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There are many reasons why RP games are a net positive, especially for young adults, but for a whole bunch of people that are defined as adults. Zoomers, Millennials, even GenX (who know RPGs the most) can benefit from them.

Aside from the general benefits listed below, today, this seemingly innocuous or nerdish activity, makes most of these benefits be far more useful and beneficial than ever before. If you are a under 45 or so, please listen to what I will describe below. It’s important. It makes a difference. And it doesn’t matter if you play one of my RPGs or you prefer others. What matters is that you take a small step back in time and learn an activity that has more benefits for you than you can possibly imagine until you actively begin to do it. Let me count the ways then, the importance of each may vary from person or group to person or group, but one important point to remember is that for any person or group, at least some of these benefits will be very important, and, for all of them, the combined synergy of them all, results in an overall benefit that is more than the sum of its parts.

Teamwork

Those who know me are perfectly aware that I am hardly a gregarious social butterfly, and in fact, more like an ornery and misanthropic hermit. Nevertheless, as irritating as I may find the bast majority of humanity, the absolute fact remains that being able to work alongside others, being both a support for others as well as able to rely on others, is possibly the most fundamental concept of successful human communities, and since building our own communities, that reject, ignore, and, eventually —if a hot kinetic collapse takes place— might have to fight back against clown world, is pivotal, anything that fosters, teaches and promotes the ability to work with others for mutual benefit, is important.

The beauty of this is that you will have to deal with all sorts of personalities. Firstly the real physical ones of the others players and referee, secondly, of those imagined and played out of their characters and the non-player characters your referee (or DM in RPG parlance — Dungeon Master) puts in your path.

Having to both imagine characters with personalities different from your own and doing a good job of it by not making them one-dimensional characters, but rather complex, if different characters does two things, at a minimum. It creates a flexibility of mind that allows you to better cope and deal with other human beings that may have radically different sets of values, ideologies, belief systems, and methods of operation. Secondly, it teaches you how to interact with such people and even difficult situations in a variety of ways. While at first in RPGs the “solution” will be to kill everyone in the room, after that novelty wears off and the referees become better at creating scenarios, actual role-playing out alternatives will become a feature. And finding solutions that the players cooperate in will produce at times catastrophic results, at times unexpected awesome one, but all in the comfortable safety of your table and lounge. Usually with hilarious results. The ability to at least work together even with people you might otherwise not enjoy the company of, whether in real life or in the pretend world of secret agents, spacemen, dragons and werewolves is in all cases a useful skill.

Problem Solving

Nothing exercises the imagination quite as much as trying to figure out how to escape from the slaver’s prison, find the clues to who is really behind a conspiracy, a mass murder, or a homicide masquerading as an accident. Or avoiding the traps and magical wards of an evil warlock. Or coming up with improvised solutions to avoid your damaged spaceship from being swallowed by the gravity well of a nearby gas giant. Regardless of how “improbable” some RPG scenarios might be in real life, the attitude towards a seemingly impossible problem, and the will and ability to find solutions is a skill that is 100% transferable to real life and everyday problems. The human mind cannot differentiate between finding solutions to real or imagined problems. The principal activity is the same. And if you get disheartened in real life, sometimes, all it takes is for you to consider: “Right, what would my character in my favourite RPG do if faced with this situation?”

And… just standard internet disclaimer: if your answer is “kill everyone in the room” perhaps rethink your strategy, and above all, don’t blame a game, or me, for any idiotic action you decide to take, remember, only YOU are responsible for your actions. No one else.

The point is that problem solving is a key skill to have in ANY life. And RPGs foster it. Add in the teamwork bit and you now have a far superior human being in terms of effectiveness than one who has neither skill. And the synergy of both skills creates a much better and more capable person.

