106 Comments
User's avatar
Sharie Fox's avatar

I like your personal stories. It makes you a human not just a journalist.

Expand full comment
Autonomous 1's avatar

I think I would like your personal heavy, intense thoughts/stories because for me it mirrors what life has been like these last 5 years.

Expand full comment
doug's avatar

George is 82? Thats amazing. He looks better than most at 62. Congrats to him and you on the shirt.

Expand full comment
Lisa Sarenduc's avatar

Of course I don't know you Celia except through your writings and your beautiful heart thus exposed, yet I so wish you would listen to your own inner voice regarding what you put out into the world, regardless of the outcome, regardless of how some people feel, regardless of anything. Other people are not you and they don't have your life, your voice, your thoughts and words to offer. But you can't prioritize whether people like or agree with you and you can't put yourself in harm's way, as I see it. My very best to you.

Expand full comment
Celia Farber's avatar

Ok that is something to think about. Thank you. But Lisa, it actually was reported back to me that at least two people from this Substack felt strongly enough to register their dislike of such pieces to a third person, who in turn reported it back to me. So as much as I wanted to be the arbiter of my work, I doubled back and thought about this whole idea of taking constructive criticism. I lack filters. And it scares me sometimes, the idea that I might not know when I have gone too far. BUT, it scares me more to think I would start writing to please people. So maybe I agree with you. I will think. I used to have, always an editor. Now--no editor, for years. Internal editor? Four people close to me, all women, have said they are scared for me, that I am overly self exposing. I argued back, each time, in tears, that it is deliberate. The shame was palpable. I was left unsure which point of view was "right." Shame is a killer!

Expand full comment
doble graphent Roger W.'s avatar

Courageous people tend to forget themselves.

You show so much courage on many potentially dangerous topics.

Sometimes, you don't sound like a writer at all. Writers are cowardly and retreat into their shell way too fast, like a snail. You write like a medieval philosopher, testing the limits of the illiterate and incompetent clergy, the nobles and the money lenders. In the end, those philosophers went silent or went into exile. Which wasn't so bad 800 years ago as it is today, weirdly enough.

These days, it's super rare that anyone talks back to power. The boomers currently in power have turned out to be as corrupt as the hippies were, and more cruel than the two previous generations of politicians. Journalists of my generation are mostly total bootlickers without a gram of self-respect, much less any original idea. And writers are so scared of every bogeyman and so demoralized because they lack the depth of wide-ranging historical view. That ignorance is what keeps alive their fear.

It's the people under 40 who should be ashamed of everything the have NOT done. You've done a lot.

Expand full comment
Celia Farber's avatar

My dear friend,

You manage to compose your words in such a way that makes me see things from so many new angles, with new light, though I am too accustomed to battery itself, self battery, and anticipatory battery, to even look for anything except which grenade I should fall on next. A thought came to me though, about your words "courageous people." I often say I lack courage, because I myself am keenly aware of all my genuine and sometimes crippling fears. I have never felt this 'thing' called courage, as a real thing I can feel. My adjustment would be this: I think people subject to certain kinds of traumatic identity assault at early ages (most of us, admittedly) lose all sense of danger avoidance. It comes, I believe, from having lost the relationship to oneself as one who should be protected (by oneself, for starters.) You operate in the world more like soldier, always needing fresh opportunities for fresh wars and battles, where your exile from normal life expectations can once again express itself. In other words: People who appear to be placing themselves bravely in danger zones can't necessarily even feel the difference between life and death. The quest is to serve, serve, serve, to rub out the stain of inadequacy.

My work has always been driven by a profound sense that I am digging my way out of a ditch, or digging to China, and once I have dug enough, I might experience some kind of acceptance. Starting from way way under, trying to get to ground level, break even.

I will however, accept your gracious assessment that most in my field are bootlickers and this I am not.

And I thank you with special appreciation for this: "Sometimes you don't sound like a writer at all." You got it!

