Considering the course set by the Democrats, it is clear that reason has failed. The Democratic Party has hearkened to the darkest voices of intolerance and bigotry against anyone and anything that isn’t woke enough for their rather outlandish and bizarre tastes.
We must remember that our Union of sovereign and free people in their sovereign and free states and counties has many mechanisms with which to prevent too much power from concentrating into too few hands. We also as individuals and as free associations have many ways to take back our agency from corporations owned by people whose first and only loyalty it seems is to the Democratic Party.
Reason has failed but the answer is not physical violence. This isn’t necessary and all the outlandish rhetoric of the left which seems to reveal a heart seduced by the siren call to a one-party rule is more an issue of their character than a true threat to our country.
It is definitely unforgivable rhetoric when you lie and demonize your opponents while proposing ever-increasing authoritarian responses to your phantom right-wing conspiracy to overthrow the government. But the power to actually fulfill this rhetoric lies beyond their reach, especially if we the People, the remnant who still remain loyal to the Union as an empire of freedom, use the means we have at hand to block the authoritarian agenda.
On one hand the Democrats are sounding like crazed Soviets and performing “show trials” in which all of their opponents are in trial for treason against the state. On the other hand, the emperor has no clothes. When push comes to shove the American people and all their local and state governments won’t tolerate this garbage. So it’s a lot of noise and chest-beating headed into some fanstistical nightmare, pure bliss evidently for the lunatic fringe who control the Democrats. But it’s not substantive and it’s not going to succeed.
One wonders if Nancy Pelosi is actually that delusional in her dotage or she is just playing theater to appease her base while doing nothing of substance they desire. Either way she is a crumb for even entertaining these cretins, and cretins they all are because their hearts beat hatred daily against freedom and against the Union.
This cold civil war, which is not going to become hot because the rebels on the left are pusillanimous, once against pits slavers again the free. Once again Democrats evince a design of slavery, albeit more disguised as global cronyist feudalism that touts socialist rhetoric, and this time the aim is for everyone of every color to work the plantation.
Old habits die hard and the Democrats have never, not since 1860, warmed up to the notion of America as a Union of sovereign and free people in sovereign and free counties and states where power flows from the bottom to the top, wherein the top is subordinated to the bottom, not the other way around.
Democrats have gone past reason and common sense. They are now trapped by their own vile rhetoric into a cycle of continuous denouncements and accusations while disguising and covering up their own outlandish conduct.
The best response is to reinvigorate the institutions designed to prevent our Union from being taken over from within by quislings who despise our freedom. First is our own self-reliance, building mutual self-reliance at the local level and using new web tools to connect and collaborate on a nationwide scale. Second is reinvigorating our local, county, and state governments to openly defend the Bill of Rights and refuse to countenance breaches thereof, including taking legal measures or simply not doing business with companies that coordinate to effectively limit the freedom of Americans.
The entire and untapped power of our Union is able to prevent these loony words from becoming anything more than the swan song for a party that has lost touch with reason and reality.
By Bill Collier- Own your own narrative, don’t give it to others. People will misread you, ascribe wrong motives to you, misunderstand you, misrepresent you, and judge you falsely. They will create a narrative about you and even try to make you agree with their narrative about who and what you are, what you did or didn’t do, why you did or didn’t do it, and what that says about your character or intentions. They have no such right and you owe them nothing.
A strong desire to experience affection and acceptance is common to most people and this often causes us to be very concerned about how others feel toward us or what they think about us. So we find ourselves as focused on the appearances of what we do as on what we do, which begins to consume more energy than the things we are doing.
Although I often say “relationships are the brass ring of life”, the weakness of this idea comes when our desire for those relationships clouds our thinking to such a degree that we are trying to ensure not only that our actions make these people happy but that they also appear in the best light. This is high energy focus directed at the wrong things and it is a fool’s errand.
When you feel uneasy or stressed it is usually for fear of some kind of unpleasantness, which could be a loss or hazard or just something that doesn’t feel good to us. If in our minds we get a “high” from people liking us and thinking well of us, then we will experience unpleasantness when we feel rejected or neglected.
My life has become a pressure cooler experience for lots of reasons, and I am sure many of you have the same thing happen at times. But one good part of these pressure cooker experiences is that they bring a certain clarity as to who and what should be paid attention to, or how much energy should be used.
That friend who is so easily offended or needs constant attention or reassuring and who essentially threatens your relationship over small to medium “infractions” becomes unessential. In your pressure cooker experience, their expectations, even if reasonable but beyond your present emotional or time constraints, are just not worth adhering to. So, sadly, they may threaten to or actually move on and whereas you may have once had the energy to assuage them, now you just let them go.
All this tends toward a more inner focus, hopefully toward Christ within us, but definitely away from the voices and demands of others. When we don’t have the psychic, emotional, or physical energy to give yourself to meeting other’s expectations and when they therefore cast judgements upon us, we find it easier to move on and ignore them. It’s not that this makes us happy to do, it doesn’t, but in comparison to whatever has you in a pressure cooker experience, it’s just not nearly as important as it once was.
Sitting around playing scenarios in your head about why someone misjudged you or, worse, and this is our focus here, doubting your own narrative about yourself is a “crazy making” exercise. In a pressure cooker experience if you want to get through it daily, you begin to either lose the energy to do this or, if you persist in this, you begin to lose functionality in life in general.
Your narrative about yourself should come from your relationship with Jesus Christ and your best understanding of God’s Word and the leading of the Holy Spirit. If you understand who you are, what you are, and why you are in God’s mind, then you begin to craft your own narrative, a story of adventure and overcoming, that describes your past, defines your present, and guides your future.
You will make mistakes and sometimes your motivation may be suspect. You don’t want to become so full of yourself that you don’t welcome criticism or evaluate yourself on the basis of a truth standard. But these things don’t define or change your narrative about yourself and your story about who and what you are.
Getting to a place where you genuinely care about other people but you don’t obsess or put too much energy into what they think or feel about you, or how they want to define you, is a process of controlling your own focus. Thoughts of what others think or feel about you can come unbidden, it’s just natural. But what we give ourselves to focus on is mostly up to us.
One technique I have used is to interrogate those feelings to see if in this opinion others express about me there isn’t some truth. Some of my harshest critics and haters, who meant me no good will at all, have offered me a chance to see a hint of truth in their over-the-top accusations which I have leveraged to make improvements.
I have at times experienced being “misjudged” and sidelined in what I saw as an underhanded way because I was unable to make certain truthful things about myself visible in a convincing way. I was misread and probably misrepresented in my capabilities and resources, perhaps even my intentions, by people who should have known better.
Each time my focus returned to the core truth behind the broader lies. The core truth may have been that I was not very good at presenting myself or something about me or I wasn’t digiligent enough to avoid a minor mistake that my opponents used to justify tearing me down and rejecting me. Often our harshest critics and haters have actually siezed on something of substance and we should be thankful for the opportunity to see this and deal with it.
This is different from someone trying to define a narrative about you that isn’t what you believe about yourself. It is true that only God truly knows your heart, but this doesn’t mean anyone other than you is better at knowing your heart, nor that they speak for God.
I have lived a life more in public that most people and my actions and words have been seen my hundreds of thousands of people at different times. My life has been an open book and people have sometimes used this to paint and untrue and malicious narrative about my life. Every word or deed I have ever done in public, and most have been in public, becomes a potential for an opponent to misrepresent and twist around in the worse possible light.
The fact I have always believed in trying over and over until you succeed has even led to me being accused of either being a failure or being a schemer. The internet is littered with the debris of countless efforts to actualize the inner push of my life and I bear absolutely zero shame about it! The fact it has seemed to come together of late, over the past few years, may make some think I got lucky, but essentially my strategy was to keep trying and surviving until the dice rolled my way.
Regardless of what the future brings, whether more success or failures and setbacks, the narrative of my life belongs to God who has given it to me. If you think my narrative is a bunch of hooey, that’s all fine, I cannot give myself over to feeling any concern about that.
My own history is largely ruled by my own predilection toward being concerned with what people think and feel about me. I want warm and loving affection and unconditional acceptance of my personage probably more than most people, though I may be wrong about that. For this reason, the many times others have totally changed my narrative into a hideous caricature of weirdness, bad intentions, or whatever based on lies or misreading things, or taking things too far and inflating them out of proportion, have been painful.
Again, because I often do things on a larger scale seen by more people, I have had what I think is a high dosage of this sort of narrative hijacking that can totally invalidate a person even in their own eyes.
Why do I like military things, is it because I am a warmonger? Why am I so ultra-conservative in my life, is it because I am intolerant of others? Why do I strongly prefer being self-employed, is it because I have a problem with authority? Why do I say I have a grand purpose connected to historical processes, is it because I am full of myself?
On one hand, I truly desire and actually do live my life openly and publicly with a lot of transparency but on the other hand I have struggled with what others think and feel about me and I have been devastated when they said things about me that were not a reflection of my narrative about myself.
What has begun to happen, and what I am sharing for your edification, is that I realize I cannot necessarily change what I feel or desire so much as I can choose what I focus my energy and time on. It still stings when someone tries to hijack my narrative and defines me in a way that isn’t fair or truthful, but what I choose to do, after I have already interrogated that feeling to find any grain of useful criticism, is to focus on other things.
I find that the longer I put my focus elsewhere, the less a situation upsets me and if this happens quickly I realize how unimportant that situation is in relation to my own journey.
What is your narrative, how do you define yourself and your ambitions, and how do you define your journey and destination? I would counsel you to go to the well of God’s presence, to search the Scriptures, and to seek the leading of the Holy Spirit until you feel you have a solid understanding of these things. Find how God in His mind defines you and consciously seek to align your behavior, words, and choices with that person. Vocalize who you are in such terms.
The other thing I do is simply choose to connect mostly with people who, while they may critique me, I feel and know are essentially on my side. They are people who are “for” me, they are people who believe my narrative is substantially true even when I do not perfectly follow it. My inner circle don’t expect perfection from me, but neither do they accept when I go against my own narrative or drop the ball. I don’t have to worry about how they feel about me and when they do critique me, I can trust they are coming from a good place.
At times I am forced, by necessity, especially in business, to deal with people who frankly aren’t the kind of people I would place in my inner circle. But my goal is always to get closer and closer to a place where all my relationships and associations are with the kind of people who could become inner circle people in my life.
I have either turned down or let go of major “opportunities” when the people I would need to be connected to aren’t fair or decent toward me for whatever reason, even if my own mistakes contributed to the situation. In other words, I can refuse to blame people for misunderstanding me or thinking the worst of me while also choosing to limit my connections to people who wouldn’t ever do that to anyone else.
So in my focus, when people not liking me or believing false things about my narrative begins to bother me I try to focus on other things, even if it’s s funny video. I also try to spend my time and energy with people who will both critique me and nurture my own narrative about myself.
The people in my inner circle aren’t easily offended, don’t threaten the relationship for anything but a very serious breech (and very few things qualify as such), don’t cosign my nonsense, tend to interpret my actions in a most charitable way, give me the benefit of the doubt, challenge me to get better, but also nurture and celebrate my narrative about myself. The reverse is also true.
I don’t have time for non-essentials and, right now, under the current pressure cooker experience I am going through, I barely have time or energy for anything beyond very basic survival and taking care of essential business. My life doesn’t give me the luxury of being terribly reliable for anything that isn’t truly mission critical, which includes both my mission and that of those who are in my inner circle.
The control of your narrative belongs to God and then you, in that order, and anyone outside of you and God has no right to think that they know you better than God knows you and you know you. Avoid such people of you can, ignore their judgements by focusing on other things if you must deal with them. But you own your narrative, God and you, nobody else!
Who can you trust during those times when you are vulnerable or when a crisis vurges on a major tragic upheaval? For most people, there is no good answer to this question. For most people, trust beyond perhaps their immediate nuclear family is difficult, they just aren’t sure who really is on their side without an ulterior motive.
A trust community is a larger body of people who are reasonably confident that through shared identity and participation they can trust one another. For practical reasons, they tend to live within reasonable driving distance of each other. We may not know everyone in a trust community personally, but we know that if they have been confirmed as members of the community by people who do know them that they have the kind of character, integrity, and values that make them trustworthy.
Our concept of a Trust Community comes from Protocol Six of The 17 Protocols of Upadaria.
A Trust Community
WE PRACTICE THE WAYS OF A TRUST COMMUNITY CENTERED ON YESHUA, THE CHRIST
Through intentionally building trust communities, Believers can connect with others for mutual profit, support, empowerment, liberation, and fulfillment of purpose.
– From The 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Protocol Six
The entire concept of what we call “the Upadarian Revolution” is unilateral change from within our own lives, relationships, and associations that never seeks to impose itself through politics or force on other people. This is important in the concept of a trust community, because while these communities use the language of a distinct village, town, or city, they aren’t political entities and their members consist only of those who freely desire to participate in them.
A trust community is a larger than neighborhood scale collection of people who use trust as their basis of connection and freewill participation. A trust community is capable of providing for most all the basic needs of its participants and of assuring the safety and sanctity of their liberty, their well-being, and their wealth and property from all hazards. To be part of a trust community you share an identity with others and the basis of that identity are the ideals, principles, and practices you all agree are the common standards and norms of behavior, of relationships, and of your association.
Imagine a city of, say, 100,000 souls, like the heart of London, and 30 square miles of land distributed in chunks and pieces throughout an area of 1,000 square miles containing 800,000 people. This is a larger-scale trust community embedded within an entire area, distinct and unique in its diversity expression of community, but also connected to the whole area as a constituent community.
This may sound rather theoretical, but the implementation of trust community is practical and to be intentional about creating such communities is a very peaceful, revolutionary act. It removes much of your social, cultural, and economic life from the influence and control of a corrupt ruling class who are presiding over a dying civilization and its abusive structures.
Our ideal larger scale trust community is a Shire, a term from old England that basically became equivalent to a county but that invokes the idea of an area which is self-contained, self-sufficient, and self-governing but which is an interdependent part of a larger commonwealth. Another way we present this is through a concept we call a distributed private city, a city-like organizational structure that has various facilities and participants spread all throughout an area that has many physical cities.
At the smallest level, the trust community is like an intentional community that just has parts of itself, as well as its individual participants, spread throughout a local area. They may not all live within the same plot of land, but they have structures and associations they regularly participate in that essentially give them the self-reliance of an intentional community.
One of our key breakthrough ideas, and one we often repeat, is that trust community requires something equivalent to a shared national identity. And by this we do not mean race or ancestry, nations are far more than collections of people whose common trait is race or ancestry. In their purest form, nations are ideals and values that are freely adopted as the basis of a shared identity.
A trust community without something equivalent to a shared nationality either begins to become disjointed as people argue over basic assumptions and norms or it stays together through a strong-armed, top-down system of control. If that something that connects everyone isn’t fairly cohesive in terms of ideals and values, then only some use of manipulation, control, or coercion will keep it together. A trust community has no manipulation, control, or coercion, what keeps it together is trust and that trust organically flows from shared ideals, principles, and practices.
We use the term “organic cohesiveness” to describe the cohesiveness of a trust community and even a spiritual nation. In our approach, the broader trust community is based on freedom ideas and standards but the heart of the community consists of a core of people who share our spiritual nationality as their own nationality. What makes this cohesiveness organic, as opposed to artificial, is that it comes through strictly voluntary freewill participation in a commonly shared identity based on shared ideals and values.
Trust communities are based on nested shared identities, so they can be diverse and pluralistic in their broader application and close-knit and unanimous in their more narrow application. It isn’t either-or. Christians can connect over an entire area and behave together like a spiritual city-state. People who love freedom, Freedomists, can form area and county level freewill participatory associations called Freedom Shires which focus on upholding the rights, persons, and property of themsleves and their fellow citizens.
A Upadarian trust community is a Shire which includes constituent communities called Cantons, Villages, and Manors. These are all groupings of people who at some level adopt the shared Upo, Ecclesian, Freedomist, or Upadarian identities. Thinking in these terms of a massive shift away from the atomized life and from assumed identities that may not reflect your innermost beliefs, values, and convictions.
When someone is using trust community and connected to others, they see themselves as virtual or spiritual citizens of a distributed city-state that has its own social, cultural, economic, and civic structures and associations that are not controlled by the present civilization’s ruling class.
Building economic structures where trade and commerce are governed by the ideals and values you believe in cannot just be an individual thing. You need virtual and physical spaces to conduct business and norms and standards everyone agrees to follow with integrity. A trust community creates these things and, through something like a subscription or membership, funds the kinds of spaces needed for this activity.
