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Apr 7Liked by Courageous Lion

Note to my husband after an unjust accusation of being "radicalised Far-Right" was flung at me.

9/11/23

Self-sovereignty knows no politics. It leans neither left nor right. It is centred upon individual conscience which supercedes all external "authority". It is the inalienable right of every human, not a privilege given by government. It is not removed just because of the latest manufactured "emergency".

I am as I have always been. I think as I have always thought. I have not changed. I have never, nor will I ever give consent to the horror and incompetence that is the governance of this world. As an empath, my heart and soul bleed for the billions of victims of that governance.

"The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison."

Teachings from the Pleiadians

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Apr 7·edited Apr 7Author

WHAT? Your husband said that to you? I guess he is wearing the panties in your house? Geezzzz...I can't even imagine saying something like that to my wife. EVER. UNALIENABLE means "Unalienable: incapable of being alienated, that is, sold and transferred." Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 1523:

You can not surrender, sell or transfer unalienable rights, they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstances be surrendered or taken. All individual's have unalienable rights. They can only be INFRINGED upon. You are what I'd like every man that is married to have for a wife when it comes to your understanding. YOU KEEP GOING WOMAN!!!

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Apr 7Liked by Courageous Lion

My roar may not be loud, but it is profound.

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Apr 9·edited Apr 9Liked by Courageous Lion

Well written and reasoned piece, though not without a hedge. Margaret Thatcher once famously questioned the existence of "society" and posited only individuals and families as the most fundamental organizing principle of humanity.

I am the polar opposite of Thatcherism (socialism for the rich, austerity for the rest of us), and though I agree that "society" is an abstract, emergent epiphenomenon ... I question the status of 'individual' as the fundamental ground of a social primate, and prefer families and small communities as a more defensible position for our default of organization.

Here in Japan, for example, there was no Japanese word for individual until a translation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau required a new word ... "koujin". Prior to that coinage, individuals were not invisible, but they were defined in terms of relationships. Even now, there is no Japanese word for "brother" or "sister". It is either "older" or "younger" brother or sister.

Certainly individual autonomy is necessary for biological survival at the most basic level, but for a social primate prior to the evolution of transportation and larger heterogenous populations, banishment was pretty close to the death sentence among all cultures.

Meh, it may just boil down to the limits of language and logic in defining 'individual' outside of a social context. After all, I do believe that individual choice (moral autonomy), even if it means sacrificing one's self for the good of the marginalized 'other' (e.g. a mother for her new-born, a father for his family, etc.) is paramount.

I was glad to see the importance of social context, with a small "s", weighed heavily on the minds of the founding fathers.

Good post!

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I read it years ago and recently came upon it again and felt the information was good enough to share to as many as possible. Thanks for taking your time to do so and for your thoughtful comment. I don't see too much in common with the Asian culture vs the Saxon one that I'm a member of. Ordinarily they seem to me, to have more of a bee hive mentality where as the Saxons have always had a more independent spirit as a whole. But all societies seem to have a flaw in allowing those among them to take leadership positions that are actually psychopathic control freaks. Just look at some of the insanity that has been coming out with people like Kathy Hotchul in New York and Jacinda Ardern from New Zealand. Total raving lunatics.

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Apr 17Liked by Courageous Lion

Hi C.L.

Was just going through posts and came across this. Totally agree with you about how Cluster B / Dark Tetrad temperaments tend to make, and then game their Tower of Babel game of thrones.

Just wanted to mention that depending on domain and point of view ... the beehive mentality thing is universal, a somewhat de-individualizing point of view, and in war-time scenarios, a very real social phenomenon. For example, Japanese are quite varied and independent in what we ordinarily think of as the religious domain ... and when they look at most of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim world and religious wars ... they think "bee hive mentality" of the West. Regarding the institutionalized aspect of most organized religion, I tend to agree.

But as I said, during times of external threat and the propagandizing from the sociopaths in control, Japanese also go into kamikaze beehive mode. Just like the 300 Spartans.

Meh. We are all social primates, some just a bit pathologically warped than others.

