Alright! And once I've got the virus, I must take it to the nearest volcano, and throw it in. And maybe @Gandalf could help me with this mission?
For sure @aragorn my friend, when the time will be right.
Alright! And once I've got the virus, I must take it to the nearest volcano, and throw it in. And maybe @Gandalf could help me with this mission?
I am not sure that the 'final choice' already happened for most people.
Oh, oh yes, he DID!He didn’t have to drag his body into the battles and risk being annihilated and risk taking his family down with him: he used his mind, his words, his grand emotions to create and thereby indirectly reach so many of us knightly spirited ones.
Oh, oh yes, he DID!
There was a screenplay written about Tolkien amazing life, which was made into a movie last year.
Tolken experienced a LOT of TRUE horrors and battles, which is where he got the material to write into his books, which probably worked as Therapy, in my humble opinion!
He was raised poor, by a single Mom, who read him amazing adventure stories.
Orphaned, he received mercy and support.
He survived WW I.
Dude TOTALLY knew Hard Times in Real time...
For sure @aragorn my friend, when the time will be right.
In its reactions the mass psyche greatly resembles the child psyche. One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions.
Daily life also made it difficult to see the situation clearly. Life went on as before, though it had now definitely become ghostly and unreal ... Strangely enough, it was just this automatic continuation of ordinary life that hindered any lively, forceful reaction against the horror. ... [This reaction] was hindered by the mechanical continuation of normal daily life. How different history would be if men were still independent, standing on their own two feet, as in ancient Athens. Today they are yoked to the details of their work and daily timetable, dependent on a thousand little details, cogs in a mechanism they do not control, running steadily on rails and helpless if they become derailed. Only the daily routine provides security and continuity. Just beyond lies a dark jungle. Every European of the twentieth century feels this in his bones and fears it. It is the cause of his reluctance to do anything that could "derail" his life -- something audacious or out of the ordinary. It is this lack of self-reliance that opens the possibility of immense catastrophes of civilization such as the rule of the Nazis in Germany.
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” – Seneca
…First, you must begin with one of the most important practices in the Stoic tradition: the premeditation of evils. What is the worst that can go wrong…the absolute worst? Study that. Feel it in your bones and skin. Understand what it will look and taste like. Good. Now you’ve removed the surprise and some of the fear. You’ve readied yourself for the worst. As Seneca put it best, “the man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.”
Now comes preparation: What can do you do to prepare yourself? What options do you have when the worst case happens? How can you prevent it from happening? What can you do today to reduce the chances of the worst happening? If it does happen, how can you bounce back? Write it all down on paper and think it through….
Can you elaborate? I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
I'm not sure how to frame this, but I wanted to start a discussion about how you guys feel with 'watching this from the side'? I know it isn't a black and white thing, where you either do nothing or 'go full battle mode'; there's the importance of being strategic, not doing foolish things that endanger yourself and your loved ones, and the "wise as serpents, gentle as doves"-thing.
Still, watching all kinds of people bravely 'coming out of the woods' speaking out against the tyranny, madness and ponerlogy in action, makes me feel like a coward for not doing more. Just as an example James Corbett and Amazing Polly are publicly exposing the agendas on a daily basis, and then there was e.g. the recent group of doctors in the US, and on a broader scale it looks like thousands of people have been protesting the Covid restrictions in Germany (if the information is correct). There are several examples like this, and probably more to come. If there would be a similar protest in your city, would you go? I'm not sure yet, but reading something like the following makes my blood boil:
If and when they start guilt-tripping and blaming my children for this madness, making them live in total fear, attending a dystopian school with crazy prison-like restrictions, I might very well hit the streets!
On the other hand, I'm not pretending, that I would dare or like to appear publicly in the media, knowing how easily my whole family could be targeted and blacklisted. So, I'm having mixed feelings about this, and wanted to network to see this situation more clearly. I believe many here have taken to heart the C's advice of 'scaling down' the activity on social media, and I've been doing that to some degree, too. I'm still retweeting quite 'dangerous' things on Twitter, but mainly posts that already have several retweets from before (as to not stand out too much). I'm posting some things on Parler, too. Facebook for me is almost totally out. I have too many colleagues from work there, that might become 'informants' at some point.
There's some consolation knowing that on our forum we are helping each other to cope with all this, raising each others awareness and knowledge, and 'keeping each other awake (as in Gurdjieff's alarm clock analogy). And on a more esoteric level, with our knowledge and awareness we might be 'sending a signal' out to the universe that balances things.
To summarize, the warrior in me would like to fight this, but my rational self is hitting the brakes. I know we can't save the world, but considering the 'butterfly effect', shouldn't we join the fight?
Sometimes the best thing we can do is work on ourselves and become the change we want to see in the world. One resource I value states that what we're seeing is a great reaping of karma. I don't know about that, but his suggestion was to observe with detachment and don't get involved insofar as your greatest priority should be the protection of yourself and your loved ones. This is a strange dance, as ultimately, standing up to anti-science and tyranny is how we will have to protect ourselves.I'm not sure how to frame this, but I wanted to start a discussion about how you guys feel with 'watching this from the side'? I know it isn't a black and white thing, where you either do nothing or 'go full battle mode'; there's the importance of being strategic, not doing foolish things that endanger yourself and your loved ones, and the "wise as serpents, gentle as doves"-thing.
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To summarize, the warrior in me would like to fight this, but my rational self is hitting the brakes. I know we can't save the world, but considering the 'butterfly effect', shouldn't we join the fight?
We will need to figure out what is in us to do when presented with a situation where we are challenged to go against our judgement and beliefs, and we hopefully we can evaluate what to do from a calm and rational place to decide if this is a place where we can resist that could have positive effects. Maybe the resistance is open, subtle, or perhaps by fudging the system when possible.
At the moment, the main battle that is still open to us, (but expect it to close eventually) is the battle for minds that requires there be a signal of truth and rational thinking in order to challenge the fake narratives. That demands a lot because there is a skill that needs to be honed in order to present arguments in the best way that does not undo the intent by unnecessarily triggering the opposite effect that could have been avoided by careful application.
However, we must remember that even the perfect sharing of the signal will still cause some people to "harden" their false beliefs, but those are people who could never be helped anyways.
Also, I could be just imagining this, too, but maybe there will shortly come a time when dissenting, exposing and protesting writings/postings will be less dangerous, because it is starting to be so widespread that 'they' can't possible punish everyone. Maybe that time has just started?