"It was only then that I realized that our U.S government lies to us about major things". I too took a while to awaken to that fact. At first some things just seemed "off", but when things happen time after time with no acceptable explanation, you finally have to admit the truth that we are lied to constantly. JFK assassination, RFK assassination, MLK assassination, Vietnam, Iraq, 9/11, Benghazi, Epstein, the "pandemic" and associated jabs and associated injuries. In all these cases we are not told the truth. We are told it is being kept secret for the greater good and/or too top secret for us peons. It is all BS.
broadly speaking - the core revelations revolve around a 1970–1971 espionage operation run by elements of the U.S. military against the Nixon White House, specifically targeting the National Security Council (NSC) to undermine Nixon and Henry Kissinger's foreign policy, particularly détente with the Soviet Union and China.
Upon learning of the operation, Nixon described it as "a federal offense of the highest order," likening it to a potential military coup scenario. He initially pushed to prosecute Joint Chief of staff chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer for espionage but was dissuaded by Attorney General John Mitchell, who cited risks of exposing covert operations and damaging the military's public image amid post-Vietnam anti-war sentiment.
Instead, Nixon opted for containment: dissolving the relevant liaison office, reassigning implicated figures (including Admiral Robert Welander), transferring Radford, and wiretapping him (along with two others whose names appear in newly revealed details). No prosecutions occurred, and the matter was buried to protect military institutions.
Seven Pages Of Nixon Grand Jury Testimony Reveal The Real Threat Of the Deep State
Nixon's enemies within his own administration were spying on and trying to subvert the elected President.
"The biggest takeaway is that an Navy enlisted man, Yeoman Charles Radford, who worked in the White House, was a mole. No, not for the Soviets, but for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He would routinely make copies of documents from Nixon administration officials and share them with people in the Pentagon."
"The Joint Chiefs' spying formed only one prong of the campaign against Nixon, the most spied-on president in modern times. Declassified documents and scholarship published since 1974 have established that the F.B.I., under its director, J. Edgar Hoover, spied on Mitchell, the attorney general, and that the C.I.A. detailed its personnel to various units associated with Nixon, including the Watergate burglary team and "components intimately associated with the office of the president," as the agency admitted in 1975."
why would nixon bend the knee, due to the us armed forces negative perception following vietnam? this does not seem significant enough to me...forgive the conspiratorial question (but we are clearly awash in conspiracies) - what else did the powers that be have on nixon to prevent him from going public?
If I recall correctly, Nixon came up in Whitney Webb‘s investigative book “one nation under blackmail.” Apparently Nixon‘s political career got started by aligning himself with some fairly shady folks. Nevertheless he had one of the largest popular votes by a presidents ever. Watergate was a coup.
Thanks for this info. It is another clear acknowledgement that the Deep State (ruling elite or whatever you want to call it) is at least in part is an outgrowth of command military overreach into affairs of government it is not supposed to be influencing. It ties back to their meddling in the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy's Vietnam strategies and his goal of disassembling the CIA and into his assassination. You can be sure it was fomenting in the 1950's following WWII along with the proponents of nuclear first strike.
I was hoping that justice would come after the slap in the face of OUR Heroic Military! I still have Not forgotten, 'What difference does it make '. it makes a LOT of Difference to the FAMILYS....Today , It repeats, " Safe and Effective " ! ! ! It matters to the Families ! 1 !
Well said!! I have pondered how have they been able to accomplish this? Lots to think about but I can’t help but conclude that Uncle Sam now has a very very large number of average citizens on the payroll, and once this dependency happens … well you can fill in the rest.
After posting recently about covid shot harms, I was told that I believe in fairy tales. It is profoundly sad to me that a person could still be ignorant of all the deaths and disabilities caused by the shots.
And that's why I continue to speak up, Patrick. It is maddening to me that you and so many others have been treated so badly! People can call me whatever names they want to. My favorite so far is being called "an asinine." I will not be silent about what has been done! (Just to clarify, I am 73 and did not take a covid shot.)
It's profoundly sad even when they're not ignorant of all the deaths -- When I told a friend that there were over 19,000 deaths reported to VAERS after the "vaccine" in the United States alone, she said "Its all for the greater good." I was dumbfounded. What do you say to that level of denial?
I actually did say that, Laura, when I found my voice. But she was starting to yell so I didn't pursue anything further. The rage I encounter (or used to, since I rarely offer any information anymore) seems to me to stem from a deep fear of looking at even the possibility of having done damage to themselves and their families. And of course there's the fear of having to seriously contemplate that the trusted foundations of one's life are crumbling. It's all so incredibly sad.
