All typos have been fixed now. Sorry about that. I do need to proof read better but was racing to my Spanish lesson. Thank you, those of you who have the gift of helping me understand how important copy editing is without being underhanded or insulting. ANTI thank you to the shamers. Took one of them off the email list. There was nothing to reimburse so that was good.
Anyway, I am reading all the interesting comments and will hopefully be able to respond either later tonight or tomorrow. Thank you all so very much for joining in so enthusiastically. I love this place.
I live near DC and have experienced this (people avoiding human connection; averting eyes from one another) for years, but it has been getting worse, rapidly, since COVID. I had attributed it to cell phones, those earplugs (which I refuse to ever use), and constant attachment to some form of electronic stimulation (podcast, music, being on the phone, etc.) rather than ambient vibes of nature, or even just background noise while waiting in line somewhere.... it's as though people can no longer be human with one another -- no patience, avoidance of the reality of the space and time we find ourselves in..... needing some type of escape or whatever. I don't get it, but I'm grateful that I am so old that I remember what it was like before all of this technology and yes, of course, the shots and poisons (we did have shots and poisons, of course, but not mRNA).
I go where the people like me are -- I go to locations where people put their phones away and talk to one another, looking directly at each other. Whether friends or strangers. I like nature. I go for walks in my neighborhood and I deliberately say hello to people -- a lot of the older ones respond in kind, and the ones younger are more likely not to. It's very noticeable.
I am concerned for humanity. And knowing, too, that these shots definitely have harmed or killed off a bunch of us olders, the ones who are the keepers of the memories of the way we used to be. How can we pass that information on? Many youngers have no idea what it was like, unless they tune into old movies to get some hints.
Spot on Dani. I think it's a combination of EMF's, the poisonous shots and also the food and water. I wouldn't be surprised if the chemtrails are also playing a part in this Zombie apocalypse.
I have people who continued to associate with me in spite of my not complying with shots, etc. But they have been all shot up. They are still friendly, but when I bring up the chemtrails or the fact that they hack and cough constantly, they look away. All they have to do is look up. We have been sprayed and are being sprayed relentlessly. They won't admit to being ill.
Unfortunately looking up is not all they have to do. I've been in several pools doing water aerobics first thing in the morning for a number of years now, and people invariably look up at the chemtrails forming or already covering the skies with their distinctive patterns and call it overcast, or say, "Oh, doesn't that look interesting." I'm pretty certain that most people don't know and don't want to know, too much of a stretch.
Yep. It makes them feel uncomfortable. If it goes on long enough, it'll make them dead. They don't seem to notice all the trees dying either. Or they'll say it's climate change. Well, I agree it's climate change, but not caused by excess CO2, Caused by the chemicals spewed into the atmosphere.
i used to not take chemicals very seriously. Oh I knew they were man-made and evil, but i guess they were so far away- compared to criminals and taxes and other forms of in-your-face nastiness - i couldn't bear up under yet one more concern. BUT the last 2 summers are impossible to ignore.
I live in far northern Minnesota. Clean air and water are important to us. Many people garden. during our brief nonwinter seasons, we are outside as much as possible.
it's become impossible to ignore the effects from "Gates [of hell]"'s spraying. we have far fewer bugs than we used to! that leads to fewer birds and fewer fish. Also yes, it is affecting the sunlight. I follow sunspots etc closely and even those don't explain the odd color of the sun now (less yellow, more white), but here's what alarms me: OUR PLANTS ARE NOT DOING WELL.
EVEN DANDELIONS --- which are hardy indeed!!! --- there are 80% fewer!!! this affects how well bees do when emerging after winter .
And the few dandelions we do have, seem ill: they don't follow the sun any more. Used to be they'd turn slightly as the sun traveled the sky, like little sunflowers. No more.
Thanks for such fine and relevant info from where you live. 'They' are clearly on a no-holds-barred long-standing mission to degrade life and quality of life to make us dependent on the gov so they can use and abuse us as they wish. The main thing is to not give up or give in. Get/build a greenhouse (I had a large one), water with distilled mineralized water, use lots of local compost and keep growing.
I live in a rural area where it's populated enough already but there's still room for one more when, as Geezermann noted, they have the right (your) stuff.
I have lived here most of my entire life, and it is impossible to leave elderly parents.... but in the past few years, for the first time, I have thought about leaving to be in a place with a higher percentage of people who genuinely want to (and are able to) connect in a human way. It's alienating and exhausting at times, to be so surrounded.
I don't know how you do it. I so understand the elderly parents linchpin. I had filial loyalty too when mine were still alive but thankfully gone before the horrors of The Plandemic. I have walked into grocery stores with a jester's cap and some people get it. Jesting is a safety valve relief mechanism for me but that only works for so long and then it becomes necessary to revert back to serious mode, . . . . . . but not for too long. You must know that there are community-minded websites, although they all have something to sell, that nurture the spirit even when you're geographically stuck for the time being.
Agree. The fine folks on Badlands Media on Rumble have helped me cope daily. Also another great podcast on Rumble with great content and positive vibes is NewsTreason. Hope these can be of comfort in these crazy times.
Everyone who survives has a role to play. Hopefully, it will be a little more than just witness:)))))))))))LOL!! I'm seeing all sorts of folks rally and stretch beyond their comfort/lazy zones - but it IS an uphill battle with all these poisons and Elon Musk's 20,000+ constellation satellite wi-fi saturation...
That really sucks. I can't imagine how pissed off I would have been if that had happened to me.
Remember the 2008 meltdown where the regulators allowed the regional banks to consolidate and fail (the strategy that is happening right now), and the 4 Wall Street mega banks to engage in massive mortgage fraud on their behalf?
There were people all up and down the East coast who owned horses and could not feed them. Equine rescue groups were overwhelmed. So, the owners let them loose on the sides of the road to fend for themselves and many starved to death or were hit by cars. Just soul crushing.
I want the government and the bankers to pay for what they have done to the taxpayers (us) on every level. Whenever the parasites at the privately owned "federal" Reserve CENTRAL Bank create these mega upheaval events - WE are the ones who foot the horror bill.
