I wish I had a photo of Michelle. When she found out I did blade and leather care, she sent me home one weekend with a pair of sai she had kept IN HER OFFICE for me to try to get the rust out and re-wrap the grips. She was like a blaxpoitation movie heroine from the 70s except she was 100% real and never, ever looked silly being herself.
She was a phenomenal first boss. She hired me straight out of an internship and was the perfect role model for me at that age- a lot less confident and a lot more naive. She was grandfathered into her job which, by the time I started working there, required a Masters degree- she never attended college and was an excellent example of how meaningless civil service qualifications have become.
This article lit a fire in my belly. I'm now a paid subscriber. It's not that I didn't want to be a paid subscriber before, but moms of seven on one income can only support so many Substacks. But now yours is one.
I was kicked out of my Catholic homeschool co-op after thirteen years because I refused to mask or force my children to mask. And all the supposed Christians said the same thing, "We know the masks are bullshit, but just do it so the priests don't get in trouble." JUST DO IT SO THE PRIESTS DON'T GET IN TROUBLE. That was their justification for bowing to the diktats of a pro-abortion Planned Parenthood escort of a governor and a man in a dress public health official here in Pennsylvania. Both men completely opposed to every Catholic value we supposedly stand for, "mandating" us to cover our faces in order to spread fear and division...which the Bible warns us against more than 300 times: "Do not fear, for I am with you."
And who are these priests anyway, gay cowards? They're our spiritual fathers. They're supposed to be protecting *us.* The 5'1" mother of seven shouldn't be fighting their battles for them.
My only regret is that I can't afford to be a founding member so I can drink a beer with you and maybe shoot something.
Big, big ups for keeping your personal integrity, and I'm honored someone with better things to spend money on spent a little here.
As a fellow Pennsylvanian- but a former New Yorker- I can tell you that we are still luckier than most. I'm out in York county, and enforcement was virtually nil.
Our priorities are backward in nearly every part of society. It is not our job to protect the powerful.
Many priests have been a big disappointment during this, that's for sure. One of mine used to stare daggers at me for attending Mass unmasked. He even took space in the parish bulletin to call out the muzzle-free (in society, not the church, specifically) for being "selfish" and not "being concerned about others." Of course, he strongly encouraged vaccination.
Still, he's been otherwise a very good pastor--traditional and conservative. He just lost his mind during the fear fest.
My friend in Colorado's pastor held underground Masses back in March, 2020. Hero priests still exist.
Amen to your priest should be protecting YOU. Those parents and the priest have the relationship backward. I hope you are still homeschooling. I bet there are other Christian Co-ops out there that would be enriching for your kids.
It seems to me the Power Elite were pretty surprised by the global population’s Covid compliance ease. Like me, they were expecting a more libertarian response particularly in the US. Seems like every government and every activist cause is now drunk on power and throwing it around based on their own crazy personal totalitarian mission. Having successfully stormed the gates, they are most definitely headed for the inner sanctum and we had better prepare. But before moving forward, hard honest self reflection is crucial - the stakes are too high. We have to admit who we were, who we are, and who we need to become in order to proceed and right the ship.
On the bright side, 1) these guys didn’t take any time to strategize their next moves and quick moves have a good chance of being stupid, 2) their bureaucratic army has gone rogue and worse it seems dis-inclined to take their direction, 3) the abused are starting to see “patterns” and, most importantly, adapting IE Canadian Truckers learn from J6 Senior Citizens, Dutch Farmers learn from Canadian Truckers, 4) Citizens from non-US countries quit waiting for the Land of the Free/Home of the Brave to get their crap together.
If we look to history for some help, big wars (Revolutionary, Civil War, WW2, etc.) always seem to start out with the enemy forces taking ground early mostly because peacetime governments/countries are full of peacetime generals. As the fight goes on, battle hardened leaders emerge and with them creative strategies to overcome battlefield deficiencies. Seems like we’re at this point.
The lack of self awareness can be a catalyst for many of the ills in today's societies. Many have fallen for the performative over the genuine. Many are so blind they can not even see their blindness.
We all have been defrauded of our lives over the past several years, especially since the china virus (or most likely the US-corporate-off-shore-made-in-china-virus, but thats another story). We have all done things we knew were against our values. We are at war, and survival often makes us do things we would and should not do. But we move forward.
"Understand that you are only truly defined by the things that you do." Less by the things you have done, more by what you are doing today. Tomorrow is a new day to prove it all over again.
This is something I've been thinking about as I'm fully unjabbed but live in a country that flirted with the passports and mandates but never actually implicated them. How far am I willing to go to maintain bodily autonomy? I don't know.
A related question in my mind is. Suppose there is a mandate and the consequence for noncompliance is an internment camp. Let's say you have a way to fake compliance such that there is no chance of it being discovered that you are faking it. So you do to avoid going to the camp. Is this cowardly and not being true to oneself?