When i woke up 6 months after getting my second Covid shot, I thought the anger would eat me alive. It was like everything I once believed to be true was nothing but a bunch of lies. The most devastating, being the fact that my two older brothers, who I once believed to be brilliant and was incredibly close to were completely blinded by all the lies. We've been estranged for over 4 years now. Thank God my sister and I are on the same page.
Through much prayer, God put me in a position to put that anger to work. I thank Him every day for the opportunities He's put in my path. God's word tells us over 300 times to not fear. Everyday, I remind myself of that.
Laura, your comment reminded me that you wrote eloquently about your journey during this time in Jenna McCarthy’s Yankee Doodle Soup. I just went back to re-read your essay (which is right next to mine in the “Wondrous” chapter!). Your essay, “Adversity Ahead” is so poignant and honest and inspiring. Thank you for reminding us that rock solid faith in the goodness of God will sustain us through the challenges of fear and grief. And your line, “My heart is so full that I am often brought to tears of profound gratitude”... Me too.
I haven't spoken to my brother in nearly 5 years. He persecuted me for 20 years over political differences and covid. He told me before our estrangement (via email) "maybe we should start killing each other." I remembered that after Charlie Kirk was killed. He really, really hates Donald Trump.
That's like when, in the midst of the "vaccine" uptake, one of my "friends" from church saw a post I made and angrily responded, "I've had all my shots and I'm fine!" So it's okay for others to suffer as long as she is fine?? And actually, she and her husband may not be fine. He's begun having seizures.
When I told an old co-worker about the death of our other co-worker's mother due to the shots, he said the same thing. I found his reply to that dismissive and heartless.
But that’s not really denial, right? Your friend’s response illustrates that the true and fundamental nature of the Covid response was not psychological; it was, and remains to be, philosophical. Since man is by nature a conceptual being, it follows that his psychology is affected in large part by his philosophical premises, right or wrong. In other words, his hardware outputs are ultimately influenced by the quality and correctness of his programming—his software. His psychology is a symptom of his conceptual or philosophical premises. Your friend’s retort amounts to a classic example of collectivistic ethics, in this case utilitarianism (the “good” is what is judged to be what is best for the largest number of people.) The subjects of philosophy (in general) or ethics (in particular) are too complex for proper treatment in a comment forum but suffice it to say that your friend’s denial probably had less to do with her unwillingness to a acknowledge a fact of reality and more to do with her uncritical examination of a whole host of false premises that animate her moral framework and, by implication, her moral judgments.
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In the case I mentioned, the "friend" is a fellow Christian who is black and firmly ensconced in the Democrat party. That is a problem to me also. She actually denied in the past that Democrats support abortion! She said that she doesn't support abortion, but doesn't think the choice should be taken away. I asked her to compare that to slavery. Should the choice remain for people to own slaves?Also, when Biden was leaving office she posted on FB that she was going to miss him; that he is such a man of integrity. I know President Trump has a problematic past, but I think he has genuine concern for this country and its citizens, and the Republican platform is much more moral than the Democrats'.
I don't care if she is poka-dot Christian republican/democrat. She is unstable in morals and has loose screws, if she doesn't support abortion but thinks we all should have a right to murder babies. (not much of Christian would you say?)
I just pretty much go by "Birds of a feather, flock together".
I don't hate, I just don't sell out my morals for people who are mentally unstable. Again, waste of my time. One can be courteous without hanging on to them. God says it pretty boldly also, we are not to be luke warm. Conviction takes bravery, especially in now days time.
And that's what I do, Loretta. Apparently our pastor has not spoken strongly enough against abortion to drive her away, so I tolerate her at church, but don't otherwise interact with her. There are several black Democrats who attend my church and I just don't understand their ignorance.
I have friends who have had 10 shots and seemingly they are fine. There’s no news on msm or governments to confirm shot injuries. There are no diagnostic tests to validate our injuries therefore I do have an understanding of where they are coming from. It’s frustrating as hell and it eats at me. I used to hang on to injuries being exposed, but I realize there’s far too much wealthy investment in the mRNA technology for this to occur.
Anne, I too am injured. What people have no idea about is the mental and emotional damage to us as we are not acknowledged, no diagnostic tests to validate what we are going through. We’ve lost friends over this. It’s like being in a prison, not of our own making and can’t escape.
