Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. When you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
When I first started a business remodeling houses I told people, we can pull a permit but it will cost 40-50% more and take at least 25-50% more time to finish the job. Not one person ever said yes, let's pull permits.
Years later I was still working without a license. A state investigator fined me $4000, reducing it to $1000 if I would get a license. I got the license and still have it. No one has ever complained about my work. No one called the state. The investigator found my web site. I offended the State.
As for off grid, it is best to be on grid/off grid, doing as much off-grid as you can, so when TSHTF and everyone else is freaking out, you and yours are fine. Best to have a community of such people though. Glad to see you talking about it.
Your methodical analysis of the coming disaster is part Biblical and Alex Jones. And I don't mean in a bad way. You provide the road map to a conflict that is on our doorstep. Transhumanusm is the demonic goal of the power brokers. How this war ends is, I believe, up to God. Ted, you once again sound an alert that most don't even realize is on the horizon.
I wouldn't be too worried about it. The technocrats and their models always fall flat on their faces when confronted with reality. IRL people are not components of an electrical circuit. They don't behave rationally according to predictable physical laws, and treating them as if they did leads to ruin, not efficient utopian bugman hives. You might as well try to model the weather as a herd of frictionless spherical cows.
The only reason this mess has held together as long as it has is the quiet resistance of ordinary people performing ad hoc corrections to keep things functional in spite of the technocracy. The harder the technocrats make this on us, the sooner the machine stops.
Fundamentally the ruler's job is to pave the cow paths, not to create tidy looking maps. When they mistake the map for the territory and try to remake it in their own image, things get less efficient, not more.
This is really good, thank you. For so long I have had an intuition that the last archetypal fulfillment of revelation will be a sort of fusion with the matrix.
But speaking of the money changers, I think it’s important to go back and properly understand the words of Christ in its context
Just getting around to reading some of your content, and thought I'd let you know I enjoyed this one. I just put out the second to last of a series on usury - I think it would fit like a glove with some of your ideas on this piece with the control of money and funding their systems. You may have to read the previous pieces to make sense of it, I'm not sure, but they're all quick reads. Go check it out.
Thanks for your thought provoking work. And I appreciate your reference to looking out for pets in an earlier essay -- at my register, pet sanitation outweighs firewood -- soft drinks outweigh them both -- failure to replicate "normal life" promises to be painful. Maybe you're familiar with the work of Thomas Cole; his four stages of civilization. Alright, a couple of thoughts:
I agree with your references to Revelation. (The range of your vocabulary never jarres with your illustrations. And I finally located an oblique reference to a surfeit of grain in Ezekiel -- 36:19 -- which had been suggested in ascetic literature to have been also the root of neighboring Sodom's depravity. The better known is 4:9. When tempted to think of the "good ol' days", I am cured by the image of the meditation room at the hospital I left: a chapel devoid of symbolism within the town's cathedral. Where did the bread come from? Why is the hospital so beautiful?
I don't think they'll have anything to control -- this insane & incessant worldwide campaign of aerial spraying . . . what is your garden soil like? Ours seems . . . dead. We had twelve feet of rain last season; figuring the aluminum content alone . . . came to something like a thin sheet of foil or a scant mesh of wire covering all the hills. There's enough surfactant in the spray to make our roads a novel slipping hazard. And the insects are mostly gone.
Oh, and that Wasteland illustration is terribly realistic! I recall something like it; a vivid memory. Retail? I took a long drive to a couple of monasteries in Arizona a few years back. On the way, I approached along a narrow highway what seemed to be a ghost town of abandoned stores, shortly to discover something like a fifteen-minute-city in the form of a Wal Mart; the town's new hub.
When I first started a business remodeling houses I told people, we can pull a permit but it will cost 40-50% more and take at least 25-50% more time to finish the job. Not one person ever said yes, let's pull permits.
Years later I was still working without a license. A state investigator fined me $4000, reducing it to $1000 if I would get a license. I got the license and still have it. No one has ever complained about my work. No one called the state. The investigator found my web site. I offended the State.
As for off grid, it is best to be on grid/off grid, doing as much off-grid as you can, so when TSHTF and everyone else is freaking out, you and yours are fine. Best to have a community of such people though. Glad to see you talking about it.
Your methodical analysis of the coming disaster is part Biblical and Alex Jones. And I don't mean in a bad way. You provide the road map to a conflict that is on our doorstep. Transhumanusm is the demonic goal of the power brokers. How this war ends is, I believe, up to God. Ted, you once again sound an alert that most don't even realize is on the horizon.
I wouldn't be too worried about it. The technocrats and their models always fall flat on their faces when confronted with reality. IRL people are not components of an electrical circuit. They don't behave rationally according to predictable physical laws, and treating them as if they did leads to ruin, not efficient utopian bugman hives. You might as well try to model the weather as a herd of frictionless spherical cows.
The only reason this mess has held together as long as it has is the quiet resistance of ordinary people performing ad hoc corrections to keep things functional in spite of the technocracy. The harder the technocrats make this on us, the sooner the machine stops.
Fundamentally the ruler's job is to pave the cow paths, not to create tidy looking maps. When they mistake the map for the territory and try to remake it in their own image, things get less efficient, not more.
This is really good, thank you. For so long I have had an intuition that the last archetypal fulfillment of revelation will be a sort of fusion with the matrix.
But speaking of the money changers, I think it’s important to go back and properly understand the words of Christ in its context
Just getting around to reading some of your content, and thought I'd let you know I enjoyed this one. I just put out the second to last of a series on usury - I think it would fit like a glove with some of your ideas on this piece with the control of money and funding their systems. You may have to read the previous pieces to make sense of it, I'm not sure, but they're all quick reads. Go check it out.
Thanks for your thought provoking work. And I appreciate your reference to looking out for pets in an earlier essay -- at my register, pet sanitation outweighs firewood -- soft drinks outweigh them both -- failure to replicate "normal life" promises to be painful. Maybe you're familiar with the work of Thomas Cole; his four stages of civilization. Alright, a couple of thoughts:
I agree with your references to Revelation. (The range of your vocabulary never jarres with your illustrations. And I finally located an oblique reference to a surfeit of grain in Ezekiel -- 36:19 -- which had been suggested in ascetic literature to have been also the root of neighboring Sodom's depravity. The better known is 4:9. When tempted to think of the "good ol' days", I am cured by the image of the meditation room at the hospital I left: a chapel devoid of symbolism within the town's cathedral. Where did the bread come from? Why is the hospital so beautiful?
I don't think they'll have anything to control -- this insane & incessant worldwide campaign of aerial spraying . . . what is your garden soil like? Ours seems . . . dead. We had twelve feet of rain last season; figuring the aluminum content alone . . . came to something like a thin sheet of foil or a scant mesh of wire covering all the hills. There's enough surfactant in the spray to make our roads a novel slipping hazard. And the insects are mostly gone.
Oh, and that Wasteland illustration is terribly realistic! I recall something like it; a vivid memory. Retail? I took a long drive to a couple of monasteries in Arizona a few years back. On the way, I approached along a narrow highway what seemed to be a ghost town of abandoned stores, shortly to discover something like a fifteen-minute-city in the form of a Wal Mart; the town's new hub.
Excellent Theodore, very well done!
"Apparently, The Matrix was a documentary."
scott