thing if it was part of our original moral universe of truth. My son is studying engineering at Berkeley and I’d hate to put him out of a job. In a spiraling view of it all, we come back to our beginnings in a slightly different place so perhaps continual trips about the wheel is not without its own grace. However, sans love, the wheel will be wobbly at best and off the axle at worst.
This wheel’s on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify your next of kin
This wheel shall explode!
I’d better post this before it gets excessively long. If this is a monotonous monologue, please turn it into a dialogue of many colors. Variety is the spice of life. It’s a clear and sunny day here in the Chief Tomah Wisconsin heartland reservation; hope your day is clear as well.
A reasonably good commentary on just “reading the news” with a healthy dose of skepticism-bottom line: trust no one. It is obvisous for the well known manipulators and deceivers such as NYT, WaPo, abc, cnn, msmbc, et al. But fox news, as frequently mentioned, is not to be trusted as well. The story is try to maintain a filter and seek confirmation. This may seem obvious to the readers herein who to my mind are very well informed and skeptical but it certainly is not obvious to the sheeple who grab a headline and take it as news:
https://opensociet.org/2019/03/25/youre-never-too-old-to-learn-something-stupid/
I just sent an email to ioan and by hurriedly posting it here…reveal that he’s the recipient of the coming Crypto Give-Away …because he is of very sound mind and heart…the Most Prolific Poet in the Vineyard (though challengers are emerging, for that title….which can only animate the Moveable Feast Poetic Hive’s Output of
Poetic Honey….which I am sure he approves of!):
start of email:
Dear Ioan,
I haven’t forgotten the Hive Mind Crypto-Café Project…….but “What can I say?…The extraordinary world strategic developments ARE (for the moment) a higher ranking priority!
Patience!
As soon as the pace of those developments slows down a bit I will send you the HMCCP “White Paper” initiating email.
In the meantime, there are a lot of unsettled hearts, minds and bowels all around the world because of Trump’s Apparent Knockdown Over the Deep State last Friday…..and let’s face it, the DJT Orangeman Superhero will not live forever and besides VP and XI and DJT, we are going to need some new ….and EVEN better ones…………if Humanity Is Ever Going to Grow Up!
So today, we must care for all, and give each inhabitant of the Planet what they need to Come Through The Storm Stronger Than Before!
In that regard, for example, we mustn’t neglect even our dear Lepretards!
That class of persons, by the way, does not include Sean, who (from what I have seen) is very much up to speed, quite an early riser, in fact, and almost never late, like I sometimes am. Additionally, his identity is anchored by Holy Rhyme to the Gaelic syllable “chaun” (whose etymology I am curious about) and we are going to need a lot of those Little Fellows to tickle the English across the Irish Sea….to loosen those millions of little englander “stiff upper lips” who have endured Saxe Gotha pedophile abusive rule for quite enough centuries already…(and afflicted Ireland with the same abuse…that’s how it works…) …thank you!
Among the Lepretards, Anonymouse deserves special care! He’s been guarding the Shores of Ireland, not only against The Imaginary Threat of My Little Englander Invasion Of Eire but in true Maximalist Irish Marxist Form he has stood watch with remarkable constancy to inform Dennis Leary (every time Dennis waxes poetically nostalgic about his Gaelic roots) that Dennis is NOT Irish….AT ALL….. like he is!
I am struggling with such remarkably absolutist ideas that can tolerate no nuance or degrees of difference, or subtlety….. whatsoever!!!. The Chinese US Citizens living in Southern California that speak much better Chinese than English are “Not Chinese” according to this Maximalist Logic!???
I don’t get it. When I practice Tai Chi with them at the Academy, they sure seem Chinese to me!
In varying individual degrees, of course…..
