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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 66

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:
1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)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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(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 03:44 am (UTC)(link)On the other hand, we reject the strict predestinarianism of some of his writings. We refer to him as "Blessed" Augustine (one step below full sainthood), because of his erroneous teachings. However, only a very few Orthodox regard him as outright heretical. For us, "heresy" involves a concerted effort to change Church teachings. You can be mistaken, without being a "heretic" in that sense.
So, he has an honored place among us, but we do not regard him as an authority on par with St. Basil the Great or St. John Chrysostom.
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I've only become more familiar with Orthodox Christianity - based on Alexander Christofouri explaining it quickly in a recent interview with the Polish gal. As he puts it, the process matters a lot and you have to take a longer-term view and be more patient. That is what's taught culturally and spiritually, which ties in with Michael Martin's take.
However, there was a discussion last week about how folks are no longer enjoying the events which they used to go to, due to them having embraced vexing mandates. I have the same exact feelings - not just for the physical events, but during the early part of the global lockdowns, a lot of complete classical concerts were posted on Youtube by the main labels which own the copywrites, and one thing I noticed quickly and have commented in private with friends - is that a person would be playing a piece which sounded transcendal, euphoric or just full of joy. But the same person playing the same piece now in a new recording - would be note perfect technically speaking, playing with polished ease.... yet there's definitely something missing. In the older version, I may have wanted to play it in the background while reading some other stuff, but it becomes so arresting that I switch over and just simply enjoy watching and listening to the performance. Now? it's like muzak in the background and I can barely tolerate it. I had described it as the performer no longer having any soul in the music...
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 11:21 am (UTC)(link)Generally I can pick someone who isn't jabbed. I'm not sure if it's an energetic sensing, or something about their attitude and the way they talk.
What I do notice is that the jabbed are constrained in how they think. They seem locked into a limited worldview, unable to consider possibilities outside of a narrow range. Trying to discuss things outside of that leads to blocking, blank looks and anger if you push it.
Has it turned them into zombies (scene cuts to an episode of The Walking Dead)? No, any effect is subtle so far, apart from say sudden death, but death is preferable to being a zombie isn't it?
Does the jab have elements of the mark of the beast? You mean do they want to have a bar code and DNA record for all of us? That would only be so Amazon could drone over your meds, nothing sinister surely?
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But I do think that for many people, the act of going along with something that you don't feel is completely right, that maybe you have some instinctive reservations about... that act, in and of itself, is spiritually stunting. You've accepted a leash and muzzle, in exchange for... your job, money, certain privileges you're used to.
That sort of stunting is reversible. But it's difficult.
I think maybe what we're seeing is a very large number of people who recently-- despite some misgivings-- bowed to the leash and muzzle. Getting out is going to cost them, but it's still possible. Maybe we can help.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-12 12:03 am (UTC)(link)The vaxxed didn't change, we did who refused it.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)Blaming the fizzing red wave on the transmogrification of the vaxxed into a new species made me chuckle, although I'm not convinced that the vax has made the vaxxed into a different species either. Sure, they may have taken on some new thinking/behaviours, but I tend to agree with you in that the events of the last few years have probably more revealed people for who they are, instead of changing what they really are.
On a personal level, I accept that whatever the cause, there's just something about my makeup that makes me fundamentally different to almost everyone else in my hometown. I mean, at one stage the local health authorities were claiming a 104% vax rate, whereas I have declined to accept even one injection! More seriously, despite the odd figures from time to time, the authorities have almost certainly injected almost everyone who was eligible for the sacrament in my town, and they all went along with the whole shebang.
These events have led me to the crazy realization that almost everyone in my town is genuinely incapable of grokking the way I think and behave. And that's not new - it's always been that way. It's just that it's taken these events to make me accept it. The vaccines haven't changed them - they were always like that, and in all likelihood, they always will be like that. If Sheridan isn't right about our differences being due to the vax, then perhaps the Gnostics were onto something after all :P
Whatever the case, it's liberating. I can stop worrying so much now about this or that difference. What'd be the point? Which brings me around to agreeing with Sheridan that there's no point in being Nationalistic when one has bugger all in common with their countrymen, and I respect that he feels connected to his international tribe.
I'd be interested to hear more about these Gnostic beliefs you've raised, and the views of the elders of Mount Athos. With respect to the latter, I googled "Mount Athos elders vaccine" and the first headlines/hits were about how "Greece's Mount Athos elders trust God and science to protect them from COVID" - ha, ha, methinks the search engine doth protest too much :) I think I'll have to put in a bit more effort to find their views on the vax and its relationship to the "Mark of the Beast".
Anyway, thanks all for a couple of interesting posts/links.
The Ninth Mouse
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)https://www.orthodoxtalks.com/talk-82-the-importance-of-reading-the-lives-of-saints-when-dealing-with-the-heresies-of-ecumenism-and-covidism-part-1/
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-11 12:33 am (UTC)(link)Not following 'the speed of science' down to the pharmacy it seems :-)
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)Thank you. Will listen to it a bit later.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)It's a bit off topic, but I have a different reading about the election than Sheridan. The election was carried for the Democrats by single women: they voted Dem with a whopping 37% difference. Married man, married women and single men all voted Rep. I think the Republicans shot themselves in the foot with overturning Roe vs Wade. This article about it is excellent and makes much sense to me: https://unherd.com/2022/11/a-sex-war-is-coming/
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-11 12:34 am (UTC)(link)I also never underestimate 'shenanigans.'
People playing for 'all the marbles' (who don't see the giant marbles all around) will
use their lower nature to connive.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-12 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)all the 'shenanigan' stuff is going full-tilt boogie non-stop.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-11 02:37 am (UTC)(link)My sense is that covid (and Ukraine) are a one two combo. Ukraine let’s people all over the world FEEL like a Great War is happening, and it sort of ticks all the boxes power gets by having a war. But it’s (so far), nice and contained. For everyone outside of Ukraine, it’s like a roller coaster ride. All the thrills and chills, none of the actual danger.
Covid is where the actual dying happens. Whatever the cause, if you buy the covid narrative or if you think it’s all lizard people killing everyone, it’s hard to deny lots of people are dying, or have died. It’s on the scale of a decent sized global war. People might just be psychologically wiped out, aware that danger is about, death is stalking the hospital halls. 3 years of semi-regular adrenaline dumps can take a toll. Add to that the likely reality that many people ARE injured, and what I think we are seeing all around, in those blank stares, is a sea of walking wounded, subconsciously pondering what battle weary soldiers ponder.
Plus there is probably some woo layered onto that as well ;)
Murmuration.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-12 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)In terms of the war in Ukraine being a one-two punch with Covidmania
I wonder too why we haven't seen choreographed dance numbers from Ukrainian politicians or maybe even the 'Azov Brigade' in the halls of their parliament or the Azovstal steel plant basement where they were holed up.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-12 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)https://youtu.be/V6Y0popoz7U
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-13 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)Could be an iconic/iconographic meme itself.....a touchstone - a reference point during all this.