Spiritual Best Buddies

Three men said this exact same thing to me today. I don't know Joseph, but it is amazing how the three said the exact same thing.

Joseph Sciambra said:



I am still an admirer of the Traditional Latin Mass, but the Russian Orthodox Easter liturgy is truly amazing. Where the TLM at times can be cold, stiff, and theoretical – like Thomas Aquinas, the Orthodox liturgy was purely mystical and joyous – with the repeated shouting of: “Chris is Risen!!!” Glorious.

Rex Christi responded:
I can honestly say, one has not lived until one hears Saints Basil and Chrysostom in the Divine Liturgy.

Robert Dodd said:
I agree. I am also a former Pre Vatican 2 kinda guy.... until SOMEONE pointed out “ There would not of been a Vatican 2 without Vatican 1” Then my wheels started to turn East.
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Radical Individual Spiritualist - Evangelical Teachers:



In response to the video pictured here, a person responded saying the following.
"Oh, and if you think your Space Force will give you an edge New Babylon?...... Even if Babylon climbs high into the sky and Fortifies her Elevated stronghold, I will send destroyers against her says The Lord....Jeremiah 51:53."

I could accept that use of scripture because it outlined a general principle of Christian belief that all the utopian and power-stealing efforts of fallen man, efforts that are in fact in the control of Lucifer will fail. Of course this is correct. The person also wrote:

"From 1:15:00, These evil people are going to be trapped in their own cleverness. They trust in their strength, and it will fail. Today Europe, America, Israel and Saudi Arabia are Babylon and Egypt, and they are coming down! ( And Western Fallen Christendom Sodom and Gomorrah ) will get their noses bloodied by Russia...... I raised up one from the north and from the rising of the Sun, and they shall be called by My Name. Let the rulers come and you will be trampled down as potters clay and as a potter tramples down the clay... Isaiah 41:25."If I was a false fellow, I could have responded, "Yes, Brother, Our God is in Control! Hallelujah!" I would have made a true statement that would have participated in a lie.

My response will, of course, be "off-putting," not deferential or polite, just true, and, in the truth, is genuine kindness. It is cruel to pamper delusion. I said:


From a very young age till now, I find the ripping of scripture out of its context and stuffing it into current events sickening at a gut level. It never sheds light on the current event, and it disrespects the Word of God.

Russia has always been a temptation to current event scripture desecration for so-called Spirit-filled, Evangelical Americans. When it was the Soviet Union, they soiled themselves, prophesying LIES. I have no reason to believe the same sources and methods are any better today and thousands of reasons via witness of apostasy that they are far worse.
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The comment made me remember an exchange from a "spirit-filled" Evangelical a year ago when he set about the task of teaching and correcting me. I'm always open to honest criticism; however, the teachers of heresies have a thousand strikes against them before they open their mouths.

I shared my take on the exchange as follows.


People are so presumptuous and don't have a clue about their presumptions. So a fellow (my latest radical individual spiritualist, best buddy) private messaged me, giving me a link to one of my least favorite heretics, teaching a modernist "self-help" dogma about marriage. How is that for a personal introduction? Challenged by my statement that I don't take marriage advice from heretics, the senseless conversation was on.

How can such a one understand that they cannot understand what I am saying because they have learned a false definition of every concept of truth I can suggest. Even the terms Christ, Faith, Scripture, Love, Christian, Meekness, etc., all distorted out of all Christian recognition. The Ancient Christians and some Orthodox Christians today understand the term "Christian mindset," i.e., a state of mind where these and other concepts of truth have context and true meaning. Outside that context, outside that mindset, those exact words and phrases hold only distorted concepts, partial and many times completely false meanings, implications, and even definitions.

Who can deny that people serve many false christs and suffer distortions of faith(s) plural to the point that some become death cults. Scripture in the hands of the same becomes weaponized and thus, fundamentalized, secularized, modernized, paganized, Islamicized, and even Marxisized? Christian loses its meaning; meekness is a religious act of hypocrisy, and love is seductive and false instead of sacrificing and real.

What would it look like if I sent you to match the colors on my house if you were colorblind? Should I ask such a one to color scripture for me? Presenting our bodies (our whole persons) in Liturgical Communal Worship is the process whereby the mind may be renewed, and the comprehension of truth may arrive. Those who reject the Church and her "in common worship" reject THE FAITH once and for all delivered unto the Saints. They substitute every counterfeit and some of those counterfeits are emotionally stirring and entertaining, even hypnotic, like all theatrical productions are. They are not Christians, though they may utter the name of Jesus Christ in every other sentence. Instead, they are "radical individual religionists" working on their personal salvation (spiritual actualization) and know only the Christ of their imaginations, most times merely an idealized image of their own ego. Oh, but in their delusion, they FEEL so spiritual, and in their ignorance so wise, and in their rebellion, saintly.

Yet even in this sea of confusion, others who do not presume to teach say in their hearts, "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." That prayer can become the mindset, and when it does, God will not be merciless.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on this sinner, Butch Robinson.

