Great article. Also check this out if you're in the mood to be scared, and entertained by something that is simultaneously funny: plainsenseandsanity.substack.com - tks.
In fact, there are deep historical, philosophical, and theological roots to this development--the dominance of will over reason in the modern era. That's what this blog was initially very much about: the tendency of man to manufacture meaning according to his desires. For the West the crucial stage was the rise of nominalism and voluntarism (L. voluntas = will, desire). These late medieval philosophical currents cut the bonds between man and reality--and thus of true rationality--long before Kant. Man was left with an unknowable world and an unknowable God who was Pure Will. With the Death of God, man made himself a god--based on his own desires. All this took centuries to filter down into popular consciousness and take root.
I hope everybody watches at least one of the videos of Desmet. I saw them a few weeks ago when looking for for discussion about the modern left as some form of psychological phenomenon, which I think it is. I am inclined to think that hypnosis plays a role, as Desmet discusses.
In my estimation, it’s about “unquestioned authority”. Some swallow “experts” and other “authorities” whole, especially when an element of fear is introduced. Panicked by the unknown, they look to an “authority” to tell them what to do. Once committed to the “authority’s” point of view and instructions, they are fearful about questioning them and using their own minds to determine what is actually correct...
"Dr. Peter McCullough: The COVID shot is a form of ‘bioterrorism,’ its spike protein is ‘pathogenic’"
‘You are about five times as likely to die of the vaccine than you are to take your risks with COVID-19,’ McCullough said. Therefore, those who ‘chose not to get the vaccine,’ in fact ‘made a smarter choice.’
"Smart people want to know: Why do so many people still buy into the patently unscientific and false narrative of the Covid regime?"
The "smart people" should be smart enough to know that the ones buying into the phony Covid narrative don't believe in God. And because they don't believe in God, they are scared shittumless to die.
The free-floating anxiety is that you die; the accepted strategy to defeat death is that you booster your way through to the end of your bucket list, including international travel, after which you either die peacefully in your sleep, or you get to choose the form of your painless euthanasia. Definitely marketed to people in their 60s, not 50s, not 70s.
Communism has been marketed to the hoi polloi since the advent of Freemasonry which seduced men too greedy to earn their way up the capitalist ladder on their own merit to sell themselves to a pseudo-religion that promised them exponential benefits here on earth so long as they complied with the Alta Vendita of the Freemasons to destroy the Catholic Church and Christendom. They were the original globalists. The good 'ol boy network. So, you pushed your wife who was on oxygen down the stairs in the middle of the night and she died? The state police investigated? Well, no worries, we'll get you off, little brother. Just do this, honey well. No worries. Bride II waits for you with baited breath.
The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church. Tertullian said that. It is barbaric to think we can have it both ways. Either we are 100%, or we are the lukewarm that He promises to vomit out. Or, as our Blessed Savior says, in His magnificent parable of the ten virgins, five of whom consecrated themselves, and the other five who knew not "the difference between believing and knowing," "Amen, I say to you, I know ye not." -Matthew 25: 1-13
It is not as hard as we think if we keep our Savior Jesus Christ, lacerated beyond recognition, nailed naked to His Cross, shedding His Blood for our salvation. We are a wholesaled culture to forfeit the unfathomable blessing that suffering brings us. When God chastises us, we are all too quick to see chastisement as punishment. That is not so. He shapes us according to His purpose for our life and makes the crooked places straight. He is sifting us.
Look at the Blessed Virgin Mary who so many dismiss from astonishing ignorance. Hanging by His hands, in His last moments until it was finished, what did Jesus Christ do? He gave His Blessed Mother to US as our Mother. And what have we done? Disgraced her. Marginalized her. And we have a culture of savages calling themselves liberated feminists who are too pitifully stupid to realize the unfathomable beauty and freedom that God bestows upon women through the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is simply inconceivable that a segment of our culture proclaiming themselves to be Christian have the temerity, in their blind and willful ignorance of the Bible, to condemn Catholicism for devotion to the Mother of our God!
The lesson may seem tough until one is completely consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.
Think about it. We do not have much time left. That is something to remind ourselves of every hour on the hour. What is our destination?
Either we get it right, or we don't. The Bible is our only anchor and God keeps His promises. If we do not believe this, then, are we worthy of Him?
This reminded me of the Jonestown Massacre without the suicides. Those true believers in what was being prophesied/sold to the willing and weak minded who were incessantly prodded or strong-armed by a government medical establishment in league with politicians and pharmaceutical corporations to be injected with a serum of dubious value whose long term effects on them was unknown.
