THE VOICE OF REASON
Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
Martin Shaw is an acclaimed mythologist, storyteller, and author who defines myth not as fiction, but as a sacred story that reveals a deeper reality beyond simple facts. He argues that humans are biologically tuned for symbols and metaphors, and that engaging with myth is a transformational encounter essential for navigating uncertainty and finding meaning in modern life.
Shaw's work emphasizes mythmaking as the correct response to uncertainty, urging people to subvert voices of certainty and open to mystery. He teaches that myths provide the architecture of tempering needed to balance opposing forces, such as the "mud" (grounding, discipline) and "holy breath" (improvisation, spirit) found in stories like the Genesis creation narrative. His approach encourages individuals to locate their specific "great task" through service and sacrifice, rather than self-absorption or generic achievement.
Key aspects of Shaw's mythological framework include:
Navigating Mystery: Reframing "living with uncertainty" as "navigating mystery" to embrace the unknown as a source of depth and cultural creation.
The Cinderbiter Archetype: Using Celtic folklore, such as the story of the boy who steals from a serpent to create islands, to illustrate how unconventional, "sacred transgression" can solve impossible problems.
Rites of Passage: Drawing on ancient traditions, like the Irish king's challenge of a chariot pulled by two wild horses, to teach the creation of a "third way" through tension and paradox.
Christian Mythology: Shaw, now an Orthodox Christian, views the life of Jesus as the ultimate collision of mythic patterns with historical reality, where "all truth is God's truth."
His extensive bibliography includes the Mythteller trilogy (A Branch from the Lightning Tree, Snowy Tower, Scatterlings), Liturgies of the Wild, Wolf Milk, and Cinderbiter. He founded the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK and previously established the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University.
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Shura/consultation
1:00 The EU/NATO = 51st state of America
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8:00 Christians need to keep themselves stupid and idolatrous to remain Christian.
9:00 Hit and run Christians
10:00 Christianity removes masculinity and makes men stupid and scared. In order to continue being Christian, Christians have to pretend they believe Jesus is God. If they wish to remain in the fold of Christianity, they would have to call themselves Unitarian Christians and be mocked by Trinitarian Christians as heretics. The alternative would be to convert to Islam if they really believe in God, but their racism, Islamophobia, chauvinism, snobbery and fear of what their spouse and family would think paralyses them, making them spout endless hours of nonsense at https://www.youtube.com/@transfigured3673 with other pseudo-intellectuals talking gibberish.
If you really believe in it, you are stupid. If you only pretend to believe in it, you are a hypocrite or a charlatan.
10:00 Estuary Protocols for Muslims? Why would masculine Muslim men want to have their freedom of speech regulated by a system designed to divide and rule already divided Christians afraid of having a proper conversation with each other about Christian identity or Christian theology?
12:00 Christian Zionism
13:00 Israel is holy to the neocons.
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CONSCRIPTION OF RELIGIOUS JEWS - who consider secular Jews heretics - INTO THE IDF
Neocons want secular Jews to populate their colony of Israel so they will fight and die for American imperialism.
Uncle Sam/Antiochus IV/Tsar Nicholas I father of victim of regicide Nicholas II https://t.co/SoHV1ni58b
— Secular Koranism with American Characteristics (@Book_of_Rules) March 25, 2026
15:00 Jews are the mascot of American imperialism.
16:00 Secular Jews would hate to live under sharia, but for religious Jews it would be a walk in the park.
38:00 My analysis of traumatised American men in denial of the nature of their predicament
39:00 The understandable reluctance of American men to be the one waving the white flag
40:00 US-Israel are the same entity - Israel is a American colony with no aspiration to have its own independent foreign policy.
41:00 The sacred belief of antisemites is that rules are magic and impossibly powerful, but the enemy is always within, between their ears and their legs.
42:00 Tucker Carlson should say "neocons" instead of Jews.
44:00 Islam is an imperial religion.
47:00 Christianity is only a cultural affiliation without the power to maintain morality.
53:00 Secular Koranism with American Characteristics
55:00 PVK as an American Graduate does not understand the consequence of separating the church from the state or is feigning ignorance.
59:00 Freemasons
1:00:00 Theological arguments
1:02:00 PVK must stop pandering to stupid, scared and skint men after obtaining the permission of his wife, of course.
1:04:00 Unprincipled Western men are no longer prepared to die for the principle of being men making their women instinctively despise them and hold them in contempt.
1:09:00 Christianity has caused the White Man enormous suffering but he is kept in ignorance of this by his corrupt and incompetent ruling classes who are overwhelmingly warmongering neocons.
