One paragraph after another became my favorite! The natives thinking photographs were soul stealers made me consider all of the selfies and tik tok vids. I think the natives were on to something. Great writing and reporting, Karen.
When Adam and Eve went ahead against orders from God not to eat ANY of the fruit from the TREE of KNOWLEDGE of Good and Evil, they should have followed instructions. Once they started feasting on this kind of KNOWLEDGE they could not stop and it was incompatible with the perfect life they were living in the Garden. So they had to be removed from the Garden....they had turned away from God and towards themselves
In their state of being separated from God and under the influence of the Secular Knowledge of Good and Evil, their minds were clouded with their pursuit of what seemed to them good and they forsook whatever they labeled evil. This soon became further complicated and confusing because they called evil good and good seemed evil.
God in his omniscience knew they could not handle it and all of what would happen to Adam and Eve if they went ahead and sampled the addictive fruit. So he forbade it and told them of the consequences.
They disobeyed Him.
Right now the many descendants of Adam and Eve are continuing to devour that knowledge.....the world is literally choking on it. Still regurgitating poisoned fruit. Unable to stop, lost Unregenerate people want to become their own gods, just like what the Lying Serpent promised Adam and Eve they could become if they just disregarded God and sampled that poisonous fruit.....
God the Creator and Sustainer is omniscient. That is what Humankind wants to be:Having all knowledge. But we are not God. We are created beings. Finite. Even our Artificial Intelligence is puny and limited. In our overweening pride We refuse to acknowledge that, and we suffer catastrophic consequences from this over and over.......
...... Instead they listened to Satan, who tempted them to disobey saying they would be "as gods, knowing good and evil."
The Prisoner (one of my favorite shows as a child:) "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
(Me now:) "Ok, Boomer."
Karen, I don't know whether to despair or not. I watch the trouble one of the smartest men in the world is having providing a simple blue check on a miniscule social media platform, and I think these trans-humanists don't stand a chance. Then, I think, I can just touch a sensor on my phone with my index finger and I can log into all my financial accounts. This is maddening.
Our only hope, I think, is to throw every monkey wrench we can into the whole works and hope it breaks. Resist. Then, resist even more.
But, I read my Scripture, and I know, it does not get better.
Don't despair! I actually want to write about those sad little blue checks and now Substack has rolled out checks too, to identify writers by how many paid subscribers they have--white, red and purple. You aren't required to display them lol. Van Gogh would not be offered any checks.
my electronic medical records are riddled with errors on a continuing basis… seems like they have the infrastructure for a biometric security state but still lacking in the coordination, finesse to lock the door on our cage… there is still hope.
[11] Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. [12] It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. [13] It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, [14] and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. [15] And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. [16] Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, [17] so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. [18] This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
Thanks as always for your writing but a small correction. The Babylonian Empire was not in 38,000 BC, during the Upper Paleolithic, when there were, in fact, no empires at all. The earliest empire centered in Babylon took shape after the fall of Sumerian power, around 1,900 BC. I couldn't agree more with your larger point though.
Yes! Haha. Although I've checked it with multiple sources and it is indeed 3,800 BC. However I've changed it to say Babylon instead of Babylonian Empire as I believe that's more accurate.
Well written. I need to rewatch The Prisoner now. I implore everyone to read “Age of Surveillance Capitalism”. It’s very long and so well written. It’s scary how they ultimately want to control & make money from you. I think it’s worth reading once a year, lest you forget how you are being used.
Too late. They already track us. We're already numbers. And, yet, their control is only partial, never absolute, never will be, unless we volunteer it. Government control is like hacker attacks. Every attack is met with new countermeasures. No perfect attacks, no perfect defense. Constant vigilance.
One paragraph after another became my favorite! The natives thinking photographs were soul stealers made me consider all of the selfies and tik tok vids. I think the natives were on to something. Great writing and reporting, Karen.
When Adam and Eve went ahead against orders from God not to eat ANY of the fruit from the TREE of KNOWLEDGE of Good and Evil, they should have followed instructions. Once they started feasting on this kind of KNOWLEDGE they could not stop and it was incompatible with the perfect life they were living in the Garden. So they had to be removed from the Garden....they had turned away from God and towards themselves
In their state of being separated from God and under the influence of the Secular Knowledge of Good and Evil, their minds were clouded with their pursuit of what seemed to them good and they forsook whatever they labeled evil. This soon became further complicated and confusing because they called evil good and good seemed evil.
God in his omniscience knew they could not handle it and all of what would happen to Adam and Eve if they went ahead and sampled the addictive fruit. So he forbade it and told them of the consequences.
