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I came across this video of a young lady that was weeping during a priestly ordination in one of the dioceses in Nigeria last week Saturday. As expected, it attracted all kinds of reactions. Some immediately concluded that she was crying because "her boyfriend had left her to become a priest," along with many other dismissive comments. Those reactions are not the focus of this post. Perhaps I'll address them another day. What caught my attention was the explanation of someone who knew the young lady and her family and was present at the ordination. He shared that the lady weeping in the video and the newly ordained priest are the only two children in their family. The priest ordained that day was her only brother and seeing him ordained got her emotional. Many people may not understand that emotion, but I do. It reminds me of my own ordination to the diaconate. My mum cried almost throughout the entire Mass (Perhaps, if that scene were caught on the camera, someone might have concluded that it was a sugar mummy crying because her sugar son left her to become a priest😁). You see, people often think priestly ordination is only a joyful celebration. It is. But for many families, it is also a moment of profound sacrifice. From the day a man is ordained, he belongs to God in a new and irrevocable way. It does not mean he stops loving his family or cuts ties with them. But then, his life is no longer his own. His availability, his time, his heart, and his ministry are now given to the whole Church. Even when a priest visits his family during his vacation, he soon realizes he is no longer simply "at home." He returns as a son, certainly, but also as a priest. His parish becomes his home, and the people entrusted to his care become his family. This quiet sacrifice is one of the hidden dimensions of the priestly vocation. It is rarely spoken about, yet it is deeply real, not only for the priest, but also for those who love him most. Fr. Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch
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I came across this video of a young lady that was weeping during a priestly ordination in one of the dioceses in Nigeria last week Saturday. As expected, it attracted all kinds of reactions. Some immediately concluded that she was crying because "her boyfriend had left her to become a priest," along with many other dismissive comments. Those reactions are not the focus of this post. Perhaps I'll address them another day. What caught my attention was the explanation of someone who knew the young lady and her family and was present at the ordination. He shared that the lady weeping in the video and the newly ordained priest are the only two children in their family. The priest ordained that day was her only brother and seeing him ordained got her emotional. Many people may not understand that emotion, but I do. It reminds me of my own ordination to the diaconate. My mum cried almost throughout the entire Mass (Perhaps, if that scene were caught on the camera, someone might have concluded that it was a sugar mummy crying because her sugar son left her to become a priest😁). You see, people often think priestly ordination is only a joyful celebration. It is. But for many families, it is also a moment of profound sacrifice. From the day a man is ordained, he belongs to God in a new and irrevocable way. It does not mean he stops loving his family or cuts ties with them. But then, his life is no longer his own. His availability, his time, his heart, and his ministry are now given to the whole Church. Even when a priest visits his family during his vacation, he soon realizes he is no longer simply "at home." He returns as a son, certainly, but also as a priest. His parish becomes his home, and the people entrusted to his care become his family. This quiet sacrifice is one of the hidden dimensions of the priestly vocation. It is rarely spoken about, yet it is deeply real, not only for the priest, but also for those who love him most. Fr. Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch

Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch

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Do you know why God put Adam to sleep before creating Eve? This wasn’t an insignificant detail. It’s one of the most overlooked and yet most crucial moments in the Bible. Genesis makes it clear. Before the woman was formed, God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. He wasn’t allowed to watch, he wasn’t allowed to help. He wasn’t even allowed to witness it. He had to be completely still while God worked alone. Because Eve was not designed by Adam. She wasn’t his idea. She wasn’t his extension. Her existence belonged to God first. While Adam slept, God took a part from his side, not from his head, not from his feet, but from the place closest to his heart. That choice was intentional. It painted a clear picture. She was not created to stand above him and not meant to be placed beneath him, but to stand beside him, to walk with him as an equal. When Adam woke and saw her, his first words were, “This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” That wasn’t a romantic line. It was a moment of recognition. Not something I possess, but a life God has entrusted to me. Right there, God revealed what marriage was always meant to be. Not control, not domination, not ownership, but a lifelong responsibility of trust. The woman was placed beside the man, not to be commanded, but to be cherished, protected, and treated with care. If you long for a relationship where you are not consumed, but treasured as a sacred trust. Write in the comments, “Lord, teach me to love the way you love.” And share this video so more people can understand this truth. In God’s design, real love has never been about possession. It has always been about stewardship.
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Do you know why God put Adam to sleep before creating Eve? This wasn’t an insignificant detail. It’s one of the most overlooked and yet most crucial moments in the Bible. Genesis makes it clear. Before the woman was formed, God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. He wasn’t allowed to watch, he wasn’t allowed to help. He wasn’t even allowed to witness it. He had to be completely still while God worked alone. Because Eve was not designed by Adam. She wasn’t his idea. She wasn’t his extension. Her existence belonged to God first. While Adam slept, God took a part from his side, not from his head, not from his feet, but from the place closest to his heart. That choice was intentional. It painted a clear picture. She was not created to stand above him and not meant to be placed beneath him, but to stand beside him, to walk with him as an equal. When Adam woke and saw her, his first words were, “This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” That wasn’t a romantic line. It was a moment of recognition. Not something I possess, but a life God has entrusted to me. Right there, God revealed what marriage was always meant to be. Not control, not domination, not ownership, but a lifelong responsibility of trust. The woman was placed beside the man, not to be commanded, but to be cherished, protected, and treated with care. If you long for a relationship where you are not consumed, but treasured as a sacred trust. Write in the comments, “Lord, teach me to love the way you love.” And share this video so more people can understand this truth. In God’s design, real love has never been about possession. It has always been about stewardship.

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Do you think that by the folly of man, the glory of God can be diminished? . I tell you, no kingdom of this earth, no rebellion of heart, no blasphemy of tongue can ever tarnish the majesty of the Almighty. His glory is not made by the hands of men, nor is it undone by their defiance. . Consider the arrogance of those who refuse to kneel, who claim that their disbelief can unmake the Creator. They are like madmen in a darkened cell, scratching the word ‘darkness’ upon the walls as though, by their crude mark, they could blot out the sun. But tell me, does the sun diminish because it is unseen by the blind? Does its light falter because a lunatic curses its name? No, my friend. The sun remains, burning with relentless brilliance, giving life to all who dwell beneath it, whether they acknowledge it or not. . So it is with God. His glory is eternal, unshaken by the denial of men. He is the architect of the heavens, the One who breathed life into dust and set the stars upon their courses. His majesty does not depend on our worship, yet it is we who are diminished when we turn away. For in refusing to see His light, we do not extinguish it—we only cast ourselves into the shadow of our own making. . Know that to deny God is not an act of power but of despair. It is the rejection of hope, the refusal to see the beauty written into the very fabric of existence. A man who scribbles darkness upon the walls of his soul does not conquer the light, he only blinds himself to it. Yet even in his rebellion, God’s glory shines undimmed. For the sun does not cease to rise because a man refuses to look upon it. And God does not cease to reign because His children wander from His embrace. . If you ever find yourself in doubt, remember this: the defiance of man is but a whisper against the roar of eternity. The glory of God is as unyielding as the mountains and as boundless as the sea. It is woven into the sunrise, the turning of the seasons, the song of creation itself. You cannot destroy it. You cannot unmake it. You can only choose whether to bask in its light or to linger in the shadows. . Take heart, then and do not be swayed by the noise of those who mock the divine. For their words are as fleeting as the wind but the glory of God is eternal. Acknowledge Him not because He needs your praise but because your soul needs His light. Worship Him not as a favor to the Almighty but as a declaration that you see, that you understand, that you are humbled by the grandeur of the One who crafted all that is and all that ever will be. . God’s glory is not diminished by denial, nor is it amplified by praise. But you, my friend—you are elevated when you bow before the Eternal. You are strengthened when you trust in the One who holds the stars in place. And you are transformed when you abandon the shadows of pride and step into the radiance of His truth. . Remember this always: the lunatic may scrawl his defiance but he cannot extinguish the light. The doubter may deny the sun but he cannot halt its rise. And the world may rage against the King of Kings but it cannot dethrone Him. Stand firm, therefore, as one who walks in the light of God. Let your life be a testimony that His glory endures forever, unshaken, unyielding and undeniable. . For in the end, my friend, it is not God who is diminished by our defiance. It is we. And it is not the sun that falters when we turn away—it is the world that grows colder in its absence. #ChristIsKing #WeAreTheStorm
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Do you think that by the folly of man, the glory of God can be diminished? . I tell you, no kingdom of this earth, no rebellion of heart, no blasphemy of tongue can ever tarnish the majesty of the Almighty. His glory is not made by the hands of men, nor is it undone by their defiance. . Consider the arrogance of those who refuse to kneel, who claim that their disbelief can unmake the Creator. They are like madmen in a darkened cell, scratching the word ‘darkness’ upon the walls as though, by their crude mark, they could blot out the sun. But tell me, does the sun diminish because it is unseen by the blind? Does its light falter because a lunatic curses its name? No, my friend. The sun remains, burning with relentless brilliance, giving life to all who dwell beneath it, whether they acknowledge it or not. . So it is with God. His glory is eternal, unshaken by the denial of men. He is the architect of the heavens, the One who breathed life into dust and set the stars upon their courses. His majesty does not depend on our worship, yet it is we who are diminished when we turn away. For in refusing to see His light, we do not extinguish it—we only cast ourselves into the shadow of our own making. . Know that to deny God is not an act of power but of despair. It is the rejection of hope, the refusal to see the beauty written into the very fabric of existence. A man who scribbles darkness upon the walls of his soul does not conquer the light, he only blinds himself to it. Yet even in his rebellion, God’s glory shines undimmed. For the sun does not cease to rise because a man refuses to look upon it. And God does not cease to reign because His children wander from His embrace. . If you ever find yourself in doubt, remember this: the defiance of man is but a whisper against the roar of eternity. The glory of God is as unyielding as the mountains and as boundless as the sea. It is woven into the sunrise, the turning of the seasons, the song of creation itself. You cannot destroy it. You cannot unmake it. You can only choose whether to bask in its light or to linger in the shadows. . Take heart, then and do not be swayed by the noise of those who mock the divine. For their words are as fleeting as the wind but the glory of God is eternal. Acknowledge Him not because He needs your praise but because your soul needs His light. Worship Him not as a favor to the Almighty but as a declaration that you see, that you understand, that you are humbled by the grandeur of the One who crafted all that is and all that ever will be. . God’s glory is not diminished by denial, nor is it amplified by praise. But you, my friend—you are elevated when you bow before the Eternal. You are strengthened when you trust in the One who holds the stars in place. And you are transformed when you abandon the shadows of pride and step into the radiance of His truth. . Remember this always: the lunatic may scrawl his defiance but he cannot extinguish the light. The doubter may deny the sun but he cannot halt its rise. And the world may rage against the King of Kings but it cannot dethrone Him. Stand firm, therefore, as one who walks in the light of God. Let your life be a testimony that His glory endures forever, unshaken, unyielding and undeniable. . For in the end, my friend, it is not God who is diminished by our defiance. It is we. And it is not the sun that falters when we turn away—it is the world that grows colder in its absence. #ChristIsKing #WeAreTheStorm

