And this is the reason I legally carry a firearm! I am a 60 y/o woman... maybe a “target” by today’s standards? I practice consistently and am “safe” with my “side-kick” but IF I’m ever in the F@ck around arena; well... it will match the “Find out” response!
I’m not a “Fundamentalist” or “Legalist” but verses like this provide me/our land with insight, direction and comfort:
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,”
2 Timothy 3:1-4
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
When you and I attended school there were proportional consequences to bad behavior. If a student hit a teacher or administrator, they were expelled and charged with battery. Today the little monsters are portrayed as victims of a racist system, and the teacher or administrator are "educated/indoctrinated" how to speak with the little monsters. This has persisted past schools where violent criminals are released without bail and often their actions are treated as misdemeanors in our larger cities. BF Skinner was correct: A behavior that's rewarded (as in ignored) is repeated. One that receives a negative consequence is not.
I take issue with the concluding allusion to "what takes place when a society’s institutional order breaks down, and humans return to their archaic, tribal, and warlike animal state. " As if, we are innately "warlike animal-s". I take issue, and believe that we are collectively, being manipulated into a state of hyper-stress that expresses in violent ways, towards self and others.
I, personally, experience physical and mental distress from wireless radiation. I am hyper-aware when I am around all wireless- phones, towers, wifi, smart-meters, etc. Does not matter if it's 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G-- each level affects different functions and parts of my body. I used to be able to tell what make of cellphone a person had near me. I can still tell an iPhone from an Android.
With enough exposure, I become depressed, anxious, sleepless, angry, lashing out at others, and on bad days- suicidal. I believe these effects are being felt by many more than are aware. Add to the wireless smog of exposure 24/7 constant electro-magnetic radiation pulsing, unhealthy bodies, poor nutrition, lack of overall wellbeing, and many are headed for emotional turmoil and disaster.
"I don't feel anything" "I've never heard of this issue" "It's all in her/his head" "That'd ridiculous, our agencies would be making sure this is safe, and they say it is" - Right, just like the Jab is safe, just like GMO foods are safe, cancer can't be healed with diet, Jan 6th was caused by Trump, Ivermectin is harmful, no one has died from the c-19 shot, Anthony Fauci cares about US, and just like all the myriad of "Truths" we are told everyday.
The glaring contrast between the way people actually live in this country and the relentless random violence shown in the media in their other view of this country serves to expose the latter's constant divide-and-conquer message: Races, please hate each other. Genders, please hate each other. Parents and genital mutilation enthusiasts, please hate each other.
Thanks John. Excellent post. Part of the problem is that there are a lot of people who give the madness on video an audience. I used to wonder back in the early terrorist days, after 9-11, why the news networks devoted so much time to terrorism. Once you insist of taking God out of the picture, things go downhill rapidly. Peace. :-)
John, I have to say, glad I am not subscribed to any social media-- specially, after hearing about this Trans-axer. It seems Burke's description is too high level for this particular form of chaos. I cannot provide better fodder but the French Revolution is certainly a starting point example . . . I pray the USA is not the end point.
Mass communications mal-usage of propaganda is the pernicious root to be removed or replaced.
What really bothers me more about the Twitter feed is the fact that the phone user chose to record rather than intervene.
Fortunately, I don't watch TV or mainstream media, nor Twitter, except when directed to a specific link to watch/read something. These events are heinous. I watched a man dressed like a woman scream obscenities to the cashier in a store, saying, "It's maam," and then smashing some merchandise before leaving the store. There are some deranged people out there and the 'acceptance' of the whole trans scene is aiding and abetting this.
Our species evolved in small nomadic tribes of up to 150 individuals. We evolved in the natural environment where our daily fight for survival was against animal predators or natural geological or weather events with the occasional confrontation with other nomadic tribes. Clearly it worked well enough for us to survive relatively strong and healthy and mentally stable. The intimacy of the tribe meant that children were well cared for, women were honoured for their life-giving and nurturing capabilities, elders were respected for their knowledge and experience and men provided the physical protection and material needs such as weapons and shelter.
