Thur Mat

 

In a way, it’s a pity to have to deal this high card so soon … what is approaching an A movie. It’s one of the best constructed episodes I’ve seen. Didn’t like all the Wolfe episodes, for a variety of reasons, including some of the actors, but this one had something going for it.

And yes, regulars … we have had it before. Time for lunch.

Thursday [11]

(1122) This one is a promise and is for a few readers, not intended for all. As I just wrote at Ool and at Jstack:

|https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/cris-of-faith-in-our-institutions

… those two are secular blogs and I try to keep it to Brit politics today. UHC-HQ has a secular readership in the whole but now and then … as in right now … I reserve the right to the occasional metaphysical post. (1159)

 

The crisis of faith

If the posts at OoL (and at Jstack) address Brit politics right now in the Mr. Flip-Flop versus Count Tinhead pantomime … this below is more serious. It’s about the central idea behind faith … do you believe you can be helped, saved?

Coz if you’re just crying out for help, chanting vaguely Holy phrases, catechisms, dressed in fine regalia with dog collars (see the High Church of England, plus Rome) … then I suggest that that’s nothing whatever to do with faith itself … it’s just gobbledegook, with heaps of gold and other wealth lying around.

The nitty-gritty is this … when you call on the Triune God, in anguish, to help you, to save you … do you actually believe, deep down, that He can, that He has that capacity? You see … that is the crisis of faith … do you actually believe it possible?

And if you look back at the history of ancient Israel … not the modern Babylonian, Ashkenazi version … they fell away, did they not? They broke the Covenant with that very God they paid lip service to.

And that’s what this long excerpt from Masquerade is all about below. Yes, it’s fanciful in plot … it’s the end of part three of my long novel Masquerade. Why bother? Because it does address the very question of crisis of faith … but in a fictional setting.

Why fictional? Well who can know the exact details of how the world ends? There are many indicators, but who can actually know? So I devised this following scenario as possible.

In this scenario, an angel has appeared, called Gabriella and she acts as an emissary of sorts, at certain parts of the end times. The two main protagonists, Hugh and Nicolette, are not in the actual final slaughter, though later they do have a sudden earthly end.


They’re actually spirited up to this “orb” in the sky (maybe don’t ask why at this point, just roll with it) and from there, they’re taken to the outer shell of the orb, which turns transparent and they can look down … upon the Jezreel Valley, near Har Megiddo, not far from Haifa.

Below is a scene of utter, gory slaughter, people being torn apart, massed armies trying to kill one another (modern Babyl-israel versus The Ten Northern Armies) … and it is totally nauseating to our protagonists. That’s where the excerpt starts:

………..

They followed her to an area near the shell of the orb which showed a panorama below and they were both rooted to the spot.

There was no sound inside the orb, no smell but they could see mayhem and wanton destruction below, as far as the eye could see, to the end of the Plain of Esdrael and then, on the bubbling sea, were flotillas. Humanity grimly waited in ranks, expectant, terrified, held in place by the occasion and by the threat, over the other side of the valley was the same scene but of a different hue.

Opposing armies were lined up – but for what? To slaughter each other for no reason? On someone’s orders?

Above, in the putrid sky and quite close to them in fact, were creatures clearly there to strike terror into hearts. One of these creatures swooped, took a soldier in its talons and four metres above the ground, tore him in two, his uniform, insides and two halves, viscera spilling from them, tumbled to earth, splattering the silent soldiery, a constant reminder that even words and thoughts were known.

‘You will have many questions, both of you.’ They just stared at Gabriella, who added, ‘Come – you have both seen enough.’

She led them to a quiet area, most likely near the centre of the orb and bade them rest but how could they rest when they were nauseated? She nodded and said, ‘All right, let’s have the questions now. Ask as you would wish.’

They looked hard at her and if it had not been for her history in which they had never once been let down, they would have been deeply fearful now.

‘Ask,’ she repeated.

‘Why do you allow this carnage?’ Hugh opened the questioning.

‘I have not the power to prevent it.’

‘Then why doesn’t He give you the power?’

‘To become just like the enemy?’

‘It’s all … horrible!’ cried out Nikki but in her heart, she knew there was far more to come.

‘That man had the chance, the choice, it was offered to him and he might have been saved. He refused.’

‘You should have made him!’ almost shouted Nikki.

Gabriella looked at her and Nikki knew the answer already. ‘To make us no better than the other side, Nicolette? And there is another question – what of the martyrs? Was their sacrifice in vain?’

‘Is there no vengeance for these monsters?’

‘Oh yes, there is vengeance and it is at hand.’

Hugh was stunned. They’d driven in cars through that valley, towards that hill and apart from the Egged Company busloads, it had been largely peaceful – the view from leafy Har Karmel had been tranquility itself … and now the sky was darkened, orbs hovered, glistening, above the smoke and carnage below, blood flowed along the contours of the land as those involved in the centre of the melee died, the blood flowed about the ankles of the soldiers who awaited their turn to die – it trickled down towards the sea.

