By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
We perceive our civic challenge as some vast, insoluble Rubik’s Cube. Behind each problem lies another problem that must be solved first, and behind that lies yet another, and another, ad infinitum. To fix crime we have to fix the family, but before we do that we have to fix welfare, and that means fixing our budget, and that means fixing our civic spirit, but we can’t do that without fixing moral standards, and that means fixing schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that’s impossible unless we fix crime. There’s no fulcrum on which to rest a policy lever. People of all ages sense that something huge will have to sweep across America before the gloom can be lifted – but that’s an awareness we suppress. As a nation, we’re in deep denial.
– Straus and Howe (1997): “The Fourth Turning”, FIRST EDITION page 2
The books “Generations” (1992) and “The Fourth Turning“ (1997) by historians William Strauss and Neil Howe identified and categorized recorded cycles of history across multiple cultures and eras. Both books analyzed the timelines of historical events and correlated them to specific life cycles identified as generational “types”. Strauss and Howe addressed the concept of time in the context of both circular and linear perspectives. In so doing, they described the “saeculum” as a “long human life” measuring approximately 80 to 90 years and comprised of four turnings, each lasting around 20 to 22 years.
Just as there are four seasons consisting of spring, summer, fall and winter, there are also four phases of a human life experienced in childhood, young adulthood, middle age and elderhood.
Each generation experiences the historical turnings according to their life stage; and the Seasons (i.e. order of societal “turnings”) are identified by each generation as they reach middle-age. Amazingly, history shows a consistent pattern in how the generations similarly cause and affect historical events.
In America, since the end of the late sixteenth-century, there have been four full “cycles”, or saeculums, as follows:
1.) Colonial Cycle
2.) Revolutionary Cycle
3.) Civil War Cycle
4.) World War Cycle
In every Fourth Turning “winter”, or crisis period, within all of the above cycles, American society experienced great upheavals and war.
Accordingly, in 2024, as one who Strauss and Howe identified as a (Generation X) “Nomad”, I find myself middle-aged and in the center of a literal (seasonal) winter, at the beginning of a Fourth Turning (generational) winter, and at the advent of World War III occurring approximately 80 years after World War II.
Lucky me.
History repeating and the daily repetitiveness of life calls to mind the Sisyphean task of continually rolling the same giant allegorical boulder up the same steep proverbial hill; over and over and over again.
But Sisyphus had it much easier in Hades. At least it was warm there. Had he lived in the northern climes as I do, Sisyphus would have had to remove the snow from the hill before he attempted to reach the summit with the rock. Then, once the snow was removed all the way to the top, he would have turned around only to see that high winds had drifted in the very path he had just shoveled; except the drifted snow would then be densely packed and made harder than concrete via double-digit wind-chills below zero degrees. Even so, the snowpack would need to be moved repeatedly before the rock received even one little push; then Sisyphus would do it again tomorrow and the next day too.
What’s the point? It is this: The cold winds of both seasonal and generational winters add dangerous risks and difficulty to daily Sisyphean tasks.
Inspired by the Fall of France during World War II, French author and journalist Albert Camus (1913-1960) considered Sisyphus as an absurd hero of sorts. But the American philosopher Richard Taylor (1919-2003), in his 1987 metaphysical review entitled “Time and Life’s Meaning”, argued Sisyphus symbolized the meaningless repetition of life.
Previously, in 1962, Richard Taylor wrote a paper called “Fatalism and the Semantics of Physical Modality” that inspired the critically acclaimed American novelist David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) to rebut Taylor’s conclusions regarding fatalism.
fatalism
noun
: a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them
also : a belief in or attitude determined by this doctrine
/ fatalism that regards social problems as simply inevitable
Applying the principle of bivalence (i.e. statements identified as either true or false), Taylor identified six presuppositions that appeared to prove individual powerlessness in the face of inevitable outcomes; and David Foster Wallace’s rebuttal came in the form of his 1985 honors thesis at Amherst College, entitled: “Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will”.
I wrote an article in 2018 on David Foster Wallace entitled “Pessimism, Fatalism, Realism, Optimism, Hope”, and actually referenced Wallace’s (semantics vs. metaphysics) refutation of Richard Taylor’s 1962 paper.
Additionally, exactly five years ago this month, in a New Year’s article, I discussed Wallace again, in regards to the mind being an “excellent servant” and a “terrible master” and then concluded that article with these words:
To be sure, the next year and beyond will have a lot of aggravations. Things we can’t control. If only we could focus, instead, on what we can do in any given moment while letting go of any expected outcomes. Certainly, to do otherwise is vanity. Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.
As such, I believe my most formidable problems consist NOT within the metaphorical rock or hill, or life’s hardships and/or any perceived unfairness… but, rather, my negative thoughts regarding these.
Therefore, as I navigate the daily grind with an impending sense of doom…. is my mind serving me or intimidating me?
In the pursuit of moving seemingly endless volumes of snow in below-zero temperatures, I recently recalled the 1993 “Alive” movie about the 1972 Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes Mountains: The Uruguayan rugby team was en route to Chile for a match and they were in fine spirits…. until they realized they were about to collide into a mountain range. For the survivors, great hardships ensued during and after the impact.
I imagined myself in an airplane about to crash: Assume the engines are gone and we are gliding at a high altitude with the other passengers. We’re going down and none of us can do one thing to change what is about to happen… except to panic, or pray, and, perhaps, fatalistically brace for impact with an attitude of pessimism and a tiny bit of hope.
In that scenario, these presuppositional statements would form in my mind prior to impact: I can’t stop what is about to happen. I will live or die. If I live, it’s going to hurt in ways I can’t fully understand now.
I wondered by such thinking if I would be engaging in pessimism or realism? Is there a difference?
Paradoxically, in later metaphysical manifestations of coincidental synchronicity, or Providential Serendipity, I came across an article about a critically acclaimed 2023 film called “Society of the Snow”; and this was surprisingly followed by one of my offspring’s positive comments about the movie.
It appeared the 2023 film was a remake of the 1993 version, and my first thought was… “Why would anyone want to remake the 1993 version?” It was, after all, very well-made and brutal to watch.
Ergo, I reconsidered the 1993 film version of the actual events from 1972: The Uruguayan rugby players were raucous and rowdy on the plane. Upon the first signs of trouble, there was a lack of understanding and acceptance of what was happening. Gradually, reality set in before final impact. The carnage was gruesome, one of the worst film representations of a plane crash I had ever seen. Some passengers died on impact. Others were injured. The remaining survivors held out hope of being saved before soon realizing their hope of being rescued was a self-deceiving dream. They cannibalized the dead for sustenance. Even after surviving the plane crash, and resorting to cannibalism to survive, many of the injured continued to die… as cascading avalanches buried and killed some of the remaining (healthier) survivors, too.
Imagine surviving a plane crash and eating your dead friends only to later be killed by falling snow. Subsequently, those who lived had fewer and fewer choices as the extreme cold and threat of additional avalanches made survival terrifyingly difficult.
Yet, during their ordeal, the crash survivors could have considered how part of the plane remained intact because it landed in an open area on the mountain; and they may have appreciated the fortuity of the snow cushioning, and progressively braking, their impact momentum; and how the intact segment of the plane granted them some shelter from the extreme cold.
These little… dare I say… gratitudes may have facilitated the survivors’ will to live as their story now continues to inspire five decades after the plane crash that should have killed them.
Coincidental synchronicity? Or Providential Serendipity?
Either way, to a far lesser degree than the Uruguayan rugby players, the winter cold, snow, and dangerous winds, have made my daily grind to survive more difficult as well. But why complain? What good would it do? What harm might it bring?
To be sure, the Serenity Prayer contains elements of Stoicism:
Strauss & Howe identified progressing components of the “Crisis / Winter” phase in “The Fourth Turning”: The “Winter” of our generation is claimed (by Howe) to have been triggered by the 2008 subprime crash. This was the catalyst. According to the theory, and observations from history, the catalyst phase is then followed by a regeneration which fuels a climax that leads to a resolution.
The climax of the American Revolution, for example (i.e. surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781) was ensued by several more years of “crisis” (constitutional convention, 1st presidential election, Whiskey Rebellion. new treaty with England, etc)
Perhaps Trump’s 2016 election marked a regeneration that has fueled this crisis phase into Covid-19 (and a stolen 2020 election) that could climax in 2024? Even so, the crisis would extend well beyond this year – in the same way the Uruguayan rugby team’s survival tale continued long after their initial impact.
Or considering 2024 as an “election” year, the regeneration phase might build in the U.S. until a later, and more cataclysmic, climax and resolution occurs. But, in either scenario, the outcome of the climax will determine the resolution. One way, or another.
Regardless, in spite of any election-year dreams of political rescue…. and given America’s “Rubik’s Cube” of problems behind problems behind problems ad infinitum… as Strauss and Howe phrased it (posted at the top of this article)… I remain pessimistic while possessing a certain sense of fatalism. This is the result of understanding reality and the cold inevitability of math; especially as it becomes increasingly personal when trapped behind a rock in the hard place.
The events of this Fourth Turning’s winter season are baked into the proverbial cake, so to speak.
Food. Health. Climate. Outer Space Aliens. War. Cyber-attacks, burgeoning terrorism, Digital I.D. and CBDCs.
False flags, propaganda, and censorship.
The globalists claim their regulations and enforcement actions are for the good of humanity, but, in reality, these are about control. And why the need for control? Because the need to control is rooted in fear. The Beast must be serviced for it to survive. It’s all about the survival of the State Beast, pure and simple.
Agents of the Beast tell themselves they are just doing their job, it’s for the general good. This allows them to draw their paycheck so they can survive, and they lie to themselves via plausible deniability, even as most of them surely understand the truth behind their rationalizations and virtue signaling.
These agents are de facto whores in the service of wizards who have harnessed the power of the Beast via the magic of Scientism. And the agents will allow themselves to be rented until the wizards are done with them.
