The man on the stage
Sylvia Shawcross
Here is some unsolicited advice from an old woman living in the wilderness of Canada. I mean well.
There is something going on in the world that you cared about last week. It consumed most of your energy in terms of what you believed in working towards. Then there was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump and you’ve forgotten all about last week. And maybe last week you had forgotten about something from the week before that you honestly cared about working towards.
Regress and return until you arrive at a place in the here and now where you don’t know what to care about and don’t care to care. Because the goal always was to get you to this point: exhausted, disillusioned, confused and divided.
Something happened to a man on a stage. You will be told what happened. You will be told who is to blame. You will be divided over both these things. You will be shown pictures and videos which you know now are easily fabricated. You will be introduced to people who have an opinion on what happened. Experts will be paraded.
Emotions will be exaggerated. You will find yourself in arguments about older issues on whether the man on the stage is satan or a saint. You will see visceral hatred and cultish love.
You will think you are discerning the truth for yourself. You would be wrong. You are being given all the information it has been decided you will be given. And the arguments were already anticipated. And while you are eventually exhausted, disillusioned, confused and divided, the machine in the background carries on.
And if the machine wants you to believe something to further its agenda it will. The man on a stage was attacked by Iran, China, Russia, the opposition, a self-serving false flag, a lone crazed gunman on mental health drugs, LGBTQ2S+ activists, globalist elites, a group of terrorists.
You will hear in speeches the oh so noble entreaties for toning down the hate from ones who were the worst propagators of it. Does that confuse you? It should. It is meant to. It is no apology or recognition. It is soulless rhetoric manipulating for power. There is nothing genuine about it.
The only thing you need to know is that this event happened and it is not over.
Positions once forgiving and/or moderate and/or tolerant but no longer so, are being cemented into place for all the people who believe in any or all of the above reasons a man on stage was attacked. And that spells dangerous times ahead. There is no going back to a naive-pretend-lackadaisical world anymore for many. You must now believe what you believe.
Make it for the good and not for evil. That is the choice to be made and if you have a hard time discerning good from evil look to your heart and soul and ask if you are choosing to harm another rather than choosing to harm a position taken by another. That’s about as rudimentary as it can get. Do you want to hurt that person or do you want to hurt what that person stands for?
And most importantly don’t cheer anyone who celebrates the hurting of others. That is the “ugly face” phenomenon of taking pleasure in the pain of others absolutely overtaking the world and it has to stop for the sake of us all. It is one thing to be grimly determined to seek change on an issue. It is quite another to want to cause serious harm to another and/or enjoy watching it. That is nothing to celebrate. It simply contorts what could simply be a stern but determined visage into a contorted ugly face.
It can be assumed that the shocking incidents will be coming fast and furiously for the next while. Remember the issue you firmly believed in and hold on tight and keep on trucking. For the good. Not for evil. For life. Not for death.
Peace. Here. Now.
Earworm:
Sylvia Shawcross is a writer from Canada. Visit her SubStack if you’re so inclined.
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The people are for that, but these ruling over us are killers.
Good observation Sylvia, distraction is their game, and they use it well.
Perfect! This is all ‘doomed’ to failure just as Chaos theory shows us.
Interesting.
Alex has been deleted.
Fear not. He is condemned by his own words
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I’m with you Sophie.
Alex was/is an angry person.
I always look forward to Sylvia’s wisdom.
So little time, so many frogs to boil.
The Tom Petty with Wilburys is very nice. Blessed Bee 🐝 😎👍
Your post reminds me of Polonius, the grandfatherly windbag. Furthermore, your post is a straw man rant about ‘ill-willed’ people, which she doesn’t refer to and was not the point of her article.
I want to hurt the MSM. Everything you spoke of is deliberate and The MSM is unquestionably tge attack team.
tgat we do know.
Not taking the bait cannot be an option for those who have already reacted to what they wanted to see, even if it represented fears and judgements of evils against which they rise or fall. The wish that lies be true must attack truth as lies. The key here is not in any struggle to determine or weaponise the tell of ‘truth’ but love of truth. That ‘you’re being lied to’ is a coinage for ‘truthing’ – as if where you give attention and value is in the hands of liars. A ‘descent’ into lies is the failing of the mask by which the seemingly real, breaks down to be revealed as invested belief or self-illusion – acted out on the body. Or to put it a different way; continuity management fails to maintain the ‘reality-experience’ of a scripted identity such that the devices for its delivery ‘break into the dream’. Doubling down in the dream weaves the spell by which to buy time against release of vested self-illusion. Yet this is also choosing pain of fear of loss by setting defences against self-honesty. The ego script of imaged reality set over truth is a freedom to persist in temporary thought-creations of self-contradiction. “What you must understand is that, when you do not SHARE a thought system, you ARE weakening it. Those who BELIEVE in it therefore perceive this as an ATTACK ON THEM. This is because everyone identifies himself WITH his thought system, and EVERY thought system centers on WHAT YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE. If the center of the thought system is TRUE, only truth extends outward from it. But if a lie is at its center, only DECEPTION proceeds from it.” ~ A Course in Miracles; UrText That we can deceive our self is evident, but do we… Read more »
Dearest Binra, whenever I read your wisdom I feel calmer. I feel you understand things at a depth few of us can. Whenever I see your name in comment I think of a beach somewhere I think in Russia which is not sand or rock but coloured bits of glass. Each word a jewel. Thank you.
