"Beginning in 1952, Harvey was a friend of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Harvey would often submit "advance copies of his radio script for comment and approval."[4] Harvey's friendship with Hoover may have helped him escape criminal charges relating to his trespassing at Argonne National Laboratory. Harvey was happy to defend Hoover and spoke of him on his show of April 25, 1963: "God help the United States without John Edgar Hoover.... (FBI) Director Hoover is not retiring. If you have heard otherwise, somebody's sinister wish was the father of that thought. It is not so."[35]
Harvey was also a close friend of US Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported his campaign to expose and expel communists from American society and government.[36]"
Plus his friendship with Billy Graham.
I think I ain't gonna take no lessons from this guy. He seemed--metaphorically speaking of course--to be quite a friend of the devil himself.
Ha! I don't even have to click on that as it occurred to me immediately too! The end of many eras below. We watch so many things ending, or going backwards (reversing the arrow of culture) or being buried in metaphorical caves to await a better future. My Sufi friend calls it "The great impermanence"
I’ve heard from a number of people that the Dead were not just a bunch of hippies playing all for peace love and warm groovy feelings that we danced to in the 1960’s-70’s. Some say the Acid trips that got the ball rolling were CIA driven. And I even read that the Dead’s Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart were seen one year at Bohemian Grove.
Check out Sage of Quay. Mike Williams, a musician himself, has a most fascinating take on what was taking place in the world of rock music from the British Invasion onwards. http://sageofquay.com/ - According to his research Paul McCartney actually died and was replaced in 1966 by a bloke know as Billy Shears.
Yes, I understand. And I repeat that a man whose heroes and confidants were those guys is someone perhaps who recognizes evil because he looks in the mirror so much.
As you know from my body of comments here and elsewhere I despise all cult thinking and "cult" is quite a large tent. And our modern times have no patent on monstrosities of perversion. As I recall the Church approved enthusiastically of the creation of castratos in order to preserve those angel voices of pre-pubescent boys for the greater glory of God.
It's always merely new justifications for the same old tyrannies.
Btw, the Bible is a work of history that I’d bet you’ve never bothered to read.
As an aside, there’s archaeological evidence that Noah’s flood was real. Look into the Younger Dryas. Sodom and Gomorrah too. There’s an archaeological site. I believe you said the other day you were against things that cause fear- a meteor blast will likely get your attention in that case.
The central plot device of the Gospels plagiarized from the story of Leda and the Swan, which makes a lot of sense since the apostles made a hard left turn and decided to evangelize the Greeks and they needed a nice familiar myth to work with.
“Well, to be sure, anyone can sponsor a fear mind virus. For example: Yer gonna go to hell!”
And another classical fallacy in your response, and you did nothing to counter my position. You’re batting a thousand here. But it’s probably not entirely your fault. Public education leaves a lot to be desired as of late.
A coworker who knows the Bible remarked on the loaf Ezekiel 4:9 bread going past the check stand. I observed to the young man that no one wants to go past 4:9 when actually baking it; he understood. I promised him that I would read Ezekiel through to find another reference to bread by the prophet, which suggests that the origin of S&G's perversion was a "surfeit of grain". When I find it, I'll post it for you.
That sounds like a Hit Piece, which is what it is. I listened to Paul Harvey on the radio for years beginning in the late 1960s. I’m sure he had his faults, like all human beings, but he was a great American and had the values and ideals he fought for been upheld by the rest of America, we would in no way be in the sorry mess we are in today.
God’s THE JUDGE, Jesus is THE Defense Counsel, Lucifer is the Accuser & prosecutor.
We are all guilty; Some of us have Jesus as our Defense Counsel and HIS HANDS 🙌 , HIS FEET 👣 , and HIS SIDE testify that our Penalty has been PAID IN FULL FOR ETERNITY, Praise the Lord.
Others of us don’t have a defense counsel other than ourselves, them that rely upon themselves have a counsel who cheated in law school (kinda like Joe Biden), had trouble with the Bar exam & never got a law
License. They have no effectual defense and are, have been, and will be JUDGED GUILTY AND CONDEMNED.
2 out of 3 isn’t bad, and IIRC, J Edgar’s ‘issues’ were well hidden @ the time & only widely known after his death. I couldn’t say one way or the other as to what was known about him but was kept on the QT.
