Are We At War?
This post was inspired by the headline of GLOBAL GENOCIDE: Excess Mortality and Covid-19 Vaccinations per Capita Equivalent To A WORLD WAR.` This is not a critique of that post, which pertains to what is happening to children, and contains facts and figures and links pointing to other articles. I am writing about the idea of a present-day “world war”. I have been saying for the past two and a half years that we are in another world war, and here I would like to take that quite a bit further, and maybe not in the direction you would expect.
A war fought with unconventional weapons is still a war. This war has the usual trappings — lying, deception, many casualties. It also features medical weaponization using both conventional medicine and biological weapons that people desire to be attacked with, or that other people they know force upon them, solving the difficult problems of deployment of these kinds of agents.
I am tempted to call this second list "new", but it's not. The scale is greater, and the attack has proved to be more successful than previous attempts.
The victims may be more vulnerable to manipulation now. This could be attributed to foolishness, but I am inclined to point to deeper causes, such as self-centered, aimless living, seeking to acquire more and more according to desire. These vulnerabilities have especially been instilled into our culture over the past few centuries.
Watching all this happen makes me think of crop infestations, where industrially-grown and “optimized” (for yield and profit) food crops, being weakened by the abusive treatment they receive, are attacked by parasites and disease (leading to further abuse, but let’s keep this at one level for simplicity). There are differences, of course. We can observe, and think about what is happening to us, and we can make choices good or bad. In both instances, however, there are three sets of actors to be taken into account. There is the crop, corresponding to the people. Then there are the opportunistic parasites and disease organisms, corresponding to our opportunistic, parasitic “authorities”. Finally there are the agricultural industrialists who create the problems in the first place, from whatever motivations they may have, and that corresponds to… What?
I will return to this question but for now, looking just at food crops, I want to point out that going after the parasites, believing them to be the cause, does not solve the problem! (Although this is what the industry does.) All three entities are involved in creating it, including the weak and vulnerable monoculture crop itself. At least we can forgive the crop for being weak, since it doesn’t make its own decisions. It fights back with all the defenses it possesses, and yet that is not enough. Something stronger overpowers it. And it can’t call out for help. Someone that cared about it would have to intervene and overpower the attackers — as opposed to poisoning it further — if it or its descendants were to be saved.
I see evidence of the injuries, maiming, and deaths from this war in my own very small social circle, which tells me something about the scale of what is happening. I also see something else, here online, in the constant calls to action that say we have to "do something", either implying or explicitly claiming that it is up to us to save ourselves.
I entirely agree that we have to do something, and I believe that it is vital to warn those that will listen about what is happening, but I have no confidence at all that we could ever save ourselves. I look at what we have accomplished so far. The more we try to improve our lot, the worse things get. Modern "science" is the final drive toward destruction, at this time in our history. We are overpowered — by something — and are failing to recognize our situation.
"Science", for centuries now, has been working to persuade us that we are alone here in this world, and that what happens to us is entirely up to us, apart from chance. If that were true, I think it would be safe to say that we are doomed. But if you make up lies from unprovable stories, as science has done, teach it to the children, and repeat the lies again and again, over time — centuries — many or even most people can be persuaded by it. That is where we are, and with no intervention from someone more powerful who cares, this would likely spell our end. Indeed, the end is in sight.
This “science” is not something new. The word itself comes into English from the Old French, which got it from the Latin. It means “knowledge”. We seem to always be seeking after knowledge, and sometimes we look in good places for it and sometimes we are influenced or persuaded by deceptive sources. We have only limited ability to distinguish good and bad, it appears. Present-day science has been heavily involved in making up stories, and it has been largely successful at convincing us they are true. It’s not that hard to do if you spin a good story that in some way resonates with the listener. But I am not going to give you the history of all that here. Look at the results to understand what it is about. What fruit does it bear?
Now speaking of fruit, we have an ancient account that relates where this pursuit of knowledge began, and what we can expect from it. There are other accounts, but I choose this one because I have taken the trouble — much time and trouble — to vet it to my satisfaction. I cannot say that for any of the other accounts. You would have your own work to do there. What we believe is not the same thing as what is true. If you ultimately reject what is true and believe what is false, you are in trouble. Have you noticed others around and even close to you that are caught in believing a lie? That can be you too. It can be any of us. We need to question and examine our beliefs. And we need somewhere we can go to ask questions, a source that is not corrupt.
The account is the Genesis 3 story of what is commonly called “the fall” or the “fall of man”. I tend to refer to it as “the curse”, which better reflects the curse under which we live. If you don’t yet think our living here is cursed, give it time. I’m not going to walk through this chapter verse by verse — there’s too much in it, and rather difficult to understand — but I will attempt to relate it to the above analogy. I encourage you to read the chapter yourself, now, if you aren’t familiar with it, and puzzle through it. It is quite a puzzle. If you don’t have a good, sound translation (and not a paraphrase), this one works well.