Now we have to add the US Military and the US Health & Human Services Operation Warp Speed initiated by now President again Donald Trump to the organizational nightmare program spawn that is destroying us and our society. I am SICK OF IT.
Don’t come to Commifornia…it’s as bad as DC! Even with the sunshine of CA, and the ability to be out and about pretty much year round, people are the same here.
I live in Mexico part-time, and it's a lovely part of the culture to say "Buenos Dias", or some such greeting, and SMILE! Southern US culture is similar. NE US culture is barren, and always has been.
An element not mentioned is the ubiquitous EMF in the USA. Huge GWIN towers and smaller 5G and others filled with radar/microwave plates are EVERYWHERE. You don’t even need the shots if you’re being cooked from the inside out. The constant use of cell phones with apps like TICTOC, video games where young men pretend to shoot others for hours…all is soul numbing/ destroying. The answer is to call out to our Creator…seek life.
Spain was one of the most welcoming places I've ever visited (I speak Spanish, so maybe that skews things). But... the *constant* socializing was oppressive. I guess my Germanic spirit is too strong.
Yes we and several friends have had dogs under ten years of age all get lymphoma. I suspect it’s the EMFs affecting their smaller bodies. But of course I’m just the tinfoil hat girl…
When I travelled around the world in 2014-2015 I found Spain to be the most wonderful of all. The people, the culture, the food, the scenery, everything about it. I think it would be hard to take that away from them. Fantastic country. I live in the panhandle of Texas. Don't see deadness here. We also did not comply mostly. The TV reminded us over and over that we weren't getting vaxxed enough. And not many wore masks either, unless required at med facilities. Maybe that's why...
I lived in Barcelona for close to five years, and the Spanish people are:
1. Passionate - I love that
2. Fiery - I love that
3. Cordial - I love that
The first thing my neighbor, an elderly lady around 80, did when I moved into my flat there was to pass some flowers from her balcony over to mine. This loving gesture was accompanied by the words: "Bienvenida a Barcelona, carino!"
Valencia was my favorite place in Spain. Wanted to move there but covid happened. It's awful what they did to it. That's great you got to travel that much! I've been to 24 countries and lived abroad for 10 years...it took my husband and I 6 months to go around the world...so similar story...we are all so fortunate.
The jabs don’t cause anti-social conduct. Avoiding eye contact is a hallmark of the socialist-liberal-welfare movement. 70 years spent living in the epicenter of the US socialist revolution (Seattle/Tacoma), I have watched this psychosis of avoiding eye contact develop into an art form. It began in the 90’s. People would desperately seek a peripheral distraction to focus on as they approached you in a semi-panicked need to avoid acknowledging your existence. Their cell phone binkies now serve that purpose beautifully. I spent many wonderful days hiking the deep forest trails around Mt Rainier with my kids and then grandkids. In the early years most hikers we would pass would smile and acknowledge fellow hikers. We labeled the others as the “no-lookers”. Eventually the no-lookers would dominate and eye contact became actually rare. My oldest grandson is now a hiring manager and recently told me that he mentally rejects the no-lookers within the first few seconds of the interview.
My impression of Europe, when I travelled there, was that they value the social dimension much more than North Americans do….this was especially true in the Mediterranean countries… so perhaps that has remained intact for that reason…it is highly valued and so has prevailed.
I currently live in a small New Mexico community. Everyone here is a normal human being. They talk, laugh, joke, and most generally have a high awareness that government is trying to entrap/enslave us. We have only 3G internet. We have few chem trails. Many grow their own unadulterated food and we live and walk in mountain forests, completely surrounded here by nature.
I still work in Tucson 2 days a week, and believe the lack of eye contact there that has arisen in the past 15 to 20 years is some kind of cult. When I first moved to Tucson in 2000 this was not the case. It is recent and it is something deliberate. Worse since Covid when Tucson had a large influx from the west coast and east coast cities and a huge migrant “crisis”. There are now signs of cartel activity everywhere, increasing uneasiness. When I try and engage younger people in polite and kindly conversation they become completely uneasy and look away…that is they deliberately look away with an attitude of disdain. Why? Conditioning by internet and false beliefs perhaps. Those that are still willing to communicate tell me that we ( the older generations) are the ones to blame for all of the troubles of the world. The planetary destruction, climate change, racism, wars, etc. despite the untruth of these things, they still believe it, unquestioningly. So they fear, hate and avoid us. We are the enemy. I believe it is primarily social conditioning from internet sources and psychological programming from the same sources, rampant drug use, false blame, shame and guilt, ….a concerted attempt to separate, divide and conquer America. (Yuri Bezmenov described in detail how it would be done). Separation seems to be the prevailing social attitude here in the cities of America now.
I do also believe the vaccines are designed to separate us from our soul/spirit. A good book in that regard, with lecture excerpts given 100 years ago by Rudolf Steiner, is called “the Incarnation of Ahriman: the Occult Annihilation of the Soul”…by Douglas Gabrielle. One of the things Steiner made clear (besides predicting the vaccine factor) in some of his other lectures, is the very vibrations of different areas of the planet make certain patterns manifest from the metaphysical. In North America, where Ahriman/Satan is incarnating during our time, there is a much higher degree of earth magnetic force than in other areas of the planet. This may also be a contributing factor.
We have also become a highly materialistic society in America, (perhaps also programmed throughout this society starting with the advent of TV), and many now value that more than relationships which make us more susceptible to separation dogmatism. Again, this is the Ahrmanic influence…materialism is Satan’s domain….666 is the number given to the solar demon Sorat, who is also incarnating in his third incarnation at this time, (666 x 3 = 1998) and 666 is a number that represents the material aspect of man. It may be that America is targeted and more effort exerted to control us here is in order to facilitate the Ahrimanic take over of the world that could result in what Steiner called “the War of All Against All”. Earth is where Satan is making his last stand.
