This is the third installment of my conversation with Meredith Miller. We talk about the victim mindset, Wokeism, critical race theory, euthanasia, MAiD, indoctrination, grit, Stoicism, thanatology; and Meredith’s NDE and OBE.
Here’s an excerpt from one of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s writings which I’ve found useful in the last few years:
“Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently)—step back from that gangrenous edge! Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the Ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.
And thus, overcoming our timidity, let each man choose: Will he remain a witting servant of the lies (needless to say, not due to natural predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to rear the children in the spirit of lies!), or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries? And from that day onward he:
· Will not write, sign, nor publish in any way, a single line distorting, so far as he can see, the truth;
· Will not utter such a line in private or in public conversation, nor read it from a crib sheet, nor speak it in the role of educator, canvasser, teacher, actor;
· Will not in painting, sculpture, photograph, technology, or music depict, support, or broadcast a single false thought, a single distortion of the truth as he discerns it;
· Will not cite in writing or in speech a single “guiding” quote for gratification, insurance, for his success at work, unless he fully shares the cited thought and believes that it fits the context precisely;
· Will not be forced to a demonstration or a rally if it runs counter to his desire and his will; will not take up and raise a banner or slogan in which he does not fully believe;
· Will not raise a hand in vote for a proposal which he does not sincerely support; will not vote openly or in secret ballot for a candidate whom he deems dubious or unworthy;
· Will not be impelled to a meeting where a forced and distorted discussion is expected to take place;
· Will at once walk out from a session, meeting, lecture, play, or film as soon as he hears the speaker utter a lie, ideological drivel, or shameless propaganda;
· Will not subscribe to, nor buy in retail, a newspaper or journal that distorts or hides the underlying facts.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of the possible and necessary ways of evading lies. But he who begins to cleanse himself will, with a cleansed eye, easily discern yet other opportunities.
Yes, at first it will not be fair. Someone will have to temporarily lose his job. For the young who seek to live by truth, this will at first severely complicate life, for their tests and quizzes, too, are stuffed with lies, and so choices will have to be made. But there is no loophole left for anyone who seeks to be honest: Not even for a day, not even in the safest technical occupations can he avoid even a single one of the listed choices—to be made in favor of either truth or lies, in favor of spiritual independence or spiritual servility. And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.” https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies
Jun 6Liked by Margaret Anna Alice, Meredith Miller
thank you SO MUCH margaret and meredith!!🙏 you both have been such an INSPIRATION!!💪 your insights, hard work, courage, compassion, and joy have been a shining LIGHT in the darkness!!☀️keep on rocking for truth, freedom and love!!🔥💗
My understanding of childhood / young adult education is that the main difference between high functionality and mediocrity is the amount of enrichment the child receives outside of the school environment. Of course appropriate enrichment requires a high degree of attentiveness by a parent to a child's learning processes within and outside of school.
Once parents acquire the requisite information to form an opinion about the adequacy of their child's input and output in a school setting then it is up to them to decide on the level of activism required to supplement a school's curriculum and implement a custom plan. Complacency and apathy will never help advance a child's best interest. Parents need to learn about the enrichment resources available for their child and pursue the right ones persistently and consistently throughout pre-school, in daily life, K-12 and well beyond. A parent's defeat in this discipline may become a child's defeat or later, an adult child's defeat. School guidance departments are typically understaffed and are therefore unreliable as advocates or as advisors.
A parent can not depend on teacher feedback alone e.g. evaluations and grades etc. The "dumbing down" in public schools can be appalling. For instance, our second grader brought home a math worksheet that was IDENTiCAL to a sheet she had completed in FIRST grade!!! With the exception of the socializing aspect of public school her attendance K-5 was a waste of time.( she was so bored she spent a lot of time reading in the bathroom) As parents we did what was necessary to have her skip the 3rd grade and later we, along with some other like minded parents, pressured the middle school to hire personnel for advanced classes. Children with disabilities ( whom I do NOT
disparage at all) are provided with the extra resources they require. Fine. But if a child needs advanced resources they may not always be forthcoming during the normal course of funding.
We spent our own resources on formal and informal extra-curricular enrichment activities which definitely paid off. Regardless of your resources; pay attention, take action, resolve.
If a child( a nascent adult) is to feel comfortable questioning authorities throughout their lives they must first have a solid foundation of self-actualization, self-motivation and self-care. They must trust their OWN thought processes enough to draw their own conclusions, especially regarding potentially life-altering choices such as we continue to face. They will deeply understand that knowledge requires homework and does not begin and end in school. It is a lifelong pursuit that once induced will not cease. Single answers to important questions are, in reality, almost non-existent. To the original R's we need to add the three C's ;curiosity, creativity and compassion. These C's, these traits of humanity, are all accessible to a child and to a fully functioning adult and they should be amplified by all means.