Perhaps, one day, the agents will realize how they were screwed and how they prostituted themselves so the wizards could screw everyone else too.
The love of money and all that.
So I don’t expect any remorse from those who have sold their souls. Neither will I count on being politically rescued from the avalanche now descending on us all.
Last month, virus expert Geert Vanden Bossche repeated his prediction of mass deaths in highly covid-vaccinated countries. He speculates the “died suddenly” deaths that are linear now are about to go exponential by means of proliferating disease and weakened immune response in those who have received the mRNA vaccines. He says it’s “reality” and nothing can stop it now.
If that becomes true, it might require a giant diversion – which might explain the proliferating UFO headlines, no?
In July of last year, a congressional hearing took place whereby whistleblowers testified to U.S. lawmakers regarding evidence of “non-human intelligence” on planet Earth. Take note of how Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) have become Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) with “implications on national security”.
Consequently, to begin the New Year, we’ve heard about classified briefings in Congress and 10-foot aliens walking around a Miami mall.
Just as some are reciting ancient Biblical scriptures over the most recent violence in the Middle East, there are those claiming the UFO phenomenon in the “last days” was also predicted in the Bible; the “fearful sights and great signs” from heaven of Luke 21:11, the Days of Noah and the return of the Nephilim (Matthew 24 & Genesis 6), the Old Testament prophet Daniel’s “vision” concerning “the appointed time of the end”, and the “falling away” / “strong delusion” of 2 Thessalonians 2.
Regardless of what the readers believe, if 100+ mile-long alien motherships appear in the skies, or other-worldly vessels are seen entering and exiting volcanoes and/or the oceans around the earth, or shimmering UAP shoppers begin appearing at retail outlets regularly…. I suspect the worldviews of most people, including professed Christians, will be rewired by what they see – and perhaps, even the most alert, awake, and skeptical of internet blog readers will believe as well, if it were possible.
If UAP events like these were to happen while being broadcast around the world, it would make Covid’s magic spell look like child’s play, would it not?
In August of 2017, I wrote an article entitled “Crossing the Line: Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West” and discussed how the shadows of two solar eclipses (on August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024, respectively) would form a giant X as if “stamped on the nation” like “the crosshairs of a divine gun”. I concluded that post with these words:
Crossing the blood meridian is about going too far. It’s about losing one’s way and traversing the lines that were always there, waiting to be crossed. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre and the Reign of Terror, or the Purge of Stalin, or Hitler’s Kristallnacht; the night of broken glass. The globalist’s must divide America. They must slice her in two and then break her into bits. They may succeed. Perhaps it was written in the stars from the beginning; and even now foreshadowed in the days ahead. The seven years between 2017 and 2024 will mark another path of totality in the West. Just watch.
Yes. These last seven years have been unprecedented in American history. And 2024 will be insanely unpredictable as well. Then, over the next decade, the insanity will grow even worse.
You might call me a pessimist, or say I’ve succumbed to nihilism and fatalism, but you would be wrong.
I am a realist first and foremost, and the fatalistic pessimism is merely the icing on the (previously mentioned, proverbial) cake.
The Fourth Turning winter is here. It’s about to get colder.
That said, I was driving north on a near vacant road last week and the 2002 song “Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue” by the country singer Toby Keith was playing on the radio. It is a jingoistic tune penned in response to the 911® attacks. I enjoyed the song much more back when I was a dutiful neocon in favor of the Orwellian “Department of Homeland Security”, while gratefully taking my shoes off in airports, and still supporting the defense of liberty around the globe via bullets and bombs…
“Hey, Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty started shakin’ her fist….”
And right then, I saw a large bird flying low toward the road directly in front of me, from east to west, then ascending upward to a near perfect 45-degree angle over my windshield. I thought it was a large hawk at first, but as I approached to within 30 yards of the bird, I noticed the lighter-colored tail feathers and, as it turned, the white head. I realized it was a bald eagle, perhaps a male because they are smaller than female eagles.
At that exact moment, I heard through the radio….
“And the eagle will fly
And there’s gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringin’ her bell
And it’ll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Oh, brought to you Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue”
Some readers may doubt this happened but I pledge on my honor it occurred exactly as described.
Coincidental synchronicity? Or Providential Serendipity?
What were the odds? And what did it mean?
I don’t have many answers. Mostly choices.
WELCOME to the Society of the Black Pill. We got weed, but you’ll have to bring your own cookies!
“I got some groceries. Some peanut butter. Should last a couple of days.”
That dude got more moves than Jed Clampett!
My Franchise Is Black Pill Patriarchy. Not sure what org. you’re running, but at least you got off the drawing board. That talking head guy is disturbingly strange, but he ain’t fat. I’ll give him that.
No one was fat in the 80’s!
Sign reads: Stay Off The Grass
You think too much, Doug. But I get it, you need to get your thoughts organized and under some kind of control.
Like the survivors of the plane crash, some of us will make it through the next several years and some won’t. I might be one of those who don’t. Or, maybe I will. I have to be ok with whatever happens. We don’t know when our date with eternity is, regardless of the times we find ourselves in.
The Serenity Prayer is a good place to park.
Right now I just want to get through January and February. I will leave you with this. It’s been going around, maybe you have seen it.
Thirty days has September,
April, June and November.
Unless a leap year is its fate,
February has twenty-eight.
All the rest have three days more,
excepting January,
which has six thousand,
one hundred and eighty-four.
Exactly.
I liked the calendar summary. So true. And if I seem a little depressed with this piece it’s probably because January after all
Great piece, Doug. As usual.
As to your depression — yesterday was Blue Monday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(date)
I have that remastered set! AWESOME!
Always a thought provoking essay from you, Douglas.
Thank you.
Tragically, a terrible storm is coming.
Evil versus not evil.
We are all approaching a great civil war. Not among states, but among hearts.
One heart embraces evil. The other heart is unaware of the other heart’s embracing of evil. Ammo up, protect your loved ones and friends, and have
faith.
Have faith.
Thought-provoking read as usual. Well done. I have significant cognitive dissonance on this 4th Turning. Intellectually I know the SHTF with massive suffering pain and death is coming. And many won’t survive and even the idea of limited government is on the line…..but then I am planning vacations and have plans for building companies, etc. We are in the sitzkrieg time before the unfortunates truly start. Maybe TX will start shooting the invaders and then the FEDs….and other states join the rebellion against an illegitimate Federal Tyranny. Who knows what Fort Sumter/Pearl Harbor will be but it’s coming. I live remotely, I am in good shape despite some health problems and I have worked on community ties….all you can do. Buckle up buttercup because Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride is here.
Why does January have 6,184 days in this poem?
An interesting tidbit.
10 If you just put the path of the Great American Eclipse of 2024 and the path of the Great American Eclipse of 2017 on a map, they combine to form a giant paleo-Hebrew “Tav” over America…
#11 The heart of the paleo-Hebrew “Tav” forms a giant “X” that falls directly over the New Madrid fault zone.
#12 One of my readers pointed out to me that we have seen a giant “X” like this before. The path of a solar eclipse that occurred on June 16th, 1806 combined with the path of a solar eclipse that occurred on September 17th, 1811 to also form a giant “X” over the New Madrid fault zone.
#13 Three months after the solar eclipse that happened on September 17th, 1811, a series of absolutely enormous earthquakes began to happen on the New Madrid fault…
The New Madrid earthquakes were the biggest earthquakes in American history. They occurred in the central Mississippi Valley, but were felt as far away as New York City, Boston, Montreal, and Washington D.C. President James Madison and his wife Dolly felt them in the White House. Church bells rang in Boston. From December 16, 1811 through March of 1812 there were over 2,000 earthquakes in the central Midwest, and between 6,000-10,000 earthquakes in the Bootheel of Missouri where New Madrid is located near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
In the known history of the world, no other earthquakes have lasted so long or produced so much evidence of damage as the New Madrid earthquakes. Three of the earthquakes are on the list of America’s top earthquakes: the first one on December 16, 1811, a magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter scale; the second on January 23, 1812, at 7.8; and the third on February 7, 1812, at as much as 8.8 magnitude.
#14 The next total solar eclipse visible from the United States will not happen until 2044, and the path of that total solar eclipse will only touch three states.
I believe that the Great American Eclipse of 2024 is a really big deal.
#14 – The intersection of the totality paths of the 2024 and 2017 eclipses will only touch 3 states, Arkansas, Missouri & Illinois. I plan to drive about 90 miles to be in totality come April. I drove almost 150 in ’17
This one passes directly over my town.
Don’t know if you have seen a total eclipse, but it is well worth the time to watch. Get you some of the special glasses so you can look directly at it.
I wasn’t impressed. I rather more enjoy the sunrise and sunset.
I used my welding helmet, but also did the pinhole in paper trick as well.
Was talking with my autistic son about the news on teevee
The pin hole does not do it justice.
Only fitting since you seem to be the expert modern day prophet. Just saying.
People around this area have already started selling tickets for plots in their fields to view the eclipse. We haven’t been approached yet, but we aren’t advertising.
You could have some folks you had rather not be around show up so weigh the profit against the unknown. Just my two cents.
That’s what my wife said, more or less.
As a land owner (except for the albatross of property tax) I’m extremely wary of folks on the property. Personal injury lawsuits are something to be aware of.
The wariness extends beyond my property boundaries anymore. Someone shooting on a nearby acreage managed to place a 7mm bullet in the radiator of my old truck. Bullet found, sheriff notified, sheriff brings in game warden, landowner first tells game warden “no way” , and it all worked out the landowner paying for the damages. I could have sued. The landowner is a LLC business. Perhaps I should have. It’s not my nature. Had my wife or myself been shot I may have reconsidered.
I drove to a state park at Kentucky Lake and had a great day. I have always been intrigued by astronomy.