Leadership

In a group of people playing RPGs, one tends to become the referee, or DM, who presents the scenario to the other players, keeps track of the campaign, resolves any rules disputes, and generally sets the tone for the campaign or adventures. The best DMs manage all of these separate activities in a flawless fashion that provides entertainment, wonder and enjoyment and real emotions to the other players, without being an autocratic tyrant imposing his iron will on the players as a misplaced need to control everything. While not everyone is a naturally good DM, it’s a skill that too can be learnt and the preparation for a game require the learning of several skills that are required for any leader. Discipline, preparation, and planning, which are all the standard and expected skills everyone tells you about, but also those that are often neglected or sometimes not even mentioned:

Improvisation, flexibility of methodology with rigidity of objective, as well as flexibility of objective depending on circumstances. Keeping cool under pressure, quick thinking that looks like a premeditated plan to others but is a spur of the moment solution to an unexpected problem or development. Contingency planning (plan B, and C and the much used “Oh, fuck! Wing it!”).

Everyone should have a few goes at being DM.

It gives you a deeper appreciation for the game, the difficulty your usual DM has to face, and how to be a better player when you return to the other side of the player-DM divide.

And there is always the added bonus of the synergy of teamwork, problem solving and leadership, which, once again, elevates you as an overall more capable human being.

Role Playing Real Possibilities

If you think roleplaying is just for silly geeks removed from reality, think again. Every standing army on the planet literally roleplays various scenarios. That’s right, RPGs are literally matters of life and death if used correctly.

If you take the approach of using game systems that are set in the modern world, like Top Secret, or my own Surviving the Current Zombie Apocalypse RPGs or if you adapt something like Traveller to function in a modern-day setting, you can create scenarios that are specific to possible situations, be they extreme, fantastic, or even realistic, that might apply to you. With a little extra effort, you can set the game in your own geographical area. Using real paper maps or print outs from google maps that show current locations and landmarks. Creating a storyline that fits the present day or a version of it that can present your players with learning opportunities and/or hilarious scenarios. You can even incorporate a bit of live action roleplaying, leaving clues in the physical world or requiring some tasks in it; like, say, take a picture of the local church’s most prominent painting, or count the number of steps of a particular staircase in a shopping centre, or a million other adapted things that are innocuous and harmless to everyone, but represent an important factor in the imaginary world of the game adventure being played out. Perhaps you can even go so far as plan hikes and even camping trips that are somehow, to one degree or other, tied to a RPG scenario, or incorporated within it. What better way to learn about navigation by the stars and paper maps than to do it for real? And yet, also have the lifeline of actual mobile phones and GPS in case (or when) you screw it up.

Roleplaying games give you the opportunity to teat out scenarios safely and learn real life skills in a safe way, so that if they are ever needed, you actually are not starting from zero.

Conclusions

Human beings are literally wired to learn from story-telling. The better the story, the more engrossing and engaging it is, the more our neural pathways get involved, and the more that happens, the more actual real-life abilities develop. This is simply a neurological fact. It’s also not very useful if you only passively listen to a story without ever engaging your body. This is the difference between a couch potato and a roleplayer. The rolepalyer is at least taking the physical action to sit around with other people and physically interact with them. They take the physical action of at least writing and keeping notes and paying attention and interacting, not just passively absorbing information but help shape it. This is how human beings learn. If you then take an additional step and take that learning into the real world, well, you’re now a more resourceful and capable human than 99% of the planet. The roleplayer that decides to go on a hike to learn how easy or hard it is to camp out in the wild using only what you can carry with you, is a far more accomplished person than the one who binge watches a TV series.

Playing RPGs will fire your imagination and will eventually get you to wonder and want to learn some things in real life. Be it world-building that leads you to write the next Lord of the Rings, or just learning how to make a fire, or use a compass, or take up combat shooting, or, or, or… the possibilities are endless.

My own RPGs are specifically set in either the current world, or a western one that is easily adaptable to almost any scenario. But there are many RPGs out there. Pick one, or a few, and find, gather, or make a few friends and get around a table with paper, pencils, and dice, and begin saving and conquering new worlds.

For those who think the USA (((clown world led))) vs Russia-China is going in any way well for the West, here are a few key performance indicators:

Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has now lasted more than 500 days; most modern conflicts that cross that mark become protracted. After April 26, 2022, when the first meeting of representatives of 40 Western countries took place at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany on the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine, this conflict turned into an armed confrontation between Russia and the West. Accordingly, such a long confrontation is developing into a race of military-industrial complexes and its prospects can already be assessed.

