I've come to a new suspicion that there actually was some Spiritual wisdom in the early Middle East. How could there not be since they plagiarized so much from pre Abrahamic Western philosophy. But any wisdom therein was hijacked by corrupt tyrants and turned into a tool of oppression.
Not only do I like your handle, 'Eva van Loon', but the way your mind works is to my liking as well. I've written my first Substack post in a year or two and wouldn't mind your comment on it: https://bifurcatio.substack.com/p/a-possible-wild-card
Yuval Noah Harari has a way of sounding highly intellectual and 'cutting-edge' clever but........
..............to me, he is an educated idiot standing on an artificially high moral scaffold.
A Homo devoid of morals, and seemingly ignorant of poetry, the power between words, the value of nuance. Yet his screetchy voice proclaims itself harshly in cracked falsetto (which offends my ears)! My brain is pierced, it stings and then I slump disappointedly, my thwarted anticipation abruptly destroyed.
Another one who interrogates the subject matter by asking HOW?
How, how, how does it work? What happens if we experiment mechanistically with Nature's progeny.....let's break it down, replace bits mechanistically using tools and technology so we can destroy the original and make a prototype transhuman.
I'm going to smoke a cigarette now; it'll be a long wait for the question that really matters. The all-encompassing WHY? The path that leads you to discover your soul and leads you onwards to DEUS.
"In reality, humans don't die because a figure in a black cloak taps them on the shoulder, or because God decreed it, or because mortality is an essential part of some great cosmic plan: Humans always die due to some technical glitch" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.25). "And every technical problem has a technical solution. We don't have to wait for the second coming to overcome death" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.26).
Mattias MeSmet establishes and memorializes himself as far more than a painter, a conceptualist, a cultural examiner par excellence. His perspectives form the third color - projected by a color TV and without which final color, there would be no realistic color at all. Mattias provides a third color to the wheel of understanding.
Mattias Desmet is full of shit. Pre-occupied people are not De-Souled. What a crock of shit.
Mattias is pumping transhumanism to the hilt and worshiping at the alter of Scientism. I agree Frances, Desmet is pure propaganda, and he outed himself as a Technocrat with this propaganda piece. His pal Harari is an enemy of mankind. Birds of a feather flock together.
Thank you Tony! It is disgusting that so many other people commenting on this post actually believe that people can be 'de-souled'.... I despair of their IQ!
I thought that was suspicious. I suspect the positive comments were mostly either paid operatives of the clandestine services or their contractors, or chatbot trolls. Probably both.
We can master the art of Good Speech by speaking the Truth from our HEARTS. Engaging the heart in navigating is the way around the soul-less phenomenon we see unfolding everywhere in all age groups.
Harari is a psychopath and so are all promoting the 2030 agenda. People can never lose their soul, praise God, but they can disassociate or be disassociated from it. The former is a survival defence and an antagonistic world, the other is due to psychological warfare played on its people via iPhone and technological take over, inhumane systems, addict culture and a life adjudicated on the premise of ‘separation’. A little love, a lot of community and a swathe of sanity...including removal of mobile phones..will reembody those ‘soulless eyes’ with vibrancy to spare.
Let’s turn our attention inward through prayer and meditation and spend time in the softness there. 🙏🏾
"In a way, the major social crises of the 21st century all reflect a problem in the relationships in which humans are caught: they all stem from problematic and failing relationships between humans and institutions (banking crisis), between humans and fellow humans (war on terror), between men and women (MeToo crisis), between humans and nature (climate crisis)."
That paragraph impressed me, Mr Desmet, sir.
But not in a good way.
It oozes mind control and propaganda!
You and your WEF friend, Yuval Harari, serve as narrators and nudge-chums for a nasty agenda which is hurtling towards a totalitarian dystopia.
Surely you could have managed to reiterate the trigger word *CRISIS* just a few more times?
Banking, war, terrorism, rape and climate are just a few of the hyped horror, fear porn plots being deliberately rolled out on the unsuspecting public! Are you holding back on mentioning starvation, poisoning, radiation, weather warfare, forced migration and endless false flag events? Or are they the shock and awe surprises on the cards for 2025?
