Guest Post by Thomas Harrington
“This, of course, stays between us” he said to his young coworker as they went their separate ways in the hotel parking lot. She, who was already feeling a bit queasy about what had transpired—it had not gone as she had hoped—quickly nodded her head as she clicked the fob to open the door of her car.
Yes, she would keep it quiet. It was definitely better that way for him, but just as much, she thought, for herself as she had done what she had said she would never do: sleep with a more senior co-worker.
She briefly rehearsed conjuring a new story about how it had come to pass, one that suggested he had forced it all upon her. But she knew it wasn’t true. She had always been an independent woman, nobody’s fool. And pretty honest with herself as well. In remembering and acknowledging her own agency in the process leading to the encounter she said to herself, “Yes, it’s definitely best that every hint of what occurred never go beyond this place and this moment.”
And thus was born a Pact of Silence, one of millions established each day across the world.
Shame is an incredibly powerful emotion, one that when imposed by parents or certain authority figures in very, very limited doses in the process of a child’s trajectory toward adulthood—which is to say, the process through which he or she begins to generate an autonomous sense of morality—can serve a certain educational purpose.
And once its lessons have been internalized in the adult, it can serve as a brake upon the well-known human tendency to get carried away and do stupid and regrettable things.
And as we have seen during the last 30 months it can turn into an extremely powerful and noxious weapon when it is wrenched from its proper place in the intimate realm and employed as a tool of coercion in our public spaces.
Much less talked about is the way it can lead people to paralysis or flat-out lying, and the short-circuiting of mindful behavior, with all that that last term implies as far as responding compassionately to those we care about, or those we may have, if even inadvertently, harmed.
The fictional adulteress mentioned above, it seems, felt some shame and wanted to bury things because she had in some way betrayed an idea of the person she is, or at least wants to be.
In many ways, hers was probably a healthy response. If we were to vigorously berate ourselves for all of the times we fell short of our own behavioral expectations, life would turn into a grim and lonely slog. Sometimes letting go is just the ticket, especially in cases like the one sketched out above that did not involve any palpable harm to third parties.
But what happens when our behaviors fall short of the aspirations we have for ourselves and others—let’s say millions of others—are manifestly damaged by our dishonest actions?
Here, it would seem, the bury-it-and-move-on method is completely inappropriate.
And yet this appears to be exactly what most of the roughly 30% of the general population and 95% of the mainstream media who advocated for social apartheid and otherwise harangued and bullied their fellow citizens over the matter of covid controls and vaccinations, are trying to do.
Given what we’ve come to learn about the buckets of Pharma cash handed out to the media, it is probably not surprising that the latter group is responding this way.
But what about the first group mentioned?
Given what we now know… No, check that. Given what was known to anyone who wanted to know about the real capabilities of “social distancing” and vaccine mandates as far back as 18 months ago, the temptation is to write most of them off as conceited fools. And in the end, maybe that is the best tack to take.
A more charitable approach, however, would be to interrogate how shame might be affecting their reactions to the cascade of evidence demonstrating the rank ineffectiveness and danger of the entire Covid response, as well as the blizzard of lies and censorship unleashed to obscure these salient facts.
There is, as I have mentioned repeatedly, an undeniable skew toward the highly credentialed in the ranks of the fanatics. These are people whose sense of self-worth is heavily invested in being much more analytical and quicker to see through fakery than the great majority of their fellow citizens.
In their minds, people like them don’t get fooled. Other, less tuned-in people do.
Yet, they have been massively and repeatedly fooled by one of the most obvious and coordinated—recognizable if by nothing else by its carpet-bombing expanse and pace—propaganda campaigns in history.
On some level, the sense of shame must be enormous.
And yet to interrogate it honestly and begin the process of repair means admitting that the castle of the intellect which they have created to safeguard their perhaps fragile identities may not be nearly as strong or as impregnable as they once believed it to be.
And so they do what many people do when they feel the world as they know it slipping away. They pretend it is not happening and point fingers everywhere but at themselves, inventing malign stories about those who unlike them, have enough ego detachment to analyze the world more or less as it is, as opposed to what their ill-resolved identity conflicts and status hungers need it to be.
Or they flat out lie, as professional know-it-all Neil de Grasse Tyson does here (starting at 2:15), when he suggests that we have no tools of contrastive analysis available for assessing the wisdom of the measures taken to mitigate the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on our society.
