Odd Is The Loneliest Number
April 18, 2012 Leave a comment
Odd. That describes me in a nutshell.
Flannery O’Connor, the great Catholic writer, was once quoted as saying “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” So be it. I am in good company then.
Now that I am older and wiser (at least according to the aphorism) I am less jostled by every wind of fashion, less captivated by got-cha type of thinking typical of the penny-ante journalists so in vogue today. In more ways than one I have let odd take over.
Some odd thoughts:
A wise old preacher once told me “If it’s new it ain’t true. If it’s true it ain’t new.”
Truth has historical record. Lies, cheap novelty as in “Hope and Change.”
I agree with Wolcott’s assessment (see James Wolcott’s Vanity Fair article “Prime Time’s Graduation”)about the state of today’s movies being rather boorish and sophomoric and that television/cable TV is far outpacing movies with its much higher quality of writing and directing and a greater depth of characters. Yet, I despair of any good thing coming out of either.
Truly, I cannot remember the last time I rented a movie. I don’t remember the title of the movie, either. I haven’t been to theatre in well over two years. For what reason I did attend is forgotten.
TV: I don’t watch The Living Dead, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Real Housewives of Chicago’s North Side or all manner of well-written, well-crafted dramatic episodes or all manner of crime investigations, all manner of (fill-in-the-blank) “finely textured” serial programming that Hollywood cranks out. Though superbly crafted these often prurient programs hold nothing of interest or value to me. I am happily odd without them in my head.
You can believe me when I say that I don’t care about dead people who hang around unwanted or that Don Draper is losing himself in his work and the next untapped babe or that Walt is a terminally living drug producer and seller (Breaking Bad, like many cable shows in fact outrage me. That anything like this can of trash is available on TV for kids and adults to view is unthinkably criminal. I’m a mature adult. I don’t care about the show’s supposedly ‘mature themes.” I think the show is substantive abuse.)
Look around. We consume comparison: commercials, magazines, TV programs, the Shahs of Sunset. I could easily imagine that Obama’s class warfare rhetoric would quickly lose its teleprompter zip if our culture didn’t keep promoting keeping up with the Shahs of Sunset and the like.
Contentment has been dislodged from the human psyche and has gone missing. Ubiquitous high-profile bling now holds court. Disparity is highlighted daily. And, as a result, charity (in the form of higher taxes) is demanded in order to make all things equal. Somehow, this equates to social justice.
These days low-income people can dwell on income disparity 24/7. Many now have big screen TVs and microwaves. And, before them now on the big hi-def screen are the ostentatious rich: The Real Housewives of Atlanta. It would be easy for anyone watching to say “The Grass IS greener…” Envy and covetousness are in your face, especially when the bas-relief is provided by HDTV.
Beside this, BHO and other talking heads of the liberal media are telling them that the rich need to do their part. This demand is ludicrous.
With his bully pulpit BHO promotes class warfare. He tells us that the answer to your problems is to take money from someone else! Isn’t this the mentality typically found among Chicago street gang members but is now code-named Social Justice? (BTW: What we need is not a single payer health care system. What we need is single payer taxpayers where every single person does their part and not just 50 % of the nation. Everyone should be invested in our country.)
Am I human? Upon occasion:
I have been known to watch Guy Fieri (I think he’s cute.) on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives hamming it up with restaurant owners. And, sometimes when I’m in a really grisly mood I watch Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations (Anthony, Paula Deen can cook for me anytime, your blackballing of her cooking style notwithstanding).
Speaking of food, I don’t own a Blackberry, iPhone or other hand-held electronic device which could bleep in a restaurant and interrupt a Crème brûlée with a dear friend. This even though I work in a technical industry and could easily finger pointed barbs with the best of them. I am old school. Pen and paper work well. Spitballs, too. And, if the world is going to end I am prepared. I won’t need an iPad telling me that I’m going to be with the Lord – that’s already been documented.
Without the gizmos I don’t tweet. I don’t send 140 character snippets of pithy self-brined revelation out to chomping-at-the-bit (or byte) followers. Come to think of it I don’t think I have any followers! (This post has enough characters to choke a gaggle of hand-held devices and their indentured slaves.)
‘What does she do?”
I mostly read, talk to myself when no one is around, go to church, dance wildly to the Romantics’ What I Like About You, annoy my family and routinely infuriate people I don’t know on the internet.
How odd. But with a name like Sally Paradise how could I not be the odd woman out or the 
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Cindy Wity 
They’re Coming!
December 3, 2023 Leave a comment
We are entering a season of celebrating Good News – the birth of a good King, the King’s establishment of a good kingdom and the King’s means for new creation. But hold on. Have we been invaded by body snatchers?
They look like us. Exactly like your loved ones or even possibly yourself. Replacement people. Exact copies yet devoid of empathy and humanity.
The 1978 film version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers takes place in San Francisco. The plot involves Matthew Bennel and Elizabeth Driscoll. Both work for the Health Department. Elizabeth is the first to suspect that something strange is going on. She awakes one morning to find her boyfriend Geoffrey being cold and distant and doing odd things. And it’s not just him. Everyone now seems strange to her.
Elizabeth Driscoll:
I keep seeing these people, all recognizing each other. Something is passing between them all, some secret. It’s a conspiracy, I know it.
Matthew Bennel:
There can’t be a conspiracy!
Elizabeth Driscoll:
Matthew, I’m telling you something is going on here.
Matthew suggests they speak to his friend, pop-psychiatrist David Kibner. They drive over to the bookstore where Kibner is promoting his new book. On the way they encounter “They’re coming!”
Dr. David Kibner:
Elizabeth, could you please tell me, in your opinion, what is going on?
