The Jubilee Conspiracy Part 3: The Final Countdown
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Firstly, to be clear: I am pretty much over this Shemitah/Jubilee thing.
Conspiratorial geopolitical predictions — which is what we are about to shamelessly indulge in — are a mug’s game, especially when they are somewhat Qtard-adjacent and dare to tie together the Big 3 of conspiratorial geopolitical soothsaying: financial crashes, internet blackouts and political assassinations. Engaging in this game — which is what it really is — assumes a level of pre-determination (and/or elite scripting/trolling) to significant world events that many would take issue with.
Having gone pretty deep into Simulation Theory of late (the concept that is, although the Muse album is actually surprisingly good) I’m open to some degree of mathematical coding to world events and the cycles that underlie them. I would still question the extent that specific events can actually be predicted by even the most autistic of Simulation decoders, as opposed to the code being revealed to us in hindsight (that said, there were truthers who predicted a significant geopolitical event on September 11 2001, based on numerology and predictive programming, so it certainly can be done).
Then there is the whole anti-Semitism thing. Hopefully it goes without saying but, in our post-Kanye’d world, it serves to clarify: pointing out that the Old Testament and Hebrew calendar appear to have been weaponised for conspiratorial geopolitical purposes is not implicating The Jews. In fact, the more I’ve gotten my head around this apparent psy-op, the more likely its seems that individuals who are either part of or aligned with the Jewish faith are the targets, not the perpetrators.
What this conspiracy most certainly is is further evidence of just how fundamental Religion (particularly fundamentalist Religionism aligned with the three main Abrahamic Faiths) is to understanding major world events: a fact that remains true regardless of one’s own personal thoughts on Religion.
Thus, with the stakes far from insignificant, we persist; we are, after all, all obliged to serve as best we can the purpose we have been assigned — and, right now, a whole bunch of signs are pointing this diligent dot-connecting digger towards a whole bunch of shit going down (comparatively speaking; I know it already feels exhausting) roughly from August to October this year, and I feel obliged to share my diggings as best I can.
So *cracks knuckles* if we are gonna do this thing — tie the whole conspiracy together in one post so that we can be done with this burrow (unless I feel obliged to do a Post-Apocalyptic Recap and Reflection at some point) and start packing our highly metaphorical popcorn — let’s do it properly:
Why August to October?
Our point of entry, like many if not most conspiracies, is 9/11. Important not so much in the event itself (if you want my full conspiratorial take, see here) but the date: mid-September of the year 2001.
Why so important? Because, exactly 7 years later, in mid-September 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Taken together with the market fallout from the 2001 Twin Towers attacks, we find a remarkable synchronicity between arguably the two most significant economic events of the 21st century.
These are our two most important markers: September and the number 7. Cue Greenday, and their inexplicable but un-ignorable contribution to this conspiracy:
Like my Father’s come to pass
7 years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends.
Where else, and to whom, are both September and 7 significant? The Old Testament as a starting point, and more specifically the concept of the Shemitah (along with the Sabbath and Jubilee) revealed to the Jews by Yahweh.
“You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield… but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat.” Exodus 23:10-11
In short: the Shemitah — which translates to “release” or “let go” — suggests that economies operate within 7 year cycles. The last year of the cycle is understood as a “time of rest”, following which can be expected a mini-recession event as a necessary evil for transitioning between cycles.
What about September? Well, it also just so happens that Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year, when we would expect the transition from one cycle to the next to take place) occurs mid-September to early-October, aligning exactly with the financial chaos in 2001 and 2008: the peak of the economic downturn each year occurred in the weeks following each both events across late September and early October). Both 2001 and 2008 can be convincingly argued to be Shemitah years: that is, the end of the 7 year cycle and the release period should occur in September of that year.
On first inspection, it seems that the conspiracy unravels at the first tug: September 2015, the next iteration of the Shemitah cycle, where — aside from a few not-insignificant economic hiccups — we escaped largely chaos free.
