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Fear is a Blessing in Our Time of Western Complicity: Part 1
By Mark Aurelius
★This essay, or series of essays, contains controversial statements that could alarm people who are not tolerant of contentious questions or assertions, such as regarding religious beliefs, and how religious belief spills over into political conflict. However, stepping on religious sensitivities is not something a sensible person would readily do; and frankly, this article would not be shared, except for the fact that we, peoples of this planet, are in danger on multiple fronts. It is not any purpose herein to offend readers, but rather to hopefully create awareness, because without truer awareness there is little hope for our survival.★
In some critical ways, we live in unique times, while we retain our old human conditions and habits.
Modernity’s critical issues include population growth and it’s demand on resources, fast paced technological innovation, such as military warfare, speed and sophistication of computing power, industrialization and robotics, and artificial intelligence.
Today, it at least seems, there is more information and confusion, more propaganda, a lot of attempted censorship, more threats both real and hyperbolic, ‘bot’ messaging (non-human texting), more people paid to distort peoples’ perceptions, and unfortunately, a hell of a lot more real conspiracy than what most people will ever come to realize.
[Note: ‘Hell’ as a noun derives from Old English hel, helle, "… abode of the dead, infernal regions, place of torment for the wicked after death." Synonyms and denotations of hell include: nightmare, agony, misery, torture, torment, murder, ordeal, misfortune, calamity, and affliction. We are wise to note that all these words depict human conditions experienced here on planet earth, that is, in the here and now as ‘temporal’ realities, such as during war and dire repression such as torture (irrespective of ‘eternal’ afterlife possibilities in a surmised ‘Hades’ underworld or Judaic Gehenna).]
Gehenna, according to Wikipedia:
“The Valley of Hinnom … is a historic valley surrounding Jerusalem from the west and southwest that has acquired various theological connotations, including as a place of divine punishment, in Jewish eschatology.”
Wikipedia’s entry on “Jewish eschatology” says: “…is the area of Jewish theology concerned with events that will happen in the end of days and related concepts. … “According to Ezekiel chapter 38, the "war of Gog and Magog" is a climactic war that will happen at the end of the Jewish exile. … this war will take place in Jerusalem.”
But besides all the biblical prophesy a hell of suffering is clearly been happening in Palestine for a long time and especially since Oct. 7th 2024.
Ben Swan at his website: TruthInMedia.Com has done a series of episodes called: Reckoning: Israel and Gaza that depicts what real hell as we humans understand manifests, better than religious rumors of any hell in any afterlife could, see and watch (9 episodes): ★Important truth★
https://truthinmedia.com/series/reckoning-israel-and-gaza/
Being a human being, and more specifically, a biological animal, arguably, is, in some ways, harder today psychologically, than it had been throughout history. Regardless, we no longer take our mortal limitations for granted, with science fictions of transhumanism, extended life theorized into human immortality, expanded space exploration, and all manner of transcending mortality and evolutionary and biological realities.
Modernity’s secular, “faith-based” religions, such as “trust the science” or more vociferously “trust what certain, selected scientists say” (irrespective of their contradictions to scientists opposing them) are attempting to replace ancient, traditional religions and supernatural explanations (equally based on faith more than skeptical investigation).
Or we get stymied by words and semantics—attributing too much equality to words are essentially the same thins as reality.
Our word ‘animal’ (with connotations many humans think somehow inferior to humans) comes to our English language from: “early 14c., "any sentient living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," … "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" see:
https ://www.etymonline.com/search?q=animal.
Our conscious lives generally begin when we are born, that is, when we begin to breathe, and then subsequently is maintained with all manner of biological function as nutrition. And so, obviously, not only do we have a beginning, but we will also all die and disintegrate, at least physically. This biological reality of birth and death is not reflective of immortality.
The main point here is we start out as completely naïve—simple, unsophisticated, and helpless. Then we are taught what to think, value, and do. As we age, we acquire our assessment of what life means, and what we assume are objective truths.
Note too, the word ‘spirit,’ via Latin ‘spiritus,’ has a similar evolution in meaning: “to breathe.” To be spiritual then, implies being able to be ‘inspired,’ which happens within our mortal lives (allotted time we live in here and now), and in which we can only assume also transcends death.