Understanding all this makes it easier to think of those who provided the vociferous support for the government-imposed destruction of freedom of association, commercial freedom, bodily sovereignty, mass firings, record-shattering numbers of injuries and deaths and who knows how many future health complications with a greater degree of forgiveness and compassion. But I’m not there yet.
But when my anger cools, I’ll at least have a clear path of inner growth to follow during my remaining years on this earth.
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I’m sorry, but America needs to be destroyed. No nation that promotes all this evil; and its citizens either cheer it or accept it, is worthy of surviving.
What about Isra-hell, do they get a pass?
Last I heard, AmeriKa had 330 million, most claim to be of Christ. Are you claiming your NPC status or just your wormy cowardice for what you and your society has accepted as normal?
It’s not clear to me that pointing out Zionists stole our Ship of State steered it onto a reef, without anyone below decks knowing it for a fact, is wormy cowardice. The bridge is occupied by Israel and the helmsman (FJB) is a puppet.
Nor is it apparent that “Anonymous’ has or hasn’t accepted anything as normal. That’s a projection.
Hollywoof’s bark declares what’s ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable. Even when it isn’t, and we know who decides the script. Fucking Jews.
Protestants and Catholics both claim to be “of Christ” while ignoring their history of cruelly persecuting each other. That is wormy cowardice and El Senior would tell you so if you asked.
I worried about my own society, Israel will reap its own just due.
Exactly right falcon.
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“But when my anger cools…”
Fuck it.
Send these two to those you want to wake up…and help.
Wall Street money manager Edward Dowd has made billions of dollars for companies such as Black Rock picking good businesses with good products. He can also spot a fraud, and Dowd says Pfizer simply made up the research that said it’s CV19 vaccine was safe and effective. According to Dowd, it was neither safe or effective. Dowd says, “The data was garbage. As far as I am concerned, they made up the data. It was garbage.” Dowd thinks the CV19 injections will be the deadliest fraud in history. Dowd explains, “This is something we have never seen in the history of our country and the history of the world for that matter. We have a product (CV19 Vax) that is so fraudulent and so deadly from an acute basis and kills you right away, but the long-term implications of this health impact we don’t know yet. It’s looking grim. This is going to be with us for decades. This is going to change the face of the world. We have to try to control the outcome because people are going to try to take advantage of this and spin it and turn it into the ‘great reset.’ We are not going to allow the ‘great reset’ to happen. If it happens, it’s going to happen under our power, and we are going to take control and not some nameless elites that say I am going to own nothing and eat bugs.”
Some people say the perpetrators of the deadly vax fraud are going to get away with it. Dowd says not a chance and explains, “The problem with this fraud is it is a bridge too far. 220 million Americans took the vax (at least one shot). Three million Americans are disabled, and it’s probably higher, and those disabilities are going to continue to grow. The economic impact, the young working age men and women dying in their families and the psychological effects show this is not your run of the mill financial fraud. This is a different kind of fraud, and this is a trust issue. It violated trust on so many levels that the politicians are going to turn on these people at some point. . . . These things don’t end until the elite pay a personal price, and that’s where we are headed. Some of these people are going to pay a very personal price. I don’t wish that on them, and this is why they need to come forward and start whistleblowing so they can be protected in jails. These crimes are so difficult to hide that there will be that kind of action. If you look at the story of Marie Antoinette and the saying “Let them eat cake,” the French Revolution did not end well for the elites. The consciousness is rising in this country at an alarming fast rate. . . .”
How does Dowd know we have passed an inflection point? Dowd says, “In October, November and December of last year, people all over the media, celebrities and people I knew were saying the unvaccinated are the problem and they need to be put in camps. Well, that chatter has disappeared. They have not apologized for that, but doubts are starting to enter people’s minds. . . . It’s like the stages of grief. The first one is denial, then anger, then depression and then acceptance. We are in the denial/anger stage. We are still in the denial part, but we are quickly approaching anger.”
In the economy and what’s coming, Dowd points out, “What’s going on is we are basically at the end of the super bubble. . . . We are going to have to have a new economic system . . . and what’s going on is the collapse of that. The defaults are coming, and they are going to start in other countries first and make their way here. . . .It’s going to be a disaster, and we are going to see a huge amount of defaults, bankruptcies and collapse of the economy. . . .99.9% of the world does not know the social contract has been broken. What does that mean? It means all the entitlements, social security, the pensions, and there are a lot in Europe, they are gone. They are not going to get paid. That’s the bottom line.”
