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Forewarned is Forearmed: 5 Arguments against ETs, UFOs from Outerspace, Plus What These Could be Instead

23/3/2023

 
​It's time to have "the talk."

In the past, we've briefly discussed aliens from other planets and UFOs.

We know what Rav Avigdor Miller thinks about the whole thing and how it's all merely a repeat of what happened with the generation prior to the Mabul (the Great Flood).

But it gained more publicity recently.

I think we should look at what the great French scientist, Jacques Vallee, thought about the whole thing.

Who was Jacques Vallee?

Born in France in 1939, Vallee studied mathematics at the Sorbonne and earned a degree in astrophysics from the University of Lille.

Later, he worked on NASA projects at the University of Texas, then earned his doctorate in artificial intelligence at Northwestern University.

Throughout his career, he worked in science and technology, building an impressive resume via his work at Stanford University, DARPA, and Silicon Valley.

He's clearly highly intelligent. What made him popular was his courteous and modest personality.

He thoroughly explored the topic, spending extended visits in different countries to complete his investigation.

Yes, a lot of UFOs are simply misinterpreted natural phenomena or technology — like the planet Venus, the Space Station, an aircraft, or the Northern Lights, etc.

Some encounters result from hallucinations or manipulation.

And some people simply lie.

So Vallee filtered out the explainable stuff and focused on the events which presented no logical explanation.

And he never believed in extra-terrestrial visitors.

He believed all alien encounters were rooted right here on our planet.

(Which is exactly what Rav Avigdor Miller said too.)

Vallee was open to the idea of entities, just not extraterrestrial ones.

He thought most encounters resulted from either advanced yet secret technology or metaphysical entities.

And Vallee offered 5 arguments why extraterrestrial visitations DON'T make sense.

(For some reason, I cannot find where I originally downloaded a PDF of the 5 Arguments, but anyone who wants to see the original can look for Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects by Jacques Vallee as appeared in the Journal of Scientific Exploration.)

​Argument #1: ​Close-Encounter Frequency

Taking into account all the reported encounters since the 1960s, plus factoring in how most people either do not report or cannot report the encounters (because they live in Bedouin tents in Arabia or huts in Africa, etc.), the number of estimated encounter reaches into hundreds of thousands — or even millions, if you go back in history.

So for those who chalk up ETs and UFOs as misinterpreted natural phenomena, Vallee says that natural phenomena doesn't occur as often as UFOs do. Think meteor showers or the Northern Lights or sun dogs, for example.

​Yes, they happen a lot and happen regularly, but ​not as often as UFOs seem to.

Also, UFO encounters occur predominantly at specific times, like between 5-9 P.M. and then again between 1-3 A.M.

Natural phenomenon aren't so punctual. Even though you may only be able to see meteors or Northern Lights at night, they don't only occur at night.

And no, it's not a matter of time zone. Both British and American studies revealed the same timing.

Furthermore, Vallee discovered a large percentage of UFO encounters occurred in deserted areas like deserts, fields, and places without human dwellings.

Abduction encounters occur almost exclusively around midnight.

What other bizarre natural phenomenon goes so closely by the clock?

So dismissing them as natural phenomenon didn't add up for Vallee.

But ETs (extra-terrestrials) didn't make sense to him either.

With Earth so much more visible from space than other planets, plus all the radio waves emanating from Earth over the last century, why would ETs need to constantly land on Earth — especially if they have such amazing technology?

Even if they wanted to take physical samples (especially in the time prior to our modern technology), why take so many samples? Why do they need millions of visits?

Furthermore, nowadays, aliens could tap into DNA banks, blood banks, and embryo banks to access information — much easier and more convenient than landing a whole big craft in a field or invading someone's bedroom at midnight.

Argument #2: Physiology

itnesses always describe aliens as humanoid in appearance.

This makes no sense (yet another point made by Rav Miller).

Why would beings from a world so different than ours resemble us at all?

Even on Earth in the same climate, we find completely different creatures.

For example, go to Arizon and you'll see species as vastly different as humans and scorpions (unfortunately) living in the same home.

Likewise, dolphins live in the water, but must come up for air; fish live best completely submerged. 

All the more so, aliens from a different planet should look nothing like us.

Furthermore, Vallee notes how the human physiology suits an extremely narrow environment:
  • the exact amount of oxygen we need
  • the exact amount of sunlight
  • our vision suits the specific electromagnetic spectrum available to us
  • Earth's gravity is perfect for us
  • Earth's pressure is perfect for us

And so on.

Human physiology fits those extremely nitpicky specifications.

So how could a being from another planet survive on ours, especially without space suits?

It's impossible to believe that on a planet somewhere in the universe, there exists our Earth's exact specifications down to the last detail.

So any being from another planet must live in a very different habitat than Earth's.

Yet even minor differences in pressure or oxygen make survival untenable.

(We see this when a human remains on Earth, yet merely climbs too high up a mountain: altitude sickness.)

So how are these supposed ETs able to walk around our planet, breathe our air, and look like us?

Even if you believe aliens can genetically manipulate themselves to adapt to different environments, why wouldn't they do that everywhere, like to work in space or carry out tests or to colonize the Moon or other planets?

Finally, some close-encounter reports describe ETs as showing amusement, puzzlement, or interest.

It doesn't make sense. 

How could beings so different from us not only have such familiar biological mechanisms, but also our same social acclimation?

For example, I can live in the exact same environment as a cat, but a cat never smiles from joy and I never purr from contentment.

All the more so, it doesn't make sense that a being from a completely different world would share these characteristics with us.

Argument #3: Abduction Reports

Depending on how you see it, abduction encounters are either the most intriguing or the most terrifying aspect of the UFO/ET phenomenon.

Abductees often describe being taken into a hollow or round place and then subjected to medical experimentation.

Their memories are wiped and later retrievable only via hypnosis.

With hundreds of abductees investigated by UFOlogists (and sometimes psychologists), Vallee questions why alien scientists would need to abduct and experiment on humans.

With their mind-boggling technology, alien scientists could easily access our research facilities containing tissue samples, skeletons, and organs. They could access our blood banks, embryo banks, and DNA without any of us ever knowing.

With this pool of genetic data, they could perform all the experiments they want, included reproducing humans and even creating super-humans.

L'havdil, human scientists do not go to the slums of Los Angeles looking for rats to experiment on; they breed them in their laboratories.

So if aliens are so interested in us, why do they create these clunky and inconvenient encounters? (And do so davka around midnight, further adding to their inconvenience?)

Finally, if we humans possess the technology to perform all sorts of procedures with little to no pain (blood tests, urine tests, X-rays, scans, fingerprinting, etc.) and certainly without psychological trauma (unless you're scared of needles), why do these supposedly highly advanced aliens perform procedures described by Vallee as "shockingly crude and cruel"?

