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almost had me thinking you were channeling this for a moment:

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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I mentioned Aragorn's speech at the Black Gate recently, which I'll reproduce here:

"Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers.

"I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.

"A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day!

"This day we fight!

"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"

It's a fictional speech (as is King Harry's at Agincourt, lest we forget).

Some gray and bedraggled office drone (a creature in heavy supply these days) might just sniff at it and draggle onwards, his heart dying in his chest of cheap carbs and boredom.

Then there's the exotic panoply of pansies, boylovers, queef-sniffers and Halloween monsters, who will screech and howl until their gizzards burst about the chauvinism, the bigotry, the colonialism, the litany of secret -ists and phantom -phobes.

And finally there's the mass: an unimaginably vast and lazy river of human shapes, flowing from uninspired thought to unexamined action, tumbling over and over, heedless of any possible past or future, innocent not by virtue or form but by their own need to escape their need to escape, to bend the antennae inward, to Netfilx-and-chill.

And then there's the rest of us.

Thank you, Sir John, for reminding me. As you say, the past three years have visited many horrors on us, and many thieves. I try not to reveal too much personal information about myself, for reasons of strategy. But I will say this: someone very important was stolen from me early on. Not by the virus, but by the ensuing panic, and the outrageously unscientific rules that accompanied it. This person died in my arms. Or was dead in my arms, I guess, after my numerous attempts to revive her. Though I didn't realize it at the time, it forged something very hard and sharp in me, and I know I'm far from alone.

Thanks for reminding all of us of how such steel is made, and also that the forging process isn't the end but the beginning. I think we must all become something like Aragorn now. A lot of us have been comfortable just wandering alone in the woods, feeding ourselves with our hard-earned skills and feeling vaguely proud about that. But there's a very important call, and we all need to answer it now. Strike while the iron's hot, perhaps.

But thanks as well for this right here:

"So now, here you are.

"You’ve been tested as few have ever been tested before.

"All of us have, and most of us have been found wanting. As the bad cat said, there’s no shame in failing a test with a 10% pass rate.

"But there is glory in passing it, and I want you to bask in that glory for a moment, for you now stand among the elect."

When I read this, I shed a manly tear, that turned into an eagle, that flew off to Proxima Centauri!

Okay not really, but I did feel some measure of glory, at least for a moment. Maybe that's the best way to indulge; a sip and nothing more. But it was one helluva sip.

God bless, brother. Having you back in action is the best of all tonics.

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How do we go from here?

First, off, stay the hydra. Do not organize. Do not form. Any organization will immediately be infiltrated and subverted.

Second, stay alert. Do not submit. Reject the official narrative. Do not comply. Maintain the free will you fought for all this time.

Third, change yourself. Become the best, strongest version of you. Get healthier. Learn new skills. Get free of debt slavery. Become financially independent. Do whatever you can to be free from all the attempts to enslave you that they have, whether it be job, debt, sports teams, politics, entertainment, porn, video games, etc. They have many tools and the battle to stay free continues every single day.

Fourth, change your community. Impact the world where you live. Help others to open their eyes. Develop stronger community ties. Join or start a community sports league or theater group, or writers club or anything like it. Find your spiritual community. Serve others.

Again, assume that any group you join to openly oppose the Powers That Be will be infiltrated and subverted and that you will be set up to be the latest FBI target. The safety in numbers comes from being the hydra and having no group. Antifa is protected by the Powers That Be so they can organize and plan and have no worries of infiltration. Meanwhile the phony Michigan governor plot was almost all feds with a few peons they set up.

Enlighten others and prepare yourself. The Grand Illusion that they have created falls as more and more people refuse to cooperate.

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Jan 24, 2023·edited Jan 24, 2023Liked by John Carter

Great essay. I was later than a lot of you to the party: I guess the red pill took longer to kick in and allow me to see the bigger picture clearly enough to connect the dots, but once you see it, you can't unsee it. The demagogues overplayed their hand big time in 2020 and 2021. Judging from how the regime has sent out its shock troops (aka, Antifa) to start another domestic terror campaign (while the feds still focus on J6 protesters who were waved inside by the capitol police), I would say they're gearing up for another go at it. What will be their avenue of attack this time? Who knows, but one thing is for sure: like the boy who cried "wolf," they have conditioned a lot of people to ignore their cries of "existential crisis!" And that is a very good thing.

