I have "lurked" here for a little over a year now. I have always intuited things, an Empath... and an NDE 47 years ago heightened things. I am usually "in the closet" because many do not understand or accept it. A long Journey to be who I am today. I just wanted to say (Putin's Puppet has been my name for Trump since 2016) I am so thankful that people are finally seeing what he is. Truly evil flourishes while good people stand by and do nothing. I have had long time friends turn on me because I speak out about him. I have met new ones...who can see what he is and what he is doing. I wanted to thank all here.. for the support and honesty that I "see" know that it has comforted me and kept me from thinking I was insane LOL. I have always had a heightened sense of smell , hyperosmia, about many things in the physical world. Oddly .. I always had a sense of "reeking garbage" that I can actually smell whenever I would see IMPOTUS (Love that!) and hear him talk...to the point I have to turn it off/remove it. I strongly sense his mental health is teetering on the brink of him totally losing it. It remains to be seen if the GOP covers it up for him as they did with Reagan.
Amen, @bluebelle!
I think it bears remembering that only about 13% of Christians identify as evangelical. The problem, of course, is that—much like the religious clerics Jesus of Nazareth directly criticized (which, as we know, got him killed)—the majority of white American evangelical leaders have aligned themselves with "Rome." Not because they care so deeply about sparing the lives of the unborn [what do they care for those lives once they're here?] or because they fear "the homosexuals" so much [they seem to love all the gay music ministers and pastors who lead their megachurches!], but because they want to continue to be appointed to senate seats and federal judgeships and cabinet posts and every other powerful position their proximity to this president affords them.
Seeing to the preservation of their "religious freedom" is an accidental euphemism for American Sharia, but I digress...
I was raised by evangelicals and no longer identify as Christian myself. But (despite my stated frustration here) I have a great deal of love and respect for that two-millennia-old faith. For others like me, I think it's important to keep in perspective that most Christians fall somewhere near the political center—like everyone else in the bell curve of democracy. And at the forefront of every one of our country's civil rights and social justice movements, going back to abolition and suffrage, were liberal Christians—Unitarians and Quakers and Episcopalians and Methodists—(and people of other faiths) who fought for the rights of all people, at risk of their own lives and livelihoods. They sought to stand in the example of their messiah, who'd once been a lowly immigrant child but had gone on to challenge the injustices of Rome itself, including its enslavement of the Jews. A carpenter's son who was willing to die fighting for a more righteous and compassionate world.
And each of those evangelicals, if we take them at their word, believe they'll stand before him someday.
So ... children in cages? Imprisoning frightened migrants who desperately seek asylum at our borders? Callously allowing young people to die in those conditions? Rewarding a soldier who murders civilians and mocks the death of an adolescent? Looking the other away as a journalist is brutally murdered and mutilated? I can't imagine how they believe they'll justify those things then.
Hi, @journeywithme2! So glad you finally posted. Please do stick around.
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I have hyperosmia! I'm basically a bloodhound. My daughter and I joke that my uncanny sense of smell is my "unfortunate superpower," but your post makes me incredibly grateful that I don't smell anything extrasensory when I see or listen to IMPOTUS. (The seeing and hearing are bad enough, thankyouverymuch.) ?
Hi, and couldn't agree more about American Sharia. Recently, I watched "The Family" on Netflix, a five-part series about an extremely powerful evangelical group centered in DC. It explains the hard right evangelical mindset quite well. It also reveals their faith-based reasons for accepting IMPOTUS as their Chosen One.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate.
Even for those who don't, here's a holiday gift for us all viafilings in court yesterday. The very first line of the article says: The House is open to the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump a second time, lawyers for the Judiciary Committee said Monday. Happy Holidays!
@vestralux, I don't always catch all smells. Some seem to elude me-like when my friend complains about her cats having soiled something. I don't always smell it. On the other hand, I catch many things others don't. I one time called the HVAC repair guys because my heat didn't smell right-I smelled something burning. The guy thought I was nuts till he found the blower motor switch was working only intermittently. Seems I could smell the heat coils when the switch hadn't activated yet, but the guy couldn't figure out how since he could barely smell them when he was in the attic with them. LOL I could always tell when my ex had been smoking pot when he had my son in the house. The clothes sometimes didn't even leave the suitcase, and were never in the same room with the ex while he was smoking. Then they'd make the journey from one coast to another in a plane, but when I unzipped the suitcase, I could always smell the tobacco and the pot.