Argument #4: History

Throughout history, alien spacecraft are described in ways revealing them to be a step or two ahead of human invention, which doesn't make sense if they indeed flew across the solar system.

Historically, many cultures share stories of these encounters as occurring in spherical settings, with the familiar experimentation and other interactions.

If these accounts are true, then why haven't aliens evolved beyond that for the past few millennia?

Argument #5: Physical Considerations

In a nutshell, the alien spacecraft do not act according to our known physics.

Meaning, they don't seem wholly physical.

​Despite looking wholly physical, UFOs engage in weird behaviors like:
  • suddenly appearing or disappearing
  • changing their appearance
  • merging with other seemingly physical objects
  • extreme G-forces

They also don't seem photographable.

Especially with cell phones in almost every palm today, plus the smartphone's excellent photographic quality, we should be able to get decent photographs of UFOs...yet we don't.

If ETs are basically physical beings with superior physical technology, their aircraft should conform to known physics.

​But they don't.

What Does Vallee Say?

So what does Vallee offer instead of the ETH (Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis)?

It seems he believes there could be entities (like the demons, fairies, or subterranean humanoids popular in folklore throughout the world).

He offers the idea of time travelers and psychic phenomenon, including a Jungian idea of a collective consciousness projecting these images.

He seems to think it could be a combination of factors, like secret advanced technology combined with psychic phenomenon.

To his credit, he doesn't insist on one unified theory for it, admitting that the abduction stories puzzle him the most.

Mostly, he explains why the ETH theory makes no sense, searching for other possibilities instead.

The Technology to Produce Otherworldly Encounters Exists & Has Existed for a While

My personal opinion follows that of Rav Avigdor Miller: ETs like us, with bechirah and the whole shebang, can't exist. (Or, if we would find people on another planet, their origin lies in human colonizers who initially came from Earth.)

Some of it seems to be what Judaism considers demons or subterranean humanoid creatures — in other words, some kind of non-human & often harmful entity.

But technology definitely is an option here.

We know the major superpowers tried to develop flying saucers as early as the 1940s. They claim to have abandoned their plans...but why would they give up such promising technology?

Especially since we put humans on the moon in the Sixties (with such primitive technology and computer science compared to now!), who knows what's going on in Top Secret facilities?

Rivka Levy produced a fascinating post on the topic, describing how the Germans experimented with quantum physics, then were brought to the USA in Operation Paperclip:
​rivkalevy.com/ufos-nazis-and-rebbe-nachmans-dreidel

Many UFO witnesses describe a whole-body sensation: They see the UFO and the lights, hear it, feel vibrations and energy in the air, and experience strong emotions — whether positive or negative.

We know they possess the technology to project holograms onto the night sky. 

It's not far-fetched to assume some governments or militaries produced exceptional drones or other aircraft.

In fact, notice the otherworldly and spooky appearance of the new B-21 stealth bomber:
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Furthermore, we now know about infrasound, with beats and decibels undetected to human ears, yet this imperceivable sound causes dizziness, headaches, anxiety, and lethargy.

In contrast, binaural sounds can produce euphoria, focus, and a sense of well-being.

​Advanced science certainly possesses the technology to combine all this together and produce a convincing illusion which impacts all the senses.

A Theory behind the Alleged UFO Attacks in Brazil

In Vallee's book Confrontations (which I have not read), Vallee describes how he and his wife spent long periods of time investigating severe UFO and ET events.

For example, throughout 1977-1982, the city of Belem (carved out of the Amazon jungle of Brazil) suffered a wave of aerial attacks by UFOs and beam-weapons, affecting thousands of people.

The Brazilian military tried to deal with these attacks, which injured and even killed some people.

A great many people left Belem during this time.

I do not know what happened.

But I do know this:
  1. During World War II, Belem hosted a military air force base.
  2. After World War II, Brazil accepted over 1000 Nazis into their country.

If at least a handful of these Nazis were military scientists, it's completely plausible to theorize that by the late 1970s, top secret advances could produce such aircraft and weaponry, plus we know the Nazis have no compunctions about mass terror and murder in the name of "scientific experimentation."

We really don't need the theory of "aliens from outerspace" to explain such events.

Forewarned is Forearmed

With this topic popping up more in the mainstream, I think it's wise to realize that any ET activity most likely is NOT extra-terrestrial, but davka located very solidly within our own planet.

This means that any so-called ET event or encounter reported or witnessed (even globally) — no matter how frightening or convincing — is staged.

​And that's important to know.

Related posts:
  • https://torasavigdor.org/qa/rav-avigdor-miller-on-emunah-in-ufos/
  • the-1-idea-you-need-to-know-when-hearing-anything-about-space-aliens-ufos.html
  • www.myrtlerising.com/blog/communications-from-stars-or-angels-in-todays-ufo-cults-nothing-new-the-generation-of-the-flood-did-that-too

What's the Best Response When Recommended Efforts & Segulot Bring a Yeshua for Everyone Else, But Not for You?

13/3/2023

 
I really related to the question and Rabbi Mandel's answer in the Bitachon Weekly from Parshat Ki Tisa 5783.

As written here before, I've also had this issue with not seeing a yeshua (salvation, rescue), despite copious davening, segulot, getting brachos from Gedolei HaDor, saying the entire book of Tehillim in one go (which takes me 5-6 hours — and no, I certainly don't manage to maintain kavanah for that amount of time, not even close), saying thank you to Hashem...

Yes, I have seen yeshuot with these efforts. Baruch Hashem! Learning the Gate of Trust in Duties of the Heart every day and listing gratitudes to Hashem brought me yeshuot and amazing siyata d'Shmaya.

Amazing, wonderful things have happened to me via these efforts.

But not always.

On the contrary:

There are some things I really davened for, did segulot for, thanked Hashem for, asked for help and increased emunah & bitachon, and used the awful situation to take a raw no-holds-barred look inside myself and see Hashem's message of what I needed to change within ME (and yes, actually make those changes as I best I could)...I even asked Hashem with all my heart to help me be happy in a very unbearable situation.

​But the answer was no.

And, despite excruciating heartfelt investment on my part, that's what I get sometimes: Nothing.

No help, no yeshua, no love, nothing.

(Or almost nothing.)

It's like the answer isn't just "No," but: "No, I'm not going to help you at all, not even with your inner efforts. No, not only won't I give you a yeshua, but I won't even help you get through it emotionally. I will not help you be happy, calm, accepting, increase your bitachon or emunah — or any of the other lovely middot everyone says these situations are meant to build. You will just have deal with it all on your same old lowly level all on your own — so there! Now just deal with it, lady!"

