Year Zero

Fabianism’s plans for India and South Africa. How the global socialist movement planted its roots for an American hegemony. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus sitting in the boat, teaching the people on the shore (Mark 4:1). * How a great multitude of people crowded around to hear Him, so that He had to enter the boat; * How He taught them in parables about the sower, the seed and the ground, i.e., by those comparisons and examples which, day in and day out, have been repeated from the beginning of the world and...

John joins me to read and comment on the book Rules for Radicals. In this episode we read The Prologue in preparation for diving into Alinsky’s work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a stumbling block: * For sinful self-conceit, i.e., for the perverted mind of mankind, which thinks in a sensual and fleshy way and opposes the mind of Christ; * For sinful self-love, i.e., for the perverted heart of man which does not accept in itself either the love of God or the love of man; * For sinful self-will, i.e., for the perverted will of man,...

Reading The Life of Saint Pachomios Chp 14-23 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus in conversation with the woman of Samaria (John, Chapter 4): * How the woman’s mind was at first smothered completely by carnal sophistry; * How the meek Lord gradually led her mind toward a loftier and more spiritual reasoning; * How this encounter culminated in the conversion of many to Christ; * How the seeds scattered by the Lord at first seem to decay...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus in conversation with Martha and Mary: * How both sisters cordially received the Lord and desired to hear His word; * How Mary was more concerned about spiritual things, and Martha about the material reception of the Divine Guest; * How the Lord rejoiced more in feeding someone with spiritual nourishment than in being fed Himself with material nourishment. T...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus in conversation with the rich young man (Luke 18:18-23): * How the rich man sought counsel but was not prepared to sacrifice; * How our Lord pointed out to him the way to sacrifice, which is necessary for the purchase of eternal life; * How the rich man left sorrowfully, for he could not part with his riches. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discu...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus in conversation with Nicodemus (John, Chapter 3): * How Nicodemus, though a teacher in Israel, did not perfectly comprehend spiritual things; * How our Lord intentionally began the conversation with the question of spiritual birth—a question most inaccessible to the mind of Nicodemus—so as by this to bring Nicodemus to meekness and then to further cultivate...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus in the midst of the common people: * How with love He taught the people as a parent teaches his children; * How the common people received His words, were astonished by His works, and glorified God; * How even today, the common people, free from corruption, receive His words with joy and thanksgiving. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...

Fabianism is a forgotten socialist ideology in which we find the blueprint for the liberal economic order we live under. Socialist imperialism spreading through British colonies into Africa, India, China, and America has created a system of haves and have-nots as industries and economies are destroyed through “free trade” agreements. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with oth...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus among the Pharisees and scribes: * How He made every effort to raise up the Pharisees and scribes and to save them, and how they made every effort to overthrow and kill Him; * How He wished to correct their every thought and word, and how they wished to twist His every thought and word; * How He was saddened that He could not bring them to life, and how the...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus as an Artist above all artists: * Who, from the body of man, which has become wild from the passions, creates a noble organ of every virtue; * Who, from the chaos in the soul of man, creates the cosmos—a pure and shining mirror of the glory of God; * Who, from ignoble men creates an undefiled kingdom, a country of the holy—an artistic work without precedenc...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus, praying on dark nights, alone in the mountains, for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men: * How He lifted His hands up toward heaven; how He bent to the ground; how He knelt in prayer many nights; in prayer for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men; * How He sweated at prayer and wept for my salvat...

We discuss lessons learned from reading We, weaponized immigration as a socialist tactic, weaponized surrogacy, and the fight against globalism. Substack YouTube X Libertarian Institute This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

Reading The Life of Saint Pachomios, Abbot of Tabennisi This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a Traveler: * How, in traveling he grew weary, perspired, hungered and thirsted—for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men; * How even at night He labored for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men; * How, on every journey, He contemplated, desired and cared about my salvation, your salvation, and t...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a Father who weeps for His children in the wilderness, calling to them and gathering them together: * The children of the nation of Israel (at one time); * The children of all peoples on earth; * The children of all times, from the creation to the end of the world. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acce...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the Lamb of God: * As a Lamb born in the dwelling place of lambs; * As a Lamb persecuted by men of wolflike temper, such as Herod and others; * As the Sacrificial Lamb, Who patiently endured pain and death; * As the Victorious Lamb of God on the heavenly throne. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus as an ascetic: * How He fasted, not to subdue His All-pure Body, but in order to give us an example; * How He fasted for my sake; * How I need to fast for the sake of my salvation and for the sake of His love. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subsc...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a Good Merchant, Who came into this world as to a market to give and to take: * To give His labor and to receive the numerous fruits of joy from that labor; * To give Himself to be humiliated, spat upon, smitten, bruised, pierced and crucified, in order to usher the army of His faithful into His eternal glory; * To give His Body, in order to redeem numer...

Finish reading We This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the Beauty of the entire created world: * As the Beauty of all created things, a Beauty dulled from fear and the melancholy of sin; * As the Beauty of man, the most rational being in the material world, a Beauty dulled by fear and the melancholy of sin; * As the Beauty of a pure, mental, bodiless world of the angels; * As the Beauty of the Holy Trinity,...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the Source of Joy: * In the tribulations of life, which only He is able to replace with joy; * In the bondage of passions, which only He can replace with the joy of freedom; * In death, from which He alone can resurrect us. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.s...

Reading The Life of Saint Onouphrios This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe