Earlier today, while sharpening the saw, I was having a deep discussion with a dear friend who possesses a large intellectual grasp on the big picture. Unfortunately, like many of us, my friend is deep behind enemy lines and a subject of totalitarian COVID rules that would shock our year-ago selves.
Part of our conversation covered the absence of leadership from anyone, anyone in a position of influence, who could eloquently connect the challenges of COVID regulation to the humanity of people. It is an important issue for me, because I -like most of you- can see the damage all around me; yet, we are supposed to pretend this ‘new normal’ is not isolating, not killing, not undermining the most vulnerable around us.
Poet Robert Burns called it “man’s inhumanity to man,” a premise that as humans we are destined to be forlorn, because the feeling of sadness is a steeper slope than the rise of happiness. The counteracting force to battle isolation is fellowship, a larger connection to our social network.
The governmental premise of COVID isolation, quarantine and lockdown protocols are all antithetical to the essential human need, connection. Nothing within those regulatory rules has anything to do with public health. Exactly the opposite is true – isolation, loneliness and a disconnect from people is far deadlier than any virus. However, even more deadly is this toxic and purposeful division between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
No one in a position of political influence is talking about the damage to our social fabric created by government COVID regulations. The silence is deafening; however, Neil Oliver is a voice in the wilderness who deeply understands the immoral nature of their silence. WATCH:
Mr. Neil Oliver eloquently explains his position that he will not participate in any system of forced or coerced division. When encountering an institution, business or enterprise that demands vaccinated status as a precondition; we will not participate or lend credibility toward such an abusive fiat by complying with their dictate or demand. Isolation starts with a rebellion against God, and we must be conscious about the human need to be connected.
I will not divide my humanity, nor concede my core view of fellowship, simply to comply with the demand of another that I consider my brother or sister of greater or lesser value than myself. Any business that chooses that path will not benefit from my economic participation. I choose freedom!
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 or vaccination status. 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, distance between people is manifestly not a good outcome when combined with the lack of food for the soul.
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 based on their vaccine status, we must evaluate these arbitrary decrees very deliberately.
Evaluate very closely what YOU are willing to give up for short term unproven benefit, if at all – because you will never recapture your humanity once you intentionally allow it to be destroyed. Once you stop flinching at emotional pain, you have not gained any benefit from the inability to feel. Instead, you have permanently lost something far more valuable.
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 fellowship; and in making that choice I protect my own humanity.
Speaking of inhumanity:
They came with their Doctors and their lockdowns. Torched our economies, suffocated us with masks, destroyed the minds of our children, killed and maimed us for life with poison filled needles…
And now they want us to be thankful to the WHO for being saved…
from a cold.
We must never forget this tyranny and never let it occur again.
Always remember
Add. We must make them pay
…and they shall. As they hunted the least accountant with but days of service in the camps where my peoples held the communist agitators before their betrayal and defeat, we shall bring to justice all who lent aid and succor to the treasonous minitude here in my America.. Fury, what is fury, or anger if you will, or the bogey term Hate, other than the righteous response to those who endanger what you hold dear. Cold fury.
There are only two root causes for ALL anger: righteous anger or you didn’t get what you wanted.
Think of that next time a human is screaming mad. The clarity is astounding.
always remember….
for me, it’s can’t forget.
because i will never, ever recover from “the government” forcibly separating me from my loved one dying in hospital.
that’s an eternity’s worth of inhumanity right there.
Words can’t describe this type of pain.
But for those that live in Christ, death upon this Earth is not the end; rather its a return to our Father in Heaven; who created our immortal souls.
Also know, that they ‘now’ know your feelings at the time of their death, on this Earth, even if you couldn’t be there in their last moments as should have been your right, taken away from Tyrants, both big and small.
sincere thanks to you, spaul.
hope your insight has not been gained thru a similar experience.
you hit on exactly one of the prayers i pray frequently –
please, dear Lord, let my loved one know WHY i wasn’t there….
Beautifully said…Yes, they know.
Excellent prose and inspiration. What a great message and just at the right time!
You guys could just wait a few years until they’re all dead from the shots. Just saying…
That is iF they got the real shot…..
Fear is fear . Demon Slick. Maybe the vax will not kill, but fear will. However you dish it out.
My best friend was one of the first to take it, before we knew what a disaster it was. My husband’s whole family got it. Jokes like this aren’t funny.
That is fine, the real test, will they get the booster? My whole family has had the shot but me, my sister just got the booster yesterday and she was slurring her words a day later. I told her not to do it, she didn’t listen.
I think they are developing methods to help people get the spike proteins out of your system. Already people are suggesting protocols of supplements and vitamins (vitamins d3 and c, NAC, Ivermectin, maybe even niacin) that help.
Magnesium, Quercetin and zinc along with Vitamin D and C. It won’t hurt you.
Dr Thomas Levy has a free downloadable book dealing with both-the infection and getting rid of the spike protein
free ebook
https://rvr.medfoxpub.com/
Yes the proper focus on those that have taken jab for ‘whatever’ reason is treatment.
We are all victims of this Tyranny. If you think our economic and social system can function with 20% reduction, let alone +50%, you are fool.
DH of 40 years, both of my adult children and their spouses and every single one of decades long close friends willingly and proudly took the jab. Their decision. Their right to participate in an experiment. Interestingly, I am the sole hold out. Pfizer paid $2.3 billion in criminal penalties. Why would I ever take a drug manufactured by that company? Moderna has never produced a vaccine at all. Why would I take a “vaccine” from that company? Importantly, I refuse to be a guinea pig for any drug company.
