Witches and trust

Mentioned witches and trust yesterday. Here’s a rehash of a couple earlier items relating to both.

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From 2017, dealing with the RUSSIAN_HACKING witch hunt, now resumed after the hunters satisfied their killing frenzy with the “virus”.

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We have two competing witch-hunts underway.

The RUSSIAN_HACKING hunt started a year ago and spawned dozens of long-running “investigations”, which continue to lead nowhere. Flynn and Manafort may be indicted for the usual nonsense about “lying to FBI”, which means that FBI thinks they’re white Christians.

The sexual harassment hunt started a month ago, and continues to bring down important media demons. We still don’t know why the blackmail, which had been perfectly effective for DECADES, suddenly popped. We just hear names and names and names.

Whenever you see a loud flashy puppet show with no apparent purpose, you can be sure something meaningful and purposeful is happening behind the stage. Major tectonic plates are grinding and shifting. This is the American version of the old Soviet Borodin effect.

Are these two shows related? Or do they hide distinct and separate private quakes?

Back in ’47, Ripley told how the Lancashire witch hunts of the 1600s ended. I can’t find an online reference to the names given in Ripley’s story, so I’ll just summarize. True or not, it’s an excellent fable.

An unlicensed healer named Margaret Saunders had been curing people for many years. She used a talisman containing mysterious letters, and chanted mysterious words while invoking the gods of healing. One day she failed to cure a baby of the ague, as happens sometimes with any licensed or unlicensed doctor. The dead baby’s father cried Witch! and brought Saunders to trial.

The persecutor tried repeatedly to force Margaret to admit that the talisman came from Satan. She refused but wouldn’t say how or where she got it. After the jury condemned her to death for witchcraft, the judge decided to interrogate Saunders because her story seemed familiar. It turned out that the judge and Saunders had met 30 years earlier, when Saunders was the daughter of an innkeeper and the judge was a young law student. Saunders had a baby who was ill. The law student couldn’t pay his lodging bill. He wrote some random Greek letters on a piece of parchment and persuaded Margaret that it was a magic talisman with curative powers. She used it and her baby got well. The lodging bill was forgiven.

After that, she found that she could cure other kids with the talisman.

When the judge told the full story in court, Saunders was freed and the hunting fever was cured.

Broad moral: in natural processes like healing, “facts” and “evidence” are secondary. Trust and confidence are primary. Saunders was able to cure because she had faith in the talisman that had worked for her, even though the talisman was created as a cynical and arrogant fraud. Her faith induced a corresponding field of faith in the people who trusted her.

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(After rereading, I can’t see why I thought the Saunders story answered the specific question about two witch hunts, but it’s an important message anyway.)

From 2021, dealing with mental immunity and desistance:

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During last week’s power outage (3 days without electricity, 4 days without web) I relearned and refocused a broad decision I’d made a long time ago.

I always keep propane equipment and a battery-powered radio ready for outages. The radio is mainly for noise while sleeping. At the start of the outage I tried the “local” “news-talk” station and immediately turned it off. YAARGH! A huge blast of toxic poison!

I tried Tom Read’s Christian station, and stayed there for relatively harmless noise, including even some OTR at night.

But some of the Christian talkers were also taking part in the poisonfest from the “other” “side”. While the conventional networks were blasting FUCKTRUMP FUCKTRUMP FUCKTRUMP at 160 dB, the evangelicals were stoutly defending Trump. Why? Israel. In their minds the ONLY NATION IN THE WORLD IS ISRAEL. When they talk about patriotism, they mean loyalty to ISRAEL. They were either too stupid to catch onto the long-standing fraud perpetrated by Lee Atwater, or they’re paid participants. Trump is NOT stupid. He played this game hard, and received the reward.

REMEMBER!!!!! TRUMP IS ROY COHN’S PROTEGE!!!

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I’ve never been OCD about physical germs. I understand immunity. Since 2010 I’ve become increasingly OCD about mental inputs. After throwing out the TV in 2010, I was able to start THINKING again. Since then I’ve gradually decreased other inputs. About six months ago, specifically triggered by the BLM riots, I turned off the AM radio and left it off. I’ve also pulled away from several “alt” websites like RT and ZeroHedge, which are clearly paid participants.

Until the power outage, I was deriving a dim distorted echo of media concerns from chance mentions in various places such as the subject lines of spam emails. Like a vaccine, those previews kept the mental immunity fresh without overwhelming it. I could tell, for instance, that Congress was farting about an absurdly futile “impeachment”, but I didn’t have to receive and reject the emotional impact of the grotesquely hyperidiotic “discussions”.

So the outage reinforced my resolve to avoid thinking about such matters and avoid discussing them here as much as possible.

Don’t Be There. When you participate in protests “for” “the” “correct” “side”, you’re strengthening the side you don’t like. When you argue details of a currently hot topic, you’re helping Deepstate to use the topic for tyranny. There are no “correct” “sides”, there are only toxic topics.

As long as Side B is visible and annoying, the demons of Side A will kill Side B. When demons can’t see Side B, they get bored and find other outlets. Often the other outlets are insufficiently orthodox members of Side A. Witch hunts end when they burn the initial igniters. Revolutions end when they guillotine or purge the Trotskyites or Deviationists. You can’t count on this self-consumption, but it’s more likely when Side B remains quiet.

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