Tongues on Fire

I am come to send fire on the earth. How happy I am to find it already kindled.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

On Tongues: Summary Exegesis

Herein I have collected 15 exhibits of Scriptural evidence which I find useful for discerning the nature of the Spiritual Gifts. Along with these 15 exhibits, I have endeavored to provide the shortest possible explanation of why I think they support my understanding of “the gift of tongues” better than the two mainstream explanations, which I refer to as “magical foreign language speaking” (the cessationist doctrine) and “babbling” (the mainstream continuationist doctrine).

I explain “the gift of tongues” as the Holy Spirit’s deliberate development of a believer's linguistic and communication-based competencies, which enable believers to deliver clear Gospel messages in language that is accessible to their particular audience.

I believe that God never stopped empowering communicators for the transmission and defense of the faith, even unto the present generation; but such gifts are no longer recognized, partly because the force of controversy tends to split people into one of the two mainstream camps: Pentecostal babbling for those who cannot accept that God has revoked his irrevocable gifts (cf. Romans 11:29); and magical foreign language speaking for those who don’t want to be associated with those babbling weirdos.

I have known a few who refused to declare allegiance with either camp. I hope the points I lay out here will show a narrow way between these two opinions. Remember: It’s all about the mission. Teach. Preach. Make disciples. Communicate the message which God sent into the world. The gifts are for that. Amazon can deliver the Book to someone’s doorstep, but God empowers communicators to ensure that it gets delivered over the threshold of the heart.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

Racism, Proper

There is knowledge of groups.
There is knowledge of individuals.
There is a right way and two wrong ways to apply group knowledge to unknown individuals.

Wrong way 1: Subversive tolerance
(Unconditional hospitality)
-Pretend group knowledge does not exist.
-Give leniency to out-group members who violate the norms and laws of the in-group.
-Subversive tolerators make their own group vulnerable to conquest and genocide.
-Subversive tolerance may be imposed by outsiders through institutional capture, in order to make conquest and genocide easier.
-Unconditional hospitality is equivalent to giving outsiders the right to demand hospitality, and in fact the right to allocate the resources which belong to the in-group. Such a condition is often imposed upon conquered peoples by their conquerors.

Wrong way 2: Racism, proper
(Unconditional inhospitality)
-Pretend that what is known of the group is also known of the individual.
-No mercy to out-group violators.
-Racism ultimately motivates genocide.

Right way: Conditional hospitality
-Individuals are given a chance to distinguish themselves individually as amiable, tolerable, or otherwise.
-Gate-keeping: New arrivals are probed at the threshold before they come in.
-Watchfulness: Daily conduct might reveal behaviors and attitudes which can be concealed from gate-keepers.
-Sponsorships and Vouch Systems: If an in-group member lets in an outsider, the in-group member may be held responsible for crimes committed by the outsider.
-Gate-keeping and watchfulness look like racism to the subversive tolerator, as does any burden placed upon the outsider in the proving of his character.
-Any grace afforded to the outsider, and any benefit of the doubt extended to the outsider during probation looks like subversive tolerance to the racist.

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Race & Politics

“Poly” (which means “many”) is the root of words like “politics” and “policy”. In matters of policy, we deal with groups of people, rather than individuals; and we make choices that will control many individual acts. If we do something only once, then Murphy’s Law does not apply; most of the things which could go wrong will probably not go wrong. But when you are going to do something over and over again, then you have to consider that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. This is the difference between individual choices and policy decisions.

It is possible to have knowledge of individuals. It is also possible to have knowledge of groups. In matters of public policy, what matters is what we know about groups of people. Those are the facts that will tell us how a given policy position will serve the nation or community.

The way you, as an individual, deal with other individuals within the scope of your influence belongs to the sphere of individual policy. In matters of public policy, everything that can go wrong, will go wrong; but in matters of individual policy, not everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Individual policy risks generally only affect the individual policy holder, but public policy risks will affect the whole public.

Accordingly, individuals can accept greater risks in their individual policies than they should in their public policy positions. Individuals who support public policy positions which involve risks that they would not take on in their own individual policies are in violation of the Golden Rule. With respect to individual and public policies, the Golden Rule translates as, “Place no risk on the public, which you don’t want to bear individually.”

Harms suffered by individuals from practicing their own individual policies is considered just harm; everyone is considered to “consent” to the potential harms of their own individual policies. But harm suffered by individuals resulting from public policies may be unjust, depending on the process by which the public policy was determined. Consent is obtained through representation and the free exchange of ideas. Where there is nominal representation or censorship, consent is impossible, and all harms resulting from public policy are unjust harms, for which the policy makers are culpable.

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Ethics, Vaues, and International Dynamics

We use the English word “nation” to translate the Greek “ethnos”. In the Greek mindset, “ethnicity” is equal to “nationality”.

English “ethics” is used to translate the Greek “ethos”. Both “ethos” and “ethnos” were rooted in the Greek verb, “etho”, which means “to be used to (something)”. “Ethics”, in the Greek mindset, is basically the set of things that people are “used to”; and a “nation” is a group of people who are all “used to” the same things.

To be “used to” is to be “accustomed to”; hence ethics encompasses a people’s customs, which are common and traditional ways of doing things. The Greeks understood that practice flows from beliefs and values; thus the ethics of an ethnicity should be understood as encompassing customs, traditions, beliefs and values. People who share these things in common are able to get along with ease, and cooperate without coercion. Where these things are shared, a nation will naturally form.

As the “soul” is called the unifying and organizing principle of the body, so we can think of the nation as a kind of social body, which is unified and organized by the shared customs, beliefs and values of its people. The ethos is the soul of the ethnos. A people’s ethics are the soul of their nation.

When it comes to international policy, understanding the ethics of other nations is paramount. A nation that hates rape cannot peaceably mingle with a nation that practices rape so regularly that its people are used to it. A nation that values women, cannot peaceably mingle with a nation that places women on a level with animals.

Such ethical incompatibilities are so easily ascertained, and the results of mingling such cultures are so easily predictable, that policymakers are blameworthy for the violence that results when groups are mixed in this way, especially where the international policy was decided by nominal representatives in the midst of ongoing censorship.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Imagine l’Allemagne nazie.

Des pères de famille ordinaires, des hommes qui rentraient le soir embrasser leurs enfants, qui travaillaient dur, qui n’étaient ni des monstres ni des sadiques de naissance, ont été transformés en tortionnaires et en tueurs de masse.

Christopher Browning l’a démontré dans "Ordinary Men" : des policiers de réserve, des quadragénaires tranquilles, pères de famille, ont massacré des milliers de Juifs en Pologne non parce qu’ils étaient des nazis fanatiques, mais parce que le système idéologique, l’autorité et la pression du groupe les y ont conduits pas à pas.

L’idéologie avait redéfini le bien et le mal.

La déshumanisation de la cible avait été rendue normale.

S’opposer était devenu socialement et professionnellement suicidaire.

Exactement le même mécanisme psychologique est utilisé aujourd’hui par les promoteurs du wokisme et du globalisme.

Pas avec des camps, mais avec une idéologie tout aussi totalisante : la « lutte contre le racisme » (définie de façon unilatérale et sélective) est placée au sommet absolu de la morale. Tout le reste — y compris la protection d’enfants — passe après.

Et ce mécanisme, appliqué consciemment par ceux qui le portent, produit des résultats concrets : des milliers de petites filles blanches violées, prostituées et détruites par des réseaux criminels majoritairement composés d’hommes d’origine pakistanaise au Royaume-Uni, pendant que les institutions ferment les yeux ou protègent les auteurs.

Ce n’est pas une opinion. C’est documenté par les enquêtes officielles indépendantes (Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, Telford, Newcastle…). À Rotherham seulement, au moins 1 400 enfants ont été sexuellement exploités entre 1997 et 2013. Les auteurs étaient « dans une très large majorité d’origine pakistanaise ».

Les autorités savaient. Elles n’ont rien fait pendant des années. La raison explicitement citée dans les rapports : la peur d’être accusées de racisme. Plusieurs fonctionnaires ont déclaré avoir eu « peur d’identifier l’origine ethnique des auteurs de crainte d’être traités de racistes ».

C’est là que les expériences de psychologie d’après-guerre deviennent les clés de lecture indispensables.

L’expérience de Milgram (1961) : des hommes et des femmes ordinaires, dans un laboratoire, reçoivent l’ordre d’une autorité scientifique d’infliger des chocs électriques de plus en plus forts à un « élève » qui hurle et supplie. 65 % vont jusqu’au niveau maximum (450 volts), qu’ils croient mortel. Ils ne sont pas sadiques. Ils disent : « C’est l’expérience qui l’exige », « Ce n’est pas moi qui décide ». L’autorité a redéfini ce qui est acceptable.

L’expérience de la prison de Stanford (Zimbardo, 1971) : des étudiants normaux, psychologiquement sains, sont répartis au hasard en « gardiens » et « prisonniers ». En quelques jours, les gardiens deviennent cruels, humiliants, sadiques. Pas parce qu’ils étaient des monstres, mais parce que le rôle + l’idéologie implicite du système + la pression du groupe ont suffi à les transformer.

Appliquez cela aux policiers, travailleurs sociaux et fonctionnaires britanniques d’aujourd’hui.

Ils ne sont pas responsables au premier degré. Ce ne sont pas des tortionnaires conscients qui adorent voir des enfants souffrir.

Ce sont des gens normaux qui ont été formatés, dès l’école, dans leur formation, par les médias et par la culture institutionnelle, à associer le mot « racisme » à la pire chose qui existe.

Leur cerveau a été conditionné : constater un pattern ethnique ou culturel dans un crime grave = risque immédiat de destruction sociale et professionnelle. Mieux vaut classer sans suite, minimiser, accuser la victime ou les parents de « stigmatisation », ou même, comme dans cette image, menotter l’enfant battue en criant « Racism is illegal ! » pendant que le couple bien-pensant s’embrasse en se disant qu’il rend le pays « plus sûr ».

C’est l’obéissance à l’autorité idéologique en direct. Le « racisme » est devenu la valeur suprême à laquelle tout doit se plier, y compris la protection d’enfants. Comme dans Milgram, les acteurs se déresponsabilisent : « Ce n’est pas moi, c’est la politique », « Ce n’est pas moi, c’est pour éviter le racisme ». Comme dans Stanford, le rôle institutionnel + l’idéologie dominante suffisent à produire l’aveuglement et la cruauté par omission.

