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From sometime back in the early 90s of a previous century:

More on Body and Spirit

This is in relation to this post: https://wwwinabstentia-andrewk.blogspot.com/2021/08/spirit-and-body.html

If people are alienated from the spirit, then they are slaves to the body and will accept virtually anything in defence of the life of this body which is all they believe they have. 

Sin is slavery to corruption. Well the body dies it then suffers corruption, so this is a way of looking at the description of being “slaves to sin.” It is to be a slave to something which, in terms of its attempt to be an absolute value, suffers total defeat. And so the line from the Gospel of Luke, “To everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”

This is why for example it is the so called progressives or liberals for all their surface pride and vanity, are so servile in their attitudes to issues like lockdowns, masks, vaccine passes, etc. A society which is of ‘the world’, as in the earthly or physical world divorced from the spirit, is already enslaved at an inner level, and thus it is so easy for this enslavement to become more actualised within totalitarian systems, if this brings the promise of offering protection for “the one who has nothing.” It is also why systems which deny the spirit, like Marxism, do not accidentally become slave systems through human error. Being purely “of the world”, they are inevitably so from their very core.

This is why what is currently happening at such an accelerated pace in the world brings with it such sharp division. It goes much deeper than simply secular issues of power.

Cloud

There was a cloud and it wouldn’t rain. People wondered if it ever would. Why did it keep on threatening if it wasn’t going to do anything? Sometimes someone would imagine they felt drops, they might even say as much, but it was hard to know if it was simply their imagining or reality. Maybe they were especially sensitive, maybe it was something else. No downfall anyway would follow.

But the longer it didn’t rain, the more it was going to rain - that was one idea. The longer it didn’t rain, the less likely it was ever going to rain - that was another.

Nostalghia

 

A still from Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Spirit and Body

Some quick thoughts:

Death is non-existence. Non-existence doesn’t exist. Therefore death does not exist. This is simple logic. 

However we see the body ‘dies’, or rather ceases to be animated by a living spirit, so it is the living spirit that animated the body that does not die. 

Jesus said, He would save his life will lose it. The person who primarily identifies with the body loses their real life of the spirit, and of course the body which they try to cling to.

Sin, or at least so much of it, is this enslavement to the body, or carnality. And because the spirit is the truth of self, then it really is enslavement! Thus things like shame, where the self as spirit knows it acted in submission to something lesser than itself, and the false nature of what to submitted to became very obvious as one went deeper into its nature and pathways.

On the other hand, there is historically lots of dismissing and hatred of life in the physical, because of its being at odds with a felt spiritual perfection. All kinds of religious and philosophical doctrines pour out and transform in time from this feeling, right down into atheism. This in itself is double-minded or a schizophrenic disconnect. There is no need to view the body as evil! But it is a huge matter to fully reconcile the spirit and life in the physical realm. What is wanted is the two in accord, not discord. That might sound nice and simple and logical, but it’s no small thing.

Miss

“What do you think you’ll miss most about life when you die?”

“I think what I’ll miss most is living in fear of dying. I’ll look back and think to myself, “That was the life.”

X22 Again

 Latest version of X22 Report: https://rumble.com/vloq0k-ep.-2561b-defcon-1-us-government-relocated-fire-and-fury-owl.html

Leadership

“Mr President, what words would you like to say to the Taliban at this moment in time?”

“Get vaccinated.”

Bait

There was a fisherman in a small boat, with a fishing rod and bait at the end of his line in the water. Below were two large fish, and one turned in fright to the other, exclaiming, “Oh no, that fisherman is at it again!”

“All you have to do is not take the bait. Then after a while you’ll see anyway he’ll just move on.”

“But it looks so tasty! Look at it!”

“Leave it alone you idiot.”

Planet

“There was a planet of slaves who all had to wear masks - “

“What the hell kind of a planet is that?!”

“Just this mad planet.”

