Does anyone feel they have a handle on the current goings on, around the world? Do you have some data point or underpinning or anchor that is stabilizing you at this time?
If so, can you describe it?
I've got a handle on how the PTB are trying to manipulate me/everyone, and with every new thing that feeds into the mainstream hive-mind, I am mindful of what the objective is.
I'm not picking any sides in particular, I'm just trying to watch my step and live the most authentic life I can?
@elsa it's very Libran, to sit on the fence 😀 but I'm seeing too many people jumping to take sides and point the finger. It's always somebody else's fault!
Just this morning I was shopping and witnessed a conversation regarding who was to blame for the state of our country (UK). There was a lot of 'othering' going on and worst-case scenarios being assumed and I was stood there thinking 'where has all this come from? Who made them the enemy? Who decided you are in the right? And also WT actual F??' I'm just trying to dial down the crazy a bit.
@plutolover Well, I am actually firmly on one side, but I do not divide by left/right or by gender or by race or whatever. It's good vs evil for me. Being tricked is not evil. Not knowing or understanding something is not evil.
When I said, essentially, "me too", I meant I am trying to live authentically. I am also intending to continue to be honest and uphold my values and principles, no matter the pain and cost.
I am glad I am older. I would hate be 12 years old and facing this right now. I don't know how the younger people can get on top this, but I feel there will be a way, just like there was a way for me to come through.
@elsa I agree with good vs. evil. What I was clumsily getting at is groups/factions of people convinced they are right and others=wrong without standing back, taking stock and just thinking about why there is even an 'enemy' in the first place.
I also agree about the younger generations - they can be pretty savvy and will learn from our mistakes, and I thank my stars I'm not of an age having to navigate all this myself.
When I asked this question, it was purposely open. To introduce an outside perspective, my husband's view on this has not changed since he shared it with me, going on 17 years ago! He said something utterly radical to me at the time...
"If you keep doing what we're going, we'll lose the country; it'll be hundreds of years of darkness, one thousand years of darkness..."
"What?! One thousand years..?" At the time, I thought things changed with elections.
"Yes. It will be a long time, but eventually some people will get it together and create a society, come up from the rubble..."
He now thinks we've fallen. Just, period, over and done. So this is his "handle" on current affairs. To him, there is nothing; not a thing to discuss.
This does not mean I concur! I'm trying to build the thread with different ways people are getting this in hand.
Even if his handle on things is accurate, I'm sure he will always stand firmly against evil, as we all must. Even appearing to ignore it all to simply live in peace is a firm stand. But those who "go along to get along" will not escape.
I'm old. So is my husband. Our conversations are along the lines of "We never thought we'd live long enough to see ....."
To the answer, I observe. I am one sided on what I believe. So I observe to determine if I am correct in my belief. It's hard to find a news source that reports only information without bias. I'm also too quick to discount a source if I determine something is off, not quite right in my logical mind.
Maybe I'm not on point here.
I know people who think that great people are in control and revealing how hideous things are so that people can come to understand and get on the side of good.
I know people who think the same thing, but opposite. Bad people are revealing how bad things are, because there is nothing anyone can do at this point, and their pain and bad feelings can be harvested (like loosh).
I know some people who stick like glue to their side or version of events Left vs Right - immovable.
Most importantly, I know GOOD, very good people, who are in any / all of these positions. My clients fall in all groups.
Here's an agreement: I don't know anyone who is truly or totally confident about where they should store their wealth.
Where oh where! Friend in UK moving home and assets to North Cyprus. Not sure to be safe but perhaps better for retirement.
Really young people have little experience of how life was except via books, films, and as described by parents and grandparents. When growing up in the 60s, I longed to have lived in earlier, simpler times. Romanticized of course, but the Back to Nature/Basics movement followed in the 70s. Perhaps it's cyclic?
@warped there is so much to try to parse, which is one of the reasons, no one agrees.
Current (non-organic) conversation in my timeline is about the beautiful buildings, built hundreds of years ago, as compared to the current bland, penal looking, ugly boxy squares.
Thinking of what you wrote... wasn't Walton's on at that time. Very different than modern tv.