Also to me somewhat related/going further: I recently read many in leadership at CDC/NIH/FDA have been quitting in disgust. Is this holding to one's principles or being cowardly? In my mind I can make a pretty good case that it is more cowardly than not. That the braver thing to do is stay and insist/implement change, no matter the consequence, or if that proves impossible, then move onto or in conjunction also conduct sabotage/whistleblowing operations. I mean, if you are going to quit anyway....
I kind of feel the same about the internment camp scenario. I have no problem dying on the hill, but I'd rather go down swinging and you can't do that in the camp.
I've pondered these details. Here's where I'm at with each:
* If we get to camps for noncompliance at this stage of the COVID game, we have to ask ourselves what the end purpose would be- it seems likely that it would be permanent internment (when would we be "safe" to be released, noncompliant?), forced innoculation, or ultimately death.
* I don't begrudge or scoff at the people who have been quitting. The quitting itself isn't cowardly. If I were serving in the military today and were given unconstitutional orders, I'd resign. The part that makes them cowards- and makes their quitting empty gestures- is that they all signed NDA's as a condition of their resignations to keep pensions, retirement packages, and severance, which is why absolutely none of these high-level resignations have been followed with ANY revelations whatsoever. I'm frankly surprised their consciences can endure it with each passing day- yet another reason t hey have none of my respect.
* The answer to the camp question, then, is: you A) don't want to go to camp but B) don't want to submit. The "brave" answer that keeps you alive is to hide- whether literally or in plain sight- and be subversive. It's a similar answer to the question, "what if they tried to take literally all the guns?" Your only options aren't A) surrender them or B) shoot everyone. You'll hide them all over the place, and only go down shooting if it looks like you've got no other path. Same thing here.
I have to say it's the camps that disgust me the most but I fear the least. I'd love it at one of those places; I'd consider it my civic duty to be a fucking nuisance at every opportunity.
It is interesting that the CDC, NIH/FDA folks only decided to quit when they decided to jab babies. There is a lot to unpack there. I'm not going to be hailing them as heroes.
As Guttermouth mentioned, I was removed from consideration for a trucking job because I could not deadlift 110 lbs (50 kg). (BTW, this is a legit requirement for this particular job, so I'm not bitter.) This was not the only physical ability tested, and the testing took place at a physical therapy facility in Virginia, so of course masks were required.
I'm the waiting room, I formulated my questions to the tester. "May I take my mask off for this? No? Then you've modified the tests to compensate for my reduced capacity to get oxygen into my lungs, right? No, of course not." I didn't say it. I climbed ladders, bent, crouched, twisted, pushed, and pulled with a mask on and no word of complaint. Just wanted to confess that.
This sets aside the issue of complying with some random company's mask policy when I drop off a load at their warehouse. This will probably come up eventually no matter what trucking job I take. I should decide how I will approach that.
I wouldn't say mean. You hold up a harsh mirror, the cold hard truth.
I still wear a mask daily as a health care professional. I hate it. Mostly, its below my nose, but wearing it all the same.
I went to the ophthalmologist and was yelled at by the front desk person to put my mask on before entering. I was so annoyed that I said FY. Yet, I put it on, after entering.
I neither put up nor shut up, exactly.
I sold my practice last year so that I wouldn't lose it in the face of forced vaccinations, as they will only vaccinate my dead body.
There is a hierarchy Guttermouth. Do I value freedom more than I want my husband or myself to live? I think I choose my life and husband's life. For instance, I have a serious cancer I am dealing with. I don't think it will kill me immediately, but it would if I did not get it taken out and see to it that it is all gone. If they told me I had to wear a mask to get it removed or to go for treatment - I am doing it. I am writing to them to tell them (with evidence) what an unhealthful performative sham it is and when they tell me to put one on I will not put it ON, but will wear it. I don't make excuses,, I just don it on my chin. The very least and the most protesting way possible WHILE I can still get treatment.
I think a lot of mask wearers are fearful. Pursuit of liberty falls to second place for most people if they live in fear. I don't fear covid and don't give one shit about what others think of me except for hubs, but I do want to live. Not fearing death (which shocks me a little) but - the hierarchy.
This text is a flame thrower. It's the minigun in 'The Predator'. It's "Say hello to my little friend!". "Yippie-kay-yay Motherfucker!". Or my all-time favourite which had the entire cinema standing up cheering and applauding on the premiere in Sweden way back:
"Get away from her YOU BITCH!" (Aliens, Ellen Ripley telling the Xenomorph queen what's what.)
As for recliaming, heard that one long ago. Know how we killed it in academia and the schools here back then (this was 20 years ago)?
"Sure thing. Hey, about penicillin? Was a white man invented that, so you know, we're reclaiming that. You're not white, so you can't have any. Or a car. Or travel by air. Or train. Or use electricity. Or..."
