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Slight rant, mostly feedback to see if we can improve.
I think something that GAW and the movement as a whole needs to do to more effectively push back the groomer globalist is to fight and win in the culture wars. Politics, generally, is downstream from culture and the rot and decay we are suffering through right now is because we were, and to an extent still, asleep on the wheel when it comes to cultural affairs, leaving open an avenue of attack by the groomers.
Boycotting woke productions is a step in the right direction, but only just a step. We need to take many more steps if we are to win this. The next step is to produce culture to replace the ones we cut out of our lives due to wokeness. When I mean producing culture, I meant music, art, movies, literature, etc. The time is ripe for new sites and artists to take the stage, and it might as well be our sites and artists. Make some music or videos or music videos and post it onto Rumble. Having that site rise up and threaten the woke big-tech-corpo known as Youtube should produce wonderful results down the road...
Show the world that GAW is not just some dumb hillbilly yelling about the degeneracy of the world.
A step in the right direction.
If politics is downstream from culture, then culture is downstream from belief and values.
The real roots of the problem lie in an internal human conflict that has not yet been overcome, namely, the conflict between mind and body, between the contradiction of good and evil within. While our ancestors made great advances in this area, foremost via Christian culture and values, but when we hit the 20th century, we smashed into atheistic materialism, and God-centered beliefs were assaulted on all fronts. Atheistic Darwinism, Marxist materialism, etc.
Christian faith began to decay massively in the 20th century at an accelerated rate, and with that decay, culturally, we became unable to confront the challenges that arose within the family, society, and nation. Our connection with God waned, not because God left us, but because we left God. Like the Israelites who turned away from their Savior (the Lord) and eventually abandoned God so much that they failed even to recognize the promised Messiah.
I know of people and forces for good that were shouting to the rooftops more than 40 years ago, in the 70's and 80's, about everything that has come to pass today. But they were ignored, persecuted and disbelieved.
My personal faith is that their efforts built a foundation of spiritual victory that God has been able to claim, and today we see both the great awakening and the Great Awakening. Faith and love for God is being revived. The world is changing. This is an unearned grace (IMO), like the pentecost that took place after Jesus' resurrection, God is moving and acting in the world and reclaiming the world, not just spiritually, as in Christ's time, but now also materially.
So, yeah, we need new culture, new lives, and new ways of seeing things. But they will only come about if and when we turn back to God in unprecedented ways. We've seen what our cultures become when God is taken out of the picture. The challenge we now face is to rise up to a standard higher than those of our predecessors. It is this generation and the next few that must bring the work of 2000 years of Christian history to fruition.
"Thy kingdom come...." how? "Thy will be done on earth (by us)...."
In November of 2021, there were some 360,000 people marching the streets of my home city. How many of them were anons? or Q folks? A good number, but a much bigger number were not.
My point is, GAW and 'the movement' have to role of being the yeast. The more we turn to God's value system, the more the wave of awakening will roll into places we haven't even thought of. From that perspective, your exhortation to engage actively on culture creation is timely and something to be embraced by those that can.
Very well said, fren. I was inspired at church on Easter Sunday to rededicate my life to the Lord. I was delivered from alcoholism going on 10 years ago, but seemingly small compromises along the way - "fake" (non-alcoholic) beer over several years gave way to deciding it was okay to have a glass of wine with my wife at dinner, and then to have a "real" beer at a concert or football game. That devolved into regular drinking, albeit with a 3-drink maximum. That further devolved into having more than my limit, which in several instances meant that I chose to put a great deal on the line by risking a DUI. I was convicted and intent to shut it down, but had lost the ability do do that in my own will. Having the first hangover in almost a decade was the last straw, and the Easter sermon torched the straw pile. I surrendered my life once again to the Lord, repented of my sins and prayed earnestly for Him to forgive me and deliver me once again.
The desire to drink vanished immediately. Of course, I do have to "work the program," but my decision to surrender - and once again recognize that I am powerless in my OWN power to resist temptation - will be the cornerstones of my success in living as the Lord wills me to do. He has allowed me to accomplish a lot and has blessed me mightily, even in my walk in the world. That is quite humbling. I can only imagine (song reference noted) how much better life will be when I get out of the Lord's way!
One day at a time, according to His Love, mercy, salvation, forgiveness, deliverance, providence and protection.
God bless all patriot frens!
Happy for you.
Thank you fren. Sticking with it.