Guest Post by Diogenes’ Dung
After commenting on Jim Kunstler’s The Season is Here https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/03/24/the-season-is-here/, members of this community announced that my season for contributing was here. Thank you, Mary Christine, hardscrabble farmer, and BL for the nudge.
People, with few exceptions, are herd animals. Jim has declared that this is the season for an animal stampede. Some tipping point of pattern recognition and collective agony would, any day now, fire-hose our constipated, three-year meal of malarky from every media-puckered orifice and awaken us from our hypnotized torpor. No longer a sluggish, directionless clog of indecision, we on the right side of the Totalitarian Control Line will charge en masse toward neocons on the other side to reestablish fair governance on a shining hill. Magically, without a leader.
Even lemmings have a leader. I commented that Jim hadn’t identified the Merlin whose government-altering incantations would “finally and magically come to the public’s attention”. Two if by sea announced “WE ARE THE MERLIN.”, a premise so ludicrous it trumpeted a writer’s challenge that rings like the tinnitus in my ears. I’d like to think it’s so, but it’s difficult for me to imagine a merry band of Merlins marching into an orderly paradigm when so many people are without a ‘we’ to cohort with to anywhere. It is my self-assigned task. Thank you, Two if by sea, for taking me to task.
In our season of doubting everything, we have lost family, friends, neighborhoods, communities and faith in any national outcome that reunite us. There must be, in the magical panorama of the universe’s limitless possibilities, a path to union for humanity and maybe even families but I’m careful about what I ask the universe to give me from the skinny tail-end of probability. Humanity in Union would require a cataclysm on a scale so enormous it erased all differences of opinion that hinder survival. Wouldn’t it be easier to let millennia of natural selection and Pfizer DNA-twisting to phase-out the chimp-outs?
Seasons of doubt are much easier to write about than those brimming with optimism. Everybody has doubts; they’re familiar and somehow more comfortable to abide than hope. Doubt rarely disappoints us. Any writer with muscle will take a deep breath before hoisting an idea whose weight is onerous, unfamiliar, looking like a dead-end. Writers tend to find a good rut and stay in it. In this season, ‘We’ exerts a planetary pull on those who are alone, searching for a cohort marching home. That’s me, hyperventilating, getting ready to lift ‘WE’.
‘WE” no matter who says it, doesn’t include everybody. We is always subset of humanity with specific markers. A silent nod to animals who’ve forgotten more about ‘WE’ than I can remember. Animals frequently act with cohesive uniformity. Rarely does any human group act uniformly or with cohesion. LGBTQ’s lined up to infinity will never include me in in their ‘WE’. Most lesbians doesn’t consider trannies part of their ’WE’. They see shallow interlopers grabbing girl’s sports trophies while being crowned by media with accolades of “Most Womanly” for pretending to hate their dicks. Even the Lesbian Cohort won’t ride that Woke baloney pony.
Media changes age-related perspectives as often as Kardashian clothing fashions. Today, few aspire to live like their parents. Two centuries ago the world din’t change much between generations. Life went on the same as it always had and few imagined anything different. My father was the last generation to plow a cotton field behind a mule. “OK Boomer” will be the last generation to be blamed for everyfuckedupthing if we don’t all become a Cohort of Merlins, cast off the media spells and rout government trolls from beneath the bridges that join us. Those bridges are traditions that respect the sacrifices and achievements of those who prepared the world we were born into. Media celebrates every toppled icon from Alexander the Great to Mahatma Ghandi and every banned author of great ideas from Pericles to Pocahontas.
Shared, pan-generational perspectives are now nearly impossible. Where are the communities bonded by traditions and customs that develop independent adults whose exercise of will is not confined by another’s view of the world? Not in any major metropolitan area of the USA and religious communities don’t encourage exercise of free will. The freedom to be anything we want means a completely different thing today than it did when I was a lad. I knew I could be President of the United States if I became as great a man as George Washington. Today, POTUS must be a person of color with a transexual spouse or an Adderal’d idiot with a pole-dancer’s grandchild. How can the Universe hold any possibility sprouting a Cohort of Merlins from this fetid yeast?
Where is this ‘WE’, our Cohort of Merlins? TBP; Masochists Anonymous? Whoever, whatever, wherever they are, your inner Merlin is waiting to lead you to them. Unfortunately, everybody who says they can show you how to find your Merlin is a crackpot. No one person can show you, it is a lesson learned from everyone. The magical incantations from our Cohort of Merlins are only heard in our dreams, where everyone sings.
Everyone, no matter their age, relives magical moments, deja vu, where something inside leaps toward a nascent idea, lost feeling or deep longing like a cheetah after a gazelle. It could be triggered by a passage read, a song revisited, a smell from childhood or the passing of a loved one that opens us to something larger, captured in lost moments that once defined us, our family, our friends, our generation, our cohort. Each, in their own way, holds our deepest longing, be eternal, without age, without fear. Those magical moments burst from our subconscious like magma to remind us that we once cherished a different perspective from another time.
The arc of aging, seen from infancy in the faces of generations before us, doesn’t matter while crawling in in footy pajamas; age doesn’t exist. We are exploring our miraculous senses, seeing, touching, tasting, hearing, smelling all the things that define an ageless world. Our definition of the world changes with the concept of age; it becomes finite; magic fades from view.
