They are encouraged to do so by agents of deception. This was WELL-PLANNED, for decades, and while the Psychotards are very good at things like fear mongering, social disruption, division, and false information, they are not very good at things like displays of courage and sacrifice, stirring people through enlivening the spirit of freedom, uplifting and shouting the truth, camaraderie among equals, and standing up to power for the sake of others...
We WILL win, and we must lean on each other and hold each other up when we're lagging.
I believe we always have choice, we always have help, whether materially or spiritually, we always have our own personal honor. I believe in a kind of combination of philosophies, such as, Go with the Flow of Righteousness, Hold Fast in your Faith, whatever that may be, ask for what you need, lend a hand when asked, and have no fear of death-- As Lennon once put it, "Death is just getting out of one car and getting into another."
There is no real end to Life, just different ways of living. That's what I believe, in general.
This such a tragic misuse of our life given free will. I do wonder what, in humility, in my experience, has shaped me to see, sense and feel this cult like behaviour during the last few years and to stay at the edges of the mass group think and insanity.
If there was a way out entirely I'd be on that boat/island and living in that village. Damn I'd even wash the dishes and clean toilets because prevention is better than a cure.
But nothing entices me to want to give up my ability to think and question just to fit in.
Especially when 99% of those enforcing those standards don't even understand them themselves.
Yes. I feel you. Dwelling at the edges, radical disobedience of the narratives, peaceful disruptive questioning and living in a more heartocratic, embodied way, are ways I bolster my resilience to the upside-down, systemic oppression. I'm deeply into decolonisation of my body. It helps.
Yes, because religion is not about evidence. It is about FAITH.
Question nothing. Believe everything.
I thought I was Christian when I was 14 or 15, but it passed quite quickly. Like you, I need logic in my life!
Religion is not for the critically thinking mind or the self-sufficient. But for those who want to believe in some other entity, at the price of giving away their sovereignty? Sure, why not.
Ha ha! Yep. Loads of my friends were 'Christian' and they really wanted me to be, too. I tried it. I really did. But it didn't work out for me either. The crux point was when I was praying for an A for my piano exam and I promised to God that I'd practice every day if I got one. Then it hit me like a sledgehammer that if I practiced every day I WOULD get an A. I obviously had the ability. Why was I praying to something for help when I could already do it?
I got an A. And I still play piano at age 44. And I still enjoy it.
There's a big difference in my mind between faith and religion.
For some people religion works because they are afraid to trust their own judgment and want someone to help guide them. It's a phase, I'd say. Then at some point we progress to thinking for ourselves and trusting that "inner voice," or however we choose to think of it... and I think of that inner voice as the Great Spirit within all of us, that understands that we are at different stages from others, and it's all good.
Logic is based in emotion. The brain uses emotion to make even logical decisions. But it's not based in faith. Logic, aside from emotion, uses rational thought. Being rational requires no faith because everything can be described every step of the way. Faith is a different thing altogether because it cannot be logically explained. Perhaps faith is required where we cannot describe things via logic; this is quite possible. It's perhaps a bit like 'magic': science we don't yet understand?!
I'm not saying that faith is wrong - the majority of humans relate to it and use it on a daily basis! Thus perhaps it is part of our make-up. But I prefer logic over faith. I like to understand everything as much as I can. Religion doesn't work for me, and I find when people put their self-belief into another entity, then they undermine themselves and their abilities. Religious people would see it otherwise, however, and that's fine. I'm ok to agree to disagree!
I would suggest that logic is based in rationality. Is faith rational? One could argue both yes and no. Logic is MATH, actually. If this, then that. One must prove the outcome. Once I took logic in school, ALL the sciences made more sense. Maybe that's why I was an "early riser" regarding all this virus nonsense... It's not logical, what we were told.
"Follow the science," indeed. But if you think of people as being in various phases of spiritual maturity, like the grades in school, some are in elementary school, some in college, all the different levels... then we stop expecting the second-graders to be functional on a post-grad level, or even a Junior High level. All in good time... Seems likely enough to me... But we can't really know about "time" beyond our own experience of life... I think there are different dimensions and we can maybe cross into other ones in dreams.
this accurately describes our fake pandemic
It just amazes me that people just don't see it.
Worse, they laugh and jest at others doing the exact same thing.
Blindly following imagined rules and social expectations.
this has been so psychologically exhausting / numbing the pure insanity of the majority… leading to God knows what.
Nature is a wonderful restorer. xo
reading this while sunbathing & grounding 💞🙏 (unfortunately on wireless… next thing to work on😿… need a loooooong wire)
❤ 🐾 🎶
They are encouraged to do so by agents of deception. This was WELL-PLANNED, for decades, and while the Psychotards are very good at things like fear mongering, social disruption, division, and false information, they are not very good at things like displays of courage and sacrifice, stirring people through enlivening the spirit of freedom, uplifting and shouting the truth, camaraderie among equals, and standing up to power for the sake of others...