ANYway, the following video cartoon is for one extreme of Lepretard (the Not Irish and Pro-Trump and Communal Sex extreme….the OTHER extreme…) and the many visitors to the Vineyard of the Saker that are more shy about their hopes for Deplorable Donald (The Peacemaker….they hope…the Undertaker of Empire…I hope) than Dennis is:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pIrNGsV5iUXO/
It’s from this new article by Neon Revolt….where you see that his first video link is already censored by the Deep State:
https://www.neonrevolt.com/2019/03/25/my-maga-academia-qanon-neonrevolt/
Now. Let’s face it, ioan. That cartoon is going to be a real stomach churner not just for Anonymouse and Rachel Madow and Chris Mathews and millions of others around the world…..but, I frankly admit …it will upset the digestive tracts of most “regulars” right here, as well! And we have to be prepared in advance and take their needs in mind, as well. So here ya go, guys:
https://youtu.be/hu17EdNIlZM Trump Toilet Paper – The Presidential Pack
Everybody else, in between, like you and me?
I just hope they benefit from observing The Great Loosening Up ….of both extremes.
All for now! Work day.
But first I’ll copy this and paste over in the Moveable Feast Café, where some one lone soul (…perhaps!….) may be breathlessly awaiting the HMCCP….and running out of patience…poor guy or gal!
Take or fake it as you will, this is supposed to be a kind conversation around a cafe round table in a pub of craic, jigs and jesting, with serious business in the cracks as it were. I’m always behind the times here because I operate behind the lines, reading between the lines in a rear-guard action. In the current of the present, your comments charge ahead, while I, like a field war correspondent, field your comments into a summary cafe history that I can review at my leisure. My reports from the cafe theater therefore are out of synch in the now but will link later for those in the know.
“The feminazis in particular, still in mourning for their banshee, blood-soaked, harridan, demi-goddess, Clinton, were truly cackling (in tribute to their idol’s well-known sense of humour). You really would have thought that Mueller had found Trump guilty of everything.” Mulga Mumblebrain.
Great sarcasm worthy of George Carlin.
I am intrigued by ioan and Anonymous’s repartee concerning religion. Two topics that are sure to stir hornets from their beds are religion and politics, or are these two soulmates sleepers in one bed?
The tete a tete continues with Randy and Job giving the standard view of religion and Anonymous and leprechaun sean the revisionist version in delightful enlightening prose poetics.
“we find glimpses of His divine thinking. I am content with that.” Randy.
“There’s a really old book, full of stollen histories, from many peoples that were almalgamated into one story of the ‘choosen’. That book and it’s collection of stollen stories was; for the choosen, writen by the choosen. It does not at any point cover free will, although many of it’s followers use their free will, at will, to destroy the will and lives of other non-choosen.” sean.
“Jesus was aReligous, was not about religion, wealth, accumilation of possessions. He was about caring for fellow humans, the poor, the sick, the ‘un-choosen’. The ‘will’ to freely choose to help others less fortunite. His empathy (love really) knows no bounds………..even today.” sean.
“Thank god, another Irishman that wants to throw the Bible away. Dennis will not be happy that Catholicism is going out of favour here though.” Anonymous.
We Catholics would no more throw out bibles than throw out Baby Jesus with the Holy Water. Careful, my son, of heresy. Your sins are forgiven. For your penance say three Hail Mary’s. Go and sin no more.
Dimitar and Teranam take the high and low roads to the same place.
“what can go bad?…We’re never given more than we can handle” D.
“Some people are given events that crush them, destroy them or leave them gasping, thrashing like fish thrown most brutally from the waters of life.” T.
“Dear one, maybe there’s a lot more to us than we think or even know.” D.
parrhesiastes:…”Are We On the Road to War?” (well, when were we not?).
Fair question deserving a good answer. In the beginning of our species there was no war. Even as late as the late stone age, and even later in island places like Crete there is no evidence of walls, fortifications and weapons. War is a major tool of Empire to achieve totalitarian control, gaining in speed and sophistication. Man is hellbent on his path self-destruction.
“Now, he’s hell-bent for destruction, he’s afraid and confused
And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill
All he believes are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies
But there’s a woman on my block
Sitting there in a cold chill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?”
Uncle Bob is a realist on Ukraine, that most unreal of places.
““People want to show the authorities the middle finger, and he is playing the role of this middle finger,” says one Ukrainian analyst. Donald Trump would understand.””
“No one better embodies the old guard than the perennial Queen of Diamonds, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko…the “Princess Leia of Ukrainian politics” (for her trademark folk-motif braids)…“a kind of Eva Peron figure…“on the side of the poor but in a fur coat.”
