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When your society is obsolete, you need a new one. This<\/em> thing, whatever you’d like to call it, isn’t civilization. This is an abomination. What we currently call the ‘western world’ is so unrecognizably corrupt that it’s practically unsalvageable. I’m uninterested in ‘saving’ whatever this machine is, but I am interested in building a working one. -Love, smAshomAsh <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*This post is for Gold Level smAsh teAm members only.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let Our Vision Overcome The Narratives<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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By Doug <\/strong>\u201cUncola\u201d<\/strong><\/a> Lynn via<\/strong> TheBurningPlatform.com<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

When \u201ctaking the vax\u201d became a means to signal ones virtue as part of the moral high ground, the right side of history, etc. many people were indulging themselves by taking the vaxx. It became not just an act of personal health or even collective health but a signal, a ritual of their faith in something much bigger and much more sinister.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The origin of that faith and purpose of that ritual should not be ignored. Especially given how by nature of the vaxx being a moral position many of those people entered into that contract full knowing that those of us who refused would be indicted by that same moral position.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 <\/em>Comment by Dangerous Variant,<\/a>  Dec 13, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2015 Voltaire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where there is no vision, the people perish<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Proverbs 29:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read an opinion column early in the new year written by a local woman scolding The Unvaccinated in my area. Ironically, she addressed her article to the \u201cmy body, my choice\u201d crowd and argued those who don\u2019t get vaccinated should have their health insurance capped. She claimed taxpayers should not be burdened by those too selfish to care about overwhelmed health care systems or for those who are oppressing future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where does one even start?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Irish author and satirist, Jonathan Swift, once wrote:  \u201cReasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired<\/em>\u201d.  Obviously, that particular maxim applies to the fairer sex as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People act<\/em> upon what they believe<\/em> and this is, in fact, the very definition of \u201cfaith\u201d.  For even the Bible says faith<\/em> (i.e. belief) without works<\/em> (i.e. action) is dead.  It means the woman\u2019s article was written and published as the result of her faith in the Covid narrative; and reason be damned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly, the Covid Deceived have been made to fear. And they were tricked by the most powerful people and organizations on the planet. But their faith is more akin to superstition<\/em> \u2013 cult-like and hypnotic; the end result of media-induced propaganda<\/s> programming<\/s> psychosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been said that neurotics build<\/em> castles in the air and psychotics live<\/em> in them. Except a majority today reside in mental castles that were, in fact, constructed<\/em> by psychotics. Yet the masses have entered those castles on their own volition and it means Voltaire was right: Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hasn\u2019t this been the story of mankind since time immemorial?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the middle of December 2021, blogger Jim Quinn (TheBurningPlatform.com) posted an article entitled \u201cThey Needed the Omicron Variant\u201d <\/a> and included a total of 37 bullet-points\u2026\u201cmile-markers\u201d, if you will, on the road to The Great Reset \u2013 and concluded with these words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Euripides warned centuries ago, when the mob is persuaded by the honeyed words of evil men, great woes befall the state. Gates, Soros, Schwab, Fauci and Biden are evil men attempting to remake the world in a way that benefits them and their Davos co-conspirators. We will not comply. We will not obey. We will not give up our freedoms and liberties without a fight to the finish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Irrespective of the financial elite\u2019s motivations, the simple truth is this:  They have successfully pulled it off.  As of this writing, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet not decided on the Biden\/OSHA-mandated Covid vaccinations<\/a> but these will either be upheld or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the mandates were upheld prior to this article\u2019s post, then it would have been titled:  \u201cLet Our Vision Overcome False Narratives & Unjust Laws\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, even if the OSHA mandates are struck down by the Supreme Court, or get overridden by state lawmakers with common sense, be assured those administering The Great Reset have more tricks up their sleeves.  Just this week, Dr. Robert Malone, an early pioneer of mRNA technology, has warned of an \u201cEbola-Like Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Now Spreading In China\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, bearing all that in mind, I believe it would be dangerous to underestimate those administering the New World Order\u2026 or to overestimate the wisdom and intestinal fortitude of a majority of Americans; and, by extension, the entire global citizenry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the financial elite, the masses are viewed as a means to an end. Their<\/em> end, that is. Or, stated another way, the plebeians are viewed as base material<\/em>  \u2013 simple resources <\/em>to get the \u201celite\u201d where they are going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the popular entertainment streaming service, Netflix, the elitist worldview is revealed in the \u201cSquid Game\u201d series. The show is rife with symbols and messages that are, perhaps, most aptly deciphered at The Vigilant Citizen.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Source:  TheVigilantCitizen.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outline of this game is also the main logo of the series. The reason: It perfectly illustrates the core philosophy of Squid Game and, by extension, the elite. The rectangle represents the masses. The circle at the bottom of it represents those who are poor and heavily in debt. The triangle above the rectangle represents the elite ruling over the masses. The upper circle represents the all-powerful occult elite that controls the world.<\/p>

