The Fact of the Matter

 

When I was in high school, my friend and I chose the “Pro Life” argument side for our senior paper and debate. We did so much research that we had a stack full of note cards of references and quotes and facts. However, during the debate, and after finding out that my friend and I were more prepared and had more evidence to support our side, the “Pro Choice” team started attacking our characters and our religion and our heritage in a discriminatory way instead of providing evidence for their side of the argument. I learned a hard lesson that day – that even though you have facts and research on your side, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the other side will listen, no matter how lacking they are in their information and facts. My point is, when did it become okay to attack people for having opposing ideas? And more importantly today, when did it become okay to censor them by preventing them to even say or present their opposing ideas and research and facts in the first place? Everyone in that classroom agreed that my friend and I won the debate that day – however, not a single person in that room said they would change their mind about their position on the matter. And that’s okay. I wasn’t expecting to change anyone’s mind. I was however expecting people to think about what we presented and respect the research and facts  – because if we aren’t basing our actions and possible change on truth, then what are we basing it on?

I’ve been thinking a lot about forced compliance and censorship and the shutting down of opposing ideas recently. It is a fine line that big media is playing right now – pretending to represent both sides fairly, limiting the influence of opposing arguments, and downright making up false negative narratives about people with opposing ideas so that they can falsely discredit them. Did you know that in 2013 one of our US presidents legalized the use of propaganda on the citizens of the United States? You can read it for yourself in HR 4310. And for some reason, everyone missed the significance of that. And what happened to all of my friends that are “Pro Choice”? The ones that said I have the right to choose what I do with my own body – oh, except if I want to choose not to wear a mask during the plandemic. Right. Remember that the people who are trying to influence popular opinion in their favor own the major news, media and social media stations? The bias is overwhelming, unjust and un-American. Just consider these quotes from Nazi Germany (Hitler and his Reich Minister of Propaganda): 

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” Adolf Hitler.

“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” Adolf Hitler

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” Joseph Goebbels

“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.” Adolf Hitler

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” Joseph Goebbels

So let’s change focus for a bit and remember why freedom of speech and freedom in general is something worth fighting for. Before we all came to earth, our spirits lived in Heaven with God. There were two plans offered. Satan wanted to force all the children of God to comply (forced compliance – sound familiar?) and to believe. Jesus wanted every child of God to choose for him or herself and then provide a Savior knowing that they would make mistakes. The first plan does not allow room for any growth or progression. If you are forced to do something, then you really aren’t building your character by having to weigh the pros and cons and deciding for yourself, learning, and continually having to work on that growth and progress. And what is the whole purpose of our existence? To progress. That’s why progress is “damned” when you can no longer move forward.

As a parent I can tell you that it is hard to watch my children stumble and make mistakes. It is hard to work tirelessly to teach them what they should do, and then step back and let them choose for themselves. When learning to walk, it is often hard to watch our children fall. But if we didn’t give them the opportunity to fall, then they wouldn’t become the strong, typically developing children that they need to become so that they can continue to learn and grow. We can’t have it both ways. We can’t say we want our children to grow up strong and physically able, and also say, no, I will always carry them and make all of their decisions for them so that they will never fall. It is just something that comes with the territory of growth – the opportunity to fall – make mistakes – choose the less ideal path – get hurt along the way. Now let’s think about this in terms of human rights, freedoms and government overstepping.

One mentality says that because one person drank and drove, causing an accident, no one can ever drink alcohol anymore because they might drive and cause an accident – thus controlling the possibility of that initial choice. The other mentality is that you have the ability to choose if you drink, however if there is driving and an accident involved, then you will have consequences. (The same two sides could go for owning a firearm, or forcing condom use because it might protect the other person from pregnancy or an STD, or choosing to wear a mask in public or not). Learning and growth isn’t for the faint of heart, and when you involve an entire society of individuals that have the opportunity to make their own decisions it can be an extremely difficult thing to have to go through sometimes, especially when innocent people who are not involved in an individual’s initial decision, are harmed. But without that type of scenario, we cannot “prove” ourselves to God – we cannot progress and learn from our mistakes and repent and obtain forgiveness and then try to do better and make things better in the world. Can’t you see? Removing the option to make the mistake in the first place is not the way to achieve learning and growth, even though there may be casualties along the way. Our life right now is tragic and challenging and very ethically difficult at times, but this is the plan that Jesus endorsed – and in fact offered to sacrifice himself for. Why? Because this is the only way we can truly progress – line upon line and precept upon precept. “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so…righteousness could not be brought to pass, nether wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad…” 2 Nephi 2:11. In other words, without opposition in all things, there would be no reason to prove ourselves. If there was only ever “happy” then we would never be “happy” because we would not have “sad” to compare it to. So ask yourself, what is the purpose of the media to shut down opposing ideas if not to force their agenda or propaganda on our society?

