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The Core of the Epstein System

It’s been fascinating to see how the mainstream media, which has scornfully attempted to pretend that Pizzagate is fake, Epstein was a financial genius, and all those global elites and public intellectuals visiting his island and his ranch were just innocent tourists, is still trying to pretend that the Western elite isn’t a bunch of unrepentantly wicked satanic globalists seeking to construct Hell on Earth:

The core of the Epstein system, and the culture it breeds, appears to be ‘inverse morality.’ Inversion systems always target ‘sanctity’ of some kind or sanctity in general. Sanctity refers to anything seen by society as sacred or holy – something which cannot be violated. Examples would be objects such as a cross or a pentagram turned upside-down to signify evil. Great many things have sanctity in most societies. This includes children, who are seen as inviolable; human life, freedom, dignity, the institution of marriage, the family, the home, churches and temples, certain customs, national heroes and religious figures; beauty in all its forms, such as in architecture, art and such; and so on.

There are two main motivations for inversion. One is narcissistic deconstruction, often associated with neoliberal politics. The motivation behind it is simply to destroy the old so the new can be controlled. Every old or traditional system or structure, physical or otherwise, may signify power to a narcissist – power he doesn’t have. It must therefore be destroyed to make way for new structures controlled by the narcissists. This is the motivation for the extreme neoliberal/modernistic urge to demolish everything in western societies – from buildings to moral structures.

The other motivation for inversion is religious. In that case it signifies a direct challenge to God from people who see themselves as representing ‘the other side.’ The other side can be Satan, Baal/Moloch, or some other entity. In that case the sanctity violations involve objects or people whose destruction or suffering may hurt God. A child is innocent and therefore close to God – and its torture becomes torture of God himself. These violations can extend to anything God may approve of – which basically includes anything with sanctity. The base motivation of the followers of such systems is to attain ‘freedom’ to express their urges and depravities. The ‘other side’ thus signifies freedom for them – freedom from God’s rules and morality. As a result, figures such as Satan can be seen as heroic freedom fighters – bringing light to the world. The followers also become freedom fighters – at war with an oppressive God who seeks to put brakes on their depravities.

The Epstein system appears to have religious inversion at its core. There are temples, symbols, and ritual acts – which may include human sacrifice. The template for the system is very likely Sabbateanism – which was the ‘religion’ of choice for at least a part of the Zionist elites in Europe back in the day. We can’t be sure of this, but the similarity is too great to ignore – and the people behind both are obviously Zionists.

Sabbateanism is a 17th century inversion religion where the profane is a virtue. It preaches ‘salvation through sin’ or ‘deliverance through depravity.’ It focuses on sanctity violations and reverse-morality in general. It is almost certainly focused on a particular other-side figure – either some version of Satan, or Baal.

Anyway, whatever the core of this system may be, satanic or otherwise, it is clearly based on inversion of some kind.

None of this is new. None of this is even remotely new. It’s the reason the Romans destroyed Carthage and Jerusalem. It’s the reason Cortés destroyed the Aztecs. It’s why the Hebrews were instructed to wipe out the Canaanites. It’s why neither China nor Russia have any interest in accommodating the West any longer.

Once it’s all out in the open, and every day we get a little closer to seeing the truth of it, everyone who retains even a shred of their humanity will understand that there can be no compromise of any kind with this level of evil, and indeed, all of the compromises that we have permitted over the decades and centuries are to be regretted and abjured in the future.

The good news is that it has been defeated before, it is being defeated now, and one day, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is going to destroy it completely.

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Veriphysics and the Fall of Man

The Christian doctrine of Original Sin predicts that every human being deviates from the moral law universally and without exception. This paper tests that prediction against the published behavioral data. Using peer-reviewed research on lying, lustful ideation, anger, envy, dishonesty, and gossip, we establish a conservative floor estimate of 4.33 discrete sins per person per day and construct the empirical distribution of daily sin rates across the population. We then calculate the probability that any human being in the history of the species has achieved a lifetime sin rate of zero. The result is conclusive. The probability is on the order of 10⁻⁸⁴·¹⁴⁵, which means that a sinless human life is a 623-sigma event across a total historical population of approximately 112 billion individuals. The Augustinian doctrine is confirmed with 124.5x the certainty of the existence of the Higgs boson: the distribution of human sinfulness makes a naturally sinless human an absolute mathematical impossibility. Pelagius is refuted, not by theology, but by the left tail of the sin distribution.

