And the Beat Down Goes On

“. . . the terror of the night
    or the arrow that flies by day
or the pestilence that stalks in darkness
    or the destruction that wastes at noonday.”
Psalm 91

Fires, floods and extreme weather will imperil a third of all life on land in the next 60 years.

Nobel Physicist Predicts END DATE For Modern Civilization: And it’s quite soon…

The New York Times’s Resident Catastrophist Delivers Another Subscription to the End of the World

You wake up in a news cycle that never sleeps. With a cup of coffee, you read what ‘doomcasters’ are saying about end-of-life scenarios appearing on the horizon. Now you are fully awake and wondering what to do with these high alert headlines? Do you let existential crisis into your life?

You sip your coffee and remember that not long ago the world was subjected to pandemic hysteria. Coronavirus, the “global crisis of unprecedented reach and proportion,” started making headlines at the beginning of 2020.

You recall the WHO declaring the coronavirus a “public health emergency of international concern.” And the headlines declaring surges in COVID-19 cases attributed to the Omicron variant, a “tripledemic” – COVID combined with flu and RSV, and of overwhelmed hospitals and healthcare systems and dancing nurses.

How could you forget that Biden imposed OSHA vaccination and testing emergency standards on your business or the reality-warping restrictive policies involving mandated lockdowns, masking, social distancing, fines, and vaccines, or the CDC predicting people will die?

You pour yourself another cup of coffee and look out the kitchen window. You see the couple next store – Vivian and Zoe – walking their dog Baxter. The other day, when you took the garbage can to the curb, the apoplectic twosome accosted you with “Democracy is threatened by the likes of you extremists, fascists, racists, homophobe Christian nationalists!” and “Trump is Hitler!” They saw you going to church last Sunday.

You drink your coffee troubled that Viv and Zoe had been beaten down by another media existential crisis campaign, akin to the rollout of the COVID-19 marketing campaign that told us to worry about it, and how to worry about it.

Under the spell of the “Democracy is threatened” campaign, Viv and Zoe were in a state of emotional panic. And that had them beat down on the closest person who didn’t share their views or the views of the commercial-sponsored media. The media’s inordinate influence has you very concerned about the collective fear and confusion its campaigns were causing to psyches.

The beat down goes on . . . in our heads.

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How shall we then live in the context of existential dread?

Day after day imagination is battered with dire predictions– the end of this and that unless we do this and that. The steady beat of amplified headlines overwhelms one’s patience, strength, and soul.

Climate change, pandemics, wars, “Democracy!” AI Could Make Humans Irrelevant!

How do we respond to headlines telling us that we are done for? Should we let fear and helplessness dominate our lives? Can we live in terms of “accepting disharmony from the outset and defying it”? This last way of going forward is the directive C.S. Lewis prescribes in his essay “On Living in an Atomic Age.”

Published in post-war 1948 and at the beginning of the atomic age, the essay provides a reality-check perspective and presents a scenario of how to live in life-ending times.

The following is an excerpt from the opening of Lewis’ short essay. During COVID the excerpt was passed around on the internet, with “atomic” replaced with “coronavirus.” Certainly, the essay can be applied to any dire life-threatening circumstances.

In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”

 In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors — anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

The full essay, in the document below, contains questions and positions Lewis maintains, such as

Are we “accepting disharmony from the outset and defying it?”

Do we “hold up our own human standards against the idiocy of the universe?”

Are we the product of blind physical forces and therefore unable to provide answers to questions of a fatalist existence?

“But suppose we really are spirits? Suppose we are not the offspring of Nature…?”

“We must go back to a much earlier view.”

“We must simply accept it that we are spirits, free and rational beings, at present inhabiting an irrational universe, and must draw the conclusion that we are not derived from it.”

“If there is no straight line elsewhere, how did we discover that Nature’s line is crooked?”

“Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs.”

https://www.matthewaglaser.com/living-in-an-atomic-age

“On Living in an Atomic Age” (first published 1948) by C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) From: Present Concerns: Essays by C.S. Lewis (edited by Walter Hooper; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986), pages 73–80

Born a few years after the above essay was published, I became well aware of ‘doomcasting’ headlines. I recalled some of the headlines in my January 2025 post Surface Readings.

The post began with the words of poet W H Auden – “Now is the age of anxiety” and my own take on things: “Impending doom has been in the news during my entire lifetime.” I wrote about the headlines and pronouncements of those anxious times which included the book The Late great Planet Earth based on the modern and heretical notion of dispensationalism.

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Imagination Reset

Taking in the spirit of the times, imaginations are exposed to the negation of life and dire predictions often made for political ends that use fear to move power into the hands of the few.

Taking in the digital tabloid times is the “WHAAM!” of a Roy Lichtenstein Ben-Day dots painting. Imagination is amped up and ready to pop with a Pow!

What happens to our imaginations when we are constantly confronted with crisis? And, how do we live with dire predictions?

With the 24/7/365 news cycle, it’s little wonder that “News Avoidance” is becoming a common way to deal with the constant specter of troubling things, as Thaddeus G. McCotter writes in I Didn’t Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Embracing the ‘News Avoidance’ Pandemic

“If you live today, you breath in nihilism … it’s the gas you breathe. If I hadn’t had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.” ― Flannery O’Connor

What we shouldn’t avoid are resources such as poetry, art, classical literature and music to help us cope with and see beyond the terrors of the modern age. We need the signal of those who came before and dealt with all kinds of things and not the clamoring noise of influencers.

Poet Wallace Stevens, in “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words” writes that poetry, as it interacts with reality and the imagination, can shape our perspective and provide meaning and comfort in a world that often feels overwhelming and harsh.

Wallace emphasizes the role of imagination in countering the beat down of life. If you are a Christian, you already know that the poetry of the Psalms does just that, e.g., Psalm 91.

In the video below, Dr. Jason Baxter, author of The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis discusses his book, Why Literature Still Matters.

Why Literature Still Matters: An Interview with Dr. Jason Baxter | Classical Home Education

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If you need a quick antidote to climate hysteria, Itxu Díaz provides his take on the news of impending doom: Climate Change Scientists Set a Date for the Arrival of Hell on Earth: the Year 2085.

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Naomi Wolf with Outspoke: “I’m here tonight to talk about a huge news story that broke in the last couple of days. It could be thread that unravels the whole COVID virus/vaccine perpetrator issue.

“A criminal syndicate, essentially.

“Even just this initial gesture is so transformational. It breaks the spell of, “No one can be held accountable, no one can be investigated from the untouchable third rail COVID vaccine rollout, COVID virus rollout.””

“The Shocking Story of NIH Secretly Funding COVID”

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And the Beat Down Goes On

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Wreathing (Matthew 6:34)

On my shed door, atop its plastic wreath,

a robin fashioned a nest, found twigs the binding.

then, behold,

above the manufactured certainty,

within the steadfastly twig-tucked wreathing,

her brood burst burst burst forth.

J.A. Johnson, 2026

“Where the Hell Are We?”

Perhaps we have become characters in a David Lynch movie. Odd nightmarish dream sequences are occurring one after another. A surreal ethos is surfacing from the subconscious of the Blue Planet producers.

Dream-like logic, flickering lights, blurred lines, a maze of curtains, chthonic characters, dual personalities, personifications of pure evil, noxious nihilism . . .  things are not just a little off in the production of Blue Planet.

Blue Planet production and its Day 45 of the Baghdad-style ‘Green Zone’ occupation perimeter set up in Washington DC. (Why is DC occupied by troops? Why is DC locked down? No one in the Biden Regime will say. Maybe the White House is afraid that its dementia patient will wander off.)

WATCH: Biden Excuses Genocide of Uyghurs as a “Cultural Norm” – The National Pulse

Biden is The Reincarnation of Russia’s “Goofy Drunk” President Boris Yeltsin – Revolver

Within the Blue Planet production, males are re-symbolized to be hypersensitive and docile . . .

