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No Goth isn’t. 𝑷𝒖𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍. 𝑮𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍. So here it goes… I have been in/on/around the scene since the 80s. I’ve had these debates for almost as long, since the first time I listen to “No Tears” by Tuxedomoon. There have always been some douchey, arrogant Baby... Bat and Raven gatekeepers telling other people what real #Goth is. Whether it is an aesthetic, a style, or song, someone always wants to tell you what to do; who you should listen to; what you should wear. Aside from a smattering of proto-goth tracks, the Goth subculture evolved from Punks in the late 70s and moved away from the anti-establishment anger and fury that defined #Punk scene. Furthermore, I believe that Goth distinguishes itself from punk specifically because it is not political. Instead, Goth focused on the aesthetics and philosophical influences of romanticism, and esoteric nostalgia; often with a sense of melancholy and introspection. These are “universal truths” that transcend generations, and are far more important to the human condition than the fleeting issues of politics. This, to me, is at the marrow of the Goth ethos. While the early goth subculture shared some of punk’s rejection of mainstream culture, it was not driven by political rage or activism. It is in this juxtaposition that the goth subculture seems banal and nihilistic when it comes to politics. Like, who cares, it doesn’t even matter. So instead, Goth draws heavily from the macabre in literary works, poetry, arcane gnosticism, architecture, and alchemy; a fascination with the past, particularly with Romantic, Victorian, and Medieval eras. Goth’s roots are grounded in a longing for a different kind of emotional or intellectual engagement with the world, often viewed through an existential lens. This shift from the politically driven anger of Punks to Goth’s introspection, influenced by nostalgia and romanticism, creates a clear cultural divergence and makes Goth timeless and unique. Now, enjoy some #Tuxedomoon from 1978show more

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Today’s lesson, and it’s important. You can’t be goth or punk and be conservative.

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@JebraFaushay Thank you! These people think The Goth Subculture started with Hot Topic.

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@JebraFaushay This is fantastic. Been in the scene since '94 and I, too, have had these stupid arguments for years. The way you explained it is perfection. Almost shocked because this is the first time on twitter I've seen someone who actually gets it! 🖤

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LOL. It’s just one of those common debates that keep coming up. Like, you can be political and be Goth. But the Goth scene is not inherently a political one. Though there does seem to be an acceleration of this attitude, which I blame on platforms like r/goth on Reddit, that Goth has to be political. And it infuriates me. It almost irritates me as much as when people say Emo is Goth. Ahhh…. 😂😂

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@JebraFaushay I've been in the scene since around 86. This stuff is so ridiculous. And honestly Punk was against the establishment. These guys are the establishment. I think the song apathy by subhumans speaks to this whole thing.

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Oh yeah, you are definitely in my wheelhouse. I like to refer to us as “Owls.” 🦉 We are long past our Baby Bat stage and we’ve lived through several stages of ups, downs, and fads within the scene. We’ve seen a lot of shit go down. Experienced the loss of some who are no longer with us. But we’re lucky enough to have survived. And hopefully, we’re a bit wiser for the adventure.

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@JebraFaushay These people think they can kick me out of a scene I helped build, one I've been in since the 80s. Please, bitch. Go back to hot topic.

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@JebraFaushay I don't look goth, or punk. It is part of me. Even in my business casual dress, and no visible tattoos or pricings. I am 52.

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@JebraFaushay Damn this is a phenomenal account on the true nature of goth. Thanks for this.

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@JebraFaushay I see you're from Chicago. Then I assume you were from the Neo crowd and knew Scary Lady Sarah

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Oh yeah. Neo was my goto. DJs Jeff Moyer, Suzanne Shelton, and definitely Sarah. I joke with Sarah that sometimes she is doing so many events it looks like she’s solely keeping the scene alive. Been to a few Nocturna events this year, but nothing really replaces the golden era of goth at Neo for me. But there are enough events and festivals to keep things very alive. And I do love the Neo reunions at the Metro. Great time seeing old faces again.

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Who are these "GOTH" people that TRACED Charlie's alleged killer's footsteps? Remember when Phil Lyman mentioned that 2 "GOTH girls" should be investigated during Charlie's shooting? The oddest connection I found between these photos of a "goth" looking gentleman that Candace found is that Phil Lyman did mention that he did see 2 "goth" looking girls during the shooting that did not react and where saying things like, "look at all these people run," or something similar, after the shot was fired, and then stated that "THEY" meaning the "2 goth girls" who were by him, should be investigated. You can find these statements from Phil Lyman on one of Candace's previous live episodes. The 2 gentleman who appear in photos with the relative of former Utah State Rep Phil Lyman, the same relative who posted photos and videos retracing the killer’s steps in Charlie Kirk’s assassination before his entire profile suddenly went private and was scrubbed. Candace finds a connection to a Goth website, where the gentleman seems to be in a single photo in "goth." Why did Phil Lyman also seem to mention "GOTH" people, in relation to the 2 goth girls I mentioned earlier, and that they should be investigated in Candace's previous episode? What is really going on, or is this just a dead end or a distraction? Thoughts and comments down below. cc: Candace Owens, HustleBitch_

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“11 O’Clock Tick Tock” is an early U2 single from 1980, their first release on Island Records. It was not on a studio album, but appeared live on Under a Blood Red Sky. It could be considered the Constitution of U2, the basis of their rebellion against the world at the time. Bono wrote the lyrics after attending a concert by the punk band The Cramps at the Electric Ballroom in London during the peak of the goth scene. From the balcony, he observed a “lifeless, goth-style” crowd with pale makeup, dark eyes, and a detached, almost apocalyptic vibe—“sepulchral” and full of “lostness.” He described it as feeling like “the night of the tragically hip” or “the end of the world.” The song captures disillusionment with the punk/goth scene of the era: the artificial poses, the colliding bodies on the dance floor, and an underlying sense of emptiness or impending doom. Bono was searching for something more authentic or meaningful “outside his bubble”—a cry against superficiality, lost youth, and a scene that felt hollow despite the energy. Key lyrics reflect this: • “It’s cold outside / It gets so hot in here / The boys and girls collide / To the music in my ear” — The contrast between the external world and the intense but artificial club environment. • “I hear the children crying / And I know it’s time to go” — A sense of innocence lost or a call to escape the scene. • “A painted face / And I know we haven’t long / We thought that we had the answers / It was the questions we had wrong” — Critique of the posed, made-up appearances and misguided rebellion or philosophy in the subculture. • “Call out your name / Call out in shame” — Critique of lack of humility, lack of uniqueness, lack of biblical foundation. The song builds urgency with its driving rhythm, and The Edge’s otherworldly guitar, and a feeling of time running out (“tick tock”). It’s youthful and anxious, typical of U2’s early post-punk sound—energetic yet at the end of the world.

“11 O’Clock Tick Tock” is an early U2 single from 1980, their first release on Island Records. It was not on a studio album, but appeared live on Under a Blood Red Sky. It could be considered the Constitution of U2, the basis of their rebellion against the world at the time. Bono wrote the lyrics after attending a concert by the punk band The Cramps at the Electric Ballroom in London during the peak of the goth scene. From the balcony, he observed a “lifeless, goth-style” crowd with pale makeup, dark eyes, and a detached, almost apocalyptic vibe—“sepulchral” and full of “lostness.” He described it as feeling like “the night of the tragically hip” or “the end of the world.” The song captures disillusionment with the punk/goth scene of the era: the artificial poses, the colliding bodies on the dance floor, and an underlying sense of emptiness or impending doom. Bono was searching for something more authentic or meaningful “outside his bubble”—a cry against superficiality, lost youth, and a scene that felt hollow despite the energy. Key lyrics reflect this: • “It’s cold outside / It gets so hot in here / The boys and girls collide / To the music in my ear” — The contrast between the external world and the intense but artificial club environment. • “I hear the children crying / And I know it’s time to go” — A sense of innocence lost or a call to escape the scene. • “A painted face / And I know we haven’t long / We thought that we had the answers / It was the questions we had wrong” — Critique of the posed, made-up appearances and misguided rebellion or philosophy in the subculture. • “Call out your name / Call out in shame” — Critique of lack of humility, lack of uniqueness, lack of biblical foundation. The song builds urgency with its driving rhythm, and The Edge’s otherworldly guitar, and a feeling of time running out (“tick tock”). It’s youthful and anxious, typical of U2’s early post-punk sound—energetic yet at the end of the world.

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The Circle (2000, Panahi)/ Iran "Political movies have limited time. After that time, it doesn’t say anything anymore. But if the whole thing is said in an artistic way, then it doesn’t have an expiration date." --- Jafar Panahi Full Excerpt: "Interviewer: The subject matter of 'The Circle' (2000) is controversial. You mentioned that the film is still banned in Iran. In fact, when I was watching the film, I realized that through the characters, there’s a lot of fear about the system, the establishment, the police. The women can’t smoke; they have to wear the chador; they seem to want to hide every time. This is all very clear from watching the film. Did you deliberately want to make a statement about the political situation in Iran? Panahi: I have to tell you again that I’m not a political person. I don’t like political movies. But I take every opportunity to comment on the social issues. I talk about the current issues. To me it’s not important what is the reason for what has happened. Whether it’s political reasons or geographical reasons: these are not important—but the condition, the social issues. It is important to me to talk about the plight of humanity at that time. I don’t want to give a political view, or start a political war. I think that the artist should rise above this. Political movies have limited time. After that time, it doesn’t say anything anymore. But if the whole thing is said in an artistic way, then it doesn’t have an expiration date. So it doesn’t really serve a political purpose. Then it can be everlasting, for always, and it could be for anywhere. But I know that politically, with the film authorities, with any kind of film that has some political background in it, they would take issue with it. And for this reason, that is what the problem is. Interviewer: Still, your film makes a very strong statement about the problems that women face in Iran. Panahi: Yes, I agree with that. Interviewer: So that is humanitarian, of course, but it’s also political. Panahi: Yes, I agree with that. It has the elements. It all depends on how you look at it. If a person has only political views, then he will only see the political. But if you are a poet or an artist, then you see other things as well in the movie. If you are a socialist, you see political or economic or whatever different points of view. You mustn’t look at a film with only one point of view. If you want to see 'The Circle' (2000) as political, then it is one of the most political movies in Iran. By political, I mean partisan politics. But even the police, I didn’t want to show them as bad. In the first instance, you are afraid of the police. Because you are looking at them from the point of view of someone who is now in prison. And normally you see him in a long shot, but when they come nearer and you see them in a medium shot, you can see their human faces. Then it comes down to, “Do you need any help?” But he goes back again and becomes frightening. If I were being political, then I would always show the police as dangerous or bad persons." (Jafar Panahi's interview with Stephen Teo, Senses of Cinema, 2001)

