[D Benton Smith]

It is never too late to stop doing some wrong thing that you’re perfectly aware is a wrong thing, and do the right thing instead. In just this one extra case do unto another the way that you would like to be treated if roles were reversed and you found yourself to be under the same circumstances that the other guy is in now. Maybe they’ve been very bad, could be. So what then should be the way you should be treated if that miscreant was you?

[D Benton Smith]

@tboc

I would offer hope for understanding in place of desire for enlightenment. Admitedly i have a Taoist filter;

Ever Desireless See the Mystery
Ever Desiring See the Manifestations – Lao Tsu

Wow. That’s pretty good stuff. When you follow that advice you get instant beneficial results. Thank you very much for the references and the reminder. Much obliged.

[D Benton Smith]

@topcat

The Mullah’s have Musk’s and Trump’s balls hanging like fuzzy dice from their rear view mirrors.

What imagery, you’ve got quite the way with words. Great shot, dude. I’m envious. That pic with that caption could easily go viral.

[D Benton Smith]

@MichaelReid

Putin telling NATO that it needs to return to 1991 borders reminds me of the famous “chickens scene” from Game Of Thrones.
https://youtu.be/KtCsmSMRiC0?si=Hafu29B6h3Jk-LuL

[D Benton Smith]

@TAE_Summary

“@DBS
– I’m not an atheist but I am a skeptic
– You call me an asshole; Guilty as charged
– You’re comments on the Magi were ignorant and ridiculous and I mocked them; I admit I went too far and apologize
– You assert the manly thing to do would be to just to come out and say what I mean, so here it is: Your comments on the Magi were ignorant and ridiculous; Defend them if you can.

Challenge accepted, let the dust-up begin, but before we gate started I first want to apologize for my earlier accusations.

I not only apologize for them, I formally retract them. Believing in the veracity of an idea strongly enough to take an unambiguous position is neither wrong nor cowardly. You have come out as a self declared skeptic, so I take it back. If you keep doing that long enough you’re likely to wind up with your skepticism starting to go away. Not absolutely certain, but pretty darned probable.

Now, about those magi guys.

My comments on the Magi were, in fact, quite eruditely knowledgeable (decades of study) , so for you to find them ridiculous is going to shine the lime-light on you for not knowing enough history, archaeology and sciency stuff to counter my statement with facts. You had to fall back on mere refutation and ridicule (the last defensive ditch for the ignorant.) Careful of the back foot that you’re resting your balance on, because you have run out of room to back up any further.

Scoundrels (and I’m speaking of the magi) are adept at re-branding and swapping labels around to confuse the posse that is always chasing them as a consequence of their crime spree, but one of the hardest things to hide is linguistics.

We humans drag our linguistically proven history around behind us like a smelly pedigree. How we communicate twixt each other is a testimony of what we believe and who told us so, and that lays a trail of what we think we want and how to get it. Better than DNA in other crucial ways, too, but the main point is that and individuals linguistic patterns are nearly impossible to conceal and even harder to change. Liars lie because they can’t help it. It’s the only thing they know how to do well enough to survive.

Follow that phoneme … magi-… back through it’s historical arc and you will find the esoteric cults and priests of Babylon, Ur and Pre-Dynastic Egypt, and they were all “into” the same sorts of things, namely ways to trick and control anyone unwary enough to fall under their sway. I could regale you with tales (and documented scientific evidence) for days, but what would be the point? Magi are magi, no matter what they’re calling themselves this millennium, but they are the same dudes by any other name.

CelticBiker likes to call them Jews! but we all know who he’s really talking about. He’s talking about a recognizable type of human being, and CelticBiker’s only problem is that he thinks Jews! have got a patent on the crime. That brand of Jews are far from the only ones out to get they want without contributing their own fair share.

I’m describing about the bastards who use lies and deceit to steal things they could not themselves produce in a month of Sundays.