I am a former pediatric intensive care unit nurse. I was a nurse coordinator for a federally funded hemophilia center when AIDS struck the hemophilia community. I still remember that gut punching feeling when I realized that, absent a “cure”, every one of my patients taking blood products would die. I was on the phone to CDC weekly back in the 80s seeking as much info as I could. I was dismissed by my nursing peers when I suggested that we might want to wear gloves when we mixed and administered blood products. Yes, I was a nurse from the old days when we didn’t wear gloves starting IVs, drawing blood, etc. Former boss is at NIH now. I remember how Fauci prevented early treatment for those AIDS patients. Only his accent has toned down, certainly not his ego.
DH and I both got Covid after attending a super spreader event of the vaccinated indoors as Delta was taking off. Both of us recovered from the “infection”-long term side effects unknown. (Ivermectin brought my elevated heart rate down and my pulse ox up). DH blames me for his covid.(conveniently does not recognize that his vaccine failed-claims it worked because his symptoms were less then mine). Of course, I remind him of the email we received 2 days following the indoor party informing those present that a vaxed person at the party came down with covid. Consequently, adult son wants no personal contact (not that there was much before since I was unvaxed).This means no personal contact with those two grandchildren, 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 yo. Adult daughter finally understands I have natural immunity and so I can continue to care for occasionally sick grandsons. We will be celebrating Thanksgiving together.
One vaxed friend has hives and itching post vax-unknown whether it has resolved. Another vaxed friend just finished breast cancer stage 1 treatment. Another friend is recovering from Stage 4 cancer. These illnesses appeared post vax. Of course, this does not mean causation. Nonetheless, if the jabs wipe out natural killer cells, cause microscopic clotting and cause autoimmune disease what diseases will appear? These observations I keep to myself. DH invited to gatherings with vaxed. I am excluded. I understand their fear. And, I can’t fix stupid. I connect with others nearby who have been similarly effected. We support each other.
One result of all this is what you describe so eloquently. The destruction of families and friendships,
the bed rocks of civilization. The monsters who have planned this for decades despise them. Whether or not this was a “bonus” for them I cannot say.
I am dreadfully sorry that your friends and more sorrowfully your family have adopted this attitude. And I am sorry for them. I believe at some point all will realize what they have done to you and to themselves. No comfort I know. I just wanted you to know there are those here who empathize. I am one.
God bless you, Kat.
Thank you, Betsy. The treepers are a source of comfort and so much good information. I am grateful for Sundance, CTH crew and posters for continued good fellowship and support. Thank you!
You are most welcome.?
“I believe at some point all will realize what they have done to you and to themselves”
I have to respectfully disagree, I wish it were the case, but so far all that I have encountered get belligerent and angry. No one wants or likes to be wrong. I don’t think the majority will “own it”, or realize what damage their behavior has done to others. It will forever be the non-vaxxer’s fault. Perhaps a few will see the light, but for now I am not holding my breath.
The worse for me is the pregnant women that have gone along w/it. All my life pregnant women have been told to not take ANYTHING because it could harm the baby. It is beyond my comprehension how anyone would be willing to dose themselves and their unborn w/a cocktail of unknown substances.
There is a lovely line in the Irish drinking song, itself very moving “The Parting Glass”.
“All the harm I’ve done I’ve done to me.”
It’s true you know. If one has the wherewithal to be honest. Whoever they may be.
Because there is NO “due diligence” being done to make sure that the doses are not given to contraindicated persons.
Prospective jab-ees aren’t being asked, “Are you pregnant? Do you have a history of heart problems? Are you diabetic? Any phlebitis? Blood thinners?”….
They are just getting jabbed. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Every vaccine has a list of contraindications attached.
Why?? …Because the PTB DON’T WANT TO KNOW, and wouldn’t change their course of action anyway if they did know.
My experience has been micro doses of red pill can ‘eventually’ convince them. If you go at them all at once with facts and data, they will lock up.
Agreed…
Because if the end game of these jabs is true for all that have taken it. At 55 I will be the only one left standing in my entire family tree… ?
Love and Prayers for All ❤️??❤️
I speak out against those fascist mandates every chance I get.
“Earlier today while sharpening the saw”
Always remember – measure twice, cut once.
A sharp (chain) saw cuts. A dull saw shreds…
I have my lower left thigh as a reminder… (and no, I didn’t measure). My saw was SHARP! Thank God…
And if you are in the woods using a chain saw make sure your ATV is turned around pointing in the direction you need to drive to seek help. It’s a bit difficult steering with one hand attempting to stop the blood flow from a wound. Just saying.
ALWAYS carry duct tape. ?
And WD40
I’ve measured and cut it three times and it’s STILL too short!
And keep your fingers out the way.
Retired Magistrate here: Tomorrow after our Bible based sermon, we welcome new members into our small old country church. After that we will head downstairs for a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner cooked by our pastor and his wife. It is their gift to the congregation. Every month we have this type of social; however, usually it is a potluck and a wonderful time of fellowship.
Next month we will have a Christmas Open House at our residence inviting church members and neighbors. We have done this for the last 14 years and have no intention of stopping now. I don’t know who is vaccinated and who isn’t. What is important to me is Christian fellowship.
Please, live your best life. Celebrate what you have and do not grieve over what you do not have. Remember, today is the day the LORD has made; rejoice and be glad in it.
thank you Marcia prayers for all treepers
Wonderful message.
Small old country churches are absolutely the BEST.
look through the paper,
be sure to cry.
they don’t care if the people
live or die….
-Leonard Cohen
‘If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.’
Most exquisite lyrics from him.
More and more people are waking up and seeing the truth which is a battle between Good and Evil.
Evil Governments vs freedom loving human beings.
