That Time My Ogham and I Were Very Wrong
Jan. 18th, 2023 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kimberlysteeleIn 2021, I asked my Ogham if there was going to be a catastrophic, Black Plague-level die-off of the quaxxed ("quaxxed" is my term for the MRNA-vaccinated) n the next few years. They said Yes. For a time, I went back and forth on my belief in the impending vax-pocalypse and voiced my opinions in this essay. Then all-cause mortality of everything except Covid-19 ramped up around the world, and I revised my opinions with this essay. Now that we are almost a month into 2023, I am revising my opinion once again. I believe I was wrong and so was my Ogham. There is a die-off of the quaxxed and it is considerable, but it is far from Black Death levels and will likely remain at the same slightly-wavering percentage for the next 1-30 years. It is not a civilization ender in the way the Black Death was, nor will it ever be.
Once again, John Michael Greer nailed it. He has always predicted a slow and steady decline into de-industrialization pockmarked by bubbles and pits. In 2021, I feared 2023 would be a second Great Depression. If half the population of my corner of the upper Midwest had passed away and had politics been even more of a crapshow than it is right now, perhaps that would have happened. As a matter of fact, it did not happen. Real estate is still percolating away at frothy highs, and this is the somewhat gamed result of supply and demand. What I mean is there is no shortage of people looking to rent and buy new spaces. If there truly was a Black Death die off among the quaxxed, half the houses in my neighborhood would be empty. The fact of the matter is they are not.
Let's Look at the Specifics of How I Was Almost Right
I am glad my Ogham and I were wrong about the numbers pertaining to the quaxxed. As it so happens, my area in the Chicago suburbs is about 90-95 percent quaxxed. As someone who did not get any of the quaxxes, I am a freak on the margins and a potential target for persecution. Being staunchly against the quax is what forced me to close my commercial space of 13 years. About half of my clients became afraid of me, with my unvaxxed blood, spreading the dread Corona virus to themselves and their children. The ultimate irony came wrapped up with a bow: they are the super-spreaders they once feared, and because of the way the spike proteins implant themselves in every tissue of the body, they may be cursed with this status for life. My profits were never fat enough to lose 50% of them and still be in a position to pay commercial rent, so here I am, making a modest living teaching lessons out of my house.
This is not to say the quaxxes do not come at a price that often includes mortality. All-cause mortality is up by staggering amounts wherever there are lots of quaxxed people, yet it is suspiciously low in countries like Haiti and Sweden where the quax was not forced. One of the predictions my Ogham made that came true is the swelling numbers of vaccine-injured/quax-disabled people. Labor shortages and supply chain issues are not just a result of government fiddling; there are countless numbers who took the quax and suffered its infamous side effects. Anyone who has seen the incredibly gruesome documentary Died Suddenly can likely piece together what can happen in the bodies of the quaxxed. I am amazed at how many people are still alive, considering the evidence provided by what the quax does once it sets up in the blood in the form of fibrous clots.
I'm Not Ready and Never Will Be
I'm fairly thrifty and scrappy, but I am not ready for any kind of Black Plague level event and I am fairly certain I will never be ready within this lifetime. For instance, last night I took one of my autistic adult students to play a popular open mic. The open mic was in a spacious bar that was teeming with people. The local musicians who played and sang were prodigiously talented. I ordered a vegan burger off of their impressive menu. Teeming bars with great musicians and vegan options do not happen in the apocalypse. We are very, very far from Monty Python's BRING OUT YOUR DEAD! scene and I hope we always remain that way. When quax injuries and deaths started to make themselves apparent in 2022, I did a mini-series of meditations of what could happen. These included:
2. Cholera... about 20 percent die/still horrible, pretty bad but not like the Black Death
3. Spanish flu... fewer than 10 percent die
4. Nobody dies, business as usual
We seem to be somewhere between 2 and 3 right now. It's horrific for sure to see so many mowed down, but it ain't the Black Death and thank heaven for that. I don't want anything like the Black Death to happen because as someone who was raised as an upper-middle class suburbanite, it's everything I can do to figure out old fashioned homesteading skills between trying to keep a roof overhead. I have never successfully canned a vegetable or fruit on my own. I still kill a good number of my plants, both indoors and in the garden. My house, though fairly resilient, depends on heat from natural gas, electricity and water from my local grids, and repairs from local handymen. All of these things need copious numbers of people to make them happen. I love my fragile environment with top shelf musicians randomly visiting open mics on Tuesday night while I munch on my vegan burger and microgreens and strawberry salad. I also don't want any of my students or their families to suffer, and this is not entirely selfish. My relationship with my clients is more like extended family or in some cases, close family. I love and care for these people more than I do some of my immediate relatives and many of them are quaxxed.
