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I didn't realize until my 40s that I absolutely have what it takes to resist brainwashing. I am lucky to have a father who allowed his six children to question authority—his to be exact. We didn't always win, but he gave us all the opportunity to push back. That led all six of us to be quite the independent thinkers we are today.

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I actively taught my children, now in their 40s, to question authority, including mine. If they could reason with me and convince me I was wrong, I'd usually go along with their ideas. Yet all of them have gone along with all the societal craziness of the last few years. From gender swapping to jabs, they all caved. My parents never allowed me to question their authority yet I saw through all of these issues and stood my ground despite the consequences. Parenting is possibly part of it, but doesn't seem to be the whole reason.

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"My parents never allowed me to question their authority yet I saw through all of these issues..."

I was beaten within an inch of my life for my entire childhood, due to my "resistance" to parental "authority".

I fled my abuse at a very young age and chose to survive. Under conditions not conducive to good mental or physical health. For years, I Flew Under The Radar.

Difficult as it was: Life on the Mean Streets was preferable to the life I had experienced at home, "behind closed doors"...

I was not BORN a dissident. I guess I had (have) the type of personality (or character, or whatever...) which turned me into an "unruly" non-compliant child, then adolescent, while my 3 siblings "obeyed" (cowered) and complied.

As a result of my difficult upbringing, and its subsequent difficult consequences, I'm probably a very... difficult person!

It's very difficult to bullshit me, "catch" me, bribe, convince, cajole, coerce, mandate, brainwash, terrorize or hypnotize me.

PS: I'm the only "unjabbed" amongst my sibs, immediate or extended family. We probably numbered in the 100's. "Pre-Covid". Fewer now...

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It sounds like you maintained your special spirit in spite of your parents treatment. I was too compliant in my younger years- not so much now- but always admired those that seemed to easily go toe to toe & stick up for themselves.

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Individuation requires rebellion. The positive side of stress.

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Suns and Wind, my sons are 31 and 26, and I raised them both to question everything, including their dad and me. They both are fiercely independent and did not jump on "everything covid". So, I guess it can go both ways.

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Exactly. Parents certainly play a role in it, but it's more complex than that.

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I tend to think that we are either born non-compliant or we are born compliant, and that trait is immutable.

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I was born this way. Absolutely 💯 % Christine. (Scroll up. You said it better than I though. And more succinctly too. 😉❤️)

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I just had a brain fart while listening to you folks. . .

My wife grew up on a farm and always picks out a kitten or pup by selecting the runt of the litter, or, any one that will allow you to lay them on their back in your hand and not wiggle to get up -- the compliant ones.

Could it be humans pop out the same way? . . . as Christine says: "born non-compliant or . . . "

I think SO!

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Personal experience...maybe. I was compliant until I realized at school that I could be scapegoated and no one would stand up for me except myself. Changed me in a moment to questioning and sceptical of authority. Now I'm a fringe conspiracy theorist with anti everything views. Lol

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Probably Sun Sand Wind :)

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I suspect it isn't all parenting. Of three offspring, one was jabbed, and she happened to be the darling who used to run to me from the tv excitedly to tell me that there was a new kitchen chemical that could blast off the dirt! I spent a lot of time explaining advertising to her, throughout her growing life. She became wise, but still a little susceptible, though progressively self-aware.

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I mused over this whole question as I worked in the garden yesterday. I think there are 2 things going on here. One is wanting life to be easier...advertising is targeted here often. The second is wanting to be seen as nice, helpful, supportive of others. It's something I often hear from my woke family members who see me as contrarian when I question the wisdom of what is being pushed. Go along to get along. I'm more interested in truth and smart choices. Not easy to indoctrinate someone who does that so propaganda is used to make anyone who won't go along look either foolish or evil.

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I very much prefer to get along, and I did fully support the lockdowns - I care about people's health - we stopped the virus in Australia - I hoped everyone would stop it. But because I care about people's health I couldn't possibly support the injections - there was no chance a genetic injection would leave people unharmed. So here I am, trying to do well for all, and being loathed and demonised.

And we all HAD to have those vaccines? Why? Truly, what was the purpose of forcing them?

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So much was known about the shots before they were ever used on the public. There was never a chance they would stop transmission or save lives. The underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry is beginning to be seen. None of this was to help the people. Power and money is the reason.

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Same with the lockdowns. All planned by The Rockfeller Foundation and others probably many decades ago, but announced publicly no later than 2010. I don't like the way the Breggins attacked others in the medical freedom movement (seemed like jealously to me), but the Covid timeline in their book runs something like 50 pages and is very helpful in seeing the connections and progression.

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>I actively taught my children to question authority.

Apparently not lol

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Teaching and learning are separate things. Even the best teacher can't make a difference for a student who refuses to take responsibility for the learning of the subject.