Kynan Bridges on New World Order

Ohrid Annunciation Icon

From the early 1300s, with Ohrid being a city in North Macedonia. Even with presumably deterioration of the painting, just stunningly pure and beautiful. What a sense of colour.

Running Men

The main reason I share the video below is you get to see two narcissistic idiots filmed while running through corridors in shirts and ties for a while at the end of it. Seeing such extraordinary images could be the difference between you having a good day or a great day.

Governmental

“What’s your favourite form of governmental rule?”

“Totalitarianism.”

“Really!?”

“Yeah, but don’t get me wrong: only when there’s a really good reason for it, like say if there’s a very serious foreign military invasion immediately threatening, or maybe there’s a kind of a flu going around that we don’t have a reliable test for.”

“You’re not any bit sceptical about handing over civil liberties to the kind of deranged mediocrities who tend to create and run totalitarian regimes”

“Oh no! If there’s one thing history has thought us is those deranged mediocrities you mention who tend to slither around at the centre and peripheries of totalitarian regimes almost never abuse those totalitarian powers they felt they had to give themselves.

And those regimes actually taken a weight of responsibility off the shoulders of the people, who now don’t have to worry themselves about what to do with all the unnecessary freedoms they used to have - like going outside or whatever. The people might be just told for example, “Stay inside as much as possible. Only come outside if you have a very strong and necessary reason, and only then with a mask on your face. Don’t talk to anyone.” And so life is much, much simpler and less chaotic then.”

Favourite

“What’s your favourite painting?”

“I don’t have one.”

“But if you did have one, what would it be?”

Media Again, Biden

I obviously, for anyone who’s read a few of my posts here, have a very deep dislike of the media in general, that in broad terms it is an organ of oppression, fear, dishonesty, etc. And even where there are outlets where some measure of more serious truth emanate, such as with Tucker Carlson at Fox, still coming from on high there is a lid on the levels of truth permitted - such as the very obvious fact of voter fraud, or where Fox presenters denied Newt Gingrich permission to talk about the effects and influence of George Soros. Still some truth is better than none, though with the downside being that it can present the illusion that the whole truth at the deepest levels is genuinely on display.

The point of this though is not that I’m going to start looking into what relevant organisations are saying now, but I wonder how these relevant fake media people and outlets are dealing with the full exposure of whoever the hell Joe Biden is, after their entire focus for years was to get this guy, clearly utterly unfit for office, into office. In terms of the interests of humanity, these people are traitorous. “That’s unfair! Who could have known he and his administration would be so corrupt and divorced from reality?” Anyone who had just watched a few clips on YouTube would have known this. For example:

What the hell kind of person are we dealing with here? The mind of someone who would imagine this a good anecdote to tell (and who terms black children “roaches”) . . .

“I’m not sure about the hairy legs and the roaches story, Mr Biden.” 

“Are you kidding me? The voters will love it! And anyway, everyone needs to need to know how I learned about kids jumping on my lap.” 

And the media in a worldwide scale by and large fed the public relentlessly that the world absolutely had to get Trump out and get this person in - and in this cause absolutely doctored what people got to see so as to present him as legitimate - when there’s plenty stuff out there to show he clearly had deteriorating cognitive issues. We had departed any kind of rational universe. And this is Newt Gingrich on the magisterial Biden below:

Divorce

The sad news has reached me that the mainstream media and truth are set to get a divorce. They have of course been legally separated for years, but now the decision has been reached to go the whole way and fully terminate the relationship. “We thought we might still perhaps some day be able to come back together again and make it work, so we tried to keep that door open,” said a spokesperson for the media, “but it turns out we’re just too incompatible.”

Sediment

A man took a glass bottle filled with water and shook it. Sediment that had settled in the bottom of the bottle was set into chaotic motion inside. It seemed settled, didn’t it, he said, but look what I have effected. He seemed very pleased with himself.