But that is only until we bring in the concept of the Jubilee: a special, 1-in-50-year Super-Shemitah that occurs after the 7th cycle of 7 years has wound up — and, in theory, where the expected month-ish of chaos is drawn out across a whole year.
I have found no clear advice either way from online Jewish sources as to whether this is indeed Jubilee (such calendar rituals do not appear to be followed with the enthusiasm that Yahweh was originally hoping for). These are the main arguments I have for us currently being in “Jubilee”:
The relative quietness of 2015 — ok, fine, the Calm Before The Storm — or the final Shemitah cycle before the real Fun begins.
The announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth at the start of September, just before Rosh Hashanah, during her Platinum Jubilee year.
The Inescapable Feeling, since that announcement (and the sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline, which occurred soon afterwards), that we have been gradually building up to something big — economic but also more generally geopolitically — and that a September climax would seem about right (and be more than welcomed by this point, let’s be honest, even if it required a military coup or two).
The notable parallels to what would be our previous Jubilee year — September 1973 to September 1974 — which was similarly marked by escalating economic and political chaos AND that concluded with the resignation of Richard Nixon in August 1974 due to the Watergate scandal.
Decide for yourself, but keep in mind that the point isn’t actually whether we are, in a strictly calendrical sense, in “Jubilee” — but whether this Biblical framework gives the perfect cover for elite fuckery masquerading as prophecy.
I dunno, you tell me: is it the elite trolling us, or is it just the Simulation doing its thing?
Whether organic or manufactured, the end remains the same: Prophecy is self-fulfilling, in that its manifestation rests on the extent that it is believed in — which is also why I think we are, at some point in the coming decades, headed for a real Biblical Apocalyptic period, simply because such a growing and widespread belief in it will cause it to be manifested into existence one way or the other.
Wait… does that make me part of the problem, just by giving this stuff oxygen?
Anyway: back to our predictions, which is why you are here, as opposed to existentialism.
If we are in the Jubilee Year (let’s assume we are from hereon in), we would expect things to ramp up to a climax this September — more specifically in the lead up to and in the aftermath of the Rosh Hashanah from September 15 to September 17.
These are some of the things we would logically expect to see play out.
An Economic Crash
No shit Sherlock: but at least we now have a timeframe, and we can also see the upside.
The Shemitah and Jubilee are necessary and unavoidable economic recession events, presented to the Jews originally as a test of faith with promised reward: bumpy but survivable periods of release that entail mass debt forgiveness and an aftermath period of relative economic prosperity.
In other words, both the Shemitah and Jubilee are periods of intense opportunity: especially for those ready to ride the bumps and prepared to adapt to the new economic reality as it starts to take shape.
This is the greater picture we must keep front of mind, if we are indeed suddenly faced with an economic shock greater than that of both 2001 and 2008 — as we might reasonably expect based on the rationale of the “Super-Shemitah” theory.
Political Shenanigans
While fundamentally economic in nature in the Old Testament, the political dimensions of the Shemitah/Jubilee also loom large.
As mentioned above, we have precedent in our previous Jubilee year of drawn out political turmoil, culminating in the removal/resignation of a sitting US President. A spicy-enough taster in itself, before we even get to the main Tamale on the menu.
Here is where we bring in the Curse of Tippecanoe, which I explore in more detail in the form of rhyming(ish) prose here.
Will the Curse — last successful against JFK but defeated narrowly by Reagan and then Dubbya, be resurrected for our Jubilee “celebrations”? If so: it would be the best proof we have for who really won the 2020 election.
Digital
Again, I’m not telling you anything new here: you have surely heard by now some variation of the 10 Days of Darkness Cyber 9/11 EMP False Carrington False Flag Internet Takedown event that leaves the internet landscape fundamentally altered.
