logos pleroma chptr 5
Everything is stories. TPTB rushes in to interpret them the best way possible to get the people to fall under their sway. Like the story of The Fall, despite what the words actually say.
There are mysteries which the human mind cannot fathom, which I think is the only excuse to default to faith if you call yourself a believer in truth.
Science’s baby, the Big Bang: an epic orgasm of cosmic proportions for a subatomic particle suffering through a billion times a billion years’ case of blue ball sexual frustration is as good an explanation as any as to how you get something from nothing. So, before you go poo pooing religion’s reliance on miracles to tell this story don’t forget that staid science’s first cause is also predicated on a whopper. And, too, into what is this ever expanding universe continually expanding?
As mentioned in a previous chapter, religion’s method has been to explain the inexplicable through the telling of stories rather than science’s reliance on mathematical proofs and impenetrable equations. Whether these stories are historical, allegorical or a combination should be of secondary concern. I mean, get a load of Irenaeus criticizing the gnostic system for “absurdities” and in the same breath teaching that the doctrine of Original Sin was set in motion by a naked woman being tricked into eating the forbidden fruit by a talking snake!
Too many take the bait and continue to fight over the “Is it real or is it a story?” thing its become another false hill to be content to die on. Arguing over whether the Garden of Eden was “real” is just another stumbling block TPTB have thrown in front of us as means of distraction and to keep us fighting amongst ourselves over quibbling details of some albeit on-the-surface-of-it absurd story that has absolutely nothing to do with subjective reality and everything to do with answering the universal question, “What does it mean to be human?”
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened…
—The NIV Bible, Genesis 3:6-7
Out for his afternoon stroll, God finds Adam and Eve hiding and suspects the worst. Once they confess to their transgression (the basis of the absurd Church doctrine of Original Sin) God throws a fit: curses the snake, Eve and Adam and even “the ground,” in that order: the snake will eat dust all the rest of its days; Eve will suffer birth pains and be forever subservient to her husband; Adam will toil by the sweat of his brow to grow food and harvest it from the accursed ground, and everyone, including the snake, will return to it because “for dust you are and to dust you will return.”1
Pardon me, but an all-seeing, all-knowing God would not have asked this question. Or was he just messing with them, checking to see if he could get them to double down on their sin? If this is the vindictive and deceitful God I’m supposed to follow then, no thank you.
I’m sorry, if I’m being sacrilegious. I tell you truly, heretickin’ ain’t easy. It’s bad form—not to mention hazardous to one’s health—to question real-or-imagined, crowd-sourced or self-created deities. Whether God, Jesus Christ, Donald Trump, or Anthony Fauci.
When dealing with any cult of personality, even if you perceive certain inconsistencies, absurdities or downright falsehoods in the stories they are pushing, it’s is forbidden of you to partake of the poison apple of your own logic and reason in deference to their expertise and absolute authority. True believers will shout you down, screaming, “Who are you to gainsay them?”
Fast forward from Eden to 2020 and the advent of covid, which became its own religion. If you didn’t do every absurd thing the clergy of Safe and Effective commanded, you were cast out of civil society. Doing your own research was forbidden, considered anathema by the high priests of TPTB. Stripped of your civil rights and dignity, livelihood threatened if you didn’t knuckle under to authority for a cold virus with metrics that showed it was “common,” so many of us were tricked and cajoled into putting our faith in the Gospel of Covid as revealed by world redeemer and savior, Saint Anthony Fauci.
And if this sounds familiar, like a pattern that keeps repeating and that we keep falling for over and over again, from JFK, Gulf of Tonkin, Charles Manson,2 Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army counterinsurgency psychological operation, you may be onto something.3
The beat goes on and on and on and ad infinitum…world without end.
US government funding the mujahedeen when they were fighting the Russians in Afghanistan, before going to war against terrorism when, a decade later, the official narrative is that an offshoot of the mujahedeen committed 9/11. Going to war with Iraq because of nonexistent Weapons of Mass Destruction the government-media complex lied about it having, as well as us believing the unsubstantiated claims that, actually, Iraq was in on it! That Joseph Robinett Biden held forth in the senate and “Push for Saddam Hussein to Be Taken Down Five Years Before [the] Iraq War”4 seems a tad too convenient, don’t you think? Like the decision had already been made a long time before the pretext of 9/11?