What we are proposing with a trust community is that we have to be quite intentional about our larger scale activities with people who are within driving distance of each other and who share the same ideals and values. Our platform helps people make these area-level connections and formalize them through prescribed frameworks and blueprints, including decision-making processes and even physical facilities.
If we want to be part of a society and nation we can proudly say are centered on Yeshua, we should be intentional about connecting and associating with people of like convictions to create our own internal social, cultural, economic, and civic structures, resources, and services that aren’t controlled by anyone but us. Our concept of trust community applies broadly to any body of people whose organic cohesiveness is such that it distinguishes them from a society whose values they cannot cosign or support and certainly don’t want to be governed by.
It is a practical and existential necessity to build trust communities when the society in which you live operates and is governed by values which, if you were to follow them, would violate your own beliefs, values, and convictions.
Through a practical application of trust community it is not our intention to reform or change society, it is our intention to sow the seeds of a new spiritual nation as the vanguard people of a new civilization. Our peaceful and spiritual revolution is all about unilateral change from within ourselves, our relationships, and our associations.
The Ute Tribe, in the press release below, slams a woke leftist writer for daring to speak “outrage” in the Tribe’s name over the fact the University of Utah sports teams are called “The Running Utes.”
Virtue signaling that disrespects the tribe and could do real economic harm has no place in decent society where human dignity is mutually honored by all. But the wokatariate aren’t interested in justice, they are more about making themselves look good and enjoying the perverse power of canceling others and imposing their own unopopular anr dangerous ideas.
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Luke Duncan chairman of the Ute Indian Tribe Business Committee, the governing body of the Ute Indian Tribe, has issued a press release scolding a woke activist and University of Utah emoloyee who “demands” the school stop using the Ute name.
The Ute tribe is made up of three bands: the Uintah, the Whiteriver and the Uncompahgre; two representatives from each band are elected to serve four-year terms on the Business Committee.
The tribe’s Uintah and Ouray Reservation is located in northeastern Utah, approximately 150 miles east of Salt Lake City. It’s the second-largest Indian reservation in the United States, covering more than 4.5 million acres.
Last month, The Salt Lake Tribune ran a commentary titled, “Time for the U. to Give up its Native American Nickname.” The author, a University of Utah employee named Christopher Mead, argued that the University of Utah needs to stop using the name “Running Utes.”
Our business committee, the elected governing body of the Ute Indian Tribe, was incensed and deeply troubled when we read the piece. Mead’s approach in raising this issue on behalf of our tribe, and the implicit attitude of saving the Ute people from themselves, lacks common sense. It undermines tribal rights, it causes conflict between native and non-native communities, and it negates our ability as a sovereign nation to make appropriate decisions for our people.
The Ute Indian Tribe is a major economic engine in northeastern Utah. We work closely with the state, local governments, and major institutions to address long-standing issues that range from preservation of cultural and environment resources to responsible energy development. These relationships are valuable to us, and an op-ed like Mead’s has a devastating impact on them, and on the trust we have built over many years.
Let us be clear. Only the Ute Indian Tribe can speak for itself. And regarding the matter at hand, the Ute Indian Tribe encourages the University of Utah to use our name for its sports programs.
Our tribe drafted the Athletics Naming Agreement, and the university has used the Ute name with our full support since 1972. In fact, we just renewed our memorandum of understanding in December for another five years, and we retain trademark rights to the Ute Proud name and imagery.
The relationship between the Ute Indian Tribe and the University of Utah is a long and valued one, and it’s a source of pride to our tribal members. Not only does it reflect our shared commitment to building genuine respect for and understanding of our tribe’s history, it also has significant educational benefits for our youth.
In a key part of the agreement, the university provides a Ute Proud education campaign (http://uteproud.utah.edu/) during the football, basketball, and gymnastics seasons. This campaign explains Ute Indian history and the Ute Indian Tribe’s cultural and economic contributions to the state.
The campaign also provides a code of conduct that educates sports fans about inappropriate behaviors that dishonor the Ute and other Native American populations. The Ute Indian Tribe assigns a tribal representative to work with the university to develop and approve all campaign elements.
Our tribe is well aware that this association with the University of Utah‚ the flagship institution of higher learning in our state — raises tribal visibility and community awareness. Once a year, the university’s halftime show incorporates a traditional powwow with appropriate and approved cultural tie-ins, providing a valuable opportunity to educate and promote understanding.
In addition, the university supports campus events to raise awareness of American Indian cultures, from the annual campus powwow to Native American Month. It has added educational materials about the Ute Indian Tribe to first-year student orientation, and it’s making those materials available through its American Indian Resource Center as well.
This is important to us, after enduring the devastating termination and assimilation policies of the last century. We will not be invisible, or erased.
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe wins Energy grant for solar project in Utah What’s more, the University of Utah actively supports Ute Indian students and other federally recognized American Indian students who are attending the university, and it provides annual financial support to the Ute Indian Tribe to enhance K-12 education on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.
The University of Utah recognizes that the Ute name is at the core of our tribe’s cultural identity and that of our members, and it constitutes an inseparable element of our rich cultural traditions. The university also has consistently expressed its honor in being allowed to use the Ute name with due respect and integrity.
We are a sovereign nation with an absolute right to self-determination. The Athletics Naming Agreement was ours to make, and it’s grounded in mutual respect. We will not accept efforts of non-natives, who do not know the history or understand the work we have done, calling for its demise.
By Bill Collier- We don’t trust any major “platform” or even any US or international institution, to tell the truth, to play fair, or to look out for the good of the people and we have very good reasons to exercise a healthy and robust level of skepticism.
The fact people trust our national and international establishment and its ruling class and that they are outraged others are skeptical is amazing! The “disinformation” and other labels designed to force-feed parroted lines and cancel the skeptical should be all the proof you need not to trust any of these people or institutions.
Misinformation is the new rallying cry for modern authoritarians, especially the monopolistic platform owners, who want to silence and disappear all dissent from the Democratic Party line. Those who doubt and dissent from the preachments of the intelligence community, the science community, health care institutions, the press, the platforms, academia, and the entertainment industry as well as near-monopoly corporations are accused of “misinformation” and “canceled.”
Put another way, the owners of the major platforms and the press are almost entirely partisan Democrats for whom the advancement of the Democratic Party is their greatest goal.
Honestly, WHY should you trust a government or any leading national or international institution after the last few decades of gross, dangerous, and outlandish lies going back to “weapons of mass destruction” and the so-called “Russia collusion” scandal? Why trust that anything these institutions say is reliable or even aboveboard?
The corruption of these institutions, whereby holders of power abuse their position and cover up their failures, is all-too well known. We cannot reasonably trust anything these institutions and their ruling class say or do as anything that is truly meant to enrich themselves and not the country or its people.
The truth is, the platforms especially, and all major institutions controlled by the Democratic Party, want to desperately avoid accountability and allow a group of less than 20 major power brokers determine who can speak and what they can say. In such an environment, when all the DNC-controlled institutions parrot the same lines, the thoughtful person has strong reasons to view such preachments with extreme caution. Quite simply, we know they lie, we know they suppress dissent, and we know they have demonstrated criminal incompetence that has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Those who parrot all the typical lines coming from America’s neocommunist wokatariate, the wokecomms, and their Party, the Democratic Party, often pretend they are thinking for themselves and are somehow on the “cutting edge” or even “on the right side of history.” Everything from the alt gender rainbow intolerance for traditional views on marriage and family to the mass inoculations of the entire population over the pandemic, is colored by the desire of the ruling class to gain monopoly power once and for all.
It is not “radical” to say “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll fight to the death form your ability to say it.” Now the Democratic Party and the institutions it controls, such as the US Capital Police and the CDC, want to tell us what kind of speech is permissible. They use hobgoblins and imaginary threats like white supremacy, hate speech, and misinformation but the only Party benefited by these arbitrary claims which they cannot support with logic or evidence are the billionaire owners of the Democratic Party.
If you consider yourself woke and then consider that all your major ideas and the things that animate you are quite literally being force-fed to the population while everyone who disagrees faces being canceled, don’t imagine you are on any cutting edge or that you are on the right side of history.
The ideas you parrot and think are so edgy are ideas that demand and require authoritarian measures to enforce them. For any decent, thinking person, this is itself proof that those ideas, including the whole alt gendered rainbow panapoly of identities and enforced compliance, and all the other mantras of the establishment, are garbage.
