“I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).” ―J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
This gave me chills, Professor! You are indeed a poet, and a brave one at that.
P.S. I love your list of counter-narrative words! Barry shared your comment on that at another post—I can’t remember where it was now, but I saved your list to my files.
But this wasn't just another garden-variety slight sickness, like those we'd all experienced innumerable time throughout our lives. This was a bioweapon, created intentionally by satanic beings to destroy civil society as we had once thought it to be, to destroy social cohesion and basic trust among neighbors, to sow generalized intense hatred and wildly irrational terror. We found that the people who we had previously assumed to be rational, ethical, fundamentally decent human beings were in fact monsters, ghouls, fascists. We found that we were in fact living in Hell.
I understand your feelings, Truthbird, and agree with much of what you said, only I would say the bioweapon was the orchestrated mass deception/hypnosis/coercion campaign rather than the virus itself, which turned out to be rather innocuous and would have had negligible impact had early treatment protocols and formerly conventional health advice been applied.
I agree, but I also disagree. I think the novel coronavirus, or rather, the gain-of-function manipulated coronavirus, was really just the excuse to implement deadly bioweapons, i.e. the so-called "vaccines," which are in fact truly diabolical.
The "vaccines" were never intended to be therapeutic. They were always intended to be weapons of mass sickness, injury, and death.
I speak as someone who was extremely sickened by the Pfizer covid poison injections, and have significant, lasting neurological injuries from it.
Truthbird, ah, well yes, on that I agree 100%, and I am so dearly sorry you have had to suffer from the psychopathic deployment of that particular bioweapon 😢
I am too, but in the end, terrible as it was and is, I'd rather have gone through the awful experience I did with the poison injections, and been enraged and outraged in a way that made it impossible for me to not seek out the brutal truth, than to have experienced only mild adverse reactions, and have remained in the consensual reality that the majority of the population evidently is intractably stuck in.
Your response to your experience is admirable, Truthbird, and I am proud of both your resilience and your humility in being willing to seek out the truth and become a wiser, stronger person for it.
yeah, you could have achieved the same by reading on the internet, without suffering in your own flesh. But however it happened, welcome to the antivaxxers
True, but not the whole truth. You don't know what my life is like, and why I was unable to "do my research," as they say. I can beat myself up for not having learned about the dangers of the "vaccines" online, or I can accept the fact that I was unable to do so, for reasons I know but can't explain in this post, and which you would probably find incomprehensible.
If so, it was kind of a dud. I had the bioweapon supposedly. Not as bad as the pneumonia I struggled with in 2018. I stayed home and didn't need medical help for either. No one shut the world down over that.
Thanks Margaret Anna Alice. You have an incredible grasp of language and I am envious. (I should have paid attention a bit more in school). That being said, the madness that we have experienced over the last couple of years didn't just start a couple of years ago. One only has to look at what has been set up over decades that has put us where we are right now. Destroying families, making it taboo to greet others without the "approved" greeting, (We don't want to offend), stirring up hatred among nations, tribes, peoples... all of it has brought us to where we are now. Some of us saw this and were crying out to deaf ears. Maybe just biding our time when those ears would once again be opened to receive the message of courage, hope, truth, *victory!*. We are here now. Ears and eyes are opening. It's yourself and the thousands of people we see on this platform (and a few others) every day who have realized that we were created for this time in history. That together we are strong and powerful and can overcome. That we are not alone. That we know the truth. In fact, that we are the majority on this earth. The demons have overplayed their hands. If they hadn't, we would most likely still be crying out to deaf ears. There is hope! And thank you for your part in all of this. As difficult as times ahead may become, I can't wait to see what we are going to accomplish together. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thank you for the compliment, Rob, but your articulate comments prove your own verbal virtuosity as well as your hard-won wisdom and kindness!
I agree the embers of this tyrannical transformation were indeed lit many years if not decades ago, and they have simply been kindled into a forest fire over the past few years as the tyrants sowed fear, hatred, envy, rage, and bitterness so as to divide and weaken the people while they ravage and reset the world.
You are right—we are strong, and we are growing as more and more people awaken. What you said about them overplaying their hand reminds me of these lines from my “Letter to a Tyrant” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-tyrant):
“You have underestimated the resilience of the human spirit. You have boiled the pot too quickly. You have forgotten what survivors do when backed into a corner.”
I hope you and your loved ones created cherished memories this Christmas, and I echo your resonating message of hope for the new year!
