You're absolutely correct that enforcing perfect ideological conformity is a unachievable and counter-productive endeavor...There are a few things that I won't bend on.
1. Great harm has come from the malevolence and/or incompetence of our leaders, and the difference is purely academic at this stage
2. People must be held responsible for this to the fullest extent
And to add to my agreement, I think that having a spine is critical. It's just that I think that there is a difference between having a spine (and passion, and opinions) and demanding ideological compliance.
For example, I think one is allowed to believe that there are too many people on the planet etc. (I disagree with the premise but they are allowed to believe that), They are not allowed to attempt the reduce the number of people, however, that's a crime! And by that I mean even the techniques of social engineering through confusion, etc.)
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One simple way to help mitigate fear is for informed people to connect and share information. Another more potent means is for informed people to calm people and encourage them in person.
There is safety and courage in numbers.
Why do you think they deceived and isolated us for?
Control is both the answer and the problem! No? Control yourself, and leave others alone, lol. I think many people are awakening, and not just to some sort of "factual reality" per se, but to a much bigger, much stronger thing that I just call Love. It's kinda awesome! And I absolutely agree that the leaders are scared! They've been planning this monstrous boot coming down on us for... a long, long, LONG time, and it's just creating a big LOVE EXPLOSION. YAY!
Beautifully written! We are truly living in traumatic times, which are challenging all of us to rise above all kinds of personal emotional and energetic "stuff." I love your advice to be gentle with others when they are coming from lower-vibrational places, such as anxiety, fear, loneliness, grief, frustration, etc. I love to ask "how good can it get?" in every situation, and keep doing my best to remind people, by example, that no matter what's going on, such positivity, optimism, and gentle neutral kindness can help us find our way.
Tessa, I just want to hug you for this gracious post, which comes from a place of love, as all your work does.
I feel exactly as you do about the divisive elements within the resistance. What I love about my readers is we have a diversity of opinions on a variety of topics, but we all come together to fight tyranny, the Great Reset, democide, and the greatest evils facing us today.
As I’ve repeatedly told the virus-deniers, I don’t care what they believe or if we disagree. What bothers me is when they become as rabid as Covidians and insist everyone comply with their belief system or they’re a heretic. This religious fundamentalism is destructive and comes from a place of hatred rather than love.
I guess you could say I’m tolerant of everyone except the intolerant ;-)
Thank you Margaret Anna! I think you and I are pursuing a similar goal when it comes to promoting general tolerance and normal (old normal :) conversations.
I even have the tolerance of the intolerant but jeez... if the purpose is a good world, it's not possible to get there by falling in love with own dogma!
Exactly, Tessa! I have no problems with the ones who are capable of agreeing-to-disagree on this and similar topics because we realize there are far more important issues that demand our attention.
It’s the ones who threaten, abuse, badger, and harass those of us who don’t adhere to their identical beliefs that come across as cult-following fundamentalists to me. At least a dozen different virus-deniers have attacked me in various comment threads as well as maligning me on other Substacks and even websites, which I find bizarre because I’ve never even written anything that specifically addresses their beliefs. Merely by acknowledging the existence of a virus that has caused harm to some and responds well to early treatment protocols like ivermectin makes me a target, but at least I’m in good company as they usually list me with people like Steve Kirsch and Robert Malone ;-)
I am sorry you have to deal with this! I usually more or less refuse to engage if it becomes clear that the other person is on a missionary quest. All in all, I do my best to stay away from squabbles. I let the fanatics fight with each other and ignore the stink as much as possible. And at this point, everyone has called everyone controlled opposition, and the phrase has no meaning (and there surely is actual controlled opposition but I think the point is not to go for the toxic emotion and stand our ground).
I think they’ve mostly given up attacking me directly at my own Substack posts, thankfully. I wasted way too much time initially attempting to dialogue rationally with them until it devolved into trolling and I disengaged.
Although I appreciate OffGuardian and especially Kit Knightly, who was the first to publish my work and continues to do so, the commentariat there is heavily populated with virulent virus-deniers and goes on the attack every time one of my articles is published there, where I am frequently referred to as “controlled opposition,” which I find ironic since I’m the one trying to unify the resistance while they’re busy ankle-biting the ones who have been most effective at fighting tyranny and democide (Malone, Kirsch, et al).
They also accuse me of being a freemason for sharing videos by Academy of Ideas, which they have all kinds of bizarre conspiracy theories about 😆
When my articles appear at The Burning Platform (run by Jim Quinn, who is also a big supporter of my work, as are several of his editors and contributors), I am attacked by the sizable number of Holocaust-denier commenters, who refer to me as “the Jewess” for being half-Jewish and refusing to worship Hitler and his totalitarian, genocidal regime. I initially attempted civilized dialogue with them but quickly realized that was futile and disengaged from those exchanges as well.