Those that are not susceptible see it for what it is, and this awareness gives them protection from the programming….those that value the natural order of things and the spiritual nature of things are relatively immune…the way they direct and orient their attention is a protection in itself. Having developed discernment between good and evil is a protection. Vibrational fields from the spiritual dimension are a protection. Prayer, meditation with a focus on love are protective. High vibrational music also seems to help. I often listen to Hildegard von Bingen and other music designed to raise the spiritual vibrations to a high pitch. We cannot be entrained to the controlling vibrations if we keep our vibes spiritualized.
No I haven’t read it but see it on Amazon…it looks interesting…validating what Rudolf Steiner wrote about….the separation of the soul and spirit from meaningful spiritual evolution and experience. Thanks for the recommendation.
I lived in the Seattle area for 7 years. I can concur with everything you said. I live in Southern California. Way friendlier here. Maybe because of the sunshine?
I'm in SoCal... and I travel the southwest. I haven't seen a big change. Some people seem to be in more of a hurry when shopping so I don't try to engage them in talk, but I smile at all of them and say hello... usually get the same in return. I do try to make a connection with anyone standing near me because I want to be a reminder to people that we are real humans. You do have to be careful to avoid the unstable/druggies/mentally ill but you can usually tell the difference.
SoCal also has the old time Mexican influence :) ... warm and inclusive. But could be the perception of my era.
I too am In SoCA. Along the coast in the cities & metro areas people are like this, no eye contact, head down in their devices, but when you get out to the more rural areas, people are more open, and less compliant.
You nailed it! I grew up in the Boston area and that holds true there as well. Society is labeling it as liberalism in some areas. I was confused for a long time on what exactly was going on but with all of the information now coming REAL people I'm starting to get it! Thank you. Take care and GOD BLESS!
I can so relate! I currently live in Tacoma, because of my grandbabies. Recently had to sell our home in Florida because the travel became too much for my aging/ill spouse. Boy, do I miss the sunshine state, for so many reasons. There is a true ugliness up here in the PNW, despite the natural beauty.
There is indeed an ugliness around Puget Sound, but it was not always that way. I spent my first 70 years living in or near Gig Harbor. One of the most beautiful places in the world has been smothered in the putrid fog of socialism. It’s really that simple. This is a place where you can pass by 1000 people in a day and make eye contact with less than a dozen. Gratuitous greetings from others come only as a means to decide if you can be of some use to them. If not then you are nothing but a nuisance. Upper class liberal professional hypocrites who consider socialism a virtue.
"Upper class liberal professional hypocrites who consider socialism a virtue"...spot on. It's funny, all the virtue signaling signs in their front yards/windows - you know the ones. But what are they actually doing for any of these "causes", besides posting these signs? Not a damn thing, I'd wager.
75 years mostly in Portland area……agree about change in the 90’s, especially men and women no longer seeing the look of love or simple attraction. Seems the women’s lib movement gave a big nudge to this. Also the big psycho babble of new disorders was fuel enough to quit a Masters program in the 90’s. Otherwise become a pro at keeping people sick and wanting an acronym to decide why they are who they are. Don’t forget the push for body adysmorphobia. Then of course, the music died and gave us another medium to vent illness real or man made. Then decade after decade more compounding reasons,
technology etc. Psyop after psyop. Meanwhile keep the anger going and warmongering. 🙏🎄✌️
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I occasionally frequent a single hikers of the PNW FB group, (mostly just for #mememonday!). They sometimes talk about the "Seattle Freeze"; the difficulty of dating, or even just socializing with others. (I'm in SW WA.)
"No person enters or exist any shop or store in Spain (that I have witnessed) without a complete exchange of greetings tailored to the time of day as well as good wishes. It’s not about “friendly—” but it is a form of form." - I've seen this in all Spanish-speaking countries I've lived in / visited as well. I think it is an ingrained part of the culture.
"What is different in the US that caused this Zombie apocalypse effect we have all observed." - One thing to consider is that US people generally trust their government, up until recently perhaps. While those in other countries do not trust their governments. In the US maybe what we see is similar to an abuse victim who has lived in denial finally realizing that they have been being abused.
They do t need Spain to be destroyed. They just need the US. What is the death rate in Spain after the jab? Did you know that some just received a placebo? Some vials had different doses? Some vial were sent to certain areas? Some countries are not as heavily vaccinated as the US? Some countries are not as sinful as the US? Turn to the God of Abraham and one of the above matters.
I do not believe the clot shot itself is the cause of this all-encompassing malaise. It is the constant propaganda, marketing, advertising, political vitriol, real economic depression, and genera emotional and psychological abuse every minute of the day and night. It seems that the shot is meant to thin the herd at the older end through medicinal means. I wonder if all that mentioned above is meant to encourage drastic ideation that lead to a similar result?
Good point, it could be all of the above. From all the reports circulating, the jab has injured and killed many in the younger generation and especially those who took more than two shots. The higher amount of jabs the more dangerous it becomes. It breaks down the immune system and causes all kinds of nasty things to occur in the body.
It’s the screens which provide a false reality along with FI (Fake Intelligence). To counter this, look at people in their eyes, smile and give a greeting. Most will acknowledge you, but someone has to make the first move.
Be sure to take in the work of Dr. Ana Mihalcea, Dr. David Nixon, La Quinta Columna, etc. The injections are contagious.
I educated my friends for 20 years on US federal government perfidy and the crushing totalitarianism I could see coming. ALL of them got the shot because 5G was crammed into Fort Myers, FL in 2020 and very sophisticated Voice2Skull project was unleashed on them. I experienced it too, just once. But I could tell the difference between my thoughts and my feelings vs the ones that were being inserted into my head and body.
I live in a small town in rural USA; rarely go to cities. People are at least polite and more often than not warm and friendly.
I was in one of the country’s older large cities recently. The default affect was flat and remote, which I interpreted as a defensive posture. But with a friendly smile, slightly lingering eye contact and kind, cheerful word, the ice would almost always melt and reciprocation would follow.
There are probably many causes of the “zombie” phenomenon; the pressure of social complexity and the erosion of the system of those little rituals that lubricate the gears of social interaction make finding a common starting point difficult.