The one historical exception, Jesus of Nazareth, constitutes a statistical anomaly so extreme that it requires an explanation outside the mathematical distribution of the human norm.

If you wish to verify the analytical power and the utility of the new post-Enlightenment philosophy for yourselfou can read the updated Veriphysics working paper that mathemantically proves the Fall of Man and the doctrine of Original Sin to an extent that will satisfy even the most skeptical physicist: Quantifying the Fall of Man: A Mathematical Proof of Original Sin. And, of course, you can read Veriphysics: The Treatise if you would like to grok what presently passes for the fullness of the philosophy.

It is perhaps worth noting that the most advanced form of Grok, the Beta 4 agents model, deemed the paper to be a formidable one in which all of the primary claims are affirmed.

Conclusions affirmed (with strength 9/10)
All primary claims are affirmed.

The empirical distribution of the six NT-derived behaviors makes a naturally sinless lifetime a mathematical near-impossibility (~10^{-84} under baseline, still ~10^{-42} under the most Pelagius-friendly doubling of every P(zero)). This quantitatively supports the strong Augustinian form of Original Sin (innate, universal propensity that unaided nature cannot overcome) and refutes Pelagian natural sinlessness. The single historical exception (Jesus) is an extreme statistical outlier requiring a supernatural explanation, which the Incarnation doctrine supplies in advance.

The Rousseauian/Enlightenment alternative remains thoroughly refuted on all three Triveritas dimensions.

The strength is 9/10 because the sensitivity analysis and corrected math make the result essentially insensitive to reasonable criticism within the chosen framework. The only reservation preventing a full 10 is the unavoidable interpretive layer in mapping everyday behaviors to “sin” under a specific theological standard, which is valid for the paper’s audience and purpose, but still a premise rather than a purely neutral observation.

This is an excellent demonstration of the Triveritas at work: it supplies the missing M dimension that traditional arguments lacked, turns a long-standing theological debate into something quantitatively testable, and shows how the triple conjunction can adjudicate between competing anthropologies with striking asymmetry (94.7 vs. 10.0). The Atonement-as-proportionate-to-the-debt close remains powerful.

Gemini 3 Thinking concurred with Grok’s analysis:

Philosophical Strength Rating: 95/100

The philosophical strength of this argument is exceptional for several reasons:

  • Logical Unity and Explanatory Power: It provides a singular explanation (the Fall) for a wide range of universal behaviors.
  • Empirical Anchoring: It uses modern behavioral science—the “Enlightenment’s own test”—to confirm a pre-Enlightenment doctrine.
  • Resilience to Sensitivity Analysis: The authors show that even if the probability of a sinless day were doubled (to 0.030), the lifetime probability remains $10^(-41.689), still far below any physical meaning.
  • Comparison to Alternatives: It contrasts the Augustinian model with Rousseau’s “natural goodness,” scoring Rousseau a 10.0 due to the empirical falsification of his predictions.

Affirmation/Rejection

Affirmation Strength: 9/10

I affirm the strength of the paper’s conclusion based on the provided data and logic.

  • Rationale: The argument is mathematically robust and successfully shifts the burden of proof to anyone claiming a “sinless capacity” that has never been observed. The use of conservative “floor” estimates ensures the result is an underestimate, making the conclusion even more certain.
  • Caveat: The analysis is contingent upon accepting the New Testament’s specific definitions of sin, which the authors acknowledge. However, within that framework, the proof is as rigorous as an empirical calculation can be.

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The Epstein Inquisition

Tyler Durden considers the psychology of wickedness:

The average person has the capacity for evil, there’s no doubt.