I am so very sorry, Vivien. I cannot say I truly understand since I am not vaccine injured, but I can say that I agonize over what has been done to you and so many others. I have tried my best to educate others and I get so impatient because people just will not listen. In 2022, after one of my church's Bible class teachers urged his class to get "vaccinated" I offered him Dr. Peter McCullough's book, The Courage to Face Covid-19. He declined, telling me it was "divisive." I no longer have the same respect for this man. Ironically, I am not in his class, but he will be speaking today in the class I do attend. I woke up this morning feeling slightly unwell, so I will not be in attendance. Thank you, God! I am trying hard not to feel bitterness toward him, and I was prepared to listen to him today, but won't have to. He is a seminary professor and one of his colleagues died of glioblastoma last year. That man was heavily vaccinated and had received at least two shots just weeks before being diagnosed. Two pastors of my church have resigned due to health reasons and I suspect both are vaccine injured. I have a list of 40+ people that I believe are injured or deceased due to taking covid shots. Please accept my hugs and prayers from afar.
I was told by a woman my age that I happened to get talking to sitting in a shop waiting to b served, that her 36 year old daughter had died of a heart attack in front of her 6 year old daughter at the local swimming pool. She said she knew of at least half a dozen women in their 30’s who had died suddenly of heart attacks.
She was a sincere (as far as I could tell) n sad woman, not a purveyor of fairy tales.
I’ve come across dozens of these reports of death n maiming
It is, but I am willing to put up with it. I post things on Nextdoor, knowing people will get mad and that my post may be removed, but if one person is helped, it is worth it. This week I got a message from a woman who saw a post I made inviting people to my church. This must have been in 2022 or 2023. She began attending my church awhile back and wanted to let me know! She's going through the membership process now.
Good for you Anne - it just may be one person at a time.
Lovely that she accepted your invitation to your church.
You may have seen this in a previous comment of mine. I'm hosting a showing of An Inconvenient Study at our church this Thursday evening. Please say a prayer that we have a good turnout - and if it's only people that already know the harms of the childhood vaccines schedule, they are at least moved to share the film with others.
That's fantastic! I will make a note to pray! I don't think my church leaders would be open to that. Things considered "political" aren't mentioned. I was interested in seeing if Letter to the American Church could be shown, but my husband did not think it was a good idea to ask.
It's tragic that the subject of vaccines has been made a political issue when it's truly a health issue.
The first time I asked my pastor to show a film - which was Vaxxed 3, he shot me down because he said he didn't want people who got the shots to feel bad. I reminded him that I got the shots! I prayed about it and then Del's film came out and that one didn't take too much convincing to get him to agree. I told him that it was about our children and letting parents know they've been lied to. He will be at the event to give the invocation and I assume he will stay for the film. I doubt he has watched it yet, so I hope he is moved to allow more educational events at our church in the future.
I believe it comes down to a commitment to truth. Most people prefer to believe comfortable lies over dangerous truth. That is a spiritually lethal inclination. We must be ruthlessly committed to seeking, believing, and speaking truth, no matter what it costs us.
Spiritual blindness is more relevant today than we realize.
2 Thes 2:
9 The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, 10 and with every wicked deception against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. 11 For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,
I personally adhere to George Carlin's view at this point...Don't believe anything the Government tells the public..and that especially includes all statistics....I was awakened to this by the Vietnam War, but didn't wake up entirely until the Iraq War and 9/11...Not only can you not believe them, you realize that Big Government is fundamentally evil.....
Questioning things is an every day operation, not just a few things here and there. As you do this, you come to see that it is not beyond the realm of possibility that 80% of the world is one big fat lie.
I like to think in terms of the scientific method: everything is a hypothesis waiting to be disproven, so yes, question, question, question. The whole world may not be intentional lies, but just stories we tell ourselves.
The lust for power lies deep within each human, manifesting harmlessly through controlling what one experiences and desires. However, Jesus told Peter that in his last days he would be led where he did not want to go...(John 21:18). I don't think natural selection has anything to do with how the mind works IMHO, I think it is more to do with a rejection of a relationship with God that enhances and exposes the sinful nature that we are all born with. If one does not seek after God and the reality of His presence to help and to guide, responding to God's offer of life, the trajectory fits the premise of repetitive, destructive patterns.
Your title resonates big time with many of us John, perhaps the vast majority who subscribe to your & Peter's substack. At the ripe age of 74 I confess I've been baffled by this question for a *very* long time :o For me the JFK assassination (I was almost 12) and the obvious BS narrative that followed was probably the catalyzing moment or event that triggered my awakening. So much since has only underscored the bafflement!
I think curiosity combined with a healthy dose of mistrust/skepticism is the key. Also you have to be willing to admit when you're wrong. I don't know if this is still fashionable, but I suspect the Briggs-Meyers personality type of INTJ (Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging) may be an indicator. If true, that says that some will NEVER get it; not even COVID will open eyes.
