Help keep the Freedom Scale rolling for the cost of the occasional cup of coffee:
Over the last two days, we have been discussing the totalitarianism gradually metastasizing through the West, and how we ought to react.
On Wednesday—the tragic fact that when tyranny rises, moral considerations often take a back seat to survival.
On Thursday—the question of if and when protective force is justified in response.
We’ve hashed it out in the comment threads, and I am sure we will continue to do so there, and in the months and years ahead. There is an excellent case that peace will win the day. There is an equally reasonable case that tyranny deserves a forceful response, and that such a response may be the only thing that can actually work in the end.
We won’t answer this today, and I don’t want to. All I want to do today is salute each and every one of you for being the people you are.
Resilient.
Resistant to the lies.
Defiant.
Jealously proud of your individuality.
Fiercely protective of your rights as a human person.
To everyone who commented on these questions…
And to everyone else here at the Freedom Scale…
I am proud to know people so strong.
Whatever the songwriters’ actual intent may have been, I am adapting this song for us, here today.
I'll stand for what I think is right…
I will stand alone…
I stand a [wo]man,
Not an animal.And I kneel to no one,
And I never will.
The lyrics nail it. Plus, it’s badass.
Enjoy, you beautiful warriors.
Thank you for being a lamplight of reason and continually shining a light on important questions and, despite the issues we are facing, remaining solution-oriented. I salute you! 🙏✨🥳
I appreciate your brightly burning, inextinguishable flame of freedom. The concept has been my motivation since teen years. Haven't studied philosophies, I'm a natural man, appreciative of my gifts and talents, and yearning to bring them to bear in the real world.
The real world is incredibly, as in one-can-not -believe, evil. We live in an era where one's intellectual property can be stolen from one's mind, as well as one's computers. We live in a world where nothing is safe, or sacred, where daily, evil is demonstrably in the driver's seat, where a life can be extinguished without a thought, except malice afore thought, and without notice.
"peace will win the day. There is an equally reasonable case that tyranny deserves a forceful response,"
I agree with both phrases.
The rational mind percieves the fact that violence can not outdo the violence with which we are faced. Check out the disappearing news stories of Lahaina and Hiway 91, the Las Vegas "sniper". They're indicative of the methods and technology this totally corrupted government structure will deploy to achieve whatever the ends of the moment are.
"Tyranny deserves a forceful response", as well does injustice. I've been in circumstances where I felt compelled to respond in that manner, but realized that violence is self-destructive, even when an entity is capable of and willing to engage in endless violence. We're faced with an enemy, which has made us it's enemy, which is in possession of space-based mind-invasive anti-personnel weapons. We can be turned to dust in a nanosecond. Choose your weapons: AR's? STICKS? Rocks? Where's the target? What's the target?
My response has been to develop control over my mind, to choose my responses, to develop a Silent, constructive, resilient mind. I've also experienced enough inexplicable aid during my quest to appreciate the fact that there's a beneficent Superpower providing whatever was needed when it was needed. Don't Know if it's GOD of the Bible, but to me, it's the LORD of ALL. And I KNOW I'm connected.
Blessed are warriors who are given the chance of a battle like this, which calls for them to do what is right, and opens the gates of Heaven. If you are killed, you gain heaven; triumph you gain the earth.