Mostly, I find these dynamics amusing, but it does sadden me that these contingencies are discrediting the overall resistance and likely scaring off rational people who conflate the questioners of the narrative with their irrationality and religious zeal.
I usually try to engage initially, it if feels like the person is sincere and open minded, and if I know what to say. It then either develops into a normal conversation, or the other person just repeats their talking points hoping that they stick (Using a famous quote. "but what does it have to do with chess?") Then I let them be. I don't own their opinions, they are entitled to them. But they are not entitled to trying to dominate my life, so.... Self-respect matters. A lot. I usually don't feel angry, just let them be. There is lots of prejudice in this world, different kinds of it. I remain of the opinion that I can feel, think, and share what I find appropriate, and anyone else can have an opinion about it, and it's fine. And I don't get into this whole CO squabbles because I find it to be a timesuck. I am Russian. By now, I have gotten over the itch to argue with those who get overly suspicious. :)
Wow, sorry you found yourself in the middle of passionate dogmatics!! I have discovered that ignoring seems to be the most effective approach. I went through a phase of being all emotional about it in the spring of 2021. I thought I could just find the right words and the world would go, "Oh.... yes, that's right! We've been dogmatic! Let's all abandon dogma and move forward in a grounded way!" That didn't happen. :) So I think the world is what it is, we do our best, and don't worry too much. I am always open to talking to anyone, that's my principle. But has to be talking, not yelling. :)
What if it's actually a "virus" thingie, not really a virus, but a bio-weapon? Made to be pretty mellow, so to point us to the "vaccine," because Money. And what if the bad disease is actually 5G, like you say? What if this is a means of tricking us, confusing us, and culling the herd? Eugenics and so forth... I don't KNOW. This is where I am right now. And if you disagree, I'm okay with that. We all deserve to have a free and decent life here on this amazing planet, made, as Tessa might say, out of Pure Love. xo
No. I don't think that. I think that is up to US. And I thought you'd stopped communicating with me, S. Looks like you're up to your usual infestation tactics... I do wish you could find a way to work on healing your wounds without trying to wound others. Because underneath all that rage and hurt and neediness you're a human being, like the rest of us. Good luck. I'm wishing you well. Get some help, offline, in the Real World. We all need help now and then.
You are one bitter human being. I wish you the best but you are just one bitter human being at the moment! You keep commenting on every post with bile! You just keep doing that! I am sure that once the entire world agrees with YOU, we'll finally have a paradise of truth and final and ultimate answers. :) The point I am making is that treating other people with respect (which means, no bile), is mandatory in my book regardless of one's belief in one's total righteousness. And if you think that "the truth" wins by yelling and missionary activities, you might as well be the next Klaus Schwab. Good luck with everything but I am not seeing how you are contributing in a positive manner. Sharing your viewpoint is a legit and wonderful thing. Bile is a sign of being unbalanced and bitter. sorry.
Slanderman: I don't know whether you are responding to Margaret Anna or to me. I never called you a pharma shill but I find it interesting how you are NOT subscribed to my Substack, yet you are compelled to come in and comment with bile many many times, and I mean, you leave like a million comments, mostly coming from a place of resentment, demanding that people admit that you are right and they are wrong (which is exactly what I was talking about).
Why? Who are you? Who are you in real life? What are you trying to accomplish? Establish that YOU to have the last word? Not cool!! I specifically wrote about this thing you are doing. I am not a fan of it, just to be clear.
I don't have to anything. That is obvious. But you somehow believe yourself to be the ultimate scientist (sorry that position is taken by THE SCIENCE lol), the priest, the judge, and the executioner.. I really don't care what you think of me or my opinions. Nobody in this world can please everybody. I do my best to not get pulled into pointless bitter exchanges, however. Which is to say, to you, the only good and truthful conversation is the one where you have the last word and everybody agrees with you. Sorry it's a bit idealistic on your part, and also it sounds like you are hurting greatly from being a misunderstood genius. Perhaps you are, but there is no reason anyone should pay the price for your bitterness, that's for you to deal with! And if you are trying to bring the world's attention to your point of view, you are doing it very awkwardly (and anonymously, which makes a normal conversation more difficult).
You inspire me to recover the soul I think I have, which is wilted, neglected, ignored. I so often act from the logical, mechanical, and forget that I am capable of acting out of love in each moment
“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
Love god, love people; it’s seems a good place to start. What if the “bad guys” are irrelevant to the story, what if the “good guys” living out of love (or not) is all that matters in writing the next chapter?
