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Truman used the atomic bomb primarily to force Japan to surrender quickly after Japanese leaders continued to refuse unconditional surrender. The brutal battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa convinced American planners that an invasion of Japan could result in enormous Allied and Japanese casualties. The United States had already devastated Japanese cities through conventional bombing, yet Japan still had not surrendered. Truman also wanted to end the war before the Soviet Union advanced farther into Japanese-held territory and gained greater influence over the postwar settlement. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were therefore intended to bring about Japan’s rapid surrender while avoiding the anticipated costs of a full-scale invasion.

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Hobbes’s took the doctrine of original sin and presented it as a secular version by bracketing fallen man within the ‘state of nature’ were human beings and all their shortcomings ~ violence, greed, fear and vanity can come together under a social contract to keep those carnal passions under control ~ what an absolute absurdity.

For Augustine, man’s disorder is ultimately a theological problem: the will has been disordered by sin and cannot heal itself through political arrangements. Political authority can restrain certain manifestations of human corruption, but it cannot redeem the human person.

The Hobbesian solution does not actually cure the passions it begins with. It reorganizes them under an artificial sovereign authority.

Fear becomes an instrument for peace.

Self-preservation becomes the foundation of political obligation.

Competition remains.

Vanity remains.

Desire remains.

Ambition remains.

What changes is the institutional environment in which those passions operate.

What guarantees that the sovereign itself is not composed of the same human nature?

The social contract consequently does not abolish the state of nature so much as enclose it within the sovereign state.

The wolf is not transformed into a lamb.

The wolves are placed under a Leviathan.

If original sin is true, political institutions cannot redeem man because the institution itself is constructed by fallen man.

You can change the constitutional arrangement.

You can change the sovereign.

You can create a republic.

You can create a democracy.

You can create an empire.

You can create an international organization.

But the underlying anthropological problem remains.

Checks and balances may restrain particular manifestations of power; they do not magically transform the moral nature of the people operating the system.

The Christian realist therefore reaches a more pessimistic—and arguably more Augustinian—conclusion than Hobbes:

political order is necessary precisely because man is fallen, but political order cannot redeem man because the political order is itself operated by fallen man.

That creates an ineradicable tension.

Hobbes wants the Leviathan to contain the passions.

Christian theology asks what happens when the Leviathan itself becomes passionate.

The answer is that the instrument created to restrain disorder becomes itself an object of absolute allegiance and total destruction.

Christian theological anthropology translated into a mechanistic, secular and ultimately political anthropology.

"Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at Black Masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerer of death's construction In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning..."

Black Sabbath- War Pigs

Hobbes -Ad Rosam per Crucem.

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@Mama17761984 @Handre They haven’t targeted it for decimation because it’s a safe haven for their https://t.co/RXzNDtENUm remains a highly stable, sophisticated jurisdiction with strong legal protections and financial infrastructure.

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@_The_Prophet__ A state begins losing monetary sovereignty when its citizens cease using that currency to conceptualize their future.

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@macropaperr Inflation doesn’t come from excessive consumer spending. It comes from excessive central bank money printing. M2 is now about 50% above its pre-pandemic February 2020 level. It also surpassed its 2022 peak during 2025/26 and has continued rising.

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@onechancefreedm The ECB can’t solve anything. It can only delay the inevitable. Sooner rather than later the roster is coming home to roost.

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@historyinmemes The underlying sentiment is compatible with themes in Plato, but this particular formulation is not a well-established verbatim Socratic quotation.

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If you can identify the inputs and outputs of a system, you can control the system by controlling the inputs.

The federal reserve can be compared to an electrical circuit: you don’t necessarily have to understand every component internally to influence its behavior. If you know where energy or information enters and where it leaves, you can manipulate the system by intervening at strategically important points.

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@onechancefreedm As the old saying goes, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!”

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@espn It’s week 1 dude.

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@Elvis_Porker Machiavellian in thought, but not his words.

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For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive,[a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 1 Peter 3:18-20.

These are the “sons of God” in Genesis 6:1–4, the fallen divine beings/Watchers who transgressed the boundary between the heavenly and human realms. This is in hell.
Peter explicitly connects the imprisoned spirits with the period immediately preceding the Flood. connect this with 2 Peter 2:4, where Peter says that God did not spare angels who sinned but cast them into Tartarus and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness. also connect it with Jude 6, which speaks of angels who abandoned their proper dwelling and are kept in eternal chains awaiting judgment. This was to announce Christ cosmic victory over the supernaturally damned.

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@Julianpaulpct5 It would be better for you if a millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea than for you to cause one of these little ones to sin.

Luke 17:2

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The pre-9/11 documents—especially PNAC, the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, the Wolfowitz/Lewis Libby strategic writings, and the post-9/11 National Security Strategy clearly demonstrate that the post-9/11 agenda was genuinely pre-existing.

Following its disintegration- demolition at free- fall speed, the Bush administration and other actors exploited 9/11 to advance pre-existing strategic objectives. And after 9/11, the Bush administration explicitly connected terrorism with a much broader geopolitical project. The 2002 National Security Strategy articulated preventive action against ‘perceived threats’ and emphasized transforming the international security environment. Even after 9/11, the United States was still moving in a unipolar world using its overwhelming power to reshape the international system and reinforcing its power.

One could argue that 9-11 was the false- flag catalyst for the political environment in which a pre-existing set of strategic ideas could be transformed into an enormous program of military intervention, regime change, counterterrorism, surveillance, and geopolitical restructuring in the Middle East. Terrorism as an existential threat was sold to the masses to implement their agenda. The war on terror was the war on Mass Man.

Inside Job. Mass Man. The Age of Chaos.

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What about the fact that the building began disintegrating at the point of implosion which is an absolute impossibility? Instead of the idea that The structure was just sitting there melting and the steel beams giving away to the pressure and weight of the structure that’s been compromised above it and collapsing gradually if that were possible, rather than collapsing at free fall speed. check out Dr. Judy Webb

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@MySportsUpdate They were winning that game without them til Touissant put the ball on the ground as they were going to score and increase their lead. Had Bell and Brown been in there they would’ve demolished the Broncos.

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@lunadreaamy 5

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@JeffSnider_EDU Central-bank reserve creation ≠ proportional M2 creation.

But it doesn’t demonstrate that rising M2 is the opposite of money creation.

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The New Testament repeatedly places the believer’s access to God and salvation directly in Christ:

“There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
—1 Timothy 2:5

Christ is also presented as the uniquely sufficient High Priest:

“He always lives to make intercession for them.”
—Hebrews 7:25

And the apostles themselves consistently direct people toward Christ, not toward themselves as continuing spiritual mediators.

Paul is particularly emphatic:

“For no one can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
—1 Corinthians 3:11

So saying that Christians today “stand on their shoulders” can be perfectly reasonable as a historical metaphor. Saying that these deceased Christians are presently winning souls through their heavenly ministry is a much stronger claim.

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@AramaicWire They were all nominal Christians… how many of them were truly born again and filled with the Holy Spirit John 3:3?