i was going to watch this. https://t.co/rrvaQgzarG
i closed after 16 minutes. i sat and thought about the why i chose to discontinue. here are my thoughts.
first of all, i believe the cardinal is a decent and sincere soul. my detachment from this content stems from my own agnostic position. which is the lens through which i am able to write what follows.
for me, to view life as a pilgrimage that is always difficult, and culminates in en-masse ascension.. is a bit too much like existing between nihilism and indifference.
which itself is adjacent to living life without passion and wonder.
don't get me wrong, faith is a wonderful thing. but perhaps we need to broaden our field of view until we are able to differentiate absolute faith in a higher power (living a devout life) and say, faith in ourselves.
things like; being content with who we are. what defines us from our neighbours and peers. having faith in our intuition, using it as a guide for the decisions we make and remaining happy with (retaining faith in ourselves) irrespective of the results of those decisions..
for example, "today i was not charitable to a beggar because my intuition told me he usually wears an expensive watch"
if it turns out to be a tag heur and not a rolex, or even if entirely wrong, we can remain at peace with our choice because we ensured consistency of benevolence within our own minds and hearts.
having faith in ourselves as individuals cannot manifest easily without first defining ourselves.
how do we do that?
god is love. god is omnipotent. a man is either devout, under god. loved and protected by absolute confidence in the beauty of infinity when viewed through the finite lens of our individual, but not alone minds.
OR man capitalizes on the free will, gifted us by god and sanctified by the fate of jesus.
man chooses to sculpt passion into his identity, man finds others with similar passions or who see the beauty of the self defining art when described and understood. a shared experience. a connection or bond with our fellow humans.
a passion can never be a sin.
sin can masquerade as passion. but the corrupted souls who perpetuate sin, (real sin, the deadly ones and the carnal ones which are a result of a bypass of the happiness/contentment/peace created by having faith in ourselves) those corrupt souls know no love.
they descend into dysfunction of the mind. a perpetual recursion where temptation becomes compulsion, their connections become repulsions, and their bonds become introspective reference points.
whereas a healthy consciousness, mind and heart with unwavering confidence in the integrity of each other in support of the contentment of the soul - can never descend into madness and dysfunction.
it is a harmonious and self sustaining guide that can exist within us.
so on this basis i say (because it hasn't, to my knowledge been stated thusly):
Define, express and distinguish thyself, every day.
via trusting your intuition and the validity of your passions. reinforced by how they make you feel.
later, for other peoples context of your passions. be the judge of your own self.
we can all agree that god is infinity of time, space, energy, consciousness and memory.. downsampled into an homogenously ordered, sequential, finite linearity.
we should all aspire to be the keyframes and work those keyframes into ever more beautiful, longer and more easily rendered groups, combinations and sequences.
eternally blessed we (not all) shall be.
in essence, a workable psychological schema with which to place an array of quality tools into the empty cabinet which is our basic sense of right & wrong, righteousness, justice and self satisfaction.
with a universal definition of god as seasoning.
i can just picture it in my mind.. the 'in this together' lamentations of a crisis meeting that was intended to be something of a similar ilk to ving rames's indo chinese calibration of priority..
trump: 'i want you ta put feelars oute te yore staff feur thinngs they harv going orn. no thing tew shmaul. get whurd t' meah. wheel make it harpen. whealshut it down.'
like a camp pirate with a bandaid on the back of his neck. https://t.co/dr6YGiIJUA
About an hour ago, a B-1B Lancer long-range strategic bomber took off from RAF Fairford, UK.
Notably, its afterburners were turned on, this could indicate that it was loaded with bombs, although they often take off this way during training sorties as well.
haha, @secwar waxing lyrical about loose cannons / pow💥der 🎯 guns. where's your head at? frowny mc2knives is on a podium. per diem. https://t.co/u8XhzPW2UR
funny how people who write trash hollywood journalism like to limit everything to quantities, concessions and a power dynamic of ad-hoc independence.
when the reality is, a wet finger in the ear and some good advice over breakfast has the realistic potential to be FAR more valuable.
