Merry Christmas

Yes, you heard me correctly. I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas… a heartfelt and sincere wish. This, despite the intricacies surrounding the outright deception and manipulation inherent in even in the deepest subtleties of the concept. Within the auspices of this small band, we stand at the crossroads of realization versus tradition. What of the old must go, and what is permissible to stay. As new social normative structures are established, old and – as we are now led to believe – corrupt ways are discarded. Thus, here we stand. Eye to eye, staring blankly, looking for the “proper” response to what was once so intuitive. To this I say simply and humbly, “Merry Christmas”.

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On the Titanic, there were two types of individuals: those who called for women and children first, and those who survived.

No system of economics or governance is bound to any stipulation encouraging it to act in the best interests of a transcendent God. This is especially true of the God of the Bible, what, with his annoying propensity towards allowing men the gift of self determination… the utterly misguided faith placed upon such a creature as man… so quick to show his independence from the supposed tyranny of an archon of arrogance, that he chooses the path of most rebellion-laden revelry. In short, the system of man is a misguided system. Given that we’ve unwittingly, and subsequently, handed the keys of our subsistence to the king of the air, it is not even a stretch of credulity to consider it the “beast system”. (continue reading…)