I was a therapist for many years who had to diagnose my clients. I worked for the county - meaning I had all kinds of folks as clients. IMHO this guy is a narcissist and is a psycho path, which is a form of narcissism.
He was one of the Four Horsemen who in the 2000s discussed religion in a refreshing manner along with Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitchens. However he is one of those scientists who is clearly burnt out by the time he is 30. Along with Neil degrasse Tyson thinks it's safe to take medical chances by consensus. I pity his children.
ROTFL on Hitchens. I think Dawkins is trying, but I did love this (from WikiCIAapedia)
Atheist philosopher John Gray has denounced Dawkins as an "anti-religious missionary", whose assertions are "in no sense novel or original", suggesting that "transfixed in wonderment at the workings of his own mind,
I like him a lot, and have read several of his books. The Ancestors Tale is amazing, when he tries to explain deep time, for someone a bit dull like me...
Starting in Somalia on the East coast of Africa, imagine I am holding my daughters hand to the right, my mothers to the left. My mother is holding her mothers' hand, my grandmother is holding my great grandmothers' hand, and so on. When the chain reaches the West Coast, say Ivory Coast, it turns and continues back to the East coast. What is opposite me is is not human, but something which looks more like a chimpanzee.
I know he irritated a lot of people when he wrote about religion, but I think he is , or was, fairly neat, and a mate of Douglas Adams, my all time favourite author!
Oh and the Peacock's Tale, or tail, why?! Sexual selection, it's what the Peahens fancy - lol - sorry I go on a bit..
I have multiple problems with the theory of evolution. I see what he is trying to sell you but it is not necessarily true though. I saw him on multiple religious arguments and the huge issue is that science can't refute God.
right? these were the "smart guys"?? I once read a lovely study wherein it was discovered that the farther up the intelligentsia scale one went, the more defective they were in all other areas of life.
I really don't understand how Harris can smugly declare that humans have no free will out of one side of his mouth while out of the other side he demands that they fulfill their moral obligation to get vaccinated. This guy is full of it.
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"If everything were different, I would be right."
This is such a disgusting display from Harris and I'm so glad you wrote about it. As you mention, if the shot actually worked and the virus was actually deadly, you wouldn't need mandates because people would be lining up for ACTUAL protection. And then the people who WERE protected WOULDN'T CARE if others were protected or not, because they already have protection via the vaccine!
I'd never heard of Harris before his case of TDS set in, it's sad to think that at one time he was worth listening to, because clearly that time is long gone.
His scenario requires perfect knowledge, truthful media organs, and complete trust in institutions. In other words, fantasy land. He never considers actors in a world where all of these are wildly variable.
He was never worth listening to. There are no gurus. There's this thing called common sense, though, and people ought to consider planting it in their kitchen gardens.
PS: All the wisdom anybody needs was already written a long time ago. If one is uncomfortable with religious dogma, there's the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. If one wants a more specifically spiritual framework--take your pick.
Or fill one's bookshelves with a whole combo selection. I don't believe in nobody's dogma yet find some words from, say, Meister Eckhart and Teresa of Avila very moving. Every time someone quotes, say, Marcus Aurelius, I think "that was some smart guy."
Nobody living today is smarter than those guys, or more capable of formulating deathless words that can comfort the soul or one's intellectual hunger.
I am very puzzled at Sam's apparent " intellectual" title... he is apparently one who can't "rotate the shape" in the least. You make such clear and irrefutable points. Naomi Wolf recently wrote about such elite circles and their stated thinking on, for eg the economy of Greece re the imposition of austerity, and whether the populace should have those decisions made for them. ie democratically. The Stanford whizz crowd at their NY dinner parties thought obviously it was beyond such people to decide their own economic policies. This is entitlement. I used to listen to Sam's "waking up" app (for the Richard Laing series)... and remember one discussion where REALLY basic concepts were being discussed, things I thought we all considered re the nature of reality/ idealism/ matrix/ the " me". re non duality. Sam astonished me shall we say 🤔 This is so dumb and yet so hubristic. I know quite a few people like this at the mo. SO much certainty and sanctimony!