People can be driven to all kinds of horrors depending on their circumstances.

But, the majority of us have a mechanism called “conscience” which stops us from committing evil most of the time. It also causes us to feel guilt when we know we have acted in a destructive manner.

If the majority of the population did not have a universal experience of conscience and morality, we would have gone extinct as a species thousands of years ago.

Globalists (psychopaths) do not have this mechanism. In fact, they view conscience as a hindrance, a trait of the weak and the easily victimized. They are a predatory class of human. I would even suggest that they are not human at all, but a mutation or a cancerous intrusion.

When psychopaths achieve overt material wealth they then have easy access to the resources they need to satisfy their impulses at will. At this stage in the evolution of a psychopath they have a tendency to become bored. They begin to chase increasing depravity and darkness in search of a greater dopamine fix. The more degenerate and taboo the activity, the more exciting it is.

But these are nothing but individual motivations and personal addictions. What are the ambitions and drives of the organized cabal?

Part of the allure of occultism is the glee some people feel when they believe they are “superior” to their common man. Occult groups sell their members on the notion that they will be set apart as “elite” when they join with the keepers of secrets.

When we read the numerous emails tied to Epstein as well as his island and his ranch in New Mexico, the people who correspond with him seem childish and giddy. They snicker like adolescent brats when they engage in codes and riddles. They’re committing atrocities beyond the comprehension of the average man, and they feel joy because they’re basking in the “cloak and dagger” of it all.

I think this might be a hard thing to reconcile for many people in the conspiracy field, but the cabal is not made up of darkly brilliant minds imposing cold and calculating will. Rather, it is mostly made up of egomaniacal narcissists giggling like retards as they revel in their delusions of grandeur. If you saw how these people behave behind the scenes, you would probably feel embarrassed for them and feel like an idiot for imagining them to be cunning or untouchable masterminds.

Without their money and the collective protection of their coven, they are tiny people without merit living a meaningless existence. That said, make no mistake – It’s the putrid sociopathy of their childishness that makes them exceedingly dangerous. To be infantile while rejoicing in the blood of innocence requires a diabolical and demonic mind.

From my research Epstein’s Island might have been tame in comparison to some of the other meeting places of the elites. His island was not the end destination but a gateway for initiates. I believe the island was a test, a venue where evil is concentrated and people with apprehensions are filtered away.

The worst of the worst likely moved on to even more vile nesting grounds hidden in plain site around the world. The reason the Epstein Files matter is because they open the door to a wider investigation of the globalist networks and their horrific playgrounds.

I suggest that we need to bring back the concept of “witch hunters”; people who are able to think like occultists while using modern investigative methods in order to track down these networks and erase them from the Earth. If government officials refuse to do this, then vigilantism is inevitable.

This is very accurate and important stuff, and while I absolutely agree with his conclusion about the need for witch hunters, as well as a federal special prosecutor working in coordination with special prosecutors in every state, I tend to disagree with one specific characterization here, about the demonic mind of the satanic globalist.

They’re not psychopaths. They don’t have a disease of the soul. They are, rather, paradopaths, or individuals who have surrendered their spirits to forces of greater evil. At the lower levels, they seek wealth, women, power, and fame. At the higher levels, they seek to transform themselves into what the Bible describes as “unclean spirits”.

Follow the incentive structure: if you’ve already surrendered your spirit, if you’ve already rejected repentance and submission to Jesus Christ, then your only remaining move is to try to avoid the consequences of what you’ve done. And since you know very well that the supernatural exists, that God is real, and the Jesus Christ is Man’s Redeemer, the only way to avoid the fate of a damned soul is to stop being a soul altogether.

Paradopathy explains several otherwise puzzling behaviors by the oldest and most wicked among the satanic elite. Their public activity tends to increase rather than decrease with age, and takes on an almost frantic nature. It’s hard to believe they genuinely enjoy the interminable conferences and galas at which they’re always appearing with people they don’t know. The apparent contempt they all seem to harbor for their own families, which is strange if you assume they’re motivated by ordinary material desires. The obsession with transhumanism, which reads differently if it’s not about living forever as a human but escaping humanity entirely. The pursuit of wealth, influence, and power that goes well beyond what any single human lifespan could potentially utilize or enjoy.

