Something unexpected struck me just the other day. Remember the popular slogan of a few years ago: “No Fear!” As I recall, it was nearly omnipresent, and many people were promoting it on their coffee mugs, T-shirts, and bumper stickers or anywhere else they could find the space. I cannot recall the last time I saw it. It appears to have disappeared into thin air, much like the thin air it sprang out of.

Covid might be to blame. Contrary to the slogan, for the last two years we have experienced irrational, universal, insane fear, driven by nothing more than the idea that we might all get sick and die, repeated endlessly. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. We are all going to die, however, in fact the most certain part about life is that it is going to end…someday. For everyone of us. The sooner we come to grips with that truth, the better. If you are afraid to die, then you are afraid to live and there are huge numbers of people out there who are simply terrified of being alive.

This leads me to conclude that the No Fear mantra (repeated almost endlessly) was only sheer bravado without any lasting power. In essence, we were whistling past the graveyard. We indulged it because it made us feel strong and limitless, then it all ended instantly…like it did for the people of the Tower of Babel. NO FEAR! Until the day they became afraid of each other and scattered like sheep to the most remote corners of the globe.

Tessa Lena has written one of the best statements I have ever seen about our current situation. 

“I am not dreaming. Something terrible is happening to us, and it is not a drill. It is very complex and very trivial. It is imminent and cumulative. Every small fragment of the disaster can be explained in a respectable way, but the big picture is terrifying. We’ve given up our senses and our ancient instincts, but our leaders have no heads. We are not in good hands. We are shackled to a broken algorithm. We are on our own, and the sooner we realize it, the better our chance of surviving.”

She is right. This is not a dream nor a drill. It is terrible. A nightmare, if you will, from which we cannot seem to shake ourselves awake. The fear is palpable, but we must conquer it or we might not survive.

Bionic Mosquito has another take on the matter. In an excellent review of a discussion between four learned men, Jordan Peterson, Bishop Robert Baron, John Vervaeke, and Jonathan Pageau, he says this:

“We are first going to have to walk through the valley of the shadow of death.  What lies on the other side?  I don’t know, but we have no choice but to walk….”

We have no choice but to walk. Absolutely true. Life simply does not allow us to stop where we are while the rest of the world plunges on into unknown darkness. If there is one immutable fact about life (besides death), it is that we must go on, we must move forward, regardless of what that might bring. We can do nothing else.

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil..." -- Psalm 23:4

Our trouble is not new. Some 4000 years ago, the Psalmist wrote these words which must be our attitude if we are to survive the trouble massing against us. David must have had experience with hard times or he never could have penned such beautiful poetry of praise.

However, the resistance to the onslaught against us is building. It is well on its way to becoming a juggernaut which will sweep all this BS out of existence and may very well result in court trials, bankruptcies, and prison sentences of those well-connected and well-heeled people who have been forcing the issue on the rest of us from the very get-go. I suggest we begin with Anthony Fauci, hit him with as many charges of criminal wrong-doing as possible, and move on until there are no more opportunities.

Oh, yes, a new world order is coming, but it is not going to be the one which the-powers-that-be (TPTB) have always dreamed about and worked for. Instead, what I see rising is a world of freedom and liberty for the individual person which will dwarf anything which we have ever experienced and which most people cannot even imagine…yet. It will be like waking up from a bad nightmare and realizing you are still alive.

The important thing to remember about the verse quoted above is not that we are walking IN the shadow of death, but that we are walking THROUGH it. The current time we are in is a passage and some of us will reach the other side, probably scarred and damaged, but clear-headed, a lot wiser, far less arrogant and proud, and much more loving toward other people. The way we were intended to be.  

Psalm 23 continues, "...For You are with me. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil and my cup runs over.”

Yes, my cup runs over. In full view of my enemies who can do nothing about it except stare and be envious. It is an awesome, wonderful time to be alive.

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”–Jesus Christ (John 8:32)

Now, without ever engaging in a religious debate, there are three things about this statement which are true IF the statement is true.

1. Truth is knowable. It can be found and understood. There is no one who cannot find it if they are willing to search for it.

2. Truth is objective. It is THE truth. Only objective truth is knowable. It is fixed, unchanging, 100% reliable and guaranteed. Everything else is a moving target, a will-o’-the-wisp. Subjective truth or relative truth cannot be known because it is always shifting and changing.  It is undependable, here one day, gone tomorrow. It cannot be counted on when we need it most. In fact, due to these factors it is accurate to say that there is no such thing as subjective truth. Subjective truth is a contradiction of terms. Only objective truth exists.

3. Truth will set us free. Life is either a search for truth (which sets us free) or settling for what we have (which is a compromise and holds us back). Only when we have found truth–absolute, objective truth–can we be truly free.