All I would add is: would such a digital Great Reset event not seem like a logical conclusion to our current heightened state of Informational Deep Fake Warfare, especially as we now enter the particularly icky post-Pizz@Gate-disclosure endgame? In fact — and I am aware this may well have been the plan all along — an increasing number of average internet enjoyers would now say that such a digital “clean up” is now necessary for its continued viability.
If so, such an event would be expected, let’s say, mid-to-late September? Which is interesting, given this whole September 23rd thing you may or may not have heard of:
So, there you have it: all the evidence you need to get your offline digital storage regime nailed down ASAP.
If this is your first introduction to this conspiracy and want the full breakdown, I would suggest my sunrise walking rant.
Again: I am aware of the role the dot-connecting digger can play in manifesting a conspiracy into being. But this theory seems pretty baked into the fabric of our geopolitical reality, if you ask me.
Is the Jubilee Conspiracy going to be a banger or a fizzer? Time will only tell… but, until then, let’s enjoy The Final Countdown, fellow diggers.
9/11 and the Conspiracy Against Religion
The hidden spiritual significance of the destruction of the Twin Towers.
The hidden spiritual significance of the destruction of the Twin Towers
A Down the Wombat Hole reproduction of the cover for William Basinski’s Ambient music classic The Disintegration Loops. Basinski witnessed the 9/11 attacks live on his Manhattan balcony, and took the cover image of the bleak, smoked-filled aftermath himself. The melancholic progressive tape decay of the music became synonymous with the event for many… and yes, he was a 9/11 truther.
Where does one even start when digging down into the most iconic of wombat holes that is 9/11?
From a conspiracy perspective — what I know best — the terrorist (“terrorist”) attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York on September 11, 2011, have almost certainly been responsible for more descents down alternative reality burrows than any other world event. This is largely due to the demonstrably ridiculous lie that is the official story, which falls apart in staggering rapidity once one fully focuses their attention on the recorded facts of the event.
But it is obviously so much more than that: we know that the event holds an unparalleled level of significance across various social contexts.
On a psychological, even spiritual level, it shocked and traumatised an entire nation, and — given the prominence of that nation in world events — the rest of the world as well.
On a political level, it laid bare how blatantly and shamelessly Governments and their related organs will utilise such traumatic events to forward their own agendas; the subsequent War on Terror would pave the way for the toxic geo-political environment that has since shaped the 21st century.
On a cultural level, it gave a fatal blow to the privileged and protected status of America, and in a broader sense it shattered the illusions of much of the Western world that they might be immune from the turmoil steadily enveloping the Middle East.
Perhaps less obvious is its religious connotations: a climax as such in the spiritual battle between the two largest organised faiths on the planet.
This latter perspective was the first angle through which I properly came to study 9/11: as an astonishing fulfilment of religious prophecy and divine intervention. But that turned out to be just the starting point.
In fact, as you dig deeper into the 9/11 conspiracy, it is obvious that it represented a profoundly religious act… just not in the way that we have been lead to believe.
One of the best decisions I have ever made in my life was too move away from my birth city of Perth, Western Australia, to a remote coastal town roughly 8 hours drive away.
Aside from any broader life benefits that came from shifting locations (which have been varied and significant), the moving process itself — including several years of driving to and from this town before officially making residence — opened me up to the unique educational opportunity that is the consumption of audiobook over long-haul car trips. Having such an extended period of time to mentally dedicate to a new and challenging topic — balanced by the changing terrain, slow moving trucks and occasional toilet/stretch breaks — offers ripe conditions for overhauling one’s long held worldview.
My post-city-life has in fact been fundamentally shaped by the books that I listened to as I embarked on this new life journey. While far from the most influential, one of the first of these listens was a fascinating little tale called The Harbinger by Jonathon Cahn.
It is also far from the best book I have listened to. It employs a slightly tortured fictional narrative to unravel its central argument, and is padded almost unforgivably with less-than-compelling dialogue to presumably beef it out to a respectable page count. Cahn has also received some particularly sharp criticisms from peers for his handling of scripture, including this impressively smug and spiteful takedown from one of my old favourites, Dr. Michael Heiser.
