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I remember in Community College I learned about "Common Sense Realism" in philosophy class. They said that there was a spectrum of truth ranging from phenomenalism to common sense realism.

This I realize now was the 1980s set up for woke ideology.

-- What you see is not the truth because you are uneducated. --

We can now laugh about it here and bust each other's balls but it's still out there and it's hard to get out.

In the 1990s I lived in Richmond, VA and I sometimes would buy the Final Call from one of these dudes. I would read it and get all of the insight into why I was the white devil.

I think the irony was that black men who were part of the Nation of Islam projected an image of Strength and the mask looks like a face panty. Basically a ritual of shame.

I also read Alex Haley's book on Malcolm X so I have a bit of insight there, too. And I even spent a couple years as a Muslim, not Nation of Islam, just Sunni.

Lots to unpack when I shit post.

But that's why I love you NOSTR plebs because I know I'm not the only lunatic.

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inpc 11mo ago

Interesting…. It’s funny, back in the early 2000s I had a very strong urge to become Muslim and move to Damascus. The closest I ever got to a religious experience. I’d locked myself away to do cold turkey… I’d started to get overly naughty with what I put in my body. I was not in a good space, during that time I was getting voices in my head and all sorts. Looking back I’m glad I didn’t, I would’ve gone to what’s become a war zone. After two weeks of sweating, flu like symptoms and hallucinations I started to get back to normal… well I say normal, not sure I’ve ever quite got there but I’m a lot healthier and actually alive and not fully mad, which can’t be said some some friends I had along the way.

To be honest, when I see people wearing a mask out it doesn’t bother me. I tend to just think well they have their reasons and I know nothing about them. Yes it makes no sense wearing one outside but lots of things I do make little sense other than to me so it’s cool.

I still wonder if the person you saw was also trying to hide rather than overly health concerned? I remember working with kids through Covid who became very withdrawn and used masks to hide themselves long after it being mandatory. One I met recently, now 19-20 years old and they spoke to me in a very familiar way. It was days later before I realised it was someone I’d worked with several times before.

A bit of a ramble there but good to make your acquaintance.

OgFOMK ArTS 11mo ago

Wow, great insight!

To circle back on the masks.

If I saw this in 2019 or earlier I would think that this guy was with allergies in the summer or winter keeping his face warm. I've spoken to others too about this. Empirical evidence shows that it's majority black people and I live in a majority black city so I see a small percentage of actually masked people but when I do they are mostly black.

When I traveled flying to Europe and back to US the observed number flipped to whites masked and I just assumed they were liberal from their t-shirts with rainbows and peace signs. I wish I was being funny but they were stereotypical generation X (my generation) and boomers.

Anyway, in my city I see the capture. Maybe he was using it to hide and that's kind of how I felt in March 2020 before I stopped watching the M5M (Mainstream Nonsense). I thought that COVID is everywhere, all people are dirty, I'm also anonymous... All sorts of things from a spell. It was a spell, too.

What broke me out was in April 2020 I started doing jobs outside for Trump supporters with Trump flags, nice homes, and generally happy people. They didn't give any thought about COVID and I realized that my narrative was wrong. At this time I started listening to No Agenda and then became A producer after my liberation.

I'm thinking about your two week cold turkey now. Thank you for sharing that. I've been down some insane alcoholic bends. I've had terrible experiences. It's no good.

Friend, you made my morning sharing this. Keep me in check. I will now pray and thank God for you and anyone else here who is looking for the truth.