I’m an optimist and believe in humanity’s insane ability to improve its lot.
It’s not too late for the truth. It’s not too late to reverse course on censorship and restrictions based on fear and lies.
Social media platforms are trying to shut Bret Weinstein up. He’s not going quietly and he’s a hero for freedom of speech and truth.
The lab leak theory could have been investigated and put to use in developing therapies and vaccines. For a year science was impeded by those who used it as a weapon. People died because of the censorship that has run rampant across the internet. People died because figures like Anthony Fauci knew there was credible evidence that humans had a hand in this outbreak and publicly ridiculed those who were telling the truth.
It’s not too late. If we want to end this current pathogen and prevent future outbreaks, we have to start championing freedom of speech. Not because of a piece of paper scribbled on over 200 years ago, but because we cannot see the truth when we let the powerful govern speech.
“You’re demonizing people for using the scientific method to evaluate evidence that is available to us in the world. What a terrible crime it is to teach that lesson: Thou Shall Not Use Scientific Tools.” -Bret Weinstein
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Bret Weinstein and Dr. Pierre Kory join Joe Rogan in this important discussion of ivermectin, the Wuhan lab leak theory, media censorship, and what poweful people in government and big pharma have to gain from supressing cheap, effective treatments and prophylactics for SARS-CoV-2.
You don’t have to listen to the entire three hours. Within 40 minutes the conversation uncovers the blatant lie the media has been promoting for over a year that there was no reason to look at the coronavirus lab in Wuhan as a source of the outbreak. Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook all worked to suppress the free exchange of information, marginalizing those who reasonably discussed a theory that has forced its way into the mainstream.
By the end of the first hour, many questions are raised as to why information about ivermectin continues to be suppressed. These questions are important for those who have yet to ask them during the government’s Lockdown strategies.
Throughout the discussion, they dig into the data, follow the money, and dismantle the Covid narrative of the corporate media and government.
Could friendship also tear the State apart? Is Ron Paul’s Love Revolution possible? Can we dissolve the State’s monopoly on violence through fellowship and comraderie?
It sounds fantastical, but I have experienced the simple miracle of Good Friends. When people come together to listen to and provide each other’s needs, they no longer call for the force of government to take resources from one to feed another.
This episode of The Tom Woods Show scratches the mystery of friendship and offers several resources for digging deeper (links below).
My life has been transformed by loving friendships. I underestimated the power of these relationships for a long time. Now I wonder if this Love is so close to the perfect Love of God that it carries the strength to move populations out from under the yoke of governmental power.
There is much to mine here.
Friendship seems too to hold states together, and lawgivers to care more for it than for justice; for unanimity seems to be something like friendship, and this they aim at most of all, and expel faction as their worst enemy; and when men are friends they have no need of justice, while when they are just they need friendship as well, and the truest form of justice is thought to be a friendly quality.
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I don’t struggle with faith, exactly. I struggle with understanding, deepening, and living in harmony with my faith.
This conversation between Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Pageau is the first time I’ve heard Peterson identify as a Christian and volunteer the fact that he doesn’t go to church.
Perhaps my favorite thing about Peterson is the personal investment he brings to intellectual discussion. It can be painful, as important learning must be.
Attending worship services has never settled into routine for us.
Before we were Baptized, Mary and I sought community and stability. We thought we could find that in church. After we had children, Sunday mornings became more challenging. One Sunday, once we had two children and resolved to expose them to regular worship, Mary went to tears before they were awake. We never talked about it deeply, I gave her time. It was months before we started attending again. And then a few months later she asked me about faith.
Mary’s faith was easy. Baptism was a formal declaration of what was on her heart. I was, and am, the overthinker.
I’m confident that Jesus moved my heart, but Peterson did a lot of work on by brain.
Worship as a widower has been different. It feels lonely, especially when one son would rather read Deadpool comics in the front pew than listen to the sermon (mind you, he ALWAYS choses the first or second row as his reading spot). The scripture and the message never fail to carry meaning for me, but there’s something out of place about our little family.
This past year has been especially difficult. I tried virtual worship, virtual Bible study, and virtual Sunday school. It all fell flat for all of us. When I was invited onto a Spanish league soccer team that played on Sundays, there was no conflict. I had begun a daily and developing prayer practice and was feeling closer to God, despite missing fellowship with my Christian brothers and sisters.
Soccer shifted indoors and to different days just as I was invited into a new fellowship. There hardly seemed to be a choice to make when I had the opportunity to meet new people and worship unencumbered by regulations that do not ring true to the way I believe Jesus showed us how to behave.
We are becoming a part of this new fellowship. We have been welcomed and I am leading a small in-person study group.
And soccer season approaches.
Not all the games will interfere with worship, but many will. My body craves the level of competition and comraderie of this league and team. My sense of loyalty and gratitude is activated by last year’s invitation to play “normal” soccer when nothing else was. That one invitation has led to dozens of hours of soccer in places where white people don’t usually get welcomed.
I thank God every day for my actively physical life. Mary knew better than I how important soccer is for me. I’ve embraced that somatic need and I feel closer to God when I thank him for my gifts.
There is an ego-driven piece of me that fears explaining to my Monday group that I missed service for soccer. I wonder if this makes me “less of a Christian.” There is comfort in knowing that Peterson has a similar disconnect in his Christian life. I also try to take heart in God’s Grace not being a thing that humans can sort out among themselves. Being Saved isn’t about works, but what is in one’s heart. God knows that better than we do ourselves.
It’s the aim that counts. I can love God and play soccer in an effort to honor the body that God gave me. I don’t worship the game or the body, I worship the Creator and strive to aim at His Kingdom every day.
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My older son and I are slowly working through a fantastic history of the Berlin Wall and how the Soviet Union collapsed. The satellite states split off in largely peaceful ways.
Could the United States of America do the same? I’d like to think so.
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Malice and Chen discuss the failure of socialist medical care in Canada, the death of American cities at the hands of the elites, a National divorce, and reasons to take the White Pill.
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I’ve been listening to Kim Anami for more than two years and somehow missed this episode she did with Wim Hof.
These two are innovators in self actualization and empowerment. They’re both powerful, sexual, intensely alive, and working to bring their peace and happiness to the masses.
Halfway through the episode I was reminded that I was off my daily breathing routine. I pulled my shirt off and got about 19 minutes in the cold shortly before sunset.
Anami and Hof regularly challenge our societal narratives. They empower their listeners to take responsibility for their health, whether it be mental, cardiovascular, sexual, spiritual, neural, muscular, immune, or any of the critically important systems that we outsource to experts.
They are uncovering cutting edge science in ancient practices. They promote radical answers that have been lost to modernity.
On a personal level, I have found less shame in my sexual self and more power buried in my cells than I knew was there.
I entered my fourth year as a widower yesterday. There has been healing in each day. Through Hof and Anami I have seen how much ancestral trauma is carried in the body. The daily healing digs deeper into the past and deeper into my own body. The results are remarkable. I am happier and healthier with each breath, each prayer, and each connection with similar souls.
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