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Fun fact: Teutonic (where English and a few other languages come from) had the
word 'wis-an': to be, remain, continue to be. In Gothic it was 'wes-an'. With
the arrival of catholicism and its technique of defining right from wrong to
suit those in power, so they would be dependent on the monks and priests, the
word and concept dropped out of the language.
Fun quiz: what influence has this had on the mind and governments?
Hint: ideas and concepts influence events, events affect people. Ideas and
concepts affect behaviour. It's hard to adopt an idea or be influenced by a
concept if you don't have words to express it in.
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Date: May 06, 2025 12:00AM
Fun fact: the vatican launched the Albigensian Crusade, or Cathar Crusade, a
military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III, to eradicate
Catharism in 1209. All who participated on the catholic side were promised
forgiveness by God for whatever sins they had committed. Just like that. A
very flexible depiction of God. On this crusade a noble asked the Papal Legate
how they would distinguish between Cathars and catholics. He replied:
"Kill them, for the Lord knows those that are His". This introduced
the term and concept: 'Kill them all, God will sort them out' ever since.
The Cathars were not only a rival hierarchy preaching from the bible, but...
wait for it... let women hold positions in the hierarchy! The vatican would use
a book it published:
The Witches Hammer, to teach its monks and priests
how to identify women to be killed, for speaking out of their level in society,
questioning catholic doctrine, whatever. A murder campaign that shaped Europe
for centuries.
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Date: May 07, 2025 04:18AM
Fun fact: catholic monks and priests used to claim water from the ocean
travelled underground, up inside mountains and hills, then out again as brooks,
creeks and streams. If you argued you could be burned at the stake. It wasn't
until the 1640's that experiments by protestants demonstrated the amount of
water flowing down from the mountains and hills was almost the same as the rain.
It seems obvious to us now, but it was a revolution then.
This was the time of Robert Boyle, whose 'Boyle's Law' states that the pressure
of a gas will double if its volume halves. This seems obvious to us now, but it
paved the way for the steam age.
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Date: May 08, 2025 08:31AM
Fun fact: in Old Teutonic (where English, German, Dutch, Icelandic and
Scandinavian languages come from) 'man' meant 'one'. In English, this has
broken down into 'an': an house, an year, an object. 'An' has further broken
down into 'a': a house, a year, but we don't say a object. Jane Austen, in the
late 1700's-early 1800's, wrote "an house". That was accepted as
correct English at the time.
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Date: May 12, 2025 08:21AM
Fun fact: in Old English, the word 'a' would not be used if only one instance
of the subject was then mentioned. It acted as a double negative. For example:
"He waes God man" (He was a good man) - around 1100AD. 'God' was the
same spelling as an attribute of God, 'good' and you read it in context. 'Waes'
reflects that written English followed the local dialect at the time.
Strangely, royal documents and laws written in London used 'a' as we do, and of
course, royal and government use affected the language.
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Date: May 13, 2025 08:29AM
Fun fact: the first attempt at a standard English dictionary was in the
1700's. This led the catholic monks and priests in France to counsel the French
king to plan a war against England, for this dictionary was organised in the
protestant manner (called 'English manner' in academia): alphabetically.
In France under the Bourbon Kings the monks and priests controlled the French
dictionary, and organised it by subject. That meant a word had very different
meanings, not only regards different subjects, keeping the general population
confused with a word trick, but regards subjects only taught to select groups -
so in theory different groups could not work together against those in power, as
they couldn't properly understand each other. It's a trick described by
Machiavelli, and allegedly still used in rural Italy.
So the dictionary was a tool of mind control - a power taken from them by a much
needed revolution.
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To be frank:
- dictionaries must
always be organised alphabetically;
- words must
always mean what the dictionary says they do, and;
- it must
always be the same dictionary for everyone.
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Date: May 15, 2025 08:56PM
Fun fact: by telling those who trust them they're Christians, yet teaching
them to pray to someone else, Mary, catholic monks, priests and nuns condition
them to be gullible. Mary is dead. She died two thousand years ago. She can't
hear you.
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Date: May 16, 2025 10:00PM
Fun fact: cognitive dissonance is where the mind believes conflicting things.
This creates a mental stress. This in turn can be exploited by one offering a
solution. Viewing the fact above, think of the mind of their follower as like
the ball in a pin ball machine, they are able to bounce it around as they wish.
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Date: May 19, 2025 04:17AM
Fun fact: statements where words have second meanings are called
concatenations. By talking to those who trust them, whilst deliberately using
concatenations, and constantly correcting them, catholic monks, priests and nuns
condition them to think they're not as intelligent as the monks, priests or
nuns. It's word tricks. Subjugating your mind.
If you're often confused in talking with a catholic monk, priest or nun, you're
as yet still too intelligent for them.
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Correction: "concatenation" should read "double entente".
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Date: May 21, 2025 07:58AM
Fun fact: at an upper level, amongst the sects, members of the vatican
hierarchy are taught to do algebra, at the same level as primary school. Each
equation is given a special meaning. They are just made up, yet presented as
knowledge. Studying maths teaches you to analyse. Yet it's a doctrine of the
Vatican that their priests are instruments of the faith, not its analysts. This
conflict in reasoning acts as a filter, ensuring only the stupid pass. The last
equations are: three times three is nine. One times nine.
