The free will debate has always had me baffled because it is not a debate in my opinion.
My premise is that people are fated to the illusion free will or fated to not having the illusion of free will. Here ends the non existent debate. Crikey, I sound like a stupid scientist.
That doesn't make anyone any better or worse than anyone else but it does give me some empathy for people chained by inertia, or acting poorly or immorally out of hurt or hopelessness.
In antiquity matter itself was held as the source of evil. (105)
The Neoplatonic thesis is that we are souls fallen into a body, and that we must escape this evil body through flight to the pure immaterial world. (112)
Manicheans held that the good God is not omnipotent. There exists also “an eternal, autonomous and evil material substance”. (105) Neither God nor the devil can get the upper hand. (262) And we are divided and have within us “two originally distinct substances”. (184)
I couldn’t watch the trailer, I’ll do so Monday (I hope) when I get internet back. (Just moved.)
First let me say, my sources are slapdash at best: a couple of books I’ve just begun, Arendt’s ‘Origins of Totalitarianism’ and Martha Stout’s ‘The Sociopath Next Door,’ recommended by Yuri Bezmenov. Oh, and the renowned Church theologian and philosopher Matt Walsh. Matt’s great but he’s not Augustine of Hippo.
(Unless Augustine had a hilarious recurring podcast segment titled ‘Am I the A**hole?’
Actually I expect Matt’s quite a bit funnier.)
But I am NOT convinced that our oppressors are actively possessed by, or otherwise consciously in league with Satan or his minions. I say this because we witnessed breathtaking, horrifying evil throughout the 20th century, that was unprecedented in history in large part because in prior centuries the technology to control, torture and murder people on such a grand scale didn’t exist.
What we’ve seen since 2020 - the gaslighting, intolerance of dissent and the sudden abandonment by half our neighbors of a longstanding American consensus on the limits of govt authority at all levels; indeed even mass murder by public-health policy (banning known, effective treatments; mandating deadly ‘vaccines’) is not unprecedented in the world, it’s just (kind of) unprecedented in America, at least on this scale.
Our technocrat oppressors (everyone needs to read Gato Malo’s recent post on data suppression) are almost the perfect illustration of Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ observations. They’re not possessed. Most of them, in fact, got where they are now precisely by REJECTING any notion of a higher power to Whom they must account for misdeeds.
The technocracy that rules the west are sociopaths - the 4% of people who, Dr Stout explains, are incapable of remorse for deeds that harm others. Stout points out that they mostly aren’t mass murderers, as people assume, because most people simply are too squeamish to be motivated by blood lust.
Instead, they are people who are motivated by the same impulses as the rest of us - power, control, laziness, lust, what have you - but who have no conscience. They’re the lovers who use you then blithely cast you aside. He’s the lazy asshole on your group classroom assignment who lets his teammates ‘carry’ him - because they want the grade and so, can’t afford to let him fail.
If they like control , they gravitate to politics, to teaching, to coaching, to bureaucracy, and especially to ‘public health’ - any field that enables their ability to boss people around without accountability.
An obvious corollary of their condition is that they’re pathologically incapable of admitting error.
Obviously I can’t prove there ISN’T something directly satanic afoot, starting with the Great Reset, continuing with the Covid and ‘vaccine’ psy-ops the continued full-court press of official gaslighting. Moreover a LOT of us got the ‘something wicked this way comes’ goosebumps with Biden’s weirdly petulant demands that we all submit to an experimental gene therapy with proven inefficacy and a horrific adverse-effects profile, for a virus less deadly than the forgotten Asian Flu of 1957-58. (I highly recommend Rob Slane over at The Blog Mire.)
But for now, Im content to chalk it all up to secondary evil.
Finally, Matt Walsh has argued that Satanism doesn’t mean you worship the fallen angel Lucifer. It means you WORSHIP YOURSELF. That’s what the Serpent instructed us to do when he told Eve that ‘in the day ye eat [the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil] then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’
That’s been the problem with progressives (and communists, and fascists) from the very start: They’re so deeply convinced they have all the answers, that even when exposed as charlatans, they’ll kill (or die) en masse to avoid admitting it to themselves.
