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My addition to the list: politics is marketed to the public as as a clash of personalities between this leader or that one. But the direction of travel remains the same. We are trained by technology to have a short attention span, so we only notice the short term twists and u-turns, but in the long term, the direction of travel remains the same. An antidote to this is to ignore the personalities and look at the policies enacted (not promised). Study history and the long-term direction of travel.

or C. say that it's the rich who got us into this mess so they can pay it back if they want to, we're not paying and default. In my middle-aged life I've never heard anyone say they're happy with the politics in this country. We prefer to grumble in private and put on a brave face in public. The little hope that we've had at election time is always dashed, and over time it's created a fatalism that this is just the way things are and the ruling elites are always with us, as are the poor (to misquote the Bible).

But he has to be anointed with the holy Chrism oil so he can become a Christ, an anointed one. Come to think of it, those of who were confirmed in the C of E were also anointed with the holy oil so maybe there's more "Christs" around than we think !

There's apparently about 200,000 Freemasons in the UK (and 6 million worldwide if you believe the link below) so that's far too many to all belong to a secret conspiracy. As well as keeping secrets from us non-Masons, they keep secrets from each other too, that's the whole point of having different levels of initiation isn't it? The secrets of the lower levels were made public a long time ago, so if there is anything sinister about them I'm guessing it's with the top of the tree and a select few lodges. Also when I used to belong to a Christian church I used to hear members saying things like they'd prefer to do business with other Christians because they thought they'd be more trustworthy; they'd also help each other out when in need. I suppose that's the bond between members of any close community and not unique to Freemasons. https://www.ugle.org.uk/discover-freemasonry/frequently-asked-questions

We like it too but the beer is suspiciously cheap compared with other pubs so I'm a bit worried they're not paying the workers or suppliers very well, like the supermarkets don't. Or perhaps it's all the other pubs which are overcharging?

Glad to hear you're finding something that works, even if only partially. I guess it shows the need to try different things and get a second opinion, not just rely on the first referral your doctor comes up with. I think dealing with childhood trauma is the responsibility of all of society really, not just psychologists and therapists. Schools should have trauma awareness training and regulation techniques to get to the root of the problems rather than just use discipline to try and suppress the behaviours. Police too: some kids are so affected it's like having brain damage and punishing them just makes it worse. And yes self-help can be great; in fact a lot of it comes down to what we practice outside the therapy room, they should be teaching us techniques to use so we can become self-reliant rather than dependent on professionals all the time. I have the same approach with spirituality and religion: I don't want other people's answers all the time, I'd rather learn their techniques to help me find the truth for myself.

The thing is, this feeds into the type of argument used by liberal globalists to justify mass immigration. The narrative is that we are already a mongrel multicultural race of many different groups migrating from all directions, so we should be welcoming the foreigners into our lands, businesses and homes, instead of trying to restricting immigration. However just because there may not have been a mass genocide, it doesn't mean that the incomers (going back even to the stone age with groups like the Beaker people) just became friends and were welcomed in. The likelihood is that there was warfare and the previous inhabitants driven off the best land, enslaved, forced into marriage (if women). We have been replaced a number of times before now: the people who built Stonehenge genetically disappeared from the genome soon after it was completed.

Hmm. Investing a lump sum is bound to be more risky than drip feeding into some market over the long term. So one factor is your emotional relationship to risk: if you'll lose sleep at night worrying when the prices drop then maybe the stock market's not for you. It's a big subject but here's a few more ideas. * Keep at least 6 months' income in an easy access account for emergencies. * The older you are, and the nearer to retirement, the less time you have ahead of you to ride out downturns and wait for the next boom. So on that principle the more adventurous investments are better for younger people. * It looks like we're heading into a recession and shares and other assets like bonds and property seem on the way down so you don't need to rush into anything. You can put it in the building society and wait until things pick up again. * Make a will, or if you've already got one maybe renew it after you've received the money - there's various things they can do nowadays to legally reduce inheritance tax and limit care home expenses. A financial adviser would likely give you a questionnaire to fill in with a whole bunch of questions to build up a picture. Eg how old you are, are you married, have a will, do you have children or grandchildren, own your own home, have enough saved up in your pension? Do you want to start your own business or prefer to work for someone else? What other big plans have you got? Start with getting these type of regular bases covered before looking into sexier more adventurous investments. But if you've got an interest in something like art, fine wine, vintage cars, antiques or whatever, you can incorporate that into your portfolio too. If you want a personal investing forum, https://www.lemonfool.co.uk/ is good. Edit: all those questions are just for illustration, obviously I don't expect you to answer them here. It's to show how much it depends on your circumstances, and what I would do isn't going to be very relevant for you.