I for one love this fairy tale, we all need a little imagination. Something the elites DON’T have. How utterly sad to plow through life, ignoring the beauty and destroying everything in its path. WE just don’t understand because we have SOULS.
One can accumulate all the power and wealth possible but to be enriched is to have your dignity intact…they will never have what we have.
Wishing you all a beautiful Christmas and continue to spread love and compassion.
Thank you Margaret for helping us to do so, I also consider you and your readers my Friends!🙏❤️🎄☺️
I wholeheartedly agree—imagination, creativity, integrity, dignity, and the capacity for friendship and love distinguish us from the soulless vampire tyrants, among many other qualities!
Thank you for the warmth of your friendship, the fullness of your heart, and the beauty of your soul, Sirka.
Imagination, creativity, dignity, friendship are all qualities which the vampires successfully destroyed in the hearts of many during the Covid insanity. It was meant to condition the populace the same way other regimes conditioned soldiers. Of course the dumbing down and killing of creativity began long before. Thanks to standardized education and pop culture.
It just so happens that I started reading your Christmas post (https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/christmas-got-real) right after publishing mine, and that gorgeous still from “Christmas in Connecticut” brought back nostalgic memories from my childhood. Instead of indulging in the tripe dished out for my generation, I grew up watching films from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, just as I listened to music of earlier eras from Big Band to classic rock. I remember my mom playing “Christmas in Connecticut” as well as “The Bishop’s Wife” around Christmastime, along with Mantovani records. Thanks for bringing back those memories!
The Bishop's Wife! A Cary Grant classic. Yes, it makes one teary eyed thinking about how we went from that to, as you so correctly stated, tripe. Sigh.
Yes! I adored Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart. I wanted to be Ginger Rogers tap-dancing with Fred Astaire. Contemplating those idyllic films now is bittersweet but gives us something to aspire to as we rebuild civilization in the wake of its destruction.
Thanks for checking out my little piece of the interwebs, Allan -- and passing the word to neighbors, much appreciated. It is easy to romanticize Russia's seemingly grounded social and political spheres as the West plunges into the dark unknown. Unfortunately, as I have tried to document, the differences here are mostly skin-deep. The Russian people are magnificent. But they are being led by a very seedy bunch. "So it goes." be well!
Hugs and gratitude to you all for your beautiful comments! I am still catching up on the torrential backlog after taking Christmas off but will respond to your comments as soon as time permits! 🤗
Turning on the christmas lights I decided I would no longer get any fear mongering articles in my inbox. Thank you for not being one of these !
Your jump off the cliff makes me think of Carlos Castaneda's books, which I read many years ago.
Yes that could have been the story if it were not for some money hungry people. Let us work together so they won't get their pockets filled any longer !
How cheering to know you felt that way about this article, Ingrid, and I agree about working together to empty the pockets of the tyrants and deliver them to a well-deserved justice!
Thank you for the comfort blanket of a story this Christmas! If only life could be the boring story, and everything that happened over the past few years could be filed in "Grimm's Fairy Tales for the 21st Century."
I am so glad you enjoyed the warmth of that comforter, Diana, and I have always preferred quiet boredom (not that I’ve ever really felt boredom, with the thrill of books, learning, and a creative interior life) to “interesting times”!
((((())))) Merry Christmas, Margaret. I feel so fortunate to have become part of the Substack community and to your own ever-moving, educating, provocative and literary postings. All thanks to you for pushing me into it! While I could fill many paragraphs extolling the virtues of your output, I don't really have to. They speak for themselves.
So here's to planting new seeds of a new future, our own future, organic and loving, shining and bright, built on care and compassion, not the servile exploitation of a dark underworld planned for us by ruling patriarchs of a dying world.
The pen is truly mightier than the sword. At the very least, light candles and wear garlic. ;-)
Thank you for the parenthetical bouquet, Navyo, and I am so glad you heeded my advice and started writing here! You are one of my favorite Substackers, and I always look forward to your delicious morsels of satire :-)
What a sublime blessing, and here’s to nurturing those seeds and wielding those pens as we cultivate freedom and resistance together!
Jesus, I am emotional today! Holy crap, the comments are so beautiful…I’m crying (in a good way)…I’ll read the rest after work, I can’t go in looking like this😩!
Gosh, if all this only concerned a sickness, of whatever severity, we likely could have dealt with it more effectively and humanely than we did. Sadly, the sickness was only the excuse for engineering a far more sinister system of control and depopulation that they have planned to institute for a very long time, a system that turns us into digital slaves. I wish we had heeded the warnings, and there were many, but we didn't. Now we must enter a world of our own creation, separate and distinct from theirs, where we have the last remaining chance to live as a free people. Making that world a reality is our next and most important task.