Skepticism about the preachments of the leading national and international institutions is reasonable and could be life-saving.
The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province is leaking higher levels of radiation than are normally allowed according to recent reports. Problems were reported by the plant’s co-owner, Electrictie de France (EDF). EDF owns 30% of the plant.
Meanwhile, as the French company Framatone, which EDF has a 75% stake in, reaches out to the US for help they issued a statement that they are “supporting resolution of a performance issue with the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong Province, China. According to the data available, the plant is operating within the safety parameters. Our team is working with relevant experts to assess the situation and propose solutions to address any potential issue.”
But while the Biden administration is touting Chinese statements that “all is well”, Framatone has requested a special waiver allowing it to use American technology to help resolve the evolving “non-crisis”, a transfer of technology that would only be granted if there were an imminent crisis. The request and actions of the company versus the public statements of the company and the Chinese and American governments clearly don’t align with each other and this has people concerned.
The plant in located near Hong Kong and Shenzen on the Chinese coastline. A major radiological leak, evidently caused by a problem with a control rod, would impact over 100 million people and could possibly be a hazard well beyond China. Unit 2, which is the unit impacted, went offline this year for a refurbishment and was put back in operation on June 20, 2021. There is not explanation on what caused the refurbishment or if it was potentially the root of the problem.
The first unit, Taishan 1, entered commercial service in December 2018. The second unit, Taishan 2, entered commercial service in September 2019. The plant is the first in the world to use the new Evolutionary Power Reactor.
The EPR is a third generation pressurised water reactor design. It has been designed and developed mainly by Framatome (part of Areva between 2001 and 2017) and Électricité de France (EDF) in France, and Siemens in Germany. In Europe this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but it is now simply named EPR.
EDF has acknowledged severe difficulties in building the EPR design. In September 2015, EDF stated that the design of a “New Model” EPR was being worked on, which will be easier and cheaper to build.
There is no word on whether the new design is a critical element here, but the fact the plant has only been operating for around 3 years and has had difficulties in a new reactor that is only two years old and has had a recent refurbishment has led to speculation.
The plant itself claimed, “Since it was put into commercial operation, the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant has strictly controlled the operation of the units in accordance with operating license documents and technical procedures. All operating indicators of the two units have met the requirements of nuclear safety regulations and power plant technical specifications.”
The Chinese government is widely known for suppressing negative news and shifting any blame. As a totalitarian regime which relies on force and fear more than voluntary loyalty and consent of the governed, the Chinese regime cannot afford PR nightmares.
This crisis is not close to the Chernobyl incident, but it is being watched by many as it is feared the present American administration is too unwilling to confront China, despite its rhetoric, on such sensitive issues. This lack of external pressure and willingness to demand answers may in fact lead to face-saving efforts by the Chinese which get in the way of safety measures that might resolve the situation.
Bill Collier- American history is a story of uneven and unequal advancements toward a totally free, prosperous, and pluralistic society of equals, but advancements often far ahead of any contemporary country, even to this day. America’s racial history is governed by two factions, those we may call egalitarian republicans or pluralists and those who we may broadly call racialists who basically believe race defines most or all of who you ever can be and that, at best, races are separate but, at worse, inequal. Racialist versus pluralist worldviews have largely governed America’s mixed history on race.
The present “crisis” over race has the racialists masquerading as egalitarians and attacking anyone, whether racialists or pluralists, of the original sin of those who were racists and whose skin happened to be white. The attempt to impugn and shame every white person with the sins of other white people, or by accusing them of the injustice of white privilege, is itself a racialist sentiment that undermines and directly attacks pluralism.
The irony here is that the racialists who make “whiteness” their new “original sin” are using an extra-Biblical but “traditional” doctrine created by white people to essentially guilt themselves as born sinners because of Adam. The idea of collective guilt in relation to original sin has been challenged and overthrown in many Christian circles.
The concept that prevails today is that we inherit a corrupted nature, but not any guilt, from Adam. Whereas in the past the possibility of being redeemed from your collective guilt was deemed slim and uncertain, today we understand that through Christ we can both find forgiveness from our actual individual sin, which is the only sin we bear, and transfiguration of our inner man to heal us of our sin nature.
But this idea of collective guilt is an essentially European invention now being perpetrated and applied by people whose own racist ideology is aimed at demonizing people of European ancestry. The only way to even hope for any grace is to behave in a way that shows your shame for your collective guilt and that acknowledges your inherent and unredeemable racism which can only be held at bay through total loyalty to the Democratic Party.
This is classic medieval Catholicism: all people are born sinners, they remain so, and only through absolute obedience to the Church hierarchy and its ordained secular institutions, including king or emperor, can your sinful nature be suppressed in the hopes that, maybe, you will eventually gain enough grace to make it to purgatory or even heaven itself.
For the wokatariate, white people are all born racists who bear the collective guilt of their race which, according to the narrative, are the worse oppressors, colonizers, imperialists, slavers, and racists in human history. Indeed, without the white race and its ideas, the world would probably be a veritable paradise run as a socialist global collective.
Never mind that the true target of this propaganda is the worldview we consider essential to the Western Tradition or America’s heritage of ever-increasing freedom for more and more people in more and more areas of their lives. The heart of this war which SEEMS to be a racist war against white people is a war on the arc of America’s history toward more freedom for every single human being without exception.
Like the priests, prelates, nobles, and kings and emperors of the medieval period, today’s ruling class are of the same group who are being guilted and shamed. The wokatariate are in fact mostly manned by white people and almost exclusively funded by very rich white people. This looks essentially like an almost all-white genocidal conspiracy against….white people!
But the truth is that the wokatariate, the people running and benefiting from this racialist woke assault on freedom, know that their guilting and shaming is all based on bad doctrines and bad intentions. To be clear, white genocide isn’t a serious aim of anyone in power and to believe that is to fall for the distraction.
The wokatariate are not “ironically” absolving themselves of the “original sin of inherited white supremacy.” They are “proving” their commitment to suppressing their latent racism through pushing through a neocommunist agenda, by force if need be because, after all, all the people who oppose this are either un-reconstructed white supremacists or their “captive” minority collaborators.
Again, as with the ruling class who used original sin to keep the population down, today’s erstwhile ruling class want to use the original sin of racism to suppress 70% of the population who are white and to buy off and capture the “victims” whose only hope for liberation is through the necommunism of the wokatariate.
It may be lost on some that the wokatariate isn’t organically representative of any person of color or those communities. A movement among black Americans to rectify their past grievances and claim equal standing within the America population as equals in every way has not taken root. Efforts to hijack issues and grievances by the left or to essentially dismiss those grievances and simply be the only alternative to the left by the right do not constitute an organic African-American Freedom Movement.
In the heyday of the Roman Catholic hierarchy’s monopoly over Western Christian culture and religion, only Saints were deemed to be above the original sin, fully redeemed from its influence. But the added twist of our era is twofold: some groups of people are deemed innocent of this guilt because they or their ancestors were oppressed by “white males”, and others, the wokatariate ruling class, are deemed living saints who are above reproach by virtue of their, well, virtue signaling!
Woke racialism is a vehicle to power, none of its claims or ideas are significant beyond guilting people or making them feel like helpless victims. Few among the wokatariate BELEIVE their own claims.
The choice of attacking whiteness is based on two key factors: the freedom-building ideas which are essential to America’s overall arc of history were mostly produced by white men and, to a lesser degree white women, and the simple expediant fact white males at this time tend to strongly opposed authoritarianism and tyranny. If “whiteness” is now sin itself than clearly all white ideas, including the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, are all “polluted” by their “whiteness.”
Cue the social justice totalitarianism and cancel culture to silence any conversation that challenges these notions of comand and control economics that benefits only the few.
This isn’t to say white people, or white males, are more disposed toward freedom-building ideas than others are. It is simply, and accidentally, the current reality. For instance, this idea of being “allies” of “people of color” ends when the “people of color” happen to be Cubans who are even more predisposed toward freedom-building ideas than white males or Haitians who are more predisposed toward capitalism and freedom.
Democrats have made it clear, freedom seeking people from Haiti and Cuba, who tend more toward opposing the anti-freedom ideas of the wokatariate, need not apply. But people from other countries who both embrace socialism and are coming with expectations of aid, are welcome.