Fast forward to our current civilization and nobody feels safe, loved, protected, honoured or respected. Families are being torn to shreds. Alpha males at the top dominate and control the population while extracting wealth from their labour and concentrating power ever more tightly in the hands of fewer and fewer people while surveilling and controlling every move out of perpetual fear of uprisings. This is not a functional model for human culture.
Socialism, communism and capitalism have all had their turn and have all failed to provide for the needs of the vast majority of human society. Yes, capitalism SEEMS to have created more wealth, but that's only because the discovery of fossil fuels temporarily enabled the extraction of massive amounts resources beyond our daily needs. Since we live on a finite planet (SURPRISE!) and resources, especially fossil fuels, are not infinite, perhaps it's time to reflect on how we might return to a more localized, less hierarchical, more humane and livable culture similar to how we evolved. It will mean giving up all the comforts of 'civilization' but these comforts were are created at great expense to the planet, our communities and to ourselves.
In summary, there will be no great expansion of civilization to outer space and the stars if we annihilate future generations as we can see clearly happening. Our so-called 'leaders' are parasites and aim to cull the human species so that they can take the leftovers from this culture's orgy of consumption. You choose.
John, Twitter uses algos, and it's a black box of who-knows-really-whom trying to influence your thinking, and keep you glued there, endlessly scrolling and clicking. What you actually see is only in modest part a function of whom you have elected to follow. Perhaps I state the obvious. I really loathe Twitter. Yes, I used to be on there (under anorher name), a long time ago. Once I understood about the algos I walked away and will never return.
The thing that has changed is that so many people are taking psych drugs. The majority of perpetrators of this kind of “motiveless” violence are taking these drugs, where the medical history is known.
Interesting. I'm a positive guy and was a positive kid, but I always knew humans would do themselves in. The nature of the degradation and implosion is what has surprised me most.
John, I began witnessing this in NYC several years ago--but there was a motive element--robbery. Mostly grab & run, very little gun or horrid violence. It’s now an epidemic, escalated during covid. Instead of a random acts of kindness culture, it’s now random acts of violence, all too often resulting in murder. There’s definitely a political component--the leftist funded BLM, Antifa & now funded trans violent activism. The question: what type of personality chooses group thuggery? There’s some kind of innate rage disorder. Drugs involved? I don’t know, but twitter is filled with this--these are not isolated--happening daily in the US. I left NYC March of 2020. Will never go back. I have friends & family in Chicago, San Francisco..all want out.
And as I've long noted, every time a senseless act of mass violence--there are hundreds this last year, sometimes more than one a day---the propagandist news hosts will always add "authorities are investigating the MOTIVE" as if the senseless brutal killins could possibly be a complicated plot out of Agatha Christie or other detective novels. Instead the newspersons should be asking what kind of culture leads to this senseless violent chaos, numbed as we are to the torture and killing of millions of foreign people who we've dehumanized as "enemies" and ingrained upon kids as young as 5 years via violent video games upon to serve as "all volunteer" U.S. military recruitment tools, killing ordered by our "leaders" as the main way of solving our collective problems.
Looking at videos on Twitter or Instagram always begs the question “How different was crime before we had social media?” You are seeing the acts of violence because someone put them there where it is easily accessible. I grew up in the 60’s and there were no cell phones, social media etc., so no way for me to know what was going on elsewhere. I’m pretty sure we were not aware of the extent of crime. However, I did grow up in Chicago and know for fact that “hundreds of teenagers” never stormed the downtown area. That had to do with adequate policing, support of police, and an intact family unit. Marxism, Socialism, and Communism are all different in certain ways, but they all have certain things in common, like destroying the family unit, lack of religious belief, and stratifying society in a manner to squelch creativity, freedom of speech, etc. This did not happen overnight. It has been going on for years, such that when BLM and “abortion on demand” even if you are 9 months pregnant became a point of discussion, it was not outrageous. Younger people who are acting out with horrific crimes already have some mental instability. What is different now is the knowledge that society is literally aiding and abetting them acting out their urges as there are no repercussions, poor access to Mental Health care, a general state of anxiety, and they were educated in public schools that do not honor the rights of the individual.
