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Michael and Linda Graham's avatar

It is heartbreaking to witness the total mental destruction of a young person who himself admits in his manifesto that he submitted to "brainwashing" regarding his identity, and then see the horrific, murderous outcome of that destruction. The real problem is not guns, but the total glorification and promotion of this type of mental illness to the point that he "wants to die" and is filled with so much hate and anguish, he chooses to murder children. Where is real help for these people? So sad all round.

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Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

The trans ideology is one that’s rooted in programming—like MKUltra Programming. Once we call this out, we can break this ideology: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-reality-of-programming

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OKG's avatar
Aug 29Edited

This is the best comment I have seen in a long while! Spot on! Relating trans ideology to MK Ultra

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Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Thank you!

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Doctor Brown's avatar

BRILLIANT

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dmickg's avatar

Well said John! And as a physician I am simply at a loss for words anymore to describe the malpractice and cynical depths to which so called 'medicine' has descended.

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StellaMaris's avatar

The contemporary American political left, having no remaining purpose but the performance of language policing and joyless scolding from the smoldering remains of the places and institutions they’ve turned to shit, does this constantly. And it…makes people think of an elephant. The scolding is a structural trap. A transgender dude just shot a bunch of children at a church in Minneapolis, and the reliably insipid Mayor Jacob Frey….….held a press conference to warn people that DON’T YOU DARE talk about the fact that the shooter was transgender, which is villainizing trans people. Transgender shooter transgender shooter transgender shooter. Don’t think about that! It’s not appropriate for you to think about the thing that I am telling you to keep out of your mind. https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/the-doom-loop-of-the-commissariat

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nonwo's avatar

Mayor Frey is a member of the tribe that are infamous for false flags and the use of MK Ultra. Many of the “school shootings” happened in cities where either the mayor or governor is a member of the same tribe. You better believe Freywas in on it.

The same tribe is in charge of the gun control movement- surprise!!

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Tim Webb's avatar

The name is always a giveaway.

For example, in addition to Frey, we have a Westman ...

It's their baphometic agenda.

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nonwo's avatar

They are also known to create “terrorists” using CGI and AI. They famously did this after Osama Bin laden died a peaceful death in Afghanistan in 2002 from kidney disease, he was buried in Tora Bora with his friends and family gathered around. Our intelligence had to resurrect him and have him live another 4 years as a pretense to search for the terrorist responsible for 9/11. This came to an end with that silly false flag of our navy seals “killing him and burying him at sea” There were fake vids of him speaking “in his cave” LOL.

No mention his father was the wealthiest builder in Saudi Arabia and Bin Laden was a CIA asset.

What has been revealed since then is the navy seals involved in the nothingburger was later assigned on a mission and all were flying in a helicopter together to the site when they were shot down and killed by friendly fire. OOPS.

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Elusive1's avatar

A loved one of mine reminded me of this after I got done telling him about this article! (I was discussing it as tho it happened, but now after all of that, I have to remind myself that this might not have happened! Crazy world

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nonwo's avatar

Oh my!! What a coincidence!

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Karen Koshgarian's avatar

I thought I knew a lot but this is all new info to me. Can you tell me please, where I can get more about pretty much everything you just said? I’ve been down a lot of rabbit holes since the scamdemic, and so curious. It makes so much sense what you said. Thanks!

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nonwo's avatar

I am a political scientist- international relations(retired) I follow (ed) events as they happen. As soon as something sounds fishy I’m obsessed to getting the real truth.

Everything I mentioned has been written before, the problem is much has been

deleted.

I would choose Yandex as my search engine and ditch Google. I am basically a news junkie but nothing from TV or newspapers.

Lately I have been listening to vids by Alex Krainer who IMO seems to have a 6th sense. Never mind he was a hedge fund manager!

I regularly go on www.unz.com and thetruthseeker.co.uk. Those 2 sites are the best for this kind reporting. I also listen to the following regularly online of course.

