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Ontological Shock's avatar

This is the most convincing substack justifying your optimism. I'm afraid it has given me hope, which is a dangerous thing since it can lead to a crushing load of despair if it fails. But I see clearly how this is a chance that our relatively young country might not end in fascism if this case prevails. I'm still leaning toward something no human can control to wake us up, as in a catastrophe of some kind. But I appreciate the time you took to bring this to us in such detail. Thank you.

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daiva's avatar

I'm afraid that no hope is the thing most dangerous of all, since it *does* lead to a crushing load of despair. Period, full stop. No conditionals follow 😏

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Ontological Shock's avatar

I'm speaking about hope in humanity, in our country, in our constitutional republic. There is every possibility that we will not succeed at resisting the globalists agenda. My hope in somehow achieving something through this lawsuit is what is at risk. The hope that keeps me going is in God alone. And despair is one way of getting there. (Kierkegaard.)

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RunningLogic's avatar

My devotional has been full of references to hope lately! As well as another book (by a local pastor) I am reading about strength in times of difficulty.

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daverkb's avatar

Second the motion! We may or may not go through hell. No one can predict the future with any certainty. Wild cards always can tip the scales.

Regard the Missouri lawsuit, even if it fails, it exposes and shed lights. It thwarts concealment, attempt to conceal. Evil is forced to stand naked before the world . There is value in this, and this too is Glorification of the Lord.

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daiva's avatar

There is every *probability* that we will succeed—and the globalists will fail 🙂 Despair is a drain on your soul, sucks it dry and leaves to wither. Just sucks 😝

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Ontological Shock's avatar

LOL I suck at making myself clear. My hope does not depend on success or failure of the world order. Sure I would love to see freedom of speech restored, healthcare vs. sick 4 profit care, no surveillance state, no regime change wars, no biological weapons, no censorship of truth, and for example, treatment that was available in March 2020 instead of ventilators, remdesivir and poison darts. My hope is a deeply personal faith that I'm overjoyed to have found because of recognizing the evil running the world and then recognizing God working in my life over a pretty good length of time. Until I finally got it. And I pray that I don't let go. Ever.

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daverkb's avatar

You are a lucid tongue. I much enjoy your Comments. And like you, the Evil forced me into the arms of God. I finally realized that what is not from God is Evil. This we are forced to choose, one or the other. The questions surround good and evil are something which we may not ever entirely sort out to satisfaction in our minds, but I accept now that God is Sovereign of All. And by Faith alone. It didn't happen over night.

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Ontological Shock's avatar

It's a gift to hear of your similar experience. Thank you.

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daverkb's avatar

It is a road many of us, I suspect, have gone done. It's like looking at one's self in a mirror for years and thinking one sees one's self. Excepting one day, we see clearly ... and are amazed. And then we can read Pilgrim's Progress ... and have an idea of what it is really about.

I used to go up Broadway up near Columbia University, a real den of iniquity. And going the uptown direction, some stout soul or group of souls painted a huge sign on the brick way up on the side of a building. It read, 'The Wages of Sin is Death." This was a pretty stark and strange sight for a twenty-some year old to see everyday. And so be it, the sight imprinted in my mind. And I never got it out. Most of the time, it was tucked away somewhere in the darker recesses. But you see, I never forgot about it. And now it manifest in my C & C scribbling. The Wages of Sin is Death. And our Lord King Jesus is light and life. Looking around, I cannot deny it is not so.

My best to you from what's left of Virginia.

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Ontological Shock's avatar

Yeah, that seeing clearly part is interesting, no? Only with the most patient and gentle kindness is that bearable. Never read Pilgrim's Progress. On the list. TY again.

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

Here are 25 bible verses about hope. I "hope" that they encourage you. "Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the Lord."

https://www.womansday.com/life/inspirational-stories/g27654150/bible-verses-about-hope/

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rolandttg's avatar

Thank you for that. Try inspirational

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Politico Phil's avatar

As long as there is life, there is hope because with life, there is the ability to act. I hope we win this battle but if we don't, I will continue to resist the tyranny we face and in that act is my hope as long as we have breath.

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Ontological Shock's avatar

I'm pretty weak, but I'm committed to "resisting the tyranny" with how I live, what I do, what I refuse to do, and what I will hopefully stand for when the time comes. Whether or not we "win" in my life time. I was just trying to say that Jeff's explanation of this lawsuit made me understand his optimism. After all this time.

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Politico Phil's avatar

You made yourself clear. I imagine most here have similar thoughts. I do hope we can stop this satanic tyranny here but my realistic understanding of history makes me very sober. We cannot lose the First Amendment. Realistically we are in a fight with full blooded Nazis and all the forces of hell are behind them (as evidenced by all the child sex trafficking/ritual abuse and sacrifice that is going on at the top of our elite leadership and celebrities - it's beyond horrifying). We either dislodge them from power or we separate from them. Scenes from Lord of the Rings keep popping up in my mind.

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AusYank's avatar

I share the despair, but a recent visit to Vietnam changed my outlook. They revere Uncle Ho (Ho Chi Minh). He is worshipped everywhere. Yes he was a communist. But as the locals said "Uncle Ho told us that we could win". That they could defeat the world's most powerful nations. Which they did. They threw the globalists out, and are now absolutely thriving. I have never seen so much capitalism in action anywhere. Hope. Rising standards of living in action.

And they have a rock solid *moral basis* upon which to build. In their case it is ancestor worship. This is not some transitory or part time concept, they all practice every living day of every moment. So when a teenager is about to do something, he or she asks themselves "what would grandfather think of me if I did this? What would great-grandfather think?". THIS is why the moral battlefield is the most important one.

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