Category: Paranormal

The Way to Beat Secret Societies: Hidden power gained through hidden rules to create the illusion of knowledge

Usually, when people talk about secret societies, there is a level of dread that is associated. Secret societies seem ominous because, as human beings, we think of the things we don’t know about as being powerful and godly, which is part of the appeal that drives people into secret society membership. And this is a problem when you are trying to run a transparent society where you understand the characters and their motives. In an honest world, there shouldn’t be any desire for secret societies. There shouldn’t be any secrets. But as we have learned over the last several years, many secret societies work in the background and are attached to many of the messes that are part of our modern problems. The quest for secret knowledge to leverage power over others is a strong aphrodisiac to the kind of personalities who want to rule over others. That has made secret society membership a menace to society because it keeps people from dealing squarely with one another. If so many secret societies ask for supernatural, occult aid, how should a straightforward, election-based culture operate? And that is where we currently find ourselves, especially in Europe and America–those who want to be like Europe. I know of many secret societies, and I know the kind of people who are members, and they aren’t very secret, especially in a society that has as much information access as we do these days. Secret societies aren’t so secret anymore because everyone knows where everyone else is and what they’re doing. Which leaves the question pending, why join one in the first place? What could they possibly do for anybody? 

Well, I have a very different take on secret societies that I have formed over a long period of time. And what helps that perspective is that I have never wanted to be in one. I tend to like to be in charge. I was like that as a little kid, so working my way up in a secret society, like the Masons, or some other group, was never for me. I never liked being told what to do, and I always required full autonomy for my independence. So, it was easy for me to say no to those kinds of membership offers. I once had quite a fight with an entire fraternity because I went there to see a friend of mine with my wife, which apparently there were all kinds of rules against. And on our way up to the fraternity house, she walked across the seal on the sidewalk for their membership. There were house rules on how to serve that seal best, and not knowing anything about those rules as a visitor, she didn’t know she wasn’t supposed to walk over it. The entire house rallied to assault us, but I have an unyielding personality, so a stalemate ensued because they really didn’t want to fight. They were obligated by the fraternity charter to conduct themselves in such a way, but they were all wimps who really didn’t want to fight that they were forced to stew; as I visited my friend, he toured me around the house, and we left uneventfully. My friend was removed from the fraternity after we left, which is a common passive-aggressive action that low-conflict threshold people perform when faced with a challenge to their invisible authority. 

This is what the weakness of all secret societies have, whether it’s just a college fraternity or the Skull and Bones Society that the Bush and Kerry families were members of. The training for this way of thinking often starts early for people so that by the time they are fully functioning adults, they are largely governed by secret social rules that aren’t openly expressed, which then makes managing a stable society a challenge because you have people worshipping lots of rules that are not part of the ethics of a social construct. And I have found all such people to be weak and easy to beat in whatever the engagement is, whether it’s physical, legal, or purely social. People drawn to secret societies want secret rules and power to protect them from their insecurities, which is why they are attracted to such powers in the first place. The power is an illusion because other people can’t know what those powers are. And this little shift in social engagement gives the illusion of power. In some ancient cultures, a high priest might acquire such power by understanding when an eclipse would occur and might point at the sky and declare power over the heavens. And because the information about how eclipses occur was secret to the society, who did not have access to that information because of some tyrannical regime, the high priest appears to have a secret power over the heavens. But the whole gag is about a lack of knowledge, not in full disclosure. And this is what draws people into secret societies, invisible rules to create the illusion of secret power. 

There is also a strong desire for weak people to hide in the herd to not be independent. They fear being singled out in society, so they seek membership in groups to hide in the safety of the masses. Group membership tells the world that people value them enough to be associated with a secret handshake and an exchange of some fundamental shared values. One of the most insecure things for people is to grow up and away from their parents; most people never develop that ability. So to fill that void, they seek a brotherhood and create a new family out of secret society membership, such as the Masons. Companionship is one of human beings’ most primal needs, so group consensus associated with limited access is a very persuasive motivator. And that is all innocent enough until those mentalities are brought into elected politics, where you expect representatives to perform on a job based on a platform they were elected to. Not following some rules of the secret handshake in the Skull and Bones Society which dominates Beltway politics within the intelligence agencies and operates to social practices that the rest of society that pays for their government through taxes has no idea about, like my story about the fraternity seal. To the outside world, the seal meant nothing. But to the fraternity brothers, it was everything; it represented their secret fears glazed over by symbols and rules only they knew about, which gave them the illusion of security in a scary world. And that is the key to beating such groups. If they were secure people, they wouldn’t seek group membership. But they do because they aren’t powerful people. They depend on numbers to hide their timidity as individuals. Once that is known and exploited, they fall apart quickly. Just as the scam of the high priest predicting an eclipse. If other members of the society understand how to read star alignments and know the cause of eclipses, the phony power of the high priest will lose all its influence. Because the power is based on ignorance and group association to maintain that illusion, but once that curtain falls, the power of the secret society is gone, which is where we find ourselves in the modern world. Many high priests are making their livings off secret society membership to rules only they know about. But the public isn’t as ignorant as they once were, because of the vast amounts of available shared information. And because of that and the need for independence in people who are not timid, the powers that have ruled the world in secrecy are desperately vulnerable and not nearly as scary as they once were.

Rich Hoffman

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Does The CIA Use Mind Control: How our thoughts work and for what purpose

Don’t you ever wonder where your thoughts come from, those random little ideas that pop into your head like, “Why don’t you jump” while standing next to a high space? Or “Why don’t you just punch that guy in the face.” How are such thoughts produced, and where do they come from? Are they from demons who reside in the background and jump from body to body, depending on their flavor of the moment? Or are those thoughts of some deep subconscious production? Or even yet, are they productions of the CIA who have found a way to implant thoughts into a mind much the way a radio receives information from a radio wave? We tend to think of our minds as off limits to the outside world, as our ultimate safe place. Nobody can read our thoughts; if we want to shut out the world, our minds are our last refuse. Nobody has a right to our thoughts, so we have built up a false sense of security over time regarding our minds, what they can do, and how secure they are. But the CIA has displayed an over-interest in mind control in the distant past, during the 1960s, and we should not just assume they weren’t successful. Instead, I think their lack of publication of results says that they were all too successful and that mind control is much easier than we have been led, on purpose, to believe. This idea of mind control often arises when we wonder about false flag events and other mass shootings. A radical government looking for someone to blame for something would find it safest to use people in ways that mass society has not yet accepted as a reality. So, of course, they would use such a method, and as we have seen in all aspects of their lives, they will abuse any power given to them because it’s a temptation beyond their ability to control.