Les vrais responsables ne sont donc pas les policiers de base. Ce sont ceux qui, en conscience, construisent et maintiennent encore aujourd’hui ce système idéologique : les élites politiques, médiatiques, universitaires et associatives qui promeuvent le wokisme et le globalisme, qui ont imposé l’immigration massive sans exigence d’assimilation, et qui ont fait du refus de nommer les réalités ethniques et culturelles un impératif moral.

Ceux qui, encore aujourd’hui, refusent de condamner fermement les actes individuels et les patterns collectifs quand ils concernent certaines minorités, parce que cela risquerait de « passer pour raciste ». Ceux qui savaient — les rapports officiels l’ont écrit noir sur blanc — et qui ont choisi de préserver l’idéologie plutôt que les enfants.

C’est exactement le même mécanisme que sous le nazisme : une idéologie fournit la justification morale pour l’inaction face au mal, voire pour le mal lui-même. La déshumanisation n’est plus celle des Juifs, elle est celle des « petites Anglaises blanches » qui deviennent des victimes acceptables au nom de la « diversité » et de la « lutte contre l’islamophobie ».

Les clés de lecture, pour ne plus jamais être aveuglé :

1. Les exécutants de terrain (policiers, éducateurs, fonctionnaires) sont rarement les premiers coupables. Ils sont les produits du formatage idéologique et situationnel. Les expériences de Milgram et Stanford le prouvent scientifiquement.

2. L’idéologie définit ce qui est « vertueux ». Quand « ne pas être accusé de racisme » devient plus important que protéger des enfants, le système est moralement inversé.

3. Le chantage moral paralyse l’action : « Si tu nommes la réalité, tu es raciste » = silence, mensonge ou inversion de la culpabilité.

4. L’histoire ne se répète pas parce qu’il y aurait des « méchants » d’un côté et des « gentils » de l’autre. Elle se répète parce que les mécanismes psychologiques humains (obéissance à l’autorité, conformisme de groupe, peur du statut social) sont constants. Seule change l’idéologie qui les met au service du mal.

5. Les rapports officiels existent. Les chiffres existent. Les témoignages de victimes existent. Tout est public. Ce qui manque n’est pas l’information. Ce qui manque est le courage de briser le formatage idéologique.

Cette image n’est pas une caricature. C’est la représentation exacte d’un mécanisme documenté, reproduit dans des dizaines de villes britanniques pendant des décennies. Tant que ce formatage ne sera pas brisé — tant que l’idéologie qui place la peur du « racisme » au-dessus de la protection des enfants ne sera pas frontalement remise en cause —, le même processus continuera de produire les mêmes résultats.

Les enfants ne sont pas des variables d’ajustement idéologique.

La vérité n’est pas raciste.

Refuser de la regarder par peur d’être traité de raciste, si.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

The post below suggests that the expansion of the universe may eventually outpace light itself, so that a generation is coming when no star will be visible in the sky, even to the most powerful telescopes.

Consider carefully that, in such a case, the best evidence for the existence of stars and other galaxies will be ancient texts which testify to what we see with our own eyes today.

Do not discount what ancient texts have to say about things we cannot see.

[Deepcosmoss @Deepcosmoss]

13.8 milyar yıl önce başlayan bu hikayede inanılmaz derecede tuhaf bir zaman dilimine denk geldik. Şu an gökyüzüne baktığımızda milyarlarca galaksi görüyoruz, evrenin genişlediğini ölçebiliyoruz ve Büyük Patlamanın yankılarını dinleyebiliyoruz. Ama sarsıcı olan kısım şu, evren bu bilgileri sonsuza dek açık tutmayacak.

James Webb verileri ve modern kozmolojik modeller bize evrenin genişleme hızının yerçekiminden çok daha güçlü bir şekilde arttığını kanıtlıyor. Her saniye, diğer galaksiler bizden hızla uzaklaşıyor. Ve o genişleme hızı milyarlarca yıl sonra o kadar kritik bir eşiği aşacak ki, galaksiler arası boşluk ışık hızından daha hızlı bir şekilde birbirinden kopmaya başlayacak.

Şimdi şunu düşün, trilyonlarca yıl sonra Samanyolu ve Andromeda birleşmiş devasa tek bir galaksi haline gelmiş olacak. O dönemde yepyeni bir yıldız sisteminde zeki bir yaşam formu ortaya çıkıp gökyüzünü incelemeye başladığında, evrenin gerçek doğasına dair en ufak bir ipucu bile bulamayacak. Teleskoplarını ne kadar uzağa çevirirlerse çevirsinler sadece zifiri bir karanlık görecekler.

Büyük Patlamaya dair hiçbir radyasyon kalıntısı olmayacak. Başka galaksilerin varlığına dair hiçbir kanıt bulamayacaklar çünkü o galaksilerden yola çıkan ışık, aradaki uzay ışıktan hızlı genişlediği için onlara asla ulaşamayacak. O geleceğin dahi bilim insanları, evrenin yaşının sonsuz olduğunu ve başlangıçsız tek bir galaksiden ibaret olduğunu kanıtlayan kesin fizik yasaları yazacaklar. Ve yazdıkları her şey tamamen yanlış olacak.

Bizler, evrenin geçmişine dair ipuçlarının henüz silinmediği o incecik kozmik zaman aralığında yaşıyoruz. Doğanın en büyük paradoksu da burada başlıyor zaten. Evren şu an bize kendi sırlarını açığa vuruyor gibi görünüyor ama milyarlarca yıl sonraki nesillere tarihin en kusursuz yalanını söylemek için hazırlanıyor. Işık bir gün pes edecek ve o gün evrenin tüm hafızası sıfırlanacak.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

The Semantics of Spirit & the Container Metonymy

Ideas are encoded into “vocables”, sounds that we are able to make with our body, particularly with coordinated motions of our lungs, throat, tongue, teeth and lips. The “en-” in “encode” means “in”, meaning that to encode is to use coding to put something in something else. The idea is therefore “in” the sounds we make when we communicate.

The lungs participate in our vocables because the breath powers the vocal chords, which produce vibrations that are carried upon the breath and into the atmosphere (or, as we might say, into the “wind”). All of this amounts to the fact that our ideas are carried first by our breath, and then by the wind. And, the word for breath and wind in Hebrew and Greek is the same word that we translate as “spirit”.

This is consistent with the “container metonymy”, a natural linguistic principle which says that a container and its contents can share their names. A stock example is a jar of pickles. If I say, “Bring me the pickles;” you should understand that I want you to bring me the jar of pickles, and not that I want you to take the pickles out of the jar and bring them to me. Conversely, if I say, “Bring me the jar;” you should not take the pickles out of the jar and bring it to me empty.

The idea is in the breath and then in the wind. Breath is the container; the idea is the contents. Therefore the word “breath” (or “spirit”) can be used to refer to the idea, as a consistent application of natural linguistics. And that, I believe, is what Scriptural authors have done.

1 John 4:1 ESV
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

In 1 John 4:1, John is not telling us to interrogate angelic beings like Michael or Lucifer. Instead, he is urging us to critically examine every claim which may be carried by the breath of men into the winds of this world.

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Ideas Are Active Agents

Christ is the Word of God and the Son of God. God's word is truth. Christ identifies as the truth, and calls satan the father of lies. Lies are the children of satan.

Ideas are active agents. True ideas come from God, align with God, and have a form of life which makes them "life-giving". This is a higher form of life than the merely biological, which is called "life-receiving". Lies are also active agents, but to call them "living" is generous. We could say that lies are "life-stealing", because they have no life and no power of their own, except what they can steal from those who are deceived.

Truth is an existential threat to lies. Therefore do lies motivate anger, hatred, rage, and murderous intent towards those who speak truth. Such passions come from the lie, which is acting in self defense.

We think we have ideas. The reality is that our ideas possess us; they direct our desires and motivations. To be deceived just is to be demonized. But to know the truth...

John 17:3 ESV
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 8:31-32 ESV
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, [32] and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Proverbs 4:23 ESV
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

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[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

Maybe Saintly
A bit of fiction to illustrate the possibility of improbabilities

Alone at last. Inhale. Exhale. Relax. Just breathe.

Forget what lies behind. Forgive all men their sins, and judge not so as not to be judged.

Be not judged. Be forgiven through the blood of the Son of God.

This is where I bloom. That's what I call it when I go probable. When I'm alone, instead of doing just one thing actually, I can do many things probably.

The world is naturally like that, in this state of many possible states, each having its own probability. Different acts of observation reduce the field of probabilities in different ways. Normal human observation collapses the field of possibilities on the surface of things, leaving the inner workings of things in superposition; while observations that are loaded with rational judgments collapse the field at a deeper level. Naturally, children collapse probability fields less than adults.

The act of judgment can affect how inner probability fields collapse. This is why we observe placebo and nocebo effects. If you observe X, and you believe that X is a cause of sickness, then you can become sick. If you believe that doing Y will cure the sickness, and you do Y, your sickness can be cured.

With the judgment you pronounce you will be judged. Over and over in Matthew, “Your faith has saved you.” It has been said that God does not throw dice; but I think this must miss the thrust of these teachings. If you make your health subject to probability, then God will throw the dice. “As you have believed, let it be unto you.” This teaching is either going to be for you or against you, depending on how you believe, and depending on who you believe.

I believe Jesus.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. [2] Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Renewal. Renewal of the mind. Paul mentioned it. Sounded good. So I went after it. And then I went superpositional, sort of by accident.

“Judge not” seemed to be the trick. Reducing judgments to an absolute minimum. Some things you have to judge. Christ is Lord. God raised Him from the dead. The Holy Bible is our collection of inspired, canonic testimonies, whereby we can come to know these things in the present age.

But shedding the unnecessary judgments and opinions and construals and other things that we don't really know but sometimes think, speak or act like we do: that's where I found myself suddenly not being judged.

Not determined. Probable.

Probably a sinner. But also, maybe a saint.

How might I sin? The possibilities are few and dreary and a shame to speak of. But also - here's the awesome part - covered by the blood of Christ. I’ll come back to that.

But how might I do well? The possibilities are so many more! And how wonderful they all are! And my blessing is that I can experience the benefits of having done well in many ways.

But only when I am unobserved, and only when I shed my judgments. I will probably waste the evening playing video games, but I could fold the clothes for my wife, or read the Bible, or pray. On the other side of the evening, when my wife comes home, I have prayed, I know my Bible a little better, the clothes are folded, and I feel perfectly rested.

