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I did find ONE other reference to her, and it was on the international biography site called Prabook.com. It was a pretty thorough and complete bio, too. Unfortunately, when 12 hours later I revisited the page that had her bio that page and her name had both been removed (and I mean REMOVED! You can now not even find her name listed anywhere on the site. No bio, no search results, no nuthin.
Bye bye Katherine. Lucky for us that I saved a copy of the page, and lucky for Katherine that she was a lady of sincere faith in God.
@oxymoron (in reference to comment #149930 )
Interestingly, with the single exception of that video interview made in 1998, Katherine Pollard Griggs has been erased from the internet. It is as though she did not exist prior to that interview, or after it. Just …gone without a trace.
I find that exceedingly curious. It takes a LOT of work to disappear somebody that thoroughly.
If you do not already know of her existence then the chances of discovering that she did, indeed, ever exist, are essentially and effectively ZERO.
I think she has been, (how does one say?) “cancelled”, with extreme prejudice.
I was fascinated by the marathon length interview of Katherine Pollard Griggs (see comment #149889, above). Did you notice the deep hurt and honest sincerity of her tears when she described her outreach for help in trying to save herself from being killed by the murderers she had been living with for decades? Those were real tears. So where was the deep hurt and honest tears for the people her husband and his perverted buddies had been slaughtering for all those years?
Bottled up, and capped off by legitimately realistic fears of what would happen to her safe and comfortable physically protected life if she bucked the system that had been giving her all those perks. All of it would be snatched away . . . including her life. Brave lady that she did, eventually, make that choice. Very very brave in many many ways.
There has never been a shortage of the semi-conscious dissociated “normies” who serve as cover and helpers for the deranged psychopaths/sociopaths who actually execute the antihuman actions are accepted as normal governance by the rest of us. There’s no shortage of psychopaths/sociopaths either. All kinds of crazy shit can be “normalized” for the innocent (but operationally oblivious) “Normal People” who live under the thrall of the crazies, and the crazies themselves actually like it. Between them they construct a bubble of co-dependence that is more or less impervious to outside influences because such outside influences are small and easily ignored. If they become too bothersome they are just as easily killed. I both cases the breach in the bubble is healed and it remains impervious UNLESS too many normies snap out of their trance in too short of a space of a time. Imagine what happens when that happens. That’s what’s happening.
Well put. I 100% agree with what you declared in your comment.
The Secretary of Defense should have no secrets from his Commander in Chief. None. The President should be kept fully informed in advance of absolutely everything concerning the Secretary of Defense that could possibly have any bearing whatsoever on the Security of the nation.
Furthermore, the Secretary of Defense must have no intention NOR ABILITY to keep such secrets.
Therefore, Lloyd Austin must be fired from his posts and investigated and prosecuted for each and every illegal thing that he did (and ordered others to do) in keeping secret from the Office of the President Austin’s three days absence from post. All of those subordinates and collaborators who assisted him in that crime must also be summarily suspended from all posts and investigated and if convicted then imprisoned for their roles in that crime.
What Austin did is the most serious known crime of treasonous dereliction of duty and malfeasance in office that borders extremely closely to the crime of attempting the illegal overthrow of the Government of the United States, and betrayal of his oath to protect the Constitution and the nation.
Seriously, fellow citizens. The Secretary of Defense has just openly confessed to a coups d’etat. If he is NOT immediately removed and punished then such an omission of justice would the de facto acknowledgement that Austin holds himself as senior to the Commander In Chief, and is in that case the RULER of the armed forces and nation itself, SUBORDINATE TO NO ONE OTHER THAN HIMSELF.
I can scarcely believe that the man is still walking around freely. Looks like the Coups was 100% effective. We are now OFFICIALLY ended as a nation under the auspices of a legitimate Constitution.
No holds barred now. We have entered the phase of dissolution in which the ONLY RULE OF LAW that exists in America comes down to simply being whatever you can get away with.
In the 80 years since it began in WW2, how much time, effort and treasure do you suppose has been invested in building the virtually axiomatic cultural belief of Nazi Germany being the worst nation, Hitler being the most evil tyrant, and the Jewish Holocaust being the biggest deliberate crime in human history?