A short while later someone had a look at the bottle on the table, and saw that the sediment had virtually all settled again on the bottom. He picked up the bottle to have a closer look, but then unfortunately someone, an acquaintance, tapped him on the shoulder, and in his fright the bottle slipped from his hands, smashed to the ground, and everything - glass, water, sediment - went everywhere. 

In Parallel

“You know the tragic shambles in Afghanistan?”

“Yeah.”

“It’s incompetence by the US administration at such a level where it’s reasonable and necessary to wonder whether it’s actually treasonous; and either way whatever the explanation it’s obvious the relevant people in leadership roles are utterly unfit for office.”

“It’s hard to argue about that.”

“Imagine those are essentially the same criminal morons telling people what to do regarding Covid.”

“Yeah but they turn into intelligent, wise and caring people when they turn their minds to that issue. The criminal moron in their psyche disappears.”

“That’s handy.”

Board Game

Joe Biden is set to launch a new board game called Demented which is apparently a variation on Scrabble, but with the main difference being that the words formed must not make any sense. 

The Most

“What do you love most about the news?”

“The brainwashing.”

“Yeah, I love that as well.”

Divided

In response to being accused of casting out devils by being demonic himself, Jesus said, If Satan’s kingdom is divided against itself how can Satan’s kingdom stand? Looking at that thought as a general truth: since the very essence of satanism is egotism which is self-worship, one’s own pleasure at the expense of anything and anyone else, then a kingdom of separate egos must as a whole be divided against itself. Each ego must desire to be the king of creation, else this is not egotism! Thus the emotions such as envy which are natural emanations of that spirit - of one ego recognising another ego’s apparent triumph as its own failure to be the head.

And so if pushed to its natural conclusion, satanism or egotism, rather than a united kingdom of devotion to a common leader, must be divided against itself. If I give obedience to another, then my ego is not the final word, which is in contradiction to egotism. Just at the level of feeling, this would inevitably lead to envy and hatred at the failure of my ego to be king - and so this is kingdom divided against itself. These cracks can papered over in some temporal setting, of having some innocence to conquer and defile, but if a kingdom of egotism is left in its ‘purity’, closed in upon itself and no longer having access to such external outlets, then such a kingdom, which we call hell, really is hell. 

Differently

“What would you do differently if you could live your life in reverse?”

“What?”

“If you could go backwards in your life instead of forwards, what would you do differently?”

“I don’t think that question makes any sense.”

More Dustin

 

Mark

“You know that thing in the Bible about nobody being able to buy or sell without getting the mark of the beast - do you see any sign of that in the modern world and where it might be going?”

“No, I don’t see nothing like that.”

“Look it’s starting to rain! Come on, we’ll go into this cafe here, quick!”

“I can’t. I haven’t been vaccinated  yet, so I’m not allowed in.”

“That’s a pity cos I do have my vaccine pass, and so I am allowed in to buy whatever I want. Look, you can see the mark on my arm still from the jab.”

“I’m so jealous! I don’t have any mark yet. When I do get the mark in my arm from the jab, then I’ll be able to come in and sit down just like you, and buy what I want.”

“I suppose all the people working in there are vaccinated?”

“Oh yeah, I’m sure they are. You’d have to have the mark from the jab to be allowed to be in there and to sell things.”

It’s not something I’m up on but apparently there is a bit more to the mark of the beast, that the lads above briefly talked about, than simply a jab obtained in all innocence; but of course if you’re getting say from one place to another, unless it’s a very short journey, you do have to travel through a bit of terrain to get there. 

Lighthouse at Honfleur

 

By Georges Seurat, Summer 1886.

Storm

These people, and the shadows around the campfire, and the dark bales, and the distant lightning flashing every moment in the distance - all now looked desolate and frightening to him. To the left, as if someone had struck a match against the sky, a pale phosphorescent strip flashed and went out. There was a sound of someone walking on an iron roof somewhere very far away. He was probably walking barefoot, because the iron made a dull rumble.

