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W. David Ward's avatar

Yes, Thank you for sharing this, Doreen. There have been lots of great documentaries produced over the past few years, but this is the most comprehensive yet (in my opinion). It will circulate within our community, of course, but we all know how those algorithm keep material of this nature within the confines of our community. This is THE documentary to share directly with our personals circles however; our families and (stubbornly) uninformed friends. We know almost everyone is starting to ask questions now (the world is getting so mad), but the answers are all here. . . Maybe pick the time stamp of a subject that will resonate with the person you want to reach, and save an URL at that point in the video. Then follow up after they had a chance to watch. We are winning our communities back, one personal relationship at a time. What a resources this is! Thank you again :-)

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JOHN's avatar

Thank you once again Doreen ! That movie is truly outstanding - just the first two minutes is so... I don't know what to say. The substack link took me on an extensive and extremely fruitful journey of new knowledge. And none of that would have been possible without you !

What do you say when "THANK YOU" is far from enough !

You know what I am grateful for today !

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denise ward's avatar

There is no feminine aspect in politics, culture so we get all these issues because the fundamentals are wrong, deadly wrong. Everything seems inverted because that's what happens when we think lopsidedly, without the two polarities balancing each other. We will continue to fight issue after issue, disaster after disaster, if we don't get the foundations right - balance is key.

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Doreen's avatar

The foundation is principles and authorities [maxims of law] and scripture, ignored by swamp creatures.

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denise ward's avatar

What principles? I guess we don't all have to think the same, but I don't care what someone wrote and called it "law", if I didn't have a say in its making, it's law for those who did but not for those who didn't. And I don't think it's a good idea to go by ancient texts and mythologies. We virtually have to start again. We need to lay out what principles to observe, those who want to live differently, that is. We can be different, there can be multiples of tastes and cultures all living happily simultaneously. I think it used to be called coexistence!

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Doreen's avatar
4dEdited

Hello Denise. Maxims of law are established principles, the ‘foundation’ upon which life is to be lived. You wrote ‘If I didn’t have a say in its making, it’s law for those who did but not for those who didn’t’.

Maxim: Custom and agreement overrule law. In other words, when the majority of people comply, custom is established by consent of the people and failure to rebut is agreement.

Maxims, in my view, emphasize power of collaboration and cooperation vs. humans defending what they perceive to be true against which they judge others.

Maxims:

Ignorance of the law excuses no one; for all are presumed to know those things to which all consent.

The proof lies upon him who affirms, not upon him who denies.

An error not rebutted is approved.

A delegated power cannot be dele­gated.

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denise ward's avatar

But I don't consent to any of it. And I'm sure there are others like myself. Are we really sentenced to believing all that twaddle must apply to everyone? Is there another way? A way where maybe we can all be satisfied? I can understand if you want to believe it all or if mostly everybody does but that doesn't mean others who don't have to. And what principles do we live by? Nobody can answer that. This is something we need to raise and take a good, hard look at, because we are believing fictions and so everything we build is going to be fictitious. We can do better so much better, but we need to find out what we're doing that creates such bad results.

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Doreen's avatar

Hello Denise.

A principle to live by is 'Be Harmless'. Every human has the right to his/her life, freedom and property so long as they do not transgress against similar rights of others.

What's missing is enforcement b/c instead of withdrawing consent to fictions of law humans give personal power to sustain the status quo.

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denise ward's avatar

I totally agree with do no harm. But we don't need government and all the accouterments for us to live like that. I know these concepts may not come easily because we have been so indoctrinated to believe in law, punishment and all the rest of the horrors, but all we need to counter those who do harm is to voice our grievances publicly. The ones who do wrong can then make things right. Of course we have let them do so far now that they've got us in chains like we're the criminals and they are the free, they can do whatever they like and have everything they want, while we scrape and save. It's all wrong the way we think and we have to analyze it and figure out how to think in ways that are in alignment with nature. Because we are of nature.

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