Same observation here. If I wake up on the strong side of the bed then I'm ready stare into those dead eyes as long as it takes. When having risen on the opposite side and feeling a bit more vulnerable, small town engagement is the better way.
I live in NYC and regularly make eye contact and smile with the elderly, disabled, street people (depending in their affect) and usually get a smile back
And we wave at other cars or trucks when we pass On the road, I even acknowledge the traffic construction sign person.. be the change you want to see in the world.
I lived in a small town in Nevada and we waved to everybody so I’m so used to that kind of behavior. Now that I’m living in a big city, I can’t even be friendly because everybody is suspicious of one another. It’s not fun living in a big city. I’d much rather live around a couple thousand people 100 miles away from the nearest store. Lol, who needs all that stuff anyway!
I think what we are calling 'Zombies' is an interaction effect -- not just due to one or more vaccines, but increasing toxicity held in fearful bodies bombarded with artificial frequencies. The factors cannot be teased apart. Just like any given person's trauma is a result of everything in their life, the same thing should be said for any condition. The basic deviations from 'natural' are many! We are reaching a point where we can successfully predict: if one consents to ongoing vaccination--if one accepts all technology offered, including medical--if one accepts fear-based narratives--the outcome will be years off that life and suppressed life during those years. It sounds like Spain still has enough culture to overcome the impact of increasing toxicity; people are still interacting--making heart connections--loving not isolating.
I live in northern Thailand & most times when I cross paths with older Americans they comment briefly on the staggering dying away of socio-political life back in the States. They don't seem to be making a normie political observation, it's beyond that & they imply it's affecting everyone there. These are normal people from both sides. What do they infer is happening, & from where? C19? Failing health of so many, & predatory health care? The unprecedented corruption? Failed elections? They seem hyper-aware that everything in institutions & governance has gone dysfunctional, at most levels. Their attitude as to the source?: a shrugged Who knows. But they're aware of it, can see something's deeply wrong. And part of the reason they're here is to take a break from it. If Europeans aren't reacting to anything like this it's b/c they're denying it, resolutely ignoring it, hoping it passes. Which I think is unlikely. I'd say this is a deep awareness of how wrong-hearted our time is, that we're losing, & the source is the barely concealed elite descent into violent erotomanic evil abuse of innocents. So it's a kind of horrific soul corruption, & Americans are more aware of it. Europeans are died-in-the-wool atheists & see the Diddy-storm as just twisted aristocratic hi-jinks. It's far beyond that if course. This horror is what has people on the ropes.
I believe this is a good assessment. One thing I have noticed when individuals heal is that they have to go through a dark night of the soul…the things that are buried in the subconscious mind have to come up into consciousness and be purified and released. When we heal collectively perhaps it is the same. The soul of the culture must be healed by releasing the collective unconscious from the shadow. This may be what we are dealing with. Each culture could have its own timing and its own manifestation of shadow that is unique, so the manifestation of the healing process we observe would also be somewhat unique.
That’s an interesting take. The only thing new to me, mostly, is the revelation that this isn’t just decline and rot but an engineered destruction by tangible, 3-dimensional evil in the form of things that look like humans. I want to love humans and find grace for the ones I don’t. That’s what I’ve always tried to do in this fallen world. How does that work now? I feel forced into being a belligerent and a partisan, and that separates me from what I want to be.
I completely agree with and see for myself everything you've written re: greetings and human interaction in general. A year ago I went to Morocco for the first time on a trip given to me by my dearest friend, who wanted to get me out of the house and into the world, being 76 then. It was an extraordinary 2 weeks, every minute of it, the fact notwithstanding that I was on a small tour with 2 other couples, one from New Zealand and one from Australia, so similar these two pairs (a generation younger than me) that they looked alike, dressed alike, and certainly thought alike, unlike me, and spent all their time together. Luckily the tour guide Said and I were quite simpatico, though nothing would have mattered to me on this trip.
I've always been a firm shaker of hands wherever I go, with a smile and eye contact, never thought about it, just how I naturally greet or take leave of people. I was told that the men in Morocco would likely not welcome such a gesture from a woman and the women would be baffled by it. Yet my impulses remained intact, and every day, everywhere I went, I shook hands with people, in greeting and in thanks. To my wondrous surprise, every man in every circumstance met me in kind, with a similarly firm grip (not the "dead fish" kind so often experienced in the US, demanding a lesson from me for a 15-year-old boy in proper handshaking, which eventually took), looked me deeply in the eyes and with a big smile while leaning towards me. The few women I encountered behaved exactly as the men, surprised but delighted.
I don't see women shaking hands very often, but there is something about the firm, solid grasping of hands while looking into the eyes of another that speaks to me of the acknowledgment that we're all in this together, and I always, always feel the power in it.
All typos have been fixed now. Sorry about that. I do need to proof read better but was racing to my Spanish lesson. Thank you, those of you who have the gift of helping me understand how important copy editing is without being underhanded or insulting. ANTI thank you to the shamers. Took one of them off the email list. There was nothing to reimburse so that was good.
Anyway, I am reading all the interesting comments and will hopefully be able to respond either later tonight or tomorrow. Thank you all so very much for joining in so enthusiastically. I love this place.
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This is such an important post.
I live near DC and have experienced this (people avoiding human connection; averting eyes from one another) for years, but it has been getting worse, rapidly, since COVID. I had attributed it to cell phones, those earplugs (which I refuse to ever use), and constant attachment to some form of electronic stimulation (podcast, music, being on the phone, etc.) rather than ambient vibes of nature, or even just background noise while waiting in line somewhere.... it's as though people can no longer be human with one another -- no patience, avoidance of the reality of the space and time we find ourselves in..... needing some type of escape or whatever. I don't get it, but I'm grateful that I am so old that I remember what it was like before all of this technology and yes, of course, the shots and poisons (we did have shots and poisons, of course, but not mRNA).
I go where the people like me are -- I go to locations where people put their phones away and talk to one another, looking directly at each other. Whether friends or strangers. I like nature. I go for walks in my neighborhood and I deliberately say hello to people -- a lot of the older ones respond in kind, and the ones younger are more likely not to. It's very noticeable.