Now when we talk about mind control, that doesn’t mean we lose self-control. But people most susceptible to mind control from some third-party government hostility are those less in control of their thought processes, like drug users, dumb people, highly emotional people, and people without a strong resolve. People who are intoxicated are particularly vulnerable to outside influences on their minds. So controlling people’s minds isn’t as easy as just turning on a radio or speaking into a microphone to broadcast a message. Getting a message into a mind is only part of the battle. Getting people to act on it is quite another. That’s why it’s crucial to understand mass school shootings; for instance, most of the gunmen are from broken homes, have a history of drugs, and are likely taking medicine for depression. If you are a hostile government, for instance, and you want to inspire a false flag event through a mass shooting that will consume the news cycle to keep people from talking about other problems in the world, then such depleted, weak minds are the kind of people you’d be interested in influencing. But assuming that such a thing isn’t happening because we don’t believe the technology is there yet is preposterous. While people debate the feasibility, it provides easy cover for the malicious to perform their malice, which is all too common nowadays.

Every time you witness a magic show, you are seeing a form of mind control, a purposeful deception in a mass audience where mind manipulation is a shared experience. Most good salespeople are naturally good at mind control. And it used to be difficult to ask a girl out for a date before the Internet made things all too easy by turning a no or a shy opposition into a yes. Influencing the mind is a common practice among human beings, so naturally, the governments of the world would be very interested in developing mind control technology for their own survival. And from what we’ve witnessed from our government and other governments and their financial powers that prop them up, there is a strong desire to control people’s minds. Advertisers try to do it every minute of every day through mass media ads. And when government gets in trouble over some issue or another and needs a deflection, or they want to inspire gun confiscation legislation, then some drug-using menace to society might then find the thought of performing a mass killing popping into his mind, either through a direct message broadcast to his weak mind from a government agent seeking a cover from the shadows. Or perhaps some evil spirit is conjured up through some mass ritual of occult reverence, and that spiritual assassin fulfills the request by jumping into the seat of an unoccupied mind. Why else would there be government policy on marijuana, an obvious mind-altering drug where intoxication is so openly embraced? I would say that it makes it much easier to control a society that doesn’t have strong thoughts, and drug use makes it easy for governments to rule over weak people. But does it happen at all? Well, you bet it does. It happens much more often than we believe it does. The mind is a receiver of all kinds of information, and we still don’t understand well how thought is produced in the brain. So the ability to manipulate a thought is one of the most valuable traits a menacing government addicted to world domination would strive to utilize. 

With all the talk about 5G, our minds are constantly being bombed by radio waves, internet signals, signals bouncing all over the earth from satellite communications. Our cell phones are continually broadcasting and receiving information, and all those waves of information are passing through our minds. So, it should be obvious to conclude that those many random thoughts, like “punch that person” or “call that person a name,” or even worse, are coming from outside sources from our own minds and that our minds aren’t so secure. If you have noticed, when you pick up your phone, it knows when you are looking at it. Our mind broadcasts information that goes to our extremities, but do we think it stops there, within the confines of our bodies? I would think not. And as of yet, we have only assumed that our privacy is a priority based on biological science. Yet it’s time to think seriously that there are lots of influences out there that have cracked the code. And your best defense against those forces is to have sanity as your best defense. The ability to override those random messages that come into your mind to rationally discard them. But once that rationality is lost to stupidity or drunkenness, then the mind is fair game for all kinds of maniacal purposes. And don’t be silly; the CIA cracked the code to mind control many years ago. They use it for their needs, which, as we have seen recently, are not the domestic needs of national security, but the efforts of globalism among a drug-induced population of victims being used for sheer evil and purposes of global conquest. They may not be able actually to make people commit a crime, but they sure can push a button and make many think about it, which is the first step to action. And the less resolute a targeted mind is, the easier it is to get them to do what you want them to do.

Rich Hoffman

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Why International Banking Worships the God Baphomet: It’s all about Isaiah 14:12

We must talk about the ancient God of Baphomet, the devil-like creature that comes up a lot, who is essentially the God of finance. When you dig into the religious motives of international banking and its historical connections to the Knights Templar, it’s critical to understand how all this mess started. My current goal for talking about these things is to take them from the realm of conspiracy theory, where they have been doing a lot of damage, and putting them into a historical perspective. The scary stuff is what people don’t understand, giving these kinds of things their own life. For good Christian people, any type of worship besides the pursuit of Jesus Christ can come across as very terrifying. Yet the higher up the ladder of international finance that you go, the more of a relationship with the old pagan gods of Sumerian civilization that you’ll find emerge, and when it comes to finance, it’s Baphomet that they worship. Now, I can say with certainty that your local banker, your political treasurers, and auditors probably aren’t worshiping Baphomet. I know that to be the case with the very good auditor in my town of Butler County, Ohio, Nancy Nix, that it’s Christ in the traditional way that she seeks religious merit from. But the more risk, the more international that banking gets, the more supernatural aid that is sought out, and by their own traditions, Baphomet is the Luciferian deity of worship, the goat-headed lunatic with a male right arm, a female left, a star on its forehead usually depicted with children at its feet. It’s another of the gods that come from the Baal worship that is so much discussed in the Bible. For much the same reasons today as in biblical times, when people consumed with risk seek to manage it with supernatural aid, it’s the God Baphomet that they turn to, not Yahweh or Jesus Christ. Jesus is for the ordinary people the way the worshippers of Baphomet think of him. From their perspective, they have higher knowledge than the typical religious consumer, and they base that on their history.

The story goes that the Knights of the Crusades were hungry to impose Roman-style Christianity on the conquered lands of the Middle East, a conflict that the descendants of the Knights Templars are still very active in, which has led directly to the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, and technically Ukraine. So understanding this essential Baphomet problem is critical to solving the current global turmoil, which is purposeful in its military desires for global domination and one world religion. The religion of the Muslim was created as a counter force to the rise of Roman Christianity to maintain regional power in the Holy Land, which is why the Quran has many of the same characters in it that are in the Bible. However, where the Bible would represent Western Civilization values, the Quran was noticeably oriental and much more collectivist in its assumptions. During the many fights of the Crusades, the Knights Templars became associated with their Muslim enemies and started to find themselves converted to the views of the enemy. And hidden behind Allah was an attempt to consolidate all the ancient gods of the region of Babylon of polytheism and unite them under a monotheistic approach, essentially to defeat the attempts of Christianity to simplify things and their single god approach. The Quran covers this polytheism problem quite explicitly throughout its text, and it was how the Knights Templars learned about the secrets of Baphomet, which they took back to Europe with them like rat poison going back to the nest. The best way to defeat an enemy is not always with armed conflict, but to poison what they believe, which is what the Muslims did to the Knights Templars to destroy them and their monotheistic God.