I am at war with the entire notion of writing and the writer. So much pomposity and domination. So little energetic communion. I think day and night about the alchemy of writing, what makes a few words in a certain order produce an effect of joy, sadness, laughter, connection, disconnection--or whatever else. I'm a forever apprentice. But being alone all the time makes you strange.

What I reject and dislike is the idea of a "writer" at a raised level, a pulpit, pretending they are magic creatures, while the audience is asked to feel they are somehow less in possession of this magic. It's a lie. It drives the whole field of publishing, exploiting this mythos to enrich themselves, inside this sort of fake thing.

Most people, as this very comments section proves daily, writer better than most "real writers." What is "better?"

More authentic, more alive, and more interesting.

Expand full comment
William Taylor's avatar

'It’s been a good exercise to discard pieces I worked on for that long'. Ever hear of TRE(trauma release exercises)? Sounds like that was yours. Frustrated with what you see(want to scream?). It seems to me that sometimes your writing might be for you and really not for others. Its a gift freely given to you. Kinda cool that you can also bath in it and get what you need. Why not? Just a thought.

Expand full comment
Lisa Sarenduc's avatar

I'm terribly sorry to not have responded earlier, Celia, touched as I was by your response, had to let it sit for a while. It boils down to this: perhaps you don't lack filters, but rather you go further and deeper and more transparent than most, sharing your own self and not just a compelling well-written story, and this - who you are and how you live - is what people are drawn to in you, beyond your journalistic abilities, and others are angered, and so it goes. If you are "(overly) self exposing" then likely it's not a new thing, and you are still here being yourself and living, so how bad can it be, seriously?! I'm sorry for you that killer shame won out in that moment (and it is killer, spent most of my life self-cancelling over it) because you knew the writing was deliberate. I appreciate the struggle and will continue to look forward to your diverse offerings.

Expand full comment
TeeCee's avatar

Wow...Celia! It sounds like you have some terribly uptight friends who don't want you to challenge yourself and as for exposure! boy oh boy the biggest problem we have in this world IMO is that everything has to be filtered? as everyone is so sensitive! If people misinterpret then that's on them! What a way to get tied up in knots..not good for your health either.

I don't "know" you but I do know you're a good soul and I gathered that from your writing. 🥰

Expand full comment
Rachel Chaput's avatar

I understand that shame completely and then also you know it is impossible to please everybody. I have found your personal pieces to be astoundingly beautiful.

Expand full comment
Sandra Gathercole's avatar

Your personal truths are the reason I subscribe. Whoever told you readers don't like your style is dead wrong.

Expand full comment
Celia Farber's avatar

Thank you Sandra. She was quoting two people. I was trying to be good at receiving critical feedback. Now I'm unsure.

Expand full comment
A.M.'s avatar

Critical and constructive feedback though always has a ring of truth, but that is different from feedback that just feels picky or hurtful. It's hard to distinguish, sometimes--being a writer and wanting to be open and not have blind spots. I also understand why you don't want to publish dark pieces, per se. And yet, I very much agree with Sandra. You have a unique style, full of marvelous voice. I read all your substacks and not a clinker yet.

Expand full comment
Carol Hoon's avatar

You are a writer. Write. People don't have to like it. I know people who don't like Picasso. So what? He painted anyway.

Expand full comment
Cynthia's avatar

Personal stories, we should all feel free to write. If you do decide to post them I would read them. Anything that is too much for me, I can decide to turn the page. It is a personal decision to be a personal truth bearer. I often wonder if anyone should hear mine. Or if I have the guts to speak it.

Celia, you are one of the remaining few stacks I read consistently.

Expand full comment
Celia Farber's avatar

Thank you for this gift of trust Cynthia. I tend to believe all human things expressed honestly are part of the right path. But I don't want to be oppressive, so I pull back at times, maybe too much. I have over 3,000 pieces as well as fragments in my drafts folder. A kind of hoarding...