I am concerned for humanity. And knowing, too, that these shots definitely have harmed or killed off a bunch of us olders, the ones who are the keepers of the memories of the way we used to be. How can we pass that information on? Many youngers have no idea what it was like, unless they tune into old movies to get some hints.
Spot on Dani. I think it's a combination of EMF's, the poisonous shots and also the food and water. I wouldn't be surprised if the chemtrails are also playing a part in this Zombie apocalypse.
Yes, chemtrails for sure!
I have people who continued to associate with me in spite of my not complying with shots, etc. But they have been all shot up. They are still friendly, but when I bring up the chemtrails or the fact that they hack and cough constantly, they look away. All they have to do is look up. We have been sprayed and are being sprayed relentlessly. They won't admit to being ill.
Unfortunately looking up is not all they have to do. I've been in several pools doing water aerobics first thing in the morning for a number of years now, and people invariably look up at the chemtrails forming or already covering the skies with their distinctive patterns and call it overcast, or say, "Oh, doesn't that look interesting." I'm pretty certain that most people don't know and don't want to know, too much of a stretch.
Yep. It makes them feel uncomfortable. If it goes on long enough, it'll make them dead. They don't seem to notice all the trees dying either. Or they'll say it's climate change. Well, I agree it's climate change, but not caused by excess CO2, Caused by the chemicals spewed into the atmosphere.
Couldn't have said it better myself!
i used to not take chemicals very seriously. Oh I knew they were man-made and evil, but i guess they were so far away- compared to criminals and taxes and other forms of in-your-face nastiness - i couldn't bear up under yet one more concern. BUT the last 2 summers are impossible to ignore.
I live in far northern Minnesota. Clean air and water are important to us. Many people garden. during our brief nonwinter seasons, we are outside as much as possible.
it's become impossible to ignore the effects from "Gates [of hell]"'s spraying. we have far fewer bugs than we used to! that leads to fewer birds and fewer fish. Also yes, it is affecting the sunlight. I follow sunspots etc closely and even those don't explain the odd color of the sun now (less yellow, more white), but here's what alarms me: OUR PLANTS ARE NOT DOING WELL.
EVEN DANDELIONS --- which are hardy indeed!!! --- there are 80% fewer!!! this affects how well bees do when emerging after winter .
And the few dandelions we do have, seem ill: they don't follow the sun any more. Used to be they'd turn slightly as the sun traveled the sky, like little sunflowers. No more.
something is terribly wrong.
pffffffft ! damn machines. was "Chemtrails" & changed to chemicals against my will. grrrr.
Thanks for such fine and relevant info from where you live. 'They' are clearly on a no-holds-barred long-standing mission to degrade life and quality of life to make us dependent on the gov so they can use and abuse us as they wish. The main thing is to not give up or give in. Get/build a greenhouse (I had a large one), water with distilled mineralized water, use lots of local compost and keep growing.
I want a walipini! :-)
Great comment Dani, thank you. I need neighbors like you.
I live in a rural area where it's populated enough already but there's still room for one more when, as Geezermann noted, they have the right (your) stuff.
I have lived here most of my entire life, and it is impossible to leave elderly parents.... but in the past few years, for the first time, I have thought about leaving to be in a place with a higher percentage of people who genuinely want to (and are able to) connect in a human way. It's alienating and exhausting at times, to be so surrounded.
I don't know how you do it. I so understand the elderly parents linchpin. I had filial loyalty too when mine were still alive but thankfully gone before the horrors of The Plandemic. I have walked into grocery stores with a jester's cap and some people get it. Jesting is a safety valve relief mechanism for me but that only works for so long and then it becomes necessary to revert back to serious mode, . . . . . . but not for too long. You must know that there are community-minded websites, although they all have something to sell, that nurture the spirit even when you're geographically stuck for the time being.
Agree. The fine folks on Badlands Media on Rumble have helped me cope daily. Also another great podcast on Rumble with great content and positive vibes is NewsTreason. Hope these can be of comfort in these crazy times.
Me too. Everybody left right before.
maybe some of us are to stick around, to be witnesses.
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Everyone who survives has a role to play. Hopefully, it will be a little more than just witness:)))))))))))LOL!! I'm seeing all sorts of folks rally and stretch beyond their comfort/lazy zones - but it IS an uphill battle with all these poisons and Elon Musk's 20,000+ constellation satellite wi-fi saturation...
Lucky. I was barred from attending mom's 100th and 101st birthday celebrations.
That really sucks. I can't imagine how pissed off I would have been if that had happened to me.
Remember the 2008 meltdown where the regulators allowed the regional banks to consolidate and fail (the strategy that is happening right now), and the 4 Wall Street mega banks to engage in massive mortgage fraud on their behalf?
There were people all up and down the East coast who owned horses and could not feed them. Equine rescue groups were overwhelmed. So, the owners let them loose on the sides of the road to fend for themselves and many starved to death or were hit by cars. Just soul crushing.
I want the government and the bankers to pay for what they have done to the taxpayers (us) on every level. Whenever the parasites at the privately owned "federal" Reserve CENTRAL Bank create these mega upheaval events - WE are the ones who foot the horror bill.
Now we have to add the US Military and the US Health & Human Services Operation Warp Speed initiated by now President again Donald Trump to the organizational nightmare program spawn that is destroying us and our society. I am SICK OF IT.
Don’t come to Commifornia…it’s as bad as DC! Even with the sunshine of CA, and the ability to be out and about pretty much year round, people are the same here.
I live in Mexico part-time, and it's a lovely part of the culture to say "Buenos Dias", or some such greeting, and SMILE! Southern US culture is similar. NE US culture is barren, and always has been.
Yes, our tech obsession is symptom rather than cause.