The brain is not really equipped to store probable experiences. My memories can be hazy for a few seconds when the fields collapse, but somehow I am always found saintly, even though I really only was maybe. The field collapses in my favor, without respect for what is “most probable”. Sometimes I come out of the haze having done something very improbable.

That might need clarification: “a probability” is just a form of reality that has a probability that is neither null nor one, but in between. “A probability” can be improbable, all things considered. If something has a probability of one, that is an “actuality” which excludes all other possibilities.

When I bloom, I branch out into probable paths, like lightning that is reaching towards the ground through paths of lower resistance. My conscious experience becomes like a house with many rooms. Each room is “lit up” in proportion to its probability. More probable paths are brighter; less probable paths are dimmer. When I am again observed, it is as when the lightning strikes, collapsing the field backwards through time, and not always along the most probable path.

When I first began to experience fields of probability, I did not immediately realize what was happening. In the beginning, there was a much wider disparity between the most probable path and the lesser probabilities. I am probably a sinner, but maybe a saint. My probable sin was by far the brightest room in the house, and the dimmer possibilities, in which I could have done something good, I experienced with a sense of shame, as though God were showing me how I had wasted an opportunity. But there was something that didn’t fit. Something that came afterward.

I should have prayed, the way I saw it. I missed that opportunity. And yet, it was as though God had already forgiven my sin. He treated me as though I had prayed. I could have worked on my Scripture memorization. Time and time again, I let it slide, and yet my recall never diminished.

I had a growing suspicion that God was working something in my favor behind the scenes. Ultimately, you must understand, this is for His own name’s sake; for I am called by His name, and should, therefore, bear much fruit. But I am an unprofitable servant, poor of spirit, deprived of tradition, a sheep without a shepherd. This is not me achieving something meritorious. This is God having pity on me. I actually wonder if there are other pitiful souls out there, likewise helped behind the scenes, and made to appear righteous, despite their own personal failures and disadvantages.

As my suspicions grew, the disparity of probabilities began to diminish. My probable sins became dimmer, and my improbable saintliness became brighter. When I recognized what was happening, my experience became very much more distinct. Remember, acts of judgment affect the way the probability fields collapse. Before the recognition, there was the vague sense that God might help us in ways that we don’t perceive. It started because I was open to the possibility. And God is an opportunist. His opening was maybe no wider than the eye of a needle; but that was enough.

Recognition was the breaking of the dam. The eye of the needle was blown open, and the possibilities came surging through, flooding my reality. My probable sins were dimmed, not only by their decreasing probabilities (a cumulative result of my many improbable good works resulting in actual spiritual disciplines and virtues), but also because the power of the blood of Christ was at work, casting an articulated darkness on the sin that still clings to me.

Isaiah 45:5-7 ESV
I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, [6] that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. [7] I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.

The blood shed at the Cross of Christ covers my sins in real time. That doesn’t mean that my sin isn’t real.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

God covers my sin so that the issuance of my love will not be hindered by a defiled conscience. God is love. This is for His name’s sake!

Now, like I said, this only happens when I am unobserved. When it began, I was always inside, in small rooms with closed doors. Things don’t move unless I might move them. It was a little while before I tried this outside. There is no accounting for the wind, apparently. When I bloom outside, the world blooms along with me. Whatever can be blown, I see as blown in every direction simultaneously.

Irrational animals apparently do not collapse probability fields. An animal’s fear of man crosses with its natural curiosity to produce a probability field in which the animal might, improbably, approach and attempt to befriend. Whenever I go out into the wilderness and shed my judgments, I am quickly surrounded by a menagerie of uncharacteristically friendly beasts.

I had to get rid of my phone. Not just because I might use it to look at porn. That probability has very greatly diminished over the years. It’s not quite zero, unfortunately; but it has been approaching zero for a long time now. No, the greater danger is that I might read the news, read the comments, and/or scroll social media. These actions open up fields of probability in which I am possibly carried away by feelings of anger towards paths of violence.

Once, when I came out of the haze, my wife was carrying groceries into the house, looking at me with a very worried expression. She had found me walking out the door looking visibly disturbed, and carrying a rifle. I don’t think that was a very likely outcome - a dim room in a house of brighter possibilities - but it was the first possible outcome which my wife would meet as she arrived home. That is where the lightning hit, collapsing the field of possibilities backwards in time, so that the memory which eventually settled was one in which I had gone down a very radicalizing rabbit hole.

I’ll be honest with you. That was tough to shake. There is a lot of evil in the world, and I am master of my emotions, but only up to a point. I truly wish I were a better man.

Romans 7:24-25 ESV
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? [25] Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

You might have caught on to the phrase, “backwards in time.” Probability collapse involves backwards causation - or so it appears to us. The reason any of this is possible is because (A) the world is a story, a thing spoken into existence by God the Author; and (B) stories have three distinct dimensions of “time”.

When you are in the story, you experience the time of the story: The order of events as they occur relative to one another within the story itself. The key word there is “order”. Time involves the way events or changes are ordered.

But the Author of the story “experiences” the events of the story in another order, the order in which He conceives and determines the events and how He connects them. Jesus is called “the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world.” This is because the Cross is the first and central event of the whole world story. God wrote the crucifixion first. Before Abraham was, Jesus is. Again, this is literally true in this second dimension of time. Among all possible creatures, human beings are a kind of thing that cannot exist at all without the Cross.

I have seen the third dimension of story-time. When a story is told and retold and passed down to new generations, little changes occur and accumulate that add up to big changes. I’ve seen that dimension, but I haven’t moved through it, and I don’t know how it applies to this particular story. Maybe on the other side we’ll experience a new iteration of history. I don’t know. I judge not.

I do know that the “Author’s time” is actually eternity, which is not “time” exactly, being the infinite source of temporality from which all times ultimately proceed. Yet even in eternity there are orders. The Cross really is ordered before the foundation of the world, and Jesus really is ordered before Abraham. And just like the Father makes room for us in His House, so also He carves out roles for us to play, not only in the story, but in writing the story.

The overarching order of the story is established, and for the children of God, our ending point or destiny is fixed. But as to how we get there? God has allowed us some agency. Our judgments and our daily choices are able to collapse probability fields, because those probability fields are kept open by the Author for the express purpose of giving us a chance to participate in the writing of the story. God is willing to write extreme improbabilities into our stories; like, for example:

Matthew 17:27 ESV
However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."

Jesus’s words here caused that fish’s probability field to collapse upon an extreme improbability. With God, all things are possible. Probability, as such, is no limitation at all. Any probability that is greater than zero is within the reach of the Author.

That means some things, which we regard as impossible, are really only very, very, very improbable. A mountain can lift itself up, and be cast into the sea, without breaking any of the laws which control what is possible, and how probable things are. What is seen is made of things that are unseen. The mountain that you see is made up of little bits that you don’t see. Those little bits are all moving about within their little “rooms” within the whole mountain, but the mountain remains stationary because all of those little movements tend to cancel each other out. But, in the very unlikely event that all of those little bits moved the same distance in the same direction at the same time, the mountain itself would move.

I am not there yet. I have a sense of probabilities being closer or further from the “surface” of reality; and something like a mountain leaping into the sea is what I call a “deep improbability”. It’s not that I don’t collapse probability fields at all; I just collapse fields much less than others, and I can experience multiple probabilities at once.

The fact that I can only do this when unobserved is a limitation which I think could be overcome. It is our judgments, and especially the dispensable portion of our bloated belief systems that cut us off from helpful improbabilities. If there were another like me, who took obedience to the “judge not” commands to completion, I think we could bloom together. Where there are two or three, there will be possibilities that are not possibilities for only one.

So I urge and exhort a serious consideration of the instructions we have been given with respect to judgment.

“Judge not, lest ye be judged” is in the form of a safe harbor. In other words, “Anything you judge can and will be held against you” (not in condemnation, but in discipline).

“Do not judge by appearances; but judge with right judgment” is a signal that tells you there is a right way to judge; and if there is a right way and a wrong way, then trust that God has provided instructions on the right way to judge. If you seek, you will find. If you know to look for those instructions, you will find them where others only find stories.

1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.

The Lord brings things to light. We can know nothing apart from His revelation. Wait upon the Lord. The name of the game in the present age is “Less is more”. Remember: Blessed are the poor, and the one who believes, but has not seen.

Cursed is the one who trusts in man; and blessed is the one whose trust is the Lord; and, Put no trust in princes (principle persons, leaders, “experts”). I no longer go to the doctor. Doctors nowadays consider themselves authorities over their patients; they expect to be trusted. And, their training has produced a set of beliefs which turn the odds against your continued health and well-being. Through your trust, a doctor’s belief system can collapse your body’s inner probability field in very unfavorable ways. Unfavorable to you, but profitably for them. I don’t think most of them know they are doing this, but I’m pretty sure at least some of them do. They account for placebo and nocebo effects in their medical trials.

So, what say you? Do you get the sense that God is helping you behind the scenes? Can you shed your judgments, holding to what is good? Try it out.

Inhale. Exhale. Relax. Just breathe.

Forget what lies behind. Forgive all men their sins, and judge not so as not to be judged.

Be not judged. Be forgiven through the blood of the Son of God.

Bloom.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

The Possibility of the Improbable

That which is seen is made of things which are not seen. Behaviors that are seen follow laws that emerge upon the unseen behaviors of the unseen things which make up the things we see.

The unseen behaviors of unseen things are probabilistic, rather than deterministic. A seen thing is here and not there; but an unseen thing is present here with a probability of X, and also present there with a probability of Y. A seen thing moves at a determinable velocity; but an unseen thing moves at a range of velocities associated with a probability distribution.

This means that some behaviors which seem impossible, such as a mountain lifting itself up and then casting itself into the sea, are really only very, very, very improbable.

Now, this much has been discussed in the context of physics and quantum theories, where “seen things” are big, macro bodies, and “unseen things” are the small “quanta” that make up the big, seen things. A mountain lies stationary, but its bits are vibrating - moving around independently within the tiny bubble of space which each bit occupies. Every little bit is moving, but the mountain remains stationary, because all of those little movements cancel out. But, in the extremely improbable circumstance in which all of the mountain's little bits moved the same distance in the same direction at the same time, then the mountain itself would move. It’s extremely unlikely; but not, strictly speaking, impossible.

