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To Heed the Right Word and Compose One’s Own

I just watched a very thoughtful video on a popular platform. I’m not going to cite it because it left me with some very mixed feelings. Ironically, here I am writing a post that will get sent out on the internet from my desktop, all this dissemination through the cyber world, using some of the most effective tools of the enemy. He has cunningly devised many aspects of social media (although some who pursue the truth must also of necessity use versions of it to make our own arguments) in ways so as to capitalize on some folks’ tendencies to pay attention to trite and meaningless memes and deceptive ads. By using tried and true methods that appeal to human laziness and our never-ending pursuit of the shallow thought of worldliness that too often reinforces pre-conceived human desires, he is able to gain a worldly audience and attempt to silence those of us who encourage independent thought. For it is the dedicated effort required for (often profound) thought that helps to edify us, but as humans, alas, we seek to avoid it.

The video I watched was well designed and presented, and it spoke to the very traits and tendencies I address, but paradoxically it was narrated in one of those familiar AI presentations we’ve all seen by now. For those who haven’t been paying attention, you can tell it’s AI when you see repetitions of “It’s not about xyz, it’s about abc, about def”, etc. Or the all too familiar “layers of complexity”, the over usage of some version of the phrase, “(something) stands as a testament to xyz,”, or the interjection of “geopolitical” at every opportunity as if that is one of the few six-syllable words that AI knows. Oh yeah, AI narratives must always “delve” into whatever subject is presented. No matter which of the voices and/or accents the “writer” chooses to employ, if you pay attention, you can see an AI narrative from a mile away. I don’t believe it will always be this easy to recognize, because the enemy is very proficient at teaching techniques of deception, and those who practice it always learn from him.

But what does that say about the ability of persons or entities who choose the subject matter and develop these AI presentations? For one thing, I wonder if it reveals that fewer and fewer people are able to master the English language (or others) and may be just too lazy to learn it. Some of the presentations, as I mentioned, are indeed of thought-provoking subjects, but what are we to make of thought-provoking discourse when the very entity presenting it is obviously avoiding the thought processes required to compose a sensible narrative? Why can’t the presenter(s) find one of the (apparently dwindling number of) persons who might be able to master the language and produce a robust narrative that engages the reader, complete with occasional minor mistakes that reveal it’s from a real person and not a digitally arranged attempt at perfection? “Authors” of AI narrated videos, while seeking clicks and big algorithms (was that a correct phrase? I don’t know, but even if it was incorrect, just read on with the knowledge that this post is hand-written by a real person) simply forego any attempt to self-generate whatever discourse they try to present from their own mind and by their own hand. They simply let the beast speak for whatever it is they are trying to sell. Although the end product may indeed sell, it nevertheless lacks that human touch – human language – that lends authenticity. Authenticity, therefore is relegated in importance to the number of views.

Putting a thought into words isn’t always easy and for a thought to have the desired effect on the reader, words need to be carefully selected. Professors and teachers, at least when I was in school eons ago, try and get the notion across that in order to evoke the desired emotion(s), an author needs to be aware that the choice of terms he/she selects has a profound effect on the reader’s understanding of his material. I honestly believe that for all the hoopla surrounding this marvelous AI, folks will eventually get tired of its repeated use of terms and phraseology, but like I said, don’t expect these anomalies to last.

It’s kind of scary though, to imagine that the cyber world may grow to understand deficiencies in its own capabilities and set about improving its proficiency to the point that it can become able to sway opinions and beliefs of all of the masses. That’s where a person’s faith comes in. See, the Holy Spirit inside the heart of the Christian will not allow this gross deception in their beliefs. Jesus said, [Matthew 24:24] “For false Christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” Whatever AI generated themes arise, the believer can never be deceived, because the knowledge of Jesus Christ is indelibly etched into their hearts and when the beast proposes something that conflicts with the teachings of Jesus, the Spirit sends up a red flag. It might not be instantaneous, but even after hearing some outlandish thing or another and maybe even after cogitating on it, the Christian will eventually and inevitably get the right message. Always be on the lookout for flashy messages that conflict with the scriptures you have learned. Even if some narrative sounds one hundred percent authentic, if the presenter avoids mentioning Jesus Christ as his authority, it should be taken with skepticism.