(Yet, in another world …

China wants to end feminization of adolescent boys (freewestmedia.com) )

Within the Blue Planet production, reality is metamorphosed into a fantastical gender spectrum where curves are flattened but cases of gender identity grow . . .

“Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ and similarly gendered expressions to get kids’ attention.” The handout was part of an effort to educate teachers and administrators about transgender issues, educators told the Lincoln Journal Star. – Normalization, Indoctrination & Degenderization Are Sweeping The Nation | coreysdigs.com

Hospitals Instruct Midwives to Use Terms ‘Chest Feeding’ and ‘Human Milk’ to Be ‘Gender Inclusive’ (thegatewaypundit.com)

How the Transgender Movement is Destroying Women’s Sports | Women Are Human

Within the Blue Planet drama nothing makes sense: 2+ 2 does not equal 4, being required to show proofs is racist and no one is to be held accountable except for whites. (Apparently, for Blue Planet producers, individual bits 0 or 1 are racist and you don’t have to file anything with the SEC if you are a public company.)

“White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions,” a lesson from the group says. “Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics.”

Gates Foundation behind effort to end white supremacy in math instruction by eliminating need for students to show work (washingtonexaminer.com)

Blue Planet producers are worried about cow flatulence affecting their production. They want to normalize eating synthetic meat:

Billionaire Bill Gates Wants to Force You To Eat Fake Meat (pjmedia.com)

Blue Planet producers, duplicitous doppelgangers, exempt themselves from the standards they impose on others:

Blue Planet producers want you to “Think upon your sins” . . .

NYC public school asks parents to ‘reflect’ on their ‘whiteness’ (nypost.com)

Reverse Racism • The 8 White Identities, by Barnor Hesse. Breaking… (tumblr.com)

As in any psychological horror film noir, Blue Planet producers want you to experience fear, come back for more, and then move into an “acceptance phase” of their contrived reality:

How Phony Coronavirus “Fear Videos” Were Used as Psychological Weapons to Bring America to Her Knees – Revolver

As Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns That Illness Is Likely Here to Stay – WSJ (archive.fo)

These same Blue Planet producers do not want you to be afraid of the human avalanche occurring at our southern border nor of the cartels that profit tremendously from the smuggling of illegals . . .

A surge of migrants at the border is already overwhelming holding facilities (Update) (hotair.com)

Biden Cancels Trump Emergency Order to Fund Border Wall (theepochtimes.com)

BIDEN ANNOUNCES 3 CITIES AS DUMPING GROUNDS FOR ILLEGALS | Populist Press 2021 ©

Aspiring Immigrants, Foregoing Caravan Tactic, Are Massing in Northern Mexico on Biden Promises (cis.org)

Blue Planet producers want you to embrace scientism . . .

And, wear double diapers on your face . . .

CDC Begins Recommending Wearing Two Masks | ZeroHedge

(In Real World . . .)

And, carry Vax Passports and accept HR’s “Reasonable Management Instruction”

Blue Planet producers want to normalize blackouts for their dream sequences:

Texas is experiencing what California has – with California affecting the entire Western Interconnection due to its policies. Blackouts are a feature of the push to have more unreliable renewables on the grid. Must pay $$ for reliable backup w/ renewables 10/10

Thread by @ChuckDeVore on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

The Blue Planet production employs the motifs of purges and show trials, recurrent characters such as the stupor-addled Biden,  “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” Lavrentiy Beria, and the SJW Karens of the world. Of course, clapping is required at all times.

Don’t Be the First to Stop Clapping – American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Our COVID Karen Clown President | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

When you sleep, you don’t control your dreams. Enter the Blue Planet, producers of magic realism to control your dreams. But, what good is a Blue Planet dream production if you keep waking up and look around? The Blue Planet producers ban all daylight from their dream theaters by using a mind-altering “glitch” in their production algorithms . . .

Top 10 Worst Cases of Big Tech Censorship in 2020 | Newsbusters

Life on Blue Planet . . .

You Guys Saved AMC. Now Save Movies. – The American Mind

Blue Planet producers want to control everything . . .