Expand full comment
Cynthia's avatar

I think getting it out on paper is good for one’s psyche. They don’t necessarily need to be published. I think about all of the thoughts that I have had and stories that remain in my head. It’s like we know we would be burned at the stake or cause extreme judgment from an audience, even lose loved ones. At one time I called it bad poetry and burned a lot of it which revealed a dark time in my life, being very down about others who would literally use up other’s lives. The flip side of that was thinking it was okay or my calling to give myself to these people’s problems. That was never okay. Anyone who wants to suck off your good vibration should cause an extreme warning. Better yet get to the point where you laugh your guts out because you know how stupid the whole process is. At 70 I know this drill so well. No need for CPTSD or any kind of disorder training. As my mom would say, once again, go chase your self, get over it.

Expand full comment
Joanie Higgs's avatar

Same here. And I want to hear the piece on Reiner Fuellmich, please.

Expand full comment
kilquor2nd's avatar

For sure .

Expand full comment
John Essmyer's avatar

😁I knew you were up to something, and down a rabbit hole of some kind.

My daughter Lea watch for you daily, and know you’ll always emerge.

Sending much love and appreciation from Texas.

John & Lea

Expand full comment
Steve Stars's avatar

I tend to like your emotions in the comments Celia, because they are real and transcend the nitty gritty of too many facts. Just like looking at the MYHA T-shirt. It's a "feel good" response that many of us need.

Expand full comment
Curtis's avatar

I, too, sometimes struggle with despair and hopelessness. Satan is the ruler of this world, for now, but we still must struggle to do our part in the fight. Jeff Childers is one of the only ones who is able to always show the bright side, without varnishing over the truth.

Expand full comment
Mark Harris's avatar

the personal heavy/dark/intense posts are part of what distinguishes you from 200,000 other bloggers and, even if there are misfires and miscalculations, there's always some scintillating fragment in evidence as compensation. the harrowing account of your transplantation from NY to Spain was transcendent, akin to the best cinema.

the Trump/Musk cleavage was totally predictable: two egomaniacs and consummate fraudsters can't share the same stage, or stage a shared con, for long.

Expand full comment
Celia Farber's avatar

Mark, I have to now concede to you on the matter of Trump and Musk. I always defended "MAGA" people, because I grew up with people who were similar, socioeconomically, in Sweden (all social democrats or even communists, in an interesting flip.) I draw many blanks on Trump, stalled for time, and avoided condemnation because, as I quipped, "I'm not rich enough to hate Trump." I hated Trump hatred most--a demonic thing, I felt. Now I am beyond words or theories. The thing nobody looks at with either of them is what radiates most obviously: Childhood trauma.

Expand full comment
Mark Harris's avatar

One doesn't have to hate Trump or Musk or Biden or the Clintons in order to condemn their conduct whether that rebuke is applied in general or via "the line-item veto". As for the profound impact of childhood trauma, consider the iridescent outcome as exemplified by Helen Keller.

quotations courtesy of HK supplied by Google Gemini:

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart."

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."

"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road... Unless you fail to make the turn."

Expand full comment
alison's avatar

Mark, As I read through each quote I believe all of them are what God wants us to know. He and Helen had real conversations.

Expand full comment
Josie's avatar

And another excellent quote, “In the Bible I find a confidence mightier than the utmost evil…” ~ Helen Keller

Expand full comment
kilquor2nd's avatar

dutch prove that tolerance is learned helplessness ,as argued their cultural ''anti -semitic'' stigmatisation of any not enlightened enough .

Expand full comment
kilquor2nd's avatar

Or they are simply attention seekers ,when more important things like is Admiral Byrd's diary ,found by his son - authentic ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOnB47PyZJw

Because the only thing that can explain Trump and Obama's shared bed is that question .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIkgD4U85qc

makes no sense unless decades familiar with antarctic pressing paleo questions .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIkgD4U85qc

Please dont believe me .