The Circle (2000, Panahi)/ Iran "Political movies have limited time. After that time, it doesn’t say anything anymore. But if the whole thing is said in an artistic way, then it doesn’t have an expiration date." --- Jafar Panahi Full Excerpt: "Interviewer: The subject matter of 'The Circle' (2000) is controversial. You mentioned that the film is still banned in Iran. In fact, when I was watching the film, I realized that through the characters, there’s a lot of fear about the system, the establishment, the police. The women can’t smoke; they have to wear the chador; they seem to want to hide every time. This is all very clear from watching the film. Did you deliberately want to make a statement about the political situation in Iran? Panahi: I have to tell you again that I’m not a political person. I don’t like political movies. But I take every opportunity to comment on the social issues. I talk about the current issues. To me it’s not important what is the reason for what has happened. Whether it’s political reasons or geographical reasons: these are not important—but the condition, the social issues. It is important to me to talk about the plight of humanity at that time. I don’t want to give a political view, or start a political war. I think that the artist should rise above this. Political movies have limited time. After that time, it doesn’t say anything anymore. But if the whole thing is said in an artistic way, then it doesn’t have an expiration date. So it doesn’t really serve a political purpose. Then it can be everlasting, for always, and it could be for anywhere. But I know that politically, with the film authorities, with any kind of film that has some political background in it, they would take issue with it. And for this reason, that is what the problem is. Interviewer: Still, your film makes a very strong statement about the problems that women face in Iran. Panahi: Yes, I agree with that. Interviewer: So that is humanitarian, of course, but it’s also political. Panahi: Yes, I agree with that. It has the elements. It all depends on how you look at it. If a person has only political views, then he will only see the political. But if you are a poet or an artist, then you see other things as well in the movie. If you are a socialist, you see political or economic or whatever different points of view. You mustn’t look at a film with only one point of view. If you want to see 'The Circle' (2000) as political, then it is one of the most political movies in Iran. By political, I mean partisan politics. But even the police, I didn’t want to show them as bad. In the first instance, you are afraid of the police. Because you are looking at them from the point of view of someone who is now in prison. And normally you see him in a long shot, but when they come nearer and you see them in a medium shot, you can see their human faces. Then it comes down to, “Do you need any help?” But he goes back again and becomes frightening. If I were being political, then I would always show the police as dangerous or bad persons." (Jafar Panahi's interview with Stephen Teo, Senses of Cinema, 2001)

DepressedBergman

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At a Q&A, John MacArthur is asked about Christian nationalism. The kingdom of God is not of this world. Jesus said that. He said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would [fight].” His kingdom is not of this world. The kingdom of this world is a separate world; they’re not linked together. Let me say it another way: Nothing that happens in any nation, whether it’s a Communist nation, a Muslim nation, or a “quasi-Christian” nation, or an atheistic nation—nothing in that nation politically, socially has anything to do with the advancement of the kingdom of God, because the kingdom of God is separate from that system. God, in His sovereignty, is building His church, “and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it,” Jesus said. So the idea that you should link up some political effort, some political process, some social process, some gain of power or influence in a culture as part of the advance of Christianity is alien to Christianity. You never have our Lord approaching anything like that, nor the apostles, and particularly the apostle Paul. He sought to gain no favor with the Roman Empire whatsoever, or for that matter, with any other of the rulers that he ran into during his life. Now, that is not to say that we are indifferent to what happens in the nation. We’ve been talking about that the last couple of Sunday mornings. We have to be the people who uphold righteousness. When we come to vote, we want to vote for that which is the most righteous option. Obviously, we can’t vote in righteousness, but we have to vote in a way that reflects our commitment to the righteousness of God. So we couldn’t possibly elect somebody who was an abortionist, somebody who was LGBTQ or LGBTQ-affirming, or any other deviation from God’s righteous moral standard. So it gets harder, doesn’t it, nowadays, because even sometimes when politicians are more conservative and anti-abortion, they may be sinful and wicked in some other categories, and it’s very hard to find out who is really honest and who is simply dishonest and seeking power. But in the end, we do what we can with the understanding that the responsibility of the church is not to advance the kingdom of this world. That’s a faulty viewpoint. Christian nationalism is usually tied to what is called post-millennialism, and that is the view that the church, somehow, by influencing the culture, can bring in the kingdom of Christ. In other words, it’s the idea not that Christ returns and sets up His kingdom, but that the church establishes His kingdom and then hands it to Him. That is not what Scripture teaches. What Scripture teaches is what we’re learning from the book of Revelation. Things are going to get worse and worse and worse. And the end of human history is not the church triumphant, reigning in the world and taking over the structures of human kingdoms; that’s not what happens. At the end of human history, the believers are persecuted and murdered, and that’s the very opposite of what Christian nationalism would anticipate. So we believe the Bible teaches that things get worse and worse, headed toward the wrath of God, which we’re seeing in Revelation, and then our Lord returns, Himself, to establish His kingdom is clearly what we read in the book of Revelation. OK?

At a Q&A, John MacArthur is asked about Christian nationalism. The kingdom of God is not of this world. Jesus said that. He said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would [fight].” His kingdom is not of this world. The kingdom of this world is a separate world; they’re not linked together. Let me say it another way: Nothing that happens in any nation, whether it’s a Communist nation, a Muslim nation, or a “quasi-Christian” nation, or an atheistic nation—nothing in that nation politically, socially has anything to do with the advancement of the kingdom of God, because the kingdom of God is separate from that system. God, in His sovereignty, is building His church, “and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it,” Jesus said. So the idea that you should link up some political effort, some political process, some social process, some gain of power or influence in a culture as part of the advance of Christianity is alien to Christianity. You never have our Lord approaching anything like that, nor the apostles, and particularly the apostle Paul. He sought to gain no favor with the Roman Empire whatsoever, or for that matter, with any other of the rulers that he ran into during his life. Now, that is not to say that we are indifferent to what happens in the nation. We’ve been talking about that the last couple of Sunday mornings. We have to be the people who uphold righteousness. When we come to vote, we want to vote for that which is the most righteous option. Obviously, we can’t vote in righteousness, but we have to vote in a way that reflects our commitment to the righteousness of God. So we couldn’t possibly elect somebody who was an abortionist, somebody who was LGBTQ or LGBTQ-affirming, or any other deviation from God’s righteous moral standard. So it gets harder, doesn’t it, nowadays, because even sometimes when politicians are more conservative and anti-abortion, they may be sinful and wicked in some other categories, and it’s very hard to find out who is really honest and who is simply dishonest and seeking power. But in the end, we do what we can with the understanding that the responsibility of the church is not to advance the kingdom of this world. That’s a faulty viewpoint. Christian nationalism is usually tied to what is called post-millennialism, and that is the view that the church, somehow, by influencing the culture, can bring in the kingdom of Christ. In other words, it’s the idea not that Christ returns and sets up His kingdom, but that the church establishes His kingdom and then hands it to Him. That is not what Scripture teaches. What Scripture teaches is what we’re learning from the book of Revelation. Things are going to get worse and worse and worse. And the end of human history is not the church triumphant, reigning in the world and taking over the structures of human kingdoms; that’s not what happens. At the end of human history, the believers are persecuted and murdered, and that’s the very opposite of what Christian nationalism would anticipate. So we believe the Bible teaches that things get worse and worse, headed toward the wrath of God, which we’re seeing in Revelation, and then our Lord returns, Himself, to establish His kingdom is clearly what we read in the book of Revelation. OK?