Dreaming is the easiest, safest way to experience the Universe’s magical potential. If it can happen, it happens the dream world, including a Cohort of Merlins. And if you can’t make it happen there, you can’t make it happen anywhere. In our subconscious, every time line in every dimension is mapped (Akashic Records), one’s journey isn’t and every shortcut is a dead-end. The worst thing that can happen, if your will and thought control aren’t sufficient to limit what you manifest… maybe you’ll keep waking up inside a really bad dream, saying “Whew! I’m glad that’s over. “, and it won’t be.
I’ve only experienced a cohesive ‘WE’ in the subconscious, our timeless universe, where magic’s ingredients are harvested. In fact, ‘we’ gets quite sticky there. Everyone is there, connected in one way or another; a collective of pure chaos with an overarching order. Nobody is in charge. That’s OK, chaos is nature’s order, true liberty. Unfortunately, there, the exercise of free will is easily seduced and confused because rules and consequences are self-imposed, if at all. Anybody can do anything at any time and as your dreams have shown, you do things you cannot explain, imagine, or dare to reveal to your closest confidant.
That can make it difficult to find a ‘WE’ when one awakes. We hide our dream diary well as it begs to be burned in shame. There are no censors in the subconscious, that’s your conscious mind’s job and I’m grateful for its vigilance. Within, judgement has no gavel and only the strongest control of one’s thoughts creates a happy cohesion from its firmament. It embraces infinity, where happiness can appear to be accidental. Yet, oddly, it’s where the cynical can observe “…how five or six generational gaps could be bridged by a cohesive cohort of ageless Merlins.”
But be careful what you ask for, that outcome requires a cataclysm on a scale so enormous it will induce instant insanity in many. That’s what having one’s illusions stripped can do. There are too many great books and gifted authors that describe humanity’s next passage to miss the fact that our ship has sailed toward a new destination that includes a tempest unlike any before. Nobody gets out of that place without their hair turning white in a fortnight.
When time is stopped (wait for it) and the barriers between the conscious and subconscious are stripped, humanity will mark the day that the dead rose from the grave. The day our survival required us to became a Cohort of Merlins.
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Due to Man’s love of comfort, few will leave the freeway and take The Long Walk Down The Road To Damascus……………..
Bottom line is you cannot have a democracy when all the agencies with the guns are not accountable to the people….
“Bottom line is you cannot have a democracy when all the agencies with the guns are not accountable to the people….”
…the whiskey rebellion? mercenaries. willing to KILL their fellow Countrymen.
NOT far off, Again. Clearly.
Sketch/painting somewhere. hamilton & g.w. ‘strolling’ arm-n-arm to said ‘rebellion’.
Big
Businessdistilleries ALL FOR the ‘legislation’.Hauntingly Familiar.
https://www.ttb.gov/public-information/whiskey-rebellion
https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/distillery/ten-facts-about-the-distillery/
SURE “can not tell a lie” georgie paid EVERY ¢ of tax. 🤣
Who but the uniformed and ignorant would ever want a democracy?
Exceptional first submission. I can see the influence of some regular contributors in your style, but it comes across as very authentic in its own right.
Well done.
The magical world is everywhere if you take the time to perceive it, not just in dreams. I see rough waters too, but more than that I see great opportunities for an even better future than anything we’ve had previously if we just keep doing what we were born to do. Allow the natural wold to be your guide and never question your instincts, you were born with them for a reason. And if you hear your conscience tell you no, then don’t.
Well said.
Thank you, hsf, for emphasizing that there is magic in every moment and that our best leaders are our our own instincts and conscience.
If I were still in the 2nd grade, a year before I learned to read, I’d be erasing the names of regular contributors of homework and adding my own. I’d ‘borrow’ a little bit from all of them.
THANK YOU, Scrabble!
I’ve not yet met a farmer who believed in magic.
Sure, being born with instincts is all to the good, but humans aren’t born with many at all.
Our survival depends on our rational minds and memories of experience, and learning from the teaching of others.
You really do have a way with words. Similar to Uncola, I would say. He started here, too.
So do we need a leader or don’t we? I’m terribly cynical these days and I just go back to the thought that anyone who wants the job to lead is suspect.
We aren’t a cohesive tribe here in the US and we never were. Nevertheless , FedGov still fears us. Witness the Restrict Act they are trying to pass. See the post that T4C submitted. That’s a bill to control us using Tik Tok as the scape goat. So if we are going to do anything at all to keep what’s left of our freedom, we better do it now because the walls are quickly closing in.
By the way, did you have someone edit your essay? If you did, make them read it again and if you don’t, you need someone. Just a couple of typos that need to be fixed. But keep writing, particularly if you enjoy it. I don’t enjoy writing but I do it when I feel like I need to get some information out.
Nobody is coming to save you. You need to stop looking for a hero and put yourself in control of your life. Separate yourself from the failing system because this Nation is sinking ship and can not be saved. Every man for himself is the only way forward from here.
All your dreams are a waste of time while you gain nothing for your survival by thinking all the time and doing nothing. Get into the lifeboat and exit the ship in every way possible because it is taking on water faster now.