Appropriately enough, the narrator explains that the children who play Squid Game must make their way to the upper circle to win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Win or lose. Zero sum gain.  Rich versus poor. Us against them. Polemics.  Dialectics: A life and death game<\/em> where the winners win the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, though, the game is about survival.  <\/em>Both the financial elite and the masses have near-reptilian instincts to survive. The innate survival mechanisms range from cold calculation<\/em> to obvious ignorance<\/em> dependent upon one\u2019s position in the pyramid; as the masses are kept constantly confused, in the dark, and at each other\u2019s throats.  Until, that is, mission accomplished. Game over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belief materializes through perspective<\/em> and perspective<\/em> derives from context<\/em> and context <\/em>is defined by narrative<\/em>.  Surely, it all distills down to the stories in people\u2019s heads. In fact, that is exactly how shit happens<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 6, 2022 one of my liberal acquaintances, an enthusiastic reader of the New York Times, expressed to me his gratitude that our \u201cdemocracy survived\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I calmly showed him how our democracy has NOT actually survived and he hasn\u2019t broached the topic with me since. In any event, the keys of truth were given and he will either escape the imaginary castle in his head, or simply build a bigger moat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What this guy will likely never understand, however, is that his insanities and absurdities were generated on purpose \u2013 the result of carefully crafted, and, quite often, chaotically circulated<\/em>, narratives.  Irrationality has become the essence of madness<\/em> as logic, truth, and reality have been upended into Clown World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how do we fight back? And how do we win?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the thread of a previous blog post, a commenter by the name of \u201cStucky\u201d had this to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope works remarkably well when it is part of one\u2019s Belief System.<\/p>