Nonetheless, the central argument of the book is a fascinating one that clearly caught the attention of many Biblically-minded people, and is the reason why it became the runaway best seller in Christian America that it did.
The book begins with a proposition that gets to the heart of America as a Judeo-Christian nation: that it was established by its Founding Fathers as a continuation of the same Covenant with the Biblical God upon which Israel was established. Essentially, that America is the closest we have to God’s Kingdom on Earth. You know the basics of this spiel already:
“To be a vessel of redemption, a light to the world. And so it would give refuge to the world’s poor and needy, and hope to its oppressed. It would stand, more than once, against the dark movements of the modern age that threatened to engulf the world…and liberate millions from oppression” (pp. 19-20).
Whether you accept this premise or not, it is impossible to understand America without acknowledging how deeply this belief is held in its heartland populace. Not just understanding America back then, but understanding it now: specifically, the pushback that is occurring against our secular and ungodly Modern Age. For this Covenant is conditional, as is the God who made it: if America was to stray away from its divine foundations, the penalties for these transgressions would be swift and fierce.
This is the primary context within which The Harbinger frames the 9/11 attacks: the unavoidable consequence — the Divine Judgement — of a nation turning away from God. It came through the abolition of prayer and scripture in schools, through a return to idol worship that is celebrity culture, through materialism, through moral liberation, and (of course) through the modern day practice of child sacrifice that Conservative Christianity believe abortion to be.
Cahn explicitly links the perceived moral descent of America to that of Israel’s final days, and points to a series of warning signs — Harbingers — that the two nations shared. And he makes a pretty convincing case.
9/11 itself was the first Harbinger, representing the first ‘breach’ of God’s previously assured protection. This is, the book argues, further confirmed by the fact that the breach was made by (Islamaphobia alert) the very people opposed to God’s Will — just like it was the Assyrians who attacked Israel, a Middle Eastern race who also used terrorism as their greatest weapon.
From there we get a series of subsequent synchronicities with Biblical events. They largely centre around an obscure passage from Isaiah 9:10 (damn, only one digit off from perfect numerological synchronicity!):
“The bricks have fallen, But we will rebuild with hewn stone; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will plant cedars in their place.”
This was Israel’s response to their own breach — a statement of continued defiance that essentially sealed their fate — but that also played itself out in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York. This is argued both in a general sense — the United States would show similar defiance as Israel, doubling down on its moral superiority rather than turning to introspection as to the underlying causes of the attacks — but also in very specific ways.
This includes the deliberate use of quarried (i.e. ‘hewn’) rock — named The Freedom Stone (of course) — as the cornerstone for the rebuilding at Ground Zero; the coincidental felling by building debris of an English Sycamore tree directly adjacent to Ground Zero and its replacement by (of course) a Cedar tree; and finally (of course) the word-for-word quotation of Isaiah 9:10 in Washington DC on numerous occasions, most prophetically on the day after the attacks took place. Almost like they were prepared?
The most convincing proof for the existence of a hidden hand at work in these events comes not from 9/11 itself, but another significant crisis that followed it: the financial crash of 2008.
In a practical political sense, this crash might be seen as a logical consequence of the unprecedented spending that underpinned the War on Terror. In a prophetic sense, according to Cahn, this global economic implosion was the fulfilment of the Isaiah 9:10 promise that the US had indeed written its own obituary. But looking at the specifics timing of the events in 2008, there is an indisputably epic synchronicity to another, also relatively obscure Bible concept: that of the Shemitah.
