Reality is personal.

The objective is subjective and the subjective is objective.

Everything that is ... has to do with Persons. And you, who are reading this, are of that category of being.

What I mean by this is that “the universe” is ontologically Personal, rather than impersonal. Modern scientism would deign to depersonalize and decontextualize knowledge and being through a totalizing objectivity which eliminates all subjects rendering them merely objects. An extreme form of philosophical nominalism in which all is reduced to raw basic material “existence” (quanta), having no ultimate form or purpose beyond the quanta qa quanta. In essence, having nothing other than itself - which self is nothing.

But rather, everything is for you and has to do with you. And you are for everything and have personal responsibility and accountability within the meaning of it all. You are the reason we are all here.

Because we are real. We are what is real, because we "have to do with what Is Real". It is not something other than us. But it is not us alone but us together with the Lamb in our midst.

The I Am. The Living One.

Him, with us. Us, with Him.

Everything that is exists solely for and in the Light of this relationship of Ultimate Eternal Never-Ending Meaning and Joy.

Jehova's Witnesses have long taught that Christ returned in the late 1800's, and that He has been present on the earth since that day, doing "something".

But Christ's coming will be like a thunderclap which follows the lightning. Every eye will see Him, every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we who are His, who await eagerly for His coming, we shall see Him and be changed in a moment, in a nanosecond, in the twinkling of the eye.

This has not occurred.

Prior to this we know that one will come showing great signs and wonders, coming with great deceivableness and with many like him. God will send the world strong delusion, so strong that if it were possible even the elect should be deceived.

This hidden one will reveal himself and speak and do many great and mighty and powerful things, showing people that he is indeed "like God", claiming indeed that he is.

"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."

To dwell among men? To deceive them? To gather them together to their hidden design.

Apocalypsos.

The masks come off.


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Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

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Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie...

... "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon... And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live."

... "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."

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Liars, Madmen and Dictators

Our very use of the fraudulent medium of exchange results in instance after instance of fraudulent exchanges.

We are defrauding one another by acquiescing to the authority that the fiat-money claims to have.

The use of money is the use of an authority. An agreement of its claim to it. A testimony, that it is true or that we believe it to be so.

The authority of money is being abused by a group of men who are surreptitiously confiscating all the power, liberty and wealth in the world through the use of fraudulent money (illegitimate authority) as a global medium of exchange.

And it is all a lie.

People are assigning value to that which is inherently valueless.

One group’s empty promise. One man’s lie to another.

A debt note payable in nothing other than another of itself.

And this system is quietly and secretly distorting the economic structures of entire nations as money is expanded and contracted, corporations are caused to rise and to fall, or prevented from falling, and we all dance to the tune of the authority of one who takes but never repays, promising wealth as if the promise itself were in fact wealth.

Forcing us to pay off one another’s debts, which were all bestowed upon us by it.

The promise is no longer of any value.

We have accepted a compact in society which is based inherently upon the fact that there is no compact at all, and a promise that intends no fulfillment.

Why is $20 today not worth the $20 that it was 40 years ago?

Was it ever truly $20 to begin with? If not, what? Why is a promise that was made at one time no longer good 40 years later? 20? 10? 1? 6 months?

And as we begin to gain a clearer, truer understanding and realization that all of the empty promises were broken before they were ever made to us, how much truer will that fact appear in the value of what we have been calling money.

As the tension increases, as doubt creeps in and players begin to leave or hedge against the system, feedback is created that inversely ensures the very destruction of that system. Concluding ultimately in the very reality that the doubt had intimated: That the promise is of no value.

The promise is no longer of any value.

And so how can we deal honestly with one another?

Might I suggest that you offer to pay your fellow man with gold, silver or some other medium of true and intrinsic value?

And while it may be incredibly difficult, perhaps impossible at this stage to truly gauge the value of our transactions in such a manner, it is better that we engage in some exchange of real meaning that we all, together might come to a greater degree of the common understanding of our own common wealth.

Commonwealth. Or lack thereof.

Do we have any true-money left yet?

Do we have anything left with which to get it?

I suggest we find out sooner rather than later.

This is the course the States and the People of the states must follow. We must begin again to reckon our wealth not as in the promises and derivatives and inventions of faceless, shady financial oligarchies, but rather in real instruments of our own traditional and mutual accord.

As free men among free men, who will not perpetuate the lies of another who seeks to place all in bondage.

And when the time of the great revaluing (read, reckoning) comes, we will all be found that much stronger for it, having based our activities and the meaning of our wealth upon something real which can sustain the commerce in our midst with faithfulness.