Nope, when you no longer dwell in the matrix such things don’t affect you. Most things don’t even reach me. I am busy living life and ignoring the machinations of the matrix. Pity the journalists and those with dull lives who hang on everything the matrix pumps out.
Yes. I possibly quite agree with you. I’m all those things and have said all those things and I’ve not got things right and I’m wrong and foolish in pretty much everything and you are extremely brilliant and right about everything and very very clever in your analysis. I’m simply puerile and simplistic. I’m also apparently the sole reason for all bad reviews of Off-Guardian which I certainly wouldn’t want to be. They are perfectly free not to publish me. I’m not into arguments and outraged analysis anymore alex. I’m tired of it. It is just more of the same. There will be even more theatre to come for your astute outrage and my serene grandmotherly benignity. We will never know the truth of it. If you feel better after your tirade I’m happy to have provided that outlet for you. Carry on.
Good onya Sylvia.
>Yes. I possibly quite agree with you. I’m all those things and have said all those things and I’ve not got things right and I’m wrong and foolish in pretty much everything and you are extremely brilliant and right about everything and very very clever in your analysis. >I’m simply puerile and simplistic. I’m also apparently the sole reason for all bad reviews of Off-Guardian which I certainly wouldn’t want to be. They are perfectly free not to publish me. I’ve no doubt that, even after this pitiable tirade of feminine “it’s-all-about-me”-ness, OffGuardian will continue to publish you. That’s one of the reasons why I’ve given up on this site, of which I was an avid reader during the COVID hoax. If it’s any comfort to you, you are by far one of the lesser reasons why I’ve given up on it. The unrepentant militant leftists who are given a platform here to bang on endlessly about “the Zionist entity” and so on are a far bigger one. But as I’ve indicated, I’ve had enough experience by now in the “dialectical” way of things to understand that a mouth-frothing Trotskyist demanding the armed reconquest of Palestine “from the river to the sea” and a nice old woman “living in the Canadian wilderness” urging that “everyone be kinder to one another” come to pretty much the same thing in the end. The main point I’m making here, in case you haven’t grasped it, is that the upshot, in the end, of all your talk about “working for the good” and “not letting yourself turn ugly” is the same cold, inhuman indifference to the shattered bloody bodies that not just might have been but actually were left laying on the ground at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania as the “river to the… Read more »
Exit rant. Enter Kant;
‘Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.’
Pretty sure that’s not Kant. Do you have a source? Didn’t think so.
‘Pretty sure’?
Experience breeds certainty:
‘Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.‘
There are websites that cater to grandmother fetishists, go wank off on those. Shut up now Alex. A2
Well said.
It was, wasn’t it!
The human psyche can only hold so much anger, righteousness and resentment before it bubbles over and permanently poisons its vessel.
Philosophy, and its lighthearted partner, optimistic whimsy, go a long way in quelling the fires of
rage and depression.
We observe, aware, vigilant and detached, because unlike them, we don’t strut like would be messiahs.
Johnny writes from a country, Australia, in which the height of political Parliamentary opposition (PHON, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation) to the Scamdemic is currently to call for a Royal Commission on it (!).
But in the USA or Germany or UK (Andrew Bridgen) the cal is for criminal prosecution. How angry, righteous and resentful. How lacking optimistic whimsy.
Looking forward to Johnny’s quietist and defeatist detached vigilance once his Internet access to Off-G is barred for lack of a digital ID.
No, cancel that: refusing digital ID is strutting like a would-be messiah.
In Australia, the epicentre of gullible sleepwalkers, we have ‘MyGov’ (the ultimate oxymoron), where all of one’s personal information, including medical records, is stored on a government database.
Game over, set and match.
This characteristically approximate, near enough is good enough “My Gov” allegation is groundless.
But if true, why did Fedgov refuse to answer even registered letters requesting that Aus. Vaccination Register data held at Federal level NOT be passed on to State Health Depts.?