Replace thing and race as required, it works a treat. Use the double-barreled version if needed: "So about that ancestral lands thing so-called aboriginals are always going on about? Yeah, about that, I have neanderthal-DNA. So you colonialist Cro-Magnon spawn, you just get out of Europe entirely, you hear?".
That usually gets the point across that the terms and usage of reclaiming, colonialism, cultural appropriation and so on are just power grabs and nothing but, since the cut-off points for the definitions are 100% arbitrary and always placed for maximum benefit and victimhood.
As you read the Sagas, I'm sure you'll delight as to how and why Hermod can leave Hel. Not going to spoil it.
And know yourself was written over the entrance to the Sybil, and was /the/ central tenet of ancient learning: Gnothi Seauton. Literally "Know thyself" as in be honest and upfront to yourself as to who and what and how you are.
Going to re-read this one, with "Ram it down" by Judas Priest for soundtrack.
It's been quite a few years ago but there was a thing going through progressive circles that even DOING yoga was cultural appropriation because it arose out of Hindu practices.
Maybe so, but no one fucking invented stretching. If anyone, it was cats.
i was only last week talking to an Indian born work mate about the ridiculous cultural appropriation thing, i said its how a society advances, or only one tribe of people somewhere would be allowed to use wheels or fire etc. i like Chinese food but according to these braindead morons to cook it myself would be BAD! I just laugh at nonsense, the faces looking back at me provoke even more laughter
been keto for 12 days so far! i wonder what culture invented it?
"allowed to" is the fun part. There's always a notion that some imaginary invisible force controls the position of things and strikes you dead if you fuck with it.
As a descendant of seafaring raiders, "allowed by WHO exactly, skinny?"
So looking in one of mom's old medical books, ketogenic diet was developed in the 1910s, as way to handle epilepsy. Apparently, a real ketogenic diet, which should entail monitoring by a RN/dietist weekly to make sure one doesn't wreck the body, causes changes to the chemical balance in the brain, helping to alleviate seizures. With the onset of anti-convulsants, ketogenic diet fell out of practice except for those epileptics who can't use medication.
What is touted as keto today has very little to do with the actual diet for epileptics, as the original one is quite extreme and causes a whole host of other problems.
I'd guess you could say it was western european culture that invented it, or ancient greek since fasting was known to help for people with "falling diseases" back then.
does being a full carnivore count as quite extreme? its very healing and was known over a century a go to be very beneficial to health, but bad for certain food and drug industries. medical books have been deceptive forever. i started doing this diet 6 years a go as a 250lbs diabetic, it took 4 months to not only reverse the diabetes but it cured my asthma, psoriasis and skin issues i was suffering and i also went back to my natural weight of 170lbs.
i should have stuck to it but i was tempted by all the sugary shit that surrounds our lives, its very hard being an addict but this time i'll do it and stick to it, 12 days in i feel soooo much better already
yea and i didnt calorie restrict to any great extent, was doing at least 3000 cal a day minimum but worked hard whilst in fasting periods (4h daily eating window with a 1 day a week 24h fast).
24 eggs a week, plenty of wild salmon and butter, gammon, steak, burgers with cheese.
autophagy is an amazing tool for healing and the advantage of this diet besides covering all your nutrient needs is it suppresses appetite
Well done you! Worked myself down from 105 kilos to 85, when I was about to turn 40 (which was, well "a while" ago) in bout 14 days. Yes, really. I do not recommend it. It wasn't even planned.
I was hiking in summer, eating my home-made dried food. Rich in nutrients, zero fat. So my body started burning off my excess fat. Sounds good? Like H*ll it does, that's dangerously fast. Blood iron dropped like a stone and I got a real dressing down at the blood donors' office afterwards.
During the hike, we marched 50km/day in +30C or higher, dry heat, no wind, above 1200 meters over sea level. Bare fjells, no shade, the stone reflecting the sun back at you. 2L water per day. 25 kilo pack. Stupid, stubborn, dangerous. Awesome. (And if you don't mind gross details, people did number 1 once per day, and stopped doing number 2 at all until we got back to civilisation. The body used every atom of food.)
Only good thing was I managed to saty at 90 kilos since then, which is ideal given my height.
Anyway, the reason ketogenic diet can be dangerous is (translating on the fly from the Swedish Health Services oversight agency's page, and I'm not sure I get all the terminology right) it increases the risk of kidney stones, increased blood fat levels, pancreatitis, and lowered levels of thrombocytes; hence, real ketogenic diet such as is used for children with certain type of epilepsy must be monitored.
The keto diet in popular use is nowhere near as extreme. It is instead much closer to the Atkins diet, which is a watered-down version intended for weight-loss.
Fighting addiction is lifelong - don't let that get you down! It's like lifting weights. Do it right, do it regular and do it often enough and you put the choke-collar on that bastard called addiciton. This I know from personal experience.