There is much more in the 50 min. interview.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
“If you had COVID-19 or received a COVID-19 injection, you may have dangerous spike proteins circulating in your body.
Spike proteins can circulate in your body after infection or injection, causing damage to cells, tissues and organs
The World Council for Health has released a spike protein detox guide, which provides straightforward steps you can take to potentially lessen the effects of toxic spike protein in your body.
Spike protein inhibitors and neutralizers include pine needles, ivermectin, neem, N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and glutathione.
The top 10 spike protein detox essentials include vitamin D, vitamin C, nigella seed, quercetin, zinc, curcumin, milk thistle extract, NAC, ivermectin and magnesium
Have you had COVID-19 or received a COVID-19 injection? Then you likely have dangerous spike proteins circulating in your body. While spike protein is naturally found in SARS-CoV-2, no matter the variant, it’s also produced in your body when you receive a COVID-19 shot. In its native form in SARS-CoV-2, the spike protein is responsible for the pathologies of the viral infection.
In its wild form it’s known to open the blood-brain barrier, cause cell damage (cytotoxicity) and, as Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology, said in a commentary on News Voice, “is active in manipulating the biology of the cells that coat the inside of your blood vessels — vascular endothelial cells, in part through its interaction with ACE2, which controls contraction in the blood vessels, blood pressure and other things.”
It’s also been revealed that the spike protein on its own is enough to cause inflammation and damage to the vascular system, even independent of a virus.
Now, the World Council for Health (WCH), a worldwide coalition of health-focused organizations and civil society groups that seek to broaden public health knowledge, has released a spike protein detox guide, which provides straightforward steps you can take to potentially lessen the effects of toxic spike protein. You can view their full guide of natural remedies, including dosages, at the end of this article”.
Open the DETOX link and there are treatments I have been putting up (as stand alone threads…besides many comments) since the begining of this genocide.
Just watched Greg Hunter’s interview. It was a slog, but it was also a home run. No BS. Just facts.
I don’t know.
It gives me a bad taste in my mouth to have a Bhakdi interview listed together with some new bullshit peddling articles, these ones on “how to [magically] detox.”
If you’ve been jabbed with the modRNA poison, you may be able to assist your body to fight the invaders, but you will -most likely- never be able to fully detox that shit.
That’s right you don’t know.
Like you said: What good could these “bullshit peddling” top 10 items from the article do???
‘The top 10 spike protein detox essentials include vitamin D, vitamin C, nigella seed, quercetin, zinc, curcumin, milk thistle extract, NAC, ivermectin and magnesium’.
Go back to sucking on your smug snarky lemons m.
That’s funny, in your headlines the word “could” is suspiciously missing.
Go team up with HSF, peddling more of
“the ‘positive illusion hypothesis’ [basically life is so tragic that you have to tell yourself happy falsehoods, just so you don’t go insane… which I think is an absolute appalling philosophy, it’s the ultimate in cynicism.]”
No m the Island Boy is funny…
I told you once before I don’t like your smug, snarky constant attempts to sound like the smartest person in the room posting personality…and you take a cheap shot at Hard Scrabble Farmer one of the most respected and popular posters here???
The Farmer must have really kicked your ass for you to be this Butt Hurt.
Go away mealy mouth.
We are done…I avoid toxic people like you…and that is you…toxic, smug, and snarky.
https://www.australiannationalreview.com/health/heres-how-you-can-detox-from-the-spike-protein/
https://knightspirit.com/home/bridging-the-gap-between-what-was-and-what-will-be/how-to-detox-spike-protein-after-covid-or-vaccine-dr-mercola/
Woohoo, get personal!!
And nukes don’t exist!
From your links:
“you may benefit from using one or more items from our list of medicines and supplements to reduce spike protein load”
“compiled natural options for helping to reduce your body’s spike protein load”
But sorry to tell you, I will call your future bullshit out as well.
Sometimes I try it with measured words at first (as today), sometimes I skip the pleasantries and directly tell it as I see it.
Now keep going, I’m having a ball here. 🤣
Go away?
Who the fuck are you to command anyone?