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Date: May 27, 2025 07:53AM
Fun fact: in 1129AD King Henry I overruled the papal order that archdeacons
and priests could not have wives, and they kept their wives. It was one of the
precedents and things used by Henry VIII four hundred years later. There's a
list of those.
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Date: June 01, 2025 07:15AM
Fun fact: soon after King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215, the
pope 'annulled' it. Catholics use this to morally claim there is therefore no
Magna Carta. But King John promised the pope money to 'annul' it and
excommunicate the barons.
He also promised "Lands, and large possessions" to any foreign
soldiers came to England to help him in his planned war against the barons.
Fourteen thousand people answering this call, told to them encouragingly by
catholic bishops and priests, were at sea when they were hit by a "sudden
tempest" and all were drowned, the shore was "infected with their
putrid bodies". Echoed by the Spanish Armada 370 years later.
1218AD: "Waldo the legate being sent for by the pope to return, departed
toward Rome with an infinite quantity of money gotten by one means or
other."
Having no support from the barons or the townspeople and lost the foreign
soldiers, the only way he could keep the support of the catholic bishops was to
pay up.
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Date: June 02, 2025 08:38AM
Fun fact: above we can see a pope's decision was bought and paid for.
Centuries later catholics claim the decision is moral.
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1241AD: "The fourth day after Christmas the legate was by the pope to the
court of Rome: whereupon taking his leave of all the prelates, he took his
journey towards the sea, whom the king with great pomp and an innumerable
company of the nobles, with trumpets sounding before them brought to the seas,
so that on the morrow after the twelfth day, the legate (after the king with
great sorrow for his departure, had embraced him) took shipping at Dover, at
whose departure no man was sorry but the king, and such as the legate had
enriched."
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Date: June 08, 2025 09:06AM
Fun fact: in 1326 King Edward II set up the militia in England. All church
steeples and other high buildings had iron brackets placed on them, to hold
torches to warn all surrounding able bodied men between 16 and 40 to arm
themselves and assemble at their assigned places. The arms and equipment were
regulated by the value of their (land based) estates. They had to present the
arms and equipment in good condition twice a year. They were organised by
shires and hundreds.
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Date: June 11, 2025 07:59AM
Fun fact: in 1522 there was a tripartite alliance between France, the German
Emperor and England. Disputes between Germany and France led to war. The
French attacked the English, who were not involved in the disputes.
So King Henry VIII enrolled the whole militia and its office bearers, and for
every organised 100s of militia, what local industries could be used to maintain
the war against France, who were their owners, and the names and places of all
foreigners and of what birth and current nationality, and what their occupations
were. This was the planning and mobilising of what we would call total war, and
completely bypassed the old systems of the king simply employing soldiers, or
relying on nobility and bishops to supply money and/or armed men. Henry VIII
also maintained a large navy, one more than able to control the "Narrow
seas".
- 26 May: the German Emperor, with 8 bishops, 10 abbots, 30 chaplains and
others, arrived in
England before travelling to Spain, to form alliances against France.
- June: the alliance with Germany was concluded.
- 1 July: the Emperor's navy with 180 ships arrived to transport him to Spain,
arriving there 10
days later.
- During this time the Earl of Surrey, Lord Admiral, attacked and burned towns,
castles and
anything else along the French coast.
- Ever since Edward Long shanks (1239 – 1307), wars between England and
Scotland were proxy
conflicts for French interests. Knowing this, Henry VIII's navy burned all
ships in Scotland's
ports. England then assembled a sufficient Northern army that the Scots
signed a truce for six
months.
- 1523: after the truce, the Northern army burned 37 villages, and
"dispoiled" the south of the
country from East to West, destroying their strongholds.
- England's parliament, including the catholic bishops, raised a great sum of
money for the
coming war, agreeing to do so for five years. "Such war in France as
had not been seen."
- For the second time, the catholic bishops in England overstated how many
parishes they had
and how wealthy they were, promising they could fund the needs of government,
so making it
dependent on them.
- September: the first English army of 10500 men seized and demolished a
French castle.
- The Duke of Burgundy rebelled against France and joined Germany and
England.
- Spain entered the war.
- 1524: the Northern English army invaded Scotland, the Scots army ran
away.
The French army at that time relied on nobility, who saw nothing wrong in riding
over their own vanguard to attack the English, as was their right to do, and
catholic bishops, in armour and carrying weapons, who brought their own armed
men to battle and fought in the battle themselves. Some of these bishops died
fighting the English. In times past catholic bishops in England did exactly the
same thing. At least one died in battle in one of England's internal wars.
Therefore it isn't odd that Cardinal Richelieu wore a sword whilst besieging
Protestants at La Rochelle in the 1620's.
Thus the mass mobilisation under a civil administration was not only a threat to
France, but to the catholic bishops' status and power.
Note that the Act of Supremacy, where Henry VIII broke from Rome and became head
of the Church of England, was not until 1534.
- 1526: The French king being taken prisoner, peace was agreed between England
and France.
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Date: June 11, 2025 10:08PM
fun fact: no one has read any of that ^^^^^
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Date: June 12, 2025 10:27AM
Actually, I read it, but it wasn't fun at all. Fun facts are generally along
the lines of, "The opossum is the only North American marsupial."
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Date: June 12, 2025 10:39AM
Fun fact: Wombat poo is square.
