Christine, I think a major key is not to allow fear to get its claws into you. I’m not quite your vintage, but I’m certainly no spring chicken myself. Yes, age is most certainly a bitch, and certainly not for the faint hearted. The only advice I can offer… is try your best to believe in the bigger scheme of things. We are not alone in this grand universal plan. Nothing goes unnoticed. I truly believe (as chaotic as things appear), there is a hardwired natural order to things … and that the good are looked after in the end. Do you have close family? Someone in your life you truly trust and rely upon?
Hi! I am so glad to have found your stack. I have been wrestling with this issue for months now too. What to do, what to do, when the rugs seem to be continually pulled out from under us.
If I had my way I would have moved out to a more rural location months ago to homestead but my family is blind to what I see so I have to stay in the city. We live in a mid sized city in the Midwest US.
For a while I was writing my congress people and school board but that felt so futile because I hardly ever got a response and when I did it was the usual form letter canned crap.
I have also very slowly been trying to store a bit of extra food here and there but that is tough on a tight budget.
After feeling like I was going to lose my mind to despair a few months ago I decided to find a bit of joy every single day because if our heads are on the chopping block right now then I am going to damn well enjoy whatever time I have left.
For me that means I got back to painting and I spend time enjoying the birdsong in my backyard. I love listening to good music and watching the sunlight change in the trees in the morning.
I try to take extra good care of myself because what we are going through is so extreme, at least it is for me. I got canceled by my ‘friends’ here for daring to question the integrity of the pharmaceutical industry. 🙄
I have had to allow my self to just let go, to realize that I have limits and that I need to conserve my physical and mental energy.
That is not giving up and writing is doing something too. We are letting others know that they are not alone and that counts for something.
I have also thought it might be a good tactic to print up small flyers about the dangers of the mRNA shots and masking with links to doctors 4 covid ethics and others to leave at grocery stores like Whole Foods.
Write a new Declaration of Independence. Write and inhabit it so well we can do what we now must. Reinhabit planet earth in the most powerful ways possible. We are the humans of planet earth. We do not comply with the prison planet.
Your words are nice rhetoric but how do they translate into action?
Most of us here have not complied to anything that has been imposed upon us in the last few years, and non-compliance is evidently not enough. It has not stopped the roller coaster.
So what do the non-compliant old and the sick and the poor and the housebound and the overwhelmed DO when we get up of a morning, to change anything?
What we are currently doing, apart from not complying, is reading a lot, writing a lot, and preaching to the choir (other Substack readers) a lot. Is that enough?
There have been lots of fantastic "declarations" over the last three years, from noteworthy individuals and groups, and lots of legal actions, and endless petitions to governments, and I see no evidence that any of them have achieved anything.
I would be very happy for you to tell me what I can personally do when I get up in the morning, to fix this. If you solve it for me, you probably solve it for hundreds of thousands of others like me.
I am just one lone person - we all are. But together we are powerful. I can only rely on what some of our more powerful, enlightened ancestors would do if they were here today. I believe they would recommend we write an new Declaration of Independence for the world. As per the original documents it was done by a committee of committed individuals who did not comply. I believe this is where we exist today. Fortunately we don’t have to travel to Philadelphia by horseback to accomplish this. I recommend we all read the originals and begin writing a new one. Each of us has something to give.
Hmmm. I know you Americans believe in your declaration of independence, but the rest of us don't. Your country has been as corrupt, since its inception, as the rest of the modern world. We have been governed for thousands of years, since the start of recorded history, by a greedy controlling elite - and let us never forget that they taught us how to record history - to show them in a good light. Mankind is not very smart. We happily do their work for them. Witness how the vaxxed treated the unvaxxed and how medicos murdered the aged and the sick, for evidence of that.
There have been many revolutions since human history has been recorded, and what happened to each and every one of them? The seething masses unseated a ruling elite and hey presto, those chairs were then taken over by someone even worse, a new and even nastier ruling elite. A revolution is not enough. There must be a replacement that cannot be corrupted. I see that Jordan Peterson is claiming to be creating such a replacement - his ARC.
The American experiment has quite obviously failed and failed for identifiable reasons. Since you feel you can do better let’s see the proof of it. I wait with baited breath. Lots of people claim replacements. The proof will be in the pudding. This is not about America or any nation state - it is about the overcoming of an imposed prison planet. Passing contests and a lamenting over what is in fact wrong will not serve us here.