Cheers from Japan C.L.

Keep up the good fight.

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Some are a LOT more pathologically warped. It appears they may have a genetic defect.

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Apr 20·edited Apr 20Liked by Courageous Lion

I honestly think it's technology. People can't even drive down the road without it. Weird all far left people are constantly praised and those opposed are ridiculed in a way that in my day would have had to occur face to face and they'd got their teeth rearranged! Social media has done nothing but cultivate a very unhealthy environment! I miss zero about fascistbook and on here, Gab, Clouthub, Locals, etc I flat don't engage with brutal attackers or people making completely off the wall comments. Mute and block...move along. Like the rest of the websites I'm on I'm only there for like minded conversations that are actually beneficial. If people want to vote democratic or keep getting the clot shot while still wearing mask and gloves more power to them. Litterally not our problem anymore. It's like Christianity...it's reached all four corners of the world, as Bible instructed, and it's on them if they don't believe. They can't blame crooked churches or pastors because the Bible is specific about free will and not putting your faith in man. I do agree with genetic defect when it comes to LGBQT. To me it's like Schizophrenia, etc...they can still function, have jobs, relationships, but something went wrong. It also doesn't help we have parents coddling their children and letting them dress however or act like a furrie. Allowing them day and night on technology. They are more than likely perfectly normal being influenced in the worst way during the most vulnerable years of their mental growth. Walk into any restaurant...mom, dad, and two children ALL staring at their technology not engaging. It's sad. Then let's add schools FORCING children to learn about everything other than reading, writing, and arithmetic. They have to go along with every whackadoodle ideology or face being ridiculed and reprimanded! It's honestly an insult to a person's intelligence to be forced to call a boy a girl, vice-versa, or that being a furrie is cool! I know what I see. I'll add that doesn't mean I approve of people bullying or making fun of a person for anything, but that's EXACTLY what they are doing to us! Agree or not only get verbally abused, but possibly physically! That's complete crap! Because they, antifia, blm, liberals act like rabid animals and police, judicial system, government, etc do NOTHING about it we continue to feel obligated to remain silent except on social media... Vicious cycle unfortunately.

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Apr 20·edited Apr 20Author

Wow, a lot to digest from your comment! Thanks for making more of us think.

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Very well said…. As a retired teacher, you are spot on.!!! I’ve been watching the changes over a 40 year teaching career. Humans have been in decline. It is heart breaking. Technology and money are the new Gods. I pray to be positive, but after seeing so much ignorance, my heart sinks. So many are shallow and empty. May God have mercy on those that love Him.

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I can't imagine being a teacher these days. Every other day of the week I read/watch a video of a teacher being beat by a student while other's cheer on and RECORD WITH THEIR STUPID PHONES! The Bible says it will continue to get worse. I just didn't think I'd see it in my time. So sad and heartbreaking. Very frustrating we can't change it either. Look how horrible fascistbook and tik tok are, but yet conservative Christians are ADDICTED to both. God bless you. Never give up because we KNOW Who wins in the end. ✝️🙏

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Apr 17·edited Apr 30Liked by Courageous Lion

Indeed CL!

I am in an on-again / off again running debate with friends on substack who insist that we not label such people, but rather, focus on the behavior .... that "love the evil doer, not the evil thingy". I see their point in trying to avoid falling into the fundamental attribution fallacy. But they tend to take it a step further and insist that all deviant behavior can be traced back to childhood trauma, and therefore are capable of being treated by counseling intervention or "saved" by the power of religion.

I have my doubts, and having come across people who I know that no amount of counseling will change. Research also shows a strong genetic component. James Fallon's book, "The Psychopath Inside" is a good read.

Also, I recently came upon a good podcast (can't remember the link), but the specialist said that there is now a rough agreement that counseling is not a recommended treatment for true (morphologically defined) psychopaths. Why? Because they are wired differently, wired in such a way as to see counseling techniques as another weapon to add to their arsenal.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and flies like a duck ... it just might be a pig ... though that would be a disservice to good pigs. 😂

Cheers C.L.!

