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Love it! There's too much trouble out there to to waste our energy pounding on each other. Let's build the world we want to live in!

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Oct 19Liked by Tom Shaw

You can't build until you battle and win otherwise those who wish to bring you down will continue to undermine you

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I see your point. My question is, where does the “battle” end? And, in a way, is the building of better systems not a means of preventing those wishing harm from undermining us?

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Oct 20Liked by Tom Shaw

I see your point as well. While altruistically you are correct in building a better system makes the old obsolete but what does that look like in a censorship riddled totalitarian system and where do we go physically and from which to operate? The Western Democracies and those of us who speak against the narrative are losing licenses, social media feeds and existences and the like. A new system of healthcare is wonderful, until you ask who builds hospital beds & buys equipment. -who hosts that home page as big tech still censors-Elon doesnt have servers and even Rumble had to buy their own? How do patients find dr's, dr's get patients to pay, marketing, promotions, and how does a patient get a prescription from an MD with no license? Off top of my head I think we would see signals such as admitting of medical failures, full free medical care for injured from pharma catastrophic penalty funds, the ability to receive IVM/Hydroxy, MD's reinstated, forgiveness, mea culpas, resignations, court proceedings, international apologies and full transparency of all redacted documents pertaining to lockdowns, vaxxes, CDC/NIH, DOD. I'd like to believe that our loose collective is not seeking power such as conquering a land where warring parties sign a treatise but is compassionate enough, wise enough and led by (for the most part-not all) a de facto crowd sourced "leadership" and will inherently know and feel when they stop attacking us and the battle is over. Everybody wants to build a new, new MSM, social media, academia until everyone realizes they need money, donations, VC, angel funding and volunteers only go so far and have their own inherent labor issues. I just don't see how building new or better healthcare systems a means of preventing those wishing to harm us. I would rather see functional medicine and complementary healthcare grow where the people drive the consumer base in a ground up demand system which then solves the funding situation and grows at a pace as the people start to wake up while still maintaining the ability to write prescriptions and have acute care where insurance can play a role. I'm totally optimistic and see a great swath of traditional MD's leaving the system and going concierge. If we can maintain our free speech, and stop govt from silencing us on social media we have the best chance to reform everything you spoke about. Thanks again for the thought provoking dialogue and keep on writing! We win in the end...I just don't know how long it will take or what it ultimately looks like.

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Thank you for the input! Agreed that resources need to go into these new systems - financial or time - and I also see a world where the old licensing system is simply irrelevant and not required. I feel as though much of what we are experiencing stems from the degradation of community bonds. Many more doctors would be unwilling to administer toxic shots if they knew well the people in their community as peers - and then "marketing" would really be irrelevant. There are pros to having long-distance communication tech like the internet, which allows us to have this very conversation, and at best it should exist to complement local communities and real-world interactions, not destroy them.

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I'm no expert on martial arts, but do know the strength of aggressors is redirected towards them and in such a way that they are defeated by their own power. The current aggressor is not half as smart as it thinks it is, in fact they are the dinosaurs, but causing a lot of harm in their death throes.

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Dr Shiva Ayyadurai is an independant candidate for the presidency of the USA. He is using education to teach people other ways. By raising our consciousness and teaching people system science he explains we can build bottom up alternatives and forge an alternative path. You might like his work if you haven't come across it before. One of his web sites is called Shattertheswarm.com.

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Lovely poem Tom.

Reminded me of something I read a while back while learning astrology:

"Frey gave up his sword in exchange for love. The strength to assert individuality and personal power is a fine thing. But in order to create a foundation of comfort and intimacy, the sword must be sheathed. That is a job for weavers, not warriors. Here Mars denies his nature in order to defend what is important. In this case, from himself."

From: https://austincoppock.com/mars-cancer/

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Oct 23Liked by Tom Shaw

Spot on - says it all.

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Glad it resonated with you Nana!

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Strength in numbers sure but those who align at heart can see no limit

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Hear hear!

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Battle to Build

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In that lens, at what point does the battle move in to building?

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The battle will be ongoing.

The Way to win the battle Is Building

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Gotcha. In that regard we share very similar sentiments! The only difference for me is that I don't need to think about it in the context of a battle to be motivated to build, and I don't think other people need to either. Thanks for sharing this!

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Oct 20Liked by Tom Shaw

I think something changed in me after reading those poems. They exposed my own subliminal anger towards the perpetrators. Yet, it only seems right to be angry with them. I guess anger should be turned into a hardened shield while work for betterment.

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And I am all for anger. Anger is the acknowledgement of the violation of the sacred. But anger is not the same as rage, yet we largely seem to have conflated the two. Anger can be the driving force as to why we build, for sure.

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