Gabriella continued. ‘They curse us, curse you, curse their Maker. They are now beyond reason, in that survival state where every pestilence is blamed on good.’

Nikki was sullen. ‘I understand why these people are there but it’s still wrong.’

‘Yes, it is very wrong. Every one of those people you see had the chance to make the choice you have made. Every one of them made his choice, her choice, in the fullness of that knowledge. They hardened their hearts. It is wrong but as free choice is inbuilt, there was no alternative.’

‘So you punished them.’

‘No, I see that you still do not understand. They were not told, ‘Believe or you will be punished.’ It was explained in good time, ‘Believe so that you can escape this terrible fate. They were told that we can only rescue those who believe they can be rescued. That is the be all and end all. Now we take a short break, then I shall return and answer more fully – it is necessary that you finally understand. ‘Do you feel fear?’

Nikki was choked and he wasn’t far off. ‘Yes.’

‘That is lack of faith in both of you. When you stop fearing, then you are at one. There is no need to fear anything they can do, no matter how bad it seems. He cannot take your spirit by force and his power over your body is not real this time, not if you have faith that it is not real. This is all about faith.’

‘We get the general idea,’ said Hugh.

She left them for a time.

.o0o.

Gabriella returned and with a gesture, invited them to continue the questions.

Nikki opened. ‘Why can’t you help those people still on earth – just because they don’t believe, they must die?’

‘Inside both of you is … let me find a word you would understand in human terms … let’s call it a code, an embedded code -’

‘Who embedded it?’

‘Who wrote your DNA? This code alerts us, enables us to assist you, keeps you alive, even now. Without that code, we have no communication channel with you and we have no mechanism by which we can send aid your way.’

‘You could stop all that below if you wished,’ cried Nikki, her anger rekindled.

‘Again and again, Nicolette, we offered to deliver each and every last person from it but each refused our help. The two of you did not refuse it, therefore here you are.’

To Nikki’s dismayed look, Gabriella added, ‘you, Nikki, have not refused but neither do you believe. You are here because of the one who does believe. Would you have Hugh and your child pass over and go one way, you the other, down to the valley?’

‘What! You’d separate me from my family?’

‘No, you continue to fail to understand. We would most certainly not separate you from your family, quite the opposite. You would separate yourself from your family in your obstinacy – it’s entirely your choice, entirely your decision.’

‘Jean-Baptiste goes with me!’

‘Fine, Nicolette, you would choose that death below then, not only for yourself but for Jean-Baptiste as well? You would take him with you down there?’

‘This is … chantage!’

‘It’s choice – that’s all it is and all it’s ever been.’

Hugh asked, ‘What about someone good – say a Buddhist holy man who’s paid homage every day? Does he die too?’

‘He has more chance than most because his mind is already open to possibilities – he is given his chance. The world cannot end until all have had their chances – all.’

‘Can those down there change their minds?’

‘Of course – at any time and then they join us here or on one of the other orbs.’

‘And what must they believe in order to get onto one of these orbs,’ asked Nikki.

‘That they can escape that fate by believing they can be saved from it.’

‘Just that?’

‘Just that. Belief seems an easy thing. In reality, it is an insurmountable obstacle for so many.’

They wanted to ask more but felt they’d only be going round in circles if they pursued this line.

Thursday [4 to 10]

(0912) Morning all! Had a great second sleep, am full of energy for an hour, maybe. All systems go. Hope with you too. (0935)

 

10. Moo corner


9. Is it really milk … completely from the cow?


8. The crim Davey


7. Who’s the real extremist in this?


6. The youtube-Brit govt plan to stop all our “disinformation”


5. Quite like this Doc Morgan’s writings of late


4. DAD drops the drops at 1434

a) Marine Le Pen caused a surprise by announcing her intention to stand as a candidate in the 2027 presidential election during her televised address following her conviction on appeal in the European parliamentary assistants’ case. In doing so, she is making a bold gamble, which will undoubtedly set the tone for a campaign that is already shaping up to be completely out of the ordinary.

b) Recently released Home Office data showed that Pakistani nationals granted Skilled Worker visas were accompanied by almost six times as many dependants as main applicants, intensifying criticism from the right of Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s recently announced immigration and asylum reform package….

c) Anti-Christian hate crimes across Europe remained at a consistently high level in June, with forty incidents recorded across ten countries, according to the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe).

d) The NATO summit in Ankara was supposed to display unity. Instead, it exposed a level of tension far greater than expected.

With the war in Ukraine showing no signs of ending in the short term, the northern flank under Russian pressure, and  the Iran war still ongoing—Washington was bombing the country during the summit…. etc. etc.

Thursday [1 to 3]

(0227) To my dismay, I see this is the third night of disrupted sleep … I say dismay, though I’m wondering if there’s not some Higher Purpose, in other words that I should be doing certain things in the middle of our night whilst others are wide awake. Who knows? Anyway, best do something useful.

 

3. Something concerning and yet not unexpected

It may be fanciful, it may be just our horrendous state of affairs in the west, with Them doing their best to finally bring down every human being who had ever had the temerity to live a life of civility, of civil safety, as if those plebs thought they could escape penury and misery.