We're taking in neurological toxins that can cause multiple things, including these often reclusive disorders:
Autism
personality disorders (Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal, OCPD, Avoidant)
Major causes of neurotoxicity:
Vax
Amalgam
Processed food
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An element not mentioned is the ubiquitous EMF in the USA. Huge GWIN towers and smaller 5G and others filled with radar/microwave plates are EVERYWHERE. You don’t even need the shots if you’re being cooked from the inside out. The constant use of cell phones with apps like TICTOC, video games where young men pretend to shoot others for hours…all is soul numbing/ destroying. The answer is to call out to our Creator…seek life.
Yes, SEEK LIFE ! . . . . . and maybe move to Spain too.
Spain was one of the most welcoming places I've ever visited (I speak Spanish, so maybe that skews things). But... the *constant* socializing was oppressive. I guess my Germanic spirit is too strong.
Ah, this whole, how you say, business versus pleasure thing can be confusing :- )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XP9TFVa18
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Yes we and several friends have had dogs under ten years of age all get lymphoma. I suspect it’s the EMFs affecting their smaller bodies. But of course I’m just the tinfoil hat girl…
When I travelled around the world in 2014-2015 I found Spain to be the most wonderful of all. The people, the culture, the food, the scenery, everything about it. I think it would be hard to take that away from them. Fantastic country. I live in the panhandle of Texas. Don't see deadness here. We also did not comply mostly. The TV reminded us over and over that we weren't getting vaxxed enough. And not many wore masks either, unless required at med facilities. Maybe that's why...
I know exactly what you mean, Heather B.
I lived in Barcelona for close to five years, and the Spanish people are:
1. Passionate - I love that
2. Fiery - I love that
3. Cordial - I love that
The first thing my neighbor, an elderly lady around 80, did when I moved into my flat there was to pass some flowers from her balcony over to mine. This loving gesture was accompanied by the words: "Bienvenida a Barcelona, carino!"
Thank you.
Thank you.
Barcelona was first on my list to vist and did not disappoint at all. I envy you for living there! Beautiful city!
I don´t live there any longer, Heather.
I traveled on in 2007 I think it was. I was traveling for around 20 yrs in total.
My memories are engraved in my heart though.
And I have the greatest respect for the Spanish.
What´s going on in Valencia right now is a disaster and an abuse of the natives there.
THE GLOBALISTS NEED TO AND WILL BE STOPPED.
The Spanish people are not fiery and passionate for nothing.
Un abrazo fuerte del
Alma
Valencia was my favorite place in Spain. Wanted to move there but covid happened. It's awful what they did to it. That's great you got to travel that much! I've been to 24 countries and lived abroad for 10 years...it took my husband and I 6 months to go around the world...so similar story...we are all so fortunate.
Indeed!
And NEVER forget:
LIFE WILL OVERCOME THIS WORLD.
All good thoughts in your direction, traveler.
We sort of share the same heart.
Blessings
Same her in North Idaho, USA. We are alive here too. Not so much when I was in Western Maine.
Different parts of the USA are more open, welcoming, less compliant than the west and east coasts.
Isn’t Spain government socialist?
The jabs don’t cause anti-social conduct. Avoiding eye contact is a hallmark of the socialist-liberal-welfare movement. 70 years spent living in the epicenter of the US socialist revolution (Seattle/Tacoma), I have watched this psychosis of avoiding eye contact develop into an art form. It began in the 90’s. People would desperately seek a peripheral distraction to focus on as they approached you in a semi-panicked need to avoid acknowledging your existence. Their cell phone binkies now serve that purpose beautifully. I spent many wonderful days hiking the deep forest trails around Mt Rainier with my kids and then grandkids. In the early years most hikers we would pass would smile and acknowledge fellow hikers. We labeled the others as the “no-lookers”. Eventually the no-lookers would dominate and eye contact became actually rare. My oldest grandson is now a hiring manager and recently told me that he mentally rejects the no-lookers within the first few seconds of the interview.
My impression of Europe, when I travelled there, was that they value the social dimension much more than North Americans do….this was especially true in the Mediterranean countries… so perhaps that has remained intact for that reason…it is highly valued and so has prevailed.
I currently live in a small New Mexico community. Everyone here is a normal human being. They talk, laugh, joke, and most generally have a high awareness that government is trying to entrap/enslave us. We have only 3G internet. We have few chem trails. Many grow their own unadulterated food and we live and walk in mountain forests, completely surrounded here by nature.
I still work in Tucson 2 days a week, and believe the lack of eye contact there that has arisen in the past 15 to 20 years is some kind of cult. When I first moved to Tucson in 2000 this was not the case. It is recent and it is something deliberate. Worse since Covid when Tucson had a large influx from the west coast and east coast cities and a huge migrant “crisis”. There are now signs of cartel activity everywhere, increasing uneasiness. When I try and engage younger people in polite and kindly conversation they become completely uneasy and look away…that is they deliberately look away with an attitude of disdain. Why? Conditioning by internet and false beliefs perhaps. Those that are still willing to communicate tell me that we ( the older generations) are the ones to blame for all of the troubles of the world. The planetary destruction, climate change, racism, wars, etc. despite the untruth of these things, they still believe it, unquestioningly. So they fear, hate and avoid us. We are the enemy. I believe it is primarily social conditioning from internet sources and psychological programming from the same sources, rampant drug use, false blame, shame and guilt, ….a concerted attempt to separate, divide and conquer America. (Yuri Bezmenov described in detail how it would be done). Separation seems to be the prevailing social attitude here in the cities of America now.
I do also believe the vaccines are designed to separate us from our soul/spirit. A good book in that regard, with lecture excerpts given 100 years ago by Rudolf Steiner, is called “the Incarnation of Ahriman: the Occult Annihilation of the Soul”…by Douglas Gabrielle. One of the things Steiner made clear (besides predicting the vaccine factor) in some of his other lectures, is the very vibrations of different areas of the planet make certain patterns manifest from the metaphysical. In North America, where Ahriman/Satan is incarnating during our time, there is a much higher degree of earth magnetic force than in other areas of the planet. This may also be a contributing factor.