Because as you would have it, there is no such Vaxx Register anyway.
Further, there has been an opt-out for Medicare entries for some years now.
It is likely true that the internal intelligence service ASIO can get hold of anything it wants, but that is not what Johnny is saying. .
(Un)really?
I tried, how I tried to get my eldest son and daughter to understand what was, and what was going to happen in Australia, but they couldn’t listen, couldn’t hear it. They just demanded that most of the topics were off-limits, and ‘that was that.’
From 2015 on it was the equivalent of banging my fool head against a brick wall. Melbourne during the lockdowns pretty much epitomised my accuracy, and (I know you believe it) this is no way as bad as it gets.
I know the feeling.
TY Johnny.
When I focus in shit, I feel like shit.
The collective focus can be said to have ‘turned to shit’, & our stake in the ‘collective’ of mutually agreed definitions that operates as ‘currency of thought & exchange’ is revealing as toxic debt-conflicts – as the narrative masking constructs stand out as hollow parody of living death.
Creative thought is unselfconscious joy – taking no thought for self-nor for such self in others – as a gift that shares of itself.
Ingenuity of thought is invoked for GETTING by a sense of self-lack, fear & conflict. That must block wholeness to carve out self vindication in vengeance over denial, deprivation, abandonment and rejection. AKA “I feel like shit”. projecting or casting shit out to others & world or even body can buy delay in shit, as a hit of release via the scape or blame-attack taken out on the Othered.
In this sense feeling shit is the pivot of a self-honesty to the fruits of thoughts running habit, in our name, that do not serve or represent us. That is now a choice of awareness through which to align or flow as appreciation & gratitude – which are of a completely different quality to the ‘hit’ of a boosted defence system.
Yes headmaster…Stop with the parasocial misogyny already, you weird angry little man.
Also, “not even you are so puerile and simplistic…” Headmaster, as you say – of a minor private school in the boondocks.
Sage words, well put.
I feel somehow instinctively certain that a turning away from the circus and spectacle will have to happen, at least by those that see it, lest the only thing that people do forevermore is to react to the latest ‘event’ or news, affecting nothing in perpetual futility.
The dumpster fire needs to be starved of the oxygen of attention.
Yes. It’s a simple matter. You, I, we have a limited amount of energy available for our life purposes, and if we donate it unconsciously to divide and rule conflicts we suffer, especially if the heroic leaders of the divided sides have feet of clay, and poisonous attributes which they almost always do.And let us down, or rather, we let ourselves down, shifting the responsibility onto them, when we should be taking responsibility ourselves. And in the current state of play, we can’t afford to throw our precious and probably declining life force away.
Like EMF, the tests and vaxx, poisonous food, water and air, the negative results of which are cumulative and may seem to be incrementally insignificant, but they’re not. One day, they just up and hit us with a sledge hammer.
And I haven’t even mentioned the psycho-spiritual aspects.
Hear, hear. I will be moving my conversation and commenting into the realm of ideas for disengagement (with the beast system, not with life).
There’s been a lot of waking up by those that can, but the vortex just seems to spin ever faster, and we’re still all just reacting, analyzing, noting…
If there’s a next step possible to take, it’s time we do.
Well said.
“the vortex just seems to spin ever faster” Too true! It feels as if events are getting concertinaed – “World War 3 threat, nuclear threat, Biden’s dementia, Julian Assange freed, Trump’s court case, Trump’s assassination attempt” so much so that the ongoing massacres by lone crazies can hardly get a look in. We could collectively do what the media does and totally ignore certain events (conflicting with their narrative) or refuse to analyse them and just give them short shrift – ‘just another absurd false flag’. Perhaps the Overton Window can be shifted, so that it can be acceptable for mainstream operators to challenge the deep state. It seemed there was a touch of that with Nigel Farage in the UK, criticising NATO for provoking the Ukraine conflict.
I hope so, but the truth and liberty communities have already moved the Window, and my point is that I think people that see this understand that it can not be corrected, but it might be able to be rejected, or more accurately, abandoned. So much energy spent examining the obviously moribund entity, and paying for it. It’s not rational.
There’s just something now overtly and starkly bizarre about the notion that people are required to be members of, expected to forever engage with such a spectacularly corrupt system and paradigm, verifiably so over a very long haul. It’s not a mistake or fluke, this is the intention and nature of it, and an occasional vote in elections and referenda that can be and are easily tampered with or ignored does not mean we all have a voice.
We don’t, and there is an ownership class.
