We are all sinners here. The cult of the guru, the enlightened master, always ends badly. Those who claim that status, explicitly or implicitly, are frauds. Jesus Christ is the only exception to the rule.

Jack Smith has just announced the end of the 236 year run of the Constitution of the United States of America. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. The Supreme Court may delay things, but in the end the brainwashed majority who believe in the “news” are likely to prevail.

I’m beginning to lose interest in politics. Politics is a sideshow. There is an unimaginably sophisticated global system of surveillance and propaganda in place, and it is not being operated by the politicians. The system is designed to separate people into hostile camps and to make it impossible for anyone to know the truth about anything, to create a divisive reality of multi-layered falsehood. There are intelligence agencies and billionaires involved but they are all cogs in the machine, whether they know it or not. The ultimate mastermind is the Father of Lies himself.

Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. Zen is not. Zen is a very subtle way of leading people astray. Sorry Thomas Merton. Seeking some mystical experience is not the point of being a Christian. Be obedient, be thankful, and let the Holy Spirit do His work.

Jesus Christ says, “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”

In more modern terms, for the the lamp to give light, it must be plugged in and turned on.

At this point in the implosion of the West that the Biden administration is engineering, our only hope is that China and Russia will be kind to us.

Is there free will, or
Does not a sparrow fall
Apart from God’s will?
If there is free will,
What is it free of?
I would rather be God’s sparrow.

It is human nature, I believe, to woefully underestimate the power and extent of the control over the information space in which our psychological, emotional, political being exists. As one of reasonable intelligence with extensive training in logic and critical thinking, with some knowledge of history, politics, and culture, and with enough leisure time to pursue many sources of information outside the mainstream, I am surprised, on an almost daily basis, to discover that the ocean of lies is even deeper than I had thought possible. Often in discussions with friends I discover that, although we are on the same page in many ways, there may be a topic on which they are falling for what I know to be obvious lies. Before responding I try to remember and be humbled by the fact that I am certainly falling for even more obvious lies that I will discover tomorrow or the next day.

Some of the best minds of our society are engaged in the very sophisticated science of propaganda and mind control in our intelligence agencies and in corporate media. In addition the government and the corporations are making a massive effort to control what information can be seen and what information must be suppressed. We are no longer chiding China for censoring Facebook. We are now attempting to ban Tik Tok. The U.S. is not content to brainwash its own population but also runs brainwashing programs in countries around the world via NGOs and other subversive organizations.

The decades long U.S. proxy war against Russia that has come to fruition in Ukraine, the global covid pandemic hysteria, climate change, the January 6th “insurrection”, transgenderism. These are just a few of the mind control ops currently being executed.

God created Man.
Man is fallen.
God is love.
Love became a man,
Sacrificed Himself,
Conquered death,
Redeemed mankind.
How could Love do otherwise?

The number of blessings for which God is thanked is insignificant compared to the infinite blessings He rains down on everyone for which He receives no thanks. Thanks be to God for every breath I take.