\u2026.But, hope sucks when it\u2019s a strategy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I agree. Hope alone cannot restore the Old Normal.  In fact, nothing will at this point. But be assured of this:  If we don\u2019t resist, we are guaranteed to lose our liberties initially, and, later, our very lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One simple offensive strategy might be to generate different stories, fresh metaphors, and new allegories, to replace the elite-constructed narratives that have become the castles<\/em>, fortresses<\/em>, and high towers<\/em>, in people\u2019s heads.  An example could be to challenge Big Pharma\u2019s financial mining of the human immune system through endless Covid booster \u201csubscriptions\u201d with a metaphor describing mandatory organ donation <\/em>by the state and in the service of The Collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another method could involve sharing these websites (below) that give voice to the Covid vaccine-injured:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.realnotrare.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.1000covidstories.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my own locality, I have been hammering away at the foundational premises and assumptions underlying the Covid Agenda as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 If the vaccines don\u2019t stop infection or transmission, then what\/who is behind the apparent agenda for vaccine passports?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2013 <\/em>And, if the shots work, then why are boosters needed<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By so doing, I would like to express my gratitude to those who have become the tip of the spear<\/em>, so to speak, in the War Against Covid Propaganda<\/em>:  Brave souls like Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Peter McCullough, Professor John Ioannidis, Dr. Christina Parks, Dr. Judy Mikovits, Catherine Austin Fitts, Joseph Mercola, and the entire \u201cDisinformation Dozen\u201d<\/a>, as well as ALL of the writers, bloggers, and commenters posting here on the alternative internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s book, \u201cThe Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health<\/em>\u201d, could be an effective weapon in converting progressives in the propaganda war because Kennedy is RFK\u2019s son and JFK\u2019S nephew. He has, additionally, been a champion of liberal causes including environmentalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so it was gratifying to see Kennedy\u2019s take-down of the global medical cabal become a well-reviewed best seller this past Christmas season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Subsequently, on a recent road trip, I stopped into a Barnes and Noble bookstore just to see if \u201cThe Real Anthony Fauci<\/em>\u201d had any shelf-space in the non-fiction best-seller section. Nope. Instead, I saw pro-Fauci books and another tome describing \u201cthe heroic effort\u201d to deliver the Covid \u201cspike protein\u201d vaccines into the arms of people everywhere, and in the shortest amount of time ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not seeing Kennedy\u2019s book, I walked up to the nearest kiosk as the masked woman behind the counter cautiously eyed my undiapered face. I held up my phone with a scan of the book cover and she checked her computer.  After a few seconds, she said:  \u201cWell, I see that book is printed by a real <\/em>small publisher. We have none in stock and it\u2019s hard to say if they are going to print anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For obvious reasons, I wasn\u2019t surprised. So I walked over to a nearby Christian bookstore and they were out too. The lady there told me it was up for reprint and I could get the book if I wanted to wait several weeks. I told her I might check back later and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I left the city, though, I found myself wondering if Kennedy\u2019s book was actually so popular it was sold out, or, if some elite-engineered <\/em>obstruction might be taking place.  After witnessing all of the censorship by the tech giants and mainstream media outlets, it\u2019s become clear we\u2019re in the midst of an information war\u2026. and the Davos crowd does not <\/em>appear to be taking any <\/em>chances with Covid. If one thing has been made obvious it is this: Those behind The Great Reset are serious. Deadly serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly, the aggressive proliferation of narratives has involved both offensive<\/em> and defensive<\/em> stratagems:  1.) The commission<\/em> of deceptive propaganda and 2.) the omission <\/em>of facts through censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once more, I found myself questioning how we can win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We currently stand against very powerful forces\u2026against our nation\u2019s largest institutions<\/a>, in fact, but we are without leadership, organization, strategy, and our methods of communication are under the control of the stakeholder capitalists.  Furthermore, without vision, we are flying blind and always playing defense like sitting ducks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, I read an article describing how tyrants make people act against their own interests<\/a> and it summed up our current dilemmas quite well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is that force that wants to control us completely? Some people call that force Fascism, some call it Tyranny, or Domination, or the Machine. Today\u2019s technocratic version of total control goes under the names of the Great Reset<\/a> and the Fourth Industrial revolution. It aims to turn us into inanimate and obedient wheels fueling new digital slavery and the fully controlled financial system<\/a>. But it is much more than a political force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 It\u2019s a test for the soul. It\u2019s a force whose cruel predation helps us discover the courage inside us that some of us have almost forgot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026.. Tyrants have many tricks up their sleeves. Some are physical and some psychological. Some are applied \u201con first contact with tyranny,\u201d and some are designed to maintain the state of confusion to keep us weak\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article was written by blogger and musician, Tessa Lena, who also goes by the moniker of Tessa Fights Robots<\/a>.  And, in surfing through some of the hyperlinks in her piece and blog, I came across another blogger by the name of Charles Eisenstein, who authored an August, 2021 article entitled \u201cMob Morality and the Unvaxxed\u201d<\/a>. That post was, actually, the third article in a three-part series that began in June, 2021 and, in perusing those posts, two quotes jumped out at me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mass insanity comes from the denial of what everyone knows is true.<\/p>