Episode 746 – Christianity- the Secular Left’s Next Real Target

Added 2-23-2021:

Democrats stole the election. Along with the main stream media they made this doofus the leader of the free world. What does that say about the thieves, the media, and the voter? What does that say about the social media techies of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube et al. covering for this idiocy?

What do their actions mean for the direction of this country?

Beyond Parody: The World Of Mike Judge’s Idiocracy Is Better Than Joe Biden’s America – Revolver

Blue Planet Producers (and the Lavender Mafia) have no problem abusing children (but never the planet or animals) for their production. Here’s a Blue Planet chthonic character advocating for just that . . .

Biden’s HHS Pick Advocates Sex Changes for Kids. (thenationalpulse.com)

Justice De-Platformed

No. You are not crazy. Facts Matter. Evidence matters. Truth matters. Justice matters.

There is abounding evidence that the 2020 Presidential election and various congressional elections were stolen. There are testimonies and affidavits that detail the steal. There is video evidence depicting the steal. There is a semi-truckload of evidence (pre-marked ballots) that mysteriously disappeared according to testimony of the truck driver. There is documented evidence that private money i.e., Mark Zuckerberg, “improperly and unlawfully impacted the result of the 2020 election” in swing states:

For a detailed accounting and explanation of the election irregularities and fraud perpetrated on the Republic, download the Dr. Peter Navarro PDFs below. Keep them in a safe place, as big tech and the shadow government will be removing all evidence of the election fraud. (Note: If YouTube removes the election stealing videos above, you can find similar videos on Rumble.)

The evidence – including testimony, affidavits, videos, illegal voting registrations and more – has yet to be considered on its merits in the courts. The evidence has yet to be fully disclosed in court cases. Those who have presented the evidence have been labeled “conspiracy theorists” by the corporate media. The result of the persistent denial of reality: a tainted and illegitimate election and justice denied for over 70 million voters.

What has been forced upon Americans by corporate media, social media oligarchs, big tech, and Congress with the help of naïve useful idiots – Democrats – in the swing states is an illegitimate election. It follows, it should be noted, that the Biden/Harris administration is illegitimate no matter the presidential trappings. And, it also follows, that whatever comes out of the Biden/Harris administration, including executive orders, is illegitimate. You can decide what that means for you.

Whether the elected representatives, the Vice President, and the courts did not want to get involved in a politically charged matter or whether they were incompetent in their duties or whether they were simply going along with the steal, none of them prevented or acted to stop the steal in any way, except Justice Alito. (Some acted late in the game after immense pressure from constituents.)

The Vice President was asked by the President’s attorney and Pennsylvania state senators to delay the vote on Jan. 6th so that the state’s “questionable activities” and “numerous unlawful violations” could be investigated and so that the state’s legal votes could be tabulated:

Their letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy argues that the actions by Democratic state officials caused last-minute changes to election law not authorized by the legislature, including allowing mail-in ballots to be received and counted three days after Election Day.

V.P. Pence was never asked by anyone to decide the election. But he did anyway by not delaying the vote count as requested and by not seeking a legitimate vote count. V.P. Pence acknowledged in his Jan. 6th letter “significant allegations of voting irregularities … [he shares] the concerns of millions of Americans about the integrity of this election…” (You can download his letter below). Yet, this was all CYA psycho-babble. Pence rubber-stamped the steal and the actions of other faithless representatives of the people.

Why should we accept the legal blah, blah, blah of talking heads who say “Pence had no choice” or “there was no evidence” or “that the evidence was insufficient to alter election results” or “the courts rejected the cases, so there” or “blah blah blah”? Are they lazy? Too busy? Or, are they intimidated by the Left?

“One of the reasons I was called [by Trump] is because virtually every major law firm in this country and in this city refused to represent the President,” [James] Troupis explained. “Not because of the lack of merit of his claims — we’ve certainly demonstrated that there’s merit — but because of the cancel culture, because of the environment that has been created by the Left that has intimidated lawyers, so that they can’t be here.”

