The Blame Game: A Reflection on Human Nature and Biblical History
Blaming others is nothing new; it dates back to the very genesis of humanity, as recounted in the Bible. When God placed Adam, made in His image, in the paradise garden of Earth, He gave him clear instructions: Everything here is for you to enjoy, and it’s all good. But don’t touch the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the middle of the garden. If you do, you will die. Trust me, you don’t want to experience evil.
Adam was the only human among the animals. As recorded in my 1855 edition of the Bible—the same edition used by Presidents Lincoln and Obama for their oaths—God declared:
“It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.”
This truth remains as relevant today as it was 6,000 years ago. Too many people struggle without finding their life partner, contributing to many of society’s current ills.
According to the Biblical timeline, God put Adam into a deep sleep, removed part of his body, and fashioned it into a companion with a different looking arrangement of Flesh. Upon waking, Adam saw this new naked being like himself for the 1st time and exclaimed, “Whoa, man!”—a moment that marked the creation of woman.
Fast forward to Revelation 12, written 4000 years later, where we read: There was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought back with his angels. But they were defeated and cast out of heaven. The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: was thrown down to Earth along with his angels.
Revelation 16:13-16 warns of Armageddon: I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. These spirits, performing miracles, gather the kings of the earth and the whole world for the great Day of the Battle of God Almighty. Today, these “kings” are Billionaires, Presidents, Prime Ministers, CEOs and other idols of modern society.
Returning to Eden, the serpent cunningly tempted Eve: “Did God really say you can’t eat from every tree?” Eve clarified they could eat from any tree except the one in the middle of the garden, or they would die. The serpent countered, “You won’t die! Eating it will make you like gods, knowing good and evil.”
Eve succumbed, and so did Adam, despite knowing better. Their eyes were opened, and seeing they were naked, they covered themselves with fig leaves and hid.
When God asked Adam, “Who told you you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree I commanded you not to eat?” Adam deflected: “The woman You gave me, she gave me the fruit.”
God then asked Eve, “What have you done?” She replied, “The serpent deceived me.”
Adam blamed both God and Eve, while Eve blamed the serpent. From this ancient story, we see the peril of humanity’s desire to be like gods.
Six millennia later, the consequences of human arrogance and moral failure are still evident. No one can buy a stairway to heaven, yet many remain trapped by indoctrination, unable to question the deeper truths beyond the “apple tree.”
The moral remains clear: personal responsibility is paramount, and the pursuit of godlike power brings only ruin.
The NATO Summit in Washington ended. The MSM and the Public has not grasped it yet, but the Future they have in store is MORE WAR! The MSM doesn’t have much to say about that.
There’s much more discussion in the Alternate media. Here’s a sample from Jeffery Sachs, an American economist and public policy analyst, professor at Columbia University, where he was former director of The Earth Institute. He is known for his work on sustainable development, economic development, and the fight to end poverty.
For the sake of America’s security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favour of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence.
In 1992, U.S. foreign-policy exceptionalism went into overdrive. The U.S. has always viewed itself as an exceptional nation destined for leadership, and the demise of the Soviet Union in December 1991 convinced a group of committed ideologues—who came to be known as neoconservatives—that the U.S. should now rule the world as the unchallenged sole superpower. Despite countless foreign policy disasters at neocon hands, the 2024 NATO Declaration continues to push the neocon agenda, driving the world closer to nuclear war.
Here’s another view of what the NATO Summit decided. Chris Wright asks how Russian leaders are supposed to react to this as the NATO summit kicked off in Washington.
The world is at its most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Back then, however, the fear of total destruction consumed the public; today, few people seem even to be aware of this possibility.
It is easily imaginable that nuclear war could break out between Russia (and perhaps China) and the West, yet politicians continue to escalate tensions, place hundreds of thousands of troops at “high readiness,” and attack military targets inside Russia, even while ordinary citizens blithely go on with their lives.
The situation is without parallel in history.
Consider the following facts. A hostile military alliance, now including even Sweden and Finland, is at the very borders of Russia. How are Russian leaders — whose country was almost destroyed by Western invasion twice in the 20th century — supposed to react to this? How would Washington react if Mexico or Canada belonged to an enormous, expansionist, and highly belligerent anti-U.S. military alliance?
On Tuesday I replied to Alexandra Sharp writing for Foreign Policy, the magazine of The Council on Foreign Relations, the most influential Think Tank shaping US POWER interests since it was started by David Rockefeller and Hubert Hoover in 1921.
TODAY is the 49th Day of my 81st Year counting UP not DOWN, and this is how I see it unfolding TODAY watching from CanaDa. I have been closely watching unfolding History as an Amateur since the 1956 Suez Crisis when I was 12.
Inundated only with US-NATO Propaganda about the Russian Military buildup along their border with Ukraine in 2021, without mentioning the Ukraine Military buildup looking like it was going to launch a major invasion of the Donbass, I knew the US was DETERMINED to have a War with Russia over Ukraine in NATO.
In the week before the Russian SMO February 24, I went to the OSCE website daily, setup as a condition of Minsk to monitor and record All TRUCE violations in the Civil War between the majority Russian speaking Ukrainians in the East bordering Russia, and the US installed anti-Russian Ukraine government.