And although there are various religious stories of certain humans being allowed to ‘enter’ realms of heaven and / or hell, such as St. John of Patmos (purported author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation having a ‘vision’), in a truly skeptical sense, we take such assertions based on faith. Even near-death experiences are still subject to critical question and hypothetical explanation. How real was St. John of Patmos’s vision is certainly subject to speculation (as it should be given its potentially momentous meanings).
It is by way of our ‘extravagant’ capacity of the human imagination, that evolving theological doctrines have conceived such possibilities as an afterlife, such as by way of religious doctrine (somewhat, one can argue, specio-centrically, since we humans are considered, at least by our own theories, the sole species which can and will transcend death into an after-life with our creator God.
Accordingly, we are “God’s chosen species.” We are able, by way of some miracle, to transcend death into a supernatural afterlife (whereas all other biological species are created, primarily for the purpose of enhancing human life on this planet), a somewhat contentious belief if ever there be one.
[Note: These comments do not argue for or against a Supreme being or a pantheon of various Gods. Rather they call attention to our human mental capacity, namely our thoughts, expectations, conditioning, dreams, etc., about religious matters (and frankly all matters that can be thought) still do rely on our ‘mortal’ limitations despite the vast capacity we have for imagining and believing all manner of possibility.]
And frankly, and somewhat cynically one can ask: “Why would a supposed divine and truly enlightened God be so partial to us humans as the sole species that ‘he’ would want to share his abode into eternity is a mystery—especially given we humans are not so partial to our own—for example our habit of declaring war on various factions and nations? How many humans really want to share a realm without other humans for eternity, such as given the divorce rate in modernity? Sorry if this writer sounds a bit cynical—time, experience, and subjective musings can take its toll.
Irrespective, religious dogma needs scrutiny more now than ever, given international conflicts now threaten the entire world (and especially certain peoples in the Middle East).
Entire empires and nations, and broken nations such as Syria, are being ruled by religious fanatics, so it is no longer socially acceptable to not question the deepest religious beliefs of various peoples. All religious dogmas are on the table for evaluation as to their sanity levels and potential outcomes.
Understanding our eternal state of naivete (against a backdrop of religious absolutism in which facts are carved in stone) is critical; especially how it is true that masses of people can, and are, brainwashed into believing things that are not true, and that if believed are actually harmful to their own existence.
There are few subjects that can harvest more contention and debate as to what are the facts of history than religious history as documented in religious texts, which often are not factually documented in any real sense as what normally constitutes historical investigation. Religious texts should be subject to more scrutiny and skepticism than even other historical documents (or at least as much) especially given the assertions various faiths make claim.
Living in a highly problematic and kinetically dangerous world, in which the likes of religious fanatics like U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, and Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast instructs GOP committee staffers to refer to the West Bank by its Hebrew name, Judea and Samaria, is brainwashing from Zionist and religious propaganda.
Such statements basically claim the Old Testament is the highest form of law in the United States. They both should be impeached. Let them live in Israel if that is where their loyalty resides, which obviously it does.
This is exactly why religion doctrine can no longer get any kind of exception from scrutiny and criticism. Judeo-Christianity has always been about politics (the application of power). It is not a separate other-worldly category onto itself. It has always been about convincing the world that some supernatural godhead favored one tribal people over all the other peoples of the world, and brainwashing believers that eventually Zionist Jews would rule over all the people of the planet. Zionism is an absolutist tyranny and it is time to recognize it for what it is (religious zealots of all color be damned!).
Meanwhile people should be able to agree we humans are born initially in a state of naïveté (having no conception of anything prior to being born) and the enormity of what this innocence alone entails).
For example, as babes in the woods, we are not immediately aware of any potential evils, current or of history, prior to our birth (and even as adults we maybe only vaguely become aware of the more complex conditions that haunt the human race—real conspiracies that may have been playing out over centuries).
Naivete, is our natural state. We only have one mortal lifetime to learn. It is nothing to be ashamed, but it is something we need to recognize to maintain some humility.
