CTH has encountered criticism for our position on information. Perhaps it is important to step back and explain exactly why we should not be playing by rules established to control us while engaged in the battle of ideas. First, my position:
…”There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation”. There is only information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.”…
There are only two elements within the public discussion of information, truth and not truth.
In an era filled with “fact-checkers” and institutional guardians at the gates of Big Tech, let me explain exactly why it is important not to accept the speech rules of the guards.
When you accept the terms “disinformation”, “misinformation” or the newest lingo, “malinformation,” you are beginning to categorize truth and lies in various shades. You are merging black and white, right and wrong, into various shades of grey.
When your mind works in the grey zone, you are, by direct and factual consequence, saying there is a problem. You are correct; however, this is where people may make a mistake. That problem is supposed to be there.
It is not a solution to the problem to try and remove the grey simply because it takes too much work to separate the white pixels from the black ones. You were born with a gift, the greatest gift a loving God could provide. You were born with a brain and set of natural instincts that are tools to do this pixel separation, use them.
If you define the grey work as a problem you cannot solve on your own, you open the door for others to solve that problem for you. You begin to abdicate the work, and that’s when trouble can enter. The sliding scale of Pinocchios is one of the most familiar yet goofy outcomes.
Put more clearly, when you accept the terminology “disinformation”, you accept a problem. The problem is then the tool by which authorities will step in to make judgements. Speech, in its most consequential form, is then qualified by others to whom you have sub-contracted your thinking.
When you willingly sub-contract information filters to others, you have lost connection with the raw information. CTH was founded upon the belief that truth has no agenda, nor does it care about you, your feelings, or your opinion of it. It just sits there, empirically existing as evidence of information in its most pure form.
The search for truth, in all things, is the mission objective of this assembly. Often, we don’t like the truth; often, the truth is bitter, cold, challenging and even painful to accept. However, the truth doesn’t care. Information in its most raw form is ambivalent to your opinion. If you struggle to accept these things, that’s when you need grey. The New York Times is not called the “grey lady” accidentally.
Personally, I am an absorber of information – perhaps on a scale that is unusual. But I do not discount information from any form until I can put context to it and see if the information makes sense given all the variables present. When something doesn’t feel right, it’s almost always because it isn’t right.
Often, I find myself struggling in the grey and complex. It is not unusual to spend days researching, digging, clarifying a situation, only to discover the path to finding the truth is in another direction entirely. Erasing everything and starting over is frustrating, but it is genuinely the only approach that works; and often finding truth is supposed to be difficult, that’s why it is rewarding.
In the digital information age, we are bombarded with information. It is easy to be overwhelmed and need to find something or someone who has better skills at separating the black grains from the white ones. All opinions in this quest should be considered; thus, it is important to allow the free flow of information.
I am not necessarily a speech absolutist. There is some language that needs to be constrained if we are to participate in a respectful society, with grandma’s rules and knowing the audience. The CTH has guidelines for comments for this exact reason. However, those constraints need to be based on a set of inherent values. When it comes to information it is important to draw a distinction from speech.
There needs to be an open venue for all information. Unfortunately, when we begin to apply labels or categorization to information, there’s an opportunity for information to be manipulated – even weaponized. Saul Alinsky spent decades pondering the best techniques to weaponize information and speech. Alinsky’s intentions in the endeavor to change society by changing how language and information was used were not good. He devoted his completed rulebook book to Lucifer.
Be careful about anyone saying we need to label or categorize information in order to control or remove speech from the discussion.
You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a God-given brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.
All the actions we are witnessing all lead to one end: UN Sustained Agenda Goals more commonly known as Agenda 2030.
FTA: Sustainable development, if it was listed in an honest dictionary, would be defined as “infiltrated communism.” It was introduced by communist sympathizers as a means to “save the environment,” but that was just a front, along with climate change, to fast-track the global agenda and persuade the nations to hop on board. Behind SDGs are the tools with which to effectively infiltrate new communism into the heart of every nation. Under this new reign of dictatorship, old communism will pale in comparison.
guess it helps to include the article .
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/03/dr-igor-shepherd/unsustainable-humanity/
BTW…..the author, Dr. Igor Shepard, is from Russia.
fyi they moved agenda 2030 up to 2023
Apathy is high on the list of reasons we find ourselves where we are now.
Americans are averse to both physical and mental effort. It keeps getting worse with time.
Agreed. We are a fat and lazy country.