The slavers who polluted America’s history believed all Africans were incapable of being fully human and civilized. The very Party, the Democratic Party, that once championed this even worse version of original sin, which made Africans especially and irredeemably execrable, is still clinging to the same ideas.
The change is in who is the target, but the goal of absolute monopoly power remains the same. One may find the whole history of the Democratic Party is one of using some version of racialism and original sin to create victims and sinners whose only hope, but no guarantee, of redemption is absolute obedience to the ruling class.
But the ideas that systemic racism remains affixed to at least some of our structures and laws or that vast portions of our population may harber inherited ideas and prejudices that hinder our advancement toward a free and pluralistic society of equals cannot be dismissed. We being classical “republicans” and pluralists, we cannot whitewash the inherited corruption which comes because very strong groups harboring racialist ideas created laws and fostered prejudices that are not entirely rooted out of our society.
Many racists ideas permeate the way Democrats run inner cities, using welfare to disrupt black families, gun control to keep them all disarmed and pliant, softness on gangs to keep them in crises, socialism to keep them in a state of dependency, abortion to control their population, and a host of petty and contractory laws and codes to make it easy to jail them and use them as slave labor.
Yes, black people tend to vote for Democrats. It is a sick humor of history that a Party which has institutionally never disavowed its inherent racialist nature and that continues to use the false doctrine of collective guilt for original sin has captured the very people its ideas once literally enslaved. The black community is being sold the heady elixir of victimhood and entitlement to reparations and the easy excuse of racism as the only reason for any of their failures or problems. This elixir is a poison, the white rulers of the wokatariate are quite content to see the ghettos remain poor, unsafe, and left behind in perpetuity.
As an important aside, we must state that the grievances of the black community in relation to their own country are legion and deserve to be genuinely addressed. The truth is that Democratic Party handouts, even though they come with poison pills aimed at the black family, are a far cry from the “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps there is no racism holding you back” narrative of the right.
The perverted evolution of the original sin doctrine, of racialism, and slaving of the many to serve the few, have emerged as woke communism, perpetuated by a close collaboration between Democratic loyalists in the corporate world, in academia, in the press and entertainment industry, and in government. Their neocommmunism combines woke original sin with a corporate-political power alliance controlled by a party that is itself controlled by a small body of the wokatariate ruling class, almost ALL filthy rich white males!
But the vital issue here remains that there are in fact ideas, laws, and structures that are based in historic racism. It also remains that certain assumptions and prejudices, while not proving racism or any collective guilt, are the seed-kernels of racialist sentiment. Many Americans of every so-called race have been inculcated with racialist and intolerant prejudices, from black people thinking all white people are morally inferior, to white people habitually seeing black people as an “other”, for no reason but their race.
It is true the white prejudice tends to impact black people far more negatively than the anti-white prejudices being imparted into the black community by the wokatariate. But morally, the sentiment that people ought to be judged based on assummed inferior inherent traits, whether they include racism or backwardness, is the same. Whether a black person or white person or any group of people assumes the characterological inferiority of others, the sentiment is best described as prejudice and intolerance.
But, as a point of fact, the victim privilege or racism of the black man is of far less a threat than white prejudice against blacks and is nothing compared to the wokatariate’s new take on original sin. Indeed, the myth of so-called white supremacy or even the very real legacy of bias among a plurality to majority of white people isn’t anything like the threat to the whole country posed by the wokatariate.
But if America’s history on race is uneven but advancing freedom for more and more people at greater levels, and if we rightfully desire to rectify wrongs and finish the work until no American is left behind, the wokatariate want to reverse the arc of our history and bend it back toward original sin, shaming and guilting, and thereby authoritarianism.
We stand at a threshold of a future dominated by the Party that is the very inheritor of the old Democratic Party’s institutional bent toward authoritarianism versus something else. This “something else” isn’t the GOP, whose modern form of denying race as an issue betrays their abolitionist roots, and whose ability to stand against the Democrats is pathetic.
The “something else” needs to be a freedom-building movement of the People that brings all people of all “races” together, addresses the historical and present-day grievances and problems of every community, and does so on the solid and unalterable foundation of the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights!
Regency is a word that basically has two meanings in our vernacular: it speaks to our individual spiritual sovereignty as Yeshua’s joint-heirs and ambassadors on this earth and it also describes a regional network of such regents which provides support for its peers and serves the populace at large within its service area.
Regency as a concept is all about us as individuals embracing our role and spiritual sovereignty as ambassadors of Christ, as joint-heirs, and as kings and priests unto the Lord. Regency as a structure describes a regional chapter organization of the Upadarian Society and a regional network of people who subscribe to the Upadaria platform. Both aspects of regency as we use the term are inter-related and speak to a deeper truth about freedom, which is that we not only own this spiritual sovereignty as individuals but, through freewill participation, we own the authority to choose the spiritual, sociocultural, and sociocultural substance and norms which will govern our lives, relationships, and associations.
We gain this insight into regency as a both a specific aspect of our Kingdom-centered, Christian freedom-building platform and as broader freedom-building concept from the 17 Protocols of Upadaria, namely Protocol Five.
WE EXERCISE OUR INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE REGENCY TO PROVIDE A REFUGE TO OURSELVES AND OTHERS
As Believers, by practicing individual and corporate Regency through the framework of our spiritual nation, we serve as Kings and Priests who sovereignly steward all God has entrusted through a network of trust communities called Shires.
– From The 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Protocol Five
A key aspect of regency is the idea of refuge, which shows up in the Upadarian lifestyle and governance philosophy as “The Refuge Mandate”, but here we are looking at the regional development of the idea actualized within a supporting structure. Regency supports refuge.
When we exercise our spiritual sovereignty, individual regency, we experience an inner refuge from all external influence and control that connects us supernaturally to God and preserves our inner man from everything outside of Yeshua. When we develop this idea into a regional combination of such “regents” who are intentionally exercising their regency, we start to realize concrete, physical spaces wherein the follower of Yeshua and Peers of our spiritual nation can all find real refuge.
A Regency in our parlance is a specific term that applies to a regional virtual-to-local network within our platform and a regional chapter organization for our planned Society. In both cases, the organizational structure is a reflection of our substantive efforts to empower individuals to practice and experience regency within a broad support system that includes physical spaces, like common facilities and even clustered housing developments.
In many ways we can describe a Regency as a sort of ideal “province within the provinces”, like a larger regional subdivision of a country that is distributed throughout another region but that has a distinct and separate identity as well as spiritual, sociocultural, and socioeconomic life. This isn’t separation. It is both automous in a spiritual and sociocultural sense especially and yet totally connected to and supportive of the larger regional grouping of communities within its service area.
Regency at an individual level is easier to grasp. It’s basically you actualizing the fact you are a regent of the King. Your roles as a regent of the King include being nurtured and transformed into a joint-heir with Yeshua who is the Christ and Son of God, being a spiritually sovereign being made in the image of God, and actively pursuing your own and shared scroll of destiny and purpose (wyrd) which comes from God.
Often Christian writers will focus on calling and destiny. We go deeper and broader in two ways: we consider destiny and purpose as a whole-life mission and experience and we consider also shared destiny and purpose which you enter into solely on the basis of freewill participation as you believe God leads you.
But regency as a structure manifesting individual regency at scale is a regional network like a sort of smaller contiguous province distributed within a larger region and acting as both a socioculturally autonomous network of communities and individuals and yet also as a vibrant and connected part of the whole region. Regency as a structure creates a much larger network of regents that can substantively support the individual in ways nothing of a smaller scale can.
One root of this concept comes when we consider the whole book of Galatians. Historians and scholars debate the exact location or boundaries of this Galatia but almost all agree that it was a decent-sized regional identity, connected possibly to the ancient “Kingdom of Galatia”, but an area whose exact boundaries likely crossed over prinvoncial borders. The concept of an “Ecclesia” as a spiritual city-state of the elect spanning such a region, wherein each of the cities and areas in the region also had their own Ecclesia, informs our concept of a Regency.
The “Galatian Christians” and their regional network of spiritual city-states composed a sort of spiritual province whose King is Yeshua that was distributed throughout the Galatian region, a region that probably spanned prvoncial borders within the Roman Empire. So for us, a Regency is a distributed spiritual province consisting of everyone who is a peer of our spiritual nation and everyone who is a subscriber to our virtual platform but that serves all fellow Christians and the whole population within its service area.