Interesting mis-perception. What made you think I was saying that I can do better?
Not only has the American experiment failed. The Australian experiment, the New Zealand experiment, the South African experiment, the Canadian experiment, the Irish experiment, the English experiment, have ALL spectacularly failed.
Did you read the article I wrote today that started this thread? It is all about how I have no idea what any of us can do.
Wow - not the faintest idea, lol. Maybe it was this sentence
"Hmmm. I know you Americans believe in your declaration of independence, but the rest of us don't."
All I am saying is because we have all failed and have abundant proof of that currently we must begin somewhere. Marching in the streets, holding wars to enrich the military industrial plutocrats - doesn't work. But what will is strength in numbers. If we are able to articulate the aspirations of all humans to respect unalienable rights and to pursue liberty and justice for today's world - we will have somewhere to begin anew. We don't need everybody although that would be really spectacular. Many seem permanently lost to delusion and maybe that is true. But we the people rule the world - we just have not done so in such a long time.
I agree with him. Whatever hospitalised me was not anything like a cold or flu. It was a collapse of every part of my body connected to my vagus nerve, so to me, that was a collapse of the vagus nerve and the entire autonomic nervous system. And what could have caused that? 5G of course.
"I hit my end of untapped depths four months ago and yielded to mental health medication..."
I am not at that point yet, but late last year I got shingles and explored the field of powerful pain killers for the first time in my life. Most of them did nothing for the pain, and some even caused pain, but one, a very popular one, did wonders in more ways that one. I am currently contemplating whether I have reached the point where addiction to some pain killer that relieves me of my pain and gives me that nice squishy feeling might be a viable choice. That's the "palliative care" choice that some day I will need to make. Just don't know if it is upon me yet.
Dude I totally relate! I’m seventeen years sober and have hard line boundaries around meds so this year has been like a capsize. Tramadol at night has become regular now and I wonder if I’m addicted to it. I definitely need pain meds but I also push far past my energy envelope and take meds to get through the night. I’m wondering that I’m at the palliative care choice too! I was in an elderly assisted living facility when Covid arrived. Youngest by thirty years! I love the nice squishy feeling. I hear you. And again it’s hard to judge when you don’t know what’s ahead. My concern is there will be supply outages and I will be catapulted into withdrawal. Oh it’s a tricky place to be. Resting in uncertainty is hard! Do you have support people? I take respite in spiritual teachings. That’s a solace too. But everyone has their own way xx
No support, at least on this physical plane of existence. And you are right about the supply lines issue. There are weeds with suitable phytochemicals to replace pharmaceuticals, but even they have not been growing well in the last few years, at least where I live. I have found natural alternatives for any pharmaceuticals I might need, but even they are not easily accessible.
Fear not, ms C, for help has arrived...this ol'm/cycle crash damaged/m.e cursed mechanic has a cheap Rx for unrelenting pain that keeps it to a dull roar...amazon.com 'Thrive Complete Nicotine Replacement Gum' [tip-cut the chicklets in half, lasting many days of chew/spit it out/hour later repeat...]
NICOTINE! UNDERSTANDING THE WEAPON AND THE TARGET!!!
in this episode, Dr. Ardis reveals important and very relevant information on the real dangers of Covid-19 and the shots. He explains what nicotine receptors are and how venoms shut off nerve function like taste, smell, diaphragm contraction, hearing and brain function. There is a false belief that ACE2 receptors are the target.
The target is actually nicotine receptors and the antidote is nicotine! You will learn how nicotine impacts specific cognitive impairments like dementia, alzheimer's disease and even psychosis. Why did smokers benefit from nicotine for Covid -19, Long Haul Covid and the Covid-19 Vaccine Injuries?!!! 205 +Comments
Mmmmm. Well your well researched then. I had a great friend who ate weeds a lot. Sorry you don’t have community support. See that’s a big factor. I don’t either much. But I just qualified for home help so I will have a nice five times vaxxed worker shedding in my space. But that’s what I mean about palliative. I’m not doing the blood cleaning stuff or detox stuff Dr Ana mentions. I’m kinda ready for the decline if it’s coming. Anyway, off to rest. Have a good night. It’s been great
It was your post that triggered me to write this, but not because I was offended. Most times, I am frustrated rather than offended. I want to do something but there is nothing I can do. I want to be able to suggest to others what they can do, but I have no idea what they can do either. In reality, all any of us can do is sit and wait and hope like hell we make the right decisions while we are waiting, so we have some hope of being ready for what comes next.