I am not going to take anything that an atheist says, for as Romans say the existence of God is plain to all who would look @ the creation.
Graham was above reproach, and made sure that he was by his routines on the road.
McCarthy has been proven right and was portrayed as a bully and con man by the lying leftist media (Gosh, things haven’t changed much in 70 years!
I recall something from Baudelaire to the effect that the "devil" was troubled most by assertions that he didn't, in fact, exist @ all.
My own impression is that the fellow feigns boredom to mask his horror @ the mention of any who might have successfully evaded his machinations.
And the fellow is hard to recognize today, among teachers clad in suits, sweaters and jeans.
Milton's epic contains a memorable passage in which the devil is not at first recognized by his cohorts upon returning from "getting things started topside". I was assured by a Milton scholar, that the author of the "protestant epic" wasn't really a Christian at all.
There's no time now to dig past the Battle of Hastings, but Tolkein sort of lived there.
I listened to this warning as Paul Harvey was a broadcaster who had a prominence in our household whenever on. I was an early teen and remember saying “Yep” after listening to Mr. Harvey’s soliloquy. You could see it all around, even then in the 60’s, that morality and shame was being degraded.
I always thought the decline started with the ‘Women’s Movement’ and sexual ‘liberation.’ But, I could be wrong. Maybe not attending church any more? But, I could be wrong about that, too. It just seemed all so chaotic with more families becoming divorced, and then Lyndon Johnson established the ‘Great Society’ which really seemed to drive even more societal and family degradation. But, I could be wrong again and off the mark with what were my youthful observations during that time.
That misses the entire point of attending church, which is to further our experience with the real and living God of the universe. I’m not saying *you* personally are missing the point. Lots of people miss the point. I get highly irritated with Christians who ask prayer for their allegedly wayward kids to start attending church. How about praying that their hearts will experience the reality of our good and compassionate and loving God toward them? Maybe then they will want to come back to church. But, I digress.
It’s very much a loss of our moral compass due to our loss of connectedness with our Creator.
I used to listen to Harvey sometimes, mainly for a laugh. I don’t think smutty materials and lack of regular church-going gets to the root of the evil afoot and the globalist/pharma/ government cabal. Sorry.
A logical world view is based on the unchanging reality of an eternal logical and rational unchanging God; without you can’t and couldn’t be certain of anything.
Agreed. I recall Mikki Willis and Del Bigtree discussing those who question the story around these new therapies on The Highwire. They agreed that nearly everyone who objects to this shot professes "some sort of spiritual belief" -- a "religious objection", as I understand it; a reason to say "no".
But, the special indignity of c*vid aside, personally, Harvey seems to ring hollow: upright, but ineffective; maybe even a touch of the "corn belt Ayatolla" as Jerry Falwell was once derided in the British press long ago. Harvey's elocution is bold, but essentially powerless to encourage meaningful resistance. Edward Griffin is more convincing.
The very unfortunate thing is the devil is within us all, and it’s up to each of us to resist this ever present evil using our god given spirit of good to resist being buried, literally. The broken windows analogy fits, when you glamorize porn, petty theft, violence in movies, etc., the foundation is laid for more acceptance with each seemingly minor compromise in our principles.
When you have children drugged to the gills, fed a nutritionally deficient corrupt diet, and raised in morally bankrupt single parent households, you get what we have here.
You believe in a cult whose foundational doctrine is God raping a woman to impregnate her with a version of himself that will grow up to be tortured and murdered for the purpose of saving men's souls.
Although your point is understood I’m not sure everyone takes your reference literally, I know I don’t. A rather dark response to an otherwise concerning discussion on analogies and metaphors of what is good and evil.
SCA, you will regret your flippant cynical heart when you come before your God and King and are forced to bend the knee, before you are ushered off to your eternal punishment.
Do yourself a favor read the Bible with your heart and eyes open so that you can willingly bend the knee before him in submission, love and adoration.
Dante is much better than Milton, but there's no time for Dante, either. But a paraphrase of his "Inferno" may be of some interest to the anthropologist. The lowest part is actually the top layer, where the uncommitted circle in an endless holding pattern, unable to enter and properly warm themselves. The top layers are of degrees of well known warmth, but proceed ultimately to a frozen lake, a cesspool.
