We assemble upon a great digital battlefield in the fight for our republic. It is critical to reflect upon the values that form the foundation of our national assembly…. “Isolation starts with a rebellion against God“, we must be conscious about the need to connect.
It’s hard to believe this image was originally shared on these pages and discussed almost a decade ago.
There was just something about the shift in messaging from the totalitarian left that sounded an internal alarm amid those who were focused on the open dismissal of liberty and freedom that resounded from the drumbeat of the Obama era.
“Fundamental change” was a looming catch phrase many just seemed to ignore.
And here we are… divided by a network of seemingly intoxicating systems; many purposefully driven by the modern dynamic of social media, steering a tribal outcome we are only now just beginning to fathom.
Ultimately the collective weight of progressive leftism is putting us is isolation. There are many historic references to this disconcerting sentiment to review with hindsight.
We saw this coming…. we just didn’t know the entry vector that would be used to accomplish the final stages of diminished freedom and individual liberty. As we look at the current COVID-19 mandates, dictates and controls one cannot easily dismiss the weaponized use of a virus to attain division under the guise of “social distancing.”
When we initially asked the question: “where would you choose to live“, we had no idea a virus would be purposeful to enhance the objectives of social engineering, isolation and ultimately, painfully, oppression. Oblivious to the grand design, we allowed a seemingly disparate network of big tech companies to control communication. The COVID aspect now generates in the physical world exactly the same distance created in the digital world.
It might, heck, -check that- it does seem overwhelming at times. But that is the nature of this collectivist strategy. That is the purpose of this bombardment. We must hold strong and push back against their lies and manipulations. If you look closely at their attack, it is weak and much of it is psychological bait. Do not fall into the trap of despair.
When I share the message “live your best life”, it is not without purpose. Every moment that we allow the onslaught to deter us from living our dreams, is a moment those who oppose our nation view as us taking a knee. Do not allow this effort to succeed.
You might ask yourself how can I, one person, a flea looking into a furnace, retain an optimistic disposition while all around me seems chaotic and mad.
That’s the point; it ‘seems’ chaotic and mad because it has been created to appear that way. There are more of us than them; they just control the systems that allow us to connect, share messages and recognize the scale of our assembly.
In/around July 2020 it was obvious in my travels we were on the precipice of a disconnect from human interaction that would numb our psyche to what ultimately matters, fellowship.
Not only are various governmental agencies forcing the separation of people from their community networks, we are also seeing faith-based organizations, churches, buying into the fear. Even in areas where churches are not forcibly shut down, many are seeing a structural shift where some faith leaders are willingly ostracizing their community under the guise of various COVID alarms. This is not good…. not good at all.
Fellowship is the essential ingredient to a purposeful life. How and why we interact with each-other is how and why we recharge our core humanity. To see faith leaders willing to separate from the function of fellowship is alarming. However, as individuals we must not allow this foreboding sense to become the normal expectation.
Throughout history large armies have been defeated through the process of division. It is not a leap to see the same strategic objectives being deployed against social assemblies including congregations. It is puzzling how many in leadership cannot see the danger in social and spiritual distance when the bond of fellowship is needed more than ever.
Each of us has a different connection to our community. Each of us has a different level of internal strength… such is the nature of living. However, the distance between people is manifestly not a good outcome when combined with the lack of food for the soul.
The influence of social media is already troublesome, physically distancing from human engagement only worsens the impact. There is no digital replacement for the true fellowship of humanity on a personal level.
Ultimately it is the currency of human connection that is the true value in our lives.
We have each felt how our positive influence upon the lives of others nourishes our own sense of purpose and fulfillment… Do not lose that. Do not think you can compensate for that through other arbitrary measures; you cannot.
With local, state and federal leaders moving beyond the workplace distance; and beyond the community distance; and beyond the church distance; and now entering your home to tell you the importance of separating yourself from your family we must evaluate these arbitrary decrees very deliberately.
Evaluate very closely what we are willing to give up. Perhaps we are in this position today because we didn’t sit still enough and contemplate the real priorities in our lives.
Our liberty is inherent.
Our freedom is inherent.
The removal of both requires consent.
I choose not to disconnect.
I choose purpose.
I choose my own humanity.
Love to all,
~ Sundance
[…] I asked a gentleman for the location to a convenience store to purchase some mints to chew throughout the day. I was directed to a specific store.
When I made my purchase, the mask on the other side of the counter was as sad as many that day, but I felt compelled to ask how she was doing. The typical “been better” was the return. However, as I started to walk away… I turned back: “what’s wrong”?
For the next few minutes I listened as I met a mom of four kids who was 15 days from a COVID-based eviction. There was really no-one to blame; and worse, for her no-where to turn. She was looking for housing grants to avoid the most painful decision in her short 30-year-life.
