In a brilliantly woven monologue [Transcript Here], Neil Oliver weaves the story of our recent humanity against the scale of the universe before returning to a line of lights in Canada that traverses the landscape; what has become known globally as the Freedom Convoy.
Within our current condition, it is good to note our place in this thing we call life, and as Neil Oliver eloquently states, to reflect on the one odyssey that really matters – our connection to each other. WATCH:
…” every once in a while, I envy the jobs of others. All week now I have been wishing with all of my heart that I was a trucker. In Canada. Thundering towards Ottawa. What a grand adventure – so grand I don’t know whether to cheer or cry about it.”… Each of us has the chance and the choice to make an honest stand. I stand with that family on the move, and with those Canadian pilgrims in their trucks.”…
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[FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE]
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 less 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, but 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.
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, beyond the community distance, 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.
We are all truckers now.
“A life run by an overbearing State”.
Indeed.
However you’ll find Neil is a standard economic govt socialist like the vast majority of Scots.
He likes overbearing states when they give him other people’s money.
I bet ya.
The world of the 18th and 19th century, the world of the industrial revolution was so much a world built by Scotsmen. A remarkable tribe of people.
And then came the welfare state.
There are places in Scotland, now, with families where (routinely) no one has ever had a job. Ever. And family means common-law. Of course.
Indeed.
Neil will, predictably, support maximum taxpayer “welfare” to perpetuate such a disgusting socialist outcome. He’s a Scot. He’s a mendicant.
Being almost purely Scots descent—with a line of 1630 Puritan tossed in, you’ll find that majority of the most ambitious simply left and came here and to Canada. And were, in the early days, the majority of frontiersmen and later inventors and entrepreneurs. An English nobleman writing in the late 1600s noted that the “lowland Scots provided a useful buffer against the wild red men, being their equal in ferocity and violence”.
Yet if Scotland ever leaves the UK, the socialist British Labour Party knows nthat in normal times it will likely never form a govt because Scotland overwhelmingly votes socialist and those seats will be lost forever.
“Dealing more kindly with one another…”
Wonderful.
Now how do I deal with people whose religion tells them , unambiguously, to kill me?
This is sublime Sundance, thank you for bringing it to my attention.
I too have a very dear friend who has had to leave his home because unvaxxed.
Yesterday I had to travel for my work. It is now illegal in my country to eat or drink, even water on a train. I get home at 10pm, having left home at 6:45am. What kind of evil regime denies people food and water?
There is a story in our newspapers today about a pregnant New Zealander journalist (obliged to leave Doha because unmarried) being refused access to New Zealand. She has been taken in by the Taliban. Words… I cannot.
There are some very dark things happening.
If they gave Peabody Awards to Conservatives, this guy would own a stack!
https://mobile.twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1487455376169750532
Such a wise and well spoken man.
Thank you Neil Oliver.
Thank you truckers!
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This man is a treasure, you gotta love a Scottish accent ( my Grandmother was from Dundee) I look forward to listening to Mr. Oliver every Sunday. I was also glad to see this is the same network where Mark Stern is. I miss him since Rush passed.
*Steyn
We really miss Rush!
Yes, I saw that Mark Steyn was on this network, as well.
It made me wonder why he needed to go “over there” for work.
For so long, he was Rush’s “go to guy” for when Rush was required to be
away, likely for medical treatments.
Mark is also a treasure.
O-klahoma,
where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain
And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma, Ev’ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin’ lazy circles in the sky.
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We’re only sayin’
You’re doin’ fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma….
O-K !!!!!
That pic of the little girl with the sign is the living embodiment of a Red Sovine song
Carl Sagan didn’t believe in God and was a globalist ; Neil should pick someone else to quote…..
Another witch to be cast out….like Tucker.
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you”—L. Trotsky
Hi, everyone!!! I realize that people choose what they want to read and comment on. I also find it amazing that I’ve never heard of a lot of the commenters on this article. Maybe It is I who should expand my limbs in the Treehouse. ❤️