Sounds very plausible. The Devil always sneaks in through the backdoor. If a thief has entered your house and hides in your closet, you might notice a straitlaced atmosphere in the air, where things seem just a little bit too orderly and calm to be true. If the intruder wants to avoid detection, he might stay put until you lose suspicion and go to sleep. So, I imagine, demons have entered people's minds and is holding them hostage, because the alternative is facing that there really is a monster in the closet, which is worse than just 'making everyone get along'. If the herd stays together, the wolf might only catch those in the periphery. Don't scare the herd! Of course it would be too much for modern man to admit that she is still a victim of such foolish instincts. Rationality rules!
20 May 2020 at 17:44
Anonymous said...
Three months ago, a friend phoned me to tell me that a killer virus would soon spread world wide. She was full of fear. Now, three months in, she phones me to say how disgusted she is with politicians and the media for telling us such huge lies. The onslaught of attempts to frighten and control have had the opposite effect to that intended in her case. I am guessing here, but I believe that there may well be quite a large minority who have seen through the lies as my friend has done. And that is the problem for those with evil intent, they can over do it and spoil their own games.
Barry
20 May 2020 at 19:03
Epimetheus said...
You've no idea the level of synchronicity this post represents!
20 May 2020 at 23:06
Gary said...
I think it is very obvious, and has been for at least a few months, that 1) the risk posed by this raven is not much different from the usual dark avians which live with us, 2) that the measures being enforced to deal with these buff birds don't actually work to stop them spreading their wings and 3) the measures employed do actually destroy economies,social capital and lives very rapidly and decisively.
So there is no actual justification for fear of the winged ones, even to a mean intelligence, unlike a hostage situation... Where the threat is real and torture and serious suffering and pain are actually likely.
I think what were we're seeing is more that people want to give up on life, are tired and broken, and this virtual, manufactured justification is the perfect excuse to wallow in their latent desire to "let go", be as passive as possible, crawl into a hole (social distancing) and wait it out until they are extinct.
This latent psychological makeup and the desire for self-annihilation was already obvious before the birds came (addiction to media, political correctness, willed sterility, metaphysical nihilism and relativism, consumerism, etc. Etc.), It has now just been put into stark relief.
On a somewhat unrelated note, I think there might be an element of witchcraft being used by the elites in order to magnify what evil was already in the hearts of men... A specific type of evil... To "activate it". I know that saying that is a bit of an Icke move, but so be it.
20 May 2020 at 23:33
Phil said...
Thanks Bruce, I really learned a lot from this. It helped me feel a bit better about myself since I am often self-critical about why I allowed certain things to happen to me as a child. It also helps me understand why so many people keep their heads down today.
14 July 2020 at 23:28
It seems possible that what we are currently witnessing - i.e. passivity, submission and indeed active support-of (in the extreme actual infatuation-with) those who entrap and terrorise us - may be conceptualised as an evolved response to extreme and inescapable fear; in other words, the world has been swept by a mass version of Stockholm Syndrome.
The plausible evolutionary basis of Stockholm Syndrome has been well described by Chris Cantor - I used to use his work in my university teaching. Here are excerpts from a popular account:
Captors cleverly cultivate psychologically hostile environments involving total domination, so as to massively dis-empower victims. Ambiguous and confusing threats will be involved which contribute to the unpredictability of the experience, unpredictability being one of the most potent inducers of chronic anxiety.
The psychology of the predicament emerges from a combination of sensory deprivation, usually induced through blindfolding and isolation, disgusting conditions, physical abuse, death threats, powerlessness, dehumanization, general humiliation and the need to avoid the further anger of captors. Cantor and Price argue ... that we switch into appeasement as a survival mechanism when held in captivity. They suggest that this basic response may be hardwired into our brains and therefore could possibly be even beyond our control, so victims should not be condemned for exhibiting this response. Appeasement comprises pacification, conciliation and submission. Appeasement serves a de-escalating function in dangerous situations, subordinates using appeasement suspend efforts to win conflicts, thereby decreasing the often fatal costs of losing. After being attacked, monkeys and apes tend to turn to the attacker for comfort and safety, which is referred to as 'reverted escape', because after fleeing from the attack the attacked animal returns, or reverts, to the attacker, rather than turning to another member of the group for succour. Appeasement appears widespread in the animal kingdom Submission is so widespread as a strategy that it probably promotes survival, so the transmission of genes for appeasement now makes evolutionary sense. Another dimension of the peculiar psychology of slavery is that in a closed environment in which a hostage lives, there may be only dominant oppressors to turn to for comfort - a kind of reverted escape as seen in the animal kingdom. Under stress we are genetically designed to seek bonding and affiliation with others for comfort and protection.
(It is also relevant that Stockholm Syndrome is more common and severe in women - since women - on average - have a significantly lower threshold of fear and are considerably more sensitive to fear threats.)
The above description has considerable similarities with our current situation. It is perfectly possible that the recent combination of fear, physical confinement and social isolation have been calculatedly and systematically deployed (with unpredictable, ambiguous and confusing threats) to create... Exactly what we now observe, on a global scale.
And such a strategy would be expected to be far more effective where there was no possibility of existential escape - in other words where death was regarded as a final annihilation; such that there may be a subjective belief that the choice is support and appeasement or... nothingness.
The bad news is that "traumatic entrapment produces possibly the most difficult to treat form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, as it involves a deeper shame in victims, blaming themselves for what happened."
Better news is that "once victims understand the appeasement reaction, they can begin better to understand psychologically what really happened, and recover from the shame."
However, against this is that it is notoriously difficult to get people to admit that they have been manipulated, conned and fooled; as is obvious from the immunity to experience and indifference to evidence of nearly all modern people - especially 'intellectuals'.
Nonetheless, our main spiritual task in the birdemic is understanding, as a preparation for valid discernment; and I think the Stockholm Syndrome concept adds to that.
"International Stockholm Syndrome"
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Sounds very plausible. The Devil always sneaks in through the backdoor. If a thief has entered your house and hides in your closet, you might notice a straitlaced atmosphere in the air, where things seem just a little bit too orderly and calm to be true. If the intruder wants to avoid detection, he might stay put until you lose suspicion and go to sleep. So, I imagine, demons have entered people's minds and is holding them hostage, because the alternative is facing that there really is a monster in the closet, which is worse than just 'making everyone get along'. If the herd stays together, the wolf might only catch those in the periphery. Don't scare the herd! Of course it would be too much for modern man to admit that she is still a victim of such foolish instincts. Rationality rules!
20 May 2020 at 17:44
Three months ago, a friend phoned me to tell me that a killer virus would soon spread world wide. She was full of fear. Now, three months in, she phones me to say how disgusted she is with politicians and the media for telling us such huge lies. The onslaught of attempts to frighten and control have had the opposite effect to that intended in her case. I am guessing here, but I believe that there may well be quite a large minority who have seen through the lies as my friend has done. And that is the problem for those with evil intent, they can over do it and spoil their own games.
Barry
20 May 2020 at 19:03
You've no idea the level of synchronicity this post represents!
20 May 2020 at 23:06
I think it is very obvious, and has been for at least a few months, that 1) the risk posed by this raven is not much different from the usual dark avians which live with us, 2) that the measures being enforced to deal with these buff birds don't actually work to stop them spreading their wings and 3) the measures employed do actually destroy economies,social capital and lives very rapidly and decisively.
So there is no actual justification for fear of the winged ones, even to a mean intelligence, unlike a hostage situation... Where the threat is real and torture and serious suffering and pain are actually likely.
I think what were we're seeing is more that people want to give up on life, are tired and broken, and this virtual, manufactured justification is the perfect excuse to wallow in their latent desire to "let go", be as passive as possible, crawl into a hole (social distancing) and wait it out until they are extinct.
This latent psychological makeup and the desire for self-annihilation was already obvious before the birds came (addiction to media, political correctness, willed sterility, metaphysical nihilism and relativism, consumerism, etc. Etc.), It has now just been put into stark relief.
On a somewhat unrelated note, I think there might be an element of witchcraft being used by the elites in order to magnify what evil was already in the hearts of men... A specific type of evil... To "activate it". I know that saying that is a bit of an Icke move, but so be it.
20 May 2020 at 23:33
Thanks Bruce, I really learned a lot from this. It helped me feel a bit better about myself since I am often self-critical about why I allowed certain things to happen to me as a child. It also helps me understand why so many people keep their heads down today.
14 July 2020 at 23:28