And people wonder why these latter daze, insofar as trust in our nation’s institutions goes, there’s no solid ground to stand on? Despite the “fool me once” axiom, the resolution of which George W. Bush comically booted during his administration’s ramping up of the disastrous War on Terror, it worked out to be, in retrospect, something of a Freudian slip. Whether conniving deceiver or manipulated bungler, such assurance coming from him would be foolish not to believe the opposite of any statement he was making. Turn it around from a negative “can’t” to its positive antecedent “can” because, as history shows, we’ve been fooled again and again and again and again, etc, etc, it never fails.
And who am I to gainsay them? The new boss has been the same as the old boss ever since JFK took a head shot in Dealey Plaza. It’s plain as day. It stands to reason that rather than taking a bullet, it’s a heck of a lot easier to “take their word for it.”
My previous book dealt with this perpetual miasma of corruption the nation (not to mention the world) is stuck in: a pandemic of top down subterfuge. The problem that fixing a corrupt system lording it over everyone is the government monopoly on violence and thus, excepting a revolution a la 1776, their monopoly on power. It appears to be a no-win situation with TPTB knowing that we know they know that we know but are convinced we’re too weak to do anything about it, and that is why these latter daze they’ve just become so much more shameless and brazen about rubbing it in our faces.
Beware these and any other absolutes; their sole purpose is to make you stop thinking.
Trust the Science!
Have Faith!
Trust the Plan!
I mean, seriously?
Opposing any of these slogans makes you a denier, a heretic and a hater onto whom is heaped the blame for the endemic corruption that is part-and-parcel of the crazed cult mentality from which they are all emanating and, as a result, are self-creating.
TPTB lie regardless of how absurd their claims may be because at this point party politics trumps what people say they see. Depending on what is advantageous for their “side,” they only see what they have been told is best for “the party.”
Take Alejandro Mayorkas saying the border is closed and nobody is coming in illegally. His advocates shut their eyes and turned their heads from video footage proof that said otherwise. It is another instance of the toxic cult of personality mentioned a few paragraphs ago.
In Donald Trump’s case, die hard supporters twisted themselves into pretzels defending US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites, whereas, before the surprise bunker busting barrage, MAGA had urged him not to attack, but to continue his diplomacy with the Middle East nation. Regardless of the spin of “no boots on the ground made it justified,” it was an act of war that was an attempt to finish what Israel had started, and was anything but his campaign promise to keep America First.
One of the main points of Algebra of Conspiracy was to show how both sides of the political equation are not immune to seeing what their told to see by the leaders they admire to the point of blind conformity, and pulling a Sergeant Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes fame, “I see nothing!” in regards to anything they see that doesn’t coincide with what they already know is true and faithfully believe.
My point for this book is to show that ruling by delusion is a tried-and-true dialectic that’s been perfected since antiquity, namely in the form of religion, and to be more specific, Christianity. Just like all the other power playing psychos who’ve hijacked every other institution in my lifetime and long before then, too, the same is true of the proselytizing pushers of Judaism, Islam and Christianity. But since I’ve been raised in a society steeped in the Bible and the Gospels, it only stands to reason that I would critically examine the beams in the eye of Christianity in order to more clearly see the specks in the eyes of those others.5
And if you haven’t closed the book and turned the page because this is simply too heretical to conceive, I’m here to relay what, I’m hoping, many of you will take as some new Good News: the gnostics weren’t booted, banned and burned because they were heretics…that was just the pretext. Gnostics and what they were preaching were declared anathema because they were telling a much better and more emotionally-fulfilling story than the listen-to-us-our-you’ll-burn-in-hell-for-eternity mechanism of control the TPTB OGs, the early Church fathers, locked into place and since time immemorial have been peddling.
Combined with a new cosmogony that puts the psychopathic OT god in his proper perspective, the gnostic method was actually somewhat Reagan-esque, Trust but Verify, use your God-given ability to put two and two together instead of taking authority on blind faith. it’s akin to a Theravada master’s maxim that if you see Buddha on the road, kill him!
Nothing Sacred!
The Truth hurts sometimes, and to the uninitiated looks and sounds like blasphemy, but if you’re brave enough to follow where it leads, withholding bias and fighting past pre-conceived anathemas we’ve been warned to take heed of, someone somewhere is purported to have said it will also set you free.6
THE NIV BIBLE, Genesis 3:19
CHAOS by Tom O’Neill
WHO RAN THE SLA by Dick Russell
https://aadl.org/node/200649
NEWSWEEK, January 7, 2020
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-pushed-saddam-hussein-taken-down-before-iraq-war-1480860
THE NIV BIBLE, Matthew 7:5, a variation on the theme
ibid, John 8:32