The actual purpose of a creed is to provide a doctrinal statement of correct belief or orthodoxy. The creeds of Christianity have been drawn up at times of conflict about doctrine: acceptance or rejection of a creed served to distinguish believers and deniers of particular doctrines. For that reason, a creed was called in Greek a σύμβολον (symbolon), which originally meant half of a broken object which, when fitted to the other half, verified the bearer’s identity.[9] The Greek word passed through Latin symbolum into English “symbol”, which only later took on the meaning of an outward sign of something. (link)
Someone sent this to me, believing I might find it interesting which I do.
Our word symbol started out as a very concrete concept. It makes sense that it would come from something more basic than itself and with a much narrower meaning.
It’s also quite beautiful that a symbol only works as intended when it connects more or less as intended with the mind of its receiver(s). As with a symbolon, all symbols that work must have at least two functioning halves, a sender and a receiver.
This is a basic part of the definition of semiotics; that a message always has a sender and receiver, though in semiotics it is well-recognized that the receiver often receives the message differently than the sender intended.
If a symbol falls in the woods and no one perceives it is it still a symbol?
I’m a chinese from a rural village in Southern China. I stumbled upon this Sub and found that lot of people here never actual been to China, less likely they have been to rural China, which still take up most part of china. so I want to share what I’ve seen and heard over the last thirty years to show you a slice of the rural China—in real life. Not very good in English, please excuse the grammar mistakes.
I grew up in a small village in Southern China. a bit isolated. The population merely past 1,000. Everyone in the village have the same surname. As a kid, I thought the whole world had the same surname until like 7 or 8 years old, when a girl with a different surname move to our village, this thing reshaped my worldview, like, “there is actual other people outside our village?”
Beside being isolated, the village was dirt-Poor.
How poor? We had no Flush Toilet, no, no Flush Toilet, no underground pipe system. Every household had two big buckets. one for the liquid human waste, one for the solid waste, Aka fecal. when the liquid waste bucket was full, we took it out to the fields to water the crops. When the poop bucket was full, well, some with morality will carry it to a public pit. some would just dump it onto the street. one thing I learn about poverty, if you can’t afford food, you can’t afford morality. so, most go to the street.
so as a school child, commuting to school took extreme caution, you never knew what you may step on. the worse thing is, when it rain, the alley would became a small river of fecal and piss, you had to walk like a ballet dancer to avoid them.
The hygiene was bad, the education was worse. We had one class, one teacher. The teacher was short, we nickname him Mr shorttie, Mr shorttie only finished middle school, that already crown him the most educated person in the village. He taught writing, Math, and sport, basically everything. Mr shorttie had like six daughters, he beated his wife a lot because she can’t gave him a son to carry his blood line.
When I was in 6th grade, the government said we had to learn English. But Mr shorttie only knew the 26 letters of the alphabet. So, He only teach the alphabet.
Mr shorttie had three teaching skills: the Belt whip, the Face slap, and the knee Kick. personally, I think the last one hurt the most.
Our school was just a brick house with a tile roof. When it rained, it leaked. Once, a typhoon took down a tree onto the roof, tiles rained down and smashed two kids. the school had no money to hire cleaners, so they hire us intead, zero pay, of course. We spent like a week to clean up the rubble.
First, the defense conflict: Michael Burt (high-profile SF attorney) is directly related to Terryl Farnsworth (the TPUSA AV guy who yanked SD cards post-hit and contaminated the scene). Michael is on Tyler Robinson’s legal team—despite family loyalty to the very insiders with access to Charlie’s stage setup. This is a blatant conflict of interest. How can Tyler get a fair trial when his own lawyer is tied to suspects who controlled audio, cameras, and evidence? It’s screaming setup—Tyler’s being railroaded as the patsy while real players skate.
Next, the aviation link: Terryl’s father-in-law Duane Burt held top executive roles at Duncan Aviation (Utah facility)—where those Egyptian-registered planes (flagged in Charlie’s threats and pre-attack searches) were located the day of the execution. Duane’s expertise and connections in elite aviation circles put this family smack in the middle of the “Egyptian planes” mystery. Coincidence? Or direct access to the tools needed for a sophisticated hit?
The bigger picture: The Farnsworth-Burt clan is embedded in Utah’s powerful “Mormon Mafia”—intermarried elite families (often sharing polygamous pioneer roots) who dominate politics, business, and institutions in Mormon-heavy states. Known for insider networks, loyalty to establishment figures like the Romneys, and quiet control over key sectors—these aren’t random players; they’re connected old-guard protecting their own.
This web—TPUSA insiders, defense sabotage, aviation anomalies, Mormon power ties—proves the fix is in. No way it’s all coincidence.
The above link provides an informative video and a great deal of apparently relevant information to Tyler Robinson’s defense team and the kinds of military-grade weapons and communication devices that may have been used in Kirk’s murder.
I am posting this under ‘information’ and ‘speculation’ for readers who know more about Utah than I do. This material comes from Project Constitution who has previously uncovered reliable information on the Kirk murder. ABN
DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The Order directs the Attorney General to immediately pursue criminal charges, sentencing enhancements, and sentencing variances in fentanyl trafficking cases.
The Order directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury to pursue appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions for those involved in or supporting the manufacture, distribution, and sale of illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals.
The Order directs the Secretary of War and Attorney General to determine whether the Department of War should provide enhanced national security resources to the Department of Justice as necessary during an emergency situation involving a weapon of mass destruction.
The Order directs the Secretary of War, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to update their chemical incident response-related directives to include the fentanyl threat.
The Order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to identify fentanyl smuggling networks using WMD and nonproliferation related threat intelligence.