We camped at a Boy Scout camp in Wyoming with about 200 other families. The camp had closed for the season but was able to find enough staff to open for the eclipse event. We were on a ridge just above a large ravine-at totality the temp air temp dropped about 14 deg F and there was a stout breeze moving up the ravine. Kind of uncomfortable. The wildlife we could observe were kind of dazed with the quickness of the nightfall. Pretty sure the camp this week is beyond uncomfortable.
This.
IT’S THE SUN.
Anyone, having witnessed the precipitous temperature drop accompanying the eclipse must surely have also witnessed the Big Lie of global warming; namely that it is the SUN that is the sole driver of weather and temperatures.
Yet, many still refuse to accept that inescapable truth.
The sun is certainly an important factor, but really, no one thing is the “sole driver” of weather or climate.
You gotta be kidding
Good observation
Best to be preliminarily mobile to avoid cloud cover.
I drove 6 hours to Casper WY in 2017 to observe the 7 (Jeru)Salem eclipse.
I had multiple locations already scoped out and arose early to check the weather forecast. The youngest daughter and her family went to Nashville area to observe.
I do not remember seeing the reference to the 7 (Jeru)Salem eclipse.
They both pass over Cape Girardeau MO. Where I live.
Saturday, January 13th 2024
https://www.news9.com/story/65a207d35e0a905bd8632c8a/earthquake-detected-in-okc
There was a small earthquake in WI a few days ago!
I think there was a larger one in Iowa, if the reports from CNN are true.
Gotta wonder if Gates & Co. aren’t buying up all the land around the crossover?
If I calculated correctly, my little log home in the suburbs of the sticks southwest of St. Louis will be beachfront property after the next “big one” at New Madrid, just 30 miles from where I grew up.
A LONG ways from here…
That would require the North American Plate (tectonic plate) to split and a major portion of it to subside. It seems pretty unlikely…
I have this suspicion that this seven-year period from the first eclipse on August 21, 2017, to the eclipse coming in April 8, 2024, parallels the seven years of plenty that proceeds the seven years of famine that is talking about in the Bible.
Is it possible we could be headed into 7 years of famine?
The 7-year Tribulation?
Acoustically correct.
Philippians 4
for I have learned to be [i]content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know how to get along with little, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. 13 I can do all things [j]through Him who strengthens me.
1 Timothy
6 But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. 7 For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it, either. 8 If we have food and [g]covering, with these we shall be content. 9 But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all [h]sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many [i]griefs.
I’ve been wondering lately not predicting but wondering if something really big and crazy is going to happen within the next four weeks.
IMO with each generation before and in the future something really big and crazy has happened and will continue to happen. The nature of the beast.
I don’t pay attention to the copy and paste insta bible quote nonsense.
You don’t pay attention to quoted scripture?
I think I’ve identified the problem.
I heard enough of it as a child when my Father and Uncle played “Dueling Verses”, where one would quote scripture, and the other would come back with a scriptural refutation of the first.
In my opinion, my Father almost always won.
Do you have examples?
No Tex, sorry, it was far too long ago, and I really wasn’t trying to remember the verses they quoted.
Doug, you don’t think too much. Well analyzed and framed accordingly. The notion of the NPC crowd dutifully doing their thing for a paycheck while in denial about the consequences, and then likely to show no remorse, that is a conceptual tool that is useful, very much so, as a tool to navigate the terrain we find ourselves in. Really good work. Thanks.
The biggest issue with the Strauss and Howe view is that they seem to believe in the concept of the greatWe.
Our nation, our schools, we have to fix this, we have to fix that- for some reason they can see over the span of a century with such clarity, but don’t even recognize that America is no more and that it long ago broke apart into a multitude of ethnic tribes living under an occupational government.
Whatever.
Anyone with the sense God gave a termite understands what he or she needs is to take care of their own families and communities and do whatever it takes to help those people make it through this period so they can rebuild something of value afterwards. Clinging to what’s left of the America of our fathers is like a bum wrapping himself in rags.
Keep ringing the bell, Doug.
Interesting points as usual. Thank you, Hardscrabble
I agree with HSF… ring the bell that still can ring.
That’s how the light gets in.
Well Mr Howe does live 15 minutes from work ie. Langley
I haven’t your great ability to articulate these thoughts, but I have had them and have tried.
As to recognizing that America is no more, I’ve come to think that America never was. There are so many ideas of what America is/was supposed to be that I get the impression of several different images held by several different cultures, each collectively accepting their differing views.
America is supposed to be whatever free people living under a rule of law with a strictly limited government create, in whatever places they create it, in whatever variations they prefer, always of course respecting the equal rights of others.
America was never anything other than diverse.
What’s left of America that’s worth clinging to is the Constitution (without its “Progressive Era” perversions), and the system of government it was supposed to create.
Nothing better has ever been imagined or proposed.
What’sHerFace reporting for duty, exposing and snarking at the naked emperor.
What’s underneath NYC’s mosques?
Former christian churches.
Auntie loves What’sHerFaces’s razor sharp snark. Tell it, honey.
Question of the day recommendation to Admin:
Whose tunnels are better?:
Up vote: Palestinians
Down vote: Chabad’tards
I saw the title and figured Doug must have just gotten married.
Bada boom. I assume you will be here all week, Iska.😁
Good one, Iska 🙂
Sad…
Excellent, lads.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha….
Well played, Iska.
In 2008, during that time of the near full crash of our economic system, I had a strong sense while sitting in my cubicle office that right now, in that space and time, America was as good as it was going to get and that from her on out, there was going to be a decline.
I had not clue at that time just how far we would be falling. I had no idea that every single government institution, including medicine, would be corrupt to the core. I had no idea that psychotic behavior would be celebrated and that the basic things of life, like biology (the sexes) and real science, would be turned on their heads. Then I remembered those verses I read in the New Testament relating to the end times and how good would be deemed bad; and bad would be deemed good.
In 2008, I had not idea that a so-called vaccine would be pushed upon not only the American peoples but, a world at large. A jab that would turn out to be a lab created bioweapon to supplant the lab created “virus” that could only have been created to cull the herd — to decrease the surplus population. A bioweapon that almost 4 years later would still have a good percentage of people clamoring for the next “booster shot” all the while seeing sudden deaths and huge increase in all kinds of cancers, neurological diseases, along with a plethora of other injuries.
As I push closer and closer to 7 decades of life, and often ponder if I wish I was younger (without the sore joints) to deal with what is coming or, glad that I’m this age as I’ve lived a long life already. If there are indeed many years of hardship ahead of us, what shape should I be in to deal with it?
This is all, unfortunately, the world we now live in. There is a difference between pessimism and realism. Realism looks at the facts around us and then draws a conclusion on what is truly happening and, what is most likely coming.
Very well said, Brewer. Very well said.
Old Testament
I stand corrected. It is indeed in the book of Isaiah where the verse I mentioned is stated. In my mind, I was thinking of Romans 1.
One of my earliest ‘discoveries’.
Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”
Isaiah 55:9 “For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Yep.
My thoughts are higher than those who assign themselves into the position of slaves.
Had MANY ‘Masters’ in my life.
My vision has NEVER been clearer.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-6-24/
21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
‘Course, Free Will
Not sure What transpired? ONLY 1 unpardonable SIN.
Your treasures “stored up” are the skills you master in this life.
You see, moth can not eat and rust can not consume experience.
I had similar feelings. But they coalesced not from the supposed collapse but in the run-up.
The run-up was the great unveiling of clownworld. Since we are but an “Economy”, what better forum to illustrate the inverted nature of this conjured reality and its hypnotic ability to ensnare us all in its promises?
You too, peon, can “build real wealth” in your portfolio. Follow me!
The collapse, really what would become a masterful theater of collapse, was at once a great harbinger of what was to come and a validation of the preeminence of the System as our defining feature.
No, I saw it unfold, the same way it came into being.
The system will not suffer, the collapse will not be some reckoning of bringing lies to light, derivatives to their natural state, liars and thieves to “justice”, the greedy to their just deserts, the conmen to the angry crowd full of gallows carpenters, or even some accidental encounter in the emergency room when value makes eye-contact with price.
The usury will not be indicted. It will be embraced.
The cure for debt was more debt. The cure for greed was more greed. The cure for coveting thy neighbor was social media. Jezebel was not banished but instead became the idol of every daughter with a phone.
The salad days of debt-is-wealth aroused a cult-like euphoria that I found to be terribly disturbing. Until “covid” topped that. Too many parallels to list, but if you know you know.
Having been an insider of sorts, a middling but uniquely positioned cog in globocapital, I was in the belly when the beast swallowed the world.
My idealism long since burned like so many rendered whales to keep my soul intac. But the fever of those years before the great “meltdown” were a constant torment of cogdis and the kind of 3AM intrusions of reality that are now a regular feature.
Strange days were spent wandering among those taken by the fever. Constantly pinging each other for the latest affirmation or mantra, constantly working to distil the world into their elixir of self-regard and hubris.
All while the captains of the coming chaos knew full well that the music was growing distant. That the goodwill that some working class chump put into his notion of retirement was going to need to be burned in an unfortunate brush fire that would just happen to save the forest. For now.
That it held a big party where it ceremoniously shit out what would become the current year in a Vesuvius of molten lies and half-digested financial produkt furiously gathered up by hand-rubbing rats and stuffed into the walls and beneath the sofa was not the disturbing part. That I’d come to expect.
The disturbing part was that there was not a collapse. That this clown show was just getting started.
You see they finally built it. That zero-point energy device that could power the world, create infinite wealth with zero inputs, spin out entire dimensions unconstrained by the pedestrian laws of prole physics to be mined and harvested on the backs of new generations of True Believers.
Like that terrible move Oppenheimer, their zero-point machine did not ignite the atmosphere and destroy the world. It validated the power of man to harness that of God, thereby believing himself to be God.
And that destroyed the world. Even though we can still hear the distant music.