Scott Ritter former UN arms inspector and marine and much more

Alastair Crooke. founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum, an organisation that advocates for engagement between political Islam and the West. And much more

Colonel Douglas MacGregor

Gulf War Role: Squadron operations officer, Battle of 73 Easting

Former Advisor: Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense

and much more

Mohammed Marandi

an Iranian and American academic and political analyst.

You can do a youtube video search of any of these 5 and just listen to any vid of them.

Don’t forget Krainer.

They are polite. Unz and Truthseeker has the dirt, however those 5 analysts are extremely good.

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Karen Koshgarian's avatar

Gold stars for you, sir. I feel like a gateway opened to infinite possibility. Thank you for answering so clearly and generously. Truly, I am very grateful to begin an exploration to parts unknown!

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nonwo's avatar

🎯

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nonwo's avatar

I saw your comment LOL. I respectfully disagree. I read a very good book years ago “Death by Gun Control” that had very good stats on all the countries in the world that are dictatorships now but started out as democracies. One of the authors is Jewish. He uses the argument if the Jews had guns during WW2 the Holocaust wouldn’t have happened. There are several fallacies in his argument I don’t agree with however the general premise I think is correct.

All of the countries in their statistics used false flags to get the guns out of their citizens hands then they took over.

EVERY “mass shooting” in the U.S. is a false flag.

CIA dept head Robert David Steele has famously said”there have been no terrorist attacks in the U.S. except those done by our govt or our friends”

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Tim Webb's avatar

I'm not sure how anybody who says the "holocaust" did happen can be taken seriously.

The meme I copied and pasted was basically saying what you are saying, though, ie that once guns are removed from the people, then governmental murder can begin.

This is probably why they changed tack recently, and decided to kill people by shooting needles into their arms, rather than bullets into their heads.

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nonwo's avatar

I learned a long time ago (and I’ve mentioned this before) if anyone public tells the truth about the Jews, holocaust, at the least they will be ostracized and the worst assasinated.

Former educator and radio broadcaster William Cooper is a good example of this. He was murdered.

There are certain “keywords” the truth teller must mention if he is allowed to continue reaching large audiences. One of course is the Holocaust and the other their admiration of Israel. As distasteful as it is, it is a “known” in the journalistic world.

Any term like neocon, financial elites, global elites, Illuminati, Bilderburgs is acceptable.

I’m sure usury is a sensitive subject and if mentioned all the time the commenter would be targeted.

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nonwo's avatar

Brilliant!! LOL! I have seen adverts on Craig’s List for “protestors” $200 a day. Now they have rent a crowds and of course crisis actors agencies agencies such as the British agency previously named “amputees in action” (scrubbed from the web after the Boston bombing when certain “victims” were ID as actors working for that firm)

Here it is from archives.com.

https://archive.org/details/CrisisActorsPreparingDoubleAmputee/FrameByFrameAnalysis-CrisisActorsPreparingdoubleAmputeeAfterBostonBombing/mode/1up

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Tim Webb's avatar

This is the pic I tried to send you before.

I like gab a LOT - you can say anything you like there.

https://gab.com/TimWebb/posts/115140263444868459

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nonwo's avatar

Sorry it’s just the login page

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Tim Webb's avatar

I can get the right page by clicking the link, so I don't know what else to do.

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Paul Ashley's avatar

And also don't dare villainize the adults who enabled his delusion, most notably his parents.

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Johan Wessels's avatar

They should also be held accountable

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nonwo's avatar

Iam a political scientist- international relations(retired) I follow (ed) events as they happen. As soon as something sounds fishy I’m obsessed to getting the real truth.

Everything I mentioned has been written before, the problem is much has been

deleted.

I would choose Yandex as my search engine and ditch Google. I am basically a news junkie but nothing from TV or newspapers.

Lately I have been listening to vids by Alex Krainer who IMO seems to have a 6th sense. Never mind he was a hedge fund manager!

I regularly go on www.unz.com and thetruthseeker.co.uk. Those 2 sites are the best for this kind of expose reporting I mentioned above.I also listen to the following experts regularly -online of course.