Our challenge is to make "The Great Reset" subjugation-de/trans-humanization plot weaker than the Better-Path.
Life, guided by love, which I will couch as the experience of the one-ness of life, the connectedness with brother-sister life forms, is far superior in it's reach, power, efficiency-with-the-minimum, and in its resilience to the "lock-step" "Great Reset".
We need to embrace life and love and to be active in that embrace, not passive recipients.
This is a time of a lot of change, which is hard, and each of us is limited, can only adapt a certain amount. However, we must take each of those baby steps when we see it, and we can support and befriend others taking the baby steps into the world of diverse life, not regimented robotic existence.
We, the "herd", are being herded into a situation where "we" cull each other as the owners will see fit. I'm not going to go along with their simplified plans. These next few decades need to be a lot more complex and interactive than their "great reset" plans.
I agree. Makes it so much easier for the Evil Ones if we do their plan for them... and maybe they will profit from it, too. I can never get used to the hideous-ness of Evil... As Lennon said, in one song, and similarly in many others, "Love, love, love... Love is all you need."
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One of my cousins was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Years ago, I learned that on her deathbed, his mother had told him he wouldn't succeed, would never have friends, and was destined to die alone. All the pent-up worries she had never expressed, finally came out.
My cousin's mother is my aunt, and her outburst made sense, since I didn't know her as a worrywart. She was a disciplinarian who made her children tremble with fear.
Materially, she was right to worry about her youngest, since schizophrenia has severely limited his life. He and I are the least successful because of mental illness, and ours is an odd friendship because of it.
For my part, I wasn't afraid to tell my mother not to worry. Maybe I shouldn't have. My aunt was with my mother when she died. My aunt helped me go through the hoops that one has to jump through following a death in the family. She was a good neighbour and friend to my father, in his final years. My aunt was someone who helped broken people.
What a story! Thank you for sharing it! And there is so complexity behind our simple choices and actions and the feelings that we don't always understand... sometimes the feelings go generations back, and we forgot, and we have no idea why we feel this way, but then we start digging, and dear God!
I've read too that it may well have something to do with certain kinds of dietary issues and certain kinds of bodily make-up (a very unscientific description, but I'm not sure it was some kind of genetic thing, or something else... it's been years since I read that).
Absolutely spot on, Tessa! Thank you for bringing this to the table. It's reminds me of that old adage, opinions are like assholes - everyone has one. It's whether we are balanced and connected to that greater energy of the Universe, far greater than the globalist elites and their self-righteousness piety of being Gods knowing what's best for us. They are so small and petty compared to the light of Love! And when we become so self-righteous in our militancy against them, we join them. I feel what you're pointing at is to a spiritual growth we have all entered into, knowingly or not, liking it or not. There's a sense of ultimatum with all this pressure and bulldozing that we have to find our true residence within. Do we want to live in the fractured world of opinions and the rage of militancy? Or do we want to live in the light of love and beauty, of tenderness and kindness, COME WHAT MAY?
Thank you Navyo!! I completely agree. Opinions come and go (and yes, some are closer to reality than others, and fact do matter... but there is a graceful way to go about defending our opinion, and a way that turns us into the very thing we are trying to defeat... the former is more productive! And yes, there are occasions for battles, and people who are born to be physical warriors. We live in the real world, and real world has physical battles to defend one's home and loved ones. But I think that battle energy is getting misplaced when people get worked up over disagreements over detail with those who are generally on the same side!
Yes, Tessa. We need that warrior energy. I'm not advocating for complacency or letting go of everything and being passive, just that we find the strong inner core of love where we live inside. We forget in times of trouble and anguish... in-fighting just weakens our unity, as you pointed out.
I relate to what you're saying! Yes! And I've been thinking, again, of a thing that used to really stump me when I was studying the Bible, as a young adult, and later, too... There's a place somewhere in the NT (I think it's in the NT!) where it is says "Resist Not Evil." Resist not? I wondered what that meant for a long time. Finally it occurred to me that it might mean, not to try and stop it, but to WORK AROUND IT. Go ahead and do the Good Work, overwhelm the Evil with Love. I'm not religious anymore, but I still find plenty of wisdom in religious writings, of all sorts, and just like opinions, you can find good ones just about anywhere, if you pay attention. xo
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Going by personal experience, the ones calling for puritan conformism to their radical "explains everything"-model which must be accepted wholesale, are either mentally ill, have a personal grievance against existance** or (rarely, but they do exist) people employed to create dissent and discord among any and all off-message political debate***.
