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Chris posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago
I went for a drive the other day and decided to stop by and see if my father was around. Unfortunately he had gone out but his wife–nurse and CEO of a hospital–answered the door…if you can call it that. She was struggling with a mask and shouted at me through the glass, secondary door while I politely stood 12 feet away. Outside. I couldn’t understand a word she was saying and had to resist the urge to approach closer to the glass to hear, but stayed away in order to both put her at ease–if that is possible–and to remain aloof from a rabid lunatic. I smiled a lot and waved then headed off to the car. Upon returning home, some 30 miles, I received an email from my older sister, who lives in Oklahoma. (I live In Maine.) Informing me that she was in Maine for a job interview but wouldn’t be stopping by to visit me because I hadn’t been “vaccinated.” She made it sound like she was protecting me from harm, but she was really trying to coerce. My sister was Valedictorian of our High School. Now she watches Rachel Maddow and loathes Trump supporters and other untouchables. A brittle mind, prone to shattering. Frightened, angry and with that form of apprehension that relates only to fear and not understanding. Apprehension without apprehending. For her, looking on the bright side has devolved into the White Light of Ignorant Bliss at the end of her own tunnel vision. It is a radiance that leads, with that absorbing fixity of attention, to blindness and thus total occlusion, and the compensating shrill heightened sensitivities, shorn of sensibility, of that handicap. My compassion for her though, and all the screeching, benighted Helen Kellers of this world, is leavened by the fact of her uncomprehending rage at me, and the fact that these people are probably going to kill me. I feel a bit like an anthropologist these days, in my encounters with other species of hominid. Head bowed so as not to impart aggression or challenge. Never baring my teeth in a masked smile. Never running from a display of sideways running, grass tearing silverback angst, which will provoke an attack. Speaking softly, hooting, snuffling and grunting with ambiguous politeness. And only picking nits in the proscribed manner. All the while studying and learning about the new species replacing us on the Earth…. Best, Chris
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Well said.
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for the situations where the vaxxed seek to reject the unvaxxed, perhaps we should take a page from the lefties: #stopthehate and unvaxxed lives matter. though the situation is a personal choice issue, the lefty collectivists may relate to the persecuted mindset. we shall overcome.
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What you say makes good sense, but… the type of mindset you’re describing is based on a (false) sense of righteous indignation against any and all who disagree with them. In this mindset, if you disagree with their orthodoxy, you are the enemy of society and deserve to be persecuted — if not eliminated altogether. And, for the few true believers, they see it as their sacred duty to make sure you are silenced, marginalized, and persecuted. This form of leftism is based not on a rational, humanistic political philosophy, but on a quasi religion that breeds fundamentalist zealotry.
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Force the Left to own divisiveness without creating it yourself.
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I agree. If the pendulum somehow swings all the way around and Freedom is restored, I shall strive to not be like them. It is tricky.
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The anguish of your story is palpable and repeated too often. Some of my friends were told by their children to get the jab if they want to see their grandkids. So sad. I am thankful every day for my children and the wonderful job they are doing raising their children in a difficult world.
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That is horrible! The child abuse going on suggests that our culture is indeed sick–perhaps deathly ill. When parents destroy their own young–and abuse the aged then…the end is not far off.
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Sadly, the only replacement of these transhumanists will be by those of us unvaxxed who, in 5-10 years, will be the only humans left. Transhuman now; dead soon. As it is, those who have received the mRNA are already patented according to a Supreme Court ruling in 2014. I listed the link, above.
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Yes, very well said, and articulately stated. I am sorry you and so many others are dealing with this kind of insanity within their families. It’s heartbreaking. I can relate to feeling “a bit like an anthropologist… in my encounters with other species of hominid.” I’ve felt that way since early childhood, so there hasn’t been any kind of shocking change for me. But I can’t imagine what it must be like for those who first experience that feeling as an adult. I wish you, and all with similar stories, courage and perseverance!
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The best thing for people like us to do is build out networks or like minded individuals and form communities. We have reached a “Rubicon Moment” and there is little to no middle ground anymore. I am working on building a community in my area, which is a slow and deliberate process. Some people see the writing on the wall and understand the need to change gears, others seem to suffer from a normalcy bias and are slower to act. It can seem very lonely outside of our cyber communities like Giza, but I assure you there are plenty of people in your area who are of the same mindset, you’ve just got to figure out how to reach them. You are not alone.
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A friend of mine in ME was convinced by her daughter to get the big V for her own good, but her daughter and family will not. I am having a problem reconciling that in my mind.
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