WW3 is a failing effort to save the ship. I will not be a player in the banker war that has been delivered to the fools in this nation. I know the truth of who started this war and why. I know who funds it and who feeds the minds of society.
I know our money is fake and our country is bankrupt. Our “leaders” should have been hung when they killed our productivity. I know that our people are brainwashed and have been turned into nothing more than maggots.
I will not fight to save human maggots from self destruction. I will be doing nothing for my fellow Americans. I have no desire to feed maggots or do business with them. I will be as far from them as possible when the ship goes down.
Once you give up all hope about saving the Nation that was and realize that it is gone forever, you will be able to focus on your own life and stop feeding the monster.
No man is an island.
We are all islands in a sea of fools.
You gone and Donne it now!
Dung- That was another example of your excellent wordsmithing. I leave the writing to those who excel such as yourself, HSF, Admin and Uncola. Mary and I knew you could weave an interesting fabric of thought, so congrats.
Hardscrabble more or less said what I would like to , that after the shitstorm passes there will be a huge opportunity for human expression . Many countries have been to hell and back and survived to offer an exceptional life to their citizens. You can’t have that Golden Renaissance without a dark period.
It’s our turn in the barrel Dung, the wizards are at work.
Gracias, BL. Even wizards occasionally shout “BOHICA!”
Dung- I shout “BOHICA” commenting here several times a day. I have a hard time staying out of trouble. 🙂
Opportunities for conquest, pillage and plunder is what many are looking forward to, and some even believe it will be a good time to create a world dictator. Perhaps a new Enlightenment will arise later.
“Separate yourself from the failing system because this Nation is sinking ship and can not be saved. Every man for himself is the only way forward from here.”
This is exactly the propaganda I’d promulgate is I wanted to conquer America from the inside out.
Fragmented and at odds with each other is exactly how the progressive plan demands us to be.
I have observed that rebellion, action, or what ever you want to call it is more organic than planned. I call it the moment of righteous indignation where a number of people, not a group or organized body just people, all reach the I’ve-had-enough-and-I’m-not-going-to-take-it-any-more point at the same time. It is impossible to know in advance what the trigger is or will be. It just happens. Next thing there are more and more people involved and the entire process is organic. While there may be a rallying point or person, that point or person is not the “leader”. Often there is more than one rallying point/person.
The organic formation and resulting action(s) are usually the most effective. Today, most are still too comfortable to take any action that might result in their personal discomfort but the day is coming soon when it will be impossible to ignore the storm and action will be needed. I have great faith in my ordinary fellow man that when prodded into action, the end will be swift and in favor of us, you and me.
Stay safe and be prepared.
Bless you, Mary Christine, for your encouragement and suggestions. I could’ve topped the corporate ladder if I’d had somebody editing my work emails. I’m as independent as a person can be and reluctant to ask for help but I could’ve made more friends if I’d asked more often.
For independent people, leaders who tell us what, when and how we should be are neither needed nor welcome. Leaders who have shown us how to reach our potential among the hypnotized are enshrined in our personal Pantheon of Heroes.
We arrived in Guadalajara today (first time) after a five-hour bus ride from Sayulita. We’re spent. After last night’s unwashed lettuce, we took turns treating the bathrooms in the back of the bus like a Jackson Pollack canvas. Mountain curves full of potholes slam-danced us against the sides, front and back of the tiny stalls, making bowl-centered deposit impossible; everything sloshed everywhere. I’ll move through the comments one roll of TP at a time.
I like writing and I’ve been working, very slowly, on a book. Writing dialogue is my favorite part and for sure my wife will be editing the female voices.
RED ALERT
Human feces for fertilizer may not be outlawed in your region. The article honestly dated back to the late 90s from The Economist mag. My bet this is what caused the cruise ship maladies.(Saw pallets of lettuce loaded onto a cruise ship I was on way back, in Cozumel)
Washing won’t matter as its systemic.
You sound like my husband. “Yes” men tend to rise to the top or close to it. But they are very unattractive, morally.
I really enjoy the articles, essays, by TBP family writers and other independents over the production type. Imo, the production writers just pump out the same tossed salad and its presented as new or revelatory insights for public consumption.
The writers that aren’t counting on trying to stay relevant thru their published craft speak mainly from the heart. That, imo, is where the value lay and it lays much out there for all to see. Be it good or be it evil. Good article, there is always something to pull out and examine more closely, thanks
The gratitude is mostly mine because people I admire here yanked my writers knob.
GAY
your pronoun is?
Snowflake job interview.
HR “You wrote on your application, your pronouns are they/them. Seeing as there is only one open position, we’re gonna have to pass on hiring the both of you.”
Before their corporate and government coups in the 90’s, which bequeathed authority to hire anybody for anything, HR trolls were pumping boiling blood out of donkeys in Dante’s 7th Circle
This is how they they’ll do it . Gag.
Remember those super nice people scuttling behind you asking if you’re SURE you don’t want a mask, etc.
Get the fuck out of Auntie’s way or you will be run over, assholes.
And back up several times to make sure there are no survivors.
UK Trotskies are unapologetically setting up checkpoints? After watching the movie, Children of Men, thought it was simply pretty poetry and not prophesy.
Civilized order will not endure. All those taxes extorted for nothing of actual value.