*These people would, if they were functioning within at least some of the parameters of normality re: their psychology and and ability for social interaction/manipulation, typically be functionaires inside the system - it's just that they are too disturbed to be able to function in any group at all where they cannot use coercion, force and threats (typical Cluster B type personality disorders).
**This type breaks down into the 'sour grapes' mentality of someone feeling that their genius goes unrecognised, unfairly so: prone to rants, grandiosity and self-aggrandisement. The other kind is the much rarer person who actually has been on the inside but is now for some reason or other outside: a journalist, researcher or entertainer which took the "wrong" stance too much, too publicly - say a NYT journalist reduced to being a commoner. Such a person will try to surrounded himself with any number of Sancho Panchas on his quest to re-recognition and vindication.
***Exceedingly rare, the professional troll belonging to some acronym-agency or other, or to a news bureau, trade union, major company or politicial party or similar franchise (commonly operating under the moniker "influencer" if working publicly). Has a very simple set of instructions, and can generally be identified by the style and the consistency of always bringing up the same talking points in any topic, trying to steer the discussion to said points, and if failing to do so launching personal attacks using trigger words which are as politically incorrect as possible, so as to give opportunity for "fact checkers" to point out: "Look! Comments that are fashionable opinion-phobic and anti-buzzword!" (Naturally, this looks a lot like the first type.)
It would be good I think if we could get our "elected leaders" to read and ponder the wisdom of "How much land does a man need?". They are not humble and have no humility, and thus cannot show respect in the sense of worth and virtue, they can only use respect in the sense of domination meaning they make themselves tyrants for no good reason.
Thank you for the inspiration - good reading such as your writing is like spring sun on the soil when the thaw sets in. It makes the flowers of though reach and grow.
Thank you, Tessa, for such an honest, thought-provoking essay on what is happening. I have had a reiki teacher who privately holds certain political beliefs but rarely now shares them on her blog, because she too has people from many sides who read her. She recently posted the great Buddhist environmentalist and teacher Joanna Macy, giving a teaching on the Tibetan prediction of "Shambhala warriors," in a time such as we face now. The line that stays with me is from the Tibetan monk who taught her: "the line between good and evil is not between two sides or two people. That line runs through the landscape of every human heart." The Shambhala warriors carry no weapons other than compassion and insight.
That prophecy she shared is interesting. On the one hand it does say the line between good and evil is internal (and this is common sense), but it also says it is external (also common sense, since we each draw our line differently inside)..
Yes, I understand it that way - it's part of the Kalachakra teachings, and they are done to protect the world. HH the Dalai Lama used to come to US to perform Kalachakra rituals.
Beautiful post. *Genuine* humility while not compromising our principles is an enormous feat. But if we can find that balance, we can move mountains (and often have an incredible impact on others).
It’s a constant daily battle to not allow myself to climb into a thought box that I have built, or allow others to put me into that box. Thinking and issues are complex, and binary thinking is just so easy. It’s so easy to get swept into feelings that lead down a road that ends up hurting others. My biggest philosophy of “live and let live” has served me well.
Fascinating perspective on your mother and why she became that way. I see it in my Hungarian grandmother, diluted down through my own mother.
Society is a pendulum, and as we have swung to a high side of tyranny on the left, I do not look forward to the high swing of tyranny to the right. But I look forward to our upcoming time in the middle.
you are making me miss my mom more than ever... she was incredibly kind, humble and smart... think everyday about what she would think about the messes all over...
You're absolutely correct that enforcing perfect ideological conformity is a unachievable and counter-productive endeavor...There are a few things that I won't bend on.
1. Great harm has come from the malevolence and/or incompetence of our leaders, and the difference is purely academic at this stage
2. People must be held responsible for this to the fullest extent
That's really all I care about,
And to add to my agreement, I think that having a spine is critical. It's just that I think that there is a difference between having a spine (and passion, and opinions) and demanding ideological compliance.
For example, I think one is allowed to believe that there are too many people on the planet etc. (I disagree with the premise but they are allowed to believe that), They are not allowed to attempt the reduce the number of people, however, that's a crime! And by that I mean even the techniques of social engineering through confusion, etc.)
I would 'heart' this 100 times if I could!
I agree with both of your points!
I agree with both your points, too. Well said.
One simple way to help mitigate fear is for informed people to connect and share information. Another more potent means is for informed people to calm people and encourage them in person.
There is safety and courage in numbers.
Why do you think they deceived and isolated us for?
"Why do you think they deceived and isolated us for?" Yep!!
I'm reconnecting and many love it, like fixing the tear.
The Truckers are doing it.