In March of this year, Michael McCaul, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, said that of the four aid packages allocated to Ukraine for $113 billion, about 60% went to the U.S. military and military-industrial complex to modernize the stockpiles of weapons and military equipment. It would seem that after such injections, the output of the military-industrial complex should have grown like on yeast, but this is not happening.

600 million dollars went directly to the Pentagon’s Defense Production Capabilities Directorate. Of that amount, $45.5 million went to Arconic to expand production of high-grade aluminum. The fact is that Russia controls more than 75% of the world market for high-grade aluminum, which is needed for the production of jet aircraft and various military equipment. Now the U.S. access to Russian aluminum is limited.

13.8 million was awarded to Timken, the only supplier of high-strength ball bearings that meet U.S. Department of Defense standards. The Pentagon awarded $200 million in grants to U.S. companies to produce 27 critical chemicals that are part of the supply chain for jet fuel and explosives.

In June 2021, the only black powder plant in the U.S. was blown up due to an accident. Although black powder is no longer used in the same quantities as it was 200 years ago, the technology to produce it is virtually unchanged due to the fact that the use of electricity in the processes is minimized due to the risk of sparking. Production at this plant was not scheduled to resume until the summer of this year.

15 million dollars was allocated by the Pentagon for a feasibility study of cobalt mining in Idaho, as China has cut its supply to the world market. China holds a controlling stake in 70 percent of the cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s largest supplier of the metal.

The sanctions war between the U.S. and China is heating up and, therefore, it is pointless to hope for the restoration of previous volumes of rare earth metals supplies. Cobalt is used not only in the production of tank armor, but also for aircraft and even radar.

It will take years to modernize these existing production facilities, and in the case of cobalt, now we are talking about exploratory drilling, and the construction of production facilities for cobalt processing is a separate big story.

I have made several posts that are counter-current over the last few months and years.

In general almost everyone around us is either whining, telling us how bad it is, and how worse it’s all gonna get, or they are trying to sell you some of their special brand of grifting.

Now, that’s not to say things aren’t bad or that they might not get worse, and perhaps some people are selling genuinely useful stuff that you need, be it practical items or knowledge.

After all, I too have books (up there, on the left) which I think cover three important non fiction topics: Human history, martial systems, and the Catholic Church (spiritual essence). Plus some fiction books that I think are useful: The Zombies RPG game is designed to make the dark days we are experiencing a bit lighter. Laugh in the face of adversity while you have genuine fun with real life friends in a face to face environment. The Overlords of Mars series is more escapism with a twist as a lot of the sociological and technological premises, predictions and plot lines are spot on and may be illuminating, especially considering I saw these things all more than a decade ago. In fact, nearly two decades ago, from original concept.

Kurgan TV (on the left) is also designed to educate and help put things in perspective on a wide range of topics, some purely practical, others philosophical, and so on. Thekurganate.com is a platform where sedevacantists can find each other and connect digitally from anywhere in the world.

But as anyone that has been following my writing or Youtube channel for a while can tell, I am hardly pushing any of these things at you. They are there, and I hope you find them useful and use them, but the choice will always remain yours.

This post instead is about something else.

It’s about YOU being positive. About YOU making a difference. First of all to and for yourself, because if you can’t make your own mindset strong, pro-active and glorious in the face of adversity, you’re hardly going to help anyone else do so. And secondly, for your loved ones, and thirdly your friends and your tribe, and lastly, but always in mind too, the rest of the world. There are plenty of resources on this blog. If you need inspiration use the search me function and search for key words, like clown world, grifters, mindset, winning… you get the idea.

And begin.

Rime to spread the light boys and girls.

And remember, as I always say, and explained in BELIEVE! Sometimes, spreading light means setting fire to enemy encampments.

For the flatearthers who MIGHT want to actually learn something.
Unless of course, they also believe math is racist…
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So, once again, ignoring certainly the spirit of 1 Corinthians 14: 34-35 if perhaps not the letter, as well as Timothy 2:11-12, the writer of the pointless blog: THE FEMALES – THE TRUTH tries to “refute” Sedevacantism, by proxy, so as to claim plausible deniability, as females are wont to do, by using the video of some Freemasonic Satanist pretending to be Catholic Clergy.