Oh,please do (try)that here in the US.
This will be entertaining as hell,probaly be blasting Cure’s Primal Scream as I move on!
What could possibly go wrong?!
Your not going to destroy that truck, James. I bet you have a beater that would work just as well.
Pleeeeeeease don’t hurt your truck. I need it to lead my pronoun parade.
Very interesting ideas well presented.
Can a Cohort of Merlins restore Camelot?
This Camelot appears to be full of camel sh!t – A lot of camel sh!t!
More like Camelost
Camelock~downs
Leaderless is how the B3RG* like their adversaries, victims and slaves. So much easier to take whatever they want and make thralldom the old and now New Normal. Leaderless are those whose only hope to survive is passivity and prayer. Leaderless provides no coherence to the response which must be unequivical and overwhelming with power. Leaderless and stoked with magical thinking leaves not even a shadow of doubt as to a losing outcome.
Auntie doesn’t want any magical thinking for the coming conflict- leave that for the dumb and stupid, the immature, unprepared and the enemy.
INstead of a cohort of Merlins – emblematic of magical thinking – try instead a armies of hate-filled and avenging spirits with the determination of Spartacus or Boudicca; Qutuz and Baybars versus Mongols; Allemani taking on the Roman Legions in the Teutoburg Forest, Irish Republicans against the British Empire, Afghanis kicking the USSA out…
That leader who can galvanize the Resistance is around somewhere right now and will appear when most needed. No magical thinking just a hard and horrible road of blood, sweat, toil and tears that eventually leads to the palaces of Freedom and Liberty.
(That’s some mighty fancy writing there, D.D.)
I’m mostly in agreement with you, AA, except
That leader might accomplish what is needed but like Iska said about Putin’s new weapon, he will turn on us. And it must be a he. Men are generally more trustworthy than women. Sorry my female friends but you know it’s true.
You’re damned right it’s true.
Even a backstabbing conniving compulsive liar is “more trustworthy than (most) women”
FIFY. Youre welcome.
totally agree with you but down-voted anywy… just for the hell of it!🤣
You cannot even organize a resistance. They will infiltrate you and set you up . You cannot even trust friends or family they can all be bought good luck.
Thank you, Aunt Acid. I always relish your comments.
We are electr0-magnetic beings and magical in ways few imagine.
The weapons that will be used in the next global conflict haven’t been exposed. Time is an internal, subconscious function that manifests externally. Uplifting moments are gone too soon and moments of torture last forever.
I expect the tools to erase the natural, internal barriers between conscious and subconscious states are already developed. From what I read about the potential for 5G microwaves to modulate our internal frequencies, not much more is needed. The grid is not our friend.
Fleabaggs said that over and over. But first we have to learn to live without it. Most people can’t.
“The grid is not our friend.”
– Diogenes’ Dung
Funny how this gets us back to Jim Kunstler and his “World Made By Hand” series predicated on his thesis of “The Long Emergency.” Excellent.
Oh, and please, call me Auntie, dearie.
My instincts tell me double-permission is required.
I’ll ask Liz (mi MooHair) if you can be my auntie. Maybe I’ll beg.
Last night, as happens every once in a while, our daughter stood before our bed asking to join us in the middle, where comfort lives, because she had a nightmare. Of course she could. It was pure bliss. A simultaneous giving and taking of warmth, until we all drifted back to sleep.
And that’s exactly what they will use against you your love for your family and children.
Maybe. But that is all we have, at the essence of it all. Isn’t it?
I wish I could effectively convey how much more there actually is.
1 Corinthians 15:19 KJB… “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.”
My little granddaughter is spending the night with my wife and I tonight. It’s our once a week sleepover and it’s truly a joy. We’ll savor it while it lasts as it won’t last forever. Forever last forever; and in forever there is actual physical glory to look forward to!
Philippians 3:20-21 KJB… “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
Eternity, forever, is the essence of it all! This life will be gone soon enough.
I wonder if we lose knowledge of good and evil with our perfect bodies.
Good question. I don’t know. What I do know; I can’t wait to find out!
…On what You Believe.
“I wonder if we lose knowledge of good and evil with our perfect bodies.”
Several related:
Isaiah 65:17
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.”
King James Version (KJV)
How to turn a positive into a negative.
Your mindset has to be right or you’ve already lost.
I see it very differently; your love for your family is something against which they have no defense.
Certainly, they have no comprehension.
As in “The light shone in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.”
The best time of my day is waking my daughter up and having a few minutes of cuddle time before we get up and ready for school/work.
Also, she gets to sleep on the floor in our room one night per week (Fridays). I wouldn’t mind her there every night, but most nights she puts herself to bed in her own room and sleeps peacefully until I wake her. A few years and she will have zero desire to sleep on our floor.
I have always been a lone wolf never comfortable in the pack, I have a very small circle of friends and to my friends I can be loyal to a fault. I know I can’t change the world mostly due to a lack of desire to participate in it, that’s my fault. I can do something to make the lives of my friends and family better. Community for me is not a web but a circle. To be in the circle doesn’t require magic, just trust. Woefully, I have no hope for the future of America as a whole but I will lay down my life for anyone of my friends or family. Together we are the Merlin you speak of.