Keep labeling the left and pointing out their evilness.
” 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 or vaccination status. This is not good…. not good at all.”
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
(Thomas Jefferson)
What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In many instances they have been upholding the thrones of political tyranny. In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy.
(James Madison)
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
(Denis Diderot)
Look up the “Black Robbed Regiment “ during the Revolution. You might come to a different conclusion. At least for America. I don’t disagree with your premise in general. But for America it was different. It has been said that the American Revolution sprung from its Pulpits!
Our churches had always been a source of patriotism, until they traded tax exemptions for silence on politics.
The Johnson Amendment should be repealed at the earliest opportunity.
I know of a handful of churches around here that do pay taxes so they can preach whatever they want.
Until they started taking cash to process the illegals.
Yes, and I now do NOT give money to my diocese. I give right to the church for a specified use. That way the diocese can’t take their cut.
That is because they had suffered persecution by the Church of England and of Rome.
Agree! Watch the documentary video about RI governor Bruce Sundlun and his ability to stay alive during WW11 behind enemy lines in Europe. https://wwiifoundation.org/lesson/above-and-beyond/ The Incredible Escape of Jewish-American B-17 Pilot Bruce Sundlun from Nazi-Occupied Europe in World War II
His coach gave this advice: “If you ever find yourself in a bad situation and you will find yourselves in a dire situation one day, go to a Catholic church and the priest will help you.” And you know what, Gov. Sundlun did need help and a Catholic priest did assist him while behind enemy lines!
That’s a fairly bigoted and not properly informed comment. Here’s some balance:
http://www.presentationchurch.net/uploads/7/9/7/0/79708934/robert_bellermine_sept_17_2020_-_fr._mark.pdf
“…fairly bigoted…”
While I’m sure @ offcoursenation doesn’t need my defense, why the need insult the commenter to make your point?
bigot
: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group ..
“…fairly bigoted…”
Yes..
“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.”
This is just not true..
Not at our church. We attended a Maronite Catholic church when covid shutdowns started, they never closed. However they did start getting weird about masks. Then the Lord lead us to a Traditional Latin Mass church, never shut down, no masks, no BS. The community is growing fast. And there is the beautiful sight of families with lots of children, mostly home schooled.
Many of the clergy may have sided with the Totalitarians. Yet during our Revolutionary War, the British were very concerned with the fervor of our American pulpits proclaiming liberty, and decrying tyranny.
https://nationalblackroberegiment.com/history-of-the-black-robe-regiment/
That’s because they were largely Protestant, escaping the tyranny of the Inquisition and European persecutional church authorities.
My father had said on more than a few occasions…
“History is Replete with Man’s Inhumanity to Man”
Was that… Jor-El?
An excellent and much needed message heading into this Thanksgiving. Thank you for that Sundance and thank you for your humanity.
The “covid gangsters”…..identified as the Biden feds / medical organizations / media.
They have got to be called out by name for what they are doing.
Example:
“The Jabberwockies are at it again ……….. throw in a little tambourin for rhythm ….. and you have a ready made jam-packed jab session at your local walgreens jabatorium just for the kiddies.
Come one, come all to the jab event this fall at your family friendly walgreens.
Walgreens will never be seen in the same way by Americans after their involvement in the biden fed-sponsored “Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy” experiment.
What some businesses won’t do for the all mighty greenback.
In prior times, it would just be written off as being greedy …….. at this time in 2021, with American neighborhood kids involved, it is described by some as being involved in a criminal conspiracy to illegal push an experimental drug on to innocent, underage children.
How low will they go?”
When you finally realize that Biden, the Democrats and news media hate America and Americans especially White Americans then everything they do makes perfect sense!
In California, Newsom has extended the “pandemic state of emergency” clear thru to March 23rd of 2022.
An Indian media outlet has described how the various players in the COV shuffle can indeed prevent imports and exports from a region until everyone in the society complies by being vaccinated fully.
So it is possible that the statement that appeared to be Biden’s usual nonsense “The container crisis at California’s ports cannot be solved until everyone is vaccinated” actually might reflect the New World Order and not the ravings of a demented old man in the Oval Office.
But complying to being fully vaccinated is no longer even possible – as it looks like over the next 12 months, those who have complied will have gotten 8 vaxxes and 4 boosters. With many of those doing that dying or being vaxxed injured.
One bright light – some protesting in Australia this weekend feel the government there might be retired. When one million people in a nation of 6 million are protesting, the Parliamentarian form of government requires those the public no longer wants to have around must be told to pack up and leave. With new elections to follow!
Newsome, he and his aunt Nancy both liars, cheaters and frauds.
But for fraudulent elections in California, Newsome would be looking for a job.
California needs more patriots counting the ballots and fixing the election fraud.
They’ve been using computers to count ballots for over 20 years. The fraud is real and is getting sophisticated. Time to fix it.
The RAIR Foundation has an excellent article on the World Economic Forum’s “School for Dictators” Newsom is a graduate as is Mayor Pete, Bill Gates, Ardern in New Zealand and many many others. That is how they all know what to do. Every person who has any affiliation with the WEF needs to be tried and hung. They are responsible for the loss of millions of lives and untold misery .
I check that site every day.
https://www.truthandaction.org/exposed-klaus-schwab-schools-that-train-young-great-reset-dictators/3/
Alinsky Rules:
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy.
Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
IMO All those years of Buraq’s evil corruption were the tipping point.
It’s been bad for decades with the Bush RINOs and the Clinton cabal, but the Marxist Kenyan was too much.
Hopefully someday his voters will realize their culpability in the destruction of America.
He is still at it.
“Hopefully someday his voters ”
Just a reminder, he used “do-min-ion” voters to win.