I am exploring the possibility that the line between the deterministic and probabilistic is not drawn between big things and small things, but rather simply between seen things and unseen things. What if reality itself is universally probabilistic, but observation is an act which collapses probability fields into solitary actualities? Big things appear to us to behave deterministically, because they are readily observed by us. Small things appear to us to behave probabilistically, because they are difficult to observe.

I propose that an act of observation could collapse probability fields in different ways. It could be that the “judge not” commands of Christianity are geared towards the preservation of helpful improbabilities. Merely sentient observers might only collapse the probability field on the surface of an observed reality, leaving its inner workings in a superpositional state. But, a rational observer might bring his judgments into his act of observation, causing collapse at a deeper level.

Perhaps this had something to do with why Jesus was always sneaking off into unpopulated areas. Could it be that unobserved spaces are chock-full of possibilities that are absent from areas which are subject to constant observation and judgment?

And what, after all, makes it the case that one possibility is any more probable than another? “All things are possible with God.” Perhaps, for Jesus, probability is nothing, while possibility is everything. After all, we do observe things which seem improbable to us. It’s not as though an observation-driven collapse must result in the most probable outcome becoming actualized. Perhaps Jesus can control the collapse of a field of possibilities so that a seemingly improbable, yet favorable outcome becomes actualized.

Or, perhaps Jesus could observe without causing a collapse of possibility fields at all, simultaneously experiencing a range of favorable possible realities within those pockets of spacetime where men do not wander.

This might explain psychosomatic phenomena like the placebo and nocebo effects. Jesus taught about right judgment, but without the benefit of His instruction, human beings are quick to judge. A mere suggestion spoken by a trusted authority can be immediately and uncritically accepted; and that acceptance can cause probability fields to collapse differently.

“As you have believed, let it be to you.”

“With the judgment you pronounce, you will be judged.”

Now, consider the effect that mass surveillance might have upon the world. Imagine being able to see reality with its probability fields occupying a new dimension of sensation. Now imagine that someone came along while you were sleeping and installed cameras pointing to every square inch of the world, capturing images and storing them in massive data centers. Cameras do not judge, so they would not collapse the world’s probabilities like a rational observer; yet still, you would awaken to a world with far fewer possibilities. And maybe that’s the point.

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Maybe Saintly
A bit of fiction to illustrate the possibility of improbabilities

Alone at last. Inhale. Exhale. Relax. Just breathe.

Forget what lies behind. Forgive all men their sins, and judge not so as not to be judged.

Be not judged. Be forgiven through the blood of the Son of God.

This is where I bloom. That's what I call it when I go probable. When I'm alone, instead of doing just one thing actually, I can do many things probably.

The world is naturally like that, in this state of many possible states, each having its own probability. Different acts of observation reduce the field of probabilities in different ways. Normal human observation collapses the field of possibilities on the surface of things, leaving the inner workings of things in superposition; while observations that are loaded with rational judgments collapse the field at a deeper level. Naturally, children collapse probability fields less than adults.

The act of judgment can affect how inner probability fields collapse. This is why we observe placebo and nocebo effects. If you observe X, and you believe that X is a cause of sickness, then you can become sick. If you believe that doing Y will cure the sickness, and you do Y, your sickness can be cured.

With the judgment you pronounce you will be judged. Over and over in Matthew, “Your faith has saved you.” It has been said that God does not throw dice; but I think this must miss the thrust of these teachings. If you make your health subject to probability, then God will throw the dice. “As you have believed, let it be unto you.” This teaching is either going to be for you or against you, depending on how you believe, and depending on who you believe.

I believe Jesus.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. [2] Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Renewal. Renewal of the mind. Paul mentioned it. Sounded good. So I went after it. And then I went superpositional, sort of by accident.

“Judge not” seemed to be the trick. Reducing judgments to an absolute minimum. Some things you have to judge. Christ is Lord. God raised Him from the dead. The Holy Bible is our collection of inspired, canonic testimonies, whereby we can come to know these things in the present age.

But shedding the unnecessary judgments and opinions and construals and other things that we don't really know but sometimes think, speak or act like we do: that's where I found myself suddenly not being judged.

Not determined. Probable.

Probably a sinner. But also, maybe a saint.

How might I sin? The possibilities are few and dreary and a shame to speak of. But also - here's the awesome part - covered by the blood of Christ. I’ll come back to that.

But how might I do well? The possibilities are so many more! And how wonderful they all are! And my blessing is that I can experience the benefits of having done well in many ways.

But only when I am unobserved, and only when I shed my judgments. I will probably waste the evening playing video games, but I could fold the clothes for my wife, or read the Bible, or pray. On the other side of the evening, when my wife comes home, I have prayed, I know my Bible a little better, the clothes are folded, and I feel perfectly rested.

The brain is not really equipped to store probable experiences. My memories can be hazy for a few seconds when the fields collapse, but somehow I am always found saintly, even though I really only was maybe. The field collapses in my favor, without respect for what is “most probable”. Sometimes I come out of the haze having done something very improbable.

That might need clarification: “a probability” is just a form of reality that has a probability that is neither null nor one, but in between. “A probability” can be improbable, all things considered. If something has a probability of one, that is an “actuality” which excludes all other possibilities.

When I bloom, I branch out into probable paths, like lightning that is reaching towards the ground through paths of lower resistance. My conscious experience becomes like a house with many rooms. Each room is “lit up” in proportion to its probability. More probable paths are brighter; less probable paths are dimmer. When I am again observed, it is as when the lightning strikes, collapsing the field backwards through time, and not always along the most probable path.

When I first began to experience fields of probability, I did not immediately realize what was happening. In the beginning, there was a much wider disparity between the most probable path and the lesser probabilities. I am probably a sinner, but maybe a saint. My probable sin was by far the brightest room in the house, and the dimmer possibilities, in which I could have done something good, I experienced with a sense of shame, as though God were showing me how I had wasted an opportunity. But there was something that didn’t fit. Something that came afterward.

I should have prayed, the way I saw it. I missed that opportunity. And yet, it was as though God had already forgiven my sin. He treated me as though I had prayed. I could have worked on my Scripture memorization. Time and time again, I let it slide, and yet my recall never diminished.

I had a growing suspicion that God was working something in my favor behind the scenes. Ultimately, you must understand, this is for His own name’s sake; for I am called by His name, and should, therefore, bear much fruit. But I am an unprofitable servant, poor of spirit, deprived of tradition, a sheep without a shepherd. This is not me achieving something meritorious. This is God having pity on me. I actually wonder if there are other pitiful souls out there, likewise helped behind the scenes, and made to appear righteous, despite their own personal failures and disadvantages.

As my suspicions grew, the disparity of probabilities began to diminish. My probable sins became dimmer, and my improbable saintliness became brighter. When I recognized what was happening, my experience became very much more distinct. Remember, acts of judgment affect the way the probability fields collapse. Before the recognition, there was the vague sense that God might help us in ways that we don’t perceive. It started because I was open to the possibility. And God is an opportunist. His opening was maybe no wider than the eye of a needle; but that was enough.

Recognition was the breaking of the dam. The eye of the needle was blown open, and the possibilities came surging through, flooding my reality. My probable sins were dimmed, not only by their decreasing probabilities (a cumulative result of my many improbable good works resulting in actual spiritual disciplines and virtues), but also because the power of the blood of Christ was at work, casting an articulated darkness on the sin that still clings to me.

Isaiah 45:5-7 ESV
I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, [6] that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. [7] I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.

The blood shed at the Cross of Christ covers my sins in real time. That doesn’t mean that my sin isn’t real.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

God covers my sin so that the issuance of my love will not be hindered by a defiled conscience. God is love. This is for His name’s sake!

Now, like I said, this only happens when I am unobserved. When it began, I was always inside, in small rooms with closed doors. Things don’t move unless I might move them. It was a little while before I tried this outside. There is no accounting for the wind, apparently. When I bloom outside, the world blooms along with me. Whatever can be blown, I see as blown in every direction simultaneously.

Irrational animals apparently do not collapse probability fields. An animal’s fear of man crosses with its natural curiosity to produce a probability field in which the animal might, improbably, approach and attempt to befriend. Whenever I go out into the wilderness and shed my judgments, I am quickly surrounded by a menagerie of uncharacteristically friendly beasts.

I had to get rid of my phone. Not just because I might use it to look at porn. That probability has very greatly diminished over the years. It’s not quite zero, unfortunately; but it has been approaching zero for a long time now. No, the greater danger is that I might read the news, read the comments, and/or scroll social media. These actions open up fields of probability in which I am possibly carried away by feelings of anger towards paths of violence.

Once, when I came out of the haze, my wife was carrying groceries into the house, looking at me with a very worried expression. She had found me walking out the door looking visibly disturbed, and carrying a rifle. I don’t think that was a very likely outcome - a dim room in a house of brighter possibilities - but it was the first possible outcome which my wife would meet as she arrived home. That is where the lightning hit, collapsing the field of possibilities backwards in time, so that the memory which eventually settled was one in which I had gone down a very radicalizing rabbit hole.

I’ll be honest with you. That was tough to shake. There is a lot of evil in the world, and I am master of my emotions, but only up to a point. I truly wish I were a better man.

Romans 7:24-25 ESV
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? [25] Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

You might have caught on to the phrase, “backwards in time.” Probability collapse involves backwards causation - or so it appears to us. The reason any of this is possible is because (A) the world is a story, a thing spoken into existence by God the Author; and (B) stories have three distinct dimensions of “time”.

When you are in the story, you experience the time of the story: The order of events as they occur relative to one another within the story itself. The key word there is “order”. Time involves the way events or changes are ordered.

But the Author of the story “experiences” the events of the story in another order, the order in which He conceives and determines the events and how He connects them. Jesus is called “the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world.” This is because the Cross is the first and central event of the whole world story. God wrote the crucifixion first. Before Abraham was, Jesus is. Again, this is literally true in this second dimension of time. Among all possible creatures, human beings are a kind of thing that cannot exist at all without the Cross.

I have seen the third dimension of story-time. When a story is told and retold and passed down to new generations, little changes occur and accumulate that add up to big changes. I’ve seen that dimension, but I haven’t moved through it, and I don’t know how it applies to this particular story. Maybe on the other side we’ll experience a new iteration of history. I don’t know. I judge not.