Ditto
There is real leadership shown here. The officer keeps his men focused and moving forward. Puts the one with rifle out in front , keeping excellent situational awareness. Even the teacher giving police information on arrival , standing potentially exposed to fire showed leadership. Its within each of us.
Sara Gonzales
@SaraGonzalesTX
Nashville Police have released the bodycam footage and it cannot be stressed enough how remarkable this response was. These men are absolute heroes.
It doesn’t make up anything for the Uvalde Massacre of innocent schoolchildren with 300 + Texas armed police and paramilitary waiting in the hall because “procedures.”
Couldn’t get past the first couple of paragraphs. Too esoteric for my mind.
But the Aerosmith video got my attention, having attended many events at the now demolished Capital Center just outside D.C. Rush, The Who, exciting Washington Capitals hockey games.
Easier to remember good times of the past than to ponder the end times in the near future.
“There is no one watching out for us, Merrill. We are all on our own.”
Yeah couldn’t get past the video buffer time, so I deemed it stupid.
But, not wanting to admit lack of comprehension, I used the old fallback and made it the author’s fault for my lack of attention span.
And furthermore…..SQUIRREL!
_______
Jes messin, but that’s what the view looks like from the other side of your eyes.
Numbnut, I didn’t offer an opinion or fault the author.
So who has a problem with comprehension? You.
Thanks for the laugh, guys. Really.
Anyone who read all this without mental indigestion has a cast iron brain.
Anyone who read it twice should contribute to TBP.
The song was meant to be a stand-in for what I was word-splainin’.
It’s what I think a Cohort of Merlins would sing about time, karma, learning, following, singing, laughing, and hoping the Lord takes us away from a place without magic…
Dream On
Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
Oh, it went by like dusk to dawn
Isn’t that the way?
Everybody’s got their dues in life to pay, oh, oh, oh
I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it’s everybody’s sin
You got to lose to know how to win
Half my life’s in books’ written pages
Storing facts learned from fools and from sages
You view the earth
Oh, sing with me, this mournful dub
Sing with me, sing for a year
Sing for the laughter, and sing for the tear
Sing with me, if it’s just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
I’m sorry, I expected something a lot better based on the previous well written comments, DD. Five minutes I can’t get back. Thumbs up for trying.
My Bad. Please help me thank you for five lost minutes you gave to to thumb-thank me. Right above this response is my thumb, headin’ north.
Having great Aunticipation * for your maiden essay or other moar-better first submission for the eager minds here at TBP, Xyz. Thank you.
* Aunticipation©, Copyright, Aunt Acid, 2023
What Are The Akashic Records?
“While many describe or explain the concept in different ways, in essence, the Akashic Records are believed to be the repository of every thought, word, and deed of every living being, good, bad, and awful, in all times; past, present, future*. But those familiar with the records report that there is no judgment or implied penalty in the records — they are said to simply be a record of each soul’s journey through the infinite.
History of the Akashic Records”
“One of the earliest references to the Akashic Records in modern times was made by Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical movement in the late 19th century. Theosophy is an esoteric belief system that incorporates philosophical tenets from eastern religions while maintaining that “there is no religion higher than Truth.”
read more @: https://www.gaia.com/article/akashic-records-101-can-we-access-our-akashic-records
*already done , imho.
The Bible. (NOT gonna ‘argue’ which ‘Variant’ is the best, part of Free Will)
“When time is stopped (wait for it) and the barriers between the conscious and subconscious are stripped, humanity will mark the day that the dead rose from the grave.”
The Bible has that covered. Too.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:”
King James Version (KJV)
Painful. To discover much, (maybe most?) of what One learned in ‘living’.
A lie.
Never Too Late. But ONE Unpardonable Sin.
@ least, my ‘belief’. DO try to ‘keep Up’, time permitting. BUT i ‘Look/See’ EVERYTHING differently.
Can NOT help but laughing @ it all. Until it is ‘Game Over’.
Too long already. Loooong ‘line’ of Satanists. Since the Garden.
algore might be of some assistance?
In the Garden.
Alone.
Or, if you are of that age…
Fascinating!
Had not heard of Akashic records before.
Thankyou!
Read Edgar Cayce. Or Dolores Cannon.
Read some book ’bout cayce, @ 12 yrs. old. Of course, can’t remember much.
Totally unfamiliar (i think) w/dolores cannon.
Got some uncommitted spare time, will refresh/check out both.
Thanks.
“Had not heard of Akashic records before.”
(Akashic Records?)- Helena Blavatsky was a straight up satanist of the first order. She and Pike established the Lucis Trust which was originally called the Lucifer Trust.
They sell the “no judgement” as a enticement to do what thou wilt, Blavatsky has been whitewashed and deodorized.
“Helena Blavatsky was a straight up satanist of the first order.”
But ONE link to the current, (one of many) manifestations of…
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/witch-of-endor_bible/
Not so long ago.
Young (24) dude in my Bible study class, his Bible knowledge? ‘Biblical’.
Yet He professes to have NO ‘knowledge’ of even such ‘well known’ Characters,
Such as:
“He was accepted as the Messiah by the vast majority of World Jewry…”
https://sacredgeometryinternational.com/1666-sabbatean-frankist-illuminati-history/#!
