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An Open Letter to Those I Care About Who Refuse to Engage
https://imyourmoderator.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-those-i-care-about?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web ^ | 9/11/2022 | chris paul

Posted on 10/15/2022 10:44:21 AM PDT by bitt

You have not considered what it would mean for you if I am right. You need to. Now.

To those I care about:

That you think I’m crazy is not primarily an insult to me. It makes me feel sad for you.

If you feel insulted in what’s to follow, ask yourself how I must feel, having spent days, weeks, months, or longer trying to convince you to reconnect to your humanity.

And please do not do yourselves or me the favor of pretending, “well, I don’t think you’re crazy, but…”

I don’t care to be lied to. I do not lie to you.

The extent to which it bothers me that you think I’m crazy is the extent to which I have overestimated who we are to one another.

I know you think I’m crazy because if you did not, you would have to admit I might be right. If I am, you would be wrong about most of what you believe when it comes to how the world works and your place in it. That horrifies you.

It should not horrify you because there is still time for you to understand.

I will not try to convince you that by coming to terms with the fact that most of what you know is wrong, the world becomes a far better, more open, more honest, and more exciting place, though it unquestionably does.

I want to focus on the fact that if you examine your mind, you’ll discover that you have not once thought about what it would mean if I am right. You know I’m not stupid, or lazy, or uninformed, or malicious, or dishonest, or mean-spirited, or gullible, don’t you? I know you do.

So you tell yourself instead that I am crazy. But you don’t even go that far, because it seems too extreme. Moral clarity frightens you. You convince yourself, ‘he’s not crazy, but he’s crazy about this’, as if that’s even a coherent thought. You think it makes sense because you mistake passion or focus for insanity. Have you never been passionate about something? Have you never been focused on something?

Can you only know you’re not crazy when certain other people agree? Do you understand that my view of these important issues now shares vast majority support? Your view is now the view outside the mainstream. Your view is shared by everyone who stands to continue benefitting from the mass adoption of the belief you hold and virtually no one else.

The number of people continuing to benefit from the world your position has created is decreasing, ever more rapidly. The number of people being harmed by the world your position allows is increasing. As the harm grows, people reach a personal precipice at which they understand it is the worldview itself creating the harm. At this point, they release their hold on the false reality your worldview espouses.

...more..much more...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Society
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To: bitt
tards
21 posted on 10/15/2022 12:10:52 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: MeganC

Mark twain was witty and funny. He and the others wrote truly intelligible and enlightening things.

I’m very sorry that your level of taste and awareness would compare those men with the drivel in this post.


22 posted on 10/15/2022 12:15:19 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Twain was sometimes morose. Especially in his last few years.


23 posted on 10/15/2022 12:20:00 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

ROFL! There are lots of bizarre conspiracy theories to choose from. I kinda like the Galactic Federation and Antarctica myself.

The Q thing is like a black hole sucking in every conspiracy theory there is or ever has been. From the beginning I thought it was like a LARP of Umberto Ecco’s Foucault’s Pendulum with the “anons” playing the part of Abulafia — they even have “The Plan”(!). Get a load of their “maps” to all their interlocking conspiracy theories.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4099908/posts?page=312#312

The first link (”families and such”) adds the Masons to the mix of Jews and Catholics.

The second one proves they still believe in Pizzagate (eye roll).

The third one explains their grand Great Awakening and it seems to involve The Secret Space Program, The Galactic Federation, Antarctica (who knew?) and more! Wow! Watch out for that Great Solar Flash! It’s coming any day now!

The fourth one somehow explains their Covid-5G thing(?).

The fifth is a very convoluted Q Map urging you to “follow the white rabbit” through all the various evil cabals, but how?

Good thing he also posted that sixth link to the Q Map with Guide. Whew!

Not to be left out is Aleister Crowley:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4099908/posts?page=410#410

Just what you’ve been waiting for! A guide to the Qverse Evil Cabal of “They” (in pyramid form, yet):

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4080108/posts?page=1985#1985

Anti-Semitic anti-Catholic octagon version here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4080108/posts?page=1263#1263

Now you know all, Grasshopper.

Looks like way back when I mused that Q is like a LARP of Foucault’s Pendulum I was more right than I knew at the time.


24 posted on 10/15/2022 12:25:10 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Jamestown1630

I read Decline and Fall. It was worth it but it was also tedious slogging through lofty 18th Century English prose.


25 posted on 10/15/2022 12:26:20 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: humblegunner

Lol! I didn’t know Ron Watkins was really a black dude.


26 posted on 10/15/2022 12:27:52 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: bitt
I have heard that with good writing the introductory paragraph is supposed to serve as an introduction — or an overview — of what the paper is about.

But you may then say this isn't good writing.   Well, that was my thought too.

27 posted on 10/15/2022 12:28:02 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: bitt
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

James Truslow Adams

28 posted on 10/15/2022 12:29:57 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: CatHerd

I’m not a fan of Eco; but you do Q too much credit with the comparison.

The Q-ists have been dumbing FR down for years.


29 posted on 10/15/2022 12:38:07 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: bitt

Whether I think you’re crazy or not depends on what you’re saying.

And yes, a person could have a clinical diagnosis of mental illness or neurosis or psychosis.

But people on a blog or forum simply saying you’re crazy isn’t a diagnosis.

I wouldn’t worry about them. It’s the guys in the white lab coats carrying large nets you’d need to run from!


30 posted on 10/15/2022 12:48:03 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: bitt
Do you understand that my view of these important issues now shares vast majority support? Your view is now the view outside the mainstream.