Expand full comment
Dale Peterson's avatar

Bibi and George look great! I love Bibi’s expression!

And the mug and shirt are also great!

Expand full comment
Tomas Hull's avatar

Do you think RFK sold out to Murderna because of the pressure from Donny the Trump-et?

Expand full comment
Celia Farber's avatar

I don't exactly think people "sell out." He's not interested in money. My interpretation is that he entered the ultimate lion's den, summit of darkness, with the intention of doing something vitally redemptive, and that this drive came from having already been soul murdered long ago. The soul rises up, and attempts something actually "suicidal." The threat of death matters not to such a person who has already been forged in fire (death kingdoms.) I don't mean only the deaths of his father and uncle were the forgings.

I know categorically how much he knows, what he knows, and in what non negotiable loathing he holds "vaccines," because he told me back when we were working. This is widely known. NOBODY goes from seeing the truth to liking "vaccines." But why the persistent myth that individual men in high places have power, even over their own institutions? Married men rarely have power in their own homes to be allowed to weigh in on the placement of the dog bowl. I seek answers in universal human psychology.

Expand full comment
Tomas Hull's avatar

I’d have to agree with you. While he may not be motivated by money, something else clearly continues to drive him. Something you don’t know?

I’m wondering—does anything in universal human psychology logically justify the agreement between RFK Jr. and Moderna to conduct a clinical trial using failed “gene therapy” technology, disguised as a vaccine, supposedly aimed at reducing symptoms of flu-like infections for which there is no concrete evidence?

Expand full comment
kilquor2nd's avatar

Yet dog bowls are of inestiamable cogency - see Prince Harry's ''Spare '' account of being recently & summarily accosted by his (soon to be king ?) brother William utilising such a dogs bowl literally .

It is thereby axiomatic ,true patriotism ,not to see so much as the bowl being suggestively dangled before media eyes ,magician like - but the doG , the doG ,being but DOGE in reverse ,God spelt backwards .

Spelt out in yesterdays Yahoo news feed .. a newest freshest RU oil refinery (ukr) drone strike -AI verified false footage (by BBC verify ) catching out Gates by default - yahoo had to take it down damn quickly ..

and the question is begged .

How many erstwhile doG bowls in Ukraine ?

How many more verified fake footage of attacks ?

Expand full comment
Tomas Hull's avatar

You don’t have to answer it here

Expand full comment
Tomas Hull's avatar

We both know.

I know that that the mRNA technology is not even wrong and I can prove by the scientific method they will never ever apply to prove their s..t..

Expand full comment
Joanie Higgs's avatar

"not even wrong"? "s..t.."?

Expand full comment
doble graphent Roger W.'s avatar

First, there is the view that modified RNA is not proven to be able to do what we are constantly being told it can do. That it's just smoke and mirrors, a marketing myth. The ribonuclease enzymes outside cells could be destroying mRNA molecules before they get inside. Also, in the cytoplasm inside the cell there are also enzymes that are thought to protect genetic integrity precisely by destroying any weird-looking piece of genome. Simply put, the ribosomes are not supposed to create proteins all the time regardless of what piece of genome reaches them (and maybe ribosomes do not exist at all, lol!) If that is true, the genetic engineers may have never been successful in their attempts at raping human cells in vivo. Please, Mr. Nobelprize winners, return the money now!

On the other hand, there is another argument that the artificial, modified RNA is actually targeting non-human cells, such as bacteria (which are normally everywhere in the body) and bacteria maybe are weaker at the task of defending their genetic integrity, compared to animal cells. So, if this second argument is true, the damage done to people (pregnant women, for instance) with the murderna shots would not be exactly a harm caused by genetic modification of the human cells, but by harming the non-human cells of the human microbiome, which are essential for our well being, or so the general consensus is today.