“It’s all around!” cried Kiriukha.

The Steppe, Anton Chekhov. 

Boats

There were two boats in the sea near the shore. One was anchored but one, for some odd reason wasn’t, it drifted about. Maybe its owner considered it a free spirit, though it’s more likely that since there was a rope however dangling from it into the water, while it was imagined it was moored or anchored, in truth there was nothing of substance at the other end of the rope. Maybe the rope had rotted away, some large creature had bitten through it, its an or had rusted away, whatever. 

A stormy night came along and the adrift boat got swept along by the waves until finally getting smashed and wrecked against the rocks. The anchored one however, while it was tossed and battered about in all the wildness, still it survived the ordeal intact. 

The Recurring Theme of Climate Catastrophe

Maurice Strong, Under Secretary General of the United Nations, talking of the environment and climate change, tells us “We have ten years to stop the catastrophe.” That is terrifying. Fortunately though, he said this in 1972 and we survived that one. Then in 1982 the UN told us of “an environmental catastrophe as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust was on the horizon by the year 2000.” I don’t think it happened. In 1989 the UN kindly informed us of “global disaster . . . nations wiped off the face of the earth”, presumably through rising sea levels, if we didn’t fix climate change by 1999. I’m not sure how many nations have been wiped off the earth since then but then again I haven’t been counting. In 1990 Mostafa Tolba, head of UN Environment Program said we would have irrevocably lost the climate change war if we hadn’t fixed it by 1995. Which sounds like saying we might as well just give up on the issue after 1995 as it will have been decided one way or the other by then.

Al Gore told us back around 2007 the North Pole could well be entirely free of ice by 2014 or so. He wasn’t treated as an unhinged laughing stock; instead he got a Nobel Prize. His catastrophic to the nth degree claims didn’t quite materialise. This past winter we had record cold winter weather in many places regarding temperatures and snowfall. 

Currently of course the UN are telling us we only have a few short years left to “prevent irreversible damage from climate change.”It’s interesting how they continue to be undeterred by any obvious sense of embarrassment or doubts as to their claims, and also how the obediently spouting media has such short memories. 

This is all more or less courtesy of Hoover Institute visiting fellow Bjorn Lomberg, who presented these photos of past news stories in pointing out how “the UN routinely warns us that we have just a few years left until catastrophe.”

They Are Lying Like Hell

 

“The devil lies because lying is his language. And the voices under the enemy’s influence are lying voices. They are deceitful workers.”

That guy is someone maybe worth your while checking out - Kynan Bridges. He has an inner  authority, is very solid - and has a great voice! His words may seem quite straightforward and maybe repetitious, but there is real weight behind and within them.

And regarding some of what us quoted there, just a reminder of the ceremony to open the Gothard Tunnel attended by pillars of European society such as German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Who the hell are these people? A post on the opening of that big tunnel here: https://wwwinabstentia-andrewk.blogspot.com/2021/04/gotthard-tunnel-ceremony.html

Pressure

I’ll try and keep this from turning into a carefully argued essay piece, so if it gets a bit abrupt and lacks elegance, then that’s the way it is!

At least in some situations, if sufficient pressure is exerted on a body, a new energy form arises, say through the imposing of extreme heat water is boiled and steam arises, or over large timescale coal arises from the compression of dead plant matter. Well right now huge pressure is being imposed on humanity by “elites” through their power structures such as the media, and so on down pretty self-evident pathways towards which they themselves call a ‘Great Reset’, which is some vision of enormously enhanced state control over the individual. These shapers of the common destiny are trying to compress things through this pressure to get the new or exaggerated societal form they are seeking, and also the compression of mankind at the individual level into a more easily controlled form. As Dostoevsky’s Dmitri Karamazov says “Man is broad, too broad even. I would narrow him down.” However much though these ‘elites’ view mankind as simply lumpen matter to be pushed about and moulded, and though unfortunately very many people will obediently bow down to virtually everything for a promised peace at the other end of the bowing down, humans aren’t simply matter, and there is a lot more volatility to what arises from all this pressure than the “elites”, these deranged and pathetic arseholes, would like to think. 