I do admire your optimism, Margaret Anna, and I will check out the link. Thank you. For what it's worth, if the injections work as intended (poison?), there will be billions fewer of us left on the planet after either Reset. They will have accomplished at least one of their stated goals - depopulation. Scary thought, that. Take care.
Indeed, Joe 😢 We’re doing all we can to stop it before it reaches that level, but the juggernaut keeps on churning. Meanwhile, we will need to prepare for rebuilding communities and society in saner, more sustainable, and healthier ways.
I don't expect we'll be able to provide the goodies westerners are used to in our parallel systems. But I prefer to be there rather than the prison city pods.
Lovely story, Margaret. What could have been (sigh) if our society wasn't programmed, manipulated, gaslighted and engineered into being fearful sheep. Merry Christmas to you & yours!
There is a place we enter in,
What never was, what might have been.
Where are you now,? Afraid to seek?
Afraid to talk? Well we still speak.
We say the things never said,
To try to reach inside your head.
If you could hear you'd understand,
what never was, was also planned.
This gave me chills, Professor! You are indeed a poet, and a brave one at that.
P.S. I love your list of counter-narrative words! Barry shared your comment on that at another post—I can’t remember where it was now, but I saved your list to my files.
There is a zen saying:
When two thieves meet they smile. :)
Haha, how marvelous :-)
Love what could have been. Agree it’s such a relief to find like-minded people in these crazy times. Merry Christmas
So happy to hear that, JJ, and we’re grateful to have you here! Merry Christmas to you and your family, too.
But this wasn't just another garden-variety slight sickness, like those we'd all experienced innumerable time throughout our lives. This was a bioweapon, created intentionally by satanic beings to destroy civil society as we had once thought it to be, to destroy social cohesion and basic trust among neighbors, to sow generalized intense hatred and wildly irrational terror. We found that the people who we had previously assumed to be rational, ethical, fundamentally decent human beings were in fact monsters, ghouls, fascists. We found that we were in fact living in Hell.
I understand your feelings, Truthbird, and agree with much of what you said, only I would say the bioweapon was the orchestrated mass deception/hypnosis/coercion campaign rather than the virus itself, which turned out to be rather innocuous and would have had negligible impact had early treatment protocols and formerly conventional health advice been applied.
I agree, but I also disagree. I think the novel coronavirus, or rather, the gain-of-function manipulated coronavirus, was really just the excuse to implement deadly bioweapons, i.e. the so-called "vaccines," which are in fact truly diabolical.
The "vaccines" were never intended to be therapeutic. They were always intended to be weapons of mass sickness, injury, and death.
I speak as someone who was extremely sickened by the Pfizer covid poison injections, and have significant, lasting neurological injuries from it.
Truthbird, ah, well yes, on that I agree 100%, and I am so dearly sorry you have had to suffer from the psychopathic deployment of that particular bioweapon 😢
Thanks, Margaret Anna.
I am too, but in the end, terrible as it was and is, I'd rather have gone through the awful experience I did with the poison injections, and been enraged and outraged in a way that made it impossible for me to not seek out the brutal truth, than to have experienced only mild adverse reactions, and have remained in the consensual reality that the majority of the population evidently is intractably stuck in.
Your response to your experience is admirable, Truthbird, and I am proud of both your resilience and your humility in being willing to seek out the truth and become a wiser, stronger person for it.
yeah, you could have achieved the same by reading on the internet, without suffering in your own flesh. But however it happened, welcome to the antivaxxers
As I like to say, "I am not anti-vax, I am anti-bioweapon..."
True, but not the whole truth. You don't know what my life is like, and why I was unable to "do my research," as they say. I can beat myself up for not having learned about the dangers of the "vaccines" online, or I can accept the fact that I was unable to do so, for reasons I know but can't explain in this post, and which you would probably find incomprehensible.
True. But you have not the slightest idea of my life's reality. If yours had been like mine you would have been vaxed too.
💯 gain of function manipulated !!
I have story upon story of NON VAXXED who have suffered from the bio engineering …
Let me tell you , tasting blood or metal for 6 months in your mouth is no small thing .. and that’s just the beginning.
Bioweapon
I'd call it a politically executed bio-pogram, myself.
If so, it was kind of a dud. I had the bioweapon supposedly. Not as bad as the pneumonia I struggled with in 2018. I stayed home and didn't need medical help for either. No one shut the world down over that.
