I looked at Sheridan's video. He seems to think that the "jab-berwocky" has changed its recipients on some ontological level. He states that these people are no longer human.
I am not so sure about the cause and effect here. I have long believed that "A crisis does not change people - it reveals them!" In other words, we now know what the people we thought we knew are actually like.
Another point. I reject Sheridan's Gnostic/Manichean view that there are two species inhabiting human bodies. Many Gnostics theorize that most people are what they call "Pre-Adamics" or "Organic Portals" who only have the appearance of being human. Gnostics commonly divide people into "σαρχικοί" (fleshly), "ψυχικοί" (soulish) and "πνευματικοί " (spiritual), and further assert that these states are ontological and immutable (almost a proto-Calvinist position).
As an Orthodox Christian, I reject that. I think that the so-called "σαρχικοί" are simply souls that have not matured enough to receive spiritual influences. I do not think that this is immutable. There are many people who lived grossly fleshly lives, who later repented and became great saints.
As for whether the jabs are enough to turn ordinary people into zombies, I tend to think not. However, in fairness, I must point out that there are several holy elders on Mount Athos who do consider the vaccines to be a precursor to the "Mark of the Beast" and who do think that they can disrupt or destroy the possibility of a spiritual connection to God.
I personally have not seen people suddenly change their personalities after receiving a shot. Maybe my sample size is too small. .....
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Date: 2022-11-09 10:49 pm (UTC)I am not so sure about the cause and effect here. I have long believed that "A crisis does not change people - it reveals them!" In other words, we now know what the people we thought we knew are actually like.
Another point. I reject Sheridan's Gnostic/Manichean view that there are two species inhabiting human bodies. Many Gnostics theorize that most people are what they call "Pre-Adamics" or "Organic Portals" who only have the appearance of being human. Gnostics commonly divide people into "σαρχικοί" (fleshly), "ψυχικοί" (soulish) and "πνευματικοί " (spiritual), and further assert that these states are ontological and immutable (almost a proto-Calvinist position).
As an Orthodox Christian, I reject that. I think that the so-called "σαρχικοί" are simply souls that have not matured enough to receive spiritual influences. I do not think that this is immutable. There are many people who lived grossly fleshly lives, who later repented and became great saints.
As for whether the jabs are enough to turn ordinary people into zombies, I tend to think not. However, in fairness, I must point out that there are several holy elders on Mount Athos who do consider the vaccines to be a precursor to the "Mark of the Beast" and who do think that they can disrupt or destroy the possibility of a spiritual connection to God.
I personally have not seen people suddenly change their personalities after receiving a shot. Maybe my sample size is too small. .....
Michael Martin