Sometimes those people who know the lesser too readily assume they know the greater, and if they are ambitious, they can wreak all manner of disaster on history. And note we do not lack for chauvinists in today’s pageant of human history (especially in the United States).
We do not readily grasp how our individualist souls and personal traits, do ‘not’ so readily comprehend anything that might be referred to as “unadulterated reality” (if, at all, possible to grasp).
Rather we are ‘enculturated’ within the biases of our language, subjective explanations, and unique visions of our diverse, cultural realities, etc., such as religious belief we are taught as children.
Much of what we are taught are conventions, traditions, handed down folklore, adaptations, etc., including, any manner of unquestioned presumption, distortion, or out-right falsification, such as what comprises political realities.
Do we really know for example, China is really America’s enemy like some politicians or pundits say?
At least there is enough skepticism today to question misinformation and lies in our present era; but less effort and consideration is given to how much we are taught about history, including religious history, that may equally be comprised of fable and deception (as yesterday’s news becomes tomorrow’s unquestioned faith theology).
How do we really know what really happened prior and during WW1?
Why do books like Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir contradict so much of what we have been taught? And why has this historian been shunned by much of the mainstream?
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/against-our-better-judgment-alison-weir/1118731115
Her website: www.IfAmericansKnew.org (What Every American Needs to Know About Israel – Palestine) is not just a breath (spirit) of fresh air but a gale of gusting flurries. Naturally her truths are lies if you ask the likes of the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADL. But then some truthers are the first to be demonized (which is why new and more anthologies on demons versus saints need to be considered).
Who really are then the so-called devils?
Those who readily accuse others of misdeeds and lies (one attribute of the biblical Satan is he is “the accuser,” just like Benjamin Netanyahu is constantly accusing his many enemies of doing evil—how despicably ironic)?
Yes, indeed, naivete, and enculturated deceit has played onto our conceptions of what we assume reality. Propaganda operations work whether intended as falsification or results from ignorance. Regardless, this is why we are so readily lied to.
As the sage said: “Never underestimate your naivete.” If you have any doubt, walk through the several floors of a modern college library (prior to everything being automated) and ponder how many books you have never read nor could you.
This is why the thought of AI frightens us—we simply are mortal and have limitations (transhumanism be damned).
Perhaps being limited and mortal is a good thing? Our brains took a very long time to evolve as they have done so. Maybe eternity is not such a great prospect. The vampires in Dracula novels seemingly get bored and sated with life being relived from century to century. You know getting a bit jaded and sated seeing the same human history play itself out.
There may be something exquisite in mortal death and non-consciousness. Who knows? Do you remember the poem by Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?
Whose woods these are I think I know.
…
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
…
The darkest evening of the year.
…
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
Interpreting poetry is always subjective but this poem suggests the dark night can be beautiful like death itself can be so. How peaceful may it be to finally breathe one’s last breath. How peaceful may it be to never experience anything again, being buried with a pall cover of the tranquility of snow while being radiated from moon light? How peaceful and secure indeed.
However, it is the very fact that we are biological that we feel emotions and attitudes such as fear and pain, and thus imagine a corresponding afterlife as equally incorporating constructs of pain (hell) and pleasure (heaven), or abstractions of what our nervous systems can relate, psychologically or physically.
Our notions of social justice, social harmony, reward and punishment (temporal penal systems) have historically lent to the evolution of religious systems of justice. Humans do evil things and therefore some kinds of judicial systems need to be activated to deal with criminal tendencies.
Whereas, why would senseless, non-biological machines, like robots, give a blip about pain or pleasure, or heaven or hell? They have no skin in the game except what artificial constructs they can be programmed by mortals to assume.
And note that the myth of artificial intelligence being omniscient (all knowing) is based on the idea that as AI eats up infinite amounts of human writing and thinking it will master reality, but human writing includes all manner of fable, myth, lies and contradictions, including all manner of deliberate disinformation and secrecy about history, etc.
AI then is only as valid as the information it processes (and which humans will continue to decide that critical criteria of what AI is programmed).