Mr Desmet, sir.
Humanity has not been 'de-souled'. We are seething with soulful righteous anger.
The genuinely soulless predators, who you choose to refer to as 'elite', have torn their own veil and created a warranted death shroud..... for their entire way of life.
the soul may still be there, the civility has gone. The little gadgets in the hands of people does not make them robots. Isn’t it not more a over saturation of moral in minds? Moral only exists in individual minds but not in reality no matter how much it is promoted.
Your piece called to mind something I had written at the beginning of the scamdemic. It reads:
God? Religion? Who needs it!?
These days we have technology, and science; we’re so advanced!!
See? We don’t need religion.
Well, guess what? People have it whether they think they do or not, whether they want it or not.
You have a religion.
Everyone you know has a religion.
What does the word even mean?
Religion: To bind, to bond.
What have you, we as a society, connected ourselves to? Or disconnected ourselves from?
Every society, and the culture from which it has grown, has the religion of Life, or the religion of Death.
Hitler and Nazi Germany...religion of Death.
Soviet Russia, China, Mao and his goons....religions and cultures of Death.
Stalin, Mussolini, all gods in the religion of Totalitarian regimes inspired by the ultimate religion of Death. Marxism.
The religion of Death hates humans, and wants to destroy them. It does this by way of abortion (forced or otherwise), control and coercion, resentment, power, envy, hatred. Beware, these are snake oils with nice labels; labels that read like “choice”, “protection”, “fairness”, “leadership”, “equality”, and “justice”. Does the snake oil peddler sell night vision goggles too? Because these are illusions, and you’re buying them in darkness. From Darkness.
This religion believes humans are nothing more than glorified animals (evolution), stupid, and good only as work horses to provide for the “leaders”. Its gospel is that all needs of worldly life will be “provided”....at the discretion of the czar of course; but will always come at a cost. Nothing is free in the religion of Death. The price? Only your true freedom. Only your Soul. But the religion of Death doesn’t believe in either one, so it’s no bother. The Religion of Death doesn’t give a damn about your wants, needs, desires; your thoughts, your individuality, you’re freedom, your Soul. In this religion, it’s the We, the Collective, the Commune. Everyman gets crushed under the boot of those in charge of the We.
Because you are deemed incapable, it will “give” you $1000/month (by stealing from someone else), robbing you of the dignity of self sufficiency. If every parent applied this attitude to every child, we would live in a world of non-functioning basement dwellers and overworked parents. If it doesn’t work in a family, how could it possibly work in the larger family, Society? In this religion you are a “parasite” on the planet, and you must be eliminated, and will be, in the name of “health” and the “environment”.
So that all things are “fair”, everyone will have little, while the rest goes to the ‘high priests’ and his group at the top. This religion will fight your battles by controlling the speech of ‘others’, until you say something it doesn’t like. It will “give” you work (whether you like it or not); or take your work/business away if it sees fit. It will decree what to think and how to think, and will know because it watches your every move. Again, you’re merely an animal. Any individual with rights is a wrench in this wheel that grinds the world to a painful and dark death. The end goal of this religion is dehumanize. You are animal. You are machine; a worker bee for the religion of Death. Be anointed, and you will find yourself on the short end of the stick of “freedom, equality, and justice”.
Call it anti-Christian or atheism, either way, it’s God-less. It is all things against Humanity.
The religion of Life, however, loves humans because of their greatness! Because they are made in the image of God! This religion knows Man is Spirit housed in a body. It knows Man is not perfect, but believes in the Infinite potential and seeks to guide souls down the path to goodness, to beauty, to truth, justice and freedom; to dignity, peace and prosperity. To loving your neighbor. To life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sound familiar?
One religion sees the divine nature of man. The other wishes to destroy it.
One sees that the heart and mind of Man and his potential for goodness, even greatness, is infinite. The other says Man, despite the historical horrors of this religion, is already great! That Man is God. But remember, a few are “greater” than others, and they should rule over all men.