As we work our way down from the regional to the individual level, we find that a Regency is made up of many different entities and structures, from Shires down to Shireholds and Kinship Groups. A Regency provides a regional networking and governance structure so that many individuals and different organizations and communities of people can cooperate and collaborate for shared purposes and mutual profit without a centralized, top-down over-controlling hierarchy.
The purpose of a Regency includes being an effective witness and influence for Yeshua to everyone in the regional service area, providing governance support and standards oversight to Upadarian peers, organizations, structures, and communities within the region, creating sociocultural and socioeconomic structures that engender total material and economic freedom for all participants, ministry and benevolence to the poor and needy, and physical refuge for local Christians in crisis and external Christian asylees, basically all refugees, who are in need.
Freedom-builders of various religious or philosophical backgrounds and convictions can use the same basic model so that a single region may have multiple virtual/distributed Regencies which could all cooperate on the basis of freedom fundamentals, like the US Bill of Rights in their original spirit and intent.
A Upadarian Regency is like a smaller province, somewhat autonomous of its larger Commonwealth (as an empire of freedom predicated on virtue, liberty, and independence with justice and equality for all), distributed throughout smaller charter communities and chapter groups within the whole region it serves.
The basic governance structure of a Regency includes a plurality of leadership, the regional operation of the nine governments, and the participation of its peers as well as a feedback system for its subscribers. The titular head and public face of a Regency is its Regent, who heads the regional Regium government but the Lord Protector of the Magisterium and the Proconsul of the Ethnium are also co-leaders while all are subjected both to the Crown Republic (a territorial chapter equivalent to a small country) and to a special Regency Council of 120 Electors chosen by lot.
Unlike the international virtual commonwealth, the 9 governments are concentrated in three: the Regium is still just the Regium, the Magistrate includes the Governate, the Agorate, and the Civitas, and the Ethnium includes the Societas, the Ecclesium, and the Comunis.
The Regium includes the Regency Tribunate of a High Tribune and 120 Tribunes who manage and oversee judicial issues and conflict between various entities within the Regency, a Regency Council of 120 Censors headed by the Regent, and the other two heads of government, including the Lord Protector and the Prconsul.
The Magisterium includes a Regency Senate made up of two Senators appointed by the Vicegerents of a Shire (or equivalent) and a Magisterial Council consisting of a Chancellor who assists the Lord Protector, and Minsters who heads such Regency Minsitries as Administration, the Governate, the Agorate, and the Civitas. These in turn have specific Departments but all Department Heads and Ministers are considered equal within the Magisterial Council.
The Ethnium includes a Regency Assembly consisting of 200 Delegates chosen by 200 roughly equal-sized Caucuses of everyone within the Regency’s service area who is an Elector or higher. The Ethnium also includes a Ministerium which includes the Administrative, Societas, Ecclesium, and Comunis Ministers and their Department Heads.
To support a Regency various facilities are envisioned, including Embassies, Missions, and Hub Communities.
Embassies are facilities for area to local gatherings and activities as well as administrative facilities planted by the Regency Government to begin a process of broadcasting our Gideon’s Call to find people who are called to be Peers and to service and promote subscriptions to the virtual platform.
Missions are facilities that may provide benevolence or ministry to the poor and needy and Christians in crisis as well as help for people with life-controlling problems or addictions.
Hub Communities are area-wide intentional communities that include clustered housing for Peers and Subscribers, space for refugees, clustered housing for any group that wants to use the mutual benefit housing model, and both residential and commercial space for public leasing based on fair housing laws. They also include larger scale facilities like health and wellness centers, recreation facilities, art and science resources, training, and administrative facilities.
Each Regency will have a central hub community, known as a Regency Hub that is a larger almost town-sized grouping of multiple little communities surrounding an area called a Citadel which in turn surrounds a Regency Castle.
These are all specific types of Upo Communities, which may also exist within a Regency as individuals create their own intentional communities using the Upo Model. This includes things like residents as customers/subscribers, promoting a free and pluralistic society of equals, mutual benefit corporations to facilitate clustered housing, a plurality of leadership, mutual self-reliance and self-preservation, and the use of our ideals, principles, practices, and mandates as their guiding standards.
The difference between a Upo Hub Community and a Upo Community is that the Hub Community is an official hub for a Upadarian platform and/or society chapter group, community, or organization, while a Upo Community is chartered by the Regency but is an autonomous development adminstered by Peers of Upadaria who form a corporate body of some kind.
While most Peers and Subscribers within a Regency will tend to live as they do now, some will desire to live within some sort of Upo Hub Community, Upo Community, or smaller clustered housing development. What is more, every Peers and Subscriber who is an eCitizen of the platform will have a guarantee of help and shelter within any of these clustered housing developments, Upo Communities, or Upo Hub Communities.
A Regency is planned in a cooperative way from the genesis plan and build team to autonomous area and local design and build teams down to the Shirehold and Kinship Group. The genesis team are the first certified Regency Builders who work together within their service area toward the goal of developing a strong Subscriber base and thereby finding and mobilizing Peers of the spiritual nation.
All this shows how the core concept of being a regent for Yeshua is expanded and applied to a regional network whereby many thousands of individuals can connect and collaborate to exercise their regency as a distributed regional body of Peers who have the same spiritual nationhood and who all serve the same King, who is Yeshua. A Regency will likely begin as a virtual-to-local community within our international platform and as qualified Electors and Nobles emerge these will eventually form the genesis planning and building team who adapt our blueprint to their regional needs and circumstances until they have created a functioning Regency.
This is like the “planting” model of the New Testament whereby Apostles tended to gather Believers after a period of evangelism and then find qualified people to become area-wide leaders who in turn appointed local leaders, all of whom took territorial responsibility to build the church and reach the lost. It may seem like a top-down model, but, while the core planning and design team leaders are essential recruited and assigned by the higher level leaders, it quickly emerges that all these local groups act autonomously and the “appointed” leaders become accountable to the people they directly serve.
From an organizational perspective, a Regency is the first major self-contained structure that truly acts like a provincial entity, even though it doesn’t have any political autonomy from the existing political state wherein it is located. It is, after all, a chapter ORGANIZATION within a virtual platform and an international Christian society, not an actual political subdivision of its host country.
Upo Regencies include special types such as Principalities as the designation of urban regencies, Shire Republics as regencies that are the home chapter organization for a Crown Republic (our territorial chapter organization), Crown Regencies as the home regional chapter organization of Commonwealths, Dominions, or Branch Societies, and Crown Principalities as physical regencies of notable importance wherein the land is actually owned by the Society in some form of special economic or autonomous zone arrangement.
A word on Crown Principalities is that they are quite far off in the future. We envision a world HQ for the entire international society and the virtual platform called “The Crown Principality of Upadaria” which might be likened unto Vatican City if our international society gained standing under international law. Mostly they would be special zones with a charter from a host country that allowed for sociocultural and socioeconomic autonomy.
The 17 Missionary Tribes, for instance, may operate a Royal Crown Principality as their HQ and may seek to develop one for each of the 20 Dominions around the world they serve, which are basically areas where they provide missions and refugee support and serve any Upo nationals. Other Regal Support Hubs would be established by the Society and its 9 “governments” for specific purposes and/or to serve different population groups in advancing our global vision to reach the nations and serve Christians in crisis.
It should be clear that while most subscribers to our platform and peers of our spiritual nation will not live within any sort of clustered housing development or Upo Community, we intend to build physical spaces and hubs wherein any peers, subscribers, or fellow Christians can seek help or sanctuary, missionary work can be supported, and provisions and ministries to the poor and needy can be conducted.
Unlike every other platform, the Upadarian platform is designed to eventually result in physical facilities, spaces, clustered living developments, hubs, and whole communities the size of cities or even whole regions, all created and administered according to our ideals, principles, practices, and mandates. Our Virtual Commonwealth is meant to eventually have a status like unto the Vatican with multiple versions of facilities/communities that are like Vatican City, even though most subscribers to the platform and most Peers of the city do not live in these places.
How far and how much these aspirations are actualized we shall see, but our abilities to plant Regencies and build some level of clustered housing, hubs, and communities will only grow in time as our subscriber base and Society membership grow in a given region.