In the pandemicists and mask-&-jab cultists, in the WEF bug-eaters, even in our very own FBI director - that’s what we’re looking at: sociopaths (whom we let take those jobs) who got it all wrong, but who are constitutionally incapable of admitting error or failure.
Yes, there is evil and those who do it's bidding, whether summoning up Satan himself or just existing as a vacuous vessel that performs nihilistic works of the enemy without the critical thinking skills involving The Truth. I know the demonic possession is real and Satan is always ready to take any opportunity to slide in and have his minions begin work in an unknowing victim. I, for one, do not let that shit in. Satans evil is evil. Jesus is the way, the Truth and The Life. Davos men are inhabited by a higher order of evil, but it is not worth thinking about, because God wins in the end. We might have to go through some shit, but God is always for The Truth. I choose The Truth.
Whatever the motivation of these people, it isn’t good. Another thing to point is the condition of the citizens. How far have we wondered away from the light, that we are controlled by fear, greed, vanity, and the rest of the seven deadly sins. We have to take a pause and fix us, before we could ever consider holding anyone accountable for their actions. The corruptness of our government is a symptom of us straying from God.
I haven’t read St Augustine since undergraduate. Should go find what box in the crawlspace that lives in & fetch & read.
But OK
So you have a collection of people, and each has a sort of compass. Evil is South, Good is North.
We’ve been experiencing the alignment of a whole bunch of compasses toward the same direction. Add them all up and you’re looking at a fair bit more South than North.
Is that because there is an underlying field that is causing them all to align in that direction?
Or is that an ‘emergent property’ where they are seeing the alignment of their neighbor and adjusting accordingly?
Great article thankyou!
The free will debate has always had me baffled because it is not a debate in my opinion.
My premise is that people are fated to the illusion free will or fated to not having the illusion of free will. Here ends the non existent debate. Crikey, I sound like a stupid scientist.
That doesn't make anyone any better or worse than anyone else but it does give me some empathy for people chained by inertia, or acting poorly or immorally out of hurt or hopelessness.
Hell...I am guilty of such spiritual poverty.
In antiquity matter itself was held as the source of evil. (105)
The Neoplatonic thesis is that we are souls fallen into a body, and that we must escape this evil body through flight to the pure immaterial world. (112)
Manicheans held that the good God is not omnipotent. There exists also “an eternal, autonomous and evil material substance”. (105) Neither God nor the devil can get the upper hand. (262) And we are divided and have within us “two originally distinct substances”. (184)
Not so Augustine.
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I couldn’t watch the trailer, I’ll do so Monday (I hope) when I get internet back. (Just moved.)
First let me say, my sources are slapdash at best: a couple of books I’ve just begun, Arendt’s ‘Origins of Totalitarianism’ and Martha Stout’s ‘The Sociopath Next Door,’ recommended by Yuri Bezmenov. Oh, and the renowned Church theologian and philosopher Matt Walsh. Matt’s great but he’s not Augustine of Hippo.
(Unless Augustine had a hilarious recurring podcast segment titled ‘Am I the A**hole?’
Actually I expect Matt’s quite a bit funnier.)
But I am NOT convinced that our oppressors are actively possessed by, or otherwise consciously in league with Satan or his minions. I say this because we witnessed breathtaking, horrifying evil throughout the 20th century, that was unprecedented in history in large part because in prior centuries the technology to control, torture and murder people on such a grand scale didn’t exist.
What we’ve seen since 2020 - the gaslighting, intolerance of dissent and the sudden abandonment by half our neighbors of a longstanding American consensus on the limits of govt authority at all levels; indeed even mass murder by public-health policy (banning known, effective treatments; mandating deadly ‘vaccines’) is not unprecedented in the world, it’s just (kind of) unprecedented in America, at least on this scale.
