At the risk of being banned, I feel a great need to engage the Board about the topic of the Plan, and how we will know when... well, that it's "done".
I don't know how else to explain this fascinating dynamic, so let me first list some things that I commonly hear on this Board and that I am constantly trying to reconcile. I'll post the saying, or belief, and then a short comment in brackets [ ].
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God wins. [Yes, of course He does. I believe this. But do we know what this actually translates into in this world, for humans? It is comforting in one way, but it is the Great Ambiguity as well as the Great Euphemism in another.]
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Nothing can stop what is coming. [Similar to #1. I believe this. I think we all do. But what is the "What"? Justice and goodness? That's what we believe and we are hoping for.]
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Trust the Plan. [Similar to #1 and #2. I do trust the Plan. The reason I am making this post is because I don't KNOW the Plan. That is what "trust" is... similar to faith. I have seen enough evidence that there is a Plan, and I believe it to be real and to be good.]
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Eat more popcorn. [This phrase is frustrating because it's basically implying that there's nothing to do but... #'s 1, 2 and 3... just have faith and trust. That's all good, but this cannot go on forever. Some of you/us have been waiting for decades. Some of you found this Board yesterday. Regardless, this state of mind is not sustainable for most people. So, when will we know that we do not need more popcorn? When Trump is the President?]
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We're watching a movie. [Yes, I know. It's kind of entertaining, I guess. But if I'm being truthful, it's frustrating and irritating. Like many of you, I'm ready for it to be over. See the next point.]
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This is a war. [I understand. And, it will take time... a long time... to unravel and dismantle the global Cabal that has existed for centuries. So, my need for expediency is not important. And people will suffer and people will die, and there will be ugliness. This is a war!! Put my big boy pants on, man up, etc. I get it. No need to keep saying THIS IS A WAR. All I want to know is how will we know when it is over?]
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Things are happening. [Yes, they are. A lot of things. We have win after win after win piling up. I KNOW! Again... how will we know when it's done? What signs, what wins, what habbenings will be the signal that it's done? When and why do we get to say "I told you so" to that smug in-law who loves FJB/KH? When and why do we get to come out of the fog of ambiguity and say, "This finally feels like solid ground, and a new life can begin"? Will it even be like that? Or are we going to be in this malaise of winning and changing and winning for the next 30 years? ]
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Patriots are in control. [This goes with #7, in particular. None of what we're seeing would happen if Patriots were not in control. But what does that really mean? Because there are a lot of things that seem like they're not in control. Or is that part of the script? Well, when it's a win, Patriots are in control--but something not so good means it's part of the script.]
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We must show them. [Yes, we do. The normies need to awaken via a process by which they are showing the evil that exists. And, we need to experience the Precipice as part of this showing. I can tell you right now: the longer things play out, and the longer the dripping continues, the more desensitized and tuned-out people become. So, I have a feeling that something cataclysmic is going to happen very, very soon, otherwise we will have missed the opportunity to truly awaken people].
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Take a break. [I understand self-care. I understand checking out and letting go and grounding myself. It is during those times that what I am explaining here comes into focus. Any rational person who without any context reads the above 9 statements would say, "That sounds circular or never-ending. You're being told that there's a plan and that you're winning, and that you should watch and be patient, and that it's a war so stop getting uppity because can't you see all that is happening to show them the evil and awaken them, and take a break if you can't handle it. But you never know when you're done. You're just supposed to keep at it, and endure." ]
There are other phrases and euphemisms, but these are the ones I hear/see the most.
What's my point in all of this? First, I'm not complaining--so don't bother to tell me to stop. I am looking past the war. And I want to know if we know how we will know that it is over.
Will Q post and tell us?
Will Trump tell us?
Will we just have to discern that we've won (continue to point to "wins")?
What are the things that will be proof that the fog of war has cleared and we are the victors? Public executions? Big Pharma ends and is replaced with med beds? Aliens walk among us and show us how to live up to our potential? All human traffickers are rounded up and disposed of? All but 6% of the population walks around with a smile and screaming, "Yes, I get it! I'm awake. We are free of the Cabal!" The Cabal masters are named, rounded up and disposed of? A 48-hour documentary is shared that details everything? There is peace. There are jobs. All of the above? Other things?
The deeper point is this: It is not healthy for the human psyche to sustain the watchfulness, hope, and preparedness for so long, and then not have a catharsis.
