Thanks, Monica. Good info and I feel very much the same on information-overload. It's hard to take your eyes off the 'show' but at the same time, it's an enormous time-suck and I often wonder how could I be spending my time in a more productive and/or enjoyable way? I guess we each have to navigate that for ourselves. I listened to a Mi…
Thanks, Monica. Good info and I feel very much the same on information-overload. It's hard to take your eyes off the 'show' but at the same time, it's an enormous time-suck and I often wonder how could I be spending my time in a more productive and/or enjoyable way? I guess we each have to navigate that for ourselves. I listened to a Mike Yeadon interview recently where he said he didn't need to collect any more stamps - he had enough scientific data already to know there was a plan and that they lied about everything. Couldn't agree more.
100%! I don't need to collect any more stamps, either.
I sort of love the drama, in a way. I like challenges and this feels like a big challenge, what we're going through.
But... what's life worth if we're not living it? The smartest people of all may be those that are not paying attention to ANY of it on either side of the political aisle. 🙃
Yup. Keeping us busy ain't it? I suspect our time is better spent finding ways around the nonsense. But I also see a great opportunity in finding each other during this period. So... good stuff in it too.
While I'm gobsmacked at the Covid bioweapon evil that has descended on the world, I try to do something every day to relieve the suffering of some living creature (I am a volunteer animal rescuer, mostly felines). It helps me not to feel as if I can't do a damned thing about the globalist psychopaths' plans to enslave us, other than try to educate normies to stop taking boosters. In short, I concentrate on the small stuff that I am able to do.
I am inspired by Albert Schweitzer's "The Ethic of Reverence for Life" (from his Civilization and Ethics). Here's an excerpt that I love to quote:
"A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.
If he goes out into the street after a rainstorm and sees a worm which has strayed there, he reflects that it will certainly dry up in the sunshine, if it does not quickly regain the damp soil into which it can creep, and so he helps it back from the deadly paving stones into the lush grass. Should he pass by an insect which has fallen into a pool, he spares the time to reach it a leaf or stalk on which it may clamber and save itself.
He is not afraid of being laughed at as sentimental. It is indeed the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that coloured men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolishness has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race was so long before it recognized thoughtless injury to life as incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life."
I still am, and I'm also an inveterate bee- and spider-rescuer from swimming pools. And if it's a bumblebee that I've rescued, I feel especially blessed.
Thanks, Monica. Good info and I feel very much the same on information-overload. It's hard to take your eyes off the 'show' but at the same time, it's an enormous time-suck and I often wonder how could I be spending my time in a more productive and/or enjoyable way? I guess we each have to navigate that for ourselves. I listened to a Mike Yeadon interview recently where he said he didn't need to collect any more stamps - he had enough scientific data already to know there was a plan and that they lied about everything. Couldn't agree more.
100%! I don't need to collect any more stamps, either.
I sort of love the drama, in a way. I like challenges and this feels like a big challenge, what we're going through.
But... what's life worth if we're not living it? The smartest people of all may be those that are not paying attention to ANY of it on either side of the political aisle. 🙃
That's funny about the clueless - I've thought the same thing.
Exactly. I sometimes fear that we are also getting sucked into the mass formation psychosis vortex too, just by focusing on it so much.
On the other hand, we can't just sit and watch the world go into full Jonestown.
My wife and I are trying our best to make sure we set aside time that is totally free of all of this. Daily/weekly.
Yup. Keeping us busy ain't it? I suspect our time is better spent finding ways around the nonsense. But I also see a great opportunity in finding each other during this period. So... good stuff in it too.
Exactly. And, in time: "The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." Socrates
While I'm gobsmacked at the Covid bioweapon evil that has descended on the world, I try to do something every day to relieve the suffering of some living creature (I am a volunteer animal rescuer, mostly felines). It helps me not to feel as if I can't do a damned thing about the globalist psychopaths' plans to enslave us, other than try to educate normies to stop taking boosters. In short, I concentrate on the small stuff that I am able to do.
I am inspired by Albert Schweitzer's "The Ethic of Reverence for Life" (from his Civilization and Ethics). Here's an excerpt that I love to quote:
"A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.
If he goes out into the street after a rainstorm and sees a worm which has strayed there, he reflects that it will certainly dry up in the sunshine, if it does not quickly regain the damp soil into which it can creep, and so he helps it back from the deadly paving stones into the lush grass. Should he pass by an insect which has fallen into a pool, he spares the time to reach it a leaf or stalk on which it may clamber and save itself.
He is not afraid of being laughed at as sentimental. It is indeed the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that coloured men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolishness has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race was so long before it recognized thoughtless injury to life as incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life."
I love this.
I was a worm rescuer as a little girl. 🪱 🐛
I still am, and I'm also an inveterate bee- and spider-rescuer from swimming pools. And if it's a bumblebee that I've rescued, I feel especially blessed.
A Buddhist!
A Christian married to a Buddhist!
Yes!!