On the point of what the "Aten" actually was, I speculate that Akhenaten had some advanced knowledge he was just barely beginning to attempt to communicate to a Bronze Age people. I'm referring to knowledge of what we now call the "Electric Universe" and all it's ramifications.
The key observation comes from the carving of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three of their daughters, all watched over by the Aten. If you look very closely, you'll see the sun rays all end in stylized human hands. Quite an odd detail, and I can think of no other artwork depicting the Sun literally reaching out to us. So why are those hands there?
Electric Universe theory describes the Sun as being connected electrically to Earth, and thus to all of us. The Earth is connected to all the other planets, and the Sun is connected to other stars and eventually to the center of the galaxy. Indeed, even the galaxies are connected to one another by titanic currents.
Aside from being solely the simple phenomenon of the flow of electric charge, there may be a deeper operation of the Universe facilitated by these connections. Who knows what it's nature may be, but if Akhenaten knew, that may have been something beneficial he wanted people to know about. Something others did not want people to know about.
Obi-Wan Kenobi stated that The Force surrounded us, penetrated us, and bound the galaxy together. This would certainly apply to what I just described. Perhaps George Lucas knew a little something about it too.
I've noticed that a sort of trope in conspiracy circles is that they like to mildly slam Gene Roddenberry as a Mason or an Intelligence asset or a crypto-whatever. They act like they're really "in the know" because of this. I said "mildly" because they never cite anything to back it up.
I find it all shameful and embarrassing. It's like they never bothered watching ST:TOS themselves. I seem to be the only one who noticed, but pretty much every episode is a morality play, dressed up with starships and phasers and aliens.
There's also the whole political and social backdrop pointing towards a brighter future. For example, broadcast at the height of the Cold War, a Russian is at the helm. A Japanese guy was the navigator when the Pacific War had been fought by many viewers. The Klingons were obviously the Soviets, but even with them, conflict was characterized as backwards and peace seemed within reach.
On a different matter: How is it possible that the Ferengi have never been decried as anti-Semitic? They'e quite obviously Heebs.
This is just like an item from the Jim Fetzer Sandy Hoax trial from a few years back.
Fetzer got copies of the death certificates for "Noah Pozner" from his father. (I use the plural because there were something like four different versions of the "official" certificate floating around.) He had two separate forensic document examiners take a look, and both concluded that they were all obvious bullshit.
The judge excluded the testimony of both examiners, declaring, "That's just, like, your opinion, man."
This is beyond intimidating rhetoric, and I think many of these people subconsciously know the end is near and have become detached from reality.
I suspect that before any full-scale warfare begins, we'll hear, "Okay, Lebanon, we're giving you one last chance to kill yourselves before we start administering the ass whooping. Trying to be nice about, here."
I don't think he hits it quite on the head.
Normies get their truth from two sources: the "authorities" (primarily the mainstream media) and personal experience. In normal circumstances, these two circles have only a tiny intersection in the Venn diagram of life.
Now, however, their personal experiences are coming into contradiction with what they are instructed is the truth. They are told the economy is great, but they're going broke just trying to pay the bills. They are told Trump (again, still) is going to destroy the country if he gets reelected, but they remember when none of the current shitstorm was happening just a few years ago.
But the thing is, trust in the authorities is their very mode of thinking. To relieve the stress of the contradiction, they just stop listening. Then they don't know what to think. It's not that they'll believe anything, they believe nothing.
You can see it clearly with Democrats. Most can no longer deny Biden is a complete train wreck, but you never see them follow through with that. They never say, "Yeah, I'm just seeing it now, but I guess what they've been saying about Biden for a while was actually true. I was lied to, and I was a fool to believe it. I need to figure out pronto who I should be listening to. Fuck, maybe I actually should have voted for the other guy." Nope, they're just adrift, don't know which way to turn.
So what we're dealing with, in the end, is the way the human mind actually works. For anyone reading this, if you don't identify closely with this description of normies, understand clearly that it doesn't make you smarter or better. Different humans just have starkly different ways their minds operate, as surely as they have differently colored eyes.
Ever notice how all the ideas progressives have end up requiring persuasion, by which they, of course, mean coercion?
You can contrast that with Trump, who offers ideas like, "How about we don't tax tips?" He doesn't have to follow it up with, "Whoa, hang on everybody, let me just talk this through with you...."
Suppose they added, "But since it's controversial, we'll just start off small, say with blacks."
Magically, a smaller version would instantly become The Most Outrageous Idea Ever, and that it was "Trump's secret Project 1619" to re-enslave the darkies.
