Aw thanks. I guess I've always been the black sheep, though I was at one time very liberal, like the others. Our family was true blue. Hell, my grandfather's cousin, Alben W. Barkley, was VP under Truman and led the first Democratic National Convention. Amy Goodman played an archival tape of his speech - you don't get more Yellow Dog Dem…
Aw thanks. I guess I've always been the black sheep, though I was at one time very liberal, like the others. Our family was true blue. Hell, my grandfather's cousin, Alben W. Barkley, was VP under Truman and led the first Democratic National Convention. Amy Goodman played an archival tape of his speech - you don't get more Yellow Dog Democrat than that (though he'd be rolling in his grave now, for sure). But I lived alone in the woods for 20 years, off grid, dirt road, no TV, no internet to speak of, living pretty close to the earth. I read and read - I've been a reader since I was four years old. I learned to think and act for myself. And what I'd always accepted started looking more and more crazy. More and more I began to challenge my old beliefs, and it helped that all my life I had always believed that it was okay to change my stance about things, and say "I was wrong about that". Thirteen years ago I started dating a man who was very eccentric and very independent in his ideas (like me, I guess, and yes we are still together). He never tried to change my thinking, but invited me to start questioning the whole "Global Warming" narrative (this is after I had worked for an environmental publisher, mind you). Once I was willing to set aside my liberal bias and really look with new eyes, I soon saw what an epic lie it all was. It had a domino effect, one cherished fiction after another began to fall, I swallowed the red pill, stepped through the looking-glass, and here I am. Pretty much lost my family, but I can never go back.
It sounds like your time off the grid and close to nature helped you see the world more clearly. Plus your smart man who respected you enough to let you come to your own conclusions. Plus your innate smarts!
Thank you. I am a natural hermit, and regret that circumstances forced me to leave my solitude in the woods. My man also loves his solitude. We live side by side and give each other tremendous space for this precious time alone, which is as necessary to us as water, air and food. It's why it works. Thank God we found one another, and saved two other people in the world from suffering!
Aw thanks. I guess I've always been the black sheep, though I was at one time very liberal, like the others. Our family was true blue. Hell, my grandfather's cousin, Alben W. Barkley, was VP under Truman and led the first Democratic National Convention. Amy Goodman played an archival tape of his speech - you don't get more Yellow Dog Democrat than that (though he'd be rolling in his grave now, for sure). But I lived alone in the woods for 20 years, off grid, dirt road, no TV, no internet to speak of, living pretty close to the earth. I read and read - I've been a reader since I was four years old. I learned to think and act for myself. And what I'd always accepted started looking more and more crazy. More and more I began to challenge my old beliefs, and it helped that all my life I had always believed that it was okay to change my stance about things, and say "I was wrong about that". Thirteen years ago I started dating a man who was very eccentric and very independent in his ideas (like me, I guess, and yes we are still together). He never tried to change my thinking, but invited me to start questioning the whole "Global Warming" narrative (this is after I had worked for an environmental publisher, mind you). Once I was willing to set aside my liberal bias and really look with new eyes, I soon saw what an epic lie it all was. It had a domino effect, one cherished fiction after another began to fall, I swallowed the red pill, stepped through the looking-glass, and here I am. Pretty much lost my family, but I can never go back.
It sounds like your time off the grid and close to nature helped you see the world more clearly. Plus your smart man who respected you enough to let you come to your own conclusions. Plus your innate smarts!
Thank you. I am a natural hermit, and regret that circumstances forced me to leave my solitude in the woods. My man also loves his solitude. We live side by side and give each other tremendous space for this precious time alone, which is as necessary to us as water, air and food. It's why it works. Thank God we found one another, and saved two other people in the world from suffering!