I feel fortunate to be able to say I am wrong, and to my credit, I have always maintained I could be wrong. Buying into the Apocalypse Meme is tempting because it allows you to take yourself out of your current predicament and place yourself in an exciting movie where you have other and more pressing things to worry about. Perhaps this will help me to understand why asking the Ogham binary Yes No questions is so problematic. There are always a million small factors affecting any one outcome, kind of like the butterfly effect or ripples in a pond.
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Date: 2023-01-18 11:36 pm (UTC)I'm so glad they were right about you and screenprinting. From what little I know of the art of screenprinting, it's very similar to stencils. My husband used to work in the printing industry, meaning the printing of magazines, textbooks, and pamphlets. That industry isn't doing so hot because it effectively got too big for its britches and then everything went online. Printed packaging is doing OK, but magazines and books, not so much. As for screenprinting, nothing in the digital printing realm can replicate the way it looks.
Many people who were injured by the quax or who had relatives get injured and die will never be ready to admit why it happened. Right now we are in a phase where it is becoming undeniable that the quaxxes are killing millions, but the reaction to it is to blame the messenger. There's a great deal of rancor among former followers of "Papa" John Michael Greer at the moment where JMG is being lauded as irresponsible and a fomenter of Satanic Panic 2.0 because he dared mention the demonic hypothesis. Like Sam Harris, I think that some of these people secretly wish for mass persecution to fulfill their martyrdom complexes. It is easy to point the finger at someone else when you possess an unexamined lust for power and influence. "Hans, are we the baddies?" from Mitchell & Webb... what an on point meme. This is how their grief and rage manifest -- by constructing more fear factories while aggrandizing themselves.
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Date: 2023-01-19 02:30 am (UTC)How absurd! Everyone's saying it, even Naomi Wolf's last book calls this a battle for the human soul.
I assume as much in how and why my work now.
So much of my life is trying to pick up where I must've left off! This is all quite fun.
More on this later....it all lines up for me.
Thanks for pushing me on my dares...
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Date: 2023-01-19 04:49 pm (UTC)I feel similarly to how Papa explains setting up a couple of rules variable selections and let it run its course and that's how thinking kings were a great idea, that anyone is above you, has led to us being caged meat for the same inbred retarded elite.
I've never seen how any of these systems got support and stuck around so long.... demons? So then like Camille paglia I'm inclined to acknowledge it more like "daemonic." It's a more inclusive word in that it's a solid part of us humans.
And if Papa wants to talk about demons forever, so what? He's not the boss of any one and people aren't children and responsible for themselves.
The ones kvetching about Papa wanna be the heierarchical secret magic elite.
It's all soooo tired and played out.
Regardless of what or who it is, it's diabolical as hell.
Erika
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Date: 2023-01-19 08:41 pm (UTC)"And if Papa wants to talk about demons forever, so what? He's not the boss of any one and people aren't children and responsible for themselves.
The ones kvetching about Papa wanna be the heierarchical secret magic elite."
I see the JMG-callout group as toxic masculinity desperately needing to claim expertise about something and choosing Oppression with a capital O as their pet subject. There are always thirsty people who cannot admit they have issues with jealousy and come up with lots of eggheaded notions of why they are more entitled to attention than those in the spotlight. I used to be one of those thirsty people and I know the mentality well; that's why I don't do that anymore.
JH
Date: 2023-01-21 05:08 am (UTC)You're welcome! Please PM me at k steele studio at gmail and I'll divulge the details. I'd rather not give the person ammunition or airtime on this blog.
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Date: 2023-01-19 06:08 pm (UTC)I am grateful that we aren't in Black Death level percentages. I can't even conceive what that would be like. I agree that we could make Black Death raw numbers. The Ethical Skeptic thinks there have been +500K excess deaths in the US alone already. I am having trouble conceiving of that too. And yet I am starting to see it on my own life. People I know are dying suddenly. The health problems of people I know and love are increasing. This is far from over.
