People can dislike this message. Or they can dislike the messenger. That is fine. Hopefully everyone will understand what I am saying.
As the Great Awakening train speeds up, there will be a lot of people popping by to see what is going on over here. People that have absolutely no clue who we are, what we think, how we think, and why we gather here will be browsing. This is prime time to add bodies to the ranks from the formerly narcoleptic normies.
However...unsubstantiated/unsupported/unverifiable claims presented as factual are going to blow this massive opportunity. It makes all of us look as buffoonish as the left. And it will only deepen the confirmation bias of normies.
Our community exists to hypothesize, postulate, debate, and evaluate information in pursuit of the truth...wherever that might lead. It is healthy to entertain a wide variety of theories, brain farts, hypotheticals, or whatever. It is also the way that we process all the non stop propaganda bs being sprayed from a firehose across the world. But before you post, comment, upvote, or downvote...be sure you have some kind of reliable substance behind it. If you don't, that is ok. Just be sure that your dialogue distinguishes your thoughts and opinions from a factual assertion.
Put yourself back in your own shoes however many years ago before you realized something wasn't adding up. Ask yourself how you'd feel if you stumbled upon a community where all sorts of seemingly outlandish stuff was being said. You looked into some of it, and it all came back as bogus or completely unsupported. Do you go back to that place after figuring that out?
None of the above is directed at anyone in particular. Nor am I calling for self or community censoring. All I am saying is that this movement is larger than one person. And everyone here needs to keep in mind that what they say or do here can have an affect on all of us. Especially with the hopes that what we are doing is going to continue bringing people out of their slumber with an awareness of the false reality they have been living. To be the most effective, we need to do our homework, cross all I's and dot all T's.
Be vigilant, anons! One day it will all make complete sense.
edit: Did I really just say cross all I's and dot all T's? 😳
Apparently you didn't read what I said. Because I anticipated this exact comment, I went ahead and pointed out that censorship is not what I am calling for. What I am calling for is to not mislead people about what you are saying. Don't let your confirmation bias get ahead of the evidence. It is an unproductive exercise. Presenting a theory or hypothetical for discussion is what we do here. Claiming said theory or hypothetical as fact with evidentiary support being near zero is the kind of thing that reflects poorly on everyone.
Here is a fairly extreme example for purposes of illustration: Say you post a random tweet from "DeWayne" in the Ozarks saying "Barack Obama is actually a lizard. I saw it myself with my own eyes." And then your headline says "I frickin knew it! Obama is a lizard! (sauce inside)" Acting like this is some factual assertion with support is exactly the type of thing that wastes everyone's time and causes people from the outside looking in to think the entire place is a cesspool of dumbasses and morons that will literally believe anything they read that supports their own confirmation bias. This is not limited to extreme examples. Giving weight to evidence that a reasonable person ought not give weight to, and the OP ought to know better even if they don't...that is the issue.
I'm interested in why you didn't respond to my post?