We have no actual, practical remedies for that reality as of now, and I think if people incorporate that reality into their thinking, then remedies can be sought and brainstormed properly. Certainly cancelling one’s membership in the mandatory club must be a part of any scheme of remedies.
Agreed – the system is rigged and irretrievably so for now, and we shouldn’t waste our time railing against it. Focusing our energies in different ways could be productive. When it comes to war, the Overton Window seems to have gone the wrong way, perhaps due to our distance from the last major wars, so much so that waging peace isn’t a winnable platform, which, of course, is another example of the way the deep state has a stranglehold. Even though Trump, is promising to end the war in Ukraine, even his supporters should be aware that he is ardently pro-Israel and has a bellicose stance against Hamas, so war will continue in Palestine, which is going to make overtures to Putin over Ukraine tricky.
I’m with you on the re-focusing, but I think the nuance and analysis of the big dance doesn’t matter anymore, probably never did. I can’t trust or verify the integrity of any of these remote people I’m expected or thought to have an association with, and no longer see why or agree that there is any reason I should, but I can see the endless appearance of impropriety everywhere I look, so would like to sever ties.
I want to choose my associations, all of them, not have any assigned to me. That is a path of remedy, I suspect.
Orwell’s “two minute hate” is what springs to mind – change of narrative needed, two minute hate is the way to achieve it without the proles noticing.
Once again, thanks for a great essay. What’s important remains so whether Mr. Trump’s brush with death was death defying or deathly executed. The one certainty is that the medium will be the death of us all if we acknowledge it.
The old timers said not to answer the first time someone calls your name because it could be the Devil. I say don’t look the first time someone tries their hand at assassination because it could be the Deep State.
The man on a stage. Exactly.
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players;”
They could have had him quoting lines from Shakespeare and it would still have gone over many people’s heads.
Shakespeare alone undoubtedly goes over most people’s heads nowadays.🙄
The endless speculation on the Trump “assassination attempt” is getting a bit repetitive and boring. Can’t we all just agree that there wasn’t one? It was a scam, there wasn’t one, it was a hoax, and quite a poorly executed one at that
The people in my life who think it’s real are the same ones who fell for covid, and their arguments are exactly the same: no facts, no critical analysis, just ‘feeling’ and ‘no, they wouldn’t do that’.
Baaaaaa
Maybe even more to the point, there is much to suggest, as usual, that it was not an authentic event, which, combined with the tsunami of evidence and knowledge about the countless inaccurate or fraudulent narratives about major world events whether recent and distant – is it ALL of them? – should at least make the position of hard skepticism the default one.
There just isn’t any reason, no precedent at all for giving that benefit of the doubt, no basis to adjudge that, this time, the tale is true.
So you are saying the liberal left concocted that scam? The fireman was a crisis actor?
What’s the point?
Just a wild guess, but left, right, or center, the WEF or BlackRock or whomever pulls their strings is behind this, as well as today’s Microsoft/Crowdstrike fiasco. Real bullets, fake blood, fake bullets, crisis actors, 1-2-3 shooters?, real audience members, real secrets service, fake secret service, all part of a successful show. Real computer disruption, real chaos, orchestrated chaos, all part of a successful show.
One perpetual point is to keep everyone analyzing and arguing their lives away, about everything, constantly. That’s fairly obvious, is it not, the endless clamor and noise? Now the mixture of fake and real aspects has added hugely to that maelstrom via disorientation, while muddying the water beyond ever firmly being able to conclude anything. This kind of thing will make certain people give up, curl up in a ball (disappear into virtual reality now, for many), as it’s now all becoming too bizarre, and that’s another point, and that’s already enough points. Maybe the machine wants DT to win, maybe the Democrats are ready for him to hold the seat again, for whatever reason. Or maybe the event makes it easier for the Dems to replace Biden with a viable candidate, as it has made DT look too unbeatable otherwise (which they wanted so they could ditch Biden and pull a rabbit out of their hat). Maybe it was all, whatever it was, agreed to by both sides, at the ownership level? Either way, various aspects are super dodgy, and a real fireman doesn’t disprove a contrived event, but it does muddy the water, and raise the noise and disorientation level. Like frequent Congressional hearings that never lead to indictments, criminal trials, or convictions, ever, though it’s obvious that malfeasance is clearly present and easily provable. They create an appearance of action and give the opposing sides (we the rabble) a rooting interest and something to cheer or condemn, which also feels like action taken, though it is not, and we all know that nothing actually happened, that it was and always is just noise, and that knowledge is disorienting. So, I think disorienting the populace is probably a major point, and that giving our attention to the endless… Read more »
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why do words need pending
after all they just be words
you make a mockery of everything you say
with the pending and word deletion
that does not happen things just vanish
maybe we need an off off guardian
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your credit score account has been deducted 666 octopus roth marks
Pending is as pending does. Hate the sinner (Forest Gump); but love the sin (“Stupid is as stupid does” – stolen from the old folks home). So too was the very name Gump stolen from a bygone era – as in Why are you gumping around? So many times my aunt, from said bygone era, asked that of my cousin.