The King of France and the Pope at the time of the early 1300s were getting tired of all the power that the Knights Templars had acquired in Europe due to their conquests and looted treasure from the Holy Land during the period of the Crusades. This is how centralized banking came about through the Knights Templars, who created a network of banknotes that could be redeemed far away from the original source, which was a radical concept at the time. But the King of France had accumulated a lot of debt and wanted to eliminate it and the political rivals that the Knights Templars had become. So they exterminated the Knights Templars and forced them underground, where they became the Masonic order over the next 300 years. And from there, many other secret societies emerged as well. The Masons made it their mission to destroy the kings of Europe, which is how the American Revolution started, and how the French Revolution came to be. The kings of Europe lost their power to a large degree, so the secret societies were doing their work and achieving their goals. And along the way, they learned that it was much more effective to control the debt of nations than to actually have an army and ride off into battle to live or die on a battlefield. And with this new military approach to the world, it wasn’t Jesus Christ or the father Yahway that they were worshipping; it was the consolidated God Baphomet that they felt gave them good luck in managing the risks of finance. Jesus preached against money and wealth, so obviously, he wasn’t a good god for worshipping the risky business of international finance.

If you’ve ever been in a business meeting and someone says, “Knock on wood,” they often do that because they report a series of good luck events that they hope they don’t jinx by publicly discussing. It’s a superstitious belief that is rooted in raw beliefs passed down through the human race for many thousands of years. But as I always say, “When you’re good, you’re good,” who needs superstition when skill is the determining factor? Yet that is why many people turned away from God and worshipped Baal and his pantheon of deities, because they sought good luck from the spirit world, which is how the Knights Templars learned from the Muslims of Baphomet, and why to this very day they seek to appease that aphroditic creature, even with the push from the World Economic Forum for transexual politics, the drunken lifestyles of excess, and the defilement of individuals as a sacrifice to Baphomet, the fallen angel of Lucifer and the true hero of ancient times, according to them. And before we can solve any of today’s problems, we must understand why people believe what they do and why they are different from the rest of us. Essentially we are dealing with the same evils we have always dealt with, which the Bible chronicles very well. It never went away and is now closer to us than ever before because the worship of Baphomet is connected to us, with international financing becoming such an essential part of all our lives and technology forcing us to deal with people we otherwise would avoid. Now they are in our business and imposing their beliefs on us in ways we are uncomfortable with, bringing about a clash of cultures that was never dealt with initially. It has only brewed until now in the background.

Rich Hoffman

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It’s Not the Fault of Indiana Jones: Disney listened to BlackRock and they’ll never recover

Indiana Jones is a great movie, but Disney mismanaged it by listening to the wrong people

One of the reasons I do these articles on this blog is because people are hungry for real information. Not the kind that the media has grown to give us, usually laced as propaganda to fulfill some NWO vision of centralized control using the China model of communism to determine reality. And there is something really menacing looming behind the various box office results that I say all the time are the ways that people vote for value in our culture. The Sound of Freedom movie is a category by itself, and as far as I’m concerned, there’s room for all these great movies that are suddenly coming out. But the way that the communist left has gained control of the marketplace is by placing the number 1 weekly horse race to movies, all in an effort to make or break their box office results. It’s a baked-in trick by the World Economic Forum types and their media apparatus to pick winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas with the illusion of industry reporting. And I say that as a guy who has read The Hollywood Reporter for three decades. I used to get the magazine version of that publication as an industry guide of great value. So I am quite aware of the switch to this new way of manipulating numbers to tell the kind of story that the financial controllers of communist activism want to tell. And a target early on was the new Indiana Jones movie, The Dial of Destiny. The WEF types wanted to see Disney kill off one of the great American heroes from the 1980s. Early screenings showed that the public didn’t like that. So Disney had to scramble to give the public the ending they wanted, which went against the desires of the BlackRocks of the world. And as a result, Bob Iger and the gang at Disney found themselves between a rock and a hard place with snakes and spikes in between to kill them with a thousand cuts.

See the problem. Even with inflation, this cost structure is ridiculous and not sustainable.

When I look at the box office numbers for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, I see a pretty good movie that performs well day to day, even on weekdays. It’s consistently good with the other movies that were done in the 1980s, back in a time when those movies stayed at the movie theater for most of a year. But these days, with movies barely staying in a movie theater for more than 60 days, a film has to have a lot of pop on the front, most of this due to failures of liberalism. The movies are controlled by labor unions who want inflated budgets with unlimited money spent. And if a studio complies, they are rewarded with good press that will take them close to a good box office score. Disney got caught trying to appease everyone, including BlackRock, and they made everyone mad with a movie that had its budget out of control. If George Lucas was producing this Indiana Jones film, he would have kept the budget under 100 million, or he wouldn’t have made the picture. Kathy Kennedy let the budget spike up to around 300 million before advertising. So the standard is the problem, and the controllers expect to rule the marketplace. And Disney has damaged their own brand, so anti-Disney people started campaigning against this Indiana Jones movie several years ago. Then there was the political agenda from BlackRock and Vanguard about replacing Indiana Jones with a woman and killing off the Western hero for global communism. Disney picked the fans for its own survival, and the industry pounced, writing many negative articles against Indiana Jones, hoping to sink the film and punish the studio for not complying with the globalism mandate. 

Ultimately, this Indiana Jones film will be well respected and could have been financially successful if Disney had managed the budget. But it got out of control, and they thought they could spin it into a billion-dollar grosser. But without the support of the industry analysts, who are communist in most of their approaches to everything, the World Economic Forum activists worked overtime to ensure that it would never get there. They would have talked the movie up if Disney had killed off Indiana Jones. But they resorted to punishing the movie because it was a good hero story with a classic character living to see a happy ending. That was a good move for Disney in the long run because Indiana Jones will be around longer than the World Economic Forum. I’m not sure that Disney will make it. I’m telling people to go to the parks now while they are still there because I don’t think Disney will survive what they’ve done to themselves, which they are now the Bud Light of entertainment. When people think of Disney, they no longer think of Mickey Mouse but woke monsters who want to groom children. And once you lose that brand, it’s gone forever in this climate. They played the game wrong, and now it’s going to cost them.   They fixed the Indiana Jones movie in time to save it. But they should have done the same to themselves several years ago instead of committing to the World Economic Forum’s woke agenda of gender desecration, which started to become evident with the killing of Han Solo and that terrible Buzz Lightyear movie. 

