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August 10, 2025
The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-179

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> These NGOs—nongovernmental organizations—and their supporters see themselves as representing “civil society,” a phrase often conflated with society as a whole that in practice means the consensus of upper-middle-class liberal opinion. Amnesty International is a pillar of civil society. The National Rifle Association isn’t. <

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Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …

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Race exists. Deal with it.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 11 2025 19:09 utc | 100
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That’s my point. Speaking perfect American won’t matter beans if you’re a Latino facing a bunch of ICE thugs out to make a quota.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2025 19:40 utc | 101

@ arby | Aug 11 2025 17:01 utc | 91
thanks for that update.. it really says something about amnesty international, doesn’t it?

Posted by: james | Aug 11 2025 19:51 utc | 102

@ arby, @ james
The last Amnesty solicitation to pollute my junk mail was a two-page essay on the plight of Saint Alexei Navalny.
I mailed back the postage-paid envelope with a couple of life insurance solicitations, also from my junk mail.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 11 2025 20:05 utc | 103

@101 malenkov
I think you should know ol’ chap that deportations are way down during Trump 2.0. In fact, numbers since May have not even been reported.
This represents a major broken promise from Trump who said mass deportations would be on the way.
Sure, border patrol has gotten funding and they have effectively curtailed illegal border crossings, but deportations are way down. So a Dem allows record wet backs to come pouring in and a republican ostensibly shuts it down for a few years but doesn’t bother with tracking down the ones already here.
Like that midget Peter Dinklage complaining that dwarves shouldn’t get acting roles merely because they are dwarves, pulling up the ladder behind him.
This is akin to Ronnie Reagan’s amnesty program in the 80s and marked the beginning of white America’s terminal decline.
As I have said, Trump is just Ronnie Reagan 2.0.
The fact that ICE deportations are being highly-publicized does not equate to mass deportations. It just means Mockingbird media is in full swing and obfuscating the reality.
Illegals are getting amnesty 2.0.
Cesar Chavez is rolling in his grave.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 11 2025 20:22 utc | 104

“…neither of these people have an approach to christianity that is easy to define or understand.. i think they represent 2 valid personal perspectives that might be captured in some of their literature, but i don’t know that we’ll ever completely understand this question i am pondering on the distinctions between organized, versus personal beliefs of a religious nature..”
Posted by: james | Aug 11 2025 18:48 utc | 97
I’d say personal beliefs come first, and then organized,james. The one fits inside the other. We were ‘organized’ in our little church, but we were all friends. If that had not been the case, I would have moved on. I found the liturgy, the feasts, the traditions, fit with my personal spiritual growth, deepening it. It’s not always the case for me in other Orthodox surroundings; it was there.
So, as for other independently comfortable Orthodox persons, I now have a home church. It was what I felt part of so I continue that way. I would suggest that I couldn’t have done this on my own — organized Orthodoxy reaches back to the apostles; it has continuity and tradition since as the councils faced interpretations that diverged from the historic beginnings they applied a test: the new sounding doctrines had to conform to the writings in the four Gospels and to early tradition. That’s the benchmark.
I don’t think you can come to this kind of ‘knowledge’ secondhand. Original sources are best, and definitely not being told what to think. I remember Timothy Ware, who became an archbishop eventually, accidentally as it were, simply stepped into a darkened interior of a small London church, and found he was where he wanted to be. I had a similar experience, only with friends. Nobody told me what to think; I was just there.
So, it’s about you first of all. You, and Providence.
😉
Oh, and all I remember is that Dostoievski and Tolstoi never met. I’ll see what a search can uncover. My memory is of mutual respect.

Posted by: juliania | Aug 11 2025 22:26 utc | 105

Posted by: juliania | Aug 11 2025 22:26 utc | 105
Sorry, have to stick with memory. My research function is totally crappy, thanks to AI I think… or whatever..

Posted by: juliania | Aug 11 2025 22:52 utc | 106

You’re not bitter about the Pawnee being replaced?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2025 18:46 utc | 96
This is exactly the type of comment that makes so many people hate you, my man. Not saying I do, but the condescending Wizard of MoA act does get tiresome.
That particular family member actually was kidnapped as a child by a different tribe and traded off to another, eventually landing with the Pawnee. He spoke several NA dialects. He had a bad leg, but was an expert marksman and eventually was given full privileges for his hunting skills and willingness to stay as a part of the group. When he got older, they allowed him to return to “white” society and he hated it. Went back to live with a different tribe and made his “living” as an interpreter prior to his death.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 11 2025 23:23 utc | 107

Race exists. Deal with it.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 11 2025 19:09 utc | 100
Race is an artificial political and social construct. There is no basis in science. I suggest this book, which was actually recommended to me many years ago by a right-winger, of all things.

Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed.
That the promised post-racial age has not dawned, the authors argue, reflects the failure of Americans to develop a legitimate language for thinking about and discussing inequality. That failure should worry everyone who cares about democratic institutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racecraft
Also I recommend this guy’s blog for an ice cold shower. It was things like this that jarred me awake in my mid 20s.
https://indi.ca/theres-no-white-people-in-norway/
https://indi.ca/white-empire-collapse-out/
You see, US imperialism, like it or not, would not be possible without actual racism.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 11 2025 23:27 utc | 108

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 11 2025 20:22 utc | 104
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A little OT, I am pleased to see all of the people coming out against Nick Fuentes. Most of them were created by Rebecca Mercer and Conservativism Incorporated.
With every attack, they make Nick cool and an underdog as they unintentionally dismantle the CIA psyop network that is American conservatism.
It’s great to see Grifters like Tucker, Milo, Charlie Kirk, etc, all get exposed before the next generation that, if not for Gaza, would all be Ben Shapiro worshippers selling their sisters and mothers on Jewish-owned OnlyFans.
Nick and I don’t share an ideological space. Some things that he wants, I do not, but he is articulate, sincere, and clever. It is good fun to watch him run circles around these stooges.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2025 23:29 utc | 109

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 11 2025 20:22 utc | 104
Indeed. Trump has yet to match the sheer volume of deportations achieved by Barack “Deporter in Chief” Obama.
The difference isn’t just the amount of publicity. Although even that aspect of the current media and societal furor is driven by Trump’s own, and his “photo-op” administration’s, particularly hateful, petty and cruel actions and statements.
I have only read about periods like this in history books. The level of meanness and outright stupidity accompanying the overtly racist means by which Trump is carrying out his deportation program may in fact be unprecedented. It’s beyond full “mask-off” behavior and has become emblematic of a comic book villain or Nazi cosplayer.
If they were quietly rounding people up using typical techniques and deporting them to their home countries or those nearby, that’d be one thing. But these masked Tactical Old Navy goon squads running the streets in unmarked vans, picking up anyone who looks too brown, then renditioning them off incommunicado to Louisiana and then El Salvador, Djibouti and other places unknown is simply begging for protests and media outrage. I mean for fucks sake….a lot of these people are tricked into appearing at their already in progress asylum hearings and then kidnapped anyway with zero due process.
I still remember man-on-the-street interviews prior to the election when various Latino pro-Trump immigrants were asked and they said “Nah, Trump only wants to deport the criminals! That’s good!” Well guess what, vato. What he means is that YOU are the “criminal” for being here as a non-citizen. Idiots. Trump has proven he cannot be trusted in any way shape or form. I hope Putin realizes this.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 11 2025 23:36 utc | 110

@ juliania | Aug 11 2025 22:26 utc | 105
yes, indeed.. personal beliefs come first and they may or may not fit in with organized religion.. i don’t think a person needs to belong to an organized religion to be considered religious.. jesus wasn’t, lol.. how was that?? he didn’t set up the church, but others did after him.. maybe they had some good ideas and they were embodied in the early church teachings, but how far removed are they from what jesus was preaching or teaching?? that is another question that could be answered countless different ways..
this is where you and i might differ… i don’t believe a person has to belong to an organized religion to express a religious and holy life.. belonging to a specific organized religion seems to work for many people, but not for everyone..
i am glad you found a community and place where you can join in communion with other like minded people who practice the same faith thru orthodox christianity..
for me all the world religions merge into one somewhere upstream as i believe they are all coming from the same place of inspiration, but my view on this is probably in a minority.. i am looking at what we share in common as opposed to the differences i suppose.