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_rothschild35.htm
nathan of gaza, jacob frank, etc.
TONS of info, compliments of algore.
Does NOT even scratch the surface. Of ol’ scratch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Scratch
Any tool that can be used to build can also destroy. Satan uses tools you can’t counter because you’ve never looked in his tool box.
Have you never suspected that the christian persecutions of those who practiced ‘dark arts’ (metaphysics) occurred because clerics don’t actually know who they’re working for and against?
I started my own existential, metaphysical journey with Thoreau, then his mentor, Emerson, and his contemporary, Whitman. Then on to Blavatsky, Pike, Swami Vishnudevananda, Lobsang Rampa, and many others before some years spent as an acolyte and Arahata of Ekankar. That long learning curve aquatinted me with a lot of inner teachings you won’t find in books because most were burned long ago by people who knew no shame.
If you keep an accurate, nightly dream diary, you’ll want to be whitewashed and deodorized soon enough because you’ll be wallowing judgement-free until you awaken with a desire to not be judged.
Biblioclasm has had its uses to the B3RG* in the past and contemporarily. It is being done right now without flames; the digitization of texts and elimination of the Card Catalogue could wind up being worse than the burning of the libraries of Alexandria and Ashurbanipal.
“..worse than the burning of the libraries of Alexandria and Ashurbanipal”
It was a lovely, shitty day until you reminded me of that. Now I just feel burned out.
…and a moment later was also reminded how most of what survived alexandria was lost in 1204.
I dunno, at my dream peak shit was cooler than fuck and everyone wanted me to write them out as full stories.
…To follow through, other than dabble, in my quest for the ‘esoteric’. DID have a ‘voice-activated’ digital recorder in play for ’bout 7 mos. Mostly gibberish.
Kinda like when i’m awake.
Took 20+ yrs. before i FINALLY started pullin’ my nose away.
NOT a ‘pretty’ sight. At All. BIG debt of gratitude ta algore. For Sure. From the git-go. Dial up ONLY in those days. Sat down my usual 5 a.m.-ish with a cup of coffee, of course. It was dark. Winter.
Got up @ dark. Nighttime. Coffee hardly touched. STILL can NOT believe it myself, MANY Moons ago. Almost fell over from sitting for such an extended period.
However, that’s just my opinion. Hence one of many ‘screen names’…OALA.
Opinions Are Like…
Stole that as well.
It was YEARS before i ‘discovered’ that one of my all time favorites ACTUALLY came from The Bible:
Ecclesiastes 1:9
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
King James Version (KJV)
Currently? ALL about learnin’ MORE from It. The Others’ mentioned? More philosophers than prophets, whateva.
STILL in their respective graves.
NOBODY is more shocked than me, i, whateva. Can not speak too highly of what little i’ve gleaned, from reading The Bible.
Free Will, Indeed.
AGAIN, i do NOT believe that ANYONE could/can deny that ‘things’ ARE ‘different’. @ an Ever Accelerating Pace.
Supernatural IS too ‘nice’ a word for it…
Ephesians 6:12
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
King James Version (KJV)
…sums it up succinctly, imho.
To each their own.
“There are as many ways to see a thing as there are people to see it.” Sayings of Uncle YaYa
We all have the ability to think, cogitate, imagine, visualize and create our own personal views of reality; all of us can do this, all eight billion of us terrestrial dwellers. What makes society run somewhat effectively is when: humans band together with a common consensus on how to resolve problems and live together in relative harmony or when a strong personality (often called a charismatic leader or leaders) takes the imitative to persuade others to follow him or her. They can do it by claiming to speak for the CREATOR or that they are the CREAOR in the flesh, they can use force, fear and coercion to get people to do what they want or they can appeal to their peers using reason and emotions to get things done.
Alas today we are so divided, fractured and discombobulated coming together in a common effort for a mutually beneficial cause on the surface seems highly unlikely; this is by design. The psychopathic/megalomaniacal plutocrats who think they are our betters, the miscreants who think they are gods deliberately keep us divided, constantly at each other’s throats, distrustful of each other (while we foolishly trust and rely on them) and induce a constant state of agitation and disharmony that allows them to continue to rule over us! In this state there can be no real we due to the disunity and chaos the plutocrats’ constantly sow.
I am not being pessimistic, I believe we can come together for mutual redemption but first we have to listen to our own hearts, our higher selves and use this guidance to lead/attract us to those with like minds and like hearts willing to sacrifice for the greater good. Ubuntu is real and can be applied especially in todays’ dystopian environment.
Reminds me of Tom Petty’s line “I woke up, in between….a memory, and a dream”.
So let me get to the point
Let’s roll another joint
And turn the radio loud
I’m too alone to be proud
People come, people go
some grow young
so grow cold.
We are in a time almost identical to the fall of Western Rome. Where was the best location to be? Just outside the city of Rome, perhaps 50-200 miles, but not at the edge of former empire. The so called Barbarians took over but demanded far less tribute than the Romans had. And the relative levels of organization remained. I suspect as was true in 375 AD, so it will be true in our time. Live just outside the crazy parts and prepare accordingly.
Will the former USA be reconstituted? If enough people who are productive and moral deem it necessary, then yes. But we will not be around to see it. The arc of history is too slow.