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Fun fact: 1326-1328: Whilst the former Edward II was imprisoned at Barkley,
"For as touching poisons, which they gave him often to drink, by the
benefit of nature he dispatched away."
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Date: June 15, 2025 07:37AM
Fun Fact:
As of 2025 California has been owned by;
Spain 52 Years
Mexico 27 Years
USA for 177 years
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Fun fact: 1326-1328: whilst some catholic bishops supported the imprisonment
and 'abdication' of the former king Edward II, those catholic bishops opposed to
it were beheaded. The parliament then voted the Queen what amounts to a
pension, equalling 2/3rds of government revenue. The chronicles don't record
where the money went.
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Date: June 20, 2025 06:28AM
Fun fact: All catholic bishops who had been part of the coup conspired to have
the former king Edward II assassinated, and the men who carried out the work
then accused of it, and driven out of the country. One was seized abroad and
beheaded at sea, so he couldn't accuse anyone in England, the others lived out
their days in exile in Holland.
The instruction to assassinate the former king was written in two parts, so it
could be claimed to have another meaning. A typical catholic trick. See note
about words having second meanings, above.
After a conspiring bishop, of Canterbury, died, the main conspirators who were
not bishops were arrested and hanged, with the vast sums being paid to the queen
confiscated, and more besides. No bishop or part of catholicism was punished.
Odd, this method, of 'we encourage you to do to them, then we do to you' was
explained to me in parts by a sect of catholicism that tried recruiting me over
some years, in Kuringai, or Sydney's North Shore: that all of us will be
betrayed, losing all wealth, assets and power (including
"influence"
, by the politicians, the lower politicians will
be betrayed by the middle ranking politicians, they will be betrayed by the
senior politicians, and "When the leader has betrayed the last of his
followers, the clergy will betray the leader" (as I told police). This is
the system, adopted by the Babylonians, that weakened the Empire before its
conquest by Cyrus the Persian in 539 BC. The system is described by Isaiah in
the bible. Whilst the ancient writer was denouncing the system, it is described
in the English chronicles as functioning up to 1331 AD, and was described to me
in my youth as functioning now.
1333: Suddenly, the English kings 'request' whom will be bishop when and where.
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Fun fact: then there was a change back again:
1343: King Edward III, his nobles and the parliament demanded the pope should
no longer appoint anyone to church office, nor take money out of the kingdom,
and waited for the reply (there appears to have not been one).
1365: King Edward III ordered that 'Peter's Pence' formerly paid to the
vatican, would now be paid to him. And it was.
1371: the catholic bishops in England held the posts of Chancellor, Treasurer
and Privy Seal. they were so busy running the secular country they had no idea
of the state of catholic administration. When they promised the Crown a large
sum, by taxing each parish an equal amount, so richer parishes helped poorer
ones, it was found there wasn't nearly as many parishes as they thought, and
most of them too poor to pay the sum. The bishops were removed from their
secular offices and lay men put in their place.
Note this is
before the Vatican declared the pope is absolute monarch of
all nations and people.
1373: "In a parliament it was granted that the cathedral churches should
enjoy their elections (as guaranteed by Magna Carta) and that from thence forth
the king should not write against the elected, but should by his letters help
towards their confirmation, but this statute took small effect." The end
result of this centuries long see-sawing is that elections in churches are free,
they cannot be apointed from above or abroad, yet the monarch may dismiss
someone from that position. You would really have to make a mess of it. Such
as, in 2025, a man named Welby: [
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1389: Richard III's parliament ordained that none should purchase positions
from the pope.
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Fun fact: Multiple times the Welsh and Southern scholars at Oxford fought the
northern scholars, members of both sides killed members of the other. It's not
recorded what it was about. This lasted for years. Of note is that some of
these scholars became catholic bishops, most of the rest priests.
1396-8: The Crown not only minted coin, but farmed out coinage to towns that
could afford it, and after 30 years of peace it was noted the country had
"heaped up" a great amount of wealth.
Note that once there is money in circulation, people, corporations and
governments save up for projects, these create industries, skills and residual
wealth as assets, such as household goods. Note also that money was gold and
silver, so not subject to inflation, nor was government in any debt.
During this time the great hall of Westminster was built, joining the palace and
the clock tower.
Trouble came in a four-way struggle to consolidate wealth and power: two
factions of catholic bishops with their allied nobles; the King, and; the
commons. Both factions of bishops and their nobles engaged in beheading members
of the other, whenever they held the upper hand. Other people died too. It may
seem cynical, but is also clear-eyed, that the winner in the long term is the
party that supplies the money: that is, the taxpayer: the general public.
Also, the principle that a clear division between civil and ecclesiastical
jurisdictions functions best was established and still runs. Any attempt to
violate this division must be crushed.
1413: King Henry IV observed that as long as the English had wealth, something
they always want, they obey government, and as long as they are poor, they
rebel. That's an observation from this time of four-way struggle. It's also a
question that's relevant today: the amount of wealth in a nation and its
distribution.
Witness the Australian Liberal Party spent 10 years using mass immigration to
keep salaries down, abolished tariff protection, so manufacturing and trades
wages were lost, and rampant inflation, to drain wealth from the majority of the
population. For this they have suffered increasing defeats at two elections,
and the sooner the architects and willing hands of that process cease to exist
the better. They also made a 'law' that has no effect: claiming Australia
doesn't have the death penalty. It's in our Constitution for Treason. This
non-effective 'law' was eagerly announced by the supporters of the Australian
Prime Minister at the time: Scott Morrison - it effectively means our
Constitution has no meaning, revealing the darkest and most evil of souls and
intentions.