Let me begin the evisceration then, point by point.

• Heresies cannot come from the Catholic Church. That is true. And we must fight them. We agree with the sedevacantists on that.

Thanks. Since Vatican II is composed of 16 documents, 15 of which are filled with direct heresy, and the 16th, Inter Mirifica, with indirect heresy, since it states that the other 15 documents should be propagated throughout the Earth, we really need not go any further. Since the Catholic Church cannot, by divine protection, teach heresy, we then agree that the Novus Ordo “Church”, whatever it is, is not, and cannot be Catholic. Thanks. Done and done.

But since you then insist on making a whole bunch of other lies, and me being me, we will hang, draw, and quarter, every one of them.

• Sedevacantists quote theologians from the past who expressed a “school study” on the possibility of a heretical pope which had not happened. They tried to reach solutions which are difficult in practice.

Absolute lie. Here the deceiving Satanist is passively aggressively referring to the perennial papal encyclical Cum Ex Apostolato Officio, put in place by Pope Paul the IV, precisely because before him there had already been 42 antipopes. That’s right. 42. Yeah like the number from Douglas Adams. So the fake priest is LYING. Bold facedly. And Cum Ex Apostolato Officio was so successful, and so absolutely clear, that it prevented any more antipopes from getting to the chair of Peter until October 28th 1958. And we have had nothing but antipopes, never-were even Catholics for “Popes” since.

• Sedevacantists fail to see the consequences of their opinions. According to the sedevacantists today, we are lacking all the hierarchy. All of the bishops with original jurisdiction, all of those who accepted the new Mass, etc. – “They all fell from their positions.” A very problematic situation. How does the Church continue?

The FACT that certain facts are unpleasant does not in any way invalidate them. catholicism is not a popularity contest. It started with 11 scared men in hiding and 4 women after all. Aside from the fact that the Church CONTINUES to exist today and will continue to do so until the second coming, which the liar is conveniently trying to pretend it does not.

• [N.B. Definition of jurisdiction from Fr. Hardon’s dictionary: “In ecclesiastical law, the right to exercise official and public authority in some capacity. Thus a bishop has jurisdiction in his diocese, a pastor in his parish, priests in the administration of the sacraments….” Jurisdiction flows from Christ, the Head of the Church, through the papacy, to the hierarchy. Where do sedevacantists derive jurisdiction since they have dammed the channel through which jurisdiction flows by denying the pope and the bishops in union with him.]

Another filthy LIE. During an interregnum, (the period between Popes, when one dies and another needs to be elected, which, note: has no prescribed or maximum length of duration) no Bishop, no priest has ANY jurisdiction. They ALL retain the right to perform sacraments and bishops retain the right to ordain other bishops with assumed positive acceptance by whoever the next VALID Pope will be, whenever one is elected. So there is no issue here. All clergy has carried on performing the sacraments without a Pope in place for years long before the current 65 year long interregnum. The lack of worldly jurisdiction is no impediment to the continuity of the Church.

• When a pope dies and the chair is empty the Church continues through the hierarchy and their “ordinary jurisdiction” until a new pope is elected. The pope’s authority disappears, but the ordinary jurisdiction of the bishops continues within the Church protecting her until a new pope is elected.

More lies, nonsense, conflation and obfuscation. The PRESUMED jurisdiction is only that, presumed. It is not, and cannot be acted upon. So there is zero difference between a Sedevacantist bishop today and any bishop throughout the history of the church that lived through an interregnum.

• They have the jurisdiction they received from Christ, through the papacy. “Jurisdiction is the power governing the Church.”

Lie. They do NOT have jurisdiction when there is no Pope.

• According to the sedevacantists, we can continue forever without the papacy and the jurisdiction of the hierarchy.

Lie. All jurisdiction is suspended when there is no Pope. ALL of it. And the Church has existed that way for years before the current LONG interregnum. But there is no limit on the length of an Interregnum. And Revelation and prophecy make it clear that there will come a bad rime when Satan will sit on the throne of Peter and almost all will love their faith except a remnant… oh, look… just like we have today…

• “It’s nonsense for a Catholic…they [the sedevacantists] are saying the Church can exist without the papacy forever.” The sedevacantists make the papacy and the jurisdiction that flows from it superfluous to the Church.