We have also become a highly materialistic society in America, (perhaps also programmed throughout this society starting with the advent of TV), and many now value that more than relationships which make us more susceptible to separation dogmatism. Again, this is the Ahrmanic influence…materialism is Satan’s domain….666 is the number given to the solar demon Sorat, who is also incarnating in his third incarnation at this time, (666 x 3 = 1998) and 666 is a number that represents the material aspect of man. It may be that America is targeted and more effort exerted to control us here is in order to facilitate the Ahrimanic take over of the world that could result in what Steiner called “the War of All Against All”. Earth is where Satan is making his last stand.
Those that are not susceptible see it for what it is, and this awareness gives them protection from the programming….those that value the natural order of things and the spiritual nature of things are relatively immune…the way they direct and orient their attention is a protection in itself. Having developed discernment between good and evil is a protection. Vibrational fields from the spiritual dimension are a protection. Prayer, meditation with a focus on love are protective. High vibrational music also seems to help. I often listen to Hildegard von Bingen and other music designed to raise the spiritual vibrations to a high pitch. We cannot be entrained to the controlling vibrations if we keep our vibes spiritualized.
Have you read the book “covid Vaccines from a spiritual perspective” by Thomas Mayer? You may find it interesting.
Just looked up the book. It’s rather expensive at $32! And that’s with a 7% price cut on Amazon. 🤨
No I haven’t read it but see it on Amazon…it looks interesting…validating what Rudolf Steiner wrote about….the separation of the soul and spirit from meaningful spiritual evolution and experience. Thanks for the recommendation.
We were warning about this for decades. I'm totally amazed that anyone walked into this situation voluntarily.
It’s public school
I lived in the Seattle area for 7 years. I can concur with everything you said. I live in Southern California. Way friendlier here. Maybe because of the sunshine?
I'm in SoCal... and I travel the southwest. I haven't seen a big change. Some people seem to be in more of a hurry when shopping so I don't try to engage them in talk, but I smile at all of them and say hello... usually get the same in return. I do try to make a connection with anyone standing near me because I want to be a reminder to people that we are real humans. You do have to be careful to avoid the unstable/druggies/mentally ill but you can usually tell the difference.
SoCal also has the old time Mexican influence :) ... warm and inclusive. But could be the perception of my era.
I too am In SoCA. Along the coast in the cities & metro areas people are like this, no eye contact, head down in their devices, but when you get out to the more rural areas, people are more open, and less compliant.
Thanks for Seattle ! My next silly poem and I were looking for a word that rhymes with cattle.
With "prattle" & "battle" you're ready for a quattrain.
Thanks for the chattel, my brain you done rattled, I'm back in the saddle.
If you prattle like cattle you will become addled.
You nailed it! I grew up in the Boston area and that holds true there as well. Society is labeling it as liberalism in some areas. I was confused for a long time on what exactly was going on but with all of the information now coming REAL people I'm starting to get it! Thank you. Take care and GOD BLESS!
I can so relate! I currently live in Tacoma, because of my grandbabies. Recently had to sell our home in Florida because the travel became too much for my aging/ill spouse. Boy, do I miss the sunshine state, for so many reasons. There is a true ugliness up here in the PNW, despite the natural beauty.
There is indeed an ugliness around Puget Sound, but it was not always that way. I spent my first 70 years living in or near Gig Harbor. One of the most beautiful places in the world has been smothered in the putrid fog of socialism. It’s really that simple. This is a place where you can pass by 1000 people in a day and make eye contact with less than a dozen. Gratuitous greetings from others come only as a means to decide if you can be of some use to them. If not then you are nothing but a nuisance. Upper class liberal professional hypocrites who consider socialism a virtue.
"Upper class liberal professional hypocrites who consider socialism a virtue"...spot on. It's funny, all the virtue signaling signs in their front yards/windows - you know the ones. But what are they actually doing for any of these "causes", besides posting these signs? Not a damn thing, I'd wager.
75 years mostly in Portland area……agree about change in the 90’s, especially men and women no longer seeing the look of love or simple attraction. Seems the women’s lib movement gave a big nudge to this. Also the big psycho babble of new disorders was fuel enough to quit a Masters program in the 90’s. Otherwise become a pro at keeping people sick and wanting an acronym to decide why they are who they are. Don’t forget the push for body adysmorphobia. Then of course, the music died and gave us another medium to vent illness real or man made. Then decade after decade more compounding reasons,
technology etc. Psyop after psyop. Meanwhile keep the anger going and warmongering. 🙏🎄✌️
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I occasionally frequent a single hikers of the PNW FB group, (mostly just for #mememonday!). They sometimes talk about the "Seattle Freeze"; the difficulty of dating, or even just socializing with others. (I'm in SW WA.)
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"No person enters or exist any shop or store in Spain (that I have witnessed) without a complete exchange of greetings tailored to the time of day as well as good wishes. It’s not about “friendly—” but it is a form of form." - I've seen this in all Spanish-speaking countries I've lived in / visited as well. I think it is an ingrained part of the culture.
"What is different in the US that caused this Zombie apocalypse effect we have all observed." - One thing to consider is that US people generally trust their government, up until recently perhaps. While those in other countries do not trust their governments. In the US maybe what we see is similar to an abuse victim who has lived in denial finally realizing that they have been being abused.
They do t need Spain to be destroyed. They just need the US. What is the death rate in Spain after the jab? Did you know that some just received a placebo? Some vials had different doses? Some vial were sent to certain areas? Some countries are not as heavily vaccinated as the US? Some countries are not as sinful as the US? Turn to the God of Abraham and one of the above matters.
So true that some areas, e.g. "Red states", have been proven to have received higher concentrations of injurious or lethal bioweapons.
I do not believe the clot shot itself is the cause of this all-encompassing malaise. It is the constant propaganda, marketing, advertising, political vitriol, real economic depression, and genera emotional and psychological abuse every minute of the day and night. It seems that the shot is meant to thin the herd at the older end through medicinal means. I wonder if all that mentioned above is meant to encourage drastic ideation that lead to a similar result?
I concur. Like autism, the source of the problem can be multifaceted.
Good point, it could be all of the above. From all the reports circulating, the jab has injured and killed many in the younger generation and especially those who took more than two shots. The higher amount of jabs the more dangerous it becomes. It breaks down the immune system and causes all kinds of nasty things to occur in the body.