In one situation, after a couple of decades of the above-mentioned strenuous efforts, the issue only improved slightly.

It's definitely not a yeshua — not even close.

It can be so devastating when you put so much into it and you're asking for something good, something you know Hashem wants too (i.e., you're not asking for a shiny red Ferarri to go zipping about town), and the answer feels like Hashem is saying, "Um, who are you again? 'Is that you talkin' or is that a bumble bee walkin'?' "

​Of course, Hashem is NOT saying that. He's All-Knowing & Supremely Compassionate.

But I refer to the flawed human perception of Hashem. It can FEEL like being ignored or rejected, even though it's not actually like that.

Here's the Bitachon Weekly question with Rabbi Mandel's answer:
Question:
I blame myself for not having enough Bitachon, because I am constantly hearing and reading stories of Nissim.

These miracle stories are PROOF to me that I must not have enough Bitachon, otherwise, why is it that everyone who goes with that approach gets so many Nissim [miracles], and not me??

I completely understand that if this approach is bringing me down, I shouldn’t use it.

But the fact is, I WANT to be ABLE to use the “getting what you want approach.”

It will not help me to hear “not to focus” on these concepts.

Because knowing that they are true is what’s making me so miserable.

It’s knowing that people who DO have enough Bitachon get Nissim, that is bringing me down.

Also regarding “acceptance” bringing Yeshuos, this is also making me depressed like never before.

How come Hashem comes through for them, and not me?

​Why does Hashem value THEIR acceptance and not mine?

I have accepted so many hardships of mine.

If I know that the stories are true, then “ignoring” won’t solve the issue for me.


Answer:
You should know that there are thousands of people who don’t have Yeshuos.

But the Yetzer Hara doesn’t want you to know about those people, so he only makes you hear the “rosy” Yeshuos people have.

​I know many people who were given Brachos from top Gedolim, yet they didn’t end up seeing Yeshuos.

Now, most people have a deep-seeded desire for self-persecution, to feel like losers.

These people have this mentality way before this issue of “hearing success Bitachon stories”, only that now it’s manifesting in this way.

Now, we came to this world to be satisfied no matter what the situation is.

I know a couple who had issues with having children, until even the most optimistic doctor gave-up hope on them having children.

The next day, the husband came home and found his wife all dressed up in Shabbos clothing, and setting up the table to a feast.

The shocked husband asked his wife: “What’s the celebration?”

She responded that she decided that this is what Hashem wants from her, not to have children, and she is so happy. “Who needs children? They are hard to take care of, it’s a big responsibility. We have each other, and that’s what counts.”

She meant what she said. She had a little Yi'ush [despair] in her situation, but it was through accepting.

What happened after that?

24 hours later, the doctor who had given up hope called them back, and said that he found a new solution...and 9 months later they had their baby.

You may have had this mentality way back; it may have been with siblings, relatives, or friends.

People love self-persecution, it’s not unusual, so you should go to war against this mentality, its Middos after all. It’s your Middos issue to constantly think that everyone else has it better.

Now, IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE HAPPY THEN NOTHING WILL STOP YOU.

​Why do we need to have everything we want in order to be happy?...Hashem is my Shepard, so NEVER will I be lacking.

You can be as happy as you want to be. By the way, it’s much more fun to work on Middos than to get what you want; it will keep you young and happy.

Now when you hear people having Yeshuos, you should laugh at it.

Make fun of the whole thing. Say: ”Who needs Yeshuos?’’

Besides, these people have issues that you don’t know about, which are causing them stress, even with their Yeshuos.

If you don’t get Yeshuos, it means that Hashem gave you a specific mission.

Hashem cherishes you more.

Rachel Imeinu didn’t get what she wanted, she had just 2 Shevotim, Leah barely ​got what she wanted, and both Rochel and Leah passed away young.

You know that Chazal say the opposite:...A person does not get even half of his desires during his lifetime.

Chazal are saying that even if a person gets a Yeshua, there is much more that he didn’t get.

The people who got Yeshuos have other issues, and they are kvetching too. If you live for the next world, you are far-more better off.

​A person who has Yissurim in this world, is better off in the next world.

It Works & It Doesn't Work...Which is the Way It's Supposed to Work

I encourage you to read the above at least twice, slowly and thoughtfully, to absorb what he's really saying here.

Because he's not just saying, "Oh, just be happy anyhoo, la-dee-dah!"

I know from past experience with myself, I'm not currently capable of being happy in a very miserable situation — not in the actual moment, anyway. During a break in the stress and misery, well, yeah, I kind of can temporarily.

But other than that, I'm not capable and yes, I TRIED. I really, really tried.

For me, like the woman who decided to embrace her "despair" about supposedly never being able to have children, acceptance meant saying, "I guess Hashem wants me to be a failure!" — and to be happy about that.

And yes, to laugh about it and have a sense of humor about it. (It works, by the way.)

And no, I did not become successful in that area of middot or see a yeshua from my acceptance, etc. I don't know why.

But there is a concept explained in the Lubavitcher Tanya that some people are meant to try without succeeding.

You can read posts about this phenomenon here:
  • www.myrtlerising.com/blog/what-if-you-lean-more-toward-esav-than-yaakov-avinu-the-perfect-mitzvah-for-imperfect-people
  • www.myrtlerising.com/blog/the-torah-was-not-meant-for-angels-so-its-also-not-meant-for-the-chronically-elusive-mr-perfect-what-does-that-mean-for-the-rest-of-us​ ​
  • The Ultimate Meaning behind Pain and Frustration (explains the theme of The Lost Princess)
​
And yes, I know it sounds contradictory, but it is possible to laugh at yourself and make jokes about an inability to be happy in really overwhelming, miserable situations.

Not in a mean way, but just be funny and compassionate with your self-joking.

Anyway...I hope the above helps you as much as it helped me. In fact, I hope it helps you even more!

(Frankly, I still need a lot of help. With myself.)

Related posts:
  • the-1-idea-you-must-tell-yourself-about-your-flaws-mistakes-weaknesses-and-sins.html
  • why-your-nasty-bad-habits-weaknesses-are-actually-your-best-friends.html
  • why-failures-are-not-really-failures-the-ultimate-way-to-relate-to-down-times.html

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Interesting Addendum to the Previous Post

12/3/2023

 
I recently heard an addition to the story told here:
www.myrtlerising.com/blog/when-the-only-person-you-can-really-confide-in-happens-to-be-your-enemy

The woman in this story, who professed her support of the Leftist, secular demonstrations roiling around the country, ended by telling my husband she voted for....the right-wing religious-Zionist party of Itamar Ben Gvir in the last election.