Scott Ritter former UN arms inspector and marine and much more

Alastair Crooke. founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum, an organisation that advocates for engagement between political Islam and the West. And much more

Colonel Douglas MacGregor

Gulf War Role: Squadron operations officer, Battle of 73 Easting

Former Advisor: Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense

and much more

Mohammed Marandi

an astute Iranian and American academic and political analyst.

You can do a youtube video search of any of these 5 and just listen to any vid of them.

Don’t forget Krainer.

They are polite. Unz and Truthseeker has the dirt, however those 5 analysts are extremely good and IMO a pleasure to listen to.

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M. Dowrick's avatar

Yes, the doctors doling out hormones, antipsychotics, adhd drugs and other drugs to kids should be imprisoned. They are the Frankensteins…not the damned kids!

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Elusive1's avatar

Yes. I've not read enough to know if this guy was mentally ill before his transition, etc ..... but to your point, I was thinking, WHAT do all these cocktails they serve DO to people's minds? If they're unstable to begin with, all they need is a little push to go off the edge.

As the medical industrial complex has lost all credibility with many of us, and we know from past occurrences that thiese practices are harmful, sadly we can guess the answer is not a good one.

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letterwriter's avatar

I can tell you a little about it, because the medical industrial complex is now preferring to give heavy duty psych drugs instead of traditional pain medication even for spinal injuries and muscle-ligament damage, which are not nerve biochemistry overactivity. So there is no psych problem to fix, and the prescribers are not trained in that field anyway.

I was given one medication that was like being given a crazy brain, just dropped into my head. Cognitive skipping and reversal in time, emotional lability, deep detachment and disinterest in life... And that was on day 2, a very small dose compared to the target dose. Obviously I stopped the medication. It also messed with my sex hormones. How much of the psych effects were downstream from the sex hormone alterations, that I don't know. My point is really that a medication can have a dramatic effect.

Patients often get the impression they are supposed to tough it out through any rough patches. The prescribers don't seem to consider scheduling a touch base for side effects, and if they are not trained to know what side effects to look for, they will not even alert the patient.

The prescribers, who might be MDs but could be NPs or PAs, and in a public health setting they may be working under a mediocre MD, all know that medications come with side effects, but don't seem to have a response for that. At this point in the evolution of medicine-by-pill, they seem to have accepted that tradeoff of cognitive, emotional, and hormonal side effects, in advance of knowing what they will be for a given patient. There doesn't seem to be any concept of tailoring a regime to a patient. I met one MD who does do that, so I know my reference point in saying that.

A number of practitioners are not practicing medicine. They are doling out menu options designed it seems by pharma sales reps and by public health agencies who seem to simultaneously over- and under- respond to any situation they happen to model. Occasionally, they may be dispensing the fixed menu preferred by their clinic; I'm speaking of the "pain management" backwater, but I suspect it's the same concept for "gender clinics". The problem is that almost none of them have minds capable of creative evaluation of published research, and so they just half-ass the task then return to their half-awake standby status.

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Monique's avatar

I was so criticized when bringing up the dangers of synthetic hormones per scientific studies.

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Doctor Brown's avatar

YOU ACTUALLY MET THE DEVIL HIMSELF , FOR IT WAS SATAN LIVING IN THE DEMENTED SOULS OF THOSE THAT CRITICIZE THE GLORY OF GOD .

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Dave Walden's avatar

The so-called "Trans" issue is NOT a political issue. It is an epistemological one. It is but the latest and most-grievous manifestation of mankind's abandonment of Reason. It represents a disregard of Aristotle's laws of identity and non-contradiction. As such it spells doom for the adherent and doom to both the innocent and guilty lives associated with the doomed one!

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AG Fairfield's avatar

The utter capture of culture by the notion that reality is “subjective” has been a disaster for over a decade now.

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Tim Webb's avatar

You can see the same agenda playing out in what the Bible calls "science falsely so called."

The process probably began with Mr Einstein, an obscure patent office clerk, who first started talking about "spacetime" and other nonsensical concepts, and it rapidly spread into the astrophysics realm, when "dark matter" and "dark energy" were fabricated concepts whose role was to prop up a so called gravity hypothesis originating with the mason Isaac Newton.

