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All of this resonates so much with me. As for the doctrine of original sin, it’s a church doctrine for sure. As a Muslim there is no such doctrine possible because the Quran states that God forgave Adam and Eve right there in the garden and even gave them words to use for repentance. Because they admitted their mistake and felt bad about it. So that was lesson number one on how to use that amazing mind because we were created and born to learn not to be condemned. I used to be Christian until I realized all that entailed. Although I have no problem with ppl if all faiths. Some manage to be good ppl in one way or another. The Quran really emphasizes truth and Justice and I know Jesus did the same. The problem is always with those in power who will always try to corrupt anything they can. True in Islam as well. Your kindness and honesty count for everything.

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Thank you, Siham!

I agree. People manage to bring out their true spark no matter the theory. And then of course any negative inclination or confusion inside people tends to use that same theory to justify its existence. I do have a lot of faith in our ability to figure things out and to heal after all the confusions. The timeline is unknown (could take a long time) but the healing is inevitable, I think!

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Being shaken off our spiritual foundation seems to be the modus operandi in this realm as currently configured.

I would agree, it is not really supposed to be like this.

Either way--as your guest, Thomas Harrington, seems to be saying--the attempt to hold us down (with knee on the neck by whomever or by whatever means) is just not "sustainable, diverse or equitable." It cannot last. It is bankrupt at its core.

Our essence, which is the driving force of creation, functions as fully funded and real.

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I agree, Brek!

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By the way, so sorry for what you endured at the hands of the Stasi US. No excuses for that.

(Although, as you point out, this prepared you for COVID-ClownWorld®.)

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Thank you, Bret!!! Yes, that was extremely wrong and cruel what they did. But luckily it worked out!!

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Yes. (Although they have not escaped their own culpability in this. It's just that it is no longer your problem--thankfully!)

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That which can be shaken reveals a false foundation. So while I agree in sentiment, we can also see an invested self-illusion is revealed in conflict with reality at cost of a true foundation of a truly workable reality - in the fully living sense of alignment in that which sustains and fulfils life.

At root what we give sets the measure of our receiving. But the blind eye leans not to see what is then unconscious or masked over yet projected to a world given power to subject its maker. I say at root, because I hold this in Spirit - not at the level of the results of a distorted self-definition to which reality is blamed for not supporting.

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Original sin was half of a two-sided squeeze play.

Side 1 rewrote the Gospels (and memoryholed the actual text) to say that Jesus was rich and powerful just like the bishops and popes. Thus the wicked bishops and popes inherited all of their wealth and power directly from Jesus.

Side 2 instructed the peasants that they were NOT part of the holy succession. Natural peasant evil needed to be confessed every week to the Jesus-descended priests.

Side 2 was the important part because it gave the priests blackmail power along with their "inherited" and unarguable right to wealth and wickedness.

Modern Deepstates always develop a similar doctrine.

Side 1 is expertise and meritocracy. We have the degrees and the accreditation, so we have inherent power.

The web is the modern confessional, infinitely more powerful than the old style because the peasants are confessing 24/7 with no ability to withhold sins from the priesthood.

http://polistrasmill.blogspot.com/2020/12/odd-exception.html

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Astute comment & thanks for the link. Love all those weird clocks, the Ridhwan clock among them. Really a fantastic blog, refreshingly honest & original.

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Sin can be recognised as a persistence in self illusion set at war with reality as active attack against the recognition of feared and therefore hated and demonised truth.

The worship of Self imaged is the original error, but the effects in the minds of those who choose it is 'Separation Trauma' or The Fall - for which a Backstory operates as being projected into a dissociated fragmentation as guilt for breaking or stealing Heaven for a self imaging wish that seemed to run off with a living inheritance but really a corrupted or conflicted copy, made real in the minds that 'share' the masking of reality as a self-reinforcing booster against disclosure.

But your sketch is also valid in noting the corruption of possession & control by manipulations of cunning contrivance set by the intellect of ideals set over against a feared and hated life, projected as enemy or threat.

Jesus would have been educated within - but also beyond his own law & culture. Despite his non ritualised direct relationship with divinity In life - he joined a queue of the common people aligned with John's ritual baptism as a renewal and rebirth in Spirit and the releasing of sins clearly associated with the educated established order, but not set as political contest. John recognised the light in Jesus. Of all the disciples it was Peter who recognised and accepted the Christ within himself and there is the 'rock' or a real relationship that is consecrated to the Spirit of truth in place of 'games people play'.

The Spirit holds living truth for our recognition and acceptance, regardless the obfuscations and defences of diversion and delay. So in truth our world is serving the purpose we give it. But in the Game of Egos it dictates and subjects a love set in attack and sacrifice as salvation that never comes.