When my eyes were opened, when I took the red pill, over 15 years ago, I never could have envisioned things going as they have been, without a collapse. In 2009, we bought a new car to replace the 11 year old one we had, because we believed hyperinflation was right around the corner.
I finally came to understand that since almost every government in the world is using a Keynesian debt-based system, printing money ad nauseum, and since they all agree to accept monopoly money, the charade will continue to go on. The casino is still open. That is, until the PTB decide to call in the markers; aka The Great Reset.
Yes. I asked myself many times. Where is a country not run by the Global Banksters? None, but there is less and more, and on a Spiritual level, freedom is a choice.
If you’ve noticed, most of those governments have been using that fiat “money” to buy gold by the ton.
Perhaps the charade will continue until they have all the gold?
Gold ITSELF is incapable of creating ANYTHING, RUNNING a farm or a factory, I’d rather have those….
All gold is in reality is a good store of value.
You a writer, DV. And you’re right. Conquest is a mundane occurrence if you zoom out the time scale. This one is (((different))). They have been working on their eschatological exit plan for some time.
There is that one catch. Every dollar is backed by debt, which means that every printed dollar requires moar debt. We saw that when the housing market collapsed and the Fed didn’t conjure more money into existence to buy toxic assets. We saw that with the ‘COVID’ spending during the economic lockdown. Yes, somehow the U.S. establishment just makes all the money they want when they want and conservatives just know for sure that every dollar is backed by some exogenous debt. Some of them read Creature by Griffin and think the mandrake mechanism is real. Of course, TPTB would never except such a limitation, but try and tell a conservative about the Real Bills Doctrine. Now that we have inelastic currency (fiat money without an artificial policy of restraint), we have that money machine. Faith makes currency current, and, boy, is it. Retards will accept any alpha-dictated norms. Me, I worship the Almighty made known to me via the Jews by God’s grace.
I KNEW we were SCREWED when NONE OTHER than Don Rumsfeld walks to the mic at a Coca-Cola conference I was working in 1982.
I STILL have those cassettes and the minutes of it all, to hand over to a white hat military, ASSuming that day EVER comes…..
What HE DID, is now manifesting as a shortening of expected AMERICAN lifespans, for the FIRST time, since BEFORE the 1920’s….along with magnetic commercial carts for old AM radio distro, for the 1996 DNC campaign-they state: “IF YOU VOTE REPUBLICAN, ANOTHER BROTHER IS DRAGGED BEHIND A PICKUP TRUCK! (I was THE old school, degreed, FCC licensed, a/v geek-soundguy)
The UPC decals are intact still, and SAFELY ensconced at a suitable entity.
Don’t need red/black pills as I’m PAINFULLY aware that 1+1=2…..
“A history of scary, conflicting, and hard-to-trust guidance on aspartame
It can be hard for attentive consumers to know who to trust to weigh in on aspartame’s safety. That’s because since its earliest days, the product’s manufacturers — and the industry that now reaps enormous profits from its sale — have sought to influence its approval for consumer use.
When American pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle first tried to get aspartame approved by the FDA in 1973, it was denied: Independent scientists alleged the product could cause a range of neurologic disorders, and some alleged the company hadn’t been entirely above-board in its safety testing.
In January 1981, Ronald Reagan became the US president. His transition team included then-CEO of G.D. Searle, one Donald Rumsfeld. Although an independent FDA board warned that May that the drug might induce brain tumors, the agency’s newly installed director overruled them, and the FDA approved the product for consumer use that July.”
https://www.vox.com/2023/7/1/23780348/aspartame-cancer-carcinogenic-health-risk-who-iarc-fda-efsa-diet-coke-sugar-free
With a few years hindsight, I came to the conclusion that the Olympic games in Australia 2000 were the high-point of Western civ.
It’s all downhill since; at first mostly invisibly.
1996 internet. ONLY needed a trunkline, 24 port switch, and a $2000 Dell PowerEdge. ALLLLLLLLL gone now, sold “overseas” BY obama, TO Brussels in 2011.
Try it TODAY, and watch what comes for you. DO NOT use a “godaddy”, or 3rd party hosting ANYTHING, just TRY to buy a dedicated 3/8″ hard trunkline now….
We were told to “learn to code’ after being bum rushed OUT of the US based enterprise IT entities SHORTLY after 9/11…..
If you are able begin a schedule of light weight lifting and stretching. Perhaps you already do. While I cannot speak for others, it seems the time spent and effort in strengthening the muscles surrounding those joints helps dealing with the realism I’m getting no younger. I’ve stuck with the workouts about four months and often thought why did I not do this 30 years ago?
I’ve been through a time of bursitis that has not surfaced for some years. Several times I would wake up and literally not able to lift my right shoulder for the entire day and often into the next. I laugh when working with various weight machines hearing the joints “popping” in that right shoulder. I go through a regiment of 18 weight machines along with one barbell exercise, the stretching plus stationary bike. Three days per week and takes up to near two hours each workout to stay the coarse. I definitely feel the strength in my legs that will help in toting the bug out bag. Joking, I’m going nowhere as my bug out took place in 2016.
Not meaning this to be about me, me, me. Perhaps some older folks with the nagging pains of “growing up” will get motivated and benefit. Not fool proof and of course anyone can exit the mortal self any minute.
I do exercise on a stationary bike 3-4 times a week and, I’ve started doing curls with some dumbbells which I had put down a while ago because of golfer’s elbow (tendinitis) in my right elbow that is not wanting to go away.
With Silver Sneakers, I have free membership at a gym that I joined 2 years ago. It’s time to get my lazy ass back there.
Thanks for the needed wake up call.
Good for you. Yep , Silver Sneakers. That is what convinced me to get on a regular workout plan. Certain areas of the body sort of scream so I concentrate on correct posture while going through the exercises and don’t push it. I’m a candidate for a knee replacement but doing what I can to not do that. Should I damage the knee further with leg machines so be it. The osteoarthritis is not likely to go away. I don’t like taking the Meloxicam and all that goes along with big pharma. I’ve tried some CBD and honestly it does nothing for the arthritis despite what Willie may “advertise”.
Try drinking a borax solution daily. This is no joke. I’ve been doing it for a couple of years with tremendous benefits to sore elbows and knees. Read up on it first to convince yourself there is nothing scary about mineral salts. Boron is good for the aging bones. I also do the weights, stretches, and a treadmill several times per week to keep the joints limber and the core strong.
Thanks. Mark on the forum has discussed the benefits of Boron too.
Now, any good homeopathic remedy for plaque psoriasis?
Research UVB Light Therapy for psoriasis. They make home and portable units. May require a Dr.’s prescription though.
I’ll check it out. Thanks.
I just bought a low frequency infrared light on Amazon. Mercola talks about them all the time.
Primarily, infrared light’s ability to alleviate pain is rooted in its unique interaction with bodily tissues. By gently penetrating the skin and reaching deeper layers, it prompts a vasodilatory response, meaning blood vessels expand to improve blood flow. This heightened circulation brings with it a surge of oxygen and nutrients to the afflicted areas, effectively soothing pain and aiding in the body’s natural recovery processes. This holds particular promise for individuals struggling with conditions like arthritis, muscle discomfort, and even post-injury recovery.
I just brought this one on Amazon. It was on sale for $99.
Comfytemp Red Light Therapy for Body, Large Infrared Light Therapy Pad, 12″ x 24″ Red. It has several different setting to use it for different things. It wraps right around the body . So you can get it very close to the skin. It feels like you’ve been out in the sun after using it.
I’m learning something new every day! Thanks, John.
Rub some water with sea salt mixed in on the affected areas before applying the UVB light.
https://www.psoriasis.org/phototherapy/
Sometimes I wish I was still living close to the beach in SE FL.
When I was a kid, my dad swore by the healing you could get with a salt water swim.
Thalasso therapy, baby. Oh yeah.
Approaching 45 years on Amelia Island! Yep…
Ahhh, “frequencies…and salt’s NOT electrical or anything… 🙂
Research UVB Light Therapy for psoriasis. They make home and portable units. May require a Dr.’s prescription though.
Or you could go outside and set for awhile in sunlight.
Of which natural ultraviolet light is delivered along with a host of other frequencies of light/energy.
No prescription required.
No membership fees.
No payments.
The sun. Providing clean energy for free.
Take your sungazing to 11 by being barefoot, preferably in grass, to get systemically grounded. In some ways , shoes are the devil’s work.
Well, the early humans got “zapped” a LOT with those plasma bolts from Mars and Jupiter…PRE flood.
You DON’T want to be out walking around and changing impedance/capacitance values in those days……
https://yummy.doctor/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Borax-conspiracy.pdf
Thank you for that, Anon. Gonna give it a try as nothing else works and I don’t want to take Prednisone.
Says the doc “developed” arthritis. Thanks a lot!
Sure , sure, he was afflicted with arthritis.
I’m not certain I want to drink borax. However, boron supplements may be doable. Searching the various brands they don’t seem terribly expensive.
It was kinda nasty until I put some lemon juice with it. Tolerable after that. We’ll see
I’m not certain I want to drink borax. I thought the same thing until I read the warning on the box, if swallowed, drink a glass of water and then call a doctor.
Fuck calling a fucking quack, mixed a tip of the tea spoon with green tea.
The boron tablets work also.
Anon out!!!
Well, dude, if you were Big Pharma and you didn’t want people to use natural remedies(like the Aussies prosecuting the doctor) what would you put on the box?
I’m not big pharma. 🙂
Do you use 20 Mule Team Borax? Ronald Reagan advertised it on the old Death Valley Days TV episodes. If borax clicks your trigger, drink borax.
