After releasing this piece, which emphasizes the need for courageous civil disobedience, I see this from Andrew Lawton (https://twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1545471724992532480) on the refusal of bail for Tamara Lich: < Justice of the Peace [Paul] Harris said convoy placed Ottawa residents in a "continual state of fear" [and that] "Vulnerable victims of the convoy protest undoubtedly will continue to fear a continuation of the protest if persons such as Ms. Lich and Mr. Marazzo are allowed to continue to communicate and socialize." >
Has Harris no sense of proportion? For the better part of two years the PMO has deliberately kept the city of Ottawa (that's easy) and as much of the country as possible (harder) in a state of perpetual fear! It is still busy creating national gridlock with every device available. It's time for Mr Harris to find a new occupation and for the PM to be put in jail. And for all charges against Lich to be dropped.
Vera Sharav on eugenics then and now: https://rumble.com/v1gtl0n-vera-sharav-speech-at-nuremberg-75.html. She identifies one of the key links between then and now, Operation Paperclip, which undermined the Nuremberg Code at its very creation, and fingers the digitalization of humanity, in denial of God and the soul, as the great threat of the New Eugenics. (Another link, abortion, goes unmentioned.) "Unless all of us resist, 'never again' is now."
What Robert Kennedy Jr says on p. 39 of his Letter to Liberals (https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/210590786/a-letter-to-liberals/robert-f-kennedy/) could be said, mutatis mutandis, to the Catholic Church and many Protestant or Orthodox churches also. But how is it that the churches, too, have come to align themselves with the global elites? The reasons I have given here supply some, though surely not all, of the explanation.
Thanks for the encouragement. We must try to build as good an understanding as we can. Kopala writes in review of Desmet of "our era’s near-universal belief that science and technology can address all our needs. In Desmet’s view, this is a grave conceit powering a 'mechanist' ideology that threatens civilization itself. Unless we dramatically change course, the pandemic will prove merely a step in the process towards a 'transhumanist paradise': a human race that under the governance of a technocratic/expert class achieves mental and physical perfection – perhaps even immortality – by means of science and technology." I agree with this analysis (https://c2cjournal.ca/2022/07/when-the-whole-world-goes-mad-mattias-desmets-the-psychology-of-totalitarianism/). I also think that this 'mechanist' mistake is consequent on refusal of the credal faith of Christianity and that we must speak to the course change that is most requisite. It's called repentance (metanoia), of the kind that leads to resocialization through good news and good fellowship.
I, who am in your debt for bringing the theological dimension to a sociologist, am in complete agreement with what you say here, and, good news and good fellowship is a great joy.
Thank you so much for both parts 1 and 2. I read them twice to get the full and best sense of where you were going with them, but the points beautifully paid off in the end. We must peacefully, actively, and cleverly resist what is coming, but our actions have to be in alignment with our [for me, Catholic] values.
It seems clear, as you note, that the dismantling of the church is another goal of this world body. The evil they are engaging in, is amplified when placed side-by-side with an institution and its many clerics and people of enormous faith, so they would have to abolish what they cannot control and what could diminish their images -- and ultimately -- their powers.
The question remains: what can we do? I'm hearing there may be worse to come. As suggested, we are praying and are hyper-alert, and yes, we must also fast where and when we can. I had hoped for a part 3, where you explain what you are hearing as you've hinted in past posts, so that we may better prepare for what might lay in our paths. [Proverbs 3:5-6 may help us here].
All the best to you and thanks again for this incredibly thoughtful read.
You do persevere, if you've read through twice! And though I can't advise better than the text you mention, which I was encouraged to memorize as a youth, I will try eventually to say more than that the churches are not acknowledging their Lord, or even recognizing that they are being tested, if they fancy that they are wrestling chiefly with a coronavirus, or even with flesh and blood (Eph. 6).
The players themselves may think about the church only when it is necessary or convenient to do so. Yet they are doing diabolical work, on diabolical premises. The church must determine its own course, guided and directed by its duty to acknowledge its Lord, and Christians must find the courage to overcome that faulty reflex of which I spoke.
On the civil level, non-cooperation with operations such as ArriveCan, with masking or vaxx mandates, with lockdowns, with CBDC: such are the immediate demands. If people do cooperate, because it is inconvenient not to cooperate, the governments and corporations only learn that they can press us still further. See, for a live example, https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/disturbing-video-from-canada/ and for KTDI background: https://truthinplainsight.com/canada-is-a-partner-in-wefs-program-to-bring-digital-id-to-travel/. This is one of their tests of fidelity. Show them your infidelity, as these folk did. And switch your business, where possible, to non-participating competitors.
On the ecclesial level, refusal to participate in the para-liturgies of hygienic gnosticism, accompanied by a well-prepared explanation for one's own actions, is called for. See again the conclusion to Anarchy from Above, Part III.
After releasing this piece, which emphasizes the need for courageous civil disobedience, I see this from Andrew Lawton (https://twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1545471724992532480) on the refusal of bail for Tamara Lich: < Justice of the Peace [Paul] Harris said convoy placed Ottawa residents in a "continual state of fear" [and that] "Vulnerable victims of the convoy protest undoubtedly will continue to fear a continuation of the protest if persons such as Ms. Lich and Mr. Marazzo are allowed to continue to communicate and socialize." >
Has Harris no sense of proportion? For the better part of two years the PMO has deliberately kept the city of Ottawa (that's easy) and as much of the country as possible (harder) in a state of perpetual fear! It is still busy creating national gridlock with every device available. It's time for Mr Harris to find a new occupation and for the PM to be put in jail. And for all charges against Lich to be dropped.