You see, there was a reason why I went into that store that afternoon, at least that’s what I told her; and there was a reason why she was there. In part with your support, and after putting all other tasks in the appropriately unimportant place they deserved, WE (yes, you and me) together found a solution and provided the resources she needed. Starfish dude strikes again… this time with His help and your help.
It would have been very easy to walk out and accept that simple: “been better”. Heck, I think of all the times I have done that before…. but not this time. This time something nagged about it…. and so I turned around and found tears, fellowship – and mints.
The next day another stroll, a little lost, and a veteran on the street… I can’t tell you his story because that’s for another day… but it is just as important and just as profound. As I walked away from him many minutes later he yelled at me: “HEY DUDE”. I turned my unmasked smile back in his direction only to have him say: “we need more people like you in charge”… Thumbs up, and I continued my travels.
Which is really the point of writing all this. Our nation needs more people like you, right now. Don’t wait… engage life, get optimistic however you need to do it. Then let that part of you shine right now… This is how we fight. Hold up that flag; give the starter smile… rally to the standard you create and spread fellowship again.
….God knows we need it.
Havnt changed the way I do anything.I refuse to kneel before the Children of Satan.In fact I’m taking the FIGHT to them.As The great Bill Jordan said- “Theres no second place winner”. This is The Final Battle between good and evil. FIGHT.
Me too. Desantis will beat Biden
The importance of maintaining fellowship with other believers is critical in difficult times to encourage each other.
Hebrews 10:23-25
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Sundance says:
“Our liberty is inherent.
Our freedom is inherent.
The removal of both requires consent.”
Learned today that, in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Silverado Golf Course is actively using a COVID passport system for all of their employees. It was designed by a Scottsdale company called BuddyCheque.
And they want us to know that they Love, Love, LOVE IT!
It’s an app that also includes your antibody status, along with vaccination record.
For now, it is only COVID, but the company says it will ultimately include all of your vaccination records.
(Do you think that it will stop there?)
As a now-retired health care professional, I have to ask–What ever happened to all of the healthcare information privacy laws that were supposed to protect patients’ medical information from prying eyes?
Consider all of those Consent forms that you sign.
And who belongs to it,and the workforce is primarily made of what?
“Learned today that, in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Silverado Golf Course is actively using a COVID passport system for all of their employees. It was designed by a Scottsdale company called BuddyCheque.”
send me the app link….I’ll hack it
and replace the database with a great big sql of fake names.
mickey mouse, handicap +40, former olympic comedian, vaccinated in 1945 against tyranny.
be glad to help out any way I can.
ps…do not release ANY of your Personal Identifiable Information to anyone or anything and especially some unknown app on a mobile phone. You will regret it…trust me.
the biggest risk right now is the collection of a massive trove of PII from otherwise compliant but ignorant people.
hackers are just salivating at that new exploit.
don’t tempt fate.
Just be careful of a honeytrap, tiger. We usedta could change ports for a wild and fun chase, but port sniffers now shut that down. Stay frosty.
I piss everybody off by reading everything I sign. Medical forms, financial forms, anything that could be in any way binding or compromising. “Just sign here!” I always respond politely but firmly “I don’t sign anything without reading it.” Some people understand that, some get very huffy. I still read it.
I have had to deal w/a bunch of doc offices lately, and there is one form that they are foaming at the mouth for me to sign, when I refuse they get really angry. I keep telling them I don’t understand it and am not going to sign something I don’t understand. It says on the form they cannot deny me treatment if I don’t sign, but I don’t know how long that will last. HIPPA is dead.
My doctor of 10 years is harassing me to go online to complete forms. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I do that. Been ignoring his emails for months.
I am so glad that God has created this wonderful TREE for me and so many others.
Yes my friend, he did. To know this is blessed.
And a example of living your best life,
Gov. Greg Gianforte – who made headlines when he “body slammed” a reporter in 2017 – has officially ended Montana’s mask mandate.
“When it comes down to it, I trust Montanans, and together we can combat this public health and economic pandemic with personal responsibility and by looking out for one another.”
Newly Elected Montana Governor Greg Gianforte Ends State Mask Mandate
Montana’s Republican Governor, Greg Gianforte, revoked the statewide mask mandate instituted by his Democrat predecessor, fulfilling a campaign promise. Governor
Yeah, but he allowed counties to impose more stringent requirements. And we have a lot of county health directors with too much power and too little common sense.
Nice to see you Auntie! 😀
Are masks required in Kalispell? Libby? Whitefish? would like to visit in April. Thank you.
Whitefish, yes, by city mandate. (both counties and cities can set their own requirements under the new EO)
Flathead county nor any other city in it has a mandate AFAIK.
No idea about Libby/Lincoln county but not aware of any mandate.
This link might help you find information:
https://montana.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b
Sadly Lewis and Clark county still mandates. My hubby bear and I, however, ignore that. We have found many businesses don’t force the issue.