Checking foods that contain boron many do. The kicker for fruits and vegetables is the soils they grow in. Evidently the use of non organic fertilizers depletes the minerals in the soil from where fruits and vegetables “absorb” their minerals. I know this is elementary. Prunes, eat lots of prunes. Side effects of boron include diarrhea. Skip the borax and boron tabs and eat a bunch of prunes. After weighing all this I think I’ll bypass boron supplements and borax. My diet is very stable and not one of excessive processed foods. All the foods listed as good sources of boron are in my frig or cabinets. Lentils. Love ’em.
https://www.thoughtco.com/silly-putty-history-and-chemistry-606806
https://www.20muleteamlaundry.com/compare/borax-vs-boric-acid.html
Eat plenty of green leaves (grass isn’t worth it) and take magnesium chloride. The calcium contained in green leaves will go to the joints because of CM. The CM is the mother who holds the hand of the cheeky child crossing the street and says above all: You have to go home after school, you understand me!
Try Hatha yoga.
Doesn’t bode well with the road to Damascus.
You don’t know what Hatha yoga is, do you Tex.
But of course anyone knows it’s roots are in “religions” I don’t subscribe. yoga yo wiseguy happy ask off.
Incidentally since you you enjoy my entertainment, I posted another Tru storie.
“Rooted in religions”? Hardly, but why should that matter if it is, in current practice, completely devoid of any religious or even cultural overtones?
It’s a very good system of exercise and relaxation that can help almost everyone have better health and a more focused life.
Why would you oppose that?
Probably you avoid numerals because they have Muslim roots.
It goes like this, to you yogi is fine. To me as the link explains don’t deceive yourself. If you want to yoda yogi, yoda yogi.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-yoga.html
The Hatha yoga I practice has nothing to do with religion or faith, unless you think sitting calmly and ‘listening’ to your body after you perform various stretches and positions is some kind of devil worship.
It makes me grateful God gave me a fairly good body.
Daisy Luther says that getting fit is the cheapest prepping item that anyone can do
She puts out a lot of good information. I hope one day she realizes that the #1 prep item is her eternal soul. Last time I checked, she was not a believer.
So true. I pray that she will have a road to Damascus event to change her outlook on eternity.
Is she single?
Trust me. You want NOTHING to do with THAT.
Are you serious?
When I was a child, my mother poured iodine down our throats (mine and my brothers). Years ago I read an article that made me understand that iodine increases the production of new neurons.
Don’t let your children lick the wall at school!
A prediction or a game plan? The Bible, 1984, Brave New World, Alex Jones.
I saw an eagle fly, so I know it was prophesy not a plan worked for the last 2,000 years. That’s my realism. In 10,000 years humanity went from chucking rocks to sending probes into deep space. That’s my fatalism. You cats don’t understand organic or messianic time.
(((Valter Benjyamen)))) sayeth:
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Historicism contents itself with establishing a causal connection between various moments in history. But no fact that is a cause is for that very reason historical. It became historical posthumously, as it were, though events that may be separated from it by thousands of years. A historian who takes this as his point of departure stops telling the sequence of events like the beads of a rosary. Instead, he grasps the constellation which his own era has formed with a definite earlier one. Thus he establishes a conception of the present as the ‘time of the now’ which is shot through with chips of Messianic time.
The soothsayers who found out from time what it had in store certainly did not experience time as either homogeneous or empty. Anyone who keeps this in mind will perhaps get an idea of how past times were experienced in remembrance–namely, in just the same way. We know that the Jews were prohibited from investigating the future. The Torah and the prayers instruct them in remembrance, however. This stripped the future of its magic, to which all those succumb who turn to the soothsayers for enlightenment. This does not imply, however, that for the Jews the future turned into homogeneous, empty time. For every second of time was the strait gate through which Messiah might enter.
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In summary, “Ve vill get you,” (((he))) says. “Yah, however long it takes. Think small little goyem. Think superstition. But don’t think at all, ven ve are thru vis u.”
“The soothsayers who found out from time what it had in store certainly did not experience time as either homogeneous or empty.”
Some people can see into the future? You really believe that?
Of course the belief in wizards with crystal balls and other sorts of “prophets” has been common throughout human history. Why should now be any different.
My family is VERY UNHAPPY about my realism and ZERO tolerance, as THEIR “reality” is starting to affect safety and lives.
I’ve been thinking they plan to blame this on Disease X.
why in such a rush to get rid of so many people? Why not slow play this and avoid all the bad publicity?
The one thing i could never understand with the vax conspiracies is why the pharma companies would sacrifice there whole business model for a short term gain? it made no sense, and then you start looking around and you notice its not just them, its all of them, Corporations, goverments, educational institutions..they are all making decisions that for sure will destroy any future potential, its as if the future doesn’t matter, as if they know its all going to end soon so might as well rape and pillage whatever you can get now..
The answer is right before you. TPTB – the tippy top of them – already control over half of the world’s wealth. They have no need for more as they have consolidated all the power they need for the complete & hostile takeover of planet earth. There isn’t anything that is not within their immediate reach, there is no industry that they have not overtaken, no hole in which to hide secrets from them. None of this matters to them any longer as they understand that they cannot be touched(unlike the little kids they touch). That’s why they broadcast their moves as they have no fear of reprisal from the serfs and anyone that stands in their way meets their fate because no lives matter.
However…their daddy – the evil one – creates nothing. He can only seize occasions as they arise and use them for his end goal. Whatever is next hasn’t been written in the hearts of men yet, because our Creator will have the final say.
I too have thought that it seems the powers that be we’re behaving as if there were no tomorrow . Or that the only way to make any sense of their behavior might perhaps be that they are in the know as to some pending extinction level event like a magnetic or literal pole shift where the crust actually moves rapidly in geological terms .
Yes, sometimes I think they know about an extinction event too.
Other than the one that they are already orchestrating Lol ?
Don Rumsfeld’s “plan” of “slow kill” with aspartame, INSTEAD OF tri-iodine IN EVERY US PRODUCED FOODSTUFF, is taking too long….
Warp speed fucked big pharma. It accelerated the process and now there is no way back for big pharma. It was supposed to be hell until 2025 and look, we’re still here!
Will it be in the barillions?
I’m betting you are correct. Throw in WWIII and this whole topic will be sidelined, except by those families experiencing it.
Ethical Skeptic
It is a sad state of affairs when a signal is so obvious and from so many disparate sources and perspectives – yet a large part of the population, driven by their political party, a corrupt media, and captive science – refuses to even look.
https://nitter.poast.org/EthicalSkeptic/status/1747319130087149691#m
I still want to know what that peak is at the very beginning of 2020. It’s too early to be Covid.
Perhaps lighting up 5g radiation. Certain folks pre-disposed sensitivity.
Solar activity is more likely, even if very unlikely.
Maybe lots of people started drinking borax.
In science and research it’s just a standard “S” curve.
You mean a sine wave? They are very regular…
Auntie is just baffled why they would do that.
Did you orgasm after writing that? Because that seemed to be the point.
Swrichmond,
If you read my inbox this morning from readers, and fellow bloggers, you would understand the point.
The comments here are just a bonus. Even yours.
Doug, you are a kind man. I wish I had your demeanor. But, hey, I’m working on it! lol
I grew up with SIX sisters and four step-moms BY 16yo. NOT happening!
And that’s HOW I made it to retirement age.
AND, I’ll survive this coming genocide attempt.
I read your piece at like around 545am pst and wrote a short reply ( had to go to work ) to it but forgot to push the post comment button on it !!! Any way excellent and thought provoking piece Uncola, and really quite similar to the way I actually balance / evaluate / think about such questions ,only difference is is that I lack your writing ability to articulate it into words that make my intent/ thinking clear enough .
So realism is where its at from my point of view . while I have swallowed the bitter black pill that there are definitely no even remotely ” easy “solutions or tinkering around the margins /minor course correction” fixes ” to the myriad and multi layered strata of just implacable problems and serious holes that we’ve dug our selves into on a seemingly endless list of issues . Still , even after all that , still , that simply “is what it is ” and whether or not it is unfortunate or not is irrelevant that it is what we must face as long as we are still sucking oxygen and so we get to decide , and perhaps this is the only thing we really do have any control over , how we will react come what may . That’s really all we have and really all we’ve ever had in terms of exercising our free will , whether it was when we lived with an unrealistically rosy world view, as most of us have in the past at some point in time, or we’re looking at the stark reality of what we can expect going forward ( it cant do any thing but get worse barring some miraculous sea change , mass change of attitude and word view among the population , which isn’t realistic for a bunch of reasons mostly reaed to incentives of the perverse variety ). So be it , this will define our lives ( whats left of them in many cases ,like myself north of 60 now ) going forward . make the best if whatever” it” is , because whatever” it” is , that’s just what” it is” and simply wishing it we’re something else ( dreading “what is”)isn’t going to do any good as far as I can tell . Dreading what is can be seen in my opinion as the equivalant as” railing against reality” which in my opinion is essentially a defining characteristic of mental illness . And no , most people arent really sane, as that would indicate , for if most people were sane well we wouldnt be in all of these seemingly implacable holes to start with . It seems to me anway but hey I cant get any traction with the irrational optimists or the ” gettin there share in the now perversely incentivized types that probalby make up the bulk of the perpetuators of the Beast system ( they are ” luke warm ” in scriptural jargon , its not that they really all that overtly bad so much as it is that they really arent very good and I dont know if that is an apt description of what is meant by the term ” banality ” as it relates to evil or not but I’ll take it .Thanks for sharing your big picture thoughts . I think we all share similar ones as yours , else why would we end up at TBP ?Cuz everywhere else is just too many parts ” fake and gay” on some level to do the trick anymore ..
I am so very tired of the obsessing about “the fourth turning”. Some people cant stop talking about it. They weave references to it into everything they write, almost as if they are incapable of thinking outside the box it represents.
This should give you pause, but I see it does not.
Revolutionary War + 80ish years to Civil War + 80ish years to WW II + 80ish years to current clownworld.
How can you explain the timing? Provide an example of your outside the box thinking.