Terri Green

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I've become a missionary with one message. Every time I meet a young person, the same words: have children, get married, build a family. I did not decide on this calling. It overtook me. And it overtook me for a single reason. I had no idea. I genuinely did not understand how much joy, how much meaning, how much sheer beauty pours out of a child until I was holding one of my own and felt the floor of my life drop into something deeper than I knew was there. I grew up white, affluent, secular, comfortable, and insulated. That world does not put babies in front of you. None of my friends were starting families. Out of my whole circle, almost no one has a big one. We were not formed by the presence of children. We were formed by their absence, by the strange quiet of homes built for two careers and no cradle. And a person believes what his world shows him. So we believed. What we believed was a lie. It is a lie with an author, and that the author is the enemy of joy himself. It is the gospel of the world, and its commandment is wait. Wait until you are older. Wait until the career is built and the savings are stacked and the twenties are properly spent. Enjoy your freedom. You are not ready. It does not arrive sounding like temptation. It arrives sounding like wisdom, like prudence, like the responsible thing, and that is exactly why it works. The most effective lies are the ones that wear the face of virtue. And the maddening thing is that it collapses from every angle at once. It is not rooted in biology, because the body is made for this work precisely in the years we are told to postpone it. The flesh keeps a calendar the culture pretends not to see. And it is not rooted in theology either. You will not find this deferral anywhere in the Christian imagination, in any of the fathers, in any of the scriptures. So choose whatever lens you like. Take the cold secular measure or the ancient sacred one. By either light the counsel is rotten. It is bad for the body and bad for the soul and bad for the society downstream of both. This is why I have come to see it as one of the central tragedies of my generation. Every age carries its own wound. The Great Depression was a depression of bread, a scarcity in the world of matter, hunger you could measure. Ours is a depression of a different order. It is a famine of the spirit in the middle of abundance. We have more than any people who ever lived and we are starving in a way our ancestors would not recognize, because the thing we are refusing cannot be bought and cannot be banked. The ones most made to give and receive this love are quietly declining it. They are walking away from the one inheritance that actually compounds, and the cruelest part is that they do not feel the loss as loss. You cannot grieve what you were taught not to want. That is the deepest cut of it. The lie does not only steal the thing. It steals the capacity to know the thing was stolen. A man can spend his whole life on the far side of a door he never knew was a door, mistaking the wall for the edge of the world. Because this beauty is not ordinary beauty. It is not the pleasure of a good meal or a clear morning. It is participation in something that comes down from above, the same generative love that spoke everything out of nothing and called it good. To make a person, to be undone and remade by loving that person more than your own life, is to be drawn for a moment inside the very act that holds the cosmos together. A child does not merely add to your life. A child reorders the soul. It teaches you what you are by asking everything of you, and you discover, kneeling there exhausted at three in the morning, that you had a capacity for self gift you never suspected, a depth in yourself you had no other way to reach. In the Gospel of John, on the last night, Jesus prays, these things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. And I have come to understand why family is the road into that fullness, why it is not one path among many but the one most fitted to the shape of the promise. Consider who is praying. Christ does not come to us as a lone figure dropped out of the sky. He comes out of a family older than the world, the eternal communion of Father and Son, the love between them so total and so alive that theologians dared to call it a third person. Before there was anything, there was a family. The deepest fact about reality is not a force or a law or a void. It is a household. It is begetting and being begotten, giving and receiving, a Father who is only a Father because there is a Son. So when Jesus speaks of joy made complete, he is not pointing away from family toward something higher. He is pointing toward the very thing he came from, the life he has known from eternity and came to share. His joy is the joy of belonging utterly to a Father and pouring himself out for those he loves. When you marry, when you bring a child into the world, when you wear yourself down in the small unseen labors of a home, you are not stepping outside that divine life. You are stepping into a small image of it. Your family is a created echo of an uncreated one. The love you give your child rhymes with the love the Father has for the Son. The exhaustion, the tenderness, the way a parent would tear the sky open to protect a sleeping infant, all of it is the heavens pressed faintly into flesh, the eternal household leaving its fingerprint on yours. That is why the joy is not merely added to family but completed in it. We were made in the image of a God who is, at his very root, relation and gift and generation. To found a family is to do the most Godlike thing a creature can do, to participate from below in the begetting that God does from all eternity. Your home becomes a window. Through it, dimly and imperfectly, you glimpse the country you came from and are going to. And now a word for the young people reading this, the ones who do not yet have children. I want to tell you what it is like from where I stand. When I am out somewhere, a restaurant, anywhere, and a large family comes through the door, the noise and the chaos and the small bodies of them, something happens in me on two levels at once. The first is joy. A pure gladness at the sight, the way you feel watching something good and alive. But underneath it, almost in the same instant, a sadness reaches up and takes hold of my heart. Because I know now, at my age, after my own years of waiting, that I will never have that. I will never know the particular fruit of a family that large, the fullness of that table, the weight of all those lives gathered under one roof. The door to it has quietly closed, and I felt it close. And I am telling you plainly, because I love you and have no reason to lie to you: you will feel this too. You will. The day will come when you see what you passed up, and you will recognize the ache for what it is, and it will be too late to answer it. So please, learn from a man who got it wrong. Let my regret be worth something by becoming your wisdom. Do not wait yourself into a grief you cannot undo. Choose now, while the door is open, so that you may step into a joy that does not end.

I've become a missionary with one message. Every time I meet a young person, the same words: have children, get married, build a family. I did not decide on this calling. It overtook me. And it overtook me for a single reason. I had no idea. I genuinely did not understand how much joy, how much meaning, how much sheer beauty pours out of a child until I was holding one of my own and felt the floor of my life drop into something deeper than I knew was there. I grew up white, affluent, secular, comfortable, and insulated. That world does not put babies in front of you. None of my friends were starting families. Out of my whole circle, almost no one has a big one. We were not formed by the presence of children. We were formed by their absence, by the strange quiet of homes built for two careers and no cradle. And a person believes what his world shows him. So we believed. What we believed was a lie. It is a lie with an author, and that the author is the enemy of joy himself. It is the gospel of the world, and its commandment is wait. Wait until you are older. Wait until the career is built and the savings are stacked and the twenties are properly spent. Enjoy your freedom. You are not ready. It does not arrive sounding like temptation. It arrives sounding like wisdom, like prudence, like the responsible thing, and that is exactly why it works. The most effective lies are the ones that wear the face of virtue. And the maddening thing is that it collapses from every angle at once. It is not rooted in biology, because the body is made for this work precisely in the years we are told to postpone it. The flesh keeps a calendar the culture pretends not to see. And it is not rooted in theology either. You will not find this deferral anywhere in the Christian imagination, in any of the fathers, in any of the scriptures. So choose whatever lens you like. Take the cold secular measure or the ancient sacred one. By either light the counsel is rotten. It is bad for the body and bad for the soul and bad for the society downstream of both. This is why I have come to see it as one of the central tragedies of my generation. Every age carries its own wound. The Great Depression was a depression of bread, a scarcity in the world of matter, hunger you could measure. Ours is a depression of a different order. It is a famine of the spirit in the middle of abundance. We have more than any people who ever lived and we are starving in a way our ancestors would not recognize, because the thing we are refusing cannot be bought and cannot be banked. The ones most made to give and receive this love are quietly declining it. They are walking away from the one inheritance that actually compounds, and the cruelest part is that they do not feel the loss as loss. You cannot grieve what you were taught not to want. That is the deepest cut of it. The lie does not only steal the thing. It steals the capacity to know the thing was stolen. A man can spend his whole life on the far side of a door he never knew was a door, mistaking the wall for the edge of the world. Because this beauty is not ordinary beauty. It is not the pleasure of a good meal or a clear morning. It is participation in something that comes down from above, the same generative love that spoke everything out of nothing and called it good. To make a person, to be undone and remade by loving that person more than your own life, is to be drawn for a moment inside the very act that holds the cosmos together. A child does not merely add to your life. A child reorders the soul. It teaches you what you are by asking everything of you, and you discover, kneeling there exhausted at three in the morning, that you had a capacity for self gift you never suspected, a depth in yourself you had no other way to reach. In the Gospel of John, on the last night, Jesus prays, these things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. And I have come to understand why family is the road into that fullness, why it is not one path among many but the one most fitted to the shape of the promise. Consider who is praying. Christ does not come to us as a lone figure dropped out of the sky. He comes out of a family older than the world, the eternal communion of Father and Son, the love between them so total and so alive that theologians dared to call it a third person. Before there was anything, there was a family. The deepest fact about reality is not a force or a law or a void. It is a household. It is begetting and being begotten, giving and receiving, a Father who is only a Father because there is a Son. So when Jesus speaks of joy made complete, he is not pointing away from family toward something higher. He is pointing toward the very thing he came from, the life he has known from eternity and came to share. His joy is the joy of belonging utterly to a Father and pouring himself out for those he loves. When you marry, when you bring a child into the world, when you wear yourself down in the small unseen labors of a home, you are not stepping outside that divine life. You are stepping into a small image of it. Your family is a created echo of an uncreated one. The love you give your child rhymes with the love the Father has for the Son. The exhaustion, the tenderness, the way a parent would tear the sky open to protect a sleeping infant, all of it is the heavens pressed faintly into flesh, the eternal household leaving its fingerprint on yours. That is why the joy is not merely added to family but completed in it. We were made in the image of a God who is, at his very root, relation and gift and generation. To found a family is to do the most Godlike thing a creature can do, to participate from below in the begetting that God does from all eternity. Your home becomes a window. Through it, dimly and imperfectly, you glimpse the country you came from and are going to. And now a word for the young people reading this, the ones who do not yet have children. I want to tell you what it is like from where I stand. When I am out somewhere, a restaurant, anywhere, and a large family comes through the door, the noise and the chaos and the small bodies of them, something happens in me on two levels at once. The first is joy. A pure gladness at the sight, the way you feel watching something good and alive. But underneath it, almost in the same instant, a sadness reaches up and takes hold of my heart. Because I know now, at my age, after my own years of waiting, that I will never have that. I will never know the particular fruit of a family that large, the fullness of that table, the weight of all those lives gathered under one roof. The door to it has quietly closed, and I felt it close. And I am telling you plainly, because I love you and have no reason to lie to you: you will feel this too. You will. The day will come when you see what you passed up, and you will recognize the ache for what it is, and it will be too late to answer it. So please, learn from a man who got it wrong. Let my regret be worth something by becoming your wisdom. Do not wait yourself into a grief you cannot undo. Choose now, while the door is open, so that you may step into a joy that does not end.

Kirk Rollins

77,958 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

#WATCH | Shillong: On the Manipur situation, Assam Rifles Director General Lieutenant General PC Nair says, "...If videos are going around, these are doctored videos. I can tell you I have about 30 to 40 videos which have been circulating. Don't even belong to the northeast. They are from Myanmar, they are from other places. Some of them are from the Rohingya region. But some people who have a hidden agenda to create trouble here are doctoring that and showing them as security forces acting against people. Yes, there have been certain other instances where videos of Manipur have been shown. But amongst those videos also, it is only part of the incident. Let's say an incident has happened for about five to ten minutes. Let's say there are people been stopped and Assam riffle trying to stop them or whatever. In these videos that are being propagated, they only show part clippings which makes the story very different. Unless you see the entire video, unless you see the complete facts, you will tend to get carried away by what is coming. And that is precisely what is happening. Part of the story, part of the photograph, and part of the videos are what are being made and shown to drive a certain agenda which is wrong..." He further added "...From the first day, that is from the 3 May itself, Assam Rifle has maintained a neutral stand (in Manipur). So all these narratives that have been coming are agenda-driven. It makes me laugh when I read some of these stupid reports stating that the Assam riffle is favouring one community, not favouring the other. These are nothing but rumours, falsehoods, preposterous. There is no background to this and I can substantiate it with statistics...to call us being biased towards a particular community is wrong...."

