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originally posted by: AutomateThis1
a reply to: Gnawledge
I can respect your attempt to ease people's fears, but ultimately I think your actions will further reinforce the fear they have. It's normalization.
I'm not going to inconvenience myself every time I go into public simply to put fearful people at ease. I don't cater to fear.
I don't play into fear. I don't condone it.
I want people to be free. I want people to live.
Living in fear is the antithesis of life itself.
Fear is weakness. Fear is control. Fear is the mindkiller.
originally posted by: Halfswede
I don't understand the term social distancing. It's physical distancing. Social distancing would be like not calling or texting your friends.
Also, I agree. There is a certain level of humanity that needs to be there and this stuff is killing it.
originally posted by: Advantage
originally posted by: AutomateThis1
a reply to: Gnawledge
I can respect your attempt to ease people's fears, but ultimately I think your actions will further reinforce the fear they have. It's normalization.
I'm not going to inconvenience myself every time I go into public simply to put fearful people at ease. I don't cater to fear.
I don't play into fear. I don't condone it.
I want people to be free. I want people to live.
Living in fear is the antithesis of life itself.
Fear is weakness. Fear is control. Fear is the mindkiller.
Fear keeps the rabbit and deer alive.
Fear kickstarts vigilance.
Fear means better chances of survival.
Irrational, uninformed and/or mindless fear leads to panic and that leads to control and eventually death.
... and buying up all the damned toilet paper and laundry bleach.
originally posted by: Advantage
originally posted by: AutomateThis1
a reply to: Gnawledge
I can respect your attempt to ease people's fears, but ultimately I think your actions will further reinforce the fear they have. It's normalization.
I'm not going to inconvenience myself every time I go into public simply to put fearful people at ease. I don't cater to fear.
I don't play into fear. I don't condone it.
I want people to be free. I want people to live.
Living in fear is the antithesis of life itself.
Fear is weakness. Fear is control. Fear is the mindkiller.
Fear keeps the rabbit and deer alive.
Fear kickstarts vigilance.
Fear means better chances of survival.
Irrational, uninformed and/or mindless fear leads to panic and that leads to control and eventually death.
... and buying up all the damned toilet paper and laundry bleach.
for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
originally posted by: Night Star
Grocery stores and Walmart won't let people in without a mask. I find them stifling now that the weather is getting warm. You have to stand outside a while before they even let you in because they don't want too many in the store at the same time. Last week I came home with a headache. When it gets hot and humid, I would die. Gah! I am still pleasant to people I come across and people have been pleasant back. We can still laugh and talk to each other. We are all in this boat together. Hate the masks!!!!
So anyway, came in to give hugs to everyone.
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originally posted by: incoserv
originally posted by: Advantage
originally posted by: AutomateThis1
a reply to: Gnawledge
I can respect your attempt to ease people's fears, but ultimately I think your actions will further reinforce the fear they have. It's normalization.
I'm not going to inconvenience myself every time I go into public simply to put fearful people at ease. I don't cater to fear.
I don't play into fear. I don't condone it.
I want people to be free. I want people to live.
Living in fear is the antithesis of life itself.
Fear is weakness. Fear is control. Fear is the mindkiller.
Fear keeps the rabbit and deer alive.
Fear kickstarts vigilance.
Fear means better chances of survival.
Irrational, uninformed and/or mindless fear leads to panic and that leads to control and eventually death.
... and buying up all the damned toilet paper and laundry bleach.
There's a Bible verse that I site in a longer version of this essay, 2 Timothy 1:7, that says:
for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Fear does the opposite of those things.
Instead of imbuing us with power, it makes us weak so that we run, we hide, we cannot confront and deal with those things that confront us.
Instead of imbuing us with love, is makes us selfish. We can't think of others. I remember a conversation I had with someone years ago on a forum like this; he said that he didn't agree with the basic premise of Christianity because the law of love goes against the law of self-preservation. I pointed out that if I love myself above my neighbor and sacrifice all of them so that I can survive, I have done nothing for the survival of the greater group. If I am willing to give my own life in order to save my neighbors, I have accomplished more for the sake of survival than if I'd just saved myself. Stumped him. Fear is, ultimately, selfish.
Instead of imbuing us with self-control, fear makes us manipulable, weak, open to the control of whatever promises to make us safe. It takes control away from one and gives it to the thing feared.
Yes, fear in its proper place - controlled and harnessed - can be good. It keeps me from touching the hot stove a second time. It keeps me from doing stupid things. But a spirit of fear ... that's another thing.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: incoserv
Certain powerful/influential individuals and corporations are attempting to accomplish what Al-Quaeda and ISIS couldn't accomplish in America. They did a better job, but not good enough. The same American spirit that made us a wonderfully strong and independent nation will prevail.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: incoserv
Certain powerful/influential individuals and corporations are attempting to accomplish what Al-Quaeda and ISIS couldn't accomplish in America. They did a better job, but not good enough. The same American spirit that made us a wonderfully strong and independent nation will prevail.
The bars/restaurants are closed. But the Walmart/Target/Home Depot/Dollar stores are open,
I firmly believe that the end goal of the whole social distancing and face mask movement is the breaking down of the human spirit, the end being to make us all less than what we are.
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We are being driven apart. We are being conditioned to bear an inherent distrust for all other human beings. We are being divided no only as a society, but as a race, as a species. This will weaken us, will weaken our cohesiveness, our collective will and social health. This is what is needed for further agendas to be carried out.