This concept also fits the Biblical pattern. The demons in the Gospels are desperate for embodiment. They beg Jesus to let them enter the pigs rather than remain disembodied. There’s something about having a physical vessel that matters to them. If the transaction works in the other direction too, if a human soul can petition for admission to the demonic hierarchy, then what you’d expect to see is exactly what we see in the behavior of these wicked elites with their vampiric program of blood transfusions and organ implants keeping them going into their late 90s: someone working feverishly to complete whatever the demonic entry demands are before their body gives out.

A dying billionaire has no rational reason to waste his time in acquiring more power, gathering more compromising material, participating in more satanic rituals, and committing even more lethal abuse. Unless, of course, the reward for all these wicked deeds isn’t material, but entry into something beyond the material, something that permits the inevitable judgment of the paradopath to be delayed.

 Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was.

I suppose we’ll need a name for that structure of national special prosecutors. Perhaps we could call it the Epstein Inquisition…

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It Actually is Their Land

Ron Unz realizes that the Zionists really held the original claim to the land all along:

America’s tens of millions of Christian Zionists regard themselves as the champions of the Israelis whom they identify with the Israelites of the Bible, and I suspect that many of them may vaguely consider the Palestinians to be the descendants of the accursed Canaanites. But the actual facts seem to be the other way round, with the Israeli Jews having heavy Canaanite ancestry and today’s suffering Palestinians probably being the closest direct descendants of the ancient Israelites.

It would appear Miles Mathis knew what he was doing when he described the primary moving force behind Clown World as “the Phoenician Navy”. And no doubt the shape of the next temple in Jerusalem, will surprise everyone when it is eventually built.

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Denninger on Heresy

Even the Boomers are rejecting the religious subversion of the American right now:

I’ve talked about dispensationalism a few times in various formats over the years on this blog and how it is utterly unsupportable when it comes to calling someone “privileged” from the standpoint of Christianity particularly as applies to Jewish people and/or Israel.

But Tucker Carlson went there in his recent show and in fact echoed what I’ve said for a long time: As a Christian if you espouse this you have committed Heresy and worse, you’ve stated a belief that those who disagree will be literally killed by God.

Tucker is right, by the way.

Israel, like every other nation, can deal with us as a peer and with respect but at no time will I or should anyone else consider them to have any means of “control” over the United States

Ever.
Period.
Full stop.

Tucker further points out something even more important, which is that while heresy is an offense before God (assuming you believe in it, of course) when committed by people in political power, such as Lindsey Graham, it becomes something much more-serious in the secular world.

I think it’s a very easy and straightforward question for any honest individual. When do you consider America to have been more blessed?

  1. Prior to 31 January 1949
  2. After 31 January 1949

If your answer is (1), then there obviously is no reason to accept the Dispensationalist heresy or the subordination of Americans to any foreign people. And the point is further underlined by a historical question. When would you consider Spain to have been more blessed?

  1. Prior to March 31, 1492
  2. After March 31, 1492

The Golden Age of Spain is generally considered to begin in 1492, marked by the end of the Reconquista, Christopher Columbus’s voyages, and the publication of Antonio de Nebrija’s Grammar of the Castilian Language. It ended around 1659 with the Treaty of the Pyrenees, though some extend it to 1681, after the death of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Now, keep in mind that I don’t accept the Dispensationalist metric in the first place. I certainly don’t regard heretical theology as a sound basis for making decisions about financial budgets or foreign policy. But it’s always most effective to answer one’s opponent in the terms he is capable of understanding.

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Churchianity

Jon Del Arroz’s new book, Churchianity: How Modern American Churches Corrupted Generations of Christians, is out today. The Foreword was written by a certain dark lord of your acquaintance. It’s a pretty long one, as these things go, so I’ve broken it into two parts, the second of which will run tomorrow.