They come in all shapes, sizes and colors, but you know something that ties most of the together? If you guessed “linquistics” and magi-related practices and career choices. You should know the type like the back of your hand because we all deal with them every day. They claim the right to control you, by lies and official bullshit preferably but with force if deemed necessary (deemed necessary by THEM, by the way). They’re the ones who try to know something that the other guy doesn’t know (making stuff secret is a fast and easy way to do that! and putting it into history and law books is another)….. and then use that “special knowledge” to control the other bloke. Very annoying.

So, yeah. Let’s dive in. I would very much enjoy having you teach me that the things I say about religious history and the “magi-” class of human is ignorant and ridiculous. That experience would make a lot more than just ‘my day‘ !

[D Benton Smith]

@TAE Summary

Down through these many years you have been fairly amusing for most of them, but of late you’re starting to sound a lot like the other closeted atheist mugwumps who use the larger portion of their cleverness just to look clever, and obscure the fact of their own mugwumpery and cognitive faithlessness.

So I’ll tell you the same thing that I just told kultsommer. If you want to fight with me then show your colors and start firing.

That bullshit you just posted on “Bible Stuff” is just that. It’s bullshit. Take a stand and state your case, asshole! I am sick and tired of dancing around the issue which you fear to proclaim. You’re atheist, right? Then why don’t you just come right out and fucking say it?

I shouldn’t ask, because I already know why. Two reasons. First is that you’re wrong and the second is that you’re a coward.

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@kultsommer
I never called you nuffin’, so why are you trying to pick a fight? Bored or something? And what’s with the code-words like “J hater” and “Chifut-hater.” (what the fuck even is a “Chifut” anyway?)

What pisses me off about you is that you knowingly, purposefully and deceitfully pretend to misunderstand what I say and mean, when in fact your main complaint is that you simply have no logical or factual rebuttal to what I mean and say.

Wanna make me WRONG, do ya? Fine with me. I love being shown up as wrong because I learn something every time that happens. But if you try to pawn a bunch of disingenuous bullshit tactical smart-assery in place of sound reasoning and reasonably sound evidence, then you just KNOW that I’m going to just turn it back around and rap your knuckles with it.

The Second Temple Judean priests worked for the Magi Boys of Babylon (for cash, privileges and perks) and it was a sweet gig that made a shit-ton of money at it until Jesus called them out.

I can pretty nearly guarantee that no one who frequents this TAE forum has the foggiest notion of how BIG that operation was, nor how deeply and far back into history it went. It went back thousands of years before Christ, and although the names and labels changed frequently the two sides were always the same: Truth on one side and Lies on the other. They collected so much silver in taxes and fees that for many hundreds of years it required a standing army of more than 10,000 men (a specialized military class and its requisite bureaucracy) just to move the cash around.

The scene today is pretty much the same dynamics, just different labels and branding. Same scam.

And if you think that there are not agents of those groups poking around our quiet little TAE neighborhood then I am afraid that you’re just too damned unlettered and unread to have anything constructive to contribute to the conversation.

I would love to argue about it if you can make it worth our time.

[D Benton Smith]

@kultsommer

She’s a J-hater DBS ?

What did she say that provoked you to ask that? I didn’t hear any “J-hating” in what she reported, just facts and a few obvious questions raised by evidence. Carry on.

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@tboc

I knew when I wrote it someone was going to point out the fact that there weren’t any Christians in 600 B.C. .
I thought I could save a few minutes of writing time, so it serves me right, but the basic idea had nothing to do with the chronology. The point is that the so-called Magi were not men of God. They were men of material, and they’re still around, and they’re still up to their ears in every bit of really serious trouble because they still think that they’re smarter than God.

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@zerosum

Those who know what they are going to do, are not telling me the truth.

Well, if they told you what they are very determined to do, then you would try to stop them, and that would just spoil all their plans and everything, so nope, they are never going to tell you the truth. That’s how you spot them. They are the ones who just never tell you the truth.

[D Benton Smith]

Incidentally, but nevertheless impactfully, prepare for things to get all Biblically archeological in the geopolitical public forum in the coming days and weeks out there (and in here, too, for that matter). That might at first seem to be a little too weirdly unsupported by evidence, but don’t worry. It all makes perfectly sensible sense, which will become increasingly apparent as the Biblically archeological geopolitical religious narrative rolls out. There is a lot of ground to cover, so try not to be impatient.