I wonder if leaders aren't scared? Control is their answer?
Control is both the answer and the problem! No? Control yourself, and leave others alone, lol. I think many people are awakening, and not just to some sort of "factual reality" per se, but to a much bigger, much stronger thing that I just call Love. It's kinda awesome! And I absolutely agree that the leaders are scared! They've been planning this monstrous boot coming down on us for... a long, long, LONG time, and it's just creating a big LOVE EXPLOSION. YAY!
I think we need some coffee clubs for this, so it's in person,
because we've never met.
I agree. I want real, live, human contact, with coffee. ;)
Beautifully written! We are truly living in traumatic times, which are challenging all of us to rise above all kinds of personal emotional and energetic "stuff." I love your advice to be gentle with others when they are coming from lower-vibrational places, such as anxiety, fear, loneliness, grief, frustration, etc. I love to ask "how good can it get?" in every situation, and keep doing my best to remind people, by example, that no matter what's going on, such positivity, optimism, and gentle neutral kindness can help us find our way.
So true!!
Tessa, I just want to hug you for this gracious post, which comes from a place of love, as all your work does.
I feel exactly as you do about the divisive elements within the resistance. What I love about my readers is we have a diversity of opinions on a variety of topics, but we all come together to fight tyranny, the Great Reset, democide, and the greatest evils facing us today.
As I’ve repeatedly told the virus-deniers, I don’t care what they believe or if we disagree. What bothers me is when they become as rabid as Covidians and insist everyone comply with their belief system or they’re a heretic. This religious fundamentalism is destructive and comes from a place of hatred rather than love.
I guess you could say I’m tolerant of everyone except the intolerant ;-)
Thank you Margaret Anna! I think you and I are pursuing a similar goal when it comes to promoting general tolerance and normal (old normal :) conversations.
I even have the tolerance of the intolerant but jeez... if the purpose is a good world, it's not possible to get there by falling in love with own dogma!
Exactly, Tessa! I have no problems with the ones who are capable of agreeing-to-disagree on this and similar topics because we realize there are far more important issues that demand our attention.
It’s the ones who threaten, abuse, badger, and harass those of us who don’t adhere to their identical beliefs that come across as cult-following fundamentalists to me. At least a dozen different virus-deniers have attacked me in various comment threads as well as maligning me on other Substacks and even websites, which I find bizarre because I’ve never even written anything that specifically addresses their beliefs. Merely by acknowledging the existence of a virus that has caused harm to some and responds well to early treatment protocols like ivermectin makes me a target, but at least I’m in good company as they usually list me with people like Steve Kirsch and Robert Malone ;-)
I am sorry you have to deal with this! I usually more or less refuse to engage if it becomes clear that the other person is on a missionary quest. All in all, I do my best to stay away from squabbles. I let the fanatics fight with each other and ignore the stink as much as possible. And at this point, everyone has called everyone controlled opposition, and the phrase has no meaning (and there surely is actual controlled opposition but I think the point is not to go for the toxic emotion and stand our ground).
I think they’ve mostly given up attacking me directly at my own Substack posts, thankfully. I wasted way too much time initially attempting to dialogue rationally with them until it devolved into trolling and I disengaged.
Although I appreciate OffGuardian and especially Kit Knightly, who was the first to publish my work and continues to do so, the commentariat there is heavily populated with virulent virus-deniers and goes on the attack every time one of my articles is published there, where I am frequently referred to as “controlled opposition,” which I find ironic since I’m the one trying to unify the resistance while they’re busy ankle-biting the ones who have been most effective at fighting tyranny and democide (Malone, Kirsch, et al).
They also accuse me of being a freemason for sharing videos by Academy of Ideas, which they have all kinds of bizarre conspiracy theories about 😆
When my articles appear at The Burning Platform (run by Jim Quinn, who is also a big supporter of my work, as are several of his editors and contributors), I am attacked by the sizable number of Holocaust-denier commenters, who refer to me as “the Jewess” for being half-Jewish and refusing to worship Hitler and his totalitarian, genocidal regime. I initially attempted civilized dialogue with them but quickly realized that was futile and disengaged from those exchanges as well.
Mostly, I find these dynamics amusing, but it does sadden me that these contingencies are discrediting the overall resistance and likely scaring off rational people who conflate the questioners of the narrative with their irrationality and religious zeal.
