MissMagaMillenial, you have intelligence, curiosity, compassion, concern for the truth, and the courage to clearly see things that most people's defense systems blur and then erase.

You really ARE exceptional, even among those here. And normies don't need to share all those characteristics to wake up. They just need to see and understand that they've been lied to by a large, powerful group that means them harm. Even THAT is difficult, but getting people to that point is mostly what The Great Awakening is.

I've been awake for decades, and one of the things I had to wake up about was the nature of Christianity. I was dragged to Church and Bible school on Sundays and then saw many of the kids and parents who attended church behave neurotically in harmful or outright hateful ways towards others (racism in the '50s & 60s for instance; cruelty to others in school or from parents to their own children). Plus, the Big Santa Claus version of God in the Sky just didn't work for me, even as a five-year old: Too much like the Easter Bunny. In any case, it was clear that just reading the Bible and professing Christianity didn't heal people.

How many do you know who actually follow Jesus' advice on children, for instance?

Matthew 18:3 Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 


18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, 
the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

18:5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Adults are not to be the role models for children. HEALTHY, UNDAMAGED CHILDREN ARE THE ROLE MODELS FOR ADULTS. That is one reason why HARMING children is such a serious crime.

It's also the main reason tyrants have always insisted on taking over education; until you damage the mind and soul of a child, you can't really rule them. Leave enough of them undamaged and your tyranny eventually falls. BTW, Alice Miller (in For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, for instance) shows how harming children not only ruins THEIR lives but also creates the conditions for horrors like the Third Reich.

Sorry for the lengthy, not-entirely-on-topic response, but also thank you for triggering it.

MissMagaMillenial, you have intelligence, curiosity, compassion, concern for the truth, and the courage to clearly see things that most people's defense systems blur and then erase.

You really ARE exceptional, even among those here. And normies don't need to share all those characteristics to wake up. They just need to see and understand that they've been lied to by a large, powerful group that means them harm. Even THAT is difficult, but getting people to that point is mostly what The Great Awakening is.

I've been awake for decades, and one of the things I had to wake up about was the nature of Christianity. I was dragged to Church and Bible school on Sundays and then saw many of the kids and parents who attended church behave neurotically in harmful or outright hateful ways towards others (racism in the '50s & 60s for instance; cruelty to others in school or from parents to their own children). Plus, the Big Santa Claus version of God in the Sky just didn't work for me, even as a five-year old: Too much like the Easter Bunny. In any case, it was clear that just reading the Bible and professing Christianity didn't heal people.

How many do you know who actually follow Jesus' advice on children, for instance?

Matthew 18:3 Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 


18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, 
the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

18:5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Adults are not to be the role models for children. HEALTHY, UNDAMAGED CHILDREN ARE THE ROLE MODELS FOR ADULTS. That is one reason why HARMING children is such a serious crime.

It's also the main reason tyrants have always insisted on taking over education; until you damage the mind and soul of a child, you can't really rule them. Leave enough of them undamaged and your tyranny eventually falls. BTW, Alice Miller (in For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, for instance) shows how harming children not only ruins THEIR lives but also creates the conditions for horrors like the Third Reich.

Sorry for the lengthy, not-entirely-on-topic response, but also thank you for triggering it.