There’s been enough self-righteous censorship already.
Fuck off.
Dose makes the poison. And the progress. Every silver lined cloud turned inside out has a dark shock-a-lot center. Nothing –nothing!- is unmitigated. And truth, whether its perfect or merely good, is always enemy the lie, which may be “perfect” but is never good.
Shame dosed right don’t kill people.
But shamans do.
And shamelessness do too.
And dissociation.
And schizo fightclubbery.
Even cog-dis do.
And cowardice…mein got, the fooking cowardice!
“Castle of the” credentiallect. Shameful to conflate that with intellect.
The whole thing was, remains, pretext. Sleight of hand. Magician attention deficit diversion to emperors robe-turn the trick & take everybody treats.
No inner growth soup for you.
I didn’t mention it earlier when I talked about the disgusting nature of what science had become, because I thought it didn’t fit there.
But you know what is even worse, on top of the dishonesty in many scientists’ work?
It is world of Professors on the lecture circuit all around the country, when lonely nights spent at hotel bars with hot 25 year old pharmaceutical reps who adore them, or research fellows who need their annual employment contracts renewed, or residents who need a letter of recommendation, who provide an unlimited stream of female bodies to be consumed and discarded at will.
I assume that it is no different if you are a NYC hedge fund manager, a pilot on a layover or a ski instructor in Vail.
Sadly, the issues you raise will most likely go unresolved in large part due to unfolding events of a more pressing nature. Shall we put a pin in it until after the bombs stop falling? If I live, I’m sure I’ll still be pissed at them and in more of a mood to deal with them. As there will be no more courts, the trials will not be lengthy.
I wonder if electronic rifle optics can survive a thermonuclear EMP.
Only if you store them in a Faraday bag or cage or heavy lead-lined safe. Most optics are housed in aluminum and the circuitry can be either silver or gold depending on manufacturer.
ACOGs are great because they are only fiber optic.
Always keep spares tucked away. Thermals and NVGs are especially prone to sunspots and emp. Faraday them things when not in use, especially because they tend to be expensive.
ZFG, out.
I hope to God not! I’m fine with open iron and plain glass scopes. Regardless. Leveling the playing field has always been the responsibility of the resistance and not the attacker.
We can not hand over the keys to the planet to these degenerate murderers.
‘And so they do what many people do when they feel the world as they know it slipping away. They pretend it is not happening..’
Technology and the democratization of knowledge hasn’t changed or modified the human condition one iota, has it?
“And so they do what many people do when they feel the world as they know it slipping away. They pretend it is not happening and point fingers everywhere but at themselves, inventing malign stories about those who unlike them, have enough ego detachment to analyze the world more or less as it is, as opposed to what their ill-resolved identity conflicts and status hungers need it to be.”
This could be applied to quite a few people and events and actions. This is a great paragraph. There is a huge cohort of people who should detach their ego a bit more on many things.
I’ve already heard the excuse mechanism at play. “Think how much worse it could have been….I’m still glad I took the vaccine…..”
My sister is one of those people,she was way before the CONvid came along.Can’t see past the tv,does no research and have the nerve to argue with you about it(whatever)!
Has been that way all her life,knowing things makes life too difficult….ignorance is truly bliss.I tried to educate her about the Ukraine war…..so stuffed with MSM bullplop,can’t entertain any new ideas……it’s a frustrating circular convo……
It’s truly tough to have to accept that the folks who read TBP must be the ‘Crusty Uncle’ Trudeau called those of us who refused the shot and and shake our heads daily over the massive Ukraine propaganda, relentless climate change grift, and endless virtue signaling over the ‘next thing’.
I’m sorry ro say that share your experience with my own brothers and sisters. We are all in our 60s. It has become clear to me that while I agree with you that ignorance is bliss, so is not being held responsible and accountable for your actions. They can claim that they didn’t know and trusted the wrong people in good faith. They will never accept reponsibilty for their willful blindness and compliance. It will always be someone else’s fault.
I still love them, warts and all and I do not wish them to die from the vax.
But, I swear, a damn good slap to their heads would help. Me, that is. Not them.
Cheers
The Narcissist’s Prayer
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
I look back on my life and see that this is what all but a handful of people I have known are like. In general, humans suck.
https://www.thelifedoctor.org/the-narcissist-s-prayer