Hi, @mikeb! Totally. Some of us discussed the docuseries here right after its release, and I'm glad you've mentioned it again. In fact, I'd say the story it reveals (as frightening as it is) should be necessary viewing for all Americans. But then, I'm partial to sunlight as disinfectant.
What I want to see next is an examination of how this particular strain of religious thinking and its tendency toward dark covenants with power has repeated throughout history, from Constantine to the Crusades to the Reformation and so on. It feels like something we need to be conscious of as a culture. A type of mind virus we should learn to better guard our societies against.
@cindy Very cool about the HVAC motor! As they say, the nose knows.
Like you, I smell all the things—even when no one around me is concerned or convinced. Someone told me that Kim Kardashian can smell cavities just by sitting near enough to a person, and I can believe it. I feel I've smelled cancer (before it was diagnosed) and even death (before it had commenced). But I also tend to experience smells whenever spirits are near, which might be anything from particular food smells, cigarettes, pipe tobacco, a campfire, mothballs, or the odor of alcohol on someone's breath, to more pleasant smells like aftershave, gardenia, jasmine, or roses. Without fail and regardless of smell, I get a metallic taste in my mouth when spirits are near.
I have synesthesia (I've said it here before, but I imagine a lot of us do), so smell for me is bound up in other senses: namely, visual (color) and sound. They're overlapping energetic frequencies, I guess. So, a smell often has a color component that I'm picking up visually (inner eye). And certain musical chords or harmonies come with color and smell. There's sometimes also a feeling of "texture," but that's harder to explain.
Happiest of Holidays to all here ..sharing one of my favorites of the season : https://youtu.be/yxDZjg_Igoc
I don't know where to post this - remove it if it's the wrong place.
I was at my brother's tonight for Xmas eve and my nephew gave me a book "1000 Things The Republicans Do Right." Chapters concern the electoral college, health care, diversity etc.
Every page in the book is blank. Happy holidays.
Merry Christmas/Holidays Everyone!
Anyhow, I was reading a book about Ego and there was a few paragraphs about Howard Hughes and man, he had a lot of similarities to Trump. I wonder if anyone has seen both charts to see if they had similar placements. HH was quite an egotist who squandered millions and most of what he had was inherited. He lost more money.. he also had government contracts in which he squandered taxpayer dollars. He also degenerated mentally (and physically). I don't know why he is viewed so positively. That guy was narcissist and a jerk. He bankrupted so many businesses.
In his early life he was very inventive and ambitious. Later on he went nuts.
I'm not a professional but I glanced at both the charts. DT and HH have several planets in common, namely Leo and Gemini. Howard was a Libra, however. I am on a fun site that tells you people who have similar aspects. The people who have similar astrological aspects to Trump are complete disaster areas. After all, Gemini takes up the #2 spot in serial killers. Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Keith Richards, someone called Anti-Christ (who has similar aspects to Hitler), Alois Alzheimer, and others have astrological aspects as DT. People with similar aspects to Hughes' chart seem more benign. Of course I'm generalizing, and this is just for fun.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! I am so thankful for all of you and especially Jeanne, who has created this place for us to meet and exchange ideas.
I just finally had time to read the following article. It is not very festive, but it serves, in my opinion, as a reminder that we need to remain calm, steady and focused over the next few months in directing our energy. The article is about the president and his current mental state written in the form of an interview with a mental health professional. Apparently, he can only thrive if he can create anger and discord.
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/23/how-to-understand-trump-now-wounded-child-drug-addict-or-delusional-gaslighter/
I am going to try to direct the anger/fear that I feel instead as light to those who are trying to do the right thing and protect the country.
I wish all of you peace and joy over the holiday season!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!! Happy Holidays!!! ?
Thanks to all of you for your love, support and kindness this past year. May 2020 be gentle and sweet to you, and brings you many blessings.
