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Lao Tzu - the art of not trying

https://youtu.be/-lsYJrLrEAM

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I for one disavow all belief in viruses. Viruses were invented to change the direction of medicine back in the late 1800's into a "fear first" system based on the fear of death from this disease or that. Without the fear factor, modern medicine falls flat on its face. There would be fewer takers.

Lat week I was vacationing on a smaller lake where all kinds of boating was allowed. We noticed a pair of beautiful white swans the first day at one end of the lake. The next day, we noticed they were towing around 8 babies that were quite grown, but they stayed mostly at one end of the lake and then occasionally ventured to a weedy section across from our dock despite the boating activity during most of the day.

The next day, we saw two more white swans at the far end but no more babies. As the day went on, the first pair of swans started coming across the lake with their 8 kids in tow and proceeded to pass directly in front of our dock on their way towards the other end of the lake. Despite the boats and kayaks, this group proceeded fearlessly as if they owned the lake. It was amazing. Perhaps that is what we must do...proceed fearlessly despite the tyranny that surrounds us.

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I love this. And how nature shows us the way. "Proceed fearlessly despite the tyranny that surrounds us." I will keep that image of the swan family gliding across the lake, serenely owning it.

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I very much appreciate your saneness, Betsy.

As someone with an interest in logical fallacies I invite you to email Jesse Richardson who created the sites, yourlogicalfallacyis, yourbiasis and schoolofthought because - as I think I've mentioned in a comment on another of your articles - understanding logical fallacies and biases is simply not enough. You really do need a genuinely open mind - the thing is when you have that you don't really need to study logical fallacies and biases because you naturally don't tend to fall into them - similar to a native speaker not needing to understand the grammar of their language to speak grammatically correctly - although that doesn't mean they shouldn't learn it of course. I've emailed him without response so I just think with people like him it's good if other people also contact him. jesse@schoolofthought.org (this email is on his website so I'm not giving any private info here). https://jesserichardson.com.au/

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Thanks for the kind words, Petra! I will look at those sites again.

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It's me again. I'd looked at the conspiracy test page before but found the character that introduces the tests so annoying I didn't proceed. Fortunately, I see that the character is just at the beginning. However, the one test I've looked at so far - 9/11 - is so utterly lame I simply cannot believe it.

This is the thing: as soon as you don't have an open mind - regardless of your knowledge of logical fallacies - you immediately fall into them.

This is what the test for 9/11 actually consists of:

Calculating what you think is the probability of such an operation being carried off without people talking.

That ... is ... it for 9/11 itself. The rest is essentially red herring.

Of course the glaring logical fallacy is argumentum ad speculum or Hypothesis Contrary to Fact. We don't need to concern ourselves with the probability of anything when the evidence is all Hidden in Plain Sight ... and then the red herring stuff which has zero to do with 9/11.

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Actually, I made a mistake. I watched the 9/11 "conspiracy test" again and I missed a video where attempts at debunking happened - lame, of course, but there was at least an attempt.

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Actually, Betsy, I'm silly, this is the webpage to go to which has other killer links such as the two I post below the first one. OMG!

https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/190/jesse-richardson-bringing-conspiracy-theorists-back-from-the-brink/

https://conspiracychart.com/

https://theconspiracytest.org/

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The Yin and Yang of Lau Tzu versus Sun Tzu. One seeks peace and wisdom, the other seeks war and blind loyalty to the General.

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What a beautiful thing to know when to act! I find I miss in my own living the beauty you capture in the ability to be still the heron knows so well. I mostly experience this as exhausting and frustrating. I am inspired to bring a new appreciation for the beauty of the stillness! Thank you for your beautiful writing Betsy! What a gift to know you!

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Thank you, Patricia! I am deepening my experience of and appreciation for stillness too. It's almost a discipline to stand without being pushed by all the outside forces and the inside pressure to "do something." Especially when the situation is dire! The heron is a good role model for this.