On the third hand (speaking of genetic modification) there is also the argument that this phantom company called Moderna, which would be a military cut-out, and a probably fraudulent financial operation, can't even make modified RNAs at all. So, everything would be a psyop in this case. This third argument is not unlike the conjecture that the Manhattan project failed to create the bombs, and there are some who speculate that the MP was only a surveillance and psychology research project, nothing to do with the official version, which would be the mass-public part of that hypothetical psyop. I mean, the covid vaccines have killed more people and caused more economic upheavals than nuclear bombs ever did. What if it's all as fake as an Orson Welles radio show?

What if all of us are wrong?

Wouldn't that be hilarious?

Expand full comment
Tomas Hull's avatar

The third option seems closest to the truth, with the exception that, while mRNA can indeed be manufactured, what it actually encodes is another story. If you look closely at what mRNA was promised to encode—a spike protein based on a computer model of a virus never proven to exist, supposedly presented on the surface of a cell membrane and locked in permanently—it raises serious questions. Even if such a mechanism were possible, this entirely foreign protein would mark the cell for immediate destruction.

Is mRNA technology truly viable? If it were, why would Pfizer submit fake Western blots to medical agencies in the EU, Canada, and elsewhere? If Pfizer had genuine evidence of the spike protein, why take the risk of submitting falsified data?

Hilarious?

Expand full comment
kilquor2nd's avatar

Electroporation targets anything ,not just human cells .

That's why Leidos has been so active in Netanyahu's special ops ,since 1992 ,according to Dr J Mikovits .

https://rumble.com/v6ugsi7-leidos-airport-scanners-are-bioweapons.html

Expand full comment
Tomas Hull's avatar

How do you manufacture a spike protein of a virus never proven to exist? ?? How did we get here? Nobody bothered to check? It is pure bull s..t!

Expand full comment
doble graphent Roger W.'s avatar

Yep.

Expand full comment
Ralph Magee's avatar

An advertisement for Celia's personal expressions(the value seen in two previous TTB posts)

We've been deprived of being close and encouraged not to notice what we've lost in these past 5 years. Celia notices and describes the personal tragedies of lost friends, family, illnesses and deaths as well as anybody. Is it good not to be aware of what we're losing and lost, how we're being targeted in this "revolution"(as Celia calls it) taking away the essence of so much we call "life"? Are we lovers anymore, are we being groomed not to love and to accept loneliness over relatedness? Celia's insights and awareness of heart help us discern. If some more emotionless, less feminine people are critical of her renderings of what we've lost, then I hope they'll go elsewhere and let Celia write undisturbed whatever inspiration she feels. Two posts that I wouldn't have want to miss:

1. Postcards From The Apocalypse (Which Is Strangely Dull) Celia Farber Mar 28, 2021

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/somebodys-got-to-be-kidding

...Watch out for cold people, growing colder through Covid. Go toward people who don’t submit their souls to a drawing, a drawing of a virus...

2. The Evil Spirit Behind Covid: Pretends To Be Concerned About Health

Celia Farber Nov 28, 2022

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/the-evil-spirit-behind-covid

...They were trying to make him go to the nearest hospital, and they treated him with sudden onset hatred because he did not want to— was not worried about his cold...

Expand full comment
Celia Farber's avatar

Ralph. Wow.

How can I thank you. I had forgotten 100% of this. I wonder how we all should approach Covid era testimony.

Expand full comment
Bibi Farber's avatar

When George and I went to a restaurant last night, some fellows asked if we were "famous". I replied, we "will be soon" - knowing we'd be featured in the Truth Barrier as the new MYHA models. Thank you Celia- you're doing such amazing work. These shirts, mugs and beyond are beautiful!

Expand full comment
Celia Farber's avatar

Happy post Birthday Bibi, I can't wait to see you and George as MYHA models for future clothes. I'm so glad you had a joyous birthday!

Expand full comment
Alexandros Krampis's avatar

Happy birthday Bibi!

Expand full comment