Posted on 03/13/2022 4:58:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Can I trust the press? The cops? The military?
At a Tony Robbins seminar I attended many years ago, a lady in the audience told Tony she had trust issues, she couldn’t trust anyone. This, of course, kept her from ever feeling content or happy. Mr. Robbins responded that the woman was fully capable of trusting, she simply needed to work on growing that capacity.
“Every time you drive,” Tony told her, “You trust that complete strangers driving in the opposite direction won’t cross the center line and kill you.” Mr. Robbins further elaborated on this theme, and by the time he finished, the woman in question wore a smile and allowed that, in time, she was fully capable of becoming a trusting and happy person. My thought at the time was, thank God, there’s lots of people and institutions I trust and believe in.
Fast forward to today, and I now ask myself, almost hourly, whom can I trust?
Certainly not the media. Regarding the vast majority of talking heads I see on TV or in videos, if their lips are moving, they’re lying---or misdirecting, mischaracterizing, or simply omitting things that actually happened. After watching a CNN hack proclaiming a BLM riot was mostly peaceful as a building burned brightly in the background, I now assume everything the mainstream media tells me is a lie until proven otherwise. See scam, Russia Collusion.
I was raised Catholic, and while I still believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, I’ve no use for the Catholic Church. Worldwide, the Church has spent almost four billion dollars compensating or muzzling victims of pedophile priests. Meanwhile, our socialist Pope spends his time decrying capitalism, guns and walls, all while enjoying the finest food, drink, and armed security behind the high walls of the
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I actually do not trust that people coming the opposite way will not cross the line into me. On the contrary, I expect someone will eventually do it which is why I drive all the time. I am hyper vigilent and simply do not trust anyone on the road. I purposely drive on the shoulder to give me every inch of distance I can get from the idiots driving towards me.
Will this save me when one idiot finally choses to drive across the line? I do not know. What I do know is I do not trust the idiots on the other side of the road.
“He’s a con man.”
He’s way beyond that. You’re being much too kind.
There is nothing modern about a godless society. To say we don’t need God is very foolish and dangerous. When a nation abandons God, look out! Judgment will follow.
“The MSM is not mainstream”
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I agree 1000%. I noticed that after Trump left office, the ‘fake news’ media terminology went back to being called the “mainstream” by conservative talking heads....and us. Why? We are always portrayed as radical right and our media trashed. The left knows the verbal warfare fight, but after so much time we haven’t learned a thing.
Trust is built on demonstrated prior performance. Maybe because there is a strong statistical foundation for that belief, just like there is a strong statistical foundation for the fact that the deep state crony capitalist neocons have pushed us to the brink of WWIII and we can trust not a single one of them.
The writer's use of the word "whom" here is absolutely correct, even if it's not used.
(As a general rule, if you are going to correct the grammar of someone who writes professionally, you really have to know the subject yourself.)
"Whom" is used when we are referring to the object of a sentence and not the subject. I would ask the question, "Who voted for Donald Trump?" and I would use "who" because the answer to the question is the subject of the sentence. (I voted for Donald Trump.)
But if the topic of the question is the direct or indirect object, then "whom" would be used. (Whom did you vote for?)
I (the subject) voted for him (the direct object).
(The bottom line is that if the answer would use he/her, say "who"; if it would use him/her, say "whom".)
I wouldn't trust he, but I would trust him.
, even if it's not used often.
s/b "he/she"
I still considered myself Catholic, but I couldn’t agree more with the writer’s comments about the Church- I hate to say it, but it is now run by hypocrites.
I trusted Benedict, and I trusted John Paul II. Pope Francis-NO.
And I totally agree with your assessment of Communism.
Amen.
Ironic that the article talks of trusting oncoming drivers because I don’t trust them either. Far too many idiots on their phones or drugged up. Far too many head-on crashes.
You can trust God. He’s in charge.
let’s face it, the media have lied to us for decades. Just think of all the “hate crime” hoaxes they’ve headlined and pushed forward that have turned out to be hoaxes. Remember the Weapons of Mass Destruction that were used to justify the invasion of Iraq? Remember the “Russian Collusion” hoax that they promoted 24/7 for 3 years, and still dust off from time to time despite the fact that it has been revealed as a hoax? Remember the “Russians paying bounties on American troops” that was pushed by “reporters” on CNN, MSNBC, and including FOX? Remember the Covington kids that also turned out to be a lie? Remember Kyle Rittenhouse? Remember the “fiery but peaceful” riots? Remember the “January 6th insurrection”? This is just a very short list of their lies.
Keep these in mind the next time you see the yapping heads on TV and Biden administration telling us that it is our duty to “defend the borders and freedom of Ukraine” while we leave our borders wide open and march forward on the suppression of freedom here in the United States.
When I was stationed in England driving on two-lane roads, some blokes (British) would come up behind me going faster than me. They didn't wait until there was no oncoming traffic. Oh, no. They simply pulled out to pass and took it on absolute trust that the person being passed and the person approaching at 60 mph in the other lane both would move both over to the edge of the roads so that the passing car could drive between the other two 3-abreast.
I think trust should be imparted to individuals, not groups.
Institutions, movements, administrations, political parties, boards, committees - these are all groups, and as such are subject to domination by a few powerful leaders.
Power corrupts, and if the powerful leaders of a group are corrupted, the group is corrupted.
Out of laziness and habit, we seek the approval and support of groups, because doing so is far more efficient than courting thousands of individuals - but it is a trap.
We need to be suspicious of every institution and every group - and hold the individuals within that group accountable - especially the leaders.
Would any Biden supporter trust Hunter and Joe to babysit their 14 year old daughter?
Everyone else, trust but verify.
You do that every time you cross the road.
You may have the green light but you still look.
It is not so much you suspect that people want to run you over but that people make mistakes being human and all.
As - thanks to the media - we become a low-trust society we will also become a Third World society, as all others have done.
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