The basic idea of The Shemitah (around which Cahn later wrote a sequel) relates back to the Old Testament Laws delivered onto the Jews by Moses. Like the Sabbath, where Jews would observe a break from work every seventh day, so too were they compelled to observe a break in working the land every seven years:
“You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield… but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.” Exodus 23:10-11
This Shemitah year was essentially an act of obedience to and faith in God, that he would provide enough food in the previous six years to allow the Jews to survive, and that this period of rest would allow the Earth to replenish for the next six. It also had an economic aspect to it — The Shemitah Effect — essentially a built-in mini-recession that would prevent larger financial crashes from occurring. The more well known Jubilee year of rest would be observed in the year after the 7th Shemitah — meaning every 50 years the Jews would undertake the additional test of faith to go two consecutive years without food production and major economic activity. Needless to say, the Jews failed this test, and according to a prophecy in the Book of Daniel were subsequently banished from their homeland for a period of 70 years.
What has this ancient concept got to do with 9/11 and the proceeding financial crash? It is all about the timing.
Cahn traces the Shemitah cycle from the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in 70AD, which places us within Shemitah years in modern times across both 2000-2001 and 2007-2008. If the Shemitah Effect was indeed real, we should therefore see at the end of these years a significant economic downturn. Cahn argues (not always convincingly) that such downturns did indeed occur on Shemitah years. More convincingly, he points to a stunningly obvious timing: it was almost exactly seven years from the first plane hitting the Twin Towers, to the collapse of the Lehman Brothers in September of 2008.
A further proof for the believers, as if more was needed, of America’s fall away from God.
Now, to reiterate: it seems quite likely that Cahn has milked these interesting synchronicities between Biblical text and recent world events for all that they were worth, and has done so very successfully. But you don’t sell this many books if there isn’t some form of truth at the heart of his arguments.
So — and now we get to the spicy stuff — if we accept the premise that there is merit to the Biblical synchronicities that can be found in The Harbinger, we must then ask: who was responsible for such synchronicities?
Cahn’s view is, of course, the work of the divine — of God — acting through unwitting humans. Perhaps, for example, there is indeed some divine 7 year cycle encoded into human economic systems, and that the “Shemitah Effect” is something that transcends the Old Testament Jews. Perhaps it truly was some act of divine judgement that exactly 7 years after 9/11 attacks — the final, unheeded warning for an amoral America now doomed by the exact same failings as Israel — a devastating economic collapse would occur.
A less generous view would be that those involved in this story (perhaps even Cahn himself, if we are to look at his contribution through an uncharitable and cynical lens) knew exactly what they were doing: that these events were planned, carried out or at least described in the book in a way that would align with Biblical prophecy. That by doing so, 9/11 and its aftermath could be used as a tool to turn the two major religions of the world against each other: perpetuating a state of war that profits and benefits the military industrial complex that those responsible for planning the tragedy owe allegiance to.
As one gets more accustomed to the deepness of the 9/11 rabbit hole, one starts to inevitably side with the latter, more nefarious explanation.
One can go on and on as to the inconsistencies of the official narrative surrounding 9/11, and many have: as a starting point, we have this list of provable facts about the event; and we have these two videos — one 5 minutes of sass and snark, the other an hour of science and sense. However, the key takeaway is this: the 9/11 attacks were almost certainly a carefully orchestrated event. Thus, one might assume that the correlation of these events to Biblical prophecy was also carefully orchestrated.
In other words: there was no ‘divine intervention’ at play here; the attacks were not carried out by an outside force in the same way they were in the Bible — the invading ‘other’ that has Islam has become to Western Christianity. Rather: they were, to use a phrase, an ‘Inside Job’. If such ‘insiders’ could plan and carry out such an event, we probably shouldn’t put it past them to manipulate an economic crash that (just for kicks) they would bring about exactly 7 years later.
One might even conclude, based on this evidence, that 9/11 was as astonishingly brutal act of religious trolling: a conspiracy against religion itself, even.
This possibility becomes even more real, and even more unsettling, once you start to understand that 9/11 was, in itself, a profoundly religious act: a ritual sacrifice in honour of the secretive spiritual beliefs of those who carried out the attacks.