It’s not an Indiana Jones problem; over the coming year, most people will watch the movie and like it, whether at the theater or at home on a streaming service. It’s a good family movie, but it’s too late for a course correction by Disney to save it at the box office. Because Disney is having problems everywhere. People are rejecting them as a company. That doesn’t mean that they’ll never have another billion-dollar film again. But they have lost permanent market share because of their woke commitment. And now their woke bosses at BlackRock are punishing them in the trades if they don’t stay committed to the continued desecration of American heroes. So the news isn’t good for Indiana Jones, but it’s not because the movie is bad. But there are undoubtedly many bad characters who are politically motivated on both sides, and Disney mismanaged the whole thing to their detriment. The lesson for everyone is not to pick against the audience, not to feed the everlasting hunger of the trade unions with inflated budgets, and to never align yourself with global activism against good stories and heroes who stand against evil. This is why I said it was a bad idea for Bob Iger to come back. I don’t know what he was thinking about taking a job that was bound to be a loser. There was no way to fix this Disney problem. And instead of being viewed as a pretty good CEO over his years, he’ll be remembered as the guy who let it all fall apart. But the truth is, this started a long time ago when the board started listening to global activists for communism and bending their films toward the China market. All that was a mistake that is showing itself at the box office. And it has nothing to do with Indiana Jones as a movie. If anything, people are supporting the movie more than they otherwise would. The problem is Disney, and I’m afraid that it’s a condition that will never correct itself.  

Rich Hoffman

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‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ is Fantastic: The way they used to make movies, family-friendly, happy endings, and a real love for the audiance

The really good news is that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a wonderful movie. I have said it for years, and it’s certainly true here, one of the extraordinary measures of a society’s health is its box office because it tells the world what people are buying at the movie theater as an entertainment option. It accurately describes what kinds of things people really like in the world and provides a measure beyond political beliefs to the truth of public sentiment. It’s much more difficult to understand when you get into television ratings and streaming services. And I think what happened with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is something that we talked about last year with the release of Top Gun: Maverick, another movie that, like Indiana Jones, was delayed for many years in production before being released to the public. I’m sure that Steven Spielberg will deny it, along with the diversity crew at Disney, but clearly, what happened with Indiana Jones and the newly directed James Mangold Dial of Destiny is that they learned some important lessons with Top Gun, one of the first big hits coming out of Covid. And as a result, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a fantastic film that seeks to be more like Raiders of the Lost Ark than the more slapstick Last Crusade. If you understand Indiana Jones like I do, and many people who have been with this character for over four decades now, and have watched all the television shows, read all the books, read the comics, played the video games, this Indiana Jones movie does a great job of showing a very complete character in a way that Hollywood has never had to deal with. And the movie pulls it off spectacularly and very respectfully. As only Harrison Ford could play, this is a very complex character, more so than most reviewers could wrap their minds around, and the result is something extraordinary with a very happy, family-friendly ending. I don’t think there was a single curse word in the entire film, and it didn’t have anything woke in it. It was an offering from Disney that was begging for forgiveness from the movie-going public.

What was clear to me was that this new director, James Mangold, loves Indiana Jones as many of us do, and he understands the character and his significance to actual history. I’ve also said many times that Indiana Jones has done more for science than almost any other resource in the history of the world. The publishing industry has really flourished because of Indiana Jones, not by direct correlation, but the hunger for the kind of content that is often discussed in Indiana Jones films and in Dial of Destiny; a lot is going on, things that work at many different levels that were built around a movie with a true love for the world of Indiana Jones and the way that fiction carries over into fact. I would go so far as to call Dial of Destiny as brilliant and ambitious while being very safe in the continuation of the character. As many have discussed, Indiana Jones is an old man in this movie. Harrison Ford is 80 years old, so we aren’t talking about a swashbuckling Errol Flynn type mixed with Humphrey Bogart as Raiders of the Lost Ark was often characterized back when it was first released. This is something unique and entirely of its own making that now has its own history that everything is measured from. And some of the real Indiana Jones types that are out there in the world doing great work, clearly inspired by these movies over the years, like Graham Hancock, the Joe Rogan Show, and even the religious writer Jonathan Cahn have shown that most of the thrill of Indiana Jones isn’t a youthful man fighting bad guys and escaping under speeding trucks. Over the years, the greatest thrills in Indiana Jones movies are more intellectual than physical, and that’s why Dial of Destiny works so well with an old Indiana Jones doing what only he could.

Instead, I would have Disney not made this Indiana Jones movie before I saw it. I raised my children on these movies; now, my grandchildren are tremendous fans. I enjoyed Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as an ambitious film that many didn’t like because it stepped out of the formula established in the first three films that were all released during Reagan-era politics in the 1980s. As much as people didn’t like the movie, and that Steven Spielberg didn’t seem to want to make it, there were a lot of positive things that came from that fourth film, such as the History Channel’s show Ancient Aliens, which culminated in the lives of great writers like Zecharia Sitchin and Erich von Daniken. These Indiana Jones movies open the broader market for these kinds of unique adventures into history, such as The Gold of the Gods so wonderfully portrays. Indiana Jones may have started as an adventurous playboy grave robber in Raiders of the Lost Ark. But he evolved quickly into the pent-up frustrations of George Lucas himself, a very smart person who wanted to live the lifetimes of dozens of the most brilliant people in all of human history, that over the years was attempted to flush out in all forms of media available to tell these stories. This movie, Dial of Destiny, does all that while still managing to keep Indiana Jones the person we have always known. He shoots guns in this movie, which I thought Disney would avoid altogether. There are fistfights that are not unbelievable for an 80-year-old man. And the development of Helena Shaw was respectful, fun, and dashing. I would easily see a movie that featured her as a main character. Played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, she was a fun character, and I could see a sequel to Dial of Destiny where she is the feature, and Indiana Jones makes a guest appearance to help the movie along. This might be the last Indiana Jones movie, but I don’t think it will be the last Indiana Jones appearance by Harrison Ford, based on how this movie ended. 

It will be interesting to see how much business this movie does for Disney. Disney has severe brand damage now with their commitment to woke politics. But this movie is a clear peace offering to the ticket-buying public to help repair that brand. To invite people to come back to the theme parks. This is Bob Iger attempting to get Disney back in the public’s good graces. At least this film deserves to be in the billion-dollar club. But the Disney brand has made some people very, very angry. Yet this movie is as good as movies can be made and does not destroy a character the world has fallen in love with. And it leaves the door open to a happy ending for him, given that Indiana Jones is old. And that John Williams, who does a fantastic job with the musical score, as usual, is now in his 90s. This happy movie gives fans what they are looking for, and I couldn’t recommend it more. This is the kind of film that movie theaters were made for, that we used to get all the time in the 80s and 90s, but are now very rare. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is something special, and it was wonderful to see that movies like this can still be made. 

