Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.
~ Étienne de la Boétie
The problems with software billionaires are many and varied, but they chiefly arise from this fact: they never understood people. They might have been bullied or they might have been clever enough to avoid being bullied. But they have no compassion for people. So they pretend that compassion doesn't matter.
Also, some pretend to be “on the spectrum” by which they mean that they have something akin to Asperger’s or autism spectrum disorder. Very few do. In fact, they are socially awkward because they don’t take the time to learn social graces and don’t want to be responsible for their own actions and unkind words. The truth is: they don't like people. People are full of the unexpected. Software does what it's told.
And software billionaires only want to keep the control they imagined they have over events in the way they control variables in their software. But reality doesn't work that way. God is in control.
God really loves people. So much that God sent His son to suffer and die for our sins and be raised from death to defeat death forever. So God could be with us forever. Amen.
There's not a software billionaire in the world who would ever do that for you. So you want to know why I don't trust Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook, or any of the others? That's why. You can tell them I said so.
My Story
We all come from different parts of the space time continuum. Each one of us has a particular story of his life. When I was very young, I didn’t think much about the idea of being sovereign. It’s not that I hadn’t heard of the idea of sovereignty belonging to each individual. After all, I grew up in ‘merica in the latter half of the 20th Century when there was a Bicentennial to pretend to care about.
Amidst the naked people running around being called “streakers,” and the nastiness inherent in the Watergate scandal, while the world was wondering when Americans were ever going to think seriously about their responsibility for the corruption and evil of the cia, when there was the beginnings of a groundswell of opposition to assassination as a feature of American politics, when Gerald Ford was so unpopular he defied the Feral Reserveless scammers by legalising the ownership of gold to curry favour with conservatives, and Jimmy Carter was being interviewed by Playboy magazine to explain the nature of sin and the joys of nuclear submarine warfare, I was taught the preamble to the declaration of independence.
Once upon a time, we held these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal. That we are endowed by God with certain rights that cannot be separated from our nature, that are unalienable. Among these rights are life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments have been instituted among men. That governments can only derive their just powers from the actual consent (knowing, willing, and competent) of the governed. That when a government deliberately becomes destructive of these ends, it is filth and must be swept away onto the ash heap of history. That people are not really inclined to do much when they can put up with crap, but when a long train of abuses and usurpations makes it clear that the fiends in power have it in for us all and want us dead and enslaved, we have a moral obligation to rip their guts out and make them stop. And, of course, we learned that such had been the patient suffering of the Americans and that the evil nasty worthless British parliament and its usurpation of power in the form of the tyranny of the illegitimate Hanoverian pretender on the throne had to go. So we made them go, with a lot of help from Scots and Irish and others who had been thrust out of the United Kingdom by those same filthy scum in power.
So it was way back when that I learned that power is individual and not collective. Governments shouldn’t be above the people, but the people should be above the government. And I found out that there were these really terrible people called communists who hated the whole idea of freedom and wanted humanity to be torn apart and all mankind enslaved. Later I would learn that there were certain European aristocrats (the black nobility, the demon worshippers, the freemasons) who funded the communists and their predecessors (the Rousseau-following Jacobins of the nasty Directorate who slaughtered so many with guillotines) who really had it in for us.
I’ve told other parts of the story in these pages, and elsewhere. I used to write a financial newsletter called The Indomitus Report about individual sovereignty, free market money, new countries, space technology, and resource mining. My subscribers who bought into a certain stock in 2004 at Canadian $1.55 were delighted when it sold at C$455 three years later. Along the way there were other wins. But the fbi decided to destroy e-gold and the Liberty Dollar, and there was a lot of scrambling to recover from those attacks.
A few years later, I compiled the best parts of The Indomitus Report into a book, which I entitled Being Sovereign. You see, you are sovereign. You have just as much a right to your individual sovereignty as King Upchuck the Third, the usurper on the throne of England and Scotland. I believe your sovereignty is a gift from God. The real king of heaven and earth is Jesus Christ. No king but Jesus.
God did explain it to you, by the way. You might not have been listening, though, so let’s take a moment.
Samuel
Roughly 1,070 years before Christ, as we reckon these things, there was born in Israel a prophet named Samuel. After a while, he came to be recognised as the main source of wisdom from God. At that time, the Israelites were clamouring for a king. They hated the idea of not having a king. Samuel was upset that the Israelites were rejecting Samuel’s guidance, but God set Samuel straight, saying:
And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 1 Samuel 8:7
Recently, I wrote quite a bit on the topic of the abuses and usurpations that have provided evidence of a design to reduce mankind under the bootheel of absolute tyranny. See it here:
The same essay is also found here:
It’s in two different places with differing titles, because Substack chose to mess up the web interface I was using to create SpacePrivé News, so earlier this year I was no longer able to include links in essays on that channel. More recently, I discovered that I can compose here at L5 News and then copy into the SpacePrivé substack, and the links come across. Yay. As John Gilmore noted, censorship is damage that is routed around by the people who do the routing.
But the much earlier usurpation remains to be understood. The Hanoverian usurpation is simply one of a long train of usurpations by European aristocrats who want to pretend they are allowed to be kings. They may be tolerated, by God, in that pretence, but they aren’t actually kings. All monarchy is usurpation.
So Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked a king of him. And he said, This shall be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to his chariots, and to be his horsemen, and some shall run before his chariot. Also he will make them his captains over thousands, and captains over fifties, and to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make instruments of war, and the things that serve for his chariots. He will also take your daughters and make them Apothecaries, and Cooks, and Bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best Olive trees, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his Eunuchs, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and the chief of your young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep, and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out at that day, because of your king, whom ye have chosen you, and the Lord will not hear you at that day.
Turn to God
You don’t have to serve them, you know. God has been very clear on this point. You don’t have to serve the usurpers, the self-proclaimed kings, the European aristocrats, the people who demand that you have no property, have no privacy, live in pods, eat bugs, and suffer as slaves forever. God sent Jesus to die for your sins so that you may be reborn in Christ, so that you have the promises of eternal salvation.
It doesn’t require you to be any particular way or to do any particular thing. All that is inherent within you was created by God when your soul was made long ago. All that is possible for you comes of the grace of God, not your particular efforts or merit. The only thing required of you is that you seek God. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all other good things shall be added unto you. Love God, love yourself, love your neighbour. The rest is commentary.
So, you see, you don’t need a search curator posing as a search engine in Google. You don’t need an app posing as the everything app in X (formerly known as Twitter). You don’t need Microserf enslavement from Gates and Ballmer. You don’t need rotten Apple - whose logo depicts the apple bitten by Eve to bring about the original sin of disobedience in the Garden of Eden. You don’t even need the false oracle of Oracle software.
All you need is God. God has the power to make you worthy of the promises of Christ. And Mother Mary, who gave birth to the mercy who is Jesus, prays for you if you ask for her to do so.
You don’t need to elect someone to rule over you. You don’t need to delegate your power to the people in the statehouse or the national seat of usurpation. All you need is God.
God’s will be done. Amen.
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Dang, Jim, most EXCELLENT post, full of wisdom and spark! Thanks, brother!
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