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  2. In my latest endeavor to lead a free and inspired life, I succeed yesterday in disabling a news app on my cell phone that appeared when I did a fresh OS install a few months ago. This damn app called News Republic kept popping up all day long with a variety of useless Hollywood and social trivia developments and vicious anti-Trump news. It got to be a game with me to see if I could ever read a single article that was even remotely neutral on Trump, even when sometimes the headline looked promising, and there was never a single one. Although this app helped me to understand how the Left and Deep State are attempting to trash Trump’s reputation and brainwash the broader public against him, I just couldn’t take it anymore. But, since this app was somehow a “system component” of the Android operating system (huh???), it couldn’t be deleted, either. I felt trapped. But, I finally found a way to disable it and haven’t had a Hollywood or Trump article in about 18 hours. Oh my gosh, I feel as if I’ve been freed from a prison! (But, without this app, how will I know in the future that three girls got tossed off a United flight because they were wearing leggings???)

    1. I used to have a colleague who would say at moments like this:

      THEY KNOW HOW TO DO YOU!

      I repeat – digital systems have zero integrity.

      1. Wrote this in DFW. An hour later a News app appeared on my phone while I keep trying to turn off the irritating i cloud notification.

        1. Rather than subjecting ourselves to i-clouds or whatever, maybe we should nurture, be inspired, and surround ourselves with the prototype described in Hebrews 12:1.

          2. Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

            AMEN TO THAT!!!!!!!!!

  3. With you just having posted about the Pistis Sophia on the Home Page, I recently read the following two books and wondered if you had read them. The author makes compelling, well-documented cases in both books, and the Pistis Sophia is mentioned more than once in the first one:

    https://www.amazon.com/Reincarnation-Christianity-Elizabeth-Clare-Prophet/dp/0922729271/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490748712&sr=1-1&keywords=elizabeth+clare+prophet+reincarnation+christianity

    https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Years-Jesus-Documentary-Evidence/dp/091676687X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490748615&sr=1-2&keywords=elizabeth+clare+prophet+books

    1. Have not read them. While I was studying the Bible, I read some of the materials that were edited out, then the Essences and tried reading some of the book that try to unpack historical fact. I concluded that it was unknowable and I should focus on growing spiritually. One of the most interested sources I have found to inform Christ is Steiner. Can’t tell you why. It just always resonates. Here is a favorite: http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19220827p01.html

  4. I just finished reading the book “JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters,” and it’s an amazing book! The author goes into great detail on many things I didn’t know about both JFK and his assassination, even though I had previously studied a ton of information on this.

    I didn’t know, for example, that JFK and Khrushchev were secretly negotiating the end of the Cold War, but that the Joint Chiefs wanted war so much that they were attacking Soviet ships and invading Cuba on their own…all against JFK’s instructions.

    Things had gotten so bad for JFK in the end that the only person he could trust to deliver his communications to Khrushchev was a Soviet KGB agent, as U.S. State Department officials could no longer be trusted to deliver these communications for him.

    In addition, the Joint Chiefs were pressing JFK to allow them to launch a nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union, estimating that 140 million Soviet people would be killed, and that 30-40 million Americans would be killed in the Soviet counter strike. The military believed that these were acceptable levels of loss in moving forward with launching the first strike.

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005Q07DKY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

      1. Agreed, Catherine. The part that I didn’t really know about were the detailed, secret negotiations that were going on between Kennedy and Khrushchev to end the Cold War. The Cuban Missile Crisis had them both realize how close they could have come to destroying the world, and they realized that they had to do something bold to make sure that this didn’t occur in the future.

        1. Yes, it would have been remarkable if the two had continued to grow their relationship and implement a new vision.

      1. It was interesting to read in even more detail this time how there was a plot to kill JFK just 2-3 weeks earlier in Chicago. The authorities walked into a home in Chicago where there were high-powered rifles with scopes, along with a map of the Presidential parade route. In addition, there was an ex-marine names Thomas Vallee who was cranky and outspoken, who carried guns and ammunition in his car, and who had just been given a job in a building along the parade route…an apparent Oswald-like patsy in waiting. But of course, we never heard from the media about that plot, even though JFK had canceled his trip to Chicago at the last minute because of it.

        Also, in the theater in Dallas where Oswald was arrested, there was an Oswald lookalike who was also arrested in there and taken out through a separate entrance, all while Jack Ruby was in the theater watching everything.

  5. “With a critical mass of players, our creations grow in power.”

    You have heard of the Pareto Principle, but the numbers required may be even less: “To affect the entire world, Orme-Johnson says, groups of 7,000 persons would have to meditate, 7,000 being the square root of 1% of the world’s population.

    “We have the knowledge now to stop terrorism and international conflicts and to create an era of peace, creative and international harmony never before seen in history. All we need is groups of 7,000 . . . to do it. . . .””
    http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-08/news/vw-4487_1_square-root

    1. Washington Post has done more than most to keep illegal drugs illegal and keep the profit margins high.

  7. Catherine,

    “Of course machines can’t think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence they think differently.” — The Imitation Game (2014)

    When Mr. Armstrong insists the trend can only be impeded never altered, I judge he is dogmatic and willfully ignorant of actions of our shadow government, not so much deceitful. It seems Martin Armstrong succeeded in resurrecting his computer program and business, after being crushed by deep state elements, to create the circumstances where expert program and business will survive him. Obviously a different experience of the Powers That Be which did managed to seize your software.

    Yes a general distrust of “blackbox” systems, as they are often part of con jobs, is healthy and justified. Yet opaqueness can also be part of the problem of computer neural nets, machine learning/self-programing vs. human computer coding in general: humans would never do it that way. Even if Armstrong’s proprietary code was made open source few would be able to judge its veracity; certainly not me.

    1. Agreed. All these systems may be useful – webbots mapping, neural networks, etc. However, they all translate into inducing people into believing they are passive players trying to be smart about a predicted future as opposed to players involved in dynamically creating the future.

      I am a player, not a predictor. I chose to help other people become players too. With a critical mass of players, our creations grow in power.

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