That Which Destroyeth the Soul
Let us say that the coronavirus were real. Oh, of course its real. But I’m talking about the coronavirus of our hysteria and nightmares. What if 5% or 10% or 25% were dying?
What kinds of measures would be appropriate?
My wife and I talked about this back in February. We agreed that this disease wasn’t going to be it, but in the event of another plague, we would do things like utterly isolate, living off our stores; if I had to go to work I would never come back inside, I would eat and sleep out on the lawn; if one of us got sick we would house that person somewhere else and nurse them wearing improvising hazmat suits made out duct tape and garbage bags. We would do things like that and so would you. Extreme measures are not extreme in the face of extreme threats.
Now consider this. We live in a spiritual plague land. The dead souls are strewn everywhere. They lay stacked in the streets.
What kinds of measures are justified?
When people tell you, ‘don’t be extreme’ because you don’t voluntarily hook yourself up to the IV of lies, what they are really saying is that the threats are mild. Pornography, divorce, childlessness, mobs, gossip, wrath, depression, desolation–“It’s just the spiritual flu, bro.”
Remember life in a charnel house.
bruce charlton
October 15, 2020
Hmm. ” 5% or 10% or 25%” you are talking something like Ebola – which burns-out in a couple of weeks.
And – like other respiratory viruses (including this one) genuinely preventing transmission of Ebola is so difficult that there are only 2 (yes two) hospital beds in the entire North of England that can achieve it.
With respiratory viruses, everybody will be exposed sooner or later as long as the epidemic continues, vaccines are at best partially effective – herd immunity is why all previous ‘pandemics’ in human history have stopped. Anything that delays herd immunity will prolong the mortality. This virus is no different, just a normal one.
A couple of week of nasty isolation is one thing. But what about nine months and counting, for the actual virus – 100-fold less deadly?
This isn’t about the birdemic, it never was about the birdemic… I really can’t see what is to be gained about giving ‘the benefit of the (non-existent) doubt’ to Satan and his minions.
G.
October 15, 2020
Bruce C.,
I don’t really disagree. I think you are letting your (understandable!) preoccupations intermingle with the actual content of the post.
Sean G.
October 15, 2020
“It’s just the spiritual flu, bro.”
Perfect end to a great post. This attitude is not far off from my priests attitude at confession (Back when I did a formal confession. Before it was deemed inessential).
Rozy
October 15, 2020
The older I get (63) the more I wonder if the prophesied plagues of the last days are in reality spiritual ones rather than physical ones. The Lord has said that all things are spiritual to Him, so why wouldn’t he look at “Pornography, divorce, childlessness, mobs, gossip, wrath, depression, desolation” etc. as plagues? The counsel we’ve been given in recent General Conferences would seem to bear this out, as we’ve been advised to take measures to inoculate ourselves against worldliness, and to fortify our homes spiritually. Just food for thought.
bruce charlton
October 15, 2020
@G – Yes, I realise; but there are some assumptions that ought not just slip past; lest they become unconsciously assimilated.
G.
October 15, 2020
@BC, fair enough. Carry on.
Bookslinger
October 15, 2020
Rozy, perhaps the modern physical and spiritual diseases can be categorized under the heading of lifestyle diseases, such as AIDS and other prominent STDs. Though not pathogens, type 2 diabetes and obesity mostly come from a poor eating/nutritional lifestyle.
sute
October 15, 2020
Great analogy. You did a better job of it, but were working in the same spirit as our bishop who recently talked about the plague of pornography and that we should “wear our ppe” to protect against it. Ugh…. I was very happy that analogy didn’t make it to conference.
Of course, it would be fitting in speaking to the minds of people, just as the militant “armor of God” and “fiery darts of the adversary” spoke more directly to the ancient mindset.
I’m not sure how much of it I could handle though…
What I like about your approach (rather than the ppe) is the way it leaves open to explore how we’d “culturally isolate” ourselves from the contagious pathology inducing mental contamination that we call entertainment.
sute
October 15, 2020
Bruce,
“This isn’t about the birdemic, it never was about the birdemic… I really can’t see what is to be gained about giving ‘the benefit of the (non-existent) doubt’ to Satan and his minions.”
So at first I wonder if this was about digital currency. Make people scared of contamination of money supply and now the governments can finally take hold of the entire marketplace.
Maybe we’ll get there when all is done. But lately, I’m thinking the reason this is dragging on so long is the “covid passports”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the end result of this is making travel very restrictive in a way that the people themselves actually demand.
Various governments already have some vaccine-travel requirements. The extreme response to COVID might be another attempt at controlling movement of people.
Think that’s extreme and paranoid? Ahem, I have a wall in Berlin that stood for 30 years controlling the free movement of people to sell you.
Controlling the movement of people seems to be a major goal of certain dictators. If you control both the movement of people (health passports) and capital (digital currency), you really have everyone in complete subjugation.
The extreme response to COVID is just that thing that might make the people *demand* the government take this control. And if you disagree, you are heartless, want old people to die, etc.
It’s amazing. Did the people ever think the rational in East Germany for the Berlin wall was, “we are evil people and want to stop you”. There’s alway a virtuous reason the satanical tyrants point to (not one soul shall be lost!)
In my darkest moments I feel it’s a shame we have completely lost our nerve at defending freedom. And I think that really goes for all of us. I don’t think anyone in the church, self included, is acting on the side the righteous in the war in heaven being played out here on earth (in this regard).
We take the path of least resistance, because our leader is presumptively silent. But what more can he say than what he has already said?
Sean G.
October 15, 2020
@Sute If you try to pin down one purpose to the birdemic you wrongly assume “they” are a vast and well coordinated conspiratorial network as opposed to what they really are: Satan’s useful idiots. All chasing different unholy desires, easily manipulated into serving evil. Most are serving Satan with the false promise that there favorite sinful desires will be allowed to them, until eventually even that is taken from them.
William James Tychonievich
October 16, 2020
Rereading that “charnel house” post now is a weird experience. The meaning of every metaphor has been turned upside-down by the birdemic.
sute
October 16, 2020
Sean G,
You’d be surprised at the things people plan out in their meetings. Things evolve as well. But there’s no doubt that the first bill democrats passed in response to COVID IN MARCH was planned. There’s no doubt it’s been discussed that a good time to do this would be in the midst of a pandemic. Why? Because within 2 weeks of the US responding, this measure got quietly slipped into a bill. Is that a conspiratheory or conspirafact?
I believe immunity passports will be an eventual outreach of this.
Our useful idiots, aren’t so idiotic anymore. They have shown a lot of patience, and the changes happen over years or sometimes decades.
Certainly, Satan is the author of it all. But there’s no doubt that there are many scheming in coordinated ways to deprive others of the ability to thwart their plans.
They obviously think they are doing some form of the greater good through enforcing their ideas.