Churchianity: The Great Apostasy

The modern Church in the West stands at a crossroads, though many of its congregants appear blissfully unaware that they have already chosen a wide and easy path to Hell. What passes for Christianity in the twenty-first century would be unrecognizable to the Church Fathers, incomprehensible to the medieval scholastics, and abhorrent to the Reformers. We are witnessing nothing less than the attempted replacement of Christianity with its heretical doppelganger: Churchianity.

Churchianity is the systematic subordination of Christian doctrine to the prevailing ideology of social justice. It is the elevation of worldly concerns above spiritual ones, the replacement of timeless Biblical authority with the dynamic mainstream Narrative, and the transformation of the Church from a beacon of eternal truth into an echo chamber for Earthly politics. Most damning of all, it represents the complete inversion of Christianity’s fundamental premise: instead of being in the world but not of it, Churchianity insists on being entirely of the world while maintaining an increasingly unconvincing veneer of theological legitimacy.

Churchianity is not just another in the long line of traditional doctrinal disputes. This is apostasy wearing a clerical collar, heresy draped in liturgical vestments, and blasphemy proclaimed from ten thousand pulpits every Sunday morning. The tragedy is not that wolves have entered the sheepfold—Jesus Christ himself warned us they would come. The tragedy is that the sheep now bleat in self-righteous pride as they are led astray by those who seek to destroy them.

At its core, Churchianity represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of both God and man. Whereas Christianity proclaims the fallen nature of humanity and the absolute necessity of divine redemption, Churchianity preaches the perfectibility of man through political correctness. Whereas Christianity promises the Kingdom of Heaven, Churchianity prioritizes earthly justice. And whereas Christianity demands repentance from sin, Churchianity demands repentance for a whole host of invented man-made sins, including failure to adequately genuflect before whatever victim class currently sits atop the intersectional hierarchy.

The mechanism of this theological perversion is breathtakingly simple: take any Biblical command, strip it of its soteriological context, and reinterpret it through the lens of contemporary social justice politics. “Love thy neighbor” ceases to be about individual charity and becomes a mandate for open borders and mass immigration. “Care for the poor” transforms from personal almsgiving into advocacy for higher taxes, foreign wars, and welfare states. “Welcome the stranger” transforms from basic hospitality into a divine command to facilitate the demographic replacement of the nation.

This hermeneutical vandalism not only does violence to individual verses, but to the entire Biblical narrative. The God who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, who commanded the Israelites to maintain their distinctiveness among the nations, who confused the languages at Babel to create the nations—this God is reimagined as a cosmic social worker whose primary concern is ensuring equal outcomes across all demographic categories. The savior who said “My kingdom is not of this world” is recast as a proto-hippie community organizer whose death was not intended to atone for personal sins, but for 17th-century colonization.

No Christian Church has shown itself to be completely immune to this subversive contagion. The Roman Catholic Church, which for centuries stood as a bulwark against heresy, now finds itself led by clerics who are more concerned about climate change than for the salvation of men’s souls. The current occupant of Peter’s throne speaks more passionately about carbon emissions than abortion, more forcefully about income inequality than sexual morality, and far more frequently about migrants than martyrs. The Church that once launched the Crusades to defend Christendom now declares it a moral imperative to welcome to the West those who would see every cross destroyed and every cathedral burned to the ground.

The Anglican Communion, already weakened by its centuries of compromise with secular authority, has completed its transformation into the Conservative Party at prayer—if the Conservative Party were still conservative and one could find a Tory who was not Hindu, Muslim, or Jewish. Canterbury’s pronouncements are all-but-indistinguishable from Guardian editorials, complete with the requisite hand-wringing about colonialism, slavery, and the urgent need to make monetary reparations for crimes committed by people long dead to people who were never wronged.