See further here: https://www.westernstandard.news/news/freedom-convoy-organizer-marazzo-calls-lichs-arrest-and-bail-hearing-vindictive/article_342425ce-fcaf-11ec-a138-c3eb05c2f000.html#tncms-source=block-contextual-fallback
Vera Sharav on eugenics then and now: https://rumble.com/v1gtl0n-vera-sharav-speech-at-nuremberg-75.html. She identifies one of the key links between then and now, Operation Paperclip, which undermined the Nuremberg Code at its very creation, and fingers the digitalization of humanity, in denial of God and the soul, as the great threat of the New Eugenics. (Another link, abortion, goes unmentioned.) "Unless all of us resist, 'never again' is now."
What Robert Kennedy Jr says on p. 39 of his Letter to Liberals (https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/210590786/a-letter-to-liberals/robert-f-kennedy/) could be said, mutatis mutandis, to the Catholic Church and many Protestant or Orthodox churches also. But how is it that the churches, too, have come to align themselves with the global elites? The reasons I have given here supply some, though surely not all, of the explanation.
Not convinced about AI and digitalization? Odd how 'they' have time for it in the middle of a war! https://lauradodsworth.substack.com/p/brave-and-digital-ukraine
Update: Understand the trajectory and the consequences:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/canada-partners-with-the-wef-to-unleash-digital-ids-is-the-us-next_4671688.html
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/subscriber-community-thread-10
Thank God for His call to do this work and thank you for all the work you do answering it.
Thanks for the encouragement. We must try to build as good an understanding as we can. Kopala writes in review of Desmet of "our era’s near-universal belief that science and technology can address all our needs. In Desmet’s view, this is a grave conceit powering a 'mechanist' ideology that threatens civilization itself. Unless we dramatically change course, the pandemic will prove merely a step in the process towards a 'transhumanist paradise': a human race that under the governance of a technocratic/expert class achieves mental and physical perfection – perhaps even immortality – by means of science and technology." I agree with this analysis (https://c2cjournal.ca/2022/07/when-the-whole-world-goes-mad-mattias-desmets-the-psychology-of-totalitarianism/). I also think that this 'mechanist' mistake is consequent on refusal of the credal faith of Christianity and that we must speak to the course change that is most requisite. It's called repentance (metanoia), of the kind that leads to resocialization through good news and good fellowship.
I, who am in your debt for bringing the theological dimension to a sociologist, am in complete agreement with what you say here, and, good news and good fellowship is a great joy.
Thank you so much for both parts 1 and 2. I read them twice to get the full and best sense of where you were going with them, but the points beautifully paid off in the end. We must peacefully, actively, and cleverly resist what is coming, but our actions have to be in alignment with our [for me, Catholic] values.
It seems clear, as you note, that the dismantling of the church is another goal of this world body. The evil they are engaging in, is amplified when placed side-by-side with an institution and its many clerics and people of enormous faith, so they would have to abolish what they cannot control and what could diminish their images -- and ultimately -- their powers.
The question remains: what can we do? I'm hearing there may be worse to come. As suggested, we are praying and are hyper-alert, and yes, we must also fast where and when we can. I had hoped for a part 3, where you explain what you are hearing as you've hinted in past posts, so that we may better prepare for what might lay in our paths. [Proverbs 3:5-6 may help us here].
All the best to you and thanks again for this incredibly thoughtful read.
You do persevere, if you've read through twice! And though I can't advise better than the text you mention, which I was encouraged to memorize as a youth, I will try eventually to say more than that the churches are not acknowledging their Lord, or even recognizing that they are being tested, if they fancy that they are wrestling chiefly with a coronavirus, or even with flesh and blood (Eph. 6).
I don't know that it's right yet to speak of a world body, though there is certainly a global collaboration, an axis along which ideas and policies are running and on which organizations like the WHO can be situated. Nor is it only a eugenic health tyranny; it has other dimensions. From China to America (https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-19-was-ccp-biological-warfare-new-research-group-says_4647000.html) or America to China (cf. https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/covids-dark-winter-how-bio-war-gaming-robbed-us-of-our-liberty/ and https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/forget-china-it-was-americas-bio-spooks-who-locked-down-the-west/) various motives and goals are in play (https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/05/neil-ferguson-china-and-a-fanatical-socialist-health-minister-the-untold-story-of-how-lockdowns-came-to-italy-and-the-west/).
The players themselves may think about the church only when it is necessary or convenient to do so. Yet they are doing diabolical work, on diabolical premises. The church must determine its own course, guided and directed by its duty to acknowledge its Lord, and Christians must find the courage to overcome that faulty reflex of which I spoke.
On the civil level, non-cooperation with operations such as ArriveCan, with masking or vaxx mandates, with lockdowns, with CBDC: such are the immediate demands. If people do cooperate, because it is inconvenient not to cooperate, the governments and corporations only learn that they can press us still further. See, for a live example, https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/disturbing-video-from-canada/ and for KTDI background: https://truthinplainsight.com/canada-is-a-partner-in-wefs-program-to-bring-digital-id-to-travel/. This is one of their tests of fidelity. Show them your infidelity, as these folk did. And switch your business, where possible, to non-participating competitors.
On the ecclesial level, refusal to participate in the para-liturgies of hygienic gnosticism, accompanied by a well-prepared explanation for one's own actions, is called for. See again the conclusion to Anarchy from Above, Part III.