Reinhard Schleining

writer | illustrator | trader --- discerning great primordial dao / fa - Falun Xiulian Dafa

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WEEKEND FUNNIES LVII

57 goodies this week. top underground art (true world news) gone viral, only £ 3,- per month.

for 250 years of us declaration of independence (and free speech), sharing 6 pieces as a teaser this week (2 in comments).

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@AI_Solzhenitsyn 💯

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THE FUNDAMENTAL FLAW 😆

most people don't want to cultivate the 'law'. high-level social engineering that's meant to do away with them convinced even religious folks that living a carefree life is their birthright. that 'life is short'.

but cultivators redefine their notions.

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@Very_0wn 🧐

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@ChinaUncensored these people haven't even read their own scripture. it's been laid out by the scribes very clearly what 'happened'.

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MASTERS OF THE 'ROYAL SCIENCE'

but without psychology, it can be 'read' in every which way. without a higher law, it is bound to be crooked.

who's right and who is wrong?

who's having the last word? the last laugh?

🪐💎🗝️

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@Very_0wn 🧐

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@ChinaUncensored also this:

https://t.co/PWeNFaNiZ8

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Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
James H. Billington (1980)

This is not a conspiracy book. It is something far more disturbing.

This masterpiece reveals the great revolutions of the modern era were not spontaneous explosions of popular rage. They were the delayed harvest of patient ideological work by networks of intellectuals, writers, students, and professional agitators who slowly set fire to the minds of men.

Beginning in the disillusioned aftermath of the French Revolution, Billington traces how a new kind of secular faith was born a revolutionary religion that promised total redemption through total destruction. As traditional religion and authority collapsed, a new priesthood arose.These men did not merely critique society.They developed a complete alternative cosmology: new saints (martyrs), new scriptures (manifestos and pamphlets), new rituals, and an apocalyptic vision in which the old world must be annihilated before the perfect one could be born.

The book follows the transmission of this fire across generations and borders. It shows how secret societies like the Carbonari and other underground networks acted as the circulatory system of revolution.Universities, literary salons, student clubs, and political reading groups became the real laboratories where the old moral order was dismantled and a new one engineered. What looked like scattered intellectual ferment was actually the slow construction of a parallel moral universe.

Most chilling of all is Billington’s portrait of the professional revolutionary a new human type that emerged in the 19th century. Men like Mikhail Bakunin, Alexander Herzen, and especially Sergey Nechayev did not treat revolution as a cause.They treated it as a full-time vocation, a total identity. Nechayev in particular embodied the terrifying logic of the new faith: the revolutionary must be prepared to deceive, manipulate, terrorize, and even destroy his own allies if it serves the higher goal. The cause was no longer a means to an end. It had become the end itself.

Billington demonstrates, with devastating clarity, that revolutions are built long before they erupt. By the time governments weaken, economies collapse, or wars break out, the ideological groundwork has already been laid for decades.The networks already exist. The moral justification for destroying the old order is already accepted by a critical mass of educated people.

The book’s central, shattering insight is this: modern revolutionary movements functioned as secular religions. They offered meaning, belonging, moral certainty, and the promise of a redeemed world. And like any successful religion, they proved capable of inspiring extraordinary sacrifice, ruthless discipline, and absolute conviction that the ends justify any means.

From the secret societies of the early 1800s to the nihilists and social revolutionaries of late 19th-century Russia, Billington maps the continuous chain of transmission. Each generation radicalized it further until the accumulated ideological work finally produced its ultimate expression in 1917.

These patterns did not end in 1917.
The same process is now unfolding in the West in real time. Over the past 60 years, universities, media, NGOs, corporations, and government bureaucracies have been captured by a new revolutionary faith one centered on equity, identity, deconstruction of Western civilization, and the celebration of its demographic and cultural replacement. Professional activists, diversity bureaucrats, and ideological enforcers function as today’s version of the revolutionary class. They do not debate. They enforce.

The new faith demands not tolerance, but active affirmation. Silence is no longer enough; participation in the rituals is required.

Billington showed how a new faith, once it takes hold in the institutions that shape minds, can prepare entire societies for radical upheaval long before the final crisis arrives.

https://t.co/9jcedxiDFe

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@ChinaUncensored 💯

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ON RAPE

one of the largest topics of the universe. what does 'forgive and forget' even mean in the grander scheme of things? how complex is the transgression of obtaining another body with leverage/coercion? how accumulatingly severe is such a karmic debt? can even death repay?