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#WATCH | Shillong: On the Manipur situation, Assam Rifles Director General Lieutenant General PC Nair says, "...If videos are going around, these are doctored videos. I can tell you I have about 30 to 40 videos which have been circulating. Don't even belong to the northeast. They are from Myanmar, they are from other places. Some of them are from the Rohingya region. But some people who have a hidden agenda to create trouble here are doctoring that and showing them as security forces acting against people. Yes, there have been certain other instances where videos of Manipur have been shown. But amongst those videos also, it is only part of the incident. Let's say an incident has happened for about five to ten minutes. Let's say there are people been stopped and Assam riffle trying to stop them or whatever. In these videos that are being propagated, they only show part clippings which makes the story very different. Unless you see the entire video, unless you see the complete facts, you will tend to get carried away by what is coming. And that is precisely what is happening. Part of the story, part of the photograph, and part of the videos are what are being made and shown to drive a certain agenda which is wrong..." He further added "...From the first day, that is from the 3 May itself, Assam Rifle has maintained a neutral stand (in Manipur). So all these narratives that have been coming are agenda-driven. It makes me laugh when I read some of these stupid reports stating that the Assam riffle is favouring one community, not favouring the other. These are nothing but rumours, falsehoods, preposterous. There is no background to this and I can substantiate it with statistics...to call us being biased towards a particular community is wrong...."

ANI

124,720 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

WATCH: CNN’s John Miller mentions the video and notes left behind by the alleged Minneapolis Catholic church shooter, citing their mental illness and the working motive is “he was in pain,” but NOTHING about the shooter being transgender and that they hated Christians, Jews, and Trump... Well, we’ve been looking into the shooter who law enforcement sources have identified as Robin Westman and police have been examining some of the postings online by an individual of the same name, presumed to be the same individual. It shows numerous weapons, magazines, things in preparation for the shooting along with a book and different notes. But one of them is particularly telling in that it says: ‘I have waited for this for so long. I am not well. I am not right. I am a sad person, haunted by these thoughts that do not go away. I know this is wrong’ and he goes on to describe that the action he is going to take against this world before taking his own life — which is not uncommon in these incidents, these active shooter scenarios where you see someone who reports to be in — in — in pain and trauma and that they write all of this out and leave it behind with the foreknowledge that what they're about to do is going to end their own life as well, while taking these — these strangers, these innocent people with them in the process. But investigators are going back through this material and a lot of other material trying to determine motive. So what do we know? I mean, what we know, if this in fact is from the shooter, that his motive was he was in pain. But what we don't see here and there's more to go through is what was, what was the shooter — Robin Westman in pain about specifically?”

WATCH: CNN’s John Miller mentions the video and notes left behind by the alleged Minneapolis Catholic church shooter, citing their mental illness and the working motive is “he was in pain,” but NOTHING about the shooter being transgender and that they hated Christians, Jews, and Trump... Well, we’ve been looking into the shooter who law enforcement sources have identified as Robin Westman and police have been examining some of the postings online by an individual of the same name, presumed to be the same individual. It shows numerous weapons, magazines, things in preparation for the shooting along with a book and different notes. But one of them is particularly telling in that it says: ‘I have waited for this for so long. I am not well. I am not right. I am a sad person, haunted by these thoughts that do not go away. I know this is wrong’ and he goes on to describe that the action he is going to take against this world before taking his own life — which is not uncommon in these incidents, these active shooter scenarios where you see someone who reports to be in — in — in pain and trauma and that they write all of this out and leave it behind with the foreknowledge that what they're about to do is going to end their own life as well, while taking these — these strangers, these innocent people with them in the process. But investigators are going back through this material and a lot of other material trying to determine motive. So what do we know? I mean, what we know, if this in fact is from the shooter, that his motive was he was in pain. But what we don't see here and there's more to go through is what was, what was the shooter — Robin Westman in pain about specifically?”

Curtis Houck

64,113 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce

Every two or three weeks, my sister Priyanka describes to me something new that she has learned from the people of Kerala. You have all these things here, so sometimes you take them for granted. You have natural beauty, you have an amazing political culture, you have multiple religions that live happily together. You are used to these things, and you take them for granted. So sometimes it’s important that someone from Delhi comes and tells you this - that you have the most sophisticated political culture at all levels. At the local government level, you have a superb political culture. Because you are emerging from a political process, and you are held accountable by the people of Kerala. And many of the young people here who have been elected for the first time must realize that you have been given trust by the people of Kerala. Respect this trust, cherish this trust, and defend this trust. And remember that, in the end, as a member of the Congress party, you are defending the Constitution of India. And you are not going to allow a culture of silence to pervade this country. : LoP Shri Rahul Gandhi 📍Kerala

Every two or three weeks, my sister Priyanka describes to me something new that she has learned from the people of Kerala. You have all these things here, so sometimes you take them for granted. You have natural beauty, you have an amazing political culture, you have multiple religions that live happily together. You are used to these things, and you take them for granted. So sometimes it’s important that someone from Delhi comes and tells you this - that you have the most sophisticated political culture at all levels. At the local government level, you have a superb political culture. Because you are emerging from a political process, and you are held accountable by the people of Kerala. And many of the young people here who have been elected for the first time must realize that you have been given trust by the people of Kerala. Respect this trust, cherish this trust, and defend this trust. And remember that, in the end, as a member of the Congress party, you are defending the Constitution of India. And you are not going to allow a culture of silence to pervade this country. : LoP Shri Rahul Gandhi 📍Kerala

Congress

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Yesterday while watching the Tokyo special again in English, I realized that some of the characters' sounds were not from the actors in English, it was actually French dub. Just as it happened in the Paris and London specials. And checking with the credits, it indicates that the main production is from Disney EMEA and particularly France. So, at least in the Miraculous World, the original audio is French and from there they take it to use in the other sound mixes. I will be able to give you a couple of examples, so that you can listen.

Yesterday while watching the Tokyo special again in English, I realized that some of the characters' sounds were not from the actors in English, it was actually French dub. Just as it happened in the Paris and London specials. And checking with the credits, it indicates that the main production is from Disney EMEA and particularly France. So, at least in the Miraculous World, the original audio is French and from there they take it to use in the other sound mixes. I will be able to give you a couple of examples, so that you can listen.

Miraculous Fans World 🐾

328,830 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

As a black belt, this is how I prefer to roll, not driven by personal development or even the enjoyment of it. I roll because it is good in and of itself. I strive to give of myself generously and to take what comes my way openly, without apology. Most of my time on the mat is spent guiding others, helping them navigate Jiu Jitsu. But when it’s my turn to roll, it becomes an experience that exists purely for its own sake. Jiu Jitsu is a ritual, not an outlet for pent-up emotions, nor is it a stage for personal theatrics. It transcends the release or display of personality. If anything, it functions as an escape from emotion and personality. Within this space of calm detachment, there emerges a kind of vision or fluency. This vision is the capacity to take the unpredictable and the unforeseen and seamlessly integrate it in a way that brings new meaning and value. Instead of feeling destabilized by the unexpected, allow it to deepen your perspective. The question is not how to avoid disruptions, but how to dance with them, absorb them, and become more adaptable through the encounter.

As a black belt, this is how I prefer to roll, not driven by personal development or even the enjoyment of it. I roll because it is good in and of itself. I strive to give of myself generously and to take what comes my way openly, without apology. Most of my time on the mat is spent guiding others, helping them navigate Jiu Jitsu. But when it’s my turn to roll, it becomes an experience that exists purely for its own sake. Jiu Jitsu is a ritual, not an outlet for pent-up emotions, nor is it a stage for personal theatrics. It transcends the release or display of personality. If anything, it functions as an escape from emotion and personality. Within this space of calm detachment, there emerges a kind of vision or fluency. This vision is the capacity to take the unpredictable and the unforeseen and seamlessly integrate it in a way that brings new meaning and value. Instead of feeling destabilized by the unexpected, allow it to deepen your perspective. The question is not how to avoid disruptions, but how to dance with them, absorb them, and become more adaptable through the encounter.

Drewlock

22,432 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Angelina Jolie Has Finally Woken Up To The Fact The United Nations & Governments Are Run By Heartless Criminals There’s No Accountability For Crimes “If There’s A Business Interest Involved” “That is the biggest that is the most disheartening thing of I think we we or I thought at least even 20 years ago when I started to work internationally that there was this I in my head, some weird idea of good guys. You know? Some idea of those whether it be certain countries or certain people's maybe it was this holdover from World War 2 and this thought that this was, like so that the lines were clear and that there was going to be these human rights goals laid out and that there would be things stood up for, and that if these things weren't done, there would be pushback, and these were the and I really thought that's what it was. I even thought that's what the United Nations was… And I thought, okay. There's a there's some lines in the sand. There's some understanding. We're gonna grow and fight for improvements in these areas. And and to watch to watch and understand more and more how it's just simply that's not what it is. That's not the world. The world is not these are human rights. It is these are human rights sometimes for these people, maybe sometimes for these people, never for these people. Yeah. It's food aid, 6% for these people, 50% for these people, it's justice for these people, but not these people. Accountability for this crime, but not that crime if there's business interest. And this is truly the ugly state of of so much of the world that we are just becoming more and more aware of for just about every I mean, I don't know any countries that are are clean of it and, um, and willing to hold a line really consistently hand on behalf of the of human rights and laws”

