How much hubris does one need to have to believe that one is present "at the end of days"? There have predictions of the end since the end was even considered. 1984, 1988, 2000...Hale-Bopp...people love to believe that they are "special" - in this case, that they will be the ones, after hundreds of centuries, to be the "final" generation.

Well, guess what kids. In that same Book of Revelation that the end-sayers like to quote, it is quite clear that the "end of days" will last for decades and even centuries and definitely through many generations. Maybe this is the beginning. Maybe it began centuries ago. But if you think that you are "special" enough to see the "final confrontation", or to see the return of the Messiah (which even if you do see, you may not recognise it, as predicted in the Bible), you're very likely just deluding yourselves with visions of grandeur. The best way to see the Messiah is to live by the two commandments that will get you to heaven: belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Golden Rule. Everything else is just hubris. Get over yourself. Earth is not the final destination. What happens to it is beyond our concern. Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega. He created us and He'll be here at the end. You will likely not be here at the end. So stop worrying about it.

#grownostr #endofdays #apocalypse

My journey started in college, like the journeys of a lot of people. My girlfriend (my first! thanks all-male high school) worked on the John Anderson campaign and I was intrigued by the idea of the "outlaw" candidate (ok, stop laughing. I was just starting out).

I never did vote "red" or "blue", up until the time I realized that it wasn't about "getting the best person" to "lead" us, but that the entire system is in direct opposition to the ideas promulgated in the "revered" Declaration of Indepedence (remember when we had to memorize that first paragraph? Boy, did that ever backfire on the establishment, at least as far as I'm concerned).

Anyway, this isn't about that. This is about when I stopped believing in all these farcical "honoring the country" exercises. Most notably, the "national sing along". No, I don't kneel when I hear it - that is probably the most hilarious reaction to it that I can possibly imagine.

What made me stop was simply listening to the lyrics. No, I'm not some weird peacenik that hates that it glorifies violence. I didn't even know about the other verses so I didn't care about that either.

It was about, ironically, respect. I don't respect the military, but I admit that, especially in years past, soldiers were so propagandized that they believed killing civilans turned cannon fodder of other nationalities wasn't really about simply exoendig the power of the ruling class.

Those poor fools. I think about them every time I hear the national sing along. Isn't that what we're supposed to do? "Cherish their memory"? "Honor them"?

Then I think about now. "Home of the Brave"? Really? Where's my nearest safe space in case I'm triggered by someone's differing opinion?

"Land of the Free"? I can't even leave, or fish, or cut someone's hair, without getting government permission. Worst of all, our "leaders" have devolved to the point that one of those talking mounted fish (remember them?) has more respect worldwide than our "leader".

No, I don't respect this government or any government. "All men are created equal" - remember that, Sister Mary Ruler? Don't you hate that I remembered that? I don't respect this country or any country. Land has no ruler.

Sadly, though, I do have respect for humanity. I listen to that stupid sing along and all I feel is shame. Those poor idiots died in piles, thinking that somehow their progeny would benefit. And now we have an inanimate carbon rod for a leader - not that the others have been much better, but at least they carried on appearances.

People will say "I have no respect for:

a) this country

b) the flag

c) all those that sacrificed

Sorry, but it's the "voting public" that has no respect for those who died in vain, stupidly or not, believing in "freedom". Their ancestors would be sorely disappointed in them.

Interesting day. Here's Ron Paul quoting Lysander Spooner and mentioning "voluntaryism" in a good light. Maybe even Dr Paul is finally seeing the light?

https://vigilante.tv/w/44572

#grownostr #ancap #voluntaryism

Sad. The goal should be to be "clear pilled". Know what's going on. Life isn't a series of events, but instead a series of our reactions to events that are out of our control. Learn, don't panic or enrage oneself.

Anyone who truly believes in God would not fear God. God created us. He loves us. He will eventually reunite/reconstitute/whateveritisthatisfarbeyondourunderstanding us to him.

Religion, on the other hand, uses "fear of God (or even "Mother Nature" to those who revere nature)" to attempt to control us. To remove God's very first gift to us - our free will. Jesus said on more than one occasion: "I am the Alpha and the Omega". He didn't say "I am the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta" et cetera. His teachings were that there are two "commandments": belief in God and the Golden Rule (paraphrasing Matthew27). That's it. No threats. No smiting. This is the God in which I believe. That all men are created equal. That there is no earthly authority - not generals, not governments, not popes, cardinals nor bishops. We are all equal and we should respect one another.