We need a cathartic moment. We need to know it's over. We need to know that the storm is over. I sure hope and pray that the Q Team accounted for this basic human condition, as the prolonged state of mind leads to desensitization, doubts and loss of hope, and overall disappointment at the falling short of expectations.
And that's the last point: We have been led to have expectations. And boy do I have them! And I am doing my best to spread them and encourage others to have them. Everything--EVERYTHING--is riding on this Plan. From world freedom from the Cabal to my petty need to say "I told you so", and everything in-between... and most people would say not to place all my eggs in this one basket. Well, Q, you're the basket, and you've got all my eggs. I'm in it to win it, and I want to know when we've won, and I want to know how we will know that we have won.
Edit: Interestingly enough, this post was made not too long after mine. If you have not watched this 6 minute video, please do. It is a great summary of what's going on, big picture and at a detailed level. It is hopeful, and answers my questions as to how we will know: https://greatawakening.win/p/1995CLejoG/the-dam-is-breaking/c/
Precisely, and beautifully put.
Sorry if I came across like Grandpa Simpson, half onionbelting, half yelling at cloud.
But I think of all those family nights of sitting around the supper or canasta/pinochle table, the kids listening to the adults talk about life, work, politics, neighborhood/area stuff. The sense of coherent history, tradition, and shared striving. The sharing of local intelligence. I'm early GenX and feel like I'm the last person who got to experience this ( I was a surprise baby born late in both my WW2 era parents' lives!).
People call my home town "Rust Belt," but I can dimly remember the very last years of its coherent power as a productive center, dwelt in by men and women who lived and breathed work ethic, honor, love of country, love of God. AND we had MASSIVE arguments about all of it. AND we still pulled together despite those differences.
Something very erosive happened when this sort of family- and community-centered storytelling was replaced with Media Cave NeoShamans For Hire.
Perhaps you have seen this book, Change:
https://archive.org/details/taylor-the-death-and-resurrection-show
Thanks for the link, RainForestFrog! I will check it out. And, you and I have a lot in common. I was a latter X'er, so I'm mid-50's. But my memories echo yours. You eloquently described key facets of the culture that was substantive, and good.
I think the erosion started specifically with Madonna's "Material Girl" video : )
Then the internet overwhelmed with a flood of information the masses of people whose information literacy skills had been dumbed down. All we could do was become full of information, and then... entertainment. And most don't even know it.
Anyway, goodness is on the horizon. We can feel it!
Another perspicacious observation. 10/10
I was just writing a letter to an old friend on the matter of what she calls the "siliconization" of culture. I was thinking about how even 10-15 years ago, people still took ideas seriously, debated them seriously, and there was space opened to have substantive interactions/discussions.
Now it's just a bunch of Three Stooges slap fights and clowning. It occurs to me that a main function of "social" "media" and the commercialized internet has been the ephemeralization of everything. And when I use that word it's only about 40% Bucky Fuller...and 60% a pleasant euphemism for flatulence in lieu of communicating. "HA HA HE FARTED HA HA DID YOU HEAR THE LATEST FART?"
sigh
I'll join my optimism to yours for that incipient goodness, and thank you for this substantive and nourishing thread.
As I fell asleep last night I had one more thought about one of the legs of our cultural stool that has been broken: mentoring and role modeling is no longer common.
I have a theory about it. I think the baby boomers were the first generation of "I" . They did not continue the stories and traditions, and they did not watch and learn from their parents. Nor did they as parents, then, be role models and story-tellers for their children. That was the breakdown of cultural propulgation, and henceforth the majority of the population became isolated, selfish, and ugly.
It is why we Gen Xers feel so lonely, like fish out of water. Our parents were either the last of the Greatest Generation or the Lost Generation (who were the same as the Greatest Generation in values and cultural consistency), and we learned from them and continued the values you have been describing. And one thing we did well was watch and learn from our elders, learn to engage and tell stories, and most of all pass these characteristics onto our children.
I realize my statements are generalizations, but there is a lot of truth to them. Here's an easy acid test: How many people under the age of 35 today could sit and watch "The Waltons" and be content with the stories, acting, cinematography, etc. and truly just enjoy the simple exposure to goodness as it is portrayed? Ten bucks says most who could do that are children of Gen Xers. I admit, when our culture has me down, I watch an episode ot two, and I feel grounded and ready to keep up the fight (in addition to prayer as a source of nourishment).
I guess my point is that that show was a good example of the inter-family member mentoring that is missing.