Yet in a mere 3 months Netanyahu’s Zionist Israel’s explicitly purposeful annihilation of innocent women and children in Gaza has already replaced these record holders, to assume First Place in all three categories of inexcusable depravity.
This time, I think, the world truly shall never forgive and never forget.
@RaulIlargiMeijer
If you are able at age 23-34 to portray a, let’s say, 74-year old man the way Rembrandt did there, you are not only an insanely good painter, you are also an insanely good observer of people. It’s 3D. I can see inside the guy’s head. I can see his emotions.”
I’ve only every seen one Rembrandt portrait in close physical proximity, but back in the day (50+ years ago) you could get right up close enough to touch it. I wasn’t so obliviously crass as to do that, but I did get right up within inches, and looked long and hard. It was stunning. Layer upon layer upon layer of washes of various pigmentation density and translucence, ranging from opaque to glass-clear transparent. It was more like a three-dimensional bas-relief sculpture than a painting.
It has been my good fortune to have seen a few other works of the greatest of the great masters, and they all had that same quality of spiritual transcendence that made me proud of being a human because here was evidence of a human who could show you what humans can do when we’re at our best. Humbled and proud in the same moment.
Israeli Ambassador to UK patiently explains to human beings why it is necessary to destroy bomb shelters. It’s because that is where people go to avoid being killed when Israel drops bombs on them. What is it about cold blooded genocide that you human beings just can’t seem to understand?
It’s like asking an homicidal maniac why he cleaved his mother’s head in two with an ax, well because it would kill her, of course! Duh!
There are a couple of rules for being a friend, and one of those rules is that you tell friends the truth. You don’t lie to them, because that would weaken and harm them, which you have to admit would not be a very friendly thing to do.
The other rule is that we let friends be friends to us, too. We let them tell us the truth, for instance. We don’t try to stop them from doing that because that would prevent them from being our friend (see rule #1, above).
No true friend would let a true friend commit a fatal mistake without at least telling them the truth about it being a fatal mistake. Perhaps you should not FORCE them to not make the mistake (that is a hotly debatable issue all in itself) but at a minimum you are obligated by honor and friendship to at least TELL them about the fatal mistake that they’re making and why they should stop making it.
Both you and they have certain inalienable rights as well, such as the right to be a friend if you want to be. So you can’t be an actual friend by taking that freedom away. In other words, to use force to prevent another from even trying to treat you as a friend is an attempt to take away their right to at least TRY to be friendly. Since speaking truth to each other is what friends do then it should be recognized that making them stop truth-telling to you is the same as making them stop being friendly to you.
To put that another way, you can’t (or shouldn’t) censor a friend. That is to say that although you are CAPABLE of using force or other means to shut someone up or remove their presence, if you do either of those things then you are NOT being their friend. Clearly, then, the act of making someone shut up and go away (or die) is not an act of friendship. It is instead, literally, the act of ENDING friendship.
We are not alone in our lives. We are surrounded by others. If you’re surrounded by friends then life will tend to be, on average, a lot better than if one is surrounded by adversaries and non-friendly competitors. So, it is not just advisable to have friends. It is NECESSARY.
Therefore, the act of ending friendships is frequently (possibly always) a fatal mistake.
Real friends don’t let friends make fatal mistakes without at least telling them that’s what they’re making.
And if you really love them, you continue to tell them, even when they force you to shut up and go away.
Keep telling them the truth, because that’s what real friends do, but remember that they do indeed have free will, which includes their right to make a mistake that will be fatal ….. to THEM. It is in your own best interests to persuade them not to do that, and the only way that I know of to do that is to keep on telling them the truth of it.
A bunch of months ago (ancient history, I know) I posted a bunch of comments more or less in series, that basically said the following:
As truth comes out it releases more truths coming out as the obstructing lies get stripped away to reveal what they were hiding. This will result in a CLASSIC “chain reaction” , ending in what would appear to be an “explosion” of nuclear bomb proportions. That’s how chain reactions work. It’s just a process that speeds itself up as it speeds itself up, until it’s going so fast that it LOOKS like it’s happening all at once.