At the same time, certain friends of mine, also not excluding myself, have been showing marked signs of ageing. Downstairs here, some old chap has died. Thing was … he was much younger than I … didn’t look it … plus he was not in a good situation. But there are others showing signs too and it does seem … bent on making things harder on themselves.

One such person asked me yesterday … are we winning? I think she meant the state of the west. I said, “Seems line ball just now.” She replied later, “I’m losing.” Some people are doing it very hard in 2026. The Rogan/Rupert podcast does seem one for “winning”, but Reformers duped by Farage seem hellbent on bringing in a Moose Limb govt. Why can they not see?

We’re truly past the point now where it can be set right via the rigged voting system, yet alternatives might usher in chaos, not order, a situation much desired by Them.

2. Andy on yesterday’s filum here

“Is that one of the Mills girls I see in the image? For a long time I have had my suspicions about, well whatever and whatnot.”

My immediate thought was whether he was up to something with them or something else … was it this?


At the same time, I note the presence of horrors such as Blair and wife, plus other Labour horror people at parties involving the Millses … apparently they were psycho Labour. Showing my naivety about the Millses. Others might care to enlighten me.

1. No particular order, no particular arrangement of topics

Wednesday [7 to 11]

(1311) Afternoon all. Plenty of polit-topics queued up, no good films, so am going to roll with these below. (1322)

 

11. EPA thugs


10. First the churches, then believers themselves, as in Nigeria, Syria


9. Bloody EU communists


8. Sookie Sookie Sookie Sue


7. Uh huh

Evidence and confirmation bias

(0951) This is Wed 6. (1028)

 

Wiki has shown over and over, from cases we’ve listed at N.O. and UHC … that the editors at least show a left liberal bias in matters political … the establishment line, e.g. with False Memory Syndrome and NIST (after 911). So it’s ironic to say the least that they quite accurately define confirmation bias imho:

“Confirmation bias is the unconscious tendency to seek, interpret, and remember information that aligns with our preexisting beliefs. It causes people to overvalue supporting evidence while ignoring, dismissing, or forgetting contradictory facts. This cognitive shortcut distorts objective reasoning and reinforces personal prejudices.”

Very much so … there’s nothing new in it and we can go back to Sherlock Homes who noted it a few times to Watson in different language but it came to the same thing … hypothesising before “all the facts are in”. What are “all” the facts?

I also used to run an interview in Perry Mason (Purloined Parrot) where Sgt Holcombe was on the stand and Mason put it to him … what do you do, Sergeant, when you find anomalous facts which more or less do not agree with the general thrust of evidence?

“You ignore em,” shot back Holcombe.

And obviously, Mason was going to retort … how many have you ignored in this current investigation, Sergeant?

There’s a guy calling himself Muad’dib who sounds very much as if he’s exonerating the Moose Limbs for 7/7, whereas I feel Pat Condell was not wrong in his view. Now, there’s a video we have here (note I say “we”, not the dropper himself) under the post July 7th, 2005 and the intro reads:

“Continuing the theme of false flag terrorism we look at the 7/7 London tube station bombings from 2005. It is a very hard pill to swallow for some, but all of the evidence points to the fact that 7/7 was carried out by intelligence agencies. The supposed terrorists were most likely patsies, who were set up to take part in a mock terror drill organised by Peter Power.”

Yes, that’s fair imho … I mentioned Blair and Nethanyahu myself … where the Moose Limbs are stooges. Ditto with 911 and the owner of WTC7 was Larry Silverstein. That may well be true but it does not absolve them of the rapings, stabbings and abuse and I’ve been speaking with some of those girls one to one … same tale … they are very much guilty as charged.

Now I have two more things to add.

  • In the middle of the video, it shows the “bombers” “going into the station”. All right, this Muad’dib is using language like “it’s clear”, “everyone says” and he’s using it to an Irish presenter who doesn’t even have his facts straight on Leeds, nor could he be expected to. He’s relying on Muad’dib for Truth. Who is this Muad’dib anyway? A Mussie? Look up Dune and one of the characters in it. Yep .. pseudonym.
  • The other is the insertion of emotion and high feeling into an investigation or discussion the instant someone contradicts one of the pieces of evidence. Even Sherlock contradicted himself over and over when he discovered that something he’d taken on did not stand up in this case, when similar did. A persuader can leap to high dudgeon in such situations, which hardly helps dispassionate investigation.

There are those who begin with an a priori position (confirmation bias) that Mussies must be innocent coz Zionists are guilty … versus Laura Loomer who contends the reverse. Memri for example does that, whereas Al Jazeera does the opposite. The British left agree with Al Jazeera.

Minefield.

Hurricane Katrina

 

All right, confession … as one whose profession was once accents in English and who adores English spoken in the various accents … still I have trouble with this harsh Panhandle accent. Yet, for all that, his engineering youtubes are usually first rate and when I saw Nu Orlins … well …