Was a 40-a-day man back in the 1980s and 1990s. Discovered I couldn't climb four stories without taking a breather. Quit then and there. Being a stubborn, pig-headed contrarian helped, I'm certain. I'm in charge of me, not some bloody fags! Same thing with drinking. Same with recreational chemicals. I decide. Not the ass-faced goblin called Cravings.
Anyhoo, as I said - well done! If you could do it once you can do it whenever you need and want to. Kicking sugar (the white processed stuff) was a damn sight harder than quitting smoking, so if you can do that you have willpower to spare.
most of these supposed problems with epilepsy keto are related to unusually high fat content and they are easily manageable as long as your gall bladder functions ok. high blood fat levels (cholesterol) are a temporary issue and a sign of healing, cholesterol isnt the enemy people think it is. sugar/carbs strips extremely fine hairs (2nm) from the insides of your arteries which allows cholesterol to go where it shouldnt. on this diet that becomes a non issue.
with regards to your extreme weight loss you probably lost a bit of muscle too :/ next time take some nuts and seeds
thankyou for your support, ive often thought sugar is worse than booze or drugs cos its everywhere, its impossible to avoid, shiny packets of poison at the checkout, in the machines at work etc
In the history of totalitarian states, from Wild Swans to Between Shades of Grey to the Gulag Archipelago the pure die young. The survivors are all dirty.
I was up last night so I had some time to think about what I would and would not do.
I would not get the jab to get surgery. I will wear a mask.
Something I tangle with (mentally) re freedom and liberty and how much I am willing to do for it is my own liberty gifted to me in Christ (since I am a christian and saved by Christ). Christ tells believers to spread the gospel. To pick up my cross and carry it. The inner friction (part of, as you say, being honest with myself) is devotion. Am I more devoted to myself and the world than I am to my savior? I don't read my Bible, pray or get out there and evangelize as I know I should. My life is not utterly devoted to it. I have not sold my things and set off on a mission. Am I half ass believer? When does it go from loving act to works.
A tangential topic, but it is a liberty issue (for me) and a be truthful with yourself thing. I can be truthful with myself AND also unwilling. That weighs on me more than any other truth I tell myself.
OK one final thing because it is related and I think important. You better have an established line you will not cross in all things that matter. I think people get swept up and later find themselves in a place they would not be happy to be in or proud to recall when they don't.
You can apply this question to a LOT of "the big ones."
To see you examine your faith with this same exercise pleases me tremendously. You SHOULD be deeply interested in the answer to that question- one way or another.
And you're right that you can be truthful with yourself and unwilling. The only point is that you're HONEST about the unwillingness, and not telling yourself that it's other people's fault, "genetics," circumstance, or whatever.
There is news footage I am sure available on youtube where they followed local police and the national guard in post Katrina New Orleans. They were going to homes where people did not evacuate, breaking down doors and confiscating their guns. Weapons drawn SWAT style. Throwing very old ladies to the ground and taking their weapons. Taking guns from law abiding citizens. They were not there protecting them from the bad guys who were def armed and not having their weapons confiscated. On one of the videos it shows an officer in shock and dismay about what they were doing, but he was still doing it.
To pivot - if you have nurses saying remdesivir will kill the patient and call it "when death is near" and STILL administer it to someone... who are you?
You have to decide ahead what you will and will not do.
Also, totally off topic: If TSHTF - the more family you have there on your property, the better, One more thing to convince your dad. Haha,.
Something I really hope to accomplish with pieces like this- for the people who read them- is to offer the "moral inoculation" that comes with this kind of thinking.
When we think carefully and deeply- with honesty to ourselves about how we REALLY behave- about what our lines are, we are many times more likely to stick to them when they are tested (I'm VERY familiar with the forced-evacuation events in New Orleans).
Dad does not believe in anything like a SHTF scenario in the same sense that I do. I'm his crazy-but-beloved Trump-voting daughter. He has recently come around to the fact that we may be facing real economic collapse, but has a very hard time conceiving of what it would look like for us- which is particularly painful when one considers he lives ENTIRELY on the largesse of Medicare and a public employee's generous pension.
It's another reason I'd be happier having him right at hand. By any measure, if public systems even BEGAN breaking down towards collapse, Dad would be seriously fucked, and probably die.
I wish I had a photo of Michelle. When she found out I did blade and leather care, she sent me home one weekend with a pair of sai she had kept IN HER OFFICE for me to try to get the rust out and re-wrap the grips. She was like a blaxpoitation movie heroine from the 70s except she was 100% real and never, ever looked silly being herself.
I would have liked to have met your Michelle. I love a real bad ass.
She was a phenomenal first boss. She hired me straight out of an internship and was the perfect role model for me at that age- a lot less confident and a lot more naive. She was grandfathered into her job which, by the time I started working there, required a Masters degree- she never attended college and was an excellent example of how meaningless civil service qualifications have become.
