It’s Christmas time…
Editorial
Not a time of peace of course, because it never is, but we hope you all get the chance over the next few days to put the worst of the world’s woes aside for just a little while, be with those you love, sample some Christmas cheer, eat some festive food, and at very least stay warm and safe.
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Merry Christmas everyone from the admin team. Have a good one!!
Merry Christmas Off-G staff. Thank you for your hard work.
Thanks for your excellent work, helping us to understand what’s going on!!!
Dont get to drunk on eggnog 🍺
Best wishes and thanks for this fantastic site.
Thank you to all of the editorial staff of OG…thank you for allowing me a regular column…and thank you to all of your amazing readers!!
Merry Christmas to all, and God Bless you, every one!
Egualmente.
The Voidz – Wish It Was Christmas Today (Cover / Demo – 2015)
Avec Julian Casablancas
https://youtu.be/pcw1DBSg0Is?si=ax8DMtH6tfEK-Ql7
Thank you guys for being here. World would be much bleaker without this place to come to
Time of peace
Time of war
what is time
being used for?
Perpetual war
can never rest
nor reflect
to be
to know
truly now.
Give to peace
this instant, now
gives time
to the eternal
before time
became the means for
Getting
‘substitute solutions’
for a past
made in anger
and acted out
over and over
as if anew.
The birth of renewal
is not a cycle
but the release
of an old recycled
identity
of diminishing returns
amidst rising sacrifice.
Bottoming out
is not set in time
but a the end
of a false inheritance
set for getting.
By lack of peace
at the heart of being.
For guilt compels
the sacrifice of others
for existential survival
of a false ‘solution’.
Giving to peace
is no sacrifice
for wholeness
gives equally to all.
We forgot what love is.
By what we ‘made of it’.
Peace is the condition
in which love
rises of itself
as the moment at hand.
Let it be without measure
if only just for
an instant.
Good comments on this forum.
Nice poem Brian Steere. 🔥
Cheers y’all!!! Thanks Off-G for helping us work toward a better, more survivable 2025 and beyond!
Trump is threatening to take control of Panama Canal. interesting to know, how he is going to achieve this!
he also published an AI image showing himself on top of a mountain with a huge Canadian flag. does he wants to become the king of Canada?
is there a trend? you take what you can when no one can stop you?
australia should think of taking over something, maybe new Zealand. take it first and make sense later. or take over Taiwan, to protect it from China. and call it Duty to Protect. but in reality, you steal the semiconductors manufacturing base!
Does anyone actually believe the AI generated videos produced pretending to be him.?
About as real as his twitter account posts.
Aussie music ?
This is Aussie music:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6SllcxLqNw
Wrong. The only music know outside Aussie is this one:
Land of the Down Under where you can hear the Thunderrr. https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s
we must BE the peace!
Does christmas die, and if so I want to know why,
I took a look, in a book, but all I saw was a hook,
I gazed at the rear view, but that too, was w/o you,
I woundered outloud, in a clear cloud, but was not wowed,
So if your better days are behind you, and you no say,
Just pass the torch to the youth, this Merry Very Christmas day.
Merry Christmas team. You have indeed been a light in all this darkness.
Merry Christmas one and all.
Wishing a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to everyone
In 2025, people’s comfort-bubble will burst. And Off-G will be carrying the needle.
Merry Christmas to those without their eyes wide shut.
I found this a nice Christmas eve story– except Goose looks more like a duck to me; I’m accustomed to MUCH bigger geese.
https://www.malone.news/p/goose-and-emu-come-to-visit-often
Merry Christmas to the OffGuardian team and to all the good people in the comments.
I really appreciate the articles and the eclectic discussions.
If there’s one thing that pisses me off around Christmas Time it’s that every
store, supermarket, & shopping mall has the same limited Christmas song
playlist blaring… How can a mental torture technique encourage the Season’s
Spirit ? They are such a turn-off, yet there’s so many others tunes they could
play, for examples:
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/12/24/tuesday-tunes-christmas-edition-merry-christmas-yall/
Though the list doesnt include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM43QlKTJgY
I recommend: “PLAY LOUD !” … (1960s folksinger) …
Well that was godawful,
Tried to find your Wilhelm Reich link again there, where it’s orgasm or no.
Dudes got a point.
As contemporary Christmas hymns go, I can’t find fault with this one:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=323gz5xNZMI
Happy Christmas and New Year!
Crassmass is a form of death and yet is clung to as a fragment of survival.
Let the dead bury the dead is from the appreciation of the living.
The idol or substitution for life cannot enliven but enervates by ritual repetition.
To attune to season is presence of participating it.
The human ‘participance’ in being is focussed in masking substitutions of fragmented identities given life, meaning, and power.
Images or symbols of ‘lost love, peace or power’ can be given specialness – to which life is then sacrificed as the mask of social order.
The Christed Message of the Innocence of being is denied by guilt. It doesn’t matter whose. But that masking personae ‘block the light’.
The undoing of guilt is within the true nature of being – as self-revealing but never as predictively defined and systemically controlled.
The rebirth of truth cannot be ‘into the framework of the lie and the father of the lie. What seems to be a war is but a decision, deferred in time while persisting in ‘defences’ that effectively war against healing in truth – for war has its own ‘truths’ set against projected evil.
Truth doesn’t need hyping up. But without your witness will seem lacking in your life and world.
