These new posters drew inspiration from the classic World War I Lord Kitchener posters, with some key differences. One is that the Kitchener poster declares, “Your country needs you.” The new posters read, “Your army needs you.” This helps solve the problem that many young people in modern, deeply multicultural Britain don’t actually feel loyal to the country. The distinction may help new recruits feel more comfortable entering a separate entity. (Source.)And who would these disloyal people be? What evidence does Eames have to make this inflammatory accusation? Doesn't his readers deserve to know who these allegedly disloyal people are? Why won't Eames tell his readers?
What disgusting scare mongering. I cannot help but be reminded of the scare tactics of McCarthyism.
Crazy world as these fucks in the pcg try to lecture the Brit kids as to how they think of their country. No loyalty? Blame it on the politicians.
ReplyDeletePeople are generally loyal to entities which they feel are looking out for their best interests. It's generally not a 100% proposition, and it's also something that is inspired, not manufactured on command. The Armstrong splinters simply do not realize this.
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People within the PCG never challenge their ministry's opinions, and consequently they turn crazier every day. Anything that fits their idea of a grandiose Britain fits their Anglo-Israelism theories, and now they're probably going to run entire issues after Britain 'divorces' the EU...
ReplyDeleteIt is a known fact that one of the signs that the Roman Empire was collapsing was the many "strangers" or auxilliary forces employed in the army instead of the former Roman elite (patres) with real stakes in the game.
ReplyDeleteThe moment elites with stakes are not willing to take risks an empire stagnates and collapses.
In reaction to the British question at hand.
Many older and wiser statesmen feel that the older british generation betrayed the young by voting for the hallicunitary Brexit.
One can say the young betrayed themselves by not showing up at the referendum and let the older generation define their destiny and fate for the coming decades.
Hopes are Brexit can still be avoided by the current masterful steering and scheming of prime minister May. If not Britain will fall by its self created illusions of grandeur from a grand past.
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Regarding the American Empire, I have the same examples from a time where Pres Bush sr and Kennedy (and many more like Washington) were part of the elites taking real risks at the time of Americas ascend.
ReplyDeleteA dodger like Trump is a clear sign for the end of empire.
Sign or anomaly? That remains to be seen. We stumbled along through the ‘70s when conditions appeared to be at a really low ebb for the American empire under Nixon. Carter at least wasn’t a crook, and didn’t conduct an imperial presidency, but ended up not unlike a rebound love affair getting us into more problems. And then, we suddenly entered a totally new phase of presidents starting with Ronald Reagan, and began an upswing, or renewal.
DeleteRegarding elites taking gambles, that’s what we actually have now in the personage of our president. The problem is that he is more like the stereotypical compulsive gambler, in over his head to his bookies, no longer thinking rationally, and unable to stop. We’ve all become his codependents at this point. I believe that help is on the way, but it’s just a question of how much damage he is actually going to cause before the nonsense comes to an end and we begin our recovery.
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ReplyDeleteThx for the points to ponder!
To me individuals are just riding the waves caused by "the unseen hand", be it presidents or the codependents.
Russia (oil state) just dumped half of its dollar reserves changing them for yuan and euro. China is changing theut dollars for african commodities and investments. US debt is twice that of italy in comparison.
The moment the world decides that the dollar should not be the reserve currency anymore the us will be a third rate nation.
Great Britain is completely delusional turning its back om a 500 million person market for their products.
The times they are a changing. Extremely slowly for decades then suddenly in a moment Tyre falls and not a single oerson can fight the waves of a collective decision bu 8 billion people. (epsilon theory)
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Each day 1350 pro brexiteers DIE as others reach voting age. Even if every person would vote EXACTLY the same as they did on the referendum the anti Brexit vote would win today as of the 19th of january.
ReplyDeleteThats why God intended for old geezers to die and the young to shape their own future. But God did not invent referenda, nowehere in the bible it says that conservative parties should consult the people with a referendum on difficult strategic issues.
I believe God is a statistical scientist with wierd timing. That is why HWA was right so many times.
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HWA was right about what?
ReplyDeleteDepending on the level of secular analysis and worldview he was right about everything.
ReplyDeleteThose with religious filter walk into a quagmire, especially "believers".
To remain on topic, he was right about the "modern romans" as relating to the american empire and about the wish for britain to "go alone" as relating to their (older generation) sense of a mythical empire that remains in their collective consciousness.
In reality the EU is an omelette of scrambled eggs and one farmer wants their egg back. A single egg they would not even posess if it werent for the omelette planning and recipe shared by all the chefs.
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So your a follower of HWA, is that correct?
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ReplyDeleteI do find him interesting as a secular philosopher. Also as a person who reported within a transitional time frame for the world and the usa in particular (late 19 hundreds until the fall of the soviet empire).
Many interesting pt articles as pertaining to that world of empire transition from the fifties on.
As for the religious part very interesting from an intelectual viewpoint, although I transitioned out of that decades ago.
So for real followers I would be an interesting person to talk to. Annoying to those who turned christian or received abuse for different reasons. And as a political commentator I am not received well when I fit HWA right in the time frame he commented on.
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I admit to having left the mothershipfold relatively unscathed, way before the "splinter trauma."
ReplyDeleteAt the time I even saw the gta split as part of the "mythical" church and a signal of the start of the "laodicean era.."
My personal interpretation of "ambassador quality", the example of hwa and my knowledge of aicf sponsoring of medical exploits (like david niven foundation on certain disease or unicef children vaccination programs), let me to not even consider seeking medical or legal advice or advice as to what car to acquire from ministers. I only consult those that are experts on their topic as a life rule.
As a philosophy I do accept those that feel that "only god heals", but that philosophy never conflicted with my advice to people to "seek council."
In the beginning of my participating on "blogs" I did not even mention hwa. Most of my postings were responses in defense of the ordinary member like yourself who stood accused of "we were so dumb or unintelligent to fall for it all" or that we as a group had not achieved "lasting results."
I admit that during that defense I broadened our results by margins. For instance on one of my recent trips I visited the former wcg sponsored school in Sri Lanka to see what happened.
Of course non of the principals of the present school knew nothing of what had expired there in the eighties of the last century. Just the fact that "a" school is still functioning in that area and the building is relatively well maintained to me is conselation when on the blogs it is stated that non of our dollars had lasting impact.
My vast knowledge of hundreds of such projects I do insert now and then to balance some of the worst criticisms, even if all of me resents the notion to be a "follower' of anything.
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i.e. "to seek counsel" not to "seek council".
ReplyDeleteIf you might wonder what on earth I might find of interest in hwa's philosophical musings. A booklet like "a world held captive" would for the "follower" be a clear talk about satan the devil, for the conspiracy cooks in the church it would mean "illuminati type of groups", for me as a practical man such booklets garnered significance decades after I read them when I first started to unravel how the banking system actually works in reality.
Other philosophizing about "making deserts bloom" only now garner significance to me when I see the Israeli installations making fresh water from salty sea water or see dubai bloom.
At times it has led me to proclaim that the world tomorrow (after the 1938 fair) is actually at hand when the moment of "technological singularity" will be reached, artificial intelligence understands all or vices and our needs and the worldhunger is eradicated by monsanto corp and the likes.
See, "secular".
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