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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

It's interesting to me that not only do doomers lack hope, but it seems they're also on a real mission to spread that lack of hope to all those who surround them. They can't just keep quiet. If I was a doomer, why would I want to hang out on platforms with a bunch of hope-filled patriots? Also, what's the worse thing that could happen from having too much hope? Could it be any worse than being filled with the feeling of doom all of the time? p.s. Love your writing, BB.

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Yeah. The difference between doom and despair is, as you say, doomers try to infect others with their doom.

The piece was an attempt to distinguish between them.

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Sep 22, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

It is simplified by seeing doomers as operating strictly by reflexive emotions. I think they persist in showing up at patriot 'hopium' threads and events like drive by shooters because everything they do or say is a reaction. Once triggered they are compelled to (or paid by bad actors) to sabotage any enthusiasm,any hope because fear is their base emotion.

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Not a bad breakdown :)

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

I've loved and appreciated all of your pieces, but as a Recovered alcoholic, this one is the most powerful thus far. You absolutely nailed the Doomer mind, which is what an addict is. It is for obvious reasons that the core of any effective recovery program is spirituality. I could go on all day about it. Thank you for this. God bless.

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Very much appreciate this comment.

Two of my immediate and closest family members have had lifelong battles with addiction. One has done much better than the other, but you are absolutely right that spirituality was the key, or at least a very helpful door the former opened.

Thank you for reading, and I commend you for your strength.

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Thank you, and my prayers to your whole family. 🙏

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Kudos on recovering! Indeed addictions and major depressions bury the soul. It takes a great effort to dig your soul out of the muck, just to reach a level of despair with hopes of help while you recover and rebuild the strength of your spirit.

Never give up, never give in.

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Thank you so much. God bless 🙏

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Sep 21, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Thank you, Michael, for bringing addiction into this; I am 10 years sober and you are exactly correct in the Doomer mind. Your observation answers so many questions. My spiritual life is the only way I can make it through these hard times, especially since I am the lone Patriot in my family, and it is isolating just as being in recovery can be isolating. But my Higher Power is always with me if only I turn to the power it has. Thank you again, Michael. You are a keen observer

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

"(T)he brightest hope is born of intuition and reason married. Faith born of that marriage is not blind. It is ironclad." - Burning Bright

Old Russian proverb: "The strongest steel is forged on the hearth of adversity."

"If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth." - Ronald Reagan, "A Time For Choosing," 27 Oct 1964

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." - Thomas Paine

Few of us in these modern times have had to pay the price for our freedoms and liberty. Thus we are forced to contemplate instead the opportunity cost of lost freedom. Such a possibility is shrouded in shades of gray and the uncertainty of the unseen. Wise words of those who have gone before, and those seeking to teach us today, are our surest guide in the path forward. Intuition and reason -- feminine/masculine, yin/yang, dark/light. Eternal.

"You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: [up] man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course." - Reagan, ibid.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganatimeforchoosing.htm

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Perfect :)

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Very well said and enjoyed the article.

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Thank you for reading!

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Please keep joining Jon on the Devo Power Hour. Listening to you, Chris and Jon is always insightful. I hope you become a regular guest on his show. Thanks for your research and logical thinking. We can see the slow convergence of narratives and know that we are close to the climax of this war.

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It's Jon's show, but I've been humbled that he's had me on a few times, now.

I think I'll be around fairly often. Thank you for the support!

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We can tell he respects you as much as you do him

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Love your essays. ❤️

This fusion of reason with intuition - it is a very specific inherent human talent, and I believe [they] have worked overtime to split it from our consciousness. They have romanticized intuition a la Hollywood, to push it into the realm of Fantasy, all while denigrating it in "real life": only idiots could believe in psychic ability! All that "woo woo" stuff is for pansies! Nobody realizes what astrology is because the newspaper made it ridiculous. And by the way suck it up and deny those human emotions while you're at it!

This energetic element of what we humans ARE - [they] don't want us to know it, to learn it. They certainly don't want us to manifest it - because once we do our freedom is realized and [they] lose their power over us. The moment we trust our own intuition, especially combined with our reasoned discernment, we no longer need an authority to "guide" us. We no longer absorb the propaganda and the mind control. We no longer need priests, "leaders", chiefs, or even laws to tell us what to do - we already know how to be, how to act. We stop giving inordinate authority to doctors and politicians and professors, rightly relegating them to the level they belong: just another human's opinion. We embody Natural Law.