I think this is how the beast – the antiChrist – will come to fore in these last days. He (it) will speak messages that appeal to believers to the extent some will actually believe he’s loyal to God. The norm is graphic depictions of horrible demons in terrifying scenes and that’s what he wants to portray to you to look out for, but in reality this character is most likely going to be attractive and deliver an attractive message. A lot of people have speculated this. People whom you consider to be fellow believers will come to you saying he is the real deal for they will have been deceived themselves. To drive this point home, I’ve had people whom I thought to be devout Christians tell me that one man (one of our former presidents) was such a great Christian they just had to support him. Even after he revealed himself to be another servant of the wealthy who trampled rights and lives of unfortunate people in El Salvador for instance, they didn’t see it. The antiChrist will likewise deceive all but the most steadfast, and many of today’s AI narratives are simply his proving ground to see what works best for his purposes. That is one of the reasons for this post – to help fellow travelers to watch for his treachery.

I think the greatest threat of deception is going to be in the message of the enemy. He will say things that comport with what many people think is scripture and on the surface will sound completely moral. There’s already a lot of this going on in today’s churches and cults that try to establish a return to the old covenant and mix it with the Covenant of Christ. There’s a false teaching going around that a lot of people call Christian Zionism, and there are several versions of it, but they all seem to teach some sort of hybrid theology that tries to apply the old law of Moses with Jesus’ teachings. I would like to remind believers that every bit of dogma they try to inject from the old covenant is an attempt (intentional or not) to reduce the primacy of Jesus Christ whether or not they realize it. If one does not understand the threat of this to the Christian, I would encourage studying the entire epistle to the Galatians. This is precisely what that church was doing and the Apostle Paul sharply rebuked them for it, even calling them “foolish Galatians!” [Galatians 3:1]. I’ve actually heard people of this genre of “believers” even go so far as to question Paul’s authority or even his actual claim to Apostleship, some even saying he wasn’t a real disciple. This is dangerously irresponsible, but nevertheless it’s another tactic of deception the enemy uses. There is no such animal as a Judeo Christian or a Christian Zionist. The terms are mutually exclusive in every possible measure. I mention this phenomenon because in today’s Christian world it has spread and has become such a prevalent method of deception – even one that rivals the slick language of AI videos.

Another aspect of the great deception that I fear too few people anticipate is that due to the publicity of the great evils going on in the world that everyone sees, the antiChrist will doubtless go against the atrocities we all witness right now. Even nonbelievers are repulsed at murdering starving children! Although they have served him well, Satan, in his eagerness to gain some of Christ’s harvest will be more than willing to throw the people committing the evil right now under the bus so folks can say, “See? He’s against (genocide, pedophilia, whatever) so he’s a good guy and you should follow him!” I believe he’s setting up this very deception today, knowing the world is getting fed up with the goings on of the great evils we see everywhere. He can even gain the trust of even marginal believers with this – watch out for it!

This is but one of the tactics the enemy is using, but by applying today’s communication devices and tactics, he will deceive many. Don’t fall for it. Some of those AI presentations sound very convincing, but always weigh what you hear with your knowledge of the Bible. The elect cannot be deceived, but there are many others who can, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT STUDY GOD’S WORD! Many of these people try to claim to be believers, but to their eternal damnation, they follow teachings that are not of Christ. That said, however, I’ve seen some AI videos that advance true Christian theology too, and I’m not discrediting any of them, I just prefer the narrative to be of human origin.

If you’ve made it this far on this post, you’re probably a true believer. It’s my solemn prayer that this message will help you to see some of the wiles of the enemy and avoid his snares. The world at large completely ignores God. There are only a few who try to follow Jesus, and of those, the halfhearted get led astray, maybe not away from the faith, but certainly down some dead-end roads they must come back from. Be warned that if you’re not being tested, if Satan isn’t bothering you, you’re doing something wrong. Conversely if you’re aware by events in your life that he’s out gunning for you, you’re probably on the right track. That’s another way to tell if the ministry you follow is teaching the right Way – how’s their battle with the enemy going?

Jesus said, [Matthew 7:14] “Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it”. This should be clear enough to understand that not everyone who calls themselves believers are for real. But it is because they aren’t pure at heart. Seek that narrow gate. [Mathew 7:7], “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

You don’t see that language in very many AI presentations. In addition, for what it’s worth, as long as this writer operates folkpotpourri, there will be no AI posts.