The God of the religion of Life has gotten a bad wrap over the past 50 years, and the Marxist religion that denies a God or the God in Man has grown like a mold in this petri dish we call our culture. It is silent and deadly.
The God of Life is about to clean house.
Today is March 19, 2020 and the circus is on it’s way, I can hear the music in the distance. Beware the snake oil peddler.
Are you the thinking, free, capable, self-governing, people of the Religion of Life that must be destroyed; or at least controlled? This is how the Religion of Death works. Only the compliant are useful as “good citizens”, good followers, good workers, under the constant watchful eye of the ‘supreme leaders’ of darkness.
“When men choose to no longer believe in God, he does not thereafter believe in nothing, he then becomes capable of believing in anything.” - G.K Chesterton
American culture has embraced a coarse and profane view of life. As a novelist, this is biggest bugaboo. So I turned to writing an epic fairytale set in 950 AD on a fictitious island in Scotland. I get to live there everyday, and I know everyone!
Well stated mattias. Offline, "common"-sense articulated teaching of our children and the expansion of the lifeskills required to outlast the rise of deathcult, which is nothing more or less than the ever present balance of opposites that permeate all of existence. The remedy to nonsense from over thinking is thoughtlessness... the ancient wisdom pointed at in the Tao te Ching and echoed by any and all spiritial teachers tell us the same thing. Truth reveals itself to those who spend time in silence.. out of which all things are created, and all things return.
The de-souling of which you write infects my profession, psychiatry, and more broadly medicine. Its atomization of humans into their parts has erased a central core of transcendent values—our professional soul, if you will. I blame our blinkered worship of Enlightenment values that have estranged us from ourselves
I've come to a new suspicion that there actually was some Spiritual wisdom in the early Middle East. How could there not be since they plagiarized so much from pre Abrahamic Western philosophy. But any wisdom therein was hijacked by corrupt tyrants and turned into a tool of oppression.
Not only do I like your handle, 'Eva van Loon', but the way your mind works is to my liking as well. I've written my first Substack post in a year or two and wouldn't mind your comment on it: https://bifurcatio.substack.com/p/a-possible-wild-card
Cheers!
Yuval Noah Harari has a way of sounding highly intellectual and 'cutting-edge' clever but........
..............to me, he is an educated idiot standing on an artificially high moral scaffold.
A Homo devoid of morals, and seemingly ignorant of poetry, the power between words, the value of nuance. Yet his screetchy voice proclaims itself harshly in cracked falsetto (which offends my ears)! My brain is pierced, it stings and then I slump disappointedly, my thwarted anticipation abruptly destroyed.
Another one who interrogates the subject matter by asking HOW?
How, how, how does it work? What happens if we experiment mechanistically with Nature's progeny.....let's break it down, replace bits mechanistically using tools and technology so we can destroy the original and make a prototype transhuman.
I'm going to smoke a cigarette now; it'll be a long wait for the question that really matters. The all-encompassing WHY? The path that leads you to discover your soul and leads you onwards to DEUS.
"In reality, humans don't die because a figure in a black cloak taps them on the shoulder, or because God decreed it, or because mortality is an essential part of some great cosmic plan: Humans always die due to some technical glitch" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.25). "And every technical problem has a technical solution. We don't have to wait for the second coming to overcome death" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.26).
Mattias MeSmet establishes and memorializes himself as far more than a painter, a conceptualist, a cultural examiner par excellence. His perspectives form the third color - projected by a color TV and without which final color, there would be no realistic color at all. Mattias provides a third color to the wheel of understanding.
Or, when I upload a picture of a cute kitten the everybody loves it. But when I post something serious and meaningful, then the silence is baffling.
Mattias Desmet is full of shit. Pre-occupied people are not De-Souled. What a crock of shit.
Mattias is pumping transhumanism to the hilt and worshiping at the alter of Scientism. I agree Frances, Desmet is pure propaganda, and he outed himself as a Technocrat with this propaganda piece. His pal Harari is an enemy of mankind. Birds of a feather flock together.