The Redeemed

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I am posting this video not to further bring pain and ridicule to the President and his family, but rather as a testament of the Ilocano’s enduring belief on the Marcos legacy. No matter the challenges and betrayal inflicted, even by one family member, we will stay the course. The accusations thrown by Senator Imee Marcos against President Ferdinand Marcos cut deep because they twist an old chapter of family pain into a weapon for present politics. After EDSA 1, he was a young man drowning in anger, confusion, and the humiliation of seeing his father dragged down and his family scattered. Anyone with a heart would understand the emotional weight he carried then. But to resurrect that vulnerable period and convert it into claims of addiction today is cruel, dishonest, and done with full political intent. Everything about his life now contradicts that lie—his calm judgment, his measured decisions, his disciplined leadership under pressure. These are the habits of a steady commander, not a man lost to substances. His conduct itself is the proof that the allegations are nothing more than a desperate attempt to wound him where he once hurt most. And while she slings old shadows, the President has delivered real light to the nation. Under his leadership, inflation dropped sharply, giving families stability denied to them for years. Farmers were finally freed from decades of debt. Classrooms rose, children returned to school, health facilities expanded, and foreign investors came back with confidence. Jobs grew. Hope returned. He strengthened our alliances and defended the West Philippine Sea with firmness free of theatrics. These gains did not come from chaos, but rather from discipline, clarity, and hard work. They came from a man who knows the weight of the nation and carries it with calm strength. His achievements are the loudest, clearest answer to every lie thrown his way. But the deepest pain was yet to be inflicted; not from his enemies, but from his own blood. Nothing is more shameful—nothing more unforgivable—than the betrayal committed by his own sister. Imee did not simply criticize him; she walked onto a stage beside the Dutertes and their circle, the very clan that tried for years to destroy her brother’s credibility, poison the public against him, and destabilise his government. She borrowed their poison and spat it back at her own blood infront of a massive crowd cheering her. It was not truth-telling, not concern—it was political hunger. She turned her back not only on her brother but on the Ilocano people who carried the Marcos name through fire and exile, through decades of ridicule and hardship, and who believed that unity within the family was sacred. By siding with the Dutertes, she shattered that sacred trust in front of the whole nation. And now she must face the coldest wrath of the North—not through ruin or violence, but through something far more devastating to an Ilocano soul: SILENCE. Ilocanos do not rage when betrayed. We do not riot. We close our doors. We turn our backs. We remove a name from our homes, from our gatherings, from our stories, from the memory of our children. We do not curse—we simply stop acknowledging the existence of the one who broke faith. That is the fate that now awaits Imee Marcos. She may still sit in the Senate. She may still speak on stages. But in the North, where loyalty is life, she will be a ghost. No festive welcome. No warm embrace. No belonging. Only doors shut gently, permanently, without explanation. She chose ambition over blood, treachery over loyalty, and the Dutertes over her own brother. And for that choice, the Ilocanos will shut their doors on her forever. #ForeverLoyalist
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I am posting this video not to further bring pain and ridicule to the President and his family, but rather as a testament of the Ilocano’s enduring belief on the Marcos legacy. No matter the challenges and betrayal inflicted, even by one family member, we will stay the course. The accusations thrown by Senator Imee Marcos against President Ferdinand Marcos cut deep because they twist an old chapter of family pain into a weapon for present politics. After EDSA 1, he was a young man drowning in anger, confusion, and the humiliation of seeing his father dragged down and his family scattered. Anyone with a heart would understand the emotional weight he carried then. But to resurrect that vulnerable period and convert it into claims of addiction today is cruel, dishonest, and done with full political intent. Everything about his life now contradicts that lie—his calm judgment, his measured decisions, his disciplined leadership under pressure. These are the habits of a steady commander, not a man lost to substances. His conduct itself is the proof that the allegations are nothing more than a desperate attempt to wound him where he once hurt most. And while she slings old shadows, the President has delivered real light to the nation. Under his leadership, inflation dropped sharply, giving families stability denied to them for years. Farmers were finally freed from decades of debt. Classrooms rose, children returned to school, health facilities expanded, and foreign investors came back with confidence. Jobs grew. Hope returned. He strengthened our alliances and defended the West Philippine Sea with firmness free of theatrics. These gains did not come from chaos, but rather from discipline, clarity, and hard work. They came from a man who knows the weight of the nation and carries it with calm strength. His achievements are the loudest, clearest answer to every lie thrown his way. But the deepest pain was yet to be inflicted; not from his enemies, but from his own blood. Nothing is more shameful—nothing more unforgivable—than the betrayal committed by his own sister. Imee did not simply criticize him; she walked onto a stage beside the Dutertes and their circle, the very clan that tried for years to destroy her brother’s credibility, poison the public against him, and destabilise his government. She borrowed their poison and spat it back at her own blood infront of a massive crowd cheering her. It was not truth-telling, not concern—it was political hunger. She turned her back not only on her brother but on the Ilocano people who carried the Marcos name through fire and exile, through decades of ridicule and hardship, and who believed that unity within the family was sacred. By siding with the Dutertes, she shattered that sacred trust in front of the whole nation. And now she must face the coldest wrath of the North—not through ruin or violence, but through something far more devastating to an Ilocano soul: SILENCE. Ilocanos do not rage when betrayed. We do not riot. We close our doors. We turn our backs. We remove a name from our homes, from our gatherings, from our stories, from the memory of our children. We do not curse—we simply stop acknowledging the existence of the one who broke faith. That is the fate that now awaits Imee Marcos. She may still sit in the Senate. She may still speak on stages. But in the North, where loyalty is life, she will be a ghost. No festive welcome. No warm embrace. No belonging. Only doors shut gently, permanently, without explanation. She chose ambition over blood, treachery over loyalty, and the Dutertes over her own brother. And for that choice, the Ilocanos will shut their doors on her forever. #ForeverLoyalist

The King

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Beethoven could not hear the music he wrote. At the age of 28, he realized he was no longer able to listen to a flute being played in the distance, and he spent the rest of his life composing the most enduring music in Western history in almost complete silence... He had been a working musician since childhood. His ears were everything. In 1798, in the middle of a heated argument with a singer, he noticed for the first time that something was wrong. The sound was thinning at the edges. He could hear voices, but high frequencies were beginning to disappear. He told no one for years. By 1802, the truth was no longer deniable. On his doctor's advice he moved to Heiligenstadt, a quiet village outside Vienna, hoping the country air would help. It did not. There, alone and surrounded by farmland, he wrote a letter to his two brothers that he never sent. It was found among his papers after his death. We now call it the Heiligenstadt Testament, and it is one of the most devastating documents ever written by an artist about himself: "You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the cause of my seeming so... what a humiliation, when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing, and again I heard nothing." He wrote, in the same letter, that he had thought of ending his life. And then he wrote the line that explains everything that followed: "Only my art held me back. It seemed impossible to me to leave the world before I had produced everything I felt called upon to produce." He went back to Vienna. He went on composing. Over the next two decades his hearing continued to fade. Friends began writing their words down in small notebooks instead of speaking them aloud, and waiting while he read. Modern scholars call these the conversation books. Around four hundred of them survive. To compose, he developed his own methods. He bit one end of a wooden rod and pressed the other against the soundboard of his piano, letting the vibrations travel through his jaw to his inner ear. He had stumbled, through trial and error, onto the principle that modern science calls bone conduction. The cause of his deafness has never been settled. What we do know is this: he realized he was losing his hearing at twenty-eight, and he could have stopped. He wrote the letter, he held the thought of dying in his hand, and then he put down the pen and went back to work. Most of what he is remembered for was composed after that moment: The Fifth Symphony. The Seventh. The Ninth. The Missa Solemnis. The late quartets. All of it was made by a man who could no longer hear most of what he was writing. There are people who give the world what they receive, and there are people who give the world what they were never able to receive. The most enduring beauty in human history has almost always come from the second kind... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.
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Beethoven could not hear the music he wrote. At the age of 28, he realized he was no longer able to listen to a flute being played in the distance, and he spent the rest of his life composing the most enduring music in Western history in almost complete silence... He had been a working musician since childhood. His ears were everything. In 1798, in the middle of a heated argument with a singer, he noticed for the first time that something was wrong. The sound was thinning at the edges. He could hear voices, but high frequencies were beginning to disappear. He told no one for years. By 1802, the truth was no longer deniable. On his doctor's advice he moved to Heiligenstadt, a quiet village outside Vienna, hoping the country air would help. It did not. There, alone and surrounded by farmland, he wrote a letter to his two brothers that he never sent. It was found among his papers after his death. We now call it the Heiligenstadt Testament, and it is one of the most devastating documents ever written by an artist about himself: "You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the cause of my seeming so... what a humiliation, when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing, and again I heard nothing." He wrote, in the same letter, that he had thought of ending his life. And then he wrote the line that explains everything that followed: "Only my art held me back. It seemed impossible to me to leave the world before I had produced everything I felt called upon to produce." He went back to Vienna. He went on composing. Over the next two decades his hearing continued to fade. Friends began writing their words down in small notebooks instead of speaking them aloud, and waiting while he read. Modern scholars call these the conversation books. Around four hundred of them survive. To compose, he developed his own methods. He bit one end of a wooden rod and pressed the other against the soundboard of his piano, letting the vibrations travel through his jaw to his inner ear. He had stumbled, through trial and error, onto the principle that modern science calls bone conduction. The cause of his deafness has never been settled. What we do know is this: he realized he was losing his hearing at twenty-eight, and he could have stopped. He wrote the letter, he held the thought of dying in his hand, and then he put down the pen and went back to work. Most of what he is remembered for was composed after that moment: The Fifth Symphony. The Seventh. The Ninth. The Missa Solemnis. The late quartets. All of it was made by a man who could no longer hear most of what he was writing. There are people who give the world what they receive, and there are people who give the world what they were never able to receive. The most enduring beauty in human history has almost always come from the second kind... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

James Lucas

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Collateral (2004) Michael Mann on using music to reveal character. "As research, music enters early for me. If you can find that piece of music which evokes the central emotion of one of your characters, some pivotal crisis where he or she must rouse themselves from despair and manifest something very aggressive within his or her own mind—this becomes the piece of music for that moment. If I want to quantify how a character is feeling and thinking, in a way that is replicable, so I can re-evoke that emotion many, many times, finding the right piece of music is positively essential. Not only as I prepare the scene—but as I shoot the scene, as I direct the actors, and finally, as I edit the scene. One specific example comes to mind in Collateral, when the coyotes cross in front of the cab. For me, that was a watershed in the story's progression. Each of the two principle characters is submerging into his own perspective of what life is: a retrospective moment; a prelude to a violent confrontation. The song "Shadow on the Sun" by Audioslave nailed that moment for me. It became an indelible part of planning, sustaining, and executing that scene."
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Collateral (2004) Michael Mann on using music to reveal character. "As research, music enters early for me. If you can find that piece of music which evokes the central emotion of one of your characters, some pivotal crisis where he or she must rouse themselves from despair and manifest something very aggressive within his or her own mind—this becomes the piece of music for that moment. If I want to quantify how a character is feeling and thinking, in a way that is replicable, so I can re-evoke that emotion many, many times, finding the right piece of music is positively essential. Not only as I prepare the scene—but as I shoot the scene, as I direct the actors, and finally, as I edit the scene. One specific example comes to mind in Collateral, when the coyotes cross in front of the cab. For me, that was a watershed in the story's progression. Each of the two principle characters is submerging into his own perspective of what life is: a retrospective moment; a prelude to a violent confrontation. The song "Shadow on the Sun" by Audioslave nailed that moment for me. It became an indelible part of planning, sustaining, and executing that scene."