1419: during the four-way struggle, not only were catholic bishops approving
and assisting in members of their competing faction being beheaded, but one
catholic priest killed another in the Tower of London. It isn't recorded how
violent it was in the regions.
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"inflation, to drain wealth from the
majority of the population"
Note: wealth lost to inflation does not disappear, it's transferred.
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Fun fact: 1429: underground printing was universal in Europe, and printed
works are cheaper than handwritten, so the bible was being widely read. This
led to the pope organising a war against Bohemia, whose people dissented to
"The church of Rome in matters of faith." The catholic bishops in
England raised money and men to fight this war.
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Fun fact: 1430: to avoid being killed as a witch by the English, Joan of Arc
pretended to be pregnant, "But when the contrary was known, she was
condemned and burnt."
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Fun fact: 1431: widespread underground printing, and reading of the bible,
led to decades of disturbances to catholic power in England by this time. It
didn't stop, but grew, and it can only be seen that Henry VIII breaking with the
church of Rome in 1534 was the most popular thing he could have done, regardless
of his motives of marriage and money. Note that, for decades up to the time of
writing, catholics have claimed it was just about marriage, and a sudden outrage
at the time. The chronicles prove the exact opposite to be true.
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Fun fact: 1459: printing openly began in Germany.
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Fun fact: I'm still following this thread for reasons I just don't understand.
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Date: July 11, 2025 12:16AM
Fun fact: 1471: printing openly began in England. As the War of the Roses
raged, printing and widespread bibles meant the beginning of Protestantism was
widespread. In every country, Protestantism saw the end of private warfare.
The quarrelling Lords didn't know that.
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Fun fact: During this four-way struggle, leading up to and possibly including
the Wars of the Roses, something odd happened. This is from Stowe's Chronicle,
discussing the now murdered King Henry VI: "So continent as suspicion of
unchaste life never touched him: and having in Christmas a show of young women
with their bare breasts laid out, presented before him, he immediately
departed." Remember that with all such things the moral panacea is always
provided, and at the time it could only have come from one of the factions of
catholic bishops.
At time of writing it could come from clergy, philosophers, scientists, judaists
in the media, marxists, humanists, fabians... it should be noted that for
decades, nudist marriages were conducted by catholic priests, naked like
everyone else.
Apart from judaism, each of these depends on the doctrine that we are just
random atoms and space, with no inherent meaning, and so are our ideas - except
your ideas over everyone else: that the mind is just random chance processes
that cannot be trusted, and that's how 'you' should see everyone else, but
'your' mind is superior to this in some mysterious way - that you convince
yourself of - it's using ideas to direct behaviour, like puppets on a string.
The current doctrine of random atoms and space is called Evolution. That
requires natural selection. Natural selection requires reproduction. Random
chemicals in a soup don't reproduce. It didn't happen. It doesn't happen. It
can't happen.
At time of writing one key faction of Judaism holds the doctrine that all non
Jews are slaves, animals especially made by God in human form, to serve Jews
(https://www.plus613.net/image/84208). And so must behave as animals. And as
we have seen in Isreal, this also applies to Jews not part of a particular group
within. This faction supports Benjamin Netanyahu. The other key faction holds
the doctrine that the Messiah will come only when everyone on earth has done
debauched things. This faction opposes Benjamin Netanyahu and won two
consecutive elections. Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporting faction ignored
both election results, and he held onto power. But Judaism appears to be just
about paedophilia, that the Rabbis can rape the children of those who trust
them, and as paedophile victims grow into emotionally and psychologically broken
adults, their followers are their slaves.
The incident with King Henry VI could be seen as entrapment, or honey pot, or
character assassination as part of that four-way struggle.
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Fun fact: 1472: all those who opposed Edward IV's claim to the throne were
crushed: exile, imprisonment, fines and impoverishment. These included
catholic bishops, and could only have been done with the support of those
bishops in the faction that sided with King Edward.
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Fun fact: 1473: wanting to wage war on France for aiding the other side in
the War of the Roses, King Edward IV summoned all wealthy people to parliament
and stated his need for money to pay for the war. Having shown his willingness
to crush dissent, they gave the money: "He called this grant of money a
benevolence, not withstanding that many grudged thereof, and called it a
malevolence." Interesting, that our attitude to tax has not changed.
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Fun fact: 1473: "But the king used such gentle means towards them for
their assistance in his necessity, that they could not otherwise do, but frankly
yield and give him competent sums, wherewith he prepared a great army."
Given the recorded facts, it's a description somewhere between sociopathy and
psychopathy. Note we've seen just that behaviour by a modern man, George Pell,
now happily deceased, and once a catholic archbishop: it's an institutional
behaviour towards the victims of pedophilia.
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Fun fact: Instead of waging war, with a great army at his back, King Edward IV
extorted France of a massive sum of money, that stopped being paid when he died
suddenly.
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Fun fact: After his death King Edward IV was described as immoral in his
youth. If morality, such as the virgin birth of Christ, is to be used as a tool
to browbeat the human mind into submission, then only monks, priests, nuns and
their hierarchy may have it. Certainly not secular individuals in power. This
attitude may characterise one of the factions: only in catholic Austria is
there a norm of hiring two 15 year old girls, who attend a catholic school, to
pose naked in your wedding photographs.