Already the pundits and headlines everywhere are predicting that the “Crazy” stuff is going to get a lot crazier this year. WRONG ! Absolutely wrong.
The crazy stuff isn’t new. It has always been there (and the craziest crazy is still there, right now!), it’s just that most folks couldn’t see it. The world is not getting crazier. The craziness is just getting LESS HIDDEN.
The truth bombs are starting to expose the storage bunkers and command & control centers of a WEAKENING ENEMY.
As more truth (about past and present CRAZINESS) comes into public view then more (and then even more) truths will come out as the layers of blindfold are removed from out eyes.
Get as ready as you can for experiencing a Max Truth “explosion”.
It will look like a literal explosion because it will happen so fast that you will simply not be able to keep up with all of it, and it will probably look a lot like Max Crazy when it does.
Brace yourselves.
Like Joe Rogan said, there are lots of conspiracies that have already been proven to be true, nobody doubts that they have been proven, just follow the money and power.
What? What did he just say there?
“Just follow the money and power”?
Why do that?
Is Joe suggesting that money and power are somehow causally associated with criminal conspiracy to such a degree that you can get to the source of the crime more more easily by following the money and power than you can get there by following physical evidence of the crime itself?
Oh! Maybe what Joe is saying (without saying it) that money and power ARE conspiracy, and that money and power ARE criminal.
How could that possibly be? Isn’t it hammered into our brains from the day we’re born that we should (nay, MUST) strive for wealth and power, and that the measure of our worth as human beings (our very right to be alive) depends on how much wealth and power we can amass, relative to everyone else. I mean, isn’t wealth and power how you “get to the top” that we’re literally forced to try to ascend to?
So is Joe saying that to get to the root cause of criminal conspiracies you just trace back the hierarchical structure of wealth and authority (i.e. the food chain of money and power) and that is where it will lead you?
Well if THAT’S what he’s saying then I would have to say that I agree with him. Very very much.
They all quickly cut me off if I try to say the truth!
They don’t want to know the truth.
They prefer going on believing the lies.I bet everyone on this forum has experienced exactly what you’re saying. I know I have, and the only consoling thing I can offer in reply is what has worked best for me when I run into it. I do my best to understand what they are actually afraid of (some specific truth that threatens to pull the rug out from under their fatally flawed escape from reality) and rededicate my intention that they learn the life lessons that they will eventually have to learn, but with the minimum possible loss to them and those around them. They’re going to suffer. No way to escape that. But maybe our hope help and effort can minimize the damage. Do all you can do, and that’s all you can do. Just don’t stop trying.
The truth will set you free right after it kicks your ass!”
That is so true that we should revise the original short version quotation, and change it to your’s, like putting a warning label on strong medicine.
Yes the government can, does and SHALL protect its elites from the people. It wouldn’t last 10 minutes if it couldn’t (or didn’t) because if it was incapable or unwilling to provide protection then it wouldn’t even qualify as a government, now would it? If you can’t (or won’t) protect anybody then you can’t really be a bodyguard. Pretty simple.
A government that is strong enough to protect you is strong enough to control you. Full stop.
All these people all simply refuse to believe how easy it is for their government to lie.”
Oh, how true that is! But also understand that their refusal is not without reason. It is based on a real and legitimately postulated fear (a sheer soul freezing TERROR, actually) that EVERYTHING THEY KNOW might be a lie.
Talk about shaking one’s world to it’s foundations! This is not a concept or possibility to be taken lightly.
You certainly can’t do it very easily (and neither can I) and so it behooves us to not be condescending or contemptuous of others who cannot do it either.
We should all face the extremely uncomfortable truth with both courage and humility that most of what we think we know, and much of what we “believe” to be true, has come to us from other people and is based almost entirely upon our faith in what those other people tell us. It is second and third hand information, at best, and typically involves topics which we lack the education and/or experience to directly verify for ourselves. And so we are required to trust. And so that trust becomes the foundation of our world. And so our world can be rocked to its very foundation, the very BEDROCK of our conceptualization of the world we have no choice but to live in.
