“Prompt 2: How is it that Izreal gets to wrap their war bombs with Abraham and David bumper stickers (that is to say, call directly upon mysticism as an excuse for aggression) and we don't? Our reasons are always security. Do we not have Christian troops? Are we done with Godly purposes?”

I am not part of “we,” so I don’t have a dog in this fight. I care nothing for foreign wars, especially since they are now so heavily filtered through media that the coverage you see is 180 different than the coverage Mister Grey sees. Same with the former Soviet war. There is no discussion as of a real war, as to why there were more losses here or there. Rather, there is a religious belief that most losses are on the one side and few on the other. In both wars one side has won every battle and the other lost every one. Yet they still fight after years. These are wars for Orwellian “Asian war” media distraction. To even look at one of these wars is to look away from the higher order war being waged right here, right now, against you.

“Izreal's building data centers as quickly as us, so presumably will come to heel under the great civic pantheon of all-knowing information lords, presided over by Ai (the spirit). All the same, our partners in crime are banging ancient war drums while we assault the Middle East. Is their soldiers' mission terminal?, soon to be scuttled in favor of something you can sample on MTV Music Awards?…” [0]

The modern person, especially American Christians, have been duped into avoiding the Eternal by having their faith co-opted by an increasingly secular temporal order. American churches exist at the pleasure of USG and may not affront its mandates. Churches are controlled by tax laws and have been reduced to government contractors. This was the original use of Christianity by Constantine, Diocletian, Galerius, etc., granting church officials immunity to taxation and latitude to tithe, in return for managing domestic concerns while the emperor fought wars against the barbarians and usurpers, all in service to the Babylonian bankers.

Ovid wrought, in exile, during the reign of Augustus, when that man was employed by banking interests to transform Rome from a brutally moral Republic, into a savagely consumptive and endemically immoral Imperium. Going forward, legions would behave like the mercenary bands of the Thirty Years War, killing one emperor and forcing a soldier to take his place in pain of death, for a bonus. From about the Birth of Jesus, until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Rome was primarily an economic zone exploited by banking interests, through temporary military tyrants and barbarian interlopers. The cultural, material and spiritual attainments of European Antiquity were pillaged, largely under color of new faiths raised upon the looted hopes of older faiths. Those older faiths were then posthumously looted for rites to be included in the new faiths, even as they were lied about and/or omitted.

Writing during this early phase, Ovid, no theologian, but a man who knew about Antarctica, stated that man was created to stand on two legs, unlike the beasts, so that he could look up to Heaven and consciously appreciate or seek his creator. “What god,” created man Ovid had no clue of. But he actively sought that God in the origin stories of the declining faiths being corrupted all about him, as priests looted temples for bankers, who paid soldiers to kill emperors and elevate a “ruler” who cared less for three things:

1.) his subjects

2.) his blood line [ancestors and descendants]

3.) his creator, his God

By demolishing rural folk faiths through persecution, execution and slaughter the oldest ways were lost. By corrupting urban faith traditions through the same brutal means and excommunication and offers of super-inclusion in new faiths, worship of God, of an individual turning his or her face up to Eternity, was largely eradicated. Faith was turned back towards the pulpit, away from the altar of life where we sacrifice. Notions of faith would become more intertwined with government and civics, or the application of collective force. From the Hebrew riots that slaughtered hundreds of thousands of pagans and Christians in Crete and North Africa, European identity was effaced. This cancer of the collective soul progressed from the deathbed conversion of the pagan Constantine, the conversion of the decadent Epicurean Augustine, the rise of Islam, the descent of Judaism into the core of Christendom as a slave-trading, money-lending, crypto-elite, then the rise of temporal doctrine within most Christian denominations. Finally. the State, America, USG has become god on earth. The brilliant decision to place “In God We Trust” on money and to build Roman style monuments that deified presidents, who were mere puppet rulers, were not accidents. By establishing a written constitution, a Utopian document referred to by many professed Christian and Hebrew media persons as “sacred,” an alternative to Eternity, to a connection with Creation, is offered to the polity.

Proximity has its own value in any struggle, especially so when the power struggle is actually over who controls herd consumption, over who manages the feedlot where we are farmed. We the herd, are told that contending herds, perhaps Iranians or Germans, are the enemy. In fact, the contending parties are the herdsmen, the cowboys, who wrangle us. Each of these values the life of his foe, his peer, more than any of us. Further, these herdsman work for a rancher, who works with a slaughter house owner, who we never see. Our medical professionals, in this model, are really the slaughter house employees. Our historians are the butchers and retailers who dissect and package our extinguished lives into material suitable for feeding to the young minds of next year’s herd. Our murdered lives become carefully scripted lies, to bind the souls of our lineal descendants and our lateral replacements.

Here, at the bottom of this cycle of corruption, like at the Bronze Age Collapse in 1177 B.C. and the fall of old Rome in A.D. 410, we are left seeking that which we and our forefathers have been stampeded away from across the face of this planet: God, and a relationship with Eternity. Many atheists I know rage at God as evil. I think this is because an evil civilization, has co-opted and corrupted the ideal of God in the modern human mind. At every turn the [rare] thinking Christian will be stricken with the fact that his nation is against God. Through dedicated delusion and the existence of Islam [which replaced the atheist Soviet enemy] to maintain that delusion, a Christian can look at the anti-god that is USG and believe. The “white” identity that replaced Christian, and the nation that grew out of the consumption of Christianity as its very civic food, serve the same master. This cynical stage show is managed by the 95%-plus domination of oracle access. Those ancient oracles, the shrines of saints, the words of prophets, these are either used or replaced by the ether pontificate. The TV/computer screen is gazed at like one once looked to the seer or priest. The omniscient image held in the prayerful hand mimicking the submission to the mighty King of Kings has made the temporal feedlot of souls distressing enough that those who avoid the mass medical treatment of the resulting sorrow look again beyond, and a God-seeking cycle begins again.

“Likewise, will America soldiers ever fight with a pyramid eye patch, or will we hear a metaphysical reason for war in my lifetime? It just blows me away that we're operating under two different worldviews simultaneously, and it's working.”

No, USG has to lie about what it is. This is not a nation but a notion. It must embrace fake to succeed. The current operation is based on show wrestling and carnival theatrics. Mass discouragement of young men engaging in fighting arts is core to maintaining a delusion so vast. Reality must be denied at its most basic level—violence.

Polarity works because it is rhythmic, using a method embedded in Creation and present in human interaction. Fighting is a broken dance. He who sets the rhythm has an advantage over he who is lured into the rhythmic pattern. He who breaks the rhythm first has yet a better advantage. Andre Grouch described the great Jack Johnson as a man who composed a brutal jazz score, using his opponent as the rhythm section.

I am not a manipulative soul, but a free-radical pacifist. Therefore, I do not possess a higher understanding of malevolent social composition. I know we live in it, and see its evil workings everywhere. But I am not a member of Steerage. Note that during the Great Age of Piracy, 1680 to 1730, that the pirates fought against the system, vandalizing vast shipments, [1] recruiting crews from merchant vessels. The captains were those few who understood navigation. Most of the sailors did not have the mathematical ability to navigate. Only the British empire could defeat the pirates, who were all lead by British officers. Stopping organized piracy was simple; kill the captains and keep our captains occupied fighting some other navy.

Steerage through time, night, storm, applies to society as well. On this evil ship USG I’m just like a carpenter that can tell you that the captain is lying and that we will likely be marooned on some cay to die of thirst. At the very least, we will not be paid when we get back to London, but sold to some other captain. I do not know how his chronometer and other wondrous instruments function. Hence, we remain at his mercy. By all means make yourself useful on board. But never trust that our captain—least of all the owners—have our interest at heart. [2]

“P.S. I realize Iz society is stratified with an array of well-meaning dissenters... blah blah blah... the tanks are still rolling. All thoughts welcome.”

Not only will this lowly carpenter not oppose the captain, he will certainly avoid affronting the ownership team who may replace the captain at will and dispose of this wee caulker with nary a shrug.

0.) Gene Wolfe predicts this in Litany of the Long Sun.

1.) Daniel DeFoe, A General History of the Pyrates, written under a pen name while in debtors prison with former pirates.

2.) Moby Dick, by Melville, was a story about civilization and how it worked