Free of the whims of liars, madmen and dictators.

The root cause of any of the hotly contested and debated moral issues in politics, is:

The government enforced, special interest funded, satanic philosophy that "there is no such thing as good or evil".

Once they convince a person to believe that, he has ceded the sovereignty over his conscience from God to Satan.

This is because the person has believed the lie, and in believing the lie has changed good to evil and evil to good. He has declared the righteous concept of a belief in an absolute "good and evil" to be evil, and has therefore made himself like God, judging "good and evil" after his own broken image, which is bent towards evil always, through the fall.

At this point, the satanic man uses the power of "morality" against anyone who holds to it, while he himself considers himself exempt. He uses the concepts of "good and evil" against his enemies, while denying them any opportunity to classify him as such, because he regards it not. Hence, people in favor of "abstinence" education will be slandered, accused and labeled as "wrong" or "evil" because they have dared assert that there is any moral injunction against promiscuous sex. "How dare they!" The satanist cries, accusing them of evil because they claim evil exists.

This is the very tactic and method that Marxist (and hence, Satanist) Saul Alinsky proscribed for his followers (of which Barack Obama is one). Phillis Schafly writes:

"Alinsky's second chapter, called Of Means and Ends, craftily poses many difficult moral dilemmas, and his "tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends" is: "you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments."

He doesn't ignore traditional moral standards or dismiss them as unnecessary. He is much more devious; he teaches his followers that "Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means." He reminds his trainees that "All effective actions require the passport of morality."

Alinsky certainly doesn't mean that all actions must be moral. He means that you decide what you want or need to do and then cloak your actions with the language of morality. Phrase your goals in "general terms like 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,' 'Of the Common Welfare,' 'Pursuit of Happiness,' or 'Bread and Peace.'" He reminds us that the Communists used words like "democracy" and "equality," but they had no relation whatsoever to what Americans understand by those terms.

At the same time, Alinsky admonishes his organizers that they are conducting war, so there are no rules of fair play and there can be no compromise.

Recognizing the importance of words, Alinsky demands that his organizers use the word "power," which he calls a word of force, vigor and simplicity. Power is what he wants — and he doesn't want to be bothered with those who shrink from using this powerful word. He advises his followers not "to pander to those who have no stomach for straight language."

This reminds us of: "that man of sin ... the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4)

This spirit, this man, is the head of all those slanderers and false accusers, haters of those that are good, who lie in wait for the blood of righteous men. Satan is the accuser, who uses the Law to accuse while he himself pretends to "excuse", and revels in lawlessness and iniquity.

Everything can be traced back to that fateful moment in the garden, and the war between the seed of the serpent, and the Seed of the woman. Any insane or wicked thing in this world can be explained in just these terms and concepts.

It God vs. the "god of this world".

A nation of Nations in bondage to a lie.

So often we hear people blaming the United States for so many evils. And while I agree that "it" has become a ravenous, debt-based, consuming, devouring beast whose appetite for resources that it has not produced cannot ever seem to be sated.... it is not the "States" that people ought to be directing their ire.

Quite simply, the source of our ills, as this nation of united States, and of so many in the world, is not the united "States', but the imperial, fascist, Federal Government working in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Cabal, and its control of the global reserve currency.

If "We The People" actually stood up and demanded that our servant, the government, abide by the contract that gave it life, the Constitution, the Federal Government would not and could not operate outside the bounds created for it by the 10th Amendment of the Constitution:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Pretty short and sweet, don't you think? Simple as well! Yet the indefatigable power-mongers and special-interests in the world, which never seem to give up or die, have managed to completely convince us all, from citizen, to Congressman to Constitutional Judge - that these words don't actually mean what they say.

And so, we have bequeathed unto this dangerous servant, powers unimaginable.

Until something quite "other" altogether, has taken over the center of this bloated, mindless beast.

The thing is, we are a nation of over 300,000,000 people. This is enough size to be at least 7 or 10 powerful, populous nations. Or even 25 to 30 smaller ones. Imagine... all these people, all this land, all this diversity...

Imagine: we could be 50 sovereign States!

Instead of this homogeneous mud that we've been mixed up into...

So, in such a situation, as it ought to be, we could have a world where...

Government health care is opted for in, say, Minnesota. This in no way obliges any other state to join in the fun.

Or... government schooling is disbanded, and handed over to the private sector and families in, say, Oregon! This in no way obliges any other state to recognize such a God-given right of its citizenry.

Whatever you can imagine! If it is not prohibited by the Constitution, and not assigned to the Federal Government therein, it is free game for the States or the People to decide.

For themselves. And not for anyone else.

The system we have now is entirely bent on tyranny. It is a consuming, devouring fire, seeking to suck in all resources, all power and all freedoms to feed its ever increasing blaze.

It is time to wake up. To end the dream. To shine the light on the "ghost" of total power that the federal government has assumed, hallucinated, that it holds, and let us all get back to reality.

So we can get on living.

Men think that they can distill reality and the true nature of all things into 'this or that quaint theory or explanation'. But how does this explanation include this act of explanation itself?

Quite simply, you can't "know it all" because "you" aren't "it all", neither do you perceive and understand all things. And no matter what you do say, none of these things can bring any of us any closer to knowing "who we are" or

Why THIS IS

Who? Why? Who am I?
Why am I?
Why am I trying to Know?

None of the materialistic explanations will suffice because they deny that I am.

Speaking for the mouthless god.

So, Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic magazine (and a few other things I don't really care about), in speaking for his god which cannot speak, says:

"... [I]t is time to step out of our evolutionary heritage and our historical traditions and embrace science as the best tool ever devised for explaining how the world works, and to work together to create a social and political world that embraces moral principles and yet allows for natural human diversity to flourish. Religion cannot do the job because it has no systematic methods of explanation of the natural world, and no means of conflict resolution on moral issues when members of competing sects hold absolute beliefs that are mutually exclusive. Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our only hope for survival." (http://www.templeton.org/belief/hitchens_miller.html#groopman)

Let's break down what he is really saying here.

"But it is time to step out of our evolutionary heritage and our historical traditions and embrace science as the best tool ever devised for explaining how the world works, and to work together to create a social and political world that embraces moral principles and yet allows for natural human diversity to flourish."

In other words, it is time to stop believing in your explanation of the world, and believe in mine. It is time to stop believing in any explanation of the world that involves an intelligent creator/mover of reality, and rather to believe in one that involves nothing but mindless matter and energy, undirected, in which life is simply a convenient (for who?) yet meaningless happenstance that shall never be remembered or missed.

But let us also remember that when Shermer says "science" here, what he actually means in naturalism. Atheism. Atheistic naturalism, to him, is the "best tool ever devised for explaining how the world works" without God. And this is the key facet. We must explain the world without God - this is the foundational axiom of the belief system (philosophy - religion!?) of Naturalism. It is not as if there is any operation science today that can actually explain the totality and nature of all things, the origin and destiny of time, space, matter and energy. But Shermer's philosophical naturalism is his preferred method of understanding the world. So why does he insist that this is the only explanation? Read on.

"Religion cannot do the job because it has no systematic methods of explanation of the natural world, and no means of conflict resolution on moral issues when members of competing sects hold absolute beliefs that are mutually exclusive."

What is religion? Is it not simply a belief system? There are many things that one could call a religion, and philosophical naturalism or scientism is most definitely a perfect candidate. Who says that every religion needs to systematically explain every facet of the natural world? This is a non-sequitor! This is what we use operational science for. Think of the early pioneers of science like Galileo or Isaac Newton: these were all very convinced theists, and their religious beliefs were the very things that drove their scientific methods, and relied on their scientific methods to explain the details of things that their religious beliefs did not necessarily touch on. Nowhere in the Bible was it ever detailed how the planets and the starts revolved, or how Newtonian physics worked; and yet God gave us a mind to be able to figure these things out! So how is it an objection to tell us that "Religion cannot do the job"? That's not in "religion's" job description! But neither can operational science satisfactorally explain "Who We Are".

As for conflict resolution on moral issues... How exactly does "science" decide a moral issue? Science is purely pragmatic and sees no such thing as "good" or "evil". The scientific method can in no way tell us what we "ought" to do, or whether or not our wife truly loves us. This is the job of our God-given spirits. Such a claim regarding science is laughable.

And finally - to top it all off - Shermer claims that "science" is our only hope for survival. And by this he means Atheism. By this he means that our "only hope for survival" is to create a world without God. Not a world without religion, but a world that does not truly believe in any sort of a God, (except for mindless, non-willed nature). What a wild claim! Has he come to this knowledge by science, or by something else. How does he make such a sweeping claim? How does he say that our only hope for survival is to abandon "our God" and come to "his god". Who has told him such a thing - how can he know this for sure? Clearly Shermer has faith in something other than "science" and he expects you to come to faith in it to. Or we are all doomed. Or so his god has told him.