Then of course, we "realised" that "quantum forces" with completely different physical rules operate at the atomic level - thus our entire foundation in reality has been undermined - and thus today, you can be whatever sex you choose to be, apparently.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was writing a documentary, not a children's story.

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Elusive1's avatar

This guy was very ill. It's frustrating to view how those with agendas, including their greed, take advantage of these people and create chaos, for them, their families and the rest of us. I read the parents were all onboard, with public social media posts! Sad and twisted!

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Bootsorourke's avatar

Munchausen’s by proxy. Parents who want attention. Instead of helping their kids, they promote the confusion and display them.

And Big Pharma makes more money, as usual.

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Tim Webb's avatar

Don Trump Jr is another one, F2M

Don't think that cute beard fools me.

And his wife is M2F.

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Laurie Zientz's avatar

You’re delusional

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Allie's avatar

DJT Jr divorced his wife, cohabitated with Kimberly Guilfoyl (both having minor children), until he got tired of Kimberly, then hooked up with another woman. He might be a sleaze when it comes to women, but he’s not trans.

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Rick Foster's avatar

Doubt it

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Vanessa's avatar

But remember parents have been told that if you don’t transition your child they will commit suicide.

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Tim Webb's avatar

The reverse seems to be true.

Clearly, these individuals have massive personality problems, which leads them in the first place to doubt their own obvious sex.

These problems persist irrespective of what they subsequently arrange to have done - usually very badly - to their bodies; and it is known that depression and suicide post facto are both well above normal rates.

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Bootsorourke's avatar

There is that. That's physicians who don't believe in "Do No Harm".

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David Rinker's avatar

The idea-possibility, that one's sex-gender identity differs from biological-chromosomal reality, does not originate with oneself. It is a result of societal influences and mechanisms. We are socialized into whatever society we chance to be born into. From infancy we are molded by institutions, media, role models,and authority figures into what we are. When transdupes finally learn that they have been deceived by societys propaganda, and forced to live a lie, especially when realizing that they have been irreversibly damaged, deep anger, hatred, and self-loathing set in. This is manifested in the writing of "Robin" and the drawing of his image in the mirror as Satan. The urge to lash out at the society responsible for their destruction, and the inescapable trap in which they find themselves, becomes irresistible. Unable to reach the dark forces responsible for their plight, they logically choose the easiest targets, schools, churches or individuals who refuse to enable their lie with pronouns, gun free zones, and themselves, as the only means of escape.

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Christina E Polson's avatar

You have alluded to the much larger and very real issue here. There is an intense spiritual battle going on in our earthly world today. Yes, Satan is at work as never before. Common sense will confirm this. Find JESUS THE CHRIST and get on the right side of history.

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Tim Webb's avatar

He will find you, if He chose you before time was.

Remember, He said "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear!"

In other words, you already have the necessary equipment to hear His voice when He meets you - all you have to do is what the first disciples did - ie lay down whatever you happen to be doing at the time, and follow Him.

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Christina E Polson's avatar

You are correct. You must use your heart, your mind and have ears to hear and actively seek Jesus, asking him to be your Lord and Savior. He will instantly be right there beside you and walk with you through the storm and chaos of this life on earth. He will never leave you.

Further, if you enter into a relationship with Jesus the Christ, you will never be the same again. As you said, we are to "follow Him" above all else, like the apostles taught us.

Jesus paid for the sins of all mankind on the cross. We have already been forgiven. Once we repent of our sins, we are promised eternal life in paradise. Those who choose not to do these things are on the wrong side of history in this life and have no hope of eternal life in paradise.

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Tim Webb's avatar

All very true, Christine.

The only slight disagreement I have with you is when you stress what we must do, rather than what He has already done, ie chosen those few of us He wants to have with Him in that paradise you refer to, wherein is fullness of joy, and pleasures for evermore.

It's all about Him, really, and has nothing to do with us at all.