Be firm, but be kind.
Everyone gets lost in the weeds when thinking and talking (and developing!) so-called “Artificial Intelligence”. This phenomenon of getting confused by irrelevant details is not an accident. It’s deliberate deceit. The reason for the subterfuge is that “AI” (so called) is a big scam and does not actually exist, for the simple reason that although the involved machinery and software are distinctly artificial, they are it is at the same time assuredly just machinery and software. There may be lots of it, but the new and improved size is just bigger assemblies of the same old stuff (machinery and software), nothing new, (just logic gates and data storage) and therefore nothing intelligent, either.
The chatGPT and OpenAI toys on display are just that. They are toys that SIMULATE the trappings and appearances of intelligence with sheer brute force calculation and unimaginably enormous banks of raw data, while still not actually possessing one single shred or iota of actual intelligence.
As for the Turing Test (so called, which is also a fraud because it is not even a test!) well that’s just a piece of entertaining folklore. There is no Turing Test. Period. No such thing has ever existed beyond Turing’s casual offhand remark about a silly and useless idea. No one ever devised such a “test”. Look, if an observer is fooled into identifying a computer as being a human, that error in discriminatory observation does NOT magically turn the computer into a human being. It turns the human into a fool.
AI (so called) can be designed to SIMULATE intelligence or aware cognition, but that’s all it could ever be in that regard: a simulation. More accurately . . . and the ONLY way to HONESTLY describe computer simulated intelligence . . . AI (so called) is nothing other than automated selection from among automatically set optional choices. Having the automated device “program itself” by adding more choices and thereby be “self teaching” is, just more machinery and more automation by inanimate and unaware hardware/software assemblies.
None of it means nuthin’ until a human looks at it, or design it, or uses it to trick the local yokels into believing that they’re talking to an “intelligence”.
C’mon, people! THINK for a minute!
Machines, systems, computers, governments, criminal gangs, are all BASICALLY the same thing: they are nothing other than selection devices which automatically choose from among automatically set options, which are designed to result in effects that are desired by the designers/owners of the system. The expected outputs are designed into it, from the start, by the folks who own it and built it to do something that THEY wanted. If results are not as desired or expected then the device is re-designed or modified until they are.
If the owner/designed does not want a bunch of feedback from the folks who are NOT happy with the system’s results ( Trump Voters and Palestinians, for example) then the system will make the removal (or alternative use) of those objections PART of the modified system.
Artificial Intelligence my ass! Automated Tyranny is more like it, and every single AI system ever built was built to serve the guys who own and built it.
Now that Israel has accomplished it’s primary objective in Gaza (which is to render the entire area uninhabitable by all but the most hardy and dedicated YOUNG & FIT warriors who are expected to remain willing… and resigned… to fight to the death) expect Zionist Israel to now make a 180 degree pivot from the role of merciless genocidal executioner to the role of humanitarian relocation facilitator for “displaced” Palestinians. What an outrageously despicable attempt to distract from the fact that Zionist Israeli war crimes are the only reason resettlement is needed in the first place.
I reckon Israel expects to reduce the Arab population by at least half, and perhaps by two thirds, leaving in place ONLY two types of Palestinian. The first type will be those willing to fight to the death, and the second type will be those willing to help the Zionists exterminate the first type, in exchange for all sorts of tempting inducements like lavish homes, privileged lifestyles, legal “protection”, high pay and outright bribes.
I have to stop writing this comment now, because the thoughts and feelings it engenders are so harmful to my mental and spiritual health that it renders me useless and stupid, and serves no one.
I will try to get back to the subject after taking some time to sort it all out with the Creator as best I can, and determine what is the right thing to do next, but this much I already suspect. How the world responds to the ongoing cold blooded mercenary genocide in Gaza will determine the fate of the world.
To allow such a thing is to allow absolute evil to absolutely rule, and in my view that is just absolutely unacceptable.
It saves cost and risk if you can contract with a company to fake it’s own product, eh?
