Déjà Vu ~ Times II: CONflation?

Thursday, August 17, 2017

CONflation?

Have you ever noticed:

▪ how so many people conduct tirades against socialism / communism¹ all the while describing the crimes of corrupted banking cartels and corporations — those kingpins (twin pillars) of capitalism — and then finish up their tirade by shaking their fists at those ______ socialists without ever recognizing the untenable conflation?

▪ how most Christians seem strangely nonchalant about Babylon as the great nemesis of Zion (vis-à-vis socialism / communism) and how the descriptions of Babylon¹ do not remotely describe socialism / communism?

▪ how susceptible many of us are to believing (hook, line, and sinker) the propaganda and outright lies of corporate power and money establishments — those prime beneficiaries of capitalist and fascist systems?

▪ how most Christians seem to think that God's economy is CAPITALISM and “FREE” markets, writ large, whereas scripture and prophecy describe God's economy² as a gift economy where equity plays a leading role? E.g.:

That you may be equal in the bonds of heavenly things, yea, and earthly things also, for the obtaining of heavenly things. For if ye are not equal in earthly things ye cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly things; For if you will that I give unto you a place in the celestial world, you must prepare yourselves by doing the things which I have commanded you and required of you. (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 78:5-7)
▪ how many Christians seem to think that competition brings out the best in mankind and accounts for major advancements without ever pondering where our world would be if we had lived a philosophy of cooperation, of freely sharing gifts and ideas, of loving our neighbor as ourself?

▪ how much crime, corruption, mayhem, and murder has been justified by “democracy lovers” in the “American” fight against those ______ socialists / communists? (Read David Talbot's The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.³)

▪ how the devil, as the primeval psychopath, has always:

» concealed his most dangerous and evil agendas behind facades and lesser enemies?
» used patsies to take the heat for accidental exposure?
» spun money to confuse, distract, corrupt, obfuscate, etc., etc., etc.?
» lied, lied, lied about everything to gain advantage or disrupt God's plan?
» always pointed the finger of blame at God⁴ and others?
» used promises of power and gain to seduce gullible men and women?
» stirred up contention, division, and war for power and massive profit?
» appealed to the worst in the natural man?
▪ how little we

» think for ourselves?
» support whistle-blowers and witnesses of “capital” crimes?⁵
» recognize of the innumerable deceptions⁶ the devil employs?
» understand Babylon as s/he was, is, and really will be?
» heed the dire warnings about secret combinations and conspiracies of those pursuing or protecting power and gain? etc.
▪ how unprepared we seem to speak up and act out against uncomfortable truths about favored leaders? substitute saviors? national agencies? false patriotism? our beloved economic system?

▪ how resistant to setting aside our political, racial, cultural, economic, social, and religious differences in support and defense of a remarkable Constitution?⁷

▪ how slow to join in a unified work to cleanse the ubiquitous (déjà vu) Gadiantons⁸ of these last days?

Would Jeremiah repeat himself in our day if he took up the task of trying to open our eyes to our most dangerous enemy?

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: (Old Testament | Jeremiah 5:21)

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1. http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/deception-inc.html . NOTE: It is this author's view that economic systems of the world promote evil in their own corrupted ways; and that the conjoining of socialism and communism may also be a distorting conflation.
2. http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/06/gods-economy-is-it-possible.html ; http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2013/12/gods-economy-christmas-perspective.html
3. See http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2017/08/swamp-dwellers.html
4. As displayed by the devil's disciple, Cain: http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-pity-ploy.html
5. http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/10/capital-punishment.html ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/08/inevitable.html ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/10/patsies.html ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/05/mayday-mayday-mayday.html ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/09/free-of-all-some.html ; or the entire corporatism label at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Corporatism ; see also: http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2017/05/an-hypocritical-nation.html ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/11/blinding-paradigms.html
6. http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2016/10/know-thine-enemy.html
7. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 98:4-10 ~ And now, verily I say unto you concerning the laws of the land, it is my will that my people should observe to do all things whatsoever I command them. And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land; And as pertaining to law of man, whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil. I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free. Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn. Wherefore, honest men and wise men should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil. (Bold emphasis added.)
8. http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2017/02/are-we-ready-yet.html (See footnote 2 therein or Google Gadianton.)

Revolving Accounts

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us." (Old Testament Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)

"Dwell in the past and you'll lose an eye. Forget the past and you'll lose both eyes." (Old Russian Proverb)

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“No Comments” Rationale

1) Time & more needful priorities;
2) Problems observed with many open-comment blogs as so bluntly expressed at http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/comment-policy/
3) People are free to post divergent or convergent views on their own blogs;
4) Learning from comments here would be preferable, but— (see 1, 2, & 3).

Brief note to the OFFENDED: Just because allowing "comments" is a blogger's option, it does not mean every blogger must conform to the "expectations" of others. Every soul can consult the Spirit and decide what is best and right in their circumstance. And if one has a blanket policy not to read another's work because there is no opportunity to comment, it seems one has closed oneself off to potential guidance of the Spirit. Besides, in this world of "overwhelm," the guidance of the Spirit is the best resource we have to lead us to things of importance in our unique life. So, if you have found your way here, perhaps there are a few things of import for you here. I try to trust the Spirit to lead me likewise to things of import within my purpose and priorities.

My World / TransWorld View

▪ Truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come; (Doctrine and Covenants Section 93:24)
▪ If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed. (J. Reuben Clark)

▪ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:21)

▪ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.(New Testament Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13; 3 Nephi 13:24)
▪ See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.(New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:15)
▪ For that which ye do send out shall return unto you again, and be restored; ... (Book of Mormon Alma 41:15)
▪ Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. (Book of Mormon Mosiah 4:9, emphasis added)
▪ ... the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (New Testament 1 Corinthians 1:25)
▪ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Old Testament Isaiah 55:8 - 9)
▪ ... the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their own nation and tongue, to teach his word, yea, in wisdom, all that he seeth fit that they should have; therefore we see that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom, according to that which is just and true. (Book of Mormon Alma 29:8)
▪ The Bible is true, as far as it is translated correctly. Some things are to be understood literally; others metaphorically or symbolically.
▪ God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat; a Liberal nor a Conservative, just as Christ was neither a Pharisee or Sadducee. [For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.(Doctrine and Covenants Section 3:2)]
▪ Life is an escalating series of tests.
▪ “...we will be asked again and again to release the parts of our lives that mean the most to us.” (Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts, p. 76; also preview lives of the prophets and saints.)