I usually try to engage initially, it if feels like the person is sincere and open minded, and if I know what to say. It then either develops into a normal conversation, or the other person just repeats their talking points hoping that they stick (Using a famous quote. "but what does it have to do with chess?") Then I let them be. I don't own their opinions, they are entitled to them. But they are not entitled to trying to dominate my life, so.... Self-respect matters. A lot. I usually don't feel angry, just let them be. There is lots of prejudice in this world, different kinds of it. I remain of the opinion that I can feel, think, and share what I find appropriate, and anyone else can have an opinion about it, and it's fine. And I don't get into this whole CO squabbles because I find it to be a timesuck. I am Russian. By now, I have gotten over the itch to argue with those who get overly suspicious. :)
Haha, very wise of you :-)
Wow, sorry you found yourself in the middle of passionate dogmatics!! I have discovered that ignoring seems to be the most effective approach. I went through a phase of being all emotional about it in the spring of 2021. I thought I could just find the right words and the world would go, "Oh.... yes, that's right! We've been dogmatic! Let's all abandon dogma and move forward in a grounded way!" That didn't happen. :) So I think the world is what it is, we do our best, and don't worry too much. I am always open to talking to anyone, that's my principle. But has to be talking, not yelling. :)
https://tessa.substack.com/p/unity?s=w
Amen and great principle!
I don't know why we get uptight on these things.
Dr. Kaufman, smart, makes good case for no virus but
then? What is it? Just 5G? Some thought Shanghai was 5G induced but why now?
I don't feel I'll ever know enough to make a case.
What if it's actually a "virus" thingie, not really a virus, but a bio-weapon? Made to be pretty mellow, so to point us to the "vaccine," because Money. And what if the bad disease is actually 5G, like you say? What if this is a means of tricking us, confusing us, and culling the herd? Eugenics and so forth... I don't KNOW. This is where I am right now. And if you disagree, I'm okay with that. We all deserve to have a free and decent life here on this amazing planet, made, as Tessa might say, out of Pure Love. xo
No. I don't think that. I think that is up to US. And I thought you'd stopped communicating with me, S. Looks like you're up to your usual infestation tactics... I do wish you could find a way to work on healing your wounds without trying to wound others. Because underneath all that rage and hurt and neediness you're a human being, like the rest of us. Good luck. I'm wishing you well. Get some help, offline, in the Real World. We all need help now and then.
You are one bitter human being. I wish you the best but you are just one bitter human being at the moment! You keep commenting on every post with bile! You just keep doing that! I am sure that once the entire world agrees with YOU, we'll finally have a paradise of truth and final and ultimate answers. :) The point I am making is that treating other people with respect (which means, no bile), is mandatory in my book regardless of one's belief in one's total righteousness. And if you think that "the truth" wins by yelling and missionary activities, you might as well be the next Klaus Schwab. Good luck with everything but I am not seeing how you are contributing in a positive manner. Sharing your viewpoint is a legit and wonderful thing. Bile is a sign of being unbalanced and bitter. sorry.
PS. I am not going to do a long thread going back and forth. Lifetime is limited, and there is not time in it for bile-throwing. Not a fun activity.
Slanderman: I don't know whether you are responding to Margaret Anna or to me. I never called you a pharma shill but I find it interesting how you are NOT subscribed to my Substack, yet you are compelled to come in and comment with bile many many times, and I mean, you leave like a million comments, mostly coming from a place of resentment, demanding that people admit that you are right and they are wrong (which is exactly what I was talking about).
Why? Who are you? Who are you in real life? What are you trying to accomplish? Establish that YOU to have the last word? Not cool!! I specifically wrote about this thing you are doing. I am not a fan of it, just to be clear.
I don't have to anything. That is obvious. But you somehow believe yourself to be the ultimate scientist (sorry that position is taken by THE SCIENCE lol), the priest, the judge, and the executioner.. I really don't care what you think of me or my opinions. Nobody in this world can please everybody. I do my best to not get pulled into pointless bitter exchanges, however. Which is to say, to you, the only good and truthful conversation is the one where you have the last word and everybody agrees with you. Sorry it's a bit idealistic on your part, and also it sounds like you are hurting greatly from being a misunderstood genius. Perhaps you are, but there is no reason anyone should pay the price for your bitterness, that's for you to deal with! And if you are trying to bring the world's attention to your point of view, you are doing it very awkwardly (and anonymously, which makes a normal conversation more difficult).
You’re spot on. It’s important to stay vigilant and watch for almost religious fervor no matter in what situation.
Thank you, and yes!!
You inspire me to recover the soul I think I have, which is wilted, neglected, ignored. I so often act from the logical, mechanical, and forget that I am capable of acting out of love in each moment
So beautiful. Thank you for speaking your heart!
Likewise, I am roused to do so by those who do the same!
I am not sure I have met anyone that is tuned into freedom as much as yourself
Thank you Shawn!!!! Many of us are very much into freedom, probably in our own way. But true, I have always felt the need for it, like oxygen.