And this is the reason I legally carry a firearm! I am a 60 y/o woman... maybe a “target” by today’s standards? I practice consistently and am “safe” with my “side-kick” but IF I’m ever in the F@ck around arena; well... it will match the “Find out” response!
I’m not a “Fundamentalist” or “Legalist” but verses like this provide me/our land with insight, direction and comfort:
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,”
2 Timothy 3:1-4
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
When you and I attended school there were proportional consequences to bad behavior. If a student hit a teacher or administrator, they were expelled and charged with battery. Today the little monsters are portrayed as victims of a racist system, and the teacher or administrator are "educated/indoctrinated" how to speak with the little monsters. This has persisted past schools where violent criminals are released without bail and often their actions are treated as misdemeanors in our larger cities. BF Skinner was correct: A behavior that's rewarded (as in ignored) is repeated. One that receives a negative consequence is not.
I take issue with the concluding allusion to "what takes place when a society’s institutional order breaks down, and humans return to their archaic, tribal, and warlike animal state. " As if, we are innately "warlike animal-s". I take issue, and believe that we are collectively, being manipulated into a state of hyper-stress that expresses in violent ways, towards self and others.
I, personally, experience physical and mental distress from wireless radiation. I am hyper-aware when I am around all wireless- phones, towers, wifi, smart-meters, etc. Does not matter if it's 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G-- each level affects different functions and parts of my body. I used to be able to tell what make of cellphone a person had near me. I can still tell an iPhone from an Android.
With enough exposure, I become depressed, anxious, sleepless, angry, lashing out at others, and on bad days- suicidal. I believe these effects are being felt by many more than are aware. Add to the wireless smog of exposure 24/7 constant electro-magnetic radiation pulsing, unhealthy bodies, poor nutrition, lack of overall wellbeing, and many are headed for emotional turmoil and disaster.
"I don't feel anything" "I've never heard of this issue" "It's all in her/his head" "That'd ridiculous, our agencies would be making sure this is safe, and they say it is" - Right, just like the Jab is safe, just like GMO foods are safe, cancer can't be healed with diet, Jan 6th was caused by Trump, Ivermectin is harmful, no one has died from the c-19 shot, Anthony Fauci cares about US, and just like all the myriad of "Truths" we are told everyday.
The glaring contrast between the way people actually live in this country and the relentless random violence shown in the media in their other view of this country serves to expose the latter's constant divide-and-conquer message: Races, please hate each other. Genders, please hate each other. Parents and genital mutilation enthusiasts, please hate each other.
Thanks John. Excellent post. Part of the problem is that there are a lot of people who give the madness on video an audience. I used to wonder back in the early terrorist days, after 9-11, why the news networks devoted so much time to terrorism. Once you insist of taking God out of the picture, things go downhill rapidly. Peace. :-)
John, I have to say, glad I am not subscribed to any social media-- specially, after hearing about this Trans-axer. It seems Burke's description is too high level for this particular form of chaos. I cannot provide better fodder but the French Revolution is certainly a starting point example . . . I pray the USA is not the end point.
Mass communications mal-usage of propaganda is the pernicious root to be removed or replaced.
What really bothers me more about the Twitter feed is the fact that the phone user chose to record rather than intervene.
How many of these adolescents and young adults are on psychotropic drugs?
Fortunately, I don't watch TV or mainstream media, nor Twitter, except when directed to a specific link to watch/read something. These events are heinous. I watched a man dressed like a woman scream obscenities to the cashier in a store, saying, "It's maam," and then smashing some merchandise before leaving the store. There are some deranged people out there and the 'acceptance' of the whole trans scene is aiding and abetting this.
Our species evolved in small nomadic tribes of up to 150 individuals. We evolved in the natural environment where our daily fight for survival was against animal predators or natural geological or weather events with the occasional confrontation with other nomadic tribes. Clearly it worked well enough for us to survive relatively strong and healthy and mentally stable. The intimacy of the tribe meant that children were well cared for, women were honoured for their life-giving and nurturing capabilities, elders were respected for their knowledge and experience and men provided the physical protection and material needs such as weapons and shelter.