Angelina Jolie Has Finally Woken Up To The Fact The United Nations & Governments Are Run By Heartless Criminals There’s No Accountability For Crimes “If There’s A Business Interest Involved” “That is the biggest that is the most disheartening thing of I think we we or I thought at least even 20 years ago when I started to work internationally that there was this I in my head, some weird idea of good guys. You know? Some idea of those whether it be certain countries or certain people's maybe it was this holdover from World War 2 and this thought that this was, like so that the lines were clear and that there was going to be these human rights goals laid out and that there would be things stood up for, and that if these things weren't done, there would be pushback, and these were the and I really thought that's what it was. I even thought that's what the United Nations was… And I thought, okay. There's a there's some lines in the sand. There's some understanding. We're gonna grow and fight for improvements in these areas. And and to watch to watch and understand more and more how it's just simply that's not what it is. That's not the world. The world is not these are human rights. It is these are human rights sometimes for these people, maybe sometimes for these people, never for these people. Yeah. It's food aid, 6% for these people, 50% for these people, it's justice for these people, but not these people. Accountability for this crime, but not that crime if there's business interest. And this is truly the ugly state of of so much of the world that we are just becoming more and more aware of for just about every I mean, I don't know any countries that are are clean of it and, um, and willing to hold a line really consistently hand on behalf of the of human rights and laws”

Wall Street Apes

658,682 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

Right now, it feels as if the Sentiment in PulseChain Ecosystem is at Max Pain....or Close to it. I have seen multiple posts and comments about people wanting to give up, and move to other things. Some from people who have been here a long time! I have been here striving with you all since last July and I have not really seen these types of Public displays until now. It is always the Darkest before the Dawn! This is the Year of the American Pro-Crypto Administration, and a New Era of Crypto Adoption, and the implications of that will resonate all over the world. This is the year of The Most Epic part of the Bullrun after the Bitcoin Halving. This is the Year for exposing the Dark, Hidden, Evil things of world power, and Truth piercing the veil ! During CV19, the Worlds biggest coordinated Psyop ever, when the world shut down, Crypto still had its time, and still shined bright. Red Candles always bring out the deepest Anxieties and Emotions within the crowd. A few weeks ago in December many were feeling on top of the world! What happened to that? The Psychological battle in your mind is at an All Time High, and the dreams you placed at the last Top have temporarily vanished, and you are left with a feeling of uncertainty. You either find out whats next for PulseChain, or you leave! I believe PulseChain is a statement toward Government Tyranny, Censorship, and a statement in Human Freedom against the New World Order. It is a Blockchain that has not been captured by Centralized Entities, VC's, Government Agencies, or any group that seeks to oppress humans. The Upside is absolutely WILD. I believe there is so much prosperity yet to be unleashed on this Chain, and i'm excited to be apart of it. It's a new frontier in Crypto, and I always call it the FREEDOM Chain ! Because I believe it is! This Blockchain is where I call Home now for Crypto, so there is nowhere else i'd rather be. I can only speak for myself. I still believe in PulseChain and Richard Heart !! You can't shake me or break me out of my convictions or position, I worked and researched and prayed about it too hard. will not fumble this opportunity. I believe there is some real Truth encoded on to this chain that gives it a truly solid foundation that can stand the test of time, and I was willing to risk my all to venture out and take hold of it. I won't be turning down, shrinking back, or folding up! excited for PulseChain 2025 even if things seem uncertain and many are fearful. RH will be vindicated. Glory will be had. This Chain will have a top spot in all of Crypto, many will be blessed. I used to be a Bitcoin Maxi, but I got humbled, and now i'm a Ride or Die PulseChainer and here for the Truth and Glory. Even through a big correction, I still have more right now than I ever could trying to do something else..... I WILL NOT Lose. I hope you don't either. WE. WILL. WIN ! I chose the Song "War Ready, by BigXthaPlug & Mon$+@" because its a fighting song, and I ain't backing down from what I believe to be Right! Amidst the noise, here's to an amazing 2025 of FREEDOM !

Right now, it feels as if the Sentiment in PulseChain Ecosystem is at Max Pain....or Close to it. I have seen multiple posts and comments about people wanting to give up, and move to other things. Some from people who have been here a long time! I have been here striving with you all since last July and I have not really seen these types of Public displays until now. It is always the Darkest before the Dawn! This is the Year of the American Pro-Crypto Administration, and a New Era of Crypto Adoption, and the implications of that will resonate all over the world. This is the year of The Most Epic part of the Bullrun after the Bitcoin Halving. This is the Year for exposing the Dark, Hidden, Evil things of world power, and Truth piercing the veil ! During CV19, the Worlds biggest coordinated Psyop ever, when the world shut down, Crypto still had its time, and still shined bright. Red Candles always bring out the deepest Anxieties and Emotions within the crowd. A few weeks ago in December many were feeling on top of the world! What happened to that? The Psychological battle in your mind is at an All Time High, and the dreams you placed at the last Top have temporarily vanished, and you are left with a feeling of uncertainty. You either find out whats next for PulseChain, or you leave! I believe PulseChain is a statement toward Government Tyranny, Censorship, and a statement in Human Freedom against the New World Order. It is a Blockchain that has not been captured by Centralized Entities, VC's, Government Agencies, or any group that seeks to oppress humans. The Upside is absolutely WILD. I believe there is so much prosperity yet to be unleashed on this Chain, and i'm excited to be apart of it. It's a new frontier in Crypto, and I always call it the FREEDOM Chain ! Because I believe it is! This Blockchain is where I call Home now for Crypto, so there is nowhere else i'd rather be. I can only speak for myself. I still believe in PulseChain and Richard Heart !! You can't shake me or break me out of my convictions or position, I worked and researched and prayed about it too hard. will not fumble this opportunity. I believe there is some real Truth encoded on to this chain that gives it a truly solid foundation that can stand the test of time, and I was willing to risk my all to venture out and take hold of it. I won't be turning down, shrinking back, or folding up! excited for PulseChain 2025 even if things seem uncertain and many are fearful. RH will be vindicated. Glory will be had. This Chain will have a top spot in all of Crypto, many will be blessed. I used to be a Bitcoin Maxi, but I got humbled, and now i'm a Ride or Die PulseChainer and here for the Truth and Glory. Even through a big correction, I still have more right now than I ever could trying to do something else..... I WILL NOT Lose. I hope you don't either. WE. WILL. WIN ! I chose the Song "War Ready, by BigXthaPlug & Mon$+@" because its a fighting song, and I ain't backing down from what I believe to be Right! Amidst the noise, here's to an amazing 2025 of FREEDOM !

FREEDOM_777

15,539 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

👼🏼👹 Pasulka: It Could Be Angels and Demons 👹👼🏼 This segment was really good. Excellent job, Diana! Force dwpasulka (DP) to make a bet on what the phenomenon represents, and she'd say... DP: "It's a variety of things." Ross Douthat (RD): "It's more than one thing?" DP: "It appears to be." RD: "Okay. Give me two examples of what that thing is. It's a variety, just two. Two different things. What is it?" DP: "It appears to be a perennial thing (lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time). So there appears to be something that interfaces with humans, and has been identified in the various traditional religions." RD: "Identified as what?" DP: "Well, I'm not going to name it, because in some traditional religions it's named in different ways. So it could be bodhisattvas, angels, demons, things like that." (A Bodhisattvas is, "a being that compassionately refrains from entering nirvana in order to save others and is worshipped as a deity in Mahayana Buddhism." ~Merriam-Webster) RD: "No, that's good. So it is intermediate intelligences between God and human beings, some of whom have our best interests at heart and some of whom don't?" DP: "And those different religious traditions have protocols for dealing with these." RD: "But that was a yes? You agree. That's part of what you think it is?" DP: "I think some of the phenomena is that, not all of it. Then there appears to be some type of technology that is either, in my opinion - this is the truth serum, in my opinion - either is ours, or if it's not ours, it's amazing." RD: "So in that theory, you would have a kind of loop of, on the one hand, authentic experiences that map onto the great religious traditions, and at the same time, some kind of government cover up or secrecy around remarkable technologies that we aren't aware of. Are those two things linked, or is it just a marriage of convenience, then? That the government is happy that people have these kind of supernatural experiences because it makes it easier to cover up the amazing technology?" DP: "Yeah, that's the question I ask myself. I don't know if they're linked (laughs)." (I suspect that they're linked. At this point in time, my leading theory is that what we're experiencing is what people in ancient times referred to as Angels, Demons, Jinn, etc., but it has nothing to do with evil, which is a human label. I just think it's part of the natural, non-physical world that we usually can't perceive. And some of it may be helpful to humans and some of it is harmful. Seems like the harmful is more prevalent. Either we just get in the way and it doesn't care if we get hurt, or us getting hurt is somehow beneficial to it. Like, we're a resource somehow. Just like how we see cows, pigs and chickens. And I think it may have the ability to create what looks like technology. Materialize and dematerialize "stuff." And also, we may have our own tech that we back engineered from "their" tech or developed on our own. Just opinions.) RD: "All right, so last question, because you have been trying to pull me away from the government and back towards the personal experiences and so on. What can, you know, nice secular readers of The New York Times who have been baffled by this conversation (laughs), let's say, take away from the personal side of it, the direct encounters that people report having?" DP: "Okay. So I think what's really important is that most of us grew up with and were educated within this worldview, and I call it the Thomas-Jefferson worldview. And Thomas Jefferson didn't believe that Jesus was divine. He believed that Jesus was a really good person. And he even went so far as to rewrite the New Testament, and he took out all the references to miracles and all the things that, you know, all the references to angels and demons and exorcisms and healings and things like that. And there was the Jeffersonian Bible, okay? "So, I would say that, for me, what these experiences did was it... I was a, you know, I had a Jeffersonian worldview. I was a secular Catholic, okay? What these these experiences did was they jolted me out of that worldview and into the Shakespearean worldview. Where, you know, there are things that we don't understand, and why don't we, you know, understand that we don't understand them? Instead of just doing like the Wall Street Journal did, and just say 'No, nothing to see here.' Well, the world and the cosmos is a really beautiful place with a lot of mystery. So that's what I would suggest." (Well said, and I appreciate the shot at the WSJ.) RD: "Okay, I endorse that take very strongly. I'm gonna give you one more chance to tell me who it was who told you they had seen an alien spacecraft and where? Because, you know, it's the New York Times. It's an audience of at least dozens, if not millions. Don't you want to be the person who blew the lid off, you know, the secret government conspiracy, Diana?" DP: "No, I don't aspire to that." (Both laugh)