We are though in a time of great compression, of huge imposing of psychological pressure on us, though with the unusual result of it also being perhaps despite itself possessing a huge unifying force, of bringing people back together, such as happens in times of war, from an age of disconnect or on the other hand false unities under the umbrellas of cultural vapidities the elites themselves pushed in the first place, such as following a Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga.

Under the pressure of this moment, a lot of superfluous areas of people’s lives are falling away as not measuring up to the moment, so the pressure, painful as it is, may be birthing a new integrity and spiritual alignment very different from the desired result the elites are expecting.

Bow Down Ye Fools

This is the world of the status quo. Listen to them. They possess inner and outer authority. They ooze truth, legitimacy, integrity and intelligence.

British Paratrooper on Resistance to War on Us

 

Servility, Nietzsche, Jesus

I’m not going to try to go anyway deep into the following but just to touch on the idea of the ideal of Christ as being excessively meek, and this meekness flowing easily into an attitude of servility and actually being an outpouring at source of a slave mentality, as one might find in Nietzsche. I think Nietzsche is far from consistent though in such attitudes, and the very fact of in his plunge into madness he even signed his name to letters as The Crucified One suggests how deep all this really affected him. Anyway I’m not going to make an essay or comprehensive argument out of this but just to give a couple of quotes nearby each other from the Gospel of Luke regarding this idea of servility, and to say real servility will do anything to avoid conflict, with the hopeful result of being left alone regardless of the cost to one’s dignity:

Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit.

I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptised, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you but rather division! From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

In

“If there was this building and the front door was locked, how would you get in?”

“I’d try the back door.”

“But if the back door was locked as well, how would you get in then?”

“I suppose I’d try the windows.”

“But if there were no windows.”

“What you mean - no glass in the windows?”

“No, just no windows. Solid walls.”

“It doesn’t sound like some place I’d want to be trying to get into. I think I’d be happy to just move on.”

“You’d just give up?!”

“I would yeah.”

Reasonable

“Should the insane, stupid people who refuse to be vaccinated be sent to concentration camps to protect the responsible citizens from infection?”

“I thought the point of the vaccines was the vaccines protected us.”

“It’s complicated. So anyway in the interests of public health should the unvaccinated be sent to concentration camps?”

“Maybe, but it’s just that concentration camps doesn’t have the nicest connotations. Could we not call them something a bit more pleasant?”

“Ok, should the unvaccinated, who are clearly enemies of the people, be sent to safety camps to protect the state and its honest citizens?”

“Yeah, I suppose that sounds reasonable. But come to think of it could we not just forcibly vaccinate them?”

“If they are choosing to be unvaccinated, then not just physically but also mentally they are clearly enemies of the state, they are not bowing down to our authority; and so it’s better to remove them from view altogether. Otherwise ideologically they would be spreading harm, and damaging public trust in our system.”

Obviously that dialogue above is just a wild fantasy that could never happen in a million years - or at least for a few months.

Excuses

What does every single totalitarian regime ever in history have in common? Well if it was felt necessary to explain the move into totalitarianism, all gave explanations why they had to be temporarily totalitarian - because of course when the temporary crisis that threatened everyone and everything was thanks to these measures in the near future overcome - Jews, class enemies, whatever - then things would naturally be relaxed. In the meantime though, until we got to this future, massive amounts of fear had to be awakened in everyone about the relevant crises which were threatening existence. Unfortunately though it seems these crises had a habit of in time never ever being quite overcome, or else perhaps a new threat would come along, and so the totalitarianism became more and more solidified against these threats. They had no choice. 