Bro 93 is on fire like a 6 foot 8 inch point guard bucketball sharp shooter, a californian cannoneer aiming at ‘Lil New Englanders’ as if they were cannon fodder. He’s a fair psychologist on horror movies’ motivations and maga machinations, along with the Mueller and Madow show on the road to the “Little Englanders Club”, courtesy of an Anonymous nomination. Of course the Bloody Yanks did Skirpal as part of the Great Blame Game, especially the blame Trump trump card. The American Revolution will not be over until it comes back to Mother England. Sarcasm at its finest.
“There is so much deception and maskirovka afoot in the world these days that the whole planet seems enshrouded in fog.”
“We’re horrified by Trump! Saving us from that or ANY thing, for that matter!”
Whether Trump stands the test of time only time will tell. The most telling argument against him is that he’s supporting the new Israel Kingdom with its all obor roads leading to Home Jerusalem. I don’t see how that can come out well, unless Evil is being brought to a head so the head of that beast can be turned to Good all in one fell swoop. I don’t think a Q Army can do it but a Love Army might.
Azorka1861 teases us with:
“Brother Nathanael, Brother Farrakhan, and Sister Omar
Who controls the US Congress and hates all three?”
The US-Israel Axis of Evil of course. It’s the new talking point deception of good guys vs bad guys with the nice guys controlling both sides. The magicians get us to look at one hand while the behind one steals us blind. As Brother Bro might say: It’s them, not us; they’re the horror show, we’re the good guys. Mr. Nice Guy smiles on his way to the bank. When are we going to realize they’re all in on the show?
“…playing a show in Miami in the theater of divine comedy.”
“Don’t Spy for Me Argentina” “Don´t Cry For Me Argentina”
Nice. Thanks to Uncle Bob and Azorka.
amarynth sums it up nicely:
“To my mind the delusional nature of US internal politics and the belief that the US can do what they want in the world, will continue without pause. It is this same media and these same democrats that support Trump in all warmaking activities. All that will change, is that it will become more delusional, if even that is possible.”
Yes, it is possible imo, that it will become more delusional. If it’s any solace, it’s been delusional for a very long time, so nothing much will change. In my “lusional” mind, it is all one big theater, directed by the Man behind the screen, who is creating this illusion in a house of mirrors. The Man knows what he’s doing but do we? The question is: “to be or not to be?” We need only pull away the screen and see the Man behind it; and discover that it is We — and ourselves we can change.
A quote from a recent article by Pepe Escobar, who writes for Asia times and frequently posts on this board:
“The Trump administration’s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between The Sopranos and late-night comedy.”
My interpretation: policy by thugs or clowns.
That would seem to describe the Empire of Chaos, as he labels it-it is beyond pathetic and mindless and is extremely dangerous.
Oh, come on Taras, loosen up!
It was a pure Horror Show before, but since Inauguration Day it’s been half Vaudeville and the other half Kibuki Theatre. Don’t you see the change in trend???
Now we are in another stage, since 70 hours ago.
Go on the offensive!
Peace Offensive, that is.
I know it’s a difficult exercise…..like trying to wiggle your ears 20 years since the last time you did it….but it can be done.
Not ready to give up yet on my Donald The Undertaker of Empire…..quite yet. Especially not in the last 3 days!
But before you can put The Empire in the Casket, You’ve Got to KILL IT. For the sake of World Peace:
“The British, who began this operation as soon as Donald Trump announced for President, were acting strategically. They saw in Donald Trump what most Americans only sensed and hoped about. He is precisely the maverick, the outsider, who could end their Empire once and for all, by aligning with Russia and China and India, in a new Bretton Woods monetary agreement, an agreement between the most powerful sovereign nation states and economies in the world to fully develop the entire world to specifications reflecting the divine nature of human beings. This is what Lyndon LaRouche proposed be done. From there, humans can proceed to further realize their divine potential in joint projects to explore and develop near space while developing a higher platform of mutually advancing cultures. The most wonderful reckoning to be delivered about the coup against the President requires, now, the realization of this potential in the Trump presidency. The corollary involves promptly removing all British originated imperial ideas, premises, and intelligence networks from our nation. Lyndon LaRouche would be very happy with this perspective.”