Her choice was the direct result of the experience with her Muslim-Arab employee who was such a sweetie, she couldn't imagine him ever causing any harm, let alone becoming a terrorist himself.

There's obviously a lot of confusion and social pressure going on among the secular Left.

This woman clearly sees the truth in certain aspects, but cannot make a complete break — not yet, anyway. But she seems to be going in the right direction.

May we all succeed in doing true teshuvah from love.

UPDATED: When The Only Person You Can Really Confide in Happens to be Your "Enemy"

9/3/2023

 
On Purim, my husband ended up going through a predominantly secular area with our almost 8-year-old, who was dressed up as military commando.

A secular woman with young children approached him and started to ask him questions.

"What did you dress up as?" — even though it's obvious. But kids always like to explain the obvious, and I think she knew that. Also, I think she wanted to know if he understood what his costume represented.

She asked him how his school (charedi) responded to his choice of costume, what activities they organized for the children, and so on.

Then she turned to my husband and said, "You know, I'm in favor of all these demonstrations." 

She meant the pro-Left, anti-Torah demonstrations roiling around the country now.

We need to make peace with the Arabs, she continued. (The demonstrations aren't just about that. But like a Rorschach blotch, people are projecting their own interpretations onto events.)

Not all Arabs are bad, she said.

My husband agreed with her, but said you still can't trust them with agreements and treaties and the like. Some will never do anything to harm another. But some will act like your bosom buddy, then turn on you.

​How can you know who will respond how?

Furthermore, their leadership is always corrupt and greedy, so it's certainly impossible to trust the leadership, even when individual Muslim-Arabs are trustworthy & willing.

At that point, the woman told him about her personal experience with a Muslim-Arab employee. She delivered hot meals to schools and employed this Muslim-Arab, who always acted like a total sweetie pie. 

As she got to know him, she said to herself and others, "This Arab breaks the stereotype! He would NEVER do anything to harm anyone else — of this, I'm absolutely certain!"

Then she discovered he carried out a terror attack.

Can you imagine?

Your beloved, trustworthy sweetie-pie employee doesn't show up to work one day, and then you see his name and photo publicized as the terrorist who carried out a terror attack against your fellow Jews.

"You see?" said my husband.

​She just looked at him pensively, then said, "Because of this, I voted for Ben Gvir in the last election."

Reading between the Lines

Having lived in Israel over half my life and having learned Hebrew and become familiar with all different kinds of mentalities, I'd like to explain what was going on beneath the surface in the above exchange.

First of all, the woman felt intrigued seeing a little charedi kid dressed up as a soldier when charedim are supposed to be against serving in the army and so on.

Yet despite everything, little charedi boys love to dress up as soldiers and policemen — anything with a gun, as little boys are wont to do.

Also, she felt curious about how the other side lived. That's why she wanted to hear about Purim parties at a charedi school.

Finally, she holds a secular Leftist position because of the brainwashing of her environment.

However, her personal experiences tell her something completely different than her environment.

That's why she lives a contradiction of voicing support of the pro-Left secular demonstrations while voting for their exact opposite: Itamar Ben Gvir's right-wing religious-Zionist party.

In her heart, she knows the truth. But she's still mid-journey and can't quite make the leap yet.

Furthermore, she may have come across nice frum people, whether at work or in the neighborhood or baalei teshuvah within her family.

​Maybe she saw something appealing or inspiring on Hidabroot.

But she has no one with whom to share her conflicting feelings. Her secular Leftist environment won't allow open & honest discussion.

So she approaches obviously frum people, presents her position according to how her society tells her to feel, experiences how the frum person both listens AND stands his or her ground in a very nice way...and then she indicates her true feelings and experiences by telling a personal story.

And clearly, she cannot tell her peers for whom she voted, so she tells a frum stranger because she's sure he'll understand.

This isn't uncommon in Eretz Yisrael.

Israelis tend to approach frum people, quasi-challenge them, and upon seeing the frum person willing to engage with them in a friendly manner, the secular Israeli starts to open up.

This happens to me more regarding their religious feelings, but as shown above, they also do it regarding their political feelings.

Simply put, secular Israeli Leftists live a confused, conflicted, repressed society.

And as odd as it sounds, the approachable frum person is the only one with whom they feel they can discuss their true feelings.

And they do.

I think it's a good sign.

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Why This Russian-Ukrainian War Should Never Have Happened, Plus More Reasons Not to Support the Sleazy Ukrainian Leader

9/3/2023

 
I would really like to stop writing about the sleazy Ukrainian elected as leader of the Ukraine, but because the media — and most disturbingly the Jewish media, including some Orthodox outlets — exalted him, then we must emphasize the FACTS.

In addition to doubts about his actual Jewish status (who is his mother?), his behavior and objects of admiration condemn him.

(BTW, even if proof comes out of a Jewish maternal line, then that would make him Erev Rav, and not of a Yisrael soul.)

First of all, while I don't have access to video to confirm this, you can apparently find English-subtitled clips of his stand-up routines in which he "jokes" about robbing Russians and Jews.

Are you laughing?

I'm not.

We see how much he hates Russians. Apparently, he lumps Jews in the same category...but he simply hasn't acted on it yet.

Or maybe he has. After all, photos and other evidence appear to show him previously aligned with the Ukrainian Nazis organization.

Again, I'm not personally able to confirm this.

But I put it out there as evidence why we should NOT support him or even think of him as more than something gross stuck to the bottom of a dirty sneaker.

Show Me Who Your Heroes are and I'll Show You Who You are

Ukrainians built a monument to their national hero, Stefan Bandera.

Bandera inspired the Ukrainians to massacre Jews during the Holocaust.

The Great Ukrainian Sleazebag Leader also considers Bandera a national hero.

Furthermore, the Great Ukrainian Sleazebag Leader recently lauded fellow Ukrainian sleazebag, Dimitro Kotsyubaylo, as a hero.

Disturbingly, Kotsyubaylo jokes about feeding the bones of Russian children to his pet wolf.

Please note: He doesn't even make the gruesome joke about Russians, but davka about the children. 

Sick.

​(FYI: My heroes are Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and Recha Sternbuch.)

The 13-Point Minsk Agreement, What's In It, and Why the Ukraine Would've Been Better Off Submitting to the Agreement

To avoid war with Russia, all V.Z. had to do was adhere to the 13-Point Minsk Agreement, which says:
  • Immediate, comprehensive ceasefire.
  • Withdrawal of heavy weapons by both sides.
  • OSCE monitoring.
  • Dialogue on interim self-government for Donetsk and Luhansk, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledgement of special status by parliament.
  • Pardon, amnesty for fighters.
  • Exchange of hostages, prisoners.
  • Humanitarian assistance.
  • Resumption of socioeconomic ties, including pensions.
  • Ukraine to restore control of the state border.
  • Withdrawal of foreign armed formations, military equipment, mercenaries.
  • Constitutional reform in Ukraine including decentralisation, with specific mention of Donetsk and Luhansk.
  • Intensify Trilateral Contact Group’s work including representatives of Russia, Ukraine and OSCE.
(Source: https://byjus.com/free-ias-prep/minsk-agreement/)

As you can see, the agreement is perfectly reasonable — especially for a pathetic, incompetent country like the Ukraine.