Dante's fee for his attitude was banishment from his hometown, with threat of being burnt at the stake, should he have returned. The Roman church placed this summit of European expression under some degree of ban until six hundred years after his death. I say: Philosophy is blood-sport; so far, I haven't found anyone who approves of that sentiment.
Middle Eastern Religion? What happened to the vast majority of its famous names? Greek philosophy? I see blood everywhere. I take it you've travelled; I haven't; just a lot of reading.
Intellectuals for whom God rode in with a starter pack of his own branded Zoloft to treat the usual human ills tie themselves into pretzels trying to make something more of what is just your garden variety Middle Eastern blood sacrifice cult.
SCA, life itself is pretty brutal, ask the Israelis that Hamas tortured and the relatives of those they killed; ask the Gazans that are suffering and grieving as a result of the just recompense that the IDF is meeting out; they will agree with what I just said.
None of 'em might be suffering so brutally if they'd had the wit to move beyond their respective blood sacrifice cults. Unfortunately the Israeli state has sacrificed the possibility of a secular liberal democracy to suit the demands of its fundamentalist loonies.
The descendants of those settler-colonialist Arabs who put down their roots in the territory now called Gaza ought to consider the benefits of a liberal democratic state too.
Do you actually know anything about Israel? The very religious Jews are exempt from IDF service. The secular Jews are the ones doing all the fighting. The Jews who were murdered in the Kibbutz would have found themselves two peas in a pod with you! I know a few who live in kibbutz, personally.
*I couldn’t edit my comment on the phone, so I had to delete and re-post, wanted to clarify I don’t personally know any one who was murdered, but I do know people who live in the Kibbutz and they are all secular liberals.
That's a good question; I believe there are three, maybe three-and-a-half reasons, starting with the most obvious:
1) Pesticides; even herbicides such as Paraquat and Roundup.
2) Solar Radiation Management -- its declared intent, a reduction of terrestrial temperature, presumably with the side effect of reducing insect biomass.
2a) SRM chemicals such as aluminum oxide, plastic nanoparticles and surfactants, among others. Bees have been reported -- on GeoengineeringWatch -- to have seventy times the aluminum in their central nervous tissue as that found in humans suffering from Alzheimer's dementia.
3) Electromagnetic Radiation: cell towers and other sources of "electro-smog".
3) "Insects and How They Function" and "Insect Behavior" by Philip S. Callahan
A couple of notes:
Dane Wiggington, of GeoengineeringWatch has been interviewed twice by Del Bigtree on The Highwire and once by RFK, Jr @ Children's Health Defense. I found mildly amusing RFK's opening remark that concern about "chemtrails", may be regarded as the classic "tinfoil hat" conspiracy -- this coming from the Mozart of "conspiracy theories". Eventually the interviewer conceded that Dane's observations could, indeed, be confirmed empirically, and that he had noticed some of the effects himself. Kennedy had a point; I can find five antivaxxers, maybe more, for every sympathetic ear to the Geoengineering problem. And I think the latter is the greater threat to humanity.
The entomologic angle to electromagnetic pollution, ie, "electro smog" is provided by Philip S. Callahan, an electrical engineer turned entomologist. In Callahan's old books -- last I looked, he was still living at the age of one hundred -- he put forth that the antennae of insects are, much like mechanical antennae, sensitive to electromagnetic radiation -- enough to permit certain frequencies to "tune out" target species in a pest control program. His books came out before the proliferation of cell towers, &c.
A ninety percent reduction in flying insect biomass observed over the past thirty years has been noted in Germany, -- in nature preserves! -- in the UK and in California.
Eating bugs? The first entomologist ever hired by the US government was tasked to teach locust-plagued farmers in the southeast to cook and eat locusts, which they found to be delicious. Here in the redwoods, I do occasionally see species I haven't normally encountered, but for every surprise there are several disappointments in ones that used to be common. No fruit flies when a banana becomes over ripe, almost never an insect strike on the car's windshield, and nothing worth eating outdoors.
I'm an amateur entomologist, but since flying insects have declined to ten percent of what they were when I started looking at them thirty years ago, I have more time to waste on the "Last Picture Show".
Paul always had a message of clarity. " And now you know the rest of the story" was his classic sign off. I always felt better informed when listening to Paul.
