GREAT comment, u/bubble_bursts.
That quote is from a Ted Talk that Bill made a few years ago; I watched (part of) the talk. The image looks like part of a screen-grab from the same event.
At the time, I wondered what the hell he was talking about. How would vaccines figure into lowering the population?
Both my parents, as well as many of their friends (70s+) get a little more pink-pilled every night they watch him. They've lived a full life of believing in the MSM, and as such, it takes time to unwind all that brainwashing. It doesn't happen overnight. And I believe Tucker is the best option available for this group of people.
I agree -- lots of people are like your parents, and whatever else you can say about Tucker, he is helping wake those people up. Is/was Tucker a CIA asset (now or in the past)? How the hell would I know? But what he's doing NOW is helping with the Great Awakening, THAT is for certain.
An hour after this is posted, and every single comment is slamming Tucker.
Which is odd, since Tucker is a freaking red-pill machine for the normies. WE knew about immune system damage from the jab months ago, but most people did not.
No, Tucker isn't on the cutting edge here. On the other hand, thanks to being hosted on the evil FOX, he has an audience of millions. His is among the most-watched shows on television and "is the number one most-watched show among Democrats in the key demographic of 25-54 year-olds."
Would Tucker have a job at FOX if he HAD BEEN telling his audience things that his bosses did not yet want on the show?
The question answers itself.
So to any of the Tucker-haters who are actual MAGA boosters and not shills or bots: knock it off. We complain all the time about how so very many people are still NOT AWAKE. Tucker is doing more to red-pill the masses than YOU are, and probably more than the entire crew here put together. We all know that Tucker isn't cutting-edge, and we ALSO know his show wouldn't exist if he were. Find something else to bitch about.
Necessary addition: You're exactly right that no amount of love GIVEN LATER ON will fix neurosis (no matter the symptoms: depression, addiction, whatever).
Can't fix trauma from childhood with warmth and love IN ADULTHOOD. Plenty of people try to do that; sex addiction is an obvious and extreme example.
Old traumatic events MUST be brought to full consciousness to resolve, otherwise they remain, pristine, waiting to BE experienced -- and the system can only handle them in fire-alarm mode because they were, by definition, serious and threatening. THAT is what's being repressed.
Absent bringing the events to full consciousness (actually "becoming as a little child" -- the child that was being traumatized; letting oneself become weak in order to feel pain, draining it OUT of the system so that one can be strong in the present) -- absent that, what is left is trying to strengthen defenses (better nutrition can help) and to strengthen them in ways less damaging -- getting into exercise and sports instead of drinking a lot and getting into fistfights; studying [anything non-toxic] instead of consuming junk media; taking up boxing or martial arts instead of taking old feelings out on the wife or kids.
Just shifting to more positive actions in life can be very effective -- for MANY people, but far from all. Each person is different.
It seems plausible that abused and/or traumatized children would more likely be malnourished than average, and that DOES have an effect on body and brain chemistry. But regardless of nutritional status, trauma has strong effects and there is a LOT of data to support that. Here's a page about the ACE study, for example:
https://pinetreeinstitute.org/aces/
In the early 1990s, Dr. Robert Anda, then an epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), collaborated with Vincent Felitti, MD, at Kaiser Permanente to investigate child abuse as an underlying cause of medical, social, and public health problems. This effort led to a large-scale study funded by the CDC to track the effects of childhood trauma on health throughout the lifespan. Called the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study), the findings were reported in more than 70 publications in major medical and public health journals. Data collected from more than 17,000 patients showed that ACEs:
- Were common, with 28 percent of study participants reporting physical abuse, 21 percent reporting sexual abuse, and many reporting that they experienced a divorce, parental separation, or having a parent with a mental and/or substance use disorder.
- Had a profound negative effect on health and well-being, including significant increases in alcoholism, heart disease, and cancer.
- Were a prime factor of past, current and future health behaviors, social problems, and early death in the study population. Examples include an increase in the rates of obesity, drug abuse, smoking, chronic depression, and attempted suicide.