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In the prison camp, the author of that beautiful hymn, "Glory to God from Age to Age," said, "When in childhood I called upon Thee consciously for the first time, Thou didst hear my prayer, and Thou didst fill my heart with the blessing of peace. At that moment, I knew Thy goodness and knew how blessed are those who turn to Thee. I started to call upon Thee night and day, and now even now, I call upon Thy name." Speaking with a dear friend this week, relating our differing paths across decades, our searching for truth, and finding it in the teaching and practice of the Ancient Christian faith. The faith removed from the modern modifications, rationalizations, demystifications, and free of Gnostic Spiritualizations and the material straitjacket of Scientism. Instead, THE FAITH once and for all delivered unto the saints and practiced by those saints throughout the last two-thousand years. I said, "When I in faith called upon Jesus the first time, he responded with certainty; I knew he was real, alive, and communicating with me. He attached me to himself by what I have described as a thin golden thread. And all across the decades of my life, he had been gently reeling in that thread. When I became an Orthodox Christian, that thread seemed to disappear because I was standing in the House of the Lord and not battling through the counterfeit houses of religion and divergent theologies and philosophies, heretics, hypnotists, and conmen (and women)." I could have added that I learned all I could about all those theologies, spiritualities, denominations, and cults. Tossed in that sea, as I was learning all their secrets, that thin golden string more powerful than the mightiest chain drew me through. So I would be the last person on earth to disparage "simple faith in Jesus Christ." There is a vast difference between simple faith in Jesus Christ and prideful theologies, spiritualities, and philosophies that destroy the image of Truth in us and distort our understanding of everything, including God. Most especially God.

I'm talking about orthodox, small o, faith in Jesus Christ because I want to share what appears to be the simple faith of which I speak, demonstrated pretty powerfully in the world. I'm speaking of the simple faith of Andrew Torba of GAB and the miracle that is GAB. In the face of the darkest times, GAB stood tall and by itself in the sea of Judeo-Luciferian-controlled media. There was GAB, the ONLY outlet of Christian Freedom in Worldwide Social Media. At the same time, there was the Traitor Governor of Texas sitting with his Mossad handler on one side and his CIA minder on the other side, denouncing Free Speech and Andrew Torba and GAB. That was an amazing moment of history.

So while you are celebrating the false or at least non-Christian controlled limited liberty of Twitter, I want to remind you of the Warrior Andrew Torba and the actual Christian Liberty he created in the Platform called Gab and Gab T.V.

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Many people have been asking me what I think about Elon Musk purchasing Twitter for $44 billion dollars. In this letter I’m going to tell you what this means for Gab and provide my analysis of the situation as someone who has been trailblazing free speech infrastructure on the internet for nearly six years.

Tonight I am going to sleep as Peter did in Acts chapter 12 the night before his execution. For those of you who don’t know the story, I probably sound crazy, but if you read your Bible you’ll see that in Acts 12 Peter is miraculously freed from jail where an angel found him sleeping like a baby.

On the surface Acts 12 looks like the story of Peter’s miraculous escape from prison. If you look a little deeper you’ll see that it is actually about Peter’s miraculous transformation from the man who denied Jesus three times to a man with enough faith to sleep like a baby the night before his scheduled execution.

Peter was sleeping so peacefully and deeply while being chained to the arms of two guards in jail that when an angel appeared he thought he was dreaming or having a vision in the fog of waking up from a deep sleep.

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen." Acts 12:11

This is the faith that I have in this moment.

A moment where our enemies are saying “Gab is surely dead now” for the 1000th time in six years.

It’s the same faith I had when Gab was reduced to a pile of ash in the fall of 2018 and we lost everything. We were banned from hosting providers, payment processors, and my CTO quit all within roughly 72 hours. The website was offline for six days, but on day seven the site was resurrected by the grace of God and by the incredible determination of one brave engineer who didn’t sleep for a week.

It is from that pile of ash that I watched God grow Gab into the single most resilient alternative to Big Tech with a community of tens of millions of people that it is today.

As Christians, we are blessed to witness the Resurrection Power of Jesus Christ in our lives. We watch in awe as He takes things that are dead and raises them back to life.

Jesus Christ turns tragedy into testimony.

Gab is my testimony.

Unlike Mr. Musk I don’t answer to anyone outside of God almighty, especially not moneychangers.

Just a few days ago Morgan Stanley was praising Elon’s Boring Company to CNBC. A few weeks before that they were praising his other company Tesla. Morgan Stanley owns 3.7 million Tesla shares equal to about $3.9 billion in value so it should come as no surprise to learn that they are backing Elon’s $44 billion Twitter takeover and praising every company Elon runs.

Many people wrongfully believe that Elon pulled $44 billion out of his bank account and bought Twitter, but that’s not how any of this works. Elon’s moneychanger friends financed over $20 billion of the deal. The moneychangers don’t just throw around $20 billion for no reason.

So who really bought Twitter and who will really be in control? God only knows.

What I know for certain is that I fully control Gab as its supermajority shareholder and sole Board member.

You can learn more about who I am here.