They disobeyed Him.
Right now the many descendants of Adam and Eve are continuing to devour that knowledge.....the world is literally choking on it. Still regurgitating poisoned fruit. Unable to stop, lost Unregenerate people want to become their own gods, just like what the Lying Serpent promised Adam and Eve they could become if they just disregarded God and sampled that poisonous fruit.....
God the Creator and Sustainer is omniscient. That is what Humankind wants to be:Having all knowledge. But we are not God. We are created beings. Finite. Even our Artificial Intelligence is puny and limited. In our overweening pride We refuse to acknowledge that, and we suffer catastrophic consequences from this over and over.......
...... Instead they listened to Satan, who tempted them to disobey saying they would be "as gods, knowing good and evil."
Thank you, Karen. I find this quite terrifying. I’m with Dana, above: Resist.
The Prisoner (one of my favorite shows as a child:) "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
(Me now:) "Ok, Boomer."
Karen, I don't know whether to despair or not. I watch the trouble one of the smartest men in the world is having providing a simple blue check on a miniscule social media platform, and I think these trans-humanists don't stand a chance. Then, I think, I can just touch a sensor on my phone with my index finger and I can log into all my financial accounts. This is maddening.
Our only hope, I think, is to throw every monkey wrench we can into the whole works and hope it breaks. Resist. Then, resist even more.
But, I read my Scripture, and I know, it does not get better.
Don't despair! I actually want to write about those sad little blue checks and now Substack has rolled out checks too, to identify writers by how many paid subscribers they have--white, red and purple. You aren't required to display them lol. Van Gogh would not be offered any checks.
my electronic medical records are riddled with errors on a continuing basis… seems like they have the infrastructure for a biometric security state but still lacking in the coordination, finesse to lock the door on our cage… there is still hope.
Revelation 13:11-18
The Second Beast
[11] Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. [12] It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. [13] It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, [14] and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. [15] And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. [16] Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, [17] so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. [18] This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
Thanks as always for your writing but a small correction. The Babylonian Empire was not in 38,000 BC, during the Upper Paleolithic, when there were, in fact, no empires at all. The earliest empire centered in Babylon took shape after the fall of Sumerian power, around 1,900 BC. I couldn't agree more with your larger point though.
Oh goodness, when I sit at my desk writing for 6 hours things get fuzzy. Thanks for the correction. Where would I be without my readers!
You were just making sure we are paying attention ;-)
Yes! Haha. Although I've checked it with multiple sources and it is indeed 3,800 BC. However I've changed it to say Babylon instead of Babylonian Empire as I believe that's more accurate.
I checked and checked and multiple sources put it at 3,800 BC but I've changed it to Babylon instead of saying Babylonian Empire as that is more accurate. https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/babylons-ancient-clay-tablets-made-more-census-than-todays-computers/news-story/3f76510db70c6bfd1185192a2e90badc
Well written. I need to rewatch The Prisoner now. I implore everyone to read “Age of Surveillance Capitalism”. It’s very long and so well written. It’s scary how they ultimately want to control & make money from you. I think it’s worth reading once a year, lest you forget how you are being used.
Too late. They already track us. We're already numbers. And, yet, their control is only partial, never absolute, never will be, unless we volunteer it. Government control is like hacker attacks. Every attack is met with new countermeasures. No perfect attacks, no perfect defense. Constant vigilance.
Gratitude for what you have written; courage to keep writing. God bless you. May you always be well.
🙏🌷
Very late to the party, but, I remember the poly sci department where I started out At having a white balloon that traveled around the department.
Wow, interesting. What was its purpose?
It was a reference to the show’The Prisoner. The balloon served as a guard of sorts.
Oh, I got it. Thanks.
"How do we free ourselves from this obsession with proving who we are...?"
Enter Adyashanti, Eckhart Tolle, etc. > https://youtu.be/Ko_peK-7I5A
Babylonian empire more like 2000 BC than 38000 BC.
According to sources it is 3,800 BC but I've changed it from Babylonian Empire to simply Babylon.
Oh, you just had an extra zero in there - 38,000 rather than 3,800.
Haha, is that what I did? Sitting at my computer (not a quantum one lol) for hours on end I begin to see more zeros than necessary.
And you revised the history of civilisation in the process!
It the next step in compliance training:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-compliance-training
Very late to the party, but, I remember the poly sci department where I started out At having a white balloon that traveled around the department.
Very late to the party, but, I remember the poly sci department where I started out At having a white balloon that traveled around the department.