Just listened to audiobook of “Live Not by Lies” by Rod Dreher. The book gives stories and advice of Christian dissenters who survived Soviet totalitarianism. Also good advice for all dissenters, Christian or not. Gave me a lot to think about.
The central message is to get firm in your beliefs and principles and try to avoid saying or doing things you don’t believe for the sake of expediency. Sounds like you are doing that. Avoiding repetition of lies will preserve you from becoming corrupted and brainwashed. Also, form connections with others who are like minded, as we are doing here in GAW - but should also seek to do in our local communities.
Bullets or not, use periods after complete sentences. If the bullet is a phrase that is not a sentence, don’t use periods. A group of bullets should be either all phrases or all sentences. Sorry - my job is being a technical editor. The struggle is real.
Who does he mean by we’ve?
Will pray. Best wishes. I recently had shoulder replacement surgery and know how you feel!
Possible response: “I will sign up in exchange for 5% of Pfizer profits as reported in its 2022 Annual Report. Agreement must be legally signed and certified prior to participation in trial. Also funds must to transferred to my account with time allowed to exchange for gold bullion and placed in trust for my family. I reserve the right to change my mind for 90 days after agreement is signed. Deal?”
I gotta say though, even if they took the deal, I’m pretty sure I’d back out.
If only our military rank and file would refuse to fight.
I rarely watched TPIR but did grow up watching “Truth or Consequences.” So I remember a cheerful handsome dark-haired man.
Brings to mind certain parables such as that one about the wheat and the tares. Matthew 13:24-30. At some point there is supposed to be a great separation. In ordinary times you can’t easily tell the good from the evil because souls hide behind social facades. Then things happen to cause truth to be revealed. Obviously we are living in such a time and Trump is a catalyst.
What has happened in America is an insult to Banana Republics. Our “leaders” are rich and powerful. America is looked to by the world as a beacon of freedom. The damage done by this so-called govt’s corruption is exponentially greater.
Babylon Bee called the new variant “Electionyearicron.”
I live in a rural area where the county board is trying to pass a rule to limit solar panels to 1% of county acreage. The people here are against it. Solar companies are spamming me and framing it as a “property rights” issue. To me, allowing your property to be used for solar panels is damaging the property values of your neighbors while ceding your property to corporate and govt control. A neighboring county has miles and miles of solar farms and they turn absolutely pristine rolling hills into a creepy hell scape.
Was it this one? Kay Griggs - https://youtu.be/mS4-aEYhLd8
Me: young, ignorant, and lib til 1990. 1990-92 - transition period; got married, learned more about how world works. 1992 - birth of first child. 1993 - 2016 - Christian conservative; heavily involved in parenting and church; thought 911 inside job was a liberal conspiracy theory to smear W, but knew JFK was killed by insiders. June 2016 - redpilled over a single weekend like a lightning bolt; suddenly saw everything anew; awake (but still learning) ever since. I suspect this is a fairly typical character arc, except many of you were never liberal. I inherited that.
I like Aldi’s. Been shopping there for years. I live in Appalachia now where they’ve been smacked down by globalism since Clinton signed NAFTA, so people who were poor are even poorer. I leave my cart free of the quarter chains. I used to get coffee beans there for 3.50 a bag; now the product is $5.95, still cheaper than other grocery stores. Olive oil has gone from 2.99 to 5.99. So Aldi’s is affected too, but still better. I also see lots of elderly folks there.
SoF, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Passion of the Christ are probably the only films I’ve seen in the past 30 years within 10 years of when they were made. I do love pre-code films from the 1930s though. So this strike business isn’t going to impact me at all. Now if people want to write and make creative new films independent of Hollywood, I enthusiastically support.
I get that. I wasn’t sure either. But I went to see it today anyway. It’s powerful. It’ll have you shaking but not as much as a terrified child. But gratuitous violence is kept to a minimum and the film is sensitive to showing the worst with kids. In sensitive areas it uses suggestion.
I would have maybe given it the benefit of the doubt that it was a good faith 1972 campaign to vaccinate kids against deadly diseases—except why does the syringe look evil? And the Pied Piper of the classic story had evil intentions toward the townspeople. The “moral” was the townspeople ought to have given the piper what he wanted and since they didn’t, they deserved what they got. We are the townspeople. We need a sequel where the townspeople rise up and kick the piper to the next galaxy.
Right. Big CS Lewis fan here. I figure God created beings other than himself to share love and joy with. Would you rather watch a funny movie with a good friend who is there because he/she likes being with you or with a doll that laughs when you pull the string?
Done. Long ago.
Sad for the good people in the mainstream entertainment business. I’m sure there are some of those. As for me, if I feel the need for entertainment, I can watch films from the 1920s thru 1950s for many happy years. When I want something edge-of-seat scary, I can watch current events. When I want live entertainment or music, my local community theater and bluegrass scene will suffice nicely. And of course books. I have at least 100 years worth of reading to do.
The door is wide open for new family- oriented entertainment celebrating traditional values. The people are hungry for it.
But… if the term “non-man” is meant to include non-binary persons, then why are males not “non-women”?
I would like to profess my bemusement that Jill still supports her criminal husband. (Not really. She’s a partner in crime.)
I was in Montana last summer to visit a long lost relative. Until I got there I knew nothing about the remote area where he lives. Turns out the closest town is Lincoln where the old timers all know Ted and remember him as a nice fellow—and believe he is innocent. Dunno. They sell Ted Kazinski t shirts and coffee mugs.
Me too. Crossing Newt off my approved list. I admit I haven’t paid any attention to him for years.