These sheep folk are really nasty. Wow. I got into an argument with a very close friend about all this and by the time it was over I was covered in spittle. Good lord dude, get a grip. Why so much anger? It’s like the Karen syndrome, only everywhere and everyone, crazy beet-red sheep—spitting. It’s like road rage, only in your face, and about something that is nowhere near as personal as someone invading your own little piece of freeway.
There are those who can be dragged kicking and screaming out of their house of cards built on shifting sands and then there are those who will start kicking and screaming as soon as they glimpse a suspicious face outside of the imaginary window of their house of cards. They must be suspicious because they are outside; all of the good people are on the inside, trying their hardest to avert their gaze from the imaginary windows.
I think key words here, along with critical thinking, are "curiosity" and "suspicion"...and also an ability to recognize when 2 + 2 is not equalling 4. It can be subtle, and that little niggling thought may not pan out to be anything bad, but when we get the itch..."hmmm, this isn't adding up" we are curious enough to look...again, why do some of us do this and others do not? I have ALWAYS been curious...about just about everything...I thought it was human nature...
I think the impetus for curiosity is almost always intuition and the impetus for rational, critical thought is almost always curiosity. That is human nature. Unfortunately, such a psychological sequence appears to be an increasingly rare facet of human nature these days.
Agreed! The defensiveness and sometimes just plain lack of curiosity among so many people to explore the realities of what's happening is perplexing and profoundly discouraging. As some of us go deeper and deeper down the rabbit holes of awakening, we find ourselves feeling farther and farther away from many others--often including friends and loved ones. It's as if we now exist in separate worlds--not only of information and news, but of narratives and realities. Being awake means seeing dangers all around us often invisible to the others, including awareness of the actions of the authorities, leaders, and organizations whose jobs it is to protect us but who instead are engaged in corruption and destruction and covert sacrificing the population on the altars of profits or worse. It's as if we are in a world of unseeing people who like Nero, fiddle while Rome burns. Wake up! Wake up, I want to scream while chatting about the weather or other similarly insignificant topic. But providing them with an unwanted education often ends up with no other outcome then further social division or alienation. And so, I am full and bursting with information that few in my immediate world want to know and yet everyone should. Thank goodness that we can share it with the few (and growing number) who are also awakening! Will it be enough or fast enough to be in time to stop the destruction that may be ahead on our current trajectory???
Personally I think we will be relying on the "100th Monkey" principal if this is going to turn around...or the second coming of Christ...both are possibilities.
You put all this very well Suzanne...thank you for your contribution...
There's a part of San Diego called Carmel Valley. It's an upper middle-class suburb in California (so homes are $1M to 1.5M). It's full of people who I imagine were in the Honor Society. Doctors, Lawyers, biomedical specialists, military contractors, etc. It's apparently also the affair capitol of the country.
Biden likes to smell children's hair. His son likes to smell a bunch of things. Trudeau wore black face at parties. I shudder to think what Yuval Noah Harari thinks is within a reasonable sphere of morality.
The sheep may have been clean-cut in high school, but they tried to burn down Seattle and Portland. They are encouraging sex change operations for children and explicit sexual booklets in schools. One book, for elementary school level, talks about "fisting." These Honor Society grads seem to be ok with torturing monkeys, and probably humans, to expand our understanding of cyborg transhuman technology.
VERSUS
Every Trump supporter I've met, without exception: Kind, loving, intellectually curious, family-loving, protective, and loyal. The thought leaders are Ivy League grads backed by real-world experience (Bannon, Navarro, Darren Beattie, etc.). Of course, MSM always shows a Trumper at a Walmart parking lot, down on her luck, with a muffin-top, maybe homeless, screaming, "Yur infringin on mah rahts!" I'd still rather be friends with that lady than a careerist, sycophantic, selfish upper middle-class dick with a 700-series BMW in Carmel Valley. That dude voted for Biden.
Yeah, you know my article is joking about Honour Society folks...this was just at my high school...but still, I think you get the picture. My focus on that actually came from another article I recently read, it could have been CJ Hopkins, that essentially said that the sheep fall into an exclusive club of privilege, and they do not want anyone shaking up the imagined stability of that club. I know a few sheep who like to derogate me on my stance with authority..."you never could deal with authority, could you..."