Gangster Cinema Central

41,610 次观看 • 5 个月前

Love and Deepspace story writing is honestly breathtaking. LONG POST AND SPOILERS AHEAD! Xavier's 3rd myth "Where Stars Scatter" was so emotionally impactful-- I have not been this impressed in a game's story writing since FFXIV Shadowbringers. Xavier's story alone deserves its own video game. Please listen to these story beats and watch this video as it truly is an epic fantasy😭 -A benevolent Queen sacrifices herself to sustain the life of the planet, called Philos. Humans are sacrificed as offerings to the planet to keep the life force of the planet afloat, ultimately making them almost immortal -The Queen wants to stop this cycle by offering herself as she has the equivalent of a life force of the Universe resting within her heart. -The man she loves, Prince Xavier, knows of this secret of the planet and determines to set things right. -He gathers a crew and travels across time and space to find a way to save her and stop this endless cycle of sacrifice. He tells her he will be back, but he is not sure when. -He does not succeed to stop the cycle, and when he finally returns to his timeline, the Queen is dead. -He mourns her for centuries, never forgetting her, never marrying, crippled by the grief of failing her. However, the people of Philos begin to forget who she was and what she even did for humanity. -Prince Xavier ends up becoming King but is stuck between a perpetual war between the living and dead, now called the "Mad King" because he shuts himself out to anyone and anything. He wields a sword that can kill the dead, and only he can use it. With the Queen long gone, the planet reverts to needing sacrifices to sustain its life. -After centuries, the Queen is awakened again somehow, but she does not remember who she is, nor does she remember who King Xavier is. All she knows is that she wants to return to Philos. The land that she wakes up in is called Sinderfell and is in perpetual darkness. -King Xavier pretends he doesn't know her, but deep down he does and yearns to be with her. He saves her several times from fanatical revenants and the undead. -The Queen falls in love with him once again, and slowly her memories return to her. He knows who she is and gives her time to remember him, but he still deeply loves her and is loyal only to her. However, he knows that the world in which they live in is doomed. -In Sinderfell, there is a "Pilgrimage" that happens each year where people are chosen to look for the Tree of Life, which is said to grant immortality. -This ceremony actually turns out to be the same with humans being sent to be sacrifices for the planet yet again. -The Queen finds out the truth about this and decides to stop this once and for all, where supposedly the Tree of Life stems from. She finds that the river and the cave that it leads to is lined with corpses of those who were sacrificed to become monsters (Wanderers) -The Tree of Life does exist, and it is akin to a kind of energy force of not just the planet but the universe itself. However, the Queen herself has that same energy coursing in her body (this is also prevalent in the overarching main story of Love and Deepspace) -The Tree of Life gives her a choice: return to a divergence point Prince Xavier created in the fabric of time when he traveled back to try to find a way to save the Queen from sacrificing herself. Or she could stay in this false world. She chooses to return to the divergence point. -Her decision causes the destruction of the current Philos, which leads to an all out war. -She rushes back to King Xavier and together they fight off the undead who have turned into Wanderers. However, because of her choice to go back to the divergence point in time, King Xavier knows that their time together is coming to an end -Before the world ends, the sun finally breaks through the darkness surrounding the world. King Xavier and the Queen imagine themselves in a field of yellow flowers and share a kiss. They are then shown back at the battlefield. -Because the Queen chose to return to the divergence point, she dies in King Xavier's arms as the world fades away -The Tree of Life thanks the Queen for choosing to be with Xavier as the divergence point would bring her back to him, and they could live out their lives together in happiness. -The story ends with a flashback of Xavier traveling the cosmos to find a solution to stop the endless cycle of sacrifice, but before he leaves, he records a short message to the Queen to tell her that he knows she will be a good Queen. And the Queen knows that Xavier will find her, in some place and time in this universe. --- I dunno about you, but all of that above is just the surface of the overarching story of Love and Deepspace as it's only one character's side story. I simplified a lot of the summary above, but it does paint such a vivid picture with amazing imagery and lore. The game has just brilliant writing, and the acting, music, visuals, and world building is phenomenal. Bravo 😭
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Love and Deepspace story writing is honestly breathtaking. LONG POST AND SPOILERS AHEAD! Xavier's 3rd myth "Where Stars Scatter" was so emotionally impactful-- I have not been this impressed in a game's story writing since FFXIV Shadowbringers. Xavier's story alone deserves its own video game. Please listen to these story beats and watch this video as it truly is an epic fantasy😭 -A benevolent Queen sacrifices herself to sustain the life of the planet, called Philos. Humans are sacrificed as offerings to the planet to keep the life force of the planet afloat, ultimately making them almost immortal -The Queen wants to stop this cycle by offering herself as she has the equivalent of a life force of the Universe resting within her heart. -The man she loves, Prince Xavier, knows of this secret of the planet and determines to set things right. -He gathers a crew and travels across time and space to find a way to save her and stop this endless cycle of sacrifice. He tells her he will be back, but he is not sure when. -He does not succeed to stop the cycle, and when he finally returns to his timeline, the Queen is dead. -He mourns her for centuries, never forgetting her, never marrying, crippled by the grief of failing her. However, the people of Philos begin to forget who she was and what she even did for humanity. -Prince Xavier ends up becoming King but is stuck between a perpetual war between the living and dead, now called the "Mad King" because he shuts himself out to anyone and anything. He wields a sword that can kill the dead, and only he can use it. With the Queen long gone, the planet reverts to needing sacrifices to sustain its life. -After centuries, the Queen is awakened again somehow, but she does not remember who she is, nor does she remember who King Xavier is. All she knows is that she wants to return to Philos. The land that she wakes up in is called Sinderfell and is in perpetual darkness. -King Xavier pretends he doesn't know her, but deep down he does and yearns to be with her. He saves her several times from fanatical revenants and the undead. -The Queen falls in love with him once again, and slowly her memories return to her. He knows who she is and gives her time to remember him, but he still deeply loves her and is loyal only to her. However, he knows that the world in which they live in is doomed. -In Sinderfell, there is a "Pilgrimage" that happens each year where people are chosen to look for the Tree of Life, which is said to grant immortality. -This ceremony actually turns out to be the same with humans being sent to be sacrifices for the planet yet again. -The Queen finds out the truth about this and decides to stop this once and for all, where supposedly the Tree of Life stems from. She finds that the river and the cave that it leads to is lined with corpses of those who were sacrificed to become monsters (Wanderers) -The Tree of Life does exist, and it is akin to a kind of energy force of not just the planet but the universe itself. However, the Queen herself has that same energy coursing in her body (this is also prevalent in the overarching main story of Love and Deepspace) -The Tree of Life gives her a choice: return to a divergence point Prince Xavier created in the fabric of time when he traveled back to try to find a way to save the Queen from sacrificing herself. Or she could stay in this false world. She chooses to return to the divergence point. -Her decision causes the destruction of the current Philos, which leads to an all out war. -She rushes back to King Xavier and together they fight off the undead who have turned into Wanderers. However, because of her choice to go back to the divergence point in time, King Xavier knows that their time together is coming to an end -Before the world ends, the sun finally breaks through the darkness surrounding the world. King Xavier and the Queen imagine themselves in a field of yellow flowers and share a kiss. They are then shown back at the battlefield. -Because the Queen chose to return to the divergence point, she dies in King Xavier's arms as the world fades away -The Tree of Life thanks the Queen for choosing to be with Xavier as the divergence point would bring her back to him, and they could live out their lives together in happiness. -The story ends with a flashback of Xavier traveling the cosmos to find a solution to stop the endless cycle of sacrifice, but before he leaves, he records a short message to the Queen to tell her that he knows she will be a good Queen. And the Queen knows that Xavier will find her, in some place and time in this universe. --- I dunno about you, but all of that above is just the surface of the overarching story of Love and Deepspace as it's only one character's side story. I simplified a lot of the summary above, but it does paint such a vivid picture with amazing imagery and lore. The game has just brilliant writing, and the acting, music, visuals, and world building is phenomenal. Bravo 😭

