Mennonites and the New World Order

I recently watched a video about a group of Mennonites who found that their way of life in Belize was being increasingly encroached upon by modern civilisation and so they resettled in a remote area of the Amazon rain forest in Peru.

The text accompanying the video stated that: 

Like the Amish in the US, the Mennonite Christian community shuns the modern world. Most Mennonites live in secluded, self-sufficient colonies. We get a rare glimpse into the life of a devout and isolated community.

Unlike the majority of humanity, that group at least is free of the current pandemic madness and their withdrawal from the world now seems less extreme than the measures that are being implemented to deal with this manufactured crisis. A friend of mine in Australia is planning to visit an elderly relative in an aged care facility but he must first produce evidence of having had his flu shot before he can enter the premises. He has no problem with that because he dutifully gets his flu shot each year and probably all the other vaccinations that are recommended for my friend's age group (he is over 65). Figure 1 shows a list of the vaccinations that are recommended:

What vaccinations are recommended for older adults?

Figure 1: source

In some ways, I'm envious of my friend who is blissfully unaware of the deep and dark plotting that I perceive to be going on in the world. He likes to travel, both locally and internationally, and he'll be able to do so if travel restrictions ease because he will submit to whatever vaccinations are required. He knows nothing about what's in them or how the ingredients might impact his health and he doesn't care. It won't be so easy for me.

This takes me back to the Mennonites who of course are beyond the reach of vaccinations and other hazards of the modern world's "health" systems. There are a similar group in Java called the Badui. Here is a little bit about them (source):

Their traditional belief system, known as Sunda Wiwitan, is based on sacrifices made to their ancestor spirits. Throughout its development, Sunda Wiwitan has been influenced by Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. Their core belief is in pikukuh, which means following an absolute set of determined traditions in their daily lives. The most important teaching of pikukuh is the concept of "no change whatsoever" or as little change as possible. A Baduy proverb states, "Lojor heunteu beunang dipotong, pendek heunteu beunang disambung," which means, "The long must not be cut short, the short must not be lengthened." 

The most important object of this belief system is Arca Domas, a secret location that the Baduy consider to be the most sacred place in the world. The Baduy visit Arca Domas to make sacrifices once a year in the month of Kalima according to the Baduy calendar. Only the puun as the highest chief and a few chosen members of the community may join the group that sacrifices at Arca Domas. At Arca Domas, one can find hollows in the rocks that store rain water. The Baduy believe that at the time of the annual sacrifices, if the rocks are full of clear water, this is a sign that there will be plentiful rain that year and the harvest will be good. If the rocks are dry or contain muddy water, this is a sign that the harvest will be poor.

The world is becoming an increasingly ugly and oppressive place. Maybe it always has been. In any case, there are sound reasons for withdrawing from it as the Mennonites and Badui have done and which other groups may attempt to do in the future. I wrote about this in an earlier post where I wrote:

The alternative is to grab your guitar and go "up the country". There's a chance that communes and communities may spring up that turn their back on technology and try to exist beyond the reach of Big Government, Big Pharma and Big Medicine.

Of course, the reach of Big Government, Big Pharma and Big Medicine only extends as far as the physical world and beyond that of course they have no jurisdiction. That is another way out for people who have become bankrupted or unemployed or in some other way traumatised by the plandemic.

Suicide rates have never been higher and they will only climb as this worldwide economic disaster, brought on by the plandemic lockdowns and disruptions to supply chains, broadens. The architects of the unfolding New World Order have no problem with this as population control by all means fair and foul is acceptable. For others, the stress brought on by the consequences of the plandemic will undermine their physical and psychological health by inclining them to eat more, drink more, exercise less and socialise less. The new restrictions placed on pubs and restaurants are a mighty disincentive to visiting them at all.

I visited a local mall myself today and it was a depressing experience. Most of the shops were closed. There were few people about but social distancing signage proliferated. There were more security personnel than patrons. Everyone was masked and, when I dropped my own mask under my chin as I wandered about inside the mall, a little man in uniform came trotting up to me to remind me to keep it covering my face. I complied. Why make a scene? There seem to be rules now gathering every aspect of social interaction. Figure 2 is just one example of the sort of madness that now prevails.

Figure 2

ECT

I read an interesting article on the BBC website about ECT today, proving that there is occasionally a worthwhile story to be found. The article gives a good account of the early history of the treatment and then looks at reasons for the decline in its popularity. The observation is made that:

ECT was indiscriminately used on people it would never help. In 1946, two psychiatrists from Siena, Italy wrote, “Today there is no mental illness where [ECT] has not been tried.” This included homosexuality, which the first three volumes Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (published between the 1950s and 1980s) categorised as a form of mental illness. Such widespread use – often without the patient’s consent – was a way to control uncontrollable patients. After a session, patients were in a dazed, sleepy, and therefore more manageable, state. It was custodial, not curative.

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest helped reinforce the image of ECT as a brutal and primitive therapeutic tool. The the use of ECT declined after the 1960's:

This was partly due to the rise in prescription drugs – though these were often less effective in severe depression – and partly due to the bad press ECT received in books, films, and the mass media. In the 1970s, historians David Healy and Edward Shorter write in their book Shock Therapy, a growing anti-psychiatry movement spearheaded by the Church of Scientology claimed that ECT ‘destroys minds’.

Clearly there is far more money to be made from a person on antidepressant or antipsychotic medication than from that same person receiving intermittent electric shocks, often at intervals of several months. The former needs to:

• purchase the medication on a regular basis
  (often for the remainder of the person's life)
• visit a doctor or psychiatrist to obtain the script for the medication
• be tested regularly by pathologists to monitor drug levels in the person's bloodstream
• sometimes take additional medication to counter the side-effects of the medication

This is tremendously lucrative to the medical industry (doctors, psychiatrists, pathologists) and the pharmaceutical industry (lifetime dependance) and any person presenting at the local medical centre with symptoms of depression is perceived as having a flashing neon dollar sign above their head. Compare this to the returns to be made from ECT and it's clear why the treatment was targeted and disparaged.

However, as the article observes:

Interest in ECT is returning. According to a recent report, a growing number of people are deciding to undergo the treatment. Between 2015 and 2016 in the UK, 22,600 sessions of ECT were performed, an 11% increase over the previous year. And ECT has been joined by more selective forms of electric therapy such as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), both of which are growing in support and popularity in the treatment of depression, Parkinson’s disease, and other mental disorders.

The medical and pharmaceutical industries are not interested in a cure for depression and psychosis, just as they are not interested in a cure for cancer. There is too much money to be made in the treatment and absolutely no money to be made in the wake of a cure.