He chose James and Peter and John; and they left what they were doing, and went to Him - and stayed with Him.

"Lord, to Whom shall we go?

Thou hast the words of eternal life."

Also, both Malachi 4 and Rev 14 verses 9 - 11 show that not all were forgiven, when He died

Without going into too many details, there are two seeds upon the earth, as we were told at Genesis 3, 15, and as Christ confirmed when He spoke about the tares and the wheat, which look indistinguishable, but in fact are completely separate beings, and with radically different fates, as the scriptures I have quoted confirm.

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Sharon Wood's avatar

The “dark forces” responsible for so much chaos and injustice seem to stay hidden and protected from exposure while continuing to wreak havoc on society and innocent people. Obviously, too many clueless, gullible people don’t seem to even notice it’s wrong because MSM says it’s not!

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Truthseeker's avatar

We are witnessing the most overt social engineering campaign of our lifetime …

And some percent of people will be driven into madness through it… people who were barely hanging on mentally… prior to this covid period… have been pushed over the edge

I’ve seen it multiple times

I can think of 8 people in my circle - off the top of my head- who have careened off a Cliff since all of this ramped up during covid…

Mentally - many are unwell

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Mothers Grim's avatar

Yes, social media is the biggest culprit for the initial grooming. Then the medical and educational 'experts' follow up with 'affirmation.' Friends and media love bomb and countless get harmed.

https://margox.substack.com/p/digital-footprints-and-the-rise-of

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Barbara Charis's avatar

The chemicals and drugs used in the trans process destroy the thinking process in the brain. Those doctors who have gone into business to do these transitions, should never have been given a license to destroy the minds and bodies of their patients. The brain is a very fragile thing and it can be harmed by the drugs, chemicals and vaccines, which the Medical Industry promotes.

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Lishka's avatar

And they're trans because they are victims of abuse likely CSA

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Barbara Charis's avatar

Our world today is far from stable. The no-nutrient junk food doesn't feed the brain, which can lead to depression and bad temper. This affects the way one thinks. People use all kinds of drugs, which harm the mind.. There are no schools that teach parenting skills.. It's one generation, after another creating more children who aren't getting what they need emotionally, physically or spiritually.

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OKG's avatar

Yes, yes, and yes! I always say as a society we need to become selfless again and stop worrying about having the fancy car and swimming pools and worry about raising kids and keeping marriages in tact.

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Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Those who decry the minimization of religion in our culture often do so at a mundane level, at the level of religious woke in a food fight with liberal woke. That causes us to miss the true depth of the harm being done to individuals and the culture.

When we trash and minimize religion, we negate our most basic essence, our true nature. We negate the idea that we are spiritual beings, immortal souls, not biological entities that are little more than herd animals.

When we view one another as animals, we open the door to all manner of horrors. We are experiencing that phenomenon now. The medical profession, unfortunately, has been leading the way in reclassifying humans as animals that can be herded, corralled, medicated, shocked, mutilated, and euthanized at a whim.

When those with societal power look at us and only see disposable flesh bodies, not immortal spirits, we are in for a nightmare out of Dante's subterranean hotel. It is not accidental that those brainwashed into conceiving themselves as worthless hunks of flesh end up attacking the centers of spiritual belief. It is called spiritual warfare.

Victory begins in battle after battle during which we recognize our fellow humans in their true essence and we treat them as precious souls. We see past bodily existence to what some call the "inside," the spirit. The wages of "man is an animal" philosophy are now very clear. And it is now also clear that those who denigrate and minimize the spiritual foundations of man are up to no good.

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Tim Webb's avatar

There is no immortal soul - "The wages of sin is death" and "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."

And we aren't "humans."

The legal definition of human is "A kind of monster."

We - or some of us anyway - are men and women.

There are definitely monsters afoot in our world though - they descend directly from Cain, and his father Lucifer.

You've probably seen them in action recently, in Gaza and the West Bank.

The parable of the tares is completely true - there are two seeds which walk the earth and are in perpetual conflict with each other, exactly as stated at Genesis 3, 15.