Regency as both a concept of individual spiritual sovereignty and as a concept of regional community building for mutual profit and to support mutual goals is the practical way to actualize true freedom that flows from material and economic independency. As always, even if you do not adopt our exact model and become certified to begin building your own Regency you can use these general ideas to establish some sort of regionally distributed network of communities that reflect your own ideals and the such.
The Upadaria platform is many things and it is at its heart a vision come true, a vision initially seen by first founder Willem IV (myself) in 1982. We can say that what we are building in terms of our platform and other genesis structures is designed as our best understanding of a God-ordained vision for a spiritual nation as the vanguard people of a new civilization. So to that degree, aligning these things with a vision that was tested against the Bible, logic, history, and science for 40 years, is actually our chief aim. We know that if we build according to God’s blueprint, good things will happen for everyone involved.
But the Upadaria Platform, called “The Virtual Commonwealth of Upadaria”, is a place that does three key things for its subscribers who purchase eResident and eCitizen subscription packages:
1. It provides useful and edifying content that subscribers can use in their daily life to build freedom and prosperity
2. It provides systemic and immersive learning experiences, through active participation and even role-playing, so that the individual subscriber can become more fulfilled and empowered
3. It provides virtual-to-local gathering and connections opportunities via social networking and e-commerce features that result in building your own network of fellow travelers whose beliefs, values, and convictions harmonize with your own
This latter aspect of the community is important. Through Upadaria you will experience life first in your own mind and imagination, we use the context and nomenclature of a future history written in 2147 to immerse yourself mind into a different, ideal reality. This is necessary to help you see past, through, and over all the artificial constraints and hindrances of the present sociocultural and socioeconomic situation.
Upadaria as a platform is, among other things, a virtual gathering place for people who want to adopt a spiritual nationality they can positively say is under the rulership of Yeshua, the Christ and Son of God. Being connected to such a nation of people, even though they own no land and have no political or military power, is a sure path to walking in those blessings and provisions reserve for such nations whose God is the Lord.
The immersive learning experiences and role-playing and the creation of this ideal persona within an ideal situation are not the goal. They get you to a different kind of goal that really amounts to establishing kinship type commuties of trust through freewill participation alone. More significantly, you find a community of people, some as virtual connections and some as local connections, with whom warm, accepting, and trust-based fraternal bonds can be made. In short, you experience warmth and acceptance.
From this, while not every subscriber will opt in, a nation of people emerges from within many lands and kindreds and among all the so-called “races.” Gathering hundreds of thousands of people, of whom some to many will choose become the genesis founders and builders of a new nation that is distributed all over the world, is not the only purpose of Upadaria. But it is a key purpose and we certainly want to be totally up front and transparent about that.
Over and over again we will say: we provide options, we don’t impose demands. We offer you things like our immersive learning experiences which are tailored to meeting real needs and improving your quality of life.
Even if at first you feel put off by the “role-playing”, it’s not just fun, it has a serious and transfigurative experience. It’s also a safe and easy way to build new and positive connections on the basis of recognizing and nurturing the person you ideally wish to become. We are certain that you will find this experience to be extremely welcoming and hopeful.
Upadaria will exist outside the realm of the establishment technocracy and its ecosystem but it is not just another alt tech platform free-for-all where anything goes. It is an experience like nothing else out there right now.
Coming in to Upadaria you are a refugee fleeing from some form of oppression or persecution during the timeline of events that led to the rise of a new national people and the emergence of a new civilization even as many of the older civilizations underwent downfall and/or upheaval. This “narrative history” informs our immersive learning experience, shapes the way our platform is run as well as its features and organization/governance, and even guides, albeit not literally, our actual real-world aims.
To see and experience, even if initially in imagination, what it is like to be part of a nation whose God is the Lord, to experience life within a Christ-centered and Kingdom-focused civilization, and to experientially learn how to manifest this inner, imagined reality into your life and relationships, is a truly innovative, original, and powerful thing.
You will learn these things in Upadaria and experience them, but you will also build real relationships and have real social and economic interactions with your fellow Upos, people who are eCitizens of the Virtual Commonwealth of Upadaria. Options such a earning digital credits, using currencies, and even our own cryptocurrency will give you new ways to advance your prosperity through participation in our internal economy.
Our platform is also designed to be as outward facing as it is private. In other words, if you want your content, like your blog or business listing, to be seen by the public and broadcast to the public, you can do that. But by default all groups and forums and your own content are limited to either your followers or the internal community. Your personal identity, which we can confirm so that people know you are real, is private. Your persona, your Upo self, has their own name which you will choose as and when you become a confirmed eCitizen.
There are basically three types of subscriptions; Guests who have a free visa and limited access, eResidents who pay $15/month for more expanded access and some features, and eCitizens who pay $45/month but for a whole experience and way to either promote themselves or use networking to advance their career, business, or ministry.
Different types of eCitizen are all the same price but are granted based on things you do to advance your status and standing and/or different charters or pledges based on your beliefs and convictions. The basic types include simple eCitizens whose only status is eCitizen, Freeholders who adopt the Freedomist Pledge, Ecclesians who are confirmed followers of Yeshua.(Christians of all denominations), Peers who are eCitizens that adopt the 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Electors who are Peers who formally joined the Upadarian Commonwealth Society International, and Nobles who are Electors who are advancing along “The Path of Honor.”
Lots of other ways to earn status and standing and be recognized for your achievements exist and, as the community grows, more benefits and features for all types of subscribers will be unlocked. Our purpose here it to foster personal growth, advancement, and development and to give many organic opportunities for people to build meaningful connections.
Immerse yourself into a new reality that transcends the present and unleashes who you truly are in all your God-ordained possibilities!
“Buying into” and virtually living out our narrative timeline is not mandatory, you can just become an e-Citizen and enjoy the features, the content, and social interactions through your profile and followers, your blog and other blogs, through the classified ads, the business directory, and through groups and forums. But if you really want Upadaria to be more than a good platform but something that inspires you and awakens your own inner and God-ordained dreams, then give the whole immersive learning experience thing a good try.
Why is Upadaria a paid platform and not open and free to all?
Essential to our vision is the creation of genesis structures which we believe are essential for comings times of crisis and to fund the first projects, like our world HQ, the first missionary and refugee support hubs, and other projects, mostly through a crowdfunding effort. While subscribing to Upadaria is worth it, it is also being part of a crowdfunding effort.
The second reason this is important is that we definitely do not want a wildly incoherent mass influx of million of free users who will require serious moderation and governance and who could literally just be trolls come to discredit us. The paid subscription model means that even if we see a large influx of people, we will always have the means to provide good moderation and governance and even to give them a personalized support system, like a Guide who may only service around 1200 subscribers (which is not as work intense as it may seem) or a volunteer Assistant Guide who may only serve 100 or fewer subscribers and earn perks within the platform.
Finally, but of equal importance, we don’t ever want to be beholden to corporate advertisers who will make demands on content and moderation that don’t align with our views or the interests of the kind of freedom seekers who tend toward being socially conservative that we expect to gather.
As we grow our support base we will explore ways to bring in people of more limited means and help them to eventually stand on their own and be able to afford a subscription. We will not leave people behind, and we offer plenty of free content on our main website, but initially we need to find people who can afford to subscribe and thereby back our overall vision.
Upadaria is neither a free speech platform nor is it in any way a place to bash other people. We are positively for our way of life, based on the 17 Protocols of Upadaria, but we are not against anyone else. We desire only freewill participation, not control or coercion, either for ourselves or others. Most of our content and activities center on a fictional future history written in 2147 AD. Most of our contemporary focus on politics in general is to promote ways for communities of people like those who embrace our intentional nationality to gain more sociocultural and socioeconomic autonomy within existing or new legal structures.
As to the whole Upadarian nationality, unless you are an Elector, as in a member of our international mutual benefit, missionary, and refugee society, you don’t have to literally consider yourself a Upadarian national in your “meta” life outside of Upadaria. But, on the other hand, anyone CAN choose to adopt this particular nationality by making a pledge between God and themselves alone to aspire to use and fulfill as many of these Protocols as God gives the means to do!
People don’t have to join Upadaria, as in the platform, to become a Upadarian by nationality. Additionally, people can only “adopt” this nationality for their “persona” without feeling like they have to transfer that identity into their meta reality. Moreover, people can be eCitizens of various types without even adopting the Upadarian nationality for their Upo Persona.
