Opinion

‘A monk once went to ask the mysterious recluse Elder Herodion about indecisiveness; he had two thoughts (logismoi) and knew not which to follow. Before he had asked, Elder Herodion told him, “Do not let opinion divide you; you should divide it.”

Deep State Armageddon

“You know what I’m really scared of with Trump?”

“What?”

“Well he’s a complete psycho. And I’m scared he might stop World War 3 from happening. Because that’s what our sane, peaceful leaders are doing their best to get happening quick before he gets in.”

“World War 3?”

“Exactly. You know, firing US missiles into Russia and all that. And hopefully get everyone else involved then too. 

And you know why they’re doing it?”

“No. Why?”

“To make the world a safe place.”

And here’s John Lennon from 1968:

Ship, Cranes, Cork

Possibly a man from the Tudor Period

 

mystery of creatIon

 

Just browsing through photos, a couple of images of a piece in its first appearance, still wet, and then how it ended up. It might show that when or if I talk of a piece as if it appears almost apart from my intellect or will, and then I try to shape it a bit, and ideally the less the better, this is hopefully a pretty good example of the truth of that. That I’m not consciously looking to create such an image before its initial appearance - though how tuned in I am may considerably affect the likelihood of something interesting and ‘true’ appearing in the first place, and from where a final worthwhile piece may result.

To add, it is a pity much of the beautiful black fluidity of the initial inky forms is lost or diluted as the ink dries.

Love

“You know what I love about the mainstream media?”

“What?”

“Avoiding it.”

Alice ‘Gene’ Kloss - Christmas Eve, Taos Pueblo

 

Stalin, Language, Pronouns, Addiction, Cult

[This is all very shorthand rather than fleshed out, which would just take too long and unnecessary anyway.]

“Of all the monopolies enjoyed by the Soviet State none would be so crucial as its monopoly on the definition of words. The ultimate weapon of political control would be the dictionary.” (Robert Tucker ‘Stalin and the Uses of Psychology, 1956). 

And in line with this, there was a strong focus on writing and re-writing dictionaries in the USSR after 1950.

Thus in our age, with the same ‘progressive’ ideology and cult, children are for example urged to pick their pronouns. Reality is undermined and re-assembled. The essence of the pronouns stuff, etc is that the human no longer inhabits reality, but is a cult member in the very active neurological structure of their minds. That is part of why addictions are so difficult to overcome. The addiction of course involves the external substance or activity to which one is addicted, but in a deeper sense it is this internal mechanism of the mind that has to be re-shaped. With the behavioural addiction, we have to again and again put the brakes on these habitual and addicted pathways of the mind.

And also to mention, madness is specifically the inhabiting of an intellectual hallucination. The person identifies to a great degree with a reality distorted by the delusional filter of their disturbed selves. And thus again with the modern ideology in action, “I identify as . . .” something other than what is - and this delusional identification is raised to the throne! A coup has taken place. Thus revolutionary ideology - reality is overthrown by the ideology/ intellectual hallucination.

And because it’s a cult in the obviously toxic sense, anyone not in the cult is deeply questionable, while anyone clearly opposed to it is vilified as, for example in Leninist terms “an enemy of the people” - and so inferentially not even a person! - while in the modern Western version, the threat to the cult is a racist or misogynist or fascist or whatever. Something utterly evil anyway. The all-good cult is threatened, the threat in its contrary state is by definition all-evil. Let’s rally to the cause and defeat these evil bigots!

And if you have ever encountered a cult in the more minor sense, if any threat particularly to the leader of the cult, even in the most seemingly harmless sense of not treating the leader as infallible, the cult members will unite as one like bees protecting the hive or queen, and act to repel the threat. And this is the  core of “ Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The cult members go nuts at the appearance of this very unlikely threat to the cult. If it seriously needs stressing, people talking of things like “birthing persons” are most certainly deep in a cult.

See, at this stage, as I tried to show earlier regarding addiction, it’s not a belief about something external to the believer, but their very neurological state is one with what is believed in, the belief and the believer are the same phenomenon, and thus deconditioning is so deep or all-encompassing a process. And especially if the cult is on such a massive and all-encompassing level as is now, and where its adherents or cult members have generally no idea they’re even in a cult!

caT

Repentance and Vigilance

 

Cutting

Rock band, Countercultural Icons of Humanity, the offspring of the seminal Rockstars Against Freedom, have a new song coming out: I Was Cutting Edge Roughly Half a Century Ago. 

The song is said to be full of an almost heartbreaking sense of yearning both for the past and for the future.

Stuck

“If you had something stuck in your head, you’d let it in somehow and now you couldn’t get rid of it, what would you do?”

“And it was driving me half-mad?”

“Exactly. So what would you do?”

“I suppose I’d have to cut off my head.”

“What?! You don’t think that’s a bit extreme?”

“I don’t know. Maybe it is. It was just the first thing that came to mind.”

weathered

 

annoying

 

This is kind of an annoying picture in that I don’t like it very much, but it’s also maybe interesting enough that I can’t justify not working on it and giving it a chance to get to some proper finished state.