Oddly enough, I have not ever found him worth listening to. Actually, now that AI has come forward, his manner is that of an AI essayist. A kind of truthiness masking a completely closed mind.
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My best friend is a Sam Harris follower. He’s also a reasonable, open minded guy. We literally had about 20 hours of debate about COVID jabs in 2021. During that time my friend’s dad died of a heart attack and his secretary had a heart attack. My friend continued to get jabs and had gotten 4-5 I think. His health has deteriorated, and he got shingles at one point. On occasion he’s handed me some concessions that “maybe” I’m partially right on this stuff. And my friend is a critical-thinking, Republican entrepreneur, not a cubicle dwelling Democrat who’s used to following authority. I basically concluded that convincing adults of anything is nearly impossible. Ironically, at a party in 2021 I talked to said buddy’s daughter ( a medical student) for two hours about COVID shots. She seemed open minded and interested, but not convinced. I was thrilled when, a year later, she called to ask if I knew how she could get a medical exemption to avoid getting any more shots, which were required for her residency. Poor girl apparently had some heart issues. Fortunately she’s now in a residency program that allowed her to opt out of additional COVID jabs.
I wish. I spoke about this stuff constantly throughout 2021 and fortunately I think I had an influence on two people. (The one mentioned above and an older guy who thought I was nuts but who eventually told me he’d come around and stopped getting shots.) I had zero effect on my own family members who are about to get (I think) a 7th shot!! Soon as the mandates and hatred of unvaxxed showed up, I stopped speaking publicly about this stuff and by 2023, anyone who’s going to change their mind has done so.
I was able to convince my husband and young adult/teen kids not to get jabbed. And I brought one sister and her husband over, post jab. Lots of friends and family still praising the vax. I’m with you--I said my piece, I shared information, and I’m done trying to convince anyone.
I’ve always made the medical decisions for my kids, so they pretty much just followed my lead. My husband is conservative and realized early that I was listening to solid people. The one sister and her husband are conservative —her husband more than her. My other sister and brother are liberal and WILL NOT have anyone disparage the vax. My husband’s family is all over the board politically, but they’re all in for the boosters.
Interesting. My dad is conservative and agrees with all my my arguments, and yet he keeps getting the shots because of pressure from my mom. My mom is a California Democrat. I’ve had better luck talking to a wall.
Update: I saw this friend a couple days ago and found out he hasn’t gotten a booster in the past year. Maybe just maybe folks like us, or his personal health experiences, have started to change his thinking.
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When you start using mental gymnastics to stop yourself from looking into the abyss there is no limit to the contortions you can put your self through because the alternative takes real courage. If you're a coward you can justify forcing medical experiments on to people and look into the mirror and not see a despot. You can be genuinely smart but half asleep at the wheel as well. Apologies for the mixed metaphors
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I remain surprised that anyone ever thought Sam Harris worth listening to. A guy who claims to be an atheist and then repackages Buddhism--a religion--by washing out all the culturally-specific stuff so he can market it to the "I need a religion for comfort but want to pretend I don't" crowd has a pretty clear grift going on.
The guy believes in nothing but making money. And he found lots and lots of marks to fall for his nonsense.
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As Pilate said to Jesus, "What is truth?" John 18:38
They lied to us about the Covid virus, the origin and the severity of it.
They lied to us about the treatment, no treatment was allowed until you got extremely sick, then they gave you Remdesivir, which destroyed the kidneys, then they put you on a vent which destroyed your lungs.
Then the lied to us about the vaccine, take it and you wont get covid.
These people are responsible for many destroyed lives. They better not ever approach me or my family with a medication of any kind and threaten to hold me down and force me to take it.
They are liars and have no credibility in a civilized would. They shold be in prison.
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If there was a magic disease that killed 75% of the children it infected, and there was a corresponding magic potion with 100% efficacy and 0% risk, why would there need to be a mandate?
