Merry Christmas if you celebrate. Happy Holidays for everyone! May the next year be filled with happiness and joy and all the good things your heart desires.
Seriously dudes: Don’t let those blackhearted monsters get a hold of your soul. We spread commonsense, decency, kindness, helpful information for our neighbors and our communities and our country at large and for our global neighbors who also wish us well so we can have a planet populated by a humanity that isn’t killing itself and every other living thing on it, and philosophy.
I think it’s a little terrifying that some people don’t ever consider things deeper than "Explosion big! Motorcycle crash! Why girl constantly criticizing hardworking dad?" Especially when it turns out to be "Dad is a dangerous guy doing dangerous things that adversely effect the people around him. In the real world, his sort does all that goofy shit while in other countries. Meanwhile, because this show is set locally and involves his family, we are aware that the things he does are by all definitions bad. Bad for him. Bad for his family. Bad for his community. Bad for the country. Bad for the world. Bad."
We love Roger. Roger is fun entertainment. Roger is being protected by a government official with a propensity for breaking laws. But what if Roger wasn’t an alien from space but like that guy that pretended to be all different kinds of people and scammed all those places?
He pretended to be an airplane pilot!
His actor made him seem like he would give some excuse and talk his way out of actually having to fly a jet full of people. But the real guy the movie is based on?!?
American television and movies show that we are leaning hard into secularism(?). Is that the word? Whatever it is that has people grab their kid and push and shove their way through a crowd of people. Just violently shoving people out of the way, singularly focused on saving themself and/or their child.
It’s why Boy Moms scare me.
Because if that’s not all fake shit done for clicks… It’s still indoctrination. It is still a propaganda, or mind control, or Conditioning ala C.J. Cherryh.
For reals: In the book with all the giant bugs and the battles between billionaires, one of the azi is turned into a citizen by running a single long tape. He takes the mind-opening medication, his master straps him into the chair, and she orders him to watch that tape and she leaves the room. And that tape is some programming to break the Conditioning they use to control the azi. (And after that, he is no longer destined to die at 40 years old like the other azi. He is a Citizen now.)
And the point of the azi reference is that the tape is not for Conditioning, it’s for breaking conditioning.
It’s like, you have to go through hours of tape, and the purpose is to counteract all the beliefs and bullshit that were previously taught to you over the course of your whole life. From the time you were a baby!
And I guess it’s like when they do cult deprogramming.
Like, for a while there the news was full of all kinds of stories of parents rescuing their teenaged children from music sex cults. And they would hire dudes to go in and get their children back for them.
It all got a bit overshadowed when other parents started sending their children to weird sex cult summer camps. Like, they were letting their teenaged children be manhandled by sadistic counselors who would sexually assault them to change their sexuality. PARENTS PAID MONEY TO DO THAT TO THEIR CHILDREN. Our attentions immediately shifted to focus on all that.
So if the "rescuing teenagers from cults"-thing kind of fell off, I’m sorry for that. Or maybe they were forced to form an FBI department that has since been defunded and reassigned for some mysterious reason. Maybe we didn’t have as much weird cult stuff because the government was preventing what they could.
Like, parents can take their children pretty much anywhere they want. If the parents join a cult, nobody can stop them from forcing their children to join the cult. Which is why there were so many weird MLM-situations happening out there. But if a child joins a cult, their parents can take them away from that.
It’s just that the biggest cults around are whole family experiences. People choosing to destroy their own communities and the planet to show their obedience to an antichrist.
"It’s THE Antichrist. Get it right!"–Nah, brah, it’s "an" antichrist. As in there isn’t only one and more can pop up at any time. It’s why you’re supposed to beware of false prophets (and false profits).
Anyone telling you what the afterlife is going to be like is a liar.
We are frogs in the bottom of a well. Our view is like the one from inside the well in "The Ring" before the mom closes the lid on it. We either see a perfect circular view of a near empty sky, or we see an obstructed view of a near empty sky and part of the bottom of the cover that can suffocate us at any moment.
We do not know what happens after we leave this mortal coil.
There are plenty of people donning the guise of Christianity while firmly believing there will be no consequences for their actions. They tempt with money, with clout, or they force with threats and aggression. They’re basically the Bishops and Cardinals from the "Dante’s Inferno" videogame.
"If you attack and kill these people, you will not go to Hell because you’re doing it for the Church!" And then the guy goes to Hell and while he’s slogging his way through to rescue Beatrice, he sees all those religious leaders being tormented and punished because they were wrong.
Some guy telling you to do big time evil stuff–"Don’t worry about it. I’ve got a connection to Heaven"–with the promise that there will never be any consequences for your crimes is not to be trusted. He seems like an instigator out to ruin your life.
And there’s kids out there RIGHT NOW being raised–homeschooled!–by people that don’t believe the Earth is round.
There are a lot of people that are going to need trustworthy sources of information in the not-too-far off future.
So 2026 is a good year to become a beacon of hope. To be a source of commonsense TRUE information and not a bunch of grifter trickery and lies. It is a good year to be a better person because the world is going to shit and everyone should do their part to stop the destruction of civilization.
Society can change. Can become better for humanity and the environment and all the other creatures we share this planet with. The complete destruction of modern civilization is not necessary for the betterment of anything.
I’m making a wish that 2026 be a better year. And that every year afterward will get better and better and better. For all of us.
Happy holidays. Happy Festivus to the rest of us. Enjoy a glorious New Year.
My 2025 "12 Days of Xmas" attempt will be commencing sometime later today. Wish me luck. If you’ve got any themes or genres you would like, now is the time to ask, because I’ve got 12 days of stories to write and I don’t think up story ideas for the 12 Days until I start writing.
I leave all that to later-me. And hopefully that later-me will manage to write and post something that doesn’t suck. Fingers, as always, crossed.
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Merry Christmas and every other holiday you celebrate!