For all the truth that you write in this there is one truth, the most important truth of all that must be added. We have been given a gift by the revelation that all of the leaders, experts, official sources are lying about so much. We were never meant to be led in the first place. And to survive the Information Age it will necessary for us to lean into the most valuable gift of all we were given at our creation: discernment.
We all have it. But we all got lazy choosing not to use it. And we relied on official sources, experts, leaders to tell us what to do. If anyone still wishes to be led through an age of information saturation instead of leaning into their own discernment then they wish to be slaves. Being a slave is easy. You do what you're told and you are provided for. At some level of subsistence for as long as you are productive to your master. Maybe nicely, maybe inside the house, the mansion. Maybe meagerly, in the fieldhouse. But you won't have to bother thinking, figuring out truth, just do your work, avail yourself to the types of entertainment and distractions provided by your master. Easy-peasy.
It's actual the most natural state of man as evidenced by the long history of slavery on the planet, and the relative short history of freedom. Because freedom isn't free. Freedom is hard work. Freedom is not trusting authorities, not trusting experts, not trusting officials, not trusting anything but your own gift of discernment that God gave you.
Yes! F the experts! F the official sources! F the leaders! We were not meant to be led. Not as free people. We must stop indulging the fantasy that we can have a kind and benevolent government and society where we get to check out of thinking, just trust experts and do as we're told so we can get back to playing our video games, cheering our favorite teams, engaging in the frivolities of life. That's what got us, mankind in this predicament in the first place.
We must gather information, avail ourselves of all of the resources being presented to us. Sure, we take some sources more seriously than others, we give them more respect. But we still must measure everything we read and hear, even from like-minded friends. Sometimes friends will tell us untruths, sometimes foes will tell us truths. It is up to us to take it all in without blindly trusting friends or reflexively dismissing foes. Discernment.
God gave us each that gift. It's not very sharp in most who have never used it, who have always trusted. They will not make it very far in this Information Age. It becomes our own responsibility and burden to hone our discernment if we are out of practice. But it's there, for the taking, if we just lean into it, trust that God gave us all the same gift. Which will protect us from all harms. To do so we must first stop trusting experts, believing officials and authorities, and stop wishing to be led by other men. Not even clergy who supposedly are servants of God. They are men. Fallen. We are led by God, and God alone. Who speaks to us with through the gift of discernment he gave us that resides in us all.
The past three years have been a tremendous gift if you see it for what it has been. A painful lesson for most of us. A necessary lesson. Because we have strayed so far from God's original design for us by trusting man when we need have only trusted God's greatest gift of all.
I too was shocked by the depth of the deceit plus outright censorship of those who attempted to evidence the truth about all matter related to COVID. Particularly shocking was the abysmal failure of almost all medical "professionals". Their behavior, whether born of ignorance or cowardice, is unforgivable. They have destroyed their once substantial credibility, as have a great many so called "scientists".
However, the information needed to make sound choices was available to those who were willing to do a little research. As I recall within two months of the purported outbreak I was able to find infection fatality rate data which clearly indicated reasonably healthy people faced no meaningful risk of mortality from COVID. Needless to say when injections employing a radical new technology, with no medium or long term track record or testing, which had never been used as a vaccine (even in livestock) were offered the answer was - absolutely not. There was no need to wait to learn COVID injections were in fact horrifically dangerous in the short term, as was quickly evidenced by VAERS, and ineffective. Every government actor and doctor who pushed that toxic trash into vulnerable people should suffer severe civil, and in more than a few cases criminal, liability.
Despite incessant government deceit and comprehensive medical professional malpractice a little homework was all that was required to protect oneself from the political lunacy which prevailed, and those dreadfully dangerous and ineffective injections. We now know government, media, most medical professionals and most scientists are not worthy of our trust. This rabid politicization of our society is tragic beyond words.
Additionally, only a little online research was enough to find the following: 1. Articles written by researchers from the Wuhan Lab who boasted for years about creating "chimeric coronaviruses." 2. Maps of China and it's provinces, demonstrating that the wet market where the outbreak started was walking distance from the lab, but 1000 miles from the bat caves.
The actions of officialdom, politicians and experts went way beyond "giving advice" and "making mistakes".
This was/is pure, unadulterated malice. Until we've found our spines and exacted accountability and retribution we're going to get more, much more, of the same medicine, or worse.
What troubles me--although maybe it should not--is this. I have friends, close friends, who would suggest that one can STILL "just skip over to the CDC website to resolve your doubts." No, I am not joking. I disabused myself of that bit of magical thinking, or more accurately confirmed my preexisting suspicions, by analyzing the CDC's approach to masking and the data they cited to support it. (Spoiler Alert: It was complete bullshit.) So now, I am left with knowledge I actually already had. Full disclosure, even before The Great Covid Dumpster Fire, if you had told me, "The government is lying" I would have shrugged and thought, "it must be Tuesday." I am in that George Carlin group that has one rule. If the government says something, I assume it's a lie. Basically, we have always been in Informational No Man's Land, but it took the last three or so years for more people to notice it. Welcome! Plenty of good seats still left!
Most medical authorities are abysmal failures. Medical emergencies are always local. The presumed medical terrorists usually have no clue as to what's really going on and therefore just issue nonsensical orders. Anymore, they are much more invested in helping you die than helping you survive.
For all the truth that you write in this there is one truth, the most important truth of all that must be added. We have been given a gift by the revelation that all of the leaders, experts, official sources are lying about so much. We were never meant to be led in the first place. And to survive the Information Age it will necessary for us to lean into the most valuable gift of all we were given at our creation: discernment.