Political correctness is training for low self-esteem. People with low self-esteem have no courage.
Dr Marcus Papadopoulos on how Western media is reporting the Ukraine conflict
Marcus has been on this for a LOOONG time. One of maybe a dozen that knows this topic like the back of his hand.
Nobody cared about the Ukrainian people in 2014 and nobody cares about them in 2022, unless they can make some money off it, like the children of US politicians Kerry, Pelosi, Brandon, et al.
Zelensky’s NATOstan will be the little cash register that keeps Pelosi’s refrigerators running long after she isn’t.
My opinion only.
think about maintenance. housekeeping…keeping your machine clean and prepared for tomorrow.
YOU ARE THE MOST POWERFUL MACHINE THAT HAS EVER BEEN DESIGNED. THERE WILL BE NO OTHER BETTER CREATION. NONE. YOU ARE IT!
your task is to keep your machine running in tip top shape.
this requires maintenance…adjustments. trouble shooting…parts changes….upgrades…you follow?
at the CORE of the HUMAN BEING is the soul..the spirit that dwells in you. This IS the engine, the brain, the difference machine and so much more than that. It is LITERALLY a supernatural function that GOD has created and GIFTED TO YOU…Directly.
Want to know how you keep your engine running clean?
PRAYER!
Observant, obedient, clear PRAYER!
God IS your Father. He will supply you with what you need.
He will help you keep your engine clean.
But you MUST PRAY.
and in doing so, you can put that magnificent BODY TO GOOD WORK.
simple. do not get distracted by noise of godless embeciles who have constructed a plan to assert themselves as God’s and Lords over your life.
THERE IS ONLY ONE.
God Bless America
When you pray, take a bath, you need to scrub off the poop that gets splattered upon you.
Ask that those who have sinned against you be forgiven.
This will keep your engine clean.
People have been trained to accept what they see and hear. Easily misled. They don’t search for the truth as you say. That is why we are in this position today. The Covid is a great example.
To SD,there are more for you than against you.Thank Almighty God for people like you and sites like this.I feel like obi wan out of star wars some times with some of the lack of common sense and wisdom to see and know the truth, but a lot of folks out there lack these things.Father I ask for your blessings upon SD and this site and all of those who are seeking the truth on this site in Jesus Christ name we pray ,Amen.
Amen…
Amen
Amen.
I read a lot. For me it’s a process of elimination, kind of like weeding a garden. The truth is there if you look for it.
Yes I agree. And our intuition sorts it out over time. I try never to leap to a conclusion rapidly.
The corrupt legacy media believes it’s their job to tell you what THEY THINK you need to know, not what you actually need to know.
“Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They’ll only be able to parrot the information they’ve been given on the previous night’s news.”
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Well, I think that the dangerous edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts and could be while unemployment and the economy worsens he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that is–that is our job.”
Mika Brzezinski (MSNBC, Feb. 22, 2017)
Well said!
Just ridiculous. Changing History right in front of our eyes.
I keep reminding myself many times”if it doesn’t make sense it normally isn’t true”
It’s disgusting.
So to continue this childish notion …
“Yang Liwei is a major general, military pilot, and People’s Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut. In October 2003, he became the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program.”
He must be canceled for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre under these “sensibilities”. Let’s see how the CCP reacts.
Yes it is childish. I find it very disturbing to be encouraged to hate all Russians. I think most Russians are like most Americans. Some of them support their government and some of them don’t. To hold individual Russians accountable for their government’s actions is very wrong. I’m sure most Russians have as much control over their government as I have over our government here – none.
Maybe it’s just a Deep State warmup in order to fan the flames of hatred towards US citizens, who also don’t have any control of their installed government. We certainly did not ‘elect’ these psychopaths.
They elected themselves. But, when they are called out for crimes against the world, the ENEmedia will see to it that the American ‘people’ take the brunt of the backlash.
Such BS!
Next thing you know, they will be cancelling Solzhenitsyn!
That’s the level of insanity.
Stripped of his honours?
What a joke, he actually was the first cosmonaut in space… whether the Space Foundation gives him accolades, or not.
Attention whomever put that photo in that tweet:
That picture is Cozmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space.
She flew in 1963, about 2 years after Yuri.
Space pioneer Yuri Gagarin looks like this.
Who is the Space Foundation, like NASA or is it a global thing or does it belong to America, or France or Ukraine of China or Russia? Who are they, is it like the Rock and Roll hall of Fame where they can remove a group if they don’t like them anymore?