You’re perfectly welcome to ignore the narratives and go do your own research from scratch. If you do it properly and error-free then you will simply come up with the same answers that we do.

[D Benton Smith]

When Abramovic described Trump as a magician of the highest order she was using the word in its original meaning (just as one would expect from a practitioner of the ancient dark arts) which is defined as one who is masterfully expert, a “Magi”, in the most ancient fields of scientific and occult knowledge that used to be called astrology, alchemy, and the causing of effects that appeared impossible to an uninitiated public audience, hence the term “magic”, meaning “in the way that a Magi would do it.” It goes all the way back to Old Testament Bible figures such as the centrally important prophet, Daniel. whose day-job was to serve as the chief of all of the magicians of the Babylonian Empire. As the top ranking Magi Daniel did not need to schism off a rebellious new religion, because he was already the head of ALL such matters within the Empire. On religious matters what he said was the law, was indeed the law. In other words, the Magi were not good Christians, nor loyal to Jehovah. The were the OTHER team, the ones who worshipped Satan as ruler of the world.

Ania K is unique on the Internet and I am only one of many who hold her in the highest regard as an honest, trustworthy and truthfull source of information and unbiased opinion.

[D Benton Smith]

I love election years. They save me the time and bother of going to the Post Office to review the posters of all the most dangerous wanted criminals that are still on the loose.

[D Benton Smith]

So among the tippy top of the world’s government the removal of Maduro (one way or another) was not exactly an unvisited topic of political deal making, for a very long period of time prior to the Venezuelan kidnapping. Seems like everybody knew about it but me. So, now I know that much at least.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/inside-the-frantic-global-race-to-find-an-escape-route-for-maduro/ar-AA1TU98M?ocid=socialshare

[D Benton Smith]

The societal collapse that the Blobsters are expecting, designing, and creating is the one that they are preparing to manage. Just looks at the “solutions” that they are practicing, drilling, building towards and glorifying. Those are the solutions that they want. And they mean to have them, too.

Do you think that there are going to be a lot of cops, soldiers, PsyOps, ,liars and violent extortionists in the dystopian future that the powerful are building up forces and resources for?

Yeah. I think so, too.

[D Benton Smith]

The best propaganda is the truest propaganda, and here is some of the best propaganda that I’ve ever seen.

[D Benton Smith]

I’ve loved Ania K since her first video onward. This one is especially good, and reminds what it is about her that I admire so much.

[D Benton Smith]

The shooting of Renee Good was not cold blooded execution the same way that the slaughter of children in Gaza is not cold blooded genocide.

[D Benton Smith]

@DrD
You have obviously not watched the video of ICE agent triple-tapping an unarmed woman behind the wheel of her car. It was a cold-blooded execution by a stone-cold homicidal psychopath, complete with that third shot to the head at point blank range through the car’s side window. to make sure she was dead. P.S. it is also just as obvious that she was pulling away very slowly and turning the wheels to avoid the ICA agents who were never in danger.

Straight up murder, Doc. Watch the videos without preconceived notions to see who does what.

[D Benton Smith]

If the AI managed future that they tout to us is so wonderfully wonderful, then why are all of the AI company CEO’s building bunkers? Are they just hedging a bet or is their AI System telling them something about the highest probability expectation for the future that they’re not sharing with the rest of us?

[D Benton Smith]

The funniest thing about Murphy’s Law is that it is mathematically certain that Murphy’s Law is simply true, namely, “Anything that can go wrong, will.”

That fact should make us look at the world and our own actions in the world much more cautiously and carefully, but apparently it doesn’t. We just keep acting as though 100% certain consequences are not 100% certain. Talk about risky business!

[D Benton Smith]

Control has become the most materially valuable thing in the world, which ties back into computers and AI Systems because those devices very very much DO control all of the digital systems which ultimately control the conditions that you have little choice but to live in. You can go back to primitive cave person lifestyle if you want to, (a few do!), but thee, me, and the vast majority of everyone else are not going to do that any more than we absolutely have to (and exactly how “far” that might be is not yet known).