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You get the same thing from questionable parenting haha. Sure the outcomes aren't great but at least they aren't connected to trusting authority.

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Indeed, a very thin line between the latitude to think independently and becoming disrespectful. Father was no doubt a loving and very good man as the best parents raise every child of a family to be a leader in the correct necessary conditions.

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Blaze Cloude 3, my father, is still with us at 81. I'm very blessed. None of us six kids ever disrespected him. He led and taught us by example. He is one of a kind man, that's for sure!

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Such wise and good men are needed on Earth greatly and praying he is blessed with many more years. 🌹🙏🏼

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Thank you. You are very kind.

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May 5·edited May 5

I see you're a female, so you probably missed a test most males of my generation (boomers) went through, or you'd have realized how different you are much earlier. If you enter the military, you go through boot camp, or basic training. The description of it in my day was "tear them down, and build them back up into good soldiers". Not verbatim, but that was the gist. I came through it unaffected, but it was distressing to see how well it worked on all the other recruits. I greatly admire John Leake, but disagree on one point he made. Most people ARE like Pavlov's dogs. Yes the psyop was crude and childish, but that doesn't matter for most people. Adults in most western countries are around 90% jabbed, which proves my point.

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Steel J, my father, brother, and son, were all Army, and they told me the same thing. They, like you, didn't fall prey to that conditioning. I do agree with you; most people are Pavlov's dogs - sheep, and followers. I fear for our country because very few are independent thinkers and even fewer will defend our Constitution. Look what "covid" did. It turned people against one another very effectively, mostly due to the money our government dolled out. Bribery at its best.

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I knew by my early teens the "authorities" couldn't be trusted. I'd seen plenty of evidence, the only way to trust the authorities was to be either stupid or have very selective perception. Even so, the military experience was jaw-dropping. You're lucky to have such an unusual and smart family. There's a lot more to say about this subject, I think it's a very useful and smart technique to build an effective fighting force. So I'm not against it, just bemoaning the malleability of men, as it contributes to societal decline. Nowadays, I guess they mostly just make sure recruits believe in DEI and leftist BS. Fighting effectively has likely fallen off their priority list.

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Being borderline autistic, I’ve lived my entire existence in the company of very few friends. Little did I know that this would prepare me to resist the onslaught of nonsense that’s been poured out upon us.

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If think if I had been born anytime since 2005 or so, I would have been diagnosed autistic. But back when I was growing up, "autistic" referred only to the most severely self-isolating, self-stimulating, self-injuring, and sometimes other-injuring children. Kids like me were rare -- I think I may have been the only one in my small-town school of 300 kids -- and as far as I know, we were just known as "oddball out kids." I never fit into groups (Scouts, clubs, cliques, etc.). Even in my family, I didn't didn't fit in . . . and it's plain I'm now "the odd old aunt."

The way I think of it is that I've never been much for "affiliating." I've almost always had a "different perspective" on things and I've never happily given up my perspective in order to join a group centered on a perspective different from mine. I don't get the "normal" feeling of safety and security from being part of a "herd." Instead, I feel endangered by the herd's -- (uhh, dare I say this?) -- stupidity.

So from the start of COVID, I was "doing my own thing" -- prowling around on the web finding odd and interesting sources of information and charting my own course.

Meantime, genuinely intelligent relatives of mine have clearly felt secure and proud in their sense of being firmly among the "smart" people who understood the dangers of COVID, who understood the necessity of lockdowns and masks and social distancing and using hand sanitizers constantly and wiping their groceries down with alcohol . . . And who understood that -- despite the silly gobblegook spouted by anti-vaxxers aka vaccine-deniers aka science-deniers -- the mRNA vaccines were humanity's best hope for emerging from the pandemic and getting back to our good normal lives. The people who understood what Dr. Fauci was saying and appreciated its importance.

All of these people have taken the spikeshots and some boosters, without any notable adverse effects. I suspect they've been among the lucky folks who have gotten only the "placebo shots." If they were having adverse effects, I would be doing my dangedest to help them get effective treatment. But as it stands, none of these people want me or anybody else busting their bubbles. They want to stay in their nice comfortable cocoons of "conventional wisdom." I've given up trying to reach them, but I don't know whether to feel "wise" in doing that or horribly neglectful and uncaring. Mostly I think "Let them enjoy life as long as they can."

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Thanks for this. You describe many of my own relatives.

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I suspect you’re a lion, in a family of sheep. Invariably labeled by the sheep as the black sheep. I’m in that boat also. Thank you for sharing.

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I learned early in life that there can really be some untoward consequences to being popular. As a nurse, I too don’t wish to seem unconcerned about others but I can share facts a get others to be aware of another point of view.