In my lifetime I've witnessed two of the biggest scandals in our nation's history. First was the Russian Hoax facilitated by Hillary Clinton followed by the Covid-19 'pandemic' where government entities propagandized the threat of a virus with a 99% survivable rate as the Grim Reaper. I'm amazed at the gullibility of supposedly intelligent people...
Jonestown was a CIA project. A laboratory. They've been developing and engineering and planning and orchestrating this kind of stuff for quite a long time now.
When you find out all the deception and state terror that never made it to "big scandal" status because it was so effectively suppressed by epistemological warfare, you may find cause for optimism. Their narrative supremacy is weakening.
And it could be that we are all being manipulated by both sides. I'd like to think I'm open to facts and arguments that conflict with my narrative but it's very possibile ive been captured by posts, stories, videos etc all aimed at manipulating me into blaming the other side. Maybe the only difference is my desire to ne left alone rather than force others to be jabbed, wear a mask, stay home, parrot pc nostrums.
So bottom line covidmania - like the climate change hysteria - is basically a false religion. The Bible speaks on this extensively, that in The End Times false religions abound & men are worshippers of themselves.
I too sensed the evil early on & as this whole thing continues to unfold it becomes more & more pronounced as their desperation grows.
An old friend died recently, An old humble midwest preacher officiated his funeral, The theme was that there are references in the Bible 365 times to 'fear not' or some derivative. This grabbed my brain. Of course. All this fear and hysteria about whatever is of Satan. Specifically Covid. Mark's post approaches from a slightly different angle, but the thrust is the same. The Godly person is not panicked. We are almost bored with the over reaction. Our ability to influence the panicked is about zero. They will have to exhaust themselves before this is over. So for myself I counsel patience. Loving patience.
I distinctly remember Fauci telling us last year that it was ok to "pick up" someone online and have physical relations with them so long as you both were wearing masks. Really? I didn't trust him before that, but I figured now he's just screwing with us (so to speak). I wonder if anyone actually fell for that hogwash?
Great article. Also check this out if you're in the mood to be scared, and entertained by something that is simultaneously funny: plainsenseandsanity.substack.com - tks.
I always come back to The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis.
Take the time to watch it and you'll end up fairly immune to BS.
In fact, there are deep historical, philosophical, and theological roots to this development--the dominance of will over reason in the modern era. That's what this blog was initially very much about: the tendency of man to manufacture meaning according to his desires. For the West the crucial stage was the rise of nominalism and voluntarism (L. voluntas = will, desire). These late medieval philosophical currents cut the bonds between man and reality--and thus of true rationality--long before Kant. Man was left with an unknowable world and an unknowable God who was Pure Will. With the Death of God, man made himself a god--based on his own desires. All this took centuries to filter down into popular consciousness and take root.
Wonder what the correlation between receiving the covid jabs and the susceptibility to "Mass Formation" might be? Intended side effect?
Of course it is, when someone chooses to subject themselves to an experiment like it has a profound mental effect on their personal beliefs.
You can't unwind that by any objective means without a good kick in the head.
I hope everybody watches at least one of the videos of Desmet. I saw them a few weeks ago when looking for for discussion about the modern left as some form of psychological phenomenon, which I think it is. I am inclined to think that hypnosis plays a role, as Desmet discusses.
In my estimation, it’s about “unquestioned authority”. Some swallow “experts” and other “authorities” whole, especially when an element of fear is introduced. Panicked by the unknown, they look to an “authority” to tell them what to do. Once committed to the “authority’s” point of view and instructions, they are fearful about questioning them and using their own minds to determine what is actually correct...
"Dr. Peter McCullough: The COVID shot is a form of ‘bioterrorism,’ its spike protein is ‘pathogenic’"
‘You are about five times as likely to die of the vaccine than you are to take your risks with COVID-19,’ McCullough said. Therefore, those who ‘chose not to get the vaccine,’ in fact ‘made a smarter choice.’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-jabs-came-from-bioterrorism/
"Smart people want to know: Why do so many people still buy into the patently unscientific and false narrative of the Covid regime?"
The "smart people" should be smart enough to know that the ones buying into the phony Covid narrative don't believe in God. And because they don't believe in God, they are scared shittumless to die.
Simple as that.
I agree, my point all along. Some even go as far as ridicule those who do believe in God, while they worship the Government.
The free-floating anxiety is that you die; the accepted strategy to defeat death is that you booster your way through to the end of your bucket list, including international travel, after which you either die peacefully in your sleep, or you get to choose the form of your painless euthanasia. Definitely marketed to people in their 60s, not 50s, not 70s.