4T is a model to discuss. Hence the weaved references. Get over yerself snowflake. Or better yet you could just fuck off.
Obviously some unknown force is orchestrating these cycles…
Could you run it back in time to the four turnings prior to the Revolutionary War? I guess theoretically you could go back to the awn of recorded history and find these turnings every 80 years?
Well I happen to believe in a “quickening “of not only the universe( which is a real physic(s-)ally quantifiable phenom , and at some point I predict it’ll probably start slowing down again, cuz duh, that the way shit works ) but also mans activity pace , due to in large part technological advancement , ( Dad said Grandpa’s estate probate took so long therefore his older brothers would likely take that long , I said it’ll go a lot quicker cuz info travels hella faster than it did in 1970 as an example ,and I was right ) so maybe it was stretched out more the further you go back in time . And again ,all of our numbers and symbols are merely our symbolic representations of the actual things we are trying to make sense of . They are helpful in that sense but let us not confuse our symbolism for the things we are using them to quantify . Like I said somewhere 360 degrees times 60 minutes times 60 seconds breaks down the natural table of trigonometric elements into 1.296 million different incremental points but really you could continue to slice it down finer and finer into infinity I suppose . But even then thats just our undertanding of something that we do not fully understand and probably never will .
Do you write speeches for Kamala Harris?
Theories of whether the universe will someday start contracting or keep on expanding forever both arise from the same measurements (estimations?) of physical phenomena.
“Like I said somewhere 360 degrees times 60 minutes times 60 seconds breaks down the natural table of trigonometric elements into 1.296 million different incremental points but really you could continue to slice it down finer and finer into infinity I suppose.”
Of course, the circumference of a circle can be divided infinitely, because it starts as a solid circular line. How is knowing that helpful?
Anyway, in my estimation, cyclical phenomena have causes which can be discovered, and the approx. 80 year cycles I see described here haven’t had their cause described sufficiently clearly for me to think other than that they are simply creations of people, and people, as you may know, are designed to see patterns, even sometimes where no pattern exists.
Yeah yeah ,because you cant comprehend what I’m getting at renders it incomprehensible and so ad hom , sticks and stones pal , read my comment below . I’m not a die hard 4th turning disciple by any stretch of the imagination , Already had other ways of looking at the cyclical nature of things before I ever heard of Strauss and Howe . “Hard times make strong men , strong men make good times , good times make weak men and weak men make hard times ” is sufficient unto the cause in my humble opinion .
Well Simple man, some of what you wrote was incomprehensible to me, and the “hard times Hard men” thing is too simplistic and seems to me unlikely to be true.
I don’t see that it matters, we live in the times we live in and make our own choices about many things. Good times for some are hard times for others.
Look, the cyclical nature of everything is central to a mature understanding of how the world works, in my opinion . As for Fourth Turning theory specifically , well that’s just another way to mentally chop up and quantify into integrals of symbolic representation what ” is ” . The ” is” isn’t dependent upon our symbolically represented understanding of it in order for it to be . I choose to focus on our points of agreement rather than our points of disagreement . We see the same things/ trends thru different eyes . Fourth Turnings ,Fourth Schmurnings. We were all already talkin bout “hard times makin strong men” and so on before we ever heard of Strausss and Howe . And here;s my objection to the seaculum ( 80 years )it has to be contingent on one specific generation of people while meanwhile their are all different possible generations sprouting up all the time aren’t their? . Its like a “multiverse” of seaculums out there , except in the case of the generations we know for a fact that they all exist , unlike the Multiverse theory . No , Fourth turnings isn’t the end all be all of understanding” irrational exuberance”, “the business cycle” , “moral hazards ” ,” affluenza ” and what the fuck ever else you wanna . Hell ,even Chauncey Gardener knew that everything has its season and that there is a time for every purpose under heaven , Just deal with it .
While The Fourth Turning gives a framework to view happenings and build thought articles around (though they’re obviously part of them) and concentrating on family/community is a good practical way to live (although these are just the micro of the world and can, and do, act the same way) the following book might be a better foundation.
O yes- I think the eagle was a sign for you.
The link changed since I was here last. Weird. Not sure what that is ^
Supposed to be a link to Jacques Ellul’s book on Ecclesiastes.
Superb take on the whole mess Uncola , had I more time this morning I would self centeredely presume( its all about me lol ) its overarching thesis was directed a my articulation on this site on the subject matter and go on another asylum like scribbling defense of my related positions . But since I dont have that time ,Back to the serenity prayer , truly the only thing we do have control of is how we choose to react to ” what is ” . I have not been arguing that a veritable shitstorm seems immenently headed our way at all . Only the futility of taking such a pessimmistic stance . Again I find it interesting that “realism”, for me any way ,seems to be againth at goldilocksean sweet spot between foolish optimism and nihilistc pessimism . Always looking for that sweetspot .
Again , , excellent and thought provoking treatment of the subject matter but off to push that boulder up that icy mountain for now .
My vote is that the eagle was Providential Serendipity. What has to happen has to happen for what follows to happen. We may not be around to see it, because we didn’t get to choose when we were born, but never give up on the human race.
You think God has things all planned out, at least in broad terms? I don’t.
no, youngster, God does not have things “all planned out”. Perhaps you have heard of “free will”. He created, watched the fall that brought disobedience into the world – that thankfully He made provision for…
He watches as we turn our backs on Him, as well as the offered provision; and as any father would for his children – He hopes we pull our heads out and “in all your getting, get understanding”. But the seduction of the world (satan’s influence) is strong, promotes disbelief, and so misleads those who are weak minded and weak willed.
“Jesus wept”
You must be talking to Mr. Gore, who mentioned “Providential Serendipity”.
Besides, I’m far too old to be called “youngster”.
We gather. Ease up.
I think He does actually “in the broader sense” . Is God omniscient, omni potent, omni present ? Is He ” working from one end to the other and all points in between “as The Reverand Billy Gibbons claims in “Jesus Just Left Chicago ” ? I think so, otherwise I think you must be talking about some small “g” conception of god like the Greeks had ,petty little ones that they were , well most of em , Aristotle had his” Unmoved Mover ” as a First Cause so ,but we puny humans get hung up on temporal constraints that just don’t concern Him so we neccasarilly just cant understand his ways anymore than we can comprehend a universe with more than the three ( four actualy )that limit our ability to understand how we can simultaniously have individual free will while at the same time ,” He’s got this “,”hold His beer”, in the end . Just sayin .
When I speak of God, I’m talking of the one God, which, irrational as it is, I believe in.
What I don’t believe is that anyone knows the nature of God, the mind of God, or Gods purposes, or even how God operates in our world.
Theories (beliefs rather) that an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God intervenes in human lives and actions-to produce God’s desired results? sound to me like God must be completely bored.
Perhaps the golden oppurtunity we all missed out on in all of this feedback on Uncolas fine write up is contemplating the notion of “synchronicity” and ” co-insidence “with the collective ( sub ) conscious along side “divine providence” and serendipity cuz to me anyhow Jung ‘s work runs super deep and I dont think people pick up on that much . its not an either or for me , more like the one points at the veracity of the other, ( multiple points of confirmation that “there is more to the picture than meets the eye ” “Hey hey my my “as that old played out scold from Canada by way of Laurel Canyon used to screech . I too have personally observed synchronicity .Jung is just one of those guys that was definitely on to something important IMHO . Again , love your work Mr Gore , dont stop .
Jung? Seriously?
I bet you think Marx was “definitely on to something ” too.
Yeah he( Karl) was on to something all right , but none of it was any good . You don’t get it , Jung’s observations , which we’re brilliant , only strengthen my belief in The One God . Observed synchronicity ,” the collective unconscious” are just another way to describe the invisible connection we have back to “The Logos “. You’ll just have to excuse me, I’m only a Christian apologist so I see proof of God in a lot of places most people don’t even think to look . Its in the metaphysical realm of human thought itself if you consider it with an open mind long enough versus being set in your retarded presuppositional way of looking at things . Yeah ,you really think you know what smart looks like don’t you ? “Pearls, meet swine “. Go find somebody else to pleasure yourself on in that sadistic way you enjoy so much . Otherwise I’ll just keep up-ing my game and you don’t want that . I try very hard to make things simple .
I see God just about everywhere when I stop to look, I just think the idea of a “collective unconscious” is absurd, and “The Logos” has too many potential meanings to clearly denominate anything… What do you mean by it?
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You can see it here in the comments at TBP.
More and more regulars are just lashing out in all directions, mostly incoherently, as they -at least subconsciously- realize there will be no way for them to sit this one out.
At this point I am pretty sure 2008 was not the trigger. Probably the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, or maybe Sept 16th 2019 if you prefer financial inflection points. Trump actually acted (only) as a big “pause” button in the current Turning for almost 4 years (up to January or March 2020). And there will be no second term for him; through crook, assassination, or ‘suspending’ the election under some pretense, he will not be allowed to become prez again.
As events in Gaza are clearly showing, “whom the Gods want to destroy, they first make mad.” So the craziest thing you can imagine the West doing, will probably happen. I’d go for either a US-led war against Iran (in which Russian-made S-400 systems will shoot down large numbers of USAF planes), or the US succeeds in leading Taiwan down the primrose path and in the subsequent war with China loses a significant part of it’s Navy. The good news is it won’t be both, as the first-picked event of those two will destroy the US power (with or without nuclear exchange, by choice of the US).
So, it’s now the time you should be at peace, with help of the philosophical/religious framework of your choice, as otherwise you will not survive these upcoming events mentally intact.
You just have to collect more debt free capital, bruh…you’ll be fine.
“Trump actually acted (only) as a big “pause”
lol…apparently you missed the whole 2020 thing of riots, lockdowns, lock-ups , murders and take back ‘Murica whilst the Bolsheviks were busy burning it down. Trump was the firing pin.
Give my regards to Putler.
