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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2022-08-16 01:46 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 54

meme 2As we move further into the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

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)
Ok, fair enough. Truth back. I should have acknowledged right away and didn’t. I’ve been alternating between blushing and meditating on a response because it was a very generous offer full of love, and that’s my weakness. You are REALLY good at finding the flashing weak point and zeroing in on people that way. It’s what I dig about you. So here is mine. Deflecting is right. My feelz are set to 11 as a baseline, but it freaks me out to wear them on my sleeve. Makes me feel out of control. It’s even hard to write that. When someone does that publicly around me, I admire it and try to take notes, and practice later. When someone does that TO me publicly, I duck for cover! I’m practicing though. It’s hard. This response is part of that practice. Trying to be less white. Trying to be less like the broken, strong, silent John Wayne, Clint Eastwood types i grew up with who couldn’t deal with this. I’m sorry I hurt you. Please forgive me. Also, though, you did hit my flashing weak point directly on target, jerk. 🎯🤗

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)
I hope you will still let me respond.

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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