Thanks Margaret Anna Alice. You have an incredible grasp of language and I am envious. (I should have paid attention a bit more in school). That being said, the madness that we have experienced over the last couple of years didn't just start a couple of years ago. One only has to look at what has been set up over decades that has put us where we are right now. Destroying families, making it taboo to greet others without the "approved" greeting, (We don't want to offend), stirring up hatred among nations, tribes, peoples... all of it has brought us to where we are now. Some of us saw this and were crying out to deaf ears. Maybe just biding our time when those ears would once again be opened to receive the message of courage, hope, truth, *victory!*. We are here now. Ears and eyes are opening. It's yourself and the thousands of people we see on this platform (and a few others) every day who have realized that we were created for this time in history. That together we are strong and powerful and can overcome. That we are not alone. That we know the truth. In fact, that we are the majority on this earth. The demons have overplayed their hands. If they hadn't, we would most likely still be crying out to deaf ears. There is hope! And thank you for your part in all of this. As difficult as times ahead may become, I can't wait to see what we are going to accomplish together. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thank you for the compliment, Rob, but your articulate comments prove your own verbal virtuosity as well as your hard-won wisdom and kindness!
I agree the embers of this tyrannical transformation were indeed lit many years if not decades ago, and they have simply been kindled into a forest fire over the past few years as the tyrants sowed fear, hatred, envy, rage, and bitterness so as to divide and weaken the people while they ravage and reset the world.
You are right—we are strong, and we are growing as more and more people awaken. What you said about them overplaying their hand reminds me of these lines from my “Letter to a Tyrant” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-tyrant):
“You have underestimated the resilience of the human spirit. You have boiled the pot too quickly. You have forgotten what survivors do when backed into a corner.”
I hope you and your loved ones created cherished memories this Christmas, and I echo your resonating message of hope for the new year!
100% accurate!
I also love what could have been.....Blessings to you and to everyone here on this list.
What a sweet note, and thank you for brightening this space, Mimi!
Merry Christmas to you and to everyone here .I am grateful for finding you .What a Beautiful thing to say to all of us .
Aww, merry Christmas to you as well, Mimi, and I am grateful you found me, too! You are a dear being and a vital part of this community 🤗
I for one love this fairy tale, we all need a little imagination. Something the elites DON’T have. How utterly sad to plow through life, ignoring the beauty and destroying everything in its path. WE just don’t understand because we have SOULS.
One can accumulate all the power and wealth possible but to be enriched is to have your dignity intact…they will never have what we have.
Wishing you all a beautiful Christmas and continue to spread love and compassion.
Thank you Margaret for helping us to do so, I also consider you and your readers my Friends!🙏❤️🎄☺️
I wholeheartedly agree—imagination, creativity, integrity, dignity, and the capacity for friendship and love distinguish us from the soulless vampire tyrants, among many other qualities!
Thank you for the warmth of your friendship, the fullness of your heart, and the beauty of your soul, Sirka.
Imagination, creativity, dignity, friendship are all qualities which the vampires successfully destroyed in the hearts of many during the Covid insanity. It was meant to condition the populace the same way other regimes conditioned soldiers. Of course the dumbing down and killing of creativity began long before. Thanks to standardized education and pop culture.
Thanks and Merry Christmas, Margaret Anna. The lovingly selected early-blooming parentheses smell wonderful!
Thank you, Riley, and so glad you enjoyed them!
It just so happens that I started reading your Christmas post (https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/christmas-got-real) right after publishing mine, and that gorgeous still from “Christmas in Connecticut” brought back nostalgic memories from my childhood. Instead of indulging in the tripe dished out for my generation, I grew up watching films from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, just as I listened to music of earlier eras from Big Band to classic rock. I remember my mom playing “Christmas in Connecticut” as well as “The Bishop’s Wife” around Christmastime, along with Mantovani records. Thanks for bringing back those memories!
The Bishop's Wife! A Cary Grant classic. Yes, it makes one teary eyed thinking about how we went from that to, as you so correctly stated, tripe. Sigh.
Yes! I adored Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart. I wanted to be Ginger Rogers tap-dancing with Fred Astaire. Contemplating those idyllic films now is bittersweet but gives us something to aspire to as we rebuild civilization in the wake of its destruction.
Astaire and Rogers! You're a woman after my own heart :) yes, let's Build Back Better with them as inspiration.
Indeed! “You Can’t Take It with You” is another gem for this time of year and models free-spirited resistance to corporate coercion.