Actually, if there were such a disease, vaccination would be moot because the 75% would be dead before they could manufacture a vaccine. Actually, they’d probably be dead before the authorities could isolate the damn virus.
Unless of course we have the plot (again) to V for Vendetta where the virus was manufactured with the vaccine.
Not to mention just how do they develop a vaccine in less than 1 year when the previous record was 4 and the average 7? You have to skip a lot, like 75%, and what takes the most time? Safety testing.
So just skip all that because they'll just tell everyone it's "Safe & Effective" and they'll buy it.
All myopically focused on the TOXIC spike protein which mutates 5 times faster than the corona virus. Their products would get your body to produce trillions of them. Of all the parts of the virus they ALL thought that was the best ...
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That dude is an idiot.
If the vaxx was truly sterilizing, then he'd be utterly safety while my unvaxxed lungs would be choking on Ebolaesque levels of mortality. He'd be protected by a real force field of freedom and vitue signaling. There would be no need for the cops to vaxx everyone, we could just look at that self-proclaimed Einstein and realize, with our last breaths, WE DONE F#CKED UP, SAM WAS RIGHT!!
However, Sam was not correct, he was a scared little boy whose fragile ego has to deal with the fact the cool killer kids didn't let him in on the depop plan and now he gets to lay in bed at night and in the silence only broken by his sobs, listen to the tick tick tick of his heartbomb about to go off.
Pay attention to how language is getting manipulated. Suppose I killed the President, only I didn't kill him because I had the power to redefine the word "kill". And, BTW, redefine "I" to mean "you" and yadda yadda yadda. I'm damn tired of real world definitions - sanctioned by society and history - getting changed to suit the PTBs and somehow I'm supposed to go along with it.
Maybe there is some 2nd Foundation colony managing this, probably so to some degree. This seems to me getting close to a self-defense situation. The psychopaths, parasites and narcissists are just going to keep pushing until they get eliminated. Or not.
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Sam can't conceive a universe in which he's wrong, therefore he does these mental gymnastics to excuse his past poor decisions. He's become the worst possible version of what he used to stridently oppose: a neo-religious fascist zealot.
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Sam Harris is nothing new. He is a self centred hypocrite who hates humanity and wants to enslave mankind. Sam Adams wrote about his sort.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
For my part, I don't pray that the chains set lightly. Let their chains chafe and bind so they choose to shed them. Amen.
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Like I've said before, even if God himself assured me the mRNA shot was 100% safe and effective, and even if covid were much deadlier, enshrining such a mandate into law sets such a dangerous precedent, beside it also being morally reprehensible.
It doesn't take a genius to predict where it will lead. What about the next pandemic? Can Harris be 100% certain that the vaccine they develop for that will be 100% safe and effective? Or the next one, or the one after that? Well, too bad because now that the cat is out of the bag, you can expect future government-pharma sponsored jabs to be mandated now that the precedent has been set.
SimulationCommander I’ve had this argument more than once with my husband.
He rushed out taking the darts no research or questions asked, he was even annoyed that I’d forbid our two teenagers from taking it when the nurses came into school.
Told him it was his choice to be a guinea pig but neither me or children were taking the experimental gene therapies.
He was and still is adamant that they’re not gene therapies and are vaccines, this is even after I’ve offered to show him the video of them stating it’s gene therapy.
Even with all the proof in front of them, they will not, cannot accept they were conned, stupidity, arrogance and pride stops them from doing so.
I’m in the same boat with my wife. Occasionally I show her a video to try to bring her out of the dream. I think the key is to focus on the common ground and then slowly explore the edges of that instead of something too shocking to take in. Some day they will wake up.
Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
But now:
Vaccine: A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
Now a vaccine doesn’t provide IMMUNITY, it only ‘stimulates the body’s immune system’.
Yes, it seems such an obvious point to me, that a very dangerous precedent has been set. It is frightening how few people seem to understand the implications of mandates for medical treatments regardless of the safety & effectiveness. and the vital importance of voluntary engagement free from coercion, force, bullying, penalties etc. Is is because in the last several decades prior to covid those in the West have not had their freedoms seriously threatened & thus take them for granted to such a degree that many are unable to imagine, or recognise, the stealthy erosion of our freedoms?
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He is so arrogant and brimming with prideful contempt that I don't know why anyone wants to listen to anything he has to say about anything. He represents the many of his ilk. They look down with a patronizing sneer on the masses and believe themselves entitled to command others whatever they wish. His abundant and overflowing pride will keep him from ever admitting he was ever wrong about anything covid and in general wrong about anything.
Sam Harris still can't seem to answer the most basic of questions:
How come your vaccine only works if I get one?
And just who the fuck is he anyway such that he presumes to have the authority to dictate morality to me or anyone else?
He's a narcissist who lacks any self-awareness.
I was a therapist for many years who had to diagnose my clients. I worked for the county - meaning I had all kinds of folks as clients. IMHO this guy is a narcissist and is a psycho path, which is a form of narcissism.
He was one of the Four Horsemen who in the 2000s discussed religion in a refreshing manner along with Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitchens. However he is one of those scientists who is clearly burnt out by the time he is 30. Along with Neil degrasse Tyson thinks it's safe to take medical chances by consensus. I pity his children.
Ohh...he's one of THEM. That explains a great deal.
Well then I can put him in the same category as Dawkins: He's far too infatuated with his own hubris to see reason.
(BTW the only thing George Galloway ever said that I agreed with, was when he referred to Hitchens as a "drink-soaked Trotskyist popinjay".)
ROTFL on Hitchens. I think Dawkins is trying, but I did love this (from WikiCIAapedia)
Atheist philosopher John Gray has denounced Dawkins as an "anti-religious missionary", whose assertions are "in no sense novel or original", suggesting that "transfixed in wonderment at the workings of his own mind,
LOL - what was Hitchen's retort? "Only some of which is true"...
Dawkings is refreshing like listening to a 9 years old during a temper tantrum.
I like him a lot, and have read several of his books. The Ancestors Tale is amazing, when he tries to explain deep time, for someone a bit dull like me...
Starting in Somalia on the East coast of Africa, imagine I am holding my daughters hand to the right, my mothers to the left. My mother is holding her mothers' hand, my grandmother is holding my great grandmothers' hand, and so on. When the chain reaches the West Coast, say Ivory Coast, it turns and continues back to the East coast. What is opposite me is is not human, but something which looks more like a chimpanzee.
I know he irritated a lot of people when he wrote about religion, but I think he is , or was, fairly neat, and a mate of Douglas Adams, my all time favourite author!
Oh and the Peacock's Tale, or tail, why?! Sexual selection, it's what the Peahens fancy - lol - sorry I go on a bit..
I have multiple problems with the theory of evolution. I see what he is trying to sell you but it is not necessarily true though. I saw him on multiple religious arguments and the huge issue is that science can't refute God.
No science cannot refute God, it's a faith based enterprise.
right? these were the "smart guys"?? I once read a lovely study wherein it was discovered that the farther up the intelligentsia scale one went, the more defective they were in all other areas of life.
Edward, total genius. "How come your vaccine only works if I get one" my new battle cry.
Is Harris "Controlled Opposition?
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-art-of-theoretical-science
I wonder if his discussion of 'different variables' is predictive programming for the next plandemic?
Controlled, yes, opposition? When ever was he, to what? To not-his opinions maybe.
I thought so by about the sixth paragraph of the article.
I really don't understand how Harris can smugly declare that humans have no free will out of one side of his mouth while out of the other side he demands that they fulfill their moral obligation to get vaccinated. This guy is full of it.
EXCELLENT questions!!!
"If everything were different, I would be right."
This is such a disgusting display from Harris and I'm so glad you wrote about it. As you mention, if the shot actually worked and the virus was actually deadly, you wouldn't need mandates because people would be lining up for ACTUAL protection. And then the people who WERE protected WOULDN'T CARE if others were protected or not, because they already have protection via the vaccine!