Fast forward to our current civilization and nobody feels safe, loved, protected, honoured or respected. Families are being torn to shreds. Alpha males at the top dominate and control the population while extracting wealth from their labour and concentrating power ever more tightly in the hands of fewer and fewer people while surveilling and controlling every move out of perpetual fear of uprisings. This is not a functional model for human culture.
Socialism, communism and capitalism have all had their turn and have all failed to provide for the needs of the vast majority of human society. Yes, capitalism SEEMS to have created more wealth, but that's only because the discovery of fossil fuels temporarily enabled the extraction of massive amounts resources beyond our daily needs. Since we live on a finite planet (SURPRISE!) and resources, especially fossil fuels, are not infinite, perhaps it's time to reflect on how we might return to a more localized, less hierarchical, more humane and livable culture similar to how we evolved. It will mean giving up all the comforts of 'civilization' but these comforts were are created at great expense to the planet, our communities and to ourselves.
In summary, there will be no great expansion of civilization to outer space and the stars if we annihilate future generations as we can see clearly happening. Our so-called 'leaders' are parasites and aim to cull the human species so that they can take the leftovers from this culture's orgy of consumption. You choose.
John, Twitter uses algos, and it's a black box of who-knows-really-whom trying to influence your thinking, and keep you glued there, endlessly scrolling and clicking. What you actually see is only in modest part a function of whom you have elected to follow. Perhaps I state the obvious. I really loathe Twitter. Yes, I used to be on there (under anorher name), a long time ago. Once I understood about the algos I walked away and will never return.
The thing that has changed is that so many people are taking psych drugs. The majority of perpetrators of this kind of “motiveless” violence are taking these drugs, where the medical history is known.
Interesting. I'm a positive guy and was a positive kid, but I always knew humans would do themselves in. The nature of the degradation and implosion is what has surprised me most.
John, I began witnessing this in NYC several years ago--but there was a motive element--robbery. Mostly grab & run, very little gun or horrid violence. It’s now an epidemic, escalated during covid. Instead of a random acts of kindness culture, it’s now random acts of violence, all too often resulting in murder. There’s definitely a political component--the leftist funded BLM, Antifa & now funded trans violent activism. The question: what type of personality chooses group thuggery? There’s some kind of innate rage disorder. Drugs involved? I don’t know, but twitter is filled with this--these are not isolated--happening daily in the US. I left NYC March of 2020. Will never go back. I have friends & family in Chicago, San Francisco..all want out.
And as I've long noted, every time a senseless act of mass violence--there are hundreds this last year, sometimes more than one a day---the propagandist news hosts will always add "authorities are investigating the MOTIVE" as if the senseless brutal killins could possibly be a complicated plot out of Agatha Christie or other detective novels. Instead the newspersons should be asking what kind of culture leads to this senseless violent chaos, numbed as we are to the torture and killing of millions of foreign people who we've dehumanized as "enemies" and ingrained upon kids as young as 5 years via violent video games upon to serve as "all volunteer" U.S. military recruitment tools, killing ordered by our "leaders" as the main way of solving our collective problems.
Looking at videos on Twitter or Instagram always begs the question “How different was crime before we had social media?” You are seeing the acts of violence because someone put them there where it is easily accessible. I grew up in the 60’s and there were no cell phones, social media etc., so no way for me to know what was going on elsewhere. I’m pretty sure we were not aware of the extent of crime. However, I did grow up in Chicago and know for fact that “hundreds of teenagers” never stormed the downtown area. That had to do with adequate policing, support of police, and an intact family unit. Marxism, Socialism, and Communism are all different in certain ways, but they all have certain things in common, like destroying the family unit, lack of religious belief, and stratifying society in a manner to squelch creativity, freedom of speech, etc. This did not happen overnight. It has been going on for years, such that when BLM and “abortion on demand” even if you are 9 months pregnant became a point of discussion, it was not outrageous. Younger people who are acting out with horrific crimes already have some mental instability. What is different now is the knowledge that society is literally aiding and abetting them acting out their urges as there are no repercussions, poor access to Mental Health care, a general state of anxiety, and they were educated in public schools that do not honor the rights of the individual.