We all have it. But we all got lazy choosing not to use it. And we relied on official sources, experts, leaders to tell us what to do. If anyone still wishes to be led through an age of information saturation instead of leaning into their own discernment then they wish to be slaves. Being a slave is easy. You do what you're told and you are provided for. At some level of subsistence for as long as you are productive to your master. Maybe nicely, maybe inside the house, the mansion. Maybe meagerly, in the fieldhouse. But you won't have to bother thinking, figuring out truth, just do your work, avail yourself to the types of entertainment and distractions provided by your master. Easy-peasy.
It's actual the most natural state of man as evidenced by the long history of slavery on the planet, and the relative short history of freedom. Because freedom isn't free. Freedom is hard work. Freedom is not trusting authorities, not trusting experts, not trusting officials, not trusting anything but your own gift of discernment that God gave you.
Yes! F the experts! F the official sources! F the leaders! We were not meant to be led. Not as free people. We must stop indulging the fantasy that we can have a kind and benevolent government and society where we get to check out of thinking, just trust experts and do as we're told so we can get back to playing our video games, cheering our favorite teams, engaging in the frivolities of life. That's what got us, mankind in this predicament in the first place.
We must gather information, avail ourselves of all of the resources being presented to us. Sure, we take some sources more seriously than others, we give them more respect. But we still must measure everything we read and hear, even from like-minded friends. Sometimes friends will tell us untruths, sometimes foes will tell us truths. It is up to us to take it all in without blindly trusting friends or reflexively dismissing foes. Discernment.
God gave us each that gift. It's not very sharp in most who have never used it, who have always trusted. They will not make it very far in this Information Age. It becomes our own responsibility and burden to hone our discernment if we are out of practice. But it's there, for the taking, if we just lean into it, trust that God gave us all the same gift. Which will protect us from all harms. To do so we must first stop trusting experts, believing officials and authorities, and stop wishing to be led by other men. Not even clergy who supposedly are servants of God. They are men. Fallen. We are led by God, and God alone. Who speaks to us with through the gift of discernment he gave us that resides in us all.
The past three years have been a tremendous gift if you see it for what it has been. A painful lesson for most of us. A necessary lesson. Because we have strayed so far from God's original design for us by trusting man when we need have only trusted God's greatest gift of all.
Well said!
I too was shocked by the depth of the deceit plus outright censorship of those who attempted to evidence the truth about all matter related to COVID. Particularly shocking was the abysmal failure of almost all medical "professionals". Their behavior, whether born of ignorance or cowardice, is unforgivable. They have destroyed their once substantial credibility, as have a great many so called "scientists".
However, the information needed to make sound choices was available to those who were willing to do a little research. As I recall within two months of the purported outbreak I was able to find infection fatality rate data which clearly indicated reasonably healthy people faced no meaningful risk of mortality from COVID. Needless to say when injections employing a radical new technology, with no medium or long term track record or testing, which had never been used as a vaccine (even in livestock) were offered the answer was - absolutely not. There was no need to wait to learn COVID injections were in fact horrifically dangerous in the short term, as was quickly evidenced by VAERS, and ineffective. Every government actor and doctor who pushed that toxic trash into vulnerable people should suffer severe civil, and in more than a few cases criminal, liability.
Despite incessant government deceit and comprehensive medical professional malpractice a little homework was all that was required to protect oneself from the political lunacy which prevailed, and those dreadfully dangerous and ineffective injections. We now know government, media, most medical professionals and most scientists are not worthy of our trust. This rabid politicization of our society is tragic beyond words.
Additionally, only a little online research was enough to find the following: 1. Articles written by researchers from the Wuhan Lab who boasted for years about creating "chimeric coronaviruses." 2. Maps of China and it's provinces, demonstrating that the wet market where the outbreak started was walking distance from the lab, but 1000 miles from the bat caves.
Thanks for this. Yes we are in quite a predicament.
Re: the last line, about "alienation from 'respectable' society." I'd say, the challenging thing is, respectable society isn't respectable anymore.
Still continues to shock me that in light of all we have been shown, so many still refuse to see.
The actions of officialdom, politicians and experts went way beyond "giving advice" and "making mistakes".
This was/is pure, unadulterated malice. Until we've found our spines and exacted accountability and retribution we're going to get more, much more, of the same medicine, or worse.
The problem is that Team Reality also isn't reliable. There is no reliable in this.
Excellent summary.
What troubles me--although maybe it should not--is this. I have friends, close friends, who would suggest that one can STILL "just skip over to the CDC website to resolve your doubts." No, I am not joking. I disabused myself of that bit of magical thinking, or more accurately confirmed my preexisting suspicions, by analyzing the CDC's approach to masking and the data they cited to support it. (Spoiler Alert: It was complete bullshit.) So now, I am left with knowledge I actually already had. Full disclosure, even before The Great Covid Dumpster Fire, if you had told me, "The government is lying" I would have shrugged and thought, "it must be Tuesday." I am in that George Carlin group that has one rule. If the government says something, I assume it's a lie. Basically, we have always been in Informational No Man's Land, but it took the last three or so years for more people to notice it. Welcome! Plenty of good seats still left!
Most medical authorities are abysmal failures. Medical emergencies are always local. The presumed medical terrorists usually have no clue as to what's really going on and therefore just issue nonsensical orders. Anymore, they are much more invested in helping you die than helping you survive.