Lie. Sedevacantists, that is, CATHOLICS, know that there is no jurisdiction without a Pope and that is a serious problem, but it is NOT the end of the Church. And we also know that the Church has come back from very bad times indeed, such as the French Revolution, thenArian heresy and so on. And she will survive this too in due course.

• If we can get along without the pope and hierarchical jurisdiction for 50-60 years, why not forever? [The sedevacantist position seems very Protestant to me.]

It will not be forever, because at some point, either it will be resolved, enough nominal Catholics will realise Bergoglio and his Satanists are not Catholic at all, but rather the enemies of God, and thus eventually turn on the impostors and restore the church, or, Jesus will return. Either way we win in the end.

• How do the Sedevacantists address this? Some say they receive jurisdiction from Christ Himself without the papacy. But all jurisdiction on the earth comes through the papacy. You need the keys of St. Peter.

More lies. No Sedevacantist is claiming “jurisdiction” over anything. Because there is no Pope, so there isn’t any. Pretending Sedevacantist clergy or laypeople are somehow self-professing jurisdiction, is a flat out lie.

• The sedevacantist position destroys the institutional Church.

No. It destroys your fake, Satanic, impostor Church.

• A question that must be asked is, “Can churchmen act in a way that is outside their authority while they still retain that authority?”

More nonsensical rubbish. And conflation and obfuscation. Catholics never speak this way. Catholics use words precisely and correctly. What does he mean by “churchmen”? Clergy? Laymen? Both? People who work in a Church? It’s a manipulation technique. While your brain is busy hunting for that answer, they hit you with the lie they want you to believe:

• Isn’t the answer obvious? When your pastor treats you unjustly, does he retain his authority as the pastor? We saw that frequently during COVID when bishops and priests forbade Communion on the tongue and mandated Communion in the hand. They did not have the authority to do it. Here’s what Fr. Tranquillo says: “A better solution than the sedevacantist solution is both simpler and more logical — we do not deny the possession of authority of the pope, bishops, etc. We deny that he used the authority properly when he said certain things. And this position does not destroy the hierarchy/existence of the Church.”

Note what he is trying to sneak into your brain there: even if a (fake) priest acts like a heretic (or never was Catholic) you still have to say he’s a good guy, a priest or that just didn’t use his Catholicism properly. What utter nonsense! If a (theoretically valid to begin with) clergy acts like a public, notorious heretic, then, as per Canon 188.4 he is no longer part of the Church and he should not be treated as if he were Catholic, never mind a priest.

• There is a juridical process to remove a “heretic” from office. Just holding the opinion doesn’t make it so. Who among the sedevacantists has the authority to exercise the juridical process against the pope?

Absolutely a LIE. Canon 188.4 is perfectly clear: a heretic vacates his office upon the fact of his public and notorious heresy by the law itself without any pronouncement, judgement, ratification or anything else, required, by anyone. There is NO juridical process required whatsoever. His own defection from the Faith convicts him, judges, and executes him.

She then goes on to add her completely irrelevant opinion to the screed of lies laid out above.

She really just needs to focus on learning to make sandwiches. Theology is definitely not anything she can grasp, nor is she even supposed to try to on her own. Focus on the sandwich-making dear. You do a good job there and a kind man will explain a few things to you, see? Good, good, run along now… kitchen… bread… yup… sandwiches.

Update: comments on her blog are closed. I wonder why that would be…

I have known for decades that the Russian health concerns related to everything electromagnetic are far more in tune with reality. Their safety distances from things like high tension wires, wireless emissions from mobile towers and so on, are actually multiples of those used in the West.

They also have a far more advanced understanding of things like the psychotronic healing chambers used in my fiction book series The Overlords of Mars.

Yet another reason to move out of the cities.

Personally I stopped watching any news or reading newspapers completely back in 2008.

I had started it as a month long experiment to depollute my brain. Never looked back. Now if I catch a headline or something by chance, it generally makes me spontaneously laugh.

And yes, yes, evolution as most assume Darwin had it is nonsense, so think of it as epigenetics then, but the meme works.

You know who has pretty much zero?

Most of Africa.