I didn't know there was such as thing as narratives and that people had their finger on the scales. Now I see them everywhere.
I had a tolerant, almost trusting, relationship with Western government authority. Now I both fear and despise it.
I had varying degrees of respect for different institutions, legal, medical, media. Now there is none.
I trusted all vaccines and never thought the anti-people might know a thing or too that was worth knowing. I'm now one of those anti-people.
I never really understood communism. Now I feel I have a much better grasp of it, of the pull towards it and its many disguises.
I didn't know there was such a thing as a Mass Psychosis. I understood mania's through the financial lens of bull and bear markets. I didn't realise those emotions could be messed with to the point of corruption.
I discovered Thomas Sowell during this time. Discovering Thomas changes you. "Compared to what?" and "Show me the evidence!" So grateful that I did before he moves on.
I allowed Jordan Peterson to wake me up to the psychological meanings coded into the Bible stories. I watched his 40 hours of lectures and so grateful that my 22 yo son did the same.
My circle of friends grew smaller. I didn't start off with that many to begin with. I need to work on finding new friends in the old, analog, sense of the world. It's not going to be easy.
I read more in these 21 months than I ever did before...and I was a reader to begin with.
I discovered that knowing whether something was true, or likely to be true, or not true was really, really important to me.
I discovered that I could reach really good probabilistic conclusions in times of high uncertainty and poor information.
I've been much angrier than usual for far too long.
I never thought I would end up on Twitter and now Telegram.
I thought the climate change story was real. Silly me. I discovered Judith Curry.
I thought Bill Gates was a good guy focused on malaria. Silly me again.
I never thought that free people would find the burden of that freedom so great that they would eagerly hand it back.
I discovered Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
I discovered Hannah Arendt.
I learned how to make hand sanitizer.
I really used to like Sam Harris. I cannot stand the man anymore.
I thought Trump was the devil, then he said "the cure cannot be worse than the disease" and I woke up, but then he made sure that the cure was worse than the disease. Fuck.
I think I am quite a different person today than I was in Feb20. If I met my Feb20 self at a bar, I don't think he would believe a single word I said to him.
It is impossible to stay the same in times of war. Failed relationships, disillusionment, broken friendships. Awareness about the level of trauma and fear that exists in this world. I had no idea that people disbelieve their power, rely on authority so much and could display such infantilism. Maturing, therefore. Healing the broken pieces. A somber mood prevails but I know it will go. Finding new meaning. A wonderful dog rescue. Learning about genetic engineering, telemedicine, nanotechnologies, new immunization methods. Flabbergasted to see how many people have the "policeman in their head" and live in victimhood, Makes me wonder: is there so much abuse in the family world that people are unable to see they are being abused by authorities?
Human relationship is the most affected of all. "They" wanted it that way. To ultimately divide us in order to conquer us. How the most vaccinated don't give a thought to the unvaxed. They don't care about the impacts of the measures on others if they were/are not impacted. Worse, some benefitted from the measures.
Healthy people literally keeping their distance from other healthy people outdoors. This is not normal human behaviour.
Aside from my wife, son, and store clerks and restaurant servers, I have severed ties with all society. My circle was one of the most highly educted and wealthy in the States. I found out they are all fools.
I see a bit of myself in all of the comments. The only thing I would add is that I've become aware of the power of gratitude, every day, every hour, every minute for all of the things in my life that are going right. For all of the great things I've been taught. For all of the wonderful people throughout my life that touched me and changed me for the better and given me hope. The list is too huge for this thread.
The media and politicians can stick their fear up their own rears, I refuse to accept it.
I also believe we are here on earth at this time for a reason. Now is the time to put on the full armor of God: Ephesians 6:10-17 and Philippians 4:4-9.
Hmmm yeah. I was very uninvolved politically, hated standing out, just wanted to live peacefully. Now I am motivated to do whatever it takes even if I lose my job, get arrested, etc, to restore freedom to our countries and expose the lies. I trusted our government and didn't think much about it. Now I am their enemy and I theirs and I am afraid of them. I no longer assume I'll continue living life in peace and prosperity. I am considering leaving my beloved country. But I am seeking God more and treasuring the eternal more.