Wow. That’s criminal genius. Moriarty with IT and Finance degrees. Sure am glad you’re on our side.
Your observation makes perfect sense to you, and to me, and to anyone else who is relatively sane, but it makes no sense at all to the professional Thieve and Zionist financiers whose basic values are “inverted”. They think first and foremost of what they feel they must take, instead of what they should give. They’ve got it backwards, and they’ve got it bad.
Palestine is the only issue on the ballot, really, because there is just one and only one core issue that matters at all in the allegedly upcoming national election in the United States.
Can you guess what it is?
It’s ZIONISM.
Say, what?
Yeah. Zionism, and I’ll tell you why.
It is a rare day indeed when political campaign “issues” come anywhere close to real importance, but this is one of those rare days. This time (Nov 2024, if any of us live that long) we all get to see where the candidates stand on THE issue. The one and only TRUE issue, at stake in all elections really, and that issue is : “How does the candidate actually see and feel about the people that he/she is seeking to represent? Do they see them as people to be honestly served and represented, or do they seem them as suckers and sheep to be fleeced and/or slaughtered? Does the candidate put the constituent on a higher (or at least even) footing with themselves in matters of benefit and service? Yes or no is the only answer you need to know.
So, what does that have to with Zionism and the 2024 US National Election?
Well that issue tells you where candidates stand on the REAL issue, the issue of how they actually see YOU, relative to who is supposed to be slave to whom.
In regard to Zionism, basically, the question is simply whether (or not) Zionist Israel should be supported in its ongoing claim to absolute and exclusive self-proclaimed ownership of the lands once known as Palestine. That is all that is meant by the catchphrase “Israel’s right of self defense.” It means the right to use whatever force that it deems useful or necessary to take and keep the land which it has been intent upon stealing since the concept of Zionism was invented more than two thousand years ago.
It’s a simple simple issue, really. The question is, should they be allowed the permission to use all means, carte blanche, fair or foul, to take and hold that land from those who live there.
When I look at the roster of wannabe American Presidential hopefuls on both sides of the aisle I see ZERO anti-Zionist candidates. None. Even the controlled opposition “acknowledges” Israel’s “right” to “defend itself”. (Damn! I almost ran out of ironic quotation marks on that one sentence.)
That makes my job as a voter pretty simple. Fuck ALL of the candidates and the Zionist paid for pony that they rode in on. No other issue matters as much as that one, because THAT issue is the one that says that the candidate in question supports the notion that in order to obtain something that they want it is okay to use UNLIMITED force and crime to obtain it, irrespective of the rights of the people that the wanted thing is being taken from.
This core issue goes far far far beyond the picayune minor details such as which religion or regime they ascribe to, or political party, or financial strata. I do not give a flying finger about whether or not some guy is a Jew or a MAGA, a beggar or billionaire. What I care about is what do they think about THEIR rights relative to MY rights. If they believe that they have more rights than I do then me and them are going to have a problem. Zionism itself isn’t the key problem, but it sure does accurately EXPOSE the key problem, for all to plainly see. When some cretin tries to tell me that it’s okay to murder a child in order to build a bigger synagogue or fancier beachfront condominiums in Gaza, then he’s telling me all that I really need to know about him. He’s a cretin, no matter how well he speaks, how brightly he smiles, how many sacred idols he kisses to signal his virtue.
Does a government, as itself, have the right to acquire by unrestricted means, whatever it chooses to want, without the consent of of those which it purports to govern?
Don’t equivocate. Just take a stand on one side or the other. Does government have that right or does it not? If you say it does not then we are friends. If you think it does then we are enemies. Simple as that.
If a candidate feels that way about far away Palestinians (who only want to be left alone to eke out an existence on their own little patch of sand), then just imagine how that candidate feels toward the people of America who want stuff for themselves right here in America that the candidate proactively wants to take away from them.
In other words, every one of those candidates wants your stuff (your money, your loyalty, your support, your vote, etc.) and they want it badly enough to seek the Presidency to get it. And yet every one of those candidates publicly supports the Zionist belief that when a government wants something then THERE ARE NO HOLDS BARRED in what is permissible for them to do to get it.