The Trump thing bewilders me. I have to admit I did not like the guy, I thought the wall was a pointless expenditure of money, and I did not care for his take on certain other things such as how he was carving up the National Parks, etc. I also just thought he was a nasty narcissistic blatherer. BUT...I regret I didn't vote for him considering what rat got into the White House. Strange how this whole thing has changed so much for me.
It is good to rant. Although your Honor Society story is foreign. At the schools I went to, the Honour Soc. was just high marks. Just the facts, ma'am, regurgitated in exams. I had a good memory, but my fellow Honourees, who were all fellows, were all really interesting nerds. They did stuff like astronomy and building boats from scratch. We wrote, illustrated and printed a school newspaper one year with an encouraging teacher. The cool kids thought thinking was stupid. What do I need to read history for when I'm going to be a doctor? Silos were encouraged. Kids were streamed, yes, as much through their background as their talents, and many of my brilliant pals were sent to the trades section, which is really not so bad, although wrenching for me at the time, and I hope they went on to invent great things. The academic stream kids had the nice outfits. They were shallow and superior, and not the least bit academically inclined. They probably all have challenging, lucrative careers now with neither time nor interest in reading between the lines.
You can prove anything with creative stats. Video production is so sophisticated now they can make anyone say anything. Only nerds and nutbars want to nitpick and accuse. The system works.
It is really difficult to introduce new people to the idea that what's on TV might not be true.
My dad was an ad executive with a few famous accounts and a smattering of small ones. It was mostly junk food he was selling, which we didn't eat. He was incredibly talented and did everything, and fond memories of being in recording studios while he laid down background tracks for a potato chip jingle that was on the radio for years come to mind right now. He staged events that were on TV the next night as news. It was all a scam, and he loved the challenge, loved to score, and win, while also being tormented by the hypocracy he was quite aware of.
It certainly gives one a different view, and I'm grateful for that. Imparting learning from that experience to others, though, in relating to the present, isn't something I've been able to do, even with the two brothers I grew up with in the same house. I developed an aversion/allergy to manipulation of any kind, and they are both masters of the art. Love them too, of course, but can't bear the calming tone of voice used in my direction, similar, as said elsewhere, to the one used when talking someone off a ledge who's preparing to jump. Not condescending, exactly, but 'you really should seek professional help' kind of an inflection, though no such thing is said.
Their life would shatter if they could even consider the possibilities I'm suggesting. The pharma industry is too deeply ingrained in our habits and culture to question. It's too big to fail. And the government? They are doing their best to keep us all safe.
The Honour Society stuff was probably not all that common in other schools, I don't know, I just grabbed that experience because this whole thing reminded me of that exclusivity...I am not bashing honour societies! I do feel that most shrews fit in that "renegade class"...they are typically not followers, and have spent a good portion of their life being on the fringe. Sheep seem to be the "good kids"....like I say, the ones with "nice hair." Of course not always true...it's just an article...!!
The illiberal liberals care nothing for rationality. All that matters is that they feel pleased about themselves. The ability to signal virtue is virtue. "For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away". Matt 24
Thank you. In a casual non-studious way, I've been interested in the Nag Hammadi and other ancient writings coming to light. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is particularly fascinating to me for hundreds of reasons. It is brief fragments only, yet so wise!
In one passage, the story of Jesus appearing to her as an apparition, she asks
"Why do we become sick and die?"
He answers: "You fall in love with that which deceives you."
I painted the 'you fall in love..." quote on silk with india ink and used it draped over objects so as to be not-quite-legible in a public installation this last Summer. Thinking of doing an edition. To be worn as a fashion statement.
"I served you as a garment and you did not know me." is another.
Yes the ancient writings are truly fascinating, the process of reconstruction and the very idea of huge extrapolations made from fragments, the various translations/interpretations with subtly different readings has influenced me a lot.
Mary's Gospel is non-canonical. It challenges hierarchical structures.
And, her generally-accepted reputation! As a woman, I..... y'know, relate.
Another beauty:
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
– Gospel of Thomas, verse 70
Also relate that to ACIM, which you mentioned elsewhere. It's all either love or fear.
Mary wasn't popular even with the disciples...they didn't care much for the attention Jesus gave to her, in fact, he gave her the church, and they couldn't accept that. Her gospel is testament to all of that...probably the most important literature in all of Christendom. Of course the Vatican didn't canonize it...that would have messed up the boy's club.
The disciples were fear itself. What if they come after us?, and Why should we listen to this babe? Jesus' love message was too scary, and Mary had to remind them.