We WILL win, and we must lean on each other and hold each other up when we're lagging.
I believe we always have choice, we always have help, whether materially or spiritually, we always have our own personal honor. I believe in a kind of combination of philosophies, such as, Go with the Flow of Righteousness, Hold Fast in your Faith, whatever that may be, ask for what you need, lend a hand when asked, and have no fear of death-- As Lennon once put it, "Death is just getting out of one car and getting into another."
There is no real end to Life, just different ways of living. That's what I believe, in general.
xo
This such a tragic misuse of our life given free will. I do wonder what, in humility, in my experience, has shaped me to see, sense and feel this cult like behaviour during the last few years and to stay at the edges of the mass group think and insanity.
I'm trying to survive there too.
If there was a way out entirely I'd be on that boat/island and living in that village. Damn I'd even wash the dishes and clean toilets because prevention is better than a cure.
But nothing entices me to want to give up my ability to think and question just to fit in.
Especially when 99% of those enforcing those standards don't even understand them themselves.
Yes. I feel you. Dwelling at the edges, radical disobedience of the narratives, peaceful disruptive questioning and living in a more heartocratic, embodied way, are ways I bolster my resilience to the upside-down, systemic oppression. I'm deeply into decolonisation of my body. It helps.
I often equate to behavior of pandemic true believers to religion. After all, it's belief without evidence.
Religious people tend to object.
Having started out as a true believer myself, although tending towards skepticism, I lost my faith due to a lack of evidence.
Yes, because religion is not about evidence. It is about FAITH.
Question nothing. Believe everything.
I thought I was Christian when I was 14 or 15, but it passed quite quickly. Like you, I need logic in my life!
Religion is not for the critically thinking mind or the self-sufficient. But for those who want to believe in some other entity, at the price of giving away their sovereignty? Sure, why not.
I went through the same phase of Christian experimentation at the same age, but only because all my friends were. It never worked out for me.
Ha ha! Yep. Loads of my friends were 'Christian' and they really wanted me to be, too. I tried it. I really did. But it didn't work out for me either. The crux point was when I was praying for an A for my piano exam and I promised to God that I'd practice every day if I got one. Then it hit me like a sledgehammer that if I practiced every day I WOULD get an A. I obviously had the ability. Why was I praying to something for help when I could already do it?
I got an A. And I still play piano at age 44. And I still enjoy it.
And I never missed being religious.
There's a big difference in my mind between faith and religion.
For some people religion works because they are afraid to trust their own judgment and want someone to help guide them. It's a phase, I'd say. Then at some point we progress to thinking for ourselves and trusting that "inner voice," or however we choose to think of it... and I think of that inner voice as the Great Spirit within all of us, that understands that we are at different stages from others, and it's all good.
And it seems likely to me, logical, that our "phases" may happen in different dimensions... :)
logic is based in faith too
or do you use logic to justify logic?
that's the same loop as is used by faith to sutain itself
Logic is based in emotion. The brain uses emotion to make even logical decisions. But it's not based in faith. Logic, aside from emotion, uses rational thought. Being rational requires no faith because everything can be described every step of the way. Faith is a different thing altogether because it cannot be logically explained. Perhaps faith is required where we cannot describe things via logic; this is quite possible. It's perhaps a bit like 'magic': science we don't yet understand?!
I'm not saying that faith is wrong - the majority of humans relate to it and use it on a daily basis! Thus perhaps it is part of our make-up. But I prefer logic over faith. I like to understand everything as much as I can. Religion doesn't work for me, and I find when people put their self-belief into another entity, then they undermine themselves and their abilities. Religious people would see it otherwise, however, and that's fine. I'm ok to agree to disagree!
I would suggest that logic is based in rationality. Is faith rational? One could argue both yes and no. Logic is MATH, actually. If this, then that. One must prove the outcome. Once I took logic in school, ALL the sciences made more sense. Maybe that's why I was an "early riser" regarding all this virus nonsense... It's not logical, what we were told.
I knew what she meant. Not sure logic, but logic combined with evidence.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
It is very much like religion, I agree!
"Follow the science," indeed. But if you think of people as being in various phases of spiritual maturity, like the grades in school, some are in elementary school, some in college, all the different levels... then we stop expecting the second-graders to be functional on a post-grad level, or even a Junior High level. All in good time... Seems likely enough to me... But we can't really know about "time" beyond our own experience of life... I think there are different dimensions and we can maybe cross into other ones in dreams.
Good fit - i just wonder where the charismatic leader(s) are at.. :D