Pending is a name based phenomenon, not a word based beast. AI gumps around till it finds the right name; then – pow! splat! your name is mud. Your words are pended. Next question!
pending’s got gumption…
Live for Peace, peace of mind, serenity, harmony; do not allow the overlords’ mind control apparatus to manipulate you into hating “the other” whomever they designate. It’s a trap. Take a deep breath, pause, step back and investigate you’ll discover someone or some group is profiting from our hate, our confusion and ignorance. Our misguided hatred keeps the shot callers in power and negates the potential for us to be our best selves individually and collectively. Do not allow the misanthropes miscreants and psychopaths to have that much sway and influence over you, your mind and your actions. The real resistance is mental and spiritual.
“Take a deep breath” is a bit self righteous. Did you just spend 40 years in a cave meditating, or merely passing the crack pipe? Either way, thanks for the lecture.
Energetically, at the lower astral (you have probably experienced it in dreams) level, your, my, our negative emotions are food, which is eagerly sought after and seized upon by entities who cannot, are unable to physically penetrate this level, but are nonetheless able to home in on and enjoy our unguarded negative emotions, which are suitable, harmonious to them/their needs frequency-wise.
This is described and well depicted in the teachings and literature as succubus and incubus. We need to take care along the lines of the famous statement by Nietzsche which points out that the relevant energies will seek to achieve perfect resonance, as clock pendula and other pendula will automatically harmonise frequency.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/272885-beware-that-when-fighting-monsters-you-yourself-do-not-become
Mike Cernovich thinks that the Trump – Biden debate was purposely set up on such bad terms that they expected Trump to refuse it – but he didn’t. They also believed Biden could sail through ok ish – which he didn’t.
Deep State makes Big mistakes too; there is hope.
bread and circus
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just shoah bizness
So true.
I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul.
-Thomas Merton
so real. Nothing sell the assassinations like this
https://x.com/_JwMurray/status/1814154741582270664/video/1
This event was supposed to divide?
My 80+ yo mother has, for the first time, agreed with me on an interpretation of politics.
Trump didn’t have enough of a following to divide. I have neighbors who are Trumpers; they had something to say day 1, but now avoid the conversation.
The assassination attempt rang hollow. Trump lacks stage presence. Still, many are captivated.
The fragmented narratives around this event, as around all publicity-adjacent events, are meant to confuse, alienate, and isolate. The official story is unreliable, which leaves endless speculation.
Stop speculating. Stick to what is real. Television is not real.
The circular argument is one of their favorites. Reminds me of their covid conversations that haven’t advanced in 4 years.
The Trump event got worse for me when the RNC hit. Corey Comperatore translates as ‘God’s Sacrifice’, and he was a fireman (fire + altar). Trump apparently kissed his helmet.
It’s like they did their very very best to make it fit revelations. The beast will have a head wound but survive….
Happened at Bethel Park, a park is a hem, so it happened at Bethelhem.
Trump was given the silver crown from the rabbis.
The flag is even upside down in his “iconic” image. 2nd time I’ve seen that with Trump.
Way too many coincidences for it to be real.
Perhaps we need a new word for the Turds at the top.
Confearists.
Divididians.
$uckulent$.
Parasitopaths.
Warwhores.
(Enter your here).
Lets not mince around with fancy monikers. They’re a bunch of cunts.
Man on the stage was about as real as Biden getting covid the day The U>K covid enquiry report comes out.
The most deadest pandemic ever, lockdowns, hospitals overrun…vaccine passports, Breakthrough cases. asymptomatic, and Variants that disappeared the minute Ukraine thing happened and Moslem terrorists disappeared the minute covid appeared.
Keep 2 meters apart. Stay safe.
we are in this together…………………
they where once called saints and angels
never was.
look how the children of the synagogue of satan dance the babylonian talmoodick shuffle.
sick freaks they mock you as they poison you
the instruments of a population cull kill
Good piece Syl. Thanks
I had come to the conckusion that there is a clusterball of events happening and the whole thing is a show.
The problem I have is that this clusterball, varied and colourful as it is, has a direction, a vector if you like, and that direction isn’t good.
If it were an asteroid heading for Earth I’d want to be firing nukes at it to throw it off course.
There are people who say they can throw the clusterball off course.
But I know they’re lying.