Some people like to say that back in the day people were just chugging alcohol all the time. Others like to use the Bible to justify frequent alcohol consumption. But in reality, it seemed to be more of a strategy to prevent illness than to be hedonistic degenerates.
It's true that ancient Greeks and Romans mixed water and wine—but technically they were putting wine into their water more than they were putting water into their wine. Back then, wine was seen as a way to purify and improve the taste of the (often stagnant) water source.
How dilute was the water/wine combo? In Homer's Odyssey, a ratio of 20 parts water to one part wine is mentioned, but other accounts put it closer to three or four parts water to one part wine. There are also reports of adding lemon, spices, resin or even seawater to dilute wine.
Many modern believers like to look at verses in the Bible as promoting alcohol consumption (as we think of it today) despite the contradiction with clear commands against drunkenness and drunkards.
As we see in 1st Timothy, it's proper use is medicinal:
"Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses." [1 Timothy 5:23]
And as we see in Proverbs we read:
"Wisdom has built her house,
She has slaughtered her meat,
She has mixed her wine"
[Proverbs 9:1,2]
She has mixed her wine. There was have wine mixing again. Mixing with what? Water seems to be the likely culprit.
I will add to that a personal story. I knew a man who was a professing Christian and church goer who liked to drink, but was otherwise an outwardly good man (at least to the public). One day he ended his life in a murder-suicide. I was not in the Word at the time and never discussed doctrine with him, but suffice to say his doctrine was likely not very sound.
The Moors and the Jews of Spain felt the weight of the oppressive hand of Obscurantism no less than did the Kabalists and Alchemists of the Middle Ages. One would think Esoteric philosophy and especially the Occult Arts, or Magic, were an abomination to these good holy fathers? And so indeed they would have the world believe. But when one studies history and the works of their own authors published with the imprimatur of the Order, what does one find? That the Jesuits have practised not only Occultism, but BLACK MAGIC in its worst form, 4 [Footnote 4. Mesmerism or HYPNOTISM is a prominent factor in Occultism. It is magic. The Jesuits were acquainted with and practised it ages before Mesmer and Charcot. –ED.] more than any other body of men; and that to it they owe in large measure their power and influence!
https://blavatsky.net/theosophy-or-jesuitism/
"Theosophy Or Jesuitism" From H. P. Blavatsky Theosophical Articles, Vol. III 1888
Hypnotism, so early mind control attempts. They truly embody the CIA in almost every aspect. Except they serve Rome.
White people, particularly white Americans, have created some of the worst women in the world. You are too cowardly to tell them the truth and too egalitarian to assert your leadership over them. As a result, the average American woman is a fragile narcissist incapable of handling basic truths about herself. A chick in her 30s needs constant validation that not only is she still attractive, but that now she is a BETTER CATCH than in her 20s. Who are we kidding here people?
It's not enough that people just want kind words, they want a delusion fed to them. In recent years this has extended to the "fat acceptance" movement and the trans insanity. It's all the same bullshit. We are expected to gaslight people as a cultural norm as we gaslight ourselves into thinking we're virtuous for it. It's lies and cowardice masquerading as virtue.
Maybe they did, I honestly don't know enough of the history.
But some Christians are claiming Jesuits were behind the French Revolution. Looking into it.
I do know that commies today love the Jacobins. "Jacobin" is a communist magazine. Same spirit.
Trump wants to merge Canada and the USA, and unlike previous presidents he isn't even coy about it.
Regarding annexing Canada Trump said, "You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security,” Trump said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5072926-trump-annexation-canada-trade-threat/
People like Alex Jones were warning us about a North American Union plan for decades. Yet Jones now supports Trump as the white hat savior of America (and has since 2015). Also ironic that Jones was selling Trump as bringing in martial law, another thing he had been warning us about for decades.
Is that enough to wake any Trump lovers up or are you still that retarded?
But when I look in the Youtube comment section (which I trust more than Reddit) it's all negative on the economy. That's the real recession indicator.
And make no mistake, our government is no better than that of China. They will lie to make statistics look better in one way or another. They are just more clever about it in a "democracy".
It's going to get interesting, and with Trump taking office it's going to be record uncertainty and chaos, not to mention economic shocks if he follows through with any of his plans. If he follows through with his tariff plan, or with his expansionists plans towards Greenland and Canada, the markets are going to sh*t themselves.
I know some people talk about hyperinflation. Personally my gut tells me a crash comes first, followed by bouts of inflation, but so long as the dollar remains the world reserve currency for much of the world, it likely won't become Weimar Germany. Or perhaps it does and they use that as an excuse to create a new currency.
Don't know, but I think stagflation is the foreseeable future.
“No, economic force,” he responded. “Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something.”
"You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security,” Trump said.
But Trump on Tuesday threatened “economic force” to annex the U.S.’s neighbor to the north. Together with talks of buying Greenland and controlling the Panama Canal, the comments suggest he’s aiming to expand U.S. power after he takes office this month.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5072926-trump-annexation-canada-trade-threat/
And the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBwxkgh3tY0
#OurGuy #TrustThePlan #5DChess
So at this point can we admit Trump is not the anti-war guy but is in fact looking more like the last days Son of Perdition?
Video games used to take up some amount of energy and have some addicting potential, but they would only get so involved.
Modern gaming, however has become a nearly limitless intellectual blackhole to waste the mental energies of the most mentally gifted. Just looking at all the options for hardware alone is staggering.
Here is a video discussing just one feature of modern graphics cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQotCxIA7Yk Just one of many and it already feels like a college course to understand this stuff properly.