I don’t have any trouble understanding what they are saying. They are unambiguously saying, on the record, that they ascribe to and fully support criminal psychopathy as an acceptable standard of governance. I firmly believe that we should believe them when they tell us that.
The choice between candidate, therefore, is between one totally unacceptable evil and some other totally unacceptable evil.
I vote life in prison for all of them, for complicity in multiple crimes against humanity, including treasonous dereliction of duty in protecting the human rights of their constituents. The current crop of candidates serve a master who does not have your best interests at heart. They are ALL utterly unacceptable, because they ALL believe that it is acceptable to be a Zionist under any banner or no banner at all.
Which leaves us with a bit of a quandary, election-wise, doesn’t it?
Yes, indeed it do.
I’ll just let that sit there and bother you for a while.
IQ Test
Somebody handed off a snapshot of their living room and tasked an AI (like chatGPT) to turn it into a schmaltzy Christmas card. Ya get what ya pay for.
No, @Celticbiker, that is NOT the only way out. The actual way out requires bigger balls than that. Grow a pair, big talker, and then maybe we can talk. Meanwhile, every time you advocate hatred and mistreatment as any kind of “solution” then you can expect me to talk to you about it, coward.
So I see that the US is sending American troops to Europe. Wouldn’t it be a lot simpler to just have them report straight to the graveyard? You’d sure save a lot of time and expense, not to mention that it is ultimately more merciful in the long run and doesn’t scar their souls by making them murder babies on the way there.
Better yet, why not just pop those soldiers up to Canada where there are plenty of euthanasia clinics standing ready, willing and able to accommodate their needs with minimal fuss or muss.The eggheads and their ilk on this site (and I know you’re out there, you lurkers you!) will probably recognize the scientific jargon or term called “frame of reference”. You will also know that use and misuse of frame-of-reference is one of the slickest and most often used tricks in the book, both for sussing out difficult problems [Einstein springs to mind] and for perpetrating horrendous crimes against humanity [as with Pope Francis for timely example].
Basically it is the principle that statements of fact which that are plainly true within a certain frame of reference are often completely (even absurdly or fatally) false within a DIFFERENT “frame of reference”. Example: During work a flight attendant will often push the drinks cart down the aisle at a sedate one-fourth (or so) miles per hour. That’s perfectly and obviously true . . . . within that frame of reference. However, if the aircraft at that moment in its flight encounters a cloud-hidden mountain peak it will become immediately apparent to all involved that within a DIFFERENT frame of reference the speed of one fourth miles per hour is tragically false.
I bring all of this up because there has been and increasingly happens to be a little too much of this kind of switcheroo logic going on here at our beloved TAE comments section. Now, any of us (all of us actually, myself included) can accidentally make the mistake and commit that error. Small harm done, usually. BUT… SOMETIMES… the mistake is knowingly and intentionally used as a ploy for nefarious purposes, so I’m just putting those DELIBERATE offenders on notice. I will catch you at it, I will call you out and I will not be kind.
My complaint about movies is similar to my complaint about main stream media (or any other institutionally top-down-organized system of control.) In a movie the “camera” tells you where to look and what you’re supposed to see there.
I prefer to look where I want to, and see what I can see.
The US is preparing to start a war with China, but if you look any closer than that you might also notice, at the same time, that the US is NOT preparing to fight or win a war with China.
This is for the same reason that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The old dog is not preparing to live. It is preparing to die..
While we’re on the subject of movies I just wanted to remind everyone that a “movie” is a series of still frame photographs displayed in rapid succession (16 per second, or a little faster), usually accompanied by sound waves which correspond to sound-packets known as “words” which the recipient has been programmed to identify as cognitive concepts.
When a recipient “watches a movie” they automatically translate the light waves and audible sound vibrations as a “story” or simulation of real life experience. But is really AIN’T real life, now is it? In actual real fact it is all just a bunch of crudely encoded vibrations directionally transmitted at certain frequencies on equipment any high school kid can obtain and master. Talk about cheap and easy. Nothing fancy or “woo” about any of it.