The only thing that ever stops us is fear.

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100%.

We must strive to be guided by our own hearts and minds, and we must understand that each has plays a pivotal role in our emotional and logical discernment.

This is also why a fusion of male and female perspectives has great potential, since each tends to stray too far into either heart or mind territory.

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Totally agree with what you’re saying here. I feel it’s the approach I’ve taken for much of my life, yet most of those around me don’t seem to get it.

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Excellent assessment of the circumstances we find ourselves a part of!👍

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Thanks for reading!

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

My favorite since RR series. Thank you BB. Excellent (and positive) persepective as always....Godspeed my friend!

P.S. GOD ALWAYS WINS! :)

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People seem to be responding quite strongly to this one.

Thank you :)

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Good piece and I’m pleased to have ventured to Substack. Our family discussions are whether Trump is truly a “good guy”, or is he just “playing his part” in the demise of America. It’s not a fun place to dwell thinking it, but lots of brow raising actions/lack of actions give support.

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I don't agree with that assessment at all, but obviously it's good to consider all options.

It takes enormous leaps in logic to assume all of the exposures that have occurred as a direct result of Trump benefit the Deep State

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BB... have you written on WHY Trump would take on the Deep State?

His answer of “to give back to a country he loves which gave him his opportunity”, just doesn’t ring true to me, as his decision affected his ENTIRE family. They all got a target placed on them.

The answer of his motive to do what he did (he was a Dem and rubbed elbows with the muckiest of the Deep State players) is where I trip over. If it was JUST HIM, I could justify different reasons, but this is his whole family being thrown into the fray.

The only reason I can find is it is “By God’s hand” he do it. Unfortunately, that is a difficult position to debate with non-believers.😕

Until I know his motive, I keep flipping back and forth of his role. I’d love to read what (if any) you’ve written about this.

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Sep 20, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Of course Trump is not superman, he’s Batman. Just kidding, great article.

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Agreed!

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Sep 19, 2022·edited Sep 19, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

It's certainly not just him, and not just his family either. There is a slew of "insiders" who are clearly working from the inside to change this paradigm. Hear me out for a minute: others will certainly disagree, but my belief is that the trans agenda is far wider and deeper than anyone has imagined so far. A year ago I inadvertently began studying the "transinvestigation" sites, which delineate what a male skeleton vs female looks like - it becomes clear after awhile (it's taken me at least a year), that anyone on a TV screen: Hollywood, documentaries, news people, all are inverted gender. The "men" have female skeletons and are clearly taking testosterone, and the women have male skeletons and are clearly taking estrogen - all of them have had major surgery. The same is true for the royal families, and major politicians. The cabal worships a transgender god, as we know.

But this is the thing: in order for this to be true (and it took awhile to accept what I was seeing) it means something extremely dark and sinister: these gender transitions are being done to them when they are children, possibly when they are still in the womb. And given that [they] have hidden all sorts of other technological advancements from us, they likely have DNA/Medical tech that we do not have.

So think about what we know from ordinary people who have DE-transitioned, who talk about how it affected them: most of them who began taking "puberty blockers" and the inverse hormones report that they lose their fertility AND their sexual function - permanently. This is an evil being done on a massive scale.

Now imagine this was done to you. You're a girl who grew up in a wealthy [family], being raised as a boy, having medical procedures and medical interference long before you even knew what it was, and everyone you know in your family has had the SAME thing done. And, you are expected to do this to your own children (in vitro, surrogated). You are expected to live this lie, to never reveal it, and to pretend for your entire life.

Do I really believe that ALL of them are evil cabal psychopaths? No, I do not. I think most are caught in a horrible trap. But they have found a way to stop it from continuing, and more than we will ever know, they are motivated to do so. Trump is a woman, Melania is a man, and the kids are trans too - so are Trump's ex's. He is an insider, he was given no choice. So are some of the other patriots. Just because they are hidden trans, does NOT mean they are selling us out. It means they are doing the bravest thing imaginable: working from the inside to stop the worst evil this world has ever seen.