"I served you as a garment and you did not know me."
Virtue signalling, even then.
So relevant to now. Censored and possibly redacted, its survival is miraculous.
We have our own press now and this is why the Alex Jones decision is so important. The Shepherds are coming after anyone who has an alternative view - with criminal prosecution. They realize this is the way to stop us.
Reasonable dialogue ended years ago. The only thing the thinking, logical, articulate people get in response to their efforts to educate the deluded, is inarticulate rage.
Exactly my friend. In my articles I do not want to imply dialogue and discussion is off the table...but I think you are right that it ended from their side of it long ago, in fact, it never started. The sheep mind has to be changed from within...we need to stay solid, keep speaking out, and keep making it clear what the truth is...but maybe not directly to the sheep-mind...there is a zombie-esque quality to most of them now...I don't know if it is penetrable with talk.
So right on! And, as their cancers re-emerge or their hearts begins to fail, and they know - we know they really know - in their shallow hearts of hearts, they choose suffer in silence or remorseful angst; the victims of which they really see themselves, refusing to admit their “White Rose Club” authority figure could have been wrong. They’ll die, miserably and alone, defending the cause, virtue signaling and blaming the uneducated, conspiracy-following heathens for destroying their illusory utopia of self-imposed ignorance and false allegiance to “the science”.
I could not have said it better...and when reading this I feel a deep sorrow and empathy for all of these people. And I would be by their side helping them in any situation if they let me.
I get a lot of flak from some readers at Off-Guardian about my derisive talk of sheep and shrew...and this article got particularly blasted...first off, it is a tongue in cheek article, secondly there is indeed a lot of disappointment, to put it mildly, we shrews feel toward fellow human beings who are anxious to sell us out to the devil at the drop of a hat and have no resistance to bowing down to powers that are bent on killing, or at least seriously harming, a large portion of the world's population.
I still love the people in my life who are sheep...and my words about sheep are not meant to be seriously derisive or ugly. We are dealing with a dark psychosis here...and we need to be aware of that.
There are those who can be dragged kicking and screaming out of their house of cards built on shifting sands and then there are those who will start kicking and screaming as soon as they glimpse a suspicious face outside of the imaginary window of their house of cards. They must be suspicious because they are outside; all of the good people are on the inside, trying their hardest to avert their gaze from the imaginary windows.
Ooo....I like that! Very nicely put...
I think key words here, along with critical thinking, are "curiosity" and "suspicion"...and also an ability to recognize when 2 + 2 is not equalling 4. It can be subtle, and that little niggling thought may not pan out to be anything bad, but when we get the itch..."hmmm, this isn't adding up" we are curious enough to look...again, why do some of us do this and others do not? I have ALWAYS been curious...about just about everything...I thought it was human nature...
I think the impetus for curiosity is almost always intuition and the impetus for rational, critical thought is almost always curiosity. That is human nature. Unfortunately, such a psychological sequence appears to be an increasingly rare facet of human nature these days.
Agreed! The defensiveness and sometimes just plain lack of curiosity among so many people to explore the realities of what's happening is perplexing and profoundly discouraging. As some of us go deeper and deeper down the rabbit holes of awakening, we find ourselves feeling farther and farther away from many others--often including friends and loved ones. It's as if we now exist in separate worlds--not only of information and news, but of narratives and realities. Being awake means seeing dangers all around us often invisible to the others, including awareness of the actions of the authorities, leaders, and organizations whose jobs it is to protect us but who instead are engaged in corruption and destruction and covert sacrificing the population on the altars of profits or worse. It's as if we are in a world of unseeing people who like Nero, fiddle while Rome burns. Wake up! Wake up, I want to scream while chatting about the weather or other similarly insignificant topic. But providing them with an unwanted education often ends up with no other outcome then further social division or alienation. And so, I am full and bursting with information that few in my immediate world want to know and yet everyone should. Thank goodness that we can share it with the few (and growing number) who are also awakening! Will it be enough or fast enough to be in time to stop the destruction that may be ahead on our current trajectory???
I just commented on another post about curiosity...it is KEY in this mess, but so few have it...
Personally I think we will be relying on the "100th Monkey" principal if this is going to turn around...or the second coming of Christ...both are possibilities.
You put all this very well Suzanne...thank you for your contribution...
