Jackie, I don’t quite get what your concern is. Could you expand a bit, please?
She has less to lose than many others, it seems.
Her anecdote about people getting a “template” response no matter where they turn, including their trade union, rings very true. This is widespread across many sectors.
‘Fear of falling’ Barbara Ehrenreich called it IIRC.
My concern is that with so much at stake, I want information from sources that are transparent and verifiable.I want to know what their sources are and for those to be transparent and verifiable too. It’s a slippery slope when anyone can say that they are anyone and post ‘information’. I just want professionalism.
JackieL, I presume you’ve seen this…
Hadn’t seen this follow-up to their first video. Very good stuff. Thanks Rob. It gets clearer, doesn’t it, that those who have been warning that we’re under attack from a widespread criminal conspiracy weren’t coming on like loonies after all, but simply stating in plain terms what they had already identified and described correctly, and which is becoming ever clearer, as we watch. It’s so appalling that we duck and weave, trying to avoid the world-shattering existential distress of facing it. But it’s true.
It begins to feel like yet another iteration of the ancient existential struggle between the angel and the demon in human psychology, with the powers that shouldn’t be - corrupt government politicians, career-serving technocrats and medics, the hyper-rich criminal parasites, an array of fully-captured and capitulated ‘regulatory public agencies’, and, of course, the ever-purchasable ‘journalists’ - on the demonic side of the struggle, by a considerable margin.
I didn’t think in 2019 that the BBC could sink any lower in my estimation. But its utterly disgraceful, and outright criminal, betrayal of its supposed, constantly-trumpeted principles has been so blatant over the covid scam that it’s now essential that the mandarins who control the Beeb should be amongst the first on trial at Nurnberg 2. They can’t all have doublethunk themselves into ‘believing’ the shite they’ve been lying out continuously. Some of them must know, cynically, what’s really going on. And even those who’ve deluded themselves wilfully are still culpable. Doublethink is always a deceitful choice.
The necessity for a new Nurnberg Tribunal becomes ever more urgent.
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I haven’t seen it Rob. Thanks for sharing - I’ll have a look. Doesn’t change my point about the ‘nurse from Halifax’.
Rhis, I’m not the least bit religious (and would describe myself as being agnostic). One striking thing about those speaking out is that many of them are religious. I also see this as a spiritual battle between good and evil.
If you haven’t seen it, here’s Professor Dolores Cahill on fine form just recently…
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That’s an interesting point. If you are following events in Texas and Florida, the same applies. In some of the big “freedom” rallies, keynote speakers are preachers and many of the others start or end by thanking God.
Well I never thought I’d be on the same “side” as a true believer 
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Listen, you agnostic folk: Don’t let your - entirely justified - suspicions against the big-machine ‘religions’ confuse you. Sure, much of what gets thrown at us as ‘religious conviction’ is just crass human prejudice dressed up in holiness: “the Will of God - as He whispered it personally to Our Founder; and as I’m now interpreting it to you…” But the fact remains that, beyond the corrupted institutions of ‘established’ religions, and the base purposes to which shyster doublethinky demogogues put them, there lies the true realm of our direct, personal relationship with the numinous. Which, let me assert, can never be avoided ultimately, even if you go through your whole life in a carefully-maintained state of agnosticism, or even outright atheism.
Simply contemplate what happens to you at the moment that you finally depart your present lifetime for another visit to the bardo state; as we all do eventually, of course.
What a surprise for the agnostic, and even more so for the atheist, to rediscover, yet again, as you’re immortal soul has most likely done many times before, and then forgotten, that death isn’t after all “the end of all”, as Juliet’s Nurse says to Romeo, but just the latest way-mark in a long sequence of incarnations. This basic, seriously-ineffable reality gets dressed up in many metaphoric descriptive systems, of course, any of which you may adopt if they catch your fancy. But the direct line to Big Mind remains permanently open to any who wish to follow it. (Comforting ideas, when you get to the age I’ve reached, aren’t they? 
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Getting onto sober, accepting terms with this underlying truth of our mind-founded reality is an essential facing up to things, that has to be done, eventually.
We now return you to our previously-scheduled covid-scam opposition programme… 
Hi folks, just a little bit more of the unshedualled:
“you can’t trust a law-abider” by Darren Allen:
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Darren’s blog and his books are excellent, one of the best exports ever from Whitstabubble. (Whitstable is one of those “hey, we’re so damn bohemian” rich hipster haunts, see Brighton, Buxton, Edinburgh and so on and so on and so on).
I’m a few pages into Self And Unself so may skip this extract, but will read below the line, thanks @CJ1.
