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consuelo's avatar

I am quite old at this point and am so disgusted and angry about the 1000s of lies I have been fed since my earliest childhood. All of us were raised on lies put out by textbook publishers/writers, authors of books, magazines, movie scripts etc. Television and radio writers and producers. Lies pushed by doctors and other medical people who passed on the lies they were taught and believed because they think they are so smart and scientific. Remembering the public school Biology book with the well-known illustration of the row of creatures beginning with the knuckle-dragging ape on the left walking behind the slightly more advanced and upright-standing ape walking behind the even more upright ape-creature and so forth until at the right of the drawing is the human being. THAT BIG LIE worked so well for THE BIG LIARS.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

So easy to buy into the whole "pandemic" idea as it has been a science fiction trope for a long time. X Files, Fringe, Stargate SG1, Outbreak, Contagion, and a host of others all sell this "virus" narrative. And this is where the idea of lockdown and quarantine are really hammered hard.

Begs to question how many more things we should question that we once considered "a given."

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Ollie's avatar

At this point it is practically it's own 'genre'.

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Baldmichael's avatar

I'm with you on this. The evolutionary theory and mutations supposedly leading to increased complexity has undone people's brains.

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Walking Disease Vector's avatar

Look around you. *Everything* is in a state of constant change. Look at what happens when two ethnicities mix, or the amazing diversity as a result of artificial selection of farm animals and pets, and nature has had much longer than that to work its magic. It’s understandable that people have a difficultly comprehending timescales that long. But I came out of my mother and my mother came of out her mother and...if not slow evolutionary change over billions of years, how do you propose life originated and where did the first humans come from? Or do actually you believe “God” went “abracadabra!” 6000 years ago and POOF!, all this appeared ready-made?

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Regarding your last two "questions":

There is a range of Intelligent Design positions -- not (as you imply) just one.

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Baldmichael's avatar

I do look around me and what do I see? A constancy of cycles, seasons passing. Things change and return to where they were, albeit there is progression as time is helical.

You talk about changes within species but that is not outside of the species. In any event, someone has made a choice, a decision, there is a prime cause.

Evolution just means 'change' and change is a process, not a cause. You believe in billions of years for the existence of the universe but the way they assume dates is a straight line progression, but in reverse making the assumption that there were no changes to alter the pattern.

If change is random then it is just as likely that mothers will give birth to rats as to another human being.

God, the prime cause, created mankind a man and woman from whom the rest of mankind stems.

But the Genesis account gives limited information and what is missed by most is that the earth was in existence prior to the first day. It clearly says so.

The age of the earth is strictly unknowable as in reality time started with the first light.

As regards God going “abracadabra!” actually this is nearer the truth than you realise. This is because the first line of Genesis taking a simple letter transliteration of the Hebrew is this:

‘A brashit bra’

The first ‘A’ comes from the first letter aleph which is used as a number for the verse.

There’s more for A brashit bra’ anagrams to ‘ah Ra rabbits’, God pulled a rabbit of his hat!

And that is word magic, for ultimately we exist in the mind of God from which everything else flows.

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consuelo's avatar

Yes, I certainly do believe that God, who made everything out of nothing, did create mankind. He created our world, our planet, the sun, moon, stars, atmosphere, plants, animals, people, all that is. I believe all that, even after being told otherwise since childhood. I believed the LIES that I was told by the government school employees and all the other liars until I was way into adulthood but then I realized the TRUTH. "Faith comes by hearing the word of God." Then I realized the enormity of the LIES that I had been told.

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Ollie's avatar

Agree.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

"Millions" were saved by the vaccine is predicated on estimates based on models.

The Ferguson model was one of the primary modalities used to declare a pandemic. A lot of running around in circles, wringing hands because it could cause 3% population decimation, should we not lock everyone down and stop the spread?

But at the time, they were basing these models on what? Some sort of exponential model they derived from watching The X-Files?

An argument I had been waiting for happened to me on X the other day.

Me: "Long Covid is a constellation of more than 200 symptoms that has yet to be linked or connected to Covid."

Them: "It has to be Covid, it says it in the name."

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Sumotoad's avatar

What never fails to amuse me about Ferguson is that he’s always WRONG. Not just a little bit wrong, but he’s always wrong by two or three orders of magnitude. How he retains any credibility is a greater mystery than the construction of Stonehenge, transubstantiation, and the disappearance of Judge Crater.

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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

I may be wrong, but I recall reading that Bill Gates finds an activity, led by Imperial Collage and specifically, chaired by Ferguson. To the best of my recollection, this activity was to do with, so it is asserted, early detection and modelling speaks of new, infectious diseases.

Reusing is kept on precisely because he can be relied upon to deliver the “right” kind of results.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

He got to declare a pandemic before the WHO did. Lucky him!

https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/bill-gates-anachronistic-use-of-covid

Quite the visionary and (evidently) a "prophet who profits"

https://open.substack.com/pub/sanityunleashed/p/is-bill-gates-an-extraordinary-visionary?r=jjay2&utm_medium=ios

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

Part of this is that I think people want to be the ones who predict the catastrophe. We all probably receive emails all the time predicting the next big financial crisis, pandemic, or natural disaster. So part of his credibility lies in the fact that he is always predicting the next disaster du jour.