Many lack moral courage. This was affirmed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his Harvard address in 1978.

“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. There are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life.”

Should we lack moral courage and not question and investigate the glaring irregularities and fraud that has come to light? Or, should we say “there’s nothing to be done for it” and “Why should we bother (with what we have heard with our own ears and have seen with our own eyes) when so many say ‘Don’t bother’?”

You are aware. A Manchurian candidate – a sock puppet, really – is going to be installed on Jan. 20 as President-of-the-Lie. The shadow government of big tech-Reset globalists, with the aid of corporate media, are the ones moving the sock puppet’s mouth: “Now it’s time to turn the page …to unite and to heal”. The sock speaks and I hear “Accept the illegitimate election … sit down, shut up, and do what you are told from now on.” Biden is their means to “control the opposition.”

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead them.” — Vladimir Lenin

The over 70 million people – populists, nationalists, Protestants, Catholics, Jews, blacks, whites, Latinos, and those escaping tyranny in their home countries- the over 70 million people who voted in 2020 did not receive justice. America did not receive justice. Americans received a lie.

Why should you and I condone or embrace the illegitimate election as legitimate and obey whatever comes out of its illegality? If the election was legitimate, I would go along with the results. But that is not the case as it stands today. And I am well aware of what is behind the illegitimate election: evil

In my previous post The Takeover of 2020 I tried to outline that when evil gets its way, then those in its way can become disoriented, dispirited and depleted. As I write this, evil is de-platforming many on Twitter, Facebook and Google. These sites are not about justice. For, evil loves darkness and abhors the light. These sites are about putting your light under a bucket.

No. You are not crazy. Facts Matter. Evidence matters. Truth matters. Justice matters.

Americans are a justice hungry people. And we don’t accept slop. “We the people” want justice – a full and fair accounting and resolution of what happened to our Republic on and around the Nov. 3rd election.

And now, I petition my God with the Psalmist …

You are a righteous God
    and judge our thoughts and desires.
Stop the wickedness of evildoers
    and reward those who are good. – Psalm 7:9

Added 1/13/2021, a letter to the Wisc. Gov. and copied to V.P. Pence. Pence ignored this letter:

Added 1-13-2021:

Added 1-14-2021:

MI Judge Orders Democrat Sec of State To Release All Communications With Dominion, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google (100percentfedup.com)

Added 1-16-2021:

BOMBSHELL: Fulton County Elections Caught On Video Discussing Stealing Votes | Populist Press 2021 ©

“Behold! Watch me pull a resentment out of my high hat!”.

 

If you’ve spent any time on Twitter you are well aware that people hold grudges – election result grudges, offense taken grudges and reply grudges generated when someone disagrees with your entrenched point of view. The ‘magic’ of holding grudges is that one can take offense out of thin air and then present the illusion of an injustice done to them for all to see

Holding a grudge has become a national pastime. On Twitter there seems to be a reply thread competition to see who can hold the bigger grudge and hold it the longest. With such carrying on, I am somewhat surprised that there isn’t a National Offense Taken Day. In the meantime, though, one can watch The Real Housewives of Bitter End County to get their fill of outrage. Week after week resentments are pulled out of thin air and viewers keep coming back for more high-hat hocus-pocus. There is even a show about the shows to summarize offenses taken.

I sense that behind all of the chicanery is a hot bed of unresolved anger. One person cannot forgive their parent for perceived wrongs. Another cannot forgive a friend who said something to someone about something. A parishioner cannot let go of her hurt and so she talks to others. Many others, as it seems to go. Soon a flock of resentful sheep head out the gate, creating a schism in the church. One national group decides that it must be the angry #Resistance against another national group who they feel is not like them and therefore does not give them pleasure. Such fuming unresolved anger is given new firewood to burn by social media, the place to disengage the “other” at will and without personal cost. Where does all this unresolved anger come from? It is the internalized desire to be justified.

