We can carefully, genuinely share facts pertinent to their interests and if we sense receptivity, give them something to "chew" on. I'm grateful that someone did that for me. During my "awakening" someone I had begun to trust told me about no viruses (Terrain Theory), that masks, distancing and of course, the poison arm darts were not just harmful, but lethal -- some immediately, some later and some. available for the kill at their discretion, that it was a military operation based on years of prior "laws" passed by a black magic-based "legal" system that had nothing to do with natural law or human "rights." That the political system was just theater and instead the uni-party carried forth the agenda of those truly in the "ruling class" and resistance was our only salvation. That our government was the most prolific and abominable terrorist nations in the world. That 9/11 was a false flag engineered to strip us of our rights (I was in banking, so he was able to show me one of the most powerful outgrowths in the Patriot Act, which we were told as employees we were the "front lines" for gathering data to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing, etc. -- I didn't recall that in my job description but he was correct (and in fact we were regularly asked to spy on customers, church organizations, charities, businesses dealing in cash, etc).
That was @ 5 years ago - we still chat and exchange eMails -- he's proud that I've joined the ranks of truthers and slowly have attempted to enlist the participation of my spouse and friends, etc., with unimpressive but not totally barren results. When done (as you have tried to depict) in love and out of genuine concern, and when they 're in some small way RECEPTIVE, it can at least get seeds planted for someone else to water or that other someone else to finally see the result come to fruition....in the meantime, I pray for clarity, wisdom and patience -- because this notion of simply being able to easily shatter someone's matrix reality without sufficient other critical/accompanying conditions is even more fantasy than the illusion they're living with....that used to be where we resided as well....
I've given up as well. Two years ago when I was trying to explain to friends and family that water always finds its level and does not bend or curve, my cousin replied with "this can literally be disproven with a weather balloon from Amazon and a GoPro camera" - and other members of my family actually believed that was an epic burn. When I replied with, "You know that GoPro cameras use fisheye lenses, right? I own one. Sounds like you don't?" she proceeded to double and triple down in hilarious ways ("you can correct for that") and then link me to Professor Dave videos that she spent two seconds Googling and didn't bother to watch herself.
Normies want lies, so that is what God gives them. I tried for years to drop Normie-friendly truth bombs in painstaking breadcrumbs but it never seemed to awaken anyone. All I can do is pray for them that their eyes may be opened, but other than that I have shaken the dust off my feet.
Feeling superior when they’re so far down their own Normie rabbit hole is not at all satisfying. It’s actually like living in the Twilight Zone, the propaganda and brainwashing running very deep. You can almost hear Rod Serling’s voice in the background and the grin, that is the direct result, is more than likely becoming a permanent plaster on my face. I don’t quite buy into all of the conspiracy theories, have you ever seen a flat earth eclipse, and I’m annoyingly optimistic, but most of that comes from finding so many things I hear and see quite hysterically funny. It seems I’m always in a good mood because I laugh so much, even waking myself up laughing sometimes. I mean, I’m not always manic, I do have my down moments, but then I see a meme or listen to a Dick and James podcast and I’m laughing once again. And I actually enjoy living during a time when weeks feel like decades happening. Never a boring moment. Although I am at retirement age and have more time to read, write, think, and actually enjoy life, probably because the older I get the more I appreciate still being alive.
That was excellent, James. Tragically, it matches my experiences and, I wager, that of everyone else.
Early on, when I’d only realised that someone intended to injure a great many people, obviously intentionally, which I knew for certain, as I’d been a member of new drug discovery programs for years and knew all the commonplace, hard-won ways in which you can harm people and quite a few of the more obscure things not to do. The jabs are replete with plenty of each category. It’s impossible to pretend my peers did not know this.