On this particular broadcast, he hit a home run with bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning.
This is a classic.
From Wikipedia:
"Beginning in 1952, Harvey was a friend of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Harvey would often submit "advance copies of his radio script for comment and approval."[4] Harvey's friendship with Hoover may have helped him escape criminal charges relating to his trespassing at Argonne National Laboratory. Harvey was happy to defend Hoover and spoke of him on his show of April 25, 1963: "God help the United States without John Edgar Hoover.... (FBI) Director Hoover is not retiring. If you have heard otherwise, somebody's sinister wish was the father of that thought. It is not so."[35]
Harvey was also a close friend of US Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported his campaign to expose and expel communists from American society and government.[36]"
Plus his friendship with Billy Graham.
I think I ain't gonna take no lessons from this guy. He seemed--metaphorically speaking of course--to be quite a friend of the devil himself.
A friend of the devil should be quite accurate in describing the ways of the devil then!?
Indeed- couldn’t resist sharing this old tune from the Grateful Dead - https://youtu.be/tXgReZFB1SY?si=s2yUTGxKqJ3rm2JN
Ha! I don't even have to click on that as it occurred to me immediately too! The end of many eras below. We watch so many things ending, or going backwards (reversing the arrow of culture) or being buried in metaphorical caves to await a better future. My Sufi friend calls it "The great impermanence"
Not Fade Away / DRONE FINALE 07-16-2023 San Francisco, CA, Dead & Company’s FINAL SONG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5LnjhbzRPg
I’ve heard from a number of people that the Dead were not just a bunch of hippies playing all for peace love and warm groovy feelings that we danced to in the 1960’s-70’s. Some say the Acid trips that got the ball rolling were CIA driven. And I even read that the Dead’s Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart were seen one year at Bohemian Grove.
Check out Sage of Quay. Mike Williams, a musician himself, has a most fascinating take on what was taking place in the world of rock music from the British Invasion onwards. http://sageofquay.com/ - According to his research Paul McCartney actually died and was replaced in 1966 by a bloke know as Billy Shears.
"To the young, I would whisper that ‘The Bible is a myth.’ I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around."
Indeed the Bible is a myth and indeed man constantly creates and recreates God in his own image.
Harvey admired and was a friend of three of the most dreadful men of his time.
I don't know about him as an individual, just looking at the content of his short essay.
Yes, I understand. And I repeat that a man whose heroes and confidants were those guys is someone perhaps who recognizes evil because he looks in the mirror so much.
As you know from my body of comments here and elsewhere I despise all cult thinking and "cult" is quite a large tent. And our modern times have no patent on monstrosities of perversion. As I recall the Church approved enthusiastically of the creation of castratos in order to preserve those angel voices of pre-pubescent boys for the greater glory of God.
It's always merely new justifications for the same old tyrannies.
So many classical fallacies, so little time.
Btw, the Bible is a work of history that I’d bet you’ve never bothered to read.
As an aside, there’s archaeological evidence that Noah’s flood was real. Look into the Younger Dryas. Sodom and Gomorrah too. There’s an archaeological site. I believe you said the other day you were against things that cause fear- a meteor blast will likely get your attention in that case.
You seem to be misquoting me but never mind.
The central plot device of the Gospels plagiarized from the story of Leda and the Swan, which makes a lot of sense since the apostles made a hard left turn and decided to evangelize the Greeks and they needed a nice familiar myth to work with.
Here’s your actual quote for the record:
“Well, to be sure, anyone can sponsor a fear mind virus. For example: Yer gonna go to hell!”
And another classical fallacy in your response, and you did nothing to counter my position. You’re batting a thousand here. But it’s probably not entirely your fault. Public education leaves a lot to be desired as of late.
You don't understand what myth-building is? That's what all scriptures do. They start with the world around them and then elaborate.
And a bit of misframing of what I said.
Have you seen the studies of the Mt. St. Helen eruption by the Institute of Creation Research? Or Creation Research Institute -- I can't recall which.
No, I sure haven't. What of them?
A coworker who knows the Bible remarked on the loaf Ezekiel 4:9 bread going past the check stand. I observed to the young man that no one wants to go past 4:9 when actually baking it; he understood. I promised him that I would read Ezekiel through to find another reference to bread by the prophet, which suggests that the origin of S&G's perversion was a "surfeit of grain". When I find it, I'll post it for you.