Concerning indoctrination; a well adjusted individual will figure out in due time and on their own the values they choose to incorporate and to espouse. Keeping channels of love and understanding open is more important than trying to shut down what you can't control in the first place. Leave mind control to the psychopaths and allow plenty of space and time for free form play and for making mistakes.
if i recall the article correctly (which i probably do 8^), the 'magic' number was 80+ books where appreciable benefits redounded to the kids...
hhh our house had thousands...
just my personal library of science and science fiction books was over a thousand... the science fiction book club made a lot of money from my paper route earnings...
obsessive aspie that i was, took 3x5 cards and made my own card catalog... whatta fkn nerd... hhh
Jun 7Liked by Margaret Anna Alice, Meredith Miller
I got through all of them. What a brilliant dialogue! I very much resonated with the consciousness journey. My NDE experience sounds a lot closer to Meredith’s Philly couch experience than most of the NDE stories out there I was starting to doubt I had a real one.
Really appreciate reading about this kind of resilience. Especially amongst all the doom porn out there. Thank you, both!
Ty for sharing part of an amazing journey. I can feel truth when nothing is required of me. Recently became aware politicizing/ weaponizing medicine is not new for leftists, rather a business model for those who want to control or be controlled: “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a large scale.” ~ Rudolf Virchow. Leftist Virchow was convinced that social inequality was a root cause of ill-health, and that medicine therefore had to be a social science. Because of their intimate knowledge of the problems of society, doctors, according to Virchow, also were better statesmen. ~
Here is a brief post about intra-psychic agency. Posts at Home Cooked are best understood popping back to the first. Becoming a paid subscriber and embarking upon your own analysis frees up your internal wherewithal. https://homecookedanalysis.substack.com/p/victim-vs-psychic-agent
Here’s an excerpt from one of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s writings which I’ve found useful in the last few years:
“Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently)—step back from that gangrenous edge! Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the Ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.
And thus, overcoming our timidity, let each man choose: Will he remain a witting servant of the lies (needless to say, not due to natural predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to rear the children in the spirit of lies!), or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries? And from that day onward he:
· Will not write, sign, nor publish in any way, a single line distorting, so far as he can see, the truth;
· Will not utter such a line in private or in public conversation, nor read it from a crib sheet, nor speak it in the role of educator, canvasser, teacher, actor;
· Will not in painting, sculpture, photograph, technology, or music depict, support, or broadcast a single false thought, a single distortion of the truth as he discerns it;
· Will not cite in writing or in speech a single “guiding” quote for gratification, insurance, for his success at work, unless he fully shares the cited thought and believes that it fits the context precisely;
· Will not be forced to a demonstration or a rally if it runs counter to his desire and his will; will not take up and raise a banner or slogan in which he does not fully believe;
· Will not raise a hand in vote for a proposal which he does not sincerely support; will not vote openly or in secret ballot for a candidate whom he deems dubious or unworthy;
· Will not be impelled to a meeting where a forced and distorted discussion is expected to take place;
· Will at once walk out from a session, meeting, lecture, play, or film as soon as he hears the speaker utter a lie, ideological drivel, or shameless propaganda;
· Will not subscribe to, nor buy in retail, a newspaper or journal that distorts or hides the underlying facts.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of the possible and necessary ways of evading lies. But he who begins to cleanse himself will, with a cleansed eye, easily discern yet other opportunities.
Yes, at first it will not be fair. Someone will have to temporarily lose his job. For the young who seek to live by truth, this will at first severely complicate life, for their tests and quizzes, too, are stuffed with lies, and so choices will have to be made. But there is no loophole left for anyone who seeks to be honest: Not even for a day, not even in the safest technical occupations can he avoid even a single one of the listed choices—to be made in favor of either truth or lies, in favor of spiritual independence or spiritual servility. And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.” https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies
I love that essay and cited it in "Letter to a Mainstream Straddler"!
• https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-mainstream-straddler
What is unsettling is not death, but that those who you have trusted blindly want to kill you.
🎯
thank you SO MUCH margaret and meredith!!🙏 you both have been such an INSPIRATION!!💪 your insights, hard work, courage, compassion, and joy have been a shining LIGHT in the darkness!!☀️keep on rocking for truth, freedom and love!!🔥💗
BREAKING: The Telegraph - Covid vaccines may have helped fuel rise in excess deaths as Experts call for more research into side effects and possible links to mortality rates in preparation for Nuremberg 2.0 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/04/covid-vaccines-may-have-helped-fuel-rise-in-excess-deaths/
2M views this afternoon on Twitter under the search "Nuremberg 2.0" https://x.com/draseemmalhotra/status/1797922073798717524
BREAKING: Electroporation of mRNA by Injection can now cause Remote Paralysis or Death and Drug Delivery, Remotely Using An Electric Field of Energy, Frequency & Vibration! Ted Kazynski's The Perfect Bomb, Unabomber aka "Telomere Terminator", Bio-Specific Weapons & Darth Vader's Choke! https://nurembergtrials.net/nuremberg-trials-2-0/f/electroporation-of-mrna-by-injection-can-cause-remote-paralysis
My understanding of childhood / young adult education is that the main difference between high functionality and mediocrity is the amount of enrichment the child receives outside of the school environment. Of course appropriate enrichment requires a high degree of attentiveness by a parent to a child's learning processes within and outside of school.