Note crude statements and concepts are not done in polite society - the very
people who tend to have money, influence and power, who are the targets of these
operations. Neither change language or social mores, nor leave the children as
prey: the problem must be solved.
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Fun fact: 1484: William Collingborne made a rhyme of three of King Richard
III's counsellors, the Lord Lovel, Sir Richard Ratcliff and Sir William Catesby:
"The Rat, The Cat, and Lovell our dog, Rule all England under the
Hog." ('Hog' caricatures Richard III's crest). For this he was drawn from
Westminster to the Tower of London, and there on the hill hanged, headed and
quartered (cut into four parts). Medieval pleasantries. In simple fact
printing was now openly practised and seen as an honest trade. The most
commonly demanded item was the bible. It was expensive, so people collected
bits and put them in sequence. The more you read the bible the more
anti-catholic you are. The system of the civil government depending on the
support of catholic bishops, openly or subtly, by defining right from wrong to
suit those they patronised to have money and/or power, was tottering (see the
first fact in this list). This could have been an attempt to prop it up. The
only way the monarchy and civil administration could survive was to jettison
catholicism or butcher all Protestants. That distinguished northern Europe from
southern Europe.
The human mind reacts in only so many ways under the same stimulus.
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Yes, this is a test to see how long I'll keep coming back to see Anon's
ramblings.
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Fun fact: 1486: a catholic priest, Sir Richard Simon, finished training a man
named Lambert to pretend to be the king. He was captured in battle at Stoke
Field, employed in the king's kitchen and later became one of his falconers.
This would have enabled the king to question him. The project to train him must
have lasted some years, and yet no part of catholicism suffered in the
recriminations.
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Fun fact: That's odd, so is what happened next:
1488: King Henry VII took sides in a war between Brittany and France that was a
disastrous tactical decision, and strictly followed Murphy's Law: if something
can go wrong, it will.
The King stubbornly continued his policy of war against France and sensibly
raised the tax to pay for it from those who could afford it - not the general
population. But here came into effect the Golden Rule: he who has the gold
makes the rules. These very people could most bring their wishes into effect,
and they didn't see why they should pay money for pointless war with France,
when they could make money by trading with it instead. So Murphy's Law
continued.
Note this is the effect of the Golden Rule, not some yank fantasy about Manifest
Destiny. It does not conform with their doctrine.
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Addendum: see the note of 1484. Protestantism had not been named yet, but
people were becoming bolder in ways that were inconceivable only decades
earlier. This was the result of the realisation that right and wrong cannot be
defined to suit those in power. No one in the establishment seems to have been
prepared for it.
Compare this with the medieval adage that 'rebellion comes from above', and 'if
Jack and Tom take to their bills (a medieval weapon), look closely to see what
lord is profited thereby'.
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Date: August 11, 2025 11:08AM
Fun fact: My mother's ancestors were anabaptists, early protestants, who were
tortured and murdered through the 1500's into the 1600's by Catholics and
Lutherans. By the 1700's the murders had ceased but persecution continued and
that is how the family came to disembark from a ship in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania in 1727 escaping that crap. Pretty similar situation to refugees in
the US today who are having their protections removed and facing return to the
places they fled, often running for their lives. Fuck Trump, we're all
immigrants in the US aside from the Native Americans from all of the Americas.
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Date: August 12, 2025 12:27AM
Quasi, please, take the time, I can wait, think through your family lore about
Anabaptists. I could make this a much lengthier post if you like.
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Date: August 14, 2025 06:00AM
Fun fact: 1513: King Henry VIII won a battle against the French entirely by
artillery: "The array of the Frenchmen was broken."
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Date: August 18, 2025 12:20AM
Fun fact: 1530: the New Testament was openly printed in English, the catholic
bishops tried to ban it. Among other claims they said it was inaccurate. King
Henry VIII simply demanded a more accurate translation, so the bishop's plan was
foiled.
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Date: August 20, 2025 11:04PM
Fun fact: the Protestant English parliament, seeing King Henry VIII had his
wants, not just marriages but money, treated them as exchanges: in return the
Statute Against Buggery was passed in 1533 (catholic priests, it seems, were
raping little kids then too) and an act against the catholic church selling
'dispensations', to marry your cousin, amongst others. Sometimes the parliament
pushed hard, and Henry VIII executed some speakers. Out of this turbulence came
a constitutionally limited monarchy and our modern parliamentary system. The
winners were the public who pay tax and elect to parliament, and Protestantism.
From these two comes a large and wealthy middle class. Middle class assets are
always secure under protestant governments. A middle class holding assets,
wealth and power deny these from nobility and bishops.
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Date: August 23, 2025 09:51PM
Addendum: catholicism taught people who couldn't read to believe the Bible,
and that it prohibits a list of things, but you may do them if you pay money!
It's a business model. The Protestant English parliament shut it down. Also,
the road to our modern parliamentary system went through the English Civil War -
over hundred years later, that, among other things, related to the role of
bishops in society, and was started by 30 catholic priests who accompanied the
French princess when she arrived to marry the English king.