There is no truth in a world made to hide it!

But that purpose was given it by a mind of self-specialness, and so can be released to let another purpose use what we made to conceal, as the means to uncover accept, recognise and share in life given us to extend and share in.

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Your writing is absolutely brilliant, I totally resonate with it,thanks,you are an oasis in the media desert 👍

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Thank you, Herbert!! Big hugs!!

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""we in cities can live in fantasy for many years - but it eventually gets you"

got me, that's for sure.

thanks for introducing me to TH - that interview was the bomb, that part about allowing the simulacra of the spectacle to take over, wow. my dinner with andre: we're all onstage and we're all prisoners of our own devices. and completely disconnected from source.

psyched to see you getting igor to unleash his inner comic!

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Thank you!!! Thomas is really wonderful and brilliant. I have been excited about his work since I saw his first article!!

And of course, Igor is also wonderful and brilliant, and I am psyched that I had a conversation with him!

And, by the way, you are also wonderful and brilliant.

Lots of light in these strange times!

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thanks that means a lot coming from you. no bullshit.

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We need to popularize a new phrase: vaccines as a service or VaaS. For the non-tech folks, this is picking up the subscription concept, specifically that in tech referred to as Saas (software) and Baas (Banking), where paid subscriptions are the arrangement for accessing tech. No to VaaS. It is very interesting to think about the mass vax campaign in this light.

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They are exactly that!!

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William James, brother of Henry James, philosopher at Harvard believed that to maintain a national spirit we needed to do war. Just as we did war for control of our external natural systems, this war is against our own biological nature in every perverse and corruptable way. This will end badly I predict.

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Great article, and looking forward to watching the interview later. Also really looking forward to the one with Igor. This was a powerful line from Thomas's essay for me "puts the individual in defensive and ultimately supplicatory postures".

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Thank you, Gary!! Thomas is a brilliant man, and so humble and kind. Really, the predominant feeling during the interview was kindness and true intellectual curiosity about the world. I really enjoyed it!

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Edward Calabrese has documented the steps by which a new field of original determination or genetic dogma, (initially studying radiation as an evolutionary mutagen) was falsified to assert:

1. That such had been found. 2. That there is no safer dose, and that damage is cumulative to a fixed system that could degrade but could not self repair.

(Note the underlying Fabian closed system entropic mindset that seeks & finds its own reinforcement - a variant of normalised sin where life is war set by death and power struggle competes the game of musical chairs and pass the parcel of sacrifice)

Back to the falsified backstory...

The piggybank of a cumulative damage model with no dosage deemed safe or repairable became known as Linear No Threshold risk modelling - LNT. It was almost entirely based on fruit flies receiving upwards of 100 million times background radiation.

The claim to mutagenic effect was in time revealed to be chromosomal damage - there are no mutagenic effects from the various radiation exposures such as Japan or Chernobyl - None!

Far more death from suicidal despair via nocebo fear than radiation.

The body was found in time to have self repairing capacities regarding 'damaged DNA', but the Rockefeller funded and guided science dropped radiation as it focus for hyping Fear to drive regulatory capture, to push cancer fear as modelled to result from the official imposition of LNT in place of safe dose level response - or indeed an as yet suppressed awareness of hormetic effect (benefit rising from adaptive evolutionary response to environmental challenge).

The Media was used to sow the casting of life as genetically fragile using fear driven narratives that hugely inflated risk along with guilting agencies or industries cast as evils, such as to subject otherwise wealthy or powerful institutions to follow the regulations. A precautionary principle of projected (and manipulated) fears was set as virtue as if backed by solid science.

The fearful cleave unto and support their 'protector', with little if any sense of being manipulated by false beliefs that deliver unto evils of a mind-set under regulatory capture - for any disquiet or dissonance can be assigned to the evils from which to be 'made safe'.

While the falsification of the science runs the general nature of human bias set in competition and the face of success in fame & fortune, or simply to maintain status & funding, but the Rockefeller funded Commission used the hyping of radiation fear to fund and direct a specific means to bring all other disciplines or institutions under genetic control - via redefining the basis and nature of life into predictive modelling to the application of zero tolerance.

Despite & regardless any revelation of falsity for setting the LNT model, its ratcheting into regulatory capture is set in the fear-conditioned identity of controls set by demonised fears into collectivised identities of disproportionate and displaced risks accepted and reacted to as reality.

While the stricture of its protection constricts and paralyses its prey to the venom of its final solution. Zero tolerance for risk made safe by death. Or at least the religion of a belief in death as power over life set in hate & fear as unworthy.

This my sketch to prompt the reader.