💬 all any of us can do is sit and wait and hope like hell we make the right decisions
Hope like hell! 👌 Yet 'sit and wait' oozes not quite the right vibe 🙂 Just live true to your inner compass, and leave the burden of large-scale outcomes to whatever transcendent forces you believe are in charge of the world—where it belongs, this burden, sure like hell *not* weighing on your frail shoulders 😊
My favourite columnist chimes in ↓↓
🗨 laughter in the midst of heartache. We [Christians] are not crazy, we simply have a magical element, a kind of drug that many are unaware of, which is called hope. In hope, humor can emerge. Not in despair. ~~Itxu Díaz
Christine, I think a major key is not to allow fear to get its claws into you. I’m not quite your vintage, but I’m certainly no spring chicken myself. Yes, age is most certainly a bitch, and certainly not for the faint hearted. The only advice I can offer… is try your best to believe in the bigger scheme of things. We are not alone in this grand universal plan. Nothing goes unnoticed. I truly believe (as chaotic as things appear), there is a hardwired natural order to things … and that the good are looked after in the end. Do you have close family? Someone in your life you truly trust and rely upon?
Hi! I am so glad to have found your stack. I have been wrestling with this issue for months now too. What to do, what to do, when the rugs seem to be continually pulled out from under us.
If I had my way I would have moved out to a more rural location months ago to homestead but my family is blind to what I see so I have to stay in the city. We live in a mid sized city in the Midwest US.
For a while I was writing my congress people and school board but that felt so futile because I hardly ever got a response and when I did it was the usual form letter canned crap.
I have also very slowly been trying to store a bit of extra food here and there but that is tough on a tight budget.
After feeling like I was going to lose my mind to despair a few months ago I decided to find a bit of joy every single day because if our heads are on the chopping block right now then I am going to damn well enjoy whatever time I have left.
For me that means I got back to painting and I spend time enjoying the birdsong in my backyard. I love listening to good music and watching the sunlight change in the trees in the morning.
I try to take extra good care of myself because what we are going through is so extreme, at least it is for me. I got canceled by my ‘friends’ here for daring to question the integrity of the pharmaceutical industry. 🙄
I have had to allow my self to just let go, to realize that I have limits and that I need to conserve my physical and mental energy.
That is not giving up and writing is doing something too. We are letting others know that they are not alone and that counts for something.
I have also thought it might be a good tactic to print up small flyers about the dangers of the mRNA shots and masking with links to doctors 4 covid ethics and others to leave at grocery stores like Whole Foods.
Small easy actions can add up.
Write a new Declaration of Independence. Write and inhabit it so well we can do what we now must. Reinhabit planet earth in the most powerful ways possible. We are the humans of planet earth. We do not comply with the prison planet.
https://youtu.be/CGrR-7_OBpA
Your words are nice rhetoric but how do they translate into action?
Most of us here have not complied to anything that has been imposed upon us in the last few years, and non-compliance is evidently not enough. It has not stopped the roller coaster.
So what do the non-compliant old and the sick and the poor and the housebound and the overwhelmed DO when we get up of a morning, to change anything?
What we are currently doing, apart from not complying, is reading a lot, writing a lot, and preaching to the choir (other Substack readers) a lot. Is that enough?
There have been lots of fantastic "declarations" over the last three years, from noteworthy individuals and groups, and lots of legal actions, and endless petitions to governments, and I see no evidence that any of them have achieved anything.
I would be very happy for you to tell me what I can personally do when I get up in the morning, to fix this. If you solve it for me, you probably solve it for hundreds of thousands of others like me.
I am just one lone person - we all are. But together we are powerful. I can only rely on what some of our more powerful, enlightened ancestors would do if they were here today. I believe they would recommend we write an new Declaration of Independence for the world. As per the original documents it was done by a committee of committed individuals who did not comply. I believe this is where we exist today. Fortunately we don’t have to travel to Philadelphia by horseback to accomplish this. I recommend we all read the originals and begin writing a new one. Each of us has something to give.