However, I refuse to argue and they may accept the information or reject it as they see fit. No hard feelings. I don’t want others to make me into someone I am not.

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It's called "Asperger's syndrome". We tend to be independent thinkers and dissidents. Perhaps as many as 95% got the "placebo shots".

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The DSM-V put them together under autism. I’m socially awkward regardless of the label.

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Try the NAC supplement. Also fiji water to remove the aluminum from your brain. The silica in the Fiji water pulls the aluminum from your brain.

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Just find high-silica ground water, and remove the fluoride with bone ash or reverse osmosis (silicic acid passes through an RO membrane). Latter only if arsenic or other toxicants present. No need to pay shipping and packaging costs from Fiji.

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I’m 67yo. I come by it genetically.

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You will find tons of results on Fiji water getting rid of heavy metals online. Also, you will find some results for NAC and autism. You can also get results if you have the money to do hyperbaric oxygen therapy. But it will cost you about 200 bucks a session for 20 sessions.

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I like my autism. It keeps me safe from peer pressure.

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Asperger's. Lose the "high-functioning autism" term.

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Put together in DSM-V

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You also have to be particularly careful now and avoid the flu shot because that has aluminum in it and if you have a weak blood brain barrier, it would then give you dementia eventually. The aluminum.

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Never had a flu shot, last poke was Tdap before moving to Mexico. Last poke period. I love it when a doctor over here says I’m receiving a medication that’s not FDA approved!

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May 3·edited May 3

You were probably genetically disposed to a weak blood brain barrier, and that’s how the heavy metals got into your brain. That’s why some kids got autism and some kids don’t because some kids have a stronger blood brain barrier than the other kids. Therefore, do a metal test to see what you have and try to get the heavy metals out with NAC and Fiji water. Maybe even cilantro.

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Perhaps my family is simply 100% German

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You’re clearly fluent in sass. Love it.

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No, seriously! A tribe of engineers!!

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Such a shame so many people care too much about going along with the crowd more than preserving their own freedom. "To thine own self be true".

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Sharon Bailey, I love that quote!

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Love this quote and also “Stand for something, else you’ll fall for anything.”

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Yes, and unfortunately, there are way too many of them.

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Exodus 23:2

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Reality tends to be more complex than general theories. Yes, propaganda is real. True, some people have more strength of conviction and confidence which allows them to resist propaganda. But we also have people that seem to need to be "protected from themselves".

We want to be polite and say all people are created equal. But we aren't. We are individuals, each with our own strengths and weaknesses.

If I was a tyrant and a viral outbreak occurred, instead of mandating masks, social distancing and mRNA shots, I more likely would have recommended a ban on nutritionally deficient processed food (junk like "Frosted Flakes") and encouraged everyone to take Vitamin C and D. I use the terms recommend and encourage because I detest tyranny.

But what about the people that are too foolish to take my advice? Should they be led with stronger measures? Surely it's for their own good! Should we mandate that "Frosted Flakes" and "Captain Crunch" be banned from production? Should we mandate that people take supplementary Vitamin C and D?

Life is complex. I'm in favor of freedom. Even if that means some ignorant people get sick and die.

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Much as you want to, you can't direct everyone towards their own benefit. The 'shallow end of the gene pool'...

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Depends what you mean ' towards their own benefit.". I am a Christian, I don't think Our Lord Jesus did anything for his own benefit. Certaintly His Death on the cross was not for his own benefit, but for ours. Similarly, I know of people who took the JAB even though they knew of the dangers, just so they could be with their dying lived ones in hospital or homes just so their loved ones would know they were not dying alone. I find it offensive to categorize these people as the ' shallow end of the gene pool'. Offensive and condescending.

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I'd be slightly appalled to discover that a dying person would encourage a healthy person taking a jab to see them off.

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The healthy people that I know off did this on their own, and without any encouragement. They just did not want their loved ones to die alone. Why only slightly appalled?

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I'll address the 'slightly' at the end.

My comment was written at a time of self-reflection on the question of "How long do I feel sorry for people who, though under duress, made choices to satisfy their own needs/convenience?". We can argue over who benefited on this occasion - the dying person or the healthy person. Hopefully the healthy person is still healthy. But I judged that a loving dying person should not want to risk the health of the healthy person, for the sake of leaving with a loved one by their side.

If I was in that situation I would've brought the dying person home, or least outside the hospital, rather than meet the demands of the coercion. Or I would've phoned to say 'loved the time with you, enjoy your trip, say hello in a spooky way if you get a chance'.

Why did I say 'slightly'? I think it was just a reference to a general reply on unknown circumstances. As a principle I'd be appalled, but there might be circumstances where I wouldn't be.

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Right on!

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You Write . . . "You and you alone have the autonomy over your body. You have the freedom to determine what happens to your body".