He didn’t need no stinkin’ human voters.
Bind, ridicule and marginalize.
I would say that if you are in a church that treats their congregation is such a manner, odds are they aren’t teaching from the Bible and as Christians we are compelled to seek one that does.
Separation is occurring and that is not always a bad thing.
Some say the only true church is the persecuted church.
Republicans used reconciliation to pass some tax cuts. Democrats are using it to literally remake the nation.
Amnesty, Green New Deal, SALT deduction, racial privilege encoded into law, massive new entitlement programs.
Simply incredible. And barely a peep from Republicans.
They did O’care thru reconciliation, remember??
Someone recently posted a link to a TC interview of Dr. Scott Atlas. Dr. Atlas discussed many of these things.
It was a very good ibterview with the exception that not one single question was asked, or at least not aired, about the COVID Team Leader Judas Pence.
Hopefully, all will be explained in Dr. Atlas’s new book: A plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump Whitehouse to Stop Covid from Destroying America.
I have yet to hear one person in DC speak out against the continued use of an experimental drug with dubious benefits, or proven and safer therapeutics exists that could end this fraud in a few weeks.
It’s as if such talk, like the election fraud in 2020, is a forbidden subject. Speak up and you will be destroyed? It sure seems like it.
What enforcement mechanisms exist worldwide to enforce this code of omertà?
Only Senator Ron Johnson that I know of. He has been holding hearings on the injuries/deaths linked to the vaccine. But of course that is being quashed by the powers that be.
And has he talked about Ivermectin and HCQ? Has he challenged the FDA and CDC on why they refuse to promote their use? I don’t recall him doing so.
There is a control mechanism in place, just as there is on the 2020 election fraud, to silence such talk.
He had the Senate hearings in December 2020 with Dr. Kory and others on IVM. Johnson has been at the forefront as much a possible. He’s a real hero.
They are all getting Ivermectin so they don’t care, they want us dead, more power and money for them.
No war was ever won by voters dying for their party.
Wars are won by making the other voters die for their own party.
Don’t kill your own voter’s
Dumb ass’s!
When you stay neutral in the midst of oppression, you’re siding with the oppressor.
I was so depressed my last day at church, even remarked to my husband that I did not know if we would ever go back. Such a sense of foreboding as we left, a complete ghost town.
I was so disappointed that our church closed down for so long and then put such insane restrictions in place. Then I learned from a friend in banking that they were getting PPP loans.
I found that to be utterly inhuman. Obviously they don’t believe that fellowship and the sacraments are worth any more than getting a paycheck.
I haven’t been back and probably never will.
If putting mass on Facebook (no, I am not kidding) with no people is sufficient in their eyes, then I can get my spiritual sustenance from some other source.
I think I am more angry at the churches than anyone else.
I have reached the conclusion that the churches have turned their faces from God. I have just read of a cathedral in Britain requiring “papers please” in order to worship and share the joyous news of Christ’s birth when they hold their Christmas services. The ache I am experiencing is indescribable. Wretched, inhuman, and ignorant.
These ministers and bishops have chosen to serve government, not God. The most deplorable part of all of it.
The Epoch Times did an article several months ago based on their research that the communists specifically targeted the churchs and religious organizations years ago. They infiltrated them and began gradually moving them away from God and the Biblical teachings. So now they are “tolerant” of the teachings the Bible says are abhorrent.
I think that’s what all the LGTB hoopla has always been about.
But that priests and ministers should aid and abet them? And let’s not forget the current occupier of the Seat of St Peter, the hand maiden of all that’s unholy, Bergoglio.
The true Pope is Pope Benedict XVI as he is still living. A clear sign of the end times will be his death leaving the only Church that can trace its linage back to Christ himself vacant. Also foretold in the end times.
It’s not the physical lineage, it’s the born-again spiritual lineage, which is available to anyone truly born of the Spirit, as described by Christ Himself in His conversation with Nicodemus.
Bella Dodd, committed one-time Communist who turned away, told in Congressional hearings of the intently the Reds infiltrated the Catholic Church with homosexual priests.
https://www.howold.co/person/bella-dodd/biography
Babylon the Great.
I fear the USA fits that definition.
My pastor did everything possible to keep us open, mitigate the fear and administer sacraments. I am eternally grateful. His actions and example kept me grounded throughout this nightmare. I truly thank God for him and grieve with those who didn’t have such leaders when they should have had them.
So did mine. Easter Mass outside in the snow and cold, with communion. Mass broadcast on youtube and radio into the parking lot with communion received outside. I was mad, too but was determined NOT to give in. Friends were jealous of what little we had. No vaccine passports either to attend Mass unmasked. Don’t ask, don’t tell attitude!
I concur.
I had been a very active member of my church, deacon, church committee member/chair, Sunday School teacher, and I found the church to move further and further from the teachings of the Bible, God’s Holy Word, to some composite of secular acceptable ideology that changed God’s Word into what would match our current society SJW outlook.
This change has come from the higher echelons of church organizations. It isn’t one denomination that is doing this, it is nearly every single flavor – Catholic, Protestant, it is all moving toward the secular instead of the sacred.
Church member is dropping, and it isn’t because churches condemn behavior that is abhorrent in God’s sight.
I still have my faith, it just isn’t in the Church institutions, it is in God. His Word, not the new interpretations that are prevalent today.
