IF I WERE THE DEVIL

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 8:42 am

Does anyone think it’s even probable that someone who is not only the top podcaster in the world, but who has spent his entire adult life on the Internet has not come across this clip at least a half dozen times?

It’s not exactly Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, but it’s pretty much common knowledge for anyone to the right of Trotsky.

The one thing I dislike most about Rogan is his aw shucks act. He remains completely oblivious of everything all the time- or at least pretends to- no matter how many times people bring these things to his attention.

Bohemian Grove? What’s that? Illumiwhatti?

It’s so banal it’s offensive.

m
m
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 8:56 am

I would whisper ‘everywhere else around the world it’s even worse!’
I’d teach an intellect shallow and superficial, a ‘Positivist’ way of thinking.
Nothing is real except what you personally experienced.
And everyone is in on it (except yourself, or course).

In other words, if I were the devil I’d just keep right on doing what HSF’s doing.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  m
April 12, 2024 9:08 am

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Afraid the sheep will get out of the fold, are we?

God wants you to be a doomer, that it? Glass half empty is divine, defeatism is next to godliness?

Reality doesn’t need us, it always is. Knowledge can only exist through experience, it’s literally the definition of the word.

But you keep on doing you, you’re the best at this.

m
m
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 9:29 am

God wants you to be a doomer

Straight to ‘accuse the other side of what you are guilty of’?
That’s a pretty weak attempt.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  m
April 12, 2024 9:56 am

I am the most continuously upbeat and optimistic person on TBP. Relentless, even. So what are you talking about? Is English your second language, or are you actually that stupid?

You make absolutely no sense. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it is your reputation.

Your first comment didn’t even address what I wrote. Joe Rogan is either faking his ignorance, has serious short term memory problems, or is every bit as doltish as you.

The quote played in his clip is ubiquitous on the Internet, it would take effort not to have encountered it before and he appears to be genuinely surprised to hear it.

Actor? We know he is. Stupid? He doesn’t appear to be. Motivated financially? Undeniable.

So what conclusion did you come to when I point out the unlikely possibility that Rogan isn’t being genuine??

if I were the devil I’d just keep right on doing what HSF’s doing.

Hey, I appreciate your effort no matter how poorly executed.

Cricket
Cricket
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 12:36 pm

I understand Joe Rogan smokes a lot of weed, so maybe he does have short term memory problems. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  Cricket
April 12, 2024 1:48 pm

I suppose.

If that’s the case he’s the most overpaid pothead in history.

anonymous
anonymous
  Cricket
April 12, 2024 3:41 pm

Wrong. Joe can be exceedingly knowledgeable, well versed and intelligent. When he chooses. We are being played.

m
m
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 2:10 pm

HSF, do you really believe that bullshit you are sprouting here?

Please tell us which part of me pointing out that your stance is basically ‘everywhere else around the world it’s even worse!’ is doomerist or defeatism.

>Nothing is real except what you [HSF] PERSONALLY experienced.
Is that now clear enough that you don’t read over the key word, and argue against things I haven’t stated?

Nukes, the moon landings, the Rona virus, etc. all don’t exist. I’d call this Positivism bullshit.
But you’re accusing me that I want to “keep the sheep inside the fold”!

But suddenly Bohemian Grove, Illuminati, [Bilderbergs, the group of thirty-something, …] etc. absolutely do exist and are key players for everything happening around us. You have proof beyond reasonable doubt for all that.

And, to connect the last two points, Rogan not seeing things exactly as you are, and not presenting them as one big brain dump to his audience makes him bad
“[Rogan] remains completely oblivious of everything all the time- or at least pretends to-”
and obviously you better.

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
This is getting shameful and painful to watch.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  m
April 13, 2024 8:20 am

There are people who simply cannot have a meeting of minds, sometimes due to language, sometimes due to beliefs, and other times because they do not exist on the same plane, I’m sure there are others I have missed, but you get the picture.

I don’t understand you because I can’t make sense out of your criticisms. They may be valid but I cannot decipher your words into something meaningful to understand.

I’ve tried, many, many times on a variety of subjects you and I discuss, but it always turns out this way. Your intent may be earnest but that doesn’t alter the occult nature of how you communicate, at least for me.

You don’t grok me and I don’t grok you and never the twain shall meet.

So thank-you for trying to reach me but from here on I’m going to leave you to work on anything I say by your lonesome.