@gill1109 Prof Spiegelhalter explained to LJT, assuming an underlying neonatal death rate of 3, then P(8 deaths) = 2%. Yes: a low probability and signal requiring investigation. BUT by chance alone, one expects this signal three times p.a. in the UK!
You can take a horse to water but...🧐
EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: Some market and oil analysts are absolutely clueless about the depth of the damage that Aramco has experienced in Saudi Arabia at the 3 pumping stations...
The Ansrallah Houthi strikes on the three Saudi Aramco Pumping Stations (PS) was more likely than NOT facilitated with someone that had insider knowledge or working for Saudi Aramco that sold information to the Houthis.
After a 5 day investigation, I assess with high confidence that that the information was either sold to the Houthis OR they have a sympathizer working inside Aramco that gave them VERY specific technical information which enabled the missile strikes.
Why do I say this?
Because the Houthi military's target selection cell had too much technical details which enabled such a devastating blow, the target selection was far too sophisticated... They hit Pumping Station #8, PS #9 and PS #11 AND then the Yanbu terminal.
They did not hit PS 1 or any of the other sequence of pumping stations, WHY?
Because they knew or were told that if they strike PS 8, PS 9 and PS11, they would essentially decommissioned at least 400km of oil flow by striking the 3 Pumping Stations with multiple ballistic and drone strikes.
But what's also interesting is that some of these pumping stations are soo remote you cannot necessarily drive to them, or bring in the necessary crew needed, hence Aramco will have to fly the crew and the equipment to the site and for instance, PS #9 that was hit has its own airport at the pumping stations so they have fly everyone in and out daily.
They hit the pumps at highest elevation disabling any type of potential bypass or redundancy that can kick in.
This will likely take at least 3 to 6 months to repair. Not weeks!!
Full analysis with maps, and details here: https://t.co/RHkV4lr4Dy
Help amplify the Signal. You know what to do.
Signal, not noise!
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: https://t.co/crffXvPqH4
why, if the zionist position is so virtuous.. does anyone who appreciates the difference between orthodox jews and the israeli government, get labelled an anti-semite?
the jewish orthodoxy officially and repeatedly denounces zionism. suffers at the hands of israeli security forces and for some reason, none of the western media seems to acknowledge or even listen to them.. 🤔
or tldr;
the people of the world who are prepared to fight, have been polarized against the western agenda. because most people aren't as stupid as the globalists perceive them to be. those who understand the situation but support the western agenda are wracked with selfishness and cowardice.
it's quite the boondoggle, as @ClaytonMorris would muse.
i don't have much of an opinion one way or the other about ed. i like some of his music, emphasis on like. and the game of thrones cameo for maisies 18th was sweet.
all that being said, fence sitting a corral of skulduggery which includes lackadaisical media narratives (fenceline shootings breaking records for six quarters at the start of the ukraine war) resulting in semi false flag reaction (some october 7th insurgents, assume high skilled mid level command positions), producing tactical verisimilitude (didn't fuck around of entirely their own volition, every man woman and child found out every few minutes regardless) to fuel propaganda and genocide is, at the very least, indicative of a lack of compassion, self confidence and a penchant for self preservation.. 'wait and see tribe' - elliot reed.
ed would make a terrible muslim. i guess you could put that on the verisimilitude pile, social situation in uk being what it is.
at least we have not sunk so low as the americans. whose position seems to be.. 'it's not our kids getting sploded / epsteined and murdered.' which is how trump and hegseth should know an attempt at conscription will be the demolition derby of the u.s empire. not because u.s citizens are morally against department of war miscalculating the shit it starts but because of a variation on the milgrim experiments.. something like 'absolved culpability' with a very sharp threshold of immediate family and zip code for triggering acrimonious militancy.
peace ☮️