Your Bible is the best place to go for anything your experiencing be it sadness despair anger joy peace comfort laughter etc
Psalm 37. Psalm 91. Listen to the old gospel hymn. In the garden. And HE walks with me and HE talks with me and HE tells me I am HIS own and the joy we share as we tarry there none other has ever known GOD will go before you HE will walk behind you beside and you will never be alone and look up our redemption draweth nigh GOD LOVES YOU Grammy
Is it really a good decision to put your eternal salvation at risk because you are angry at The Church? The 1st Commandant still holds true no matter what the Church hierarchy says/does.
I do not believe that salvation is such a fragile thing.
If my eternal salvation was put at risk, it is the church that did that, by classifying themselves as non-essential services and taking government money.
Finding fellowship with other disillusioned seekers of truth has been a blessing for me and my husband.
The church is not the Author of your salvation, Jesus is… And is therefore not the Finisher of your faith.
Your salvation is dependent on your acceptance of HIS FINISHED WORK ON THE CROSS. It is NOT OF YOU.
So ask Him to provide you with the fellowship you need.
One simple law, you cannot replicate the CDC symbol in any digital format. Bye bye card significance. Good luck creating an app that demands proof without it.
Oh Sundance thank so much for your post and the video. This is something I will carry into this Thanksgiving week. The loneliness of thinking for myself, and saying NO to this whole agenda is sometimes is a really hard row to how. And became increasing worse when I visited family this past week for an early Thanksgiving.
But nothing in my spirit resonates with the tunes the politicians, drug companies, etc so I’m not going to all of sudden get up and dance to the tune.
Asking to have the results of this Emergency Use Only Jab hidden for 52 or more years only adds to my resolve. So the jab information is going to be treated the same as the JFK assassination? How many millions or billions jabbed in order reduce the financial liabilities? I need to go again and find the DVD “Inglorious Bastards.”
The people I know who hear the same inner tune are few and far between. But I know I am not alone. And for now that’s all right with me.
I was also a really wild child in the ’70s. The Desiderata was a poster I hung on my dorm room from hell. Thank you for posting it.
Who are we? Actually a great question. I know who I am but I don’t know who we are. I choose to live freely and will not be told what to put in my body. I have The Lord with me so I cannot lose and I will not surrender. May God Bless Ya’ll.
I still can’t believe that the horror stories of dr. Beagle torturer haven’t opened more people’s eyes!!!
Sad, that folks don’t attribute more humanity to actual HUMANS, but I figured animal cruelty would have had a more profound effect.
Just. plain. EVIL!!
I refuse to isolate myself from even the friends of my covid “past”. If I do? THEY FRICKIN’ WIN!!! Screw that!!
I thought the “reconciliation” would be a political one. Now it seems to me that the hand of forgiveness will be more of a humanitarian nature.
“Do unto others…”
Every word he uttered was correct. Who are we? I have no idea anymore. It is truly inexplicable and horrifying.
But tonight I read an article on ZEROHEDGE about how this Christmas will be unlike any we have ever experienced. It was not the article that broke my heart. It was in the comments, where one after another faceless scribes told how they will be dismissed, cut off from their families…BY their families.
I have read comments here and elsewhere in the same vein. There is a special type of indescribable cruelty in these actions now in Austria in particular. But the cruelest, most heartless will be in those who shun their own family members during the season of friends and family.
How has it come to this, when we are celebrating the Birth of our Lord, Who is Love itself? The hypocrisy is staggering.
I suspect the families who are causing crushing sadness on their own are going to find their actions will deliver a miasma on their not so welcoming homes. They won’t recognize what they’ve done until Christmas Day, if even then.
For those who find themselves excluded, I hope they will find peace in the knowledge that Christ Himself was rejected and that He will deliver peace to them.
The most bless-ed and beauteous Christmas gift there could ever be. I pray that it may be so.
It’s pretty sad when government is offering / bribing people to take their one size fits all depopulation experiment.
Take the jab and we’ll buy you the hooker of your choice for a few minutes.
Take the jab and we’ll buy you some weed. We’ll give you a free donut. My state will give you a $100 dollar gift card.
Take the jab and we’ll let you go to a ball game, etc etc etc.
The countries that are all vaccined up are the ones with the most problems.
That tells me that the vaccines aren’t real, or the injections are just more covid. Not rocket science. Just propaganda.
It suits their purposes of course. And shockingly there will be those who swallow the above whole.
Why would anyone believe the lies from the “medical community” or MSM after the last few years. They lied about everything President Trump did, told us all the riots were mostly peaceful protests and the COVID kills virtually everyone who gets it. Since the vaccine was developed they once again tell don’t believe the lies your eyes see.
Thank you Betsy Jones. I have not considered the shunning in comparison to how Christ was rejected before your comment. This reminder of yours gives me strength and I thank you. Blessings.
And to you, NanaB. Thank you.
Perhaps some of us can do something about this. Like maybe, buy an extra Christmas gift or two, even if it’s a card with a little money in it, or something small yet cheerful … and if we come across someone and find out that they have no place to go / have been un-invited from a Christmas gathering, if we ourselves can’t offer a place to go, at least we might then become the one person who gives them a Christmas present.
Something like this requires prayer and discernment … what to give as a gift, who to give to, is it a good idea in fact to give to a certain person or might a particular person be offended at being offered a gift? (In which case, there is always someone who can use a gift, somewhere that will be glad to receive a donation …)
Just an idea … Other ideas (especially better ones) are welcome!
I like this idea-it’s in the true spirit of Christmas. Would be fun to host an open house for any unjabbed people shunned by family. We need to support and encourage each other.
Your open house idea is also excellent! May each one of us Americans act in the true spirit of Christmas this year according to what God is asking of us.
Many years ago as a single parent far from family, I would invite single friends to my home Christmas morning for a light breakfast of croissants, fruit and mimosas. We would enjoy watching my young son gorge on his toys and enjoy fellowship.