Armed with this information and knowing that my neighbours knew roughly what I’d previously done for a living, I was chatting over the low fence with the lady next door. I know I can go on a bit, so I took a pause after a few minutes. It might have been half an hour of toxic monologuing. Anyway, I looked up long enough to see a look of terror on my neighbours very white face. Silently, she mouthed two words: “I’m frightened”. I felt awful. I can’t count this as a success. We didn’t speak again. About anything.
I was leafleting our village on foot around the same time. By this time, I’d developed a newfound sympathy for the JWs who occasionally knocked on my door. Counterbalancing my difficulties, I was at least able to welcome them the next time the JWs showed up, putting them out of their misery by telling them they were absolutely right and I already had my own copy of the proffered literature. Back to the leafleting. One time, the householder opened the door and asked me to explain the leaflet. I’d got about a quarter through it when she put her hand up and stopped me, saying: “What you’re telling me is a lot more frightening than what the BBC have been telling me, and I can’t bear the BBC”, before slamming the door in my face.
I don’t think I’ve converted anyone. I’ve merely confirmed for many people the suspicions they’d already developed.
It's weird isn't it? In Normieworld, with all your credentials and experience you would be hailed as the most experty and trustworthy and distinguished of expects. But only so long as you pushed THEIR narrative. If you go against their narrative, you are instantly a risible figure of no consequence, cast into outer darkness.
You were the first person I listened to that provided the science for what I suspected. I believed you and found you very easy and compelling to listen to. It was a big relief so thanks.
Nice one, James — your piece came at an appropriate time for me, as I’m just cottoning on to the fact that truth bombs only seem to cause more destruction. It’s an interesting experience becoming “awake” and eagerly wanting to expound one’s newly found discoveries on all and sundry.
Many’s the time, before a social gathering, I’ve promised myself to “not mention the war” on my way to a venue (pub), only to shatter that strategy after about 15 minutes and go off on one — then to look up and see good mates staring at the ceiling, the floor, into their drinks, or worse, straight through me. I invariably try to turn it into amusement and let them break the tension by ridiculing my vehement (and comedic) belief that Whitney Houston shared my XY chromosomes — that usually brings about levity and mirth.
Now I’m a bit more comfortable in my own skin, and I like prefacing everything with “I believe", or suffixing with "well that's from the evidence I've found." I also agree that clever, strategic rhetorical questions do more good than carpet-bombing.
I’d actually be interested in a “waking up” timeline and what to expect over the years (or decades) of trying to find peace with our newly acquired critical-thinking outcomes — a bit like those timelines that explain how your body feels and what’s happening during the different stages of giving up ciggies or booze. I find Steve Falconer (and others) to be good counsel on this, and it’s a nice goal to work towards: being the duck with no water on its back. I guess that’s what faith in God brings about.
Anyway, it’s certainly better to be awake and less naïve — and to labour yet another idiom, “I wouldn’t be a normie for quids.” Also, is it wrong that I smugly (and silently) slightly enjoy watching my mates try to decipher the fictional soap operas that pass for global politics, all the while knowing how the script is being written? Probably not.
Three things - 1) forget the normies that failed to listen, exasperation is a waste of energy; 2) know you tried, you’d feel worse if you hadn’t; and 3) your words might yet make a difference…you just can’t now see where.
The so-called ‘normies’ are what makes the world go round. It’s their gig. Everyone wants to follow the norm; the tribe, family and friends. The same clubs. A sense of belonging. Watch the same movies. Take the kids to play football. Listen to the radio and Television, and only ever be as sceptical as your group, fraternity, mates, sewing club - whatever - allows.
It takes time and energy to not bollocks it all up. Keep the head down. And not offend too many of the clique with any kind of wrongthink. God bless the ubiquitous think tanks and nudge units, for perpetuating this.
Once we grasp this principle: that we’re the interlopers, the interlocutors, the weird strangers (who keep buying the tin foil from Tescos), the easier it is. They are Earths natural indigenous population. Billions of ‘em… we can only ever be, canny, cool, calm and discreet.