Rich Hoffman

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A UFO Over Middletown, Ohio: Right where I said one should appear

It’s always news when a UFO appears in the sky in your community, especially a well-defined one as occurred on June 21st, 2023, in precisely the location that I had dared one to appear just a few days earlier. One of my locations for recording VLOGs for my website is the LeSourdsville Lake Park near the campus of Butler Tech. I had been covering the increase in the news of UFO sightings, precisely the one in Las Vegas recently where reportedly a UFO crashed in the backyard of some witnesses, and 10-foot-tall aliens were running around trying to conceal the crash by driving around construction equipment. All this was reported to the police, captured on video, and had multiple witnesses. As I report these things, I say that UFO encounters are much more common among many more people who typically don’t get recognition for them, so it was odd that there are many more reporting than usual and that they are occurring with more frequency with multiple witnesses. My purpose for talking about it wasn’t the phenomenon itself but that the government was admitting to it. And my offering was that the government was in trouble with all these other scandals, horrible inflation, globalism gone bad, a Covid story that wouldn’t go away, election fraud, and abuse of the Department of Justice; there is a lot that the American government would like to get out of people’s minds, and usually when you see a rash of UFO stories, that is the card that governments hide under their sleeve for just such emergencies. 

So to take the edge off the story, I pointed to a spot on the ground and dared a UFO to appear, and a few days later, just a few hundred feet away, a really good UFO appeared in the sky to multiple witnesses who were able to record it on their cell phones. The UFO hovered in the sky near the Speedway, which is nearby with very defined lights turning in a counterclockwise direction before jutting off to the northeast at impossible speeds for conventional physics. Early offerings on the matter were that it could have been a drone or a series of drones. But whatever it was, it was certainly something, and many people saw it. Of course, my first reaction was that someone had seen my video and had the idea to create the situation to answer my challenge. Because there were too many coincidences to consider, out of all the latitude and longitude coordinates in the world, this UFO appearance was just too perfect considering my challenge. And out of all the times in the year, this one appeared just a few days after I had asked it to. That left the question of who and why because the UFO that appeared in the sky was undoubtedly a what and a where. I have recorded UFOs in this general area before, but this one was very well-defined and had all the cinematic elements that are typically associated with UFO technology, spinning, colorful lights, impossibly high speeds, and the ability to hover in place. It was a classic UFO sighting that was entirely too perfect to be real, yet there it was. 

I wondered about it being a drone, about it being an experimental craft from nearby Wright Patterson Airforce Base. One of the reasons that there may be many UFO sightings in the Southern Ohio area is the many Indian mounds. This precise area has many markers in the shape of mounds, as I have talked about them being references to points in time that were created to help a navigator understand due to star alignments with them “when” in time a space traveler might want to know. Specifically, in this case, the nearby Fort Hill alignments that are over 5000 years old align to the constellation Aries and involve the Pleiades star system at a time when people shouldn’t have had such ideas about astrology. And just a few miles to the north of that UFO sighting is the Middletown Mound which is related to the massive Miamisburg mound just upriver a few miles. So, these UFOs aren’t as uncommon as people might think, nor are their reasons for appearing in the Southern Ohio skies. No matter how advanced onboard equipment might be, even for a society that is millions of years further along technologically than we are present, there is nothing like a good signpost in the ground to tell you when you are somewhere because space travel can get funky, as time does not move the same way for everyone, everywhere. It helps to know “when” you are, not just “where.” Most of the UFOs I have seen are very high up. One of my daughters is very tuned in to these kinds of things and always finds them. Most recently, there was one she recorded and sent to me right over my house, but very high up. I remind people that there is a lot of advanced technology that people have, governments, crime syndicates, pedophile rings within the World Economic Forum, crazy lunatics obsessed with bizarre sex practices where they drink adrenochrome, which could simulate a UFO occurrence with holographic projections, which is what I think this UFO reported on August 21st actually was. We are dealing with very hostile people who have gained the advantage in recent years of a technology-based world that is easy to manipulate through images. And those who control what you see are prone to abuse that power.

Understanding all that, my statement on UFOs and all other potential hostilities, no matter where they come from, is that the American Constitution is a philosophy that is the law of the land and that we do not suspend it just because aliens from other planets happen to show up. It’s the same kind of debate that we had when the government purposely mismanaged Covid by denying victims of proper medicine such as hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin as treatments, allowing people to purposely be killed by the virus released by the lab in Wuhan through government cooperation globally. In America, they tried to suspend our Constitutional rights over Covid and implied the same regarding UFO encounters. If we come face to face with an alien species, then we are expected to cleave to the government to save us, and under such conditions, our Constitution would be suspended. My argument is that “no,” we never suspend our Constitution and turn our lives over to the government, which is what I had been saying was the root cause of these increases in UFO appearances. The fact that they were happening, and more frequently, was the government’s way to corral people behind their cause, to get them to seek the safety of the government’s skirt like a frightened child. I would further offer that our American Constitution would be valuable to teach aliens from space.

Just because they are technologically further along than us doesn’t mean they are smarter. They could learn a thing or two from the American Constitution. But we don’t suspend it just because of some emergency or visits from an alien species. And ultimately, that’s why I think the UFO sightings are happening. To remind people that government is there to protect them from unknown forces and that those forces are just hovering around anywhere, anytime. What defense do we have if not for the government? Well, my statement is that the government does lie and that they are far more dangerous than the aliens. If the aliens want to come, go ahead and land, and let’s have a chat. But suspending the Constitution, or our investigative First Amendment that looks at all the bad dealings of this corrupt government isn’t going to happen. Based on what we know now, the government isn’t something we should be running to for protection. They are what we should be running from, aliens and all. 

Rich Hoffman

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Hiding Evil Behind Artificial Intelligence: Child Sacrifice at Tel Gezer and the modern hunger for more of it

My opinion on ChatGPT A.I. is not very good, I see it as a gimmicky way for lazy people to get out of doing the hard work of thinking. And it shows in the final product. The A.I. programs are pretty good at copying source material, but they are not good at coming up with original thoughts, and I think this will always be the case to some extent. If humans make AI, and not all humans are equal, then those flows will be in the source code, and A.I. will be limited forever in what it can do. Many people think I am using A.I. to write the amount I do. But I wouldn’t do that; I will always be like the Amish to some extent. The quality of the work comes from old-fashioned methods, and even if mass production can produce more, people will always honor and respect Amish craftsmanship. And that will always be valued, especially in creative thought. This is why I thought the story coming out of Bavaria, Germany, was particularly interesting regarding the new concept at a protestant Church to have a complete A.I. service, let by computers. As someone who has studied most of the world’s religions, it is clear to me what is going on and what the World Economic Forum’s support of it is trying to achieve. There is a vast evil at work in the background that has always been nipping at the heels of the human race, and it is finding another vehicle to carry its nonsense in the invention of artificial intelligence. I’m not an anti-technology kind of person, but I don’t ever think it will become far superior to human thought because thinking occurs beyond the digitized ability of computers, which is why the people who think this church service at St. Paul’s in Furth, Germany will replace all human religions because A.I. is smarter and has more profound insight into the mysteries of the universe. The truth is quite the opposite. 