The simple things create the best memories.
Sounds wonderful! Wishing you a Christmas full of memories to treasure this year as well!
I call those memories mental cocktails. Enjoy the preparation now for imbibing later when they will be a source of great comfort.
What a lovely idea. I donate to local churches and other organizations which feed those who need companionship and meals at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I know no one within my patch, thankfully, who has been treated in the manner I described. But I know such people are out there. As my mother used to say, your heart is in the right place.
God bless you.
I can’t even fathom it. We’ll be having near two-dozen here for the holidays with a mix of both vaxxed and unvaxxed (and vaxxed who wouldn’t have gotten it at all if they knew then what they do now).
Our Church had figured out streaming broadcasts by the first Sunday of the lockdown and every daily mass since (there’s a story behind that for another time that will absolutely convince you God has a plan that is at work even now) and used it to reassure our members that we remained a community in spirit even if physically seperated and has kept it in place even as we re-opened early last fall and are now back to our usual numbers and even people physically shaking hands during the sign of peace among vaxxed and unvaxxed alike.
The point is… no matter how the “inhumans” try, there remain communities beyond their reach who DO value community and communion with God and each other; who do not separate from family over insane edicts and fear-mongering.
So, Happy Thanksgiving and impending Advent season. Every day is one day closer to the Glory of God arriving in its fullness.
“Handshake of peace” eh? 🙂
I’m now driving to a different diocese to attend Mass where there’s no pressure to wear a mask, and someone in back of me offered his hand for the sign of peace. I smiled and waved rather than touch his hand … and then, feeling bad for him and not wanting him to feel that I was rejecting him socially due to “Covid” reasons, I explained at the end of Mass:
“Please excuse me for not shaking your hand. It didn’t have anything to do with Covid … it’s just that I’m an extreme introvert!” Which is in fact true, I’ve never been a fan of the handshake of peace or even worse, holding hands during the Our Father … which is one reason why I prefer the Latin Mass, which is perfect for introverts.
He thanked me for the explanation and we both smiled, visibly relaxed, and I believe, felt better after that.
PAX ET BONUM
I love that you took the time to explain — maybe, just maybe you are chipping away at your 😉 introverted nature 😉 Have a terrific Thanksgiving TP
I never like the physical greeting, ever, has nothing to do with Covid, and like you, I’m not holding hands during the Our Father. It has nothing to do with being an introvert, which I am also, and everything to do with the Liturgy and Mass itself. I don’t like felt banners and guitar music at Mass either. It is all of a piece to me. Celebrate with reverence. It isn’t a camp meeting, it is the source of our faith, the summit of our worship.
I am as you are, Menagerie.
What you describe is how I feel. Reverence in God’s house. No loud modern music or frivolities please.
I knew my Episcopal traditions were in trouble decades ago when we were told to turn to our neighbours during the service, shake hands and “pass the peace”. The first in what I said would be a process in reducing God to an interloper in His own house. And so it has been.
My heart yearns for what was.
So lovely, Chris. All the blessings of this lovely Season to you and everyone you love and gather together.
The exclusion works two ways: We received the most heart-wrenching news this week: Due to the fact we are unvaxxed we can’t visit an out of state elderly relative who had been failing in the past year and has suddenly made a great recovery. He lives in a nursing home in a near-by state. I still become teary eyed thinking about it. Words can not express the anger and grief I am feeling. Listening to John Denver last night made me realize that the early 70’s weren’t so bad after all. I would go back there in a heart-beat. One of my sisters insists we wear a mask if we decide to visit her. I intend to never, ever, ever be in her company again.
Wood Elf, please see my reply above to Kat Ford. I just posted it.
I know what that sort of exclusion is like, for other personal reasons, but the feelings are exactly the same. And I am sorry for your circumstances, more so than you might imagine.
But for your relative? What is being done there is the cruelest. And while I know he/she will understand that it is about health, it will be hard. And that breaks my heart, too.
We all make choices. Your sister has made hers. There comes a point, family or not, where we each and every one must look out for our own emotional health. And if it means that we have to cut our losses, then it must be done. I had to do the same with my sister.
This is all a part of the war that has been declared on us all by soulless, evil people. We are all casualties in one way or another.
I will include you and your relative far away in my prayers that God Himself, our Supreme Comforter, will bless all of you this season. And that He’ll be with us all as we continue to stand strong in the faces of those who intend to destroy us one way or another. God bless.
I remember the old saying: “you can’t pick your family but you can pick your friends.”
The old ones remain with us for the reason that they are true. This one certainly is.
And the Bible tells us that children will turn against their parents. Not like we haven’t been warned.
Yes. We are watching it happen. We were warned. About all of this, in every detail.
Christmas is coming whether they like it or not, and it is what we make it. We have to reach out, and do the small things that will matter. Take someone a Christmas plate, leave a small gift on their door step to let them know they are loved and appreciated, mail them a Christmas card. Doesn’t matter what it is as long as it is thoughtful.
So many times I have had a not so great Christmas and invariably the light and love of Christ finds a way to brighten my spirits through others, and over the years I have done the same for someone else. There is nothing like it to fill the heart.
No there is not. Nothing in this world like it. An act of unselfish kindness warms the heart and soul of both the recipient and the giver. No matter how small. I agree with this so much. The Light of Christ shining through.
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2021/11/michigan-reports-17980-new-covid-19-cases-in-2-days-highest-7-day-average-since-start-of-pandemic.html
Livengood: COVID is surging in Michigan again. Where is 2020 Gov. Whitmer? | Crain’s Detroit Business (crainsdetroit.com)
no election this year- no problem.