Never mind I “metager” them
Space Foundation is a nonprofit advocate organization founded in 1983, offering a gateway to education, information and collaboration for space Homepage – Space Foundation. SPACE FOUNDATION ADVOCATING FOR INNOVATION. BETTERING LIFE ON EARTH. Space Foundation is a nonprofit advocate
In other words their opinion really doesn’t matter to most people.
I saw this earlier today. They have all gone mad. I hope every person associated with purge is cast into the eternal pit of hell. He was just one man, making history. His legacy should not be impugned because of political correctness.
One of my old jokes from my days as a debater:
“Facts confuse the issue!” 🙂 😉
Today, because Life in America is now a self-satirizing parody of a satire, my old joke is what the current regime in D.C. actually follows!
“You don’t need the facts: just believe what we say! Obey, and no thought is necessary, no ‘facts’ are necessary!”
Amen!
This is a VERY timely article. Let me explain.
Either yesterday or the day before, a thought crossed my mind which bothered me a lot.
The thought?
I had just read a submission by Sundance and I thought, ” While Sundance does the Lord’s work and he provides information we can’t get anywhere else, sometimes it become exhausting–almost relentlessly so.”
Now, before I am barraged with comments scolding me, let me explain. As I am no spring chicken and have some relatively minor, but very fatiguing health issues, it tends to drain one’s energy to process information that is–to say the least–difficult to accept.
Now, combine that lessened physical state with a very lucid and quite cognitive multi-decade acquisition of information on a scale perhaps only half a step behind Sundance, and what you have is a weathering effect.
I’m reading the information, I’m processing the information, and I’m accepting and agreeing with (for the most part) the information. But there is a cost, or burden for this process.
As Ayn Rand observed, “You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Thus, as I process, the information of my country’s destruction by internal enemies–extremely powerful enemies–I am left with a sense of hopelessness. And this hopelessness is further aggravated by the knowledge that most solutions or actions–sincerely offered by sincere people–is an utter waste of time.
A presidential election was STOLEN on November 3, 2020 (right in front of us), and then citizens who gathered in DC to peacefully protest the stolen election were set up (by federal law enforcement agencies), entrapped, arrested and then persecuted on a scale that most banana republic dictators would envy.
Our economy is being intentionally crashed; our Southern border is intentionally allowed to be invaded; our ENTIRE political class is pushing an utterly needless and potentially catastrophic war with a nuclear superpower (the leader of that superpower perhaps not being entirely stable), and yet, there are no leaders stepping forward.
There are no protests, there is no resistance, there is only grudging acceptance and rationalization. Folks look to this November as if that will somehow going to slow down–or even stop–this insanity.
People, the DC Republicans were FOR the stolen election–they wanted Donald Trump out of office just as badly as the Democrats did. So please, tell me, what will change in November…or December….or next year??
I applaud the incredible work Sundance does. So my complaint is not with Sundance, or CTH or the mission of this site. It is the failure of so many to ignore reality. And that refusal to accept reality is what dampens my spirit and my energy.
We aren’t voting ourselves out of this. And once–assuming we do–reach that plateau of awareness, then we must begin contemplating our alternatives; we can no longer ignore reality, or its consequences.
I just blew an hour writing a reply to SD’s article. Then I read your comments and scratched mine. You said what I wanted to, but better.
I get so frustrated with the many that think that elections matter. It’s as if they are ignoring reality so they can feel some hope. They are operating DOS in an age of Windows. The enemy is using blackmail, greed and even murder t0 get their way, even in local elections. We cannot keep playing by the old rules. The problem is nobody knows what to do, so each person picks what makes them feel the most hope. Ultimately our only hope is in Jesus’ return.
once again reduced to our common history where we learn nothing and are forced to repeat it ad nauseum, maybe I’m in hell, maybe I’d like to wish the threats became real along with the reponse…in real time. Tired of flapping gums. This isn’t wonderland and we all don’t get to live forever in complete safety. Wake up call coming… Putin would know.
Boy, I know exactly how you feel.
God bless us, everyone. Thanks for the strength you give us Father God.
Do not despair. Every day more eyes are opened.
MC, you touch a deep common experience. Many of us feel weary. Many times, we say, how much worse can this get?
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
But first, it is going to shear away all our illusions and leave our souls bare before God.