Yup, I married one. Thirty-two years later, after four (3 who are awake) kids grew up, he took a (much)younger, like-minded tribe-thinker and carries on precisely as you describe.
I loved reading that! Cheered me up no end, especially to know that if someone as bright and articulate as you, can’t persuade even a thought about the true state of the world, then I feel less pressurised when my normie people look at me blankly. I had that ‘ I’ve got a phd lecture ‘actually at a 3rd Wednesday meeting last week! A normie was recommended the group as we are free thinkers who will discuss most things but I think he just likes the sound of his own voice. I digress, the normies have veiled minds and souls, and even if you show facts and stats and use logic, it’s hopeless. So following your example James, I too will stop talking to normies. Except I probably won’t, they need help.
Never stop talking to Normies. I only chose the title because it was a good, grabby title. Of course I'm going to go on talking to Normies. I'm their only hope...
Even if you have a PhD and an established reputation for intelligence, common sense, and caring - it doesn’t help. They just think you’ve lost your mind.
"Stuff like, say, that we’ve never been to the moon, 9/11 was an inside job, the Beatles and the Stones were Tavistock Institute psyop and the world is run by Satanic paedophiles who are spraying our skies, poisoning our food and water, murdering us in hospitals and want either to exterminate us like cockroaches or to exploit us like slaves."
That's what we used to call, back in the day, a bit of a conversation stopper. 😁 Like putting on a Leonard Cohen LP (yes I know, can't do that any more either).
When I got to the bit about 'My Oxford Year', the first thing that came into my mind was Rhodes Scholars. That's how bad it is!
I wonder what’s happened to the terrified wife of a senior crook in the Dutch establishment? The one who told us about murdered children in the presence of numerous public figures including the then Dutch queen?
I think these people have to be quite literally possessed to do what they do to children. I remember listening a couple of years ago to Alex Thomson reading the RAINS list on YT (why is it even still there? Is it because they know people will dismiss you as crazy if you cite what's in it?). The one that stuck in my mind is what Ted Heath allegedly used to do. I've never even been able to repeat it to anyone; it's literally unspeakable.
Great article James and everyone who loves freedom and truth have stories to tell of bruising encounters with those who have succumbed to postmodernism with its intolerance of the rational argument of the tolerant. As Popper said “ We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant”. Normies weren’t reasoned into their “normiedom”, so it’s difficult to reason them out of it. I’ve always been curious and suspicious of authority and the state and have been on the edge of many “rabbit holes”, but Brexit, 911 and the Convid took me deeper. Friends and family have tolerated me but some “cut up” worse than others because of my refusal to accept lockdowns, masking and the jabs, the latter of which I can see some damage sadly caused. I’ve never been one to proselytise and have only endeavoured to get people to think more widely about so-called official or “settled” issues using humour and sarcasm to point out absurdities. I’ve made some progress undermining adherence to net zero, critical race theory, and trans ideology, but it’s been harder with the Convid as people’s brains are less malleable and the incessant censorship, and the vested interests created by billionaires and big pHarma have achieved a strategic advantage over many. It’s going to be a life’s work as the younger generation continue to be targeted and groomed by our foes! Please don’t give up with engaging the normies as planting a seed can be productive, even if like poppy seeds they lie dormant for years - they eventually sprout, flower and bear new seed!
We can carefully, genuinely share facts pertinent to their interests and if we sense receptivity, give them something to "chew" on. I'm grateful that someone did that for me. During my "awakening" someone I had begun to trust told me about no viruses (Terrain Theory), that masks, distancing and of course, the poison arm darts were not just harmful, but lethal -- some immediately, some later and some. available for the kill at their discretion, that it was a military operation based on years of prior "laws" passed by a black magic-based "legal" system that had nothing to do with natural law or human "rights." That the political system was just theater and instead the uni-party carried forth the agenda of those truly in the "ruling class" and resistance was our only salvation. That our government was the most prolific and abominable terrorist nations in the world. That 9/11 was a false flag engineered to strip us of our rights (I was in banking, so he was able to show me one of the most powerful outgrowths in the Patriot Act, which we were told as employees we were the "front lines" for gathering data to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing, etc. -- I didn't recall that in my job description but he was correct (and in fact we were regularly asked to spy on customers, church organizations, charities, businesses dealing in cash, etc).