Nature and civilizations require periods of die off to allow rebirth.
mm, i’d go back and learn some more history and in a lot more detail there first.
if youre talking about ‘places under long-established roman rule’ and looking for where are your best options to find yourself at the end of the 4th century, as you say ad375, first you must realize that italy remained a core part of the empire for a lot longer – a barbarian interlude in the late 5th-mid 6th century which was rolled back by belisarius , then italy remained under imperial rule until the 8th century- and under the interlude local administration largely continued unchanged, just a different set of bosses pocketed the revenues.
If your definition of ‘good’ place to live was where civilization held on, even in the city of rome you’d have what you wanted for centuries to come – but even more so in the eastern half of the empire which continued strong and stronger for even centuries longer. anywhere else in the western empire , you might find the majority of people around you feeling more relieved by barbarian takeover and groaning in despair when, for example, in the mid-5th century, aetius managed to hold the western empire together past its expire-date. the imperial administration, with its taxes, bureacracy, rules, and impositions, was a heavy burden on everyone outside of the ruling class and was more and more resented by those who bore the burden. One of the reasons the western empire disintegrated and the eastern empire held strong was that the western empire was much more burdensome on those they ruled, than was the eastern, for myriad reasons that dont fit in a comment on a blog post. Some of the broad metareasons involve the different relationship between cost of administration and economic surplus available to support it, where the west had higher costs and lower surplus, and vice versa in the east. Indeed the smarter eastern emperors shed the burden of the west willingly giving up huge territories because they were a losing proposition to keep at that artificially high level of complexity. the barbarian kingdoms were almost all originally founded with a paper thin layer of legitimacy as ruling in the name of the empire, but they were a huge simplification and relocalization. no senatorial class a thousand miles away sucking away the profits of the land, no huge bureacracy wofling down paychecks and bribes, no 400-thousand strong army hundreds of miles distant garrissonning border forts and demanding pay raises constantly.
Meanwhile in the eastern empire mid-5th century the emperor anastasius was able to even _abolish_ the most hated tax (the chrysargyron/collatio lustralis) and still leave a huge surplus in the treasury.
Even when the east reestablished roman rule most of the western regions were still a losing proposition and ended up being a waste of resources in the name of sentimental prestige, and were again lost after they drained the east’s ability to keep subsidizing roman civilization there.
so if you define good living as ‘keeping roman civilization’ then your best move would have been to head east in the 4th century.
but if you define good living as having more freedom, your own property, lower taxes or other similar burdens, and local autonomy, then your best move might have been further west- the eastern empire maintained order and more complex civilization, yes, but it also kept its bureacracy and heavy taxes for another thousand years..
The answer, as usual is simple: a militia of one.
Do not talk — do not share — do not brag.
Pineland Rules.
Identify the local collaborators in your AO and deal with them, quietly.
Michael Collins style.
I regret deeply that things have come to this, but this was the intended purpose for the 2nd Amendment, all along.
My God! What inane drivel! Please crawl back from whence you came.
You’re an indifferent and unthinking moron.
Thank God you kept it short and simple.
Thank God, also that your indifference and unthinking critique was kept short and simple.
Winner, WINNER! Chicken Dinner!
Late in the game, being the first to send me crawling is testament to the open-minded, far-reaching imagination and intellect perusing TBP.
Does your lid clang much?
Came across a comment by Vox, division is built into the US, there was never a we, there is no need to divide and conquer, just show up and conquer.
Excellent point. There never was a “United” States.
My father pushed a plow behind mules as well. Those who did that were strong men. As a kid I knew I was secure when he was around. Not sure I was that good a man. Thanks for the images, Dung. I’m glad to be able to read talented and pretty smart people who write on this site.
You are welcome. Were you pushed or did you jump?
Bless your heart, D.Doug.
You did it! And did it very well.
Tough day out here in the woods. A community member, off his meds, steps out in front of a truck and dies, last week.
I’ll be cleaning up his place in the ensuing weeks ahead but will reread and reread again, your fine contribution. Then perhaps I’ll respond thoughtfully. Welcomed or not.
I won’t be shaken of my faith in us Merlins doing what’s necessary.
Simply put, in this dark red county I’ve moved to, there is no true protection. Hurt yourself? Too bad. Need to defend property? There’s no time to seek help. Ad finitum.
I am Merlin.
Again, excellent article!
I just needed a push. Gracias.
A fine article which has sparked loads of excellent conversation.
DoubleD!
E eye O here, way down in ya subconscious hole!
Go’hed, tell’em bout dis dream diary entry!
OK. Spoiler alert. There’s a discussion below about whether this is AI written.
I’m flattered, but ROTFLMFAO.
No AI would, if it could, could conjur Enumclaw Olympian as his donkey-dorking Doppleganger.
Totally whiffed on getting myself downvoted.
Rat Fink.
you
only highest-order AI uses gramatical toe-stubbers
Also, doubtful that A.I. would conjure “fetid yeast”.
Wow!!! Great post!!!
The wordsmithing is tremendous … Too many great phrases to count …
Have any of you tards considered that this sh!t sandwich – supposdly served up by D. Dung – was, in fact, churned out by a constipated chatGPT?
Did’nt think so! ROTFLMFAO!