STOPPING FENTANYL FROM POISONING OUR PEOPLE: President Trump is unleashing every available tool against the cartels and foreign networks that have turned fentanyl into the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.
Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic, claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Just two milligrams of fentanyl—equivalent to 10-15 grains of table salt—is considered a lethal dose.
Cartels and Foreign Terrorist Organizations use fentanyl profits to fund assassinations, terrorism, and insurgencies while waging armed conflict over trafficking routes and other facets of their operations.
The potential for fentanyl to be weaponized for concentrated, large-scale terror attacks by organized adversaries is a serious threat to the United States.
By designating illicit fentanyl as a WMD, President Trump is ensuring the full weight of the Federal government is focused, coordinated, and mobilized to confront fentanyl as the deadly chemical weapon it is.
Droves of clandestine military operatives, choose their victims and attack them singly or in small groups.
Their victims are first placed on ‘lists’; then they are attacked by an operative unrelated to the person who put the victim on the list.
It is difficult to even notice a poisoning or lobotomy has occurred.
And close to impossible to catch the perpetrator(s).
You cannot understand military strategy or history or the world we live in today without understanding how savage and secretive military strategies can be.
There are numerous intellectuals who decry the fall of the West based on ‘pathological altruism’ (true enough), the ‘nepotism’ of our enemies (true enough), ‘infiltration’ into Western societal high-ground (true enough).
But none of them, so far, has the street-smarts to see the highly consequential and lethal battle being waged covertly against our most promising young people, including our children. ABN
We are now at this villager’s home, installing this household plaque for them.This household plaque has a QR code on it. By scanning it, you can see the basic information of this family, including family members, income situation, and credit points
Transcript of the Video (Approximate, Based on Audio and On-Screen Text)The video is in Mandarin Chinese and features a narrator (likely a local official or reporter) explaining the installation and use of household QR code plaques in a rural Chinese village. Original Chinese Transcript (Characters)Narrator (male voice):
(On-screen text during scans includes household details like names, income levels, and the “credit points” or “integrity points” score.)
English TranslationNarrator:
We are now at this villager’s home, installing this household plaque for them.This household plaque has a QR code on it. By scanning it, you can see the basic information of this family, including family members, income situation, and credit points, etc.For example, this family has a credit score of 6402.4 points.This helps villagers supervise each other and promote civilized rural customs.Under the current Rural Revitalization strategy, many places are promoting this digital household plaque system to facilitate management and services.Notes:
The “credit points” (信用积分) refer to local integrity or compliance ratings in pilot programs, often tied to rural governance, poverty alleviation tracking, or community behavior incentives—not a unified national “social credit score” as sometimes portrayed.
The video shows officials attaching plaques to doors/walls and demonstrating scans on a phone, revealing household data.
This appears to be from a local government promotional or instructional video, recirculated in the X post to highlight privacy concerns.
The U.S. Navy supercarrier USS Gerald Ford and its strike group have repositioned to approximately around 600 kilometres south-southwest of Puerto Rico, placing them within much closer proximity to Venezuela, amid speculation that Washington could initiate attacks on its southern neighbour.
Hours after the ships were repositioned, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the initiation of U.S. ground operations targeting transnational drug cartels operating from within Venezuelan territory.
U.S. Navy Supercarrier USS Gerald Ford
Venezuela and much of the international community have dismissed reports of drug cartels operating from within the country as a fabricated pretext intended to justify military action, with the intention of either overthrowing the resource rich country’s socialist government by force, or crippling its economy by destroying key infrastructure to complement the effects of escalated economic sanctions.
These developments have occurred shortly after U.S. forces on December 10 boarded and commandeered a Venezuelan oil tanker in international waters, which marked a major escalation in the conflict between the two states.
The confrontation around Taiwan could become the next hot spot on the current unstable geopolitical map of the world. Taiwan’s defense ministry has identified 2027 as the likely time for China’s invasion of the island.
Beijing’s main military power in the conquest of the island should be the navy, which China is actively building up. For example, China puts into operation 20-25 times more warships per year than the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
Chinese main battle tanks are loaded aboard the commercial ferry Zhong Hua Fu Jing. Photo credits: China Military Online
Chinese main battle tanks are loaded aboard the commercial ferry Zhong Hua Fu Jing. Photo credits: China Military Online
On December 4, 2025, China conducted its largest naval operation in the East China and South China Seas. The operation involved a hundred ships of the navy and coast guard.
Many Jews in the fear-inflation business like Jonathan Greenblatt have already reported on the generational disparity in anti-Semitism. The reason for the disparity seems pretty straightforward: Old people were fed a steady diet of programming that was not only filtered through various Jewish studio execs, editors, directors, and writers, but was delivered via a one-way broadcast medium. This allowed Jews to disseminate their ideas uncontested. In other words, Jews placed themselves between boomers and the world, carefully curating their “reality.”
The two-way medium of the Internet used by the younger generations has allowed conversations to occur outside of Jewish jurisdiction, and younger generations are largely rejecting Jewish ideas and the Jewish framing of the world. While old people continue to watch the sanitized version of the Gaza conflict on Fox News, young people are consuming Telegram videos of Jewish crimes against humanity and are disgusted by it.
Conversations about Jewish overrepresentation, influence, and power are no longer avoidable now that the Internet has overtaken the Jewish-dominated mediums of television, print, and radio. For the first time in a century, Jews are in a position where they have to defend themselves, and they’re showing everyone how out of practice they are. Most Jews just “accuse the accuser,” calling their critics “anti-Semites” since there really is no way to defend their ethnic cleansing of Gaze and open borders extremism in the West.
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