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@artisbrutal2021 💎

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@artisbrutal2021 💯

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@Very_0wn 🧐

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THE ESSENTIAL DIVIDING LINE

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@truthstreamnews at the end of the day, after everything is being said and done, people can only blame themselves.

in the cultivation community, it's considered an essential dividing line - whether someone looks outside or inside of themselves for the root of a problem.

what is a 'higher' law?

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@truthstreamnews at the end of the day, after everything is being said and done, people can only blame themselves.

in the cultivation community, it's considered an essential dividing line - whether someone looks outside or inside of themselves for the root of a problem.

what is a 'higher' law?

[Reinhard Schleining @draftliterature]

WEEKEND FUNNIES LVI

very rich week with 72 meme nuggets. underground news by the world's funniest artists. only £ 3,- per month on the NICE tier.

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CRAZY TIMES

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VERY GOOD BOOK

[ForgottenVolumes @ForgottenV1918]

Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
James H. Billington (1980)

This is not a conspiracy book. It is something far more disturbing.

This masterpiece reveals the great revolutions of the modern era were not spontaneous explosions of popular rage. They were the delayed harvest of patient ideological work by networks of intellectuals, writers, students, and professional agitators who slowly set fire to the minds of men.

Beginning in the disillusioned aftermath of the French Revolution, Billington traces how a new kind of secular faith was born a revolutionary religion that promised total redemption through total destruction. As traditional religion and authority collapsed, a new priesthood arose.These men did not merely critique society.They developed a complete alternative cosmology: new saints (martyrs), new scriptures (manifestos and pamphlets), new rituals, and an apocalyptic vision in which the old world must be annihilated before the perfect one could be born.

The book follows the transmission of this fire across generations and borders. It shows how secret societies like the Carbonari and other underground networks acted as the circulatory system of revolution.Universities, literary salons, student clubs, and political reading groups became the real laboratories where the old moral order was dismantled and a new one engineered. What looked like scattered intellectual ferment was actually the slow construction of a parallel moral universe.

Most chilling of all is Billington’s portrait of the professional revolutionary a new human type that emerged in the 19th century. Men like Mikhail Bakunin, Alexander Herzen, and especially Sergey Nechayev did not treat revolution as a cause.They treated it as a full-time vocation, a total identity. Nechayev in particular embodied the terrifying logic of the new faith: the revolutionary must be prepared to deceive, manipulate, terrorize, and even destroy his own allies if it serves the higher goal. The cause was no longer a means to an end. It had become the end itself.

Billington demonstrates, with devastating clarity, that revolutions are built long before they erupt. By the time governments weaken, economies collapse, or wars break out, the ideological groundwork has already been laid for decades.The networks already exist. The moral justification for destroying the old order is already accepted by a critical mass of educated people.

The book’s central, shattering insight is this: modern revolutionary movements functioned as secular religions. They offered meaning, belonging, moral certainty, and the promise of a redeemed world. And like any successful religion, they proved capable of inspiring extraordinary sacrifice, ruthless discipline, and absolute conviction that the ends justify any means.

From the secret societies of the early 1800s to the nihilists and social revolutionaries of late 19th-century Russia, Billington maps the continuous chain of transmission. Each generation radicalized it further until the accumulated ideological work finally produced its ultimate expression in 1917.

These patterns did not end in 1917.
The same process is now unfolding in the West in real time. Over the past 60 years, universities, media, NGOs, corporations, and government bureaucracies have been captured by a new revolutionary faith one centered on equity, identity, deconstruction of Western civilization, and the celebration of its demographic and cultural replacement. Professional activists, diversity bureaucrats, and ideological enforcers function as today’s version of the revolutionary class. They do not debate. They enforce.

The new faith demands not tolerance, but active affirmation. Silence is no longer enough; participation in the rituals is required.

Billington showed how a new faith, once it takes hold in the institutions that shape minds, can prepare entire societies for radical upheaval long before the final crisis arrives.

https://t.co/9jcedxiDFe

[Reinhard Schleining @draftliterature]

@ForgottenV1918 very good book. everyone should know it.