Yes, Lyn is smiling in his grave while Leary fantasizes about free fornication everywhere without a thought in the world how to support the resulting new souls and ….alternatively, frets, sweats and has nightmares about people that DO have a fair idea about how many more billions might be provided for.
Right brain imbalance in the extreme. But I do get a rough idea of what I missed by reading his digests and applying a little bit of left brain filtering. So, “It’s all good!” and can still thank him!
the full LEAD the above excerpt was taken from:
https://larouchepac.com/20190325/mueller-releases-report-now-drive-stake-through-heart-british-empire
I don’t know who I’d pick here to strike the first hammer blow, if I strategically placed the sharp point of the stake right over The Empire’s Dark Evil Heart.
Leary? No, I don’t think so. Too mild.
Anonymouse?? I don’t know. I surmise he’s locked into a leftist complaining mode and wouldn’t want to give THAT up!!
I know! Sean the Leprechaun….or someone very much like HIM!
That was an absolutely searing post of his about Biological Warfare used by the British against the Irish………..causing the Blight to spread….for their genocidal Empire Purposes….as in India and other places….
Time to End The Empire Blight!
A bit of Stake Holding and hammering it through the heart is the way! That’s The Task Ahead, for those that can see it.
The rest of humanity will benefit with less effort or even none, …… but also much less satisfaction.
I’m sure that by now just about everyone is up to their eyeballs in post-mueller analysis of how malignant and dishonest this russiagate really was. One of the most remarkable aspects that i found was that this whole plot was hatched within hours of the news that the cretin hillary was defeated. this was done by operatives of her campaign. the damage to america will be long lasting and inculcuable. Just to put an emphasis on how massive this jug fluck cluster was, I provide this schematic which can be enlarge one time by clicking on the schematic. OK, bro, now I will lighten up. Doubt very much, however, that I will enjoy what is to follow if there is no accountability and consequences for the people who put this cluster coup attempt in place.
https://i.redd.it/zztjanu7h3o21.jpg
Huummm, consider this>
“A mysterious flight of a U.S. rendition plane to London and increase of plainclothes British police outside the Ecuador embassy has heightened concern for the WikiLeaks founder, as Elizabeth Vos reports.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/03/24/rendition-plane-increased-police-presence-raise-fears-for-assange/
Seems that “sonderkommando” airplane and the intrepid defenders of the 4th Reich are planning a trip…to London. Amid BREXIT fubar and marshal law some might see an opportunity to kidnap a “target”.
Imperial ukase has many servile agents…
“Following the major weekend development of Moscow unambiguously asserting its ‘red line’ concerning potential US military intervention in Venezuela, for which Russia sent a military transport plane filled with Russian troops which landed in Caracas Saturday, new satellite images reveal a major deployment of S-300 air defense missile systems to a key airbase south of Caracas.”
The standard in military for increases in strength so far as personnel goes is logarithmic. 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 and so on. Russia sent 100, they say… Ok, so next week or soon there will be 1000, until there are enough. Policy is stated bluntly, “Russia will defend her allies”. Policy is being implemented.
see> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-25/venezuela-military-deploys-s-300-missiles-following-russian-troop-arrival
Meantime President Madero, the Venezuelan government, has arrested a number of infiltrated agents and a Colombian general. > https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-24/maduro-allegedly-foils-us-assassination-plot-against-him-used-bofa-funds
And as Russian soldiers arrived the lights went out, more sabotage…https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-25/venezuela-plunged-darkness-hours-after-russian-troops-arrive
(I recall that when the Commandante and Che and the fellas were still fighting Batista, they also caused periodic power-outages. Since Fidel was playing the CIA for suckers (they thought he was their boy!) in those days, those power outages tell us that it’s a “by-the-book” GLADIO/OP. Well E. Abrams hisself said the same thing, didn’t he? ( Steinbeck in “The Moon is Down” (written for OSS, precursor of CIA) makes a point of explaining the application of power outages, and how easy they are to cause.))