One seeks to murder the other; the other seeks to "convert him."

They look very similar to each other - only the adepts can distinguish them - quite often via the nose, as with "Governor Flanagan."

Remember the distinguishing feature of the witch of old?

You probably thought that was just a quaint old superstition.

Even Monty Python subconsciously knew the truth.

"Burn the witch! Burn her!"

"How do we know she's a witch?"

"She's got a witch's nose!!"

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Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Wait. Should you not start your post with a list of slurs and insults and nasty comments? Go away, Tim. Write your own comments. Leave mine alone. Not interested.

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Tim Webb's avatar

I just tell the truth.

You don't.

That's the difference.

I don't write for you - I write for anybody who reads what you say, and gets deceived by it.

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Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

That's good. Warming up with the insults. Let 'er rip. People are quite interested in your negativity. Get 'er done.

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Tim Webb's avatar

I think they can put two and two together and see what you're up to.

But you contradict yourself - I never insulted you in the slightest - it was you that then brought up the notion that I should do into the exchange!

This is what you said, "Wait! Shouldn't you start your post with ... "

So clearly, I hadn't started it in the way you expected.

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Julie's avatar

Saw the monsters Oct 8.

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nonwo's avatar

What happened Oct 8th

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Mike A.'s avatar

I check cnn website everyday. Not a single mention of transgender in their stories. It's all filtered out. He's just apparently a disallusion youth in their stories! It's incredible.

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Sharon's avatar

I wonder if anyone has looked into this young man being sexually abused when very young by someone in the church.

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Karen Koshgarian's avatar

I would wager that as affirmative.

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Tim Webb's avatar

Very insightful comment.

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Proberta's avatar

You can call it "Trans Ideology" but its really the estrogenation of American males.

As any good rancher will tell you, you can't have too many bulls in the herd. So when the Evil ended the soldier breeding program in America in the '70s, they began introducing estrogenic foods like soy and corn, and synthetic hormones into the meat, poultry and plastics. And infants went from milk-based formula to soy. This overload of estrogenic hormones disrupts the developing reproductive system, so children who grew up on them, as adults will have altered reproductive systems.

Those reproductively altered male children grew up and mated with reproductively altered females and produced offspring that are so reproductively screwed up they don't even know what sex they are.

That's why we call Gender Dysphoria/Transgender the 'Happy Meal Syndrome'.

And that's why now when we need them, our soldier-age males don't know whether to pick up a gun or a bottle of nail polish.

And our older males wonder why they can't get it up.

If you have been eating the typical American diet, or you have children, I recommend you DETOX! Detox all those artificial hormones and endocrine system disruptors, out of your body ASAP!

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Joe Silvestrini's avatar

This is what happens when the left wackos try to convince us that mental illness is something that should be normalized! They are not normal, not even close. This wacko actually seemed to want to be a boy again if you read the rants

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Bootsorourke's avatar

It should be noted that this is not the first mass shooting by a Trans person. Nashville was a similar incident. Wasn't there another?

What are we doing to our kids?

And now we have a roaming band of trans serial killers in the US.

IMHO, we are doing this to vulnerable kids. A lot of them on the autistic spectrum. Very easy to convince these kids that they feel left out because they were born in the wrong body.

Note: my grown son had a therapist that I worried about.

She was pushing trans books on him. She wanted a trophy.

I calmly persuaded him to drop her. He seems happier already.

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David Rinker's avatar

There have been at least 9 mass shootings by transsexuals.

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Bootsorourke's avatar

😳

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Roisin Dubh's avatar

Day one, hepatitis vaccine.

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Bootsorourke's avatar

really just a money grab. Test mothers for hepatitis if you think it's a problem.

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Elusive1's avatar

Good for you observing that and that you were able to convince him! 💐

There are people out there ---- in positions of "expertise and authority" ---- with no morals plus greed seeking to do great harm.

We must not let them if possible!

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Bootsorourke's avatar

Mothers gotta Mother, right?

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nonwo's avatar

All false flags.

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