So...
Pam Grier's "Foxy Brown"
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meets
Grace Jones' "Zula"
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there's an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
a young single-mom slayer in an NYC subway car fighting Spike...
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anywhere in the ballpark😏❓
Pam Grier was shorter and curvier, but exactly the same fro.
This article lit a fire in my belly. I'm now a paid subscriber. It's not that I didn't want to be a paid subscriber before, but moms of seven on one income can only support so many Substacks. But now yours is one.
I was kicked out of my Catholic homeschool co-op after thirteen years because I refused to mask or force my children to mask. And all the supposed Christians said the same thing, "We know the masks are bullshit, but just do it so the priests don't get in trouble." JUST DO IT SO THE PRIESTS DON'T GET IN TROUBLE. That was their justification for bowing to the diktats of a pro-abortion Planned Parenthood escort of a governor and a man in a dress public health official here in Pennsylvania. Both men completely opposed to every Catholic value we supposedly stand for, "mandating" us to cover our faces in order to spread fear and division...which the Bible warns us against more than 300 times: "Do not fear, for I am with you."
And who are these priests anyway, gay cowards? They're our spiritual fathers. They're supposed to be protecting *us.* The 5'1" mother of seven shouldn't be fighting their battles for them.
My only regret is that I can't afford to be a founding member so I can drink a beer with you and maybe shoot something.
Big, big ups for keeping your personal integrity, and I'm honored someone with better things to spend money on spent a little here.
As a fellow Pennsylvanian- but a former New Yorker- I can tell you that we are still luckier than most. I'm out in York county, and enforcement was virtually nil.
Our priorities are backward in nearly every part of society. It is not our job to protect the powerful.
We should stop doing it altogether.
Many priests have been a big disappointment during this, that's for sure. One of mine used to stare daggers at me for attending Mass unmasked. He even took space in the parish bulletin to call out the muzzle-free (in society, not the church, specifically) for being "selfish" and not "being concerned about others." Of course, he strongly encouraged vaccination.
Still, he's been otherwise a very good pastor--traditional and conservative. He just lost his mind during the fear fest.
My friend in Colorado's pastor held underground Masses back in March, 2020. Hero priests still exist.
Amen to your priest should be protecting YOU. Those parents and the priest have the relationship backward. I hope you are still homeschooling. I bet there are other Christian Co-ops out there that would be enriching for your kids.
I do think you are on to something here.
It seems to me the Power Elite were pretty surprised by the global population’s Covid compliance ease. Like me, they were expecting a more libertarian response particularly in the US. Seems like every government and every activist cause is now drunk on power and throwing it around based on their own crazy personal totalitarian mission. Having successfully stormed the gates, they are most definitely headed for the inner sanctum and we had better prepare. But before moving forward, hard honest self reflection is crucial - the stakes are too high. We have to admit who we were, who we are, and who we need to become in order to proceed and right the ship.
On the bright side, 1) these guys didn’t take any time to strategize their next moves and quick moves have a good chance of being stupid, 2) their bureaucratic army has gone rogue and worse it seems dis-inclined to take their direction, 3) the abused are starting to see “patterns” and, most importantly, adapting IE Canadian Truckers learn from J6 Senior Citizens, Dutch Farmers learn from Canadian Truckers, 4) Citizens from non-US countries quit waiting for the Land of the Free/Home of the Brave to get their crap together.
If we look to history for some help, big wars (Revolutionary, Civil War, WW2, etc.) always seem to start out with the enemy forces taking ground early mostly because peacetime governments/countries are full of peacetime generals. As the fight goes on, battle hardened leaders emerge and with them creative strategies to overcome battlefield deficiencies. Seems like we’re at this point.
The lack of self awareness can be a catalyst for many of the ills in today's societies. Many have fallen for the performative over the genuine. Many are so blind they can not even see their blindness.
We all have been defrauded of our lives over the past several years, especially since the china virus (or most likely the US-corporate-off-shore-made-in-china-virus, but thats another story). We have all done things we knew were against our values. We are at war, and survival often makes us do things we would and should not do. But we move forward.
"Understand that you are only truly defined by the things that you do." Less by the things you have done, more by what you are doing today. Tomorrow is a new day to prove it all over again.
This is something I've been thinking about as I'm fully unjabbed but live in a country that flirted with the passports and mandates but never actually implicated them. How far am I willing to go to maintain bodily autonomy? I don't know.
You'll find out.
A related question in my mind is. Suppose there is a mandate and the consequence for noncompliance is an internment camp. Let's say you have a way to fake compliance such that there is no chance of it being discovered that you are faking it. So you do to avoid going to the camp. Is this cowardly and not being true to oneself?
