I find Willem an exceptionally humane and wise man.

Towards the end, he says, "And live in love with your family, even if you disagree with them. Your ability to do that is your assurance that you can have a public role."

https://player.fm/series/tnt-radio/willem-engel-on-dolores-cahill-show-09-apr-2022

Several of you have been asking me about the Dutch entry on the EU’s Have Your Say rubric regarding QR codes, currency abolition, etc.

I’ll be crunching through this properly and reporting my findings on Wednesday’s UK Column News.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13375-Verlenging-van-de-verordening-inzake-het-digitaal-EU-covidcertificaat_nl

From the Friedensstimme magazine for supporters of evangelists in the former Soviet Union:

Mikhail and Ina Soloshenko, who married in 2020, fled the war on 12 March. Their shelled, burnt-out car was found days later and they were buried on 22 March. The body of their son Efraim has not been recovered.

Children sheltering in a Kharkov basement.

Nikolai Bondarenko (69), a well-known preacher around the Kharkov area, died of blood loss from a grenade fragment as he left his family in the basement to see whether the street was clear.

Unmissable constitutional schooling by the greatest living Newfie.

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/viva-barnes-law-for-the-people-1020796/episodes/live-stream-with-former-newfou-133245352

Crucial philosophy from John Waters—mumbo-jumbo is something scientism is as guilty of as the theologians are.

https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/christ-haunted

John Waters continues:

“Post-Christian culture, the husk of Christendom, has reduced this word [Christ] to a pietism. Inside the bunker, the thinking of Christians has moved from what appeared to be a prior unambiguous certainty in matters concerning Christianity to a mindset in which Christ has become a kind of fairytale figure, a sentimental idea and a moral policeman.

The increasing divergence between religious belief and sociological reality is lazily deemed to be a function of increasing ‘progress,’ with populations becoming more and more knowing and ‘intelligent.’ But modern-day scepticism is not really a product of the forward march of time, having much more to do with processes whereby the receiver of information in mass-media society is given a little knowledge about everything but never enough in-depth understanding to strengthen the framework by which to perceive how everything is inter-connected.

Thus, the individual feels ‘informed,’ can endlessly regurgitate isolated pieces of knowledge, can even speak assuredly about scientific progress with a general sense that this is somehow debunking the ‘old’ understandings of the world.

What we lack is the over-arching hypothesis that might enable us to integrate this information into a functional understanding of our own situation as mysterious beings held in the mysterious embrace of a total reality beyond our knowing.”