Our technocrat oppressors (everyone needs to read Gato Malo’s recent post on data suppression) are almost the perfect illustration of Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ observations. They’re not possessed. Most of them, in fact, got where they are now precisely by REJECTING any notion of a higher power to Whom they must account for misdeeds.
The technocracy that rules the west are sociopaths - the 4% of people who, Dr Stout explains, are incapable of remorse for deeds that harm others. Stout points out that they mostly aren’t mass murderers, as people assume, because most people simply are too squeamish to be motivated by blood lust.
Instead, they are people who are motivated by the same impulses as the rest of us - power, control, laziness, lust, what have you - but who have no conscience. They’re the lovers who use you then blithely cast you aside. He’s the lazy asshole on your group classroom assignment who lets his teammates ‘carry’ him - because they want the grade and so, can’t afford to let him fail.
If they like control , they gravitate to politics, to teaching, to coaching, to bureaucracy, and especially to ‘public health’ - any field that enables their ability to boss people around without accountability.
An obvious corollary of their condition is that they’re pathologically incapable of admitting error.
Obviously I can’t prove there ISN’T something directly satanic afoot, starting with the Great Reset, continuing with the Covid and ‘vaccine’ psy-ops the continued full-court press of official gaslighting. Moreover a LOT of us got the ‘something wicked this way comes’ goosebumps with Biden’s weirdly petulant demands that we all submit to an experimental gene therapy with proven inefficacy and a horrific adverse-effects profile, for a virus less deadly than the forgotten Asian Flu of 1957-58. (I highly recommend Rob Slane over at The Blog Mire.)
But for now, Im content to chalk it all up to secondary evil.
Finally, Matt Walsh has argued that Satanism doesn’t mean you worship the fallen angel Lucifer. It means you WORSHIP YOURSELF. That’s what the Serpent instructed us to do when he told Eve that ‘in the day ye eat [the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil] then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’
That’s been the problem with progressives (and communists, and fascists) from the very start: They’re so deeply convinced they have all the answers, that even when exposed as charlatans, they’ll kill (or die) en masse to avoid admitting it to themselves.
In the pandemicists and mask-&-jab cultists, in the WEF bug-eaters, even in our very own FBI director - that’s what we’re looking at: sociopaths (whom we let take those jobs) who got it all wrong, but who are constitutionally incapable of admitting error or failure.
Oh, and I absolutely love that picture of Michael, the archangel.
Yes, there is evil and those who do it's bidding, whether summoning up Satan himself or just existing as a vacuous vessel that performs nihilistic works of the enemy without the critical thinking skills involving The Truth. I know the demonic possession is real and Satan is always ready to take any opportunity to slide in and have his minions begin work in an unknowing victim. I, for one, do not let that shit in. Satans evil is evil. Jesus is the way, the Truth and The Life. Davos men are inhabited by a higher order of evil, but it is not worth thinking about, because God wins in the end. We might have to go through some shit, but God is always for The Truth. I choose The Truth.
Whatever the motivation of these people, it isn’t good. Another thing to point is the condition of the citizens. How far have we wondered away from the light, that we are controlled by fear, greed, vanity, and the rest of the seven deadly sins. We have to take a pause and fix us, before we could ever consider holding anyone accountable for their actions. The corruptness of our government is a symptom of us straying from God.
I haven’t read St Augustine since undergraduate. Should go find what box in the crawlspace that lives in & fetch & read.
But OK
So you have a collection of people, and each has a sort of compass. Evil is South, Good is North.
We’ve been experiencing the alignment of a whole bunch of compasses toward the same direction. Add them all up and you’re looking at a fair bit more South than North.
Is that because there is an underlying field that is causing them all to align in that direction?
Or is that an ‘emergent property’ where they are seeing the alignment of their neighbor and adjusting accordingly?
That trailer is terrifying, made my skin crawl.