If that ain’t AI programming of some kind of bullshit “Matrix-Metaverse” then I’ld sure as hell like to know what is!
Watching movies doesn’t make people likely to get wise, active or revolt. It just makes them misinformed, inexperienced, disconnected from reality and INERT.
Incidentally, for anyone interested, that’s what the Netflix movie “Leave The World Behind” is all about.. Sure, sure, sure, it’s propaganda and predictive programing and all of that shit, too. But what the movie is REALLY about is paying Barrack Obama a half billion or so in wages, expenses compensation, profits and royalties. Nice gig, Barry. Hopefully the money will keep you free of the gallows for a couple more years.
USA Money to help Israel
Work Around to send money to Israel.
Intel to build chip factories in a war zone, with banker support.”Or, as an alternative method, Bibi Netanyahu could take up painting and anonymous art lovers could buy up his artwork for $5 Billion a pop. (I think overpaid speaking engagements for big institutional gatherings is off the boards for now due to security concerns) but there’s always the chance for a big book/movie deal like Obama is so good at.
The fox hunt (although useless for every other imaginable purpose) is GREAT practice for running down and recapturing (or slaughtering) run-away slaves . . . . and reminding all of the other slaves of the Elite’s ability to do it. for sport.
@JohnDay
I don’t think we will see a return of the sea peoples, but I can’t rule it out either.”
The Mediterranean and adjacent waters were how people got around in those days. Small stuff could be delivered by other means (just like we do now with trucks, trains and airplanes) but for big stuff and large numbers ships were the main practical means of major transport. Calling the invading forces The Sea Peoples just because they moved around in boats was (in my view) deliberately misleading as to their identity. The Sea Peoples (so called) were the equivalent of what the BRICS are today, basically a loosely knit consortium of ALL the people that the Bronze Age empires (predominantly Egypt, but also a few others) that the empires had been exploiting and abusing until (like today) the mismanagement of the empires tipped the scales against the empires. They went down like dominoes, and FAST, with Egypt barely surviving, and clearing the way for the next round of mayhem called Greece, Persia, Rome, Mongols and eventually Rome version 2 (the “Holy” Roman Empire, so called, otherwise known as “The West”) that is finally on its last legs now.
Interesting times.
It is never alright to do something bad as a means of getting something good. Never. That is because the bad thing that gets done empowers the bad guy. In fact, that’s the only power the bad guy actually has, so without it he has nothing, is nothing, and can do nothing.
It’s a good rule of thumb for healthy living to not contribute to the power and success of those whose primary aim is to steal your productivity and use those ill gotten gains to enslave or eliminate you.
So how do they keep managing to do that?
Simple. They invert the truth. Notice that I am not using the word “lie”, although there is lying aplenty throughout. I’m using the term “invert the truth” because it is the far more descriptive and accurate explanation of what they are actually DOING.
They are turning everything backwards, and by “everything” I mean EVERYTHING.
Let me lay out a few examples of this propensity for psychotic inversion.
It’s a simple truth that consistently telling the truth will eventually result in the people you interact with believing what you say. In other words, the TRUTH is what leads to BELIEF.
Bad guys get that bass ackwards. They think that it’s the other way around. They think that the truth is whatever people BELIEVE it to be, and so they do everything in their power to control what people believe. Lie, cheat, steal, censor, “cancel”, imprison, KILL, whatever it takes. January 6th was an insurrection! Ukraine is winning the war! Israeli genocide in Palestine is self defense!
Here’s another one. Diligent productive behavior eventually results in a wealth of material things of high quality. Bake your cake just right and that cake you own will taste great when you eat it. This is not a complicated concept. Wealth follows productivity. Good folks understand that implicitly.
Bad folks turn it around by believing that wealth is needed FIRST. So they lie, cheat steal, etc. to get the wealth so that they can have the products.
The trappings of well earned honor and genuine respect often include fame and high repute (as well they should) and therefore the bad guys go straight for the trappings and skip the “earned” and “genuine” part of it altogether. It’s all about appearances, flattering press coverage and ceremonial certificates of praise.