Yes it would seem easier to just eliminate the possibility of that error or lack of judgment or innocent bystander harm. It seems logical and like it would make everyone happy. But essentially, you would have to take away the rights of everyone, which would “damn” everyone’s progress, and when you can’t move forward you can’t find joy or true happiness. “And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet –” D&C 29:39. It is interesting to remember though, that we were never meant to have to endure this “growing season” on earth with our physical bodies on our own. Jesus Christ is and always will be there to lift us up, support us, and guide us when we seek His help. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” John 8:32. Free from what? Free from sin and oppression and darkness.

So that brings us back to this question: Why has there been so much fearmongering by the media lately? Because when you cause widespread fear, and then “propose” the solution to that fear to be something in the people’s favor (or what seems to be in their favor), than people are more likely to go along with it. Have we learned nothing from our history? Oh yeah, those same elite own our textbook companies and invest in public education curriculum and the narrative of our history. Just for a refresher for anyone who wants to do their own research…

IF you think about it, if these things are removed or severely controlled, it is a lot easier to make the sheeple in a country comply with whatever you are wanting them to comply with for “the greater good of the state”:

1. Removing or severely limiting freedom of speech

2. Removing the right to bear arms and the right to protect your own family

3. Removing the ability to worship freely - many of our ancestors came here to get away from that!

4. Removing the freedom of the press (or overtaking it and slanting or changing the truth and pushing propaganda)

Seriously, have we learned nothing from our history? What was the narrative during WWII? And why did the people go along with it? Because they were told it was for the good of their state. So why do we herald those who stood up against it and saved lives heroes? Because they were able to figure out for themselves what was actually going on – and brave enough to stand up against it. And many lost their lives for doing so. Many think the United States could never fall into that category. All I can say to that is that for as long as there has been good, there has also been evil. Please be aware. Please research and find your own facts. I’m not asking you to change your position based on what I say or show you.

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened,” Matthew 7: 7-8.

Please find an uncensored news and social media source and learn the facts before you blindly push an agenda that you don’t know about or the reason behind. If you need help finding resources that contain truth – please reach out. Sheeple are waking up and seeing what is going on – I mean really seeing. If you look hard enough, you will find truth. And let’s not forget the Holy Ghost who testifies of truth. If you see and truly ask, you can and will find the truth for yourself. You are not alone. We are not alone. I know that we are weary from everything that we see the media (including social media) telling us – so do your own research. You don’t hear the other side telling you that. You hear them saying to believe the narrative they are telling you. So please, for the sake of our freedoms and well-being, be brave, take a step back, and do your own research.

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32

Today is the first day of the rest of our lives

November 6, 2020

It’s not about party lines, because both have been infiltrated. It’s not about conspiracy theorists trying to cause fear. It’s about good versus evil, and what the media is telling us that is happening on the surface, when below the surface everything that we know and love is being held in balance.

I am neither eloquent nor really smart. But what I am is concerned, not just for our country, but for the human population as a whole. When you start to investigate – and I mean REALLY investigate, without the influence of big media or what people are saying on the surface, things start to become clear. I was recently reading about the Gadianton Robbers – the evil that caused both the destruction of the Jaredite Nation (Ether Chapter 8) and Nephite Nation (Helaman chapters 2 and 6) you can find these statements in the chapter headings: “Modern Gentiles are warned against the secret combination that will seek to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries,” and, “The robbers take over the Nephite government.” This unfortunately is not new to the human race. This has to do with the root of all evil and the lying, deceiving and cunning abilities of evil that will always be there until banished from this world.

I’ll preface this with the fact that I was very comfortable being one of the sheeple in the masses. I appreciated being told that all is well and that the illusion of everything around us is just what it seems on the surface. However, at some point I had to reconcile with myself that even if I just go by the people that I have met and interacted with in my small circle of human interaction, everything is not always as it seems on the surface. I don’t like to make scenes or incite conflict, so unfortunately the people who seem to be drawn to me are the ones that want to take advantage of me. I can relate personal experience after personal experience of people who I thought were good friends of mine, and how I found out the hard way that they didn’t care at all about me or my family – and because I was blinded by their charming and eloquent ways, my family and I have been blindsided, more than once. And I keep falling for it. So I can’t be the only one, right?

This morning I felt a call to speak up about it. Not a call from myself or my desire to make waves – because if it were up to me I would be more than happy to wait for others to feel the need to do that so I could sit back and observe in my little sheeple pasture. But today a higher power has opened my heart up to the possibility that I have a voice through written words, and that I needed to use it. Not something that I really wanted to hear at 4:30am this morning. But nonetheless, here I am, trusting that people have the right to know that all is not well. They have the right to know that what is going on will affect them on such a basic freedom level – not if – but when – which means EVERYTHING is at stake.