As evidenced in previous posts, the Ukraine as a newly independent nation was an impoverished, profoundly corrupt, conflicted, bigoted, alcoholic mess.

​(Yes, there are good people & successful people there too. But as a society, the numbers show the country as a failure in almost every way.)

The millions of displaced Ukrainians who lost their homes, communities, and livelihoods & now live as undesirable and resented refugees in other countries are NOT better off than they would have been under the Minsk Agreement.

Certainly, the Ukrainians killed or maimed by the war are NOT better off than alive and whole under the Minsk Agreement.

​Furthermore, if the nuclear-armed Russian bear decides to put a quick end to the fighting and turn the Ukraine into glass, that is NOT better than agreeing to the Minsk Agreement.

Note: Reports coming out of the Ukraine claim the Ukrainians murder captured Russian soldiers with gory viciousness. No one who knows the history of the Ukraine should be surprised; many Ukrainians throughout history have displayed a particularly bloodthirsty barbarian side. (Ironic how so many of them are ending up in Germany & Poland...)

Rather than continuing to send in Russian soldiers to die and to die in such torturous ways, the Russians might just nuke the Ukraine.

How Do I Despise Thee? Let Me Count the Ways...

​My loathing of V.Z. stems from his eagerness to involve Israel in his war against Russia, thereby making Israel a target of the heavily armed and vast Russian bear (who is already on our border in Syria, by the way).

Just that alone makes him mud in my book. Everything else just provides more evidence of his despicable character.

Predictably, Ukrainian refugees — mostly non-Jewish — started flooding into Israel. We already have a problem with the negative impact of the vast non-Jewish Soviet immigration to Israel.

Intermarriage, unemployment, anti-Torah positions, alcoholism, pritzus, crime, antisemitic incidents, and support of the same socialist policies that oppress Eastern European countries — all this shot up with the predominantly non-Jewish immigration from Soviet countries.

Furthermore, Eastern Europeans who immigrate to America tend to want to blend into American society. 

But in Israel, these same non-Jewish Eastern Europeans tend to want to maintain their culture & make Israeli society more like them.

And I'm genuinely flabbergasted why the Orthodox Jewish media did not immediately cotton on to the real V.Z. and davka did the opposite — they started lauding him.

To me, with my limited access to news & research, the truth about this sleazebag was obvious from the beginning.

​With all their access to research, why didn't they see it immediately?

How disgusting that Israel sent its representative to speak directly with the Great Ukrainian Sleazebag and promise him Israel's support. 

​Not my support!

Why should anyone support him when he is an immoral, greedy, sleazy, psychopathic war-mongering Jew-hater?

Regular Jews who Do Amazing Acts: Turning a Traumatic Situation into a Healing Situation in Haifa

7/3/2023

 
The hard-working & gifted frum caterer, Orit Dadon, lives in Haifa with her husband and their 8 children.

When Orit and her family first moved into this apartment, an 80-year-old neighbor knocked on the door.

"How many children do you have?" the elderly neighbor asked brusquely.

"Five," said Orit.

The neighbor then proceeded to warn Orit against allowing her family to make any kind of noise that might possibly bother this neighbor who lived in the apartment directly beneath theirs.

This woman lived alone and as time went on, she seemed to have nothing to do but harass the Dadons over the slightest noise.

Orit recalled, "It got so that if I dropped a cucumber on the floor at four in the morning, I immediately heard her banging her broomstick in rebuke."

(Yeah, some events — like an early morning bris — mean the caterer needs to be up at 4 in the morning to get the food ready on time.)

This ugly dynamic continued for a year, with Orit finding it progressively traumatic, even to the point of suffering nightmares from her neighbor's behavior.

She knew from the other neighbors this older woman had always been like this and nothing ever inspired her to show mercy upon her neighbors.

Finally, Orit decided to act.

She did not want her children to grow up feeling traumatized by living with a neighbor like this.

And Orit realized she could no longer go on like this herself.

That Erev Shabbat, Orit prepared extra challahs and more food, then told her children to bring them down to that neighbor.

"Because she's so difficult," Orit explained to them, "we must be even nicer!"

The children returned full of enthusiasm. "You should have seen how her eyes lit up when she saw what we brought her!" they said.

Orit decided to make this the Erev Shabbat family mission every week.

​However, she emphasized that it took a VERY long time for this lonely, bitter neighbor to mellow out.

It's not clear whether this elderly neighbor was ever married or never-married, whether she had kids or not.

Regardless, she lived totally on her own with no visitors, no friends, and no apparent family.

But the situation made a completely turnaround.

"Now she eats with us every Shabbat!" said Orit.

It turned out that the elderly lady is a Holocaust survivor.

And the Shabbat meals with the Dadons managed to take her back to the innocent years BEFORE the horrific genocide.

​If she's only in her Eighties now, that means she was a young child when the Nazis invaded. 

Without ever realizing it, she needed a way to reach back beyond those years of terror and decades of terrible grief, bitterness, and loneliness that followed. 

And the Dadons, without knowing what they were doing, provided that conduit for her.

It's amazing that Shabbat with a young Sephardi Israeli family provided the healing memories necessary for this elderly Ashkenazi woman originally from Eastern Europe.

But that's the unifying spirit of Shabbat.

And it also shows how breaking our middot — as Orit did by showering kindness on the source of her intense distress — can provide a necessary breakthrough that heals everyone involved. 

A Brief Word regarding Recent Tragedies

6/3/2023

 
A lot of trauma and tragedy have been happening within the Jewish world recently, particularly the frum world and particularly in Eretz Yisrael.

I admit I no longer search for the disturbing details about the events.

And I no longer look to see what different political leaders say about it.

By now, I know the response from various sectors never differ.

The only thing that really matters are the calls for teshuvah and inner scrutiny, each person according to one's individual level and unique character traits and tikkunim.

So that's what I do, although it's more like stumbling along a never-ending rock-strewn path rather than a big burst of teshuvah.

I very much wish the great backsliding among the Jews in Eretz Yisrael never had happened. It's heart-breaking and most people don't even realize how bad and warped it really is.

Just like with the Golden Calf, the Erev Rav within Eretz Yisrael led good Jews into dancing around a false ideal and engaging in illicit behaviors.