God holds the box. Remember Dr Strange and his "14 billion alternate realities" from the Avengers movies. God has the story of every single one of them. All in his box. Like pachinko balls, there are many paths to get from the beginning to the end, but in the end, the balls are collected into the same bin and returned to the top. Jesus gave us helpful instructions to make our lives happoer and with less strife, but he doesn't force any particular path on us. He created us, and when our journey is over, he will be at its end. The Alpha and the Omega. Our "time" on theis plane is finite, and probably infinitesimal in the larger scheme. We should not fear its end. We should not fear returning to the creator. Everything else they tell us are "the words of man" (again paraphrasing Matthew, when Jesus rebukes the Pharisees).

#religion #grownostr

The "electric cars" thing. People continue to make the assumption that "we all will have to get electric cars". That is not the case. The aim of the "electric cars" legislation isn't to force everyone to get electric cars. It is to remove transportation options from the majority of people. Electric cars, charging same and maintaining same will all be far too expensive for the regular schmoe to pay. People will be directed to use a form of "public transportation", which may include hiring electric cars, driverless or no, to take them places. There will be fewer of them than there are cars now, of course, and that transportation will also be expensive and more importantly, firmly under control of the government, with all movement of people restricted, surveilled and recorded. This is where your "carbon footprint" comes in. Did you visit grandma one too many times this year? Well, skip the family vacation. You get the drift. Electric cars are all part of the "15 minute cage- er. city" program. Gotta keep all those lab rats in their cages and feed them all the same food, or the experimental data is less useful.

#electriccars #prius #fifteenminutecity #WEF #grownostr

I haven't had a television in my residence since 1994, and I've ever missed it.

Until now.

Will someone, ANYONE, please put together a 2+ magnum opus of all of Biden's gaffes? Well, to make it easier - just the ones since the 2020 election.

I think that a cinema version of this would be the blockbuster that the movie industry has been looking for since Marvel went (even more) woke. Even if not released to cinemas, a streaming version would make a great opening attraction before "The Jones Plantation" - which, if you haven't seen, you should.

#blockbuster #movie #entertainment #grownostr

That IS cool. I remember a relative having something that resembled that may decades ago. Cool find and great refurbishment!

Once again, one must learn how to read. It does keep "us" safe. Can you guess who "us" is? See: "continuity of government".

That's the plan!

um...i'm baking a quiche? :)

I'm just here for the memes. And for the fuckery of being impossible to censor.

Exactly. Or photos of his wife and family beheaded in their home. "Just a possibility, of course."

Just because I surprised someone a few years ago when I mentioned this...RATM did a great job with this cover. The original was by Afrika Bambaataa. Oh to have the NYC of the 80's again...

Call me a wet blanket, but Bush and Clintons and the Telecommunications Act, the Interstate Banking Act, end of Glass Steagall. I do agree that the music, especially toward the first half of the decade, was top notch.

Whether you care about Palestinians or Israelis or Etruscans isn't the point. Drone bombing harmlerss civilians is a "red flag".

The takeaway is that this is being "normalized" by those in power because this is coming to ALL OF US. How far away are we from this same scenario being played out in Texas or Wyoming, when "government has determined that there is a "threat to democracy" from a bunch of meme-ers living "outside of the permitted area (15 minute city)"? 10 years? Maybe less?

I know that people think that they will "hunker down" and grow their own food and "live like their great-grandparents", "off the grid". What happens when drones are sent over your property to kill everyone that moves? Will you have a computerized anti-drone rocket delivery system to stop them?

#grownostr #nostrtok

...and if you didn't take a rock to an entire roll thinking that there would be some kind of super explosion...well then you weren't stupid city kids like us :)

So, to borrow a Chris Rock joke, the best place to rob someone would be at a subway exit? #noweapons

Exactly. A bunch of rich old men signed a piece of paper 250 years before you were born, so you have to abide by it. But if you were born a few miles away (*i.e. "another country"), you may be subject to an entirely diffferent set of laws which were also created by a bunch of old men centuries before you were born.

There is only one law. Natural law. The Declaration of Independence was premised on this fact. Then that document was completely ignored just seven years after it's creation, and some of those who ignored it were the signers of the DoI itself.

"Government by the consent of the governed" indeed.

#grownostr #nostrtok #ruleyourself

Agreed and I apologize for the tangent reference without explanation.

The premise of "The Sleeper Agent" is not the biography of Eric Traub, but the idea of "strategic biowarfare", whereby agents are introduced to humans not to induce sudden sickness, but instead to create "immune intolerance" which confuses the natural immune system and fools the system into allowing diseases that would have previously been attacked by same, including nefarious agents that may exist naturally in the body under the thumb of the immune system, to become a threat over time.

It's a long range plan.

oops. linky dink to latest interview.

https://rumble.com/v4km3mc-live-5-with-aw-finnegan-author-the-sleeper-agent.html