That was @ 5 years ago - we still chat and exchange eMails -- he's proud that I've joined the ranks of truthers and slowly have attempted to enlist the participation of my spouse and friends, etc., with unimpressive but not totally barren results. When done (as you have tried to depict) in love and out of genuine concern, and when they 're in some small way RECEPTIVE, it can at least get seeds planted for someone else to water or that other someone else to finally see the result come to fruition....in the meantime, I pray for clarity, wisdom and patience -- because this notion of simply being able to easily shatter someone's matrix reality without sufficient other critical/accompanying conditions is even more fantasy than the illusion they're living with....that used to be where we resided as well....
Wow! Sounds like that friend of yours did a good job on you!
... just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread?
These days I don’t normally laugh out loud but - ‘red pill outreach work’ did it.
I've given up as well. Two years ago when I was trying to explain to friends and family that water always finds its level and does not bend or curve, my cousin replied with "this can literally be disproven with a weather balloon from Amazon and a GoPro camera" - and other members of my family actually believed that was an epic burn. When I replied with, "You know that GoPro cameras use fisheye lenses, right? I own one. Sounds like you don't?" she proceeded to double and triple down in hilarious ways ("you can correct for that") and then link me to Professor Dave videos that she spent two seconds Googling and didn't bother to watch herself.
Normies want lies, so that is what God gives them. I tried for years to drop Normie-friendly truth bombs in painstaking breadcrumbs but it never seemed to awaken anyone. All I can do is pray for them that their eyes may be opened, but other than that I have shaken the dust off my feet.
Yep. I can imagine the dismissive contempt dripping from your cousin's 'literally'. This is exactly the response I get from some of my kids.
Feeling superior when they’re so far down their own Normie rabbit hole is not at all satisfying. It’s actually like living in the Twilight Zone, the propaganda and brainwashing running very deep. You can almost hear Rod Serling’s voice in the background and the grin, that is the direct result, is more than likely becoming a permanent plaster on my face. I don’t quite buy into all of the conspiracy theories, have you ever seen a flat earth eclipse, and I’m annoyingly optimistic, but most of that comes from finding so many things I hear and see quite hysterically funny. It seems I’m always in a good mood because I laugh so much, even waking myself up laughing sometimes. I mean, I’m not always manic, I do have my down moments, but then I see a meme or listen to a Dick and James podcast and I’m laughing once again. And I actually enjoy living during a time when weeks feel like decades happening. Never a boring moment. Although I am at retirement age and have more time to read, write, think, and actually enjoy life, probably because the older I get the more I appreciate still being alive.
That was excellent, James. Tragically, it matches my experiences and, I wager, that of everyone else.
Early on, when I’d only realised that someone intended to injure a great many people, obviously intentionally, which I knew for certain, as I’d been a member of new drug discovery programs for years and knew all the commonplace, hard-won ways in which you can harm people and quite a few of the more obscure things not to do. The jabs are replete with plenty of each category. It’s impossible to pretend my peers did not know this.
Armed with this information and knowing that my neighbours knew roughly what I’d previously done for a living, I was chatting over the low fence with the lady next door. I know I can go on a bit, so I took a pause after a few minutes. It might have been half an hour of toxic monologuing. Anyway, I looked up long enough to see a look of terror on my neighbours very white face. Silently, she mouthed two words: “I’m frightened”. I felt awful. I can’t count this as a success. We didn’t speak again. About anything.