This “mirror imaging”, inversion, “turning logic on it’s head” sort of thought and behavior is not just the hallmark of such evil doers. It is the essence of evil itself.
Beware, because if you allow yourself to be tricked into doing things that enable and empower it then you are feeding the beast that means to eat you. Make it strong enough and it shall.
Bad guys will tell you that they are all about and fully supportive of the wonderfully good thing that you want (a decent life, justice, peace, friendship) but to garner that help you must FIRST do the bad thing that THEY want (your tribute, your obedience, your allegiance, and even so far as your hatred & violence toward the bad guy’s opponents and victims.)
So, never do something bad as a means of getting something good. That beast will eat you.
The benefit of labels (and brother, there are a lot of ’em!) is that labels make it easier and quicker to think and report about realities that are far more complex than the label might suggest, and therein is one of key faults of labels. But that isn’t their biggest fault.
The biggest fault of labels is that they are so easily stolen and turned to nefarious purposes.
How many lies and crimes do you suppose have been committed by someone bad in the name of something good?
It’s the good and bad that must be differentiated, usually at the steep price of hard work and even more pain. Labels, on the other hand, are cheap and easy.
@DrDRich
Weird.
My post posted before my post.”I’ve started a small notebook to record small glitches in the Matrix. The plan is that it will either lead me to unlocking secrets of the Universe or serve as material evidence in my competency hearing. Win-Win.
Just look at what the United States and Zionist Israel are doing to the entire people of Gaza. Just look. It is almost beyond belief. In fact for many people it actually IS beyond their capacity to believe. The United States and Zionist Israel are intentionally and purposefully murdering thousands of men, women, children and infants in the most violent and demeaning ways possible. Exterminating human beings.
But why?
I’ll tell you why. Because the Gazans refuse to follow orders, that’s why. They refuse, for example, the order to stand by and do nothing as armed invaders slaughter the population, force them off their historic homeland and take absolutely everything that they possess, including their very lives and all hope of a satisfactory future.
That refusal to be voluntarily stripped of every human right, without protest, is the only crime that the Gazans have committed. Insubordination to criminally illegal orders from illegitimately self-proclaimed rulers.
That’s what the US and Israel ordered the Gazans to do, and when the Gazans refused to comply then the US and Israel set about physically carrying out the threat of killing and/or displacing every single one of them. Might makes right, right? But the US and Israel don’t give a damn about right. They consider that since they have the might then rightness, humanity, common decency and even truth itself simply don’t reckon into the computation.
That is the Globalist/Cabalist/Zionist/Marxist (call them whatever you want) way of doing business. So look very carefully at what the United States and Zionist Israel are doing to the entire people of Gaza. Just look. Carefully, because that is exactly what they have in mind for doing to YOU if you don’t follow their orders.
@MyParentsSaidKnow
You’ve outdone yourself, again. That poem belongs on every wall and news medium in the world, and especially said to the faces of the perpetrators.
Arestovich Says Ukraine Won’t Exist as a Country – It Has Committed National Suicide. Amen Brother”
The only modification I might make to your (and Arestovich’s) statement about UKRAINE’S national suicide is that the suicide was “assisted” so heavily that you would almost have to call it “homicided”. They got “Arkencided”, if you will, to borrow a word from American politics vis a vis the Clintons.
They don’t even have to sink any ships, just threaten to, to close down the Red Sea, Suez Canal, 12% of global maritime trade, and Israeli imports.”
Exactly right, and they can do all of that while still affording Egypt the relative “safety” from Western retaliation, by letting Egypt retain it’s official “neutrally” and remain “on-the-fence” and avoid overtly choosing sides in the fight.
Call it “effective ineffectiveness”.
Win-Win for Egypt and the good guys.
When the fence they sit on happens to be the Suez Canal maybe having them be mugwumps is not such a bad idea at this delicately balanced moment, given that very large wars have been fought over far less strategically important commercial/military choke points.
Egypt has a very important decision to make. I have great faith that they will make the right one, which I think is going to be to balance their ass on that fence for as long is is possibly possible.