Sorry:

The Earth is not flat

We did land on the Moon in 1969 and several more times

Birds are real

The Earth is not 6,000 years old

Dinosaurs were not on Noah’s Ark

The toilet paper roll goes over and not under

And most importantly:

Pineapple does not belong on pizza!!!

31 posted on 10/15/2022 1:02:11 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: Alas Babylon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY


32 posted on 10/15/2022 1:03:13 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: Jamestown1630

>>>”The Q-ists have been dumbing FR down for years.”<<<

Yuppers.

I understand not being a fan of Eco. And I do *not* recommend reading all 632 pages of Foucault’s Pendulum(!). I like the way he pokes fun at Postmodernism and Foucaultists (as in followers of Michel Foucault the philosopher, not Léon Foucault the physicist of pendulum fame). Linguistics and semiotics happen to be my things, so ... yes, I read his books.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum

From one of the reviews (see what I mean about the Q thing?):

“Imagine three sarcastic, over-educated editors who work at a vanity publisher. Owing to their occupation, they naturally end up reading an abundance of books about ridiculously grand conspiracy theories and occult societies - the Freemasons, the Templars, the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati (Bavarian and otherwise), and so on. So they start to play a sort of free-association game: Let’s connect all these things, using the same half-mad logic as the authors of these books, into one grand design. Thus The Plan is born.

But they’re too good at it. The Plan starts to get away from them. After so long immersed in the dream-logic of conspiracy theories you can form seemingly-natural (and ominous) connections between any pair of things. So when strange and ominous things do happen, when the pieces seem to start falling into place, is it just coincidence? Are the things they thought they were making up real?”

From the blurb:

“On a lark, the editors begin randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entries. What they believe they are creating is a long, lazy game - until the game starts taking over...”

The computer’s name is Abulafia. Instead of just using a computer, Q feeds stuff to the “anons” via computer and they make all the connections. Q really is like a LARP of Foucault’s Pendulum, grifters and all.

Warning spoiler below:

In the end, it turns out the text in question is simply a shopping list. The wife of one of the editors figures it out in an instant once he shows it to her. All that over an old shopping list.


33 posted on 10/15/2022 1:03:40 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: CatHerd

‘The Name of the Rose’ turned me off, and I never went back...


34 posted on 10/15/2022 1:17:36 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630; bitt; EasySt; bagster

:: The Q-ists have been dumbing FR down for years ::

(Header on each continuing thread)
Trust Trump’s Plan ~ 10/11/22 Vol.428, Q Day 1807

“Years” is accurate, almost 5 years, now.
CONSISTENTLY, 1807 days, 428 separate volumes of an average of 2000 posts in EACH volume.
Can you send me a link to any other FR thread like that?

And “Q-ists” are the ones running off people and making the FReep-athons fall short?
Sure, OK.
Now, after all the ad hominem and misinformation in the responses by the usual suspects ( a dwindling number by the way) you figure out who’s dumbing down FR and running good people off.

FR isn’t gonna survive on hummy-gummy’s $5K a year...but it just might HAVE to if the “Q-ists” go away.


35 posted on 10/15/2022 1:27:12 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is NOT a religion of any sort. It is a violent and tyrannical system of ruling others.)
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To: higgmeister
I have heard that with good writing the introductory paragraph is supposed to serve as an introduction — or an overview — of what the paper is about.

I would agree there. Here is one example, using the aforementioned "The Second World War" by Winston Churchill.

After the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost universal hope that peace would reign in the world. This heart’s desire of all the peoples could easily have been gained by steadfastness in righteous convictions, and by reasonable common sense and prudence. The phrase “the war to end war” was on every lip, and measures had been taken to turn it into reality. President Wilson, wielding, as was thought, the authority of the United States, had made the conception of a League of Nations dominant in all minds. The British delegation at Versailles moulded and shaped his ideas into an instrument which will for ever constitute a milestone in the hard march of man. The victorious Allies were at that time all-powerful, so far as their outside enemies were concerned. They had to face grave internal difficulties and many riddles to which they did not know the answer, but the Teutonic Powers in the great mass of Central Europe which had made the upheaval were prostrate before them, and Russia, already shattered by the German flail, was convulsed by civil war and falling into the grip of the Bolshevik or Communist Party.

That opening paragraph sucked me in and I proceeded to read the next 4,736 pages rather eagerly.

36 posted on 10/15/2022 1:39:06 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,235,369 active user on Truth Social)
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To: Jamestown1630

I don’t blame you for not liking The Name of the Rose. There’s plenty not to like. It’s also metafiction and if you’re not familiar with the authors and works he incorporates, all the humor and fun little bits fall flat.

It is uncanny how closely the Q thing is like a real life version of Foucault’s Pendulum, though. Involving way more people of course, but just as stupid, pointless and dangerous.


37 posted on 10/15/2022 2:06:58 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: bitt

He does sound a bit crazy.


38 posted on 10/15/2022 2:15:21 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
And “Q-ists” are the ones running off people and making the FReep-athons fall short?

I've been accused of doing that all on my own.

Which is also unlikely and unprovable boolsheet.

Do you figure that sane folks should just shut up and
quietly let Free Republic become Qtard central?

If you objected to Qtards, wouldn't you say so?

You figure y'all are SO VERY right that nobody should call BS on the.. BS?

YOU would.

39 posted on 10/15/2022 2:39:43 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: bitt

??? Was there a point?


40 posted on 10/15/2022 2:41:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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