We have 3 to 5 years (maybe a lot less) to sort this out. The allotment of control that each of us have at that point, our portion of the whole, is going to be pretty damn final. Maybe the cave persons prevail, or maybe the elite-geeks. Maybe those who come through it least scathed are the mugwumps in the middle. Who knows?

But this much we DO know. It’s time to decide our fundamental strategy and get to work on it. Time is getting short.

[D Benton Smith]

By the way, you may have noticed that the governments of the world have all gone All-In on the race to AI supremacy. It just make you want to wonder WHY doesn’t it? I mean, that’s a very big bet. They’re betting the farm, aren’t they? OUR farm, I might add.

Why do you suppose they are all making the same bet?

And, more to the point of interest to us, who is on the other side of that bet? Who and what are they betting against?

I just can’t shake the feeling that the loser of the other side of that bet, is none other than thee and me.

Our leaders have spoken to their AI God and it is telling them that the general population, the great unwashed masses of humanity, are TOAST, so the smart bet is against those doomed peasants and in favor of those at the top who choose to sacrifice as many of those at the bottom as it takes to get through this bottleneck.

[D Benton Smith]

If silver don’t stop them then silicon might. You can only get so many chips (i.e. memory and cpu chips) from a wafer of silicon, and we have a VERY limited number of wafers. THAT part of the race to AI Everything has lagged behind, and it takes many many years to build a silicon wafer making plant.

Of course that’s not the topic of the attached video …. but it is VERY closely related.

[D Benton Smith]

@topcat

We live in a world desperate for instruction

I have very few good instructions of my own to offer, but every time that I receive good instructions, I try to be diligent in passing them along to others.

[D Benton Smith]

800 tons of gold and silver is not chump change, and the timing of the secret move is worth mentioning, too. All three countries (Venezuela, Russia, China) knew about the upcoming US invasion adequately far in advance.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/alleged-800-tonne-silver-airlift-from-venezuela-raises-global-alarm/vi-AA1TJrKa?ocid=socialshare

[D Benton Smith]

EVERYBODY sees the crash and dust-up coming. Their only differences are in what they have chosen as their strategy for getting through it.

[D Benton Smith]

The world is going to get a lot simpler fairly rapidly in some cases, places and situations. A great many of our 8 Billion fellow humans are going to be severely challenged to survive the fact that a significantly simpler world cannot feed, shelter and clothe 8 billion people. We are barely getting the job done now with all of our industrial technology working at full blast! If the task gets bigger or our technology gets hampered in any way then some of those 8 billion people are going to die as a consequence. That’s just the way it is.

It is our moral responsibility, as individuals and in groups, to do everything that we can to make sure that as many people survive physically, morally and spiritually as possibly can. There are many many ways to help do that, so it is also your responsibility to find or make one of those ways and follow through by then doing what that way consists of.

[D Benton Smith]

In other words: The music stops in 5 or 6 years in the never-ending geopolitical world domination musical chairs game. Whoever manages to be sitting in the Big Chair when that music stops will be the Big Dog for the next main episode of history. You can see why the worst of them are behaving so desperately in these last stages of the game. There is a lot riding on the outcome.

Earth is about to become much simpler again because it cannot maintain the resource-hungry hyper tech civilization much longer.

If us peasants can figure it out this easy then the rulers figured it out quite some time ago (and chose not to share that knowledge with the rest of us, for obvious despicable reasons.

Well, the cat’s out of the bag now. What do you personally intend to do about that?

[D Benton Smith]

@DrD

That’s an interesting opinion you’ve got about silver. Too bad you haven’t got the grit and inclination to do your home-work and looksee if your imaginary numbers play out the way your imaginary world needs them to. HINT: they don’t. Physics and math are indifferent to human needs.

I’m not saying that the world ends when the silver runs out. I’m saying that the hyper-high-technology world that we have constructed can not, will not and shall not continue operating in recognizable fashion when critically necessary silver reaches critically short supply within the next 6 or 7 years (maybe as low as 5).