👼🏼👹 Pasulka: It Could Be Angels and Demons 👹👼🏼 This segment was really good. Excellent job, Diana! Force dwpasulka (DP) to make a bet on what the phenomenon represents, and she'd say... DP: "It's a variety of things." Ross Douthat (RD): "It's more than one thing?" DP: "It appears to be." RD: "Okay. Give me two examples of what that thing is. It's a variety, just two. Two different things. What is it?" DP: "It appears to be a perennial thing (lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time). So there appears to be something that interfaces with humans, and has been identified in the various traditional religions." RD: "Identified as what?" DP: "Well, I'm not going to name it, because in some traditional religions it's named in different ways. So it could be bodhisattvas, angels, demons, things like that." (A Bodhisattvas is, "a being that compassionately refrains from entering nirvana in order to save others and is worshipped as a deity in Mahayana Buddhism." ~Merriam-Webster) RD: "No, that's good. So it is intermediate intelligences between God and human beings, some of whom have our best interests at heart and some of whom don't?" DP: "And those different religious traditions have protocols for dealing with these." RD: "But that was a yes? You agree. That's part of what you think it is?" DP: "I think some of the phenomena is that, not all of it. Then there appears to be some type of technology that is either, in my opinion - this is the truth serum, in my opinion - either is ours, or if it's not ours, it's amazing." RD: "So in that theory, you would have a kind of loop of, on the one hand, authentic experiences that map onto the great religious traditions, and at the same time, some kind of government cover up or secrecy around remarkable technologies that we aren't aware of. Are those two things linked, or is it just a marriage of convenience, then? That the government is happy that people have these kind of supernatural experiences because it makes it easier to cover up the amazing technology?" DP: "Yeah, that's the question I ask myself. I don't know if they're linked (laughs)." (I suspect that they're linked. At this point in time, my leading theory is that what we're experiencing is what people in ancient times referred to as Angels, Demons, Jinn, etc., but it has nothing to do with evil, which is a human label. I just think it's part of the natural, non-physical world that we usually can't perceive. And some of it may be helpful to humans and some of it is harmful. Seems like the harmful is more prevalent. Either we just get in the way and it doesn't care if we get hurt, or us getting hurt is somehow beneficial to it. Like, we're a resource somehow. Just like how we see cows, pigs and chickens. And I think it may have the ability to create what looks like technology. Materialize and dematerialize "stuff." And also, we may have our own tech that we back engineered from "their" tech or developed on our own. Just opinions.) RD: "All right, so last question, because you have been trying to pull me away from the government and back towards the personal experiences and so on. What can, you know, nice secular readers of The New York Times who have been baffled by this conversation (laughs), let's say, take away from the personal side of it, the direct encounters that people report having?" DP: "Okay. So I think what's really important is that most of us grew up with and were educated within this worldview, and I call it the Thomas-Jefferson worldview. And Thomas Jefferson didn't believe that Jesus was divine. He believed that Jesus was a really good person. And he even went so far as to rewrite the New Testament, and he took out all the references to miracles and all the things that, you know, all the references to angels and demons and exorcisms and healings and things like that. And there was the Jeffersonian Bible, okay? "So, I would say that, for me, what these experiences did was it... I was a, you know, I had a Jeffersonian worldview. I was a secular Catholic, okay? What these these experiences did was they jolted me out of that worldview and into the Shakespearean worldview. Where, you know, there are things that we don't understand, and why don't we, you know, understand that we don't understand them? Instead of just doing like the Wall Street Journal did, and just say 'No, nothing to see here.' Well, the world and the cosmos is a really beautiful place with a lot of mystery. So that's what I would suggest." (Well said, and I appreciate the shot at the WSJ.) RD: "Okay, I endorse that take very strongly. I'm gonna give you one more chance to tell me who it was who told you they had seen an alien spacecraft and where? Because, you know, it's the New York Times. It's an audience of at least dozens, if not millions. Don't you want to be the person who blew the lid off, you know, the secret government conspiracy, Diana?" DP: "No, I don't aspire to that." (Both laugh)

Joe Murgia

23,954 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce

Bret Weinstein cuts straight to the chase: "We are going to have an endless battle in which those of us who see what we believe is clear evidence of some kind of election rigging or fraud are faced with indignation from a vast array of people portraying themselves as more rigorous and careful who say, 'Where is your evidence? Where exactly is your evidence that there was something wrong with this election?' And we are gonna be caught in the following predicament. No piece of evidence is sufficient to establish that case. And the sum total of all of the evidence contains true things and false things. So it is also no good. So the question is, can you logically deduce that something has gone wrong? I believe you can easily. Can you prove it? No. And not being able to prove it means that the election will proceed. It will be validated by all of the structures, including the courts. And that means that those who take on the power that derives from these elections will be the result of whatever process we just went through, whether it was an election that happened to be anomalous through organic means, or it was the result of some kind of fraud or election rigging. That is not an accident. That is not an accident. And the point that I wanna make primarily is the primary evidence against elections that look like this being organic is not actually in the trickle of evidence that we are actually able to see, the moment by moment vote count that does something strange during the night when some large tranche of ballots is suddenly counted or something like that. The evidence is in the structure of how the elections are actually carried out. These elections are designed to allow fraud that cannot be detected and will not be prosecuted. And that's really the thing that we must focus on." Bret Weinstein

Bret Weinstein cuts straight to the chase: "We are going to have an endless battle in which those of us who see what we believe is clear evidence of some kind of election rigging or fraud are faced with indignation from a vast array of people portraying themselves as more rigorous and careful who say, 'Where is your evidence? Where exactly is your evidence that there was something wrong with this election?' And we are gonna be caught in the following predicament. No piece of evidence is sufficient to establish that case. And the sum total of all of the evidence contains true things and false things. So it is also no good. So the question is, can you logically deduce that something has gone wrong? I believe you can easily. Can you prove it? No. And not being able to prove it means that the election will proceed. It will be validated by all of the structures, including the courts. And that means that those who take on the power that derives from these elections will be the result of whatever process we just went through, whether it was an election that happened to be anomalous through organic means, or it was the result of some kind of fraud or election rigging. That is not an accident. That is not an accident. And the point that I wanna make primarily is the primary evidence against elections that look like this being organic is not actually in the trickle of evidence that we are actually able to see, the moment by moment vote count that does something strange during the night when some large tranche of ballots is suddenly counted or something like that. The evidence is in the structure of how the elections are actually carried out. These elections are designed to allow fraud that cannot be detected and will not be prosecuted. And that's really the thing that we must focus on." Bret Weinstein

The DarkHorse Podcast

695,459 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

Firstly, I believe that people should be allowed to express themselves. At the same time, in an environment increasingly filled with rhetoric, anger, and hatred, I feel it is better to create things creatively - things that are joyful and that promote peace, love, and the welfare of people. I am an admirer of the people of Kerala. I see how beautifully the communities in Wayanad live, how they celebrate festivals together and help each other during times of crisis. It doesn’t matter which religion you belong to or what caste you are from; everyone helps one another, and everyone comes forward. Even today, this spirit continues. I believe this is the true essence of India; it is the spirit of Kerala. That, I feel, is what makes it so beautiful. Why not showcase it? Why not talk about it? Why can’t the whole country learn from these examples? : Congress General Secretary & Wayanad MP Smt. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ji 📍 Wayanad, Keralam

Firstly, I believe that people should be allowed to express themselves. At the same time, in an environment increasingly filled with rhetoric, anger, and hatred, I feel it is better to create things creatively - things that are joyful and that promote peace, love, and the welfare of people. I am an admirer of the people of Kerala. I see how beautifully the communities in Wayanad live, how they celebrate festivals together and help each other during times of crisis. It doesn’t matter which religion you belong to or what caste you are from; everyone helps one another, and everyone comes forward. Even today, this spirit continues. I believe this is the true essence of India; it is the spirit of Kerala. That, I feel, is what makes it so beautiful. Why not showcase it? Why not talk about it? Why can’t the whole country learn from these examples? : Congress General Secretary & Wayanad MP Smt. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ji 📍 Wayanad, Keralam

Congress

15,533 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

🦖: There was once someone who used to be a fan who loved us, and one day that person said they felt disgusted by us. I can understand that to some extent. It comes from the kind of news they were exposed to and the anger they felt. I myself probably wouldn’t do the same thing that person did to us. 🦖: What I want is for people to look more at the reality of what is happening, what actually occurred between Thailand and Cambodia. And to try to understand it, because in truth, ordinary people like us, and people on the Cambodian side as well, are directly affected by this situation. But this is not something we should be blaming or attacking each other over.

🦖: There was once someone who used to be a fan who loved us, and one day that person said they felt disgusted by us. I can understand that to some extent. It comes from the kind of news they were exposed to and the anger they felt. I myself probably wouldn’t do the same thing that person did to us. 🦖: What I want is for people to look more at the reality of what is happening, what actually occurred between Thailand and Cambodia. And to try to understand it, because in truth, ordinary people like us, and people on the Cambodian side as well, are directly affected by this situation. But this is not something we should be blaming or attacking each other over.

𝓢𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓯 ࿔⋆🎀

71,792 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

"The appropriate response from the Somali community would be to come out and apologize to the public and take accountability, and at least having some shame for doing that." You would think so, right? Not in this case. These people have no shame and will deny and play the victim until the bitter end. This is not only a cultural problem with these Somalians, it is a religious issue. Islam teaches that it is ok to do things like this so long as it is in the name of Islam. What did we expect when we imported low IQ people from the third world?

"The appropriate response from the Somali community would be to come out and apologize to the public and take accountability, and at least having some shame for doing that." You would think so, right? Not in this case. These people have no shame and will deny and play the victim until the bitter end. This is not only a cultural problem with these Somalians, it is a religious issue. Islam teaches that it is ok to do things like this so long as it is in the name of Islam. What did we expect when we imported low IQ people from the third world?

