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Mara's avatar

Yes, we do have a lot to be grateful for.

And some of that could well be taken away from us in the near future, if we don't see what is happening and take action. (Don't joke about bans on eating meat, restricting speech, or making us feel guilty for emitting CO2! - these are all on the agenda... as we all well know.)

It's hard to find that balance between staying aware, and remaining detached from the lower emotional states that they try to push us into. Somehow, we have to keep trying to find this balance, and keep it!

Viktor Frankl - one of my favourite writers, a psychiatrist, holocaust survivor, and all-time great thinker - wrote in his book "Man's Search For Meaning":

"Our ultimate freedom, that cannot be taken away, is our freedom to choose our attitude in any given situation."

(I am paraphrasing slightly, from something that was burned into my memory many decades ago, and to make it gender neutral, but that is the essence of it.)

So I will take that thought into 2024, and wish you and all my fellow humans all the blessings of the season.

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Ely's avatar

Yes Mara, we have to get beyond our lower primitive mind into our higher mind. We need to recognize a power greater than ourselves which keeps us humble.

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JP Spatzier's avatar

Merry Christmas 🎄

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Dick Powell's avatar

If God doesn't judge America, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

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Nicholas Wind's avatar

Merry Christmas Ely!

You are 100% right.

We still have the FREEDOM to fight here in CHINADA also.

And yes we still do have wealth beyond most of the world.

Which is why I fight with my Druthers team and go out daily to WAKE folks up.

We are EXPOSING these REPTILES very fast globally and they don't like it.

God bless.

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Ely's avatar

Same to you Nicholas and thanks for input.

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Dee Dee's avatar

Grateful the Lord showed me and I was spared the shots!

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Ely's avatar

It sure is something we ought to be grateful for.

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Murray Fisher's avatar

Yes, it’s good to be reminded to keep things in perspective.

Thanks Ely for another prolific year of wonderfully informative articles.

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Ely's avatar

Thanks Murray, glad to have you on board along with your input.

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Claire Davenport's avatar

I hope you have a lovely Christmas Ely, I agree with pretty much everything you say in your article and I do love reading your work. It's a good sum up and I for one think the point that laws are being blatantly broken by the people who are meant to be up holding them is the real question here. Who gave these powers to high ups that aren't voted in, are taking our liberties hand over fist and there's not a huge amount of people , far less than there should be , saying NO. Articles like this are fantastic to bring about awareness of these atrocious people and their behaviours. Thank you for all your hard work and time and I do hope you have an enjoyable and healthy time over the holidays. Over and out from the UK.

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Ely's avatar

One thing chiropractic gave me decades ago was a philosophy recognizing that there is a Universal Intelligence in all matter. Modern society has for the most part lost sight of that fact.

While we can honour science and its achievements, however if we don’t pay homage to the ultimate power, we then become slaves to our distorted narcissistic view of the world. This is happening on so many levels.

Thank for sharing your input.

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