My values have not changed. I won't allow no bitch-arse bioweapons to change my values!
Ditto with my beliefs.
However, I've dissed all the hitherto "respectable" professions and associations - from academia, law, lawyers, human rights, med and $cience. They did not have much respect for the media and big biz before 2020 anyway. Being a non-science person, I was - and still am - astonished by how corrupt $cience is. I was shocked to learn that about ~50% of peer-reviewed scientific publications are fraucis (frauds). They even had the gumption to defraud us with the HCQ hit knowing the whole world was waiting for their study. That is real chutzpah. A brazen demonstration of their control that they could commit a blatant fraud, knowing they won't suffer any temporal consequences. (To add spice and sex to the fraud, a staffer of Surgisphere, which concocted the data, was a former porn star!)
I look at people in general with a combination of puzzlement, compassion and some angst. They don't ask questions, and don't do their own reading! If the scams occurred in 20th century, pre-internet, I can understand more as info was difficult to access. However, now they have an abundance of info at their fingertips, literally, if they would spend time to search widely. In 2020 I even offered my collection of links to strangers. They all declined! Even my dentist declined, saying she wanted to her research "independently". Oh, the irony!
I see that letters after their names mean nothing in terms of insight, character, and analytical thinking.
I see that people over-rate others and themselves. Actually, I've observed this over-estimation years ago. i think it is human nature to over-rate people and knowledge we don't know. A subtle form of deference. Once we become familiar with some people and some knowledge, we compensate for the over-estimation with under-appreciation, leading to the familiar observation that "familiarity breeds contempt". Take Frauci. Who, rationally, would not diss him if his lies were known?
I see that people don't have an inquiring mind or disposition.
I see how easy it is to manipulate and control people.
Of course, whenever we deal with people, there are always exceptions. Proof? Observe the exceptional people and achievements or attainments in every aspect of life - from the physical to the intellectual, to wisdom.
No more floating around trusting my surrounds anymore, the war paint is now a necessity everyday. Decided to stop drinking alcohol approx nine months ago, clarity is like a superpower!
No coincidence I’ve gravitated towards like minded people. Some have been my friends since the golden days,this masquerade has only served to galvanise us even more. Their credentials and character unquestioned, its comforting to know that you have mates by your side when in battle!
Some others who I’ve discovered along the way, like your good self Frank, have opened my eyes with your knowledge and unbelievable information.
Also, I find I generate strength from the earth. To this end in my daily travels, I drift towards past places of positivity. Soccer fields where I’ve scored goals, parks where I’ve taken the children, picnic spots where I’ve thrown the blanket down with the wife.
These settings keep the old world fresh in my mind, cause these fuckers don’t want us to remember anything before January 2020!
I believe I have to be at my best self at this juncture in time to make these life defining decisions. I walk two hours a day as the Sun rises,no bread, no sugar. I’m reading more than ever and writing my thoughts down spontaneously. I feel I am ready for anything at anytime. Funnily enough with this mindset,
I am more relaxed than I’ve ever been.
I’m tolerant of people with different opinions, fear does weird things to an individuals thought process.So I try to empathise…
As long as they don’t tell me what to do or influence the trajectory of my family. Otherwise I will hit them with a barrage that will singe their ears!
I am in shock as to the level of bullying and coercion on MSM. This I must say I didn’t see coming, truthfully I will never trust a bloody thing these mongrels say again. Here we are facing the very real pandemic of children being tormented on social media from their persecuting peers. Disastrously leading to an increase in suicide and depression. Now on a larger scale this is happening to the whole population due to the manipulation from MSM. I don’t know how these people sleep at night, as a collective they should all live in shame for the rest of their days!
I’m also in disbelief processing how the hell people unconditionally believe these institutionalised egomaniacs called Politicians and CHOs. All I see is a (cluster) of unremarkable individuals with too much power and influence, hooked on intruding into our lives.