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What did Obama learn from the Brain initiative? and Why didnt they share it with the public?
did they learn how we react? how to communicate directly to our ancient brain and bypass consciousness? play with emotions, by using external pressure to quarantine parts of our emotions from use – freezing up into fear or stress?
America has people born free in it… its very hard to fully dominate our wild minds. so they pursue the children to at least get the earliest grip – they are progressive, viewing the children they are masking today will be perfect citizens for them later.
We’ll see how that plays out when most people live paycheck to paycheck.
My fellow pilots struck a blow but perhaps our position is unique compared to many. We can use work rules and safety management systems against the oppressors. Others are not so fortunate. They’re stuck.
Legacy Driver,
Are you a commercial passenger pilot, or cargo pilot?
The reason I ask, is that my next question is.. Have you greeted you passengers with a “Let’s Go Brandon!”?
I would laugh so hard, it would cause a blowout in my muzzle!!
Best,
skipper
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I have a former friend in Australia whose son-in-law, in his 30s, suddenly died a few weeks after being vaxxed. Reasons “unknown”. Heart attack? A flaming leftist, he’s still pushing the vaxx and fully believes in all the regulations, unthinkingly.
He is not alone in not making a connection.
So confusing…
He has to believe or he will collapse inside.
Yes, getting him to take the red pill at this point means he will need to come to terms with the death of his son in law.
So tragic.
Satan is clearly having good time right now.
In the USA, people like that are displaying the symptoms of being under the influence of the Stockholm Syndrome, 2021 USA version. “covid-gangsters” are holding them hostage with threats of shutdowns, mandates and vac passes.
They keep complying with the “covid-gangsters”’s demands even when presented with the facts.
The “covid gangsters” are the biden feds / medical organizations / media.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” (C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
What a way to end my day- listening to Neil Oliver. He speaks the truth of what has been happening with the Covid scam since day one. It’s a bad flu everyone if u did not realize that. Lockdowns, vax mandates, vilifying the “unclean unvaxd”, forcing disgusting face diapers on school children never was about one’s health – it is all about control of the world’s population. Lord I keep praying to get back to the real normal times.
Unfortunately we will never go back to normal times.
Will you ever trust your doctors again? Your government? Your school board? Your Supreme Court?
The trust is long gone.
Kristin,
My Doctor advised me AGAINST taking the injection. My government? school board? supreme court? they can all pound sand…
Most of us didn’t trust them before ……. at minimum it was Ronnie’s “trust but verify.”
There are some ol’ wives tales that we are reminded of: stay away from lawyers and hospitals.
Another broad, sinister intention of the Left is to undermine private charity. An indirect result of any lockdown is to make volunteer work impossible.
Obama is literally opposed to the existence of private charitable organizations.
He wanted to eliminate the tax deduction for charitable donations.
Obama thinks all charity should properly come from the State and nowhere else.
We exist at the whim of the State.
Leftists (and Obama, at times, conceals what a severely radical leftist he is) aspire to a world where the only strong social bond is between the State and the individual. It’s call the anomic individual.
Children turn in their parents to the State in such a society, and parents have no say in the education of their children. This is Terry McAuliffe’s ideal world, and as leftists always do, he slipped up and accidentally told the truth.
How can there be any organized dissent or opposition to the State in such a world? Only fearful grumbling, and only under the breath.
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Whatever they profess to be against, watch out.
The big global NGOs aka “charities” (Open Society, Clinton Foundation, etc. etc.) are money-laundering operations — moving “refugees”, pocketing USAid via contracts for “projects” doled out by embassies to companies owned by locals and cronies of U.S. politicians, getting taxd-free donations and hiding influence money.
I’ve been reading through this “BBB Act”.
It allocates $2 billion dollars for the creation of a new federal force called the “Civilian Climate Corps”.
AOC has been pushing for this. A new federal force of young Democrats could be used for many things, including potential voter intimidation or activism.
https://democracypeak.wordpress.com/2021/11/20/democratic-nightmare-law-creates-new-2-billion-jobs-program-for-democrats/
the communist demos always plan for a new force to be funded by the government……. slick willie, when he left office, had the government fund and set up dance troops across the country to try to warehouse activists.
Reading more, there is about $9 billion dollars allocated for Non-White-Only tuition assistance.
Robert Burns Sundance! A wonder ful poet. “A Poem to a Mouse” …”of mice and men.”
√
But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects drear!
An’ forward tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/to-a-mouse-56d222ab36e33
Great ending. Thank you.
?? Sundance. A keeper. A must read for everyone.
“ it is the currency of human connection that is the true value in our lives.”
Thank you!
They think they are on the path to world domination. They think we will ultimately relinquish our freedom and they will be victorious. They think we are too weak and too divided to fight back. They think once they have taken everything from us we wil capitulate. They do not realize that all we ever wanted was to be left alone to live our lives as free people worshipping our Lord, providing for and loving our families and working an honest job. Once we all realize that they have/or are taking all those things from us we will realize we have nothing else to lose. At that point the gates of hell will be unleashed onto them on and all because all we wanted was to be left alone.
MAGAs didn’t start this fight……. but we durn sure are going to finish it ……….
MAGAs have the numerical, economic, moral, intellect and armed majorities in America and we have them isolated in dc, a portion of land that doesn’t support itself.
President Trump scared them into starting their vision of world domination before they were ready ….. they have been exposed.
I have been looking for another place to live. The housing situation in this country, like everything else is just insane.
I worry for all the people that have quit their jobs and have zero income, or suddenly are living on one income lose their homes. There literally is nowhere to go, waiting lists abound, and what is available is insanely expensive for rentals, and if you want to buy, shanty’s are going for 2-300 grand. Sad part is all the sellers that are dancing w/glee over their cash cow that they have made will have the heck taxed out of that cash cow.
