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9/23/2025 Introduction The John Wick film franchise, though fictional, offers a striking allegory of what the Book of Mormon calls secret combinations. These organizations operate outside of our established laws and legal systems, pursuing power, wealth, and control through deception, murder, plunder, and oaths of secrecy. The films reveal a shadow world governed not by…
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9/22/2025 Prologue The assassination of Charlie Kirk in 2025 shocked the American people and stirred reflections on the spiritual meaning of his life and death. Within conservative Christian and Latter-day Saint thought, the Book of Mormon is often understood as a prophetic allegory for the last days, providing a lens through which modern events can…
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9/22/2025 Introduction Governments throughout history have often regarded Christians as a threat, not because Christians seek power, but because they refuse to surrender ultimate allegiance to the state. Christianity teaches that God alone is the highest authority (Acts 5:29). This means no earthly ruler—whether emperor, dictator, or democratic assembly—can demand absolute loyalty when laws or…
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9/21/2025 The appearance and operation of cult-like individuals and organizations can vary significantly, but common elements emerge that allow us to identify them. These elements can manifest in religious groups, political movements, corporations, social organizations, or even in the influence of a single domineering personality. At their core, cults seek to dominate others in ways…
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9/20/2025 When most people hear the term PSYOPs—short for psychological operations—they imagine military propaganda, wartime leaflets, or intelligence agencies manipulating local or foreign populations. But cults, both past and present, are masters of PSYOPs. They rely on many of the same tools used in military or political arenas to recruit, control, and retain members. At…
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9/19/2025 Psychological operations, or PSYOPs, are deliberate strategies designed to influence what people believe, how they feel, and ultimately how they behave. While most people imagine PSYOPs as tools of wartime propaganda or military operations, in reality, they extend far beyond the battlefield. They appear in politics, religion, advertising, public health campaigns, news coverage, and…
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9/18/2025 Here is a ChatGPT summary of how Joel Skousen sees major Cold War-/post-Soviet events, especially the “phony fall” of the USSR and the 2014 Ukraine events. See: JoelSkousen.com and WorldAffairsBrief.com. Skousen’s Key Claims Skousen argues that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not genuine in the sense that communism and its power structures…
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9/17/2025 – How to Analyze the News These days, it feels like the world spins faster, the propaganda shafts get slicker, and the hidden agendas behind global events are more evident than before. I’ve spent years reading JoelSkousen.com and his World Affairs Brief to see how those perspectives have sharpened, and where they align with…
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8/28/2025 Among the many compelling character arcs in Star Trek: Voyager, the journey of Icheb stands out as a profound exploration of transformation, loyalty, and sacrificial love. Introduced as a Borg drone liberated alongside other young captives, Icheb evolves from a collective-bound adolescent into a man defined by his courage, selflessness, and devotion to others.…
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8/28/2025 Among the most compelling characters in Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine embodies both the dangers of technological assimilation and the hope of human redemption. Severed from the Borg Collective in Season Four, she emerges as a liminal figure—part machine, part human, yet more than either. Her arc is a study in striving: ceaseless…
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