His citations and footnotes will lead you off into random directions which is best experienced via . .
On the subject of law-abiders: I haven’t looked at or used Facebook for quite some time but gather from my partner, who does, that a very old friend has been ranting at some length about the vicious vaccine dissenters who are “ruining life for the rest of us”. One more good man joins the heavily hypnotised aka law-abiders.
A contemporary popular trope is “autistic superpowers”, heavily promoted by the friends of Greta, and which really pisses me off. I will say one thing though: having spent a lifetime alienated from deeply weird normies does help with coping with… all this. I don’t trust any of them. This may not lead to ‘happiness’ (nothing does, of course, for more than a while) but as a survival technique it has served me well.
Whatever keeps you keeping on on this spring Sunday it’s heartening to find a little online home here at 5filters these last few months.
Metta to you all 
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“ a very old friend has been ranting at some length about the vicious vaccine dissenters ”
I think very soon we will be housing the vaccine collaboraters in separate buildings called … hmm… sheds!
see 14min to 16min of this brain mapped video :
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He lives on a house boat ironically, so has a ready made apartheid-style redoubt to which to retreat and avoid the Unclean. Except that he wants to spend his considerable disposable income on extravagant meals, the opera, theatre, and the next model of Tesla car, but the bad bad bad germy people won’t let him.
As for the animation: touche.
For “sheds” read “smart cities”.
Hope your friend has found a way to take it all with him!
Maybe he should also blame the SICS for the social and economic cement that has fixed us in place for the last 15 months rather than the “dissenters”.
I’m not sure whether the vaccine video was an RSA animate one but as someone who has a terrible memory I do like this brain mapping technique - this was a recent one:
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Yes it was. I’ve attended - back in the day, when meatspace was a thing - events with live caricatures of this kind. It’s quite impressive aesthetically but the loudest voices in the room produce the most prominent parts of the finished drawing. These prescripted versions feel better, and strike a good balance between visual and written message. (I’m not so much a videos person CJ 
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Rhis, I would venture that humans, above all other animals, are acutely aware of their own mortality. Other animals have some awareness of this (I believe elephants, for example, have been seen to mourn their dead).
This strong awareness of death is the prime driver of homo sapiens. Hence we get religion (which is all about death and escaping it), and a whole host of other things in human society, including the way big pharma and politicians, etc, are presently pulling the biggest con in history.
None of us really know what happens to us, our soul, when we die.
The great thing is that one day each and everyone of us will find out!
Or not, as the case may be!!
Rob, I have to disagree. Some of us do get to know. You see that vividly when you read/hear the testimony of those way-finders who have. In particular in our time and society, they are the NDE survivors (a bi-product of modern emergency resuscitation techniques, much more numerous in modern times), and those who don’t just have OOBEs, but can do them to order. Bob Monroe taught himself to do it voluntarily, after finding it happening to himself spontaneously. Subsequently, he taught it to Tom Campbell and Dennis Mennerich when they were young volunteers at his Monroe Institute For The Study of Consciousness. But shaman’s have been doing similar journeys to order since time out of mind.
I’m absolutely not a gifted ‘chosen’ shaman, subject of a calling which I couldn’t deny, but a dedicated volunteer all the same, of modest ability, but practising over many years. Even that squibbish (cf. Harry Potter ) capability has given me plenty of direct experience to verify that the consciousness-based basic reality which Tom postulates is definitely a better fit than the currently-dominant materialist world-view. That understanding makes me willing to have a shilling each way on the bet that the death-bardo-then-rebirth story, so widely inherited from so many ancient pre-organised-religion traditions, is probably the right one. (Note the ‘probably’. I’m not an NDE survivor, and I’m going mainly on other peoples’ testimonies of their experiences.)
I don’t know this with the sort of direct personal experience that Tom describes in the video with him and Dennis linked below. But it’s clear that the NDEers do: Experiences as vivid, or more vivid, than anything in life, as they commonly testify. As Tom points out, in the end that’s the only way we actually KNOW anything at all, as certainly as life ever lets us: by direct personal experience of a fully conscious, sober and steady observing mind.
I’m glad to take a bet on that, even though I have no current recoverable memory of these experiences in my past incarnations. But if even if it is just total blackout forever, then - as you say - what’s lost? Nothing. It’s fine, whichever way it pans out.
(HowTF did we wander onto this subject, when starting from medics’ testimonies about the covid scam! )
Rhis, as the old saying goes, all paths lead to Rome. I hope we can agree to disagree on some things. You’re quite a bit older than me, and maybe when (or if!) I get there I might have a similar perspective to you.
In the meantime I’ll enjoy the video link you’ve posted.