I watched a protest in Victoria Australia and one of the protesters opined something akin to: Booze stores are considered essential services, but houses of worship are considered non-essential. Nurturing souls is not essential but getting booze is a staple of life.
Be not drunk with wine but be filled with the spirit.
There are 2 competing spirits in Australia it seems.
Sad that the fake one is winning.
Authorities know that the liquor stores would be quickly vandalized if they weren’t allowed to open their doors to those addicted to alcohol. (“Essential service” is a euphemism.)
Same thing here in California with the marajuana stores. State was sued because of it, and were forced to allow churches to reopen.
Sadly, many are still closed by choice.
I have been sharing your “Live your best life” message, Sundance. It is important.
The Down the Babbitt Hole video has been memory-holed by Big Tech. Is there anyway you can post it on your computer infrastructure for further critical analysis of detail? Thanks for all you do.
That sounds like a great message. I want to hear that.
Gatweway Pundit wrote about the claims in the ‘Down the Babbit hole’ video. Ashli Babbits’ legal team have released a statement. Oddly, though, they do not identify themselves, but just leave an aol email address for help in identifying some people who were around her that day: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/help-ashli-babbitts-legal-team-identify-person-interest-described-appalling-behavior-police-shot/
The timing in the video being posted here, and GWP link was weird. Something ain’t right.
Leave, it felt fishy to me too.
Most of the commenters over at GWP thought it was suspicious too.
I went to the hyperlinks. The original story with the picture. The picture hyperlinks aren’t working and the comments are not there. Maybe some things got left behind in the migration.
They all work for me. You can also try right clicking on the link and have it open in a new window or hold the ctrl key down and right click on the link and it will open a new window.
It was a around a month ago that I realised I was being psychologically played. I was expecting to start a Ba HONS in Electronic Music Production in September 2020 but deferred to 2021 because I did not want to do half of it online. Now unless something radically changes I don’t expect to be starting in 2021 either. However I had to carry out a sort of 3D chess move to overcome this very nasty form of psychological manipulation. It is a very, very long story to explain why at 50 I am returning to a music and DJ’ing career that I was deflected from all the way back in the early 2000’s. So it was my moment of triumph at the beginning of 2020 to get accepted on the course. Then “it” started and I was quickly on a downward spiral into hell. I prayed. Then the help came. I was shown in all its horrific glory how the globalists were playing me, pulling all my strings and pressing all my buttons. So I took back control and protected not just my future way of making a living, but my dream. You’re right. Once you see it its just a very childish type of cruelty that most people learn how to deal with back in kindergarten …. accept for the those that didn’t and became our very own overgrown screaming globalist babies.
Watching long-form Holocaust testimonials, I have heard things I’ve never known before. How at Aushwitcz, they ripped young children from their mothers arms and threw them alive onto bonfires, massive burning heaps of babies and young children, as the thousands of mothers filed past the SS.
Several mention it, so why has that been kept from the general public, I wonder?
There was a reason the Nazis put Jews in ghettos. But first they told them they couldn’t got to school, had to wear a piece of cloth – with a star. Restricted the hours they could go out, and shop or visit. Then they put them in ghettos. Now they became invisible to their gentile neighbors, who believed that it was best as the Jews were made to seem “unclean”. The social lepers of society.
It’s surreal that they are using similar tactics on us.
If you have time, watch as many long form testimonials of the holocaust as you can. They are 1.5 to 4 hours, and the details are really eye opening, and very instructive.
You will recognize the crushing hand of globalist fascism now choking us to death.
And they literally studied the Reichstag Fire too, Hitler all the way for these people.
Trump’s great strength has been his rallies.
So first they tried to make us stop with the COVID lies.
But since the Left was doing mass arson in our streets they couldn’t stop us from actual positive rallies.
So they just literally instigated their own Reichstag fire at the Capitol by infiltrating a rally to finish installing the Alzheimer puppet.
Yeah, they study Nazis.
They study Franco’s Spain that disappeared historical events (Hunter laptop stuff, followed by the election).
You never knew what Christopher Hitchens would do. He studied Orwell non stop.
And all the Left studies Orwell NOT to avoid it, but to implement. When Hitchens went to North Korea he said it appeared they had studied 1984 and implemented all of it.
Orwell studied these people and could see plain as day where it was all headed.
And they ARE implementing all of it.
Orwell’s last message was that he had showed us the future so we could fight it, and make sure it didn’t happen.
I’d like to hope Hitchens would have been against this. However his colleagues who study Orwell just as much are still doing Newspeak so Orwell was trying to show the Left their own crimes but they are incorrigible.
It’s up to normal people with a moral center to fight this tyranny.
They ARE Nazis – National Socialists. Many americans forget that NAZI is an acronym and that post WW2 many of their esteemed “thinkers” were brought into this nation.