Thank you Tony! It is disgusting that so many other people commenting on this post actually believe that people can be 'de-souled'.... I despair of their IQ!
I thought that was suspicious. I suspect the positive comments were mostly either paid operatives of the clandestine services or their contractors, or chatbot trolls. Probably both.
We must focus on how things must be. The devil is always in the details. So forget the details and talk about the dreams.
We can master the art of Good Speech by speaking the Truth from our HEARTS. Engaging the heart in navigating is the way around the soul-less phenomenon we see unfolding everywhere in all age groups.
Harari is a psychopath and so are all promoting the 2030 agenda. People can never lose their soul, praise God, but they can disassociate or be disassociated from it. The former is a survival defence and an antagonistic world, the other is due to psychological warfare played on its people via iPhone and technological take over, inhumane systems, addict culture and a life adjudicated on the premise of ‘separation’. A little love, a lot of community and a swathe of sanity...including removal of mobile phones..will reembody those ‘soulless eyes’ with vibrancy to spare.
Let’s turn our attention inward through prayer and meditation and spend time in the softness there. 🙏🏾
"In a way, the major social crises of the 21st century all reflect a problem in the relationships in which humans are caught: they all stem from problematic and failing relationships between humans and institutions (banking crisis), between humans and fellow humans (war on terror), between men and women (MeToo crisis), between humans and nature (climate crisis)."
That paragraph impressed me, Mr Desmet, sir.
But not in a good way.
It oozes mind control and propaganda!
You and your WEF friend, Yuval Harari, serve as narrators and nudge-chums for a nasty agenda which is hurtling towards a totalitarian dystopia.
Surely you could have managed to reiterate the trigger word *CRISIS* just a few more times?
Banking, war, terrorism, rape and climate are just a few of the hyped horror, fear porn plots being deliberately rolled out on the unsuspecting public! Are you holding back on mentioning starvation, poisoning, radiation, weather warfare, forced migration and endless false flag events? Or are they the shock and awe surprises on the cards for 2025?
Mr Desmet, sir.
Humanity has not been 'de-souled'. We are seething with soulful righteous anger.
The genuinely soulless predators, who you choose to refer to as 'elite', have torn their own veil and created a warranted death shroud..... for their entire way of life.
Happy New Year, Predators! We see you.
the soul may still be there, the civility has gone. The little gadgets in the hands of people does not make them robots. Isn’t it not more a over saturation of moral in minds? Moral only exists in individual minds but not in reality no matter how much it is promoted.
‘What is Truth?’ ‘Truth’ is Christ.
Amen.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/t-is-for-truth/
Your piece called to mind something I had written at the beginning of the scamdemic. It reads:
God? Religion? Who needs it!?
These days we have technology, and science; we’re so advanced!!
See? We don’t need religion.
Well, guess what? People have it whether they think they do or not, whether they want it or not.
You have a religion.
Everyone you know has a religion.
What does the word even mean?
Religion: To bind, to bond.
What have you, we as a society, connected ourselves to? Or disconnected ourselves from?
Every society, and the culture from which it has grown, has the religion of Life, or the religion of Death.
Hitler and Nazi Germany...religion of Death.
Soviet Russia, China, Mao and his goons....religions and cultures of Death.
Stalin, Mussolini, all gods in the religion of Totalitarian regimes inspired by the ultimate religion of Death. Marxism.
The religion of Death hates humans, and wants to destroy them. It does this by way of abortion (forced or otherwise), control and coercion, resentment, power, envy, hatred. Beware, these are snake oils with nice labels; labels that read like “choice”, “protection”, “fairness”, “leadership”, “equality”, and “justice”. Does the snake oil peddler sell night vision goggles too? Because these are illusions, and you’re buying them in darkness. From Darkness.
