“Son of man, they have set up idols in their hearts. They cling to the errors that will make them fall into sin."
Ezekiel 14:3
"The world seems to go on as usual. There is nothing of heaven in the face of society; in the news of the day there is nothing of heaven; in the faces of the many, or of the great, or of the rich, or of the busy, there is nothing of heaven; in the words of the eloquent, or the deeds of the powerful, or the counsels of the wise, or the resolves of the lordly, or the pomp of the wealthy, there is nothing of heaven. And yet the Ever-blessed Spirit of God is here; the Presence of the Eternal Son, ten times more glorious, more powerful than when He trod the earth in our flesh, is with us.
Let us ever bear in mind this divine truth — the more secret God's hand is, the more powerful — the more silent, the more awful."
John Henry Newman, Christ Manifested in Remembrance, Parochial Sermons Vol 4, N° 17,
"The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority, they don't dare to assert themselves.”
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
"The fact that the foolish person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.
Having thus become a mindless tool, the foolish person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, 1945
"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."
Hosea 8:7
Non-Farm Payrolls tomorrow. Let's see how it comes in and how the markets react.
Stocks managed to rally back up.
Gold and silver were slumping overnight, but less so during the day.
VIX is falling back down to la-la land again.
The Dollar was chopping around.
Bitcoin is pretty clearly in a trading range. I have included a chart on this below.
The refusal of the Administration and the ruling party to release the Epstein information to the public is easy enough to understand. It contains particularly repulsive information about them that they do not wish you to know.
It is too much of a disgrace and a shame, a sickness great enough to put the fear of its exposure in people who are otherwise shameless. It is just that bad, just that disgraceful that it demands to be covered up. And they love power so much that they lie and break oaths to sustain it.
But, the band plays on.
You really cannot help people. I used to believe that people would listen to the facts, and then would act accordingly in a rational manner.
I really didn't understand Bonhoeffer's essay on the intransigence of foolishness, which he wrote from prison about the willful delusions of the German public, as they slid into the abyss.
It is hard to accept the persistence of such irrational self-destructive behaviour among nominally educated and civilized people.
I understand it now.
We will witness to history.
Have a pleasant evening.