What I saw with my own eyes was TRUCE VIOLATIONS were reaching up to 2000 a DAY and US NATO MSM weren’t reporting it as Propagandists for The Power, like a 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse. Reporting it, would have undermined the US NATO mantra the Russian SMO was unprovoked.
We shouldn’t forget the US committed the 1st Act Of War during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis with the Illegal blockade of Cuba. They were so offended by Russian missiles that close to the US, the Pentagon called for a 1st strike on Russian forces in Cuba setting up the missiles. That would have started NUCLEAR WWIII.
Americans ARE DELUSIONAL in their self-proclaimed indispensable exceptionalism, to think Russians are less human than Americans and have drawn the Line like the US did in 1962. NO US boots and missiles on the ground on Russia’s Border in Ukraine as the US NATO escalates Brinkmanship.
I can only imagine President Kennedy resisting the Generals and Admirals as if they couldn’t understand what the US Military proposed could be the End of the World and Civilization as we knew it. Seeing that up close and personal, moved Kennedy to find a new Detente and Peace with the Russians. That got him KILLED a year later.
Biden and NATO does not have the Common Sense and Sanity of a President Kennedy Today!
In June 1963, Kennedy uttered the essential truth that can keep us alive today: “Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy–or of a collective death-wish for the world.”
“He came to town for the Republican National Convention and will stay until the election in November TO DO GOD’S BIDDING: To tell the World, from Kansas City, this country has been found wanting and its days are numbered […] He gestured toward a gleaming church dome. “The gold dome is the symbol of BABYLON,” he said.” […] He wanted to bring to the Public’s attention an “idea being put out subtly and deceptively” by the government that we have to get prepared for a War with Russia.”
That 1976 FUTURE is NOW these 48 Years later, with the Revelation of the details GENERALLY unfolding in the spirit of the letter. The World is waking up to see Americans may hasten “its days are numbered” part of the 1976 Vision, and waits with bated breath.
Regards,
Ray Joseph Cormier
Ottawa-Hull – CanaDa
p.s. I’m sure you will understand why it would be more interesting for me to note, I posted this article online, SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER June 21. Biden had his disastrous debate June 27. Now the World is witness to the spectacle of Democrats SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER who won’t listen, in Real Time in the Real World, just like the king of Israel wouldn’t listen in my article. Co-incidence or what?
The phrase “speak truth to power” originated in the Civil Rights and Peace movements of the mid-20th century, and first appeared in print in the title of a 1955 antiwar treatise published by the American Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. I think the 1st example of speaking Truth To Power comes from the Biblical record of Micaiah who lived some 3000 years ago, and he really spoke Truth to Power to the king of Israel. According to the record in Kings I:22;
The king decided the Golan Heights belonged to Israel and they were going to take it back. He summoned Jehoshaphat, king of Judah for a Summit Meeting to plan for a United Israeli War Cabinet to go to War with Syria over the Golan. Jehoshaphat told the king of Israel he’s all in, but 1st, call all the Prophets of Israel together and inquire what God has to say? The 400 Prophets were unanimous telling the king of Israel, “Ascend, and the Lord will deliver [it] into the hands of the king.”
King Jehoshaphat was skeptical, asking if these are all the Prophets of Israel? The king said there is one more, but I don’t like him. He always prophesies against me.
Micaiah was summoned to appear before the 2 kings sitting on their thrones in all their regalia. The Servant sent to summon Micaiah told him the 400 other Prophets told the king he would have Victory, so go along with them and don’t rock the boat.
‘And he came to the king, and the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war or shall we refrain?” Micaiah said to him, “Go up and triumph, and may the Lord deliver it into the king’s hand.” Not being able to take yes for an answer, the king of Israel said to Micaiah, ‘How many times must I adjure you that you shall not speak to me but truth in the name of the Lord?’
At great risk to his personal life speaking Truth To Power so long ago, Micaiah answered the king of Israel, ‘I saw all the Israelites scattered over the mountains like sheep who have no shepherd. And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab so that he will go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead?’ One said in this manner and another one said in that manner […] And the Lord said, ‘These have no master. Let them return each one to his house in peace. And now, behold the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, whereas the Lord spoke evil concerning you.’
The king ordered Micaiah locked up with little bread and water until the king returned from the Battle. Micaiah answered: ‘If you will return in peace, the Lord did not speak to me.’ And he said, “All the nations listen.”
The king of Israel went into Battle incognito posing as an ordinary charioteer and was killed by an enemy soldier not even knowing he killed king Ahab of Israel.
Will Trump, Biden or Trudeau have people around them who will not be afraid to speak Truth to Power these days?
WOE TO THOSE WHO JUDGE FOR HIRE AND PROFIT
BUT NOT FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTH
A consistently Principled Person can do BOTH!
Fareed Zacharia’s GPS showed this image on CNN June 30. It’s really quite the amazing departure from past practice of hiding unpleasant Truths about Israel and portends to an approaching Day of Reckoning.
It’s the result of surveying 24,000 people in 31 countries on the debate over Autocracy vs Democracy.
I’d like to know where the Democratic FREE WORLD is, our Leaders – Policical, MSM and Business, tell us we LIVE IN, when the Financial, Emotional, and Psychological COSTS keep rising.
If there was any respect for TRUTH & REALITY, the people would at least admit this World is an Oligarchic Plutocracy PYRAMID SYSTEM with the rich and powerful at the top like the INVERSE PYRAMID in the Star of David ready to topple over.