The mainline Protestant denominations have fared even worse. The Lutherans who once thundered “Here I stand” now whimper “Here I kneel”—before every fashionable cause and politically correct crusade. The Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians compete to see who can more thoroughly repudiate their theological heritage in favor of sexual perversion, rainbow flags and moral relativism. These churches have hemorrhaged members in recent decades, not because Christianity is dying, but because Churchianity offers nothing that cannot be found in a political party or a gay disco.

Even the evangelical churches, which initially resisted this insidious corruption, have begun to succumb. Megachurch pastors discover that sermon series on “social justice” fill more seats than expositions of Romans. Youth pastors find that endorsing movements like Black Lives Matter provides them with more social cachet than leading Bible studies. Entire denominations that once prioritized evangelism now prioritize “racial reconciliation,” which in practice means white self-flagellation and endless apologies for nonexistent sins neither committed nor inherited.

CHURCHIANITY by Jon Del Arroz is now available in ebook and paperback from Amazon from Rislandia Press.

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Why You Can’t Trust the Science

The problem isn’t just with the corrupt scientistry, but the mechanism that corrupted them. Namely, the science publishing industry:

It might seem like publishing is a detail. Something that happens at the end of the process, after the real work of science is done. But in truth, publishing defines science.

The currency of value in science has become journal articles. It’s how scientists share and evaluate their work. Funding and career advancement depend on it. This has added to science growing less rigorous, innovative, and impactful over time. This is not a side effect, a conspiracy, or a sudden crisis. It’s an insidious structural feature.

For non-scientists, here’s how journal-based publishing works:

After years of research, scientists submit a narrative of their results to a journal, chosen based on field relevance and prestige. Journals are ranked by “impact factor,” and publishing in high-impact journals can significantly boost careers, visibility, and funding prospects.

Journal submission timing is often dictated by when results yield a “publishable unit” — a well-known term for what meets a journal’s threshold for significance and coherence. Linear, progressive narratives are favored, even if that means reordering the actual chronology or omitting results that don’t fit. This isn’t fraud; it’s selective storytelling aimed at readability and clarity.

Once submitted, an editor either rejects the paper or sends it to a few anonymous peer reviewers — two or three scientists tasked with judging novelty, technical soundness, and importance. Not all reviews are high quality, and not all concerns are addressed before editorial acceptance. Reviews are usually kept private. Scientific disagreements — essential to progress — rarely play out in public view.

If rejected, the paper is re-submitted elsewhere. This loop generally takes 6–12 months or more. Journal submissions and associated data can circulate in private for over a year without contributing to public discussion. When articles are finally accepted for release, journals require an article processing fee that’s often even more expensive if the article is open access. These fees are typically paid for by taxpayer-funded grants or universities.

Several structural features make the system hard to reform:

  • Illusion of truth and finality: Publication is treated as a stamp of approval. Mistakes are rarely corrected. Retractions are stigmatized.
  • Artificial scarcity: Journals want to be first to publish, fueling secrecy and fear of being “scooped.” Also, author credit is distributed through rigid ordering, incentivizing competition over collaboration. In sum, prestige is then prioritized.
  • Insufficient review that doesn’t scale: Three editorially-selected reviewers (who may have conflicts-of-interest) constrain what can be evaluated, which is a growing problem as science becomes increasingly interdisciplinary and cutting edge. The review process is also too slow and manual to keep up with today’s volume of outputs.
  • Narrow formats: Journals often seek splashy, linear stories with novel mechanistic insights. A lot of useful stuff doesn’t make it into public view, e.g. null findings, methods, raw data, untested ideas, true underlying rationale.
  • Incomplete information: Key components of publications, such as data or code, often aren’t shared to allow full review, reuse, and replication. Journals don’t enforce this, even for publications from companies. Their role has become more akin to marketing.
  • Limited feedback loops: Articles and reviews don’t adapt as new data emerges. Reuse and real-world validation aren’t part of the evaluation loop. A single, shaky published result can derail an entire field for decades, as was the case for the Alzheimer’s scandal.