So much has changed! What has not changed is that I am someone who has always looked out for the underdog. We now have some new underdogs, and not all of them are dirt poor, which is strange to me. I am glad to see homeschooling grow by leaps and bounds. The wealth of online educational resources we are now blessed with surely makes it easier. Freeing more kids from the school-to-prison pipeline is all to the good, though I expect the shortfall will be made up by undocumented immigrants of all ages. As someone who has recently learned to view vaccines in general with skepticism, I find myself sympathizing with some conservative folks these days, but I still get a chuckle out of how they make martyrs of themselves over being excluded from venues and events that they never had any trouble buying their way into before and are now outraged to find themselves in the company of the unwashed masses who have always been excluded. They still hate/fear refugees, though they are one step away from being declared illegal too.
I do not recognize what is now being referred to as "the left". Equal rights and justice are no longer part of their agenda, so I am now politically homeless, even more than before, as I used to vote Green, but with Greens now supporting the coercive mandates, I can no longer support them either. The rich are still paying the parties and their media to divide the poor along tribal lines of red v. blue because it always works. Is "The Great Resignation" a good thing or not? That is still to be determined. I expect it will be a mixed bag. And I had not foreseen the effects of pervasive endocrine disruptors wreaking such havoc on society as they are doing now. Socially, I am laying low, just trying to keep my good union job and appreciating my abundantly loving and cozy home life more than ever. But also wishing I could go visit my family in the US (from BC, Canuckistan). Being unjabbed, I am forbidden from many activities and venues and from travel now, but it can't last forever. Can it? And the social media landscape has become even more terrifying. Between the ramping up of censorship, propaganda, and digital spying, it's hard for even an introvert not to feel isolated, alienated, and paranoid. Wish I could just sleep thru it.
Yes I have. In no particular order or genre:
I didn't know there was such as thing as narratives and that people had their finger on the scales. Now I see them everywhere.
I had a tolerant, almost trusting, relationship with Western government authority. Now I both fear and despise it.
I had varying degrees of respect for different institutions, legal, medical, media. Now there is none.
I trusted all vaccines and never thought the anti-people might know a thing or too that was worth knowing. I'm now one of those anti-people.
I never really understood communism. Now I feel I have a much better grasp of it, of the pull towards it and its many disguises.
I didn't know there was such a thing as a Mass Psychosis. I understood mania's through the financial lens of bull and bear markets. I didn't realise those emotions could be messed with to the point of corruption.
I discovered Thomas Sowell during this time. Discovering Thomas changes you. "Compared to what?" and "Show me the evidence!" So grateful that I did before he moves on.
I allowed Jordan Peterson to wake me up to the psychological meanings coded into the Bible stories. I watched his 40 hours of lectures and so grateful that my 22 yo son did the same.
My circle of friends grew smaller. I didn't start off with that many to begin with. I need to work on finding new friends in the old, analog, sense of the world. It's not going to be easy.
I read more in these 21 months than I ever did before...and I was a reader to begin with.
I discovered that knowing whether something was true, or likely to be true, or not true was really, really important to me.
I discovered that I could reach really good probabilistic conclusions in times of high uncertainty and poor information.
I've been much angrier than usual for far too long.
I never thought I would end up on Twitter and now Telegram.
I thought the climate change story was real. Silly me. I discovered Judith Curry.
I thought Bill Gates was a good guy focused on malaria. Silly me again.
I never thought that free people would find the burden of that freedom so great that they would eagerly hand it back.
I discovered Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
I discovered Hannah Arendt.
I learned how to make hand sanitizer.
I really used to like Sam Harris. I cannot stand the man anymore.
I thought Trump was the devil, then he said "the cure cannot be worse than the disease" and I woke up, but then he made sure that the cure was worse than the disease. Fuck.
I think I am quite a different person today than I was in Feb20. If I met my Feb20 self at a bar, I don't think he would believe a single word I said to him.