\u2013 Source<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.<\/p>

\u2013 Mohandas K. Gandhi<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As fate would have it, it turns out I have referenced both bloggers, Tessa Lena and Charles Eisenstein, in a few of my articles written years ago. In a June 2020 post entitled \u201cCoincidence Theorists See All Donut and No Holes in the Coronation of The Cult\u201d<\/a>, I indirectly questioned Eisenstein\u2019s seeming unwillingness to name the Eye of Horus<\/em> in the middle of the Covid conspiracy \u201cdonut\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in all fairness, when I went back and reviewed Eisenstein\u2019s May, 2020 \u201cConspiracy Myth\u201d<\/a> article, I have a deeper appreciation of what he meant:  Myths can be true but not, necessarily, always<\/em> true in the way we think.  Admittedly, in retrospect, I remain open-minded enough to understand that careful perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Tessa Lena wrote one of the best takedowns on The Great Reset <\/a>ever \u2013 which I actually hyper-linked in my November 2020 articles \u201cBoo hoo. The Moonbats Stole Our Election\u201d<\/a> and \u201cChaotic Considerations\u201d<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of these writers fell off my radar but, in finding them again in 2022, I realize we have come to similar conclusions as follows:  Free will, individual rights, and moral agency do NOT derive from Davos. We can always say \u201cno\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I share English philosopher John Locke\u2019s view on the law: Where there is (just) law, there is freedom. By extension, however, perhaps the following would be the flip side to that coin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where there is unjust law, there is war and war is hell<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This raises the following questions: Can our side win by playing by the rules? And, if we don\u2019t play the by the rules, then, what are we fighting for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The financial elite behind The Great Reset obtained their power through corruption and treachery, fractional reserve banking, and fiat economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It means, unquestionably, we do NOT need their permission\u2026 for anything<\/em>. So, in making our stand, perhaps our \u201cvision\u201d could be as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of compliance and cooperation, we will establish a Parallel Polis<\/a> outside of the unjust system. This will be done through communities centered around common values. After all, this is far superior than succumbing to the divide and conquer<\/em> mechanisms concealed within Establishment narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes courage to act rightly<\/em>; to place principles above, even, survival<\/em>. In that regard, then, faith could be considered as the evidence of principles<\/em> unseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognizing how fear activates the survival instinct, we understand fear as a secular concern. Yet, the Covid Cult believes they are the noble, courageous, spiritual ones and the anti-vaxxers are cowards who are selfishly concerned for their own liberties above the love of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you see the irony?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May of 2021, I posted an article entitled \u201cThe Great Reset: An Ancient Faith Continuously Renamed\u201d<\/a>, and framed this narrative-induced neo-superstition<\/em> thusly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new religion, therefore, is false and facilitated by misplaced faith inculcated through deception.<\/p>

But, just as any deprogrammed cult member will attest: people believe because they want to believe. And this is the seduction of Covid-19, the magic hat trick, if you will, in establishing the new system:<\/p>

1.) The believers get to be the saviors of humankind through masking, social distancing, and the reception of pharmaceuticals into their bloodstream.<\/p>

2.) The believers get to believe they possess the power, through faith, to manage the unmanageable.<\/p>

3.) And, finally, perhaps most importantly, the believers get to pretend their cowardice is virtue.<\/p>

The Believers will scold the unclean for being callous, for jeopardizing grandma in the nursing home, but they don\u2019t care at all about the people who have died from the vaccine, or for little children getting stuck like pigs with experimental Messenger RNA. This is because, in the minds of the New Disciples, the needs of the many surpass those of the few. Or, in the words of Karl Marx: \u201cFrom each according to his ability, to each according to his needs\u201c.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Collectivist ideology gives birth to beastly political systems but, in the end, these are always a snake eating its own tail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without fail, the snake never stops eating until it completely devours itself.  Therefore, pursuant to Napoleon\u2019s maxim of never interrupting an opponent when they are making a mistake<\/em>, we will stand out of the way\u2026 wherever, whenever, possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2019, weeks before the \u201cofficial\u201d Covid cases were announced in China, and a full year before the 2020 Presidential Election, I wrote an article that questioned the \u201cuncertainty principle\u201d underlying Trump and paired to the confounding headlines during his term as president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article was entitled \u201cA Video Exposition: Quantum Theory, Waves, and the Bulbous Bow of Confusion\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that piece, I cited \u201cSchrodinger\u2019s Cat\u201d <\/a>and claimed we would have our answers\u2026.. \u201cas soon as our observation collapses one reality or the other.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time, I believed time would give us certainty\u2026 even amidst the competing media waves as the ship of state<\/em> continually advanced. Well, we soon observed the answer: The ship of state was the de facto Covid Biosecurity State <\/em>and Trump was the dead \u201ccat\u201d in the box.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, once again, let our vision<\/em> collapse the narrative.  And, by means of our adherence to right action and principles, our \u201ccontrol group\u201d will demonstrate the insanity of their experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Photo courtesy of Charles Eisenstein<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author and philosopher Ayn Rand claimed integrity was the ability to stand by an idea. She furthermore asserted that integrity presupposed thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In point of fact, my free will and moral agency isn\u2019t a choice.  It just is what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn\u2019t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won\u2019t cheat, then you know he never will.<\/p>

