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The Krammes's avatar

The Shrine of Remberance

Will always be ours

‘‘Twas on that day we stood against the powers .

We will never forget the years of emotion.

Because we didn’t take the potion

Lest we forget ❤️

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Poppy's avatar

Michael, I think status can also be understood at a deeper level as belonging. Being shunned or cast out of one's tribe is a terrifying prospect for most people. Our primitive past still lurks in our brains because being expelled from the tribe usually meant certain death. Not to mention the shame of being rejected that went with it. Shame is a harsh emotion to bear. I think this fear goes even deeper than losing your job or house. Now, people just want to go back to belonging, even if it means losing your soul.

"Freedom is mine. It's not yours to 'give' me".

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David Robson's avatar

Thanks for that viewpoint Poppy, but don't you think that us refuseniks need not feel ashamed in any way whatsoever? Shouldn't it be the coercers and peer pressure thugs who should be feeling ashamed?

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Dr Rosemary Faire's avatar

Thank you Michael for your deep searching, bringing up to the surface the real gems and so eloquently laying them out for us to see.

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Dollyboy's avatar

I have been feeling this lately. We have reached a point now where it's common knowledge that the jabs didn't work, that they kill and injure, that they lied to us about every aspect of Covid but all that means nothing. No one cares about the truth and the msm is completely silent. You wonder what the hell kind of magic trick this was? But it slowly dawns on you that STATUS is more important than truth. It's disappointing. As Charles Bukowski said "humanity, you never had it."

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David Robson's avatar

I totally disagree with the idea that STATUS is more important than truth. In my eyes truth seekers have far more STATUS than any lickspittle jobsworth who wants to impose his or her miserable mores on those of us who know the truth.

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Michael Gray Griffith's avatar

That's you, this isn't aimed at you, or our tribe. It's at the others

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David Robson's avatar

Ah I see. Sorry, I didn't recognize the context. You are way ahead of me on the interlocking motives and rationales of victims and oppressors.

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Richard Carey's avatar

Under 10 words? " Happy being a leper, better than a mutant "

Another 10? " There's a cure for Leprosy, Mutation is for life"

10 more, "I'm an outcast, but my integrity and health are great"

8:32

Hold the line brother, Inarduis Fidelis

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John Botica's avatar

PANGS OF PAIN, STILL REMAIN!

You certainly didn’t need to be any kind of genius. Any kind of academically gifted Mensa like master of critical analysis! - You didn’t need an IQ that could rival the likes of Albert Einstein… to clearly recognise… that what was actually taking place in our world between the years 2020/2022... (right there before our very eyes)… was an all too bleedingly obvious - frighteningly formulated and calculated, worldwide criminal collusion! On an absolute mind warpingly monumental scale! On a scale, never ever before seen, in the entire recorded history of the modern world!

Oh well…

So, there we all were, my enlightened aware and awakened friends, (both newly gained and otherwise)— for all intents and purposes, hopelessly trapped in the surreally vicious snare of an extraordinarily weird and bizarre situation— desperately trying to connect with, all and any like-minded individuals, who would dare to join us in our seemingly impossible quest, of trying to make sense out of the clearly visible unbridled madness that was all too rapidly unfolding and threatening to devour us whole!

It seemed that the entire world had collectively lost its marbles—and it was only “us”… we delusional lunatics – we troublesome dissidents – we tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists and science denying anti-vaxxers! We Neo-Nazis; anarchists and ultra right-wing extremists! It was only us… (a mere 5 to 10% of the population in total)… who appeared to possess… (for whatever reason), the ability to recognise even a single bit of what was actually going on!

Needless to say, trying to come to grips with the mind-altering bafflement that the rest of society appeared totally blind and oblivious to the horrors that we were witnessing, and trying so desperately to communicate to them— still haunts and taunts the majority of us, nearly five years later to this very day! Not to mention the anger and bitterness we feel toward those who so smugly and cruelly dismissed us as though being a pack of naughty schoolchildren!

These things are not so easily forgotten... let alone, forgiven!

“Is my old friend, a secret Covidian?” - A Handy Tip!

They don’t openly snigger and poke fun at you in front of others. No, that’s way too obvious! Plus, they can never be 100% sure that they’ll be backed up by fellow Covidians!