Pete Hegseth and American Christianity
1:10:00 The Church of America is American voodoo
1:11:00 Christianity failed to defend the divine right of kings.
1:12:00 The English Reformation
1:15:00 Christian behaviour
Echo chamber
1:16:00 Vincent Bruno
1:17:00 Faturechi
1:19:00 American househusbands
1:20:00 Kevin Flatt
1:21:00 Expulsion of Jews
1:22:00 Judicial training
Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House and Senate
Are you able to calculate how many square miles Greater Israel would cover according to its Biblical borders?
Estimating land size
I need to give a concise answer, estimating the land size. The Promised Land is often compared to California, which is about 163,696 square miles. The range could be anywhere from 120,000 to 200,000 square miles, depending on how you interpret the "river of Egypt" and the extent of the Euphrates. I'll use California as a comparison to help clarify the size, but it's important to note that this estimate is a bit ambiguous.
Short answer: you can only get an estimate—but it’s big.
Most “Greater Israel” maps that take Genesis 15:18 literally (“from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates”) end up with a territory often compared in size to the U.S. state of California. One Bible atlas that visualizes these borders explicitly says the promised territory is “roughly the size of California.”
Area of California: about (163{,}700) square miles.
So a reasonable ballpark for “Greater Israel” by maximal Biblical borders:
[
\approx 160{,}000 \text{ square miles}
]
Depending on how you draw the lines (especially what you take as the “river of Egypt” and how far up the Euphrates you go), scholarly reconstructions can shift this by tens of thousands of square miles either way, but they stay in that general magnitude.
32:00 Yeah, just choose the craziest loudest ugliest charmless MF and pretend all Muslims think Muslims who don't pray are worse than actual criminals.
33:00 Yep, go from ugly shouty stupid Muslim saying Muslims who don't pray are worse than convicted criminals to white middle class men sitting round a fireplace in an old building to make your Islamophobic point.
36:00 Spirituality is the good feeling we get when we think we are following the rules correctly. But how can Westerners get that feeling outside getting a "fix" if they have no religion, let alone any religious principles to follow? Moral principles come from religious principles and without religion there can be no package of principles that could constitute a moral system. The fact that their government is legalising all kinds of drugs and sexual offences as well as encouraging people to commit suicide is a message being sent by the matriarchy to the people it disdains to govern. The totality of US government policy suggests that it too wants to commit suicide by cop.
50:00 The question is not whether Islam is "digestible" but whether the West needs an official moral system that is also a functioning moral system. It seems no one is capable of discussing this, even if they have been to a good university.
51:00 So Warren Smith thinks might is right. The cattle do. It is the only language they understand.
54:00 When you say "secularity", presumably you just mean the miasma of the degenerate matriarchy or the stench of Sodom and Gomorrah which could also be the corpse of Christianity. How do we know if Christianity remains a moral force? My position is that it is the *opposite* of a moral force and by this I mean it is an enabler of the Satanic. But Western men in denial would rather die than admit its failure, though it should have been obvious that Christendom ended as long ago as 1918 but nobody noticed or cared or thought it was their place to do or even say anything about it. It seems you do not think it is your place to discuss it either.
31:00 Catholics and Protestants are uniting against Muslims.
32:00 Half-way Covenant 1662
33:00 The church as a social club
35:00 The minyan
36:00 Catholicism in the 21st century is just a cultural affiliation.
37:00 Assimilation, conformity and principle
39:00 Id, ego and superego
Converso
42:00 Liberalism is global.
43:00 Hays Code
45:00 Porn
46:00 Rules are made to be broken.
47:00 The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit
AI Overview
Jewish history includes multiple instances of rebellion against their own kings, as well as against foreign rulers and Hellenized Jewish leadership. These rebellions were often driven by religious, political, or economic tensions, particularly when leaders were seen as violating Jewish law or acting as tyrants.
Key examples of Jews rebelling against their own kings or leaders include:
Secession of the Ten Tribes (c. 931 BCE): Following the death of King Solomon, the ten northern tribes rebelled against Rehoboam (Solomon’s son) due to his refusal to reduce taxes, resulting in a split into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
The Maccabean Revolt (167–160 BCE): While primarily a revolt against the foreign Seleucid Empire, the Maccabees also fought against Hellenized Jews who collaborated with Antiochus IV and betrayed traditional Jewish practices. The rebellion was partly a civil war between traditionalists and Jews who had adopted Greek culture.
Conflicts within the Hasmonean Dynasty: The descendants of the Maccabees, who eventually became kings themselves, faced internal uprisings and factional conflicts among different religious and political groups (e.g., Pharisees and Sadducees) over their governance.