INTJ here — my husband likes to say his wife is “a journalist” — and it’s true I am a vintage late 1970s j-school grad, but I think that’s his polite way of saying he’s married to a conspiracy theorist. 😉
This resonated with me. I have felt for a long time that we have been lied to about nearly everything. We learned to trust heavily in the news we were fed from an early age- it’s the only way we would know what was happening in our world! But now we have news, social media and independent journalists all serving their own interests or the interests of others… so many skewed versions of the truth (and outright lies!) coming from every outlet. We need a word to describe the state of helplessness that we feel when we KNOW in our hearts and feel it in our bones that we aren’t being told truths- but can’t do anything about it. That’s where I am.
The JFK assassination was the genesis of my awakening. The major problem that we suffer from is the belief that the 'experts' must know what they are professing and are not to be questioned. My further awakening was learning of the evils of statins about the same time that I was enlightened about the covid shots (poisons) that were injected into about 5.5 billion people. Now, they tell us lies about the Epstein horrors!
Charles, do you mean to say that what is now surfacing re: Epstein are lies meant to cause anger/confusion/anxiety/division/etc… or that the cover-ups were the lies? Would appreciate your clarification of this, as both could actually be true, especially since truth is so hard to find anymore.
This whole Epstein episode, as stated by the 'officials' in charge IS PREPOSTEROUS!!!!!
Let's review what we were told:
(This is from memory and I am totally ok with being corrected)
1) Video cameras were not operational
2) Guards were strangely not monitoring him in a suicide watch cell
3) Epstein was the only one abusing these poor girls
4) Had cameras everywhere. For what purpose?
5) Then video of his cell emerges, but one minute is missing
6) Kash Patel and Dan Bongino appear with said video, with the mysterious minute still missing, and claim that that definitively settles the matter. I watched that video several times and it didn't prove squat to me. I will never trust these two again.
7) Michael Baden, a medical examiner of some renown, said that it looked more like strangulation than suicide
8) Michael Franzese says he was in that exact cell and suicide was impossible. Yes, I know that Michael Franzese is a non-practicing Mafioso. The man professes his conversion of accepting Jesus and it is plainly visible!!!
9) Pam Bondi said, "I have the client list on my desk" and then there was no client list.
10) I suggest that anyone that doubts that something is amiss in the 'official' story go watch Pam Bondi testifying recently before Congress. It is extremely clear how much she is covering up the Epstein mess.
Now I am sure that I missed a multitude of strange happenings with respect to the Epstein debacle. If what I have noted here does not, at least make you question what you are being told, then remember:
H.L. Mencken—wrote in the 1920s, calling the crowd "ignorant, superstitious, and gullible.
Thank you, Charles. Yes, the early cover-up was obvious. I don’t watch mainstream news, so I don’t know how these new discoveries (horrendous!) are being “handled”, or if most of America is oblivious to them. I just wondered if you thought the terrible findings now being reported in the alternative news outlets were also false…exaggerated to stir up dissent and anger. I trust the sources I read, and am disgusted these “people” walk the earth in total freedom.
The Truth once walked among them and many believed but some lied and deceived and walked in darkness.
“I saw heaven open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True “ Rev 19:11. The tomb could not contain the Only Truth. He came as the Lamb but will return as the Lion. Soon.
"It was only then that I realized that our U.S government lies to us about major things". I too took a while to awaken to that fact. At first some things just seemed "off", but when things happen time after time with no acceptable explanation, you finally have to admit the truth that we are lied to constantly. JFK assassination, RFK assassination, MLK assassination, Vietnam, Iraq, 9/11, Benghazi, Epstein, the "pandemic" and associated jabs and associated injuries. In all these cases we are not told the truth. We are told it is being kept secret for the greater good and/or too top secret for us peons. It is all BS.
I would just change "U.S. government" to "the ruling elite". The former is just their executive committee.
what does the recent nixon revelation tell us about the point you emphasize?
the nyt wrote it up [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/trump-nixon-watergate-radford.html], but here is a recently published article on the topic from reason.
broadly speaking - the core revelations revolve around a 1970–1971 espionage operation run by elements of the U.S. military against the Nixon White House, specifically targeting the National Security Council (NSC) to undermine Nixon and Henry Kissinger's foreign policy, particularly détente with the Soviet Union and China.