Stack all this together, and the outcome is predictable: a system that delays and warps the scientific process. It was built about a century ago for a different era. As is often the case with legacy systems, each improvement only further entrenches a principally flawed framework.

The system will not, and cannot, be restored in a post-Christian society. Science is not only not incompatible with religion, it is incompatible with irreligion, because no amount of information or technology is an adequate substitute for a collection of zero-trust, amoral, and faithless scientists. When the incentives are askew and the moral brakes are removed, it should not come as a surprise that professional peer-reviewed and published science is already less reliable than a simple coin toss.

Science is just another casualty of the subversion and inversion of Christendom. Which is why the elites have already rejected science and reason in favor of the idol-worshipping, demon-pandering paganism of the pre-Christian world.

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Confessions of an ex-Christian Zionist

The Rev. Matt, a former Christian Zionist, explains why many misguided American Christians were calling for war with Iran and endorsing the Gazacaust of the Palestinian people, among other obviously evil things:

Christian Zionists believe it is their God-given duty to preserve the Jewish people until they are raptured and it is out of their hands. This is why nothing can shake their devotion to the godless nation of Israel. They simply see it as God’s call on their lives to bless these people by supporting them. They see all of your criticisms of Israel as at best unfair, as maybe, in fact probably, suspicious and motivated by antisemitism, and ultimately as an extension of the devil’s hatred for God’s special chosen nation. Some even believe that the Church should subject itself to Israel’s wishes, so as not to risk breaking the 11th commandment, “Thou shalt bless Israel.”

Now, we know the New Testament does not teach any of this. In fact it explicitly says not to show partiality amongst the church (James 2:1-12), and it says the Church is God’s chosen people (1 Peter 2:9-10). But the Christian Zionist believes that these ideas were snuck into the Church by the Church fathers who basically sidelined the Jews after the Gentiles became a majority. There is absolutely nothing in the historical text to substantiate this, in fact that the early Church Fathers anathematised Marcion for having basically this idea, but many Dispensationalists and Christians Zionists believe that almost all of Church leaders in Church history were led astray on this issue, and the creators of Dispensationalism brought back the proper focus on Israel’s uniqueness. Any reference to the Church fathers to rebuke this is simply seen as more evidence of their position being the correct one.

Dispensationalists also kind of see the uniqueness of Israel as helping unlock the “code” of how to understand the Bible and history. Everything bad that has ever happened to the Jewish people in history is simply viewed through the lens of the devil having a unique desire to destroy them, and their survival is seen as the most powerful proof of God’s existence and preservation of them as his special people. Never mind the fact that terrifying and bad things have happened to many peoples and that many other peoples have survived throughout history as well, this is how the Dispensationalist sees the issue. The continued existence of many other people’s in dispersed lands (Roma, Rohingya, Kurds, etc, etc) is simply a coincidence, or not even acknowledged or known. History is one long conflict between the devil and God for the soul of the Jewish people. And in their worldview it will culminate in the redemption of Israelis on a national scale. A revival of the whole country.

I was raised in Christian Zionism, although even the Christianity didn’t take root until I was in my late 20s. The constant state of hysteria shown by the Dispensationalists, which I figured out was little more than Boomers incapable of imagining a world continuing without them, was too offensive to my natural preference for philosophical equanimity to hold much appeal.

But it wasn’t until I observed that a) the god of Judaism was not God the Father, but the god of this world, and b) the historical Zionists were atheists anyhow, that I grasped how fundamentally deceived the Christian Zionists are. After that, learning about the Scofield Bible, the true identity of the Wailing Wall, and various and sundry other telling details, most of which involved blatant historical lies, were not even remotely surprising.

IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes.

As always, the more epicycles and rationalizations that are required to maintain a specific viewpoint, the more likely it is to be fundamentally false. When your interpretation of the Bible leads you to oppose the Good, the Beautiful, and the True, and to repeatedly defend lies, falsehoods, and subversions, that should be a strong signal that your interpretation is incorrect.