May we all succeed in separating from the Erev Rav (including the Erev Rav sparks within ourselves) and may Hashem please bring the final Geula quickly with tremendous rachamim.

Rav Itamar Schwartz on Why Hashem Saved Am Yisrael on Purim, But Queen Esther Needed to Stay with a Jew-Hating Idol-Worshipping Menuval

5/3/2023

 
A lot of people rightfully feel disturbed by the fate of Queen Esther.

The rest of Am Yisrael experiences joy, unity, salvation, triumph, and celebration — but Queen Esther does not seem to. 

We want the happy ending in which Mordechai HaYehudi rescues his wife from the Zoroastrian harem and the horrible king who had her kidnapped and forcibly married to him.

But that desired ending never arrives.

Why not?

What really happened with Queen Esther after that first glorious Purim?

As usual, the answer is complex and deep...and not all is as it seems.

Here's Rav Itamar Schwartz of Bilvavi on the topic:
The Geulah on Purim was a preparation for the Geulah shelaimah (complete Redemption), but it was not yet the Geulah shelaimah itself.

The Gemara says that “We are still the slaves of Achashveirosh” (Talmud Bavli Megillah 14a).

Mordechai was only favored by “most” of Klal Yisrael, but not to all of them, and the Gemara says that this was because he had to be involved with the government, so he was not accepted by everyone after that.

And, similarly, Esther remained as Achashveirosh’s queen.

However, the Zohar says that Esther took control of Achashveirosh’s power and of his entire kingdom.

Esther represents the spiritual point of malchus d’Atzilus, and Achashverosh was the Zeir Anpin on the side of impurity.

According to the Zohar, she sent a demon in her stead to be with Achashveirosh, and this is unlike the view of the Talmud Bavli, which states that Esther was forced to be with Achashveirosh.

The sefer Magid Meisharim writes that because the Jewish people sinned by marrying gentile women, they were punished with Esther being forced to be married a rasha.

The sefer Chemdas Yomim says that Esther represents the Malchus D’Atzilus, the Shechinah, which was placed into exile, for she was forced to be married to a wicked person, like a rose among the thorns.

The Ramchal also writes that Esther being forced to be with Achashveirosh represents how the Shechinah is currently exiled to the Sitra Achra, to the side of evil.

Achashveirosh wanted to control Esther – the Shechinah – but Mordechai made the demon swear that it would take Esther’s stead and go to Achashverosh instead.

So even when she had to go willingly to Achashverosh, she never actually was with him, because she sent a demon to be with him instead, so she never actually stayed with Achashverosh for the rest of her life.

It was only in the beginning when she was first taken as queen, that she had to be with Achashverosh – but she did not actually remain with him.

https://question.bilvavi.net/blog/2021/02/25/deep-insights-into-megillas-esther/

Why the Push toward War? Very Different Motives Lead to a Common Goal – But as With Dor HaFlagah, They will All be Thwarted in the End

2/3/2023

 
*Note: Dor HaFlagah was the Generation of Dispersion of Tower of Babble infamy.

War, War – Who is It Good for?

Why would people push toward war?

Depending on what you read, you see either Russia pushing toward war or America pushing toward war.

And all the Edomite countries seem gung-ho in this direction.

(Interestingly, most of the non-Edom world either does not want this war or sides with Russia. You see this throughout the Yishmaelite world, Africa, and the Far East.)

But really, it's the fiends behind the leaders.

Putin himself doesn't seem to want war, but the Ukraine crossed a red line it really didn't need to cross.

At the same time, some Russian advisors are calling for a nuclear strike in the Ukraine, seeing it as a way to end a war more quickly and prevent further causalities — much like the American reason for dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Except the Russian advisors wish to be even more humane than the Americans. The American military dropped leaflets warning the Japanese citizens of a strike on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

But the Japanese of 1945 did not understand what that meant. Many thought if they'd hide underground, they'd be safe.

The truth is, the U.S. military did not fully realize what bombing those cities would mean. It had never been done before.

So the Russian advisors who wish to nuke the Ukraine also wish to do so with more warning.

And on the American and European side, many governments goaded the Ukraine into this war with Russia, perfectly happy to sacrifice millions of Ukrainians for this war.

​But why has it come to this?

Hashem Responds to Our Actions as a Society

If you listen to theories from the non-Jewish Right, you hear terms like "The Great Reset" "Neocons" "the Deep State" and so on.

Black-and-white thinking attracts many people.

But those of us connected to Torah need to stretch our minds more.

First of all, Hashem is orchestrating things according to our deeds.

Rav Itamar Schwartz has been saying for a long time that we are in the middle of the War of Gog and Magog. Any World War that erupts now is merely a physical manifestation of the spiritual war tormenting us for the past several years.

The Western world has become a moral cesspool.

Even right-wing conservative Christians show themselves as more liberal and raunchy than liberal democrats of the 1950s.

(Please see this post for examples: www.myrtlerising.com/blog/a-new-american-revolution-nope-and-heres-why)

Self-proclaimed religious right-wing pundits no longer even try to push "waiting for marriage," opting instead to push birth control and adoption as a way to fight abortion.

Today, many right-wing Christian female pundits dress in provocative manner — including when going to church (and that wasn't widely acceptable even as recently as the 1990s).

Many right-wing Christian and modern Orthodox Jews pundits today freely use foul language banned by secular-liberal television in the 1980s.

​"Traditional family values" go lost even by them.

And the liberal side is so far gone, it's not worth going into detail about it here. Simply pick up any mainstream newspaper or turn on any mainstream news channel.

Most of society is not ready to return to what it was prior to the Sixties. Even the right-wing religious pundits do not want that.

Individual exceptions exist.

But society as a whole has gone off the rails.

And Hashem doesn't like it.

Behind a Seemingly Unified Agenda are Differing Agendas

But why do the orchestrators of "The Great Reset" and "the Deep State" want a war?

Please don't think the wicked people are so organized and unified.

Yes, they're drunk with power. 

But things swerve out of their control; they simply cannot control every little thing.

For example, one of the only people to speak honestly about these wicked leaders and influencers was Rav Itamar Schwartz.

​When asked about the government and covid-19, Rav Schwartz answered:
The details of the current situation are partially a real concern and partially fabricated – sometimes a little fabricated, and sometimes largely fabricated.

Part [of the reason of why the current corona situation is exaggerated] is due to a lack of thinking and understanding [on the government’s part], part of it is being done on purpose by the government because of all kinds of agendas they have, and also because of politics, money, trying to weaken religion in Israel, a desire of the government to take more control over the country, etc.


https://question.bilvavi.net/blog/2021/08/24/14901-is-there-really-a-new-wave-of-corona-now/

In other words, the powers that be kind of know what they're doing and kind of not.