The proposal is that ChatGPT will write a new Bible and that once humans accept that Artificial Intelligence is so much smarter than humans, the old religions will drop away, and this will be how the New World Order run by the Desecrators of Davos from the World Economic Forum will run the world as a centralized one world government. This was always their plan and why they are pushing this church service in Germany as the next great thing. (Why do all these maniacal plots to take over the world always come out of Germany? Some of these guys could use a girlfriend)  Listening to all this, I see the work of that vast evil trying to camouflage itself in society by conceding to a new religion run by artificial intelligence but ultimately programmed by the centralized planners of future communism in Europe run by the World Economic Forum behind the smiling mask of the United Nations. And here’s why, ChatGPT might be able to write its own kind of Bible for a new religion that it makes up, and it may be able to host church services. But it cannot make up history. It can only generate stories. One of the greatest things about the Bible that other religions struggle with, especially Islam, is the validity of their source material. The Bible is rooted in many thousands of years of actual history. It is a window into the world before the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. Much of the Bible can be verified by archaeology, so its merit goes far beyond some simple stories that artificial intelligence could replicate. And in so doing, the same evil that is essentially the struggle of the Bible that is always working in the background would be missed by artificial intelligence, which is the point of the advocacy. This becomes even more apparent when you realize that many of the modern WEF globalists are still worshipers of the same evil that ruined societies in Mesopotamia and all over the Middle East, which Christianity was rebelling against, which presented the Bible, to begin with, as a unified force on the world stage.

All this reminded me of a fantastic article I read back in 2015 in Biblical Archaeology Review about the 1902 dig at Tel Gezer by Robert Macalister, who uncovered a grisly sacrificial site dedicated to the Canaanite god Moloch. The site is quite astonishing as it is a typical “high place” site with 10′ tall stone pillars set up with great effort. These Canaanite gods, such as Baal, Moloch, and Ishtar, were the villains of the Bible. Their work of destruction embodies Yahweh’s anger throughout the entire text. It was common practice for the Canaanites to sacrifice their children to these gods in despicable ways, and this was the justification for the Hebrew people to invade the promised land and take that land from the Canaanites to establish Israel, as we know it today, eventually. Discovered at that site by Macalister were the remains of a young girl sawed in half and placed on the altar. And nearby are piles of bones from similar youth killed in much the same way. The violence that would have embodied such sacrifices to these gods is horrendous, and it’s still with us today all over the world. When you peel back the layers of child sex trafficking, the desecration of children in public schools, and even abortion, we are dealing with the essential evil that drove the Canaanites to sacrifice their children to unseen gods for all the same reasons. 

Of course, this is why the World Economic Forum, a cast of very evil characters who intend evil in the world for their similar religious views as the ancient practitioners of child sacrifice conducted, wants to replace religion with an Artificial Intelligence that they plan to control at the source programming level then sell it to a gullible public as more intelligent and worth following. And in so doing, they hope to hide much of the evil that the Bible exploits, so they can continue to live their lives under its guidelines, the guidelines of villainy and sacrifice to the unseen elements that are always looming with bloodlust just behind the veil of our conscious reality. Yet they make themselves known through weak people dressed up as technological aristocrats and borderless globalists intent on preserving the past religions dedicated to Moloch’s appeasement. Before the Bible came along, the thousands of years of history that are told within it, this was how the world operated, with evil running in the background, and this modern push to return to that anti-Christ sentiment is very much the fuel of our modern news stories, of Epstein Island, of drug cartels, of the kind of information we have learned from the Hunter Biden laptop. The hope is that by trusting A.I. as superior to human thought, evil as we know it can hide in the background without referencing history, such as has been discovered at sites like the “High Place” at Tel Gezer. And without a moral position to consider something as “evil,” there is no human race judgment to stop it. But only to conform to its insatiable hunger, which was the point of the Bible, to begin with. The World Economic Forum hopes to rule over people by replacing their religion with their A.I.-controlled devices of deceit and malice. And everything that is going on with A.I. is not to make things better but to hide what is bad from the eyes of justice.

Rich Hoffman

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10 Foot Aliens Land in Las Vegas: When the government reports on conspiracy stories, it’s clear they are trying to hide the really bad stuff

I’ve talked about aliens quite a lot, and I think there is much merit to the seeding of human civilization by colonists from other planets. I hesitate to call them aliens because, in many ways, they are likely us. So perhaps they aren’t so alien after all. The religions of the world, when studied, point to far more color along these lines than just some lazy assumption from academia that humans went from being cave people to advanced religions in too short of a time, and there is still a lot to uncover regarding our deep and mysterious past. If a UFO landed and many people stepped out of strange spacecraft, I would not be surprised. I would find it shocking that it wasn’t the case, as opposed to such an occurrence being unique. The evidence points to interactions between space colonists and humans being far too frequent, including currently. The esoteric nature of secret society attachment to governments is the first clue. World War II was essentially started along the lines of occult belief, which directly related to UFO study, by the Nazis, and thus, the creation of the United Nations was born from the disturbances of various European occult beliefs colliding with global politics in a world suddenly not so big due to increases in transportation and communication. The aliens have always been with us and likely work in the background with occult contacts as recently as one minute ago, somewhere in the world, and the noise behind most modern politics likely points to these interactions, which are cleverly hidden by various religions of the world. But those are not the real dangers. Aliens are not to be feared. It’s the governments of the world that are the problem as they always have been, and the push for power that often comes in how information is obtained, and from what source, and the desire to monopolize those interactions for silly human vision, not so enlightened by proper philosophy.

And if you study these things long enough, you’ll start to see a pattern emerging, and there is one emerging right now. You know that governments are in trouble, not just the American government for its work in election fraud to put a phony president in office, or the world governments hidden behind the corruption of the World Economic Forum and the world of global finance that has been caught killing millions of people with Covid, starting useless wars for the desire to convert the world from nationalism to a borderless aristocracy, and they are worried that people are going to unite and rally to their destruction. So they are trying to appease the masses with reminders about how government is there to protect us from the scary beings from outer space. When you really peal back the orange at the root cause of much intelligence agency trouble, in their narrative that everything has to be so secret for national security and the safety of the public, what it really means is that they want justification to operate without Constitutional parameters over fears that a superior technology might come along and destroy the entire human race.   I think these interactions won’t ever happen because that relationship has existed since the beginning of time. We are them, so why would we destroy ourselves? But governments that want to grab power and stay in power use the fear of the unknown to bypass our laws, which they have then carried over into other aspects of political life. This results in the mysteries we see regarding UFO reports and the various governments’ conspiracy to conceal them or use them to strike fear in the public and remind them how much people need a government and an all-powerful military to protect them. In truth, it’s just another big government scam to spend money, hide things from the public, and grow government for some elusive goal of national defense.