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Santa left me this for Christmas. I hear her victory speech, “Facebook, Amazon, Google, and all you out-of-control banks —you are toast!” And oh yeah, “Medicare for All!!!!” Don’t know if she is POTUS or VP. Or Senate Majority Leader. But she is pumped.
Merry Christmas to you and to everyone on this forum!
As to your dream about the "minotaur," I feel you are right on target. But I would like to offer some other points as well. In Greek mythology, the minotaur was kept in a maze built by Daedalus and his son, Icarus. After the minotaur was killed by the Greek hero Theseus, Daedalus and Icarus were imprisoned in the very maze they created. They escaped the maze by building wings made of feathers and wax, but Icarus fell to his death after flying too close to the sun, causing the wax holding his wings together to melt. Meanwhile, Theseus triumphed, but forgot to change the sails on his ship (if the sails stayed black, they signaled to his father that Theseus was killed. If the sails changed to white, they signaled to Theseus's father that he lived.) Because Theseus forgot to change the sails, Theseus's father despaired and threw himself from the cliffs, effectively killing himself, and Theseus became the ruler after him.
If your vision is correct, then Trumpism (the minotaur) will be destroyed after someone finally manages to defeat the maze (or the system of lies and corruption) that Trump made to protect himself. However, the old democratic party (symbolized by Theseus's father) will lose hope and "die," making way for a new Democratic party to take over. In the meantime, the Republican party will be trapped in the "maze" of lies and corruption they helped to create. Some may escape, but those who try to "rise above" their actions (aka-try to seize power despite what they did), will find themselves burn by the light of truth and fall to earth. This may signify the permanent split of the Republican party, with the "tea party" branch falling and the regular Republicans trying to keep a low profile.
Yes, I know that I am probably wrong on this (not to mention the fact that I spend too much time studying mythology in my youth). But I truly think that your vision is more encompassing than you think.
Amen! Like you, I was raised in a deeply Evangelical area (Southeast Tennessee). It is very pro-Trump, pro-Republican, and extremely conservative. I grew up in the area all my life, and yet I could never quite fit in. I could not understand why my fellow Christian brothers and sisters were anti-immigrant. Wasn't Jesus an immigrant when he and his family had to flee to Eygpt to avoid King Harrod trying to kill him? And if God created everyone, was it therefore a sin to be prejudice to anyone simply because they were not born white, male, and American? (You can imagine that I was not very popular amongst my peers growing up).
I foresee an eventual end to the Evangelical movement. The marriage of Republicanism and Evangelicalism has made it a political movement and not a religious one. More and more of the younger generation are so thoroughly disgusted with Evangelicals that they have given up on Christianity altogether. Others, like myself, are basically "Christians in exile." We still believe in Christianity, but we no longer attend church because we cannot stomach how the preachers extoll their members on the virtues of Trump and yet say that every woman who has an abortion will burn in hell (even the ones who would die if they carry the child to term). We are waiting for the day for Evangelicalism to diminish in power so we can take control and remind people what Christianity is supposed to be about. The power to love one another and to make it a priority to help people first and judge people last. It is our duty to send light to others, even those who disagree with us.
Speaking of signs, I recently went to watch the latest "Star Wars-The Rise of Skywalker" (it was an early gift to my dad, who loves Star Wars). At one point of the movie (spoiler alert), there was a part where one of the characters reminded the others that evil wins "when good people think they are alone." By reminding people that they were not alone, they were able to rise up and come together, thus destroying the forces against them and saving their homes. This line has been playing in my mind over and over because it is so true for us. Evil wins when it makes us think that we are alone or that there are not enough of us to make a difference.
But they are wrong. We are not alone. And no matter what the dark throws at us this year, or how corrupt our government gets, we can still win. So long as we encourage each other, then there is nothing the dark can do to stop us. Have all the Republicans vote to save Trump? Then we will vote you out. Continue to hide your corruption? We will use our light and drag your lies out for the world to see. Try to fix the election? We will show up in force at the voting booths. It is only when they seek to destroy our faith that they stand a chance at beating us. That is why we must encourage and support each other, so that we are not discouraged.
A belated Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukah to everyone.
Love the Elizabeth Warren figure, Jeanne! In my circle she seems to have the most support out of the primary candidates.