Of course, the best defense is a good offense...so what now? Aside from striving for greater strength and resilience and independence for myself and my family, I'm not sure what the next steps are. I think the spiritual forces/egregores behind these conflicts are real and are gearing up for something big. As you put it, the ruling class has lost the mandate of heaven, and I think there's a deeper reality to that than what we can see. But what do we do, practically in the meantime? I'm still working that part out and am open for suggestions!

Anyway, thanks for writing this! As with so many other things that you have written, it gives great reassurance to know it's not just us, alone and isolated, facing this thing. There are more of us than there are of them, and on top of that, they have made themselves enemies of the true God. There is reason for hope!

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Never been a joiner. Always a loner to the degree a normal life allows it. Going my own way has always been the path I've taken, and often it's a lonely path. It wasn't difficult for me to resist the Covid propaganda, the absurd lies, the insulting contradictions. I found it most difficult to understand those who couldn't resist.

But, being here, among those who speak the language of which I have so little command emboldens me. I may not speak the language but I understand it. I know I'm not truly alone, not with stalwarts who think and write like John, and Jay and Good Citizen and so many more of the thinking kind who enrich and educate and quell any doubts that may occasionally arise. Who write with an elegance and understanding and courage that invokes the romanticism of Arthur, the hero embodied in the Greek myths, the stoicism of the pathfinders, and fighters like Grant and Patton, true men of liberty...you are the people I choose to be with, who I want with me on my path to victory. Whatever lies ahead of us, in whatever capacity I can, count me in to join the fray.

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> ...and try to distract themselves with their thousands of sex workers.

The fact that prostitutes descended upon Davos like flies on a corpse really has a certain bleak irony to it, doesn't it... they're there ostensibly to solve the world's problems, but can't solve the problem of their own personal intimate relationships. Figures.

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Thanks - I needed this. The battle is not over.

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I took two Phzer taps, falling prey to the idea that I would never see my parents again.

Then my eyes were opened...how isolated I had become, and how I had been prepared for decades, the idea that pandemics would come.

I know it all now to have been a lie. My warrior skills with the pen renewed. I am in service to this Gideon's army if I may be allowed.

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Jan 24, 2023Liked by John Carter

I am 71 and I remember the polio outbreak when I was a child. I remember getting every polio vaccine they came up with. If you are in a pandemic, you try everything. I became suspicious when sensible things, like take vitamin D, were ignored. And you would never put sick people into nursing homes. I already worked from home. Since I can't tolerate the masks, I mostly stayed home for two years. I have zero trust in the medical profession now. Do your own research! Don't take any pills or agree to any procedure without researching first.

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Superb piece John. Nice custom share button. Have we evolved much in the half millennia since those heart rip sunrise ceremonies? Tough to tell the difference between the Aztecan and NPC "expert" rituals these days. Less savage and bloody perhaps. "Listen to the doctors Nanna. It's just midazolam and morphine to make you feel better."

Twelve days and fourteen hours later.

"Nanna was good soul. She really loved gardening."

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Instant classic. While this Army may be diverse, we are aligned in spirit. May our efforts ring out in harmony across the world like a chorus sung by a million mouthed hydra.

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As a father, a neopagan ethonat, a tarot reading data analyst this post struck me to my core... I am the unvaxxed, champion of truths both esoteric and exoteric. Said and unsaid.

I would point out that this post in itself contains the path towards the victory. We don't have to do much, only stand tall, survive and build our lives and our communities. Live our lives like if we meant it. This truly is a spiritual battle lost or won in spirit and to win we only need to keep our heads above the water and stay committed to the principles of Truth, the Good and the Beautiful. To stay in this world, but not of it is the victory condition in and off itself.

For them to win, they have to force us to bend the knee, and that moment has now passed. They went all in, their bluff was called out and they lost it all.

I think our old school inclination will be serviced sooner than many think. 2024 looks quite good.

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"Personally, I think we should thank them with gibbets and gallows, but I’m old school that way."

Me too.

https://patrick.net/post/1377537/2022-11-03-everyone-who-used-his-or-her-power-to

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I love that you gave this uplifting piece to US, John! Gideon's Army. The remnant.

It's just what I (and presumably other) tired warriors need, now.

Too many of us were focusing on our "failure" to awaken the majority, when what we should be doing is celebrating our successful resistance, and building our healthy alternatives to the pathocracy. "Build it, and they will come."

I want to do all I can to share this article.

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I just love your prose John - such a pleasure to read (would love to hear you narrate it).

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Jan 25, 2023Liked by John Carter

“It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.”

John, have you ever read the postman by David Brinn? I think you'd enjoy and after reading it you need a laugh, watch the Kevin Costner film.

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