“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
Love god, love people; it’s seems a good place to start. What if the “bad guys” are irrelevant to the story, what if the “good guys” living out of love (or not) is all that matters in writing the next chapter?
Thanks Tessa.
Our challenge is to make "The Great Reset" subjugation-de/trans-humanization plot weaker than the Better-Path.
Life, guided by love, which I will couch as the experience of the one-ness of life, the connectedness with brother-sister life forms, is far superior in it's reach, power, efficiency-with-the-minimum, and in its resilience to the "lock-step" "Great Reset".
We need to embrace life and love and to be active in that embrace, not passive recipients.
This is a time of a lot of change, which is hard, and each of us is limited, can only adapt a certain amount. However, we must take each of those baby steps when we see it, and we can support and befriend others taking the baby steps into the world of diverse life, not regimented robotic existence.
Grow vegetables.
Ride your bike.
Be a human friend.
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And wouldn't it be just SO COOL if, on the brink of another World War, everyone just said, "We're not doing this!" and we had a big party instead?
We, the "herd", are being herded into a situation where "we" cull each other as the owners will see fit. I'm not going to go along with their simplified plans. These next few decades need to be a lot more complex and interactive than their "great reset" plans.
I agree. Makes it so much easier for the Evil Ones if we do their plan for them... and maybe they will profit from it, too. I can never get used to the hideous-ness of Evil... As Lennon said, in one song, and similarly in many others, "Love, love, love... Love is all you need."
One of my cousins was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Years ago, I learned that on her deathbed, his mother had told him he wouldn't succeed, would never have friends, and was destined to die alone. All the pent-up worries she had never expressed, finally came out.
My cousin's mother is my aunt, and her outburst made sense, since I didn't know her as a worrywart. She was a disciplinarian who made her children tremble with fear.
Materially, she was right to worry about her youngest, since schizophrenia has severely limited his life. He and I are the least successful because of mental illness, and ours is an odd friendship because of it.
For my part, I wasn't afraid to tell my mother not to worry. Maybe I shouldn't have. My aunt was with my mother when she died. My aunt helped me go through the hoops that one has to jump through following a death in the family. She was a good neighbour and friend to my father, in his final years. My aunt was someone who helped broken people.
What a story! Thank you for sharing it! And there is so complexity behind our simple choices and actions and the feelings that we don't always understand... sometimes the feelings go generations back, and we forgot, and we have no idea why we feel this way, but then we start digging, and dear God!
Bob! Sending you many hugs!!
I'm sending you many hugs, too. Your heart is gold.
This article explains that schizophrenia is not so much a disease but a result of society... Just like you observed.
https://expressiveegg.org/2017/03/07/schizophrenic-psychocrat/
I've read too that it may well have something to do with certain kinds of dietary issues and certain kinds of bodily make-up (a very unscientific description, but I'm not sure it was some kind of genetic thing, or something else... it's been years since I read that).
Absolutely spot on, Tessa! Thank you for bringing this to the table. It's reminds me of that old adage, opinions are like assholes - everyone has one. It's whether we are balanced and connected to that greater energy of the Universe, far greater than the globalist elites and their self-righteousness piety of being Gods knowing what's best for us. They are so small and petty compared to the light of Love! And when we become so self-righteous in our militancy against them, we join them. I feel what you're pointing at is to a spiritual growth we have all entered into, knowingly or not, liking it or not. There's a sense of ultimatum with all this pressure and bulldozing that we have to find our true residence within. Do we want to live in the fractured world of opinions and the rage of militancy? Or do we want to live in the light of love and beauty, of tenderness and kindness, COME WHAT MAY?
Thank you Navyo!! I completely agree. Opinions come and go (and yes, some are closer to reality than others, and fact do matter... but there is a graceful way to go about defending our opinion, and a way that turns us into the very thing we are trying to defeat... the former is more productive! And yes, there are occasions for battles, and people who are born to be physical warriors. We live in the real world, and real world has physical battles to defend one's home and loved ones. But I think that battle energy is getting misplaced when people get worked up over disagreements over detail with those who are generally on the same side!
Yes, Tessa. We need that warrior energy. I'm not advocating for complacency or letting go of everything and being passive, just that we find the strong inner core of love where we live inside. We forget in times of trouble and anguish... in-fighting just weakens our unity, as you pointed out.