Once parents acquire the requisite information to form an opinion about the adequacy of their child's input and output in a school setting then it is up to them to decide on the level of activism required to supplement a school's curriculum and implement a custom plan. Complacency and apathy will never help advance a child's best interest. Parents need to learn about the enrichment resources available for their child and pursue the right ones persistently and consistently throughout pre-school, in daily life, K-12 and well beyond. A parent's defeat in this discipline may become a child's defeat or later, an adult child's defeat. School guidance departments are typically understaffed and are therefore unreliable as advocates or as advisors.
A parent can not depend on teacher feedback alone e.g. evaluations and grades etc. The "dumbing down" in public schools can be appalling. For instance, our second grader brought home a math worksheet that was IDENTiCAL to a sheet she had completed in FIRST grade!!! With the exception of the socializing aspect of public school her attendance K-5 was a waste of time.( she was so bored she spent a lot of time reading in the bathroom) As parents we did what was necessary to have her skip the 3rd grade and later we, along with some other like minded parents, pressured the middle school to hire personnel for advanced classes. Children with disabilities ( whom I do NOT
disparage at all) are provided with the extra resources they require. Fine. But if a child needs advanced resources they may not always be forthcoming during the normal course of funding.
We spent our own resources on formal and informal extra-curricular enrichment activities which definitely paid off. Regardless of your resources; pay attention, take action, resolve.
If a child( a nascent adult) is to feel comfortable questioning authorities throughout their lives they must first have a solid foundation of self-actualization, self-motivation and self-care. They must trust their OWN thought processes enough to draw their own conclusions, especially regarding potentially life-altering choices such as we continue to face. They will deeply understand that knowledge requires homework and does not begin and end in school. It is a lifelong pursuit that once induced will not cease. Single answers to important questions are, in reality, almost non-existent. To the original R's we need to add the three C's ;curiosity, creativity and compassion. These C's, these traits of humanity, are all accessible to a child and to a fully functioning adult and they should be amplified by all means.
Concerning indoctrination; a well adjusted individual will figure out in due time and on their own the values they choose to incorporate and to espouse. Keeping channels of love and understanding open is more important than trying to shut down what you can't control in the first place. Leave mind control to the psychopaths and allow plenty of space and time for free form play and for making mistakes.
Beautiful analysis and recommendations, john!
you can predict with good correlation the ability of kids in school and (stoopid) testing, by how many books are in the home...
if i recall the article correctly (which i probably do 8^), the 'magic' number was 80+ books where appreciable benefits redounded to the kids...
hhh our house had thousands...
just my personal library of science and science fiction books was over a thousand... the science fiction book club made a lot of money from my paper route earnings...
obsessive aspie that i was, took 3x5 cards and made my own card catalog... whatta fkn nerd... hhh
8^)
I got through all of them. What a brilliant dialogue! I very much resonated with the consciousness journey. My NDE experience sounds a lot closer to Meredith’s Philly couch experience than most of the NDE stories out there I was starting to doubt I had a real one.
Really appreciate reading about this kind of resilience. Especially amongst all the doom porn out there. Thank you, both!
Ty for sharing part of an amazing journey. I can feel truth when nothing is required of me. Recently became aware politicizing/ weaponizing medicine is not new for leftists, rather a business model for those who want to control or be controlled: “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a large scale.” ~ Rudolf Virchow. Leftist Virchow was convinced that social inequality was a root cause of ill-health, and that medicine therefore had to be a social science. Because of their intimate knowledge of the problems of society, doctors, according to Virchow, also were better statesmen. ~
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19052033/
I love you Margaret Anna Alice.
i no longer play let's pretend
for some people that may offend
so just suck it up buttercup
i'm all done with buttering up
.
for some the truth can be too hard
have little patience for such 'tards
talk to your glass menagerie
'cause too many small truths from me
.
The Worlds Most Dangerous Poet
too far down the rabbit hole
😆
Simply, Yes!
Here is a brief post about intra-psychic agency. Posts at Home Cooked are best understood popping back to the first. Becoming a paid subscriber and embarking upon your own analysis frees up your internal wherewithal. https://homecookedanalysis.substack.com/p/victim-vs-psychic-agent