Communism has been marketed to the hoi polloi since the advent of Freemasonry which seduced men too greedy to earn their way up the capitalist ladder on their own merit to sell themselves to a pseudo-religion that promised them exponential benefits here on earth so long as they complied with the Alta Vendita of the Freemasons to destroy the Catholic Church and Christendom. They were the original globalists. The good 'ol boy network. So, you pushed your wife who was on oxygen down the stairs in the middle of the night and she died? The state police investigated? Well, no worries, we'll get you off, little brother. Just do this, honey well. No worries. Bride II waits for you with baited breath.
It's the difference between believing and knowing. Huge, like night and day.
The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church. Tertullian said that. It is barbaric to think we can have it both ways. Either we are 100%, or we are the lukewarm that He promises to vomit out. Or, as our Blessed Savior says, in His magnificent parable of the ten virgins, five of whom consecrated themselves, and the other five who knew not "the difference between believing and knowing," "Amen, I say to you, I know ye not." -Matthew 25: 1-13
Letting go of belief goes down hard. It's a tough lesson.
..on the way to knowing.
It is not as hard as we think if we keep our Savior Jesus Christ, lacerated beyond recognition, nailed naked to His Cross, shedding His Blood for our salvation. We are a wholesaled culture to forfeit the unfathomable blessing that suffering brings us. When God chastises us, we are all too quick to see chastisement as punishment. That is not so. He shapes us according to His purpose for our life and makes the crooked places straight. He is sifting us.
Look at the Blessed Virgin Mary who so many dismiss from astonishing ignorance. Hanging by His hands, in His last moments until it was finished, what did Jesus Christ do? He gave His Blessed Mother to US as our Mother. And what have we done? Disgraced her. Marginalized her. And we have a culture of savages calling themselves liberated feminists who are too pitifully stupid to realize the unfathomable beauty and freedom that God bestows upon women through the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is simply inconceivable that a segment of our culture proclaiming themselves to be Christian have the temerity, in their blind and willful ignorance of the Bible, to condemn Catholicism for devotion to the Mother of our God!
The lesson may seem tough until one is completely consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.
Think about it. We do not have much time left. That is something to remind ourselves of every hour on the hour. What is our destination?
Either we get it right, or we don't. The Bible is our only anchor and God keeps His promises. If we do not believe this, then, are we worthy of Him?
This reminded me of the Jonestown Massacre without the suicides. Those true believers in what was being prophesied/sold to the willing and weak minded who were incessantly prodded or strong-armed by a government medical establishment in league with politicians and pharmaceutical corporations to be injected with a serum of dubious value whose long term effects on them was unknown.
In my lifetime I've witnessed two of the biggest scandals in our nation's history. First was the Russian Hoax facilitated by Hillary Clinton followed by the Covid-19 'pandemic' where government entities propagandized the threat of a virus with a 99% survivable rate as the Grim Reaper. I'm amazed at the gullibility of supposedly intelligent people...
Highly recommended quick read about Jonestown,
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/11/jonestown-university
Jonestown was a CIA project. A laboratory. They've been developing and engineering and planning and orchestrating this kind of stuff for quite a long time now.
When you find out all the deception and state terror that never made it to "big scandal" status because it was so effectively suppressed by epistemological warfare, you may find cause for optimism. Their narrative supremacy is weakening.
And it could be that we are all being manipulated by both sides. I'd like to think I'm open to facts and arguments that conflict with my narrative but it's very possibile ive been captured by posts, stories, videos etc all aimed at manipulating me into blaming the other side. Maybe the only difference is my desire to ne left alone rather than force others to be jabbed, wear a mask, stay home, parrot pc nostrums.
So many lemmings and to few cliffs!!! 😁
So bottom line covidmania - like the climate change hysteria - is basically a false religion. The Bible speaks on this extensively, that in The End Times false religions abound & men are worshippers of themselves.
I too sensed the evil early on & as this whole thing continues to unfold it becomes more & more pronounced as their desperation grows.
An old friend died recently, An old humble midwest preacher officiated his funeral, The theme was that there are references in the Bible 365 times to 'fear not' or some derivative. This grabbed my brain. Of course. All this fear and hysteria about whatever is of Satan. Specifically Covid. Mark's post approaches from a slightly different angle, but the thrust is the same. The Godly person is not panicked. We are almost bored with the over reaction. Our ability to influence the panicked is about zero. They will have to exhaust themselves before this is over. So for myself I counsel patience. Loving patience.
If you could put the stuff in a bottle...
I distinctly remember Fauci telling us last year that it was ok to "pick up" someone online and have physical relations with them so long as you both were wearing masks. Really? I didn't trust him before that, but I figured now he's just screwing with us (so to speak). I wonder if anyone actually fell for that hogwash?