That’s interesting considering the holocaust was 80 years ago and there are around est.190,000 survivors still alive. I wonder how many of those were babies during that 3 year period 1941 to 1945 that lived through the baby burnings?
Unknown to most is that thousands of babies were born while the Jews were held by the Germans. Many of those babies are the remaining survivors of today.
The point of your post is not lost on me, I too feel we are going down the same road as the Jews the one that is the official historic story of the holocaust. The irony is not lost as we are silenced and marginalized for our beliefs.
Yes the crushing hand of globalist fascism which I call marxist communism is the fundamental change Obama now obiden promised is upon us.
I apologize AdRem for putting this on the wrong thread.
In addition to Sundance’s article, think of all the babies born in the last year who are not seeing faces when they are out in public – no smiles, no ” oh, aren’t you adorable” interactions, no social interactions at all. I know that I love seeing unmasked people when I’m out and I’ve stopped complying work mask required signs but even in SC where there is no mask mandate, I’m very much on the minority. What are covered up faces doing to these babies and young children?
They are has happy as a child raised by ISIS. Keep in mind the Left thinks they should be aborted if the sleazy mother was only intending to orgy without consequences so we won’t get them to be concerned about the ones they allow to live.
Also, babies are supposed to be with grandparents.
They have juiced COVID numbers and frightened the old people so much I don’t know any seniors who are hanging around children the way they used to.
It’s all satanic.
Honest to God.
I know they’re all going to hell.
But that’s no solace. They can’t be allowed to bring us with them and make our country hell too.
Not to mention, forcing masks onto young children. In Charleston a lot of places require “masks for anyone over 2 years old.” Our oldest son just turned 3 in January, and there is no human power that will make me put a mask on him now or ever.
I’m 20 miles inland from Charleston and have not been there since Thanksgiving, 2019. They can require masks all they want and I can stay away all I want.
I watched 1984 again today, just all so creepy. Our children are being programmed. Then I read in the UK they have ordered to not do DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) on Covid patients w/learning difficulties.
There was a reason the Nazis put Jews in ghettos. But first they told them they couldn’t got to school, had to wear a piece of cloth – with a star. Restricted the hours they could go out, and shop or visit. Then they put them in ghettos. Now they became invisible to their gentile neighbors, who believed that it was best as the Jews were made to seem “unclean”. The social lepers of society.
It’s surreal that they are using similar tactics on us.
If you have time, watch as many long form testimonials of the holocaust as you can. They are 1.5 to 4 hours, and the details are really eye opening, and very instructive.
You will recognize the crushing hand of globalist fascism now choking us to death.
As always, Sundance’s posts come at exactly the time when I need them the most. It has been a tough and dark winter for us in the part of the NY Gulag and we are due to have a lot of snow this week to wrangle with. Without going into detail, we’ve been having some personal and business troubles and it has been really hard for me to get into a positive frame of mind.
The political stuff has been horrific to the point where I feel like I need a detox. I sincerely thank the good Lord for discovering the Tree House and all you wonderful people who have come to feel like my family. Somehow we all have a lot in common, even when we disagree on any given topic, but we do manage to get along, even when the conversation gets heated.
I try to have gratitude and acceptance in my life – things I learned in the other fellowship I belong to, but for this imperfect human, it’s not always easy. Like Sundance says, I am trying to live my best life, one day at a time.
In any event I offer a heartfelt thank you to Sundance, his team and to all my other friends here who are helping us get through one of the most difficult times in the history of this great Republic. I wish all of you the best.
you hang tough Seneca!
Today is winning…spend some time celebrating this victory..it is enormously important to use this moment and realize that evil DID NOT WIN TODAY! That level heads did the right thing at the right time and certain people were placed in the direct line of fire and WON.
and they WON BIG.
don’t look at the numbers to assess this victory…look at the content of their character and at the real victory.
This trial is not just an acquital…It is a big huge EFF UP and rebuke AGAIN at a corrupt body of nefarious actors who are abusing their powers.
that they could not pull this off, inspite that they hold both house and senate, is not trivial
We just witnesses david against goliath.
And goliath just got pinned to the carpet in record fashion.
this has to give us all some sense of motivation to know that the seeminly impossible, is quite possible yet.
that fear will never control our promises, our dreams, our desires and out purpose.
I pray for your renewal of spirit…and I know that it will.
Keep up the good fight..and today…celebrate and have some joy.
we ALL deserve a break from this madness.
We will have these moments again…I am as hopeful now as I have ever been in a very long time, that we will all continue to remain solid in our convictions.
Respectfully,
regitiger
GOD BLESS AMERICA
regitiger- thanks for your words of encouragement- they mean more than you know.
I just have to share my thought. The 4 days of lying and crying will all be converted to pages and pages of text and placed on a shelf somewhere. Everyone is too busy and no one in the future will pull all those pages out for review.