☆オードリーAudrey☆

26,410 次观看 • 1 年前

A video-text summary of my argument that we now live in the age of TECHNOFEUDALISM (in 16', 2000 words): Wherever we turn, we witness the triumph of capital. Capital has prevailed everywhere: in warehouses, factories, offices, universities, public hospitals, the media – in space but also in the microcosm of genetic engineering. So, how do I dare claim that capitalism has been killed? By whom? The deliciously ironic answer is that capitalism was killed by its own hand… by capital! If I am right, the issue is not what AI will do to us in the future but what has already happened: Capital became so dominant that it mutated into a variant so toxic that, like a stupid virus, it killed off its host, capitalism, replacing it with something far, far worse. This new mutant capital, that killed capitalism, lives in the proverbial cloud – so, let us call it cloud capital. What is cloud capital? What makes it so different? Cloud capital, of course, does not really live up in the cloud. It lives down on Earth, comprising networked machines, server farms, cell towers, software, AI-driven algorithms – and of course it lives on our oceans’ floors where untold miles of optic fibre cables rest. Unlike traditional capital, from fishing rods to the steam-engines of the Industrial Revolution to today’s modern industrial robots that are produced means of production, cloud capital does not produce anything – it comprises machines manufactured so as to modify human behaviour. That’s what Amazon’s Alexa or Google’s Assistant or Apple’s Siri is: It is a produced means of behavioural modification. It is a machine, a piece of capital, which we train to train us to train it to determine that which we want. And, once we want it, the same networked machine sells it to us, directly, bypassing markets. As if that were not enough, the same machinery succeeds in making us sustain the enormous behavioural modification machine network to which it belongs with our free voluntary labour. We are sustaining it as we post reviews, rate products, upload videos, rants, photos - we help reproduce cloud capital without getting a penny for our labour. In essence, it has turned us into its cloud serfs! Meanwhile, in the factories and the warehouses, where waged proletarians work under increasingly precarious conditions, the same algorithms that modify our behaviour and sell products to us directly – those algorithms are deployed, usually by digital devices tied to the workers’ wrists, to make proletarians, workers in the warehouses, in the factories work faster, to direct and to monitor them in real time. I started by saying that wherever we turn, we stumble on the triumph of capital. But it is cloud capital that is the real winner. It is amazing how it performs, at once, five roles that used to be beyond capital’s capacities: Cloud capital grabs our attention. It manufactures our desires. It sells to us, directly, outside any traditional markets, that which is going to satiate the desires it made us have. It drives proletarian labour inside the workplaces. And it elicits massive free labour from us, its cloud-serfs. Is it surprising that the owners of this cloud capital – let’s call them cloudalists – have a hitherto undreamt power to extract? To extract gargantuan surplus value from proletarians; untold quantities of free labour from almost everyone; and mind-numbing cloud rents from vassal capitalists – from sellers? Is it a wonder that they are vastly more powerful than Henry Ford or Rupert Murdoch could ever be? “Hang on”, I hear you say. “Is Jeff Bezos really different to Henry Ford? Aren’t they all a species of monopoly capitalists? Monopolists?” No, is not a monopolistic capitalist enterprise. The moment you enter you have exited capitalism altogether! Sure enough, the place is teaming with buyers and sellers. So, yes, it is an enormous trading platform but, no, a market it certainly is not! One man called Jeff owns everything. But he is much, much more than a mere monopolist. Jeff doesn’t own the factories that produce the stuff sold on his platform by traditional capitalists who have to use it to ply their trade. What he does own is more important: Jeff owns the algorithm that decides which products you see and which you don’t – the very algorithm that you have trained to know you perfectly so that it matches youwith a seller, whom it also knows perfectly well, with a view to maximising the probability that every such match, transaction, will generate, for Jeff, the highest rent that Jeff can charge the seller for what you buy: up to 40% of what you pay is pocketed by Jeff, the cloudalist! The mind rebels at the enormity but also the radical novelty of this kind of exploitation: The same algorithm that we help train in real time to know us inside out - that same algorithm both modifies our preferences and administers the selection and delivery of commodities that will satisfy these preferences. If you and I were to type “electric bicycles” or “binoculars” while in you and I would get totally different recommendations. In a traditional market or shopping mall it would be as if you and I were walking next to each other, our eyes trained in the same direction, the same shop window, but we were to see different things depending on what Jeff’s algorithm wants each one of us to see. Everyone navigating around – except Jeff Bezos of course – everyone in is wandering around in algorithmically constructed isolation as if in a Panopticon where, unable to see each other, we only see Jeff’s all-seeing algorithm or, more accurately, only what his algorithm allows us to see with a view to maximising his cloud rent – which is, of course, today’s version of the ground rent that the feudal lords used to extract from their vassals and their peasants. This is not capitalism. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to technofeudalism! How did cloud capital kill capitalism? How did it rise up? Who paid for it? Capitalism, lest we forget, had two pillars: markets and profit. Of course, markets and profit remain ubiquitous. Nevertheless, cloud capital has evicted both markets and profit from the centre of our socioeconomic system, pushing them out to its margins, and replacing them: Markets, the medium of capitalism, have been replaced by cloud fiefs – digital trading platforms like or Alibaba which, as we saw, look like, but are not, markets. And Profit? The fuel of capitalism? Well, that has been replaced by its feudal predecessor: rent. But, specifically, a new form of rent, a cloud rent that must be paid for access to those cloud fiefs or digital platforms. But how did cloud capital emerge?It began life in the late 1990s when the original Internet, which was a Commons – it functioned as a capitalism-free-zone – that original Internet, Internet 1.0 if you want, was privatised by the emergent Big Tech. Who paid for the trillions it cost to manufacture and to accumulate cloud capital so quickly in the hands of so very few cloudalists? The startling answer is: The G7 countries’ central banks, mostly! How did that happen? Well, by accident, or – to be more precise – by… crisis! After the financial sector collapse of 2008, our central bankers printed up to $35 trillion to bail out the bankers at a time when the governments were subjecting our peoples to harsh austerity. Capitalists were clever enough to foresee that the many would be too impecunious to buy their stuff. So, instead of investing, they took the central bank money to the stock exchange and the bond markets, where they bought shares, bonds – along with yachts, art, bitcoin, NFTs any ‘asset’ they could lay their hands on. The only capitalists who actually invested in capital were Big Tech owners. For example, 9 out of every 10 dollars that went into creating Facebook came from these central bank monies! That’s how cloud capital was financed and how the cloudalists became our new ruling class. As a result, real power today resides not with the owners of machinery, buildings, railway and phone networks, industrial robots. These old-fashioned, terrestrial capitalists continue to extract surplus value from waged labour, but they are no longer in charge, as they used to be. They have become vassals in relation to the owners of cloud capital, of the cloudalists. As for the rest of us, we have returned to our former status as serfs, contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labour — in addition to the waged labour we perform, when we get the chance to do it. But surely, someone will say, this is still capitalism, isn’t it? So, you are still unconvinced? I know, it is hard to part with the term, with the word, capitalism. It is not just liberals who think of capitalism like fish think of the water they swim in – as natural. Socialists too need to feel that our purpose in life, the reason we landed on this Earth, is to overthrow capitalism. The news that I bring that capital beat us to it, and now we have something worse in capitalism’s place, that news is hard to accept. Indeed, it is mostly my fellow-travelling leftist friends who try to dissuade me – to convince me that, yes, cloud capital may be important but “this is still capitalism mate”. Let’s call it rentier capitalism or monopoly capitalism, they suggest. But that simply will not do! Cloud rent is not like ground rent, because it requires massive investment in new tech. And it is not monopoly rent either, because Bezos and Zuckerberg, instead of monopolising markets to sell their manufactures (like Ford and Eddison did), Bezos and Zuckerberg have replaced markets and have no interest in manufacturing anything (unlike Henry Ford and Thomas Eddison). How about surveillance capitalism? Again, no, it won’t do. Cloudalists do not simply use algorithms to brain wash us on behalf of advertisers in an otherwise capitalist setting. No, cloud capital reproduces itself through our free-labour, it directly exploits waged labour, and it squeezes cloud rents from vassal capitalists in trading platforms that are not markets. This is not capitalism folks! Any kind of capitalism. But what about the observation that technofeudalism is parasitic on the capitalist sector within it? Yes, it is true. Were the conventional capitalists to die out, cloudalists would perish, unable to skim off cloud rents from the manufacturers. So what? After capitalism overthrew feudalism, capitalists were also parasitic on landowners, in the sense that, without private land producing food, capitalism would wither. Similarly, now: While the traditional capitalist sector feeds technofeudalism, it is cloud capital and cloud rent that dominate. Does it matter whether we call it technofeudalism or some form of capitalism? At this point, it is important to recall Marx’s maxim that the point is not to interpret but to change the world. So, does it matter if this is still capitalism or whether we call it technofeudalism? I think it does. Recognising that our world has become technofeudal helps us grasp the enormity of what it will take to organise the victims of exorbitant power, the exploited who, now, include not only waged labourers but also the hordes of cloud serfs who are reproducing the very cloud capital that keeps them in a state of deepening precarity. The concept of technofeudalism drives home the point that organising auto-workers and nurses, while still essential, is insufficient. It elucidates what it will take to organise the movements against the fossil fuel cartel when our means of communication are run on cloud capital primed to poison public opinion. It explains how the shift to electric cars caused German deindustrialisation, as profits due to precision mechanical engineering are being replaced by rents extracted by owners of the cloud capital keeping tabs on the drivers’ routes and in-cabin habits. Elon Musk’s decision to buy Twitter suddenly makes a lot more sense. Twitter for Musk is an interface between his mechanical capital stock at Tesla and SpaceX and cloud capital. The New Cold War between the USA and China, especially after the war in Ukraine, is explained as the repercussion of an underlying clash between two technofeudalisms, one whose cloud rents are denominated in dollars the other in yuan. Isn’t it mindboggling? It took mind-bending scientific breakthroughs, fantastical neural networks, and imagination-defying AI programs to accomplish what? To create a world where, while privatisation and private equity asset-strip all physical wealth around us, cloud capital goes about the business of asset-stripping our brains. To own our minds individually, we must own cloud capital collectively. Once we have reclaimed our minds, we can put them collectively to work out a way to create a new cloud capital commons. It will be damned hard. But it’s the only way we can turn our cloud-based artefacts from a produced means of behaviour modification to a produced means of human collaboration and emancipation. Cloud serfs, cloud proles and cloud vassals of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our mind-cloud chains! US Edition: UK Edition: Greek Edition:
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A video-text summary of my argument that we now live in the age of TECHNOFEUDALISM (in 16', 2000 words): Wherever we turn, we witness the triumph of capital. Capital has prevailed everywhere: in warehouses, factories, offices, universities, public hospitals, the media – in space but also in the microcosm of genetic engineering. So, how do I dare claim that capitalism has been killed? By whom? The deliciously ironic answer is that capitalism was killed by its own hand… by capital! If I am right, the issue is not what AI will do to us in the future but what has already happened: Capital became so dominant that it mutated into a variant so toxic that, like a stupid virus, it killed off its host, capitalism, replacing it with something far, far worse. This new mutant capital, that killed capitalism, lives in the proverbial cloud – so, let us call it cloud capital. What is cloud capital? What makes it so different? Cloud capital, of course, does not really live up in the cloud. It lives down on Earth, comprising networked machines, server farms, cell towers, software, AI-driven algorithms – and of course it lives on our oceans’ floors where untold miles of optic fibre cables rest. Unlike traditional capital, from fishing rods to the steam-engines of the Industrial Revolution to today’s modern industrial robots that are produced means of production, cloud capital does not produce anything – it comprises machines manufactured so as to modify human behaviour. That’s what Amazon’s Alexa or Google’s Assistant or Apple’s Siri is: It is a produced means of behavioural modification. It is a machine, a piece of capital, which we train to train us to train it to determine that which we want. And, once we want it, the same networked machine sells it to us, directly, bypassing markets. As if that were not enough, the same machinery succeeds in making us sustain the enormous behavioural modification machine network to which it belongs with our free voluntary labour. We are sustaining it as we post reviews, rate products, upload videos, rants, photos - we help reproduce cloud capital without getting a penny for our labour. In essence, it has turned us into its cloud serfs! Meanwhile, in the factories and the warehouses, where waged proletarians work under increasingly precarious conditions, the same algorithms that modify our behaviour and sell products to us directly – those algorithms are deployed, usually by digital devices tied to the workers’ wrists, to make proletarians, workers in the warehouses, in the factories work faster, to direct and to monitor them in real time. I started by saying that wherever we turn, we stumble on the triumph of capital. But it is cloud capital that is the real winner. It is amazing how it performs, at once, five roles that used to be beyond capital’s capacities: Cloud capital grabs our attention. It manufactures our desires. It sells to us, directly, outside any traditional markets, that which is going to satiate the desires it made us have. It drives proletarian labour inside the workplaces. And it elicits massive free labour from us, its cloud-serfs. Is it surprising that the owners of this cloud capital – let’s call them cloudalists – have a hitherto undreamt power to extract? To extract gargantuan surplus value from proletarians; untold quantities of free labour from almost everyone; and mind-numbing cloud rents from vassal capitalists – from sellers? Is it a wonder that they are vastly more powerful than Henry Ford or Rupert Murdoch could ever be? “Hang on”, I hear you say. “Is Jeff Bezos really different to Henry Ford? Aren’t they all a species of monopoly capitalists? Monopolists?” No, is not a monopolistic capitalist enterprise. The moment you enter you have exited capitalism altogether! Sure enough, the place is teaming with buyers and sellers. So, yes, it is an enormous trading platform but, no, a market it certainly is not! One man called Jeff owns everything. But he is much, much more than a mere monopolist. Jeff doesn’t own the factories that produce the stuff sold on his platform by traditional capitalists who have to use it to ply their trade. What he does own is more important: Jeff owns the algorithm that decides which products you see and which you don’t – the very algorithm that you have trained to know you perfectly so that it matches youwith a seller, whom it also knows perfectly well, with a view to maximising the probability that every such match, transaction, will generate, for Jeff, the highest rent that Jeff can charge the seller for what you buy: up to 40% of what you pay is pocketed by Jeff, the cloudalist! The mind rebels at the enormity but also the radical novelty of this kind of exploitation: The same algorithm that we help train in real time to know us inside out - that same algorithm both modifies our preferences and administers the selection and delivery of commodities that will satisfy these preferences. If you and I were to type “electric bicycles” or “binoculars” while in you and I would get totally different recommendations. In a traditional market or shopping mall it would be as if you and I were walking next to each other, our eyes trained in the same direction, the same shop window, but we were to see different things depending on what Jeff’s algorithm wants each one of us to see. Everyone navigating around – except Jeff Bezos of course – everyone in is wandering around in algorithmically constructed isolation as if in a Panopticon where, unable to see each other, we only see Jeff’s all-seeing algorithm or, more accurately, only what his algorithm allows us to see with a view to maximising his cloud rent – which is, of course, today’s version of the ground rent that the feudal lords used to extract from their vassals and their peasants. This is not capitalism. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to technofeudalism! How did cloud capital kill capitalism? How did it rise up? Who paid for it? Capitalism, lest we forget, had two pillars: markets and profit. Of course, markets and profit remain ubiquitous. Nevertheless, cloud capital has evicted both markets and profit from the centre of our socioeconomic system, pushing them out to its margins, and replacing them: Markets, the medium of capitalism, have been replaced by cloud fiefs – digital trading platforms like or Alibaba which, as we saw, look like, but are not, markets. And Profit? The fuel of capitalism? Well, that has been replaced by its feudal predecessor: rent. But, specifically, a new form of rent, a cloud rent that must be paid for access to those cloud fiefs or digital platforms. But how did cloud capital emerge?It began life in the late 1990s when the original Internet, which was a Commons – it functioned as a capitalism-free-zone – that original Internet, Internet 1.0 if you want, was privatised by the emergent Big Tech. Who paid for the trillions it cost to manufacture and to accumulate cloud capital so quickly in the hands of so very few cloudalists? The startling answer is: The G7 countries’ central banks, mostly! How did that happen? Well, by accident, or – to be more precise – by… crisis! After the financial sector collapse of 2008, our central bankers printed up to $35 trillion to bail out the bankers at a time when the governments were subjecting our peoples to harsh austerity. Capitalists were clever enough to foresee that the many would be too impecunious to buy their stuff. So, instead of investing, they took the central bank money to the stock exchange and the bond markets, where they bought shares, bonds – along with yachts, art, bitcoin, NFTs any ‘asset’ they could lay their hands on. The only capitalists who actually invested in capital were Big Tech owners. For example, 9 out of every 10 dollars that went into creating Facebook came from these central bank monies! That’s how cloud capital was financed and how the cloudalists became our new ruling class. As a result, real power today resides not with the owners of machinery, buildings, railway and phone networks, industrial robots. These old-fashioned, terrestrial capitalists continue to extract surplus value from waged labour, but they are no longer in charge, as they used to be. They have become vassals in relation to the owners of cloud capital, of the cloudalists. As for the rest of us, we have returned to our former status as serfs, contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labour — in addition to the waged labour we perform, when we get the chance to do it. But surely, someone will say, this is still capitalism, isn’t it? So, you are still unconvinced? I know, it is hard to part with the term, with the word, capitalism. It is not just liberals who think of capitalism like fish think of the water they swim in – as natural. Socialists too need to feel that our purpose in life, the reason we landed on this Earth, is to overthrow capitalism. The news that I bring that capital beat us to it, and now we have something worse in capitalism’s place, that news is hard to accept. Indeed, it is mostly my fellow-travelling leftist friends who try to dissuade me – to convince me that, yes, cloud capital may be important but “this is still capitalism mate”. Let’s call it rentier capitalism or monopoly capitalism, they suggest. But that simply will not do! Cloud rent is not like ground rent, because it requires massive investment in new tech. And it is not monopoly rent either, because Bezos and Zuckerberg, instead of monopolising markets to sell their manufactures (like Ford and Eddison did), Bezos and Zuckerberg have replaced markets and have no interest in manufacturing anything (unlike Henry Ford and Thomas Eddison). How about surveillance capitalism? Again, no, it won’t do. Cloudalists do not simply use algorithms to brain wash us on behalf of advertisers in an otherwise capitalist setting. No, cloud capital reproduces itself through our free-labour, it directly exploits waged labour, and it squeezes cloud rents from vassal capitalists in trading platforms that are not markets. This is not capitalism folks! Any kind of capitalism. But what about the observation that technofeudalism is parasitic on the capitalist sector within it? Yes, it is true. Were the conventional capitalists to die out, cloudalists would perish, unable to skim off cloud rents from the manufacturers. So what? After capitalism overthrew feudalism, capitalists were also parasitic on landowners, in the sense that, without private land producing food, capitalism would wither. Similarly, now: While the traditional capitalist sector feeds technofeudalism, it is cloud capital and cloud rent that dominate. Does it matter whether we call it technofeudalism or some form of capitalism? At this point, it is important to recall Marx’s maxim that the point is not to interpret but to change the world. So, does it matter if this is still capitalism or whether we call it technofeudalism? I think it does. Recognising that our world has become technofeudal helps us grasp the enormity of what it will take to organise the victims of exorbitant power, the exploited who, now, include not only waged labourers but also the hordes of cloud serfs who are reproducing the very cloud capital that keeps them in a state of deepening precarity. The concept of technofeudalism drives home the point that organising auto-workers and nurses, while still essential, is insufficient. It elucidates what it will take to organise the movements against the fossil fuel cartel when our means of communication are run on cloud capital primed to poison public opinion. It explains how the shift to electric cars caused German deindustrialisation, as profits due to precision mechanical engineering are being replaced by rents extracted by owners of the cloud capital keeping tabs on the drivers’ routes and in-cabin habits. Elon Musk’s decision to buy Twitter suddenly makes a lot more sense. Twitter for Musk is an interface between his mechanical capital stock at Tesla and SpaceX and cloud capital. The New Cold War between the USA and China, especially after the war in Ukraine, is explained as the repercussion of an underlying clash between two technofeudalisms, one whose cloud rents are denominated in dollars the other in yuan. Isn’t it mindboggling? It took mind-bending scientific breakthroughs, fantastical neural networks, and imagination-defying AI programs to accomplish what? To create a world where, while privatisation and private equity asset-strip all physical wealth around us, cloud capital goes about the business of asset-stripping our brains. To own our minds individually, we must own cloud capital collectively. Once we have reclaimed our minds, we can put them collectively to work out a way to create a new cloud capital commons. It will be damned hard. But it’s the only way we can turn our cloud-based artefacts from a produced means of behaviour modification to a produced means of human collaboration and emancipation. Cloud serfs, cloud proles and cloud vassals of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our mind-cloud chains! US Edition: UK Edition: Greek Edition:

Yanis Varoufakis

1,816,715 次观看 • 2 年前

Everytime you see the "Where is Kate Middleton?" and the conspiracies, smile my dears, because there is a greater implication here. After 5 months of public Bullying, Press pressures, Public Pressures and Palace pressures, NO ONE can tell you anything tangible about the princess; not the press, not the courtiers, no one. Prince William has indeed remained Catherine's Relentless protector and defender🔥 He has kept his promise to Catherine that •she would have surgery in complete privacy; •be in and out of the hospital in complete privacy; • Be back home to recover in complete privacy; • That he would take care of their children and handle everything while she focus on her recovery on complete privacy🤩 We are 5 months into 2024, and Catherine, as the Most High Profile future Queen in the World, has enjoyed a privacy that was not given to any other royal women or wife of an Heir apparent EVER in History. This is not thanks to the press; this is not even thanks to the Palace. It is because her Husband has refused to serve her on a platter and has not let himself be cowered by outside nor inside pressures on him to relent. As his mentor and Frmr Private secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton already said of Him: "William was always someone of deeply impressive maturity[...] There are many examples of when I worked for William where it would have been very easy to take one route, but it wouldn’t have been the honorable or the right thing to do; so he took the more difficult route."❤️ Prince William proved his private secretary right indeed. He chose the most difficult path when it came to protecting Catherine because it was the right thing to do. The Easiest path would have been to give the press what they want: access to Catherine to take her pictures so they can make money of her and dissect her ad nauseam while she recovers. Instead, he chose to do the one thing that would anger them and bring their wrath on him: He gave them No access and No explanations🔥 William EVEN dared to take a mother's day picture of his OWN wife and children HIMSELF; How dare he..😏🤡 The Fact is, Catherine has Privacy ONLY because Prince William held strong for his family to remain at peace during this time of turmoil. In 2012 during their Pacific Royal tour, Catherine was once again victim of the Press attacks and violation of her privacy when the french magazine, The Closer, published topless pictures of her while on vacation with William. The DM editor, Rebecca English, quizzed him about the situation and it was then that Prince William revealed that Prior to marrying her, he had given his word to her parents that he would protect her at all costs and take care of her; a promise he continues to stand by❤️ Just this month, a friend of the RF revealed pretty much nothing to People Mag when he said that "Prince William is keeping his inner circle tight during a challenging chapter." The Source added: "He is not leaning on too many others"😏 Another source closer to the Wales said: "The Prince of Wales is relying heavily on the "nuclear family unit" of his immediate family of five and Kate’s supportive family: her parents Carole and Michael Middleton and her siblings Pippa and James"🔥 Who could blame him? He has to keep quiet since he knows everyone wants to know what he knows. So he is right to rely on the people who will never betray him nor Catherine: The Middletons. A daft post was asking "why are the Middletons not asking where their daughter is?" Why would they, Dimmy?🤡 They know exactly where she is and probably what she ate today. The Middletons have do not talk because they KNOW what is going on and are protecting their OWN Daughter, alongside William😏 So when you see people asking where she is, remember that the Future King kept his promise to his Wife; and a Man who will keep his promises to his wife and children, will keep his promises to his country and to the Monarchy☕️ 📹Tokkianami
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Everytime you see the "Where is Kate Middleton?" and the conspiracies, smile my dears, because there is a greater implication here. After 5 months of public Bullying, Press pressures, Public Pressures and Palace pressures, NO ONE can tell you anything tangible about the princess; not the press, not the courtiers, no one. Prince William has indeed remained Catherine's Relentless protector and defender🔥 He has kept his promise to Catherine that •she would have surgery in complete privacy; •be in and out of the hospital in complete privacy; • Be back home to recover in complete privacy; • That he would take care of their children and handle everything while she focus on her recovery on complete privacy🤩 We are 5 months into 2024, and Catherine, as the Most High Profile future Queen in the World, has enjoyed a privacy that was not given to any other royal women or wife of an Heir apparent EVER in History. This is not thanks to the press; this is not even thanks to the Palace. It is because her Husband has refused to serve her on a platter and has not let himself be cowered by outside nor inside pressures on him to relent. As his mentor and Frmr Private secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton already said of Him: "William was always someone of deeply impressive maturity[...] There are many examples of when I worked for William where it would have been very easy to take one route, but it wouldn’t have been the honorable or the right thing to do; so he took the more difficult route."❤️ Prince William proved his private secretary right indeed. He chose the most difficult path when it came to protecting Catherine because it was the right thing to do. The Easiest path would have been to give the press what they want: access to Catherine to take her pictures so they can make money of her and dissect her ad nauseam while she recovers. Instead, he chose to do the one thing that would anger them and bring their wrath on him: He gave them No access and No explanations🔥 William EVEN dared to take a mother's day picture of his OWN wife and children HIMSELF; How dare he..😏🤡 The Fact is, Catherine has Privacy ONLY because Prince William held strong for his family to remain at peace during this time of turmoil. In 2012 during their Pacific Royal tour, Catherine was once again victim of the Press attacks and violation of her privacy when the french magazine, The Closer, published topless pictures of her while on vacation with William. The DM editor, Rebecca English, quizzed him about the situation and it was then that Prince William revealed that Prior to marrying her, he had given his word to her parents that he would protect her at all costs and take care of her; a promise he continues to stand by❤️ Just this month, a friend of the RF revealed pretty much nothing to People Mag when he said that "Prince William is keeping his inner circle tight during a challenging chapter." The Source added: "He is not leaning on too many others"😏 Another source closer to the Wales said: "The Prince of Wales is relying heavily on the "nuclear family unit" of his immediate family of five and Kate’s supportive family: her parents Carole and Michael Middleton and her siblings Pippa and James"🔥 Who could blame him? He has to keep quiet since he knows everyone wants to know what he knows. So he is right to rely on the people who will never betray him nor Catherine: The Middletons. A daft post was asking "why are the Middletons not asking where their daughter is?" Why would they, Dimmy?🤡 They know exactly where she is and probably what she ate today. The Middletons have do not talk because they KNOW what is going on and are protecting their OWN Daughter, alongside William😏 So when you see people asking where she is, remember that the Future King kept his promise to his Wife; and a Man who will keep his promises to his wife and children, will keep his promises to his country and to the Monarchy☕️ 📹Tokkianami

Canellecitadelle

371,653 次观看 • 2 年前

I find the theory that we are in Satan's Little Season found in Revelation 20 extremely interesting. This would put us after the Millenial reign where Satan is loosed one last time to deceive the nations. This is long after the antichrist arrives and the rapture found in Matthew 24 and Revelation 6 and 7 right after the 6 seals are opened. This would also put us after God pours out his wrath on the Earth during the 7 trumpets and 7 vials. Here is the kicker. Revelation 12 talks about another future flood. But, we know God promised not to flood with water hence the symbol of the rainbow.... What about mud.... Revelation 12:15 “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.” Hear me out. What if all the old world buildings that have been hidden by the powers that be, are actually remnants of the Millenial reign of Christ. There is no doubt when Satan is loosed after the thousand years he goes forth to decieve once more. The only way he would be able to achieve deception is clearly he would HAVE TO HIDE THE MILLENIAL REIGN OF CHRIST. As for this movie clip. You all know as well as I do....They have to tell us. What is our true timeline? How much has been hidden from us? Revelation 20:3 “And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”
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I find the theory that we are in Satan's Little Season found in Revelation 20 extremely interesting. This would put us after the Millenial reign where Satan is loosed one last time to deceive the nations. This is long after the antichrist arrives and the rapture found in Matthew 24 and Revelation 6 and 7 right after the 6 seals are opened. This would also put us after God pours out his wrath on the Earth during the 7 trumpets and 7 vials. Here is the kicker. Revelation 12 talks about another future flood. But, we know God promised not to flood with water hence the symbol of the rainbow.... What about mud.... Revelation 12:15 “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.” Hear me out. What if all the old world buildings that have been hidden by the powers that be, are actually remnants of the Millenial reign of Christ. There is no doubt when Satan is loosed after the thousand years he goes forth to decieve once more. The only way he would be able to achieve deception is clearly he would HAVE TO HIDE THE MILLENIAL REIGN OF CHRIST. As for this movie clip. You all know as well as I do....They have to tell us. What is our true timeline? How much has been hidden from us? Revelation 20:3 “And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”

Redpill Drifter

81,456 次观看 • 9 个月前

The way we all kept asking for flashbacks to understand Cihan and Alya better, yet no one is talking about these beauties. Both Alya and Cihan think back to their favorite moments, and that helps highlight what their current strife is. For instance, Alya thinks about Cihan's confession, his 'I love you' moment. But before that, she thinks about how he tells her to never let go of his hand. And you can almost hear Alya thinking, 'Does he still want to hold on to my hand? Does he still want me to hold his?' And that's precisely why she pulls her hand back in the scene right before this, because while he tells her he loves her in ep32, he also says he can't ignore his brother. Which is neither here nor there. And she wants clarity. She wants him to say I choose you l, like she chose him. Meanwhile, Cihan thinks about Alya's confession and her 'seni seviyorum.' And his next flashback features Alya telling him 'Hurry back, I'll be waiting for you.' And in that moment, it's as if Cihan is asking himself, 'Is she still waiting for me? Does she even want me anymore?' In the last episode, seeing Alya crash out and say, 'What didn't I go through in the past year?' seems to him as if she's lumping their time together in that sentence, too. She isn't, of course, but Ciho doesn't know that. So, essentially, their talk later on clears out the air for Cihan. Because Alya is super clear about what she wants. But, when she throws down the gauntlet and says, 'If you don't have the courage to stand by me, I'll take me son and leave' Cihan never gets the chance to clarify himself as they're interrupted by Deniz. Thankfully, not all is lost. Alya is still pissed at Ciho when they return, but when Cihan tells her not to return to the koltuk because neither of them have the strength to return to the past, it gives Alya hope. It's Cihan's way of saying don't try and go back to the way things were because I can't/won't do that anymore. No doubt Cihan bey will make matters even clearer to his wife soon, but for now, this was a beautifully written sequence. These two lovable idiots may take some time before they're sure of themselves, but once they commit, they don't give up ❤️✨️ #CihAl #UzakŞehir
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The way we all kept asking for flashbacks to understand Cihan and Alya better, yet no one is talking about these beauties. Both Alya and Cihan think back to their favorite moments, and that helps highlight what their current strife is. For instance, Alya thinks about Cihan's confession, his 'I love you' moment. But before that, she thinks about how he tells her to never let go of his hand. And you can almost hear Alya thinking, 'Does he still want to hold on to my hand? Does he still want me to hold his?' And that's precisely why she pulls her hand back in the scene right before this, because while he tells her he loves her in ep32, he also says he can't ignore his brother. Which is neither here nor there. And she wants clarity. She wants him to say I choose you l, like she chose him. Meanwhile, Cihan thinks about Alya's confession and her 'seni seviyorum.' And his next flashback features Alya telling him 'Hurry back, I'll be waiting for you.' And in that moment, it's as if Cihan is asking himself, 'Is she still waiting for me? Does she even want me anymore?' In the last episode, seeing Alya crash out and say, 'What didn't I go through in the past year?' seems to him as if she's lumping their time together in that sentence, too. She isn't, of course, but Ciho doesn't know that. So, essentially, their talk later on clears out the air for Cihan. Because Alya is super clear about what she wants. But, when she throws down the gauntlet and says, 'If you don't have the courage to stand by me, I'll take me son and leave' Cihan never gets the chance to clarify himself as they're interrupted by Deniz. Thankfully, not all is lost. Alya is still pissed at Ciho when they return, but when Cihan tells her not to return to the koltuk because neither of them have the strength to return to the past, it gives Alya hope. It's Cihan's way of saying don't try and go back to the way things were because I can't/won't do that anymore. No doubt Cihan bey will make matters even clearer to his wife soon, but for now, this was a beautifully written sequence. These two lovable idiots may take some time before they're sure of themselves, but once they commit, they don't give up ❤️✨️ #CihAl #UzakŞehir

CocoLoco

17,771 次观看 • 10 个月前

King David: A Man After Gods Own Heart Davids own words in Psalm 139 beautifully capture the heart of his relationship with God: “You have searched me Lord and you know me. Where can I go from your Spirit? You know when I sit and when I rise…search me O God and know my heart….see if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the everlasting way.” This entire Psalm paints a vivid picture of a man who lived in complete openness before God. David believed in the Lord w all his heart. He trusted that God knew him intimately….his thoughts, his ways, his every step and that nothing could separate him from the Fathers presence. This unshakeable faith carried him thru battles….against giants, years on the run and the weight of leading a nation. Scripture doesnt sugarcoat his life as he was far from perfect. There was blood on his hands and scandals he tried to cover up…..heartbreaking moral failures. But here is what makes Davids story so powerful and deeply relatable…in every moment of faith and failure he always returned to the Lord. He repented. He worshipped. He poured out his heart in raw honesty thru the Psalms. That is why Scripture calls him “a man after Gods own heart” (1 Sam 13:14). Not because he was flawless but because his heart was fully surrendered to God. This is what makes us feel so connected to David….not as a distant biblical hero but as a real person whose story mirrors our own. Like him we all have highs and lows, victories and stumbles. Yet David shows us that what matters most is a heart that keeps turning back to God in faith, humility and love. Davids life stirs us to always return to the Lord no matter what and to trust Him with all our heart, mind and soul. God longs for the same kind of intimate relationship that made David a man after Gods own heart….one of worship that flows from a fully surrendered heart. As Jesus said to the woman at the well “the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him” (John 4:23). David lived this reality centuries earlier. His raw, honest Psalms were worship in spirit and truth….nothing hidden, everything offered. The Father is still seeking worshipers just like him today.
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King David: A Man After Gods Own Heart Davids own words in Psalm 139 beautifully capture the heart of his relationship with God: “You have searched me Lord and you know me. Where can I go from your Spirit? You know when I sit and when I rise…search me O God and know my heart….see if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the everlasting way.” This entire Psalm paints a vivid picture of a man who lived in complete openness before God. David believed in the Lord w all his heart. He trusted that God knew him intimately….his thoughts, his ways, his every step and that nothing could separate him from the Fathers presence. This unshakeable faith carried him thru battles….against giants, years on the run and the weight of leading a nation. Scripture doesnt sugarcoat his life as he was far from perfect. There was blood on his hands and scandals he tried to cover up…..heartbreaking moral failures. But here is what makes Davids story so powerful and deeply relatable…in every moment of faith and failure he always returned to the Lord. He repented. He worshipped. He poured out his heart in raw honesty thru the Psalms. That is why Scripture calls him “a man after Gods own heart” (1 Sam 13:14). Not because he was flawless but because his heart was fully surrendered to God. This is what makes us feel so connected to David….not as a distant biblical hero but as a real person whose story mirrors our own. Like him we all have highs and lows, victories and stumbles. Yet David shows us that what matters most is a heart that keeps turning back to God in faith, humility and love. Davids life stirs us to always return to the Lord no matter what and to trust Him with all our heart, mind and soul. God longs for the same kind of intimate relationship that made David a man after Gods own heart….one of worship that flows from a fully surrendered heart. As Jesus said to the woman at the well “the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him” (John 4:23). David lived this reality centuries earlier. His raw, honest Psalms were worship in spirit and truth….nothing hidden, everything offered. The Father is still seeking worshipers just like him today.