\u2015 MacDonald, John D. (1973). \u201cThe Turquoise Lament\u201d, Travis McGee series, Random House LLC<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A beast also does what it does<\/em> and, it, too, is what it is<\/em>. And when battling a beast, we will avoid becoming the sole focus of its attention and never get cornered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who comprise \u201cThe Establishment\u201d have the money. They have the power. And, to them, the game is about survival of the richest<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they cannot succeed without the compliance<\/s> permission<\/em> of the masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite often, I get angry at the gullibility of people. America may have been murdered but the masses allowed her to die. So what now? The seasons turn and republics fade. It is what is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People were tricked into fear and, in turn, they clamored for the life vests offered by the Covid policy makers. The shock and awe trauma, delivered by spinning narratives, drove the masses into a frenzy of crowd psychosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the good news is this: Truth conquers fear and it transcends any outcome. This is how time reveals all things and heals all wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our daily rituals will be bitterly frantic, or filled with gratitude, dependent upon our state of mind. And most people never appreciate their blessings until they\u2019re gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I once read a (unattributed) quote that said something similar to as follows:  Life is a pageant that is largely unappreciated by those watching.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we must never forget that \u201cvision\u201d is about seeing<\/em>.  Appropriately, we will defend our lives and ALL that is worth defending\u2026 without sacrificing right principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.<\/p>

\u2015 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

To summarize, the vision laid out above would include both offensive<\/em> and defensive<\/em> measures as follows: To establish parallel societal (and economic) structures<\/a> while maintaining basic human morality and compassion, instead of sowing discord and division. We will defend ourselves, expose deception, and while practicing (in the words of Gandhi) \u201cnon-cooperation with everything humiliating<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admittedly, some now reading these words might believe a better vision would be to kill them all<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>  In that scenario, then, I have a few questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it possible to win that war without local, state, and national leadership willing to accept such measures, and without any real organization, and as all current communications and media remain under Establishment control?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, most importantly, what would you be fighting for? Or, rather, what is it you would hope to win?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong. I fully understand the sentiment and I am genuinely aware of what we now stand against.  In fact, if anyone is not yet completely clear as to what sort of fresh hell has landed upon our shores, please consider the following mainstream article entitled \u201cIn much of the West, the walls are closing in on anti-vaxxers\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are seeing cancer treatments and elective surgeries put off because beds are filled with people who chose not to get vaccinated; they\u2019re frustrated. When people see that we\u2019re in lockdowns, or serious public health restrictions right now because [of] the risk posed to all of us by unvaccinated people, people get angry,\u201d \u2026<\/p>

\u2026 On the other side of the world, Australia\u2019s prime minister appeared to make the same political determination as Macron \u2014 that it pays to ostracize the unvaccinated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, an LA Times columnist has claimed that<\/a>: \u201cMocking anti-vaxxers\u2019 deaths is ghoulish but necessary.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what we currently face and \u201cBrave New World\u201d author, Aldous Huxley, concisely described the appeal<\/em>, to human nature, that underlies \u201crighteous indignation\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone.  To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior \u2018righteous indignation<\/em>\u2019 \u2013 this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.<\/p>

\u2013 Aldous Huxley<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, twentieth-century German pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, warned against trying to \u201cpersuade the stupid person with reasons<\/em>\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved \u2014 indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.<\/p>

\u2014 Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So, yes, I can appreciate the dilemmas of each \u201cvision\u201d. We\u2019re either going to kill them with kindness or by another way and any thoughts and perspectives on these \u201cvisions\u201d would be most welcome in the comment section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the interim, and regardless of anyone\u2019s particular \u201cvision, or \u201cperspective\u201d, just know that I do not fear death and will always be grateful for the abundance of life that has continually filled my \u201ccup\u201d to overflowing. I have lived a life with very few regrets \u2013 and no matter what the future holds, I go there knowing my previous days were better than expected and more than I deserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In closing, I will leave the reader with a corresponding, and, admittedly, optional<\/em>, vision below.  It was written by St. Francis of Assisi. He was an Italian Catholic friar born in the year 1181 and it appears his vision<\/em> has stood the test of time. Perhaps, for those who are atheist or agnostic, or just don\u2019t buy into the Theory of Mega Spacetime Personalities<\/em>, they would consider the word \u201cLORD\u201d as the following conception:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L.O.R,D. = Loving Others Respectfully, Decently<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LORD, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. LORD, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen.<\/em><\/p>source- theburningplatform.com<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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