Who was that dude who parachuted over England during WW2 to negotiate some sort of treaty?
That sounds like a Hit Piece, which is what it is. I listened to Paul Harvey on the radio for years beginning in the late 1960s. I’m sure he had his faults, like all human beings, but he was a great American and had the values and ideals he fought for been upheld by the rest of America, we would in no way be in the sorry mess we are in today.
I'd say he was the complete opposite of a great American.
Let’s have your list of great Americans
I don't curate lists.
That’s because you’d out yourself
However you'd like to see it.
Hi, Lucifer
It would be an honor, really, to be God's prosecutor general. But I'm just an ordinary human as you are.
God’s THE JUDGE, Jesus is THE Defense Counsel, Lucifer is the Accuser & prosecutor.
We are all guilty; Some of us have Jesus as our Defense Counsel and HIS HANDS 🙌 , HIS FEET 👣 , and HIS SIDE testify that our Penalty has been PAID IN FULL FOR ETERNITY, Praise the Lord.
Others of us don’t have a defense counsel other than ourselves, them that rely upon themselves have a counsel who cheated in law school (kinda like Joe Biden), had trouble with the Bar exam & never got a law
License. They have no effectual defense and are, have been, and will be JUDGED GUILTY AND CONDEMNED.
Lucifer actually has no power.
You might benefit from a strong mug of ginger tea.
2 out of 3 isn’t bad, and IIRC, J Edgar’s ‘issues’ were well hidden @ the time & only widely known after his death. I couldn’t say one way or the other as to what was known about him but was kept on the QT.
I am not going to take anything that an atheist says, for as Romans say the existence of God is plain to all who would look @ the creation.
Graham was above reproach, and made sure that he was by his routines on the road.
McCarthy has been proven right and was portrayed as a bully and con man by the lying leftist media (Gosh, things haven’t changed much in 70 years!
Where's the atheist in the room?
Anyway, Graham was a shit. Truly.
I recall something from Baudelaire to the effect that the "devil" was troubled most by assertions that he didn't, in fact, exist @ all.
My own impression is that the fellow feigns boredom to mask his horror @ the mention of any who might have successfully evaded his machinations.
And the fellow is hard to recognize today, among teachers clad in suits, sweaters and jeans.
Milton's epic contains a memorable passage in which the devil is not at first recognized by his cohorts upon returning from "getting things started topside". I was assured by a Milton scholar, that the author of the "protestant epic" wasn't really a Christian at all.
There's no time now to dig past the Battle of Hastings, but Tolkein sort of lived there.
Satan is yet another example of stealing a character from a previous work and then completely changing his character.
I listened to this warning as Paul Harvey was a broadcaster who had a prominence in our household whenever on. I was an early teen and remember saying “Yep” after listening to Mr. Harvey’s soliloquy. You could see it all around, even then in the 60’s, that morality and shame was being degraded.
I always thought the decline started with the ‘Women’s Movement’ and sexual ‘liberation.’ But, I could be wrong. Maybe not attending church any more? But, I could be wrong about that, too. It just seemed all so chaotic with more families becoming divorced, and then Lyndon Johnson established the ‘Great Society’ which really seemed to drive even more societal and family degradation. But, I could be wrong again and off the mark with what were my youthful observations during that time.
More than simply not attending church.
That misses the entire point of attending church, which is to further our experience with the real and living God of the universe. I’m not saying *you* personally are missing the point. Lots of people miss the point. I get highly irritated with Christians who ask prayer for their allegedly wayward kids to start attending church. How about praying that their hearts will experience the reality of our good and compassionate and loving God toward them? Maybe then they will want to come back to church. But, I digress.
It’s very much a loss of our moral compass due to our loss of connectedness with our Creator.
It’s the tax code. The tax code promotes single parent households.
It’s a spiritual war .
I used to listen to Harvey sometimes, mainly for a laugh. I don’t think smutty materials and lack of regular church-going gets to the root of the evil afoot and the globalist/pharma/ government cabal. Sorry.
No but without a solid base (whatever that is) to stick up for what you believe in, it is easier for any evil in the world to take hold.
True. The ability to think critically is the solid base that's been under assault, I think.