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They have found that by wiring people up to a brain scanner that they can ask certain questions that are emotional such as would you be sad if your puppy was run over by a car? And normal people have a part of the brain light up where the emotional response is located while the psychopaths literally are void of that section.

Psychopaths are incapable of authentic deep emotions. When, in fact, Robert Hare, a Canadian psychologist who spent his career studying psychopathy, did brain scans on psychopaths while showing them two sets of words, one set of words with no emotional associations and a second set replete with emotionally charged words, while different areas of the brain showed activity in the non-psychopathic control group, while in the psychopaths, both sets of words were processed in the same area of the brain, the area that deals with language. They did not have an emotional reaction until they concluded intellectually that it would be better if they had one, and at that point they whipped up an emotional response just for effect.

https://www.courageouslion.us/p/problem-psychopathic-control-freaks

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Apr 17Liked by Courageous Lion

Bingo! Hare is da man!

Yes, I fully agree that psychopaths are defined by morphological differences from birth, and because they develop good skills of observation and mimicry (gawd ... feel like I just watched a rerun of "Predator"), may take until well past puberty to clinically diagnose.

About 6 to 4 years ago, I had interesting exchanges with self proclaimed advocate for "ethical psychopaths" on Quora, Athena Walker. I am convinced she was not in it for the show, and was a bit like many a philosopher (Kant comes to mind) in positing an ethics derived from reason alone, rather than the empathetic pathways found in most mammals. One reason our exchanges lasted so long and were so memorable is because even before LLMs like ChatGPT took off, I realized that a machine-ethics for A.I. would, by definition, have to emerge from some kind of logical algorithm — much like the ethics of a 'good' psychopath, the previously mentioned James Fallon, as well as Kant, being examples.

There is probably only a very small percentage whose hard wiring was changed by physical trauma ... the case of Phineas Gage comes to mind, but I don't think we can clearly define him as "psychopath". And then there are probably some whose trauma can lead people to psychopathic behavior patterns ... thinking of rape victims and / or military vets suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

One rabbit hole is in determining "who" suffers from post traumatic stress, and "who" transcends through post traumatic growth .... again begging the question of whether there is a predetermined temperament for changing lemons into lemonade.

The narcissists, opportunists, and sadists ... wow, another stinky kettle of fish, and harder to tease out the morphological differences. But I suspect genetically influenced temperament plays a bigger role than most want to believe. One reason so many don't want to accept that some are born bad-to-the-bone is that this not only undermines faith in counseling, but also questions the influence of 'good' parenting or 'good' education. This puts a lot of 'good' people with otherwise 'good' intentions in the hot-seat.

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You are right on. These people have sold their souls to Satan, and eternity will not go well for them. They will all suffer together in the “Eternal Lake of Fire.” Knowing that in my soul brings peace to my heart. God is a just God.

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They see demon possessed……

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Hotchul and Arden are demon possessed along with the others, and I now really believe that

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"Alexis de Tocqueville came to America in the 1830s. He was astonished that 'government was more or less invisible.'”

Paine knew from experience that government is not necessary.

"For upwards of two years from the commencement of the American War, and to a longer period in several of the American States, there were no established forms of government. The old governments had been abolished, and the country was too much occupied in defence to employ its attention in establishing new governments; yet during this interval order and harmony were preserved as inviolate as in any country in Europe.

"The more perfect civilisation is, the less occasion has it for government, because the more does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself...

Thomas Paine, "Chapter I. Of Society and Civilisation", The Rights of Man (1791)

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These are the lessons in history that the psychopathic control freak PARASITES do not want us to know about. Is this all from the Rights of Man? IT PROVES ANARCHY WORKS. The FUCKERS in charge due to the majority of man kinds IGNORANCE do NOT want us to know that it works. NO RULERS...and the rules are simple...DO NO HARM.

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Yes. Since the first kings emerged in Sumer about 7,000 years ago, the government controllists have gone to great lengths to convince us that they are necessary, that without rule by government there will be chaos.

It has always been a lie. The controllers are merely parasites. They serve no purpose; they only DO HARM.

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