Upon learning of the operation, Nixon described it as "a federal offense of the highest order," likening it to a potential military coup scenario. He initially pushed to prosecute Joint Chief of staff chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer for espionage but was dissuaded by Attorney General John Mitchell, who cited risks of exposing covert operations and damaging the military's public image amid post-Vietnam anti-war sentiment.
Instead, Nixon opted for containment: dissolving the relevant liaison office, reassigning implicated figures (including Admiral Robert Welander), transferring Radford, and wiretapping him (along with two others whose names appear in newly revealed details). No prosecutions occurred, and the matter was buried to protect military institutions.
link to reason article.
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/02/08/seven-pages-of-nixon-grand-jury-testimony-reveal-the-real-threat-of-the-deep-state/
Seven Pages Of Nixon Grand Jury Testimony Reveal The Real Threat Of the Deep State
Nixon's enemies within his own administration were spying on and trying to subvert the elected President.
"The biggest takeaway is that an Navy enlisted man, Yeoman Charles Radford, who worked in the White House, was a mole. No, not for the Soviets, but for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He would routinely make copies of documents from Nixon administration officials and share them with people in the Pentagon."
"The Joint Chiefs' spying formed only one prong of the campaign against Nixon, the most spied-on president in modern times. Declassified documents and scholarship published since 1974 have established that the F.B.I., under its director, J. Edgar Hoover, spied on Mitchell, the attorney general, and that the C.I.A. detailed its personnel to various units associated with Nixon, including the Watergate burglary team and "components intimately associated with the office of the president," as the agency admitted in 1975."
why would nixon bend the knee, due to the us armed forces negative perception following vietnam? this does not seem significant enough to me...forgive the conspiratorial question (but we are clearly awash in conspiracies) - what else did the powers that be have on nixon to prevent him from going public?
If I recall correctly, Nixon came up in Whitney Webb‘s investigative book “one nation under blackmail.” Apparently Nixon‘s political career got started by aligning himself with some fairly shady folks. Nevertheless he had one of the largest popular votes by a presidents ever. Watergate was a coup.
Thanks for this info. It is another clear acknowledgement that the Deep State (ruling elite or whatever you want to call it) is at least in part is an outgrowth of command military overreach into affairs of government it is not supposed to be influencing. It ties back to their meddling in the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy's Vietnam strategies and his goal of disassembling the CIA and into his assassination. You can be sure it was fomenting in the 1950's following WWII along with the proponents of nuclear first strike.
I was hoping that justice would come after the slap in the face of OUR Heroic Military! I still have Not forgotten, 'What difference does it make '. it makes a LOT of Difference to the FAMILYS....Today , It repeats, " Safe and Effective " ! ! ! It matters to the Families ! 1 !
Add "The Cold War" to that list of lies/psyop. Everybody misses that one.
Looks like they are trying to bring that one back with Ukraine, and the Russia, Russia, Russia blame games.
Well said!! I have pondered how have they been able to accomplish this? Lots to think about but I can’t help but conclude that Uncle Sam now has a very very large number of average citizens on the payroll, and once this dependency happens … well you can fill in the rest.
Yes. Paying the bills becomes a big priority.
After posting recently about covid shot harms, I was told that I believe in fairy tales. It is profoundly sad to me that a person could still be ignorant of all the deaths and disabilities caused by the shots.
Vax injured almost five years now. I deal with this ignorance every day.
And that's why I continue to speak up, Patrick. It is maddening to me that you and so many others have been treated so badly! People can call me whatever names they want to. My favorite so far is being called "an asinine." I will not be silent about what has been done! (Just to clarify, I am 73 and did not take a covid shot.)
I'm a conspiracy theorist and gullible. Imagine that. If that is what I am, I wear the badges proudly.
Patrick - I’m so very sorry about your injury. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
It's profoundly sad even when they're not ignorant of all the deaths -- When I told a friend that there were over 19,000 deaths reported to VAERS after the "vaccine" in the United States alone, she said "Its all for the greater good." I was dumbfounded. What do you say to that level of denial?
Sheila - perhaps say, if one of those 19,000 was one of your children, would you say the same thing?
I actually did say that, Laura, when I found my voice. But she was starting to yell so I didn't pursue anything further. The rage I encounter (or used to, since I rarely offer any information anymore) seems to me to stem from a deep fear of looking at even the possibility of having done damage to themselves and their families. And of course there's the fear of having to seriously contemplate that the trusted foundations of one's life are crumbling. It's all so incredibly sad.
It truly is Sheila.
When i woke up 6 months after getting my second Covid shot, I thought the anger would eat me alive. It was like everything I once believed to be true was nothing but a bunch of lies. The most devastating, being the fact that my two older brothers, who I once believed to be brilliant and was incredibly close to were completely blinded by all the lies. We've been estranged for over 4 years now. Thank God my sister and I are on the same page.