As a Parent to a severely Non-Verbal Birth Injured and Subsequently Severely Vaccine Injured Adult Son Who Developed Regressive Autism Following Multiple Vaccine Administration In Early Infancy Of An Immunocompromised/ Immunodeficient Infant Son

I Whole Heartedly Disagree With This Statement.

During The COVID-19 Pandemic Because My Son Is A Long-term Care Resident He Was First To Be Targeted With This Newly Formulated, Poorly Tested, Endorsed Medical Product , Namely The mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines.

I Had To Fight Very Publically To Protect My Vulnerable Son From Further Acumulative Toxic Itrogenic Injury From The Use Of Such Products.

In Fact, I Secured A Valid Medical Exemption Against Administration Of A Covid-19 Vaccine Or Any Future Vaccines Based On Prior Vaccine Injury As Recorded In His Official Medical Records. FACT.

So In Future, With Respect, Please Do Not Make The Shameful Assumption That We All Have Equal Capacity When It Comes To Deciding What Is To Be Injected Into Our Bodies, Some Do Not Have Any "Choice" Because Of Government Policy / Mandates .

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I'm sorry for your family's experience. It was the same during covid, in the UK they found that people like your son but with no one to advocate for them were the most likely to die from 'treatments' like being sedated and ventilated.

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yep, and my mother in low, like LOTS of elderly in nursing homes, developed Alzheimer's in the home and subsequently died of it. . . uhhhm, of vaccine injury!

All this just reconfirms my belief that both Desmet and Breggins were correct depending on which end of the spectrum one lies.

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“Free yourself from mental slavery. No one but ourselves can free our minds.” Bob Marley

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Love that song....It encapsulates everything we need to know right now.

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And, as Philip Zimbardo taught us in our fascinating class on Persuasion, Manipulation and Mind Control back in the early '80's, and emphasized and demonstrated over and over again, ANYONE - no matter how prepared and studied - can be coerced, swayed, cheated, and controlled, depending on a whole host of factors. No one is exempt, even though we like to think we are. It's good, of course, to become aware of and learn about the wide array of manipulative techniques; yet no one can say with surety how they would respond in any given situation, even with the knowledge. We humans are unfortunately very gullible to authoritative and manipulative forces.

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We can blame the elites, act helpless, and wait around for someone to save us *or* we can learn about what is happening, recognize the power that we have over our own lives and act accordingly. And we can invite our friends to join us. Those are our options.

Anyone can fall for propaganda for a while but it’s a choice to stay fooled by it long term.

No one else is going to save us from the “elites”. There is no mechanism to do so. And I refuse to be a victim so I’m choosing the later option.

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Mark Twain apparently didn't say it in just these words, but it's easier to con people than to convince them they've been conned.

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It is true. Because of this principle, I make it a point to ask myself what beliefs I might harbor that are keeping me from reality and how could I go about letting go of my false beliefs? It is a scary move to take but rewarding after the pain is over.

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And what are you doing to work toward achieving this latter option?

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May 3·edited May 3

I’ve been trying to warn people about the dangers of the allopathic medical system for years, and I still do even more now. I teach people how to eat whole nutritionally dense foods, prepared using traditional methods. I volunteer with local garden and local food organizations. I feed my friends and family healthy foods that contribute to their health. I lend out books and share links. I have in depth conversation with people about where true health is derived. Sometimes I write letters to politicians and public health figures. I grow a very large garden, we raise our own meat birds, I catch my own fish for the year and I buy from local small-scale farmers. I buy organic when I buy something that I can’t grow. I mostly avoid processed foods so that I’m not supporting those companies. I left my religion because it was pushing people to take the “miracle” injection. I support many local small businesses. That’s a list off the top of my head. I’m sure there is more that I can do and I look forward to expanding my efforts.

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I forgot the most important thing that ai try to do. I try to live so that I don’t pay into the pharmaceutical industry. I’m glad the medical system is there for emergencies like accidents but I hope to never need them for chronic disease. If everyone did this and only half were successful, the whole system would probably collapse under its own weight and no one would fall for the “scary virus” tactic. Viruses probably exist but they do not determine the outcome alone.

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Yup....that's it. I am never sick-- Here are my simple rules for living--Don't use Pharma products except under dire emergency. Eat a lot of veggies....avoid poisons (this is hard because they are everywhere) and go outside as much as you can. It's the terrain--not the microbe. Most importantly enjoy this beautiful world and take any opportunity you are given to serve others.

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Excellent! This is the best health model to live by! So much better than what we are offered by the public health officials and the pharmaceutical industrial complex. That is the source of true health freedom.