Also to me somewhat related/going further: I recently read many in leadership at CDC/NIH/FDA have been quitting in disgust. Is this holding to one's principles or being cowardly? In my mind I can make a pretty good case that it is more cowardly than not. That the braver thing to do is stay and insist/implement change, no matter the consequence, or if that proves impossible, then move onto or in conjunction also conduct sabotage/whistleblowing operations. I mean, if you are going to quit anyway....
I kind of feel the same about the internment camp scenario. I have no problem dying on the hill, but I'd rather go down swinging and you can't do that in the camp.
I've pondered these details. Here's where I'm at with each:
* If we get to camps for noncompliance at this stage of the COVID game, we have to ask ourselves what the end purpose would be- it seems likely that it would be permanent internment (when would we be "safe" to be released, noncompliant?), forced innoculation, or ultimately death.
* I don't begrudge or scoff at the people who have been quitting. The quitting itself isn't cowardly. If I were serving in the military today and were given unconstitutional orders, I'd resign. The part that makes them cowards- and makes their quitting empty gestures- is that they all signed NDA's as a condition of their resignations to keep pensions, retirement packages, and severance, which is why absolutely none of these high-level resignations have been followed with ANY revelations whatsoever. I'm frankly surprised their consciences can endure it with each passing day- yet another reason t hey have none of my respect.
* The answer to the camp question, then, is: you A) don't want to go to camp but B) don't want to submit. The "brave" answer that keeps you alive is to hide- whether literally or in plain sight- and be subversive. It's a similar answer to the question, "what if they tried to take literally all the guns?" Your only options aren't A) surrender them or B) shoot everyone. You'll hide them all over the place, and only go down shooting if it looks like you've got no other path. Same thing here.
I have to say it's the camps that disgust me the most but I fear the least. I'd love it at one of those places; I'd consider it my civic duty to be a fucking nuisance at every opportunity.
I hear you. It's probably not the best idea for TPTSB to put us all in a group together!
If TPTB have crossed the threshold of tyranny to the extent of internment camps, how likely are the to put up with any being PITA's for very long?
The only way the internment camp scenario turns out well, imo, is if you can avoid going to one.
Where does a person draw the line? At the top of a hill, or the bottom of a ditch?
It is interesting that the CDC, NIH/FDA folks only decided to quit when they decided to jab babies. There is a lot to unpack there. I'm not going to be hailing them as heroes.
As Guttermouth mentioned, I was removed from consideration for a trucking job because I could not deadlift 110 lbs (50 kg). (BTW, this is a legit requirement for this particular job, so I'm not bitter.) This was not the only physical ability tested, and the testing took place at a physical therapy facility in Virginia, so of course masks were required.
I'm the waiting room, I formulated my questions to the tester. "May I take my mask off for this? No? Then you've modified the tests to compensate for my reduced capacity to get oxygen into my lungs, right? No, of course not." I didn't say it. I climbed ladders, bent, crouched, twisted, pushed, and pulled with a mask on and no word of complaint. Just wanted to confess that.
This sets aside the issue of complying with some random company's mask policy when I drop off a load at their warehouse. This will probably come up eventually no matter what trucking job I take. I should decide how I will approach that.
I wouldn't say mean. You hold up a harsh mirror, the cold hard truth.
I still wear a mask daily as a health care professional. I hate it. Mostly, its below my nose, but wearing it all the same.
I went to the ophthalmologist and was yelled at by the front desk person to put my mask on before entering. I was so annoyed that I said FY. Yet, I put it on, after entering.
I neither put up nor shut up, exactly.
I sold my practice last year so that I wouldn't lose it in the face of forced vaccinations, as they will only vaccinate my dead body.
There is a hierarchy Guttermouth. Do I value freedom more than I want my husband or myself to live? I think I choose my life and husband's life. For instance, I have a serious cancer I am dealing with. I don't think it will kill me immediately, but it would if I did not get it taken out and see to it that it is all gone. If they told me I had to wear a mask to get it removed or to go for treatment - I am doing it. I am writing to them to tell them (with evidence) what an unhealthful performative sham it is and when they tell me to put one on I will not put it ON, but will wear it. I don't make excuses,, I just don it on my chin. The very least and the most protesting way possible WHILE I can still get treatment.
I think a lot of mask wearers are fearful. Pursuit of liberty falls to second place for most people if they live in fear. I don't fear covid and don't give one shit about what others think of me except for hubs, but I do want to live. Not fearing death (which shocks me a little) but - the hierarchy.
This text is a flame thrower. It's the minigun in 'The Predator'. It's "Say hello to my little friend!". "Yippie-kay-yay Motherfucker!". Or my all-time favourite which had the entire cinema standing up cheering and applauding on the premiere in Sweden way back:
"Get away from her YOU BITCH!" (Aliens, Ellen Ripley telling the Xenomorph queen what's what.)
As for recliaming, heard that one long ago. Know how we killed it in academia and the schools here back then (this was 20 years ago)?