Recently a person by the pen name of Hua Bin wrote in the esteemed The Unz Review (www.unz.com):
I Asked ChatGPT About 911 and Here Are the Q&As: ChatGPT is more honest than New York Times
https://www.unz.com/bhua/i-asked-chatgpt-about-911-and-here-are-the-qas/
“There are numerous Israeli-linked anomalies surrounding 9/11, particularly involving intelligence operations. While some believe Mossad had prior knowledge or a role in facilitating the attacks, there is no direct proof linking Israel to planning or executing 9/11.”
However, had ChatGPT been allowed to scan Christopher Bollyn’s books on Israeli’s involvement with 9/11 it could have reasoned a more definitive conclusion—which is why censorship is so monumental of a human reality in the history of our species.
Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World
https://www.amazon.com/Solving-9-11-Deception-Changed-World/dp/0985322586
Regardless foreign affairs expert Jeffery Sachs explains the aftermath of the 9/11 (Netanyahu’s plan) to take out seven countries in the Middle East, costing ‘American’ taxpayers a trillion dollars, dead and wounded soldiers, resentments both here and abroad, and more alienated enemies abroad as well. See and listen to last half of video:
Jeffrey Sachs: The US is leading us closer to nuclear war | The InnerView
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm0zalh-BLg&t=1389s
Here then is our human problem or dilemma: reality can be truly uncertain and potentially terrifying.
Still, we humans need and want to make some assumptions about life. We need a certain amount of predictability (and assumed reality) to live normal lives. We are not programmed to question and doubt everything (which is why the science of propaganda has evolved to manipulate things we take for granted).
And so even when our mainstream media, a well-financed and staffed machine, lies to us routinely and sophisticatedly, we want to believe what we are told is true, or at least believe it is not deliberate disinformation.
And yet it could be, and those who understand ‘politics’ (the study of power) more deeply realize one of the first acts of any tyranny would likely do would be to control what information the masses are allowed to have access, and what topics or spins are not allowed to circulate. Still, we Americans, are still surprising naïve on these fundamental Machiavellian realities. In fact we still support the Democratic and Republican parties after decades of corruption—go figure.
The word ‘gullible’ comes to the English language from the sea bird known as a gull. Humans watch how readily they voraciously devour food fed to them, as they scarf scraps of food down their gullets, and then sometimes get the impression such birds are not so discriminating in what they swallow (since they seem so glutinous). Unfortunately, humans are sometimes as equally as impressionable. C’est la vie.
Plus given the conflictual times we live in, with so much potential for political propaganda and click bait manipulation, the Internet is loaded with all manner of hyperbole and distortion. Every form of psychological warfare is now at play—with even more higher levels of hating everything Trump, and his corresponding radical style of counter-revolution.
And frankly the status quo is been turned on its head across the globe. Who knows if there will be any sanity or security to assume in the coming future.
Regardless, we continue to live in a world of deceit, moreover professional deceit, yet many Americans cannot or will not come to terms with this reality (not even many professionals and college graduates too readily think they are grounded in facts when grounded in swamps of misleading turmoil and disinformation).
Operation Mockingbird was exposed in the 1970s and yet most adults are naïve to even this set of revelations. There is all manner of essay and video about the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird on the Internet, and this deliberate, tax-funded, mainstream media, deceit program that included hundreds of journalists, editors, news anchors, radio talk hosts, etc., (way back 50 years ago) and yet most are naïve to the extent of this professionally funded deceit (during the Vietnam war).
Of course, it is even worse today with way more corrupt monies funneled to keeping Americans misinformed, confused, lethargic and therefore more vulnerable.
Irrespective, this is the way many people prefer to be—either indifferent or ignorant, and yet they are still more than willing and able to resent truth tellers who contradict the lies that were told, and are still told in todays’ drama of misinformation (because although they claim they prefer being ignorant they are still impressionable from the mainstream media).
Arthur Schopenhauer wrote: “Truth Passes Through Three Stages: First, It Is Ridiculed. Second, It Is Violently Opposed. Third, It Is Accepted As Self-Evident.” Unfortunately, it can take a long time before truth is recognized as such in a world of deceit, and the second stage of violent opposition can be a long and lingering reality.
He equally wrote about how often highly intelligent people, especially truth tellers, are shunned, ignored, and frankly despised. They become isolated (not so much on their own account but rather because many people do not feel comfortable being around them). In fact, he thought being highly intelligent was a curse.