I do know that the “Author’s time” is actually eternity, which is not “time” exactly, being the infinite source of temporality from which all times ultimately proceed. Yet even in eternity there are orders. The Cross really is ordered before the foundation of the world, and Jesus really is ordered before Abraham. And just like the Father makes room for us in His House, so also He carves out roles for us to play, not only in the story, but in writing the story.

The overarching order of the story is established, and for the children of God, our ending point or destiny is fixed. But as to how we get there? God has allowed us some agency. Our judgments and our daily choices are able to collapse probability fields, because those probability fields are kept open by the Author for the express purpose of giving us a chance to participate in the writing of the story. God is willing to write extreme improbabilities into our stories; like, for example:

Matthew 17:27 ESV
However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."

Jesus’s words here caused that fish’s probability field to collapse upon an extreme improbability. With God, all things are possible. Probability, as such, is no limitation at all. Any probability that is greater than zero is within the reach of the Author.

That means some things, which we regard as impossible, are really only very, very, very improbable. A mountain can lift itself up, and be cast into the sea, without breaking any of the laws which control what is possible, and how probable things are. What is seen is made of things that are unseen. The mountain that you see is made up of little bits that you don’t see. Those little bits are all moving about within their little “rooms” within the whole mountain, but the mountain remains stationary because all of those little movements tend to cancel each other out. But, in the very unlikely event that all of those little bits moved the same distance in the same direction at the same time, the mountain itself would move.

I am not there yet. I have a sense of probabilities being closer or further from the “surface” of reality; and something like a mountain leaping into the sea is what I call a “deep improbability”. It’s not that I don’t collapse probability fields at all; I just collapse fields much less than others, and I can experience multiple probabilities at once.

The fact that I can only do this when unobserved is a limitation which I think could be overcome. It is our judgments, and especially the dispensable portion of our bloated belief systems that cut us off from helpful improbabilities. If there were another like me, who took obedience to the “judge not” commands to completion, I think we could bloom together. Where there are two or three, there will be possibilities that are not possibilities for only one.

So I urge and exhort a serious consideration of the instructions we have been given with respect to judgment.

“Judge not, lest ye be judged” is in the form of a safe harbor. In other words, “Anything you judge can and will be held against you” (not in condemnation, but in discipline).

“Do not judge by appearances; but judge with right judgment” is a signal that tells you there is a right way to judge; and if there is a right way and a wrong way, then trust that God has provided instructions on the right way to judge. If you seek, you will find. If you know to look for those instructions, you will find them where others only find stories.

1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.

The Lord brings things to light. We can know nothing apart from His revelation. Wait upon the Lord. The name of the game in the present age is “Less is more”. Remember: Blessed are the poor, and the one who believes, but has not seen.

Cursed is the one who trusts in man; and blessed is the one whose trust is the Lord; and, Put no trust in princes (principle persons, leaders, “experts”). I no longer go to the doctor. Doctors nowadays consider themselves authorities over their patients; they expect to be trusted. And, their training has produced a set of beliefs which turn the odds against your continued health and well-being. Through your trust, a doctor’s belief system can collapse your body’s inner probability field in very unfavorable ways. Unfavorable to you, but profitably for them. I don’t think most of them know they are doing this, but I’m pretty sure at least some of them do. They account for placebo and nocebo effects in their medical trials.

So, what say you? Do you get the sense that God is helping you behind the scenes? Can you shed your judgments, holding to what is good? Try it out.

Inhale. Exhale. Relax. Just breathe.

Forget what lies behind. Forgive all men their sins, and judge not so as not to be judged.

Be not judged. Be forgiven through the blood of the Son of God.

Bloom.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

Maybe Saintly
A bit of fiction to illustrate the possibility of improbabilities

Alone at last. Inhale. Exhale. Relax. Just breathe.

Forget what lies behind. Forgive all men their sins, and judge not so as not to be judged.

Be not judged. Be forgiven through the blood of the Son of God.

This is where I bloom. That's what I call it when I go probable. When I'm alone, instead of doing just one thing actually, I can do many things probably.

The world is naturally like that, in this state of many possible states, each having its own probability. Different acts of observation reduce the field of probabilities in different ways. Normal human observation collapses the field of possibilities on the surface of things, leaving the inner workings of things in superposition; while observations that are loaded with rational judgments collapse the field at a deeper level. Naturally, children collapse probability fields less than adults.

The act of judgment can affect how inner probability fields collapse. This is why we observe placebo and nocebo effects. If you observe X, and you believe that X is a cause of sickness, then you can become sick. If you believe that doing Y will cure the sickness, and you do Y, your sickness can be cured.

With the judgment you pronounce you will be judged. Over and over in Matthew, “Your faith has saved you.” It has been said that God does not throw dice; but I think this must miss the thrust of these teachings. If you make your health subject to probability, then God will throw the dice. “As you have believed, let it be unto you.” This teaching is either going to be for you or against you, depending on how you believe, and depending on who you believe.

I believe Jesus.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. [2] Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Renewal. Renewal of the mind. Paul mentioned it. Sounded good. So I went after it. And then I went superpositional, sort of by accident.

“Judge not” seemed to be the trick. Reducing judgments to an absolute minimum. Some things you have to judge. Christ is Lord. God raised Him from the dead. The Holy Bible is our collection of inspired, canonic testimonies, whereby we can come to know these things in the present age.

But shedding the unnecessary judgments and opinions and construals and other things that we don't really know but sometimes think, speak or act like we do: that's where I found myself suddenly not being judged.

Not determined. Probable.

Probably a sinner. But also, maybe a saint.

How might I sin? The possibilities are few and dreary and a shame to speak of. But also - here's the awesome part - covered by the blood of Christ. I’ll come back to that.

But how might I do well? The possibilities are so many more! And how wonderful they all are! And my blessing is that I can experience the benefits of having done well in many ways.

But only when I am unobserved, and only when I shed my judgments. I will probably waste the evening playing video games, but I could fold the clothes for my wife, or read the Bible, or pray. On the other side of the evening, when my wife comes home, I have prayed, I know my Bible a little better, the clothes are folded, and I feel perfectly rested.

The brain is not really equipped to store probable experiences. My memories can be hazy for a few seconds when the fields collapse, but somehow I am always found saintly, even though I really only was maybe. The field collapses in my favor, without respect for what is “most probable”. Sometimes I come out of the haze having done something very improbable.

That might need clarification: “a probability” is just a form of reality that has a probability that is neither null nor one, but in between. “A probability” can be improbable, all things considered. If something has a probability of one, that is an “actuality” which excludes all other possibilities.

When I bloom, I branch out into probable paths, like lightning that is reaching towards the ground through paths of lower resistance. My conscious experience becomes like a house with many rooms. Each room is “lit up” in proportion to its probability. More probable paths are brighter; less probable paths are dimmer. When I am again observed, it is as when the lightning strikes, collapsing the field backwards through time, and not always along the most probable path.

When I first began to experience fields of probability, I did not immediately realize what was happening. In the beginning, there was a much wider disparity between the most probable path and the lesser probabilities. I am probably a sinner, but maybe a saint. My probable sin was by far the brightest room in the house, and the dimmer possibilities, in which I could have done something good, I experienced with a sense of shame, as though God were showing me how I had wasted an opportunity. But there was something that didn’t fit. Something that came afterward.

I should have prayed, the way I saw it. I missed that opportunity. And yet, it was as though God had already forgiven my sin. He treated me as though I had prayed. I could have worked on my Scripture memorization. Time and time again, I let it slide, and yet my recall never diminished.

I had a growing suspicion that God was working something in my favor behind the scenes. Ultimately, you must understand, this is for His own name’s sake; for I am called by His name, and should, therefore, bear much fruit. But I am an unprofitable servant, poor of spirit, deprived of tradition, a sheep without a shepherd. This is not me achieving something meritorious. This is God having pity on me. I actually wonder if there are other pitiful souls out there, likewise helped behind the scenes, and made to appear righteous, despite their own personal failures and disadvantages.

As my suspicions grew, the disparity of probabilities began to diminish. My probable sins became dimmer, and my improbable saintliness became brighter. When I recognized what was happening, my experience became very much more distinct. Remember, acts of judgment affect the way the probability fields collapse. Before the recognition, there was the vague sense that God might help us in ways that we don’t perceive. It started because I was open to the possibility. And God is an opportunist. His opening was maybe no wider than the eye of a needle; but that was enough.

Recognition was the breaking of the dam. The eye of the needle was blown open, and the possibilities came surging through, flooding my reality. My probable sins were dimmed, not only by their decreasing probabilities (a cumulative result of my many improbable good works resulting in actual spiritual disciplines and virtues), but also because the power of the blood of Christ was at work, casting an articulated darkness on the sin that still clings to me.

Isaiah 45:5-7 ESV
I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, [6] that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. [7] I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.

The blood shed at the Cross of Christ covers my sins in real time. That doesn’t mean that my sin isn’t real.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

God covers my sin so that the issuance of my love will not be hindered by a defiled conscience. God is love. This is for His name’s sake!

Now, like I said, this only happens when I am unobserved. When it began, I was always inside, in small rooms with closed doors. Things don’t move unless I might move them. It was a little while before I tried this outside. There is no accounting for the wind, apparently. When I bloom outside, the world blooms along with me. Whatever can be blown, I see as blown in every direction simultaneously.

Irrational animals apparently do not collapse probability fields. An animal’s fear of man crosses with its natural curiosity to produce a probability field in which the animal might, improbably, approach and attempt to befriend. Whenever I go out into the wilderness and shed my judgments, I am quickly surrounded by a menagerie of uncharacteristically friendly beasts.

I had to get rid of my phone. Not just because I might use it to look at porn. That probability has very greatly diminished over the years. It’s not quite zero, unfortunately; but it has been approaching zero for a long time now. No, the greater danger is that I might read the news, read the comments, and/or scroll social media. These actions open up fields of probability in which I am possibly carried away by feelings of anger towards paths of violence.

Once, when I came out of the haze, my wife was carrying groceries into the house, looking at me with a very worried expression. She had found me walking out the door looking visibly disturbed, and carrying a rifle. I don’t think that was a very likely outcome - a dim room in a house of brighter possibilities - but it was the first possible outcome which my wife would meet as she arrived home. That is where the lightning hit, collapsing the field of possibilities backwards in time, so that the memory which eventually settled was one in which I had gone down a very radicalizing rabbit hole.

I’ll be honest with you. That was tough to shake. There is a lot of evil in the world, and I am master of my emotions, but only up to a point. I truly wish I were a better man.

