I’ve long been earnestly trying to figure out why most run away from the truth, since I’m not wired that way at all. I think John B. Wells’ guest nails it. People are running away from their Conscience — with dire consequence!

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Freedom quote transcribed by Jeff Fenske from Caravan to Midnight, Ep. 487 – 3-11-16

Joe Plummer comes aboard with admonitions for preserving national sovereignty.

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John B. Wells:

“What turned you into an activist? … What was the aha moment?”

Joe Plummer [not: ‘Joe the Plumber’]

“It’s an issue of refusing to ignore your conscience. And some people seem to have that problem….

When you see something that is so inexcusably illegitimate and wrong, something in you won’t allow you to let it go, so you fight it [what is wrong].

I, like most people, had been raised under the assumption that government was legitimate, that it impeded predatory behavior, and was there to serve our interests. And once I started to realize that it was the most atrocious lie I had ever been told I became initially pretty angry, and then at some point I realized I was only poisoning myself with that anger. So I tried to take a more balanced view of all of it. But at the same time, still, the drive to fight it is just irresistible, because I can’t imagine anything else.

If I were to just try to accept that what we have is all there is going to be and live with it I’d have to kill part of who I am.”

John B.:

“In closing, Joseph, what is your message to the world?”

Joe:

“Obey your conscience.”

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Related:

(video) Skousen: The Spiritual Evil Force Behind Globalism — “The acceleration really is because there is less resistance” • “We’re losing the battle because conservatives aren’t tapping into the spiritual Source Who can direct us more specifically. Things are so complex” • “FOX News has Hannity and O’Reilly who will literally excoriate a person who even hints he believes in conspiracy” • “The more you listen, and the more you use self-control to obey, the better things work out”

Joel Skousen: Is there a path to winning back America? No, I think we’ve past the point of no return — “Religion is not leading to righteousness … this callous disregard for the ‘still small voice’ leads to bigger problems and worse decisions”

Michael Rivero: Why People Embrace Propaganda – “We all LIKE TO THINK that we are brave, heroic individuals, but standing up to corruption has a HEAVY PRICE TAG on it, and most people don’t want to pay that. And worse, most people DON’T WANT TO ADMIT that about themselves • They cling to that propaganda so they can cling to their SELF-DELUSION that they’re a good human being. • Most propaganda is just there to give people who don’t want to think about what’s going on AN EXCUSE not to think about what’s going on

[FreedomQuote] “It’s hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.”

“Putting your head in the sand will not save your backside”

Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth & Truth-tellers

[FreedomQuote] ‎”I Would Rather Know The Ugly Truth Than A Beautiful Lie”

“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic” – Dresden James

[FreedomQuote] Patrick Henry: “For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.” — I’ll take the red pill, thank you, to totally live in reality no matter what! FREEeeeeeeeeeeeeee——————DOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why Do Good People Become Silent—or Worse—about 9/11? — “If what you are saying is true, I don’t want to know!” | FEAR of being shunned or banished by friends and family, fear of looking like a fool because we bought the official account so thoroughly| Most people will give up their need to be right or free if their NEED TO BE LIKED is threatened. We need to feel connected to others | Many unconsciously relate to our governmental leaders as PARENTAL FIGURES on whom we project our (often unmet) needs for a protective parent. | If we are committed to psycho-spiritual growth we do not let fear dictate what we do!

From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”

Psychologists Explain 911 Denial: Fear, Pride, Exceptionalism… (Why aren’t most people willing to even look at what the Bible really says about who goes to heaven — the most important issue?!)

[Willfully ignorant] Dr. Doug Rokke: People won’t acknowledge what the US has really done because the foundation for everything they’ve believed and what they’ve trusted literally collapses…Gandhi: Widespread Belief Doesn’t Make an Error True

HeartQuotes: Truth — “A thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many” – Spinoza

“Truth … lies in the depth where few are willing to search for it.”

[WordPOWER!] 2 Peter 3: BEWARE, in the LAST DAYS People Will Be WILLINGLY IGNORANT

Baruch: “Not only is DECEPTION of the church possible, it WAS PROPHESIED TO HAPPEN!” — Jesus said “IN THE LAST DAYS THE MAJORITY WILL BE DECEIVED, take heed that it doesn’t happen to you” — “FALSE TEACHERS are actually SPEAKING SPELLS with the words of their FALSE DOCTRINES!”

“For The TIME WILL COME when THEY WILL NOT LISTEN to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves TEACHERS AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS; and will TURN AWAY THEIR EARS FROM THE TRUTH, and turn aside to *FABLES*” (2 Tim. 4:3-4)