What will survive forever will be the videos used in the 45’s defense. Pull them up any time from any archive and they will again reestablish why this acquittal took place.
Cheer and good news, what will be remembered is the honest and concise defense using videos of the bad actors convicting themselves.
Thank you Lord
I usually start and end each day with Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale. For the past eight months it has helped me stay fairly positive; some days I need to reread it three or four times to reach my equilibrium. Every single thing we do – no matter how small – helps.
Chocolate and Mary Poppins, the original version. It would have been chocolate covered strawberries, but the local chocolate shop had strawberry quality issues.
I highly recommend both for a bit more positivity.
Cherries soaked in bourbon and dipped in chocolate, I am going to do it.
Best of wishes, Seneca. You are a valued voice here. I always like to read what you have to say. Kind regards.
Amen, Seneca! And THANK YOU for all you bring to this wonderful family!
Putting you in my prayers. I had to shut off the phone much to family’s dismay, computer, and read a book, I did a little cooking, found an easy peezy yummy new recipe, I put on some music that brought back fond memories, and did some cleaning. I spent a good long while just sitting and watching the birds in the snow at the feeder. I had 6 Cardinals at one time, they were gorgeous. The squirrels have been quite entertaining too. Anyway, shutting down for a bit has helped.
Totally with you on this, so know you are not alone. I have found that keeping a happy book and recording things that make me smile helps a lot.
My hubby the Bear tells me stupid jokes also.
We will get through this. We have each other if only digitally. But we also have our Father, who never gives us burdens too heavy to carry.
I live my life in California and refuse to comply with any edicts except face masks in stores which I push away from my face and nose. The only reason I wear a face mask in a store is to not make trouble for the store owner as Public Health was fining and threatening to shut down stores that were not requiring face masks. We had a super bowl party last weekend with some of our Church family and sat on couches next to each other; my friend and I walk next to each other; I lead a bible study and most don’t wear masks; and we sing in Church (yes, it is against current edicts). I really hope Nuisance gets recalled to send a message to the idiots running this State. Maybe next fall and winter, we will once again be able to watch high school sports. I love that I have friends who know that we are going to die when God wants us to die. I feel so terribly sad for those few friends who are scared to death and remain locked away.
Great to hear! My Dad took me and Mom to Cali in ’76 and many years after to show us places he’d been as an Instructor for the USAF Korea War effort. I love the Golden State. I wish all of you every success with doing away with the DemonRat overlords. May Cali be free once again!
Deleted Twitter today!
Had a great day.
Cool. It’s a really sick place.
Searkreb, when I left Twitter I was stunned ro find they would not close my account, no matter what i said, for 6 months, they are soooo sure the Twitter addicts can’t break away. I was surprised how easy it was to stay away from Twitter, since I had been on it for several hours every day, pushing for an Election Re-do without machines and mail in ballots. The Epoch Times has a group that chats about the topics of the day, somewhat like we do here, but it’s clear here, this is “home” to so many, like a family that’s been together for a very long time. Thank you , Sundance!
Join Gab, don’t believe the BS posted about it.
Thank you, Sundance. Love to everyone.
There is a bond that keeps us treepers together. The CTH is the place of connection for many of us who lived somewhat isolated before it was forced on society or was accepted as fashionable. Can honestly say this past year has deepened personal relationships. Here in the far N E part of the communist State of Washington we ignore the fairy governor.
Most churches and other groups meet as before. The are more people without face diapers than with and an “bring on your b s mandates” attitude is very prevalent.
Me, I hug people, shake hands and I don’t mask. I live in the North Carolina and rarely does anyone challenge me. Sometime in March the Lord commanded me NOT to Mask but to SMILE always, especially when challenged!
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The Lord reminded me of a scripture hidden in my heart and said, “You are my ambassador, tell people you have diplomatic immunity.”
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So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 2 Cor. 5:20
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On a trip to Durham, NC (masking is fervently enforced) I was offered a mask but I told the ladies, “I have diplomatic immunity.” They exclaimed, “Praise God!”
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My wife and 22 year old daughter get challenged and harassed when not MASKING (always women) unless they are with me.
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My friends say I look too big to challenge but I say, “If you live by convictions from the Lord, you are anointed for great works.”
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I am faarrr from a perfect person, I even used to condemn other Christians for masking BUT the Lord corrected me and MADE me realize that HE gives His people different convictions, “Don’t be an attack sheep, love everyone.”
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24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Heb. 10:24-25
I also was instructed to not mask. I first believed it was necessary, but in my rural locations, was unable to acquire one. (I am a traveller)
Then I saw it becoming a tyrannical weapon. I grew up in a tyrannical home. This is why I don’t mask, I need to stand up to the tyranny rather than the “make nice to survive” childhood behaviour. So, everytime I venture out, I ask Him to go before me and help me.