Romans 7:24-25 ESV
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? [25] Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

You might have caught on to the phrase, “backwards in time.” Probability collapse involves backwards causation - or so it appears to us. The reason any of this is possible is because (A) the world is a story, a thing spoken into existence by God the Author; and (B) stories have three distinct dimensions of “time”.

When you are in the story, you experience the time of the story: The order of events as they occur relative to one another within the story itself. The key word there is “order”. Time involves the way events or changes are ordered.

But the Author of the story “experiences” the events of the story in another order, the order in which He conceives and determines the events and how He connects them. Jesus is called “the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world.” This is because the Cross is the first and central event of the whole world story. God wrote the crucifixion first. Before Abraham was, Jesus is. Again, this is literally true in this second dimension of time. Among all possible creatures, human beings are a kind of thing that cannot exist at all without the Cross.

I have seen the third dimension of story-time. When a story is told and retold and passed down to new generations, little changes occur and accumulate that add up to big changes. I’ve seen that dimension, but I haven’t moved through it, and I don’t know how it applies to this particular story. Maybe on the other side we’ll experience a new iteration of history. I don’t know. I judge not.

I do know that the “Author’s time” is actually eternity, which is not “time” exactly, being the infinite source of temporality from which all times ultimately proceed. Yet even in eternity there are orders. The Cross really is ordered before the foundation of the world, and Jesus really is ordered before Abraham. And just like the Father makes room for us in His House, so also He carves out roles for us to play, not only in the story, but in writing the story.

The overarching order of the story is established, and for the children of God, our ending point or destiny is fixed. But as to how we get there? God has allowed us some agency. Our judgments and our daily choices are able to collapse probability fields, because those probability fields are kept open by the Author for the express purpose of giving us a chance to participate in the writing of the story. God is willing to write extreme improbabilities into our stories; like, for example:

Matthew 17:27 ESV
However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."

Jesus’s words here caused that fish’s probability field to collapse upon an extreme improbability. With God, all things are possible. Probability, as such, is no limitation at all. Any probability that is greater than zero is within the reach of the Author.

That means some things, which we regard as impossible, are really only very, very, very improbable. A mountain can lift itself up, and be cast into the sea, without breaking any of the laws which control what is possible, and how probable things are. What is seen is made of things that are unseen. The mountain that you see is made up of little bits that you don’t see. Those little bits are all moving about within their little “rooms” within the whole mountain, but the mountain remains stationary because all of those little movements tend to cancel each other out. But, in the very unlikely event that all of those little bits moved the same distance in the same direction at the same time, the mountain itself would move.

I am not there yet. I have a sense of probabilities being closer or further from the “surface” of reality; and something like a mountain leaping into the sea is what I call a “deep improbability”. It’s not that I don’t collapse probability fields at all; I just collapse fields much less than others, and I can experience multiple probabilities at once.

The fact that I can only do this when unobserved is a limitation which I think could be overcome. It is our judgments, and especially the dispensable portion of our bloated belief systems that cut us off from helpful improbabilities. If there were another like me, who took obedience to the “judge not” commands to completion, I think we could bloom together. Where there are two or three, there will be possibilities that are not possibilities for only one.

So I urge and exhort a serious consideration of the instructions we have been given with respect to judgment.

“Judge not, lest ye be judged” is in the form of a safe harbor. In other words, “Anything you judge can and will be held against you” (not in condemnation, but in discipline).

“Do not judge by appearances; but judge with right judgment” is a signal that tells you there is a right way to judge; and if there is a right way and a wrong way, then trust that God has provided instructions on the right way to judge. If you seek, you will find. If you know to look for those instructions, you will find them where others only find stories.

1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.

The Lord brings things to light. We can know nothing apart from His revelation. Wait upon the Lord. The name of the game in the present age is “Less is more”. Remember: Blessed are the poor, and the one who believes, but has not seen.

Cursed is the one who trusts in man; and blessed is the one whose trust is the Lord; and, Put no trust in princes (principle persons, leaders, “experts”). I no longer go to the doctor. Doctors nowadays consider themselves authorities over their patients; they expect to be trusted. And, their training has produced a set of beliefs which turn the odds against your continued health and well-being. Through your trust, a doctor’s belief system can collapse your body’s inner probability field in very unfavorable ways. Unfavorable to you, but profitably for them. I don’t think most of them know they are doing this, but I’m pretty sure at least some of them do. They account for placebo and nocebo effects in their medical trials.

So, what say you? Do you get the sense that God is helping you behind the scenes? Can you shed your judgments, holding to what is good? Try it out.

Inhale. Exhale. Relax. Just breathe.

Forget what lies behind. Forgive all men their sins, and judge not so as not to be judged.

Be not judged. Be forgiven through the blood of the Son of God.

Bloom.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

“As Truth is the Son of God, so also satan is called the father of lies. God is the father of Truth, and lies are children of the devil.

“Your biological body is life-receiving. Truth is life-giving. Lies are life-stealing. Lies are demons, and they have no life or power of their own, except what they can steal from those who are deceived. To be deceived is to be demonized.”
https://t.co/eJ3lojRkFa

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

Mind Virus = Unclean Spirit

The mind contains representations of reality as a whole and in its parts. Let us call these representations our "ideas".

Our ideas are private perspectives. "Idea" is rooted in a a form of the Greek verb, "to see". As a perspective is uniquely one's own, the same Greek stem comes into the Greek word for "own" or "private," and also into the root of English "idiot", which in Greek meant "a private person (whose attention and energies are devoted to his own, private affairs)".

The word "communicate" literally means "to make common, to share". Ideas begin in the privacy of the mind, but can be made common, shared with others through acts of communication.

In verbal communication, an idea is encoded into sounds (frequency patterns) which are powered and carried by the breath.

The "container metonymy" is a natural linguistic principle which says that a container and its contents can share their names.

The idea is in the sound, which is in the breath. The breath is the container, and the idea is the contents.

The container metonymy predicts that some cultures at some times will use breath-based language to talk about ideas.

In Hebrew and Greek, the original languages of the Holy Bible, the words for breath and wind were also used to refer to something else which we have come to call "spirit".

I propose that at least some Scriptural occurrences of "breath/wind/spirit" are referring to ideas. Christ, the Son of God, is also the Word of God, who existed in the beginning with God; also, the Word was God. This makes sense as expressing the facts that God has an idea of Himself, an inner representation of who He is.

Now, an idea is true to the extent that it corresponds to the reality that the idea is about. A person is true to the extent that he represents himself as he truly is.

"God is true" means that God represents Himself truly.

"God's Word is truth" means that God's ideas faithfully correspond to the realities that His ideas are about.

Whoever sets to his seal that God is true, receives the Word of God and believes.

Now it is revealed that the Word of God is living and active. Truth is a living substance, a person.

As Truth is the Son of God, so also satan is called the father of lies. God is the father of Truth, and lies are children of the devil.

Your biological body is life-receiving. Truth is life-giving. Lies are life-stealing. Lies are demons, and they have no life or power of their own, except what they can steal from those who are deceived. To be deceived is to be demonized.

Now we are dealing with an incredibly destructive ideology, which we call a "mind virus". Notice that a virus, like an idea, is carried by the breath. Whenever we communicate, we really are propagating something like a pathogen. CS Lewis describes Christian living as geared towards the spread of a "good infection".

***
Designed to Divide

The English word "sorcery" is used to translate the Greek word "pharmakeia". This Greek word is a construct of two stems, phar & mak.

Phar: Think "far". The main idea is separation, having space between. The word "Pharisee" suggests the sense of a "separatist", which is consistent with their idea that man must justify himself before God through works of the law. This idea leads the self-righteous to separate themselves from sinners, who can only bring them down. The salvation of Christ by grace through faith brings down the "wall of hostility" which separated the Jews from the other nations.

Mak: This stem was related to fighting or doing battle. It comes into the name of the paradigm instrument of battle, the sword ("machaira").

When these stems are considered in construction, the word "pharmakeia" suggests something like our phrase, "divide and conquer"; literally, "separate and fight".

***
Conclusion & Caution

We are fighting against demonic sorcerers. Only Christianity has the weapons to destroy our adversaries.

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 ESV
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. [4] For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. [5] We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, [6] being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

Note this well: The lie is the demon. The person who is deceived is a captive. The way of righteousness is narrow. We must hate the lie, but not the man who is deceived by the lie; and yet, we are apportioned finite energy and resources, which means we have to be discerning about who will hear us.

Matthew 7:6 ESV
"Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Join the battle today! Set to your seal that God is true, and look to Jesus for the words of life and liberty. Forgive all men their sins, so that your sins also may be forgiven. Praise the Lord, and preach the truth.

To Him be the honor and the power and the glory.
Amen.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

‘The "fear of being called racist" is the result of a magic ritual involving repetitious phrases spoken with specific preparations to prime receptivity: worked into a regular rhythm of laughter and outrage, by a speaker bedecked in the trappings of authority. Coupled with ritual sacrifices (making examples out of "offenders"), the spell can enchant a multitude.

‘All to maximize the vulnerability of a nation to predation. Two hundred and fifty thousand children victimized by foreigners while the natives stood spell-bound.’
https://t.co/zsXWWtltie

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

A Rising Anger
Pt 2/2

But life is not simple. It's complicated, and often terrible and ugly. I have described a world of "white" magics; but we live in a world where "black" magics have advanced to a terrifying degree. Our tech spies on us, and answers not to us, but to others. Advancements in political methods of persuasion, division and manipulation have given rise to campaigns of stochastic terrorism and character assassination, to the point that informed consent of the governed has become impossible. The "color revolution" is a dark, dark magic.

The "fear of being called racist" is the result of a magic ritual involving repetitious phrases spoken with specific preparations to prime receptivity: worked into a regular rhythm of laughter and outrage, by a speaker bedecked in the trappings of authority. Coupled with ritual sacrifices (making examples out of "offenders"), the spell can enchant a multitude.

All to maximize the vulnerability of a nation to predation. Two hundred and fifty thousand children victimized by foreigners while the natives stood spell-bound.

I pray for the unveiling of the sword of God's vengeance, which He gives to whom He will to carry out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Romans 13:4 ESV
for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

That sword does not seem to be in the hand of the forces who allowed this campaign of rape to carry on. As Jesus said, "You will know them by their fruit." As with David, it may be that a new ruler has been annointed while the old and wicked ruler still reigns.