I was leafleting our village on foot around the same time. By this time, I’d developed a newfound sympathy for the JWs who occasionally knocked on my door. Counterbalancing my difficulties, I was at least able to welcome them the next time the JWs showed up, putting them out of their misery by telling them they were absolutely right and I already had my own copy of the proffered literature. Back to the leafleting. One time, the householder opened the door and asked me to explain the leaflet. I’d got about a quarter through it when she put her hand up and stopped me, saying: “What you’re telling me is a lot more frightening than what the BBC have been telling me, and I can’t bear the BBC”, before slamming the door in my face.
I don’t think I’ve converted anyone. I’ve merely confirmed for many people the suspicions they’d already developed.
It's weird isn't it? In Normieworld, with all your credentials and experience you would be hailed as the most experty and trustworthy and distinguished of expects. But only so long as you pushed THEIR narrative. If you go against their narrative, you are instantly a risible figure of no consequence, cast into outer darkness.
You were the first person I listened to that provided the science for what I suspected. I believed you and found you very easy and compelling to listen to. It was a big relief so thanks.
Nice one, James — your piece came at an appropriate time for me, as I’m just cottoning on to the fact that truth bombs only seem to cause more destruction. It’s an interesting experience becoming “awake” and eagerly wanting to expound one’s newly found discoveries on all and sundry.
Many’s the time, before a social gathering, I’ve promised myself to “not mention the war” on my way to a venue (pub), only to shatter that strategy after about 15 minutes and go off on one — then to look up and see good mates staring at the ceiling, the floor, into their drinks, or worse, straight through me. I invariably try to turn it into amusement and let them break the tension by ridiculing my vehement (and comedic) belief that Whitney Houston shared my XY chromosomes — that usually brings about levity and mirth.
Now I’m a bit more comfortable in my own skin, and I like prefacing everything with “I believe", or suffixing with "well that's from the evidence I've found." I also agree that clever, strategic rhetorical questions do more good than carpet-bombing.
I’d actually be interested in a “waking up” timeline and what to expect over the years (or decades) of trying to find peace with our newly acquired critical-thinking outcomes — a bit like those timelines that explain how your body feels and what’s happening during the different stages of giving up ciggies or booze. I find Steve Falconer (and others) to be good counsel on this, and it’s a nice goal to work towards: being the duck with no water on its back. I guess that’s what faith in God brings about.
Anyway, it’s certainly better to be awake and less naïve — and to labour yet another idiom, “I wouldn’t be a normie for quids.” Also, is it wrong that I smugly (and silently) slightly enjoy watching my mates try to decipher the fictional soap operas that pass for global politics, all the while knowing how the script is being written? Probably not.
Thanks for what you do, James.
Thank you, Richard
Three things - 1) forget the normies that failed to listen, exasperation is a waste of energy; 2) know you tried, you’d feel worse if you hadn’t; and 3) your words might yet make a difference…you just can’t now see where.
The so-called ‘normies’ are what makes the world go round. It’s their gig. Everyone wants to follow the norm; the tribe, family and friends. The same clubs. A sense of belonging. Watch the same movies. Take the kids to play football. Listen to the radio and Television, and only ever be as sceptical as your group, fraternity, mates, sewing club - whatever - allows.
It takes time and energy to not bollocks it all up. Keep the head down. And not offend too many of the clique with any kind of wrongthink. God bless the ubiquitous think tanks and nudge units, for perpetuating this.
Once we grasp this principle: that we’re the interlopers, the interlocutors, the weird strangers (who keep buying the tin foil from Tescos), the easier it is. They are Earths natural indigenous population. Billions of ‘em… we can only ever be, canny, cool, calm and discreet.
We are the Aliens.
Yup, I married one. Thirty-two years later, after four (3 who are awake) kids grew up, he took a (much)younger, like-minded tribe-thinker and carries on precisely as you describe.