I relate to what you're saying! Yes! And I've been thinking, again, of a thing that used to really stump me when I was studying the Bible, as a young adult, and later, too... There's a place somewhere in the NT (I think it's in the NT!) where it is says "Resist Not Evil." Resist not? I wondered what that meant for a long time. Finally it occurred to me that it might mean, not to try and stop it, but to WORK AROUND IT. Go ahead and do the Good Work, overwhelm the Evil with Love. I'm not religious anymore, but I still find plenty of wisdom in religious writings, of all sorts, and just like opinions, you can find good ones just about anywhere, if you pay attention. xo
I love that! Overwhelm evil with love! That put a smile on my face. It's so easy to give up, but that's just more temptation. Love makes us stronger.
Right?! I love it, too. xo
Brilliant
Going by personal experience, the ones calling for puritan conformism to their radical "explains everything"-model which must be accepted wholesale, are either mentally ill, have a personal grievance against existance** or (rarely, but they do exist) people employed to create dissent and discord among any and all off-message political debate***.
*These people would, if they were functioning within at least some of the parameters of normality re: their psychology and and ability for social interaction/manipulation, typically be functionaires inside the system - it's just that they are too disturbed to be able to function in any group at all where they cannot use coercion, force and threats (typical Cluster B type personality disorders).
**This type breaks down into the 'sour grapes' mentality of someone feeling that their genius goes unrecognised, unfairly so: prone to rants, grandiosity and self-aggrandisement. The other kind is the much rarer person who actually has been on the inside but is now for some reason or other outside: a journalist, researcher or entertainer which took the "wrong" stance too much, too publicly - say a NYT journalist reduced to being a commoner. Such a person will try to surrounded himself with any number of Sancho Panchas on his quest to re-recognition and vindication.
***Exceedingly rare, the professional troll belonging to some acronym-agency or other, or to a news bureau, trade union, major company or politicial party or similar franchise (commonly operating under the moniker "influencer" if working publicly). Has a very simple set of instructions, and can generally be identified by the style and the consistency of always bringing up the same talking points in any topic, trying to steer the discussion to said points, and if failing to do so launching personal attacks using trigger words which are as politically incorrect as possible, so as to give opportunity for "fact checkers" to point out: "Look! Comments that are fashionable opinion-phobic and anti-buzzword!" (Naturally, this looks a lot like the first type.)
It would be good I think if we could get our "elected leaders" to read and ponder the wisdom of "How much land does a man need?". They are not humble and have no humility, and thus cannot show respect in the sense of worth and virtue, they can only use respect in the sense of domination meaning they make themselves tyrants for no good reason.
Thank you for the inspiration - good reading such as your writing is like spring sun on the soil when the thaw sets in. It makes the flowers of though reach and grow.
Edit because of sauage fingers.
Thank you, Tessa, for such an honest, thought-provoking essay on what is happening. I have had a reiki teacher who privately holds certain political beliefs but rarely now shares them on her blog, because she too has people from many sides who read her. She recently posted the great Buddhist environmentalist and teacher Joanna Macy, giving a teaching on the Tibetan prediction of "Shambhala warriors," in a time such as we face now. The line that stays with me is from the Tibetan monk who taught her: "the line between good and evil is not between two sides or two people. That line runs through the landscape of every human heart." The Shambhala warriors carry no weapons other than compassion and insight.
https://satiamapublishing.com/buddhism/the-shambhala-prophecy-as-told-by-joanna-macy-by-julie-loar/
That prophecy she shared is interesting. On the one hand it does say the line between good and evil is internal (and this is common sense), but it also says it is external (also common sense, since we each draw our line differently inside)..
Yes, I understand it that way - it's part of the Kalachakra teachings, and they are done to protect the world. HH the Dalai Lama used to come to US to perform Kalachakra rituals.
Beautiful post. *Genuine* humility while not compromising our principles is an enormous feat. But if we can find that balance, we can move mountains (and often have an incredible impact on others).
Thank you Rob!!
This was beautifully written, thank you!
It’s a constant daily battle to not allow myself to climb into a thought box that I have built, or allow others to put me into that box. Thinking and issues are complex, and binary thinking is just so easy. It’s so easy to get swept into feelings that lead down a road that ends up hurting others. My biggest philosophy of “live and let live” has served me well.
Fascinating perspective on your mother and why she became that way. I see it in my Hungarian grandmother, diluted down through my own mother.
Society is a pendulum, and as we have swung to a high side of tyranny on the left, I do not look forward to the high swing of tyranny to the right. But I look forward to our upcoming time in the middle.
you are making me miss my mom more than ever... she was incredibly kind, humble and smart... think everyday about what she would think about the messes all over...
She must have been so wonderful to have such a wonderful child! God bless her soul!
you are so kind, you have no idea how huge a compliment that is. thank you.