A logical world view is based on the unchanging reality of an eternal logical and rational unchanging God; without you can’t and couldn’t be certain of anything.
I admire your faith, but doubt your logic.
Agreed. I recall Mikki Willis and Del Bigtree discussing those who question the story around these new therapies on The Highwire. They agreed that nearly everyone who objects to this shot professes "some sort of spiritual belief" -- a "religious objection", as I understand it; a reason to say "no".
But, the special indignity of c*vid aside, personally, Harvey seems to ring hollow: upright, but ineffective; maybe even a touch of the "corn belt Ayatolla" as Jerry Falwell was once derided in the British press long ago. Harvey's elocution is bold, but essentially powerless to encourage meaningful resistance. Edward Griffin is more convincing.
The very unfortunate thing is the devil is within us all, and it’s up to each of us to resist this ever present evil using our god given spirit of good to resist being buried, literally. The broken windows analogy fits, when you glamorize porn, petty theft, violence in movies, etc., the foundation is laid for more acceptance with each seemingly minor compromise in our principles.
When you have children drugged to the gills, fed a nutritionally deficient corrupt diet, and raised in morally bankrupt single parent households, you get what we have here.
You believe in a cult whose foundational doctrine is God raping a woman to impregnate her with a version of himself that will grow up to be tortured and murdered for the purpose of saving men's souls.
Although your point is understood I’m not sure everyone takes your reference literally, I know I don’t. A rather dark response to an otherwise concerning discussion on analogies and metaphors of what is good and evil.
So it was consensual adultery?
SCA, you will regret your flippant cynical heart when you come before your God and King and are forced to bend the knee, before you are ushered off to your eternal punishment.
Do yourself a favor read the Bible with your heart and eyes open so that you can willingly bend the knee before him in submission, love and adoration.
All you have to lose is your pride, and that ain’t doin you no good down here now.
PS: The peace of the Lord ain't so strong in you, is it?
Religions have a patent-lock on the concept of God?
C'mon.
This thread doesn't tell you everything you need to know? I do have some hope here that you and I at least are not children.
This thread, what?
Good grief.
Dante is much better than Milton, but there's no time for Dante, either. But a paraphrase of his "Inferno" may be of some interest to the anthropologist. The lowest part is actually the top layer, where the uncommitted circle in an endless holding pattern, unable to enter and properly warm themselves. The top layers are of degrees of well known warmth, but proceed ultimately to a frozen lake, a cesspool.
Dante's fee for his attitude was banishment from his hometown, with threat of being burnt at the stake, should he have returned. The Roman church placed this summit of European expression under some degree of ban until six hundred years after his death. I say: Philosophy is blood-sport; so far, I haven't found anyone who approves of that sentiment.
Middle Eastern Religion? What happened to the vast majority of its famous names? Greek philosophy? I see blood everywhere. I take it you've travelled; I haven't; just a lot of reading.
Mr. Paine & I believe in REALITY, as you will sooner or later find out.
You might be over-thinking the matter.
Intellectuals for whom God rode in with a starter pack of his own branded Zoloft to treat the usual human ills tie themselves into pretzels trying to make something more of what is just your garden variety Middle Eastern blood sacrifice cult.
They're pretty brutal doctrines at heart.
Garden variety?
Gesthemene, I believe it is called.
There's nothing unique about Middle Eastern blood sacrifice cults.
A'right, gimme 'sample.
It was unique
One blood sacrifice for all who believe for all time.
SCA, life itself is pretty brutal, ask the Israelis that Hamas tortured and the relatives of those they killed; ask the Gazans that are suffering and grieving as a result of the just recompense that the IDF is meeting out; they will agree with what I just said.
None of 'em might be suffering so brutally if they'd had the wit to move beyond their respective blood sacrifice cults. Unfortunately the Israeli state has sacrificed the possibility of a secular liberal democracy to suit the demands of its fundamentalist loonies.
The descendants of those settler-colonialist Arabs who put down their roots in the territory now called Gaza ought to consider the benefits of a liberal democratic state too.
Do you actually know anything about Israel? The very religious Jews are exempt from IDF service. The secular Jews are the ones doing all the fighting. The Jews who were murdered in the Kibbutz would have found themselves two peas in a pod with you! I know a few who live in kibbutz, personally.
