tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post6596159191191341232..comments2024-03-28T16:05:01.592+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: A life of self-'exclusion', or Living outside the System? Is it possible? How?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-10013466688054503212021-07-13T23:35:56.152+01:002021-07-13T23:35:56.152+01:00Very interesting post with a lot to chew over. I&...Very interesting post with a lot to chew over. I'm always wondering about who "They" are - we hear so many suggestions: freemasons, council of 13, rothschilds, bankers, the list goes on and on. I'm interested that you specifically call them out as actual demons. And it does seem impossible to me that mere humans could create this all-encompassing matrix that spans centuries if not millennia.<br />Someone else I watched recently was saying the only way to win the game is not to play. We pawns need to realise we are actually pawns, and step off the chess board.AlanRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-57035538490107854822021-07-13T18:35:47.265+01:002021-07-13T18:35:47.265+01:00Yes, spot on. An excellent summation of system dis...Yes, spot on. An excellent summation of system distancing and why it is so crucial from a spiritual perspective!Francis Bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11063224017320651978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-72491808367818503682021-07-13T15:21:22.095+01:002021-07-13T15:21:22.095+01:00@MS - Such groups are going to be of the same form...@MS - Such groups are going to be of the same form as the family (Gemeinschaft rather than Gessellschaft) - and probably, in most cases, actual families. Love based rather than rule based. Therefore, cannot be prescribed - nor is there a method for building them; other than to know and value them. <br /><br />By my understanding; this is exactly what Jesus modelled and taught in the Fourth Gospel: https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2018/12/gemeinschaft-not-gesellschaft-in-fourth.htmlBruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-25812645483634740232021-07-13T14:54:12.019+01:002021-07-13T14:54:12.019+01:00This seems fundamentally correct and brings to min...This seems fundamentally correct and brings to mind the works of people incarcerated for their Christianity across the world. Those who were incarcerated, and kept their faith, found deeper spiritual truths that eluded freer individuals. In the words of one: "God is very close in prison." On a more abstract level, something similar was echoed by Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning upon his realization of the "why" some people survived the death camps others wasted away: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” <br /><br />The part that I am struggling to understand is this: I understand the obligation of individuals to live a God-centered life; however, we are also members of a community and have community obligations as well (think about those individuals who cannot make such decisions for themselves and who rely upon the greater community). So, granted the System is global in reach, but not yet total in power (just look to the Amish right now and other marginal groups). Put differently, shouldn't we then seek to create Christian separatist groups in order to live according to these spiritual principles for as long as possible (even if the final outcome is the eventual domination of the System)?<br /><br />My other thought about why physical separatism may be important (even if merely an interim step), is that this blog (and others) are part of the System (Google is quite an Evil company). Absent extraordinary technical means, it seems inevitable that you (and others) will be "deplatformed." And, without the jab (or, "peck"), people will be under permanent house arrest (and perhaps unemployed). Why not use this "window of freedom" to assemble such groups?MagnusStouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16975404335377881030noreply@blogger.com