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Sarah 😳. I am not where you are with the trans (I see it as a passage to something worse and not the end all).🤔

I like the way BB organizers his thoughts and his presentation of opinion, so was hoping for his idea of it all.

Does anyone know if there has been a discussion of “Why Trump Would Run”??🤔

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Sep 19, 2022·edited Sep 19, 2022

LOL I understand if someone thinks this is "out there" for sure. But to answer your comment here, the trans thing has been a passage to something utterly Evil for a very, very long time. In fact, as much as we ordinary folks have been exploited, murdered, lied to, extracted from, and slowly poisoned, at least we have been able to have children and to sometimes live happy lives. What I am saying is that Trump and many, many other insiders of this "cabal" were trapped in an existential nightmare from which their only escape would be death - their bodies carved up before they even knew what a man or a woman was, intentionally manipulated and directly and personally mind-controlled to keep them in line. They KNOW they are in a nightmare from very young - many of us are still waking up to it. It has been happening to them for generations. And this answers the question: "Why would Trump run?"

Trump ran and the insiders are working to change this, because of their trap - because better than anyone, they know the evil involved. Just like us, they have been at the mercy of the pyschopaths in control, only they knew it and we did not. Until now. And, it is no coincidence that now they are going after our kids now too, with woke trans crap and communism and poisonous vaccines. Anyway, to me this is exactly why Trump would run. "He" is a good person.

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I wish I could have those types of discussions with my friends & family. I live in basically the liberal capital of the world, SF Bay Area, and the moment I try to discuss Trump and any virtues he may have, everyone gets triggered and the conversation gets shut down. I have been longing for truly intellectual discussion these past few years, which ironically I can’t find in uber-intellectual Bay Area, so I have to turn to commentary on Substack. I’m so grateful for this platform! And additionally am grateful to have found Burning Bright, who I learned about through Chris Paul’s podcast, he’s a great mind and writer...

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Many of us have felt this way. I, too live in a "blue" area, but there are awakened and awakening minds among us. You just have to happen upon them.

Until then, I welcome you to this Bright corner of the web, where we'll try to keep each other sane.

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Given the other comment I just posted, you might not think I am "sane" LOL

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

I feel your pain, here in southern Vermont! lol

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Ahhhh jeeez..... I guess I’m lucky to that extent! I hope CA gets cleaned up as it’s a beautiful state.

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Yup, born and raised, and the reason I remain living here and committed to the land. Make California Great Again! 😉

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Sep 19, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

". . .this piece is not meant to stray into the Micro, as Doomers are likely to follow any lack of understanding on a given tactic with the Macro ending of the western world." Brilliant!!

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Thanks for reading!

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Today, hope is our best held secret. In the past 6 years it seems as if I have had to hold my hope back, I can’t share it, I can’t even use it to console a normie. Why are you so happy? Why aren’t you worried? The best is yet to come is NOT a suitable answer. I don’t dare discuss Q or Devolution. I usually say hope is God’s gift. Get with God and you can also be happy without worry.

Your article is thought provoking as always. Looking forward to the next.

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

This was a really good read. It put things in much better perspective for me. Thank you.

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Thanks for reading!

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Sep 18, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Have you ever noticed that those who are miserable (doomers) are never content until they infect all they can with their misery?

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❤️ We are, lost some along the way, but we are winning ❤️

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Jun 6Liked by Burning Bright

This may be the perfect post to share with my firefighter son. He was awakened by the Podesta emails, then the Drops as they came out. After the stolen election he completely doomed out and is still there. Praying your words might just nudge his eyes back open. Thank you BB, and I will keep you posted! 🙏🏼

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Hope it helps!

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Sep 20, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

What doomers fail to realize and appauld, perhaps intentionally, is the amazing resilentcy of the human spirit, for hope is our necessity to caring on regardless of the odds.

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Sep 20, 2022Liked by Burning Bright

Another insightful article which I much enjoyed reading. One thing I have often heard in my life time is you can not know good without knowing evil. A Dualist thought I guess. I like the chess board connection you make. A good player making moves based on what a bad player most likely move will be. Thank you for your insight!

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I've often thought about that concept.

Thanks for reading!

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