This may sound like a bit of stretch, but the occult aspects of 9/11 have been well documented. For these purposes, we can leave Cahn and his wealth-and-fame-bringing Bible explorations behind, and bring in a second book: one far more compelling and convincing in identifying a coherent explanation for the events on September 11, 2001 — the self-proclaimed “Most Dangerous Book in the World” in fact, by the splendidly named S. K. Bain.
In Bain’s thesis, we are presented with a detailed and fairly unshakeable theory that 9/11’s real ‘truth’ is that it was a mass satanic ritual. To fully appreciate these connections, one has to put the thinking cap down and the tin foil hat on. Ready?
We have the apparent use of Gematria (number patterns). Starting with 9/11 itself: the deliberate use of the 9-1-1 sequence that had for so long represented the number to call for help, now given a new and permanently traumatic meaning. The number 11: September 11; American Airlines Flight 11, the first to hit the towers — 11 is a number with strong occult meaning (“the number of Magick itself” according to the infamous Aleister Crowley) that may also be witnessed in the shape of the towers themselves.
From the shape of the towers we also can find links to ancient law. Were they in fact symbols of the “Pillars of Hermes”, a Greek God who was probably also the Egyptian God Thoth? This multi-named God, with a different iteration in virtually every ancient religion, was the source of knowledge upon which the philosophy of Hermeticism is based: knowledge that he allegedly hid inside his aforementioned two great pillars designed to survive an incoming great flood. These pillars may also symbolise the boundary between this world and the next — or between the living and the dead, making them the literal Gates of Death and/or Hell; which also may or may not be the two pillars of Freemasonry found in Solomon’s Temple — Jachin and Boaz — which may or may not also be equivalent to pillars in front of a sacrificial alter (you can start to see how this stuff works).
We could go on, ticking many if not most of the occult/conspiracy boxes (did you know that the Statue of Liberty is probably an ode to the original torchbearer Prometheus, who is probably actually Lucifer, meaning Lucifer was literally standing there watching as the towers were brought down?). Bain suggests all roads inevitably lead back to the aforementioned Crowley — the self-proclaimed number one Satan stan who is commonly described as “The Wickedest Man in the World” — who also regrettably appears to be the most influential prophet in the murky occult religion that inspired the culprits of 9/11.
And let’s not forget the role of the Commander in Chief himself, George W. Bush: surely one of the greatest character actors the modern world has seen, given most of the world still believes him to be a bumbling, inept fool. There he was, sitting in front of a group of African American school children, singing “The Pet Goat” — perhaps maybe a nod to Baphomet, the androgynous half-man-half-goat satanic symbol — being told of the attacks, yet sitting for another 7 (of course 7) minutes without reaction as the country descended outside into unprecedented chaos.
It’s ok, he said he just didn’t want to scare the kids! I’m sure an acknowledged member of Skull and Bones — the secretive and exclusive Yale society whose “Bonesmen” make up many of the key positions of the United State’s intelligence community — would ever lie about such a thing.
Fun fact about Bush — this is how his presence at a United Nations General Assembly meeting was described by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez:
"And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today.”
One thing I realised early on in my adventures down the wombat hole is that conspiracy and religion are inseparable.
One can see in the aforementioned lengthy discussion a theory for how the world’s two main religions were hijacked and turned against each other through an act of deception as ruthlessly brilliant as it was despicable. By who? By another group of people with their own religious practices: founded on a set of ancient spiritual principles largely unknown, yet that have profound influence on the events of our world, both in the past and in the present.
There is another thing you will also learn very quickly about the conspiracy world: whether you personally believe in the religion practiced by our shadowy elites is irrelevant, because they most certainly believe it, and it dictates everything they do.
An Introduction to The Bible Conspiracy
A proposal for a new religious wombat hole.
A proposal for a new religious wombat hole.
Paltering: the active use of selective truthful statements to mislead.
Why write sympathetically about religion on the godless intellectual hellscape that is Substack?