Your comment about the demon hypothesis is interesting. I was one of the people who heard an odd voice urging the jab. It was bad enough seeing work, church, friends and family be unquestioningly in favour of this new treatment. Having an inner voice get on board was almost too much. Once I heard it might be demons on JMG's covid blog I started praying a prayer of protection every day. The rouge voice was replaced with Tom Petty singing "You could stand me up at the gates of Hell but I won't back down." I thought demons sounded strange, but allowing for that possibly helped me. No Satanic Panic for me. More like Demon Defense.
Something beyond the material world must be involved. Everything is just too weird. I consider 2021 the Wonderland Year. My daughter was obsessed with the stories about Alice and they seemed to drift into our real life. Conversations with people felt very much like talking with the Mad Hatter or the Queen of Hearts. They kept saying nonsense. I'd point out the crazy to them and I'd get a blank look or silence on the phone and then hear something about needing to be safe. They were not themselves (many of them still aren't). They did and said things that were very out of character and I could not snap them out of it. By 2022 I decided to change the subject, silently offer them a blessing, and look for ways to limit their influence on me, my spouse, and our daughter.
Of course some people decided to comply with mandates knowing they were wrong. While my friends and family were all in Wonderland several of my colleagues weren't. Of the colleagues I spoke to about the mandates, roughly one third to one half thought they were awful. Whether they were jabbed or not, they thought the demand to provide proof was immoral and a gross overreach by our employer. A few of them were really worried about how the jabs would affect their health if they go them. Everyone I spoke with caved though.
There are +1600 employees at my old firm and I heard that only 9, including me, refused to comply.
The pressure was so great I understand why they submitted, and I am grateful I summoned the strength to resist. Still 9 is a really small number. And I am especially worried for the people who knew they were putting themselves in harm's way - either morally or health wise.
Like Erika, I wonder what happens when the illusions are shattered. I think it will be heartbreaking, messy, and dangerous. But we will be living in truth together. And we can build real things, amazing things, beautiful things.
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Date: 2023-01-19 08:48 pm (UTC)LOL I teach that Tom Petty song on guitar; it takes on a whole new meaning now.
As much as I dread what happens when their illusions shatter, it needs to happen. For some, they won't get the full picture until after they die, but from what I know of the dead quaxxed, they are informed as to what happened in many cases. There are people who have been severely maimed and disabled by the quaxx who go to their graves thinking they died of Covid, and of course the merry, dancing doctors and nurses of TikTok are all too happy to assist them in their delusion. But nobody can remain ignorant forever, even if her ignorance is deliberate.
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Date: 2023-01-21 03:46 pm (UTC)I also heard the reassuring whispers to just get jabbed, don't worry, it'll be fine. There was also huge pressure from my retired-GP father who became completely fixated on ensuring that the entire family got it and banged on about it every single time we spoke, for over a year. It strained our relationship for a while. Under that duress, I had the first one which was not, thankfully, one of the mRNA jabs (AZ) but after that I said no and just allowed my dad to believe I was compliant. My partner didn't get any at all, and unfortunately admitted it, which became part of my dad's obsession. My dad has mild dementia and a tendency to fixate on things, which didn't help. Now that a previously healthy family member has developed myocarditis after his third injection, the badgering has stopped. It's a huge relief.
Saying that, it does seem that some people are starting to wake up. At a recent supper someone asked me how many jabs I'd had (she was on her 5th) so I took a deep breath and said 'One'. She was shocked and asked my partner the same question and he said 'None' whereupon she admitted that some of her grandchildren were refusing too. Prior to this she was truly one of the Devout. When I admitted to having just the one injection I was prepared that we'd be asked to leave, there and then, but that didn't happen and the subject was changed quite quickly. I can't imagine that happening a year prior.
My dear cousin also refused. She works for the NHS and was prepared to be fired but she held out right up to the last days of the mandate, when it was suddenly lifted because the gov knew the NHS wouldn't cope with the sudden loss of 30k staff. I admire her for holding out.
It's hard to know what people really think because nearly everyone is still too scared to give an honest opinion in case they get piled on. I'd love to know what the people around me really think and hope the time comes where they're confident enough to say.
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Date: 2023-01-23 07:06 am (UTC)Thanks for sayng it.