Hmmm. I know you Americans believe in your declaration of independence, but the rest of us don't. Your country has been as corrupt, since its inception, as the rest of the modern world. We have been governed for thousands of years, since the start of recorded history, by a greedy controlling elite - and let us never forget that they taught us how to record history - to show them in a good light. Mankind is not very smart. We happily do their work for them. Witness how the vaxxed treated the unvaxxed and how medicos murdered the aged and the sick, for evidence of that.
There have been many revolutions since human history has been recorded, and what happened to each and every one of them? The seething masses unseated a ruling elite and hey presto, those chairs were then taken over by someone even worse, a new and even nastier ruling elite. A revolution is not enough. There must be a replacement that cannot be corrupted. I see that Jordan Peterson is claiming to be creating such a replacement - his ARC.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/SIhlWo6ePkba/
The American experiment has quite obviously failed and failed for identifiable reasons. Since you feel you can do better let’s see the proof of it. I wait with baited breath. Lots of people claim replacements. The proof will be in the pudding. This is not about America or any nation state - it is about the overcoming of an imposed prison planet. Passing contests and a lamenting over what is in fact wrong will not serve us here.
Interesting mis-perception. What made you think I was saying that I can do better?
Not only has the American experiment failed. The Australian experiment, the New Zealand experiment, the South African experiment, the Canadian experiment, the Irish experiment, the English experiment, have ALL spectacularly failed.
Did you read the article I wrote today that started this thread? It is all about how I have no idea what any of us can do.
https://christinekent.substack.com/p/the-paralysis-of-the-old-and-the
Wow - not the faintest idea, lol. Maybe it was this sentence
"Hmmm. I know you Americans believe in your declaration of independence, but the rest of us don't."
All I am saying is because we have all failed and have abundant proof of that currently we must begin somewhere. Marching in the streets, holding wars to enrich the military industrial plutocrats - doesn't work. But what will is strength in numbers. If we are able to articulate the aspirations of all humans to respect unalienable rights and to pursue liberty and justice for today's world - we will have somewhere to begin anew. We don't need everybody although that would be really spectacular. Many seem permanently lost to delusion and maybe that is true. But we the people rule the world - we just have not done so in such a long time.
From where I sit & type, it looks like you're already playing your bespoke part in our civilisational struggle, utmost beautifully 🤩
Rich language. Mmmm
Dr Yeadon just posted an interview saying he does not believe Covid exists
https://rumble.com/v2inevq--dr.-michael-yeadon-claims-covid-was-a-fake-pandemicthe-flu-disappeared.html
I really admire Dr Yeadon. He’s brave as anything!
I agree with him. Whatever hospitalised me was not anything like a cold or flu. It was a collapse of every part of my body connected to my vagus nerve, so to me, that was a collapse of the vagus nerve and the entire autonomic nervous system. And what could have caused that? 5G of course.
I always look forward to your posts, Christine, so you are being of service in these dark times just by being here!
Thank you.
I love this article. Great pic too. I totally hear you and relate to what you are saying
I hit my end of untapped depths four months ago and yielded to mental health medication
That was after 7 years housebound with chronic illness
That was something I swore I would never do
And here I am
I am on a pension too
You know your very presence helps
The very fact your awake is revolutionary
Your honesty is a service
It’s a hard road and a discerning road and an exhausting one juggling finance etc
I read this great article about heroes and how heroes are ‘manipulated’ caricature by a psy op oppressing governmental system
My heroes don’t look like what they used to
The ones that I did believe in have fallen to corruption
My heroes nowadays are people like and including you
Unseen warriors
Like Whitney Dafoe
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02YNTyirEfnhPRm5mxUf5i7kz1CJnx3R5Enc6kFJm71PBCr7gvwWSQWj2CG7EmfjSil&id=100062993931789&mibextid=qC1gEa
Though he is in some limelight
All the Mothers out there
Folk living chronic illness
So many
Here’s an article
https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/the-totalitarian-dystopia-is-already?r=25b88f&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Thanks for the great read
"I hit my end of untapped depths four months ago and yielded to mental health medication..."
I am not at that point yet, but late last year I got shingles and explored the field of powerful pain killers for the first time in my life. Most of them did nothing for the pain, and some even caused pain, but one, a very popular one, did wonders in more ways that one. I am currently contemplating whether I have reached the point where addiction to some pain killer that relieves me of my pain and gives me that nice squishy feeling might be a viable choice. That's the "palliative care" choice that some day I will need to make. Just don't know if it is upon me yet.