If the Reich keeps this up they’re liable to get where their goin’ … Not pretty.
Shirer wrote about the Spring of 1939 in Europe, saying that it was the most beautiful Spring he’d ever seen…I am not sure we have until September…
There is another message here – and that is one of denial. We deny you the Monroe doctrine. I don’t know which is stronger … Russia will defend her allies, or Russia denies you the Monroe doctrine.
Good point. The “doctrine” is illegal since long ago, of course – the Senate ratified the UN Charter and this is US law – but almost zero American subjects, er “citizens” know this…so yes indeed, the propaganda machine may seize of the idea as a theme, bake and repeat.
In submariner speak there is maneuver called “crazy Ivan”. I hope it’s not a rude saying in Russian, but the evident resolve and military / civil support will probably be seen as a similar action…a ” сумасшедший маневр ивана ” but of course on land.
Dima Babich has described the strategy as “doing the unexpected”, ie “crazy” in the perspective of the putative dance partner’s eyes.
For some reason I thought of looking up the Russian as I awoke today, then, having read your remark, decided to moot it. One of those nights old men have…
The “doctrine” is incompatible with reality – and has to go. So it shall end. In fact, looking at the objective reality in Venezuela it does look like the doctrine is ended. Historians may see that the doctrine ended at the Invasión de Playa Girón in 1961, or perhaps at the Karibsky krizis the next year.
JFK was murdered over that…in a public execution – presumably as a lesson to anybody who aspired to the “leadership class”. It worked. So far…
This recent Russian action puts the Russian Policy in direct conflict with the Imperial Policy…
Oh dear, I hear the orchestra tuning up, and the dance is about to start…annaone, annatwo..
I think, many of us here, will not be surprised if the dance begins but I’ll not be surprised either, if the dance will be postponed for yet another day, and another, until every piece of the grand act will be in place before the arriving at crossroad.
What is a “safe” subject these days? That is, one which doesn’t ignite primitive emotions or stir-up controversy. It seemed that geology was such a subject; rocks are, after-all, fairly neutral, in the abstract; but, certain peculiar bits of rock like the Golan heights for instance, may lead to rather weighty discussion.
Meteors have always captured the imagination; and meteors/meteorites do fit under the geology umbrella somehow; but, meteors always were, and still are, controversial. They do not jibe with the status quo. Why is this? Why should any particular rock, or rocks, cause controversy? The answer is: Noah’s flood.
All textbook type geology is classified in terms of “not Noah”. This is to say that all cosmogony and timelines are designed to refute the biblical earth-creation event and earth-destruction event of the flood. How are they refuted? Simply by stating as a fact, that the earth did not begin at the creation, and was not destroyed in the flood.
It has become easy to show that the earth did not begin at the creation, by the millions and billions of years that are needed for it not to be (this sentence is 1.3 billion years old, etc); but, that the earth was not destroyed is a touchy subject. You can’t have your dinosaurs and your kt boundary too; or, in other words, meteors open-up a geologic can-of-worms. The mass of extinct creatures buried miles deep in the earth has been endlessly touted as irrefutable proof that there was no creation event: it takes eons for rock stratum to form, and eons more for dinosaurs to transform into birds, et al. The rude crash of cataclysm geology has thrown a wrench in these works: that we must accept meteor impacts is now a given, and the extinction of dinosaurs likewise; but, now the door is thrown open to the inevitability of global destruction, and suddenly the Noahic flood becomes tangible.
Why does the flood now become tangible? Because the death of all life on earth becomes conceivable and convincing, and because all life on earth was destroyed and only Noah survived (the question is: how can all life be destroyed, yet life still exists?)