Who is able to read attentively, is clearly at an advantage:
“up to January or March 2020“
Sorry, bruh…my bad. I basically just skim read gibberish.
It’s okay, brah. We don’t expect any deeper insights from you anymore.
Never did…
A town of around 5000 basically shut down after some idiot posted on FB that BLM had two bus loads of peeps headed for the wal mart for a demonstration. I believe this goes along with what you say. The wal mart boarded the doors and shut ‘er down. In the end what showed were several vehicles and 12 peeps or so for the demonstration on the parking lot. The info on the turnout I got from a couple of locals acting as intelligence within view of the demonstration.
BTW, Tru Storie.
Does that mean you made it up?
“My friend” , it so happened the hardware store I worked prepped also but did not close. The store barricaded the front entry doors with pallets of concrete mix and other items stored on pallets , concrete blocks, Portland cement, like 94# bags as I recall , stacked chest high , it was a sight to see. I watched the warehouse manager bring all that around the building and up front with the forklift. He was a very accomplished fork lift driver, warehouse man all his life ( Tru storie).
Patrons were still allowed in the store only had to walk behind the pallets. There was great concern those BLMers might work their way to the store located several miles from the wal mart. BLMers be throwing bricks through the entry way glass doors. All inside packing and waiting to defend the store. I only declared if some idiot threatens me I’ll unload. Tru storie, dipstick.
To me, when you say “Tru storie”, it indicates you are making it all up.
It’s a phrase I picked up from another political forum years ago. Just humor “my friend”. Would you like the web site’s address, again? You might fit in but the political experts there did not appear to be anything but status quo dupes.
I’m curious to know what the political forum you mention was/is.
Of course. Drill for the political forum.
smoaky.com
Thanks but no thanks. Status quo dupes have no interest for me.
Deep Hypocrites© will save you, brah!
Why so rude , bruh ? Missed a scheduled anal probe or something?
Those are some pretty bad projections, brah
I’m not here to judge you particular proclivities, bruh.
What, you dont have a “do it yourself at home kit ” for that type of thing yet ? Sheesh man you gotta keep up w/ the times , all the kool kids are self anal probing here on the new frontier nowadays . “Its all ball bearings” these day bruh .
yeah they drain the value out of my debt free money with their profligate print( debase ) and spend ( inflate )as fast as they drain the value out of anyone else’s currency .
Debt free capital isn’t the same as debt free “money”. Buy useful things and don’t borrow money to do it. That’s how to accumulate debt free capital..
True dat , thanks for the correction on terminology Wide guy . We are on the same page , live within your means , don’t be frivolous . We are just exiting what was a long period of frivolity .
Of course, some people are still being frivolous, while others have been careful and frugal all along. It’s unfortunate that most of the careful people will be swept up in the tsunami.
Well I was frugal by neccesity for a longtime and then as certain financial millstones we’re finally released and things reached a point of critical mass w/ regard to income and investments ,I ended up no longer needing to be frugal ,but by that time my habits we’re formed or ingrained and so now I seem to still be a tight ass lol. Mine was a hard slog , but I wouldnt change it and in retrospect consider it a blessing for the lessons learned in that adversity .
Beautiful. What Uncola experienced is the called the waking Dream. Waking dreams are real and it’s for the individual having them. Here is a book about them. They are given to us from the holy spirit.
Wake up to the true significance of each moment!
A woman breaks open her Chinese fortune cookie and reads the slip of paper. “Don’t fall back on old habits,” it says. She looks at the unlit cigarette in her hand – her first in months – and puts it away. While driving, a young man thinks of recent struggles which helped him overcome barriers to happiness in his personal life. Suddenly five sheep jump the fence bordering the highway and dart to a patch of lush green grass in the center divider. Meanwhile, the lecture tape on his car stereo underlines what he sees: “The grass is greener on the other side.”
Within this book are fascinating examples from real people who learned to listen to their own inner language – the secret language of waking dreams. Through humble sources they found insights into burdensome problems, prophecies, and even warnings.
Are you overlooking the countless ways life speaks to you for your benefit? Examples and easy techniques in The Secret Language of Waking Dreams will help you:
I have had many waking dreams. They are simple, yet profound. Typically you will get the dream and then a confirmation or even several. Right after I retired, was at a Chinese restaurant, and my fortune cookie was empty. I knew it meant I would make my own reality, and the next day it was confirmed when I got another empty fortune cookie. These are the only two empty fortune cookie’s I have ever received or seen.
Tell us more about the ‘shrooms in Alaska.
Butter and King Boleta and Shaggy Mane. All good eating and full of vital micronutrients.
Shaggy (Lion’s) Mane is in this area but not so easy to find. I’ve found some in a state park in the area but state parks are off limits for foraging. Lot’s of mushrooms here but I’ve not tried consuming them. Lion’s mane I definitely would not hesitate as it would be difficult to misidentify it.
Shaggy mane is also really easy to get right. They turn inky when too old. This refers to their other name, inky spots.
‘Famously’ deliquesces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprinus_comatus
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/hericium.html
just typically ‘Yellow’ & dry out
I thought it too cold there.
I’ve had what I term a couple of prophetic type dreams but they we’re allegorical ( ?) in nature . One , I call The Institutional Bully and the other The Unchecked Lion Loose In The Streets . The Instituional Bully was simply myself and perhaps several dozen other people sitting in like a classroom or conference room at those long fold up tables with a literal bully , of ethnic or other than white heritage walking around to all the tables threatening people , when he got up to me I stood up from my seat before he had a chance to speak or try to intimidate me ,because I suppose I have a warrior spirit and didnt want to be at a tactical disadvantage for whatever was to come once I stood up to him. And yeah , if I’m honest I did not do this without fear but that dream was quite some time ago ( 20 years?)but i did stand up to him ,and of course that’s when I woke up . The unchecked lion was simply myself walking thru some metropolitan area ( I live in the sticks ) I suppose their we’re other people mulling about in the background who may have scattered once they saw the lion ,when a huge male lion,like in Africa comes into sight and up towards me then a police officer comes into the scene . The cop looks at at me and gives me that look like ” you’re on your own ” and leaves , and of course again this is where I wake up.The lion dream was probably 15 years ago .
Nice. I have kept a dream journal for the last 45 years. To me dreams are part of the many mansions Jesus talked about. To not dream and record them is to miss out on a very important facet of life. Every important thing that has ever happened to me has been in my dreams first. The best one was meeting my wife to be. Then, the 2nd time I saw her, the inner voice told me flat out there’s your wife to be. That was 37 yeas ago this January. Many blessings.
What about these dreams made you think they were prophetic?
I didn’t initially think they were prophetic, though they were vid and stuck with me , but clearly in the fullness of time you can see that the institutional bully and loose lion / apathetic official protector dream is allegorically accurate to what we now see going on with our institutions of government. You’re on your own in the streets of these big cities dont expect the cops to protect you , and yes the institutions are now obviously bullying the citizens and there is a racial element to that ,since I have to spell the obviousness of those dreams out for you .
You loosely describe the nature of governments, particularly when they become bureaucratic, as they always do. That governments haven’t, and probably won’t change much is just historical fact and a good guess as to the future.
I’m sure you know that Satan also sends dreams and portents and omens to people in the continued effort to turn people away from God.
Just be sure (if that’s possible) that your “own inner language” isn’t leading you astray, as it has many many people.
“Therefore, as I navigate the daily grind with an impending sense of doom…. is my mind serving me or intimidating me?”
Definitely serving. Since the dawn of consciousness, any people that lacked the power of contemplation, wherein they weighed the possible outcomes of future uncertainties and to the best of their ability adjusted themselves accordingly did not survive very long.
Entertain the best, but be prepared for the worst, spiritually, morally and physically, to the best of your ability. God has your back.
An extremely well written and succinct article. I’m amazed (not in a good way) at some of the responses. Tomorrow – Jan 17th – WEF is holding the Disease X conference in Davos. That’s a reality and we can draw a conclusion that Covid was a Beta test. They’ve told us what they want – 15 minute cities – feudalism 2.0 – 700 million population, so we can expect many more actions moving along these lines. Keep up the good work, God’s speed all.
“It seems to me that this inaugurates a new epoch of scaremongering.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/what-is-disease-x
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Karl Rove
It is either thus or you must create your own reality. Archaix.com
Per wiki:
Rove was an advisor to Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign
Dang, do people realize the political associations of Karl? See, the republicOns ARE one and the same.
15 minute cities Are those like “freedom cities”? Good question.
There is always a chance those WEF creeps past and present will OD on cocaine.
Disease “X” is an aerosolized, weaponized version of buttbola.
” We are the “architect” of our lives and not the “builder”.”
Acceptance of what is.
Heard once: “Stop bitching, and telling yourself This shouldn’t be happening!
Regardless of any injustice, the thing that has you all torqued up IS happening. Accept that.
As for the Courage to Change the things I can…, one reflection had me thinking what can be changed is what you touched upon Doug. We can change how we think about something.
Not in a Pollyannish way, denying that it’s happening, or denying that it sucks, but accepting it is what it is.
Now, how can we use our brain to empower us, instead of shackling us?
Then write those ideas down.
Not all of them will be good, but a few might be good ways to focus efforts,
both mental and physical. Then act. Ideas without actions are useless.
I’ll close my 2 cents worth, by repeating verses 2 and 3 from The Serenity Prayer.
(from memory; forgive any omissions or errors)
Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time.
Taking, as He did, this life as it is, and not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right, if I surrender to His will,
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with Him in the next.
Ouch. That didn’t take long.
I read this recently. Live in the now, forget the past, and look to the future. It described what I try to do everyday.
The past is full of lessons that can help guide your future.
There is nothing new under the sun. The 4th turning is reaching a crisis soon. Human beings being what they are we can count on some really evil stuff happening in the next 5 years. Good luck to those on TBP . You are going to need it.
@AwakenedSlave
The three mindsets that are prevalent, here on Gab:
– God is in control so I don’t have to do a thing.
