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"We must have this in our small piece of the world in order to get through in this coming turbulent future because we will have to depend on one another. One other consideration is supporting growing parallel economies where people support, buy, and sell to others with like minds and goals instead of doing business with companies and businesses who are antithetical to our culture."

One option for a community is the Bears. Bunch of people having babies, starting homesteads, trying hard to live everyday as Christ said in the Bible. Beartaria Times App has chapters all over the country for Bear meetups, digital advice, farming advice, raising children right tips, etc. I am buying a nice copper garden tool from one of the Bears for $100.

Here are some ways to sign up if you are so moved:

https://beartariatimes.com/

https://app.beartariatimes.com/signup

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I didn't know this was a thing. I just down loaded the app.

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I post mostly with the West Virginia group as I live in Hedgesville, WV. I also like the digital, Ireland, community, farming, and music forums. Main rule is that posts must be family friendly so children can view them. I've learned a lot from the Bears. You will, too. Good people.

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I just got the app and paid for the subscription. I'm always interested in learning new things and family friendly good folks is just what we need more of

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Good people. Crushing. Light in the darkness.

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I'm going to reach out to them and see about contributing articles for them to consider. Would be really cool to share my writing to a group like that.

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Amen.

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Well said Nate.

Community is going to be key, as we shift into the new version of America. The country will not perish or vanish in a "poof" and leave behind barren scorched land, but it will be lost, through cultural and societal shifts. Shifts have been intentionally and incrementally implemented for the better part of a century. In truth, we have been "losing" our country, since it was founded. The bulwarks of our "homeland" - the ideologies, morals, tenants and principles - have been constantly, consistently and successfully subverted throughout our country's history.

Today you see the results of those undermining and demoralizing efforts - systemic societal fracture and chaos - to where we have "citizens" elected to office, that are fighting for and representing foreign governments, terrorist groups and ideologies. They've been successful in bankrupting our country and pulling down it's borders and they infest ALL halls, of governmental power and control.

So, we have lost our country, in that we've lost our representative government and the all important national loyalty and allegiance of the 2 most recent generations (at the very least) - who will become the leaders, administrators and bureaucrats, of tomorrow's "America".

You are correct, that this has been happening to peoples and societies around the world, since we started living in organized and hierarchical groups. It's nothing new. This is why the cycles of great civilizations look the same in retrospect. They are not static in ideology or practice and so are susceptible to infection, sickness and death.

People don't like to hear this, but Sen. Joseph McCarthy was right. Of course by the time he raised the red flags, the seats of power, justice and finance were already infiltrated and the American public had been sold the mantra of "tolerance and inclusion". So his efforts were painted as a witch hunt.

Of course history would prove out that communism was well established and growing in the U.S. and the Roosevelt & Truman administrations were rife with them. Alger Hiss is but one example of a communist agent making it into the ranks of the U.S. State department and then attending the Yalta Conference.

Juxtapose that with today's subversion, where agents of the Iranian government were appointed to key positions of the Obama and Biden administrations.

People have asked, so how did this happen and how did we get here. My answer is always the same, we traded our country and all it represented and held - not only as a nation, but for the individual citizen - for just 3 things and we have been happily making this trade in earnest, since just after WW2.

The 3 things are Comfort, Convenience and Entertainment.

If your interested, I explained this premise in my first post, which was not written well, but hopefully got my point across.

Keep bringing the truth, to those who will listen.

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Thanks for the reply and for the encouragement. I'll check out the post that you mentioned here. I have one that I am working on right now that is about escapism and how we got the where we are. It seems as though we are thinking along the same lines. I have been thinking about writing one that details communist subversion and how that ties into the ideas of Russian creation of a Eurasian continent as envisioned by Alexander Dugin, Medvedev, and Putin and how that ties into Chinese expansionist ideas. I've been leery of writing that one because so many Americans actually believe that Russia is a freedom loving "Conservative Christian" nation and that my efforts would fall on deaf ears, or blind eyes as it were.

I have a lot to say about all of this and have the literature to back up my thoughts, but this can become a very divisive issue and I want to move forward instead of getting tied up in pointless argument.

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Write what you want to write.

You can't sensor for the likes and dislikes of others, unless you feel you want or need to.

I have written that I think all pedophiles should be executed after a guilty verdict, especially when there is indisputable evidence. Gallows outside the courthouses would bear testament, to the zero tolerance policy, I think we need to have.

I've lost subscribers, which is fine, they don't have to share my position. But, I will say it, because I believe the cost of not saying it, millions of children around the world being raped and sodomized by the hour, is too high.

BTW, if you've not come across this, you may find it useful in your future pieces. I did a series on it, but it's not needed to understand how this has been instrumental, in part, in where we are today.

https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm

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I have been to there and it's a very thorough database. I follow JR Nyquist, who writes and studies this stuff quite a bit. I don't follow everything he says but on balance I believe that he is correct.

Since you mentioned human trafficking in one of your posts, I would like to mention an organization, Deliverfund.org. They are a counter human trafficking organization made of ex military, law enforcement, and CIA types that actively search for people being trafficked and they rescue them when possible. They have developed software for finding people that are being trafficked and they train law enforcement in how to search for the victims. They aren't one of the feel good money making "awareness" non-profits... they're the real deal. Just wanted to mention that.

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Oct 5, 2023Liked by The Rational Mariner.

Whew...Takes some backbone to lay it out there like that. I’m glad you did! I agree that faith and community are the keys to getting through today not to mention when it hits the fan.

Passing on knowledge to the next generation, his huge. What did our grandparents know that’s now lost??

Keep it up brother

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Thanks brother. I really appreciate the reply.

I think you just gave me something else to write about and mansplain...

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Oct 4, 2023Liked by The Rational Mariner.

Spot on! Thanks

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Thank you. I appreciate the comment. I was a little reluctant to write this one but I couldn't keep this stuff in any more.

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Oct 4, 2023Liked by The Rational Mariner.

It’s ok. Glad you did. More people need to speak up!

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How did TRUMP mess that up? He was only in office for four years with MASSIVE opposition.

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Where did I say this was Trump's fault?

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Jan 31Liked by The Rational Mariner.

i apologize. "With the election of Barack Obama, the Communist take over of our government was almost complete. Trump messed that up but..."

I read it too fast and have been on defense since he was elected.

GO NAVY

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Actually... I want to thank you for pointing that out. After rereading it, I believe that could've been said more clearly and I may edit that part.

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Feb 2Liked by The Rational Mariner.

I was acting as a typical female and my emotions led my brain. Sorry =/ This was a good lesson for me to slow down and think like a man-- logically. I really enjoyed the rest of the article. We need more people like you to connect the dots.

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Well I wasn't going to say anything but since you brought it up.... Just kidding. It's an emotional time and I've had men comment in the same manner. We all need to slow down a bit... I appreciate the compliment and I also appreciate your initial response because that was a point for me to consider in order to be more clear when I write. I sit down at the computer and write and type out what comes to mind, there is very little foresight in what I'm writing and I think moving forward, I'll write everything out by hand and then type out the words. Maybe going back to the old school ways of writing will help me to write more clearly.

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Feb 8Liked by The Rational Mariner.

I'll say it out loud-- women are emotional (some "men" too -- on the woman's swim team --hahaha). Old school! Good idea. I may do the same.

On another subject, I've been doing a deep dive on "THE BIDEN 4"

RAVEN 23; PRESUMPTION OF GUILT.

SRS show also did a great in-depth interview-- in case you are interested. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/raven-23-presumption-of-guilt/id1468783839

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