Tonight I saw my first “unvaccinated need not apply” for a house rental.
Then my sister called, she got her booster yesterday. I told her not too, but clearly she didn’t listen. It was frightening, she was slurring her words like a drunk person. She doesn’t drink. She was in a nasty, angry mood and could not keep her thoughts together. She got very defensive when I mentioned that she had told me she wasn’t going to get it. Claimed she had talked to some people and they told her it would be ok. SMH. I have to let it go, free will and all that. She made her choice. Still in all it makes me sad.
All I know is this is the hill I am willing to die on. I will die by my choice, not theirs.
Thanks for the post, it sure hit the spot. I used to have Desiderata hanging on my wall, takes me back to the good old days.
Praying for success for you in your quest for a new place to live, Leavemygunsalone
and praying for the good health and healing of your sister, may the Precious Blood of Jesus cover her and cleanse her blood from any ill effects of the shots.
Thank you! I happily and gratefully appreciate your prayer.
Like Mr. Oliver said, trafficking of girls and children. Mother sells her child.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/indiana-woman-allegedly-sold-her-205302465.html
I like how the article says he “quoted the Bible” but doesn’t say exactly what he quoted. The follow-up sure isn’t from the Bible.
I have a post that seems to have gone to the bin? I have been having trouble for a while w/the subscription thing and getting replies, I don’t know what I am doing wrong.
Fear itself is bad for your immune system.
TV commercials these days are subtly pushing this isolation as “normal”. One in particular is that peleton stationary bicycle one. Folks doing there workout routine watching a screen of some great biking place in the world they will never go to. The camera pans out to reveal everyone is in their little single room apartment block. My question is why aren’t they outside and where are they going to use their good health. Many commercials seem to depict people in these little isolation bubbles.
commercial designers are having a hard time deciding what audience to play to ……. blue states vs red states……
THEY BLINDED US WITH SCIENCE!
Thanks SUNDANCE.
I remember when this madness started.
You pointed out how covid was being used to stop us from access to our social networks, the ones that were beyond the scope of monitoring by big brother. Our Churches, restaurants, taverns, social gatherings, clubs, organizations. etc.
You also explained how we were being forced to socialize in the full view of those that wanted, and needed to control the conversations we had with censorship. social media, Skype, zoom, etc.
This originally was being done to prevent the exposure of the
STOLEN ELECTION!
And with the fake media and the tech companies, using their total control of most common forms of communication.
It worked!
It also gave cover for those in power like our spineless politicians to comply or be sent to that place some call
“the bin”.
That place where no one is ever allowed to be spoken of or heard from again.
It seems that this was so successful, that they just kept expanding their reach into our personal lives to the point that some of us even willingly started censoring each other.
Ostracizing those that wouldn’t comply to their ever changing demands, even shunning our own family members.
Separating ourselves by our vaccination status, our politics, or our ability to blindly accept the latest mandates, no matter how obviously useless or damaging they are.
It no longer matters.
Like members of the borg that exists only to serve the good of the borg.
We are told we must now serve the greater good.
The greater good, like the borg is the only thing that really matters.
Converting EVERYONE to join the borg, to give up our individuality, our own thoughts and willfully submitting to the will of the borg.
We are now being told is the only thing that is really important for our collective survival.
They have achieved this by
using our fear, the fear that they created and our desperate need to make it all STOP!
Our need to return to what we remember to be our prior”normal”lives without the borg.
Science created this mess, and they tell us that only science can rid us of this mess!
But without debate there can be no science, settled or otherwise.
For that reason,
debating science is no longer being allowed.
Welcome to the new world.
PAPERS PLEASE.
They WANT to damage society. It’s part of the plan!
The socialist dream died in Venezuela.
The mainstream leftist, mainstream, is now an anarchist.
After society collapses, paradise will rise from the ashes.
This is why the Democrat Party supports Antifa and BLM.
Donald Trump was unable to recognize the radicalism of mainstream Democrats in his first term.
He will not be able to recognize it, going forward.
Nikki Haley and others, want to compromise, backtrack and surrender until the Democrats relent: that day will never come.
We need another leader.
“Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be“
As far as how to be at peace with God, Scripture shows the Way:
John 14:5-6
“Thomas says to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus says to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, if not by Me.”
Romans 5:1-2
“Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.”
Romans 5:8-11
“But God demonstrates His love to us, that of us being still sinners, Christ died for us. Therefore much more, having been justified now by His blood, we will be saved by Him from wrath! For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved in His life! And not only so, but also we are rejoicing in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”
Yes. True.
Reminds me of 1 Timothy 2:5-6. ESV.
Mea Lux est pro mihi solus. Est shared libere – sed, nolite capto furantur. Est nunquam potest esse capta.
(My Light is for me, alone. It is shared freely- but, don’t try to steal. It can never be taken.)
Listen to and read what Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano’ said on Tuesday:
We must spread this message from Archbishop Vigano far and wide!
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2021/11/20/archbishop-vigano-appeal-for-an-anti-globalist-alliance/
There are some nice FJB and Let’s Go Brandon Christmas tree ornaments at Etsy. I dropped them due to their BLM support, but sometimes what I am looking for I can find there. A couple of nice ammo ornaments too.
Check out;
https://fakemaskworldwide.com
They deserve every TRUE liberty loving person’s support!
Little kids can sense demons. A little girl karate chopped Joe “I’ll Show You Around” Biden for getting sniffy. People are realizing that evil controls our Government and society. We are in a Spiritual War and its winner takes all.