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.” — G. K. Chesterton

This one is for Jackson Sparks.

https://summit.news/2021/11/25/nurses-hospital-officials-treatment-of-kids-injured-in-waukesha-car-attack-being-hampered-by-vaccine-mandate/

The above quote by an anonymous nurse at a children’s hospital in Waukesha, Wisconsin tells it all. After a black man, Darrell Brooks, Jr., allegedly drove his SUV into a Christmas parade killing at least six people (including an eight year old boy named Jackson Sparks) and injuring more than fifty, it became evident that local hospitals did not have the staff necessary to handle the catastrophic situation. This shortfall has been blamed on the “vaccination mandate” handed down by President Joe Biden, which led health-care systems nationwide to impose deadlines on their workers to get The Jab or get another job. Get the shot or get a pink slip!

Way to go, Brandon! You’ve really done it this time.

There are rumors that Brooks committed this deadly attack because he was upset with the Kyle Rittenhouse jury verdict just a few days earlier. Whether this is true or not, I am not qualified to judge and will go no further with it at this point. What is plainly evident, though, is that the White House edict is causing enormous chaos and displacement within America’s health-care system, forcing medical administrations to fire well-qualified staff creating a shortage of care for anyone who needs it, especially in extreme emergencies.

Remember how it was just a little while ago when all the emphasis was on keeping the hospitals from being overwhelmed by victims of the Covid-19 pandemic? Lockdown! Wear a mask! Stay away from everyone! Quit working! Two weeks to slow the curve! Build temporary medical structures! Bring in Navy ships to help out! Time, data, and recent history show how wrong-headed that was. No hospital or medical system was stretched beyond its limit to cope.

Until now, that is, due to a lack of competent workers who were terminated from their jobs because of a really stupid order from the highest office in the land.

How many more episodes of this nature are we going to endure before we have had enough? How many more innocent men, women, and children will die horribly before we put an end to this insanity? How many more straws can be loaded onto the camel before its back is broken?

We are rapidly coming up on the two year anniversary of the beginning of the Covid-19 experience. What a ride it has been! Hopefully all is well with you.

Three months ago, August 15, 2021, I posted an article which began with these words.

“Call it a gut feeling.”

“I have no hard data to point to, but I have the sense that the tide has turned and is now starting to run hard against the Covid Monster. As time goes on and more people are made aware of the lies making up the narrative, our chances of completely destroying this blatant fraud in the grab for power increase steadily.”

In this article, I made reference to an incident during World War II, known as the Battle of the Bulge in which an American division was completely surrounded by German troops and threatened with annihilation. When the commander, Gen. Anthony MacAuliffe, received an ultimatum from the Germans to ‘surrender or else’, he sent back a one word response for which he would eventually become world famous–“Nuts!” Following his lead, the 101st Airborne did not buckle under the ensuing onslaught and eventually was relieved.

Just this morning, I came across an article written by Malcom Kyeyune in which he made a similar comparison, not with the war in Europe but half a world away, against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor in 1941. (Thanks to Robert Gore of Straight Line Logic for the lead.) In this well-written (and well worth reading) article, Kyeyune makes the case that the Establishment (elites, media, governments, etc.) threw everything they have at the world in a manner similar to that in which the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in the hopes of knocking the US out of the war at one stroke. Needless to say, Pearl Harbor was not the knockout punch they had hoped for and eventually the US machine, working together with one goal in mind, completely destroyed the Japanese empire.

Kyeyune writes that the average, everyday persons who make up the bulk of the world population are like the US immediately after Pearl Harbor, woken up by the shock and stirring into concerted action, each and every one creating resistance in his or her own way. According to him, the perpetrators of this episode have no reserves left. They hit us as hard as they could with the intention of beating us up so badly that we would just give up the fight and leave the field of battle. That has not happened and as time goes on, the side of those who wish to live in freedom simply grows stronger and is now carrying the fight to those who wish to enslave us all.

Witness the phenomenon of the immensely popular slogan, “Let’s go, Brandon!” Originally meant as a spin by the news media (NBC News reporter Kelli Stavast may have actually been mistaken), it has grown into a deliberate mockery of not only the president, Joe Biden, and his office, but also the MSM media and the entire establishment of entrenched government. Much of the world population has heard of this and, while they may not know its origin, they understand its meaning and easily grasp the meaning when it is explained to them. In one respect, it is similar to the story of the emperor with no clothes–once someone pointed out the fact that he was naked and laughed at him, everyone else joined in and there was nothing left for him except to return home in disgrace. Today, the emperor’s clothes are ragged and being rapidly shredded as people everywhere are starting to see clearly. The truth is coming out.

What these incidents mean for us is that no matter how dark it is, no matter the might and power of those arrayed against us, no matter what it looks like, we have the truth on our side and our opposition is increasingly being forced on the defensive. If war is reduced to a matter of will and attrition, then we should understand that there are more of us than there are of them AND as long as our will to survive and overcome remains strong, we cannot lose. It is only when we give up that we have lost.

The Japanese rulers knew that they could not win a long, protracted war with the United States, so they gambled on one desperate measure…and lost. History will record that the rulers of our day, the powers that be, have shoved their entire stake into the pot to gain total control…and lost. We may not be able to see it yet, but every fiber of my being tells me that they are desperate because they know they are going to lose the war. They may have won the initial battle, but they are going to lose the war.

Of this I am certain.