Well, with the ‘Rona narrative deteriorating rapidly, dissidents had better start expanding our portfolios if we hope to stay relevant. Either that, or we relapse — not unlike Alex Berenson and the sweet Mary Jane — back into old haunts.
Actually, how is Bero going back on Elon’s Transhumanist Trojan-horse Twittersphere?
Nice ratio champ.
Much like Bero, I too have my own side hustle to turn back to — a crutch that can also (allegedly) lead to psychosis if not used correctly.
Not unlike the metaphysical equivalent of crack, Religion can be a hell of a drug — probably why all these staunch and smug lefty atheists have had to resort to worshipping Science to get their fix. Also probably why, despite the best efforts of my dad raising me as a staunch and smug lefty atheist, I was bound to dabble in the real thing eventually.
Unlike most over-comfortable white boys in need of a spiritual reality check, my dabblings weren’t with The Bible, at least not initially — my religiosity was obtained through the Bahá'í Faith. Wait, what?
The Bahá'í Faith is a fascinating academic case study in religion, in itself: it emerged in Iran in the 19th century, offering a set of writings and teachings best understood as a liberal reformation of Islam — a vibe that has enabled it to find some receptivity in Western populations, thanks to diaspora Bahá'í’s who have had little choice but to leave their homeland. Due to the direct challenge its theology poses to the conservative Muslim clergy, Bahá'í’s in Iran have been and continue to be savagely and relentlessly persecuted (you can almost picture your Mike Pence fundamentalist-types in the US, nodding in solemn appreciation and taking notes for when their witch-hunts are cleared to begin).
Western Bahá'í’s are extremely active at the grass-roots level, engaging in the type of structured, parallel-society community-building activities that all dissidents/errants need to be serious about. It was these activities (aided significantly by Persian food and hospitality) that attracted me to the Faith itself: if a shared set of beliefs could bring this level of unity and motivation to create new communities, then maybe these beliefs are worth exploring?
Explored them I did, and i’m glad I did, because I can unambiguously say that religion is not for me: for no other reason that the chronic vertigo condition I had suffered for three years essentially disappeared — in what still feels like a miracle — once I made that decision in my head. I may well have been given the boot by now anyway, given Bahá'ís are prohibited from participating in partisan politics. Nonetheless, I learnt a lot and made some great friends, and my experiences in the Faith have shaped me immensely (I have a whole burrow dedicated to it, although i’m not quite game enough to go back and re-read it yet).
Where does The Bible come in? The Bahá'í’ Faith was the reason why I started to investigate The Good Book, and the reason why I started taking it seriously, despite all the prejudices that had been nurtured in me against it — Bahá'ís are directed to investigate and understand all world religions, and see them as part of a continuous timeline of progressive divine revelation.
Who was I to turn down that challenge; I am (and, despite my best efforts, still remain) an academic at heart: someone who, to paraphrase Tyrion Lannister, takes pride in Knowing Things.
Not always or necessarily knowing things for practical reasons (the more theoretical the better, some might say) but simply for the sake of obtaining and possessing that knowledge. The eventual obligation to share it with others follows mainly to avoid the karma of keeping it to yourself.
And it is from an academic perspective that I come at The Bible, and religion in general: as something that must be deconstructed and interrogated exhaustively and from all angles, without fear or favour. And there are plenty of potential juicy/spicy angles to explore:
As an abridged record of the history of humanity.
As a treaty for universal spirituality.
As a guidebook to the supernatural.
As a prophecy for the End Times.
And, of course, given I am also a dedicated conspiracy theorist, as the greatest, longest running psychological operation of all time: Germ Theory, barely extending across two centuries, is but a prelude to Revelations in this grander story.
What’s that quote about wars and rumours of wars?
We see deception in all aspects of society — the last two and half years suggests that it has infiltrated and become imbedded within the entire elite class, who practice and refine its art with impressive effect.