It’s the screens which provide a false reality along with FI (Fake Intelligence). To counter this, look at people in their eyes, smile and give a greeting. Most will acknowledge you, but someone has to make the first move.
Pureblood and proud
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I educated my friends for 20 years on US federal government perfidy and the crushing totalitarianism I could see coming. ALL of them got the shot because 5G was crammed into Fort Myers, FL in 2020 and very sophisticated Voice2Skull project was unleashed on them. I experienced it too, just once. But I could tell the difference between my thoughts and my feelings vs the ones that were being inserted into my head and body.
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I live in a small town in rural USA; rarely go to cities. People are at least polite and more often than not warm and friendly.
I was in one of the country’s older large cities recently. The default affect was flat and remote, which I interpreted as a defensive posture. But with a friendly smile, slightly lingering eye contact and kind, cheerful word, the ice would almost always melt and reciprocation would follow.
There are probably many causes of the “zombie” phenomenon; the pressure of social complexity and the erosion of the system of those little rituals that lubricate the gears of social interaction make finding a common starting point difficult.
Same observation here. If I wake up on the strong side of the bed then I'm ready stare into those dead eyes as long as it takes. When having risen on the opposite side and feeling a bit more vulnerable, small town engagement is the better way.
I live in NYC and regularly make eye contact and smile with the elderly, disabled, street people (depending in their affect) and usually get a smile back
Drugs and mRNA poisons tend to do that to people. And the drug of Marxism also doesn't help.
And we wave at other cars or trucks when we pass On the road, I even acknowledge the traffic construction sign person.. be the change you want to see in the world.
I lived in a small town in Nevada and we waved to everybody so I’m so used to that kind of behavior. Now that I’m living in a big city, I can’t even be friendly because everybody is suspicious of one another. It’s not fun living in a big city. I’d much rather live around a couple thousand people 100 miles away from the nearest store. Lol, who needs all that stuff anyway!
I prefer living in a small rural town about one hour from a big city, best of both worlds
I think what we are calling 'Zombies' is an interaction effect -- not just due to one or more vaccines, but increasing toxicity held in fearful bodies bombarded with artificial frequencies. The factors cannot be teased apart. Just like any given person's trauma is a result of everything in their life, the same thing should be said for any condition. The basic deviations from 'natural' are many! We are reaching a point where we can successfully predict: if one consents to ongoing vaccination--if one accepts all technology offered, including medical--if one accepts fear-based narratives--the outcome will be years off that life and suppressed life during those years. It sounds like Spain still has enough culture to overcome the impact of increasing toxicity; people are still interacting--making heart connections--loving not isolating.
I live in northern Thailand & most times when I cross paths with older Americans they comment briefly on the staggering dying away of socio-political life back in the States. They don't seem to be making a normie political observation, it's beyond that & they imply it's affecting everyone there. These are normal people from both sides. What do they infer is happening, & from where? C19? Failing health of so many, & predatory health care? The unprecedented corruption? Failed elections? They seem hyper-aware that everything in institutions & governance has gone dysfunctional, at most levels. Their attitude as to the source?: a shrugged Who knows. But they're aware of it, can see something's deeply wrong. And part of the reason they're here is to take a break from it. If Europeans aren't reacting to anything like this it's b/c they're denying it, resolutely ignoring it, hoping it passes. Which I think is unlikely. I'd say this is a deep awareness of how wrong-hearted our time is, that we're losing, & the source is the barely concealed elite descent into violent erotomanic evil abuse of innocents. So it's a kind of horrific soul corruption, & Americans are more aware of it. Europeans are died-in-the-wool atheists & see the Diddy-storm as just twisted aristocratic hi-jinks. It's far beyond that if course. This horror is what has people on the ropes.
I believe this is a good assessment. One thing I have noticed when individuals heal is that they have to go through a dark night of the soul…the things that are buried in the subconscious mind have to come up into consciousness and be purified and released. When we heal collectively perhaps it is the same. The soul of the culture must be healed by releasing the collective unconscious from the shadow. This may be what we are dealing with. Each culture could have its own timing and its own manifestation of shadow that is unique, so the manifestation of the healing process we observe would also be somewhat unique.
That’s an interesting take. The only thing new to me, mostly, is the revelation that this isn’t just decline and rot but an engineered destruction by tangible, 3-dimensional evil in the form of things that look like humans. I want to love humans and find grace for the ones I don’t. That’s what I’ve always tried to do in this fallen world. How does that work now? I feel forced into being a belligerent and a partisan, and that separates me from what I want to be.
I completely agree with and see for myself everything you've written re: greetings and human interaction in general. A year ago I went to Morocco for the first time on a trip given to me by my dearest friend, who wanted to get me out of the house and into the world, being 76 then. It was an extraordinary 2 weeks, every minute of it, the fact notwithstanding that I was on a small tour with 2 other couples, one from New Zealand and one from Australia, so similar these two pairs (a generation younger than me) that they looked alike, dressed alike, and certainly thought alike, unlike me, and spent all their time together. Luckily the tour guide Said and I were quite simpatico, though nothing would have mattered to me on this trip.
I've always been a firm shaker of hands wherever I go, with a smile and eye contact, never thought about it, just how I naturally greet or take leave of people. I was told that the men in Morocco would likely not welcome such a gesture from a woman and the women would be baffled by it. Yet my impulses remained intact, and every day, everywhere I went, I shook hands with people, in greeting and in thanks. To my wondrous surprise, every man in every circumstance met me in kind, with a similarly firm grip (not the "dead fish" kind so often experienced in the US, demanding a lesson from me for a 15-year-old boy in proper handshaking, which eventually took), looked me deeply in the eyes and with a big smile while leaning towards me. The few women I encountered behaved exactly as the men, surprised but delighted.
I don't see women shaking hands very often, but there is something about the firm, solid grasping of hands while looking into the eyes of another that speaks to me of the acknowledgment that we're all in this together, and I always, always feel the power in it.