It is deeply painful to learn that your life has been, largely, nothing but lies. You went to bed in an America that was a free constitutional republic where your doctor and your pastor could be trusted and the people you saw on your screens were probably awesome folks in real life. You woke up to find there hasn’t been a free and fair election in a decade, your doctor and pastor are blinded fools, the people you saw on your screens are mostly pedophiles and rapists, your country has been committing crimes against humanity worldwide, and the people you thought you chose to govern really just want you enslaved or dead.
No wonder so many cling to the illusions.
No wonder it seems there is almost no light at all, here at the end of all things, Samwise Gamgee.
In the end though,
God Wins.
We have to have hope, and we have to have faith, and we have to have love.
We have to have hope that President Trump knows what he is talking about when he says the best is yet to come. We have to have faith that God has heard our prayers and will heal our land. We have to have that love for each other and for our native land that sustains us and keeps us in this fight.
Faith, hope, and love. These abide.
Strengthened by God and each other, we can choose to be set free, to break the shackles the evil ones are closing around our wrists and our minds, and live in truth because we choose the harder path.
The revelations probably are not over. There are even uglier truths out there, most likely. Still, enough of the tumor must to be opened to the light to allow it to be cleansed.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.
The Enemy wants us demoralized.
Don’t give him that victory.
Hold the line.
Or, as PDJT clearly wants us all to hear: Hold on, I’m coming.
Iam a big believer in the American people. I believe they’re willing to absorb a lot…even accept “news reports” that no fraud took place to install FJB even though they know the result made no sense. They do this because peace and prosperity are paramount to them. But I also believe the people have their limits. We saw this in examples like the Virginia election where children were the priority in their vote. Yes Youngkun is business as usual republican style but we saw the people use their constitution to change a sinister situation affecting their children. Like this I believe the people will have enough of Ukraine and green deals and big tech voice silencing and a thoroughly dysfunctional and corrupt DC and they will right the republic. I truly do believe this. The people can only be pushed so far. They will install another Trump who is willing to clean the filth from DC.
This one truth seems to escape many people. Human ability is limited. The Bible states that humans have neither the ability nor the right to govern themselves. “It does not belong to man who is walking,” wrote the prophet Jeremiah, “even to direct his step.” Jeremiah 10:23.Humans were not created to rule successfully by themselves.
Speaking about the limits of government, historian David Fromkin noted: “Governments are composed of human beings; therefore they are fallible and their prospects are uncertain. They exercise a certain power, but only a limited one.” (The Question of Government)
No wonder the Bible warns us not to put our trust in man!—Psalm 146:3.
Every time we visit this site the answer is staring us in the face in the 2nd posted article of every day. I’m referring to the Lord’s prayer. The words just before the capitalize words are the THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE. You See God’s kingdom is the answer to our problems not human governments. So keep seeking Bible truths and your heart won’t be so heavy.
“…war with a nuclear superpower (the leader of that superpower perhaps not being entirely stable),”
I keep reading that ridiculous accusation. He is not “stable”. Okay. Are the people ardently seeking, pushing, making every effort to get into a nuclear confrontation with him “stable”?
It occured to me while reading this that when you add “mis”, “dis” or another prefix to the word “information”, you have made it “opinion”.
True has no agenda, and needs to filter……
Unless we can convince Putin to nuke Washington DC, I see not much hope in defeating evil.
But hope and faith are all we have.
….and the band played on. Every day it’s bread and circus.
I am a squirrels jump from DC, I prefer he not nuke it, as well it would save all the great museums and their treasures, however, I wouldn’t mind if he served the rats some Russian tea.
DC is our weakest point. It’s probably well into triple digits on the list of US locations to nuke.
Thank you Sundance for this awesome analysis – once again. Since I (thank God) I found CTH around the time our great and REAL President Donald Trump came down the escalator in his Trump Tower- I was hooked!! CTH first in the morning & last look before bed. I have learned so much from the people here in this community of like minded people. God bless Sundance, the adrems, Menagerie & all posters & readers. I pray when President Trump gets in again our sinking ship of the USA will be righted
In what seems like years and years ago Sundance talked about the white hats and black hats. Sundance traveled to Washington DC to lay out the case of corruption. The only white hat slipped a note under his door at the hotel. And here we are. One little place where we can have truth. The whirlwind is in the distance if I squint I can see it. I look away.
True dat !
Two things my Dad taught me.
You can’t teach common sense.
