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If today is your first day awakened, what are you doing to prepare?
Awakening is so gradual that by the time you realise you are waking up, its already many weeks/months since the first day!
Let me ask you are question BeckyDtheAmerican.
Do you think cognitive dissonance runs in layers?
Example to clarify my question:
When first confronted with the idea that a secret powerful group controlled world governments, I rejected this idea as impossible based on the premise that it is impossible to keep that big of a secret among that large of a group. Someone would have told!
The cognitive barrier to that disbelief was penetrated when I realized that people have been telling that secret, for decades, that there are tons of book written by insiders tell of this very thing. I broke through my cognitive dissonance on this issue, as I has on the 911 inside job truth, and may others.
But I was watching Fall of the Cabal, and the Sequel series on Rumble, and at some point in the story I seems to run into another layer of Cognitive Dissonance, as though to say, "Well I am willing to believe this, but that to me seems a little far fetched, to far out there to believe.
At the very beginning, and all through the F of C series, then narrator encourages viewers to do their own research. Some of the research did seemed on the origin of the Protocols of Zionism were slightly contrary to the things stated in the F of C video.
While Cognitive Dissonance my keep us from believing painful truths, I think we also have to fight against Confirmation Bias, or the willing to believe things that make us feel good.
Not my first day, but I have broken through to a few local New England folks I've known for many years. One family has had my awake wife and I over a few times and they are starting to ask questions. They said no more shots for their 5 kids.
In another family, the mom started sharing meme's on fakebook explaining how the big pharma drugs don't work as good as natural foods and remedies. I took a chance and shared a short video and link to the guy that wrote mycancerstory.rocks. She responded pretty quickly saying that her cousin has breast cancer and it recently spread to her brain, liver and bones and that she shared the information. 👈 This is coming from a family that was scared stiff of covid and actually had their young teen son live in their shed for a week to avoid spreading the illness. The dad previously thought President Trump was an idiot, but he might be coming around soon. 🤞