1. I have gotten a lot quieter. I don't express myself. I follow the "gray rock" strategy.
2. I don't drink alcohol anymore.
3. I've lost faith in the medical community.
4. I've lost respect for my Church. (but am still Catholic)
It is impossible to stay the same in times of war. Failed relationships, disillusionment, broken friendships. Awareness about the level of trauma and fear that exists in this world. I had no idea that people disbelieve their power, rely on authority so much and could display such infantilism. Maturing, therefore. Healing the broken pieces. A somber mood prevails but I know it will go. Finding new meaning. A wonderful dog rescue. Learning about genetic engineering, telemedicine, nanotechnologies, new immunization methods. Flabbergasted to see how many people have the "policeman in their head" and live in victimhood, Makes me wonder: is there so much abuse in the family world that people are unable to see they are being abused by authorities?
Human relationship is the most affected of all. "They" wanted it that way. To ultimately divide us in order to conquer us. How the most vaccinated don't give a thought to the unvaxed. They don't care about the impacts of the measures on others if they were/are not impacted. Worse, some benefitted from the measures.
Healthy people literally keeping their distance from other healthy people outdoors. This is not normal human behaviour.
Yes, less patient and tolerance of idiots. Short tempered, don't respond kindly to nonsense.
Aside from my wife, son, and store clerks and restaurant servers, I have severed ties with all society. My circle was one of the most highly educted and wealthy in the States. I found out they are all fools.
I see a bit of myself in all of the comments. The only thing I would add is that I've become aware of the power of gratitude, every day, every hour, every minute for all of the things in my life that are going right. For all of the great things I've been taught. For all of the wonderful people throughout my life that touched me and changed me for the better and given me hope. The list is too huge for this thread.
The media and politicians can stick their fear up their own rears, I refuse to accept it.
I also believe we are here on earth at this time for a reason. Now is the time to put on the full armor of God: Ephesians 6:10-17 and Philippians 4:4-9.
Faith over fear.
Hmmm yeah. I was very uninvolved politically, hated standing out, just wanted to live peacefully. Now I am motivated to do whatever it takes even if I lose my job, get arrested, etc, to restore freedom to our countries and expose the lies. I trusted our government and didn't think much about it. Now I am their enemy and I theirs and I am afraid of them. I no longer assume I'll continue living life in peace and prosperity. I am considering leaving my beloved country. But I am seeking God more and treasuring the eternal more.
My values have not changed. I won't allow no bitch-arse bioweapons to change my values!
Ditto with my beliefs.
However, I've dissed all the hitherto "respectable" professions and associations - from academia, law, lawyers, human rights, med and $cience. They did not have much respect for the media and big biz before 2020 anyway. Being a non-science person, I was - and still am - astonished by how corrupt $cience is. I was shocked to learn that about ~50% of peer-reviewed scientific publications are fraucis (frauds). They even had the gumption to defraud us with the HCQ hit knowing the whole world was waiting for their study. That is real chutzpah. A brazen demonstration of their control that they could commit a blatant fraud, knowing they won't suffer any temporal consequences. (To add spice and sex to the fraud, a staffer of Surgisphere, which concocted the data, was a former porn star!)
I look at people in general with a combination of puzzlement, compassion and some angst. They don't ask questions, and don't do their own reading! If the scams occurred in 20th century, pre-internet, I can understand more as info was difficult to access. However, now they have an abundance of info at their fingertips, literally, if they would spend time to search widely. In 2020 I even offered my collection of links to strangers. They all declined! Even my dentist declined, saying she wanted to her research "independently". Oh, the irony!
I see that letters after their names mean nothing in terms of insight, character, and analytical thinking.
I see that people over-rate others and themselves. Actually, I've observed this over-estimation years ago. i think it is human nature to over-rate people and knowledge we don't know. A subtle form of deference. Once we become familiar with some people and some knowledge, we compensate for the over-estimation with under-appreciation, leading to the familiar observation that "familiarity breeds contempt". Take Frauci. Who, rationally, would not diss him if his lies were known?
I see that people don't have an inquiring mind or disposition.
I see how easy it is to manipulate and control people.