You can always tell when the government, as an organized unit of malcontents, gets itself in trouble by the way they behave. UFO stories start to leak to the public during this time, and that has been the case recently. The only thing that can save the governments from serious prosecution and even rebellion is to attempt to unite the world behind a common fear of planetary destruction by little green men who may invade us at any time. That was certainly the case when prime-time outlets have been covering stories that the military had been experimenting on crashed UFOs by actual leakers who witnessed the occurrences. But even stranger was the UFO crash that occurred in the late spring of 2023 in Las Vegas, where a few kids witnessed a crash that actually left a dent in a parking lot and found a bunch of 10-foot-tall aliens trying to cover their tracks of their cloaked ship failing to conceal itself while they bumbled around like the three stooges trying to use local construction equipment to clean up the crash. The kid reporting the accident sounded credible enough. And as usual with these kinds of things, the elusive Men in Black came along in the days after to do what they do to contain the public image. It was all standard UFO stuff. Many people think the Men in Black are U.S. government people; others think they are trying to appear that way and are actually not human in origin. There is a lot of talk about them in the great book and movie, The Mothman Prophecies. They were reported at the Las Vegas crash site. But what is really strange is that the mainstream news so joyfully reported the incident. That’s when you know something is really wrong.    

I would say that UFO crashes and interactions with lifeforms from other planets are common. The way that the government manages the stories is that they keep everyone isolated and not talking to each other. That is until the government needs a cover story for its own existence. And when that happens, the reports of these UFOs start getting reported in the mainstream news, with the obvious hope that people might be frightened by them and run for the skirt of mother government and its perpetual desire to be the helicopter parents of all existence. It’s not alien invaders we have to worry about; it’s the corrupt governments of the world and their desires for power that are the real danger. And when they start talking about aliens, you know they are worried about people noticing all the bad things they have been up to, which would inspire people not to trust them. Because aliens, for them, is their cheater card that they keep in their back pocket to bail them out when all else fails. And using the rules I always talk about, judging people based on what they do, not what they say, what the government is doing has been criminal, murderous, and driven by deep corruptions. And people are aware of it, more people than usual, which is scary for them. Because there isn’t enough government to hold back the anger of the world, and based on what we know about things, even the alien stories aren’t going to contain the anger that people justifiably feel. 

Rich Hoffman

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It’s Christmas at Lakota: Not letting Darbi Boddy play in all the raindeer games

I love Christmas, and it’s great to see some of those Holiday festivities so lavishly displayed at Lakota schools in the middle of summer 2023. In a vote 4-1, the Lakota school board voted in favor of creating a Community Diversity Council to replace the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee that had been recently disbanded. The new council will include 30 community members with diverse backgrounds so that there can be more productive conversations about topics featuring race, religion, and sexual identity, according to the advocates. From the current school board, Lynda O’Connor and Kelly Casper were chosen to represent the board. Darbi Boddy asked to be on the board, but that was denied by all the board members, including the two supposedly conservative members. All the other reindeers at Lakota wanted to laugh and play, but they wouldn’t let Darbi Boddy play in any of the reindeer games. It was Christmas at Lakota schools; the only thing missing was the prospect of snow because it was so warm outside. And that was the lead to the story on creating the Diversity Council because it purposely excluded a controversial board member. Darbi represents a large portion of the Lakota school district population who do not want their tax money funding excessively radical Democrat policies, and that is what the “trans talk” has all been about, discussions on gender identity and rights to bathrooms, which the other school board members have been advocating for. The same policies that have angered people regarding Bud Light beer, Target, and Rainbow flags flown at the White House are precisely the intention of this new progressive consensus-building mechanism. And Darbi Boddy wasn’t even allowed to participate, as she was deliberately excluded from the conversation because the board did not want to hear from her about anything. They would prefer to imagine that Darbi is unique and that her viewpoints are radical, which isn’t the case. 

The previous groups on Diversity Equity & Inclusion last met on May 5th and spiraled out of control, according to reports which was a bridge too far for Eglin Card, who had been on the committee and was so frustrated with Darbi’s statements that he took a superintendent job at Princeton schools. People who supported Darbi had no problem with her position; she represented a large portion of the Lakota community when she meant to separate the radical politics of the teacher union position and eliminate the temptation to groom children in the classrooms. Darbi’s position on the matter was to more appropriately represent the conservative nature of the Lakota school system itself, where the Democrats, many of them hiding their liberalism behind masks of conservative utterances, just so they can get elected in a heavily populated Republican community, intended to push a leftist agenda onto the community through the vulnerability of their children. That is the position of most of the public schools in the country, and it’s the goal of all governments to impose such beliefs on people with great audacity. When Darbi was elected to the board last year, it was to bring more conservative values to the school board. Her critics say it’s not her place to bring politics to the board, yet, most of their actions center on Democrat politics that are expected to be expressed unchallenged. And they have spent most of their time trying to run Darbi off the school board, and they hope there will never be another one like her. Yet, we are in an election year, and some school board challengers are forming to give Darbi more support on the board since the other two supposed conservatives have essentially been voting like radical Democrats. The Lakota school board clearly would be helped if it had more members like Darbi Boddy. 

But that’s not the opinion of the radicals, like Eglin Card, who had some harsh comments about Darbi on his way to Princeton schools. He told the media about the situation, “We used to be a model district, and now people are calling me from all over the state and the region laughing at us. That the public perception of the district has taken a nose-dive because of Boddy’s politically charged antics that put the district in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.” Because he thinks like that, I’m happy to see Eglin go. I have watched Princeton schools in the Tri-County area that I talk about so much over the years go from one of the premier communities in Cincinnati to being a joke. Because of out-of-control Democrat politics that moved into that area many years ago, the money and value picked up and moved away, leaving behind all the liberal radicals nobody wants to live around. It has nothing to do with race but with shared values. People with values don’t want their kids learning about gay rights in schools, which is a radical political platform. It has nothing to do with reading, writing, and arithmetic. I consider Lakota to have greater value if everyone like Eglin, who wants to bring Democrat concepts to a conservative community, did leave. He can take all the rest of the radical leftists who Lakota schools employ with him. Our community will be far better off without them than with them. 

