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Aug 1, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Last week, I sat on a cliff, overlooking Dead Horse Point. I was looking for words to describe how I felt. Your words, Declaring Independence from dis-ease, are precisely the words I was looking for. I will venture back there in a little under 4 weeks, and read these words again, for the first time. God bless you Good Citizen.

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Aug 1, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Sorry for the extra post, but that opening paragraph is TREMENDOUS.

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Aug 1, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Wow💥 Amazing piece

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My word how does one respond to such a piece? I decided the only answer I could give at this moment, whilst processing your words and planning a second read, is a paid subscription to your newsletter.

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Damn good writing! Yes, cellphones and computers are a thorn in my side. So are TVs, I like music and radio. I live out in the country with family and we have a huge garden with a greenhouse on about 20 acres of property next to my sisters property which is on 20 acres also. So, most of the time I'm outside when its nice helping out the family. As I'm writing this I'm sore as Hell. It's so secluded with trees and brush you can't even see the road. My point is, technology. It's a brainwash device. I don't like leaving to go to the damn city to get things at stores. People are in their vehicles texting or gabbing on the phone while they're driving. Or they are on intoxicants and driving. Too many jackasses with their brain on something else while they're driving. I don't drive because I'm on certain meds, so I play it safe. I see accidents all the time, or accidents waiting to happen. I'll won't be surprised if I die in a car accident in the city. But, I'll be alright. Ok, I'll shut up and get my sore ass to bed. Good night and may the higher power of whatever you believe in protect all of us!

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Brilliant, thank you.

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

So, as I am reading this Pulitzer Piece, I'm thinkin' & thinkin', as I am most sure all your fine flock is too...

[Just a sec...To the 'readers' who read, only to cast aspersions, 'flock' is just a-turn-of-sheepish-phrase, so just calm down. We're not another cult here, so don't waste your ink].

...about the following words by you...

"...or the ability

to organize meaningful

resistance and rebellion

that moves beyond

simply attempting

to maintain and survive."

WHAT TO DO ?

& HOW TO DO IT ?

But, alas, let me finish this Piece.

The answer may lay in wait.

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

For: TGC/Crew & ALL,

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

{French Writer}

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excellent article

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Aug 1, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Leave The Dear Lady & US, alone.

It's a form of island independence.

https://youtu.be/gLGCHAO1u-M

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In addition to all of the things that everyone else is recommending, I want to plug barbell training. There is no better way to experience “dis-ease” than by regularly coming face to face with our physical and mental limits. The barbell is the perfect teacher.

A simple home gym is one of the best investments we can make to ensure our independence from the corrupt “medical system”.

https://fatrabbitiron.substack.com/p/secede-home-gym

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Hats off to you my friend. A long but good read. Will probably have to re-read several times to digest all the nuances. Quoting the Unabomber will probably raise some red flags. Unless you are just trying to ruffle some feathers it might be wise to watch where you tread. Linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Of those reading this most descriptive essay how many will actually make the change?

ZERO.

They would rather stand in line for their share of bug soup than to actually tend a garden.

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

How many 14 year olds do you know with a TV screen strapped to their heads, and a cast of 24/7 animation characters who all express their deepest emotions, their existential struggles feeling so incapable of relating to humans in the real world? To live and love here, their emotional needs and imagined physical appearances give life to their inability to have a life in the temporal world. My 14 year old wants a head set, as the virtual reality she lives in on Tic Tok/ Roblox etc is V.R. improved, and becomes so interactive she will need a nappy. The physical becomes unable to differentiate from the cartoons, never shower, eat, fuc, be.

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Speechless...

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

~ William Blake

"One the other hand, I have purposely treated the empirical physical foundations of the theory in a "step-motherly" fashion, so that readers unfamiliar with physics may not feel like the wanderer who was unable to see the forest for the trees."

~ Albert Einstein

{Preface to Relativity,

December, 1916, p. vi}

"Dedicated to all those who are stepping up at this time to uplift the human race and our planet."

~ Moray B. King

{Quest For Zero Point Energy,

2001, p. 5}

"The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man."

~ Jose Ortega y Gasset

(1883-1955)

{The Dehumanization of Art (1948)}

From Introduction of:

Dropping Pebbles in Still Water

(Breaking the Unbroken Whole of the Universe, 2011, p.1)

~ Alexander S. Holub, Ph.D.

"The skillful are not obvious

They appear to be simple-minded

Those who know this know the patterns of the Absolute

To know the patterns is the Subtle Power

The Subtle Power moves all things and has no name

~ David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

{POWER VS. FORCE

The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, 1995, 1998, 2002, page un-numbered}

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