This is Not a White Birch

 

Pigeons a and b

 

Relationship to the World

“ On the road of our approach to God stands the world– we must pass through the understanding of it. Every man has a mission connected with the world. Everyone must know it according to the power given to him, in as much as knowledge can’t come until the gaining of virtues; everyone must develop beforehand a moral activity of relationship to the world. A mainly negative attitude to the world frustrates salvation itself. The world is imposed on everyone as a stone for sharpening his spiritual faculties,” 

St. Dumitru Staniloae (Orthodox Spirituality. St. Tikhon Seminary Press, pg. 205)

From this article Ascetic Strength

Fire

“If you had a fire going and there was a lot of rubbish thrown on it, would you prefer it was burned up quickly or slowly?”

“I don’t know. I suppose just as long as it was all burned up would be the main thing. The last thing you’d want is the fire to be gone out and the rubbish still there.”

Prayer, Gellerio featuring Divna Ljubojovic

Gellerio is an electronic musician from Mordovia, while the far better known Divna Ljubokovic is a Serbian singer and conductor of Orthodox Christian sacred music, who has an amazingly powerful and pure voice. I can’t embed the song here, so here is the link instead:

Prayer

Early on Sunday

 

Malcolm X and the White Liberals

There is of course nothing more refined and full of integrity than the progressive liberal, even if he or she is white.

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And regarding Malcolm X’s description of the liberal as a deceitful fox, think of one of this ideology’s key words, fluid, like with someone’s gender identity. Well beyond the particulars, why is this word so key? If someone is fluid, they have no fixed values or identity. A conman or a pathological liar is fluid, someone with deep psychological, or in truth spiritual, problems diagnosed as borderline personality disorder in their sense of self is fluid, someone with no morals is entirely fluid - nothing is fixed, stable, every position, every loyalty can shift. 

And I’d say it’s pretty certain that it is people immersed in the traumas termed, for example, borderline personality disorder who are easy prey to things like gender identity and transgender ideology - where they are offered a supposed answer to their unstable sense of self. “We’ll help screw up your sense of reality, pretend it’s a healthy confusion and unstability, which is fuel for our agendas, and then offer the supposed fixed solution to the confusion where stability will be attained.”

Deprogramming

 

I’m more posting this for the few lines said by Dave Rubin at the end here. It can take an awful lot to deprogramme cult members, and to be honest, if anyone is plugged into the mainstream media, then they are deep in a brainwashing cult. And unless they stop being plugged in, then they won’t get out of it.

Sumi-e pastoral

 

Mountains

“You’ve done a lot of mountain climbing. Have you any special or succinct thoughts on it as a whole?”

“It takes more effort going up, but it’s more dangerous coming down.”

Election Blow, Strange

“What did you think of the US election result?”

“I thought it was a terrible blow for pregnant men everywhere.”

“But they only have themselves to blame. Not enough pregnant men got out there and voted. That’s largely why the Democrat candidate tally dropped from 81 millions to about 66 millions.”

“That was some drop.”

“Yes, but it had also been some rise. The previous election to the last one the Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton had also gotten about 66 millions.”

“So their tally jumped from 66 million to 81 million, and then back down to 66 million.”

“Something like that.”

“That’s very, very, very, very strange,”

“It is very strange, yes. And so still no Democrat candidate has ever ended up getting in the 70 millions of votes.”

“Not even Obama the first time around, when the world was lovebombed endlessly with the idea he was a messiah figure?”

“No, not even then. He got a little less than 70 millions, and of course won by a landslide.”

“So Biden skipped the 70s, which figure no Democrat ever previously attained, and went straight into the 80s?”

“Yeah.”

“And it didn’t turn out to be some kind of new normal? Harris went straight back down to the usual kind of figure of 66 millions? Those fifteen millions, nearly a quarter of the normal tally just disappeared into some hole or other.”

“Yeah, that’s it. And that was in an election, the Biden one, where Trump in getting 74 million votes, smashed the previous highest tally by any candidate, which had been the 69.5 or so millions by Obama his first election, and where he of course won by a landslide. By any kind of logic, you’d have thought a total like 74 million would win by a massive margin.”

“And so why was it again the Democrats didn’t stick with Biden who got that colossal figure that came as if from an entirely different country?”

“Because it turned out that he had crazy levels of dementia, and his true state couldn’t be falsified anymore.”

“Falsified by the same people telling us he had really gotten 81 million votes, even though this figure bore no resemblance whatsoever to any other election before or now after?”

“Yeah.”

“It’s all very weird all right.”

“Yes, life can be very strange.”

greeN

 

Forecasts

“Did you hear about the weather forecaster who lost his mind?”

“No. What happened him?”

“Well, what I think or imagine happened is he got carried away by the accuracy of a string of forecasts, and he ended with some kind of god complex where he thought his forecasts were actually causing the weather to happen. It was very sad.”

gOthic

 Something with maybe a kind of Gothic feel I’m seeing if I can sort out.