I claim exemption status (all mandates have to have them) and only here in AZ have I run into serious opposition. Only 1 Karen, where God helped me handle her – thus far.
I agree with you, this is an opportunity for God to strengthen us and use us to help others.
Thanks for sharing and for listening.
Sundance
Thank You for your words of strength, inspiration and wisdom. We are truly Blessed. Living in Blue State NJ where mask are required, I can see the fear when I am out and about. Some people are afraid to be even 6 ft away and others just go about their day. I will say hello to people , hold the door for theme and strike up a conversation . Most People are tired of the isolation and the mandatory mask. Gov Murphy is up for reelection 2022 and I will do everything I can to help Jack Ciattarelli. We all need to start at our local level and get rid of the corrupt officials.
Excellent and timely message. Thank you, Sundance. For those in mask mandate territory, some information arrows for your quiver:
CDC, May 20, 2020:
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.51–1.20; I2 = 30%, p = 0.25) (Figure 2).
New England Journal of Medicine, May 2020
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/
Conclusion: Wearing masks (other than N95) will not be effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, whether worn as source control or as PPE.
National Institutes of Health (Dr. Fauci’s parent organization)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/
Conclusions
This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks.
Oxford Centre For Evidence Based Study
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/
It would appear that despite two decades of pandemic preparedness, there is considerable uncertainty as to the value of wearing masks.
University of East Anglia
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.20088260v1.full.pdf
This heterogeneity combined with their relative recent introduction means that we do not yet endorse using the results about face covering use (in our main model) being used to inform public policy.
British Medical Journal
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
Results The rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth mask arm….
Swiss Policy Group: DOZENS OF MASK STUDIES FIND MASKS DON’T WORK
https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
Extra linkage caused the moderation…..
Boots- thanks for all the links and referrals. I am very familiar with most of these sources that prove the muzzle masks don’t do anything except to show that the wearer submits to the authority of the state. They are nothing more than the new Jew Badges for those of us who live in Blue Slave states like NY.
The only problem is that it no longer matters whether or not the masks work. You still have to wear them, even if you have a disability such that you can’t breathe!
There are some shops and other places where they just don’t care about exemptions or anything else. and that includes certain grocery stores, hair salons, gyms, doctors offices, dentists, you name it. No muzzle, no entry, no service. It is sickening really.
The other thing- although Killer Cuomo has now been caught red handed as the bloody butcher of our nursing homes, most likely nothing will happen to him. He will not re-open NY fully because he is getting billions from DC as long as he can keep NY in an “emergency.”
“some information arrows for your quiver”
Here is another one:
https://www.thehealthyamerican.org/
BREATHING LIFE BACK INTO LIBERTY
Educator and activist Peggy Hall provides encouragement and empowerment to help you understand your rights and how to defend them.
AND
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/02/allan-stevo/your-obedience-matters-because-your-obedience-leads-to-more/
If you don’t know how to stop wearing the face mask, read Allan Stevo’s best selling “,” read his LewRockwell .com column , signup at his website RealStevo.com for pointers, and email him directly at the email address below. It all comes down to committing to disobey illegitimate authority and doing what you know to be right in every situation. It is for you, dear Warrior that he writes these pieces. Join him in holding the line.
Since stupidity is incurable, shouldn’t there be a vaccine?
Just like with the wuhan, masks don’t help, either.
Hello, is The Conservative Treehouse or The Last Refuge on gab yet? I keep looking. I was booted off Twitter, so I mostly on gab now. If you do get a gab account, please announce it here. Thank you.
I’ve had a Gab account since the days when they were gab .ai, but it seemed difficult to work, in those days. Some folks said that’s where President Trump posts. I’ve not seen that. His near-silence I think is planned. He knows we are all waiting to do his bidding.
I am! I am on Gab, but Treehouse is first place I go every day!
Example-Sundance has been saying for quite some time not to trust Nikki Haley..a.k.a.- NEVER NIKKI
When she gave interviews trashing President Trump…I was not surprised at all!
Sundance is usually months ahead in the world of politics. And he excells in economics!
Hey Gypsy, is that your handle–@4gypsybtreeze? I am @magamichigan on gab. Look me up!
It is your handle. Found and followed! Thanks.
following you both now
I thought there was a “Friends of The Treehouse” group on Gab, but I don’t have the details. Perhaps someone else in the know will post them?
Hoping President Trump is enjoying his well-deserved vacation. When he decides to return to political activism we all will be ready to join him in the quest to Make America Great Again . . . Again.
He looks great! Vibrant as ever. He ages so well.