May God bless all.

MK

Dare You Doubt the Real Boy?

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CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NYT, BBC, WAPO, etc., etc., etc.

For Pete’s sake, most folks should know by now that you can’t believe anything you hear or read on the mainstream news anymore. That’s a sad fact, but nonetheless, a fact it is. So why are they still operating? My guess is that they are getting a sizeable portion of their revenues from sources other than advertisers, but that’s just my guess.

God has a way of working His will in which He completely subverts attempts by men in the service of the enemy to try and cause us to deviate from following Him, and it’s often done through the most ironic of irony. For instance, if you google Operation Mockingbird, you’ll find that it is an ongoing project to feed disinformation and propaganda from our “intelligence” agencies into the public domain using our news networks. Some of the garbage they produce makes a person who is knowledgeable of this Satanic operation shake his head in incredulity at the level of “intelligence” in it.

First of all, you have to realize that it has become the objective of national “intelligence” to create false narratives, often impossibly false narratives, to John Q Public, with the (usually correct) assumption that he won’t question them. For real, most folks actually bought the 9/11 story. I think at first the purpose of the lies was to obtain public support for (usually outrageous) moves that said intel agencies deemed to be appropriate foreign policy. Even then, intel products only served the interests of the wealthy defense investors who massively profit from the public fear their lies could provoke. What passes for “intelligence” is intended to totally misinform people about issues for which they should be honestly apprised.

Intelligence agencies have grown in number and in the level of unintelligent policies they produce. The only thing at which they have excelled to date has been their unmatched ability to tell lies, and as a result of their proficiency at deceit, they now and perhaps will always have lost any remote ability to either disseminate, or recognize, truth in any form. It has become their number one priority to create and disseminate, false narratives – lies. That’s absolutely the only thing they can do, and until today it has worked out for them, but lately they are losing their touch – their lies have become so obvious (and odious), and so unreasonable, that most folks can see right through them nowadays. As they dutifully spew their detritus, even the most dedicated reporters on TV seem to wonder, and rightfully so, if their stories are being bought. So, the one and only thing they (intel) ever were good at – lying – is failing them. But they’re still fabricating full tilt.

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I’m sure their father, Satan is becoming very disappointed with them for losing their focus. After all Jesus said Satan is the father of all lies, so it only stands to reason that agencies, persons, or entities whose main goal in life is to deceive people are Satan’s willing servants. The main servants of Satan, the wealthy, see the lies becoming transparent and seem to be getting flustered. Ukraine is demonstrably not defeating Russia, the occupying power in Palestine is not acting in self-defense, and I’m sure the powers that be are wondering when the peasants will get enough and borrow that tool of restitution from the French.

A couple of the points this post is trying to make is that the irony of those involved in intelligence is that instead of intelligence, they are now so beset with ignorance that they have become an unfunny joke. Another is that they have devolved to the point where such issues as foreign policy, military assessment, and other pursuits on which intelligence groups should be working, actually seem to have become trivial and taken the back seat to the construction of false narratives – they lie simply to be lying and, of course to create more wealth for people who are already wealthy. An example of this is creating a lie that, say, a country like Russia is getting ready to invade us so the only possible option is to assign many billions of dollars to Lockheed Martin or Raytheon.

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Everybody knows they taught the military boys it was ok to torture “enemy combatants”, and that they came up with that disingenuous designation so it would appear to justify torturing them, but I’m getting into the weeds – we have evolved to a place where intelligence work is about as far from intelligent as you can get – at least in this country, but still, I can’t help but imagine what a great general like Patton would think of allowing our guys to torture enemy POWs. It’s only logical that if the enemy knows that if they give up, they are going to be tortured, they will fight to the death rather than surrender, thus costing unnecessary lives in battle. Any general – or intelligence official – would know better than to torture POWs. But then, intelligence spooks (and politicians) aren’t concerned with such mundane things as the lives of their soldiers.

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Intelligence organizations are all about security of their assets and buildings, but I couldn’t for the life of me, understand why any of our adversaries would want to infiltrate any of our intel agencies – why should they? – such a move might impede their self-destruction. It’s fairly obvious the only people who actually have infiltrated our intelligence agencies are sold to us as allies. Many of the more reliable alternative media sources I watch keep saying that America is headed over a cliff. I think if we go over it, our congress, “think tanks”, but especially our “intelligence” agencies, will be responsible.

