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? 😳
When I first came here in 2020 my posts about the danger of vaccines and how my child was injured in 2000 were called "outlandish" and I was told I was "hurting the movement" and "making us look bad" people here called one of the "antivaxxer crazies". No matter how much proof I showed I was blasted as a nut job. When Covid showed up and right off the bat I said it wasn't real and it was a push to vaccinate the entire population... I was told the same thing and was hurting the movement and making us look bad. My point is maybe something shouldn't be outlandish just because it seems that way and can't be proven.... Yet.
I am not saying that yet to be proven theories are to be considered outlandish. I am saying don't speculate and claim it as fact.
Regarding your example about vaccine dangers - saying that your child was injured in 2000 and you believe it to be a result of vaccines is not at all the type of discussion I am referring to. But say you posted a random tweet from a random person making a statement on the topic and said "see! this PROVES that vaccines are dangerous!" this is the type of posting that is not helpful. If you said "I am inclined to believe this guy, because I have had a similar experience with my own child..." there is nothing wrong with this.
It really is not as difficult as some people have chimed in here. All I am saying is don't mislead people about what you are presenting. That is not a productive exercise for anyone. Don't let your confirmation bias get ahead of the evidence.
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I will say, if you are posting about x-y-z, and it is ‘emerging truths’ (not yet fully developed sauce), it would be prudent to state it as such.