– Trump, alone, will save America so all that is required of me is to simply vote.
– White hats are going to save America but first we have to let it be ruined.
The common thread through those mentalities is that nothing is required of the People for America to get saved.
When one realizes that the ONLY way that America gets saved is if the People get back to the founding principles that provided freedom and kept the corruption in the seats of power to a minimum, those three mentalities are seen as the ridiculous notions that they are. The programming of the minds away from what secured our free state/s becomes obvious.
Americans are looking to government to fix government. That’s fucked up.
( Now is the hard times, expect it , push through for our posterity )
The Founders knew that it was and would be impossible to keep corruption out of government, and that the only way to minimize the harm was to strictly limit the size and power of government.
Power draws power hungry people who quite often want power so they can get money.
– Trump, alone, will save America so all that is required of me is to simply vote.
Don’t forget the requirement to place the TrumpRetread yard signs and wear the hats.
My hat is black with gold lettering. On the front it reads “Nobody 2024”. On the left side the letters, “FJB”. On the right side the letters, “FDT”. Tru storie. Ordered it custom ONLINE!
Very interesting article: the eagle connection was especially prescience.
Watch Frozen Pool Equipment Explode, Narrowly Miss Owner
To continue Doug’s good metaphor; the engines on the airplane aren’t broken, it is the pilots that are incapacitated.
We sit in the back bickering with each other trying to assert dominance over a middle seat arm rest or abandoned drink cart. Worse, the loudest idiots insult the general aviation student who wants to figure out how to land in one piece. Bullying anyone from helping or encouraging him.
Eat the mountain. Explain to Saint Peter how you did your unrepentant best.
“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I don’t even hear the cultural noise anymore, the inane MSM dialogue that has entranced the sheep…if you don’t understand that this whole shitshow is going to burn to the ground and a hundred million Americans are going to die…if you aren’t spending what little time you have left preparing…well good luck.
This was very well-written. Though dire, it is what it is. Thanks for posting these columns.
As a point of interest to some, I live exactly where the 2 solar eclipses cross. They make a pretty good omen, really. Omen of what, I don’t know. Still, there it is,
If the shadow X is true I believe it is a sign from GOD this nation will be taken out due to it’s lawlessness. Top to bottom and secular and biblically nationwide.
If it’s because of lawlessness, why would God single out America? Certainly there are nations that are much, much worse… In fact, is there a nation on earth that respects law (or the Law if you prefer)?
How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, “When I am a big boy.” But what is that? The big boy says, “When I grow up.” And then, grown up, he says, “When I get married.” But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to “When I’m able to retire.” And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.
Stephen Leacock
Que sera, sera. If you have not anticipated catastrophe, you are waaaaay behind the curve at this point in the destruction of Amerika. But look on the bright side: Some hatchet-faced bottle-blond USAF “I am woman here me roar” F-16 driver just won the Miss Amerika pageant. And Tay-tay’s latest boy toy is heading to the Super Bowl. Please pass the Nacho Cheese Doritos! Everything is fine!
You just want to sit down and relax at the end of the day.
Perhaps you are numbing yourself from a world gone crazy with your beverage of choice.
And then, Ol’ Doug posts something…
You realize what you are in for… and you know it won’t be an abridged version…and you know it will hurt…but you read it anyway.
Funny the X seems to coincide very closely with the New Madrid fault
Calm, if you compare the solar eclipse paths map to this one below, the New Madrid fault does appear to be in the crosshairs. What does that mean? Maybe nothing? Maybe something? Either way, what were the odds?
I will be beach front on my little hill here in the Ozarks.
I have no idea what the title of this article is supposed to mean. “Sense of fatalism” seems nonsensical. Uncola, I think you try too hard with that stuff. And so I tend to pass it by when I can’t make heads nor tails of what might be in the article given I can’t understand the title.
Actually, Llpoh, here is the background on that title:
In the middle of Donald Trump’s presidency, prior to the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections, I posted a Trump / Qanon MAGA video and conducted an informal poll here on TBP. It was posted in early July of 2018 and titled “Informal Quick Poll: Future Proving Past Reality? – or – Bullshit Hope Porn?”.
Although the video is gone now and the up/down votes have disappeared, the poll showed a majority of TBP readers still possessing hope that Trump was going to drain the swamp.
In one of my comments posted in that “poll” thread, I recorded the stats as follows: 222 TBP readers watched the 13 min video and voted = 60% believing and 40% calling it B.S.
So, a few days afterward, I posted the article linked below (and hyperlinked into my above article too), with these somewhat sardonic opening words which contained the title you dislike so much:
Thanks Unc. Appreciate what you do. I am funny in many ways , including this one- if I can’t understand the title, I simply abandon ship. I simply prefer Hemingway to James Joyce. I was taught to tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them. I couldn’t understand “sense of fatalism”. Just my two cents as I had no idea what you were talking about or were going to talk about. You have important messages, but speaking for myself if I can’t get through the title I won’t read the article.
I get it, Man! Great to see you posting again
Also, for purposes of posterity, I will point out to the readers that my above article was posted on the eve of Donald Trump’s historic win in the Iowa caucuses.
Well Donald Trump did LOCK-FUCKING-DOWN the USSA and is the proud father of those apparently “problematic” genetic modification therapies, but hey….
Seems Sisyphean punishment isn’t going to be enough for us stoopid Americans (and everyone else;) ours is to be nearer to Ixion’s.
Still, chin up.
It was massive like never known to man.
Uncola’s new genre is pseudo-intellectual fantasia for the yucks and clicks, maybe for the deconstruction for all I know. Several commenters here wrote about changing one’s personal reality. They don’t wish to understand that we are fighting to adjust our shared reality to our different likings. George Carlin called it ‘willful ignorance’. In the comments on Uncola’s first effort in this new genre, at least the first one I noticed, this article is his second that I noticed, he insisted objectivity or reality was my religion or some such because, he asserted, everyone is religious. All perspectives are ‘religion’. There is really nothing to say to someone who narrates you for social influence and one-upsmanship.
Read for comprehension, R.D.: As you narrate me as a fantastical pseudo-intellectual for purposes of your social influence and one-upsmanship here on TBP, recall that I did NOT say “All perspectives are ‘religion’.”
What I did say was that all debates are rooted in theology, one way or another. If you don’t believe in God, that argument is rooted in theology. Beyond that, your own perspectives (especially ‘willful ignorance’) are decisions that belong to you. Free Will, and all that
“Coincidence is God’s pseudonym” – German author Peter Hahne
That eagle was not a coincidence. I have had too many things like that happen to me in my life to think that they are all simply coincidences. Sometimes God has to hit you over the head for you to pay attention.
Coincide -nce .Are we using the word correctly ?Dictionary definitions mostly( not all ) concur simply by thinking of its root ” coincide “we have no linguistic reason to imply the random or accidental part , apparently the ” nce ” part does all that for us ?
“Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel.”
Fate goes ever as it must. (Beowulf)
Excellent article! And beautifully written and *readable*!
Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel. (Beowulf)
Fate goes ever as it must.
Excellent article–insightful, scholarly, well-written, and readable.
There’s only ONE solution to it all, and everyone knows what it is, but no one has the balls to get the program going. Remember ; THEY are going to kill you if you don’t kill them first. And we all know who THEY are. It’s time for the Empire Of Lies to end and that means all of us ponying up, turning our hearts to steel, and vanquishing these filthy lying rotten murdering thieving psychotic enslavers. You know who I’m talking about. EXPUNGE them from the world and watch this planet turn into a long-awaited utopia, the one that’s been denied for thousands of years because of these greedy rats. Not until this goal is achieved will there EVER be peace on this planet, so isn’t it about time we got going and did the dirty deed ? If not, THEY ARE GOING TO KILL US ALL, and MAKE MONEY DOING IT.
You go first Frank. We are behind you all the way.
Does that “X” mark the spot of the New Madrid Rift / Fault? Kind of looks like it to me.
Though I do not think it is anything other than a coincidence, it is interesting.
“I wonder that a soothsayer doesn’t laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favors nor your hate…
— Bill Shakespeare, in “Macbeth”
The Alpha and the Omega……
The beginning and the end…….
The ‘end’ of what?
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum
Fatalism…or dispensation?
“annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum”
I think it’s just the truth. Without Divine intervention, America would not have been created, and it was created as a new order, one where the People were Sovereign and the government was our servant. You know, the world turned upside down.
it only takes about 45 minutes.
At the Christian translation, the children are taken FIRST!!! The children, elderly, and infirm are taken FIRST!
This occurs in front of seven billion eye witnesses and on millions of live videos in real time.
The rest of the secular world BLAMES American the trans/gay movements, with using a “wunderwaffe” and taking them.
In 45 minutes, the entire world reduces CONUS to a 3000 mile wide, 4000′ deep pit of “boiling gray goo”. Lethal to approach at just 25 miles out. England, too.
Hence the ABSCENCE of US mentioned even ONCE in the ENTIRE Christian Bible. we’re ALREADY gone when it “goes down”…
Put the bong down and eat a cookie.
Yes.
The children, elderly and infirm were taken along with a lot of healthy middle aged.
They were taken by their greedydesire to save their own lives from the pretend disease.
Yep, they self raptarded into sheol.
Could be the eagle was an omen.
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Or ?
Obadiah 1:4
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord
OT but Friday night in the Hill Country of Texas.
Unc- I am a lousy fatalist but like HSF a fairly decent stoic. Like I have said many times , humanity has from day one had the ability to redirect current events by becoming the Borg and getting on the same thought vibration. I call it mass prayer which sends some here into fits, why I have no idea? What in the world is wrong with binding together in unified thought to halt atrocities/war/famine?
I generally won’t come into a thread that has been ongoing for days but just want to say I enjoyed the article. Thank you.
Thanks man, I appreciate it
Theeeereee here!