God is great, so why is anything a problem?

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There is a very significant question that might legitimately be asked when someone sees how much I talk about Satan, because people tend to trivialize it by saying that God is so great and awesome that Satan is basically just a big nasty bug in comparison. That is a consequence of Greek thinking – find the root causes, the fundamentals, and everything else is meaningless. This is in fact as deceptive as it is useless.

OK, God is the deepest reality, He is the “mind” in which all other realities, beings and things are merely thoughtforms. Nothing exists outside of God.

However, if God is the great supercomputer that runs all of reality, Satan is a big crocodile that lives in the lake beside your village, which is the only water source. A dismissive attitude of “oh, it’s all in the mind of God” basically means that whether the crocodile eats you and your children when you go there to get water, or not, both possible outcomes will still be only thoughts in the mind of God. However, from your position, the outcome where you and your children don’t get eaten is preferable.

Another analogy is that God is the creator and maintainer of the real world, together with all the souls that live there, and Satan is the owner of a virtual reality engine, offering souls a unique experience they will get when plugged in, after they sign a release form, of course. When this virtual reality engine suppresses your memory and overrides your senses, the fact that God creates and maintains the real world will be of limited benefit to you, in your particular situation.

Yes, God is absolutely great and awesome, and yet this doesn’t make the issues I’m dealing with illegitimate, or minor. They are great and real enough that Jesus had himself crucified in order to attempt to solve them, and for Buddha to postpone nirvana in order to attempt to carve a path out of them for others to follow. One would say they are the cornerstone issues for anyone in our position, in the same way slavery is a cornerstone issue for slaves, and food is a cornerstone issue for the starving.

Israel

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What do I think about the “current” conflict in Israel?

I think it’s a logical consequence of ideological stubbornness and bad ideas that are consistently applied, resulting in a seemingly unresolvable nightmare. But let me elaborate.

At one point in time, the European Jews concluded that their religious and national identity will be gradually assimilated into the wider, secular Europe and that they need to do something about it, and they decided it’s time to return to Palestine and create a Jewish nation-state.

Of course, the idea of moving from a sophisticated and advanced Europe into some middle-eastern shithole wasn’t very appealing, and so the Jews in charge of the project probably thought they had to prod them somewhat, which explains why big Jewish banks financed Hitler’s ascent to power, which is a piece of information that would otherwise be unexplainable. Basically, someone had an idea that inciting antisemitism in Europe might motivate the Jews to find moving to Palestine a bit more appealing, and of course, as with all such plans, it went to hell quickly and likely resulted in more Jews being killed than emigrating.

Of course, the Arabs who lived in Palestine didn’t like the idea of Jews moving there, because their false scripture teaches them that Jews are inferior to them and need to be subjugated. As the state of Israel was politically established, the Jews correctly understood that peaceful coexistence with the Arabs will not be possible because the Arabs would prefer to just kill or enslave them, so they responded with outright genocide, purging the Arabs from Israel. The surrounding Arab states didn’t like that very much and all tried to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews, which failed, because Arabs proved not to be very good in a modern warfare against a determined enemy, even when the Jews were not well equipped.

Every now and then there were attempts to broker peace, but the Arabs think they can do better if the conflict is prolonged until the Jewish state eventually runs out of American support and the situation changes in their favour, and they ideologically oppose accepting the very idea of anyone but Muslims having sovereignty anywhere, let alone in the middle east. The Jews on the other hand have profound spiritual identity bound to that piece of land, which they inhabited for thousands of years, until their ideological stubbornness pissed off the Roman empire to the point of crushing their rebellions and completely uprooting them as a nation and exiling them from Palestine forever. They appear to have forgotten this unpleasant episode which came to be because they arrogantly claimed God to be on their side and have given them this piece of land. They also forgot that they were once arrogant enough to not pay tribute to Babylon because they thought God was on their side, and they were collectively taken into slavery. Instead of embracing the humble conclusion that God doesn’t like arrogant people and will side with their enemies to teach them a lesson, today we again hear this stubborn, arrogant claim that God gave Palestine to the Israelis and it’s theirs to defend.

So, now we have the Arabs (who deceptively call themselves Palestinians, although they are by no means native to the land; they immigrated there from the Arabic peninsula during the spread of the Islamic scourge throughout the region) who claim the land as theirs, and think God gave them the entire Earth to rule, and for generations already they teach their children to hate and kill the Jews, and then we have the Jews, who have created a modern European country in that desert, and are trying to defend their existence there, and keep the Arabs confined.

The greatest irony is that the Arabs, who always refused any kind of a definite peace with Israel, keep whining to the international community about how bad they are having it, when it’s obvious that they don’t actually know what to do with peace if it somehow happened; their entire political structure is predicated upon war with Israel, and if Israel somehow vanished into thin air, their entire “nation” would collapse. Without hating Israel, they have no other purpose or national identity, and in order to survive, their political leadership would have to find some other overpowering enemy to hate and kill and be eternally oppressed by and whine about their victimhood. It is clear why the Israelis see no chance of peace, because the other side has absolutely no interest in it, and in fact would see peace as a national disaster.

