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christinal3106
10 days ago
I considered myself liberal pretty much my whole adult life. It all changed for me when my husband and I was attending my daughter's high school choir concert, and I had thought there was a first name mix-up. It had the first name "Liam" with our last name. I thought it was a mix-up because my daughter's name was with another last name. I emailed the teacher about the program hoping to get a corrected one, and he copied over an e-mail where my daughter told him that she was came out as trans and wanted to be called Liam. I was absolutely floored. She never showed any signs of any type of gender dysphoria or anything. So, I started looking into what I should do about this, honestly expecting to find articles about how to make your child feel good in their own bodies, etc. However, all I found was you need to completely affirm their gender identity or they will unalive themself. I thought this was wrong to my core. So, I started looking into this issue deeper, and just like you said, I felt like I was in an alternate reality. I couldn't believe that this was going on in the world. I still am in disbelief everyday about the things I am still seeing, none of this makes any sense whatsoever. Anyway, through many hard conversations with my daughter, I showed her everything I learned. Thankfully, she is so intelligent beyond her years, and completely changed her views. She realized she was manipulated. The most hurtful thing about all of it is something she said. She said that being cis and white is automatically seen as negative, and she didn't want to be associated with that. It breaks my heart that such a beautiful soul could be judged on the most basics of human reality so harshly. I am just so grateful I didn't just follow the guidance, and I am so grateful that I have a daughter with such wisdom that she listened and seen through all this craziness. Now, I am almost embarrassed that I was ever associated with that political view. I can't even imagine what my conservative learning family thought of me. However, I thought that I was doing the right thing at the time, but yes, I ran. I want nothing to do with the mindset of liberals.
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: ancientlight
Had to share a very scary and eye opening comment on that video:
christinal3106
10 days ago
I considered myself liberal pretty much my whole adult life. It all changed for me when my husband and I was attending my daughter's high school choir concert, and I had thought there was a first name mix-up. It had the first name "Liam" with our last name. I thought it was a mix-up because my daughter's name was with another last name. I emailed the teacher about the program hoping to get a corrected one, and he copied over an e-mail where my daughter told him that she was came out as trans and wanted to be called Liam. I was absolutely floored. She never showed any signs of any type of gender dysphoria or anything. So, I started looking into what I should do about this, honestly expecting to find articles about how to make your child feel good in their own bodies, etc. However, all I found was you need to completely affirm their gender identity or they will unalive themself. I thought this was wrong to my core. So, I started looking into this issue deeper, and just like you said, I felt like I was in an alternate reality. I couldn't believe that this was going on in the world. I still am in disbelief everyday about the things I am still seeing, none of this makes any sense whatsoever. Anyway, through many hard conversations with my daughter, I showed her everything I learned. Thankfully, she is so intelligent beyond her years, and completely changed her views. She realized she was manipulated. The most hurtful thing about all of it is something she said. She said that being cis and white is automatically seen as negative, and she didn't want to be associated with that. It breaks my heart that such a beautiful soul could be judged on the most basics of human reality so harshly. I am just so grateful I didn't just follow the guidance, and I am so grateful that I have a daughter with such wisdom that she listened and seen through all this craziness. Now, I am almost embarrassed that I was ever associated with that political view. I can't even imagine what my conservative learning family thought of me. However, I thought that I was doing the right thing at the time, but yes, I ran. I want nothing to do with the mindset of liberals.
originally posted by: nerbot
a reply to: ancientlight
I must brush off my old ATS t-shirt and Hoodie that Skeptic Overlord gifted me for some of my contributions quite a few years ago.
Any one else got one?
I was also going to make a bunch of annonymous business cards with just "AboveTopSecret.com" on them. Leave them on tables, in supermarket shelves, under windscreens, in pockets, or maybe just handed over with a wink and a smile and the understanding that the truth will set you free and you have to start somewhere, so you can start from where we all should.
Inside.
Cheers.
(the hippies will always be right)
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Every box is checked on that list. Depravity is the "new normal." People have lost the capacity to reason, to thick critically (futile and foolish). They not do wickedly, but give approval to those who do so publicly while demanding that everyone participate in their wickedness. Even the most essential, basic and instinctual of passions - maternal love and care - is corrupted and twisted.
Every box is checked on that list. Depravity is the "new normal." People have lost the capacity to reason, to thick critically (futile and foolish). They not do wickedly, but give approval to those who do so publicly while demanding that everyone participate in their wickedness. Even the most essential, basic and instinctual of passions - maternal love and care - is corrupted and twisted.
originally posted by: nerbot
a reply to: ancientlight
I must brush off my old ATS t-shirt and Hoodie that Skeptic Overlord gifted me for some of my contributions quite a few years ago.
Any one else got one?
I was also going to make a bunch of annonymous business cards with just "AboveTopSecret.com" on them. Leave them on tables, in supermarket shelves, under windscreens, in pockets, or maybe just handed over with a wink and a smile and the understanding that the truth will set you free and you have to start somewhere, so you can start from where we all should.
Inside.
Cheers.
(the hippies will always be right)
they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
For whoever finds me finds life
and obtains favor from the Lord,
36 but he who fails to find me injures himself;
all who hate me love death.
Please prdon my positivity!
originally posted by: RAY1990
a reply to: HasBeenVeryFried
Well put.
The issue with waking up is facing reality although I'd say the biggest burden is carrying the baggage of the sleeping mind into wakefulness. In other words we never drop our perceptions.
If anything most double down. The irony is reality is interpreted by the individual not by the group.
So yeah, expect people to frame everything as good or bad whilst backing up their decisions with perspectives they were taught.
Please prdon my positivity!
No. It's welcome
Hope is a powerful thing and so is the emotional aspects of being human, something many dismiss or embody via their perceptions. I know my days a brighter with a smile and I'm sure it's the same for others. We're all waking up to the same thing and opinions will differ on how to feel about it.
Humanity is ruptured but it's an easy fix imho.
We still have a long way to go.
originally posted by: RAY1990
I imagine eternity as a memory thing,