What shocking is how almost no one is shocked by any of this drive to WW3. It's really enough to make you think that humanity deserves what it gets. The ultimate irony, of course, is that no individual who gets hurt by war thinks they deserve what they got.
I find the effect on ordinary people frightening also.
I've said, "You know, most every war ends up with the disputing parties sitting around the negotiating table. I wish they could just end the war and go the negotiating table now, where they could work out whatever differences they have. It would save the lives of countless soldiers and civilians caught up in it, and all the destruction of property and disruption of society."
I get blank looks, like they literally have no idea what I'm talking about.
I take as my example the experience of Native Americans. I suppose one could say they live "in peaceful harmony, with no war, just with disruptions in global economic activity". Not really how I would describe it, though.
TBH, I would have to beg to differ on that point. There's a lot to be said, but the Gaza War has brought a certain dynamic into the light. Virtually no one is seeing this correctly, as everyone sees only what they expect to see. I'm sure there are more but I've only found a single article highlighting it:
As Jews join Pro-Palestinian Protests, the most united supporters of the Zionist State in the US are Christian Evangelicals (VT Foreign Policy 6/16/2024)
See how this pulls back the curtain? Jews--no matter who and how many--that aren't going along with the real program can STFU and GTFO. Meanwhile, a bunch of Christian Republicans who are supporting the real program are suddenly not democracy-killing HyperNazis.
In the words of Rage Against the Machine: "The front line is everywhere, there be no shelter here." They're coming for us all eventually, so we may as well just stand and fight.
(The lyrics still apply, even though they shamefully ended up Raging On Behalf of the Machine.)
Yeah, that's true, they really get stuck defending their delusions against all comers. Of course, once you have discovered the "truth", the first person who should question it is yourself.
Regrettably, I don't think it's courage that's the problem, or perhaps it should be said that it's not the root of it. I believe that it actually has to do with the level of consciousness of individuals.
There's a middle level, above the NPCs, where they can break from the accepted authority but end up just selecting another authority. From there, that new "truth" can be rationalized to any extent whatsoever.
I suppose it could look like a failure (or inability) to face up to the idea that, "Any authority could be wrong on any point, as could I." Seems like a simple thing but, as you say, few do it.
This is one of those places where "They" draw the line.
It's nothing specifically about Biden, it's that the general population cannot be allowed to know how things actually work. In the absence of that, everyone's mind will automatically fill in whatever makes them comfortable. If the subject ever comes up, the fact that no contradictory evidence is available is--incorrectly--taken to be confirmation.
Conspiracy theorists nearly universally consider the "Information War" to be something based entirely around "lies vs truth", but it actually includes numerous methodologies and techniques all aimed at keeping us away from the truth. The number is limited only by the imagination.
(Notice I didn't say "the human imagination"?)
The bigger problem is that a number of nations are being geared up as Fifth-Generation Warfare states for WW3.
The UK is one of them, but there are even bigger initiatives underway in Poland, Germany, the Baltic states, Finland, Moldova, and Romania. They just tried and failed to overthrow Georgia, right on Russia's doorstep.
The populations are awakening and struggling against this, but there's a different battle in every country. The end of the war in Ukraine and the reelection of Trump will certainly change the scenario significantly--and hopefully for the better--but the situation is chaotic and thus unpredictable.
Very little of this has anything to do with Jews. "They" use whatever agents and puppets are convenient. This is a business plan, for which religious or ethnic supremacy or anything other nonsense like that is used simply as a lever of power.
The issues about the income tax were brought up in "America: Freedom to Fascism" when (somehow) Aaron Russo got an interview with the IRS Director.
Before the guy just ran away, he was reduced to saying something like, "Just try not paying your taxes and see what happens." When people say the government is the largest criminal organization ever to have existed, there's your proof.
Here's one where I was surprised they didn't just invent some lie about:
Usermontu's Knee Screw Baffles Experts: 2,600-Year-Old Medical Marvel (Ancient Origins 6/17/2024)
I even went so far as to check his wiki page and, yes, they admit it there too.
Their spin, though, is that it was inserted after death by the mummifiers to preserve the integrity of the body. Really? The same people that take out your innards and put them in jars were worried about a prosthetic pin?
I think you may have missed the point: the differing levels of consciousness lead to differing ways of selecting authorities. Normies accept the default authorities. One level up, they have the capacity to select alternative authorities. One level up from that, and the concept of "authority" loses significance. They can develop the capacity to disregard and dismiss any and all authorities if their judgement guides them to do so.
From a personal perspective, I used to watch the network news and never doubted a word. Now, there are a number of topics on which I would disagree with every person who writes on it publicly.
Of course, no novel thought can come into the world without first being in disagreement with everything else. Otherwise it would not be novel, would it?