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Exactly right. Good news, indeed.

Imagine trying to understand scripture, Old and New Testament, the way the biblical writers intended it to be understood, instead of how the deranged cult leader John Nelson Darby; or the crooked lawyer, C.I. Scofield; or the whackadoodle date-setting false prophet Hal Lindsey argued that it must be read.

Dispensationalist eschatology has its roots in the cancerous heresy of "dual covenant" theology.

Well, if this experience causes at least some of them to rethink their career choice going forward, some good will have come of it.

One can appreciate how difficult it must be for you, to have lived as long as you have, without anyone recognizing your true genius.

I don't wonder all that much. I start by looking to see who's making money off of it. All those surgeries aren't being done on a pro bono basis. And nobody's just giving away those hormone supplements.

Satan may be the "but for" cause of it, but for the "proximate cause," one need look no further than today's medical industry.

Of course. But the "Federalist" would never touch that with a 10-foot pole. They inhabit the "socially acceptable" neighborhood on the Right. If/when push comes to shove, they would invariably side against those who support individual liberty and who would reject "the State."

In other words, the "Federalist" is ultimately as much an "enemy of the People" as the "communists" it wishes to "trigger." That's what they're into: "triggering" the Left for clicks and monetary support. The "Federalist" and its ilk would never actually fight for "the People." Never, ever.

Exactly right. The true threat to Trump in November is GOP, Inc.

As likely as not, all of this "what will the Dems do?!?" nonsense is intentional, misdirecting propaganda.

And that's not going to happen, and it's Rand Paul's job at this point to ensure that it doesn't happen. Or, to put it another way, Paul is there to "keep a distance between the U.S. military and intelligence community and anything unseemly."

Here's where we are, as far as I'm concerned: if professing "conservatives" do not understand that they are in far more danger, actual danger, from their own government than they are from China, or Russia, or Iran, or any other external bugaboo that always gets trotted out, like clockwork, whenever people begin to notice, then they're NGMI.

It's very late.

Exactly. Rand Paul is a ridiculous shill and cover-up artist, when all is said and done. Fauci is a bad guy, yes, and has been making bank for decades as a government bureaucrat while the health of America's children has deteriorated materially on his watch at NIAID.

That said, however, the SARS-COV-2 "conspiracy" was a work of the U.S. military/intelligence community, which is something that Paul surely understands. He's actively running interference for the perpetrators at this point, which can only facilitate them pulling this same sort of stunt in the future.

If this is how he's going to play it, Rand Paul should hang with the rest of them.

This statement of yours simply isn't true. In fact, nothing in that Brittanica article to which you linked supports your view of the situation, which I take to be that the establishment of the nation-state of Jordan (or "Transjordan," as it was initially known) in 1946 -- i.e., that part of the British mandate territory east of the Jordan River -- was meant to be the "state" for the Palestinians Arabs living in that part of the British mandate west of the Jordan River. If that's what you believe (and that's what it sounds to me that you're saying), you're just wrong as a matter of historical fact.

Well, I'm a "Bible-believing Christian" myself -- i.e., I am a disciple (if a poor one) of Jesus who believes that the Bible is the inspired word of God -- and I would disagree with that particular view/interpretation of what the Bible says with respect to this matter.

But that's fine, as far as I'm concerned, since I consider this to be an issue that is not central to the faith, that is not central to the Gospel. And so I would not wish to divide with a fellow believer who takes a different view.

What concerns me at present is that I've started to see any number of professing believers who appear to be willing to divide with me over the issue of Israel. That's unfortunate but so be it. I'd be the first to say that I consider Dispensationalist eschatology to be ludicrous poppycock, clearly a false teaching that has its unfortunate roots in Darbyite "dual covenant" heresy.

Nevertheless, I'm prepared to be charitable on this matter with those believers who extent to me the same courtesy.

This isn't true as a matter of historical fact. The contemporary nation-state of Jordan was established in 1946, prior to the U.N.'s partition plan for Palestine. There was no expectation at that time, for those Palestinian Arabs living west of the Jordan River -- who were themselves the descendants of people who had been living in that land for multiple generations -- that this then-new nation-state of Jordan was to be "their country" going forward. That's a myth.

There were, of course, Jews living throughout Mandatory Palestine as of 1947, and they, too, were the descendants of people who had been living in that land for multiple generations. But as of 1947, Palestinian Jews were a minority in every region of Palestine with the exception, I believe, of Jerusalem itself and its immediate environs. The 1947 U.N. partition plan established the borders of what would be the new nation-state of Israel based on those areas of Palestine that had the largest concentration of Jews (albeit, still in the minority relative to the Palestinian Arab population, even though non-native European Jews had started to emigrate into Palestine as early as post-WWI, if not earlier, as part of the Zionist enterprise).

Given this, in what way can those Palestinian Arabs currently living west of the Jordan River, descendants of those who for multiple generations had always lived in Palestine west of the river, be considered to be "Jordanians"? Again, this notion that "Jordan is the Palestinian state" is a myth and, at this point, an intentional misdirection.

Now, if somebody wants to switch gears and resort to the Bible to make the claim that "Israel rightfully belongs to the Jews," so be it. Or if, at this point, somebody wants to resort to the assertion that the "Israeli Jews" are entitled to the land outside the boundaries established by the U.N. partition plan because they "won it in a war," well, so be that too. But those are different, um, arguments.

Guy’s a fag.

Yes. A blind man could see this with a cane.

Madison wasn't thinking about a populace that is as degraded as is the one we see today, much less that such people were at all fit to govern themselves. Which they manifestly are not. And, yet, here we are.

Our "constitutional system" has failed. Of that, there is no question. The question on the table now is, what happens next?

More than likely, yes. People need to get out of the mindset of "what do we do?" and start thinking in terms of "what do we do next?" And "next" is going to look a lot different than what we see now. Different lines will be drawn. Different sides will be drawn up.

Thank you for your input, nerd.

Just another clueless Boomercon midwit, wholly oblivious to the reality of the world in which he now lives.

For me, this scenario is the only meaningful basis for supporting Trump -- i.e., that the Leftist/status quo "blob" would not accept his being elected again and would proceed to destabilize the country for real.

My own fear is that, upon being elected again, Trump wouldn't proceed to do the hard things that are necessary to save what's left of this country (e.g., actually rounding up 40-50 million illegal immigrants and deporting them) but would, instead, get co-opted by said "blob," and revert back to his first term stance, which was a lot of sound and fury signifying very little, when all was said and done.

Meanwhile, were that to transpire, and what's left of this post-iceberg country sank further beneath the waves, all we'd hear from dimwitted, deluded Boomercons on sites like this one would be nonsense to the effect of "Trump knows what he's doing" and "trust the plan," etc., etc.

Insofar as, at this point, I see that scenario as being far more likely than not, I'm not optimistic. Put simply, I would welcome the aforementioned "destabilization." It -- or, rather, the (potentially violent but ultimately successful?) counter-response to it -- is the only thing, to my mind, that could possibly reverse this country's slide into full-blown NWO tyranny.

Our "constitutional system" has clearly failed at this point. With our very liberty being at stake, we need a different path forward.

Of course, this "fad" has nothing to do with "teens."

Yes. But his last paragraph is, in my judgment at least, far too optimistic. I hope he's right, but I fear he's not.

All of this is well said on your part. Thank you.

This was a fascinating interview. Rodgers is surely more intelligent, and certainly more thoughtful, than 90% of this country’s elected representatives. To my mind, his use of ayahuasca and other psychedelics is ill-considered (given the potential is provides to be spiritually waylaid as a consequence), but that’s his own business, not mine.