First of all, I know you are asking what makes me think that my eyes have been more opened than your eyes. And I can tell you, the skeptical passive peacemaker that I am was not super open to the idea that there were deep and dark forces acting below the surface. Like I made mention to above, people and institutions have really screwed me and my family over the last several years, and hoping that the rest of the world is not like that just doesn’t make sense. People are subject to human fallacies. And people are drawn to power and security and wealth. No matter my desire to believe that all people are generally good and have good intentions, I know for a fact that that is not true. And people would rather be told that all is well rather than know that really scary and evil things could be going on right below our noses. Case in point, also true.

My eye openness started with “conspiracy theories,” a term coined by the CIA in the 1960’s, and with a negative connotation attached to it. Conspiracy theories weren’t considered negative until then. In fact, conspiracy theories have been the impetus for the search for answers and solutions for a long time. We’ve probably all heard our fair share of conspiracy theories, and think that the people who come up with them are crazy, and I used to think that too. Until I started to do my own research. There is so much public information out there, but there are very few means whereby to get that information – the main source being the mainstream media – conglomerates that all work together and who are all owned by the same high powered and wealthy individuals – yep – every single major news station. Could they possibly all have the same agenda? Absolutely. The day I learned that Google was possibly biased and maybe corrupt, I didn’t want to believe it. Why? Because that would make my life more complicated. That would make me have to think harder and react smarter. Why would certain search topics be diverted to certain media responses that all said the same thing? Why were all dissenting arguments being held at bay and when one may have surfaced, the same mainstream media discredited it as soon as it did? And to think that my first major was journalism. Something about focusing on the facts to tell stories resonated deeply with me. But now I’m glad I changed my major. I feel bad for those “journalists” that feel like they are making a difference out there. Instead, they are pushing someone else’s agenda.

It’s a hard pill to swallow. It is a hard idea and concept to accept – that these major corporations don’t have our best interests in mind – but rather their own? Because if that is true, than really, who can we trust? The mainstream media rules the airwaves and the American people hang on their every word, obvious bias or not, because they are supposed to be impartial and based on facts and they are our sources of legitimate information, right? Have we been that conditioned that we don’t even see it? Yes.

Over the last few months I’ve watched news stations from other countries around the world and realized how their citizens are shown news stories that we aren’t. Other countries have been rioting in their streets to get the citizens of the United States of America’s attention because most of them are fighting for their freedoms and families and have already been down the road that our country is currently trying to go down. They are pleading for us to see, really see what is going on and to quit pretending that everything is going to be okay because big companies that we’ve grown to love and trust have our best interests in mind. Do you see the problem with that? If I, in my 42 years of life have encountered multiple people who have sought to physically, emotionally and spiritually abuse and harm me and my family – some succeeding in a very painful way, then why do I trust extremely powerful and wealthy people who couldn’t have made it to the top without stepping on a few of the little guy’s toes on the way? Why are people in other countries rioting to get our attention, only for our news sources not to cover it? And why are their news stations reporting on things that are happening in the United States that we NEVER see on our news stations here? Then you have to wonder what they might have to hide. Do I have your attention yet?

The rabbit hole is long and deep and includes several public cover-ups that have been buried so deep in the media that they are either impossible to find, or are made to look like crazy people invented them. I had to take this rabbit hole in very tiny baby steps. It is heart wrenching and disgusting and anger inducing, the amount of lies and fabrications that we have been fed. It is overwhelming to say the least. Why? Because we have been conditioned to think that the possibility of deception is outrageous, essentially questioning our own sanity for even stepping through this rabbit hole and the possibility of everything that it opens up to us. But seriously. Our freedom of speech is hanging by a thread. Social media outlets that are also owned by these same elite media owners have been silencing specific voices for a long time now – and it has been more obvious than not recently. We literally have no where to turn to get REAL news and information that has not been filtered, adjusted, and even completely fabricated in some way.