Lion of Judah

11,568 次观看 • 2 个月前

SL BYRAPPA: The Man Who Chose Me After the release of The Kashmir Files, I received a call that humbled me for life. At ninety-two, S. L. Bhyrappa had gone to a theatre to watch the film. His voice carried the weight of time, and yet the innocence of a seeker. He told me that many directors had sought to adapt his most profound work, Parva, but he had waited for someone committed to Dharma, someone who would present it as history, not mythology. And in his quiet authority he said, “I have chosen you as the right uttaradhikari.” I travelled to Mysore with his son Uday and my friend Prakash Belawadi. I expected frailty; instead, I found him driving himself, living with his wife in quiet dignity, brimming with stories of Bharat and its people. He spoke of how he had researched for seventeen years before writing Parva, so that Mahabharata could be seen not as a legend of miracles but as the civilizational memory of a nation. He had only one condition, “make it as Mahabharata without miracles, for Mahabharata itself is the once-in-a-Brahman miracle.” I acquired the rights, and since then we have been working, searching for the right form. Prakash Belawadi later wrote it in English and staged a nine-hour play in Bangalore. I can never forget that day. A hall built for eleven hundred overflowed with thirteen hundred souls. Within twenty minutes of the play, I heard people sobbing. Not one person left for nine hours. By the end, swollen eyes testified to an experience beyond theatre. It was not entertainment; it was revelation. The turmoils, reflections, and countless mirrors of Dharma transformed each spectator. Whoever entered that hall in the morning walked out as someone else. I have not seen any creative work touch me so profoundly. Bhyrappa ji too was present. As he left, he said words I can never erase: “I haven’t chosen you. Mahabharata has chosen you. Make it fearlessly. It will lead you to truth.” I promised him that no matter how long it takes, I will tell this history of Bharat. Today, as I write this farewell, I know this is my last work as a filmmaker, for what else can be said after Parva? Storytellers like S. L. Bhyrappa never die. They dissolve into their stories, becoming eternal witnesses of Dharma. Om Shanti!
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SL BYRAPPA: The Man Who Chose Me After the release of The Kashmir Files, I received a call that humbled me for life. At ninety-two, S. L. Bhyrappa had gone to a theatre to watch the film. His voice carried the weight of time, and yet the innocence of a seeker. He told me that many directors had sought to adapt his most profound work, Parva, but he had waited for someone committed to Dharma, someone who would present it as history, not mythology. And in his quiet authority he said, “I have chosen you as the right uttaradhikari.” I travelled to Mysore with his son Uday and my friend Prakash Belawadi. I expected frailty; instead, I found him driving himself, living with his wife in quiet dignity, brimming with stories of Bharat and its people. He spoke of how he had researched for seventeen years before writing Parva, so that Mahabharata could be seen not as a legend of miracles but as the civilizational memory of a nation. He had only one condition, “make it as Mahabharata without miracles, for Mahabharata itself is the once-in-a-Brahman miracle.” I acquired the rights, and since then we have been working, searching for the right form. Prakash Belawadi later wrote it in English and staged a nine-hour play in Bangalore. I can never forget that day. A hall built for eleven hundred overflowed with thirteen hundred souls. Within twenty minutes of the play, I heard people sobbing. Not one person left for nine hours. By the end, swollen eyes testified to an experience beyond theatre. It was not entertainment; it was revelation. The turmoils, reflections, and countless mirrors of Dharma transformed each spectator. Whoever entered that hall in the morning walked out as someone else. I have not seen any creative work touch me so profoundly. Bhyrappa ji too was present. As he left, he said words I can never erase: “I haven’t chosen you. Mahabharata has chosen you. Make it fearlessly. It will lead you to truth.” I promised him that no matter how long it takes, I will tell this history of Bharat. Today, as I write this farewell, I know this is my last work as a filmmaker, for what else can be said after Parva? Storytellers like S. L. Bhyrappa never die. They dissolve into their stories, becoming eternal witnesses of Dharma. Om Shanti!

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri

20,976 次观看 • 10 个月前

Dumbing Down II "By Faith, this is the last rent I am paying as a single lady. If you support me to pay this rent, by the grace of God, this time next year, I will be in my husband's house." is back begging for support to pay another rent. Not because God didn't bring eligible suitors her way, but because her PASTOR has replaced the Holy Spirit in her life. Pastors ruin a lot of destinies when they insist on playing God instead of their primary role as destiny guides. Many members have submitted their free will to their pastors, giving their pastors the power that God himself didn't take from us from the dawn of creation. When you take the ability of the individual to act as a free agent in the name of religion, you reduce him or her to a puppet and yourself to a puppeteer. You want to pull the strings of the lives of thousands of born-again Christians at the same time while rendering them useless to follow their paths in Christ and grow into mature sons. I was at a Church in Anthony village about three years ago to minister, and I met this young man who was schooled at a very prestigious university in the USA. He was the in-house IT consultant of the church, and the pastor placed him on a monthly stipend while he was working for God. It was the Pastor who introduced the young man to me while boasting that God had given him the most capable hands to help him in ministry. I asked him if he had any Python, Java, cloud engineering, data management, digital marketing, coding, or similar tasks available for the young man in the church. He said no. I said, "You are giving this young man the job that any young school leaver who is proficient in computer appreciation can do, and you don't see it as limiting his capabilities and rendering his skills obsolete?" You would rather boast that you are ruining a destiny to build up your own profile rather than set this young man on the path of excellence? Did God call him into ministry as a preacher? Is he understudying you in preparation for his own ministry? The pastor said, "No, I plan that as the church expands, he will head our digital infrastructure and position us for the future." I said, "He can do that as a consultant or even as a member, he shouldn't be doing that while you are paying him 100,000 Naira a month. He should be out there, flying with his peers and earning in dollars! The only exception is if the Lord has called him to be a preacher and he is understudying you as your personal assistant, as led by the Lord as part of his season of preparation. Anything other than that is injurious to his destiny!" The pastor had never seen it that way When I was done ministering in the church, the young man hugged me and thanked me profusely. He said his mother sent him to the pastor when he returned from the USA and the pastor immediately told him that God had need of him in the ministry or he would die without fulfilling his purpose. Why do pastors do this? I have another case from the Northern part of Nigeria. A young lady reached out to me seeking clarity regarding her future She said her Apostle told her she has been raised by God to sing in his church choir, but she is a medical doctor by training and desires to further her studies abroad Every time she raised the issue with the Apostle, he shut her down and told her she was struggling with the will of God "Why can't you just submit to God and serve in the choir and watch as God will take your voice all over the world as this ministry grows?" The young lady said she knows she has a good voice and sings very well as one who is full of the Holy Spirit, but she does not want to be "Sinach", she wants to fulfil her dream of practising as a Pediatrician. She was wary of incurring the wrath and curse of the Apostle, however, and did not know how to extricate herself from the situation. The apostle did not see anything wrong with his actions because he was a user of people who believed that in order to fulfill his own desire to become a big ministry, others could not thrive and grow in their visions and ministries as ordained by God. This is witchcraft. It is not of God. Jesus didn't lead his disciples this way. Insecurity is the undoing of many African so-called Pastors and Spiritual leaders, and they hide behind the illusion of divinity to put others in bondage. I experienced this firsthand as a young graduate, so I understand how a pastor trying to build his ministry could see the potential in a young man or woman and try very hard to turn such a person into servants and house helps in the name of discipling them or training them for kingdom relevance You graduate from the University and join the labour force, you apply for many jobs, and at a point, you tell yourself it is important to seek supernatural guidance in your quest to fulfil destiny Somebody somewhere tells you about a church or a ministry, you join, and you are convinced the church is good. You also tell your friends, and they join. But you are all fresh graduates who are heading into the future one way or the other, but this pastor wants you to be his flock. To him, his church of ten members had suddenly become a church of 30 members because of you guys, and he wants to keep the numbers growing, so he begins to give you prophesies that were not of God but with the aim of keeping you in the fold for as long as possible. He told young graduates who ought to go for NYSC that God is telling him they should give it up for service to God in the vineyard. The mother of two of the ladies in the fellowship, whose daughters told that the pastor told them not to go for NYSC, quickly removed them from the fellowship before the seed of corruption being planted by this pastor would bear fruit The others also left as soon as they could gather their wit People who you ought to guide on their path in sincerity ran as far as they could from you based on how you chose to manipulate rather than nurture them. A married woman whose husband worked abroad was a trained secretary, and while her husband was abroad, catering to the needs of the family, he begged her to stop working so that she could focus on raising the children. She was raising five children all by herself, and combining this with a job seemed a bit too much at the time. One of the vital institutions for raising godly children was the church This woman attended church regularly with her children and even volunteered to spend any free time she had typing the pastor's sermons, Sunday School pamphlets, handouts, books, journals, and other church reports and documents She was not officially employed to do the work; she just saw that she could take some of the secretarial duties on during her downtime, and she did so with all sincerity. The church enjoyed her free services for five years until the pastor forgot completely that she was doing the church a favour One day, the woman came to church to tell the pastor that her husband would be returning home to visit the family, and she would not be available for a few days because she had to pick her husband up from the airport and ensure that he settled in properly. Unfortunately, that weekend was the weekend of the church's anniversary, and the pastor had a lot of secretarial work to do. He told the woman God said she should pick one. Heaven or marriage. He said if she goes to pick her husband from the airport, she has chosen the world and forsaken the Lord. The woman wept all the way home, It was not the thank you, thou faithful servant report she had worked day and night for many years to get that she received. She went to pick her husband from the airport and distanced herself from any church founded by any individual after that experience. She said the ambition of church founders requires that they use people to build, even though they lacked the resources to pay or compensate such people, so they resort to blackmail, coercion, lies, fake prophesies, promises, and manipulations to get things done while keeping their followers on a leash. Followers are also enablers as they refuse to read the Bible for themselves and walk in the light of the word of God. No one should be able to take you captive in the name of God, Jesus, all the angels, or any form of miracle if you know the word of God. The word of God is profitable to make one wise, and therefore, anyone who knows the word of God cannot fall victim to any false doctrine, teaching, spiritual manipulations, or lies. All the false teachings of someone being a covering for someone else came from these manipulative narratives, and believers should be wise to them. I have seen a pastor declare that his church is the only church in Africa that is licensed by God to take people to heaven, and some members believed him. The day he said that, all his members ought to laugh, pick up their Bibles, and leave without looking back. Self-aggrandisement has become the order of the day in some churches, the pastor sells himself as the be-all and end-all of the member's spiritual enlightenment, and the members sheepishly surrender their eyes of their understanding to him or her. He or she must determine where they work, whom they marry, who they associate with, whose music they must listen to, and whose sermons they must hear. If they want to travel, he must see if the road is clear on their behalf, if they want to build a house, he must approve, if he does not dedicate their baby, the baby is illegitimate. This is not the faith Christ or the Apostles died for. Jesus died that you might be free of religion. Christianity is not a religion, it is the opposite. It is individualistic and determined by the faith and belief system of the one rather than the many. Salvation, therefore, is a personal affair, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit is also a personal affair Religion is the opium of the masses, and Christianity is the salvation of the individual and his or her walk with God. When we fellowship together, we do so not so we can get brainwashed by one "super Christian" but so that we can minister to the Lord and minister to one another in the presence of God. Every believer must hold this truth to be self-evident. PS: Someone sent me the video of a pastor condemning a song recently released by a fellow believer, which is making a global impact The Pastor represents an old school of Christians who are unfit to be custodians of the gospel due to their rigidity and limited understanding of the finished work of Christ. Disciples of the gospel of Works and Performance lack creativity and discernment but are good stewards of rigidity and religious doctrines. In other words, a Pharisee must act like one, and Jesus must act like Jesus. We are all just being true to our nature. "I can never go back o No...No It's already too late o No...No Where Am I going to... No...No" If you read to this point, when I was in Spain, I asked a very important question about a meal. If you know the answer, I'm inside the comment section. -GSW-
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Dumbing Down II "By Faith, this is the last rent I am paying as a single lady. If you support me to pay this rent, by the grace of God, this time next year, I will be in my husband's house." is back begging for support to pay another rent. Not because God didn't bring eligible suitors her way, but because her PASTOR has replaced the Holy Spirit in her life. Pastors ruin a lot of destinies when they insist on playing God instead of their primary role as destiny guides. Many members have submitted their free will to their pastors, giving their pastors the power that God himself didn't take from us from the dawn of creation. When you take the ability of the individual to act as a free agent in the name of religion, you reduce him or her to a puppet and yourself to a puppeteer. You want to pull the strings of the lives of thousands of born-again Christians at the same time while rendering them useless to follow their paths in Christ and grow into mature sons. I was at a Church in Anthony village about three years ago to minister, and I met this young man who was schooled at a very prestigious university in the USA. He was the in-house IT consultant of the church, and the pastor placed him on a monthly stipend while he was working for God. It was the Pastor who introduced the young man to me while boasting that God had given him the most capable hands to help him in ministry. I asked him if he had any Python, Java, cloud engineering, data management, digital marketing, coding, or similar tasks available for the young man in the church. He said no. I said, "You are giving this young man the job that any young school leaver who is proficient in computer appreciation can do, and you don't see it as limiting his capabilities and rendering his skills obsolete?" You would rather boast that you are ruining a destiny to build up your own profile rather than set this young man on the path of excellence? Did God call him into ministry as a preacher? Is he understudying you in preparation for his own ministry? The pastor said, "No, I plan that as the church expands, he will head our digital infrastructure and position us for the future." I said, "He can do that as a consultant or even as a member, he shouldn't be doing that while you are paying him 100,000 Naira a month. He should be out there, flying with his peers and earning in dollars! The only exception is if the Lord has called him to be a preacher and he is understudying you as your personal assistant, as led by the Lord as part of his season of preparation. Anything other than that is injurious to his destiny!" The pastor had never seen it that way When I was done ministering in the church, the young man hugged me and thanked me profusely. He said his mother sent him to the pastor when he returned from the USA and the pastor immediately told him that God had need of him in the ministry or he would die without fulfilling his purpose. Why do pastors do this? I have another case from the Northern part of Nigeria. A young lady reached out to me seeking clarity regarding her future She said her Apostle told her she has been raised by God to sing in his church choir, but she is a medical doctor by training and desires to further her studies abroad Every time she raised the issue with the Apostle, he shut her down and told her she was struggling with the will of God "Why can't you just submit to God and serve in the choir and watch as God will take your voice all over the world as this ministry grows?" The young lady said she knows she has a good voice and sings very well as one who is full of the Holy Spirit, but she does not want to be "Sinach", she wants to fulfil her dream of practising as a Pediatrician. She was wary of incurring the wrath and curse of the Apostle, however, and did not know how to extricate herself from the situation. The apostle did not see anything wrong with his actions because he was a user of people who believed that in order to fulfill his own desire to become a big ministry, others could not thrive and grow in their visions and ministries as ordained by God. This is witchcraft. It is not of God. Jesus didn't lead his disciples this way. Insecurity is the undoing of many African so-called Pastors and Spiritual leaders, and they hide behind the illusion of divinity to put others in bondage. I experienced this firsthand as a young graduate, so I understand how a pastor trying to build his ministry could see the potential in a young man or woman and try very hard to turn such a person into servants and house helps in the name of discipling them or training them for kingdom relevance You graduate from the University and join the labour force, you apply for many jobs, and at a point, you tell yourself it is important to seek supernatural guidance in your quest to fulfil destiny Somebody somewhere tells you about a church or a ministry, you join, and you are convinced the church is good. You also tell your friends, and they join. But you are all fresh graduates who are heading into the future one way or the other, but this pastor wants you to be his flock. To him, his church of ten members had suddenly become a church of 30 members because of you guys, and he wants to keep the numbers growing, so he begins to give you prophesies that were not of God but with the aim of keeping you in the fold for as long as possible. He told young graduates who ought to go for NYSC that God is telling him they should give it up for service to God in the vineyard. The mother of two of the ladies in the fellowship, whose daughters told that the pastor told them not to go for NYSC, quickly removed them from the fellowship before the seed of corruption being planted by this pastor would bear fruit The others also left as soon as they could gather their wit People who you ought to guide on their path in sincerity ran as far as they could from you based on how you chose to manipulate rather than nurture them. A married woman whose husband worked abroad was a trained secretary, and while her husband was abroad, catering to the needs of the family, he begged her to stop working so that she could focus on raising the children. She was raising five children all by herself, and combining this with a job seemed a bit too much at the time. One of the vital institutions for raising godly children was the church This woman attended church regularly with her children and even volunteered to spend any free time she had typing the pastor's sermons, Sunday School pamphlets, handouts, books, journals, and other church reports and documents She was not officially employed to do the work; she just saw that she could take some of the secretarial duties on during her downtime, and she did so with all sincerity. The church enjoyed her free services for five years until the pastor forgot completely that she was doing the church a favour One day, the woman came to church to tell the pastor that her husband would be returning home to visit the family, and she would not be available for a few days because she had to pick her husband up from the airport and ensure that he settled in properly. Unfortunately, that weekend was the weekend of the church's anniversary, and the pastor had a lot of secretarial work to do. He told the woman God said she should pick one. Heaven or marriage. He said if she goes to pick her husband from the airport, she has chosen the world and forsaken the Lord. The woman wept all the way home, It was not the thank you, thou faithful servant report she had worked day and night for many years to get that she received. She went to pick her husband from the airport and distanced herself from any church founded by any individual after that experience. She said the ambition of church founders requires that they use people to build, even though they lacked the resources to pay or compensate such people, so they resort to blackmail, coercion, lies, fake prophesies, promises, and manipulations to get things done while keeping their followers on a leash. Followers are also enablers as they refuse to read the Bible for themselves and walk in the light of the word of God. No one should be able to take you captive in the name of God, Jesus, all the angels, or any form of miracle if you know the word of God. The word of God is profitable to make one wise, and therefore, anyone who knows the word of God cannot fall victim to any false doctrine, teaching, spiritual manipulations, or lies. All the false teachings of someone being a covering for someone else came from these manipulative narratives, and believers should be wise to them. I have seen a pastor declare that his church is the only church in Africa that is licensed by God to take people to heaven, and some members believed him. The day he said that, all his members ought to laugh, pick up their Bibles, and leave without looking back. Self-aggrandisement has become the order of the day in some churches, the pastor sells himself as the be-all and end-all of the member's spiritual enlightenment, and the members sheepishly surrender their eyes of their understanding to him or her. He or she must determine where they work, whom they marry, who they associate with, whose music they must listen to, and whose sermons they must hear. If they want to travel, he must see if the road is clear on their behalf, if they want to build a house, he must approve, if he does not dedicate their baby, the baby is illegitimate. This is not the faith Christ or the Apostles died for. Jesus died that you might be free of religion. Christianity is not a religion, it is the opposite. It is individualistic and determined by the faith and belief system of the one rather than the many. Salvation, therefore, is a personal affair, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit is also a personal affair Religion is the opium of the masses, and Christianity is the salvation of the individual and his or her walk with God. When we fellowship together, we do so not so we can get brainwashed by one "super Christian" but so that we can minister to the Lord and minister to one another in the presence of God. Every believer must hold this truth to be self-evident. PS: Someone sent me the video of a pastor condemning a song recently released by a fellow believer, which is making a global impact The Pastor represents an old school of Christians who are unfit to be custodians of the gospel due to their rigidity and limited understanding of the finished work of Christ. Disciples of the gospel of Works and Performance lack creativity and discernment but are good stewards of rigidity and religious doctrines. In other words, a Pharisee must act like one, and Jesus must act like Jesus. We are all just being true to our nature. "I can never go back o No...No It's already too late o No...No Where Am I going to... No...No" If you read to this point, when I was in Spain, I asked a very important question about a meal. If you know the answer, I'm inside the comment section. -GSW-

Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo

28,623 次观看 • 1 年前

"The Apprentice" nominated for 2 Oscars: Best Actor & Supporting Actor. Trump sued to stop movie's release because of this scene. His lawyer said: "You cannot rape your spouse." Here is Ivana Trump's story taken word for word from divorce court documents.👇 "Your doctor has ruined me!" he screams at Ivana. Donald flings her down onto the bed, then pins back her arms and grabs her by the hair. The part of her head he is grabbing corresponds to the spot on his head where a scalp reduction operation has been done. Donald starts ripping out Ivana's hair by the handful as if he's trying to make her feel the same kind of pain that he is feeling. Ivana starts crying and screaming. The entire bed is covered with strands of her golden locks. But Donald is not finished. He rips her clothes and unzips his pants. Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified. This is not lovemaking. This is not romantic sex. It is a violent assault. She later describes what Donald is doing to her in no uncertain terms. According to the version she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, "He raped me." When Donald finally pulls out, Ivana jumps up from the bed. Then she runs upstairs to her mother's room. She locks the door and stays there crying for the rest of the night. The next morning Ivana musters up the courage to return to the master bedroom. Donald is there waiting for her. He leaves no doubt that he knows exactly what he did to her the night before. As she looks at him in horror at her ripped-out hair scattered all over the bed, he glares at her and asks with a menacing casualness, "Does it hurt?" This happened. Just because Trump got re-elected doesn't mean we should forget and move on. #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited #ProudBlue
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"The Apprentice" nominated for 2 Oscars: Best Actor & Supporting Actor. Trump sued to stop movie's release because of this scene. His lawyer said: "You cannot rape your spouse." Here is Ivana Trump's story taken word for word from divorce court documents.👇 "Your doctor has ruined me!" he screams at Ivana. Donald flings her down onto the bed, then pins back her arms and grabs her by the hair. The part of her head he is grabbing corresponds to the spot on his head where a scalp reduction operation has been done. Donald starts ripping out Ivana's hair by the handful as if he's trying to make her feel the same kind of pain that he is feeling. Ivana starts crying and screaming. The entire bed is covered with strands of her golden locks. But Donald is not finished. He rips her clothes and unzips his pants. Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified. This is not lovemaking. This is not romantic sex. It is a violent assault. She later describes what Donald is doing to her in no uncertain terms. According to the version she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, "He raped me." When Donald finally pulls out, Ivana jumps up from the bed. Then she runs upstairs to her mother's room. She locks the door and stays there crying for the rest of the night. The next morning Ivana musters up the courage to return to the master bedroom. Donald is there waiting for her. He leaves no doubt that he knows exactly what he did to her the night before. As she looks at him in horror at her ripped-out hair scattered all over the bed, he glares at her and asks with a menacing casualness, "Does it hurt?" This happened. Just because Trump got re-elected doesn't mean we should forget and move on. #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻

93,341 次观看 • 1 年前

This should be a reunion. Michael survived Sicily, made it back, found Kay, and tells her "I need you. And I love you." The order of those words matters. But listen to what comes before them. He wants her to marry him. She says it's too late. And Michael keeps going. What's important is that we have each other. That we have a life together. That we have children. Our children. He's itemizing. Each other, a life, children. Then, at the end of the list, almost as an afterthought, I need you. And I love you. That's not a confession. It's an offer. Michael does love Kay. But by now that love is being absorbed into the logic of the family business. This isn't the man who once told her "That's my family, Kay. It's not me." That man is gone. You feel it in Pacino. Michael sounds emptied out, like something got left in Sicily with Apollonia and the explosion and the last version of himself that believed he could stay outside this. He isn't pleading. He's presenting her a future. And minutes earlier he'd already told her what that future runs on. His father is no different from any powerful man, he says. A senator. A president. Kay laughs at him. Senators and presidents don't have men killed. "Who's being naive, Kay?" That's the new Michael. He isn't defending the family by claiming they're different from powerful men. He's defending them by claiming they're exactly the same. Murder isn't the exception to power. It's what power is. And then, in the same breath, he promises her five years and the family goes completely legitimate. Trust me. That's all I can tell you about my business. He tells her power is murder and then asks her to build a life on the promise that his won't be. Kay is still talking to the man she fell in love with. Michael is already speaking as the man who will one day shut the door on her for good. This was never Michael asking Kay to come back. It's his first offer as the future Don.
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This should be a reunion. Michael survived Sicily, made it back, found Kay, and tells her "I need you. And I love you." The order of those words matters. But listen to what comes before them. He wants her to marry him. She says it's too late. And Michael keeps going. What's important is that we have each other. That we have a life together. That we have children. Our children. He's itemizing. Each other, a life, children. Then, at the end of the list, almost as an afterthought, I need you. And I love you. That's not a confession. It's an offer. Michael does love Kay. But by now that love is being absorbed into the logic of the family business. This isn't the man who once told her "That's my family, Kay. It's not me." That man is gone. You feel it in Pacino. Michael sounds emptied out, like something got left in Sicily with Apollonia and the explosion and the last version of himself that believed he could stay outside this. He isn't pleading. He's presenting her a future. And minutes earlier he'd already told her what that future runs on. His father is no different from any powerful man, he says. A senator. A president. Kay laughs at him. Senators and presidents don't have men killed. "Who's being naive, Kay?" That's the new Michael. He isn't defending the family by claiming they're different from powerful men. He's defending them by claiming they're exactly the same. Murder isn't the exception to power. It's what power is. And then, in the same breath, he promises her five years and the family goes completely legitimate. Trust me. That's all I can tell you about my business. He tells her power is murder and then asks her to build a life on the promise that his won't be. Kay is still talking to the man she fell in love with. Michael is already speaking as the man who will one day shut the door on her for good. This was never Michael asking Kay to come back. It's his first offer as the future Don.