I'd never heard of Harris before his case of TDS set in, it's sad to think that at one time he was worth listening to, because clearly that time is long gone.
His scenario requires perfect knowledge, truthful media organs, and complete trust in institutions. In other words, fantasy land. He never considers actors in a world where all of these are wildly variable.
He was never worth listening to. There are no gurus. There's this thing called common sense, though, and people ought to consider planting it in their kitchen gardens.
PS: All the wisdom anybody needs was already written a long time ago. If one is uncomfortable with religious dogma, there's the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. If one wants a more specifically spiritual framework--take your pick.
Or fill one's bookshelves with a whole combo selection. I don't believe in nobody's dogma yet find some words from, say, Meister Eckhart and Teresa of Avila very moving. Every time someone quotes, say, Marcus Aurelius, I think "that was some smart guy."
Nobody living today is smarter than those guys, or more capable of formulating deathless words that can comfort the soul or one's intellectual hunger.
I love this comment so much!
Me too
I am very puzzled at Sam's apparent " intellectual" title... he is apparently one who can't "rotate the shape" in the least. You make such clear and irrefutable points. Naomi Wolf recently wrote about such elite circles and their stated thinking on, for eg the economy of Greece re the imposition of austerity, and whether the populace should have those decisions made for them. ie democratically. The Stanford whizz crowd at their NY dinner parties thought obviously it was beyond such people to decide their own economic policies. This is entitlement. I used to listen to Sam's "waking up" app (for the Richard Laing series)... and remember one discussion where REALLY basic concepts were being discussed, things I thought we all considered re the nature of reality/ idealism/ matrix/ the " me". re non duality. Sam astonished me shall we say 🤔 This is so dumb and yet so hubristic. I know quite a few people like this at the mo. SO much certainty and sanctimony!
People gotta make a living. The ones with no practical skills put big words in a blender and sell 'em as a smoothie.
there is nothing new under the sun...
Not for a few thousand years, anyway.
And me
Oddly enough, I have not ever found him worth listening to. Actually, now that AI has come forward, his manner is that of an AI essayist. A kind of truthiness masking a completely closed mind.
I used to listen to him when I suffered from severe insomnia😴😴😴
LOL!
Fortunately, insomnia hasn't been one of my discomforts!
spot on
And if frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their asses so much.
Reminds me of an old Irish saying"If ifs and ands were pots and pans tinkers would never be idle"
And: If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, every day would be Christmas.
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My best friend is a Sam Harris follower. He’s also a reasonable, open minded guy. We literally had about 20 hours of debate about COVID jabs in 2021. During that time my friend’s dad died of a heart attack and his secretary had a heart attack. My friend continued to get jabs and had gotten 4-5 I think. His health has deteriorated, and he got shingles at one point. On occasion he’s handed me some concessions that “maybe” I’m partially right on this stuff. And my friend is a critical-thinking, Republican entrepreneur, not a cubicle dwelling Democrat who’s used to following authority. I basically concluded that convincing adults of anything is nearly impossible. Ironically, at a party in 2021 I talked to said buddy’s daughter ( a medical student) for two hours about COVID shots. She seemed open minded and interested, but not convinced. I was thrilled when, a year later, she called to ask if I knew how she could get a medical exemption to avoid getting any more shots, which were required for her residency. Poor girl apparently had some heart issues. Fortunately she’s now in a residency program that allowed her to opt out of additional COVID jabs.
Wow! Well done! Can I get you to come talk to my brother and sister?
I wish. I spoke about this stuff constantly throughout 2021 and fortunately I think I had an influence on two people. (The one mentioned above and an older guy who thought I was nuts but who eventually told me he’d come around and stopped getting shots.) I had zero effect on my own family members who are about to get (I think) a 7th shot!! Soon as the mandates and hatred of unvaxxed showed up, I stopped speaking publicly about this stuff and by 2023, anyone who’s going to change their mind has done so.
I was able to convince my husband and young adult/teen kids not to get jabbed. And I brought one sister and her husband over, post jab. Lots of friends and family still praising the vax. I’m with you--I said my piece, I shared information, and I’m done trying to convince anyone.