Great,me paranoia has been brought to a new level,thanks cynic!
“rust free”…. luvvv it!!!😅😅😅
What a stupid shit statement.
No AI could write that.
Actually,I wonder how much writing in the future will be “ai assisted”with folks then just adding personal touches.
I am in no way saying that Dung’s article was this but do feel as the ai grows will be a concern in the future.
The machine war is coming,get friendly with your machines now!
I suppose that’s a possible scenario, James. If someone actually submitted an AI assisted article do you think we could sniff it out?
If someone did, and didn’t included that fact, shame on them.
What’s that thing on top of the Roomba? It looks like the Roomba might be in danger.
Mary,really have no idea how one would detect a ai article(or a plagiarized one)unless you had seen article before or folks admit was ai.
The brave Roomba is carrying a claymore mine and willing to give up it’s life in defense of it’s famly.This is why I say get friendly with your local machines now!
My Roombas are more like this and though am sure they would be willing will not let them die defending me.
🤣The best kind of Roomba you can have.
Was there a “leader” during the American Revolution? I say no. There were a lot of people contributing in different ways, ways that suited their talents.
History shows that serious problems arise when there is a “leader”.
So, you ask, who can start it off and co-ordinate it? The answer of course is The People, acting through their freely and fairly chosen representatives… If you don’t have those, that’s the best place to start.
Out revolution was a coalition of people from the colonial governments, with input from all sorts of people outside of government.
Please don’t try to saddle America with another Great Leader. Are you hoping to resurrect FDR?
Well done!..hopefully without the assistance of ChatGPT or the like.
How far has my trust in humanity fallen that I even had to ask a question like that?
Funny how your doubt allows me to trust you even more.
This just in… UK and USA crossed Putin’s red line.
Well, DD, I must have a cast iron brain. And I did read it twice.
I also caught the preamble on the other thread and was in the progress of organizing some pre-written notes that, I believe, may correspond to both JHK’s “Season” and your article above – although not as poetic and merely reviewing another’s observations and perspectives (yet still potentially pertinent to those seeking to dissipate black magic and spells).
Incoming.
In the meantime, thank you for the words
You’ve been at the tip of TBP spear for a long time and have to have cast iron skin to invite so many inside your thoughts. I don’t read this thread looking for agreement or argument, just different observations and perspectives, shared without concern for which way the thumb-suckers point their pacifiers.
Learning to control one’s inner space requires modulation of the endocrine system, activating the potential in our pineal and pituitary with any number of techniques. Chakra specific mantras, breathing exercises and prayer can open a lot unseen doors and lock others out if need be.
Unfortunately, the compasses we use for inner-spacial navigation are being systematically degraded, calcified through environmental assault on many levels. The survival instincts layered in our solar plexus are being strip-mined with fluoride and pharmaceuticals. Even against those headwinds, one’s imagination can provide sufficient buoyancy to stay afloat while taking torpedos below our water line.
Whatever dark passage awaits us, it will be the beginning of the end for those who would steal our heavenly heritage. I’m grateful they haven’t (yet) heisted our freedom to read your thoughts.
I read that the pineal gland “eats” (is activated by) sunlight.
Sungazing or suneating are things.
Sunlight isn’t just visual. It can be ‘captured’ as nourishing meal with a spoonful of imagination.
I like sunsets.
Copypaasted
“According to Georges Dumézil (1898–1986), Proto-Indo-European society had three main groups, corresponding to three distinct functions: Sovereignty, which fell into two distinct and complementary sub-parts: one formal, juridical and priestly but worldly [aka the KANG];
the other powerful, unpredictable and priestly but rooted in the supernatural world [aka the Wizard].
Military, connected with force, the military and war. [warriors]
Productivity, herding, farming and crafts; ruled by the other two [pissants]”
The lemmings need Merlin, but they also need Arthur. How many brave knights know the Way but await their Leader?
edit: blyat
One hundred!
I’ve been saying for years here that “we” is the word under which many bodies are buried. I try always to define the scope whenever I use it.
That said, community is vital. People at times do the impossible, become better than they ever could have imagined….but only for others. Only for love.
Our meaning is tied up in fighting for survival in a harsh environment with a tribe. That is how we spent unknowable eons of our evolution on this planet. The great conceit of Civilization is the idea that that need for community can scale. It can, for a time. The American Experiment, so far the best one ever run, was built on the idea of voluntary cooperation and the ability to presume good faith on the part of others.
As HSF pointed out, there will always, eventually, come those that will game this presumption for nefarious ends.
Empires splinter and fall. Period.
But we (the big we…Humans) will find our way through, stumbling and blind and at each other’s throats, and then at some point we’ll start the whole empire building thing all over again.
It is simply the way of thing.
At the individual/small group level it is simply best to try to live well and in whatever peace may be found on the banks of that great river of history.
“stumbling and blind” is an apt description of any student in the material worlds. None of us are accustomed to the blinders fastened upon us at birth and we cherish those who don’t fear shadows.
i apologise on behalf of JD for impuning DD’s fine piece of writing the other night with that calumny that it was a.i. genererated.
keep forgetting he’s a mean mutha fcker when his bottle’s running dry
Aren’t we all?
Double-Dilrod wants his bottle filled and I have his favorite nozzle.