The “ACE Score” Is the number of ACEs a person experienced. The ACE Score serves as a proxy for the level of adversity and has a “dose” relationship to adult health issues: The higher the ACE score, the more likely a person is to experience serious health challenges. Individuals with ACE scores of 4 or more were 12 times more likely to have attempted suicide, 7 times more likely to be alcoholic, and 10 times more likely to have injected street drugs. People with ACE scores of 6 and higher have an almost 20‐year shortening of lifespan.
Treating children with love and respect really IS critically important.
Yes, that's possible. But you know which direction Jesus would have taken, and I have to say I believe many people benefit more from kindness -- it turns their head when they've done something that doesn't deserve it -- than from coldness.
The Axios article put a smile on my face and made me laugh repeatedly at the POV expressed by the writer. The left is TERRIFIED by Trump, and by anything that suggests accountability and justice.
They know damn well that Trump IS coming, and that Hell's coming with him.
https://www.flightradar24.com/
Free app for tracking flights; can be configured to give an alert whenever any aircraft worldwide squawks a 7700 emergency.
Until the "VAX" era, you might get three or four of those per month.
Today, I typically see that many PER DAY.
Note: a 7700 squawk doesn't necessarily mean the pilot or anyone else is personally in distress; the aircraft could have a mechanical failure, for instance.
What does Squawking 7700 mean? (from AviationMatters.co)
7700 is a squawk code that is reserved for emergency situations and immediately alerts Air Traffic Control (ATC) and other units that the aircraft squawking 7700 is in distress. It may be assigned by Air Traffic Control or the pilots may decide to enter it into their transponder themselves.
For the most part, depression (and any associated "imbalance", chemical or otherwise) has roots in trauma from infancy and/or childhood.
"Trauma" is any event sufficiently distressing to cause the experience (or just the emotional portion of the experience) to be blocked from full consciousness. Children and especially infants can be traumatized by events that most adults would shrug off or not even discern.
Such consequential experiences cannot be shrugged off or forgotten; the system is impelled to immediately bring the experience of any threatening event to full consciousness for Darwinian reasons. Yet if the level of pain (emotional or otherwise) is too high to allow for situation-appropriate behavior after integration, especially when there is no way to escape or fix the situation, then repression redirects the experience (or just the emotional component) away from consciousness to improve the chances for survival.
But again: the system is designed, at the deepest level, to bring such events to full consciousness, and to do so with urgency. A traumatic event is a blaring siren telling the organism to DO SOMETHING to escape the danger (of whatever type). So the traumatic experience remains in the system, attempting to gain full consciousness, constantly trying to get noticed and urgently trying to guide behavior in some way that might avoid or neutralize the (old, now long-gone) situation that caused the trauma. Repression prevents the old experience from connecting and thus keeps the siren on constantly, but muted and largely unnoticed -- although symptoms tell the tale. When a person's accumulated repressed trauma is large enough, and/or their defenses are weak enough (temporarily or generally), the malaise of depression is often the result.
The process of repression is what creates neurosis, and the reverberating circuits of repressed experience are what drive inappropriate behavior. The behavior IS appropriate, of course (or as much so as could be conceived at the time), for the situation or event that comprised the trauma, but that situation is NOT what faces the adult in the present.
You can see this dynamic all around you. It is on display throughout the world.
In plain language, neurosis is the repression of feeling. Depression and other inappropriate behavior of almost all types are the direct and inevitable result of that repression.
The remedy for repression of feeling is to feel. To feel the experiences that were buried, and to feel them as the child or infant experienced them in the split second before the mercy of repression shunted experience away from full consciousness.
That remedy is simple yet incredibly difficult. PREVENTION is the only large-scale answer. Treating pregnant mothers, newborns, infants, and children with love and respect is all it takes. A healthy society will never fully emerge without proper treatment of the young.
That isn't news, of course. Wise men and women have been saying such things about the young forever. Jesus was certainly clear on the topic:
Matthew: 18:1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
18:2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
18:3 And said, 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.
Thanks!