The Tangled Web of False Narratives

How do we know it’s a lie? I think the saying is something about if their lips are moving, and maybe that’s true for a lot of them from whom we expect to hear fabrications, and the lie itself is often not as diabolical as the damage it causes. For instance, there is one circulating here in the US about how much more advanced we are technically and economically than “anywhere else”. Well, if anyone cares to look around, China and Japan have some really beautiful sleek bullet trains whizzing about Asia, but we still have the old diesel antiques putt-putting on our dilapidated railways and over shaky bridge trestles that the Amtrack riders hope will hold up for one more pass. The ultimate damage from this one is that since we are convinced of our technical prowess, we don’t see a need to invest in improvements, hence we fall further behind the rest of the world – including our adversaries.

The mainstream media of America try to studiously avoid stories about places like Philadelphia’s Kensington and the tent cities of Denver and San Fransisco, slums on downtown streets which incidentally we did not see on the many recent videos of Moscow – what a nice, clean place. Cities in the US look more and more like Mumbai or the poverty-stricken slums of Islamabad.

The lies Americans are fed beggar the imagination – we are convinced of our military superiority in the world, yet we don’t have the hypersonic missile that even Iran and purportedly Yemen have, and Russia has already been using them in the Ukraine. There are several places in the world where we started wars that we’ve had to leave with our tails tucked between our legs as we loudly proclaimed our “victory”. Such is the deplorable state of our government’s space program that our astronauts have been hitching rides to the space station for years with our “underdeveloped” adversary, Russia. It seems they are continuously improving their space program and assets as American defense contractors shovel taxpayer dollars into their accounts – whether their products work or not is not even a consideration anymore. Although they might be billion-dollar boondoggles, they are determined to be successful if they make money.

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I was an American sailor, one of many selected to form the nucleus crew of the USS Nimitz, the pride of the fleet during the 70’s. How proud I was to see pictures of us “manning the rail”, when she left the shipbuilding docks and put to sea. Manning the rail is done on special occasions when hungover sailors put on their dress blues and stand side-by-side lining the weather decks, typically in waters near enough to shore that people can see the show from land. Incidentally, the Eisenhower was being built next to us in the shipyard, next in line to be commissioned and of the same class as out Nimitz. One little (totally irrelevant) tidbit that few people know about the Nimitz is that her class was originally designated as CVAN, instead of CVN, having dispensed with the A, such as carriers are designated nowadays. C- carrier, V – fixed wing aircraft, A – attack, N – nuclear powered. I guess to keep selling the notion of “defense”, the attack part had to be dropped.

We were commissioned in 1975, before we all realized the Vietnam war would soon wind down and try as they may to get her in service in time to get a campaign ribbon, she did not become seaworthy, or better yet, battleworthy in time to get to the West Pac to kill her share of Vietnamese peasants, who at that time were still horrendously threatening American freedom. More lies. There were a lot of underhanded things going on in which vast profits were gained by American defense and construction corporations. We didn’t know all of this at the time, though. We were all told that Vietnam was the key domino that was about to fall and lead to a communist takeover of Asia. Another lie, but such was the effectiveness of their propaganda, I and the thousands of other naive military boys actually believed we were somehow “serving our country”, or worse, “defending freedom”. What a crock! What a bunch of morons we were! We were explicitly serving the likes of Henry Kissinger and a bunch of millionaire businessmen right here in the good old USA.

Once the Vietnam debacle was over, (the hot part – it will never be forgotten by those Vietnamese folks who survived it). Just when it looked like peace might be here to stay, the liars in charge found a new bogeyman in Iraq – new lie – who had ‘weapons of mass destruction” and was ready to attack Americans in Hoboken. A woman named April Glaspie was sent by HW Bush to sell Saddam the lie that the US would not interfere if he wanted to invade Kuwait as payback for stealing Iraqi oil, so he did just that. April who?!! In no time, Saddam’s soldiers were grabbing babies out of incubators and slamming them into the wall! The horror! Another big lie – Nayirah Al-Sabah, a young Kuwaiti girl who tearfully recounted this BS had been tutored to deliver this convincing story to garner public support so ex-CIA chief Papa Bush could send the boys to attack Iraq. Turns out, she was the daughter of the Iraqi ambassador and was coached to give this testimony. And everyone bought it. It was later revealed that the story was false, but since it helped lead to war, it serves as another example the damage of the lie. It would be easier to fix a baby that has been slammed than to undo the lie.