So, now we have a situation that can apparently only be resolved by destruction of one or both sides, which brings us back to my original statement. I think that the Jews made a strategic mistake to return to Palestine at the present time, because they are surrounded by enemies whose power is magnified by the petroleum-based economy, and the soft-hearted and soft-headed liberal ideology of human rights is making it politically impossible for them to implement any kind of a solution. An additional problem is that the Palestinian Arabs will never be motivated to broker a peace while the non-Palestinian Arabs keep supporting them, because they intuitively don’t see themselves as a separate entity, they see themselves as merely few drops in the ocean of Islam, that will eventually overwhelm Israel as a unified force. So, strategically, Israel has a rather desperate problem and it’s no wonder that they resort to extreme means, but on the other hand I can’t get around the fact that this entire quagmire is a result of their poor initial strategic choice, because now that they are there, they really have no option other than to defend their identity by force. However, in all this their identity will eventually degrade into something more similar to that of their Arab enemies, than the sophistication and culture of the European civilization they embraced throughout the centuries, so they will lose even in victory.

Gold is back

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I hope you all took advantage of the low gold prices for the last few months and stacked it with both hands, because that’s not likely to repeat. 😊

There’s been lots of hype about silver lately but silver was actually holding its price better than gold in the said period, so I was primarily buying gold, because I didn’t really hope to see it at those prices anymore. I actually bought a significant amount right before it fell off a cliff, because I thought it was going up from there and had it wrong, so I’m happy to see it back at those levels; it’s not fun to be in the red. I did buy some silver, too, because it actually might respond to one of those “silver crunch” attempts and I wanted to have enough to matter.

We’re approaching Basel III deadline when the banks will be obliged to demonstrate that they have 100% physical coverage of paper gold, which would in theory end the main method of manipulation of the gold market. I’ll believe it when I see it. Also, considering how fast the money printer is going brrrrr, the precious metal prices are obviously suppressed, because everything else is growing faster than they are. This suppression can’t go on indefinitely, though, and when it pops, it will go really high. At the same time, I expect American stock market and the crypto market to go completely to shit, because it’s all speculative without any underlying value.

The banks look as if they are really struggling, and I don’t know how long they can be propped up, and at what cost. In any case, I wouldn’t keep significant amounts there.

Thoughts

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I’ve been reluctant to write anything lately, mostly because I feel like I have nothing more to say at this point. Well, nothing that would be relevant to the present situation, at least. Both economy and politics are in a phase where the explosive mixture has been established and we are waiting for the right kind of spark.

As for the disaster preparedness, I would keep this a priority – and I don’t mean just having a bug-out backpack ready. I mean saving money, primarily in form of precious metals, but also cash, and having it ready in various forms, in case you need to react to the worsening of the situation in your immediate environment. By this I mean primarily the good people who live in America or some other potentially explosive parts of the world, who might find themselves in a situation that quickly escalates into riots, barricades and war of some kind. Keep yourself mobile enough to be able to get away from the X if excrement starts hitting the impeller, to put it politely. You know what I mean by mobility – have enough cash at hand to react quickly, and a car full of gas. Also, everything you need to stay online and keep working (laptop, smartphone, chargers), because the moment you stop being able to make money is the beginning of a serious personal crisis for you and your family. I don’t know what to tell you to expect – from what we’ve seen so far, the situation has a tendency to vary wildly between parts of the world, and the undertones of the beginnings of a global crisis are mixed with local disasters; for instance, if you live in Donbass, having mobility means being able to evacuate into Russia where your level of acute danger will drop exponentially, but you will still be in danger of an American nuclear attack, which, to be sure, is very much on the table now that Trump, who got in the way of Armageddon plans, is out of the picture and the old team is back in power. If you’re in America, you might be in the most dangerous place on the planet at the moment, because you live in a country that is simultaneously provoking a nuclear power (China) and a nuclear and space tech superpower (Russia), and if things escalate, they might escalate very quickly, in a way where significant parts of America reach temperature hotter than the surface of the Sun. To be sure, America doesn’t seem to need this kind of foreign assistance and is working on destroying itself quite thoroughly on its own accord, but I simply don’t see America going quietly into the night. As they degrade, they will try to pull others with them, and will eventually and inevitably cross some red line which will make the creation of “The day after: a documentary” an inevitability.

As for the economy, the ideal opportunity to earn lots of money quickly will soon turn into an ideal opportunity to lose it all if you didn’t convert it into gold and silver in time. Basically, when the collapse starts, it will happen very quickly, because of all the computer trading and fast digital connections, and you won’t be able to react in time and pull it out unless you’ve been acting proactively. Basically, if you don’t hold the Krugerrands, you hold the bag.

As for the spiritual preparations, that’s been going on quite intensively for basically everyone I’ve been talking to lately, so I don’t even have to mention it. The “guys up there” have that part handled and people have been going through an accelerated regimen of learning important lessons dealing with their personal karmic makeup, and also a process of detachment from the world. I don’t know in which phase the process is at the moment, but I personally have been ready to go for quite some time, and my personal nightmare isn’t related to all of this ending – it’s related to it going on endlessly. Whenever my ride away from here comes, it will be later than I desire and hope. In the meantime, I’m making plans to endure whatever disaster happens first.

To let you know how seriously I’m taking the preparations, let me just say that the condo I’m renting at the moment has a leak in the roof just above my bed, and all sorts of cracks in the walls, as a consequence of all those earthquakes in Croatia in the past year, and I still didn’t move because I don’t want to expend significant resources before I know where the lightning will actually strike; but I’m sitting on enough money to be able to move immediately and without hesitation if I feel that the right kind of opening was formed. Basically, I prioritize having potential energy to having a good static situation, because we are at a point where good static situations can turn into hellholes on very little notice.