Posted by: james | Aug 11 2025 23:53 utc | 111

“China’s economy is collapsing… ”
🇨🇳Trade surplus: $1.2T (record)
🇨🇳Manufacturing surplus: $2T (record)
🇨🇳Exports (excl. 🇺🇸US): +$400B in 18 months
🇨🇳GDP: grew 5.3% in the first half
🇨🇳Core CPI: rose by 0.8% in July
🇨🇳SSE Composite Index: rose by 27.62% YoY

graph of trade volume
https://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1955002404476526748
Trump’s popularity is through the roof in China.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 12 2025 0:07 utc | 112

🇨🇳 is mastering the art of Go, not chess, in global trade—strategically encircling markets, securing influence, and prioritizing engagement over confrontation.
Two decades ago, 🇺🇸 was the dominant trading partner for most nations; now, 🇨🇳 has surpassed it in trade volume and global reach. From 7.25% of China’s GDP in exports to the US in 2007, it’s down to just 2.5% in 2024.
The US still clings to the outdated belief that its debt-laden consumers drive China’s economy. But China’s focus has shifted—building resilient trade networks worldwide, not chasing maxed-out American debtors writing IOUs they can’t honor.

https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/1955075314671030614
This is what I have been saying about “Go”.
If you want to defeat an opponent, understand him to know how to beat him.
I suck at Go, but I am sure some Go strategies could be used against China.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 12 2025 1:25 utc | 113

I’d like to report two positions on the upcoming meeting in Alaska. I’m not taking either side just yet, but I feel they are worthwhile here, in order to broaden the spectrum of ideas we discuss.
The first one relates to MoA gatekeepers such as LoveD, who denigrate everyone expressing other views than those established by Brian Berletic – that is, to regard this US administration as a unitary block hell-bent on “continuity of agenda”. This is in opposition to observations made by Peter AU1 and others that the US deep state is experiencing a turf war involving two or more factions.
The second one introduces Rudolf Steiner, a non-canonized German philosopher who still has considerable following as a leading figure of the Anthroposophie movement. Steiner regards himself as an “objective idealist” whereas Edmund Husserl for instance proclaimed himself as a “transcendental idealist”. His position allows him to speak of “the cosmos” as if it were the most natural thing to know all about, and he claimed to indeed have direct insight spanning evolutionary timescales. I was recently made aware of a presentation Steiner gave in 1918, where he talked about the future of Russia. He said that eastern Europe will be hated as much, or even more so, than central Europe, and that this hate is by its nature not human – rather, he ascribed it to demons possessing the people. He leaves a stark warning: if we do connect to the geistige Welt (spiritual world) properly, we will be left unable to realize what is going on.
Frankly, I always found Steiner somewhat bizarre. But a friend is totally into him, so I get a little information here and there, and this one is worth mentioning I thought.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 12 2025 1:33 utc | 114

@ persiflo | Aug 12 2025 1:33 utc | 114
quote “He ( steiner ) leaves a stark warning: if we do connect to the geistige Welt (spiritual world) properly, we will be left unable to realize what is going on.”
is that written backwards or what? thanks..

Posted by: james | Aug 12 2025 1:46 utc | 115

as opposed to ”if we don’t”? is that missing in your quote persiflo?

Posted by: james | Aug 12 2025 1:47 utc | 116

@109 Love
Fairest assessment I have heard given to Nick and it echos my thoughts exactly.
Here is Fuentes surrounding himself with black feminist women for a round table discussion. So the thought that he is some militant racist is once again unfounded.
Zoomer humor may not be for the politically-correctly-trained boomer leftists around here. But the youth is done with it. It can rub you the wrong then at first blush, when Nick goes on a sidebar about Chinese UN killing blacks in the U.S. for unruly behavior, and if you kneejerk, well, maybe the zoomers aren’t for you.
I keep looking for a crack or fissure in his reasoning, but can only surmise that he really is like a Patrick Buchanan but with none of the latter’s age-constrained weakness. It’s not for the traditional American leftist to naturally gravitate to paleoconservatism, but it’s obvious that not only would the whole world benefit by a less meddlesome U.S., but also the average American who, because of the spoils of empire, have forgotten what it means to live in simple equilibrium.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 12 2025 2:03 utc | 117

FUKUSA aka AUKUS state terrorism , continues from previous posts..
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Hans killed by CIA/MI6/ASIO sponsored , trained death squads…
A very brief list
Tip of an iceberg.
1965
Indon genocide
1998
INdon genocide [mass rapes]

1964
Singapore
1969
Malaysia
2008
China Tibet
2009
China Xinjiang
2019
China HK
Various
Pak,
Various
Africa
Exhibit Congo
‘The scene was therefore set for the escalation of unrest and vandalism: outright looting of shops, stores and properties belonging to Chinese nationals in the Ngaba, Kalamu and Limeté communes in the capital Kinshasa and those of Lebanese in the Masina township, including Hasson and Brothers.
In addition, they set fire on 20 public buses operated by Transco, a public transport company (more than a hundred private and public vehicles were destroyed), ransacked and set fire on several communes’ administrative offices and other State building as well as the Office of the Assistant Commissioner of Police in the Limete Commune. The same scenario was repeated at the University of Kinshasa. Police dispersed protesters in Goma and Bukavu near the Rwandan borders in eastern Congo and other Congolese cities. That is why the government cut off Internet and mobile phone short messages delivery to prevent coordination of opposition demonstrations. The signals of Radio France International were also interrupted by the government because of that radio’s pro-opposition and sensational broadcasts. The toll increased to eleven dead, including two police officers and 300 injured, according to the authorities but according to human rights organisations sources, there were 28 deaths and other sources even cite the figure of 40 or 42 (Colette Breackman, Le Soir, January 22, 2015). So far, it has not been reported that 42 families have claimed their dead.
After the looting of their properties, the Chinese community in Kinshasa was reassured of their security by the government. On behalf of the government, Evariste Boshab Vice Prime Minister in charge of Internal Affairs promised to compensate or indemnify, to the extent possible, those members of the Chinese community whose properties were damaged. This was the decision of President Joseph Kabila Boshab confirmed (Digital.net, January 23, 2015..
So why do Congolese opposition leaders not wait until 19 December 2016 to see if there will be “a slippage” (a term they love to use) of the current Congolese Head State’s term in office instead of being agitated now, destroying newly built infrastructures (destroying is easy, rebuilding is difficult) and looting other people’s properties? We still have two years to go. Why don’t they wait? If Jean-Claude Muyambo, José Makila, Vital Kamerhe, Fayulu Martin, and others take power “the Burkina Faso way”, we doubt that they will logistically be able to organize the election the next day! Their behaviour lead many people to conclude that they are either jealous of Joseph Kabila’s achievements or they are manipulated by foreign predators. The fact that Martin Fayulu visited the United States immediately after three days of riots speaks volume.
[Courtesy
Washington Drives an “Imperial Wedge” Between Congo and China
By Antoine Roger Lokongo
Global Research, February 06, 2015]
Various
Central Asia [Stans]
Various, South Pacific
‘The CIA, Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), and New Zealand Secret Intelligence Service (NZSIS) have programs to undermine South Pacific governments that establish close relations with Beijing. However, the Human Terrain operatives have gone further. Aware of the animosity that poor Pacific Islanders have toward local successful Chinese businessmen, the bought—and-paid for anthropologists have stirred up riots, especially in Solomon Islands and Tonga, to marginalize China’s influence in the region. There are contingency plans to foment riots against ethnic Chinese in Fiji, Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea.’
Solomon island
‘Washington has already been directly interfering in the affairs of the Solomon Islands. Extensive riots and an attempted coup in Honiara last November were carried out by supporters of Daniel Suidani, the premier of Malaita province, who opposes the government’s links with China and maintains his own illegal “foreign policy” with ties to Taiwan. He is financed and politically supported by Washington’
https://tinyurl.com/36vhe57b
https://tinyurl.com/33ymatbv

Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 2:03 utc | 118

GOLD MINING RIOT IN MALI: MANY CHINESE IN DANGER …
YouTube · Toàn Cảnh Trung Quốc
25K+ views · 14 hours ago
8:23
GOLD MINING RIOT IN MALI: MANY CHINESE IN DANGER, SERIES OF BUSINESSES FLEEING From May to August 2025, the security situation in Mali deteriorated rapidly, ..
Presume FUKUSA aka AUKUS guilty !

Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 2:10 utc | 119

LD
Way to go..!

Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 2:11 utc | 120

Onwards and upwards with Malian decolonization and resource repatriation…
Barrick Hit Again as Mali Helicopters Take Off With $117 M in Gold
https://www.canadianminingjournal.com/news/barrick-hit-again-as-mali-helicopters-take-off-with-117m-in-gold/
“This is the latest escalation in a bitter dispute between the Canadian mining giant and Mali’s junta, which has controlled the country since a 2021 coup…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 12 2025 2:29 utc | 121

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 12 2025 2:29 utc | 121
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Agreed.
http://www.trinicenter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1126

Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 2:50 utc | 122

james 115/11 – yes, sorry, and thanks for the correction. It should mean “If we don’t connect to the spiritual world, we will not be able to understand what is going on”. Here is the larger quote in German:

“Wir sind unter uns, solche Dinge können unbefangen besprochen werden. Warum gab es denn überhaupt ein Zarentum? Die Frage kann in einem höheren Sinne aufgefaßt werden als im äußeren trivialhistorischen Sinne. Warum gab es denn überhaupt ein Zarentum? Wenn man absieht von einzelnen pazifistischen Querköpfen, die in den Firlefanzereien des zaristischen Friedensmanifestes etwas Ernsthaftes gesehen haben, dann muß man sagen: Selbst diejenigen, welche aus allerlei Gründen mit dem russischen Reiche sich [gut] gestellt haben -, das Zarentum haben sie nicht geliebt! Und diejenigen, die es geliebt haben, bei denen war die Liebe sicherlich nicht sehr echt. Warum gab es denn überhaupt ein Zarentum? Es gab ein Zarentum – ich will es jetzt paradox ausdrücken, etwas extrem -, damit Europa etwas zu hassen hatte. Diese Kräfte des Hasses waren notwendig aufzubringen. Es gab ein Zarentum, und das Zarentum benahm sich so, wie es sich benahm, damit Europa etwas zu hassen hatte. Diesen Haß brauchte Europa als den Vorspann zu etwas anderem. Der Zar mußte dasein, um zunächst den Punkt abzugeben, auf den sich der Haß konzentrierte; denn eine Welle des Hasses bereitete sich vor, die nach diesen Tagen auch schon äußerlich beurteilt werden kann. Dasjenige, was sich jetzt abspielt, wird sich in mächtige Hassesgefühle umwandeln, die nicht mehr zu verstehen sein werden, wie die Sympathie und Antipathie von früher, wie ich auseinandergesetzt habe, nach dem physischen Plane zu verstehen sind. Denn es werden nicht bloß Menschen hassen. Mittel- und Osteuropa wird gehaßt werden, nicht von Menschen, sondern von gewissen Dämonen, die in Menschen wohnen werden. Die Zeit, wo Osteuropa vielleicht noch mehr gehaßt wird als Mitteleuropa, die wird schon kommen.
Diese Dinge müssen verstanden werden, diese Dinge dürfen nicht leicht genommen werden. Sie können nur verstanden werden, wenn die Menschen sich dazu aufschwingen, Zusammenhang zu suchen mit der geistigen Welt.”
Dornach, 12. Januar 1918, GA 180, S. 250-251