But the movement of a true appreciation can move beyond the ‘controls’ of a word-brain. Hallelujah is in a sense a gibberish of joy that then becomes fixed down as a rote or rite of social virtue.
I see that true depth uncovers a basis for true conviviality – within a living discernment in place of a ‘rule of correctness’ set in personally or socially masked ‘identity’. But that we associate love with loss to treachery (within and without).
Where is trust in our own life to be found but that we grow it despite the ‘temptations’ or ‘suggestions’ of a mindset of judgements that possess those who think to wield them?
A participance in musical culture is bought off by the musical industrial complex.
There’s a ‘normalised’ and managed worship of form and image over true substance. Meds by another mode of the pharmakon.
Hollow addiction runs a zombiedom under vampire-driven appetites. The willing unconscious and the wilful manipulation of unwanted life for personal gain of fiction.
So this is Christmas?
Let me emphasize that this is not the only thing: There is more that pisses me off in our shopping malls. More than meets both eyes!
Guy at the bar, years ago…
‘I hate people like you, spreading doubt ! ‘
I mean, it’s a fair point.
I hate doubt too.
God and Demons are real.
Thanks OffG
The Fall – Overture From “I Am Curious, Orange”
Thank you and Merry Christmas to you all too. What is that the kids say nowadays? “Appreciate cha”. Keep on rockin’ in the New Year, for a free World.
Well they can keep rocking for free, but its getting more expensive everyday.
Happy Holidays!!!
Happy Christmas
Thank you to ALL of you on the OG staff. You are the best…and are a light in the tunnel.
Happy 2025
A very Merry Christmas to you and Todd
and have a Safe Healthy and Happy 2025!
Thanks Off G.
Same to you and yours.
Well. it’s Christmas Day already here in Sydney (Australia). A Big Let Down !!
There was nothing in my stocking . So i wondered what naughtiness i got up to
that pissed off the Woke Big Guy (aka – Santa). I tried to recall – Nothing revealed
itself to me. But then i remembered: “This place doesnt have a chimney !” (so
you’re forgiven, Santa).. Then i was free to wonder “In Gaza, do they know it’s
Christmas ?”…
Queen Liz wont be giving Her heartwarming Christmas Day fireside chat this year –
and i so much wanted to hear what she expected would make 2025 an Annus
Horribilis for us Common Folk…
We have Charles d turd to look forward to
and his annus orribly is yet to be revealed.
Hot in Darwin the land of the walking dead.
Tanks gubermunt Youse did good. NOT
Santa and Jesus both love children
Arlo Guthrie. Pause For Mr Claus (1:51)
“Spirituality” is a contemporary neologism that means nothing. People use it when they don’t want to take a side. Religion is real. Spirituality is whiny middle class having coffee klatches with potpourris and doilies.
The English word “religion” originated from the Latin
Oops.
‘Religion means to join or bond.’
In other words, religion ties one down or leaves no space for searching until Truth is found. Religions are a man made belief barrier to Knowing.
No barrier if you find God
Divine truth bro. If only the mASSES knew.
Whose God?
Because those other ‘wrong’ religions are as certain as you that they are right.
You keep making this category mistake, a logical error, where you equate religion with God. You equate man-made religions with the True Spirit.
As there’s only one God, that one God is everyone’s God.
Other gods are called idols. They are fake and creations of men. Idolatry is sin (= lack of God).
Originally, religio meant to join or bond with God. So it was everyone’s spiritual connection with God, unity with God.
If we are not united with God, then we are separated.
One does not ‘unite’ with God.
One realises God.
The difference is subtle but profound.
Realisation can take a lifetime.
Okay. These words don’t really matter. What matters is action.
How wrong you are but no problem. its your choice. You made a choice.
I’ll never forget when Paul Bowles mocked Terry Gross for asking if North Africans were “spiritual.” He said spiritual is a nonsense word that means nothing. Then he says, “Do you mean religious? No, North Africans are not particularly religious.” They scrubbed that interchange from the re-peat, because it made Terry Gross sound like an ignorant clown. It now only exists in my head.
Its sounds like a boring discussion between two idiots who are completely without competence to judge North Africans as a very big group.
Neither do they know what each of the two words mean. Its ridiculous.
Oh, you’re smarter than Paul Bowles. And you know about North Africans. I bet.
Been there. So yes to both.
Liar
Religion = belief system. Everyone is religious bro. Even atheists. So people railing against religion are not making any sense.
The ‘spirituality’ in your poster is just new age religion.
See? The non-believers dont like your facts. I gave you one for true semantic definition.
“Another Good Reason to Censor The Internet !” … (Christian Jihadi Funda-mentalist, Extremist)
Theology dons a colossal cloak allowing hypocrisy to run wild.
Hypocrisy always wanted to run wild, but for just how long?
Human nature never changes.
Millions of people spend Christmas all alone. Some on the street. Some in hovels. Some in THE hospital. Some in nice apartments and houses.
Same goes for every other day of the year too…
Have a Safe, Healthy, and
a Very, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
👊😎👍
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Merry Christmas to you too, and in the New Year, all power to you and others of the alternative media of strength, wisdom and integrity 🎄
From YOUR lips to Santa’s EAR, and a VERY
Merry Christmas AND Happy New Year,
to YOU, as well! 👊😎👍