Meteors have opened this doorway, the door was already opened, but we have been forced to walk through-it. Our ongoing inquiries into the godless millions and billions has brought this doomsday upon us with a clanging boom, and the earth is slowly being transformed in the eyes of beholders—from unshaken pillar, to a fiery sea of torment, great impact melt seas of vast destruction.
http://www.esotericmeanings.com/noahs-ark-symbolism/
Makes sense to me
https://patternsofcreation.com/tag/noahs-ark-mystical-meaning/
Very nice too
https://michael-feeley.com/blog/2018/07/11/the-real-meaning-of-noah-and-the-ark/
Pretty good too
You can’t destroy all life, that’s not how planetary evolution works. Oh sure you can wreck havoc on the surface, but while a meteor or several may have ‘retarted’ life form development, eliminating many, it caused conditions to flourish for many other life forms. Last big wipe out most large ‘land’ reptiles died off….yet life in the oceans survived……..crocs, allies, sharks and anything right down to the micron survived. The oceans being six times larger than the land mass. Nuclear witner………..lots of things would die, especially us, humans do not do well exposed to high doses of radiation, but look at the explosion of wild life at Chernobyl……..explain that. Humans survived Naggy and H’shema, many didn’t……….but not all humans will react the same. Ppm, dose, exposeure time, all play a role in what form of life degradation takes place.
Dear Moderators,
My last post on Count Khazar has not appeared. I suspect it was sent to the Saker. We have a long history of this kind of disappearance which you may or not be aware of. When I finally was able to learn of the problem from Saker himself, I have always complied with his wishes as best I can.
Unless there is some reason I am not aware of, I think the objectionable part may be a brief reference the Count makes to meat eating or possibly pet keeping; either that, or his sarcastic remarks about Russians as Russkies. If it’s the first, I can omit that part and resubmit the post. The second, regarding the sarcasm, is actually pro-Russian; if you don’t get the humor, I can omit that too. If it’s the story as a whole, I can skip that also.
As for Count Khazar and Khazaria, Sheikh Imran Hosein, who is highly respected by the Saker, has a video in which he says that Khazarians are the most important people of all involved in the troubles of our world. He goes into detail about their history, character, intelligence, motivation and infiltration of almost all other nations. According to him, they are the main cause of evil in the world and the creators of the Empire that is bent on destroying Russia. Currently, the Sheikh is featured on the main page, which I am just getting into. I respect him.
Count Khazar symbolizes and personalizes this in a novel form. I think it is vitally important to get this information out there to help protect Russia and defeat Empire. I will abide by whatever Saker wishes but would appreciate knowing why my post did not pass moderation. I can go on from there. In the event that its disappearance was a technical glitch, I’d appreciate knowing that. Free speech within the limits of reasonable moderation according to the rules is important to me. Thanks.
Sarcasm can come off as kind of nasty to anyone other than someone steeped in the art of ‘black humor’, which, in and of itself, due to launguage barriers and lack of funny bones, can cause uninitiated fits of pain not assocciated with a gut spliting laugh. Cheers
Dennis, will you be so kind and show me the link with Sheikh Imran Hosein where he speaks about Khazarians ? I would much appreciate that.
Hi. Google Sheikh Imran Hosein and Khazaria. There are several videos although some have been removed. I wonder why. It’s a fascinating and revealing study and explains much about our modern world.
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/an-iranian-april-surprise/#comments
On the other “front,” pompeo ably assisted by “think” tanks is racheting up the pressure on Iran. israel and niten yaa hoo is standing by. Giraldi raises the prospect of something much more ominous. If they do actually attack Iran, pompeo my get his “rapture” after all.
policy by thugs and clowns.
Warning; “conspiracy theory” follows.
The spin at 5a.m. (NZST) from Radio NewZion “confirms” that White Supremacy, the root cause of both ClimateDenialism and “mass murder” (a la Christchurch) is absolutely certainly the only global terrorist organisation that is worth paying any attention to, at all.
Indeed , there may not even be any others.
To be quite dogmatic about it, to believe that there are global terrorist organisations , other than WhiteSupremacy, is frankly , just conspiracy theory.
We know that the above thesis is the truth because our “Brenton” made large donations of his own pocket money, left to him by his aunt,to an Austrian FarRight organisation , which no longer has any computers capable of revealing the “source” of the payments.
Folks, remember some years ago Dmitry Orlov wrote the funniest essay, telling how the Russians are saying NYET!
The collective middle finger to the Demagogue Den is being lifted more and more. The Den itself is getting itself so en-strangled in so many issues, that chances are they will overreach. The Brits are busy with their no-Brexist but May is toast for all accounts and purposes — I’ll cheer the Yellow Vests when they carry Macron bodily out of his palace – The West is in trouble and it is now visible. Russia told Netanyahu and Hamas to quit this shooting business.