Not one of these regimes ever just came out and explained the totalitarianism as simply the result of their being deranged and psychotic control freaks, and that this was the kind of world they wanted. Maybe it wouldn’t have gone down well. Instead there were always very good excuses offered . . . well maybe not very good excuses, admittedly they might have been crap excuses, but they were still offered up, and maybe some people even believed them. 

Cynical

Mr. Propter laughed. “It’s good to be cynical. That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things we’re all taught to respect and reverence - they don’t deserve anything but cynicism. Unless you’re steadily and unflaggingly cynical about the solemn twaddle that’s talked by bankers and politicians and professors and all the rest of them, you’re utterly lost.”

Aldous Huxley, After Many A Summer

Island

There was an island, wonderful, a paradise, you’d go there by boat if that’s where you were going, and in spite of everything, the modern world, it remained wonderful, a visit there would restore the soul. 

An ambitious and democratic idea was formulated and decided on to make it so much easier to get to this island from the mainland, and despite the considerable distance between them a bridge was built to connect the two. An amazing achievement. Unfortunately though, now that the island was in effect no longer an island, it soon and ever more so gained the spirit of the mainland and lost the spirit of itself. 

Integrity Meets Duplicity

How transparently the Dutch prime minister immediately seeks to completely deflect into avenues of ridicule, “conspiracy theory, 911” etc - cos of course the totalitarianism that has come sweeping into our world is all very normal stuff that no reasonable person should question. Nothing to see here. 

As the first YouTube comment says, “When the first thing out of their mouths is conspiracy theory when you mention Schwab, you know you have them dead to rights.” 

Quickest

“What’s the quickest way out of a nightmare?”

“To wake up.”

X22 Latest

 https://rumble.com/vkp2nd-ep.-2543b-ds-never-thought-she-would-losenow-they-all-losetiming-left-up-to.html

Latest on things with the Deep State psychopaths, the war against them and so on.

Page

There was a page, we were all on it, but who knows where we might all end up if someone turned the page, so it was decided we would remain where we were and any turning of it so was strictly forbidden. We were still going to keep progressing though, but we’d just have t get hold of someone who could somehow make the page bigger so words could continue to be added. Otherwise of course things could get stagnant. You’ve got to keep moving, but of course in a controlled manner. 

Who decided on all this? People in the distance somewhere - and the rest of us apparently agreed. Anyone who didn’t agree obviously wouldn’t be worth mentioning.

But what if someone still ended up turning the page - despite all the restrictions and good advice and everything? I don’t know. By the sound of it though it would be awful. I hear though actually they’re saying we need to burn the rest of the book so there wouldn’t be any pages to turn to - and then of course nothing could ever go wrong.

2020: How Lockdowns and Vaccinations Will Play Out

This is a Canadian guy called Chris Sky talking over a year or so ago on how things would play out regarding this stuff - how masks would be mandated, contact tracing, lockdowns, then vaccines would be imposed. Then how a little later Canadians would be told that unfortunately the vaccines weren’t as effective as hoped, and so masks and lockdowns would still be needed; and on things would continue to go.

edit: Since posting it I see the good YouTube overlords have removed the video - because they love us and our well-being so much - so instead here is a different short video with the same guy.

Road with Cypress and Star

Starry Night is the much more famous painting, but I think I actually like this more, the somewhat similar Road with Cypress and Star, also known as Country Road in Provence by Night.

Family Values

Just to add the passing observation of how differently Joe spoke back in those days. Funny how different both the voice and the manner of delivery were. Whether you agree with his hardline views or not, you have to admire how fully committed he was to them. 

 One other point to make is even with most of the media presumably studiously avoiding such material from Hunter Biden’s laptop, the exact kind of salacious stuff the media tends to absolutely adore, manna from heaven in media terms . . . well the fact such pieces of footage like the above are being released by whoever into the public domain, shows the relevant elites are far less in control of the flow of information than they would like, or might appear to be. 

Sentence

“How many words does it take to make up a sentence?”

“It depends on the sentence.”