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I think you are all over-simplifying and over-glamorizing this. You all are. I am a lifetime "rebel". The more someone tries to bully me, the more I resist. My resistance is not always thought through. You bully, I resist, until I have the time and space to think whatever it is through for myself. This is not a choice. It is a pathology. So when we come to the state bullying the population, I resist. I did with the covid fear campaign, and it only took me a few days to think through that there are worse ways to die, and decide I did not have to comply with anything. I had no idea yet if covid was or was not a real threat. The government was bullying, I was resisting. End of story. I never wore a mask, I never got tested, I never obeyed a lockdown, and I never got myself jabbed. But I did get sick and I did get captured by the medical system nonetheless.

Then I was subject to round 2 of the incessant, non-stop bullying, that of the medical profession themselves. The more they bullied, the more I said a loud and resounding NO! But the bullying did not stop. It has become more and more relentless. And the more I am bullied, the more I drag my heels, the more I resist. In two years I have gone through the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, long covid, shingles, melanoma and breast cancer, and now dangerously high blood pressure, which is where I find myself today, with doctors still shouting at me to be obedient to their wishes. I have stalled medical treatment for the cancers for 5 months because they will not stop bullying. At every turn they threaten me with death if I am not obedient to their every stupid drug fueled, brain addled order.

So, I could be proud of my ability to resist propaganda, and maybe I could be proud of my ability to resist bullying, but believe me, the resistance is a pathology that I am clever enough to rationalise after the event. And rationalise it I do. I resist because I will do nothing that I have not thought through for myself. But I don't know how to get the rest of the world to "catch" my pathology, and always demand thinking time before taking decisions that impact on their lives and their life expectancy. I am a 99 percentile IQ. I have the raw mental grunt power to think a lot through for myself. Others less blessed in the brain capacity arena do not!

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You understand yourself, and that is beautiful.

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. . . and Christine, you said it above, much of this is inborn. Although not as gifted in the IQ as yourself we are much alike in response to bullies.

as a kid I stood up to and fought them, often defending others.

But, that does not make me always "right". I have learned to eventually listen to their side and make MY decision based on my knowledge and theirs. It is hard to avoid pride overriding one's sense of righteousnous.

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Oh yes, everyone is welcome to supply me with facts, and even opinions, but no-one gets to tell me what to do. I will hear their advice then make my own call. Sometimes it conforms to their advice, sometimes it does not. That's when doctors get their noses out of joint. They want 100% compliance with their instructions and don't even want to help you understand, so that you can give informed consent. When they won't give the information my answer is always "no" until I have consulted with Dr Google, after which sometimes it will shift to "yes". But the actual doctor who demanded the yes without providing adequate information, never gets to hear it - I move on to the next doctor.

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Christine, I read your brief bio on the substack info. Based on your subsequent maladies after contracting the C19 virus I was hoping to hear your insights:

-- Do you give any credence to the McCullough(and other docs) recommendation for Vax and C19 de-tox supplements like IVM, FenBen, Wellness Co spike supplements, etc, and

-- have you found any with positive effects for your maladies?

I would respond the same to any doc who refuses to provide backup. I have dumped almost all allopaths and only go to one when I feel my own needs for some anti-biotic.

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No, I don't trust them at all. Even where the ingredients are apparently good, there are missing ingredients without which their protocols cannot work. And 99% of the time, their protocols still require a doctors prescription, so they are still lining their own pockets, maintaining their monopoly, and knowingly ensuing that, in countries where the doctors are completely intimidated, like Australia, we cannot get the medical help we need. I could say a lot more but this is not the stack to be saying it on.

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Christine...I am waiting for you to tell us the secret "missing ingredients--What are they?

Or is that something you are keeping to yourself? Why post something like this if you do not supply the information. Healthy people do not need "medical help"...They need freedom, friendship and access to information to find out the truth. Our "doctors" are in disease-care for the money...and when money is the only goal....all other considerations fall by the wayside.

Doctors, overall, are a very conforming and non-adventurous group of people who actually make a living on our poor health. Plus they are saddled with enormous debt and usually have families to feed.

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I have a whole substack full of free articles about my journey with covid, long covid and now two different cancers. I am just trying to save my own life and sharing what I learn in the process. In that time I have stumbled over many protocols and tried many of them, with little to no success, until I realised each has something critical missing. They don't each have the same things missing. Then there are others with incompatible ingredients, again, differing from protocol to protocol. If you want to pay me $100,000 to write a research article on it I will happily do the work necessary. $50,000 down payment, $50,000 on delivery.

But at the very least you can read through this series of 5 articles and 4 support articles to understand which ingredients are likely to be missing, and take any protocol you like from anywhere in the world and assess it according to the stated criteria.

https://curingcoviddiseases.substack.com/p/4-what-goes-into-a-healing-protocol

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" I am a 99 percentile IQ."....I imagine that all those lovely scientists who informed us how "safe and effective" their poison needles are...also score in that range. IQ tests just show that a person is skilled in taking tests......it is easy to improve IQ scores. Just buy a book and practice....I know many people who have done just that.