As these execrably dishonest narratives began to gush into the American media, most of us who had been raised on Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley didn’t realize we had any reason to doubt them. We had no way of knowing why, we just knew Moammar Khadafi was evil. We weren’t told that he was an extremely popular leader in Libya who was beloved by his constituents. We weren’t apprised (by CNN and FOX) that he had improved the standard of living in his country. The leaders of our country saw him as an imminent threat mainly due to the fact that he had the temerity to locate his country on top of American oil, and they disliked his popularity in Africa. He had to go. So did Daniel Noreiga. Wonder how many remember Hasenfus, a pilot who worked for the CIA running drugs to the US and shipping arms to evil right-wing cartels in places like El Salvador. He crashed his plane in central America and if not for this, we probably would never have heard of the operation. He was smuggling arms that were purchased with money from Iran and from the drug business. This Palestinian genocide is not the first one that the US has sponsored! Google Operation Condor.

After the evil puppet masters installed Bush Junior, they were able to pull off the crime of the century – maybe the greatest crime of all time – to be committed right in front of millions of people. Before you think this episode is a “conspiratory theory”, just consider all of the lies we, the public have been subjected to in the preceding paragraphs and then try to come up with a reason why we should all of a sudden start believing our leaders’ narrative on 9/11. There are so many holes in the official story of those events, a block of Swiss cheese would blush with envy. It just boils down to this, “Are you going to believe us or your lying eyes?” We saw it, and there are those of us who will not be convinced of the flimsy narrative, we know what we saw. This event was probably the central turning point when sane and reasonable people finally said, “ENOUGH!” Everyone else seemed to be willing to let it go. Let’s just pretend we believe the story – who knows, if we can make them think we believe their story, maybe they will suddenly turn from their evil ways and life in America will be good again. That may have been the biggest lie of all, and incredibly, it’s the one we are telling ourselves!

Since the 9/11 lie succeeded in birthing “forever wars” in the world, it brought Lockheed, the Carlisle Group, Raytheon, and all the other blood-dripping entities such good fortune, and as a further gift, the liars in charge have learned that they can abandon any semblance of truth anymore. Americans will believe anything, or at least pretend to, to the extent the public is no threat to them. They can murder with impunity. There are no international laws to which they pay heed. There is no lie too big for them anymore. As long as John Doe public is willing to allow them to do so, they will encroach on our Constitution, our property, our very lives. And we keep our heads buried in the sand.

The lies they have graduated to in this perilous time in our history have grown to become an existential threat, as Bible prophecies reveal to us. Revelation 19 gives us a perfect description of what is about to happen to the United States. We are about to be burned to ashes, and all of us stand by and watch, afraid to say anything which might attract the attention of the beast, lest it devour us, but we will be devoured anyway, so maybe it’s time to at least acknowledge that we don’t believe any of their lies anymore.

There’s an impending election coming up this year. Look at the disasters of human beings we have for candidates! For real, who said these creatures are the only persons we must choose between for a president? Who controls this debacle? We all know, don’t we? There are people out there like Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, and Douglass McGregor who are risking a lot to try and draw America’s attention to what’s going on. There are college kids out getting their heads banged for trying to get our attention. There are old geezers like me who have been watching the demons take charge for years and are willing to speak up. We’ve got to figure out a way to get through all the lies, we have to seriously get people’s attention before they get us nuked. Now I don’t personally believe Americans have it in them anymore to step up to the plate, but that’s no excuse for not speaking up.

Seeing is believing. Or so I thought until 9/11/2001. When we were told 19 hijackers with box cutters took control of extremely complicated modern jet airplanes and flew them hundreds of miles and were able to control the direction and altitude to hit buildings, especially the one that hit the pentagon at a speed that a passenger jet can’t fly that close to the ground, we should have demanded a real investigation – that’s one lie that sticks in my craw. Around four thousand Americans were slaughtered that day and there’s ample reason to believe organs of our government and that of at least one of our “allies” were involved. If you choose to believe the approved narrative on the events of 9/11, by all means, go ahead. It’s far from the only lie they have told, but the cumulative effects of that one might eventually take America down – as surely as those buildings came down. It ain’t over yet.