“Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough, Come As a Child, December 2017
"These are frightened hypocrites, who protest their outrage, and then hurriedly hide what they have done."
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862
"The German people slumber on in their dull, stupid sleep and encourage these fascist criminals; they give them the opportunity to carry on their destruction; and of course they do so. Is this a sign that the Germans are brutalized in their simplest human feelings, that no chord within them cries out at the sight of such deeds, that they have sunk into a fatal lack of conscience from which they will never, never awake?"
The White Rose, Second Leaflet, Munich 1942
"Be glad as children,
as the birds of heaven. And do not let the sins of men confound
you in your doings. Do not fear that they will wear away your work
and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty,
wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are
lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away
and hindering our good work from being done.' Of the pride of Satan what I think is this: it is hard for us on earth to comprehend it, and therefore it is easy to fall into error and to share in it, even imagining that we are doing something grand and fine."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, pages 407-8, 1880
"The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God,
and no torment shall ever touch them.
They seem, in the view of the foolish, to be dead;
and their passing is thought an affliction
and their going forth from us, devastation.
But they are content in the presence of God."
Wisdom 3:1-3
When the time comes those who call themselves religious and 'worship' in the form of self-fashioned false gods of personal power are going to be left yammering, gape-mouthed as their cults are shown in their true ugliness, and crumble from their hands into dust.
Stocks were wobbly overnight, but managed to recover much of their losses into the close.
The economic data this morning in the form of the ADP jobs creation number was a pretty grim negative.
Gold and silver were being pushed lower in the late morning after an early rally, but then managed to come back for solid gains at the close.
Gold and silver are definitely telling us something, probably some unpleasant truth that the elite wish for us to ignore.
The VIX drifted lower yet again down to its 50 DMA.
These jokers may paint the tape in the most heavy-handed manner, but the false gods of their cult isn't going to collapse pretty badly in the face of reality.
It would be a shame if we allow them to avoid the consequences of their bad actions, and even worse, to walk away with fat profits from their lawlessness again.
Have a pleasant evening.