That’s an impressive batting average. How’d you do it, and what were the dispositions (political, etc) of the people you were able to persuade?
I’ve always made the medical decisions for my kids, so they pretty much just followed my lead. My husband is conservative and realized early that I was listening to solid people. The one sister and her husband are conservative —her husband more than her. My other sister and brother are liberal and WILL NOT have anyone disparage the vax. My husband’s family is all over the board politically, but they’re all in for the boosters.
Interesting. My dad is conservative and agrees with all my my arguments, and yet he keeps getting the shots because of pressure from my mom. My mom is a California Democrat. I’ve had better luck talking to a wall.
Update: I saw this friend a couple days ago and found out he hasn’t gotten a booster in the past year. Maybe just maybe folks like us, or his personal health experiences, have started to change his thinking.
When you start using mental gymnastics to stop yourself from looking into the abyss there is no limit to the contortions you can put your self through because the alternative takes real courage. If you're a coward you can justify forcing medical experiments on to people and look into the mirror and not see a despot. You can be genuinely smart but half asleep at the wheel as well. Apologies for the mixed metaphors
Harris is an arrogant little twerp who has lost his ever lovin’ mind.
I remain surprised that anyone ever thought Sam Harris worth listening to. A guy who claims to be an atheist and then repackages Buddhism--a religion--by washing out all the culturally-specific stuff so he can market it to the "I need a religion for comfort but want to pretend I don't" crowd has a pretty clear grift going on.
The guy believes in nothing but making money. And he found lots and lots of marks to fall for his nonsense.
SCA- yours is a spot on description that explains the behavior of a lot of people of our times 🎯
The hunger to believe is normal. It often gets filled with a lot of crap.
As Pilate said to Jesus, "What is truth?" John 18:38
They lied to us about the Covid virus, the origin and the severity of it.
They lied to us about the treatment, no treatment was allowed until you got extremely sick, then they gave you Remdesivir, which destroyed the kidneys, then they put you on a vent which destroyed your lungs.
Then the lied to us about the vaccine, take it and you wont get covid.
These people are responsible for many destroyed lives. They better not ever approach me or my family with a medication of any kind and threaten to hold me down and force me to take it.
They are liars and have no credibility in a civilized would. They shold be in prison.
Decent summary.
If there was a magic disease that killed 75% of the children it infected, and there was a corresponding magic potion with 100% efficacy and 0% risk, why would there need to be a mandate?
Actually, if there were such a disease, vaccination would be moot because the 75% would be dead before they could manufacture a vaccine. Actually, they’d probably be dead before the authorities could isolate the damn virus.
Unless of course we have the plot (again) to V for Vendetta where the virus was manufactured with the vaccine.
Not to mention just how do they develop a vaccine in less than 1 year when the previous record was 4 and the average 7? You have to skip a lot, like 75%, and what takes the most time? Safety testing.
So just skip all that because they'll just tell everyone it's "Safe & Effective" and they'll buy it.
And all manufacturers agreed to base all quakcines on the highly pathogenic S protein.
All myopically focused on the TOXIC spike protein which mutates 5 times faster than the corona virus. Their products would get your body to produce trillions of them. Of all the parts of the virus they ALL thought that was the best ...
Exactly. this is NOT understanding biology or epidemiology!!!!! FFS! ugh. Just as is "flatten the curve". The x axis = time!
That dude is an idiot.
If the vaxx was truly sterilizing, then he'd be utterly safety while my unvaxxed lungs would be choking on Ebolaesque levels of mortality. He'd be protected by a real force field of freedom and vitue signaling. There would be no need for the cops to vaxx everyone, we could just look at that self-proclaimed Einstein and realize, with our last breaths, WE DONE F#CKED UP, SAM WAS RIGHT!!
However, Sam was not correct, he was a scared little boy whose fragile ego has to deal with the fact the cool killer kids didn't let him in on the depop plan and now he gets to lay in bed at night and in the silence only broken by his sobs, listen to the tick tick tick of his heartbomb about to go off.