Send your angels, God! Remove the causes of sin and workers of lawlessness from our midst!

God be glorified in righteous wrath as in mercy, and may the king be known by your sword.

Jeremiah 48:10 ESV
"Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
[2] a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
[3] a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
[4] a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
[5] a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
[6] a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
[7] a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
[8] a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

@BristolGalt It doesn't take a triple digit IQ to predict this outcome.

If easily predictable, then certainly intentional.

This is the level of evil we are dealing with. Demoralization is the goal. Mass rape is the method.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

“I propose that at least some Scriptural occurrences of 'breath/wind/spirit' are referring to ideas.”

…

“Now it is revealed that the Word of God is living and active. Truth is a living substance, a person.

“As Truth is the Son of God, so also satan is called the father of lies. God is the father of Truth, and lies are children of the devil.

“Your biological body is life-receiving. Truth is life-giving. Lies are life-stealing. Lies are demons, and they have no life or power of their own, except what they can steal from those who are deceived. To be deceived is to be demonized.”
https://t.co/eJ3lojRkFa

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

Mind Virus = Unclean Spirit

The mind contains representations of reality as a whole and in its parts. Let us call these representations our "ideas".

Our ideas are private perspectives. "Idea" is rooted in a a form of the Greek verb, "to see". As a perspective is uniquely one's own, the same Greek stem comes into the Greek word for "own" or "private," and also into the root of English "idiot", which in Greek meant "a private person (whose attention and energies are devoted to his own, private affairs)".

The word "communicate" literally means "to make common, to share". Ideas begin in the privacy of the mind, but can be made common, shared with others through acts of communication.

In verbal communication, an idea is encoded into sounds (frequency patterns) which are powered and carried by the breath.

The "container metonymy" is a natural linguistic principle which says that a container and its contents can share their names.

The idea is in the sound, which is in the breath. The breath is the container, and the idea is the contents.

The container metonymy predicts that some cultures at some times will use breath-based language to talk about ideas.

In Hebrew and Greek, the original languages of the Holy Bible, the words for breath and wind were also used to refer to something else which we have come to call "spirit".

I propose that at least some Scriptural occurrences of "breath/wind/spirit" are referring to ideas. Christ, the Son of God, is also the Word of God, who existed in the beginning with God; also, the Word was God. This makes sense as expressing the facts that God has an idea of Himself, an inner representation of who He is.

Now, an idea is true to the extent that it corresponds to the reality that the idea is about. A person is true to the extent that he represents himself as he truly is.

"God is true" means that God represents Himself truly.

"God's Word is truth" means that God's ideas faithfully correspond to the realities that His ideas are about.

Whoever sets to his seal that God is true, receives the Word of God and believes.

Now it is revealed that the Word of God is living and active. Truth is a living substance, a person.

As Truth is the Son of God, so also satan is called the father of lies. God is the father of Truth, and lies are children of the devil.

Your biological body is life-receiving. Truth is life-giving. Lies are life-stealing. Lies are demons, and they have no life or power of their own, except what they can steal from those who are deceived. To be deceived is to be demonized.

Now we are dealing with an incredibly destructive ideology, which we call a "mind virus". Notice that a virus, like an idea, is carried by the breath. Whenever we communicate, we really are propagating something like a pathogen. CS Lewis describes Christian living as geared towards the spread of a "good infection".

***
Designed to Divide

The English word "sorcery" is used to translate the Greek word "pharmakeia". This Greek word is a construct of two stems, phar & mak.

Phar: Think "far". The main idea is separation, having space between. The word "Pharisee" suggests the sense of a "separatist", which is consistent with their idea that man must justify himself before God through works of the law. This idea leads the self-righteous to separate themselves from sinners, who can only bring them down. The salvation of Christ by grace through faith brings down the "wall of hostility" which separated the Jews from the other nations.

Mak: This stem was related to fighting or doing battle. It comes into the name of the paradigm instrument of battle, the sword ("machaira").

When these stems are considered in construction, the word "pharmakeia" suggests something like our phrase, "divide and conquer"; literally, "separate and fight".

***
Conclusion & Caution

We are fighting against demonic sorcerers. Only Christianity has the weapons to destroy our adversaries.

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 ESV
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. [4] For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. [5] We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, [6] being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

Note this well: The lie is the demon. The person who is deceived is a captive. The way of righteousness is narrow. We must hate the lie, but not the man who is deceived by the lie; and yet, we are apportioned finite energy and resources, which means we have to be discerning about who will hear us.

Matthew 7:6 ESV
"Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Join the battle today! Set to your seal that God is true, and look to Jesus for the words of life and liberty. Forgive all men their sins, so that your sins also may be forgiven. Praise the Lord, and preach the truth.

To Him be the honor and the power and the glory.
Amen.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

“I am exploring the possibility that the line between the deterministic and probabilistic is not drawn between big things and small things, but rather simply between seen things and unseen things. What if reality itself is universally probabilistic, but observation is an act which collapses probability fields into solitary actualities?”
https://t.co/0HMlAdgXeY

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

The Possibility of the Improbable

That which is seen is made of things which are not seen. Behaviors that are seen follow laws that emerge upon the unseen behaviors of the unseen things which make up the things we see.

The unseen behaviors of unseen things are probabilistic, rather than deterministic. A seen thing is here and not there; but an unseen thing is present here with a probability of X, and also present there with a probability of Y. A seen thing moves at a determinable velocity; but an unseen thing moves at a range of velocities associated with a probability distribution.

This means that some behaviors which seem impossible, such as a mountain lifting itself up and then casting itself into the sea, are really only very, very, very improbable.

Now, this much has been discussed in the context of physics and quantum theories, where “seen things” are big, macro bodies, and “unseen things” are the small “quanta” that make up the big, seen things. A mountain lies stationary, but its bits are vibrating - moving around independently within the tiny bubble of space which each bit occupies. Every little bit is moving, but the mountain remains stationary, because all of those little movements cancel out. But, in the extremely improbable circumstance in which all of the mountain's little bits moved the same distance in the same direction at the same time, then the mountain itself would move. It’s extremely unlikely; but not, strictly speaking, impossible.

I am exploring the possibility that the line between the deterministic and probabilistic is not drawn between big things and small things, but rather simply between seen things and unseen things. What if reality itself is universally probabilistic, but observation is an act which collapses probability fields into solitary actualities? Big things appear to us to behave deterministically, because they are readily observed by us. Small things appear to us to behave probabilistically, because they are difficult to observe.

I propose that an act of observation could collapse probability fields in different ways. It could be that the “judge not” commands of Christianity are geared towards the preservation of helpful improbabilities. Merely sentient observers might only collapse the probability field on the surface of an observed reality, leaving its inner workings in a superpositional state. But, a rational observer might bring his judgments into his act of observation, causing collapse at a deeper level.

Perhaps this had something to do with why Jesus was always sneaking off into unpopulated areas. Could it be that unobserved spaces are chock-full of possibilities that are absent from areas which are subject to constant observation and judgment?

And what, after all, makes it the case that one possibility is any more probable than another? “All things are possible with God.” Perhaps, for Jesus, probability is nothing, while possibility is everything. After all, we do observe things which seem improbable to us. It’s not as though an observation-driven collapse must result in the most probable outcome becoming actualized. Perhaps Jesus can control the collapse of a field of possibilities so that a seemingly improbable, yet favorable outcome becomes actualized.

Or, perhaps Jesus could observe without causing a collapse of possibility fields at all, simultaneously experiencing a range of favorable possible realities within those pockets of spacetime where men do not wander.

This might explain psychosomatic phenomena like the placebo and nocebo effects. Jesus taught about right judgment, but without the benefit of His instruction, human beings are quick to judge. A mere suggestion spoken by a trusted authority can be immediately and uncritically accepted; and that acceptance can cause probability fields to collapse differently.

“As you have believed, let it be to you.”

“With the judgment you pronounce, you will be judged.”

Now, consider the effect that mass surveillance might have upon the world. Imagine being able to see reality with its probability fields occupying a new dimension of sensation. Now imagine that someone came along while you were sleeping and installed cameras pointing to every square inch of the world, capturing images and storing them in massive data centers. Cameras do not judge, so they would not collapse the world’s probabilities like a rational observer; yet still, you would awaken to a world with far fewer possibilities. And maybe that’s the point.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

@JabrahamLinKoln @RepYassAnsari https://t.co/IhGbJi5EvM

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

This is not overly complicated.

An alien is a stranger, the opposite of one who is familiar. An expatriate is one who has left their homeland.

Alien expatriates can be divided into two camps: those who intend to stay, and those who do not. Those who enter a strange land with no intention to stay there are sojourners. Those who intend to stay are immigrants.

Immigrants can be divided into two camps: those who intend to assimilate to the ethos (customs, traditions, beliefs, values) of their host nation, and those who do not. Those who intend to assimilate are proselytes. Those who enter a foreign land with no intention of assimilating to its national ethos are invaders.

Proselytes and sojourners are to be welcomed, and afforded all human dignity. Invaders are to be repelled, captured and killed. They come only to steal, kill and destroy.

This is common sense. If this offends you, then you have been infected by a false ideology which produces suicidal empathy. This ideology has been force fed to the people of every western nation by forces that hate us and want to overthrow us. They could never have hoped to do so via kinetic warfare, so they have spent decades capturing and subverting the institutions that our ancestors set up to secure our traditions. Institutions of education, media, finance and government have been captured, and have been pushing a subversive ethos which denies reality, confuses terminology, and renders proselytes and sojourners indistinguishable from invaders.

The soul of a nation is its ethos. When people believe and value similar things, they get along with ease, and harmonious cooperation leads to truly beneficial advancements. When people believe and value different things, they have a hard time getting along, and will struggle against each other, sometimes violently (as when you mix people who do and do not value the sacred purity of children).

The ethos unifies the ethnos (nation). The ethos is what makes the national body a whole, living body of bodies. Our ethos makes us one indivisible nation.

Common ancestry tends to go together with a common ethos, and so common ancestry can be passed off as a counterfeit for the unifying principle of a nation. Some people find these common sense ideas radical, because they have been convinced that every instance of nationalism has to do with bloodline supremacy.

This is an enforced confusion. There is a form of nationalism that focuses on the ethos: Our ways are the best ways. Our ways should be preserved and handed down to another generation.