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Ah, you are defensive about IQ for some reason. If a physical athlete is allowed to understand, feed and work their body to improve performance, why is a mental athlete not similarly allowed to recognise and enjoy their talents?

But you have a false premise that doctors are intelligent. They are not. The average medical IQ is quite low topping out at around 130, so they have enough mental power to develop good memories, but not enough to perform independent analysis. And of course, they are different from the ones who are murdering us at the moment whose intelligence is not even human so cannot be measured by any human measure. And if you buy a book and practice, you can get your score up by about 5 points at the most, which is not of any significance. There are also "culture fair" tests that cannot be scammed.

When I was a teacher I specialised in teaching the bottom kids - those who could not read or write at secondary school level. A few of them I got IQ tested because I knew how smart they were - many of those in the bottom classes are very smart - often a lot smarter than the adults around them - and are under-performing for emotional reasons. You should have seen their reading and maths suddenly come on line, their parents suddenly become proud and the other teachers treating them entirely differently - because I proved they were smart. IQ tests can be used for good. Of course, getting quite a few of these students enrolled in school dinners also had a great effect on those who really were quite "average". They also improved dramatically with some nutrition in their bellies.

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I am not "defensive"....any more than I am "defensive" about not taking their genocidal injections. You can bring your IQ score up A LOT!.... Actually one of my grandparents wrote the Stanford Binet test....and I know all about it--He was a funny eccentric guy and I loved him....but I do not believe he was brilliant. . There is a skill set and it is easily learned....sorry to bust your bubble. Anyway... you are right....You can use these tests for "good"....and as for medical doctors....generally....I would say (there are two in my direct family) they are people very skilled in figuring out what the game is....like what sort of stuff they MUST KNOW to pass the course....and memorizing these items. Some doctors are extremely caring and devoted. Many are interested only in paying off their huge student loans which they assumed to pay the high tuition fees charged them....they have no choice but to tow the party line...otherwise they become "delicensed"...and then they can never pay it off. It's a cruel, rigged system which puts health and wellness very low on the list of what is "important" for them....I know that many students are not performing or using their brains for school. They don't care. And there are many reasons for this---our educational system is bad for children....just like our health system makes us sick. The working people with families don't have time to study these situations....all their time is consumed with "getting by". That's how it works. My youngest child was labeled as "learning disabled"....I never accepted this and knew it was not true. Today she has a MS in environmenal sciences and is gainfully employed. I agree with your basic premise.....because she had dyslexia and literally "saw" things differently. She was home schooled until the 7th grade and then did just fine....She learned at a different pace.

Anyway, you make good points. Intelligence has nothing to do with IQ. . There are very "intelligent" doctors and stupid ones. Just like other people and I think we can agree on that point.

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“ They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. “ Benjamin Franklin quote. This is true for today.

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I have no idea why people fell for it- except they decided it was easy or they were petrified. Ask yourself whenever has a disease wiped out humans? Obviously never. As a teacher - health and Pe- it was obvious when school shut down there was something else going on- perhaps it’s my background knowing during polio “pandemic” they did not shut schools down and this was a disease against children. I also have on my records adverse vaccine events and have never taken one again since I was little. How do people think putting a needle full of god knows what could be safe? Think about tetanus how many people died? How do you get it? Think about chx pox - it’s not deadly it’s not a problem. How about flu shot works do called 30%. It’s interesting how people think “better living through pharmacology”. Yet I know people who jabbed up with similar backgrounds and issues with vaccines!

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Each person is unique, it's never one size fits all, but in addition to some people being lazy and some people being scared witless, I observed in many "covidians" what I perceived to be pride, lust (bit of S & M going on there with some people, especially with the masks and the jab mandates), and a lot of anger. Covid theater allowed a lot of people to indulge in a lot of things that did not reflect well on them.

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Jimmy Kimmel: "Rest in peace, wheezy" (i.e., no hospital bed for the unvaxxed.) But Kimmel, like many "influencers," was probably paid to push the vax. For a hilarious musical tribute to the musicians and others who were bought off, see the video "There Ain't No Rock and Roll" by Five Times August:

https://rumble.com/v3noftn-epic-music-video-there-aint-no-rock-and-roll-five-times-august.html

This is the same artist who did the wonderful song and video "Gates Behind the Bars" about Epstein cohort Bill Gates.

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Thanks for posting this...5X is totally great and brave. He played on the steps of the white house during the Jan 6 "invasion"....

I did not accept any "Jabs" and I am fine with perfect health at 74. My 77 year old husband has guillaine barre syndrome after the "vax" and sometimes can't hold a fork -- but not tp worry...it's "normal" ..they tell us .....

