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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 54

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:
1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
Re: Sam Harris
(Anonymous) 2022-08-20 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)This is why your walls of text, which are “heart on sleeve” from start to finish are so compelling to me. In the beginning they were horrifying. I remember coming across the first one and thinking how could someone be so open, so publicly?! Then I realized it’s like witnessing a masterclass on how to deal with EXACTLY the flaw that so much of my trouble in life stems from. I have two people I try and learn from; an enormous jolly Viking friend I’ve known for years, and you. And we’ve never even met. That’s how much life you put into dead pixels on a screen.
I have been scribbling notes though since you posted your offer, about what would be fun podcasts, and how to respond back with love publicly, in a way that doesn’t freak me out 😊. I really didn’t ignore. Just been blushing over here, and trying to overcome a deep character flaw. I hope you will still let me respond.
Murmuration
Parrots flying upside down!
(Anonymous) 2022-08-20 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)you just DID. this is more important than the original question. don't you SEE??? and do you see what you did? how you stepped up? even anonymously, being truly and fully human is... EEEK!
and i feel closer and more respected by this real answer. this is where the "mistakes" become the Thing, as in art. misunderstandings become genius.
thank you for this.
yay! parrots DID fly upside down on Temporary Reality's birthday because most people ignore or DEFEND when they only wanna be liked or seen as NICE. see? this is why we're HERE at the Open Post.
no one wanted to be... a grandma killer.
no one wants to be vulnerable but you told me how you felt and do you feel naked in a bad way now? or more connected? like we made it through something and we don't even "mean anything" to each other?
beautiful... parrots flying upside down.
thank you, Murmuration. for not being defensive and telling me YOUR TRUTH.
that's better than any "podcast."
and yes... of course... I'd LOVE to riff off a subject for you, even now more than before.
thank YOU for the master class.
this is LOVE to me. thank you for ALL The Love, Murmuration.
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