Since you can smell, you are fine! :)
😹
Thanks for checking out my little piece of the interwebs, Allan -- and passing the word to neighbors, much appreciated. It is easy to romanticize Russia's seemingly grounded social and political spheres as the West plunges into the dark unknown. Unfortunately, as I have tried to document, the differences here are mostly skin-deep. The Russian people are magnificent. But they are being led by a very seedy bunch. "So it goes." be well!
I like this.
Hugs and gratitude to you all for your beautiful comments! I am still catching up on the torrential backlog after taking Christmas off but will respond to your comments as soon as time permits! 🤗
Turning on the christmas lights I decided I would no longer get any fear mongering articles in my inbox. Thank you for not being one of these !
Your jump off the cliff makes me think of Carlos Castaneda's books, which I read many years ago.
Yes that could have been the story if it were not for some money hungry people. Let us work together so they won't get their pockets filled any longer !
How cheering to know you felt that way about this article, Ingrid, and I agree about working together to empty the pockets of the tyrants and deliver them to a well-deserved justice!
Thank you for the comfort blanket of a story this Christmas! If only life could be the boring story, and everything that happened over the past few years could be filed in "Grimm's Fairy Tales for the 21st Century."
I am so glad you enjoyed the warmth of that comforter, Diana, and I have always preferred quiet boredom (not that I’ve ever really felt boredom, with the thrill of books, learning, and a creative interior life) to “interesting times”!
((((())))) Merry Christmas, Margaret. I feel so fortunate to have become part of the Substack community and to your own ever-moving, educating, provocative and literary postings. All thanks to you for pushing me into it! While I could fill many paragraphs extolling the virtues of your output, I don't really have to. They speak for themselves.
So here's to planting new seeds of a new future, our own future, organic and loving, shining and bright, built on care and compassion, not the servile exploitation of a dark underworld planned for us by ruling patriarchs of a dying world.
The pen is truly mightier than the sword. At the very least, light candles and wear garlic. ;-)
Thank you for the parenthetical bouquet, Navyo, and I am so glad you heeded my advice and started writing here! You are one of my favorite Substackers, and I always look forward to your delicious morsels of satire :-)
What a sublime blessing, and here’s to nurturing those seeds and wielding those pens as we cultivate freedom and resistance together!
Jesus, I am emotional today! Holy crap, the comments are so beautiful…I’m crying (in a good way)…I’ll read the rest after work, I can’t go in looking like this😩!
Awww, I know how you feel, and you’re going to make me cry, too! 🤗 Hope you managed to pull yourself together before work :-)
Gosh, if all this only concerned a sickness, of whatever severity, we likely could have dealt with it more effectively and humanely than we did. Sadly, the sickness was only the excuse for engineering a far more sinister system of control and depopulation that they have planned to institute for a very long time, a system that turns us into digital slaves. I wish we had heeded the warnings, and there were many, but we didn't. Now we must enter a world of our own creation, separate and distinct from theirs, where we have the last remaining chance to live as a free people. Making that world a reality is our next and most important task.
Lucidly observed, Joe, and I wholly agree with your emphasis on fostering a parallel world where freedom, truth, and goodness reign.
The upcoming Greater Reset (https://thegreaterreset.org/) event focuses on such positive actions, and I encourage everyone to watch the sessions by their superstar lineup of speakers (https://thegreaterreset.org/speakers/).
I do admire your optimism, Margaret Anna, and I will check out the link. Thank you. For what it's worth, if the injections work as intended (poison?), there will be billions fewer of us left on the planet after either Reset. They will have accomplished at least one of their stated goals - depopulation. Scary thought, that. Take care.
Indeed, Joe 😢 We’re doing all we can to stop it before it reaches that level, but the juggernaut keeps on churning. Meanwhile, we will need to prepare for rebuilding communities and society in saner, more sustainable, and healthier ways.
I don't expect we'll be able to provide the goodies westerners are used to in our parallel systems. But I prefer to be there rather than the prison city pods.
Brevity is the soul of wit; you have both!
Merry (sort of) Christmas to a fine fellow writer, thinker and glorious dissident.
Brevity often eludes me, but in this case it was easy given how boring this parallel would-have, should-have, could-have world was!
I adore your monikers, Monika, and I am proud to share all of those epithets with you!
Lovely story, Margaret. What could have been (sigh) if our society wasn't programmed, manipulated, gaslighted and engineered into being fearful sheep. Merry Christmas to you & yours!
So very woefully true, Vida! Merry belated Christmas to you and yours as well :-)