Elizabeth Driscoll:
People are being duplicated. And once it happens to you, you’re part of this… thing. It almost happened to me!”
Kibner confirms that several of his patients are claiming that their spouses are not who they seem to be. But he puts it down to mass hysteria until Jack and Nancy Bellicec, Matthew’s friends, discover a mysterious embryonic adult-body resembling Jack in the mud spa they run.
Elizabeth Driscoll:
I have seen these flowers all over. They are growing like parasites on other plants. All of a sudden. Where are they coming from?
Nancy Bellicec:
Outer space?
Jack Bellicec:
What are you talking about? A space flower?
Nancy Bellicec:
Well why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
Jack Bellicec:
I’ve NEVER expected metal ships.
Together they figure out that humans are being replaced with flawless biological copies who are emotionless. The cold unthinking replicant has one quest – its survival. It must bring others into the fold . . . of the alien plant pods.
How does replacement happen? Organically over time. Strange spores drifted to earth from space. Mysterious pods began to grow. The pods begin replacing the dominant species by spawning emotionless replicas. The original bodies disintegrate into dust after the duplication process. The pod people outwardly resemble the people they have replaced, but are completely empty and soulless.
This happens to San Francisco’s residents one body at a time – when the citizen falls asleep near the pod. The ‘Podified’ then distribute the pods for more replication.
A ‘Podified’ Professor David Kibner explains the why of Pod Life:
“We came here from a dying world. We drift through the universe, from planet to planet, pushed on by the solar winds. We adapt and we survive. The function of life is survival.”
And so it is that when the credits roll, apparently there are no more humans left in San Francisco. Alien pods have consumed human’s emotional individuality for their survival. Only hollow replacement clones and a screech remain:
Pod people, alike as “two peas in a pod”, have a collective mindset and are extremely persistent. They want to replace humanity with a replicant humanity for their own survival. So America be warned. Pod people – They’re coming! Welcome to 2024 and communism.
Body Snatchers have invaded Progressive San Francisco. We see empty and soulless people acting in weird parasitic ways for the survival of the Left’s Pod People collective.
These had been lulled into replacing their humanity with an invitation for mindless wellbeing. We watch a ‘Podified” Elizabeth Driscoll try to pacify Matthew into acceptance:
“There’s nothing to be afraid of. They were right. It’s painless. It’s good. Come. Sleep. Matthew.”
People who fall asleep with media ‘pods’ wake up different people. These are the people Leftists want.
Leftist’s want Pod people who are devoid of individuality and filled with a collective consciousness. Free will and human agency are to be subsumed to create a monolithic culture. Take away one’s voice (except for the screech) and one’s power, and one’s free will and you have compliant Pod people.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers? There are several indicators:
Artificial Intelligence or AI-based transhumanism is the closest method akin to Pod metamorphism. See Transhumanism is Satanism with a Brain Chip | Timothy Alberino talks with Joe Allen (rumble.com)
And, Joe Allen: Transhumanism and the Bio-Digital Convergence (rumble.com)
The mRNA vaccine has certainly altered healthy bodies. See below and previous posts.
Abortion is body snatching.
And so is transgenderism. See Inside the Transgender Empire.
Queer theory and critical race theory seek to Pod people with an alternate universe.
And there is Google which plants pod seeds. People who search with Google wake up as different people. For Google’s strange seeds drifted into cyberspace from the deep state. Mysterious pods begin to grow and take over minds. See The Big Brother of Silicon Valley video below.
We know that Joe Biden is a Pod Person: ANOTHER LIE! Joe Biden Claims He “Taught at the University of Pennsylvania For Four Years” – Biden NEVER Taught a Single Class (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
And, the Biden regime is made up of body-snatching Pod people U.S. Suicide Rate Hits 80-Year High Under Biden Govt.
(One disturbing aspect of the movie I noticed is that the men, including the male lead, disbelieve and gaslight the females. I don’t know if this was intentional or just indicative of society.)
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS WEB TRAILER – YouTube
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The Big Brother of Silicon Valley – YouTube
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Jesus’s announcement of the Kingdom of God. What did that mean?
This podcast explores the Gospel of Mark’s introduction to Jesus and his basic message and mission.
God’s Kingdom Has Arrived (bibleproject.com)
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Informed Dissent:
Moderna Admits mRNA COVID Shot CAUSES CANCER – Billions Of DNA fragments Found In Vials (Video) » Sons of Liberty Media
A whistleblower from New Zealand has gone public with vaccine data from the New Zealand Ministry of Health.
New Zealand: a COVID vaccine administrator has gone rogue and turned into a full-blown whistleblower, revealing, for the first time, the actual number of deaths related to a “bad batch” of the Pfizer vaccine.
COVID vaccine database administrator goes rogue, reveals how many people actually died from Pfizer jab… – Revolver News
The New Zealand Government is Hiding Something; The same Tyranny is coming to the U.S.:
Emergency Broadcast – NZ Police Raid Whistleblower’s Home | Liz Gunn (bitchute.com)
Liz Gunn and the whistleblower: Operation M.O.A.R. – The Mother of All Revelations | New Zealand Loyal (bitchute.com)
Professor Dr. Didier Raoult and colleagues pioneered the use of hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin for treatment of COVID-19 disease.
Conclusion (Fauci lied people died)
Although this is a retrospective analysis, results suggest that early diagnosis, early isolation and early treatment of COVID-19 patients, with at least 3 days of HCQ-AZ lead to a significantly better clinical outcome and a faster viral load reduction than other treatments.
Outcomes of 3,737 COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin and other regimens in Marseille, France: A retrospective analysis – PMC (nih.gov)
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Pod people:
Lindsey Stirling – O Holy Night (Official Music Video) – YouTube
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