*I couldn’t edit my comment on the phone, so I had to delete and re-post, wanted to clarify I don’t personally know any one who was murdered, but I do know people who live in the Kibbutz and they are all secular liberals.
Pretty spot on. The devil is most dangerous when you refuse to acknowledge him, kinda just slips right past us sometimes, horns and all
And when he's scared, he plays dumb or feigns boredom.
Or writes on Substack to pass the time
Haha. Good one. I've wondered about that, myself.
CS Lewis would say, the devil wants us at the extremes: denying his existence or being obsessed with him!
There is nothing new under the sun!
Cannot help but think of old Screwtape and young Wormwood!
Timely and never gets old.
That's a good question; I believe there are three, maybe three-and-a-half reasons, starting with the most obvious:
1) Pesticides; even herbicides such as Paraquat and Roundup.
2) Solar Radiation Management -- its declared intent, a reduction of terrestrial temperature, presumably with the side effect of reducing insect biomass.
2a) SRM chemicals such as aluminum oxide, plastic nanoparticles and surfactants, among others. Bees have been reported -- on GeoengineeringWatch -- to have seventy times the aluminum in their central nervous tissue as that found in humans suffering from Alzheimer's dementia.
3) Electromagnetic Radiation: cell towers and other sources of "electro-smog".
Good books, sources:
1) "Toxic Legacy" by Stephanie Seneff
2,2a) Geoengineeringwatch.org
3) "Insects and How They Function" and "Insect Behavior" by Philip S. Callahan
A couple of notes:
Dane Wiggington, of GeoengineeringWatch has been interviewed twice by Del Bigtree on The Highwire and once by RFK, Jr @ Children's Health Defense. I found mildly amusing RFK's opening remark that concern about "chemtrails", may be regarded as the classic "tinfoil hat" conspiracy -- this coming from the Mozart of "conspiracy theories". Eventually the interviewer conceded that Dane's observations could, indeed, be confirmed empirically, and that he had noticed some of the effects himself. Kennedy had a point; I can find five antivaxxers, maybe more, for every sympathetic ear to the Geoengineering problem. And I think the latter is the greater threat to humanity.
The entomologic angle to electromagnetic pollution, ie, "electro smog" is provided by Philip S. Callahan, an electrical engineer turned entomologist. In Callahan's old books -- last I looked, he was still living at the age of one hundred -- he put forth that the antennae of insects are, much like mechanical antennae, sensitive to electromagnetic radiation -- enough to permit certain frequencies to "tune out" target species in a pest control program. His books came out before the proliferation of cell towers, &c.
A ninety percent reduction in flying insect biomass observed over the past thirty years has been noted in Germany, -- in nature preserves! -- in the UK and in California.
Eating bugs? The first entomologist ever hired by the US government was tasked to teach locust-plagued farmers in the southeast to cook and eat locusts, which they found to be delicious. Here in the redwoods, I do occasionally see species I haven't normally encountered, but for every surprise there are several disappointments in ones that used to be common. No fruit flies when a banana becomes over ripe, almost never an insect strike on the car's windshield, and nothing worth eating outdoors.
Yeah, the Humanities aren't terribly humane.
I'm an amateur entomologist, but since flying insects have declined to ten percent of what they were when I started looking at them thirty years ago, I have more time to waste on the "Last Picture Show".
Why do you think this is happening?
Found it down at the bottom of the thread.
I don't know where my reply went. It wouldn't be such a big deal, but I labored some to make it worth your time to read.
What was it about the 60s that made people acutely aware of the impending future? The Day Tapes release in the 80s were based on Dr. Lawrence Dunnigans recollection of a talk made by Dr. Richard Day from 1969 outlining the New World Order [Rockefeller) population control. Just like this short recording but in great detail. Stunning: https://ia600903.us.archive.org/28/items/New_Order_of_Barbarians_remaster_tapes_1to3/New%20Order%20of%20Barbarians%20%5Bremaster%5D%20tapes%201%20to%203.mp3
Amazing how accurate his vision was.
Old enough to hear his voice as I read it.
Classic; this never grows old. Thanks.
Paul always had a message of clarity. " And now you know the rest of the story" was his classic sign off. I always felt better informed when listening to Paul.
On this particular broadcast, he hit a home run with bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning.
I miss his narrative and commanding voice.