Venezuela is saying Nyet. The Russians are saying Nyet and making a simple explanation .. We are in Venezuela on the basis of a cooperation treaty, so nyet to your pompeo and bolton barking.
There is now an active Axis of Resistance (and for once working together) forming in the Middle East – Lebanon to Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen: and they are saying Nyet. (God help us that these will stay working together because those guys have never worked together – perhaps they are learning something).
Even Saudi Arabia (for what that is worth) is denouncing the Golan Grab for Israel.
I am sure the Chinese are busy saying Nyet during the trade negotiations but they will be very careful about it. They sure are saying Nyet in the South China Seas.
So, there is this song by Bob Marley and the Wailers… I Shot the Sheriff.
From this song ..
Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.
Every day the bucket goes to the well .. one day the bottom of the bucket is going to drop out.
Let’s hope it simply drops out, and somebody does not shoot it out!
You quote the prophet Bob Marley………….a beautiful ting, jah.
This may sound far-fetched, but perhaps Netanyahu did not lie:-
https://www.smh.com.au/world/israel-warned-new-zealand-that-un-resolution-was-declaration-of-war-report-20161228-gtiogk.html.
If he did not lie, then who on earth did he think was the target of this deplorable aggression by NZ?
Beats me.
You are not suggesting that NZ is being reminded of the consequences of its very loud Nyet at the U.N. are you?
Syrian refugees from Lebanon may flood Europe soon …
http://tass.com/world/1050523
The Kalergi Plan is heading for unforeseen consequences.
The Syrian people are intelligent and have backbones.
Europe will be revived … it will be creative, progressive and peaceful,
though this will take a few generations to emerge.
The Europe of today, has had its day … it is basically too stupid …
as is the western world in general.
We need progress amid peace.
The following is extracted from page 95 (of 245 pages) …
The Controversy of Zion … by Douglas Reed
http://www.boervolkradio.co.za/boeke/controversy-of-zion-douglas-reed.pdf
” … The word ‘freedom’ brings out the communities of men to fight against every kind of force, against every kind of authority, even against God and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come into our kingdom, shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implying a principle of brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts … But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the State economy without injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the foundation of faith in God … This is the reason why it is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the minds of the masses the very principle of Godhead and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and material needs …”
“ … We have set one against another the personal and national reckonings of the peoples, religious and race hatreds, which we have fostered into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty centuries. This is the reason why there is not one State which would anywhere receive support if it were to raise its arm, for every one of them must bear in mind that any agreement against us would be unprofitable to itself. We are too strong, there is no evading our power. The nations cannot come to even an inconsiderable private agreement without our secretly having a hand in it … In order to put public opinion into our hands we must bring it into a state of bewilderment by giving expression from all sides to so many contradictory opinions and for such length of time as will suffice to make the peoples lose their heads in the labyrinth and come to see that the best thing is to have no opinion of any kind in matters political, which it is not given to the public to understand, because they are understood only by him who guides the public. This is the first secret.
The second secret requisite for the success of our government is comprised in the following: to multiply to such an extent national failings, habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in consequence will fail to understand one another … By all these means we shall so wear down the peoples that they will be compelled to offer us international power of a nature that by its possession will enable us without any violence gradually to absorb all the State forces of the world and to form a Super-Government. In place of the rulers of today we shall set up a bogey which will be called the Super-Government administration. Its hands will reach out in all directions like nippers and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that it cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.”
The Hidden History of the Khazarian Empire! (Featuring Sheikh Imran Hosein & Tsar Putin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQbVnp8KF8A
~237~ Hidden Truth About Venezuelan Blackout, Surveillance State Grows, GOP Takes Over Courts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Ov9zbnhnY
(guest star … Wiki Leaks)
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If there is any volunteer, please contact me at anutas at yandex dot ru
Thank you in advance and wish a very nice day!
Story, in my previous post there is an error: the correct e-mail address is: anutas at yandex dot com
Best regards,
Anna