Obviously not everyone agrees with that. Those who disagree are our adversaries. They should go to nations whose ways they agree with. Those potential proselytes who agree that our ways are superior should be allowed to come here by an effective and efficient immigration system.

We want sojourners, visitors, who will respect our laws while providing us with their good faith, outside perspective. Every individual and every nation is subject to biases and blind-spots. Sojourners can help a nation see what they don't see.

But we do not want foreigners who hate our ways to come into our land, setting up little pockets where the ethos of their homeland is practiced and socially enforced. THAT'S CALLED CONQUEST. Those pockets are conquered lands. It's not OK.

These things are easy to understand, but hard to accept. It is hard to accept that trusted authorities have lied to us for generations. It is hard to accept that suicidal empathy doesn't actually make you a good person.

I get it. Waking up is hard. But you must wake up. This is war. The barbarians are inside the gates. Our daughters are being raped. Our fathers are being imprisoned. We are being poisoned in body and mind. And all of this has been carried out under the cover of darkness, supplied by subversive agents in our trusted institutions.

That cover is vanishing. Make sure you are on the right side before it's gone.

We have not yet begun to fight.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

Any human organization that is engaged in X will want to gain control of other human organizations that are engaged in countering X.

X = {racism, fraud, human trafficking, monopolizing markets, ...}

The desire creates a force of attraction. Where forces are understood, behavior is predictable.

Even if an organization is established with people who believe in its stated mission, the forces of corruption will relentlessly seek opportunities to bribe, infiltrate and capture it. Resisting these forces requires an equally relentless watchfulness and opposition.

But the wicked have no rest.

Institutions are not to be trusted. This is the way of the world, and without the revolutionary spirit, there can be no peace.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

Everything is what it does.
Phobia produces flight.
I am not islamophobic.
I will stand and fight.

[Chief Egregore Officer @ChiefEgregore]

I have now read the Rape Gang Inquiry Report in full.

I've been following this story quite closely for something like a decade so I'm not exactly surprised by its contents, but three elements stand out to me amongst the horror.

The first is that a large majority of the victims who provided testimony describe some kind of troubled or disrupted home life. Some were molested by family members before the rape gangs ever got ahold of them. Others faced physical abuse, neglect, drug addicted parents, housing instability, and so on.

Their testimony often describes a kind of "screening" process where a girl's particular vulnerability was evaluated with more moderate boundary pushing before escalation to full on rape and abuse.

This isn't necessarily surprising given the nefarious intentions the gangs had for these girls, but their willingness to explicitly target the absolute most vulnerable children who were already struggling sickens me. These girls, more than anyone, needed some kind of adult guidance in their lives, and this vulnerability was cynically exploited to initiate them into an even more egregious Hell.

Which brings me to the second detail, which is the extreme violence these girls were subjected to. "Grooming Gang" is an unacceptable euphemism that may accurately describe common initiatory tactics employed against these girls, but which criminally downplays the behavior of their abusers once initiated.

These girls were not "merely" groomed into sex. They were not "merely" raped. They were not "merely" trafficked. They were subjected to a program of overtly racialized sexual torture and humiliation designed to maximally degrade them and kill them in their souls. And this was "acceptable" because they were White and not Muslims.

This detail fundamentally alters the character of these crimes. This was not horny men out of control or even cross-cultural understanding gaps around the age of consent. This was a targeted program of ritualized torture and subjugation as a means of ethnic domination. In other words, these gangs are conducting war against the White British using serial child rape and torture as a form of conquest.

These are not crimes in the conventional sense. These are war crimes being conducted by one civilization against another, and they need to be treated as such.

And finally, the third point (encapsulated in the excerpt below) is that every single level of the state utterly failed these girls in the most egregious and unfathomable ways imaginable.

It's one thing when you have no physical evidence and are confronted with a "he said / she said" situation with respect to a rape allegation. It's another thing entirely when you have a pre-teen frequent flier at the NHS back again for her Nth sexually transmitted disease treatment, a 13 year old with broken glass shards embedded in her vagina, or a pregnant 13 year old.

These are cases with obvious alarming physical evidence that no one addressed in any meaningful way.

Politicians (Labour in particular) covered it up and suppressed action into investigations in order to maintain the Islamic bloc vote.

Police suppressed investigations, dismissed accusations and evidence, intimidated victims into silence, arrested victims for the crimes of their abusers, dismissed proven cases of rape with impotent warning letters, and in some cases directly raped the girls themselves.

Care homes disregarded obvious signs of abuse (including outright confessions), and enabled their abusers to maintain consistent access to the girls, in some cases acting more like pimps than caregivers.

Social workers addressed victims' needs so incompetently they recommended victims audition for a TV show role about being a child prostitute because it was "relatable" and even attended a victim's coerced sham marriage to her abuser.

NHS staff consistently failed to do anything in the face of overt medical evidence of obvious, undeniable sex crimes against these girls, treating the acute problem and sending them on their way with no protection whatsoever.

And teachers, much like the social workers, routinely delivered their students into the predatory arms of their abusers as they waited outside the schools, and utterly failed to appropriately address signs or confessions of abuse.

Virtually every arm of the state is directly complicit in exacerbating the abuse. Not one single institution at any level reliably offered protection or recourse to these girls.

As far as I am concerned I Restore government would be entirely justified in firing every single person in the employ of the state. If they are not a documented whistleblower they are complicit and thus compromised, and none of them have any business retaining their roles or their pensions. On the contrary large numbers of state officials deserve severe penalties for criminal negligence or outright complicity in these crimes.

Justice for these crimes will necessarily take place at a scale that will shock the pacified sensibilities of the over-socialized Liberal West, but nothing short of a biblical level reckoning will be sufficient to qualify as justice in this case.

@RupertLowe10 is not wrong to draw comparisons to the Holocaust. It is the only appropriate frame of reference in the popular zeitgeist that articulates the actual magnitude of what was allowed to take place under successive British governments. Nor is he wrong to propose the reinstatement of the death penalty as the appropriate restitution for these crimes.

The rapists and state officials who enabled this atrocity both deserve to hang. And I pray that the British public will entrust Rupert with the power to deliver justice long overdo.

In any case I am deeply appreciative of his efforts to bring this to light. He is the hero Britain needs right now.

Vote Restore. Deliver these girls justice.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

A Rising Anger
Pt 2/2

But life is not simple. It's complicated, and often terrible and ugly. I have described a world of "white" magics; but we live in a world where "black" magics have advanced to a terrifying degree. Our tech spies on us, and answers not to us, but to others. Advancements in political methods of persuasion, division and manipulation have given rise to campaigns of stochastic terrorism and character assassination, to the point that informed consent of the governed has become impossible. The "color revolution" is a dark, dark magic.

The "fear of being called racist" is the result of a magic ritual involving repetitious phrases spoken with specific preparations to prime receptivity: worked into a regular rhythm of laughter and outrage, by a speaker bedecked in the trappings of authority. Coupled with ritual sacrifices (making examples out of "offenders"), the spell can enchant a multitude.

All to maximize the vulnerability of a nation to predation. Two hundred and fifty thousand children victimized by foreigners while the natives stood spell-bound.

I pray for the unveiling of the sword of God's vengeance, which He gives to whom He will to carry out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Romans 13:4 ESV
for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

That sword does not seem to be in the hand of the forces who allowed this campaign of rape to carry on. As Jesus said, "You will know them by their fruit." As with David, it may be that a new ruler has been annointed while the old and wicked ruler still reigns.

Send your angels, God! Remove the causes of sin and workers of lawlessness from our midst!

God be glorified in righteous wrath as in mercy, and may the king be known by your sword.

Jeremiah 48:10 ESV
"Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
[2] a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
[3] a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
[4] a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
[5] a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
[6] a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
[7] a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
[8] a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

A Rising Anger
Pt 1/2

My philological studies of Scriptural language have led me to understand the word "magic" as the opposite of basic. Every subject of study and field of practice has its basics and its magics. The basics are the fundamental principles and methods upon which all else is drawn and built; and the magics are the advancements in knowledge and opmtimization of processes which stand upon the basics. The tricks of every trade are magic tricks.

This sense of the word holds for the structural image. The basics of the house are its foundations, and the magics of the house are in the walls and roof; those are what give us shelter. The foundation is laid so the walls and roof can stand.

God forbade magic to Israel. As I understand the relevant commands, they almost amount to an enforced primitivity. No advancing in knowledge or practice! But not quite so.

Matthew 6:33 ESV
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Don't seek magics. Seek basics, and magics will naturally develop. You learn your own tricks in your own trade, and that is fine. Acknowledge God in all of your ways, and His Spirit might show you a trick or two. Organically grown magics are good, great, healthy, wonderful.

But other people's magics? That's a different story. Bringing something you don't understand into your life opens you up to all manner of hurt.

All technology is magic. Someone said it just looks like magic, but he was using "magic" in the Disney sense; the stupid sense that gives you something from nothing; the sense of "magic" that makes no sense.

Anyways, technology is magic, but it doesn't have to be painsome. The way we do it is painsome, and increasingly so. Imagine if human society adopted the wisdom of the Pfiffiltriggi (an unfallen, technologically adept species of Martian, from CS Lewis's "Out of the Silent Planet"). These "busy people" were always making something new, beautiful or challenging, and each was responsible for mining his own ore, and contributing to the work of keeping their mines open and operational.

It could be done, theoretically, if God were to remove the causes of sin and workers of lawlessness from our midst; then the righteous will shine like the sun. There could still be buying and selling; but no one buys anything they cannot reproduce (that's what gifts are for). Everyone learns, and everyone takes several pilgrimages to various supply points, like mines and lumber yards. Knowledge is open. Tricks and advancements are declared and celebrated. Micro industry replaces mass production.

That is what a "world of magic" looks like to me, for a start. Christianity has its basics as well as its magics. Some Christian magics have the potential to render most of our technologies obsolete.

Isaiah 11:6 ESV
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.

And tech will be just for fun. Life can be simple, and also awesome and beautiful.

Isaiah 7:21-22 ESV
In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, [22] and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat curds and honey.

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

The Log

To every thing there is attached
an account or story
of the successive changes
beginning states
& ending states
ending with the present state
& all the reasons for every change
Activating agents are named by name
in this log
as they are known by God

[Tongues on Fire @OnTongues]

@ZubyMusic Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin; they are inseparable. When the government "helps" you by taking on your own personal responsibilities, the government is also taking away your personal freedoms.