AmericanPapaBear™

23,170 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

The Idea of NHI on Earth. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔥"The gravity of it goes up a whole lot if it goes from the theoretical to the verified." ~Dr. Phil 🔥 "There have been people that have reported being abducted over the years. What's the intent behind that? Is it medical? Is it more nefarious?" ~BZ to Dr. Phil (I'm so glad Bryce went there.) "There will be people...who likely are going to need some some assistance to help deal with this because it is so far-reaching and for some people, potentially, very frightening." ~Mellon ~ Dr. Phil: "We know in the last 80 years there have been no overt hostile acts that we know about. That doesn't mean there could be things happening that are attributable to these forces that we don't know about. But, we certainly don't have any attacks that we can attribute to these UAPs or whatever." (Well, there's Colares in 1977. If that was non-human in nature, I'd say that qualifies as overt. And the Thomas Mantell incident in 1948 where he crashed and died after pursuing a UFO. Was that overt? Unfortunately, we don't know what happened and probably never will.) Dr. Phil: "And if the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, I think people can take some comfort in knowing that if they were gonna melt us with a ray gun or something of that nature, they've had ample opportunity to do that. "They may have been here 1000 years before we were here. Who knows what the situation is? But we do know that as long as we've been monitoring this and tracking it, there have been no overt hostile acts and I think people can take some comfort in that, and should." (See the work of Peter Levenda for a deeper look at that. "They might have been attacking us for centuries already, in ways that make sense to them... What if they are attacking us through the manipulation of consciousness? ~Peter Levenda More... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ ~ (I'm glad Bryce pushed back a bit.) Bryce Zabel: "They should. The only thing I would say is, if we're dealing with a non-human intelligence - or an NHI, as we like to say now - we'd have to assume that they think differently than us. So even in our own world, in the United States, we tend to think in four-year terms because of presidential terms, right? So you can't get something off the ground if it can't get done right away. The Chinese may think in 100-year terms when they think about Taiwan or whatever. "It's possible there are alien or non-human intelligences that think in a different time frame. If their time frame was 1000 years, then they could just be getting started. "And on the topic of the nuclear issue, which I share concern of. I mean, I think the nuclear issue means it is at least a national-security issue of some kind. Now, I've heard people talk about this, Dr. Phil, two different ways. Some people say, 'Well, you know, they're looking at our nuclear capabilities because they want to protect us from ourselves.' "Okay, that's great, I hope that's true. But the other would be: what do you do before you actually go to war with anybody, is you do reconnaissance. You try to find out what the other guy has. What are their assets? What are their capabilities?" (That may freak out some people but all angles should be considered.) Zabel: "So, I think the problem that we need to overcome in this country is getting to a place where we understand this phenomenon that we're encountering enough that we can at least start to figure out intent. What is the intent? "There have been people that have reported being abducted over the years. What's the intent behind that? Is it medical? Is it more nefarious? What is it? And so, we got a lot of work to do, and I think that's why I am so supportive of your current efforts because you're, basically, saying, 'Let's get started, people. Let's really take this seriously. Let's quit fooling around and stigmatizing people that want to take it seriously, and let's get to work.' But let's get to work as a human race. Let's start sharing what we know and let's make progress. That's where I'm coming from, too." (Bringing up abductions is important because it IS part of this discussion and it shouldn't be avoided. Kudos to Bryce!) Dr. Phil: "I saw a study that said 71% of Americans believe that there are aliens that have been or are in our earthly space. And it's interesting...I read that in one context, it said, 'Look, this is not going to be such a big deal if this gets verified.' "You know, there's one thing to say that in the abstract, like, 'Yeah, I think yeah probably there are.' It's a whole other different situation if you turn around and see somebody standing there. The gravity of it goes up a whole lot if it goes from the theoretical to the verified. (100%. That's my favorite part of the interview and it's so true.) Dr. Phil: "And I hope that we are going to put enough context around this, particularly knowing that there are segments of our population that are very vulnerable. There are some elderly folks that aren't up on technology and might be overwhelmed by the reality of this. "We have certain populations that might be easily disoriented or destabilized in the mental emotional fringes of the population. And I worry about those that are easily exploitable. You know, you need to get out of the urban areas, buy our buried school bus in the mountains, and you'll be safe forever. You know the con artists and the scammers are going to find every opportunity to prey upon those that are concerned and worried about this. "And I think we need to be prepared to take care of those that might be destabilized by this information that's coming out right now, we can't pretend they aren't there. We've made those mistakes in the past, like during COVID, for example. There are those that are more impacted than others, and we need to be prepared to handle that." Christopher K. Mellon: "We, recently, commissioned a study by a group of six psychologists, PhD psychologists, on this topic of how the public would receive this information. And it was generally very encouraging. And what they found was that the great bulk of the population, as they have in the past with other epical changes such as the Copernican principle, or evolution, or general relativity, it takes people a while to process this information. There's a period of resistance. But most people will get up, get out of bed, go to work the next day. They're not devastated, even though there's nothing quite comparable to this, perhaps." (There's no perhaps. A government or respected figure admitting that we're not alone on this planet would be unprecedented and there is NOTHING we can compare it to.) Mellon: "What the study did find is that there is likely, however, to be a subset of people, maybe 15% of the population, that are going to need some help. And that we are not necessarily prepared in our present state to provide that kind of assistance, and we need to be doing more to get ready for that." (If he's talking world population, that's about 1.2 BILLION people who are going to need some help dealing with this. Holy crap. 😬) Mellon: "And also, to work on the messaging. The messaging is so important, clear and consistent messaging from the government, trying to develop trust with the American people so that the information is is accepted and acted on." (For me, I want the whole truth more than the right "message.") Mellon: "A lot of the difference will be people who can't get their head around it, even though they really understand it. But because of their own belief structure, the architecture of their own belief structure, for some reason, in their particular individual case, it's particularly threatening or disruptive. "So there will be people who fall into that category, according to this study, who likely are going to need some some assistance to help deal with this because it is so far-reaching and for some people, potentially, very frightening."

The Idea of NHI on Earth. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔥"The gravity of it goes up a whole lot if it goes from the theoretical to the verified." ~Dr. Phil 🔥 "There have been people that have reported being abducted over the years. What's the intent behind that? Is it medical? Is it more nefarious?" ~BZ to Dr. Phil (I'm so glad Bryce went there.) "There will be people...who likely are going to need some some assistance to help deal with this because it is so far-reaching and for some people, potentially, very frightening." ~Mellon ~ Dr. Phil: "We know in the last 80 years there have been no overt hostile acts that we know about. That doesn't mean there could be things happening that are attributable to these forces that we don't know about. But, we certainly don't have any attacks that we can attribute to these UAPs or whatever." (Well, there's Colares in 1977. If that was non-human in nature, I'd say that qualifies as overt. And the Thomas Mantell incident in 1948 where he crashed and died after pursuing a UFO. Was that overt? Unfortunately, we don't know what happened and probably never will.) Dr. Phil: "And if the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, I think people can take some comfort in knowing that if they were gonna melt us with a ray gun or something of that nature, they've had ample opportunity to do that. "They may have been here 1000 years before we were here. Who knows what the situation is? But we do know that as long as we've been monitoring this and tracking it, there have been no overt hostile acts and I think people can take some comfort in that, and should." (See the work of Peter Levenda for a deeper look at that. "They might have been attacking us for centuries already, in ways that make sense to them... What if they are attacking us through the manipulation of consciousness? ~Peter Levenda More... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ ~ (I'm glad Bryce pushed back a bit.) Bryce Zabel: "They should. The only thing I would say is, if we're dealing with a non-human intelligence - or an NHI, as we like to say now - we'd have to assume that they think differently than us. So even in our own world, in the United States, we tend to think in four-year terms because of presidential terms, right? So you can't get something off the ground if it can't get done right away. The Chinese may think in 100-year terms when they think about Taiwan or whatever. "It's possible there are alien or non-human intelligences that think in a different time frame. If their time frame was 1000 years, then they could just be getting started. "And on the topic of the nuclear issue, which I share concern of. I mean, I think the nuclear issue means it is at least a national-security issue of some kind. Now, I've heard people talk about this, Dr. Phil, two different ways. Some people say, 'Well, you know, they're looking at our nuclear capabilities because they want to protect us from ourselves.' "Okay, that's great, I hope that's true. But the other would be: what do you do before you actually go to war with anybody, is you do reconnaissance. You try to find out what the other guy has. What are their assets? What are their capabilities?" (That may freak out some people but all angles should be considered.) Zabel: "So, I think the problem that we need to overcome in this country is getting to a place where we understand this phenomenon that we're encountering enough that we can at least start to figure out intent. What is the intent? "There have been people that have reported being abducted over the years. What's the intent behind that? Is it medical? Is it more nefarious? What is it? And so, we got a lot of work to do, and I think that's why I am so supportive of your current efforts because you're, basically, saying, 'Let's get started, people. Let's really take this seriously. Let's quit fooling around and stigmatizing people that want to take it seriously, and let's get to work.' But let's get to work as a human race. Let's start sharing what we know and let's make progress. That's where I'm coming from, too." (Bringing up abductions is important because it IS part of this discussion and it shouldn't be avoided. Kudos to Bryce!) Dr. Phil: "I saw a study that said 71% of Americans believe that there are aliens that have been or are in our earthly space. And it's interesting...I read that in one context, it said, 'Look, this is not going to be such a big deal if this gets verified.' "You know, there's one thing to say that in the abstract, like, 'Yeah, I think yeah probably there are.' It's a whole other different situation if you turn around and see somebody standing there. The gravity of it goes up a whole lot if it goes from the theoretical to the verified. (100%. That's my favorite part of the interview and it's so true.) Dr. Phil: "And I hope that we are going to put enough context around this, particularly knowing that there are segments of our population that are very vulnerable. There are some elderly folks that aren't up on technology and might be overwhelmed by the reality of this. "We have certain populations that might be easily disoriented or destabilized in the mental emotional fringes of the population. And I worry about those that are easily exploitable. You know, you need to get out of the urban areas, buy our buried school bus in the mountains, and you'll be safe forever. You know the con artists and the scammers are going to find every opportunity to prey upon those that are concerned and worried about this. "And I think we need to be prepared to take care of those that might be destabilized by this information that's coming out right now, we can't pretend they aren't there. We've made those mistakes in the past, like during COVID, for example. There are those that are more impacted than others, and we need to be prepared to handle that." Christopher K. Mellon: "We, recently, commissioned a study by a group of six psychologists, PhD psychologists, on this topic of how the public would receive this information. And it was generally very encouraging. And what they found was that the great bulk of the population, as they have in the past with other epical changes such as the Copernican principle, or evolution, or general relativity, it takes people a while to process this information. There's a period of resistance. But most people will get up, get out of bed, go to work the next day. They're not devastated, even though there's nothing quite comparable to this, perhaps." (There's no perhaps. A government or respected figure admitting that we're not alone on this planet would be unprecedented and there is NOTHING we can compare it to.) Mellon: "What the study did find is that there is likely, however, to be a subset of people, maybe 15% of the population, that are going to need some help. And that we are not necessarily prepared in our present state to provide that kind of assistance, and we need to be doing more to get ready for that." (If he's talking world population, that's about 1.2 BILLION people who are going to need some help dealing with this. Holy crap. 😬) Mellon: "And also, to work on the messaging. The messaging is so important, clear and consistent messaging from the government, trying to develop trust with the American people so that the information is is accepted and acted on." (For me, I want the whole truth more than the right "message.") Mellon: "A lot of the difference will be people who can't get their head around it, even though they really understand it. But because of their own belief structure, the architecture of their own belief structure, for some reason, in their particular individual case, it's particularly threatening or disruptive. "So there will be people who fall into that category, according to this study, who likely are going to need some some assistance to help deal with this because it is so far-reaching and for some people, potentially, very frightening."

