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Lynne's avatar

This is brilliant. I am still on the side of struggling with the complete disruption to my life created by realising how the world is organised. Once seen it is impossible to unsee, but how to live through the fall out?

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Oregonian's avatar

Hang in there. Be strong. Admire the smiles of children, the sunset, flowers, fresh strawberries. See the innocence in children, and their desire to know peace. Seek out others who can relate to you and what you know. Breath deeply. Meditate. Give yourself permission to weep. Realize that you are part of a secret, invisible, unknowable coalition of human beings across all cultures, religions, nations, and politics; you choose truth, love, peace, kindness, and hope. You are with us. We are with you.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

Take psychedelics

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russian_bot's avatar

No wonder you worship Gene Sharp 🤣🤣

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Feral Finster's avatar

May I speak the truth as I see it, even when my friends don't want to hear it and even I wish that the truth were otherwise.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

Great addition!

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Feral Finster's avatar

Maybe a better formulation would be: may I always speak the truth, even when it pisses everyone off.

May I always see the truth, even if I wish the truth was something else.

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gypsy33's avatar

Spoken like a true feline, Feral!

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Feral Finster's avatar

Chirrup!

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Bill Hull's avatar

Over the years, I have come to realize that we have been lied to by our government, by our schools, by corporations, and more. But the lies and the truth were often spun together in such a fine weave that it was very hard to differentiate between them!

Thank you for this prayer.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

That's what caused the 1960s counter-culture: we found out that we had been lied to all those years.

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Bill Hull's avatar

The late David McGowan wrote a number of articles and eventually published a book titled WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE CANYON: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream. So even the "counter-culture" was built on a foundation of lies.

In my opinion, this was done to keep people like Paul Robeson from exposing things our government wanted to keep secret. It also was a great "divide & conquer" tactic to turn older people against younger people - especially those that resisted the draft during the Viet Nam war.

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KMD's avatar

Dave turned me on to Miles Mathis.

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umbra illumino's avatar

Truth is a disruptive force, we hide from it under the shadows we are lead to believe to be right and honorable.

Looking out the window truth can be seen, it’s only when we open the door to walk in its clarity can we know it, feel it and become a living part of it.

Too often we pull down the shades, lock the door and enter a closet to hide, avoiding the disruption to our mental structures we or others have built.

Thank you for your courage to open the door for yourself and your readers.

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Bill Mailler's avatar

I share your commitment to face the truth of being alive and human on this planet. And it's damn hard to do that as there seems no end to the layers of illusion I have unconsciously accumulated over 70 years. "Open your eyes just once, and you cannot sleep again."

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Renee Marie's avatar

I’m 60 Bill. I really understand! It’s mind blowing.

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Nancy Mcgreevy's avatar

The idea of living truthfully has meant a loss of any meaningful relationship including my adult children, but with it has come peace and happiness. I look to my grandchildren who seem more evolved as young teens than their parents. I love your voice.

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gypsy33's avatar

Hi Nancy

I have experienced similar to what you have. I have disengaged myself from my husband’s large family and to an extent my own daughter. I don’t miss them, but to be fair, I have had certain cats and a horse that I loved more than my own child or any other human being.

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Christian's avatar

Powerful prayer

Thank you

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Once again I thank you for speaking the truth so clearly and eloquently.

I have had a passion, even, some may say, a compulsion, to uncover what’s true, all of my life. I can see that drive in you.

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Sera's avatar

Praying to imaginary superpowers is how we got into a lot of this trouble in the first place. Take control of your own life, find truth the hard way, and stop bowing to forces that aren’t there, and wouldn’t care about you if they were.

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Joel Bentarz's avatar

Wonderful! Powerful! Beautiful! But I think you forgot, "May I see the truth, so that I can be free.

That is to say, free to be true to life."

You are already capable of true love, which, according to Dartwill Aquila, is the love of truth.

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Pippi Smythe's avatar

Moving from egoic control to Wisdom.

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Crixcyon's avatar

You can bet that no one in the DC Swamp is praying.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

They're praying that no one will hold them accountable for all of their lies.

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Claudia Siefer's avatar

How is it we all (nearly all?) were brought up to tell the truth and yet we, the people, are subjected to nothing but lies and near lies? I attended high school during the Vietnam draft, watched the ravages of war on the nightly news and knew from that moment forward that the establishment was never to be entrusted with our collective well-being. Both political parties are corrupted beyond repair.

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

"How is it we all (nearly all?) were brought up to tell the truth"

Thinking the truth may be a separate subject

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Maurice Delacourt's avatar

Caitlin you should teach the Vatican how to pray

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@smokygirl2006's avatar

“May I see the truth even it will permanently damage my view of people I currently love and respect”. Oh, this is the one I’m currently struggling with right now. Between an otherwise loving older brother who actually said with a straight face, “there is no such thing as a Palestinian”, an otherwise fun sister-in-law who actually believes the lies the WMSM spouts about Iran, Russia and China and a loving Dad who only sees the dementia part of the empty suit that is Genocide Joe( and not the actual crimes against humanity this heinous excuse for a president has been not only complicit, but actually supplying the weapons, if not him, his administration, to this ethno/apartheid state we know as Israel), it has really made me sad and even cry at times. I still can’t get past that there are still people in my country who believe we had no choice but to drop two atomic bombs, one each on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at the end of WW2. I also struggle with how a lot of Americans really believe that the dominant forces that saved humanity from the Nazis were the Western Allies and not the Red Army. These people refuse to give the former Soviet Union the due credit it deserves for its saving of humanity from Nazism during the Great Patriotic War, otherwise know as WW2.😢☮️🇵🇸

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gypsy33's avatar

You speak Truth to Power, Smokeygirl!

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@smokygirl2006's avatar

Thank you gypsy.😊☮️🇵🇸

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

"We" did have a choice with Japan -- but not published well (covered-up?)

Truman demanded an UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ( of Japan's rights ) which Japan turned down

Truman's response was to drop those 2 bombs

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Susan Harley's avatar

We need to pray and this is perfect, thanks Caitlin ….May I see the truth, even when it means having to go through life with a much greater sense of alienation in this society. How true this is 💝

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Rahma's avatar

I think the beautiful thing is, in the areas we have the courage to be alienated from the society, there is the potential to more deeply connect with other individuals.

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Susan Harley's avatar

Agree, we need to find and nourish our tribe.

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