But since going through that rabbit hole and swallowing the “red pill” it is so obvious that the truth has been surrounding us this whole time – and I see it regularly now! We’ve just been force-fed lies for so long that that was and is our norm. It hurts to think how many innocent people that have realized this sooner than me, who have been silenced for trying to help the rest of us see – it seems impossible. It also scares me, but I feel like I can’t be part of that silent heard of sheeple that aren’t going to take a stand and demand better, demand honesty and transparency and human decency – and not because it is politically correct or because we want our friends to see us backing a cause that passionately moves us – but because it is the right thing to do. And honestly, I’m not sure I believe in everything that I have since learned, but I do believe in some of it – which is enough to make me question all of it. Vaccines – and the epidemic of autism in our country right now. The CIA and projects/programs used AGAINST the American people. Gun control and communist ties. An outdated education and higher education system that is failing our children. Child sex-trafficking and the elite, Hollywood, and satanic rituals. The fake news - all bought and paid for. Fluoride – a poison – mandated to be in our drinking water. Big pharma and their control of medical treatments and studies. Lobbying and corruption in congress. The truth behind the Black Lives Matter campaign. Different political parties and their link to slavery. What is happening to the Jewish people in New York City right now?! Immigration and the truth of the wall. COVID-19 and the many doctors that have come out about the plandemic – causing government to overstep and force mandates on us that are unconstitutional. Unemployment. Political and community chaos. Government bureaucracy. A plethora of agencies to help individuals and families with no real ability to actually help those in need. Due process that has been ignored or twisted. Government simulations of things that are happening right now. Population control. The truth (or falsehood) about global warming and airplane contrails. The list goes on and though I used to think that people who brought all of this up were crazy and had nothing better to do with their time than find things to bicker and make crazy assumptions about – and some may be those people – I know now that it runs deeper than that, and many of the people behind them are ordinary people who have truth they are trying to share.

There are evil forces at work here. Isaiah 5: 20 says “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” We’ve all been given the ability to think and act for ourselves. We’ve been given eyes to see and ears to hear. Now we just need to make sure that we are looking at and hearing the things that aren’t tainted with bias, or complete lies. And how do we do that in this day and age when Google is supposed to know everything, and finding information without Google is extremely difficult? Well, accepting the fact that we may not be able to trust Google and the other major media outlets that rule the free world is a start. Doubting that everyone has your best interest in mind is a start. Understanding that good may be shown to us as evil and evil may be shown to us as good is a start. Maybe asking for discernment from God, and accepting the answers that are given, no matter how hard to swallow. Maybe deciding that you will no longer stand by and watch while evil happens right before you, even though hidden. And maybe making a decision to say something or stand up for something or fight for something that you want to preserve for yourself and your children. And again, not because it is the most recent fad or tag line. But because you truly care about justice and freedom and our way of life. This path will not be easy, but really, is there any other way? Is there any other way to maintain our freedoms – whichever are most sacred to you – than to fight against those who are trying to take those freedoms away in such a sleek and smooth manner to make us think that there is nothing wrong with our system and the people involved with it?

If the Nephite and Jaredite nations had taken a deeper look and had been outraged by what they saw or failed to see, would they have fought for their freedoms and their families a little harder? Getting too comfortable – and accepting everything at face value even knowing that there is always a deeper root or cause - is when we need to worry. We can’t afford to be complacent any longer.

And again, it is not about political party or any specific charge or group. It is about our lives and freedoms. It is about the steps and chaos that have led every socialist and communist country down their paths, taking the sheeple and their needs and concerns and ideas out of every equation, until they no longer have a voice at all. HAVE WE NOT LEARNED ANYTHING FROM OUR HISTORY? Oh yeah, probably not – because our textbooks are also written and owned by the same elite and media moguls that are feeding us lies.

I believe most of us are good people and have a general desire to do good and not harm. I believe that we have been fooled into thinking that there is nothing sinister going on. I believe that we are all in the same boat, meaning that we all have to come to an understanding on our own about what is happening all around us. We’ve already been told that what caused the destruction of ancient civilizations is threatening modern day governments. I don’t think it is anything different. It is pure evil – orchestrated by Satan himself – and his rituals and methods that have never left. Those who participate have just gotten very good at being two-faced.

So if everything is so corrupt, how do we make a difference? We make a difference one person at a time. As you decide that you no longer want to be a sheeple, and you make yourself aware and do your own research instead of depending on others to do it for you, you are starting to make a difference. I don’t have all of the answers, but I do know that normal people like us who care about our future can do something. They can write a blog post, share with their friends and family, and stand up for what’s right no matter the backlash. Because that is what they want. They want to instill fear and chaos and bully us into submission – whether we are aware of what they are doing or not! They already track our every move, sensor our every attempt to bring truth to light, and shame us when we finally get close to finding out what is really happening. How much worse could it get?

Haters will hate, but I’m trying to use my voice while I still can – with God’s encouragement. Our founding fathers fought tooth and nail to create this great nation and to provide a place where human rights and freedoms are more important than wealth and power. That has to mean something. I’m not interested in contending with those who have not already searched and figured things out on their own yet – if all of your “facts” can only be traced back to the media and whatever spin on the truth benefits them the most, then I suggest you double check those facts with non-media sources. The truth is out there and I urge you to do your own research and find out for yourself. If you look hard enough, you will find it.