Joe Murgia

26,955 görüntüleme • 2 gün önce

Yes, indeed, this is lawlessness by any standard. Even by banana republic standards, this is still lawlessness. Your country has a constitution, it has a government, it has a police service, and it has a ruling party. I am sure you can see that some of the people there are actually wearing ruling party T-shirts. It is lawless regardless of whoever does it. It is an embarrassment to South Africa as a country, what you are doing and what you are encouraging people to do. Your country has an immigration service. If people are in your country illegally, they should be arrested and deported through lawful processes. You do not go around destroying property, tearing down markets, and attacking people. It is illegal regardless of whoever does it. It is not illegal because I have said so. It is illegal because the laws of your country make it so. This is vigilantism, pure and simple, and it is tainting the reputation of South Africa, not only across Africa but across the world. If you have got satellite television in your home, you can see that these actions are being reported everywhere. It is not good for your country. This kind of barbarism undermines the rule of law, fuels division, and damages South Africa’s standing as a constitutional democracy. It is the actions of a few that are tainting the reputation of many. The average South African is not mindless like this. They respect the law, and they respect the fact that among them, in their communities, there are people from other countries. If those people are in the country illegally, you report them and the law takes its course through proper processes of arrest and deportation. You do not descend into mob justice, lawlessness, and destruction. That is not who South Africans are, and it must not be normalised.

Yes, indeed, this is lawlessness by any standard. Even by banana republic standards, this is still lawlessness. Your country has a constitution, it has a government, it has a police service, and it has a ruling party. I am sure you can see that some of the people there are actually wearing ruling party T-shirts. It is lawless regardless of whoever does it. It is an embarrassment to South Africa as a country, what you are doing and what you are encouraging people to do. Your country has an immigration service. If people are in your country illegally, they should be arrested and deported through lawful processes. You do not go around destroying property, tearing down markets, and attacking people. It is illegal regardless of whoever does it. It is not illegal because I have said so. It is illegal because the laws of your country make it so. This is vigilantism, pure and simple, and it is tainting the reputation of South Africa, not only across Africa but across the world. If you have got satellite television in your home, you can see that these actions are being reported everywhere. It is not good for your country. This kind of barbarism undermines the rule of law, fuels division, and damages South Africa’s standing as a constitutional democracy. It is the actions of a few that are tainting the reputation of many. The average South African is not mindless like this. They respect the law, and they respect the fact that among them, in their communities, there are people from other countries. If those people are in the country illegally, you report them and the law takes its course through proper processes of arrest and deportation. You do not descend into mob justice, lawlessness, and destruction. That is not who South Africans are, and it must not be normalised.

Hopewell Chin’ono

80,812 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

There’s a new claim that “essentially, all that happened was Trump got tired, took control and forced it on Netanyahu, and this is basically the same deal that could have been reached a year earlier,” with the disturbing implication, that’s horrible to say, that IDF soldiers died in vain for a cause that had already been achieved. So, let’s revisit the plans that were laid out by both the current and former American administrations to see if they match up. For example, the Biden plan from June 1, 2024, which was met with considerable enthusiasm, and was even later acknowledged as Netanyahu’s plan. I want to highlight the difference. In the first phase, the IDF should have already pulled back to roughly its current position, and then it was just about releasing humanitarian hostages. As if not all of them are “humanitarian.” Then it transitioned to discussing the release of living hostages. In this phase, the IDF would withdraw from all of Gaza, until the last centimetre, while all the dead hostages remain in Gaza. It’s as different as day and night. Here, everyone is returning, including the dead, and the IDF is still in half of Gaza. This isn’t just about some desire to maintain an occupation or garrison force, but rather to ensure that Hamas disarms — something that didn’t happen in the Biden proposal. So now let’s move on to the Witkoff plan, much closer to us, much better for Israel, but still different. There was talk of releasing half of the dead hostages, but then a temporary ceasefire for two months of negotiations to end the war, and then the IDF would withdraw from more places than it is now, and there would be a guarantee that the war would not be renewed. Once again, we see that there was no connection between the IDF remaining on the ground and the promise that Hamas would disarm, especially while some of the hostages are still there. The greatness of this outline is this issue. I also want to say something general about the matter of responsibility. As ridiculous as it was on October 7 and afterwards to hear from Netanyahu’s supporters that the one who is to blame is the IDF chief of staff, the Shin Bet chief, the attorney general and the Military Advocate General, and that Netanyahu has no part in it — it’s as ridiculous as it is that now they’re saying, “Thank you Trump and thank you Nitzan Alon, and thank you to all of them and to the Qatari prime minister, and Netanyahu and Ron Dermer have nothing to do with it at all.” Indeed, Netanyahu had a very large part in the failure of October 7, and he also has a very large part together with Dermer in this deal. By the way, how does that connect to what Kushner said tonight in Egypt? He said that both the prime minister and Dermer made very big compromises and took risks to see the end of the war. I would like to make a suggestion. Once upon a time, when there was only one channel and people didn’t like the commentators, they said, “Watch the game without the commentary.” I say, let’s watch Trump and Netanyahu’s move without the commentary, because there are a lot of conversations, and this and that, and slander, and sometimes even quotes, but in practice there has never been a president and a prime minister who acted like this, and the results are evident from Iran, through the Golan Heights, through the embassy and now Gaza.

There’s a new claim that “essentially, all that happened was Trump got tired, took control and forced it on Netanyahu, and this is basically the same deal that could have been reached a year earlier,” with the disturbing implication, that’s horrible to say, that IDF soldiers died in vain for a cause that had already been achieved. So, let’s revisit the plans that were laid out by both the current and former American administrations to see if they match up. For example, the Biden plan from June 1, 2024, which was met with considerable enthusiasm, and was even later acknowledged as Netanyahu’s plan. I want to highlight the difference. In the first phase, the IDF should have already pulled back to roughly its current position, and then it was just about releasing humanitarian hostages. As if not all of them are “humanitarian.” Then it transitioned to discussing the release of living hostages. In this phase, the IDF would withdraw from all of Gaza, until the last centimetre, while all the dead hostages remain in Gaza. It’s as different as day and night. Here, everyone is returning, including the dead, and the IDF is still in half of Gaza. This isn’t just about some desire to maintain an occupation or garrison force, but rather to ensure that Hamas disarms — something that didn’t happen in the Biden proposal. So now let’s move on to the Witkoff plan, much closer to us, much better for Israel, but still different. There was talk of releasing half of the dead hostages, but then a temporary ceasefire for two months of negotiations to end the war, and then the IDF would withdraw from more places than it is now, and there would be a guarantee that the war would not be renewed. Once again, we see that there was no connection between the IDF remaining on the ground and the promise that Hamas would disarm, especially while some of the hostages are still there. The greatness of this outline is this issue. I also want to say something general about the matter of responsibility. As ridiculous as it was on October 7 and afterwards to hear from Netanyahu’s supporters that the one who is to blame is the IDF chief of staff, the Shin Bet chief, the attorney general and the Military Advocate General, and that Netanyahu has no part in it — it’s as ridiculous as it is that now they’re saying, “Thank you Trump and thank you Nitzan Alon, and thank you to all of them and to the Qatari prime minister, and Netanyahu and Ron Dermer have nothing to do with it at all.” Indeed, Netanyahu had a very large part in the failure of October 7, and he also has a very large part together with Dermer in this deal. By the way, how does that connect to what Kushner said tonight in Egypt? He said that both the prime minister and Dermer made very big compromises and took risks to see the end of the war. I would like to make a suggestion. Once upon a time, when there was only one channel and people didn’t like the commentators, they said, “Watch the game without the commentary.” I say, let’s watch Trump and Netanyahu’s move without the commentary, because there are a lot of conversations, and this and that, and slander, and sometimes even quotes, but in practice there has never been a president and a prime minister who acted like this, and the results are evident from Iran, through the Golan Heights, through the embassy and now Gaza.

Amit Segal

298,292 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce