WTF

I wrote the post below to show how this world, this existence, this level is a pretty low level of existence. I recently saw a local rich man's mansion/estate (he was a famous builder) and of course he's dead. Got his house just as he wanted it, by then he's in his 80's, and he dies. Even if alive in a big house unless it's full of life you're just walking through empty halls and rooms and probably settling into a suite of rooms that equal an apartment anyway, while continually worrying that the Manson gang is breaking in and poised to kill you in your sleep.

I'm convinced lately that good looking people don't eat food because I never see good looking people in grocery stores. Most likely there are very few good looking people.

Ever see a porn star without make-up? They look like demons. Not that porn stars are the measure of attractiveness, but movie stars are somewhat similar.

I'm jaded because I know too much. I see higher realms, higher categories, pure types, ideals.

Just pointing out this level of existence is rather dead. Mostly people exist on vicarious experience and so real life becomes delusion.

People who desired to and were able to really work the sexual sides of life turn out to be obese gluttons when you see them by happenstance down the road. Flesh, food...

Much of it all is like a cosmic prank. Get understanding, but now you're old. Same with wealth. Get wealth at birth and you don't appreciate it, or it keeps you shallow. Alienation pranks the here and now. Alienated from God, people, nature.

It seems like the only thing that is real is getting born (and getting others born) and then getting born again (regenerated). All else may be necessary, but is impractical for true joy and borders on an ongoing prank beyond that.

This is not a black pill singing, this is reality. Ecclesiastes? It's in the Bible...


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Looking at life it's obvious the level of being of humanity is very mechanical and low. Not meant to be an insult, just an observation.

Mixed with the low level of being is the constraint of physical laws that have to be dealt with. Not starving, not freezing to death, not getting killed by animals, or other humans. Teeth cleaning and repair. Getting your car smogged.

Dealing with criminal and evil and treasonous behavior in your local or national capital. Staving off tyranny, maintaining liberty, if you've got it to begin with.

Difficult to get anything going along the lines of real development amidst all these, and a thousand more, necessary distractions. A recipe for an enforced shallow existence.

Other than the suffering (real suffering) which can be meaningful and soul-building - potentially.

It doesn't help that when one person makes some real headway in development in a real way they are treated by everybody else as if they are something akin to a child molester.

Just the way it is. At this level.

Once into that fray, there is suffering before glory.

Meanwhile a new day starts, cars are in motion, jobs are waiting, kid's activities are scheduled, food is thought about, comically limited anticlimactic sex but usually good companionship (any companionship is good at this point) is experienced. Probably all taking place by, and being moved forward by, the invisible sharp chains of mechanical fate.

So we're seeing death making efforts to carry on life. Which is what a true Christian would say, sounding toxic as hell, but there it is...

In heaven, in a glorified body, with the effects of the fall no where in sight, it is all different. (Probably have to get de-toxed, though, before entering that. Hopefully it's like getting de-loused before leaving Ellis Island. Quick, necessary.....but quick...)

Pactum Salutis

If you don't know this term Pactum Salutis you must know it is a very important term, or reality. I explain it street level and concisely here.

Matt Bracken's four must-read books on the evil that's eneveloped us

In this video Matt Bracken (Navy Seal, interesting speaker on globalism and the infiltration and subversion of America and so on) goes through four of what he calls must-red books that enlighten about the evil of our times. At the 2:40 mark there is a graphic showing all four of the books. His discussion of the first book is not included, but here is a two-part interview with the author, Ted Flynn, that gives a good sense of what the book - Hope of the Wicked - is about: here and here.

One note that caught my attention was that apparently much of Karl Marx' writings are taken verbatim from Adam Weishaupt's writings (he being the founder of the Bavarian Illuminati). I find this hilarious because of how academics consider Marx to be a major thinker. I just listened to a Reformed Christian podcast (Reformed Forum) where they interviewed a Christian academic who had written a book on Karl Marx' philosophy; nowhere in the interview, though, mentioning the Satanic horrors that philosophy wrought upon billions of people. Christian academics are as pathetic as secular academics. It's the same in both camps where they have a litmus test: you have to talk about Marx without talking about the horrors of Marxism. This shows you are a true academic. Satan has taken over the churches and seminaries as thoroughly as he has taken over the universities.

The Vanity of Thoughts

Here is a Puritan book that can actually be read in less than a year. (It's only 42 pages...) It's called the Vanity of Thoughts by Thomas Goodwin. It's a free download over at Monergism.

Even if you don't feel like reading it at least skim the 42 pages to read the subject headings so you know what the subject matter is before you dismiss the book from the title alone. It is a profound subject. Thoughts. What kind of thoughts we have during the course of our average day. Goodwin does a good job of categorizing them.

But overall the subject itself is shocking. It's shocking in that our thoughts are such a large part of how we pass our days. Goodwin is not shallow on the subject either. He recognizes that there are different depths of our thought, and he is talking about thoughts such as daydreaming or fantasy or regurgitating past events or what have you. He also offers subject matter that it would be good to focus on with our thoughts.

The subject can sound mechanical, but that shows up the mechanicalness of our thoughts themselves. Active, intentional thoughts are different from passive, mechanical thoughts. Long thoughts are different from flitting short thoughts.

People have picked up on the power of having intentional thoughts with such things as the power of positive thinking. Thoughts have power to keep us negative, asleep in life, confused, ignorant; or they have the power to do the opposite.

One important point is we have to have material in us, language, something to form our thoughts from. When we read the Bible this obviously gives us the most valuable material to occupy our thoughts, but it's more than that. The understanding something like history gives us is material for thoughts. As Goodwin says the subject itself is vast and examples are myriad.

Is Christianity connected to mystery religions?

Christianity is not a mystery religion as in one of the mystery religions. Christianity is the true religion. The others, mystery or open source religions, are either intentional counterfeit (example: Islam)  or seeing truth in fragments through a glass darkly (example: much of Greek myth).