It’s not about being on this side or that. It’s not about believing or not in conspiracies.
I could go on with what it’s not about.
What it is about, for me anyway, is the truth, the facts. What are they?
It is also about logic. What are the conclusions that can be drawn - and in some cases that are evident - from the facts?
This is what counts for me.
When we - people at least somewhat awake to what is going on - meet people who discount all evidence that disrupts the mainstream narrative, my suggestion is: Do not do what most of us so often do. Do not argue about the facts. Do not add more and more facts. Instead, do something counter-intuitive - take a step back.
Ask: What is your relationship with facts, with truth? How important is it to you to ascertain, to question, to verify and recheck? What do you do to ascertain?
I know my position: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That's my bottom line.
If we can’t get agreement on that - if someone says the narrative is more important than the facts - there’s no use going further.
But most likely we can get agreement that the facts matter, that what they care about, just as what we care about, is the facts.
And from that we can go further. We can look at and explore fact-claims. Not all of them at once. One at a time.
This is much slower than getting into an argument.
By the way, it’s good to expect that this doesn’t usually go smoothly. There may well be, with some people anyway, explosions and name-calling.
It’s good to hold steady.
Ask: What is going on? What makes you do this? What’s the intent?
You might go: Let’s see if we can find some facts we agree on.
Building block by building block.
An example. I had no knowledge of how the Twin Towers fell. I watched a video with fact after fact after many more facts. There was the brilliant building of massive evidence - massive facts - leading to the almost certain proof of what was the cause of the collapse of the Twin Towers:
elsaiselsa.substack.com/p/its-worse-than-i-thought-911-and
On the other hand, I’m a fact-lover and logic-lover. So I didn’t have much resistance to the information.
But back to my main point. My suggestion is not to get into the specifics of a disagreement - are the injections safe of not, etc - but to ask what does the person hold is the basis, the foundation, for his or her position? Do facts matter? How much do they matter?
Then, can one find out what the facts are?
If so, how can we do this?
Is there any agreement on what we both accept as fact? For example, what about government data on numbers of deaths and causes of deaths? What about insurance data on changes in payouts? What about information regarding previous highrise collapses?
The big thing. Slow down. Go back a bit.
What you are likely seeing, at the start of an argument, is the tip of the iceberg. What’s underneath needs to be seen and explored. That underneath part, by the way, is where the brain-numbing has been installed.
Often we, people at least somewhat awake to what’s going on, haven’t explored the foundations for why we accept what we accept.
The “woke” almost certainly haven’t explored the foundations for what they accept.
The goal: steps toward more questioning, more perceiving, more truth.
This is one of many effective strategies for the AWAKE in a World Gone “Woke.”
If you haven’t yet, I suggest you take a look at my program. A big thing: lots of effective strategies:
https://AwakeWorld.net
If you like what you see, contact me: elsa@fullflourishing.com
And three cheers to truth seekers, truth sleuths, truth tellers.
Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Honesty about who one's self really is.
Must be the cornerstone of self belief, self trust & self esteem.
I see truth as the reality that transcends our capacity to know it fully. I see truth easily manipulated by all the confusing desires and motivations that we have. As a result, we can’t contain it, commodify it, or use it as a weapon. We can only respect it by submitting to its reality for living peacefully with ourselves. So, to say the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is a good guide for how we spend our days. It means that live a constant search for our true selves.