In my analogy there are three entities representing our situation, the people, the “authorities”, and [What?]. Genesis 3 verse 1 introduces the source of that last one, calling it the serpent. Ephesians 6:12 expands the view of this realm:
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.
The Greek of this verse is quite interesting, but I won’t be going there today. I will say that the words for “rulers” and “authorities” in it are also used elsewhere to refer to human “authorities” — the ones in my analogy, but here they point to something worse, and explicitly not human, not even visible. You may see the verse quoted frequently in various blogs or in their comment sections, depending on where you hang out, and it is for a reason. This describes the “What?”
The serpent asks a question (here comes the science), “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”, and Eve replies with an answer that is a little bit of a misquote, but she refers to the tree of which they must not eat, the tree of the knowledge (science) of good and evil. Why not? Because it is deadly.
Now take a moment to reflect upon all the “gifts” that science has bequeathed upon us, all the fouling, poisoning, and killing that has been made possible through science applied to industrialization. How, exactly, has the promise of science to make things better for us been working out? But before giving any specific answer, ask if that was really an improvement or if it was a workaround for an earlier problem created through science! Or if there might not have been a better solution, perhaps not as convenient, that involved not science and technology, but living in closer harmony with the world we were given.
Might I point out that crowded cities are not the latter (harmonious), and that overpopulation driven by the needs of industrialization is not a necessity. But it depends on our motives. If our aim in life is to get more and more for ourselves, this is what we end up with.
In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve are offered a choice between life — eternal life — and the pursuit of knowledge and the promise that “when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.“ They seem to have overlooked the “death” part — the fruit that this path yields — and the part that the serpent does not mention once the two are diverted by the possibilities of expanded knowledge and power.
Believe the story or not, but consider what it might say. You can change your mind later. It’s interesting that some of our globalist would-be rulers today talk of technology, trans-humanism, and “becoming God”. Did I mention that this isn’t new?
I don’t want to close without pointing to a solution for our problems, offering a worldview that is infinitely better than “we have to save ourselves or else…”. It requires work, though, and sacrifice, not to save ourselves but to pursue the path that leads to our being saved from this curse of death. The journey is not unopposed, and the knowledge is buried under a mountain of lies. It demands a different way of looking at life in terms of what we can do for others, rather than what more we can acquire for ourselves.
I hinted at it in the “crop” analogy: “Someone that cared about it would have to intervene and overpower the attackers … if it or its descendants were to be saved.“ Well yes, but who would want to? What a mess this place is! I don’t know of any detached third parties that would want to, but the one responsible for our existence might.
Oh, but science has shown that there is no such entity, and that we happened into existence over an unimaginable span of time, and we “trust the science”. Well no it hasn’t. What science has done is make up stories about how we came into existence this way. It can’t even account for the existence of time, or the natural laws upon which the stories depend, or the raw materials required, or the mechanisms involved in trying different things.
It doesn’t attempt to. And its stories about the geological and fossil records are full of holes if anyone would actually examine them. If you think the Genesis’ story of creation is a fairy tale, take a closer look at the fairy tales that science has to offer in its place. And then perhaps take a fresh look at Genesis, and the story of fall and redemption there and in what follows. It is a complete account, that makes sense and is testable in many ways, once the “misinformation” begins to clear.
And then there is the other battle. Ephesians 6 doesn’t stop with the unseen authorities of verse 12. It continues on with what can be done about them. Read on if you’d like.
I have come to see that there is someone who cares about us and is willing to save us, and offers a way for that to happen. It didn’t come to me easily, though. I grew up being told things about it that I was supposed to memorize and believe and never question, by people that didn’t act all that much like they believed it themselves.1 That can be an obstacle. It turns out that a lot of what was said was true, and quite a bit wasn’t. That seems to be the way truth is packaged. Think of it as a test of discernment.
I know of only one path — all of the others that I have encountered were based upon self-effort. This one involves selfless effort in the interest of others. It opposes the ways of the world.
I have come across a number of people here on Substack that seem quite willing to make sacrifices and follow a difficult path, and I would guess that there are many more. There is, however, much deception and deliberate confusion concerning which path to follow, and for those that happen across my posts much of the trouble may stem from having a “scientific background”, something I can relate to. It’s not all bad. The scientific method is quite useful, and I use it heavily in my day-to-day work. But it has its limitations, and science doesn’t always employ it.
There is much more I can say, but often a conversation is needed, not a one-way essay. I do go into more detail in Who Will Save Us?, and there is the comment section below. If you need anything, just ask. Or Ask….