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Totally agree- I saw so many people indulging it was strange

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Fear based reactionary thinking fuelled the cv19 assault. Why is the populace vulnerable too and compliant too THEIR fear based propaganda?

Salt restriction has been taught as a tool for health. This is a malfeasant directive.

Low salt also called hyponatremia also called dehydration results with salt restriction.

This makes the adrenals take charge because this is an emergency. Hyponatremia can kill. All the adrenocortical hormones are produced in response. This puts people into a constant state of fear, as if they have a tiger on their tail.

Fight/flight/freeze are their responses to pressure.

Their adrenals become fatigued or enlarged.

Stress is intolerable, compliance / avoidance / aggressive are their primary reactions. This makes media manipulation very easy.

The WHO boosts of the return on their investment campaigning to reduce salt intake.

Excerpt: Sodium reduction has since been recognized by WHO as one of the “best buys” in global public health, yielding an estimated return on investment of USD$13-78 for every dollar invested.

Source https://www.who.int/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases/reducing-population-sodium-salt-intakes#tab=tab_1

Read my article: How does salt restriction lead to heart dis-ease and fear based reactionary thinking?

Click the blue icon.

Know all the symptoms of dehydration so you can take action to remedy.

Eg a headache is not a sign to pop a Panadol.

Hydration equals salt plus water.

Get salty and get back your thought control.

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that WHO link goes to a blank page! They must have removed the content.

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It took a while to load but it’s still available. I’ve added the link to archive.today

so you can paste the link there and it will come up

Scroll down to the heading: Overview

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I will not comply with unconstitutional tyranny.

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The problem with thinking is that it is work, and involves accepting personal responsibility for outcomes. Better to trust the experts, and get drunk and high.

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:) I'll presume you intended that facetiously.

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I think that characterises a LOT. :D

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Dear John:

One thing that's very obvious about Edward Bernays, is the utter contempt he had for humanity. Possibly the result of the culture he was raised in, on the other hand I can't blame him. Also, have you ever heard of "The Mighty Wurlitzer" (link below*) by Hugh Wilford? I haven't read it, but I suspect I've already a pretty good idea what's in it; just a record of the inevitable development Bernays ideas...

Thus as to your comment "I’m struck by how much of the PSYOP that has been perpetrated against us is crude and childish"? After the past four years and the monstrous ugliness and stupidity I've experienced? It's all that's necessary. Come end of May and the promulgation of the WHO "Pandemic Response Treaty" will be the next bogus pandemic and the morons will fall for that one. They won't see the truth, you can't make them see the truth. You'll regret it if you try. Every day where I live, a half-a-dozen imbeciles, still wearing bloody masks.

"All of us can assume personal responsibility for resisting tyranny. In the 19th and 20th centuries, great writers such as Dostoevsky, Jung, Milosz, Solzhenitsyn, Popper, Kolakowski, Koestler, Bonhoeffer, and many others pointed out that the individual can and should always strive to resist the twin spells of propaganda and ideology"? Recall what happened to Solzhenitsyn, Koestler and Bonhoeffer. In the end, we're Winston Smith in Room 101 of The Ministry of Love, and O'Brien is about to release the starving rats at the other end of our face cage.

Best,

Capt. Roy Harkness

*(https://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Wurlitzer-How-Played-America/dp/067403256X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Q4YWBKZ6CCJ6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.v3ywIFbLsI808PtdUg45vA4hSplMC74uPZS25lsR0tLGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.JYhHZZ5UY4dmNdCl65I5F0QOGMTnJ2w13Nukr-ZbGe4&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+mighty+wurlitzer+how+the+cia+played+america&qid=1714764788&sprefix=The+mighty+wu%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1)

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" Every day where I live, a half-a-dozen imbeciles, still wearing bloody masks."

Yup Capt. ...incurable stupidity. They probably wear them in the shower.....poor babies.

I have gone to the trouble of gently informing them that their "masks" do not impede deadly microbes...but only provide the right conditions....moisture and a sheltered environment...for them to continue to multiply and increase unabated. Microbes do not thrive in sunlight and fresh air. Masks do not prevent contagion or transmission. They just make people feel "safe"....The mask absurdity has a simple and important origin: Surgeons wore them to avoid drooling into the open incisions of those lying on the operating tables below them...and NOT to stop disease. But they do make people feel as if they are being considerate of others....

They are not, however. They are only reinforcing the cruel abuses of power exercised by people like Walensky and Fauci and Peter Dazik.

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Here is a book to give to your friends (those that can actually read) you want to "save"...

"Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 - by Edward Dowd

From website Goodreads reviews

Nov 9, 2022

An excellent analysis of the skyrocketing all cause mortality statistics over the last three years. The numbers are a direct correlation to the implementation of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine mandates. Dowd provides QR codes to all articles in the book so readers can look at the original source material themselves.