Through much prayer, God put me in a position to put that anger to work. I thank Him every day for the opportunities He's put in my path. God's word tells us over 300 times to not fear. Everyday, I remind myself of that.
Laura, your comment reminded me that you wrote eloquently about your journey during this time in Jenna McCarthy’s Yankee Doodle Soup. I just went back to re-read your essay (which is right next to mine in the “Wondrous” chapter!). Your essay, “Adversity Ahead” is so poignant and honest and inspiring. Thank you for reminding us that rock solid faith in the goodness of God will sustain us through the challenges of fear and grief. And your line, “My heart is so full that I am often brought to tears of profound gratitude”... Me too.
Thank you Sheila, for providing me with such happy tears today. 🥰😘❤️🙏🏻
I haven't spoken to my brother in nearly 5 years. He persecuted me for 20 years over political differences and covid. He told me before our estrangement (via email) "maybe we should start killing each other." I remembered that after Charlie Kirk was killed. He really, really hates Donald Trump.
Anne - perhaps our brothers are under the power and influence of Satan. 😢🙏🏻
That's like when, in the midst of the "vaccine" uptake, one of my "friends" from church saw a post I made and angrily responded, "I've had all my shots and I'm fine!" So it's okay for others to suffer as long as she is fine?? And actually, she and her husband may not be fine. He's begun having seizures.
Hard to "like" this comment Anne. So sad.
When I told an old co-worker about the death of our other co-worker's mother due to the shots, he said the same thing. I found his reply to that dismissive and heartless.
But that’s not really denial, right? Your friend’s response illustrates that the true and fundamental nature of the Covid response was not psychological; it was, and remains to be, philosophical. Since man is by nature a conceptual being, it follows that his psychology is affected in large part by his philosophical premises, right or wrong. In other words, his hardware outputs are ultimately influenced by the quality and correctness of his programming—his software. His psychology is a symptom of his conceptual or philosophical premises. Your friend’s retort amounts to a classic example of collectivistic ethics, in this case utilitarianism (the “good” is what is judged to be what is best for the largest number of people.) The subjects of philosophy (in general) or ethics (in particular) are too complex for proper treatment in a comment forum but suffice it to say that your friend’s denial probably had less to do with her unwillingness to a acknowledge a fact of reality and more to do with her uncritical examination of a whole host of false premises that animate her moral framework and, by implication, her moral judgments.
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Seek Objectivism. Learn it. Practice it. Teach it.
Wow! That is difficult to process, actually.
I know. So difficult to process.
That's when my friendships end. I don't have many and if that is what 'friendship' is, then I don't need them. Waste of time.
In the case I mentioned, the "friend" is a fellow Christian who is black and firmly ensconced in the Democrat party. That is a problem to me also. She actually denied in the past that Democrats support abortion! She said that she doesn't support abortion, but doesn't think the choice should be taken away. I asked her to compare that to slavery. Should the choice remain for people to own slaves?Also, when Biden was leaving office she posted on FB that she was going to miss him; that he is such a man of integrity. I know President Trump has a problematic past, but I think he has genuine concern for this country and its citizens, and the Republican platform is much more moral than the Democrats'.
I don't care if she is poka-dot Christian republican/democrat. She is unstable in morals and has loose screws, if she doesn't support abortion but thinks we all should have a right to murder babies. (not much of Christian would you say?)
I just pretty much go by "Birds of a feather, flock together".
I don't hate, I just don't sell out my morals for people who are mentally unstable. Again, waste of my time. One can be courteous without hanging on to them. God says it pretty boldly also, we are not to be luke warm. Conviction takes bravery, especially in now days time.
Thanks for correspondence.
And that's what I do, Loretta. Apparently our pastor has not spoken strongly enough against abortion to drive her away, so I tolerate her at church, but don't otherwise interact with her. There are several black Democrats who attend my church and I just don't understand their ignorance.
I would never drive anyone away, just move me away. Haha. God is good. We will pray for them to see....that's it. Simple.
The vast majority still ignore this daily. To acknowledge it is to accept what they voluntarily did to themselves.
I have friends who have had 10 shots and seemingly they are fine. There’s no news on msm or governments to confirm shot injuries. There are no diagnostic tests to validate our injuries therefore I do have an understanding of where they are coming from. It’s frustrating as hell and it eats at me. I used to hang on to injuries being exposed, but I realize there’s far too much wealthy investment in the mRNA technology for this to occur.