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I 100% agree with you, I too thought the no-virus issue was pivotal and so important for people to ‘get it’. I got enormous push back, the usual crazy moniker and gaslit-tf. Since then, I have learned that the same is true of the vitamin industry and have learned a lot more about the range and depth of the mind control/disabling. I love the Heron and see one most mornings. Loved this article, thank you.

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I was attending the University of North Dakota about a decade ago, which has a creek that runs under a bridge across the main drag of campus. For about a week in the fall, as I took the footpath toward where it went under that bridge, a green heron was on the rocks by the creek. I saw it every morning, standing there, waiting for the right fish for its breakfast. So beautiful! There is a heron rookery along the Mississippi River about 4 miles south of where I live, and occasionally I see one or two in flight up the river. They are amazing birds.

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What a beautiful analogy for where you are in your writing at the moment - it has always been apparent from your articles that your writing comes from the heart.

Too many people write just for the sake of pumping out a weekly substack, the good pieces slowly get watered down and lost amongst the author's forced pieces.

Looking forward to when you come across something that moves you again.

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Thanks so much for these affirming words, Mia! It's exactly as you say--I was feeling the pressure to keep up the pace I started at, but not wanting to just churn out content without, well, content. I appreciate that I have readers who know this!

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I speak to you.

Be still

Know

I am

God.

Opening verse:

THE VISION OF ENOCH

God Speaks to Man

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🌺💙

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I hear you Betsy. Reaching a flow state should be the goal of every seeker of truth, to not be forced to react or respond just because the flow of information comes thick and fast in our data rich environment. That can all go away in the blink of an eye and then we are left standing (or sitting) as we were before all of this came along relying only on what we have in our heads and our immediate environment. I, myself, resisted the urge to jump in on the Trump assassination and other recent "hot" topics and pondered what it is that I want to achieve with this platform and how to adapt to the possible changes that may occur down the line. I think there comes a point in many online commentators lives where they don't want to be continually dragged down the river by every catchy news feed that pops up and inevitably fades away. And even for those that focus solely on one topic as many did with Covid here on Substack the conversation shifts to a broader view of life in general as you have discussed in your own journey. Other interests come into view forming a patchwork quilt that connects all the dots because we are not really one topic creatures at all. We are multifaceted and able to expand our awareness to a very big picture view that most people are simply too busy to deal with. I feel very strongly that this is what is required right now in the world. Without the big picture view and the ability to see behind all the individual problems we get lost in the weeds much like the so called experts sitting in their ivory towers. Obviously, the work exposing virology and germ theory as a whole must continue. We must reach a critical mass of vaccine refusal otherwise this can easily tip the other way. We mustn't rest on our laurels, but we must also move with the currents and have faith that many more will pick up the mantle and continue to blast the message out to all those who are ready and willing to take it in. I think truth is effortlessly bubbling up from Base Level right now and overwhelming the lies that have been forced into place over the years. Just look at how much effort is required to maintain the lies and how quickly an individual can reject all of them once the veil drops. There's no going back after that happens leaving more time to explore all the mysteries and wonders of this holographic sliver of existence known as the visible light spectrum. I guess we're all explorers now.

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I appreciate very much what you say,Tsubion! It is so easy--fatally so--to get so lost in the weeds that we are swept away in the larger movement of wind or water. We are as a collective in grave danger of that right now! Yet I feel a shift is happening toward opening our vision to that bigger view. Many still aren't ready to entertain the notion that there are forces in the world that actively seek to harm us, and that these forces are baked into all the systems of our societies. But this thought is becoming possible for more and more minds, I think, as those forces push so hard to finalize their goals. I am optimistic, though this part we're going into will not be easy.

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Betsy- I really like the self awareness reflected in this sentence: “Right now, though, I feel like the heron who is standing still, just waiting and watching for the right moment.” Many people know this by heart, but few accept it. Your keen observation is testament to this openness. I appreciate it.

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