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Date: August 27, 2025 12:07PM
Fun fact: 1532: England's parliament prohibited the church of Rome from
sending money to the vatican, and calculated that, since the reign of Henry VII,
they had sent out 60,000 pounds sterling. (Butchers in London sold 2 1/2 pounds
of beef for 1 penny.)
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Date: August 30, 2025 05:39PM
Fun facts: 1533: the English parliament enacted that no one may appeal for
any cause out of the Realm to the court of Rome, on 7 September, birth of the
future Queen Elizabeth I, there was undeclared war with Scotland, not connected
with France, and the pope sent a curse, accusing both Henry VIII and the Realm.
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Date: September 03, 2025 11:20PM
Fun facts: 1534:
- the first catholic conspiracy to assassinate King Henry VIII and depose his
Queen Anne was
foiled. This plot used one Elizabeth Barton, in the same way as an ancient
Greek oracle,
where a priestess spoke in a fake trance. She was treated as a catholic
miracle. She
became a nun, and, with the other key conspirators, was executed by order of
parliament.
- The Scots tried to falsely accuse a northern English Lord of treason. It
failed.
- Parliament declared that the pope had no authority and should be banished from
the
Realm, and no longer called pope, but Bishop of Rome. That is what they were
originally
called, centuries earlier, just one of many bishops, but used family
connections, money,
murder, the destruction of documents, at least one forged document (The Gift
of
Constantine) and dirty political deals to become pre-eminent.
- Act of Supremacy - King Henry VIII became head of the Church of England.
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Date: September 07, 2025 09:11PM
Fun facts: 1535:
- Irish rebellion.
- Anyone who denied the Act of Supremacy was beheaded.
- Irish rebellion crushed.
- 'Visitors' under Thomas Cromwell and Doctor Lee, were sent to all abbies,
priories and nunneries in England. All priests under 24 years old were paid for
their religious clothing and sent
away, so no one else was to join their establishments. All nuns were given
secular women's clothes and sent out, all valuables were taken from these places
for the king's use "they said."
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Date: September 08, 2025 01:19PM
Fun fact: On this date in 1534 (Sept. 8th, or possibly Sept. 9th), Grietchen
Bildesnider was burned at the stake on the Vrijthof in Maastricht, Netherlands.
She was an Anabaptist.
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Date: September 09, 2025 11:06AM
So she believed in absolute obedience to all established governments, however
tyrannical, practised adult baptism, naked and often, and what of children in
what we would call a swingers' club with the bible attached... or a blackmail
ring? Is there anything about them in your family lore?
As for modern day human sacrifice, one of my relatives was burned by the
catholic Queen Mary at Oxford. The family did something about it: another
relative brought his own ship to the battle against the Spanish Armarda, and an
ancestor was a junior officer on Drake's flagship
The Hind.
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Date: September 10, 2025 10:07AM
The family lore only really begins with arrival in north America via a
secondhand source covering the Church of the Brethren, a pacifist sect of
anabaptists similar to Mennonites.
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Date: September 10, 2025 10:17AM
All right then.
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Date: September 11, 2025 12:10AM
Fun facts:
1536: 376 small catholic religious houses were confiscated, the occupants
expelled. Their lands earned 32,000
pounds a year, separately Robin Hood's pennyworths was 100,000 pounds. The
government ordered that all clergy
teach their congregations the articles of the Church of England in English,
and other articles.
Two rebellions in northern England put down.
1537: one rebellion in northern England put down. Monks and priests were
executed for these rebellions.
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Fun facts:
1538: the catholic item called the "Roode of Grace" was shown at
Paul's Cross church and broken up.
Catholic images used for pilgrimages were broken up and burned "for
avoiding of idolatory."
The government ordered that every church have a bible in English, for everyone
to read, and a register for every
marriage, christening and burial in the parish "for ever".
The abbeys (all abbeys were catholic) were seized and their treasures
confiscated.
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Date: September 17, 2025 11:21PM
Fun facts:
1538: the first mention of Anabaptists. They preached absolute obedience
to all established governments, however
tyrannical, practised adult baptism, naked and often, and other things.
Today we would cynically call it a
blackmail ring. See the Note for 1473. It may have been a faction of
catholicism pretending to be Protestantism.
They were executed.
Two bishops resigned their bishoprics into the king's hand. Note that
"Elections in the Church of England shall be
free" is in the Magna Carta, but the monarch can sack someone.
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Date: September 18, 2025 12:36PM
Fun fact: On this date in 1564 (Sept. 18th), Maeyken Boosers was burned at the
stake in Tournai, Belgium. She was an anabaptist, 24 years old.
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Date: September 19, 2025 02:06AM
Interesting, that would mean burned by catholics.
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Date: September 19, 2025 10:22AM
The anabaptists were persecuted by the Catholics and Lutherans.
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Date: September 19, 2025 12:34PM
My knowledge of Anabaptists comes from two sources: a book on cults, mostly
forgettable crazies, and a newspaper report in Sydney in the 1990's. The book,
whose name I forget, used medieval European sources and stated they used the
Bible, preached "Absolute obedience to all established governments, however
tyrannical" and held 'events' at night, where someone would put out the
lights and they "laid hands on each other, a man with a man, a woman with a
woman, however it worked out", with their constant arrests due to attempts
to recruit "men with attractive wives".
It was the newspaper report that mentioned abuse of children. In the 1990's. I
understood it to mean in Australia.