Anne, I too am injured. What people have no idea about is the mental and emotional damage to us as we are not acknowledged, no diagnostic tests to validate what we are going through. We’ve lost friends over this. It’s like being in a prison, not of our own making and can’t escape.
I am so very sorry, Vivien. I cannot say I truly understand since I am not vaccine injured, but I can say that I agonize over what has been done to you and so many others. I have tried my best to educate others and I get so impatient because people just will not listen. In 2022, after one of my church's Bible class teachers urged his class to get "vaccinated" I offered him Dr. Peter McCullough's book, The Courage to Face Covid-19. He declined, telling me it was "divisive." I no longer have the same respect for this man. Ironically, I am not in his class, but he will be speaking today in the class I do attend. I woke up this morning feeling slightly unwell, so I will not be in attendance. Thank you, God! I am trying hard not to feel bitterness toward him, and I was prepared to listen to him today, but won't have to. He is a seminary professor and one of his colleagues died of glioblastoma last year. That man was heavily vaccinated and had received at least two shots just weeks before being diagnosed. Two pastors of my church have resigned due to health reasons and I suspect both are vaccine injured. I have a list of 40+ people that I believe are injured or deceased due to taking covid shots. Please accept my hugs and prayers from afar.
I was told by a woman my age that I happened to get talking to sitting in a shop waiting to b served, that her 36 year old daughter had died of a heart attack in front of her 6 year old daughter at the local swimming pool. She said she knew of at least half a dozen women in their 30’s who had died suddenly of heart attacks.
She was a sincere (as far as I could tell) n sad woman, not a purveyor of fairy tales.
I’ve come across dozens of these reports of death n maiming
Anne - I cannot imagine how frustrating that must be for you. 😢
It is, but I am willing to put up with it. I post things on Nextdoor, knowing people will get mad and that my post may be removed, but if one person is helped, it is worth it. This week I got a message from a woman who saw a post I made inviting people to my church. This must have been in 2022 or 2023. She began attending my church awhile back and wanted to let me know! She's going through the membership process now.
Good for you Anne - it just may be one person at a time.
Lovely that she accepted your invitation to your church.
You may have seen this in a previous comment of mine. I'm hosting a showing of An Inconvenient Study at our church this Thursday evening. Please say a prayer that we have a good turnout - and if it's only people that already know the harms of the childhood vaccines schedule, they are at least moved to share the film with others.
That's fantastic! I will make a note to pray! I don't think my church leaders would be open to that. Things considered "political" aren't mentioned. I was interested in seeing if Letter to the American Church could be shown, but my husband did not think it was a good idea to ask.
It's tragic that the subject of vaccines has been made a political issue when it's truly a health issue.
The first time I asked my pastor to show a film - which was Vaxxed 3, he shot me down because he said he didn't want people who got the shots to feel bad. I reminded him that I got the shots! I prayed about it and then Del's film came out and that one didn't take too much convincing to get him to agree. I told him that it was about our children and letting parents know they've been lied to. He will be at the event to give the invocation and I assume he will stay for the film. I doubt he has watched it yet, so I hope he is moved to allow more educational events at our church in the future.
I believe it comes down to a commitment to truth. Most people prefer to believe comfortable lies over dangerous truth. That is a spiritually lethal inclination. We must be ruthlessly committed to seeking, believing, and speaking truth, no matter what it costs us.
AMEN! TRUTH!
A spiritual lethal injection. Good one. (i know it's not what you said but it was the first thing i saw;-)
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Spiritual blindness is more relevant today than we realize.
2 Thes 2:
9 The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, 10 and with every wicked deception against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. 11 For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,
I personally adhere to George Carlin's view at this point...Don't believe anything the Government tells the public..and that especially includes all statistics....I was awakened to this by the Vietnam War, but didn't wake up entirely until the Iraq War and 9/11...Not only can you not believe them, you realize that Big Government is fundamentally evil.....
George Carlin was simply the best. I miss his wisdom!
It's a big club, and (we) ain't in it.
I go back to the Vietnam war and I think I really started questioning things then.
Questioning things is an every day operation, not just a few things here and there. As you do this, you come to see that it is not beyond the realm of possibility that 80% of the world is one big fat lie.
I like to think in terms of the scientific method: everything is a hypothesis waiting to be disproven, so yes, question, question, question. The whole world may not be intentional lies, but just stories we tell ourselves.
It is easy to walk on a smooth road.