Me? I simply do what I do. I live on a farm. I have A LOT of stuff that grows year round. We typically harvest oranges and tangerines 4 to 6 times a year. I’m averaging about a ton of bananas a month. Corn? my guys picked 5 100 pound bags of corn on the cob last week. If a neighbor come and asks to buy something, I simply tell them –Pick it and it’s yours. My daughter and I were at a local Diner last week. Old er lady came in. She asked what was on the menu, and prices. She ordered a few things went over and sit down by herself, opened her purse and started counting money, quietly, with her back to the room. I just happened to drop my fork and kicked it trying to catch it bouncing around—lucky bounce. I told the waitress to give me here check–and be quiet about it. We finished our lunch, paid and left. I hope this helped that lady a little. If nothing else, I hope it lifted her spirits a little. Life can be tough.
A- cts of
R- andom
K- indness
Live by it, and feel your own life grow.
rld rld you make me cry to know real Americans still rule. Probably helped elderly widow stretch her pension.
How sweet! It just the seemingly small things that we can do for each other that can make a Huge difference in some one else’s lives.
Bless you.
Dang, I’d love to be your neighbor, and would gladly pay for produce off the vine!
And thank you for showing the world true love.
Ok now that the inquisition is over..can we proceed with starting a Party that reflects Conservative values? One that will rise up and destroys the uniparty. Gotta do something now as the repugs have committed suicide. The Constitutional Liberty Party with The Tree of Liberty as its enduring symbol.
I got this from Katie Hopkins …go outside and just look up.
If you are feeling depressed or overwhelmed…just go outside and look up!
Ya know, I wasn’t depressed or overwhelmed- just kind of fed up with the obvious lies and injustice of politics…so I did it.
Yup, and do some talking to the “Big Guy ” when I’m outside looking up…quite frequently now a days!
I always feel better afterwards! Highly recommend to all!
I am blessed to have my ambassador of happiness.
A dog!
And she loves people! We go for walks every single day…she is nuisance until I get my shower and we head out for our daily walk. Mask less of course. Chuckle
I love seeing people smile and just light up when they see her and give her hugs and pets!
Everyone wins…we give happiness and joy to everyone and in turn that gives us happiness.
Just a small thing to some..means a lot to others!
Dear Sundance, I was really glad to read this post today. When I was a younger woman, I studied aikido. I recall my first belt test, and it was rough. One guy always picked on me, and when I spoke up to defend myself, he made sure anyone friendly to me was made miserable also. The only motive he had was ‘because he could’. I didn’t think i could make it through the test and even thought of dropping out. I loved the art of aikido but hated what this man put me through. At some point during the test I recall silently saying ‘God help me! This guy would kill me if he could. Why is this so serious for him?’ ….the next thing I know, my grandfather’s voice was in my mind, saying ‘Don’t let the devil take the joy out of your life. Just keep getting up when you get knocked down.’ Well, this guy did his best and i went down 9 times. But I got back up 10. It was on my knees for number 10 and in a last ditch effort, I waited until he ran forward to kick me over. I somehow moved to the side, grabbed his ankle as he ran by and he fell flat on his face.
I feel like I’ve been going through the same fight 3 decades later, but I have righteous victory engraved on my heart. Your solid, sincere heartfelt words have reached me, and others too. It reminded me of that day where I asked God to help me endure the unjust actions of someone. I will not stop doing what us right, nor will I let myself or others become disconnected out of fear. Thanks a lot.
Thank you Sundance for what seems to be a homily, or a prayer for anyone who can hear what you are saying. The Desiderata was a beloved reading in my youth. Think I had this poster on my college dorm wall. To this day I still have faith that the Universe is unfolding as it should, and always will be. Sure, the unfolding of the universe is damn unpleasant at times. Similar to your mint story, is the concept of the “milk of loving kindness.” I was set free from my sense of isolation these past few weeks. The outpouring of love I witnessed for the passing of a Minister who lived across my street, which is actually now a seven lane highway shocked me. SO MUCH LOVE. CROWDS, possibly violating the law by parking their cars on the curbside lane. And then my bday. Holy crap. NEVER have felt such an outpouring of LOVE from friends and cousins FAR AND WIDE. I am just a human, but I interpret these events as a LONGING in humans to just feel and Express LOVE AGAIN alongside and with other other humans without fear. Game changer for me. The attempt and the project in the works is to a create a ‘STERILE HUMANKIND,” devoid of all feeling,thought, and al attempts to express themselves. The taking down of voices on electronic media is “A BRIDGE GONE TO FAR.” “WHO” ever came up with that dumb forking idea has NO concept of the human spirit or the Universe. I’ve seen the Milky Way on dark and clear nights out on visits to CO. If anyone feels they are alone, I can tell you we are NOT. Its really amazing. I really do have the knowledge and FAITH that the Universe is Unfolding as is should. I’ve been bearing witness all of my life.
I am No. 2.
Who is No.1?
You are No. 6.
I am NOT a number.
I am a FREE MAN!