“Where do wars come from? Why do people among you fight? It all comes from within, doesn’t it – from your desires for pleasure which make war in your members.” James 4:1

Guernica by Pablo Picasso

Those entrenched and warring members of your soul do not stay entrenched. They are brought out to the light of day in pursuit of validation. Remember the illustrative story Jesus told his disciples about the tax collector and the Pharisee?

He told this next parable against those who trusted in their own righteous standing and despised others

“Two men,” he said. “went up to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee; the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed in this way to himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the other people – greedy, unjust, immoral or even like this tax collector. I fast twice week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

 “But the tax collector stood a long way off and didn’t even want to raise his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast and said, ‘God be merciful to me, sinner that I am.’ Let me tell you, he was the one who went back to his house vindicated by God, not the other. Don’t you see? People who exalt themselves will be humbled, and people who humble themselves will be exalted.”  – Jesus, Luke’s Gospel record 18: 9-14

 

The Pharisee, in trying to justify himself before God, pulled a resentment out of his high hat: God, I thank you that I am not like the other people – greedy, unjust, immoral or even like this tax collector.

The Pharisee gave himself and his audience the illusion of being justified before God. But his self-justification was not validated by the Lord. And, that is the heart of this parable: you cannot justify yourself to the Lord. You must come humbly before the Lord for his assessment of your motives and your behavior. His light must reveal your heart and motives. Trusting in your inner ‘light’ or your sincerity is self-deceiving artifice.

Now, I have seen this parable used on Twitter to decry looking down one’s nose and judging others. In that context, a Jesuit projected condemnation onto conservatives, implying that they judge sinners and that, by contrast, Progressives love the sinner and do not judge. Yet, this application of Jesus’ parable is exactly what Jesus is teaching against: self-justification.

It seems to me that we learn to self-justify. We learn early on to measure ourselves by the perceived good or bad of others. We always find someone who we feel is beneath us. I would suggest that since the Enlightenment, though it brought about many good things, there are some self-justifying folks using mis-guided reason as a measuring stick. They see themselves as “too good, too smart” to believe in a Creator God or the concept of sin. They resent anyone telling them that there is a God and that one day we are held accountable. They belittle you If you say so.

Self-justifying resentment is used to disengage and distance oneself from the “other”, as seen in the case of the Pharisee. This disengagement, in my thinking, is also the origin of malignant use of power over others. Resentments are employing the troops of warring desires to destroy the “other”. Resentments use the force of self-justifying power to isolate and then crush the enemy – the “other”. Holding a grudge is the use of self-justification to disparage the “other” and then abandon them on the field to bleed out.

Resentment, and its unresolved warring desire to be justified at all costs, excludes the “other” who does not validate them. The person holding resentment begrudges others. This state of heart, left unchecked, can lead to violent revenge. And self-justifying exclusion of the “other” leads, not to love but to fear and hate and, even murder. When resentment is deployed on a national level there are wars and genocide.

 

Every time you pull resentment out of your high-hat to feign offense its root of bitterness is exposed. The audience can see it even if you do not. You fool no one. Before another self-justifying ‘illusion’ cut that root off, curse it and throw into the fires of hell. Though you once provided a showy diversion for your audience you provided nothing of substance. (See the Gospel of Mark 11:12-14)

If you do not deal with that root, it will continue to grow until it chokes the life out of you and others before too long.

 

 

 

Coming up: Forgiveness is Never Optional

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Two-minutes of hate can turn into fifteen minutes of murderous infamy:

 

“A 38-year-old woman who was angry at YouTube and believed the company was discriminating against her videos, causing her to lose money and views, opened fire with a handgun at the video-sharing website’s California headquarters Tuesday, wounding three people before fatally shooting herself…

“Nasim the Persian Azeri female vegan bodybuilder, also animal rights activist promoting healthy and humane living.”

Nasim Aghdam: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

 

Aghdam shot three victims in the courtyard of the YouTube campus in San Bruno on Tuesday. Police say she then killed herself. Law enforcement officials say they believe that the motive behind the shooting is a domestic-related dispute.

Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

Mission Probable: Self-made Victims

 “Should you decide to accept this mission to self-victimize the IMF (Inane Meme Force) will disavow any knowledge of your subsequent misbehavior if caught in the act.”

 Consider the following IMF missions of self-made victimization:

 Social media participants as victims: every moment of one’s-no depth of field life must become selfie-important.

 We may knowingly expose ourselves à la NY Rep. Anthony Weiner or as Jennifer I’ve-got-a-million-of-them Lawrence and exclaim “others have been messing with my ‘stuff.’

 After the damage is done to reputations it necessarily follows, in this day of dispositive scapegoating, that we then must present ourselves as victims even when we are victims of our own devices. Who would ever look at Jennifer Lawrence’s collection of nude pictures? I mean, the world is so….out there.

 Victims of circumstance or of circus stance on the high wire of notoriety?

 Illegal immigrants as victims: here we see bus loads of victims moving in. Yet, we must remember that these victims are the renewable energy source for Progressive votes. And this, despite the fact that any lack of border control, any lax enforcement by the Obama administration, any amnesty that adds more illegal immigrants to our country equals with other detriments more CO2, more crime, more narcotics, more narco-terrorists, more infectious disease, more gang members, more homeland terrorism and a huge drain on our national resources. But damn it, “victims” they must be for our purposes. We are America, the land of the free from taxation for half the nation and the home of the Black Panther monitored ballot box.

 Environment as victim and victimizer: Well, by now you should have come to your senses and have realized that global warming crisis is man-made. It has been manufactured by the likes of Al Gore and climate scientologists with dubious reports. These ‘scientologists’ or data shufflers dare not cross the red line of truth and lose their collegial credit card status points, their weather stations for life.

 Not only is the environment a victim but just like a Russian nesting doll you, too, can become a victim-of the environment. And, universal victim hood makes each of us eligible to be “insured” under the UN One World global warming whole life redistribution insurance plan. Benefits accrue to those who want to become wealthy off of other’s fears.

 Voter as victim: From the well-known Legal Insurrection blog, a post of Oct. 10th, 2014: “Judge tosses out Texas voter ID as U.S. Supreme Court blocks Wisconsin voter ID The ruling by the U.S. District court finds that such law…creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African-Americans.”

 This ruling by both courts is slap in the face for blacks and Hispanics. It essentially claims that blacks and Hispanics and too stupid, too inept to get an ID and to provide such ID at a polling place. To put it another way, there are millions of people who can secure a proper ID and present it at the time of voting. I am sure that Dr. Ben Carson, a self-made African-American neurosurgeon, can provide a proper ID. He would also help you figure out what to do.

Ask yourself: How do blacks and Hispanics acquire cable TV when they do not have ID?

 Note: The Texas ruling was recently reversed for the Texas Nov. elections but the matter is still in the courts

 Politically biased, blindfold taken off high courts have affirmed blacks and Hispanics as victims-a protected class of victims-so as to garner the un-ID’d ‘victim’s’ weight in votes-for the Progressive side of the scale, of course. Preferential treatment by the courts makes the rest of us truly victims of injustice. Preferential treatment by Progressive bureaucratic Lois Lerner types within our current heavily politicized government negates Democracy in favor of totalitarianism. The Tea Party non-profit groups became true victims of injustice with the administration’s silent approbation.

 The poor as victims: Here is what we are told by the supercilious politicians and Keynesian economists (NYT’s Paul Krugam, Thomas Piketty, et al) : “There are poor people because there are rich people. The global wealth pie is a one fixed-size feeds all pie.  The rich have the larger share. Redistribution is the only answer-it is socially just.”

 It doesn’t matter to the above mentioned wisdom impoverished that the rich have made personal choices that create wealth or that the poor have most often made personal choices which have made them poor and keep them poor. And, somehow, the poor find a way (trading food stamps for cash or bit coins online, for instance) to buy lottery tickets, to gamble in Vegas and to buy enormous HDTVs so they can watch “The Real Housewives of Orange County!”