This religion believes humans are nothing more than glorified animals (evolution), stupid, and good only as work horses to provide for the “leaders”. Its gospel is that all needs of worldly life will be “provided”....at the discretion of the czar of course; but will always come at a cost. Nothing is free in the religion of Death. The price? Only your true freedom. Only your Soul. But the religion of Death doesn’t believe in either one, so it’s no bother. The Religion of Death doesn’t give a damn about your wants, needs, desires; your thoughts, your individuality, you’re freedom, your Soul. In this religion, it’s the We, the Collective, the Commune. Everyman gets crushed under the boot of those in charge of the We.
Because you are deemed incapable, it will “give” you $1000/month (by stealing from someone else), robbing you of the dignity of self sufficiency. If every parent applied this attitude to every child, we would live in a world of non-functioning basement dwellers and overworked parents. If it doesn’t work in a family, how could it possibly work in the larger family, Society? In this religion you are a “parasite” on the planet, and you must be eliminated, and will be, in the name of “health” and the “environment”.
So that all things are “fair”, everyone will have little, while the rest goes to the ‘high priests’ and his group at the top. This religion will fight your battles by controlling the speech of ‘others’, until you say something it doesn’t like. It will “give” you work (whether you like it or not); or take your work/business away if it sees fit. It will decree what to think and how to think, and will know because it watches your every move. Again, you’re merely an animal. Any individual with rights is a wrench in this wheel that grinds the world to a painful and dark death. The end goal of this religion is dehumanize. You are animal. You are machine; a worker bee for the religion of Death. Be anointed, and you will find yourself on the short end of the stick of “freedom, equality, and justice”.
Call it anti-Christian or atheism, either way, it’s God-less. It is all things against Humanity.
The religion of Life, however, loves humans because of their greatness! Because they are made in the image of God! This religion knows Man is Spirit housed in a body. It knows Man is not perfect, but believes in the Infinite potential and seeks to guide souls down the path to goodness, to beauty, to truth, justice and freedom; to dignity, peace and prosperity. To loving your neighbor. To life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sound familiar?
One religion sees the divine nature of man. The other wishes to destroy it.
One sees that the heart and mind of Man and his potential for goodness, even greatness, is infinite. The other says Man, despite the historical horrors of this religion, is already great! That Man is God. But remember, a few are “greater” than others, and they should rule over all men.
The God of the religion of Life has gotten a bad wrap over the past 50 years, and the Marxist religion that denies a God or the God in Man has grown like a mold in this petri dish we call our culture. It is silent and deadly.
The God of Life is about to clean house.
Today is March 19, 2020 and the circus is on it’s way, I can hear the music in the distance. Beware the snake oil peddler.
Are you the thinking, free, capable, self-governing, people of the Religion of Life that must be destroyed; or at least controlled? This is how the Religion of Death works. Only the compliant are useful as “good citizens”, good followers, good workers, under the constant watchful eye of the ‘supreme leaders’ of darkness.
“When men choose to no longer believe in God, he does not thereafter believe in nothing, he then becomes capable of believing in anything.” - G.K Chesterton
Wise words.
So, what did you say your religion was?
American culture has embraced a coarse and profane view of life. As a novelist, this is biggest bugaboo. So I turned to writing an epic fairytale set in 950 AD on a fictitious island in Scotland. I get to live there everyday, and I know everyone!
Well stated mattias. Offline, "common"-sense articulated teaching of our children and the expansion of the lifeskills required to outlast the rise of deathcult, which is nothing more or less than the ever present balance of opposites that permeate all of existence. The remedy to nonsense from over thinking is thoughtlessness... the ancient wisdom pointed at in the Tao te Ching and echoed by any and all spiritial teachers tell us the same thing. Truth reveals itself to those who spend time in silence.. out of which all things are created, and all things return.
Chai latte with oat milk? Sounds way too healthy for me (LOL). I love a XXX strong full fat milk Caffè latte, but each to their own I say!
The de-souling of which you write infects my profession, psychiatry, and more broadly medicine. Its atomization of humans into their parts has erased a central core of transcendent values—our professional soul, if you will. I blame our blinkered worship of Enlightenment values that have estranged us from ourselves