Darbi’s resistance to Democrat policies is intended for the long-term preservation of the kind of community that Lakota is. And ultimately, that’s what protects real estate value. Blue state politics destroys that value, which is in all public schools attached to government. And challenging those Democrat objectives is what keeps communities from becoming like Princeton. I remember when Chester Road, which runs through the Princeton school’s complex, was one of the hottest commercial zones in all of Cincinnati. Over the years, most of the businesses have left because bad politics drove them out. And now the area is a fraction of its former self. Most of the people left are those who couldn’t afford to leave. That’s not prosperity; that’s precisely what Lakota is fighting because a lot of those people from Princeton moved north into Lakota and Mason. And secretly, because they are afraid to say it in public, but they vote with their feet. They don’t want Lakota, Mason, Lebanon, and those other school districts outside of the I-275 loop to allow Democrats to ruin their communities, behind the mask of children, which is precisely Eglin’s intention. It’s good that the people he talks to are upset at Darbi’s position. They assume that liberal politics is the value of public schools. But, the property owners expect protection, and out of all the board members currently, only Darbi Boddy gives it to them. And when the rubber hits the road on this issue, Santa Clause turned to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer to guide his quest through a foggy night sky. And while the other reindeers were making fun of Rudolph, it took his unique gifts to light the way for success. And that is what Darbi is for Lakota, a positive light in a vast darkness of liberalism that is dangerous to children, destructive to communities, and corrosive to our national character. And we should all be so lucky that Darbi Boddy is there to lead Lakota schools through the fog of horrendous Democrat politics that wants to destroy our children and to run off all by herself radical progressive lunatics to other districts that are hell-bent on their own destruction.

Rich Hoffman

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King Solomon’s Temple: The reason the enemy wants us to desecrate our own bodies

I’ll tell you if you promise to keep it a secret. It’s not something I talk about often, but I think now might be a good time. I have a secret love I think about a lot and have had for many years. An obsession, really. I love the Temple of King Solomon in Israel and have since I was very little. Its one of those stakes in the ground of human civilization that I think is a massive statement by any emerging culture and was the window into the world of how the world thought before the great Library of Alexandria was destroyed right around the time of the Roman Empire struggling to maintain its power, starting around 145 BC, then being demolished in 391 AD. And that is what the Holy Bible means to me, validated through archaeology, that enough of the contents are very ancient, going back to 1400 BC to 2000 BC, respectfully, with dates that are reliably coordinated, and I really find that window into the world valuable at that time, especially the specifics of temple life under the rule of Solomon. Why had a group of people gained so much power in a relatively short time after invading the pagans of Canaan and establishing themselves as a force in the world? Because understanding that story helps us understand our own story in America, where a very similar trajectory of action occurred, and the challenges of maintaining that success were very difficult. Solomon’s Temple continues to be one of the hottest pieces of real estate in the world, with the Muslims now occupying what’s left over of the remains, where the popularly known Dome of the Rock now sits over the exact spot where Abraham supposedly went to sacrifice Isaac. The Muslims believe it was the older son, Ishmael. And it’s where Muhammad journeyed into the heavens in what sounds like a UFO encounter to me.

King Solomon’s Temple

Without question, that exact spot is where King David, Solomon’s father, set up a location for building the Temple had an importance that peaks back into prehistory to the beginning of time. Many people literally believe that the stone where all this happened is the precise spot where the European continent, the African, and the Asian land masses join perfectly and is the spot for the beginning of the world, literally. What we do get in the Bible is fragments of fragments of information from those prehistory times, but it’s valuable what it is. Then to understand that all of Western Civilization essentially evolved from the building of the Temple and the loss of it to history is exceptionally significant. For instance, the east/west alignment where the high priests would make their sacrifices then carry the elements to where the Ark of the Covenant sat on the exact spot where the stone on top of Mount Moriah peaked into the floor of the very elegant Temple finished in 960 BC after eight intense years of construction. They would pour the blood of the sacrificed animals over the Ark to atone for the people’s sins to the God Yahweh, traveling east to west to mimic the actions of being thrown out of the Garden of Eden, which occurred from west to east. There is a lot of growing evidence that this casting from the Garden was more than a metaphor. The lost land of Edan looked to be in America, and it was the Middle East where all people had to make their way again, knowing that they had knowledge of Good and Evil, a world of pairs of opposites that would always be tainted by sin and appeased by sacrifice.

So the building of a massive Temple, respectful of all the other attempts in the world on such a grand scale, says something about the culture that created it, a kind of heaven-on-earth mentality. But as humans, it only represents the eventual efforts of every human being. And that is for people to experience the relevance of a temple individually, for their personalized needs. Because, in many ways, humans need to see themselves as their own version of King Solomon’s Temple. No matter where in the world they occurred, Temple construction needs to inspire in people the concept to usher such reverence into their own lives. And that is how I’ve always seen the human body, as a temple built by God for the purpose of living a good life. And that we are supposed to treat our bodies with that level of respect. A human body is not something to despise or cast aside as inferior but is in itself a temple for the human soul, and it should be treated as such. We should not desecrate our own bodies, and for me, that means not coloring our hair, getting tattoos, breast implants, body piercings, or abusing ourselves with alcohol and drugs. Like King Solomon’s Temple, we should care for our bodies like the sacred objects that they are. I’m now at an age where I have advised many young people on these things. The ones who listened have pretty good lives. But many didn’t listen; they have many problems, and it is painful to see. Because they were told, just as I would say to everyone even now, to treat your temples well, give them great respect, and you’ll find a much better life in the aftermath than if you allow your Temple to be desecrated.

Of course, Solomon’s Temple didn’t last long after his sons took over and started fighting among themselves. The surrounding kingdoms, especially in Mesopotamia at the city of Babylon, were very jealous and wanted to take out the people who built such a magnificent place. In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar invaded and plundered the Temple stealing the wealth and taking it to the temples of Babylon. By 586 BC, the entire Solomon Temple was destroyed, and there has been much effort in the world, including the current tensions in the Middle East presently that want to rebuild the Temple and restore the world to how it was before that invasion, including many secret societies as their sole purpose for existing and the political movements that spawn from them. And such a downfall started when the Kings of Israel began to allow the desecration of their Temple to false idols and impure beliefs, which culminated with King Manasseh failing massively and his grandson King Josiah attempting to restore the Temple of its lost function. I look at a lot of older people, and I see many who have allowed their temples to be desecrated by many bad decisions in life. Children are new, like the Temple of Solomon at first. But they become disasters as adults when they allow their temples to be desecrated by invading cultures with bad ideas. It’s a lesson in values that I find well described in the effort of civilization to build King Solomon’s Temple in the first place and how other jealous cultures would be inspired to ravage it with great hatred. And to suppress that culture with desecration. This is precisely what we see happening to America now by the jealous cultures of the world. They want to desecrate our country, starting with each and every one of us, through LGBT Pride flags, loose abortion cults, a society of too much drinking, too many drugs, horrendous social customs, and a terrible government-controlled public education system. Our temples are under attack, and we let the enemies desecrate them without a fight. And that is how a lot of evil starts in the world and brings so much misery with it.

Rich Hoffman

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