"Sure thing. Hey, about penicillin? Was a white man invented that, so you know, we're reclaiming that. You're not white, so you can't have any. Or a car. Or travel by air. Or train. Or use electricity. Or..."
Replace thing and race as required, it works a treat. Use the double-barreled version if needed: "So about that ancestral lands thing so-called aboriginals are always going on about? Yeah, about that, I have neanderthal-DNA. So you colonialist Cro-Magnon spawn, you just get out of Europe entirely, you hear?".
That usually gets the point across that the terms and usage of reclaiming, colonialism, cultural appropriation and so on are just power grabs and nothing but, since the cut-off points for the definitions are 100% arbitrary and always placed for maximum benefit and victimhood.
As you read the Sagas, I'm sure you'll delight as to how and why Hermod can leave Hel. Not going to spoil it.
And know yourself was written over the entrance to the Sybil, and was /the/ central tenet of ancient learning: Gnothi Seauton. Literally "Know thyself" as in be honest and upfront to yourself as to who and what and how you are.
Going to re-read this one, with "Ram it down" by Judas Priest for soundtrack.
They invented it in barbershops or something hahaha
It's been quite a few years ago but there was a thing going through progressive circles that even DOING yoga was cultural appropriation because it arose out of Hindu practices.
Maybe so, but no one fucking invented stretching. If anyone, it was cats.
i was only last week talking to an Indian born work mate about the ridiculous cultural appropriation thing, i said its how a society advances, or only one tribe of people somewhere would be allowed to use wheels or fire etc. i like Chinese food but according to these braindead morons to cook it myself would be BAD! I just laugh at nonsense, the faces looking back at me provoke even more laughter
been keto for 12 days so far! i wonder what culture invented it?
"allowed to" is the fun part. There's always a notion that some imaginary invisible force controls the position of things and strikes you dead if you fuck with it.
As a descendant of seafaring raiders, "allowed by WHO exactly, skinny?"
So looking in one of mom's old medical books, ketogenic diet was developed in the 1910s, as way to handle epilepsy. Apparently, a real ketogenic diet, which should entail monitoring by a RN/dietist weekly to make sure one doesn't wreck the body, causes changes to the chemical balance in the brain, helping to alleviate seizures. With the onset of anti-convulsants, ketogenic diet fell out of practice except for those epileptics who can't use medication.
What is touted as keto today has very little to do with the actual diet for epileptics, as the original one is quite extreme and causes a whole host of other problems.
I'd guess you could say it was western european culture that invented it, or ancient greek since fasting was known to help for people with "falling diseases" back then.
does being a full carnivore count as quite extreme? its very healing and was known over a century a go to be very beneficial to health, but bad for certain food and drug industries. medical books have been deceptive forever. i started doing this diet 6 years a go as a 250lbs diabetic, it took 4 months to not only reverse the diabetes but it cured my asthma, psoriasis and skin issues i was suffering and i also went back to my natural weight of 170lbs.
i should have stuck to it but i was tempted by all the sugary shit that surrounds our lives, its very hard being an addict but this time i'll do it and stick to it, 12 days in i feel soooo much better already
80 pounds in 4 months??
yea and i didnt calorie restrict to any great extent, was doing at least 3000 cal a day minimum but worked hard whilst in fasting periods (4h daily eating window with a 1 day a week 24h fast).
24 eggs a week, plenty of wild salmon and butter, gammon, steak, burgers with cheese.
autophagy is an amazing tool for healing and the advantage of this diet besides covering all your nutrient needs is it suppresses appetite
Well done you! Worked myself down from 105 kilos to 85, when I was about to turn 40 (which was, well "a while" ago) in bout 14 days. Yes, really. I do not recommend it. It wasn't even planned.
I was hiking in summer, eating my home-made dried food. Rich in nutrients, zero fat. So my body started burning off my excess fat. Sounds good? Like H*ll it does, that's dangerously fast. Blood iron dropped like a stone and I got a real dressing down at the blood donors' office afterwards.
During the hike, we marched 50km/day in +30C or higher, dry heat, no wind, above 1200 meters over sea level. Bare fjells, no shade, the stone reflecting the sun back at you. 2L water per day. 25 kilo pack. Stupid, stubborn, dangerous. Awesome. (And if you don't mind gross details, people did number 1 once per day, and stopped doing number 2 at all until we got back to civilisation. The body used every atom of food.)
Only good thing was I managed to saty at 90 kilos since then, which is ideal given my height.
Anyway, the reason ketogenic diet can be dangerous is (translating on the fly from the Swedish Health Services oversight agency's page, and I'm not sure I get all the terminology right) it increases the risk of kidney stones, increased blood fat levels, pancreatitis, and lowered levels of thrombocytes; hence, real ketogenic diet such as is used for children with certain type of epilepsy must be monitored.