Sad.
"If the vaxx was truly sterilizing, ..."
eg, if the vax actually was a vaccine.
Pay attention to how language is getting manipulated. Suppose I killed the President, only I didn't kill him because I had the power to redefine the word "kill". And, BTW, redefine "I" to mean "you" and yadda yadda yadda. I'm damn tired of real world definitions - sanctioned by society and history - getting changed to suit the PTBs and somehow I'm supposed to go along with it.
Maybe there is some 2nd Foundation colony managing this, probably so to some degree. This seems to me getting close to a self-defense situation. The psychopaths, parasites and narcissists are just going to keep pushing until they get eliminated. Or not.
Sam can't conceive a universe in which he's wrong, therefore he does these mental gymnastics to excuse his past poor decisions. He's become the worst possible version of what he used to stridently oppose: a neo-religious fascist zealot.
Sam Harris is nothing new. He is a self centred hypocrite who hates humanity and wants to enslave mankind. Sam Adams wrote about his sort.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
For my part, I don't pray that the chains set lightly. Let their chains chafe and bind so they choose to shed them. Amen.
Excellent and very relevant quote. Thank you for that!
"One is glad to be of service." ~ Bicentennial Man
Like I've said before, even if God himself assured me the mRNA shot was 100% safe and effective, and even if covid were much deadlier, enshrining such a mandate into law sets such a dangerous precedent, beside it also being morally reprehensible.
It doesn't take a genius to predict where it will lead. What about the next pandemic? Can Harris be 100% certain that the vaccine they develop for that will be 100% safe and effective? Or the next one, or the one after that? Well, too bad because now that the cat is out of the bag, you can expect future government-pharma sponsored jabs to be mandated now that the precedent has been set.
Exactly. I kept telling pro-vaxers "You better hope that you want the next shot they make you take, too."
SimulationCommander I’ve had this argument more than once with my husband.
He rushed out taking the darts no research or questions asked, he was even annoyed that I’d forbid our two teenagers from taking it when the nurses came into school.
Told him it was his choice to be a guinea pig but neither me or children were taking the experimental gene therapies.
He was and still is adamant that they’re not gene therapies and are vaccines, this is even after I’ve offered to show him the video of them stating it’s gene therapy.
Even with all the proof in front of them, they will not, cannot accept they were conned, stupidity, arrogance and pride stops them from doing so.
I’m in the same boat with my wife. Occasionally I show her a video to try to bring her out of the dream. I think the key is to focus on the common ground and then slowly explore the edges of that instead of something too shocking to take in. Some day they will wake up.
Show him the proof that the definition of vaccine has been changed twice in recent years!
Yep:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/newspeak-is-upon-us
In the before-times:
Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
But now:
Vaccine: A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
Now a vaccine doesn’t provide IMMUNITY, it only ‘stimulates the body’s immune system’.
Yes, it seems such an obvious point to me, that a very dangerous precedent has been set. It is frightening how few people seem to understand the implications of mandates for medical treatments regardless of the safety & effectiveness. and the vital importance of voluntary engagement free from coercion, force, bullying, penalties etc. Is is because in the last several decades prior to covid those in the West have not had their freedoms seriously threatened & thus take them for granted to such a degree that many are unable to imagine, or recognise, the stealthy erosion of our freedoms?
Such a waste. What a disappointment, an intellectual coward.
He is so arrogant and brimming with prideful contempt that I don't know why anyone wants to listen to anything he has to say about anything. He represents the many of his ilk. They look down with a patronizing sneer on the masses and believe themselves entitled to command others whatever they wish. His abundant and overflowing pride will keep him from ever admitting he was ever wrong about anything covid and in general wrong about anything.
He qualifies as hard hearted and hard headed.
I can’t bring myself to listen to the guy ever again. On any subject. Breathtakingly arrogant. Brilliant stack though. Thank you.👏✍️
I don’t know who Sam Harris is, but he sounds like a putz.