The Confessing Church
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Dear Lord
I have been re-reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison. This is not something one finds easy to do as he clearly lays it on the line.
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Does one live by your call or not?
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In this moment of history – this moment of the secular pharisees, this moment of the almost wholesale semi-violent usurping of cohesion of our society, the question becomes:
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On what do I base my response? – is it as Bonhoeffer shared:
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“The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. It is only from this question with its responsibility toward history that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are humiliating.
… it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility.
The rising generation will always instinctively discern what we make the basis of our actions, for it is their future that is at stake.”
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Dear Lord

Did you go through this during your 40 days in the desert?
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The idea of your path to martyrdom is rather fearful.
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But
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If that is necessary in all of the decisions we have to make along the way ahead, gift us with your strength to follow you faithfully.
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Lord hear us.
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The Clock in Ticking
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Time for us, the people, to revert back to the original version of who we are. What we really believe we are and have at our own disposal.
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We are a body of influence. We contain knowledge beyond our own abilities, but only then when we give time to research, estimate, understand and negotiate. But then what are we doing with all this characterisation of a human being?
What are we becoming in a world of un-rested-ness and shamefulness?
Are we truly a reliable source, of the we we know, given time to decide the outcomes for our future? How do the present dilemmas, of forced change in outlook, decision making and corrective behaviour affect that freedom to choose?
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Are we capable of standing for our own rights, our liberties, our own histories of past generations who actually decided to stand strong against any violent form of protestation by political elites and their cohorts; whatever in their time that did actually mean?
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What are our outcomes likely to pose in a future of no more decision by comparisons, no more ability to decide where or whatever one does choose to express? The whole mess is folding in on us and we appear to settle for a type of second nature, a type of irrevocable disaster.
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God, I said one morning earlier in this pandemic extremism, what are You on the face of this mess? Some form of back-ender as if on a political platform of no one able to understand in your complex authoritarian motif? No was the reply, I AM on the bench waiting and watching if you can only wake to the turbulence before you and make a stand for your own right to exist and live as freely and comfortably as is possible, without a dictatorial influence to subject you to fear of any of the following: right to have a say; right to have freedom of speech regardless as long as it is not of the form to inflict harm and subject another to a state of fear from the banal but hurtful stand; freedom of choice as in your own being, your own state of human and being, being that you are more than the eye or ear, tongue or mouth can concur is the all, the everything we are as a frail human species.
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Can we become a source of our own human and being, of being, that source of mysterious nature that comes in through the mind of thought? Can we? Can we consider our past and future in the present situation at hand or do we consider handing over is far simpler until the walls are built high and the barbed wire on top shows something of a future; reminiscent of our own past as in a concentration apartment block, or a Sydney-sider living at the lower end of the spectrum? Can we? Oh yes we can but it will take a change in the value of who we are and the rise of an outlook which is present but of which we are not yet able to comprehend. We are still swirling in this ubiquitous state of manufactured, fear inducing affairs, and have handed over to some sort of consortium of which no end is in sight.

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We fell into the spell of lunacy. And now we are in the land of no value and no way out, suffocating the sense of our own validity and worth, our own human birth right and sense of purpose, direction and longing to enjoy whatever is possible within reason while we are to live on this once green and pleasant land.
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Enjoy what you can, given the outlook is penury if no change.

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The Game is ON.
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If you want to control a country through tyranny, you first of all have to destroy institutions of influence in which the population has a sense of sure footing. And so … as Sherlock Holmes calls to Dr. Watson, ‘The Game is On’ The battlefield needs to be salted with foot soldiers whom, similar to the US Military, you have to offer fabulous incentives to get on board, or else recruit fanatics. Not the grunts, but the mid-level officers (maybe around the Major-Colonel level).Now those are more easily seen in the military but where do they come from to salt the bureaucratic fields?
The so-called Bourgeois Kings and Queens. Or the Trotskyism type true believers.
The faceless ones who are essential to Moriarty are difficult to target because they live within upper middle class society, well versed in fifth column techniques. 
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Asymmetric gorilla warfare by the rancorous, helped along by generous doses of power worship and the golden calf of greed. A generous dose of hubris would round it off!

The only thing that will cause Moriarty any concern is if something is done to start waking up the sleeping masses. Kill off the institutions first, you are home and hosed.
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Maybe it might be a suitable subject for the next quiz-night fund raiser?

Which targets:
• Judiciary
• Medical System
• Chemistry
• Churches
• Military
• Police
• Veteran’s Associations
• Why not all high profile professional associations
• Oops – Science being the greatest hit so far

You name the areas that stand out for you, seeing as how you are the quiz master.
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Follow the link and see what one tentative area of push-back might look like.
A tough call this one, because you have some very small load voices currently allowed to dominate the sound stage, due to the mainstream denominations still being stuck pretty much in their idea of Christendom – not a dialogical approach. – Even though Chistendom’s bell in the West has well and truly tolled at least 50 years ago, but this one dies hard.
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The Shell Game
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The now very well known psychological experiment, based on the shell game, demonstrates clearly how a person can become almost completely blind to what is happening in the background but in plain sight, if all attention is paid to the game.
Before reading further, can I ask you to have a quick look at a couple of short video clips accessed via the following links; just to remind yourself of this phenomena?

This insight can be used by anyone to great effect, for whatever reason they may choose.
For example.
It is sometimes used in religious teaching to illustrate the way that attention is continually focussed on the physical domain, resulting in blindness to even the possibility of their being a spiritual domain, hence resulting in a one-eyed view of reality.
Or.
By fraudsters in the well known three cup and pea shell game for taking your money both over the table top and also ‘picking your pockets’ by assistants.
Or.
Most ubiquitously in the political domain. Many of the brightest brains coming from the University Psychology courses are paid to provide insight into how to use unintentional blindness to cover activities and policies that a normally attentive and intellect capable person would reject.
When coupled with emotional triggers – fear is the classic candidate – it can result in mass hysteria without the hysterics realising what is going on. In other words, putting people to sleep.
Now sleep walking through life is not the most profitable way of taking advantage of this one shot at growth that physical life offers us.
And so.
Ask yourself, what is the shell game being played out in the Western World over the last couple of years?
Then ask yourself who is playing it and why?
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As in all ‘political’ questions, it usually turns out to help understanding, by ‘following the money’.
And where at the moment has the money gone to and from whom has it been appropriated?
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If we remember the dictum ‘energy is the economy’ the more you pump in, the more growth you get, and the more scarce it gets, the greater the contraction.
Then the wolves have to work harder to get what they think is their right – at the expense of the sheep. And get it while they still can.
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Read the linked article by Gail Tverberg and see if anything resonates for you.

We are now in a situation where cheap to get (and afford) energy has gone and holding up the current political economic system on debt has begun to run out of steam.
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The poorer you get, the less ‘freedom’ you have and of course more coercion capacity needs to be put in place to keep you in line. Keeping you isolated is an obvious strategy along those lines and keeping the exchange of different ideas suppressed is absolutely paramount.
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Perhaps Afghanistan might be seen in a somewhat different prophetic light?
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