Now, of course, a whole lot of the alternative news media outlets on the Internet are equally engaged in various levels of misinformation and manipulation. It’s a playground for the masses and the deceivers are winning:
Digital Tyranny: Unmasking Facebook, Google, Bing, & YouTube Censorship Indoctrination, and Geopolitical Puppetry
https://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2025/02/26/digital-tyranny-unmasking-facebook-google#more59328
“There is more to the fight for a free and open internet than technology. This matter cuts far deeper; it is about freedom. The war against digital authoritarianism is a struggle to preserve democracy, free speech, and human rights. It is a matter of grave concern for all of us.”
One of the more troubling and disconcerting revelations recently is a video President Trump posted on his social media, explained herein:
Trump Shares Deranged Gaza Video - Owen Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4DwVeRIl1E&t=43s
Surely Trump did not create this affront to decency and humanity. It is clearly in the modality of Israelis’ middle finger in your face, and more importantly when the world is expecting more Israeli genocide using American 2000-pound bombs, but Trump stupidly still posted it. How could this man be so shallow and callow? Doesn’t he have any emotional intelligence?
When our country actually needs a firebrand to shake things up why do we end up with such a boorish clown?
Moreover, after all the hell of what the Palestinians have endured for a year and half, after all the excruciating evil of mass killing, sophisticated technology, and torture and murder of health workers and doctors, he allows this kind of coarse vileness of a video glorifying the sumptuous objectives of wealth and hedonism is beyond comprehension.
‘Designed to humiliate’: Israel’s torture of Gaza’s healthcare workers
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/26/designed-to-humiliate-israel-targets-gazas-healthcare-workers
“Rights groups say the arrests are part of Israel’s deliberate targeting of healthcare workers, pointing to the arrests of more than 250 Palestinian healthcare workers.” [Not to mention most hospitals have been bombed to smithereens].
Frankly the stories of Israeli abuse are as bad as any stories about Nazis.
US Tech Companies Aid Israel’s War Crimes—You Could Be Their Next Victim
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-tech-companies-aid-israels-war-crimes-you-could-be-their-next-victim/289105/
“American tech companies are deeply intertwined in Israel’s military operations, with investments and partnerships expanding significantly since the start of the war in Gaza, which to date has killed nearly 50,000 people, with some estimates placing that number closer to 400,000. Newly surfaced data indicates that collaboration between the Israeli government and U.S. companies has intensified. Yet, most Americans remain unaware of how these companies are involved—or how it could affect them.”
Why are so many Zionist Christians supporting Israel’s iniquity?
Is it because they fear the God of the Bible? You bet it is. They do not want to go to hell (that may or may not even exit in some afterlife) but they are too naïve to understand there is a real hell of real torture and damnation here on planet earth.
They are on the wrong side of history.
Moreover, they fail to understand the most important philosophical precept of Christianity is that “All people are equal in the eyes of God” while they foolishly think they are espousing the politically and religiously correct dogma of allowing these conflicts to play out.
Why has not the mental health issues and insanity issues of Judeo-Christianity and Islamism been called out for what it is—namely incorporating human instantiations of insanity and evil into an afterlife? No just God would decree these levels of violence for a higher purpose.
Until the world understands that Jews are not God’s chosen people (there are anything but) there will be no peace and no fair deals in the Middle East.
It is sad we live in such madness and with leaders who are so gullible to such obvious stupidity that they cannot see their own noses.
Donald Trump is a common man. He is not any kind of genius and he is not playing 4D chess. Neither is his Cabinet team and advisors like Elon Musk above mortal fallibility.
But then neither is the left any better. In fact in plenty ways the left is worse.
More to come.
Amen
Supplemental links:
Israel’s Manipulation of America Must Be Stopped—Here’s How!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZYjTbtXyQ&t=5
Netanyahu only ever saw the hostages as his path back to genocide
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/netanyahu-only-ever-saw-the-hostages?publication_id=476450&post_id=157961173&isFreemail=true&r=17k1a2&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
How does AIPAC money influence US policies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egruLAE-OWY
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