There are various interviews with Calabrese but I found the series that traces out the history to allow both detail and implication to integrate to understanding.

Its underlying message is very much aligned with what I read here.

Following the revealing to a refining of our question is not a battle so much as the recognition and release of a lens of conflict by which we did not see.

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An expert (singular)

A treason of Experts (group)

I like it. Think I will use henceforth.

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I loved this conversation so much! What an exquisite pair of minds and hearts. Anna Funda is an Australian writer who wrote "Stasiland", having lived in Berlin. Her own story is quite amazing too.

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Great writing. Happy to find you.

Brownstone Institute is interesting. 'Make Language Great Again' "Words Are Weapons"

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Thank you, Stephen!! I am also happy you found me. :-) And yes, words can be used to heal or to confuse, and we are dealing with a lot of the latter lately (and have been for a while, alas)

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What a beautiful discussion, and so refreshing.

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Thank you, John!!

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Olá Thomas... É bom saber que aprendeste Português (Mirandês não?) restando apenas descobrir que conclusões retiras do que conheces de Portugal.

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Now I wish I spoke Spanish... :)

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Brek already said it! Portuguese...

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It's Portuguese, another beautiful Romance language.

Among the many tip-offs are words like "bom" and "não" and "conclusões" and "conheces."

I don't speak or really understand it, so I also would need a translation:

https://translate.google.com

(I otherwise wouldn't be suggesting that anyone use Google for anything, but this translation site is known to be fairly accurate, its accuracy having improved over the years thanks to so-called AI's building upon the 'extracted' input of an aggregate of Web surfers who are human and actually know the language in question and have offered corrections or additions. I've watched the site change over the years.)

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This translator makes a better job!

https://www.reverso.net/tradu%C3%A7%C3%A3o-texto

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Hello Thomas... It's good to know that you've learned Portuguese (Mirandês, isn't it?) and all that remains is to find out what conclusions you draw from what you know about Portugal.

(via firefox add on 'Mate translate')

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That one is making the same mistakes that GUULAG translate engine does!

Specially the (Mirandês, isn't it?) part.

Mirandês is the second official Language of Portugal... Going extinct though!

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Thank you, Tessa! This was a wonderful exploration between two brilliant, compassionate beings!

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Thank you, Bhavana!!

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A long comment of mine seems to have been lost but much of its content is replicated on this link https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5576/rr-3

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Aaah, I wish your comment weren't lost!! Looks like it didn't post at all, I didn't get it in my email, either, I just looked.

And thank you for sharing the BMJ link with your comment, John!! Very astute.

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I just noticed that what I sent before was Allan Cunningham’s letter, not my response:

Rapid Response:

Re: The Boiling Frog Principle: patient safety and vaccines

I am grateful to Allan Cunningham [1]. To illustrate the point last year the European Parliament press room reported [2]:

"MEPs say it is unjustifiable that the cost of a full vaccines package for one child is 68 times more expensive in 2014 compared to 2001."

while failing to note how much the schedule expanded. Off the top of my head we have had added to the UK childhood schedule since 2014 influenza vaccines, Meningitis B vaccine, Hepatitis B vaccine, HPV vaccine for boys. The MEPs' calculation may also not have included vaccines in pregnancy (influenza, DTaP). It is likely that cost of vaccinating a single child has escalated by now well beyond IO0 times since 2001. Whatever you think of Andrew Wakefield he surely put a finger on a raw industry nerve when he questioned the triple vaccine MMR in 1998. What would happen if people continued to think they could pick and choose?

The European Parliament did also express some caution:

"MEPs stress that increased transparency in evaluating vaccines and their adjuvants, in the funding of independent research programmes and the possible side-effects of vaccines would contribute to restoring confidence in vaccination.

" They point out that researchers must declare any conflict of interest. Those subject to a conflict of interest should be excluded from evaluation panels. The confidentiality of deliberations of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) evaluation panel should also be lifted, and scientific and clinical data be made public."

Nevertheless we may wonder how much governmental and institutional progress has been made in regard to these pious concerns in the intervening months (now exactly a year and a half ago).

[1] Allan S Cunningham, 'The Boiling Frog Principle: patient safety and vaccines', 19 September 2019, https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5576/rr-3

[2] 'Health Committee MEPs warn against dropping vaccination rates', European Parliament Press Room 20 march 2018, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180319IPR00021/healt...

20 September 2019

John Stone

UK Editor

AgeofAutism.com

London N22

What they were about to do in 1998 was to create a highway for their products in which everyone would have to pay many times over with their money, their health and their lives.

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I was able to find it, it's one click away. :) And thank you for clarifying and sharing it here directly! All in all, it's a mess out there.

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