Different agendas exist.

For some, destroying the Jewish religion remains their prime goal. For others, it's all about personal greed or power.

Likewise, those pushing for war come from different angles.

5 Motivations for Destroying the World as We Know It

Here are some motivations we see today:

1) Some are modernized nature worshippers (like the Nazis or the Biblical Ashera cults). They manifest as climate fanatics who truly believe in manmade global warming and wish to see Russia crippled because it reigns as a leading natural gas provider, plus Russia doesn't kowtow to a lot of environmental policies.

Some see a potential loss of wealth and wish to take over the wealth of others — "you won't own anything and you'll be happy."

​But if you don't own it, then who does?

If there's wealth, someone has to own it. It doesn't just sit in a big mound in the middle of a midwestern prairie.

So they see war (followed by "The Great Reset") as a way of cancelling all debt and redistributing wealth...into their pockets, of course. Not yours.

2) Some like the feeling of power. They like moving and shaking things, making decisions, controlling events.

Some of the power-hungry see themselves as saviors for the "lesser" masses. They see themselves as good and helpful, but lack the moral sense to realize how condescending and dehumanizing their attitudes are. (Many academically super-smart people carry this attitude. We've all met them. Just imagine them a whole lot bigger and more powerful with greater influence...)  

3) Some like war. Just like a great many people enjoy realistic gaming battles, these people like real ones. And they imagine they'll come out victorious.

4) Some enjoy a sick curiosity and desire for the "interesting." We've had nuclear weapons for decades, yet we don't really know what would happen if they got used. Some people want to know (from the safety of their luxury shelters, of course).

5) Some just hate Russia. They are like bigoted boozy white-trash who want to get into a fight. They always hated Russia and think destroying Russia will gain them something.

This is like the generations-long feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys. Or the centuries-old enmity between certain ethnic or nationalist groups in Europe (Bosnians and Serbs come to mind, for example).

It's the guy they love to hate.

And so on.

Communism & Nazism: Different Motives, Same Goal

In Communist Russia and China, some of the original Communists genuinely wanted equality and an end to poverty and persecution. They genuinely believed Communism would provide that.

Others saw it as a way to gain power or money.

Either way, they all worked together toward this common cause.

A lot of true-believers were either murdered later or went over to the dark side, unable to resist the seduction of luxury even as the people they fought for suffered in poverty and government oppression.

In Nazi Germany, it was the same.

Many saw Nazism as a way toward social equality. Many saw Nazism as a "clean" way of living, with its emphasis on nature preservation, vegetarianism, and anti-smoking.

​This got twisted into annihilating the Jews for "polluting" their "clean" race.

Some Nazi leaders and their followers relished the cruelty and butchery.

Others loathed it, but saw it as a necessary evil.

The commandant of Auschwitz impressed others as a pleasant, quiet guy. He also voiced his distaste of the suffering of Jewish children. But he kept going with the Holocaust, seeing Jewish suffering and the genocide of children as a necessary evil. Ultimately, this commandant (who felt so disturbed by the suffering of Jewish children and who behaved so nicely) was responsible for the murder of 1.5 million Jews — not to mention the horrific torments suffered by these murdered Jews and the Jewish survivors.

Nazism opposed Christianity because of its basis on Judaism and its belief in God, but not all Nazis were secular atheists in the way we think.

​Yes, many were.

But many saw Nazism as a way to practice the occult. They dreamed of creating a Nazi Vatican and performed occult rituals in forests.

Nazis also murdered some of the fuhrer's biggest supporters because they wanted power more than the social change promised by the fuhrer.

Please see these past posts for more on that topic:
part-8-americas-scary-new-direction-clean-green-nazis.html
part-10-americas-scary-new-direction-new-age-nazis.html

Liberals & Leftists Excel at Presenting a United Front – a FALSE Front

For some reason, liberals seem a lot better at presenting a united front, even when they don't like each other at all.

For example, the Clintons and Obamas act like supportive buddies, but don't actually like each other.

Within their marriages, insiders report how Hillary hates her husband (with good reason, I might add) and recently, Michelle revealed that she didn't much like Barak even as they acted like the perfect White House couple.

​(Having said that, her dislike of her husband was apparent at times, but most chose not to see it.)​

The Chilling Resemblance between Dor HaFlaga & Today's World

The leaders of the Generation of the Dispersion (of Tower of Babble infamy) reflected this dynamic.

Some wanted the tower built to fight with Hashem (as if!).

Some wanted the tower to escape the presumed Great Flood cycle, believing that a tall enough tower wouldn't be covered by the rising water.

Along those lines, some intended to build the tower high enough to launch sailing ships into space and avoid the deluge of waters altogether. (They thought there was water and oxygen up there.)

Some wanted it to spy on their subjects.

Some wanted it for their occult worship, foolishly intending to utilize the tower as a conduit to reach abundance from the constellations above.

Some wanted it for self-aggrandized virtue-signaling. In the words of the Kli Yakar (Beresheit 11:6): "They planned to make a status symbol dedicated to peace..." 

And so on.

Yet the leaders presented a united front of "Let's all get together in this one place" — rather than spreading out and settling the entire world, as Hashem wanted and specifically ordered them to do — "and build this really awesome tower as a sign of our unity and peace!"

As Rabbi Tauber noted decades ago, this was the first Communist society.

Yet just like today's liberal leftist leaders, all their propaganda of "global village" and "let's all be the same!" merely led to an increase of murder, violence, theft, competition, government corruption, and valuing equipment over human life (Malbim, Beresheit 11).

But the point is this:

The leaders all had DIFFERENT MOTIVATIONS for wanting the SAME GOAL.

The pro-Tower politician who wanted it to spy on the people is very different than the politician who wanted it to launch ships in case of another Great Flood.

And they were different than the politician who wished to use it as an occult conduit.

What they shared in common was greed, arrogance, Godlessness, and a terrible thirst for self-aggrandizement and a "Me first!" attitude.

They considered themselves important while everyone else was dispensable.

And that's how it is today too.

Please see here for more:
  • www.myrtlerising.com/blog/the-hidden-sin-of-the-flood-generation-what-we-can-learn-from-it-today-aka-the-kli-yakar-on-parshat-noach
  • The Invasion of 3 Ancient Generations: How to Explain the Current Chaos & Corruption of the Modern World
  • personality-disorders-what-are-we-really-seeing-and-how-does-that-connect-to-the-generations-of-the-flood-the-dispersion-sodom-and-the-erev-rav.html​
  • parallels-between-the-generation-of-dispersal-the-tower-of-babel-dor-haflagah-migdal-bavel-link-to-a-fascinating-class-plus-some-brief-explanation-here.html

Communists, Globalist, Environmentalists, Elitists...Different Motives for a Pseudo-United Goal

So yeah, some leaders are into the Green environmentalist cult of thinking. They truly believe in manmade global warming.

