Michael’s quoting me in post #102, talking about Soulatman’s post has me thinking about this ‘Fake News/Truth/Conspiracy’ problem, if it is a problem? As I said, personally I have had very many disappointments over the past couple of years that I don’t recall having encountered before that. It appears to me that these have been brought into my awareness rather suddenly, and more interestingly perhaps - deliberately.
For years I have had pals that I got on well with, I guess we never really considering anything that we might disagree over. We had similar interests and ‘thinking’, and I suppose we were limited to talking about these interests. After my stroke in 2011, I was initially busy with recovering from the event, my main thrust was on physical recovery, I didn’t really consider the mental too much. (Maybe I had ‘help’ there for a few years? But that’s another story) I was generally very upbeat and so grateful that I was still here. This gratefulness was not wholly selfish, I was grateful that I had survived for my wife and daughters sake. Having learned so much more since 2011, about my family and others, including myself, I think I’m better placed to know how devastating a blow for them my death would have been.
Once I started properly taking in things I had not really looked at before, after my four years of intensely investigating esoteric topics, my interests and questions automatically moved to a different, more down to earth level. Like a bumper car that has crashed and helped back onto the track by ‘a man’, I was on my way once again.
Scottish Independence.
Basically I had just accelerated away when the first big thing that happened was the Scottish Independence Referendum. As a Scot living in England I am basically pro independence, it isn’t a big thing for me, or wasn’t before this. For the first time I saw how biased and sneakily the ‘highly respected’ BBC behaved, I found myself drawn to watching the news more closely, frequently feeling the Scots were being hard done by by the British Establishment. When they suddenly realised that with two weeks to go there was the very real threat of the YES vote winning, they pulled out all the stops. Project fear was introduced big time, I could almost feel the media shitting itself. You could sense the onslaught! This was my introduction to the real media. When the vote was lost it was no real surprise to me.
Next came the biggie for Britain - Brexit.
On the morning of the day after the result came out, we were staying with a bunch of friends for a wedding in Edinburgh. At Breakfast, you would be forgiven for thinking that they all had been given a week to live! Talk about depression, doom and gloom was the order of the day. Dear oh dear. My wife and I were amazed at their reaction, especially when she had voted FOR Brexit! I think my recent life experience had changed both our thinking about things like this. Live for today. This was what I was thinking, you’re worried about something that might not even happen, and even if it does, you won’t die, or be injured. You may have a bit less money, but so what? We lived on a fifth of my previous income, and what was really different? Nothing of significance. Can worrying about something bring it into being? I think it might. If so, I’m not at all surprised by what we’re seeing some two years later.
The next biggie was Trump.
I remember the night before when a Channel 4 reporter almost gleefully, spitefully said that ‘Trump will regret that tomorrow’ implying that he would lose. I might have voted for Trump if forced to choose, only because Hillary had promised to enforce the no-fly zone in Syria, and being openly hostile to the Russians, and very pro Israel. I was not hopeful. But if I though people were upset with Brexit, I was wrong BIG TIME! They were suicidal with the news that Trump had won. Openly crying crocodile tears, weeping as if their whole family had been killed. Moving to Canada. It was the beginning of the true insanity. With Trump openly mocking disabled reporters and calling for more violent actions from his mainly white supporters. My lefty friends being party to the Facebook farce. I openly told them what I thought, they are intelligent enough to read what I was saying and reply without us falling out.
Basically it seemed that things were being thrown up to the sky on a huge scale. Our normal worlds were being turned upside down by ‘all this insanity’.
On a smaller scale, there was/is the same type of thing happening.
My NDE experiencer friend suddenly showed his true colours (white :) - I’m kidding - sheesh) when he turned out to be anti -immigrant right winger. Surely that wasn’t supposed to happen?? All sorts of people that I thought I agreed with turned out having views about some subjects that I radically disagreed with. People on the TV, Ex - Colleagues and friends of mine, even some old friends, I’ve lost contact with, though I’ve learned to be less ‘bothered’ with that. I’ve had SO MANY disappointments that I’ve had to come to terms with since my stroke. Now it just ‘is what it is’. I accept things much more willingly than I used to. I have gone round in circles asking myself ‘what’s the right thing to do?’ I think it’s right that we do what we feel right. There are a gazillion opinions. It’s all we can do.
So we come full circle to the Chemtrails issue. It’s just yet another issue that we worry about/ have opinions about/ get angry over blah blah blah. That along with so many others. THE _THING_ ITSELF IS NOT THE ISSUE. I think it’s how we learn how to deal with others of a differing opinion that matters. Maybe that’s where the consciousness change ought to happen?
I confess to being a big Nde fan, well, some NDEs anyway, but that is not my only reason for thinking this way. There are many things which point to love being ‘what it’s all about’. If I’m wrong so be it, I think it’s better than believing it’s all about hate. We feel better inside when we do something nice for someone, or are kind to others.
IT’s brought a mirror to our awareness. Brought it into our lives so that we simply cannot ignore it any longer, we must face it. Did we really think that we could go on acting as we have been with no consequence? Its not as if we’re fighting with swords any longer. It’s not as if we haven’t reached a point with our technology, our beloved ‘science’, that if we concentrated our efforts on trying to improve thing rather that make things worse, we could achieve amazing results.
I don’t know if this made the point I started off thinking I might make, but I feel a bit better! :)