Ghost
Ghost
  hardscrabble farmer
April 13, 2024 8:55 am

Just because you’ve got free rent in m’s mind doesn’t mean you have to occupy it.

m
m
  hardscrabble farmer
April 13, 2024 11:09 am

HSF, you are getting awfully close to denying “the universality of reason.”

If you ever reach that point, you will not only be unable to communicate with me, but with anybody else in a meaningful way.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 11:47 am

Knowledge can only exist through experience…

1 Corinthians 2:11-13 KJB… “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”

For those who care to look, there is also revealed knowledge; knowledge that can only come from learning that which God has to teach. One simply needs to receive His Spirit by grace through faith and the lessons, far greater than those the world has to offer, can begin.

Edit: agreed, Rogan is a boob.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  grace country pastor
April 12, 2024 1:46 pm

If it is revealed knowledge , to whom is it revealed? And thus being revealed it can only be knowledge for him.

Let me know if you think my logic is flawed.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  Hardscrabble Farmer
April 12, 2024 2:21 pm

God is eager to reveal His knowledge to any who would honestly and in faith seek it. That knowledge is then to be shared with others. Take Paul as an example:

2 Timothy 2:2 KJB… “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.”

When I say honestly and in faith I mean it too as His words are not to be taken lightly.

Hebrews 4:12-13 KJB… “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”

One cannot read this book honestly and in faith without this book reading him right back, honestly!

I don’t think your “logic” is flawed, I just think you’re missing something; something more incredible than what you may have heretofore imagined possible.

anonymous
anonymous
  grace country pastor
April 12, 2024 3:43 pm

My man! The quotation of Scripture -accurately – cuts through every man-made contrivance. YOUR POSTINGS ALWAYS MAKE ME FEEL GOOD. Always.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  anonymous
April 12, 2024 4:17 pm

😊

AKJOHN
AKJOHN
  Hardscrabble Farmer
April 12, 2024 2:53 pm

You asking this from the most illogical person on TBP?

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
  grace country pastor
April 12, 2024 3:14 pm

Bravo GCP – the Word is inviolable.

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 3:11 pm
anonymous
anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 3:39 pm

Not entirely sure why you felt compelled to bring God into it. Kind of disappointing.

anonymous
anonymous
  m
April 12, 2024 3:38 pm

I’ m not the guy’s biggest fan here. But your criticism again HSF is nonsense. Wouldn’t you feel at home elsewhere?

m
m
  anonymous
April 13, 2024 9:50 am

Why do you see it as a criticism. It’s satire.

Obbledy
Obbledy
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 9:01 am

Its like TV preachers and talk radio…..big build up to an anti-climax,say nothing definitive(pie in the sky)…and definitely dont mention (((them))), lest you lose your show……….oh,and most SOTN articles……

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 11:47 am

The top podcaster is reaching how many people? Does it matter?

anonymous
anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 3:36 pm

The ‘powers that be’ control both sides of the narrative. That would include rogan.

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  hardscrabble farmer
April 16, 2024 11:11 pm

Joe Rogan is a cypher, HSF.
Why would you attribute any intellectual credence to a UFC mouthpiece palooka media fool with only a Jersey City high school education? The idea he hasn’t heard of Paul Harvey is completely and uttery believable.
He’s a total uneducated, unread, uninformed Bozo.

Scot
Scot
April 12, 2024 9:10 am

How has Rogan not seen this before?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Scot
April 12, 2024 9:19 am

Right?

I bet he’s never seen the God made a farmer one either.

anonymous
anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 3:46 pm

God did make the farmer. Little of America would exist without the generations of some of the hardest working souls to ever grace this lovely continent.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
April 12, 2024 9:22 am

All the positive thinking in the world won’t prevent what’s coming

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  ordo ab chao
April 12, 2024 9:41 am

No, it won’t, but it is 100% certain that how you experience your brief stint here on Earth is up to your outlook.

You want to focus on doom and pessimism no one suffers more than you, and far in advance of what’s coming, which no one really knows.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

-Marcus Aurelius

anonymous
anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 3:52 pm

HSF,
The Bible instructs believers to remain aware of the ‘seasons’ in which we live. We are not to live in darkness. So when commentators express their views on the inevitable outcome of America, that does not mean they are being ‘doomers’. My own mother lived through the worst of The Great Depression. Her sharing of her personal history was as bleak as one could imagine. Was she a ‘downer’ or was she doing her utmost to prepare her offspring for the onset of THE GREAT DEPRESSION REDUX? Having said this the Bible also instructs believers to remain steadfast and occupy until Christ returns. Moreover, we are to remain positive and have our eyes firmly fixed on THE BLESSED HOPE.