So sorry to hear you've been through this, which no-one should have to suffer. Were those psychologists specialised in trauma, attachment and abuse work? There are some good ones around, but they're rare and getting funding is difficult. Another thing I've learned is that there's no quick fixes. Trauma, especially with children, affects brain development and treatment needs to literally rewire the neural pathways into a more healthy pattern, otherwise you're left with chronic PTSD type symptoms. So my message would be, don't give up, keep pestering your medical services for more help. Because at the end of the day, people just want the suffering to end, not their lives. It's when they lose hope of finding any other way out of the suffering that they think of suicide. I would like to rekindle some hope that life can get better.

If you have any debts then I'd suggest paying them off first to extract the claws of the financiers out of you. After that, if you're not financially educated I'd recommend seeing a good qualified, independent financial adviser who isn't on commission. Because a lot depends on your personal circumstances and a good adviser takes it all into account to decide what's suitable for you. Failing that, take your time educating yourself about investing, tax, meditate on your values and life plans, and make your choices informed ones.

"Children Ruin Everything" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10738442/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Ruin_Everything This is a Canadian series which I haven't seen over here yet, and I hope I never do. Funnily enough it bucks the trend of showing young families as mixed race, instead it's a white couple having mixed feelings about being parents. ' Smeaton described the series as inspired by his understanding that parenting "is time-consuming and expensive and frustrating. So I wanted to create a show that acknowledged that but also showed the other side, which is having a family is worth it.” ' So why call the series 'Children ruin everything"? instead of something positive like "Children are worth it".

As time goes by, it's becoming clearer that the conspiracy is taking off the mask, becoming more open with its actions, and more obvious to anyone with an open mind and access to relatively uncensored news. When we can see what's happening in full view before us, it's easier to decide what to do about it. I find that less depressing, and even energising, compared to not really knowing what's going on and feeling powerless to contribute to a solution.

I've read that Cathars were dualists and, as Mac said, believed the material half of the duality represented evil. Would you care to elaborate on the nefarious reasons, that's piqued my interest! Others have pipped me to it, but our melanin levels are appropriate to our climate (and there's variations within Europe too) so I don't see what you're getting at. Nowadays with vitamin D added to food and supplements available, deficiency is avoidable anyway. Naturally I also care about all humans, also other animals and plants, but this subject is whether depopulation is a good thing. Native demographic decline in Europe is not a good thing imo, and I would argue is being promoted by numerous policies. I care about decline of other racial groups elsewhere too, if I know about it, but I'm talking about my own community and civilisation here so I make no apologies for prioritising it.

So they were dependent on recruiting members from the outside society (ie Roman Catholics) so perhaps it's not surprising they were unpopular and had a backlash. Also didn't the Templar Knights have to practice celibacy (in the form of not getting married at least) and donate their land and wealth to the order upon initiation? So they gave their undivided loyalty to the order. And the RC church also had celibate priests & monastics, but in those days the country as a whole had a high birth rate and families could 'afford' to lose one member to a celibate order like the church or the Templars, preferably not the oldest son who would inherit the family's wealth, so it wasn't a cause of depopulation. Times are very different now, some racial groups like white Europeans are already depopulating without these spiritual-style beliefs (ps that's my conflict of interest here, I don't want native Europeans to die out).

I have come across that belief especially in Eastern and New Age circles, but I would like to dig a little deeper. Two questions come to mind: who gave us these beliefs, and who benefits from our depopulation? Unless you have personal experience of the afterlife, the chances are that you've picked up the ideas from someone else, and as we all know, everyone has some form of agenda and bias. And very few people declare their conflicts of interest when trying to sell you something, even selling you ideas. Think about it, if the people pushing these anti-life ideas practiced what they preached, they themselves would have died out centuries ago and wouldn't be around to persuade us to stop having children. If we die out and they survive, then they inherit what we had.