Our government enables the self-victimization of the poor. Obama and slave master Progressives have created cradle to grave dependency on government.  The “Julia” website is a first hand account about a lifeless victim of gargantuan government gone wild.

 Fiscal and monetary policies-The New Deal, The Great Society, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), TARP, the FED’s tinkering to create artificially low interest rates, ETC.- direct money away from savings and investment, capital that would ultimately create jobs and individual wealth. 

Each one of these government ‘fixits’ creates bubbles that ultimately burst.  There should be a History Channel just for this.  First came the dot com bubble and then the housing bubble. And, most home buyers are now government subsidized. Uh-oh!

Printing money creates ever more debt and puffs up the economy with lighter than air dollars. 

Our government is creating an even greater balloon (Let’s call it the “Keynesian Economic Balloon”) that will soon go bust “Big Time”, as Peter Gabriel sang. Then your dollars will be almost worthless.  The IMF endorses such politically ‘safe’ and economically disastrous inane activity. Just don’t get caught holding USD.

That 47 MILLION people are on food stamps tells me that government enables poverty in our nation.  And there are even ‘victims’ who complain that 99 weeks of unemployment benefits isn’t enough! Use your head and your ID and vote for people with integrity, character and business sense, avoiding lethargic professorial panty waists unless, of course, you should choose the mission of self-made victimization.

 Addicts as victims: Consider this recent “addiction help” advertisement heard on the radio: “Addiction is a disease, not a character flaw.”

 Whoa! Calling an addiction a disease takes the onus off of the addicted, removing them from the light of day and placing them under the dark cloud of victim hood where the sun doesn’t shine on your addled behavior.

 And, it most certainly as advertised, places the addicted under the expensive ‘guidance’ of medical professionals who will’ ‘altruistically’ be your savior. “Victim status is where you belong, why try to fight it. Give us the money that you are now giving to pay for your addiction. Character flaws mean personal responsibility and they may not result in insurance payments to our treatment facility.”

 Homosexuals as victims: Where to begin? When acting out homosexual desires you are told that you are not responsible for your behavior. Rather, what you are dealing with is a quirk, a queerness that exists in the universe. Homosexuals do not even try to overcome your desires and use self control. You will become sexual minority stressed. God knows that you have enough to worry about when you do unnatural things to your self and to others. AIDS is our problem, not yours. You are sexual minority stressed transmitters and no more.

The Politically Correct as victims: it is not easy being totalitarian all the time but the Politically Correct, the language police, must enforce ‘safe’ societal boundaries or bubbles where nothing offensive to their delicate yet ‘diverse’ palettes enters the void. Truly they are victims of their own demands.

 One more IMF mission out of dozens of putative instances:

 Civil Rights victims: The omniscient and all powerful Oz, Eric Holder, and his Race Swami-Tsunami spiritual advisor the ‘reverend’ Al Sharpton have made sure by their appearances that the citizens of Ferguson, MO-the black citizens-received their fair share of victim status. They both spread their special mixture of racial rat poison and silent approbation, disguised as legal fertilizer, on the community lawns of Ferguson, Mo.

 Weeds of lawlessness now spring up daily in Ferguson, Mo. The encroaching and choking weeds are growing in place of flourishing businesses and a thriving community.

 

“Should you decide to accept this mission of self-aggrandizing self-victimization the IMF (Inane Meme Force) will disavow any knowledge of your subsequent misbehavior (unless, of course, it benefits Progressive’s talking points).”

 

In this age of self made victims it is impossible to balance the empathy budget. The stockpile of care is all out of love. Your self-immolation will have to go down in flames without me. In any case your actions will be disavowed by me.

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 There are people in this world who are hurting. And, “Shame on you” is not a strong enough indictment for those who claim victim status when they do “stupid stuff.”

 Pastor Saeed Abedini, Irani, returned to Iran to help Iranian children. He was arrested and placed in prison. He has been in an Irani prison over two years. He is in prison for being a Christian, a Christian seeking to help orphaned Irani children. Pastor Abedini doesn’t play the part of victim. The God of Israel watches over him.