Dude I totally relate! I’m seventeen years sober and have hard line boundaries around meds so this year has been like a capsize. Tramadol at night has become regular now and I wonder if I’m addicted to it. I definitely need pain meds but I also push far past my energy envelope and take meds to get through the night. I’m wondering that I’m at the palliative care choice too! I was in an elderly assisted living facility when Covid arrived. Youngest by thirty years! I love the nice squishy feeling. I hear you. And again it’s hard to judge when you don’t know what’s ahead. My concern is there will be supply outages and I will be catapulted into withdrawal. Oh it’s a tricky place to be. Resting in uncertainty is hard! Do you have support people? I take respite in spiritual teachings. That’s a solace too. But everyone has their own way xx
No support, at least on this physical plane of existence. And you are right about the supply lines issue. There are weeds with suitable phytochemicals to replace pharmaceuticals, but even they have not been growing well in the last few years, at least where I live. I have found natural alternatives for any pharmaceuticals I might need, but even they are not easily accessible.
Fear not, ms C, for help has arrived...this ol'm/cycle crash damaged/m.e cursed mechanic has a cheap Rx for unrelenting pain that keeps it to a dull roar...amazon.com 'Thrive Complete Nicotine Replacement Gum' [tip-cut the chicklets in half, lasting many days of chew/spit it out/hour later repeat...]
... researchgate.net /publication/236642355_Nicotine_is_a_pain_reliever_in_trauma-_and_chemotherapy-induced_neuropathy_models
Nicotine is a pain reliever in trauma- and chemotherapy-induced neuropathy models[...]
--- vid [ffwd 15.00]
rumble.com/v2a1qza-nicotine-understanding-the-weapon-and-the-target.html
NICOTINE! UNDERSTANDING THE WEAPON AND THE TARGET!!!
in this episode, Dr. Ardis reveals important and very relevant information on the real dangers of Covid-19 and the shots. He explains what nicotine receptors are and how venoms shut off nerve function like taste, smell, diaphragm contraction, hearing and brain function. There is a false belief that ACE2 receptors are the target.
The target is actually nicotine receptors and the antidote is nicotine! You will learn how nicotine impacts specific cognitive impairments like dementia, alzheimer's disease and even psychosis. Why did smokers benefit from nicotine for Covid -19, Long Haul Covid and the Covid-19 Vaccine Injuries?!!! 205 +Comments
Mmmmm. Well your well researched then. I had a great friend who ate weeds a lot. Sorry you don’t have community support. See that’s a big factor. I don’t either much. But I just qualified for home help so I will have a nice five times vaxxed worker shedding in my space. But that’s what I mean about palliative. I’m not doing the blood cleaning stuff or detox stuff Dr Ana mentions. I’m kinda ready for the decline if it’s coming. Anyway, off to rest. Have a good night. It’s been great
The story at that Facebook link is awful. I feel guilty for feeling sorry for myself when I realise how much worse it could be.
Suffering is relative. He is such a wonderful human.
Remember he has two dedicated parents and a carer. I can’t imagine knowing there was a family network that had my back
It looks awful but his posts are sometimes enlightening, sometimes funny, sometimes so tender, sometimes so strong.
He is committed to exposing M.E/cfs in it’s reality through social media and his father is a scientist looking for a cure
Thank you.
It was your post that triggered me to write this, but not because I was offended. Most times, I am frustrated rather than offended. I want to do something but there is nothing I can do. I want to be able to suggest to others what they can do, but I have no idea what they can do either. In reality, all any of us can do is sit and wait and hope like hell we make the right decisions while we are waiting, so we have some hope of being ready for what comes next.
💬 all any of us can do is sit and wait and hope like hell we make the right decisions
Hope like hell! 👌 Yet 'sit and wait' oozes not quite the right vibe 🙂 Just live true to your inner compass, and leave the burden of large-scale outcomes to whatever transcendent forces you believe are in charge of the world—where it belongs, this burden, sure like hell *not* weighing on your frail shoulders 😊
My favourite columnist chimes in ↓↓
🗨 laughter in the midst of heartache. We [Christians] are not crazy, we simply have a magical element, a kind of drug that many are unaware of, which is called hope. In hope, humor can emerge. Not in despair. ~~Itxu Díaz