When I look around I see many people who although might be good, humble and smart are still asleep. I see good christian people who are.much better people than myself who are asleep.
I wonder why I think the way I do and question the way I do. O6t seems it would be easier and more blissful to be asleep but my mind cant help itself. Why is that?
I think it's the same for all of us. Something inherent in oiur thinking refuses to accept illogical excuses for this illogical reality. It's hard to explain. Sometimes infeel.likeninwas chosen for this. This was my purpose perhaps.
I am currently reading Adam Grant's book, Think Again. Excellent book BTW! To re-learn, one has to have the mindset of a scientist - to "doubt what you know, be curious about what you don't now, and update your views based on new data." As an engineer it fits me to a T. I re-learn daily!
But I also wonder what makes some "wake up" and be curious. I was not curious in my 20s, aside from learning everything I could about owning/showing horses and learning enough to do my job pretty well. I was tired from 6 years of hard college classes. I see that replicated in my daughters who also busted their butts in college and internships. They are more curious than I was at their age, but they don't have the energy to go investigate if it's more than a quick search on a phone.
I can't pinpoint exactly when I started to pay attention to politics but it was somewhere around 1992 when my husband found Rush and I started listening to him at work. I think my joy at re-learning and rejuvenating my curiosity at all things was due in large part to Rush and watching Bill Clinton's presidency.
God bless you Rush! I so miss you :(
If you started listening to Rush in 1992, you probably remember Dan's Bake Sale :-). I used to crack up at that ... "His name is Dan, Rush Limbaugh's Fan ... ". I started listening to him a little bit earlier than that, but I think Dan's Baked Sale is around the time I started to become redpilled.
For those not familiar with the bake sale, Dan called up and said that he wanted to order the Limbaugh Letter, but his wife wouldn't allow him. Rush was going to give it to him for free, but, as Rush put it, he didn't want to run the risk of making Dan a "ward of the program". So, he flew to his home in Colorado I think it was and hosted a baked goods sale to raise money for Dan so that Dan could become a subscriber w/o having to resort to collecting welfare from Rush :-). The tagline was "Buy a cookie for Conservatism". All proceeds raised were donated to some conservative cause and Dan got his subscription to the Limbaugh Letter.
I’ve been listening to the show since he died and one day they revisited the Dans Bake Sale. I had forgotten!! That was so fun to hear people call in and recall the memories. Billboards were donated. Everyone got into it. That was such a fun time when people realized that there so many of us out there. I would get depressed during the Obama years and look forward to noon where Rush would come on and be optimistic and pick me up for the rest of the day. I worked with a liberal at my last job and he was furious the day after Rush got the Medal of Freedom. He HATED Rush. A lot of the time we could talk politics but not about Rush that day. Trump and Rush deserve so much of our gratitude for taking the abuse they did (and are.) I hope Rush ends up in the Memorial Garden planned by the EO!
Thinking further, Rush really did have a huge influence in how I approached the media. He analyzed articles daily and I learned to be skeptical. He had such a knack for seeing through the media lies and showing us what the Democrats were always up to.
I'm reading about Hitler and the occult but I'll read "Think Again" next. I, too, am an engineer since age 10 when I took over my father's electronics hobby - he became bored with it but I still haven't at age 70.
I have never been "ordinary". I never felt that I belonged on Earth. I think I've lived on another planet(s) in previous lives. I have a high IQ. I got a university degree, despite coming from a working class English family. I never really fitted in and socialising was problematic. No, I'm not autistic - or very marginally. My parents were always kind to me. I had no problems there, although we disagreed on some things.
I started to wake up around age 43 when I had a health shock - a sudden problem that won't kill me but will always be with me. At that point I realised that I was a wage slave. I was dependent on others for my survival. That scared me into trying ways to earn money and, later, to live more frugally. It was around that time that I began to read about UFOs, which led me to conspiracies - JFK, Bohemian Grove, etc. Then 9/11 really woke me up. I could scarcely believe what the talking heads on TV were telling me when it was obvious they were "greatly mistaken" - to put it mildly. Then trump came onto the political scene and I began to follow reports about him. The cartoonist Scott Adams wrote an excellent blog about how Trump would definitely win because he used persuasion techniques.
And he won. And Jordan Sather pointed me to the Q posts.
I always felt different too. I was smart but not brilliant. I just never fit in well with any groups until I went to Officer Training School for USAF. I think I was just old for my age. I had the best time in the Air Force and gained the confidence to dare to be different and be myself. I am conservative now because of the military and the older engineers in General Dynamics. We sat in an open room at a missile launch site and had many a conversation about sports and politics when we weren’t out on the launch pad. Those men had wild stories from the Cuban Missile Crisis that have stayed with me. They slept at the site for days and were reconfiguring the Atlas missiles to put live warheads on them. I had a hundred or so older brothers at that job and they helped make me a better woman :)