The book also mentioned the pilgrims on the Mayflower, treated them as separate
from the Anabaptists and said not only that they used the Bible, but that a girl
was only considered immoral by them if she fell pregnant out of marriage
twice.
Of particular note is the timing of their first appearance (in 1538): when
printing was violently banned in Europe by catholic governments; when the most
commonly sought printed material was the Bible, and; the vatican had organised
a war against Bohemia to enforce its control (in 1429), as a population who read
the Bible stop being catholic (right from wrong cannot be defined to suit those
in power - see the first Fun fact).
So it seems impossible it's a protestant denomination. So what is it?
It's of particular note to me as a catholic run organisation that tried to
recruit me stated the same thing about obedience to government, but in different
words. The two key men trying to recruit me were employed as protestant clergy.
When the history of protestantism is the exact opposite: 'Protestant' is a
German term for armed protester: from armed men, protesting an order by the
catholic German Emperor in the 1500's (to murder everyone reading the Bible).
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Fun facts: 1538:
- the bishop of Rome called for a crusade against England. Nothing came of
it.
- Multiple monks and priests executed for denying the King is head of the Church
of England.
- Former catholic priories, having been seized, were now being sold.
- All assets of the Order/house/knights and so on, of St. Johns, Rhodes, and
others, were seized.
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Fun fact: 1541: a rebellion in northern England was crushed.
These rebellions were farcical. Catholic monks and priests would work up a
population under secular captains, the king's army would appear in force, the
population would go home, the monks, priests and captains would be executed.
Yet the church of Rome kept trying.
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Date: September 29, 2025 01:56AM
Fun facts: 1541:
- up to this time the Protestant parliament was bargaining heavily for money:
claiming a lack of funds to maintain the
size of the force the King could muster: that there was simply not that much
money in the Realm. The numbers
don't add up. A former English King marched 300,000 men into Scotland, yet
Henry VIII had no army at any time
greater than 10,500. Yes, artillery was expensive, but once purchased it's
bought. This seems to have led to the first
careful examination of how England's economy worked - thus the prohibition on
the church of Rome taking money
out of the Realm. Of course, that's what all Protestants want, but there was
no prohibition on merchants taking
money out of the Realm to buy things, and on it goes.
- Defunding of a corrupt institution took various forms. See the note for 1535:
"they said".
See the family home, estate and fortune then established by one of the
commissioners who dismantled the church
of Rome's institutions: Chatsworth - still the grandest country house in
England. Ironic then, its debauched paintings
were done by catholic artists. But Protestants had grown up with a 'church'
that expressed itself in fees and moral
licence.
- 1543: France confederated with the Ottomans, then bickered with England. War
was declared. The army that went
into France was only 6000.
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Date: October 01, 2025 11:49AM
Fun fact: 1544: in an attempt to fund his wars, King Henry VIII minted
debased coin (devaluing money, such as inflation). Later, Queen Jane I (Lady
Jane Grey was queen for 9 days) was said to have been deposed and executed after
saying "The people want a real penny". These coins were called in by
Elizabeth I and melted down.
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Fun fact: 1547:
King Henry VIII died and Edward VI reigned. One of his first acts was to write
to all churches: to remove all images, to avoid idolatry, to persuade people to
abandon the use of beads and such catholic ceremonies that rule behaviour and
take up time ('Donkeys' is how some in the catholic heirachy view their
followers). "Going in procession" was forbidden and the bible and
Epistle were to be read in English (not Latin).
In August an English army invaded Scotland, and at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh
near Musselburgh killed 14,000 Scots and took 1500 prisoners, for the loss of 60
Englishmen. This massive disproportion in losses was echoed later by the
English fighting the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the Battle of Vinegar Hill in
Ireland in 1798 (both of them losses of about 1 Protestant to 100 catholics).
When inspired by monks and priests, the catholic tactic is to simply hurl
themselves forward. Their losses don't matter. They simply have to win, when
in truth it's the priests and monks who would win, whereas Protestants like to
sit back and use guns.
(Regards Scotland, note the different ratios of losses when Robert Bruce or
William Wallace was in charge, but they had their own political ambitions and
that's not part of the catholic model.)
Parliament gave the king all Chantries, free churches and brotherhoods, and
legislated changes to the sacrament in bread and wine, and repealed the Six
Articles.
In other words, with a Protestant educated boy king aged 9 on the throne, the
Protestants were getting everything they wanted.
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Fun facts: 1548:
- congregations suddenly had freedom over church services, could refuse
communion, and all had to be in English
(not Latin).
- An army of 10,000 men arrived in Scotland from abroad to fight against
England. They were sent packing by an
army of 15,000 English.
- The Church of St. John of Jerusalem in London was deliberately blown up by the
government, its stones then used
in another project. Such was the thoroughness of expunging catholicism.
- Anabaptism was still being crushed wherever it was found.
- Peace treaty between England, Scotland, France and Germany.
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Date: October 11, 2025 09:30PM
Fun fact: 1550: assets seized from the cult of Rome in London earning 1000
pounds or more a year were bought by various parties for 20,000 pounds, a 5%
return.
A not so fun fact: the very act of selecting the above from the English
Chronicles indicates how badly managed the times I live in are. By contrast,
before the Napoleonic War and the First World War, returns were 1-1.5%. That's
a realistic historical average. Ever since the First World War it was 3-4%.