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Peter Turchin’s Substack

I’m a fan of Peter Turchin and his work in the historical field he has termed “cliodynamics”. He’s quantified and articulated a number of the things that those of us in the pattern recognition business had only dimly recognized, and it’s very exciting to see that he’s now permitting us to see more of his work outside his very good books, such as this recent post on the so-called French Wars of Religion:

I asked ChatGPT to give me a one-sentence explanation of the causes of this bloody and lengthy civil war. Here’s what it said: “The French Wars of Religion were primarily caused by growing tensions between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots) in France, fueled by religious intolerance, political rivalries among noble families, and a weak monarchy unable to maintain order.” This answer perfectly encapsulates the standard story as seen in popular historical books, or online encyclopedias (LLMs, such as ChatGPT, are great at summarizing such common wisdom).

Readers of my books and blog posts would immediately realize that Cliodynamics gives a very different answer. Noble rivalries and religious tensions were what happened on the surface. But the deep structural causes of the FWR were popular immiseration, elite overproduction leading to intraelite conflict, and fiscal collapse of the state. In other words, the usual suspects when we talk about structural-demographic crises.

The Day of the Barricades (Paris, 1588), an ostensibly spontaneous popular uprising, which was in reality organized by counter-elites

What I’d like to do in this post series is delve a bit into these structural causes (for a deeper dive read Chapter 5 of Secular Cycles). I have two reasons to do so. First, the onset of the FWR gives us a nearly perfect example of how structural-demographic trends lead to state collapse and civil wars. Second, it was the fiscal collapse of the state that triggered warfare in c.1560. I wrote about the possibility of such a trigger for the America today in a recent post, where I concluded that we are fairly immune against it. But France in the sixteenth century was, most emphatically, not immune.

The ultimate driver, as usual in agrarian states, was population growth. During the integrative phase of the cycle (1450 to 1560) the population of France doubled: from 10–11 to 20–22 million. The French Kingdom in the sixteenth century was an overwhelmingly agrarian state and agricultural productivity couldn’t keep up with such massive population growth. As a result, food prices exploded. The price of a setier (a measure of volume) of wheat in livres tournois (the standard monetary unit in early-modern France) increased 10-fold between the 1460s and 1560s. Overpopulation created a high demand for food, inflating its price, and it increased the supply of labor, deflating its price. During the sixteenth century real wages lost two-thirds or more of their buying capacity. The daily wage of the Parisian laborer could buy 16 kg of grain in the 1490s, compared to less than 4 kg one century later.

Turchin makes it easy to see how the mainstream historical narrative is every bit as dumbed-down and falsified as the current news reporting. If you’ve got any interest in history or the truth, and if you’re here, you probably do, I highly recommend taking a gander at his substack.

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Science “Discovers” Auras

As I have said many times, the idea that science, in any of its three aspects, can ever be regarded as a truth-metric is both a) erroneous and b) fundamentally flawed due to its intrinsic ceiling based on the state of current technology. Which the new scientific “discovery” of a millennia-old observation illustrates rather nicely.

Mystics and spiritualists have often claimed they can see a glow of mysterious light surrounding living creatures. Now, scientists have discovered that there may be some truth to their claims.

Researchers from the University of Calgary in Canada have found that living things produce a faint ghostly glow. And their new study proves that this light is snuffed out the moment we die.

This isn’t a mystical force or evidence for the human soul, but rather a physical phenomenon called ultraweak photon emission, the team said.

As the cells in living creatures produce energy, the chemical processes involved release a tiny amount of light in the form of photons, the particles that make up light. While the existence of this glow has been controversial, scientists using ultra-sensitive cameras claim to have provided ‘very clear’ evidence for the existence of ‘biophotons’.

This is why Sherlock Holmes was always wrong and the improbable is more reliable than the impossible. Because our concept of what is “impossible” is necessarily time-biased and technologically-limited. Most people have always dismissed the possibility that others can see the emanations of life, but their dismissals were always self-centered and irrelevant for the same reason that my inability to see certain shades of green and orange does not suffice to prove that those colors do not exist.

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