There’s a “certain few” — (mainly those whom you haven’t had too much communication with over the last few years)…

If ever you should bump into these people… say, at a function, or just some place in the general town square… there’s a certain detectable animosity… (almost a look of outright hatred) just barely visible; hidden there, just behind the eyes. They’re generally not as warm and chatty as they once were… (particularly prior to 2020).

The “hypnotised Covidian cultist” thing, is 100% real! Don’t fool yourself into believing that it isn’t!

They want to hang onto the belief that they were somehow “heroes” and in their eyes, we… were/are… nothing more than dangerously irresponsible lunatics who refused to do their part!

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnbotica/p/fear-and-loathing-on-planet-kooksville?r=tz7cx&utm_medium=ios

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Kevin Moylan's avatar

I identify. I will always be and remain 'my own man.' There is no other way, for self-ego.

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Christine Grunig's avatar

MUCH APPRECIATE your hard work and words Michael.

Maybe we ,AS A GROUP, with pro bono assistance (Vic Bar)

apply for FULL REPARATION ie: physically, psychologically, socially (loss of reputation and loss of family etc) UNDER COMMONWEALTH LAW re: “FRAUDULENT INDUCEMENT” re: lies and more lies esp”SAFE AND EFFECTIVE” etc.

Please > the brainiac and patent expert DR DAVID E MARTIN for interview and maybe constructive advice HOW WE can do it.

Don’t forget we have BARRY YOUNG in NZ about to front a jury and judge court case re: the LIES AND MORE LIES!!!

Maybe an interview pre court appearance with Liz Gunn and Barry Young could be a launching pad for the abovementioned “FRAUDULENT INDUCEMENT”

approach by a group of TRUTH seekers.

Once again THANK YOU🙏🏻😊

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Kevin Moylan's avatar

"There was NO pandemic - it was pre-meditated murder." Dr. David E Martin

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❤️❤️

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Michael Gray Griffith's avatar

that's the point of the piece, people don't ace that they lied. We won that battle and it was a hollow victory

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Shanna's avatar

Victory is for the competitive, for those with a point to prove - for those with status. Maybe we don’t have a point to prove because it is self evident. We don’t care for points.

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David Robson's avatar

A most thought provoking article. I sincerely hope that your imagined alternative society actually comes into being.

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Rosslyn Smart's avatar

Great depth full thoughts watching what are we?

Who now backtrack to who we were before the deceit? Like a flood right over Australia through every Australian?

Washed away?

I believe God Wins

No matter.

I won't deflect from him as I have many times always for self gain.

I see clearly and I won't back down Not this time.

No matter what comes or ggoes- still will I stand-

8 32

Only way forward.

Great loss to me- oh well

Fed up with world have been for years!

Corruption slapping you right in your face nearly knocked my head off spinning.

Serious what all are faces each and everyone one of us must make the choice- we have free will.

God Given..

Amen

Praise to his Name in the highest

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Shanna's avatar

"The line 'Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,' expressed the double edged sword that freedom is: you may be free, but it can be painful to be that free." -Kris Kristofferson,

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David Robson's avatar

In this article you referred to a politician who got Bell's Palsy from his first vaccination and later stated "He has since vanished". Is this an oblique way of saying he died?

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Kevin Moylan's avatar

Thanks Michael. Excerpt from my TasMANIA Whistleblower Mental Health, non-fiction book. pp198 'ONE FLEW OVER the KOOKABURRA'S NEST' 2016, 2017, 2023updated - 'In pre-industrial societies the most extreme punishment short of death was not prison, but banishment or declaration that the felon was an 'Outlaw.' A person not entitled to the protection of the law. Such a person was stripped not only of social status but also of personal identity.' The Mind Manipulators: Alan W. Scheflin & Edward M. Opton... DROMANABOOKS.COM

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Aumtatsat's avatar

Thankyou for your clarification. It has become evident that no-one is going to "save" us from ourselves. The way forward is to continue to be honest and truthful with ourselves. In my opinion/experience this ultimately leads to surrender, felt as a lonely failure or defeat from a status point of view but at the same time a peaceful calmness is expanding. Can't put my finger on it but many of our wise ancestors have travelled this path. Cheers

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