Lie ain’t fair.
He was right.
Edit: Life ain’t fair.
I was taught the same with one addition:
The world doesn’t owe you a living.
Excellent post SD – excellent.
“[T]ruth has no agenda, nor does it care about you, your feelings, or your opinion of it. It just sits there, empirically existing as evidence of information in its most pure form.”
This seems to be wrong for two reasons:
1.) If truth is sourced in God and God is a person, then truth is personal. Consequently, truth is not impersonal and impartial.
2.) Facts exists both as empirical data (open to discovery) and as pure abstraction, requiring nothing more than a concatenation of axioms to deliver an unassailable argument.
But facts don’t just float around abstractly, they fit into an interpretive system and there are no closed philosophical systems because man’s knowledge can never be exhaustive, knowing as God knows (in the Tempter’s words).
We can know truly but never exhaustively.
Be meek in handling truth because some day you may discover your perceptions were wrong and it is now urgent to have a dignified exit strategy.
This comment has some bits I think are interesting, but it takes a turn away from the main point, and into the epistemological ether. As Sundance summarized in the last two sentences of the post:
“Be careful about anyone saying we need to label or categorize information in order to control or remove speech from the discussion.
“You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a God-given brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.”
I’ll add: the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” (and now “malinformation” — sheesh) are just tools, among many others, to control what people think and say. The whole propaganda push has become more pervasive and threatening. It takes a sustained effort of will for a person to avoid being hoodwinked, intimidated, or discouraged by it.
“[I]t takes a turn away from the main point, and into the epistemological ether.”
Not at all! I am pointing out that truth is personal, not abstract and unconditioned, which would lead it out into the “epistemological ether” where it disappears.
Beautifully expressed defense of freedom of speech.
We on the right fear not the truth. That the left most definitely does ( with mortal dread !) is proof enough that they seek not the truth and are agents (wittingly or not) of evil.
The Western media was claiming today that that Russian cosmonauts on the ISS were wearing yellow space suits to protest the war in Ukraine. Well, it turns out that they’ve been wearing those suits for years, and the yellow color has nothing to do with Ukraine.
Thanks for the update. I found the headline to be very annoying.
Indded. One reason many people are easy victims of propaganda is because they CAN’T suspend the principle of authority. They disregard own instincts automatically when faced with “trusted sources” like the governent, favorite mass media, professors, “experts”, MPR news (yuck)…
Ignore at your own risk.
This article and your insights are exactly why I come to this site. Your ability to process complex, nonlinear realities and recognize and then communicate the deeper, larger reality is absolutely extraordinary. And of course the other commenters. We are lucky to have this place. Though I have absolutely no control over God’s blessings, I sincerely hope He blesses all of you in your quest for truth and justice.
People poo-poo Saul Alinsky at their own risk. Some argue an obscure community organizer from Chicago, whose been dead for fifty years doesn’t have that much influence today. I’ve had people tell that I’m being silly about Rules for Radicals. It doesn’t matter what we believe, it matters what they believe. You must know your enemy.
Read, read, read use the “true” journalist standard of three confirming sources and use patience as daily reality changes. Think about how long it took for the Russia/Steele Dossier/Mueller/Impeachments1&2/ …sold as truth 24/7 by our enemy the MSM who say nothing about Sussman Indictment and the confirmation in the pleadings that the Clinton campaign financed and paid for it all. And into his presidency. Treason is not to strong a word.
Oh, one of my confirming sources for truth is CTH. Sundance can read the stitches on a fastball, but he’s not a swami. Do you get and informed, researched and honest review, yes. The rest is up to you and me as sentient beings, we have the responsibility to confirm even Treehouse truth.
Truth takes work, lies are easy.
You always do great work Sundance. It’s always a pleasure to read and learn from your great compositions. Simply awesome.
Take it a bit further then
“Disinformation” or “Misinformation”
There is the truth and a lie.
Good or bad and we as a country and this world have been lied to by those who claim to uphold and defend our constitution…….. period
“You were born with a gift, the greatest gift a loving God could provide. You were born with a brain and set of natural instincts that are tools to do this pixel separation, use them.” – Sundance
Leftists, globalists, Alinsky followers want to separate us from the love of God by denying that God exists and then destroy our God given mind which has to be taught to critically think! By taking God out of schools, out of government and the public square has allowed the teaching of leftist propaganda resulting in an inability of public educated students to critically think. I don’t know who is criticizing CTH nor do I care. I just haven’t found any place with clearer thinking and more truth! Godspeed Sundance!