Patrick McGoohan/
The Prisoner
I AM A FREE MAN!
Nice poem, but the line “be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be” is foolish in the extreme. God is not a conception of man. Man is a conception of God.
God works in mysterious ways, I needed a home repair, the man shows up, not hard to figure out I am a Patriot, so we get to chatting. Long story short his brother is one of the bravest whistleblowers this country has ever had. I was floored, still am floored by the encounter, it was an honor to converse. I didn’t even need to leave my house. It is one thing to go looking, and another for it to come to me. It certainly lifted my spirits and put some fire back in me.
I have some health issues going on, and God willing, (prayers are needed) once they get taken care of I am back in the battle full swing. The man and his family took on the Cabal and didn’t back down. He fed my soul bigly, it was the BEST fellowship I have had in a while. I am so grateful.
“The World In The Year 3000”
by Radoslav Zilinsky, 2007
aka “Worth Enough”
The scientifically indefensible mask and distancing mandates and groupthink must be lifted. As long as this oppression continues we are mired in an antisocial bog nightmare. The woman in the convenience store needs the fellowship, but she really needs this artificia melly contrived “emergency” lifted so she and everyone else can resume normal life to pay the bills and everything else.
How many choose to avoid situations with mandatory masks, because of the masks? Even with the churches. The local churches here don’t have to mask by law but they mandate masks anyway, because of liability (I suspect) and probably because they want to encourage the older and more frail to come.
The previous covid “relief” Bill, started with liability protection clauses, but the Democrats forced their removal before it was passed. Why? As long as people are worried about getting sued by someone who contracts covid in their business or church, the masks and distancing etc. will NEVER END.
As for the older and those with comorbidities: The sensible approach is for those who are more vulnerable to take extra protective measures against infectious disease. As it always has been. But America now chooses to collapse society in a misguided effort to protect the “right” of the vulnerable to participate in all areas as usual. Institutionalized hyper-egalitarianism and ADA, to a fault. This is an unreasonable ideal, that is now part of the forces crushing the healthy in a noble but misguided attempt to preserve the frail at all costs.
Thanks for the post. Every once and a while I message of hope and perseverance is all that’s needed.
Lift the yoke from the people’s neck.
Lift the arbitrary blanket lockdowns, masks, distancing mandates. That’s what is needed above all. They are scientifically indefensible, proven ineffective by multiple studies both controlled and epidemiological, nothing more than a political oppression.
The woman in the convenience story may have felt better with a few minutes of fellowship with a kind stranger, but it did not solve her dilemma. Same goes for the rest of the 99%: We need one thing right now more than anything: Lift the covid-1984 oppression. Lift the yoke from our neck.
I’m 75 years old with a very sick husband. My church has a tent, with folding chairs to sit on. My health does to allow me to enjoy my beloved Masses nor Rosaries. But during this time I’ve learned to use my iPad for virtual Rosary. I’ve also used the time to teach my 6 and 8 year old greet granddaughters how to pray the rosary. To my surprise, they’ve become very accomplished. At their great grandfather’s funeral last week, they sat quietly in a large family gathering and prayed two decades on their own. At one point, the room went silent as the grown ups watched these little girls pray for their Avu. I can’t wait for all this nonsense to stop, but living in California has been very difficult. But I’ve learned to appreciate the little things..like teaching my little ones about our religion. Prayers for all of you.
Sadly we are a divided country on very basic issues. We have NOTHING in common. No middle ground. People will congregate in states with like minded people and live in peace. Government must stop engineering behavior with tyrannical regulations that challenge freedoms. If they do not, this will end badly as history has shown. If the citizens can not address their issues with honest elections then the alternative is only governed by a pain threshold. That’s when history is made.
I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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…and God saw that it was not good for Man to be alone.
Sometimes tragedy and threats to our way of life, some of us humans band together with other humans, we feel safe and secure with. It deafens the screaming noise of tyranny.
By one of those acts of God. A group of us, all married adults with grown up kids, but happily married, are just camping together. There isn’t weak mind in the group. I’m just the oldest, with the least maturity. It’s amazing how funny, strong serious minded folks can be. They all make me want to be better. We all used to fly to an island, or jump on a cruise.
But now we are in charge of the festivities, it’s a little more work, but worth common aggravation, of dealing with the no compete idiots in the world, who we paid thousands to entertain us. Our politics or faith didn’t get us together, but it ended up, we all have those traits in common.
How ironic.
I go to an AA meeting every week that is kind of a speakeasy meeting, in that we don’t wear masks or social distance, as per state guidelines. It’s so terrific to be among real people and to see their faces and hear their stories. It’s held in someone’s business space.
You too can create your own meetings — support groups or political action meetings or maybe just meetings where you share a common interest or craft. You just need to have a space to do it and to be careful about whom you invite to your group. What a difference human social interaction makes during the lockdown!