The keto diet in popular use is nowhere near as extreme. It is instead much closer to the Atkins diet, which is a watered-down version intended for weight-loss.
Fighting addiction is lifelong - don't let that get you down! It's like lifting weights. Do it right, do it regular and do it often enough and you put the choke-collar on that bastard called addiciton. This I know from personal experience.
Was a 40-a-day man back in the 1980s and 1990s. Discovered I couldn't climb four stories without taking a breather. Quit then and there. Being a stubborn, pig-headed contrarian helped, I'm certain. I'm in charge of me, not some bloody fags! Same thing with drinking. Same with recreational chemicals. I decide. Not the ass-faced goblin called Cravings.
Anyhoo, as I said - well done! If you could do it once you can do it whenever you need and want to. Kicking sugar (the white processed stuff) was a damn sight harder than quitting smoking, so if you can do that you have willpower to spare.
most of these supposed problems with epilepsy keto are related to unusually high fat content and they are easily manageable as long as your gall bladder functions ok. high blood fat levels (cholesterol) are a temporary issue and a sign of healing, cholesterol isnt the enemy people think it is. sugar/carbs strips extremely fine hairs (2nm) from the insides of your arteries which allows cholesterol to go where it shouldnt. on this diet that becomes a non issue.
with regards to your extreme weight loss you probably lost a bit of muscle too :/ next time take some nuts and seeds
thankyou for your support, ive often thought sugar is worse than booze or drugs cos its everywhere, its impossible to avoid, shiny packets of poison at the checkout, in the machines at work etc
I think you have a false binary there. For my part the masking is ... complicated, and if I do not quit I shall probably be fired.
In re the jab, there is this: https://www.williamofockham.com/2022/04/07/coerced-consent/
RTWT and tell me what you think.
In the history of totalitarian states, from Wild Swans to Between Shades of Grey to the Gulag Archipelago the pure die young. The survivors are all dirty.
It is a question of ranking priorities, probably.
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I was up last night so I had some time to think about what I would and would not do.
I would not get the jab to get surgery. I will wear a mask.
Something I tangle with (mentally) re freedom and liberty and how much I am willing to do for it is my own liberty gifted to me in Christ (since I am a christian and saved by Christ). Christ tells believers to spread the gospel. To pick up my cross and carry it. The inner friction (part of, as you say, being honest with myself) is devotion. Am I more devoted to myself and the world than I am to my savior? I don't read my Bible, pray or get out there and evangelize as I know I should. My life is not utterly devoted to it. I have not sold my things and set off on a mission. Am I half ass believer? When does it go from loving act to works.
A tangential topic, but it is a liberty issue (for me) and a be truthful with yourself thing. I can be truthful with myself AND also unwilling. That weighs on me more than any other truth I tell myself.
OK one final thing because it is related and I think important. You better have an established line you will not cross in all things that matter. I think people get swept up and later find themselves in a place they would not be happy to be in or proud to recall when they don't.
You can apply this question to a LOT of "the big ones."
To see you examine your faith with this same exercise pleases me tremendously. You SHOULD be deeply interested in the answer to that question- one way or another.
And you're right that you can be truthful with yourself and unwilling. The only point is that you're HONEST about the unwillingness, and not telling yourself that it's other people's fault, "genetics," circumstance, or whatever.
There is news footage I am sure available on youtube where they followed local police and the national guard in post Katrina New Orleans. They were going to homes where people did not evacuate, breaking down doors and confiscating their guns. Weapons drawn SWAT style. Throwing very old ladies to the ground and taking their weapons. Taking guns from law abiding citizens. They were not there protecting them from the bad guys who were def armed and not having their weapons confiscated. On one of the videos it shows an officer in shock and dismay about what they were doing, but he was still doing it.
To pivot - if you have nurses saying remdesivir will kill the patient and call it "when death is near" and STILL administer it to someone... who are you?
You have to decide ahead what you will and will not do.
Also, totally off topic: If TSHTF - the more family you have there on your property, the better, One more thing to convince your dad. Haha,.
Something I really hope to accomplish with pieces like this- for the people who read them- is to offer the "moral inoculation" that comes with this kind of thinking.
When we think carefully and deeply- with honesty to ourselves about how we REALLY behave- about what our lines are, we are many times more likely to stick to them when they are tested (I'm VERY familiar with the forced-evacuation events in New Orleans).
Dad does not believe in anything like a SHTF scenario in the same sense that I do. I'm his crazy-but-beloved Trump-voting daughter. He has recently come around to the fact that we may be facing real economic collapse, but has a very hard time conceiving of what it would look like for us- which is particularly painful when one considers he lives ENTIRELY on the largesse of Medicare and a public employee's generous pension.
It's another reason I'd be happier having him right at hand. By any measure, if public systems even BEGAN breaking down towards collapse, Dad would be seriously fucked, and probably die.