best of mafia cinema

36,502 次观看 • 24 天前

The claim that “blessing Israel blesses no one” because Galatians 3:16 identifies Christ as Abraham’s Seed is biblically false. It misreads Genesis, misuses Galatians, contradicts Romans 9–11, and ultimately attacks the covenant faithfulness of God revealed in Jesus Christ. The issue begins with the character of God. God does not lie, change His mind, deny Himself, or revoke His promises when human beings fail. “God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind.” —Numbers 23:19 “The Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.” —1 Samuel 15:29 “If we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.” —2 Timothy 2:13 “It is impossible for God to lie.” —Hebrews 6:18 God’s covenants are expressions of His immutable character. He does not make promises and then preserve His reputation by changing what those promises originally meant. He keeps His word because faithfulness belongs to His nature. The Abrahamic covenant begins with specific promises: “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” —Genesis 12:2–3 God makes several distinct but connected commitments. He will make Abraham into a nation. He will bless Abraham. He will bless those who bless Abraham. He will judge those who dishonor Abraham. And He will bring blessing to all the nations through Abraham. Galatians 3:16 addresses the final promise: “Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, ‘And to offsprings,’ referring to many, but referring to one, ‘And to your offspring,’ who is Christ.” —Galatians 3:16 Jesus Christ is the ultimate Seed through whom the nations receive salvation. That is exactly what God promised earlier: “In your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” —Genesis 22:18 Peter explicitly identifies Christ as the fulfillment of this worldwide promise: “You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.” —Acts 3:25–26 Christ fulfills the promise that salvation would reach the nations. Galatians 3 does not say that God revoked His other promises to Abraham. It does not say Abraham would not become a nation. It does not say his physical descendants ceased to matter. It does not say God withdrew His warning concerning those who despise Abraham and his covenant line. The video’s argument takes one part of the covenant and uses it to erase the rest. Paul never does that. God personally spoke to Abraham when He said: “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse.” —Genesis 12:3 The covenant was then explicitly passed through Isaac: “I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.” —Genesis 17:19 “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” —Genesis 21:12 God repeated the promise to Isaac: “I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” —Genesis 26:4 The covenant then passed to Jacob: “Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” —Genesis 28:14 Jacob was renamed Israel: “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” —Genesis 35:10
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The claim that “blessing Israel blesses no one” because Galatians 3:16 identifies Christ as Abraham’s Seed is biblically false. It misreads Genesis, misuses Galatians, contradicts Romans 9–11, and ultimately attacks the covenant faithfulness of God revealed in Jesus Christ. The issue begins with the character of God. God does not lie, change His mind, deny Himself, or revoke His promises when human beings fail. “God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind.” —Numbers 23:19 “The Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.” —1 Samuel 15:29 “If we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.” —2 Timothy 2:13 “It is impossible for God to lie.” —Hebrews 6:18 God’s covenants are expressions of His immutable character. He does not make promises and then preserve His reputation by changing what those promises originally meant. He keeps His word because faithfulness belongs to His nature. The Abrahamic covenant begins with specific promises: “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” —Genesis 12:2–3 God makes several distinct but connected commitments. He will make Abraham into a nation. He will bless Abraham. He will bless those who bless Abraham. He will judge those who dishonor Abraham. And He will bring blessing to all the nations through Abraham. Galatians 3:16 addresses the final promise: “Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, ‘And to offsprings,’ referring to many, but referring to one, ‘And to your offspring,’ who is Christ.” —Galatians 3:16 Jesus Christ is the ultimate Seed through whom the nations receive salvation. That is exactly what God promised earlier: “In your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” —Genesis 22:18 Peter explicitly identifies Christ as the fulfillment of this worldwide promise: “You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.” —Acts 3:25–26 Christ fulfills the promise that salvation would reach the nations. Galatians 3 does not say that God revoked His other promises to Abraham. It does not say Abraham would not become a nation. It does not say his physical descendants ceased to matter. It does not say God withdrew His warning concerning those who despise Abraham and his covenant line. The video’s argument takes one part of the covenant and uses it to erase the rest. Paul never does that. God personally spoke to Abraham when He said: “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse.” —Genesis 12:3 The covenant was then explicitly passed through Isaac: “I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.” —Genesis 17:19 “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” —Genesis 21:12 God repeated the promise to Isaac: “I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” —Genesis 26:4 The covenant then passed to Jacob: “Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” —Genesis 28:14 Jacob was renamed Israel: “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” —Genesis 35:10

Insurrection Barbie

19,958 次观看 • 19 天前

On this day, 45 years ago, Paul Schrader's "Hardcore" (1979) was released in the USA. George C. Scott & Paul Schrader did not get along during the filming of 'Hardcore' (1979), so much that at one point Scott called the movie "a piece of sh*t", refused to come out of his trailer and threatened to quit the film. Scott only agreed to come out after Schrader got down on his knees & promised Scott that he would never direct another movie. (A promise which he didn't keep) Here is the full story: ""It was always a big melodrama working with George," Schrader commented, "but it was worth it, because you were getting a performance. What's really painful is when you're having trouble with an actor and you're not getting a performance. As long as you're getting a performance, it's all worth it." A particularly melodramatic moment occurred when Scott was not needed for three or four hours while shooting in the red light district of San Francisco. The lights were set up for a series of shots to look into a bar. When the lights were shifted for the setup with Scott coming into the bar, all he had to do was enter, say two words, and walk out. When the crew was ready, he had been kept waiting for several hours and refused to come out of his trailer. When Schrader went in, Scott was in his underwear with a bottle of vodka by his side. He greeted Schrader with "This movie is a piece of sh*t." Schrader tried to reason with him-he's tired, it's late, but all he has to do is get dressed, walk over to the bar set, and say two words. He told his star that sometimes in the middle of filming, you're not sure about quality of the final result, but that everything turns out okay in the end. Scott countered, "No. No. No. I've made a lot of films. This is a piece of sh*t. You're a good writer but can't direct." Finally, the director had to get down on his knees and promise Scott he would never direct another movie in order to get him to put on his wardrobe and say the two words. Schrader broke his promise and went on to direct 'American Gigolo, 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Affliction', and many others."" (Excerpt from 'Rage and Glory - The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott', David Sheward, 2008)
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On this day, 45 years ago, Paul Schrader's "Hardcore" (1979) was released in the USA. George C. Scott & Paul Schrader did not get along during the filming of 'Hardcore' (1979), so much that at one point Scott called the movie "a piece of sh*t", refused to come out of his trailer and threatened to quit the film. Scott only agreed to come out after Schrader got down on his knees & promised Scott that he would never direct another movie. (A promise which he didn't keep) Here is the full story: ""It was always a big melodrama working with George," Schrader commented, "but it was worth it, because you were getting a performance. What's really painful is when you're having trouble with an actor and you're not getting a performance. As long as you're getting a performance, it's all worth it." A particularly melodramatic moment occurred when Scott was not needed for three or four hours while shooting in the red light district of San Francisco. The lights were set up for a series of shots to look into a bar. When the lights were shifted for the setup with Scott coming into the bar, all he had to do was enter, say two words, and walk out. When the crew was ready, he had been kept waiting for several hours and refused to come out of his trailer. When Schrader went in, Scott was in his underwear with a bottle of vodka by his side. He greeted Schrader with "This movie is a piece of sh*t." Schrader tried to reason with him-he's tired, it's late, but all he has to do is get dressed, walk over to the bar set, and say two words. He told his star that sometimes in the middle of filming, you're not sure about quality of the final result, but that everything turns out okay in the end. Scott countered, "No. No. No. I've made a lot of films. This is a piece of sh*t. You're a good writer but can't direct." Finally, the director had to get down on his knees and promise Scott he would never direct another movie in order to get him to put on his wardrobe and say the two words. Schrader broke his promise and went on to direct 'American Gigolo, 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Affliction', and many others."" (Excerpt from 'Rage and Glory - The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott', David Sheward, 2008)

DepressedBergman

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Her Name was Virginia Giuffre. ☠️ and Now She is DEAD. But her death is not the end of a tragedy; it is the beginning of a revelation that cannot be silenced, buried, or redacted. Because her life, her testimony, and her murder are part of a pattern that spans continents, generations, and empires. She was one of the very few to survive the machinery of ritualized child rape, not because she was lucky, but because she remembered and in this world, remembrance is the most dangerous thing of all. She remembered the men who used her, the hands that drugged her, the rooms that swallowed her innocence, and the names that no court would allow her to speak. She remembered the faces of power not as icons… but as violators. She saw presidents, princes, scientists, bankers, religious leaders, and intelligence agents not as symbols of order, but as predators in suits. She was one of the only ones who made it out alive… and dared to speak without a script. And now, she is gone. Not by suicide. Not by accident. But by orchestration. And her final words confirm it. “I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form am I suicidal. Do not let this go away. Too many evil people want to see me quieted.” That was her death pre-confession. A direct indictment of the system she knew would kill her. She gave the world one last lifeline to truth. And still, the silence deafens. The media buried it. The governments ignored it. And the people turned away… because to look into the eyes of her truth is to confront a world so broken, so backwards, and so drenched in hidden blood that denial feels safer than courage. But that era ends now. Because this story… her story; is not unique. It is the keystone of everything that’s been hidden. Virginia Giuffre was not trafficked by a random billionaire. She was trafficked by a networked empire designed to control the direction of the world through the systematic destruction of children. Her abusers were not just powerful… they were protected. Epstein and Maxwell were not lone wolves. They were the face of a global blackmail syndicate that operated through Mossad, CIA, and MI6… with diplomatic immunity, state funding, and access to every high value target on Earth. Children were not just abused… they were filmed. They were catalogued. Their trauma was encrypted into dossiers used to compromise, blackmail, and ultimately own the decisions of presidents, prime ministers, military chiefs, judges, entertainers, CEOs, and spiritual leaders. It was a system. A living organism. Designed to extract power by destroying purity. Epstein’s island was not a playground. It was a ritual site. Cameras in every room. Soundproof bunkers. Flight logs full of world leaders and household names. A sacrificial architecture masked as luxury. And behind it… binders of footage, lists of fetishes, psychological profiles, and AI-enhanced metadata to ensure that every participant could be broken on command. Maxwell wasn’t his assistant. She was a high level handler trained in psychological warfare and ritual abuse. Her father… Robert Maxwell;was Mossad. Epstein’s wealth? Synthetic. His ties to intelligence? Deep. His files? Still sealed. And the reason they remain sealed is simple… they prove that every nation, every system, every elite tier of global control is built on the trauma of children who were never meant to live long enough to speak. Virginia did. And so she died. Continued in Comments Below👇
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Her Name was Virginia Giuffre. ☠️ and Now She is DEAD. But her death is not the end of a tragedy; it is the beginning of a revelation that cannot be silenced, buried, or redacted. Because her life, her testimony, and her murder are part of a pattern that spans continents, generations, and empires. She was one of the very few to survive the machinery of ritualized child rape, not because she was lucky, but because she remembered and in this world, remembrance is the most dangerous thing of all. She remembered the men who used her, the hands that drugged her, the rooms that swallowed her innocence, and the names that no court would allow her to speak. She remembered the faces of power not as icons… but as violators. She saw presidents, princes, scientists, bankers, religious leaders, and intelligence agents not as symbols of order, but as predators in suits. She was one of the only ones who made it out alive… and dared to speak without a script. And now, she is gone. Not by suicide. Not by accident. But by orchestration. And her final words confirm it. “I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form am I suicidal. Do not let this go away. Too many evil people want to see me quieted.” That was her death pre-confession. A direct indictment of the system she knew would kill her. She gave the world one last lifeline to truth. And still, the silence deafens. The media buried it. The governments ignored it. And the people turned away… because to look into the eyes of her truth is to confront a world so broken, so backwards, and so drenched in hidden blood that denial feels safer than courage. But that era ends now. Because this story… her story; is not unique. It is the keystone of everything that’s been hidden. Virginia Giuffre was not trafficked by a random billionaire. She was trafficked by a networked empire designed to control the direction of the world through the systematic destruction of children. Her abusers were not just powerful… they were protected. Epstein and Maxwell were not lone wolves. They were the face of a global blackmail syndicate that operated through Mossad, CIA, and MI6… with diplomatic immunity, state funding, and access to every high value target on Earth. Children were not just abused… they were filmed. They were catalogued. Their trauma was encrypted into dossiers used to compromise, blackmail, and ultimately own the decisions of presidents, prime ministers, military chiefs, judges, entertainers, CEOs, and spiritual leaders. It was a system. A living organism. Designed to extract power by destroying purity. Epstein’s island was not a playground. It was a ritual site. Cameras in every room. Soundproof bunkers. Flight logs full of world leaders and household names. A sacrificial architecture masked as luxury. And behind it… binders of footage, lists of fetishes, psychological profiles, and AI-enhanced metadata to ensure that every participant could be broken on command. Maxwell wasn’t his assistant. She was a high level handler trained in psychological warfare and ritual abuse. Her father… Robert Maxwell;was Mossad. Epstein’s wealth? Synthetic. His ties to intelligence? Deep. His files? Still sealed. And the reason they remain sealed is simple… they prove that every nation, every system, every elite tier of global control is built on the trauma of children who were never meant to live long enough to speak. Virginia did. And so she died. Continued in Comments Below👇

Noah B. Price

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