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 12 2025 3:49 utc | 123

@ persiflo | Aug 12 2025 3:49 utc | 123
thanks.. i find it ironic that steiner, who was very much influenced by goethe another well known german, seem so far removed from the likes of the german political class today, specifically merz who seems full of hate and lacking any clarity or sense of perspective whatsoever, other then over money, and even then, only his own and not his fellow german citizens.. he wants to put all his money into war and prep for war.. the german leadership is pathetic.. the green party – warmongers as well.. so, yes – they have no spiritual insights whatsoever and seem full of hate only.. so sad.. i hope they come to their senses, but it doesn’t look promising..
i recently read a book by rudolph steiner – cosmic memory is the english title.. i finished this book only last week..
https://rudolfsteinerbookstore.com/product/cosmic-memory/

Posted by: james | Aug 12 2025 4:36 utc | 124

Alien technology that was stolen from under the Obama administration by the Chinese. 😉
https://x.com/CarlZha/status/1953918884232511672

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 12 2025 4:59 utc | 125

Maybe you can buy a house at Walmart, a nice small house, made in China.😃

https://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1953887743744127061
Housing is something that the West has failed at. Many of the problems are in the financialized casino economy.
Very few people under 30 can get married and pursue home ownership these days.
Kevin Walmsley of the Inside China Business YouTube channel did an episode recently on pre-fab and easily assembled homes (he is a housing developer in America) coming out of China. They were not ugly. All someone needs is some land, a utilities hookup, and a pipe fitter and an electrician to “plumb” it. 4 weeks to assemble a finished home for about 25k US dollars for the home. Labor and property not included.
The styling of that home in the video reflects a modern technological Chinese aesthetic. Similar to the look of many of their high-speed passenger trains.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 12 2025 5:09 utc | 126

I am going to wade into the religion/spirituality discussion and posit that part of the civilization war I continue to say humanity is in does include the monotheistic religions conflict with the concept of spirituality.
Spirituality does not demand definition that religions do….it includes those quantum things like feelings.
The definition in the case of judaism and Roman catholicism has been interpreted to allow the genocide we are seeing in Occupied Palestine and that of the Crusades.
A majority, IMO, of the world’s humans do not believe in killing other humans for spiritual/religious reasons. The example of human evil focused on other humans that Occupied Palestine is providing and the economic bulling of empire leader Trump is providing visceral education for all about how forms of social organization should work going forward from our civilization war.
I see spirituality regaining social dominance over monotheistic religions across the world. Spirituality is not bounded by the definitional words of religions and fits better with the growing quantum view of things, IMO…
I have read sci-fi all my life and I keep laughing at this potential scene of an alien listening to a human describe the human male God…..Beam me up Scotty, No intelligent life here!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 12 2025 5:21 utc | 127

“i don’t think a person needs to belong to an organized religion to be considered religious… jesus wasn’t, lol.. how was that?? he didn’t set up the church, but others did after him…”
Posted by: james | Aug 11 2025 23:53 utc | 111
Well, james I would have to disagree with you – again, simply by using the texts given in the four gospels. Jesus was born into the jewish faith, quoted the prophets. And as to setting up the church, that is indeed what Jesus is doing by calling the twelve disciples, not to mention the later seventy. Many of his teachings are given directly to them.
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“…this is where you and i might differ… i don’t believe a person has to belong to an organized religion to express a religious and holy life.. belonging to a specific organized religion seems to work for many people, but not for everyone..”
I didn’t mean to say a person has to belong to an organized religion. Apologies if it came out that way. I have trouble with my computer this late at night – the cursor jumps and has me typing in the wrong place.
“… for me all the world religions merge into one somewhere upstream as i believe they are all coming from the same place of inspiration, but my view on this is probably in a minority.. i am looking at what we share in common as opposed to the differences i suppose…”
I don’t think that is a minority opinion, james. Even Jesus found exemplary persons outside his small group of friends. And Orthodoxy is quite consistent with your belief as am I. I think there are lots of folk ‘on the outside’ and that’s fine. I’ve been there. Most of my family is there. And not everyone would explain their faith the way I have – I just have given my own experience. There are lots of different ones, different from my own I mean. Probably none exactly like me. I’m a bit weird.
Which reminds me: Russians have two words for ‘monk’ — one means ‘a different one’, as I remember.
😉

Posted by: juliania | Aug 12 2025 5:30 utc | 128

On the occasion of his 100th birthday, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir bin Mohamad greeted the world with an 18-point case for despair called “The Collapse of Civilisation.” Our staging of the Gaza holocaust has already led us far astray, lost in a moral wilderness. Something’s wrong…

1. Something has gone wrong with the world, with human civilisation. For centuries we have been ridding ourselves of barbarism in human society, of injustices, of the oppression of men by men.
2. We have been promoting more human values, the sanctity of life, honour and respect for institutions, protecting the weak against the strong.
3. We have designed laws to ensure justice for all, abolished absolute monarchies and dictatorship, and all kinds of abuses of power.
4. We promoted the Rule of Law not only in nations but also between nations.
5. We pride ourselves in the high moral values we uphold.
6. We consider ourselves civilised, being creatures of high moral values. We are more human and humane.
7. But can we say we are still civilised now? Over the last three decades especially, we have destroyed most of the ethical values that we had built up.
8. Now we are seeing an orgy of killing. We are seeing genocide being perpetrated before our own eyes. Worse still, the genocide is actually being promoted and defended.
9. Everyday men, women, children and babies are being killed. Even the sick and the wounded are not safe. Bombs and rockets target them, killing them, wounding them, burying them in the rubble of the hospital they had hoped for protection.
10. We see boys and girls having their limbs torn off. The lucky ones get artificial limbs. The unlucky are totally helpless, not even able to scratch if they feel itchy. Their lives have become a permanent torture.
11. And all these have been perpetrated by the so-called great leaders of our civilisation, by a great nation, the United States of America.
12. I feel ashamed. We should feel ashamed in the eyes of the animals we consider to be wild. We are worse than them.
13. Will we stop?
14. No. We cannot.
15. Because the very people who preached the rights of humanity are the ones to destroy our hard-fought civilisation.
16. I hide my face.
17. I am ashamed.
18. Civilisation is no more the norm.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/the-collapse-of-civilisation/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 12 2025 6:18 utc | 129

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 12 2025 2:03 utc | 117
#####$
Did you catch Nick on the Sam Hyde show?
Sam is hilarious, he really took off in 2016 when Trump was first running.
His fans made him the Ghost of Kiev online.
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/comedian-sam-hyde-is-not-the-ghost-of-kyiv-idUSL1N2V50Z3/
Sam is great. “We’re all being sexually blackmailed by Mossad right now.’

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 12 2025 6:24 utc | 130

I love how we can discuss spirituality here in this respectful way, thanks all – and special thanks to juliania for your sage thoughts on many delicate matters!
james, how did you like the book by Steiner?
Personally, I do not believe that all religions are about to merge into one any time soon, if ever. One recurrent theme about the new world order conspiracy tales is about forming a single religion to gain singular leadership over the people, and part of my scepticism comes from there. It would be a designer religion; and if it comes to pass, I’d say we are probably going to see a dualist model, since those can handle the theodicity problem. But my preferred route would be somewhat akin to what Wilhelm von Humboldt said about language: “man lives in his language”, and all languages bring something different to the common table of humanity considering respective lifeworlds. Lifeworlds aren’t fully translatable; with the more general point being that no language is and ever will be able to demoninate all “things” because things are not things in the first place, in such a way that we could claim that they are making up “the world”. Rather, we see any a thing “into” the world as I like to say. Of course the brick is there when I kick it, but is it actually a brick or part of a brick wall? The attempt to “define” things in an observerless way is, deep down, logically inconsistent.
And so it is with God. If we could nail him down, so to speak (and pardon the pun), he would be here. Well, he is here (so I’d say); but not according to a working positive definition that resembles His experience for all of us. Part of the problem with some of the organized religions might be that they tried to settle into a “substance” style of notion, while others went with the much more subtle greek term hypostasis to describe aspects of Him as the foundation of our experience.
Humboldt said we need to preserve all languages mankind speaks, and only then we can start working on unifiying ideas, because we might lose something along the way otherwise. I think so it is with religions, too. And for the time being – perhaps forever – an open-minded encounter with other spiritually minded folks would be most rewarding. Just don’t try to overpower each other with crude ideas such as “my god is stronger than all” (which the Manicheans experienced, for instance), but also don’t do away with logic altogether along the way. Now logic is nice, but it also depends on assumptions and etc, so the “splinter in one’s eye” comes to mind …

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 12 2025 6:31 utc | 131

Good morning barflies and ain’t there a ‘nice’ miasma in the bar today! Ahhhh sniifffff that – I love the smell of desperate narrative clinging in the morning – it’s the scent of the collapsing empire in decay – a gangrenous decomposition.
Re Amnesty, Oxfam, Save The Children, Greenpeace, Christian Aid, Water Aid …. Etc etc etc etc – some decades ago I cancelled ALL my naive direct debits to the scammers.
It wasn’t just the laughing goon Dalai Lama regularly hosted at AI; or the upper class stooge who tree hugged through Greenpeace , or the fuckers that profited from glasto and it’s Oxfam links – the six figured salaried ‘executives’ they suddenly acquired … it was the simple futility as I watched barely competent students I used to know who found ‘careers’ in such worthy projects – who never had any nouse, or as the old conscripts used to call it ‘no common dog fuck’
Jeez people 1 when will the tree trunk blocking peoples eyes be removed to see the wood?
Pardon the mixed metaphor.
Also Steiner!!! Fuck me it’s like a goldfish bowl in here.
And race? A ‘white’ race ? Shirley you mean GAMMON? If you are trying to label the supposed AngloEuropean peoples as ‘white’? Afroamerican’s (and all other xxx Americans) are superheroes and top generals and all-American chest thumpingpatriots on teevee and film now dontchaknow?
Heck that glorious idea of supremacist patriotism is writ large daily in every propaganda self policing police and terror and secret agent hero storyline in every show !
What are you missing not to notice it – maybe turn the screen off, avert your eyes and ears for some months and then years and WAKE UP!
I know I hit a few punches in your bellies that takes most of the air out of your Yankee Poodle self image! A hollywoood, teevee, comic book self understanding of whom the usasians are – no you ain’t ‘native American’ – you hate any such reminders; that you have even removed that label nowadays apparently, as my Yankee friends tell me.
You are nothing except a creation of the Zionist fascist Banker overlords.
As is every one of the 5 Eyes
As is every single fucking Euro imperial colonisation era
As is the ziofascist supremacist that exist only because the USA military muscle i. West Asia.
All puppets of the ziolords.
You/ Me / eveerrrybody …. Oooh yeah !
We are treated like gold fish with a memory even shorter than a lifetime, never mind enduring though generations and centuries and Millenia- human memory time scales that give rise to REAL civilisational progress.
We end up becoming genociders of ancient Peoples and monuments and memory to hide that history as our Ziolords who with their dynastic existences raise their generations with the knowledge of how they came to power and retain it.
We are left to fight between ourselves – religion , race, nationality, pseudo culture, drugs and base human / animal sensual appeals.
Kept as slaves divided and confused.
A minority of humanity gathered in our zoo the Collective Waste – left in desperate stress as our sands of time disappear , believing that we alone are the acme of human self consciousness! Especially the newborn ‘race’ of yankeepoodles … har har har! all strutting cowboys! Fantasy addicts.
What hubris! What strings we are swung on.
The HasbaRats here , the Fake Narrative spreaders, the daily foggers. Leading us round in circles …
To the silent many who daily more come to the bar for b’s often and famed great analysis – do not despair – watch! Watch the daily attempts as the socks get themselves all atwist and mixed up – it’s funny mostly but sometimes they need ‘sorting out’ or throwing away as stinky old and useless socks always do.
Have a fabulous day folks. Think of Palestine every hour and remember you’ve been here before! Remember as your life and sanity depends on it.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 12 2025 6:31 utc | 132

Race is an artificial political and social construct. There is no basis in science.
@ Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 11 2025 23:27 utc | 108
Thanks for pointing that out. It’s good of you to insist on some intellectual standards, but at the same time, I’m so sick and tired of the troglodytes — self-styled paleos thrashing to dial enlightenment all the way back to Lamarck. Pre-Darwinian, that is: inheritance of acquired characteristics, disproved a thousand times, just like 18th century notions of race.
And yet here we are, riding that old merry-go-round again. The problem with progressives (John Stuart Mill, for instance) is they imagine human progress to be an actual thing. The only progress I’ve experienced in this life is progressive realization of how deep a hole humanity has dug for itself: the Hell we’ve managed to make of planet Earth.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 12 2025 6:48 utc | 133

LoveDonbass | Aug 12 2025 6:24 utc | 130
I don’t understand how a single, real person can be able to post for the amount of time you do.
I suggest the owner of this blog review the participation logs to determine if it’s feasible that you’re a single and real human.
I could be wrong, but my guess is that LoveDonbass is either a bot or a group of people. The latter option is the most unlikely.
Goodbye. After sleep, I do really have a day ahead of me.

Posted by: Esophagus | Aug 12 2025 6:55 utc | 134

@ DunGroanin | Aug 12 2025 6:31 utc | 132
Speaking of His Holiness…
Why Was The Dalai Lama At Jeffrey Epstein’s House?
https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/why-was-the-dalai-lama-at-jeffrey
There’s a cavernous Epstein sink-hole around MIT’s Media Lab, Noam Chomsky, His Holiness, and something called transhumanism, it seems. Please don’t ask me to explain WTF is going on here. The deeper you go, the darker it gets.
People hang out with Jeffrey for (at least) one of two reasons: business or pleasure (aka money or sex). His Holiness has most likely been multitasking, in my interpretation.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 12 2025 7:07 utc | 135

As you might expect, Trahnshumansim originates from the inconvenience some people experience from maintaining the personal organism, and from a distaste for death. As this OT thread is often subject to spritzes of philosophical nonsense, it might be an appropriate place for selections from The Transhumanist Manifesto:

Aging is a disease. The aim is to mitigate aging and extend life beyond the maximum lifespan. The criteria for measurements chronological age are changing and countering the biases of ageist behaviors that restrict and damper peoples’ purposefulness in life.
Humanity needs a change—a new outlook that helps us become more humane.
This something new is transhumanism—a worldview that seeks a quality of life that brings about perpetual progress, self-transformation, practical optimism, visionary solutions, and critical thinking—the transhuman.
Simply adding gadgetry to our bodies will not make us modern or evolved, nor will designing new bodies and environment to inhabit without a transdisciplinary strategy. The human body and its diversification require a cross-pollination of conjectural, multidimensional processes for addressing complex issues that reach beyond the cyborg.

https://www.humanityplus.org/the-transhumanist-manifesto
To be clear: Aleph does not endorse the above message. We can be okay with mortality, imho. It’s incredible that a putative Buddhist (the Dalai Lama) would misunderstand so egregiously the interdependence of opposites. That light and darkness coexist. Buddha said something along those lines, but he was a laid-back dude, okay with Life on Earth. Unlike His Transhumance Holiness.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 12 2025 7:44 utc | 136

Nick had another great show in his generational run. I won’t keep beating a dead horse by covering his every daily move, but suffice to say, you may be missing out on something that has some historical heft.
Tucker Carlson is MAGA’s media jester-in-chief and for a 26 year old one-man-show (with the help of a few loyal groypers) to obliterate an intelligence creature like Tucker who has spent 30 years championing the west excesses of empire, is something worthy of the great Greek playwrights or even Shakespeare. Nick as MacDuff?
Or maybe like on Clash of the Titans where Nick is on a hero’s journey and he comes into the lair of Medusa (Candace Owen), dispatches and beheads her, where the Kraken (Tucker) is released but Fuentes uses Candace’s head to destroy Carlson.
Or maybe more like Frank Baum’s Return to Oz.
Nick as Dorothy is scowering the wasteland of Oz when he is set upon by the annoying Wheelers (The Daily Wire’s Knowles, Walsh, Shapiro, and Kirk) but escape to the safety of Princess Mambi’s tower. Princess Mambi (Candace), able to use the heads of all the women of Oz to suit the situation, seizes Nick and locks him in the tower’s uppermost chamber, where Nick finds the shell of Jack the Pumpkin King (Patrick Buchanan). Nick reanimates the Pumpkin King and they fly across the Deadly Desert to the Gnome King’s (Tucker Carlson) lair where they defeat the King by solving his riddle and restore Oz.
One can dream.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 12 2025 9:16 utc | 137

For myself, I agree that it is difficult to pin down race. The color spectrum bleeds together in a kaleidoscope. On a computer’s color wheel, colors are separated by pixels. For an artist working in analog, red becomes pink with a little white in a streak and the point separating these colors is lost.
But even the digital color wheel has green and red at opposite sides, far apart from each other. The space between red and green, then, is probably what we are talking about when we talk about races in humanity. Perhaps that space is where the human mind gets up from its busyness to wonder how red got so close to green. Where did the colors go that exist between red and green? Where did they disappear to?
I suppose race then is a matter of noticing. It has as its elements geography (location) and familiarity (red wouldn’t mind being next to pink, but asking it to exist next to green throws the whole thing out of whack).
Race can also be used, as I have said before, by elites to divert attention from their shenanigans.
Do western elite really care about the plight of Mexicans wanting a better life? Do they really care at all that it is much more difficult for Euro-heritage Americans to have their standard of living lowered and accept that plight than it is for third worlders to come to Disney Land and send home giant turkey legs to their countries of origin, effectively using the U.S. as a toilet?
I suppose then, that when I am talking about race, I am not so much describing the measurable pigmentation of skin color in people, but rather the effect of the elite actively transferring an alien people and positioning them to live directly next to a heritage one.
We know this creates problems. Leftists want to say it doesn’t, but we know it does. They proceed from an ideal that states that the human being is already advanced enough along its telos to full communion with God, that red and green can exist together without any kind of puzzled look coming from either about their situation together (a situation that they were forced into by the elites that put them together).
But as I said before, elites, not having to live next to either red or green, but existing solely at the behest on the labor of both, see no problem and actually see only a dollar sign and way out. A dollar sign because they can set red against green: “Well, maybe if you would have worked as hard as green, you might not have lost your job to him.”
Or: “If you work hard, you can be just like red.”
Now the elite’s “way out” by using race is also an awful reality that can not be ignored. In times of want and the work has dried up for both red and green, there is a lot of time for pitchforks to be sharpened.
But the elite are silver-tongued, and where before they were able to confound red and green into thinking they were natural friends, now the elite can turn red against green by saying, “You know, red isn’t like you.”
Instead of the pitchforks being turned on the elite for creating this mess, red and green are now racial enemies.
So you see, race does exist in context. And unfortunately, looking for a scapegoat in times of pain is as old as Adam.
“When the way prevails in the empire,
Laborers are happy in their toil.
They care not about news in foreign lands or even visiting them.
They can not even be bothered looking up to see what the other land looks like when they are on the border.
They are content.”
~ Tao Te Ching

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 12 2025 10:16 utc | 138

All Under Heaven 41, Tom_C_Collins 46:
From Nemesis Calling, OT Thread 2025-176, post 151. “This is what Nick is saying to the youth: fuck off with this cultural conservatism that is obsessed with Transgenderism, gay sex, me too, feral blacks being elevated to sainthood…”
NC probably referring to George Floyd. I imagine like for Gruff, those Anti-Racist Demonstrations made them ill. About anti- racism of the young in US — guys, you aren’t ever going to see that much ‘conservative energy’ whatever Fuentes says.

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 10:25 utc | 139

Relevant:
Understanding the Global South
Two points:
The BRICS plus group does not represent the Global South beyond rhetoric, but it is the symbolic face of the power of the South. There is then the Poor South as well. Despite these glaring differences, the Global South will remain relevant as long as the idea of the West as a self-styled entity that views itself as culturally, racially and intellectually superior to the East remains.
Dr. Amitav Acharya, Interviewed 6th of August, 2025
In 2025, the Global South is asserting economic and political influence through BRICS+, regional alliances, and alternative trade systems, but deep divisions and underdevelopment still hinder its ability to replace the Western-led order
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/understanding-the-global-south–missed-opportunities-or-a-ri

Posted by: JB | Aug 12 2025 10:33 utc | 140

48 Tom_Q_Collins. Sorry about C instead of Q typo in above post. The post gives the thread and # of NC ‘feral blacks’ post.

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 10:34 utc | 141

“it’s not far-fetched for me to claim that Americans wish for a black genocide in America while keeping their own hands clean and blaming the Chinese for the genocide.”
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Aug 10 2025 20:34 utc | 41
Yes it is far-fetched.

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 11:27 utc | 142

72 Nemesis Calling– “Just like whites, blacks will need to look deep down into their motivations and patterns of behavior.”
But mostly blacks will have to catch up, shape up, and start behaving right, no?
Mexicans will have to decide: do they want this land for Mexico and the Spanish Lingua or for the U.S. and the English language.”
No more funding for bilingual ed., for that matter, no more money for education, claro?
98 NemesisCalling –“Certainly no one can argue that having ethnic enclaves, different religions, and burgeoning minority violence does not constitute a powder keg for violence to erupt while we wait for a low-trust society to become even more fractured during the coming cataclysmic downturn.”
What about manufactured inequality at a historic level, poverty, homelessness, lack of healthcare, falling life expectancy, impoverishment of the working class, endless war, government corruption, ignorance and stupidity, corporate rule, police violence and ICE thuggery (engendering resistance of minority and white resistance), rising oppression and fascism: will any of these conditions contribute? You have selected only three conditions, all about the existence of the non-white citizens and residents in US. I am sure you know that minorities are always scapegoated when the government perceives it needs to crack down as the contradictions within the fractured class society rise. You can’t pretend that focusing only on race as it’s been expressed in these posts isn’t a call for white supremacy. Why not just say so. Be in the vanguard of those who take advantage of the current permissive climate to say what they really want.

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 13:07 utc | 143

Like I say, the Tibet that no anglo/euro wanna talk about, or India’s dirty secret…The seven sisters, forcefully kept like concubines , ravished like virgins
for the past eight decades, courtesy of the Brits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCPR_avlU7Q
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Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 13:19 utc | 144

The Brits set up two outposts Oz and NZ in Asiapac.
In good old anglo tradition, Canberra and Wellington declared the entire South Pacific their turf and all islands within their protectorates.
To keep the tarzan islanders beholden , FUKUSA aka AUKUS play their usual trick…
Create a crisis, offer solution, foot on the ground.
For example,
In 2021, the FUKUSA backed opposition started a riot , Aussie ‘peace keeping force’ swooped in to maintain order.
2022, Solomon signed a security pact with China, whereby Beijing would offer eqpt and anti riot gears and training to the island’s police force.
This could be a Beijing initiative to protect its citizens especially after Solomon’s ex PM alleged the Aussies were told by their superiors not to protect Chinese properties from rioters.
BOy , how the entire anglophone went banana over this ‘Chinese invasion’ !
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Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 13:29 utc | 145

While polls indicate Canucklheads are still mostly bamboozled by Mark ‘Goldman-Sachs’ Carney’s much remarked spin skills aka ‘Mr Smooth’, FN’s have begun to smell a rat…
First Nations Warn Carney’s Push to Build Canada Could Tear It Apart
https://thewalrus.ca/first-nations-warn-carneys-push-to-build-canada-risks-tearing-it-apart/
“…Meanwhile, resistance from First Nations is building…First Nations youth leaders told reporters on Parliament Hill about their intention to start a youth-led ‘warrior peoples’ movement.”
Carney is Pushing Canadian Liberalism To Its Breaking Point
https://x.com/CDN_Dimension/status/1953487906468753790
“Bill C-5 will let the Carney government sidestep Indigenous rights and environmental checks for ‘nation-building’ projects at its choosing. It’s a sharp turn toward authoritarianism – and a breaking point for Canadian liberalism.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 12 2025 14:05 utc | 146

BOy , how the entire anglophone went banana over this ‘Chinese invasion’ !
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Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 13:29 utc | 145
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wsws
‘The situation in Solomon Islands represents another indictment of US and Australian imperialism. Talk of respecting the national sovereignty of small nations and of upholding basic precepts of international law is quickly abandoned when geo-strategic interests are at stake. Preparations to destabilise and potentially overthrow the Sogavare government threaten an enormous crisis in the impoverished Pacific country.’
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ANU National Security College head Rory Medcalf
‘ the as-yet-unsigned agreement would give China unprecedented military access to Australia’s ­Pacific neighbour, including the potential establishment of a ­Chinese base in Solomon Islands. “Assuming it is accurate, this is a very serious shift,” he said. ­“Because if you read the document, it literally is an open door to a Chinese military presence in the Solomon Islands with authorisation to use force.
There is no way that Australia can allow this deal to proceed. If it must, the nation should invade and capture Guadalcanal such that we engineer regime change in Honiara.’
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Anthony Albanese
‘The govn is asleep at the wheel, derelict of its duty’
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WarSJ
‘Meanwhile, Watch China in the Pacific: With the world focused on Ukraine, bad actors in Asia are on the march.”
“Our advice to the Solomons and other smaller nations is to think twice before getting in bed with Beijing or Moscow.”
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Jonathan Pryke
‘any Chinese military base in the South Pacific would represent a “red line” for Canberra
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David Llewellyn-Smith, the former owner of the foreign affairs journal, the Diplomat.
“Australia must ready Solomon Islands invasion,”
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New Zealand academic and long standing anti-Chinese agitator Anne-Marie Brady
‘tHere should be a “cull of sacred cows,” including an “over-emphasis on Solomon’s sovereignty,”
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Courtesy
WSWS
Macrobiz.com

Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 15:21 utc | 147

@ psychohistorian | Aug 12 2025 5:21 utc | 127
thanks for chiming in.. i like what you’ve said and share in some or all of it..
@ juliania | Aug 12 2025 5:30 utc | 128
i like the idea of the meaning of monk being ”a different one”.. that is encouraging, lol..there is room for people who are different..
i think it is okay that we differ in some of our perceptions of all this.. it seems to me tolstoy was much more direct and outspoken in his views then dostoevsky who embedded his ideas in his fascinating stories..
@ Aleph_Null | Aug 12 2025 6:18 utc | 129
while traveling in malaysia in 2016, i picked up a copy of the autobiography of Mahathir bin Mohamad… i thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it, but since we are living in the land of the free – it is hard to find a copy of it, lol! it is a thick book, but one i really enjoyed and came away with a lot of admiration for him as a person and passionate leader of the malay people specifically..
@ persiflo | Aug 12 2025 6:31 utc | 131
the book was almost like reading sci-fi! i can’t say i recommend it for everyone, but i was curious and i continued on and did indeed finish the book.. my brother had a copy lying around and i was curious.. i had read one of his books back in my 20’s and enjoyed it – knowledge of the higher worlds – how is it attained? was the title or something like that.. steiner is not for everyone..
i don’t think the world religions are going to merge any time soon either, if ever.. people are often attached to the outer form of belief and custom and although some can see clearly the connections all religions share, those most attached to the external attachments that come with organized religions- ikons, rosaries and etc. etc. will not be inclined to appreciate how all the religions come from the same source of inspiration and wisdom… maybe i am wrong..
man lives in his language – i like this quote, but i can imagine a few different languages that don’t have names for them.. steiner in his books appears to be speaking one of them, and it is not german that i am getting at…
this quote from you – “The attempt to “define” things in an observerless way is, deep down, logically inconsistent.” i think logic can only travel so far and it reaches a dead end when it comes to certain topics and religion / spirituality is one of them..the idea of faith transcends logic… will is a higher power then logic.. thanks for sharing your thoughts!
to go back to the origins of this specific conversation, i was curious if you had read tolstoys views in this book that the moa poster george had recommended.. i recommend the book too as it challenges people to think outside of the box.. i wonder how many monks have read it?? thanks for the conversation juliania..

Posted by: james | Aug 12 2025 15:26 utc | 148

@138 Lavieja
Thx for the comments.
I think my earlier post at 138 above echos your sentiment. We are largely in agreement.
However, we agree that the reality of a large economic downturn will force lopsided pressure on minorities. On the flip, we will be able to have sincerely honest conversations that have been pent up in the American psyche for quite a while. We are seeing evidence of this already begin to form. It could be a really good thing.
One of the lines of questioning I hope blacks especially, though whites to a lesser degree, end up pursuing, is the role of Jewry in our respective medias. To whites, it appears that a lot of black popular culture and media, has a “ghetto” mentality, almost like a reveling in victimhood and, when not that, the blackpill that “this is how it is,” so we need to be gangsta and tribal and take what we can take.
Black men, especially, are victims of this fallen thinking.
I hope stalwart examples of decent black people can lead them and be a lodestar for them. Two of my favorite Americans in history have been Malcom X and Zora Neale Hurston, one of the best American writers ever, black or white, male or female.
As I said, I am hopeful.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 12 2025 15:33 utc | 149

Trump Orders Police-Military Takeover of Washington DC
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/12/guxf-a12.html
“In his most brazen action yet to create a fascist dictatorship in America, President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency in the District of Columbia (DC), putting the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, and mobilized nearly a thousand soldiers in the DC National Guard to patrol the city.
On the pretext of a ‘crime wave’ in the city, Trump’s latest big lie, he is putting the US capital under military rule.
What is most remarkable about the present situation is that Trump is carrying out the step-by-step erection of a fascist dictatorship in plain view, in real time, without any resistance from the institutions and organizations that supposedly uphold the principles of constitutional democracy.
The Democratic Party has done nothing to oppose Trump’s dictatorship…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 12 2025 16:23 utc | 150

Why they choose Alaska?
Have you forgotten about the agreement of 2011 between ExxonMobil and Rosneft investment in Arctic in tbe range of 500 billion usd in those days? Today if it becomes possible might be in the range of 800-900 billion usd….Plus railways, plus plus plus plus… S
https://philosophyofgoodnews.com/2025/08/10/why-alaska/

Posted by: Lancelot | Aug 12 2025 16:40 utc | 151

@james – I have read none of Tolstoy’s works yet, but hope that I can read War and Peace or Anna Karenina one day. They are at the top of my fiction reading list actually, though it might have to wait until I move out of the city later in life when I am ready for the countryside, whenever that comes to be. For some reason I have stopped reading fiction altogether at some point in my twenties, kind of like Peter AU1 did which is one of the curious parallels I share with him in our otherwise so unrelated walks of life. – But I hugely enjoy the discussions about the great works of literature we see here at times. I read many novels when I was younger, among them all the thick ones by Dostoevsky. The Idiot is the one I would like to re-read now. Shakespeare is another author I find really fascinating and would like to dive into more at some point.
For now it’s mostly MoA which sucks up my free reading time, but it’s a great experience. The general interest aspects of the collaborative I find very rewarding, though what brought me here originally is my strange passion for conflict reporting and military history which I probably have inherited from my dad. He was a soldier in his younger years and would have continued his career if not for an accident he suffered from a parajump. His goal was to become a military attaché, and at one point he was stationed in Israel, “prowling the Negev with an Uzi”. When I asked him why, he said some simple wise words which I will never forget: “Because I was stupid”. I might still have become a soldier myself (and part of me will forever rue that I didn’t), but my mother wished that I’d not – another wise counsel that I came to understand only with the years passing.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 12 2025 17:24 utc | 152

FUKUSA invoke their ‘right’ to invade and regime change Solomon, an independent country .
After all, the island’s sovereignty is overrated.
OTOH, they bestow sovereinty to TW, a Chinese province, declare it a protectorate
Mind you, they’r prepared to send their precious boys and girls over to fight the chicom and risk WW3 !
Pale face, forked tongue

Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 18:00 utc | 153

@ persiflo | Aug 12 2025 17:24 utc | 152 who wrote about being interested in Shakespeare
I encourage you to get Issac Asimov’s guide to Shakespeare which give all the historical and mythological background to the plays….and why the jokes of the day are funny.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 12 2025 18:22 utc | 154

@ persiflo | Aug 12 2025 17:24 utc | 152
your mother was a wise soul, and i would extend this to most of the female population of the world that see the folly in war and any movement towards it…
i have a nice copy of war and peace that i am considering taking with me to italy in late september.. i haven’t decided yet what book i am going to bring on the 3 week trip..i am blessed to be able to travel and read and am very grateful for all life has given..
i fluctuate between reading non fiction pragmatic type books and then reading fiction! i read a few wolfgang streeck books a few months ago – his latest one ‘taking back control?’ and another one from about 8 years ago ‘how will capitalism end?’ both books end with a question mark in the title which is an intriguing way to title a book.. both books are excellent.. i also read a book a few months ago on moa poster roger boyds suggestion ‘the capital order’.. these books are not fiction! on the other hand, i happened to see a book i know next to nothing about called ‘a confederacy of dunces’ which is fiction and i am about 35 pages into.. it is comedy and what caught my attention is the story is by a writer from new orleans which is kind of a fascinating place in itself.. the writing is from the late 60’s and the fellow won a purlitzer prize for it, although he committed suicide when he was 32 and it was thanks his mom, who insisted a prof at loyala university read the manuscript before the rest is history..
i wonder where peter au disappeared to??
i have to be careful reading moa too much myself, as i have been sidetracked from doing more music and writing music specifically.. oh well.. life is an ongoing and changing smorgasbord of fascinating experiences and the joy of reading is something i cherish.. a close friend of my lost sight in one eye about 6 months ago and it has prevented him from reading for any length of time, which is a shame.. we all come to an end and nothing lasts forever, but enjoy what you have while you have it..

Posted by: james | Aug 12 2025 18:54 utc | 155

It gets better.
Mindful of Canberra’s belligerence towards China, Solomon had once contracted TW to train their police.
GUess what ?
The Aussies snapped at the TW,
‘buzz off bud, this our turf !’
tHATs how Solomon switched to PRC later.
As the PM reflected,
‘So what I’m saying is, if this was China … they wouldn’t give a damn to Alexander Downer if he goes there and says: ‘You stop, get out of here.’ They’d say: ‘Get the hell out of here.’ This is a sovereign decision made by a sovereign government.”
Makes sense innit ?
Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Aug 12 2025 19:40 utc | 156

@psychohistorian – nice, thanks for this tip!
Peter might be opal mining out in the wild. As usual we can’t be sure about his return .. I miss him too, although he’s been developing into a bit of a drama queen lately. Heck, it makes me even like drama, lol.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 12 2025 20:08 utc | 157

@ persiflo | Aug 12 2025 20:08 utc | 157
Peter AU1 still posts regularly, if not copiously, at Martyanov’s site. He seems to have lost interest in this one. Hmm, wonder why.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 12 2025 21:09 utc | 158

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 11:27 utc | 142 A good post deserves repeating:

“it’s not far-fetched for me to claim that Americans wish for a black genocide in America while keeping their own hands clean and blaming the Chinese for the genocide.”
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Aug 10 2025 20:34 utc | 41
Yes it is far-fetched.

Itaalics added. I remember some very good things in comments by All Under Heaven, but this kind is bizarre at best. The irredeemable racism of the whites is why Obama was elected twice? Racism is real, but it is not a biological attribute of white people.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 12 2025 21:16 utc | 159

Trump cultists may wish to buy, to signal their virtue!
There is an Amazon offer of books starring….Baron Trump!!! Obviously this prescient tribute to an heir of the glorious leader and restorer of the American Empire should be on your coffee table.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NPQ7G51?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks&qid=1755017293&sr=8-6-spons

Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 12 2025 21:19 utc | 160

Peter AU1 still posts regularly, if not copiously, at Martyanov’s site. Hmm, wonder why.
malenkov | Aug 12 2025 21:09 utc | 158

Perhaps he couldn’t stand the ornery insinuations.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 12 2025 21:21 utc | 161

152 persiflo. Read “War and Peace;” it is full of military strategy in Napoleonic Wars.

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 22:52 utc | 162

Peter AU1 still posts regularly, if not copiously, at Martyanov’s site. He seems to have lost interest in this one. Hmm, wonder why.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 12 2025 21:09 utc | 158
Speculation: he knows he has *legendary* status at MoA due mostly to his very copious “fuck off troll!” period, and the high expectations some here probably have for him to live up to that legendary status once again. He doesn’t have that same expectation to live up to a legendary, highly combative past with the commentary crowd at Marty’s site. Again, just speculation.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 12 2025 22:58 utc | 163

@ ThouShalt | Aug 12 2025 22:58 utc | 163
Maybe. Although he took with grace a lot of really vicious abuse here for supposedly being a fraud and a nick thief, it’s hard to imagine he was entirely unaffected by it. That’s what I was hinting at.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 12 2025 23:03 utc | 164

149 “One of the lines of questioning I hope blacks especially, though whites to a lesser degree, end up pursuing…”
A ‘line of questioning’ more blacks already know more about than most whites is the role of police, gang infiltrators and FBI, especially when money interests (developers) decide to gentrify a black neighborhood, which invariably results in the displacement of the residents. A good book written by a Jewish investigative reporter which exemplifies how the US power structure in all its trickle-down formations invades a neighborhood and destroys a vital community is “The Holly” by Julian Rubinstein, also a documentary film.

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 23:19 utc | 165

165 Lavieja to 149 NemisisCalling. Early in the documentary film I mention, at the historic moment when the police presence in the neighborhood has fully expanded, the particular police chief has called a community meeting and is blathering on about living together, etc., a woman, a lifetime community resident tells him, “when you show up, people start dying.” This is a reality which whites could learn about from blacks.

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 23:35 utc | 166

Maybe. Although he took with grace a lot of really vicious abuse here for supposedly being a fraud and a nick thief, it’s hard to imagine he was entirely unaffected by it. That’s what I was hinting at.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 12 2025 23:03 utc | 164
That’s true too. But he didn’t blame anyone for that abuse. Because the skepticism was entirely natural here. It was natural because Karlof1 had announced here that PeterAU1 had died, and he did so with authority. And Karlof1 is probably the most highly respected commentator on MoA especially, but also on other blogs and on his own substack (and rightly so). Notable that PeterAU1 never blamed Karlof1 for telling MoA he was dead. He confessed to the reasons for the honest mistake, and took responsibility for it himself. As I recall.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 12 2025 23:43 utc | 167

149 NemesisCalling. “Zora Neale Hurston, one of the best American writers ever, black or white, male or female.”
Yes, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, a lovely, memorable book. What did you think of “Mules and Men?”

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 23:53 utc | 168

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 12 2025 23:43 utc | 167
Hey. I am very sorry for being lame the other day. I am taking time away from here. I hope you accept my apology. It was stupid, and I feel badly.

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 12 2025 23:56 utc | 169

That’s true too. But he didn’t blame anyone for that abuse.
Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 12 2025 23:43 utc | 167
______
That’s the “with grace” I was referring to, of course. And yes, karlof1’s was an eminently reasonable honest mistake.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 12 2025 23:56 utc | 170

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 12 2025 23:56 utc | 169
No need to apologize for that at all. You weren’t lame. You’re punk-rock! New names here always get labeled as “trolls” if they disrupt the purity-spiral in any way, no matter how genuine.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 0:53 utc | 171

@168 Lavieja
I can see why “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is considered her best piece of writing, and “Dust Tracks…” is probably her second most well-known, yes?
I have read essays from her and referenced them here, including her, “Why the Negro won’t buy communism.”
“Seraph on the Suwanee” was the book that introduced me to her writing. It’s a great little take on cracker WASPS and white trash in Florida. A lot of her personality and anger for convention comes out in it, whereas “TEWWG” is just a terrificly fun and readable book, like you say, with Zora’s steadfast courage always shining forth.
It is too bad she was “lost” for so long before Toni Morisson resurrected her. Because she did not care for the political leanings of the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes, et al., she went about her life alone and alienated from other black writers and artists and often in poverty. Indeed, dying in it.
(From AI:)

Zora Neale Hurston famously described poverty as smelling like death, saying, “There is something about poverty that smells like death”. She further elaborated that it’s like “dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet, impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves”.
This powerful metaphor highlights the suffocating and debilitating nature of poverty, impacting not just the physical well-being but also the spirit and aspirations of individuals.
Hurston’s own life experiences, marked by periods of poverty despite her literary success, likely informed this perspective. She wrote extensively about the lives and experiences of Black Americans in the rural South, often including depictions of poverty and its consequences. Her work, including her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” has been recognized for its celebration of black culture and its unflinching portrayal of human experience, including the harsh realities of poverty.

But to her, that could never truly squash her individualist spirit.
“No man can make another man free.”
Truer words…

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 13 2025 0:58 utc | 172

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 13 2025 0:58 utc | 172
I watched the entirety of Fuentes’ two recent videos in response to Tucker and Candace dissing him. His dogmatic “Holocaust denial” schtick puts some strict limits on his appeal to the general public. But man, that young man is incredibly articulate and persuasive!. I have some doubts about his ability to research everything he presents, given the time needed to do so and the time needed to make such highly professional presentations. At the age of 26.
Tucker made a great point, David Duke’s endorsements hurt, rather than helped, effective and the more mainstream criticisms of the neocons and their continuous policy of full-spectrum-dominance and “humanitarian interventionism”. Fuentes is sorta like a new David Duke.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 1:14 utc | 173

Just a quick comment on a John Helmer interpretation of VVP greeting Trump’s personal envoy Witkoff in Moscow last week as Helmer discussed with our friend Nima R. Alkhorshid on his Dialogue Works channel.
Whist a nit on a tick, this exemplifies how awful communication is between the some and others.
Putin bent slightly forward in a classic greeting when meeting Witkoff, bowing slightly, Eastern style, a signal of mutual respect in my reading.
Helmer, however, interpreted this classic eastern greeting as a sign of VVP’s fear and felt subordination to the power of the west. WTF?
So many say we need step into the shoes of others to find our way to harmony. I agree.
Whilst this interpretation is minor, it is telling of where improvements can be made which could be major.

Posted by: suzan | Aug 13 2025 1:51 utc | 174

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 0:53 utc | 171
Thanks. I have been having a rough time. It is very kind of you. Cheers to everyone here.
I am going to work on my noumenon. I hope to drop by again soon. Muito amor a tudos. 🙂
Private Hell – The Jam (1979)

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 13 2025 1:54 utc | 175

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 13 2025 1:54 utc | 175
I like some of that SoCal punk rock. Strange and true msm news segment here…
https://youtu.be/o7GcCPvoThY?feature=shared

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 2:25 utc | 176

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 13 2025 1:54 utc | 175
I hope you find that sense of calm purpose that we are all searching for.
This world is tough on gentle souls.
I concur with Thou Shalt, you are “punk rock”, both musically, and, in the sense Dead Kennedys put it: “punk means thinking for yourself” (from the song: Nazi Punks Fuck Off).
All the best, and greetings from Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 13 2025 2:33 utc | 177

174 suzan. I’ve noticed in past he sometimes finds too much meaning in body language.

Posted by: corahall2001@yahoo.c | Aug 13 2025 2:35 utc | 178

My musical tastes tend to be more mainstream, but I do really love Social Distortion.
https://youtu.be/oh8zcbC_Dcw?feature=shared

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 2:53 utc | 179

Another Social D song that is really good..
I was wrong
https://youtu.be/aXAU4MmMIMo?feature=shared

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 3:09 utc | 180

When one watches Fuentes’ videos, one notices his wild arm-waving and his hand-waving and other physical methods of propaganda. He is very good at it. Few notice things like that.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 3:20 utc | 181

@Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 12 2025 6:18 utc | 129
The former Malaysian Prime Minister reminds me of those boomers who look back fondly on the immediate post-war decades which involved:
– The 1960s Indonesian genocide of 1-2 million minimum in 1964 when Mahathir was in his 40s, followed by decades of dictatorship
– The Vietnam War that ran into the 1970s
– The Cambodian genocide of the second half of the 1970s
– The many, many wars to maintain colonies in Africa and Asia of the 1950s to 1970s
– The Guatemalan genocide that continued into the 1990s
– The East Timor genocide from the 1970s to the 1990s
– The fascist states and widespread state terror of South America in the 1970s and 1980s
Yes, in Singapore itself and possibly Malaysia things did improve greatly. Along with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China. And somewhat later in Vietnam. But in the larger world there has never been a golden era of international law and “civilized behaviour”.
The Gaza genocide, however horrendous, is nothing new for the West and their local vassal tools. For centuries the West has been genociding and subjugating its way around the world with little or no regard for the international rule of law. There was very little improvement, except in the imperial core. The past decade has actually shown significant improvement as the Empire has been pushed back and non-Western nations have found new strength and independence. Of course there are setbacks, and horrific Imperial violence as we see in Gaza, but the trend is one of improvement. Mahathir sounds more like an ignorant member of the elites than an informed commentator.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Aug 13 2025 4:08 utc | 182

james at 148
“…i think it is okay that we differ in some of our perceptions of all this.. it seems to me tolstoy was much more direct and outspoken in his views then dostoevsky who embedded his ideas in his fascinating stories..”
This is very true, james. I read a quote from Dostoievski in a letter he wrote: “Let the readers do some of the work themselves” which I take to mean one ought to be asking questions all the way through his novels, whereas I think with Tolstoi what you see is what you get — they are very different writers in that, both brilliant but different.
Also, I would be more perplexed than I still am, reading Dostoievski, if I hadn’t had the extreme privilege of reading TBK along with other students under the guidance of a Russian professor. He was able to take difficult passages and explain the meaning of the Russian word often incompletely translated into English. For instance, the Pevear translation is very good, but, in an important passage, that translation gives the word ‘strain’ where a better translation is ‘laceration’. I say the latter is better because at one point the child-heroine deliberately lacerates her pinkie by closing the door on it – and that whole segment is named ‘Lacerations’ where ‘Strains’ just won’t do.
Another thing, our church followed the standard English translation of the church liturgy, but where there were prayers specifically for ‘president and armed forces’ — no, we left that out. And our priest explained he considered that an empirical addition to the original text. Also, there was never a pause in proceedings while the collection plate was passed. A little box stood in a corner. ‘Let your left hand not know what your right hand is doing.’
The service was always continuous, text being Greek, 5th century — even sermons were short and rarely given. And while in conversations afterwards sometimes the subject came up from newcomers, the word ‘heretic’ was never uttered in or outside the church. ‘Judge not lest ye be judged’ always applied. And we didn’t even have originally painted icons decorating our small converted garage, though it did have the proper east-west alignment, iconostasis, southwestern adobe walls and vigas. Our icons were all beautiful German prints of 16 century Russian iconography, decoupaged onto boards.
Well, I could go on forever. I love that church. Close my eyes and I am in it, of it.

Posted by: juliania | Aug 13 2025 4:14 utc | 183

@ thoushalt
He IS Italian and was engaged in student leadership/government/Model UN/speech club when in school.
Because he is a one-man show, it’s pretty normal to keep flailing about. All single-person Podcasters use their hands a lot.
Re: David Duke. If I were David Duke, I would want to self-promote with other media names as well.
We really shouldn’t be bashful or fearful when it comes to asking questions about the Holocaust or World Jewry. The Enlightment let ‘er rip against the Catholic Church. Why can’t we talk about Jewish levers of power? (The validity of all the outlandish claims surrounding the Holocaust included)

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 13 2025 4:17 utc | 184

Just a reminder, SoCal white boys are largely derived from 1930s Okie stock.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 4:20 utc | 185

@Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 3:20 utc | 181
Fuentes simply does not want to accept his biological destiny of being a Mongrel Mix of Mexican and white-wannabe Irish and Italian. He contains no true Anglo-Saxon genetics. I deplore his woke identification of himself as a “White Nationalist”. He is also a Papist not a good Protestant. He has also not exercised his masculinity by getting a good white girl pregnant, preferring to stay as a virgin child that has never exercised his manhood. Reminds me of that pathetic Celtic-Roman Austrian bastard child who also contained no Anglo-Saxon genetics. Even rumours that he was fathered by a Jew. Clever boy, some mongrels can be quite clever it seems.
/sarc in the style of David Duke

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Aug 13 2025 4:31 utc | 186

People now think of the “red states” as fascist or conservative. But if one looks carefully into real political history, one sees that socialism was quite popular in those areas back in the early part of the 20th century. Not international communism like in NYC, but popular socialism.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 4:35 utc | 187

@ persiflo | Aug 12 2025 17:24 utc | 152

152 persiflo. Read “War and Peace;” it is full of military strategy in Napoleonic Wars.
Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 12 2025 22:52 utc | 162

Right. Don’t wait until you’re ready to move to the countryside. Read it this fall when you first
begin to feel the cold and the days draw short. It’s long so commit. It’s not all fiction and is a blessing you’ll have for the rest of your life. Leo T. will stimulate your bent for philosophy in meaningful language instead of the gobblygook you often get caught up in.
Save my soul from evil Lord, and heal this soldier’s heart.
I’ll trust in thee to keep me Lord. I’m done with Bonaparte

Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 13 2025 4:45 utc | 188

@Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 13 2025 4:45 utc | 188
War and Peace the Russian Mosfilm version, beautifully made; with English subtitles.
Part 1 (2 and a half hours): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIij-KQ0jYU&t=8245s
Part 2 (1 and a half hours): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJjqSfdFuUI
Part 3 (1 and a half hours): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpKA1meiJzs

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Aug 13 2025 5:03 utc | 189

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 12 2025 6:31 utc | 131
Thanks for this, persiflo. Yes, I agree with what you say about substance and “the much more subtle greek term hypostasis to describe aspects of Him as the foundation of our experience.” My simplistic idea has always been that if one could describe God that would be putting him in a box, so I was very comfortable with the Orthodox iconography not representing God the Father. (Some does I know but that’s not how it should be.) Rublev’s icon of the Trinity is the only iconic representation we used in our church. So, God is in essence unknowable, but visible in that Old Testament angelic manifestation and in his Son.
I agree that I can’t see all religions merging into one — the diversity just gives evidence that whatever we say or believe there’s more to it. Here in the southwest churches were built side by side with kivas – they are separate, but the people move from one to the other on feast days.

Posted by: juliania | Aug 13 2025 5:10 utc | 190

I’m loathe to have to point it out here, but Fuentes got his biggest audience ever by far last week, entirely because Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens denigrated him on their show. Some might think that was a sneaky psyop way of promoting Fuentes. It worked out that way in any case.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 5:17 utc | 191

Doing philosophy in all plain language while also being non-native is indeed not easy. But göbbeldigug? Hmpf. There are some terms which are technical in nature, which I usually use with a mindset that these passages are not meant to reach every reader, but those with an interest in the topic.
Anyway, challenge accepted.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 13 2025 5:25 utc | 192

We don’t have sovereignty. We are an occupied nation.

https://x.com/FuentesUpdates/status/1955505947323011154
It’s already over. ZOG is the present and future of America.
Thanks, Judeo-Christians!

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 13 2025 5:55 utc | 193

@ Roger Boyd | Aug 13 2025 5:03 utc | 189
Thanks. Every other January during the dark season we watch the
version with a young Anthony Hopkins as Pierre.
We’ll try your links this mørketid.
@ persiflo | Aug 13 2025 5:25 utc | 192
No offense meant, just didn’t have a smiley face handy.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 13 2025 6:00 utc | 194

“Doing philosophy in all plain language while also being non-native is indeed not easy.”
@192 That reminds of the line ‘philosophers talk funny but they’re not funny when they talk’. 🙂
You shouldn’t feel you’re the only one, it’s ubiquitous across the discipline.
1/2 a good day, twice!

Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 13 2025 6:11 utc | 195

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 13 2025 5:17 utc | 191
I thought it all might be a sneaky way of Tucker and Candace getting things out to the public that they’re too afraid to air, and to capture a younger audience.
It has occurred to me that they are all part of the same team.
Time shall tell, I guess…

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 13 2025 6:19 utc | 196

I think I’m getting used to your humour, waynor. Don’t worry. Of course the discipline is rightly notorious for its crazy language; personally I believe there are true charlatans around as well.
Shoutout to you and all other northern Europeans, we’re having a great summer day here.

Posted by: persiflo | Aug 13 2025 6:33 utc | 197

Enough driveling Eurocentric navel gazing let’s stomp this bar room! Who wants to dance? Let’s talk existential dangers – for all on the web. That’s us and this bar too.
First THEY invade a free land (Internet) then they enclosure it and then put up the barbed wire and No Tresspass signs – then they shoot you if you even look in their direction.
The Wild West of the www, is over – here come the big ranchers and their thug gangs.
Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks
Lol. They are blocking football fanzine sites and even Wikipedia is letting itself be done – to set an example.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/wikimedia_foundation_loses_online_safety/
The push is towards digital control of all of the Golden Billion. Put into parishes they are not allowed out of unless they are ‘special’.
They push people towards VPN’s , browsers and messaging apps which more efficiently gather the data on all; no need for endless cookies from each site visited.
Here’s a write up by an unreliable narrator possibly operating as a sheepdog to herd people towards the vpn, messenger apps and browsers that will entrap instead of provide protection
For example pointing towards Proton and Signal and away from Telegram and recommending a supposed safe browser ‘Brave’.
It turns out that is pushing crypto. Created by Brendan Eich, another TechBro, also owned by Peter Thiel – as is JD Vance. Who has been hanging out with Mordorchs sith like minions kipper FartRage and Tory boy Jenrick (the future tory PM after the current leaderine is binned to make it more ‘electable’ to the gammons).
Anyway to return to the point…
Classifying and recording everyone from childhood – as they used to with their transported slaves.
These IT behemoths mostly connected with the shapeshifters ziofascist illegal apartheid entity – here’s a question for our smarter IT readers :
What about AI?
Does AI need to verify its ‘age’?
How?
How is one AI as a gate keeper going to stop another AI from jumping through the fences erected for humans on the Internet?
What is this shit show? Lol.
b? Please provide article if you have any analysis. Ta.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 13 2025 11:43 utc | 198

This snippet of information is interesting:

Already, we have seen how the Liberal international order has facilitated Transnational Organised Crime, and even turned Belgium and the Netherlands for example) into incipient narco-states as foreign organised crime groups take hold. (aurelien)

Is the statement “foreign organised crime groups turned Belgium and the Netherlands into incipient narco-states” correct?

Posted by: Passerby | Aug 13 2025 11:55 utc | 199

@ juliania | Aug 13 2025 4:14 utc | 183
thanks for the overview and your personal experiences that have shaped where you are today.. continuing on with ideas on the differences between dostoevsky and tolstoy – one of the reasons tolstoy is easier to understand is he hasn’t limited himself to fiction.. whatever dostoeskys ideology, one has to sort it out with his fictional characters and narratives… tolstoy is more direct because he hasn’t only written fiction.. consider the non fiction books he’s written listed here – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy_bibliography
now take a look at the list of books dostoevsky has written.. nothing is listed as non fiction..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky_bibliography
so, yes, tolstoy is as you say ”what you see is what you get”, but this is due the fact he is writing and speaking directly on topics like religion which dostoevsky has never directly done outside his great works of fiction..
you touch on additions or subtractions to approaches taken by individual churches.. i think these are the types of questions that tolstoy raises in his book regarding how this does or doesn’t dovetail with the essence of christs teachings.. he makes a clear separation between church actions and what is central to christianity – the life and works of jesus.. his ideas really revolve around these distinctions and important differences.. he also considers the actions of countries or leaders in relation to what the words of jesus imply – which of course is open to different interpretations..
somehow, i don’t think i have sold you on the idea of reading his book, or the later part of chapter 3, lol!! enjoy the day!

Posted by: james | Aug 13 2025 15:13 utc | 200

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