Elon can have Twitter.

People falsely assume that Gab is a “Twitter knockoff,” but this hasn’t been the case for several years. Functionally Gab is more like Facebook. We have Gab Groups, Gab Marketplace, Gab News, Gab TV, GabPay, and much more on the way. We aren’t and haven’t been competing with Twitter for years. Facebook users are our core target market.

We quickly realized back in 2019 that the vast majority of people in the United States are simply not on Twitter. The first issue is that over half of Twitter’s “users” are bots. The other half are young inner-city Democrats and journalists, but let’s be honest these people are basically robots too.

The bottom line is these aren’t our people. This isn’t our target market. The majority of people who remain on Twitter today will never use Gab because they will never survive in an environment with true free speech. There is finite number of conservative Twitter users who will make the switch, but tens of millions of Christian Facebook users who want off of Zuckerberg’s demonic plantation.

If anyone is doomed by Elon Musk buying Twitter it’s Parler, Gettr, and Truth Social.

The entire value proposition of Parler, Gettr, and Truth Social was being “not Twitter.” None of them even offer a free speech Terms of Service. In Parler’s case, they bent the knee to Apple and started censoring to get back on the App Store. In Gettr’s case, they ruined their reputation on day one by censoring right-wing political dissidents. Truth Social is a disaster that uses Silicon Valley AI to censor. Its main attraction–President Donald Trump–doesn’t even use his own platform.

I predict that Elon Musk buying Twitter will force the left to balkanize into niche platforms of shared values like the right has. We will see the Gab, Parler, and Gettr of the left pop up. I’ve been talking about the fragmentation and decentralization of social media into smaller niche communities for several years now and things are about to accelerate in this area. That’s a good thing. It means Silicon Valley is losing power and fast.

Bloomberg is reporting that Twitter’s source code has now been locked down to make it harder for current employees to make unauthorized changes to the platform. This tells us that Twitter’s Board recognizes the total and complete internal meltdown that is happening right now.

We’ve seen rogue employees and contractors at Twitter before. Remember the time a random contractor, not even an employee, deactivated the account of the President of the United States? Or how about the former Twitter employees who ended up being spies for Saudi Arabia?

Elon now has to deal with 7,500 far-left Twitter employees and I sincerely wish him all the best in absolutely clearing house and starting from scratch by firing every last one of the existing employees. Needless to say, this won’t be an easy task, nor will be upending Twitter’s policies and technology.

Aside from the internal war and struggle that Elon is about to endure at Twitter he will also face a variety of external attacks from the media, the government, the ADL, and Big Tech giants like Apple and Google who control Twitter’s distribution destiny on the app stores.

Apple’s market cap is 2.7 trillion dollars. Don’t think for one second they won’t ban a $44 billion dollar app like Twitter from their app stores. Fortnite is owned by a $28 billion dollar video game giant and was the most popular video game in the world at the time, but that didn’t stop Apple from banning their app from the App Store without blinking. It won’t stop them from banning Twitter either.

The media will give Elon the Trump treatment and call him a “racist bigot nazi white supremacist hater.” They will go after all of his other businesses. There will be leaks from Twitter employees to the press constantly. The ADL and SPLC will create bogus “studies” to show how “toxic” and “harmful” Twitter is and then feed that to the press.

Today the Biden administration said they would support “reforming Section 230, enacting anti-trust reforms,” and “requiring more transparency” on social media to combat COVID-19 “misinformation.” So now Elon will have to deal with regulators, lawmakers, and the Executive branch.

Then there is the fact that Twitter is totally and completely dependent on third-party infrastructure. They will be attacked at every level of the tech stack from DNS, to hosting providers, app stores, email services, and more. Some of the top investors in Silicon Valley are already predicting this, as if to say they already have these wheels in motion! Gab overcame and rebuilt from absolutely nothing through all of these hurdles. Will Twitter be able to do so at their scale and at what cost?

When Twitter gets banned from half a dozen banks, Visa, app stores, hosting providers, email services, and more they can get on our level with free speech.

Almost two weeks ago in my offer letter to Elon, I said this: “Twitter operates in countries where mass censorship is required by law. They have offices in these countries. They have no choice but to comply with the censorship demands of those countries or risk being shut down, fines, etc.”

Today the Financial Times is reporting that “Brussels has warned Elon Musk that Twitter must comply with the EU’s new digital rules under his ownership, or risk hefty fines or even a ban, setting the stage for a global regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform.”

These are things we have dealt with for years here at Gab. Last summer the German government demanded we censor content on Gab. Will Elon respond the way Gab did?

Regardless of what Elon does with Twitter I will be waking up tomorrow and doing the same thing I have been doing for the past six years of my life: building Gab. As long as I’m alive I’ll be building parallel Christian systems and internet infrastructure to defend the Gospel, my family, and our God-given right to speak freely. I’ll also be giving all the glory to God while doing so.

Gab’s vision and mission are simple: we are building a Parallel Economy to defend Christian values, free speech, free thought, and the free flow of information online.

We hope you’ll join us. Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com
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