And the tactic they seem most fond of is that of paltering: the “extremely common practice of lying and deceiving with true statements” according to Urban Dictionary.
We can pick out many examples from our ‘Rona era, particularly in how real data has been employed to argue for and uphold largely fictitious narratives. The most egregious must surely be the “14 Days To Hide Jibby Jab Injuries” fiasco: where germ-possessed authority figures rolled out seemingly stunning hospitalisation data seemingly showing the un-jabbed selfishly hogging hospital beds, knowing full well many of these “unjabbed” had actually been stabbed within the last two weeks, but because they’ve decided their precious Jibby Jabs only work after two weeks you are still “unjabbed” for two weeks because they think people will actually be stupid enough to believe it ahahahhhhh fuck these germ-conspiring assholes who know our psychological weaknesses too well.
‘Rona aside, paltering exists as a broader and pervasive phenomenon in society: and, it should be noted — as anyone who has been in or witnessed an abuse relationship would attest to — it is certainly not limited to the elite levels of society. That is why, leaving all conspiracy talk aside, it is a concept that everyone must be familiar with and seek to detect… this being the Age of Deception, after all.
Deception doesn’t have to be malicious, or planned. It will often be employed as a coping mechanism; the calculated use of a partial truth in deference of the whole truth, something we all must do to some degree to negotiate social interactions.
Deception doesn’t even have to require active consent: it might, for example, be allowing someone to wrongly interpret a true statement, and in turn allowing them to be mislead.
But that’s not why we are here. We are here for the blatant, usually malicious porkies.
If you seek to deceive humanity, why use religion?
Well: the greater the truth, the greater the lie that can be hidden inside of it. Imagine the type of deception that could be created if the secrets to the nature of our existence on this round/flat/simulated Earth happened to fall into the wrong hands?
This is my proposition: The Bible is indeed a divine work; a bearer of profound truths (albeit largely the same truths found in the writings of numerous other ancient cultures); a source of and pathway to Gnosis; to true Knowledge; to INNERSTANDING.
But yet, simultaneously, it is also a work of great deception: convincing people into worshipping a psychopathic bipolar deity, and referred back to to morally justify the most heinous of crimes.
What makes this duality more complicated is that there is no single nor precise way to conceptualise this deception, and how it has come into being.
Its origins could be attributed to misunderstandings, to lost in translations, to wilful interventions, to deliberate omissions within the text itself. Such errors become accepted implicitly through the station in which this text is held in society — before being reinforced through the suppression of other ancient texts that might enhance and widen our understanding of the archetypal events in The Bible. Further noise is then added through the agreed conventions around which it has been interpreted and sermonised across the world, and the numerous subjective commentaries that do battle within the religious skirmish of the Great Information War we find ourselves in.
In short: this is one holy egg that may never be unscrambled.
So what do we do?
The last thing we should do, in my opinion, is throw the baby out with the bathwater (with the possible exception of the baby being Moses (think about it)): discarding the divine nuggets hidden in The Bible just because the Inverters have had their way first.
There is no doubt that those pages have much to say about our current and future time and how to survive them, as do the pages of many other ancient scriptures. While our contemporary methods of understanding the world are increasingly failing us — science, academia, the media to name a few — perhaps it is time we went back to scratch, to tradition, and started to take seriously the wisdom and warnings that long gone civilizations have left us?
The Coronaspiracy, as important as it is to get to the bottom of, is not the end game here. All these germ theory hacks we see coughing out the final painful breaths of this fatally injured psy-op? Amateurs: those who got in over their heads too early, who the Arch-Inverters are getting out of the way now before the A-list stooges take the stage for the finale.
One thing I have found as a conspiracy theorist is that the truth is always out there: but it will only give itself up to those who are truly searching for it. What if we already had the script for this finale? We see pieces of something like it, strewn throughout The Bible. They make little sense on their own, but perhaps that was the point: they are only clues, there for us to start putting the grander story together.
Welcome to The Bible Conspiracy.