Will we substitute other metals and adapt to the critically changing factors of supply & demand (and physics)? Of course we will, and when we do then the hyper-tech-dependent world that we have become so accustomed to (and dependent upon to treat and mistreat our billions of population) is going to look a lot different.

Our proto-Cassandras predicted that it would be peak oil that administers humanity’s comeuppance. Turns out that it looks like silver depletion gets the honors instead. What’s the dif? I’m not smart enough to parse all of the details, but I can count, and even do simple arithmetic when my senile dementia is in remission, and the numbers say 5 or 6 years, 7 tops.

If you want to argue with me about that I’m up for it. We’ll both probably learn a bunch. But I don’t advise trying to slip by with a brush-off of dismissive sarcasm because the reality of it is just too damn obvious for everyone else not to see, and you will then have the embarrassing situation of having to walk back all that tough talk.

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@JohnDay

I suggest someone drop Putin a note with the laboratories of Arcturus Therapeutics clearly marked and geo-located. It would be a could place to plant one of his Oreshniks before humankind gets rubbed out by the predictable lab leak.

[D Benton Smith]

I plumb forgot to make my New Years Resolutions! Come to think of it, so did all the usual folks who traditionally tout that nonsense when the yearly odometer rolls over to a fresh row of zeroes. Apparently the “New Year Resolution” meme has lost its luster. Reality has a way of doing that.

Anyhow, I’m going to give the custom one more shot.
My New Year’s Resolution for 2026 is to pay MUCH closer attention to the crazy, since crazy shit is the only geopolitical “constant” remaining. Expect nutty as a fruit cake from here on out, and especially the stuff available on publicly accessible information channels.

Good luck. See ya on the flip side.

[D Benton Smith]

Just as a solidly dependable datum to help in your prognosticating, we can now state with firm certainty (based on hard numbers and First Principles logic) that high technology civilization has a “Use By” date that you can count on.

7 years maximum. News Years Day 2033, if our luck holds.

That’s when the silver (which our electronics dependent world runs on… and does NOT RUN WITHOUT… runs out.

Things can (and most likely will) break down before then, but 7 years is the maximum that it can keep running if nothing else breaks first.

I can bore you with the numbers if you want, but tons of other people will be telling you the same thing in the very near future since it ain’t rocket surgery and absolutely impossible to keep a secret.

7 years, guys. That’s how much time we have to get our shit together before the lights, literally, go out.

Get ready to get primitive, but FIRST make sure that you and your loved ones are alive to have that opportunity.

[D Benton Smith]

Here’s an interesting preview during intermission. Instead of running out to the Lobby for popcorn watch this, and ask yourself, “Well, if Jeff isn’t dead then where is he, who is he hanging around with , and what are they all up to now?”

[D Benton Smith]

What do any of you guys suppose are the odds that in an operation that was confrontationally violent enough to have killed between 40 and 80 Cuban and Venezuelan soldiers and civilians that there were zero U.S. causalities?

And how does the US justify the “arrest” of an officially “innocent until proven guilty” suspect that was PRECEDED by the surprise-attack with lethal weapons causing multiple deaths? That would be like aerial bombing a bank (and everyone in it) to stop the suspected robbers before they were able to rob it.

So what happens if the New York Jury finds Maduro innocent of the drug charges? Does that bring the 80 dead people back to life, or does it turn their killing into premeditated first degree extrajudicial homicide?

[D Benton Smith]

@MichaelReid

Thank you for posting the perfect scriptural reference at the perfect time. You made my year.

[D Benton Smith]

@zerosum

That day may have arrived.

[D Benton Smith]

All of the American Blob’s adversaries are now saying to themselves, “I think those Yanks would do the same thing to me that they just did to Maduro if they thought that they could get away with it.”

[D Benton Smith]

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that after committing all of those heinous crimes in full view of the world the perpetrators then advertise the fact by means of a long and humiliating public trial and imprisonment of the two officials that got snatched.

[D Benton Smith]

What country in the world agrees with the notion that it is okay for foreign persons to enter a country without permission, murder FORTY innocent persons, kidnap two government officials, and then LEAVE without accountability for any of the many crimes committed in that operation?

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