I loved reading that! Cheered me up no end, especially to know that if someone as bright and articulate as you, can’t persuade even a thought about the true state of the world, then I feel less pressurised when my normie people look at me blankly. I had that ‘ I’ve got a phd lecture ‘actually at a 3rd Wednesday meeting last week! A normie was recommended the group as we are free thinkers who will discuss most things but I think he just likes the sound of his own voice. I digress, the normies have veiled minds and souls, and even if you show facts and stats and use logic, it’s hopeless. So following your example James, I too will stop talking to normies. Except I probably won’t, they need help.
Never stop talking to Normies. I only chose the title because it was a good, grabby title. Of course I'm going to go on talking to Normies. I'm their only hope...
Oops! You probably meant, Christ is their only hope :)
Even if you have a PhD and an established reputation for intelligence, common sense, and caring - it doesn’t help. They just think you’ve lost your mind.
‘Normsplaining’ - love it! Wish I’d thought of that 😆
"Stuff like, say, that we’ve never been to the moon, 9/11 was an inside job, the Beatles and the Stones were Tavistock Institute psyop and the world is run by Satanic paedophiles who are spraying our skies, poisoning our food and water, murdering us in hospitals and want either to exterminate us like cockroaches or to exploit us like slaves."
That's what we used to call, back in the day, a bit of a conversation stopper. 😁 Like putting on a Leonard Cohen LP (yes I know, can't do that any more either).
When I got to the bit about 'My Oxford Year', the first thing that came into my mind was Rhodes Scholars. That's how bad it is!
PS I didn't realise Ronald Bernard was no longer with us. I'm assuming you did mean 'late' and not just 'former' in a slip of the finger kind of way.
I wonder what’s happened to the terrified wife of a senior crook in the Dutch establishment? The one who told us about murdered children in the presence of numerous public figures including the then Dutch queen?
Is that one I missed? Digging just now and found this - is that who you mean, Mike?
https://www.sott.net/article/286436-Testimony-The-Dutch-crowns-organization-of-serial-child-murder
That is the one. I noticed that several posts below the article stated that they didn’t believe her testimony.
If this was all I’d heard, I’m fairly sure I’d reject it, too.
But it’s not.
I think these people have to be quite literally possessed to do what they do to children. I remember listening a couple of years ago to Alex Thomson reading the RAINS list on YT (why is it even still there? Is it because they know people will dismiss you as crazy if you cite what's in it?). The one that stuck in my mind is what Ted Heath allegedly used to do. I've never even been able to repeat it to anyone; it's literally unspeakable.
Great article James and everyone who loves freedom and truth have stories to tell of bruising encounters with those who have succumbed to postmodernism with its intolerance of the rational argument of the tolerant. As Popper said “ We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant”. Normies weren’t reasoned into their “normiedom”, so it’s difficult to reason them out of it. I’ve always been curious and suspicious of authority and the state and have been on the edge of many “rabbit holes”, but Brexit, 911 and the Convid took me deeper. Friends and family have tolerated me but some “cut up” worse than others because of my refusal to accept lockdowns, masking and the jabs, the latter of which I can see some damage sadly caused. I’ve never been one to proselytise and have only endeavoured to get people to think more widely about so-called official or “settled” issues using humour and sarcasm to point out absurdities. I’ve made some progress undermining adherence to net zero, critical race theory, and trans ideology, but it’s been harder with the Convid as people’s brains are less malleable and the incessant censorship, and the vested interests created by billionaires and big pHarma have achieved a strategic advantage over many. It’s going to be a life’s work as the younger generation continue to be targeted and groomed by our foes! Please don’t give up with engaging the normies as planting a seed can be productive, even if like poppy seeds they lie dormant for years - they eventually sprout, flower and bear new seed!
The Best Title Ever.
I am at that stage now. There are only so many thousand-yard stares one can take.
Thank you! I love this and will be sharing it with both Normies and those who are Awake.
Thank you for this one James!…excellent! You make me feel not alone.
I wish I could have back the years of good intended red pill reach out. Haha.
Funny enough…the proverb of today contains….
“Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.”
Proverbs 14:7