Great post SD
I have to comment on the research and work that it takes to gain the truth.
With so many differing sources and opinions(lenses), one needs to do
what I call “the homework”
The homework is exactly the research, cross referencing, digging, interpreting,
land evaluating all the info.
Too many people just don’t have the time or will to do it.
And that’s not necessarily their faults.
Its time consuming, brain consuming, tech consuming to do the homework.
And blessed are the people who can do it, despite the constraints of family and career demands.
Its hard work. But you can do it. And it’s way easier than 30 years ago.
I remember my first try at university. It was before the internet.
Research was a PITA. Hours in libraries. I rode the bus to/from school and worked a job.
Archives we’re on microfiche. Papers were written on typewriters.
I found it almost impossible to write solid papers. My time constraints and location responsibilities were too much for me to handle at my young and frazzled stage of life. Others did it, but I failed.
My second time around, I marveled at how easy it was to access research materials and supporting(and counter) arguments for my thesis. I was able to get my degree, open a business, and have two children in 3 years.
Suffice to say, I was much more mature, and wiser.
At the same time, I saw young people still struggling to access/organize information.
That baffled me. This was a generation of young people who were born into the internet age, yet still
couldnt/wouldn’t do the “homework”, the ease of which was astronomically more efficient.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that you have to try and find the truth, even with all the info practically being handed to you,
land the demands of info gathering compared to what the rest of life requires.
You have to do the homework.
Yes….it requires a case of what I call the ….gottawannas…… Ya got to want to do it…Apathy is the enemy.
Florida Bridge Tender Opens Bridge on 79 year old grandmother falls 6 stories to her death. You can thank Gov Jeb Bush who fired the state employees operating the bridges in Florida most where retired Navy and others seasoned sailors. Jeb gave the contract to a friend who operated an office cleaning business. You can see what got hired:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/killed-lady-bridge-florida-bridge-tender-charged-manslaughter-elderly-woman-plunged-6-stories-death/
Maybe that should read .. in order to remove discussion from the speech
Well said, SD!
Sadly, in the late 60’s early 70’s , I was young, unaware,and dumb. My parents tried to raise me right, but I was unreachable. My brothers and sisters turned out good but I was the black sheep. Not a care in the world. Dropping out of college after 2 years and with $40 in my pocket , stuck out my thumb in NJ and in 2 weeks I was in CA. and up the coast in Vancouver. I guess my point is those of us from that generation would be the non violent protesters of today. After Jan. 6th there has been little pushback of all the unconstitutional mandates and in your face dictates of our Congress and EO from our imbiclie acting as our ruler. Maybe I am praying that my GOD will somehow right these wrongdoings. One of the truths about the holocaust and why the Jewish people got onto the cattle cars was their very strong belief in their GOD and that their GOD would not allow such evil to continue. Only answer I have is to pray and pray more and hope my prayers will be answered
We all pray that what happened to those poor Jewish people in Germany and throughout Europe never happens again to them. NEVER AGAIN!
Great article Sundance. Thank you. It’s hard to disseminate to those who have been brainwashed. I don’t waste my time on them. I run into people, on a regular basis, who are searching for truthful information. After checking them out with a brief and ‘alive’ connected conversation if they’re enthusiastic, excited for more and their eyes become bright and sparkly … I get their phone number and email and slowly srart sending them ‘truth news’ related to their area of interest. I had someone in the grocery shop the other day tell me his father asked for me to keep sending more because he sends them to his friends!
I’m working on an alternative dictionary that describes the post-postmodern global dystopia; most entries are plays on existing words and phrases. Here’s one directly relevant to this discussion.
Fact Chuck: To throw facts into the dumpster.
Fact Chucker: A person or organization who tells you not to believe your lying eyes.
And political correctness is a tool used to persuade you to accept their rules.
Next time someone say “Hold on, we don’t say ____ anymore, we say ___.”
Stop em, right there. Tell em, No, no, I say that. I say what I want.
Please continue..
Reject their speech.
Alittle sand in the machine.
I still use “oriental.” It is a perfectly good word.
In the gathering dark, the will of Evil grows strong. It works hard now to find its way back into the hands of men. Men, who are so easily seduced by its power. For Evil will have dominion over all life on this Earth, even until the ending of the world.
with apologies to Tolkien
@Sundance… Re ” CTH was founded upon the belief that truth has no agenda, nor does it care about you, your feelings, or your opinion of it. It just sits there, empirically existing as evidence of information in its most pure form.