Of course, whenever we deal with people, there are always exceptions. Proof? Observe the exceptional people and achievements or attainments in every aspect of life - from the physical to the intellectual, to wisdom.
Hey Frank,
I’ve certainly changed.
No more floating around trusting my surrounds anymore, the war paint is now a necessity everyday. Decided to stop drinking alcohol approx nine months ago, clarity is like a superpower!
No coincidence I’ve gravitated towards like minded people. Some have been my friends since the golden days,this masquerade has only served to galvanise us even more. Their credentials and character unquestioned, its comforting to know that you have mates by your side when in battle!
Some others who I’ve discovered along the way, like your good self Frank, have opened my eyes with your knowledge and unbelievable information.
Also, I find I generate strength from the earth. To this end in my daily travels, I drift towards past places of positivity. Soccer fields where I’ve scored goals, parks where I’ve taken the children, picnic spots where I’ve thrown the blanket down with the wife.
These settings keep the old world fresh in my mind, cause these fuckers don’t want us to remember anything before January 2020!
I believe I have to be at my best self at this juncture in time to make these life defining decisions. I walk two hours a day as the Sun rises,no bread, no sugar. I’m reading more than ever and writing my thoughts down spontaneously. I feel I am ready for anything at anytime. Funnily enough with this mindset,
I am more relaxed than I’ve ever been.
I’m tolerant of people with different opinions, fear does weird things to an individuals thought process.So I try to empathise…
As long as they don’t tell me what to do or influence the trajectory of my family. Otherwise I will hit them with a barrage that will singe their ears!
I am in shock as to the level of bullying and coercion on MSM. This I must say I didn’t see coming, truthfully I will never trust a bloody thing these mongrels say again. Here we are facing the very real pandemic of children being tormented on social media from their persecuting peers. Disastrously leading to an increase in suicide and depression. Now on a larger scale this is happening to the whole population due to the manipulation from MSM. I don’t know how these people sleep at night, as a collective they should all live in shame for the rest of their days!
I’m also in disbelief processing how the hell people unconditionally believe these institutionalised egomaniacs called Politicians and CHOs. All I see is a (cluster) of unremarkable individuals with too much power and influence, hooked on intruding into our lives.
They want us to feel alone and isolated.
But we are not!
They want us to comply and cower.
But we will not!
Jason
So much has changed! What has not changed is that I am someone who has always looked out for the underdog. We now have some new underdogs, and not all of them are dirt poor, which is strange to me. I am glad to see homeschooling grow by leaps and bounds. The wealth of online educational resources we are now blessed with surely makes it easier. Freeing more kids from the school-to-prison pipeline is all to the good, though I expect the shortfall will be made up by undocumented immigrants of all ages. As someone who has recently learned to view vaccines in general with skepticism, I find myself sympathizing with some conservative folks these days, but I still get a chuckle out of how they make martyrs of themselves over being excluded from venues and events that they never had any trouble buying their way into before and are now outraged to find themselves in the company of the unwashed masses who have always been excluded. They still hate/fear refugees, though they are one step away from being declared illegal too.
I do not recognize what is now being referred to as "the left". Equal rights and justice are no longer part of their agenda, so I am now politically homeless, even more than before, as I used to vote Green, but with Greens now supporting the coercive mandates, I can no longer support them either. The rich are still paying the parties and their media to divide the poor along tribal lines of red v. blue because it always works. Is "The Great Resignation" a good thing or not? That is still to be determined. I expect it will be a mixed bag. And I had not foreseen the effects of pervasive endocrine disruptors wreaking such havoc on society as they are doing now. Socially, I am laying low, just trying to keep my good union job and appreciating my abundantly loving and cozy home life more than ever. But also wishing I could go visit my family in the US (from BC, Canuckistan). Being unjabbed, I am forbidden from many activities and venues and from travel now, but it can't last forever. Can it? And the social media landscape has become even more terrifying. Between the ramping up of censorship, propaganda, and digital spying, it's hard for even an introvert not to feel isolated, alienated, and paranoid. Wish I could just sleep thru it.