Thee Great Jewish Revolt (66–73 CE): During this war against Rome, Jewish factions fought against each other within Jerusalem. The factions, such as the Zealots, were known to fight against what they viewed as "pro-Roman" priestly authorities.
Conflicts in the First Temple Period: Various kings of Israel and Judah were opposed by prophets or factions within their own kingdoms, sometimes leading to violent revolts or assassinations (e.g., the rise of Jehu against the House of Ahab).
These instances demonstrate that while Jewish tradition emphasizes unity under a leader, there were significant internal divisions that led to open rebellion.
49:00 Israel is the unsinkable aircraft carrier of America.
52:00 Usury
AI Overview
The Torah prohibits charging interest (neshekh or tarbit) to fellow Israelites, focusing on aiding those in need. Key prohibitions are found in:
Exodus 22:25: Bans charging interest to a poor fellow Israelite.
Leviticus 25:36–37: Commands supporting a struggling brother rather than taking profit.
Deuteronomy 23:19–20: Prohibits charging interest on any loan to a fellow Israelite, while allowing it for foreigners.
These laws are reinforced by prophets like Ezekiel, who view charging interest as sinful (Ezekiel 18:8, 13).
53:00 War finance and US debt
59:00 Honour among thieves
1:01:00 Boom bust cycle
Gig economy and full time jobs
1:03:00 Nick Land, Zionist
1:04:00 Those who believe in God are closer to God.
Christianity, MAGA and Marjorie Taylor Greene
1:06:00 Pete Hegseth
1:07:00 Sapiens by Yuval Harari
1:08:00 A religious war can be solved by theology.
1:10:00 The focus is on Christianity
1:11:00 Parthenon
1:13:00 India and China
Europeans are beneficiaries of organised religion.
1:14:00 Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all imperial religions.
1:15:00 Slavery
The Rich Young Man
1:16:00 Caesar's Messiah
From Pontifex Maximus and Pontifex
1:19:00 Islam is purely is conceptual and slimline.
1:20:00 Cheap, easy and strong
1:21:00 High IQ people are not necessarily wise.
1:22:00 Slavery caused the decline and fall of Rome.
Jews were chosen to be made God's Chosen People to be made an example of.
Prometheus
1:46:00 Liberalism is sacred to liberals.
1:47:00 Heretical rabbi who saw himself as an Italian patriot
Elijah Benamozegh (1823–1900), a renowned rabbi in Livorno, Italy, was a staunch Italian patriot who blended traditional Sephardic Orthodoxy with modern Italian liberal thought and Kabbalistic universalism. He viewed Italy as a site for fostering unity among religions and praised its unique, open, and multicultural Jewish-Italian heritage.
Italian Patriotism: Benamozegh was profoundly patriotic, writing that Israelites should "love Italy... with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind".
Russian oil reaches China primarily through a combination of dedicated pipelines and sea-based shipments, with over 1.9 million barrels per day delivered as of February 2026. Major routes include the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline, shipments via the Arctic Northern Sea Route, and tankers departing from Baltic and Pacific ports to Chinese independent refineries.
ESPO Pipeline (East Siberia-Pacific Ocean): A major pipeline directly linking Russia's Siberian oil fields to Northeast China, providing a stable, land-based supply.
Sea Routes & "Shadow Fleet": A large fleet of tankers, including "shadow" tankers, transport oil from Russian ports like Primorsk and Ust-Luga to Chinese ports.
Arctic Route: Russia is increasingly using the Northern Sea Route (NSR) to ship oil directly to China, a route that is about 30% faster than the traditional Suez Canal route during summer months.
Pipeline Connections via Kazakhstan: Smaller amounts of crude are transported through pipeline networks connecting through Kazakhstan.
Independent Refiners: Independent refineries in China ("teapots") are major buyers of discounted Russian crude.
These methods have allowed Russia to maintain strong energy ties with China, with Beijing receiving nearly half of Russia's sea-based crude exports, often navigating sanctions, according to the Risk Intelligence article on the Northern Sea Route.
2:04:00 India-Iran relations
Secular Koranism with Global Characteristics
2:05:00 Culture is fluid.
2:06:00 Rupert Lowe
Making White People Breed Again
2:07:00 American husbands applying for judicial review to restore their First Amendment rights.
2:08:00 Election of Senators
2:09:00 George Washington's warning against political parties
2:10:00 The Founding Fathers were Unitarian.
2:11:00 The Roman Republic, First Among Equals
2:13:00 Absolute monarchy v Republic
2:14:00 Qatar
2:16:00 Separation of powers
The Hasmonean Dynasty broke the rule of the king and priest having to be separate men.
