my mind has been stuck on this question for going on 20 years. i knew/intuited that "something" was seriously wrong/off in this world from a young age. didn't know what exactly, couldn't pinpoint it, but it nagged at me my whole life. then 9/11 happened, then the wars.... and then i saw Loose Change a couple years later. that was my alarm, my awakening, my Ah-HA!!!! it's been a never ending cave dive into the rabbit hole since that day and oh my, i continue to be surprised.
the bigger surprise was the reactions i got from my own family and friends after i saw that documentary, when i naively thought they'd have the same kind of awakening i did. my own mother, "How DARE you???"....my own brother, "fuck off!!!"....my friends all calling me stupid/naive/uneducated. that rejection was so harsh and painful to me, i had to go "into hiding" with my thoughts, opinions, knowledge. to this day i still don't know how to wake someone up. they won't or can't. and i can't try to make them anymore.
I was really struggling with this as more and more information came out and my views were 180 degrees different from most of my friends and family. I too kept thinking now they’ll see but they never did. I don’t think do yet. I hope the day will come when they know what we know so until then I don’t talk to them about this stuff. It does make me wonder though what kind of thing is going on in their heads to disregard the evidence in front of them. I guess if I understood it, I’d shatter it like glass.
One of my best friends told me not to talk to him anymore about this, and if I did he'd just stop being my friend.
He also said it in the most triggered way possible.
It shocked me because we were always "anti-system". We always did our own thing, never went with the masses, never listened the popular bands, etc.
But this time it's like he's completely brainwashed, he got himself vaccinated and I couldn't help but ask him "why did you reject the system your whole life, but now you go and do what it tells you?".
He couldn't give me an answer and treated me like shit and we haven't talked since then.
It’s so weird I know people like that too. They liked Trump and see what a lousy job biden and dems are doing but when it comes to the shot, they’re lining up. There is hope for this group but it’ll come after vaxx injuries or the fourth round. I’ll bet your friend was either told by someone they respected or was so afraid of cv19 that they went along. The fact that he was furious tells me that he KNOWS something isn’t right so you are the first person who forced him to THINK about it. He’s one that will find you and apologize some day. You did GOOD and you did all you could for him!!!
yes. i made the "joke" to an old friend that if CNN told you experts say the sky is yellow and the sun is blue, don't look up just trust the experts, they'd simply believe them w/out question, and soon be considering the "sky-lookers" to be dangerous spreaders of mis/disinfo who need to be segregated from society. it went on with me saying "just look up dude! the sky is right above you...just look for yourself!" and him mocking me in his best Alex Jones impression "dooo yer owwwn reeeesearch derp derp derp". it feels hopeless.
my mind has been stuck on this question for going on 20 years. i knew/intuited that "something" was seriously wrong/off in this world from a young age. didn't know what exactly, couldn't pinpoint it, but it nagged at me my whole life. then 9/11 happened, then the wars.... and then i saw Loose Change a couple years later. that was my alarm, my awakening, my Ah-HA!!!! it's been a never ending cave dive into the rabbit hole since that day and oh my, i continue to be surprised.
the bigger surprise was the reactions i got from my own family and friends after i saw that documentary, when i naively thought they'd have the same kind of awakening i did. my own mother, "How DARE you???"....my own brother, "fuck off!!!"....my friends all calling me stupid/naive/uneducated. that rejection was so harsh and painful to me, i had to go "into hiding" with my thoughts, opinions, knowledge. to this day i still don't know how to wake someone up. they won't or can't. and i can't try to make them anymore.
I was really struggling with this as more and more information came out and my views were 180 degrees different from most of my friends and family. I too kept thinking now they’ll see but they never did. I don’t think do yet. I hope the day will come when they know what we know so until then I don’t talk to them about this stuff. It does make me wonder though what kind of thing is going on in their heads to disregard the evidence in front of them. I guess if I understood it, I’d shatter it like glass.
One of my best friends told me not to talk to him anymore about this, and if I did he'd just stop being my friend.
He also said it in the most triggered way possible.
It shocked me because we were always "anti-system". We always did our own thing, never went with the masses, never listened the popular bands, etc.
But this time it's like he's completely brainwashed, he got himself vaccinated and I couldn't help but ask him "why did you reject the system your whole life, but now you go and do what it tells you?".
He couldn't give me an answer and treated me like shit and we haven't talked since then.
It’s so weird I know people like that too. They liked Trump and see what a lousy job biden and dems are doing but when it comes to the shot, they’re lining up. There is hope for this group but it’ll come after vaxx injuries or the fourth round. I’ll bet your friend was either told by someone they respected or was so afraid of cv19 that they went along. The fact that he was furious tells me that he KNOWS something isn’t right so you are the first person who forced him to THINK about it. He’s one that will find you and apologize some day. You did GOOD and you did all you could for him!!!
yes. i made the "joke" to an old friend that if CNN told you experts say the sky is yellow and the sun is blue, don't look up just trust the experts, they'd simply believe them w/out question, and soon be considering the "sky-lookers" to be dangerous spreaders of mis/disinfo who need to be segregated from society. it went on with me saying "just look up dude! the sky is right above you...just look for yourself!" and him mocking me in his best Alex Jones impression "dooo yer owwwn reeeesearch derp derp derp". it feels hopeless.
Wow that’s the best analogy I’ve heard. But he couldn’t see that. I feel like I’m related to the hopeless 4-6%!