The search for truth, in all things, is the mission objective of this assembly. Often, we don’t like the truth; often, the truth is bitter, cold, challenging and even painful to accept. However, the truth doesn’t care. Information in its most raw form is ambivalent to your opinion.”
I agree 100% with you on the above. Indeed, it is why I consider CTH to be an absolute necessity in order to stay properly informed about all the issues vitally important to every American citizen; and it is the reason I come here numerous times every day.
As for your understanding/perception of the meaning of misinformation and disinformation, I still respectfully disagree. However, my own understanding/perception of those terms and the fact that I see them differently pales in importance when compared to the gift you are to the world. Thank you for being.
Such a great article. There are so many areas that this should be applied…not just “politics”.
Non critical thinkers
go take your shot without concern because that is what your government says to do.
I will add you to my prayer list.
CTH your are doing a great job.
I don’t recall how I came upon CTH. I believe it was linked in an article I was reading on American Thinker back during Trump’s campaign. I knew instinctively from the first article I read that it was truth and I had found my perch. I am eternally grateful for this site even though it causes me sleepless nights sometimes.
“Never be so lazy as to allow someone else to do your reasoning for you “
Most of the sheeple has turned into compliant lemmings, unable to think for themselves or have any critical thought. “In the year 2525………if man is still al…….ive”. We are headed to disaster…….
Thought Crime Chronicles
Thought Crime Enforcement Regime implemented by Social Media Monopolies for Your Safety.
In the Bible truth is described as a double edged sword. It can heal or it can kill. A scalpel or a knife neither one is painless .
“ they perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie
And so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.”
2nd Thessalonians 2:10-12
Speak the truth in love. Evil only tells the truth if it can harm you.
They never let a crisis go to waste but neither does God.
Great article.
And that’s why I’ve been here since I stumbled in at the beginning of the ‘Trayvon’ days.
Andrew Breitbart would be a huge fan of this place were he still among us.
As a school boy I was to taught to treat all new ideas or opinions as wrong.
If you can’t find a flaw, just maybe it’s right.
In the 1960s, my childhood, a new idea was considered a wonderful new toy. The old were frightened by the young because that baby boomer, hippie generation was just too welcoming of new ideas.
Marshall McLuhan, a famous thinker from that era, said “I don’t necessarily agree with what I say”.
Putting out new ideas, good or bad, right or wrong, is a huge part of the intellectual process.
So who exactly is this censor who knows all, who’s in possession of all truth?
The answer, of course, is truth doesn’t matter. All that matters is you must believe what they want you to believe.
So easy..
When I was in school there existed debate clubs, where people openly discussed different ideas and opinions. There were no right or wrong answers, and people arrived at their own conclusions.
What happens now in these woke classrooms? Why, it is pure indoctrination.
There are no more debates because commies are downright intolerant of alternative viewpoints. Discussions are not only discouraged, but often they are outlawed.
What happened to freedom of speech and expression in the USA?
For example, in NYC it is a ‘crime’ if we don’t call somebody by their “preferred” gender. Never mind that a male can never biologically become a female, or vice versa. We call them whatever they wish to be called at any given time, or else face arrest for “hating” them.
“Truths necessary for our own character must not be suppressed out of tenderness to its calumniators.”
–Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1815
that is a quote I have no experience with…
I went to research the meaning and spirit of the word “calumniators” to get a sense of the quote.
calumniator = person (or persons) who utter false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another’s reputation
James Maddison is one of my own personal studies in focus over the last several years. His wisdom from experience is extraordinary. His use (proper) of language and terms is equisite.
Thank you for the quote and reminder. We live on the shoulder of giants. Normal everyday men and women who dared to think big and deep about the most fundamentals truths and lessons that are both timeless and prescient. These sort of people understood the most important aspect of intelligence: it only really matter that you communicate it and record it for future generations to consider. If we truly respect that intelligence, our mission is very clear:
we have a DUTY to record our truths and our intelligence that lays down a line of ideas that will assist the next generation to survive the onslaught of bad actors.
“When something doesn’t feel right, it’s almost always because it isn’t right.”
That’s been my experience.
No Enemies.
I love Margaret Thatcher, love her.
I SO admire that quote! Thanks for the reminder.
Jesus wept.