Now, after yank economic doctrine turns out to be made up for the gullible to
believe (first teach free trade, then teach free flow of money across borders,
then spring Quantitative Easing as a snare), returns are 5-6%. The rates of
return reflect the inflation built into the system. It is sobering to know the
yanks based their doctrine on teachings originating in Britain, to justify the
juicy returns of investing in government debt (excluding Mr Catillion, whom I
suspect was just wrong). Inflation transfers wealth from the many, who must
earn a living from wages and salary, to the few, who own income producing
assets. It's what Universal Basic Income is about - the taxes to pay for it
will only ever come from wages and salaries. That's not surprising, is it?
See here:
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Fun facts:
- 1550: The altars in all churches in London were removed and replaced with
tables. Suddenly small
congregations were allowed to gather around it. This is directly opposite a
catholic practice of hiding
mysteries about their faith from their congregations.
- Individuals claiming to perform 'healing' were investigated, and if false,
put in the stocks.
- "God makes the proud stumble."
- Government order that every house in London have an armed man to be called
up. Organised by wards.
- 1552: the second instance of a gunpowder factory in London blowing up. War
had changed and
industry with it.
Act of parliament banning all hoods and bishops crosses.
Catholic church held ready money, jewels, gold and silver objects, were
confiscated to the king.
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Date: October 16, 2025 08:50AM
Some things will never change - last week in the U.S.:
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Well that was a fail. Here's the image.
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Without the space
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Thank you, sir! See, you can teach an old dog new tricks.
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Fun fact: 1553: having been carefully trained by Protestants for the role,
King Edward VI died aged 16. Whilst prominent protestants sided with the Lady
Jane, a Protestant, to be Queen, the catholic Mary mobilised men, arms and
munitions and became Queen. She promptly began killing every non catholic in
positions of power, clergy and civil administration, and issued debased coins,
that is, to pass for more than their metal was worth, or devaluing them, using
inflation to transfer wealth from the many to the government. She also set out
to undo all changes in religion done by Henry VIII and Edward VI.
The fact she killed so many indicates large numbers of people in positions of
influence firmly believed in Christianity as Protestants. They developed their
faith when they were free to do so (any alternative explanations?) Compare with
the note for 1541.
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Date: October 22, 2025 11:02PM
Fun fact: 1553: no reason is given why a catholic government would dress a
cat up in clothing and hang it, take its corpse to a bishop, and then use clergy
to show it to the public. I can only voice my own opinion that it's a weird
cult.
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Date: October 23, 2025 01:12AM
All religions are cults, with varying degrees of absurdity and wickedness.
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Date: October 24, 2025 03:19AM
Quasi it's dirtier than you imagine. I've been preparing an old literal
translation of the Bible and notice what's happened since the days of the
Englishman William Tyndale: yanks have taken over translations, arranged
contracts with churches in other countries that no one would explain to me (I
asked here in Sydney) who removed the words: "And God creates the great
dragons" from Genesis Chapter 1.
In the 1980's, from memory, someone in Washington claimed "All religions
are our geopolitical tools." To lead people to a world yankeeland by
deception.
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Fun fact: 1553: the catholic government began killing all commoners who would
not convert to catholicism: "John Bradford was burned in Smithfield. This
Bradford was a man of very sober and honest life, and therefore the bishops
would gladly have had him recant and abjure his opinions." Of the twelve
men burned in Oxford, ten in one batch, two in another, one was my relative.
This was purging society of all non-catholic role models. See again note 1473.
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Fun fact: 1553: Queen Mary married the catholic King Phillip of Spain.
When he was a Prince he was part of the Snow White story: he had numerous
affairs with ladies of the Spanish Court, and when he was finished with them,
the catholic priests told them they should become nuns for their sins. Taking
them out of his way. The Spanish government kept a German Protestant prisoner,
and his female cousin arrived to secure his release. Phillip said he would
release him if she slept with him. She refused. No one had done that, so he
was tempted to offer marriage. His mother, the catholic queen, and witch of the
story, didn't want a Protestant on the throne and poisoned her. The dwarves of
the story relate to her family owned copper mines in Germany and, due to the
small seams, they employed short men to dig it. Phillip later filled a gloomy
administrative palace called the Escorial with more monks than public servants,
and to the glory of 'God' and following the will of 'Christ', launched the
Spanish Armada to invade England and make it catholic, when it was later ruled
by the Protestant Elizabeth I.
The details of the Snow White story were obscured to avoid the death penalty in
"most catholic" Spain.
Here you should consider why the yank Department of Defence would spend vast
sums on 'grants' to yank companies to take over all discussions on the internet.
And spend sums on 'donations' to internet archives. Every action you've taken
on X, Facebook, Youtube, Google or Instagram, and what you've shown yourself
interested in on the archives, puts you on a list. Men whose trade is killing
decide what the lists' parameters are and what it or they are used for.
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Date: October 30, 2025 09:28AM
Meh, I'm pretty close to my expiration date anyway. Fuck them.
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Fun fact: scientists have discovered that warm water absorbs less gas and
carbon than cold water. So the increase in Ultraviolet Light (UV) since the
1990's heats the water and leads to an increase in carbon in the atmosphere.
Not the other way around as previously thought: that an increase in carbon
leads to an increase in atmospheric heat.
