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Tuesday, 6 January 2026

Are we being lied to when we are told we can be anything we want to be, including be members of the opposite sex?


15:00   What about the story of the rich young man?

18:00  Humans are not fungible, like commodities. 

Chris Howard is referring to Pluribus.

20:00  "You can be anything you want."

The phrase "God helps those who help themselves" is a motto that emphasizes the importance of self-initiative and agency. The phrase originated in ancient Greece as "the gods help those who help themselves" and may originally have been proverbial. It is illustrated by two of Aesop's Fables and a similar sentiment is found in ancient Greek drama. Sophocles used it in the form of "No good e'er comes of leisure purposeless; And heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act", while Euripides portrays Orestes saying, "I think that Fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his gods strive for him equally." Ovid's version of the phrase is "divinity helps those who dare" (audentes deus ipse iuvat).

Although it has been commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the modern English wording appears earlier in Algernon Sidney's work. The phrase is often mistaken as a scriptural quote, though it is not stated in the Bible. Some Christians consider the expression contrary to the biblical message of God's grace and help for the helpless, and its denunciation of greed and selfishness. A variant of the phrase is addressed in the Quran (13:11).


"Some Christians consider the expression contrary to the biblical message of God's grace and help for the helpless, and its denunciation of greed and selfishness. "

As you would expect, the absolute monarchs whose divine right was defended by Christianity did not want their subjects thinking for themselves or asserting any of their God-given rights like free will or any of the unalienable rights supported by the First Amendment also supported by the Koran by quran.com/2/256

24:00  Religion is systems maintenance for morality. 

27:00  Venezuela

28:00  CLAIRE  KHAW joins. 

29:00  The long term view is the afterlife.

30:00  If there is a good and bad place to go in the afterlife, then our purpose in life is to pass the exam entitling us to admission to the better place by showing that we know both in theory and in practice the difference between good and evil. 

31:00  Secular Koranism so different from normative sharia Islamic scholars in the Gulf Kingdoms living under absolute monarchies fear the fate William Tyndale suffered under Henry VIII. 

The American Revolution was about rejecting absolute monarchy.

34:00  The mercantile class

35:00  The Founding Fathers were Freemasons. 

37:00   Being Freemasons allowed the Founding Fathers a safe space to plot revolution. 

38:00  Cuius regio, eiuis religio. 

40:00  The emperor is far away. 

41:00  Empiricism remains a way of challenging Christianity.

42:00  The republic of Iran

43:00  Pakistan is a representative democracy. All representative democracies are under the control of the CIA.

44:00  The CIA controlling the world through controlling elections

Celebrating Halloween is symbolic of  the West. 

46:00  Trump gets to say what MAGA means even if it was not what his supporters understood it to mean ie more neocon wars. That was why Marjorie Taylor Greene removed herself from politics, probably because she was being threatened. 

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