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That's one I'm planning on buying for myself. Meanwhile Kathleen as you've no doubt discovered, it's in one ear, out the other, often with condescending remarks about "Conspiracy Theory." I had a friend who was a doctor who sarcastically asked me if I'd ever heard of "Long Covid"; complained that he wished he could take me on his rounds to see all the Long Covid sufferers (he's in London, Ontario, I'm in Victoria, British Columbia... When I sent back that I had indeed heard of "Long Covid" and then asked why was it in 4 years I had yet to see one credible case of "Covid-19"... the stupid bugger cut me off. Brook had been a practising Medical Doctor for 30 years at that point... 4 doses of the lethal injection and counting... And just... dumb as shit...

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This is par for the course...and the "naked facts" are now available for all to see. Go to Denis Rancourt substack...a reputable scientist who focuses on statistical analysis...Dr. Rancourt asserts that according to the statistics from numerous countries...there was NO PANDEMIC. So that bottom line is as you would expect. So-called "covid" was just your normal seasonal cold or flu...

and all the lockdowns/ school closures, loss of revenue for the average citizen..It was all a giant psyops with the goal of "depopulation" in mind. They liked to call this murderous crime...(millions did die because of it)...THE GREAT RESET.

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"There Is No Expedient to which a Man Will Not Resort to Avoid the Real Labor of Thinking"

-- Sir Joshua Reynolds

"Most people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do."

-- Bertrand Russell

"You can't fix 'stupid' no matter how you try."

-- John Wayne

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Great quotes....thanks!

I think you may not be able to "fix stupid" .... but there were millions of seemingly intelligent citizens who were totally conned. They were conned because they couldn't bear the idea of killing anyone's granny or endangering their neighbors. Good people were conned because they do not wish to hurt their relatives, their friends or even strangers on the bus. The horrible truth is the "perps" used our own virtues against us.

They planned all of this in hopes many of us would be dead sooner rather than later.

Looks like it may have worked....if all the "excess death" statistics from around the world are accurate and we have no reason to believe they are not. All "excess death" occurred AFTER the "vaccination" campaigns in every country. This is verified in Edward Dowd's book entitled CAUSE UNKNOWN ....please read this and pass it on to your deluded friends who still think they were "saving granny" by all this insanity....No granny was saved....and many were murdered by the "vaccines". That's the simple truth. The elderly were the first privileged to be injected and the first to "die suddenly"....And the deaths continue....please read Mark Crispin Millers substack....DIED SUDDENLY....the murdering is on-going.....And hero tort lawyer Reiner Fuellmich is still imprisoned in Germany for trumped up lies about financial matters. Who gets locked up for stuff like that? Nobody....but him. They wanted to stop his investigation--ICIC-- into what really happened and the murderous "elites" behind this elaborately planned and meticulously carried out campaign to make us all die before our time....

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Last night, Dr. Robert Malone was the featured guest on Steve Kirsch's VSRF (Vaccine Safety Research Foundation). Dr. Malone stated that it is a very small percentage of the population (I believe he said 2%, but I may be mistaken) that is resistant to brainwashing. If true, that explains a lot.

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Yes I would say that is true. It's painful and difficult to go against the grain. As the good book tells us...."For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it."

Why is it like this? Why is the world full of liars? Why are so many deceived by them? Who is to blame for our fallen state? I tried to convince my family of adult children to refuse the "vax"....I was unsuccessful. I hope I die before they do....though I never took one jab. They came and carted my blind and disabled husband out to get vaxxed and now he can hardly walk. Oh well....I couldn't stop them. You do what you can and let the rest go...

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Sounds like INT.

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If you know you are susceptible, you can observe and catch the glitches in your own thinking. It could very well be 0%, but a small percentage may be able to self-correct.

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I once had a one-day class concerning the Myers-Briggs personality profiles. According to this concept, people can be classified as belonging to one of sixteen defined types. I took the official Myers-Briggs test, but there are several unofficial ones online. They just involve answering a series of questions as honestly as you can. It is really humbling when you find out just how predictable you are and your likely response to various situations.

I bring this up, obviously, thinking that people are pre-disposed to react in distinct ways to propaganda, proclamations by "authority", peer pressure, etc.

-Dan (INTP)

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I observe that certain types are more susceptible and suggestible. Based on Kiersey’s “Please Understand Me”, they would be the majority types in the USA (the population he studied).

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Those tests, besides usually co$ting, are an exercise in tedium and frustration. Just use archived older WP entries such as https://web.archive.org/web/20180527112929/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESFJ, changing the last 4 letters as necessary, and see which profile you most resemble.

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Yes. Explains much in terms of how we tick. (me <- INTJ).

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