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And so I’m typically one of those people in here that wades thru what you or others could call “mud”
I’m okay with that because I don’t quite know otherwise. Obviously discernment is key, but a lot of times I just try and absorb what I’ve read and put pieces together.
I do have beliefs that I’m confident in and hills that I’ll die on, much of those are not contained within this thread. Most things for me have an expectation to change as information becomes available.
originally posted by: Bwarefalsprofits
a reply to: G005E
Core truths are not found in the accumulation of information. They are found in eliminating layers of "mud" until you discover what's left.
a reply to: Thoughtful2
In five craniosacral treatments performed so far, holding the head with both hands repeated the perception of holding a completely hollow, empty head. The etheric brain and the pineal gland felt dried up and shriveled.
Also, the otherwise perceptible surficial craniosacral rhythm was not perceptible. With none of my other clients, after more than 20 years of experience, have I ever had such experiences.”
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Éric Bégin
@ricBgin1
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Sep 27
Posted 13:08
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02-May-2018 10:55:33 PM EDT
Archons are part of a constructed belief system. Like all constructed belief systems, it's consensual agreement that makes them real. It's like reading a fairytale. A story created from imagination.
If you read that story and you allow yourself to become emotionally engaged with it, you choose to suspend disbelief in order to envision it... feel the truth or reality of it... that's what makes it real. To you. You consent to this belief.
Archon, in gnosticism, any of a number of world-governing powers that were created with the material world by a subordinate deity called the Demiurge (Creator).
Archon, Greek Archōn, in ancient Greece, the chief magistrate or magistrates in many city-states. The office became prominent in the Archaic period, when the kings (basileis) were being superseded by aristocrats.
In Gnosticism, the archons (from Greek arkhon, “ruler”) were malevolent, sadistic beings who controlled the earth, as well as many of the thoughts, feelings, and actions of humans. They assisted their master, the demiurge, with the creation of the world, and continued to help him administer his oppressive rule.
Demiurge, Greek Dēmiourgos (“public worker”), plural Demiourgoi, in philosophy, a subordinate god who fashions and arranges the physical world to make it conform to a rational and eternal ideal. Plato adapted the term, which in ancient Greece had originally been the ordinary word for “craftsman,” or “artisan” (broadly interpreted to include not only manual workers but also heralds, soothsayers, and physicians), and which in the 5th century BC had come to designate certain magistrates or elected officials.
The demiurge (Greek demiurgos, “craftsman”) is the being who created the world in Gnosticism. The Gnostics identified him with the god of the Old Testament. The Gnostic scriptures portray him as ignorant, malicious, and utterly inferior to the true God who sent Christ to earth to save humankind from the demiurge’s evil world.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case that might invalidate the most powerful federal administrative agency ever created.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America is an appeal of the Fifth Circuit’s unanimous holding that the CFPB’s use of the Federal Reserve System to fund its operations violates the Constitution’s separation of powers.
That opinion declared that the agency’s “perpetual insulation from Congress’ appropriation power, including the express exemption from congressional review of its funding, renders” it unaccountable “to Congress and, ultimately, to the people.”
When it was enacted as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, the bureau assumed the administration of 18 existing federal statutes.
It was given unprecedented regulatory-enforcement powers, including the authority to conduct investigations, initiate administrative proceedings and litigate civil actions in its own name, potentially resulting in civil penalties as high as $1,000,000 for each day a violation occurs.
Its director, appointed by the president, can only be removed for cause, and the Federal Reserve must provide funding the director deems “reasonably necessary to carry out” the bureau’s responsibilities — up to 12% of the Fed’s operating expenses.
The unprecedented breadth of the CFPB’s powers has surrounded the agency with controversy ever since.
It’s taken more than 300 actions against American companies since it opened — many of which have harmed American consumers.
In 2020, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a 5-4 majority in Seila Law v. CFPB, held that the director’s insulated tenure was unconstitutional and imposed instead an “at will” standard, meaning a president can fire the agency’s chief.
Though he severed the tenure issue from the funding mechanism then (probably because there is no readily available substitute), Roberts noted the agency “acts like a mini legislature, prosecutor, and court, responsible for creating substantive rules for a wide swath of industries” and “levying knee-buckling penalties against private citizens,” with “no basis in history and no place in our constitutional structure.”
Two justices, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, opposed the court’s severability decision, writing that “independent agencies pose a significant threat to individual liberty and to the constitutional system of separation of powers and checks and balances.”
Three Disney employees, a school athletic director and a father who left his 1-year-old home alone to have sex were among 219 people arrested in a major human trafficking bust in Florida, authorities said Thursday.
The seven-day undercover operation earlier this month led to 44 felonies and 242 misdemeanor charges against the dozens of suspects – 35 of whom are suspected of being in the country illegally, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said during a news conference.
he so-called “Princess of Uzbekistan” has been accused by Swiss authorities of leading an international crime organization that laundered hundreds of millions of dollars.
Gulnara Karimova — a socialite a daughter of former dictator Islam Karimov — has been accused of stealing hundreds of millions from Uzbekistan and bribing executives and global government officials, according to the Financial Times.
Karimova, 51, has been in an Uzbek prison since 2019 and was indicted in Switzerland Thursday on charges of heading the alleged crime syndicate.
She allegedly laundered the money through various companies and bank accounts that were based in the Swiss country.
The former UN diplomat’s organization is allegedly known as “The Office,” according to Swiss authorities, and was made up of more than 100 legitimate companies that were secretly working to hide stolen money to enrich its members, The Times reported.
A Russian convicted murderer who killed his girlfriend and put her body through a meat grinder — and who shares a last name with the president of Ukraine — has been pardoned for fighting in the war.
Dmitry Zelensky, 41, a Chechen war veteran from the Perm region, strangled to death 27-year-old Tatiana Melekhina with his bare hands in 2018 and then attempted to cover up the horrific crime by cutting up her body and turning it into mincemeat.
“I butchered her body, ran it through a meat grinder, collected the bones into three bags, and threw them in the river,” Zelensky was quoted as calmly telling investigators after turning himself in.
A year later, Zelensky was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison — but he served less than half of his term before being recruited in November 2022 by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary group to fight in Ukraine, according to Russian news outlets.