There's a part of San Diego called Carmel Valley. It's an upper middle-class suburb in California (so homes are $1M to 1.5M). It's full of people who I imagine were in the Honor Society. Doctors, Lawyers, biomedical specialists, military contractors, etc. It's apparently also the affair capitol of the country.
Biden likes to smell children's hair. His son likes to smell a bunch of things. Trudeau wore black face at parties. I shudder to think what Yuval Noah Harari thinks is within a reasonable sphere of morality.
The sheep may have been clean-cut in high school, but they tried to burn down Seattle and Portland. They are encouraging sex change operations for children and explicit sexual booklets in schools. One book, for elementary school level, talks about "fisting." These Honor Society grads seem to be ok with torturing monkeys, and probably humans, to expand our understanding of cyborg transhuman technology.
VERSUS
Every Trump supporter I've met, without exception: Kind, loving, intellectually curious, family-loving, protective, and loyal. The thought leaders are Ivy League grads backed by real-world experience (Bannon, Navarro, Darren Beattie, etc.). Of course, MSM always shows a Trumper at a Walmart parking lot, down on her luck, with a muffin-top, maybe homeless, screaming, "Yur infringin on mah rahts!" I'd still rather be friends with that lady than a careerist, sycophantic, selfish upper middle-class dick with a 700-series BMW in Carmel Valley. That dude voted for Biden.
Once again, impressive comment...
Yeah, you know my article is joking about Honour Society folks...this was just at my high school...but still, I think you get the picture. My focus on that actually came from another article I recently read, it could have been CJ Hopkins, that essentially said that the sheep fall into an exclusive club of privilege, and they do not want anyone shaking up the imagined stability of that club. I know a few sheep who like to derogate me on my stance with authority..."you never could deal with authority, could you..."
The Trump thing bewilders me. I have to admit I did not like the guy, I thought the wall was a pointless expenditure of money, and I did not care for his take on certain other things such as how he was carving up the National Parks, etc. I also just thought he was a nasty narcissistic blatherer. BUT...I regret I didn't vote for him considering what rat got into the White House. Strange how this whole thing has changed so much for me.
It is good to rant. Although your Honor Society story is foreign. At the schools I went to, the Honour Soc. was just high marks. Just the facts, ma'am, regurgitated in exams. I had a good memory, but my fellow Honourees, who were all fellows, were all really interesting nerds. They did stuff like astronomy and building boats from scratch. We wrote, illustrated and printed a school newspaper one year with an encouraging teacher. The cool kids thought thinking was stupid. What do I need to read history for when I'm going to be a doctor? Silos were encouraged. Kids were streamed, yes, as much through their background as their talents, and many of my brilliant pals were sent to the trades section, which is really not so bad, although wrenching for me at the time, and I hope they went on to invent great things. The academic stream kids had the nice outfits. They were shallow and superior, and not the least bit academically inclined. They probably all have challenging, lucrative careers now with neither time nor interest in reading between the lines.
You can prove anything with creative stats. Video production is so sophisticated now they can make anyone say anything. Only nerds and nutbars want to nitpick and accuse. The system works.
It is really difficult to introduce new people to the idea that what's on TV might not be true.
My dad was an ad executive with a few famous accounts and a smattering of small ones. It was mostly junk food he was selling, which we didn't eat. He was incredibly talented and did everything, and fond memories of being in recording studios while he laid down background tracks for a potato chip jingle that was on the radio for years come to mind right now. He staged events that were on TV the next night as news. It was all a scam, and he loved the challenge, loved to score, and win, while also being tormented by the hypocracy he was quite aware of.
It certainly gives one a different view, and I'm grateful for that. Imparting learning from that experience to others, though, in relating to the present, isn't something I've been able to do, even with the two brothers I grew up with in the same house. I developed an aversion/allergy to manipulation of any kind, and they are both masters of the art. Love them too, of course, but can't bear the calming tone of voice used in my direction, similar, as said elsewhere, to the one used when talking someone off a ledge who's preparing to jump. Not condescending, exactly, but 'you really should seek professional help' kind of an inflection, though no such thing is said.
Their life would shatter if they could even consider the possibilities I'm suggesting. The pharma industry is too deeply ingrained in our habits and culture to question. It's too big to fail. And the government? They are doing their best to keep us all safe.
Great stuff...very interesting to read...
