Good and Evil. Gog and Magog.
Ukraine, its backers and Co-fighters representing the Evil nature of man. Russia and its Allies (of variable commitment) representing all that is honourable, loyal, upright and true of the Good nature of man. Each committed to the premise that they fight to the end or they cease to exist. There is nothing more existential than that.
Good and Evil. Gog and Magog.
Israel (a misnamed and artificial nation state), its backers and Co-fighters representing the Evil nature of man. Iran (ancient Persia) and its Allies (of variable commitment) representing all that is honourable, loyal, upright and true of the Good nature of man. Each committed to the premise that they fight to the end or they cease to exist. There is nothing more existential than that.
They represent four different religions or philosophies which are also, surprisingly, intertwined.
How do we who are not committed to anything which is perhaps in any way, imminently, directly, or existentially threatened, make anything sensible of that?
Perhaps we need to be educated as to why they, each in their own different ways, came to think of what they are doing in that way.
This recent article from VZGLYAD, which I consider to be essential reading, may assist that understanding, more than a little. Then I have something else to say, which you can take as being whatever it is worth to you. I have considered bringing this to your attention since it was published more than two weeks ago, but it covers, or merely lifts the lid on, such a great wealth of still incomplete historic knowledge of events largely unknown, at all, to most moderns of the West in particular today, that neither the article, nor anything I can say, will do justice to convey the importance of those things. I am going to do what I can, anyway.
‘Why is the Iran-Israel conflict an existential one?’ – Vladimir Mozhegov – VZGLYAD – June 19, 2025
Most of what I say now, relates to the Iran/Israel struggle. But since Russia’s Orthodox Christianity, and to some extent its national links with Islam, which tends to lead Russia to support Iran, while at the same time being also religiously based on the same historic context as Israel (which is also true of Islam, in reality) – and since Ukraine (the people at least) is still deeply entwined in Orthodox Christianity, all four combatant nations cover the full gamut of monotheist thinking, uniformly founded on the same flawed history. A history which I am writing about separately, but which I may have left it too late to finish and publish – the story of the Old Gods who, through various man-written scripts, became one God (perhaps with more than one identity).
These things are behind some of what, I feel, the author of the above piece – Vladimir Mozhegov – is talking about. It is a fascinating subject and not one to be so easily denied, if revealed in its substance as evidence of our past origins from more advanced beings of flesh and blood, creative and of a longevity, coupled with knowledge, of which we can only dream. Beings, which gave us our head start on the road to civilisation – and potential self-destruction. We think it is we, ourselves, who have discovered science and societal progress, forgetting that these are merely the inevitable trophies from our being set on the course of our development from slave-workers to kings, as we undoubtedly were, by those who came before us, but who left our region of space shortly before the literary foundations of religion proposing an invisible, sole God, were laid down among the libraries of their detailed past, stored in the remains of their chief cities (covered now by the sands of time, but from which we have recovered sufficient examples, mainly in the previous century, to form an outline history, and from which many stories were subsumed into the new literature) to derive, as a replacement for those who had departed, leaving faint but indelible traces of themselves (demigods) among our then current number. All of which took place during the 6th century BCE in what we know of as the Middle East, which has been engulfed in continuous war and conflict ever since, preventing us from learning the full story of our beginnings from complete but buried records. Is that a deliberate plan to keep hidden the truth about today’s monotheistic religions? Those who came before were not one, but many gods. Not gods at all really, but more advanced than we (were or still are). And we, developed from simple beings to people of towering intellect (well, some of us) are not much further developed, spiritually, as to have no need to lean on imaginary superior beings conceived as a necessity by those among us (at the time longing for that recently lost past) with an eye to a controlling future as representatives of the one god, laid down the written proofs of their sacred heritage and elevated position in the affairs of man. That is the basis of all human suffering of the present.
I will leave it there. Enjoy the story, which you will need to translate to English first – an easy option from the Yandex browser. That is perhaps the second most important thing you can do today – open a Russian browser (Yandex), use Russian social media (VK). The most important thing? Learn Russian.
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