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Baldmichael's avatar

Your last line sums up many people's response, 'We have been told it's Covid, so it must be Covid.'

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

That's probably the most frustrating part of all this. Way early on in the pandemic, someone told me, before they blocked and unfollowed me on Facebook, that if the government told them to wear green underwear on their head to fight Covid, they would do it.

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Baldmichael's avatar

Really?? I wonder sometimes if such people are paid to say such stupid things. If they really do mean it then there is no hope for them.

The government may not have recommended green underwear but people wore the face nappies!

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

I would hope people got paid to say such things, but nonetheless it is true.

I have used an analogy from my childhood to illustrate this. I remember the silly Sesame Street skit where Ernie is holding up a banana to his ear and tells Burt it is to keep the alligators off Sesame Street.

Similarly people wear masks to "stop being sick" and when confronted with the idea of "but you haven't been sick in years" they would say "see. it is working."

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Baldmichael's avatar

Not their brains though!

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

I think many of these people are smart, but as Bonhoeffer said, they were

"made stupid" by their trust in the institutions.

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Ted's avatar

But.... everyone knows that green underwear on one's head, is far more efficacious than blue.

Yellow has absolutely no effect whatsoever and red.... well, just don't do it, you'd really regret the result.

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Baldmichael's avatar

We have been told to eat our greens as greens are good for you, but that's the first time I have heard greens are good on one's head!

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Ted's avatar

I think it quite likely that the droll vulgarities coming to mind, also occurred to you.

We can assuage our regret over not posting them, with the thought that we're doing our best to uphold the dignity of this substack.

That said, I don't care who y'all are, that there was funny.

I vote Baldmichael as the winner of today's internet, by reason of outstanding inference.

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

I've yet to find someone with long COVID that didn't take the clot shot or was hospitalized for COVID (where people got poisoned by Remdesevir and/or put on vents).

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

I imagine there are other alternatives here as well like:

Has a chronic condition.

A history of multiple visits to the doctor per year over some real or imagined malady.

A new emergent condition

A previously undiagnosed chronic condition

They will argue these same points in regards to the experimental injection and not see the intellectual inconsistency.

Before 2020, the over 200 symptoms that cover "long covid" had a legion of sources, but now we are to believe it is all "Long Covid."

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Ollie's avatar

There you go(!).

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

It reminds me of the bullshit in movies and shows where they zoom in on a blurry image.

Somehow "enhance" can bring data that was never stored.

Even techie friends believed it was possible with enough computing power.

I suppose this is why nowadays people think AI is somehow magically a time machine that can enhance footage.

https://robc137.substack.com/p/left-brain-vs-whole-brain-in-battlestar

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David's avatar

Thank you all for the brilliant work you do. You don’t know just how much those of us who’ve argued, marched, lost friends, become pariahs, met with gut-wrenching normie-resistance to even pausing to reflect just for one damn minute—appreciate you. ❤️🙏🏻😎

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Jonathan Engler's avatar

It’s comments like that which make it worthwhile. Thank you.

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Ernest N. Curtis's avatar

Fascinating stuff. I knew there were lots of holes in the genomic material but now have some solid reference material to better explain it. This is more evidence that the whole field of virology is built on a foundation of sand. Quite appropriate that all viral genomes are computer derived---in silico.

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Hamish Soutar's avatar

This is an example of modern “science” in which the data is interpreted to fit the model. Well, I don’t know if the model (in this case the template for the genetic sequences) is right or wrong, not my subject, but uncertainty about the model raises the possibility that the whole thing is utter garbage.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Not so hard to imagine having a model and literally fitting or contriving data to fit it, is it? :)

https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/is-the-bergamo-2020-death-curve-more

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Jonathan Engler's avatar

Agreed. One of the problems, to my mind, is that computing power allows for much more "sophisticated" modeling involving complex mathematics and many-fold increases in the number of input parameters. The essence of what is actually being done then becomes impenetrable to the "non-experts", who feel unable to challenge it because they "don't speak the language".

The output of that modeling is then unchallenged (the vested interests of those who are in a position to do so prevent them from so doing), and it becomes "truth". Several layers are added on top, making it even harder to question the ones further down.

This is a pattern which can be seen across huge swathes of "science" - and non-scientific disciplies as well (economics come to mind).

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John Davison's avatar

For what it's worth I believe it could be even worse.

Just imagine if the whole modern concept of disease instigated and beloved by bigpharma turns out be completely er, false.

Right from the fundamentals that viruses ie the apparent one in a trillion apparently toxic ones didn't actually ever cause disease, but are merely artefacts of what computer codes, programmes, assumptions and models ave led them to believe - simply because it fits the narrative first espoused by snake oil salesmen over 100 years ago.

That and the trillion dollar industry that pays them and very arguably actually causes us to be ill.

Electron microscopy works with inert materials but I fail to see how it can possibly do so when examining living/formerly living matter at s the atomic level.

And, that is even before one considers Quantum effects on and within the immune systems.

Has anyone actually ever done research into those effects?

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John Conlon's avatar

Does an infered metaphysical entity "really exist"?

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