Everything we offer is on a “can do” as opposed to “must do”, basis and there are many ways to experience happy social and other interactions and benefits in your own way or through prescribed pathways. It’s always your choice and our hope is to give you good choices.
Upadaria isn’t for everybody. Our vision for web 3.0 is a diversity of niche communities eventually connected to a broad organic and decentralized ecosystem that will allow interconnections and cross-platform communications. Upadaria is our initial niche community, others, including free models based on other funding models, can either be created by us or nurtured and inspired by us which connect to a universal backbone not controlled by the establishment technocracy.
As for Upadaria, generally if you are more socially conservative, if you have a Judeo-Christian worldview, and if you are serious about fulfillment, being your best, and becoming prosperous and successful in an ethical manner consistent with your values, then Upadaria is going to be a good fit!
If you legitimately could be called a racist, a bigot, a totalitarian, a communist, a neonazi, a fascist, or a nationalist in a racial sense, then you will find Upadaria to be too “liberal” and “diverse” for your liking. We don’t bash, judge, or condemn others, we simply propose that “the Upadarian Way” is our sociocultural choice and norm and the basis of our freewill association.
We believe that the Upadaria Platform represents not simply a piece of new technology. It’s features may have an interesting application and feel, you be the judge, but it’s true innovations come through its people, connections, its learning experiences, and its virtual-to-local approach to gathering people for activities and functions.
We want the platform to be professional and highly functional and we will ever explore advancements in its technology, but we also believe that the cheif elements of value are a place where you can be accepted and valued, a place where you can experience warm and caring relationships, a place where you can find your true God-ordained purpose and potential, and a place where you can materially benefit from mutual support and commerce.
Upadaria isn’t anything you have ever experienced and while you can enter slowly and learn gradually, bit by bit in manageable pieces, there are many ideas, methods, and principles you can explore that could take you literally months or years to experience. It’s a whole vast new realm of new ideas and possibilities that you can adapt to your daily life as you choose.
Living nationhood, which is to live the ways of a spiritual form of national idenity, may seem a bit esoteric, but if you mentally try on the idea, we propose you’ll find it is a practical means of improving your quality of life and building freedom for yourself and your family.
Once we grasp the true meaning of nationhood we take a further step forward and understand nationhood not just as an idea and identity but as a way of life and as daily practices. The Bible tells us to be IN this “kosmos”, as in the present world system, but not to be OF it. Our aim as Believers is to be a salt and light witness and influence for Yeshua to the nations. We do this without taking on their sociocultural and socioeconomic norms of the surrounding society.
We must avoid following those norms that contradict the sacred Kingdom essentials which are incumbent upon all followers of Yeshua. For this reason, we must be as materially as independent as possible from external influence and control. Additionally, we cannot replace the unaligned ways, ways not aligned with Kingdom essentials, without consciously replacing them with ways that align with Kingdom essentials.
Nationhood allows us to both find and use these ways to live in material independency but also allows is to organically connect and collaborate with others who adopt the same ways on a purely voluntary basis.
Living Spiritual Nationhood
NATIONHOOD IS A PATH TO FULFILL GOD’S STANDARDS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE THROUGH IDEALS, PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, AND MANDATES
As the sacred core Kingdom essentials are honored and practiced in our diversity manifestation of Kingdom Nationhood through personal, relational, and professional standards and norms, righteousness will exalt our nation.
– From The 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Protocol Four
Our approach to self-improvement, which is the improvement of yourself but NOT you improving yourself through your own power, is quite original.
Imagine approaching self-improvement, which is the process whereby God transfiguratively improves us, through the concepts and methodologies we find in a Biblical view of nations and nationhood. This could be difficult because nationhood to modern humans has devolved into a crude mixture of political states as agents of coercion or racial/racist notions whereby one’s actual genetic/biological ancestry defines who and what they are.
Nationhood comes from spiritual sovereignty, sociocultural and socioeconomic cohesivenes, mutually beneficial freewill participation, and the intentionality of forming communities of trust.
We propose that when nationhood is understood as a way of life whereby we seek, through the guiding and power of the Holy Spirit, to fulfill God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations, which is for all human beings. Remember, nations are ordained by God and a big hint as to their meaning comes from the phrase in Acts 17 “so that men might find God if they haply seek him.”
As we adopt nationhood, in our proposed case through what we call the Upadarian nation, but through any diversity manifestation of Kingdom Nationhood you want to choose, we create or adopt a set of standards and norms that manifest God’s righteous and justice in our inner lives, relationships, and professional conduct.
When we adopt a form of nationhood that is predicated on ideals, principles, practices, and mandates (practicing a shared vision and mission), it provides a ready-made means to guide and discipline our behavior and choices to suit our own wyrd, which is God’s scroll of destiny and purpose for our lives.
Every form of nationhood that is a diversity expression of Kingdom Nationhood should be able to be expressed in its ideals, principles, practices, and mandates through clear language and clear standards and norms that are utilized in a spirit of grace, not legalistically. These things should definitely align with Kingdom essentials, they should be practical, and they should be directed toward your own quality of life and the wyrd of your life.
In a sense, we’ve taken the foundation of what we know about how nations are seen by God and what their purpose in terms of God’s standards for the nations and human civilization and built a logical and practical ideational structure. Nationhood is a path for individuals AND vast groups of individuals, to manifest and fulfill God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations on a strictly voluntary, freewill participatory basis.
In describing OUR unique form of nationhood, the Upadarian nation of people as a spiritual nation, we are also introducing the broader concept of nationhood as a lifestyle and a personal growth discipline.
Our form of nationhood has four core ideals, four core principles, four core sets of practices based on the core elements of the Kingdom, and three core mandates which animate and guide our shared purpose and vision. If you understand and memorize these things and make them a daily tool for helping to make better decisions, build better relationships, and create better associations with others, especially if they also use these things, your quality of life, level of freedom, and your effectiveness as a witness and influence for Yeshua will improve over time.
Briefly, here is a description of our ideals, principles, practices, and mandates.
Our four core ideals come from our vision for a new civilization and include Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. From the UPDR of these ideals we derive the name UPaDaRia.
Our principles includes our social vision (cooperation, sustainability, consensus), social ethics (well-being, justice, autonomy), freedom vision (virtue, liberty, and independence), and Prosperity Vision (investment, land, ownership, protection).
Our practices comes from the core practices associated with four Kingdom elements, namely the practices of Ecclesium as the realm of the spiritual city-state and commonwealth of the Elect, Ethnium as both a universal and diversity manifestation of Kingdom nationhood in Christ, Oikosium as the small to global scale manifestation of a familial connection for mutual profit and mutual assurance, and Koiononium as the freewill participatory association and basis of a voluntary community of trust within God’s standards of righteousness and justice.
Our mandates include Kinship whereby we support and build up one another, Missions whereby we are a witness to others and support missionary efforts not limited by Western church culture, and Refuge whereby we provide refuge for ourselves and we both advocate for and serve Christian asylees and Christians in crisis.
These are Biblically sound, Kingdom-focused methods and means which not only define our unique form of spiritual nationhood as a diversity expression of Kingdom Nationhood, but they provide a ready-made means for groups of people to cooperate and collaborate without needing top-down control.
As the Bible says, righteousness exalts a nation but sin brings it down, to paraphrase. It also says “blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” We asked ourselves, “what does this mean practically speaking, how can we measure and quantity what it means to be righteous as a nation and how does this translate to the individual in terms of behavior and shared blessings?”
What we find is that the clear proclamation of ideals, principles, practices, and mandates, such as we have done, fulfills these things. It provides an accessible understanding of how we pursue God’s standards of righteousness and justice. It explains how individuals participate, by using these things, and how thereby we all who are peers of this spiritual nation walk in God’s blessings for such a nation of people whose God is the Lord.
One key idea we propose is that as nations of people explicitly define these things about themselves and as these things, which will vary from nation to nation, align with sacred Kingdom essentials, there will be a global “witness to the nations”, on an individual and corporate basis, that will reap a massive harvest of souls. We also foresee as the new civilization emerges, as a result of the deliberate practice of nationhood rooted in Yeshua, that there will be a flourishing of freedom and elevation of the Body of Christ to reach the nations and people of this earth more effectively.
If you want to build freedom beyond just words and political activism, if you want to build it unilaterally without being controlled by the present godless sociocultural and socioeconomic structures, nationhood as a personal discipline and lifestyle is a very practical and powerful tool.
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