The lust for power lies deep within each human, manifesting harmlessly through controlling what one experiences and desires. However, Jesus told Peter that in his last days he would be led where he did not want to go...(John 21:18). I don't think natural selection has anything to do with how the mind works IMHO, I think it is more to do with a rejection of a relationship with God that enhances and exposes the sinful nature that we are all born with. If one does not seek after God and the reality of His presence to help and to guide, responding to God's offer of life, the trajectory fits the premise of repetitive, destructive patterns.
100% agree
Your title resonates big time with many of us John, perhaps the vast majority who subscribe to your & Peter's substack. At the ripe age of 74 I confess I've been baffled by this question for a *very* long time :o For me the JFK assassination (I was almost 12) and the obvious BS narrative that followed was probably the catalyzing moment or event that triggered my awakening. So much since has only underscored the bafflement!
I think curiosity combined with a healthy dose of mistrust/skepticism is the key. Also you have to be willing to admit when you're wrong. I don't know if this is still fashionable, but I suspect the Briggs-Meyers personality type of INTJ (Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging) may be an indicator. If true, that says that some will NEVER get it; not even COVID will open eyes.
Creative thinking , discernment. spiritually aligned.
INTJ here — my husband likes to say his wife is “a journalist” — and it’s true I am a vintage late 1970s j-school grad, but I think that’s his polite way of saying he’s married to a conspiracy theorist. 😉
I think it’s spiritual and certain people are given or born with this gift to help enlighten others.
Spiritual things are spiritually discerned.
Discerned
I was a late bloomer. The plandemic is what woke me up. Anyway, you ask and offer an answer an important question, John.
Same
This resonated with me. I have felt for a long time that we have been lied to about nearly everything. We learned to trust heavily in the news we were fed from an early age- it’s the only way we would know what was happening in our world! But now we have news, social media and independent journalists all serving their own interests or the interests of others… so many skewed versions of the truth (and outright lies!) coming from every outlet. We need a word to describe the state of helplessness that we feel when we KNOW in our hearts and feel it in our bones that we aren’t being told truths- but can’t do anything about it. That’s where I am.
The JFK assassination was the genesis of my awakening. The major problem that we suffer from is the belief that the 'experts' must know what they are professing and are not to be questioned. My further awakening was learning of the evils of statins about the same time that I was enlightened about the covid shots (poisons) that were injected into about 5.5 billion people. Now, they tell us lies about the Epstein horrors!
Charles, do you mean to say that what is now surfacing re: Epstein are lies meant to cause anger/confusion/anxiety/division/etc… or that the cover-ups were the lies? Would appreciate your clarification of this, as both could actually be true, especially since truth is so hard to find anymore.
This whole Epstein episode, as stated by the 'officials' in charge IS PREPOSTEROUS!!!!!
Let's review what we were told:
(This is from memory and I am totally ok with being corrected)
1) Video cameras were not operational
2) Guards were strangely not monitoring him in a suicide watch cell
3) Epstein was the only one abusing these poor girls
4) Had cameras everywhere. For what purpose?
5) Then video of his cell emerges, but one minute is missing
6) Kash Patel and Dan Bongino appear with said video, with the mysterious minute still missing, and claim that that definitively settles the matter. I watched that video several times and it didn't prove squat to me. I will never trust these two again.
7) Michael Baden, a medical examiner of some renown, said that it looked more like strangulation than suicide
8) Michael Franzese says he was in that exact cell and suicide was impossible. Yes, I know that Michael Franzese is a non-practicing Mafioso. The man professes his conversion of accepting Jesus and it is plainly visible!!!
9) Pam Bondi said, "I have the client list on my desk" and then there was no client list.
10) I suggest that anyone that doubts that something is amiss in the 'official' story go watch Pam Bondi testifying recently before Congress. It is extremely clear how much she is covering up the Epstein mess.
Now I am sure that I missed a multitude of strange happenings with respect to the Epstein debacle. If what I have noted here does not, at least make you question what you are being told, then remember:
H.L. Mencken—wrote in the 1920s, calling the crowd "ignorant, superstitious, and gullible.
Thank you, Charles. Yes, the early cover-up was obvious. I don’t watch mainstream news, so I don’t know how these new discoveries (horrendous!) are being “handled”, or if most of America is oblivious to them. I just wondered if you thought the terrible findings now being reported in the alternative news outlets were also false…exaggerated to stir up dissent and anger. I trust the sources I read, and am disgusted these “people” walk the earth in total freedom.
The Truth once walked among them and many believed but some lied and deceived and walked in darkness.
“I saw heaven open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True “ Rev 19:11. The tomb could not contain the Only Truth. He came as the Lamb but will return as the Lion. Soon.
Soon and very soon we shall see the King in all his glory!