Agreed, we do have plenty of coal reserves and modern tech is cleaner at burning fuels like coal and domestic waste eg plastic and car tyres. Antarctica's natural resources has been a secret kept from the public's ears for a long time, at least until the elite decide the time is right to exploit it, no doubt with some highly crafted international conflict thrown in for good measure.

But we don't have our own uranium mines in the UK so how is this any more homegrown than importing fossil fuels? Also the way which British govts welcome foreign investors and companies to operate our energy infrastructure doesn't fill me with confidence. Although more diversification of power generation isn't a bad thing.

It all seems part of the agenda to sexualise innocent children's entertainment, including this retrospective woke-ing of old characters like Velma and even Dumbledore. Especially white western characters.

White extinction rebellion anyone?

One taboo I wish they would break is their own secrecy and lies, which of course being hypocrites they don't - imagine the holiness that would result if they did own up to the truth! No doubt inconsistencies like this go over their heads, as self-reflection and contemplation are not in their training manual.

Bedsits in my vocabulary. I used to hear about Pakistanis lending money for houses within their extended families and close-knit community, perhaps this was before sharia banking was available here. At least it avoided paying interest to corporate banks and the inherent risks of money lending mitigated by peer pressure within the community.

yeah, but then where would he stash all his billions which he helped himself to when he was cleaning up those corrupt oligarch sharks, that had such a feeding frenzy during the Yeltsin days?

and at the same time, isn't the Israeli economy dependent on Palestinians for cheap unskilled labour? Many do manual work such as farm labouring which the Israelis don't want to do. Looks to me like they've got a problem both ways: whether they succeed or fail at driving the Palestinians away.

The property market has imo been broken and suffering from market failure for many years with a huge mismatch between the number of homes (especially decent sized family homes) and population. Continuous immigration and population increase among minority groups is an unstoppable force meeting the immovable object of limited space for building (England has the 4th highest population density in the world according to my calculation). People have to live somewhere, it's a necessity of life so the usual rules of free market supply & demand don't really apply and bubbles/crashes become the norm. It's also a way of controlling the population, the ptb can decide where to grant planning permission and for what types of housing - eg where I live there are few suburban family homes being built and many high-rise flats which the ordinary person has little chance of getting freehold ownership with the extra freedoms therein. " You will own nothing and be happy." I heard a different version of this of all places in a Star Trek episode (original version): "They will be controlled and happy" referring to a planet of people controlled by a super-intelligence and no free will of their own.

Excellent info thanks Mac. A couple of points to add from what I've picked up on this. The Ottomans ensured that their culture wouldn't be diluted by the import of foreign soldiers and workers by a couple of means. Either they converted the kidnapped western children to Islam and made sure they and their descendants were Muslims indistinguishable from the local population (hint: is there a 'Western European' identity within Turkey and Egypt and other middle Eastern societies today, which is fighting for equality and social justice equivalent to what is happening in the West? Or, if they couldn't be converted to Islamic culture, the male slaves were simply castrated to prevent them having children of their own culture. Women in those days were not as capable of transmitting their ancestral culture if forced to marry locals. At least in Islam as far as I know - it's different in Judaism which has a matrilineal aspect. In western Europe and in modern times however we have no such protection for the indigenous peoples (as an aside, I'm interested in how we are told to use different names for the protected minority races: it's BAME in Europe but BIPOC in the USA, indicating the different slants which the neo-progressives use in their critical theories). My second thought is around the William of Orange history. During his reign, Scotland was a separate country with its own imperial ambitions, and their own Templar & Masonic history. It was the failure of their colonies such as Novia Scotia and Panama which crashed their economy and led them being bailed out by the Unionists and agreement to join the UK. That also in time ended the local territorial wars between Scotland and England, unifying the armed forces which were thus more effective at creating the "British" empire abroad. Bringing all this together as you have, I'm in agreement that we shouldn't consider it as a British empire at all but rename it as something like the Masonic empire or Illuminati empire. The whole UK concept, like the EU, is an Illuminati/Masonic/Templar controlled project at its top level. Not that the separate countries of England and Scotland were free of their influence too of course. Note - I'm using 'Illuminati' in a generic way to denote a conspiratorial international secret society with its claws into the top echelons of many countries. You're being more specific with names like sabbatarians etc.