I appreciate you. Thanks for taking the time to share your many thoughts. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Your points are all wonderfully grounded. I agree on WW2 and Korean War era parents having similar alignments. I think you're touching on something else, that's rarely stated but very pertinent.
I was raised in a logistics and infrastructure family and community. Mostly shipbuilders/marine engineers/transport. Refineries and factories were nearby, and so neighbors and relatives were connected with that.
When family or friends sat down around the supper or card table, or visited on warm summer nights (nobody had AC) from porch to porch in our rowhome neighborhood (row houses built by Fred Trump, believe it or not), people were talking about their lives and days and experiences.
Those were grounded in REALITY. The design of this ship. A new contract. A terrible accident/sinking costing people their lives on another vessel. A canal or bridge or aids-to-navigation project. A ship launch. The latest refinery explosion (those were constant). The fact that this or that company scored this or that contract, and what it was likely to mean in terms of workloads and timing, and the family/community events that would have to make way for those. The space program. What fish were running where. Who was injured/sick, and what help they, or their family, needed that week. Who had garden surplus (in our literally 10 foot by 10 foot gardens!). Which ladies needed help with canning or freezing. Job openings. Behavioral problems with individual kids, and how to try to backstop those. News and political content--though that never drove people against one another. Disagreements, and even arguments, were frequent, but never lethal to connection.
Among the other organized events--like Little League, holiday festivals, service projects, church projects--that bound people and organized the regular rounds, our community also was bound by ship launches, locomotive rollouts, achievements of contract goals, and such. Discussion and celebration rested on the experience of multiple generations. My grandfather could talk about ship contracts/projects/accidents going back to the 19th century, since when he studied to be a marine engineer at West Point, and started his career, 19th century ships were still plying the waters well into the 20th century.
Then there was the deeper history handed down--in my dad's family, to the 1600s in that valley. They talked about it like it was yesterday. They'd take us kids around to see the places they told stories about.
This was a profoundly industrially based society...nevertheless with a very ancient village-based social organization. (A topic of its own.) It was entirely organic. Nobody was inflicting it with "programs." There were no NGOs horning in, or Gubmint programz. Nobody was writing grants or applying the latest in management matrices or performance assessment.
We had roots in that place.
The younger people of whom you speak--what roots do they have?
The standard of culture and economics became "two paychecks, and you pack up and move every x years." Most kids had lives like what used to be called "army brats." Rootless, but not cosmopolitan. I knew a guy--a leftist college professor--who lived in 9 different places, in 4 different states, between age 2 and 20. Of course he clings to the leftist cult, and the lucrative institutional certainties of Academia. It's the only continuity he knows.
The destruction of roots in a place means the destruction of rich streams of personal, family, community, and cultural memory. Personal, not mediated, story telling.
And what did the parents do for a living? Go to an office, often many miles from the house. Do office things. Come home. Watch TV. Instead of neighborhood businesses, a bunch of strip malls, then big malls, and later catalog and online shopping. And later...the commercialized internet, with all its degenerate temptations. The neighborhood a place of consumption, not production.
That destruction of community in the 1960s-1970s was paralleled by the rise of the Gogglebox Shaman in the living room. THAT, in my view, is what created the "I I I ME ME ME" mindset. Engineered, deliberate, lucrative mental isolation tanks. I recall observing with surprise the massive difference between my mindset and that of my nieces and nephews just three or four years younger.
As you so accurately say, we are at a point where even the quiet, simple storytelling modes of that more rooted, community based time have no hold on the attention of those whose brains have been wired, rewired, and mindf$cked by the portable Skinner box that people pay to lug around with them. They know nothing about their own grandparents or ancestry, and everything about that of fictional characters. They feed not on content, or the soul in it, or the soul in themselves...but an ever escalating stream of dopamine hits.
All my life I've tried to give younger people a sense of the organic rootedness of that other way of being. But there is so much mitigating against it. On top of all that, only certain people are allowed to have roots, culture, and memory. Others can be literally jailed for claiming or talking about those.
Been there, done that. Though for me it's Patrick McGoohan. :^>
There was a web site, I forget the name...that had a lot of archived TV shows from the 1950s-1970s. It got nuked. But about 6 years ago I watched through about 30 different shows to try to get a sense of just how the storytelling sense had changed. Seeing how there was this period in the mid-1970s where a hard left and degenerate turn happened--that was hard. And accounted for so much, I thought. I know what's behind that programming shift, i mean what was going on inside the TV networks...but that too is a separate topic.