Gadsden flag
Gadsden flag
  ordo ab chao
April 12, 2024 10:07 am

You speak as if it is woo-woo ordained.
We exist in a physical world
The world you see is the culmination of cause and effect
Every thing is as it should be (effect) because of actions (cause).
It could be no other way. It can be no other way.
The situation we find ourselves in is exactly the rule we followed (our contribution to the natural law of cause and effect).

The “spirit “ world calls. “Whosoever will”
Everyone makes a contribution to reality through their actions and inactions.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Gadsden flag
April 12, 2024 10:50 am
ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 11:35 am

Haha….I put all my faith and trust in the living Redeemer….

I play these secular games because I have no fear…..and been calling out ‘what’s coming’ for a good number of years now. I ‘ve made personal appearances before the county Sheriff. the county commission, the county health administrator, the hospital ceo, the city commission, confronted the bank president…

But all that is just me being me, ya know?

Didn’t mean to get your britches bunched up….even gave you an upvote for your opening assessment of Rogan, fwiw….

More often than not, speaking truth is negative. Believing in The Truth, the Way, and the Life is the rule I followed, and it will lead me home as well

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  ordo ab chao
April 12, 2024 11:47 am

I know where you’re coming from you’ve been her about as long as I can remember.

You’re all good in my book, I just want to be clear about where I’m coming from.

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 3:17 pm

We all come from a unique place but end up in the same dimension. That’s the value of TBP. QED

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  hardscrabble farmer
April 12, 2024 4:30 pm

Truth be told, if I was envious of another man’s place where he came from, it would be the scrabbled farmer’s ….😆

I was an empty vessel when I turned to the Good Book, and had every intention of proving to myself it was just BS topping for Sunday Socials…..

66 books, penned by nearly 40 different humans over a period of nearly 2000 years…..but authored by One !

I’m still a broken vessel….but now I look for that Blessed Hope!!

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  ordo ab chao
April 12, 2024 5:07 pm

1 Corinthians 2:16 KJB… “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

That right there. That’s what we have in that book!

Remember Job? What did he long for?

Job 31:35 KJB… “Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.”

Folks don’t near realize just how fortunate we are to have what we do. Good talkin’ to ya brother… 😁

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
April 12, 2024 3:09 pm
Walter
Walter
April 12, 2024 4:23 pm

Rogan’s slowly coming out of the statist haze. It’s somehow touching to see an over age tough turning away from the unicorns and fairy dust (backed by AK47s and extermination camps not yet revealed) of the anti American left.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 12, 2024 5:13 pm

The devil doesn’t exist……..

Knothing
Knothing
  Anonymous
April 12, 2024 8:33 pm

… the greatest trick ever pulled.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Knothing
April 14, 2024 7:00 am

No, the greatest trick ever pulled was flimflamming the Goyim into thinking the God of the true globalists who have been destroying nations and perpetrating genocide for at least 4000 years is the only God, and that he could ever meet out justice or set the world and heavens aright.
White people have their own Gods for that. That doesn’t mean man should expect the Gods to do what we should do for ourselves. If Christians ever find real spirituality they will find it’s much different, and better, than was ever served up by mainstream Abrahamic, death cult, script(ure).

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 13, 2024 5:58 am

If I were the devil, I would concoct a script of a God and chosen people who leave the great nations of history in complete ruin, and promise Armageddon. The script would be spread by deception and terror at first, undermining the intrinsic culture and identity of the nations where it spread by hook and by crook. The script would lay the foundations of Communism, and teach a false brotherhood of biological enemies. While establishing the protected status and a separate state and identity for my chosen people who authored my doomsday scrip(tures). After a few thousand years or so of the spread of globalization, nation wrecking, slaving, and genocide, I would concoct a story informing my misguided followers that the same people of my scriptures who perpetrated genocide and the destruction of nations down to the last child and beast of the field, were not the same tribe undermining and destroying the Western world today.
If I were a God I’d put an end to this hateful and pernicious crap today. All I can do is point out the elephant in the room.