The Honour Society stuff was probably not all that common in other schools, I don't know, I just grabbed that experience because this whole thing reminded me of that exclusivity...I am not bashing honour societies! I do feel that most shrews fit in that "renegade class"...they are typically not followers, and have spent a good portion of their life being on the fringe. Sheep seem to be the "good kids"....like I say, the ones with "nice hair." Of course not always true...it's just an article...!!
The illiberal liberals care nothing for rationality. All that matters is that they feel pleased about themselves. The ability to signal virtue is virtue. "For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away". Matt 24
I can't figure out what weird cosmology the "liberals" have embraced...it is not the cosmology or world view that they took on when I was a young man.
Thank you. In a casual non-studious way, I've been interested in the Nag Hammadi and other ancient writings coming to light. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is particularly fascinating to me for hundreds of reasons. It is brief fragments only, yet so wise!
In one passage, the story of Jesus appearing to her as an apparition, she asks
"Why do we become sick and die?"
He answers: "You fall in love with that which deceives you."
I have been a serious student of the Gnostic Gospels and particularly love the Gospel of Mary. So interesting you would bring that up here...
I painted the 'you fall in love..." quote on silk with india ink and used it draped over objects so as to be not-quite-legible in a public installation this last Summer. Thinking of doing an edition. To be worn as a fashion statement.
"I served you as a garment and you did not know me." is another.
Yes the ancient writings are truly fascinating, the process of reconstruction and the very idea of huge extrapolations made from fragments, the various translations/interpretations with subtly different readings has influenced me a lot.
Mary's Gospel is non-canonical. It challenges hierarchical structures.
And, her generally-accepted reputation! As a woman, I..... y'know, relate.
Another beauty:
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
– Gospel of Thomas, verse 70
Also relate that to ACIM, which you mentioned elsewhere. It's all either love or fear.
Yep...love or fear...
Mary wasn't popular even with the disciples...they didn't care much for the attention Jesus gave to her, in fact, he gave her the church, and they couldn't accept that. Her gospel is testament to all of that...probably the most important literature in all of Christendom. Of course the Vatican didn't canonize it...that would have messed up the boy's club.
I love the Thomas verse...amazing wisdom...
The disciples were fear itself. What if they come after us?, and Why should we listen to this babe? Jesus' love message was too scary, and Mary had to remind them.
"I served you as a garment and you did not know me."
Virtue signalling, even then.
So relevant to now. Censored and possibly redacted, its survival is miraculous.
Yes, which is why I am looking to join an intentional Gulag now. I think we need greater organization.
We have our own press now and this is why the Alex Jones decision is so important. The Shepherds are coming after anyone who has an alternative view - with criminal prosecution. They realize this is the way to stop us.
This could get interesting...well, we will all be together in the Gulag having a grand old time...
Reasonable dialogue ended years ago. The only thing the thinking, logical, articulate people get in response to their efforts to educate the deluded, is inarticulate rage.
Exactly my friend. In my articles I do not want to imply dialogue and discussion is off the table...but I think you are right that it ended from their side of it long ago, in fact, it never started. The sheep mind has to be changed from within...we need to stay solid, keep speaking out, and keep making it clear what the truth is...but maybe not directly to the sheep-mind...there is a zombie-esque quality to most of them now...I don't know if it is penetrable with talk.
So right on! And, as their cancers re-emerge or their hearts begins to fail, and they know - we know they really know - in their shallow hearts of hearts, they choose suffer in silence or remorseful angst; the victims of which they really see themselves, refusing to admit their “White Rose Club” authority figure could have been wrong. They’ll die, miserably and alone, defending the cause, virtue signaling and blaming the uneducated, conspiracy-following heathens for destroying their illusory utopia of self-imposed ignorance and false allegiance to “the science”.
I could not have said it better...and when reading this I feel a deep sorrow and empathy for all of these people. And I would be by their side helping them in any situation if they let me.
I get a lot of flak from some readers at Off-Guardian about my derisive talk of sheep and shrew...and this article got particularly blasted...first off, it is a tongue in cheek article, secondly there is indeed a lot of disappointment, to put it mildly, we shrews feel toward fellow human beings who are anxious to sell us out to the devil at the drop of a hat and have no resistance to bowing down to powers that are bent on killing, or at least seriously harming, a large portion of the world's population.
I still love the people in my life who are sheep...and my words about sheep are not meant to be seriously derisive or ugly. We are dealing with a dark psychosis here...and we need to be aware of that.
Shrewd . . . . naturally.