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Deborah Dobbins's avatar

While I am not a wordsmith like you, BB, I will say that I am deeply grateful to you and your words of truth. When I started reading your column, I knew I was no longer alone ( or crazy, as one close friend called me, for expressing thoughts much like yours). It is such a relief and you put it all in an orderly fashion, as much as it can be. Thank you and please keep it up!

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"Trump knows exactly what he's saying, which means [they] know exactly what he's saying, and both sides know that the other knows." This is Schelling's exact description of a two player, two move Game with explicit communication fully accepted (without the name, of course) in his book "Strategy of Conflict".

There are two Greek words used in the "book of books in the west" that are often translated as "power". One, "kratos", implies brute force and is attributed to both Good and Evil. The other is "exousia", which means the "power and authority to act" and is sourced from a word that means "it is permitted or lawful". This word is also attributed to both Good and Evil - God and His people AND the Adversary and his. It is/was that realization that most endeared the truth community to me. The idea: that somehow (and I believe that "how" is disclosed - but out of respect I will hold that until I am brave enough to have my own substack) the Spiritual Warfare, that Q recognizes, accepts that the Adversary has delegated/legal - though limited - authority from Almighty God to participate in the Conflict. That being True - and believing that for it to be, it must Ultimately be for our good (because our Creator Loves us and only wants our Good - but allows us to choose), mirrors much of what Devolution and operation Warp Speed and defecting and awakening and Truth suggest. We as free-willed creatures are empowered - that is what it means to be made in His Image and Likeness. What is done with the power we have been given...well, that is the Story.

Thank you again BB for your alliteration, poetry, and epic story telling!

Oh...and Merry Christmas to you and yours!

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