Fearless

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Just to reiterate, I thought Wolfmoon hit it out the park with his lead post. Perfect sentiment and guidance after what has been happening to get us “outcasts “ discussing our woes and hopes as well as trying to redirect our focus outward to the state of play in our fracturing civilisation.
So, truth … (warning, I get lost in the weeds here, so those with better things to do should probably not read this !)
Astonishingly, this has become a nebulous concept in these archetypal and biblical times. Something monumental is afoot – a war for truth / life has already commenced and there appear to be many camps, although ultimately only 2 sides resolve out of the chaos. Those fighting for truth and life, and those that fight for blindness and death (religions of death – ROD), although most of these are not aware that this is their cause – they are blind to themselves.
Everyone is religious, and we/they judge truth according to their religion (I obviously use the word religion here in its broadest possible sense). This has lead to the notion that truth is relative – a very post modern idea. The ultimate arbiter of truth is God (for the Christian and Jew), whereas the materialist atheist would point to reality (whatever that means to them as informed by the modes described below). For the post modern atheist “reality” would be their “god” that decides the truth of the moment – the bible refers to this type of god as false idols. Let me speculate on these a bit, and anything you can add to this notion here would be great – I am still very new to all of this …
I have thought about this without much formal reading, so here goes nothing (feel free to shoot me down in flames)
Lowest form of false idol is oneself, manifesting in a persistent ego. Most people used to grow out of this stage, now more and more adults seem to remain stuck here. This is where YOU are the centre of your universe. This “person” may well desire to take revenge on being itself when he/she realises that that they are ultimately powerless – ROD
Next comes the notion of communism, where all should be equal, and those that disagree with this are either sent off to re-education camps or simply sacrificed for the greater good. So communists will sacrifice individuals with no problem, and quite possibly other whole cultures that do not submit. The problem with this is that this philosophy will only run out of people to sacrifice once everyone (bar the last man standing) is equally dead, if allowed to run to its logical conclusion – ROD
Next comes pantheism, placing nature, or the universe, at the top of the hierarchy. They will sacrifice most of humanity to “save nature”, and paradoxically espouse “green” tech, such as a wind generator on every hilltop, to save nature. Thus they want to industrialise nature to save it – the stupid is very strong here also. It has often been stated by greenies that the earth really cannot sustain more than a number of people somewhere around 750 million worldwide. I got educated into this craziness during the peak oil craze, and read many posts on the “Oil Drum”. People would glibly talk about reducing the world population by some 6 billion without ANY conception what this meant in terms of human mortality rates in order to achieve this nirvana – ROD
Materialism has been all the rage since the 90’s or so. These people reckon the ends justify the means, but can’t really articulate any ends that were not born out of Christianity, except they are pro abortion, cause individualism (a misappropriation from Christianity) is the order of the day. Since there is no ultimate truth, feelings rule the individual. I could go on and on describing what we all see every day, so I won’t, except for abortion. Because the individual is paramount, materialism encourages women to “chase their dream”, and don’t let motherhood hold you back, so abortions are recommended. They don’t seem to realise that if most women adopted this philosophy society would simply cease due to lack of a next generation. Also, this philosophy directly implies that your own mother was foolish to have you rather than follow her own individual dreams, so ultimately this logic mercilessly concludes that you are ‘post hoc’ advising against your own birth – ROD
Other false idols then in no particular order include Budhism, Hinduism, Islam, …? Other than Islam (definitely a ROD), I don’t know enough to conclude whether they are ultimately death cults.
Now in fairness to the above, these ideologies very rarely get the opportunity to get carried out to their logical conclusion, cause some strongman dictator type ends up at the top of the hierarchy. These people, obviously stuck in idolatry of the self (note all the statues and pictures of themselves everywhere Mao, Stalin, Saddam,the Kim’s etc), do not descend into total nihilism because they actually wield power over everyone else, so they “believe their own press”. Thus you have the lowest form of idolatry co-opting another one in order to get the useful idiots to enslave themselves – a mix of idols seems to be the norm in the “real” world.
Christianity is the only religion that I can categorically state is a religion of LIFE. It preaches love of all, including one’s enemies. This tenet is the hardest to accept, yet the logic is inexorable. At face value, it seems that you have to battle to beat your enemy through strength, and this works in the short to medium term. However, you have just demonstrated by example how to dominate and win, which will surely be done to your civilisation in the future as others learn from you. The hardest thing to accept is to love your enemy as yourself, especially since you very possibly will not survive the encounter. I need to think about this a lot more. In any event, a religion that preaches that every single soul is precious to God is self evidently for life, and thus the opposite of a ROD (religion of death). We seldom, if ever, live up to this ideal, but that is what we are called to enact.
So, back to truth. To me, truth is that which leads us straight to God, and is necessarily in service of life. That which is not in service of life, leads to extinction ultimately. Extinction means the end of truth as can be perceived by us. This is actually by definition (I think). Ideas such as truth exist in the realm of human consciousness (leaving God out here for sake of argument only), which requires life. So without life, there is no consciousness that can perceive truth, or anything else. So truth must serve life, which must serve God in order to flourish. So any idea or concept is not the truth if it does not serve God / life.
Wow, did I get lost in the weeds on this one, my apologies. I am going to post it only because I was stupid enough to shoot my mouth off …..
(I intended to add a bit about the axiomatic tenet under girding logic systems, from which all else flows … ugh)
PS. Wolfmoon is correct in calling for forgiveness. One of the things I really struggle with is hypocrisy, and I felt injured to be banned for refusing to kowtow to group think at the TH. Then Sundance attacked Q,. So I see it as hypocritical for Sundance, a free thinker, to seemingly (that is how it appeared, and how the many in the TH responded) demand group think . This pushed my buttons. Now, if I am fair and honest, I will have to admit that I do not know what Sundance is aiming at, and his past record should carry a lot of weight. So just as I am not prepared to throw Jeff Sessions under the bus, nor will I Sundance. I harbour no ill will towards him and will certainly refrain from judging him (Judge not lest ye be so judged!).
PPS Sorry again for the above ramble, back at work this week and I did not have the time to do this justice. It is obviously incomplete, but any feedback would be much appreciated. Fire away, I am still building my understanding here, so I want to learn this stuff.

Just always knew they were going after Dr. Corsi when I read his book on Obama, and he has written others.