Some games, like Smash Brothers Melee, have such a depth of lore and game mechanics that it feels like you need a PhD to become good at the game. There are people nerding out on custom built controllers and analysis of game mechanics as if they were building the Space Shuttle. All for something that isn't going to pay them almost anything and has little benefit to society.
I wonder how many of these people end up getting their lives together only to major in theoretical physics, another waste of time and resources. At least they will be getting paid, but society will reap almost 0 rewards from their activities.
Covid was a false alarm bubble burst for the economy. There was a break in the normal system due to a pre-planned black swan event, but not a real economic breakdown. That is yet to come.
Major indicators like the Buffet indicator and P/E ratio averages still show a massive bubble by historical standards. Meanwhile China (the world's second largest economy), is seeing bubbles burst. In their case they are in the middle of an ongoing real estate collapse from a long overheated market. Sound familiar? Not to mention rampant unemployment (not covered in Chinese media of course).
In the US, despite the fed cutting interest rates, real mortgage rates remain high. The market isn't buying the fed's rate cut signal this time, and with job layoffs already well underway and inflation putting pressure on what little people have left, it's fair to say the actual recession already started long ago. Markets just need to catch up to reality.
The government's official numbers are calculated with increasingly dishonest methods and it's known among many economists that by the time the government admits a recession it's well underway. So I'd much rather rely on consumer sentiment to indicate recession than official stats. The average sentiment of low-middle class workers is very pessimistic and complaints of struggle commonplace.
Warren Buffet's massive investment firm is sitting on more cash than ever before after a big sell off. At the same time valuations of stupid high risk assets are reaching all time highs (Bitcoin, Tesla, etc). Add to that the unsustainability of the AI hype train (input power exponentially outpacing performance gains of the system), as well as the Trump economic hype train you have a recipe for a major correction and crisis.
This crisis could include banks that over bought on high risk assets during the market euphoria thinking number always goes up (it doesn't).
I know some want to believe in the AI+Trump hype train, but this is only an artificial boost before reality sets in. The fundamentals haven't changes and Trump isn't going to change them. A little deregulation is nice, but insufficient to save this sinking ship.
And for the cherry on top, the Jim Kramer contrarian indicator is flashing red... https://communities.win/c/NoNewNormal/p/19A1C9uX4b/best-recession-indicator-yet/c
*[This is not financial advice]
What if communism is simply a tool to make people yearn for religion again and to forget the horrors of a tyrannical antiChrist theocracy?
That's what this researcher is alleging and he makes a lot of good point (he also doesn't mince words about the Jews). See the "Dark to Light" series on his website https://www.danceoflife.com
As we move towards this ecumenical Christian dominionist phase under Trump, bolstered by the pseudo Christian pastors who hail him as the chosen one, these theories seem less and less far fetched.
This researcher is coming from a more SDA perspective, but it's good to take in opinions from different viewpoints. I don't have to fully agree with his eschatology (end times interpretations) to get value from these insights.
And now with Trump in office (shift to the "right") and a faux UFO/alien invasion psyop under way this could be the time the Vatican uses to make a "come back" as the head of the beast that rules the system. In fact, if you look up 'Catholic Church and Aliens' you'll find many articles on the subject, including from Catholic publications for many years prior building this up.
"Vatican scientist says belief in God and aliens is OK" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-extraterrestrials/vatican-scientist-says-belief-in-god-and-aliens-is-ok-idINL146364620080514/
"Angels or aliens? Some researchers say Vatican archives hold UFO secrets" https://www.usccb.org/news/2024/angels-or-aliens-some-researchers-say-vatican-archives-hold-ufo-secrets
"Vatican astronomer says if aliens exist, they may not need redemption" https://catholicreview.org/vatican-astronomer-says-if-aliens-exist-they-may-not-need-redemption/
And looking at America, the global world superpower, the strongest right-wing leadership in the younger generation is coming from radical traditionalist Catholics. It is the papacy coming back. It is the false light of the false Vicar of Christ we're getting, not a true Christian revival by any means. The stage is set for massive end times deception.
Some of you have probably heard about the FE advocate, Jeranism, going to Antarctica and realizing the FE model is nonsense.
I think Jernism truly believed in Flat Earth once. He was a brain washed Jesuit cult member / patsy. Far fetched?
I do have evidence, but unfortunately it is only from my memory, however it is a strong memory.
In a random video I watched by Jeranism he admitted to being "Jesuit trained", that they taught him the Earth was flat, and that one of these teachers he was convinced was over 200 years old. In other words this guy was brainwashed by a secret society to be used for their purposes (I don't believe for a second the guy was over 200 years old, but the fact Jeranism did speaks volumes).
If we are to believe he is merely a dishonest agent, he would never have admitted to being trained by Jesuits. That would only raise eyebrows from his audience and lose trust with them. I think he was telling the truth.
As pointed out in this documentary https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/19A12pyxay/the-coming-great-demonic-alien-d/c the coming alien deception is being anticipated by Rome, and they will be ready to pivot to embrace the new religion that will form.
This seems like a very likely entry point for the end times global empire they need.
Right now the conspiracy space is rightly focused on Jews, but that ignores the larger Satanic network of which the Vatican is a major part. Before the CIA and Mossad there were the Jesuits. Four hundred years before in fact. That is quite a head start.
People talk about the elites having long term plans, but to have long term plans you need to have long term institutions. Who ruled Europe for nearly two thousand years? Rome. From Ancient Rome to the so-called Catholic Empire that followed it, up until the Protestant reformation.
They are still in play. The Ecumenical movement has been eroding Protestantism for many decades now, and paving the way for so-called "Christian unity". Unity with a UN psyop pushing Babylonian Papacy. Keep an eye out.