They want to destroy Russia and take control of the world for their misguiding unscientific Green motives.

Others want the wealth of Russia (and everyone else). They want to take control because of that. They know the whole global-warming belief system is bunk.

Yet both groups utilize each other in their common goal of destroying Russia and achieving world domination.

And then the guys who simply want to play with nukes (while ensconced in their luxury shelters) are yet another player in the destructive game.

But don't think anyone actually cares about anyone else.

If they get their way (and they won't, ultimately), they'll rip each other apart for dominance.

​The presentation of unity is a sham.

And this variance confuses a lot of people looking for a unified theory of the psychopathic fools behind the Great Reset.

Where the Truth is Found

It's worth noting that the Book of Ovadia predicts the end of Edomite civilization. And it uses the metaphor of burning up regarding their end.

A lot of what's happening now is the beginning of the end.

It's like the dying fish flapping wildly on the sunny deck.

But in Shamayim, the angelic representatives of these nations have already gone to war with each other. What's happening down here is merely a reflection of their spiritual reality.

​Please see here:
​
www.myrtlerising.com/blog/the-rising-russian-bear-ringing-the-bells-of-geula-what-it-means-for-us

So let's be careful before demonizing or defending either the Russian government or the American government (or any other representative of Edom).

When the End comes, a lot of people will initially die — both Jews and non-Jews.

A minority in both groups will initially survive the End of Days.

But Hashem will bring many to life again.

The Book of Yeshaya describes the process and the end result.

Mashiach will return all nations to their God-given boundaries — especially Am Yisrael. We will be in our Tribal inheritances of Eretz Yisrael.

The whole world will recognize Hashem and want to learn more about Hashem and serving Hashem from Am Yisrael.

So Am Yisrael will be shining at the forefront of that Holy Project & Ideal Existence — without compromise. 

​It will be a very happy time for everyone.

​And Am Yisrael will live in true peace & unity with each other, serving Hashem in its specially designated Chosen way.​

Please see here for more:
  • what-yeshayahu-foretells-for-our-generation.html
  • a-timely-message-of-the-meam-loez-from-sefer-yeshayahu.html​

The Government & Media Follow the Nazi Playbook to Manipulate Society

21/2/2023

 
Sadly, the American government and media follows the Nazi playbook to manipulate society into going into war.

The unforgivably evil Nazi commander Goring admitted that, of course, people don't want to go to war.

As he said during the Nuremberg Trials:
Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Naturally, the common people don't want war...after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along...the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.

​That is easy. 

Look at how aware he was of what he was doing.

He shows total awareness of who the common people are and exactly how they feel: ANTI-war.

He knows it's not worth it for them.

He also shows complete awareness of what awaits any man drafted into war.

Yet that's merely seen as an obstacle to overcome with simple propaganda, as he describes in 3 easy steps:
​All you have to do tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

That was the old playbook. Here it is laid out as a list:
​
  1. Tell your citizens they're being attacked.
  2. ​Denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism.
  3. Denounce the peacemakers for exposing the country to danger.

(Please note how condescending he felt toward his own citizens. No respect; just saw them as unwilling pawns who merely needed to be manipulated into thinking differently — and that it was "easy" to do.)

​Yet America's politicians and media realized they needed to adjust the script of the playbook to appeal to the modern American who thinks patriotism is a bad thing.

We see this played out socially:

  1. Tell your citizens they're being attacked by right-wing religious Conservatives (by calling everything you don't like a "war on women" or "racism" or "_____phobic").
  2. Denounce anyone who doesn't actively agree with you as suffering from a lack of compassion.
  3. Denounce anyone who doesn't actively agree with you as exposing society to danger.

Because Americans today prefer to FEEL virtuous (without having to actually BE virtuous) rather than patriotic, the media and government now focus the script on other people in other countries:

  1. Tell your citizens the Ukrainians are being attacked.
  2. Denounce the peacemakers for a lack of Ukrainian patriotism.
  3. Denounce the peacemakers for exposing the Ukraine to danger.

That's exactly what's going on.

​We can all see it.

Breaking Off from Brainwashing is Hard to Do

One secular liberal American wrote to express unhappiness regarding rising gasoline prices in the USA, but concluded by saying, "However, if that will help the Ukrainians, then I'm happy to pay the price!"

How deluded and brainwashed.

The Ukrainian people receive NOTHING from their government and NOTHING from whatever extra Americans pay at the pump.

And I don't know where goes all the money donated to different organizations for the Ukrainians.

It's shocking to realize it's davka America pushing the world into war.

That's pretty Edomite — I guess the true colors finally came through.

Rav Avigdor Miller fought against this his whole life.

He always encouraged us to vote for NON-liberal politicians — no matter what goodies the liberal politicians promised the frum community, Rav Miller exhorted everyone to vote according to public morality, not private goodies.

He tried very hard to prevent the kind of people in power now from getting into power.

But it's too late. Now the tide has turned so far, I don't think we can get them out.

And the Nazi playbook still works, apparently, because 65% of Americans support the Ukraine.

​The Ukraine (most notably, its sleazebag leader) could have easily prevented this war by agreeing to Russia's pragmatic stipulations.

Donbas was always Russian & remains predominantly Russian until today; its recent border came about from an administrative decision by former Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Anyway, the Ukraine doesn't have a history of being its own independent country.

Okay, sure, the Ukraine received independence as recently as the 1990s...and proceeded to fail miserably at being a remotely functional nation.

Until then, it was always part of Lithuania or Russia.

In fact, Ukrainians joined the Nazis during the Holocaust because the Nazis promised them independence (you see from this how low much of Ukrainian society is willing stoop just for the sake of ego), but the Nazis lost the war.

(Not that the Nazis would've kept their promises. Remember, they viewed non-Germans as second-class citizens. So in addition to being evil & barbaric, many Ukrainians were also stupid.)

I know it's hard with the entire mainstream media and the American government and even — shamefully — the Jewish media encouraging everyone to be gung-ho in favor of the Ukraine and all boo-hiss against Russia.

Even Israel's guy met with the sleazebag Ukrainian to assure him of support. (How wicked and idiotic.)

But I think the manipulation and propaganda are obvious.

The American media and government are clearly following a well-used playbook used for genocide.

​And we should know.

Related posts:
www.myrtlerising.com/blog/the-disease-of-media-induced-hypocritical-fandom
www.myrtlerising.com/blog/a-5-year-old-jewish-girl-against-an-evil-traitor-to-the-nazis
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