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It seems there is indeed a swelling of the current beneath the calm seas!!

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Unrelated comment, but I am posting this here because you (understandably) don't casually share your email--

The suicide trolling methods you have described in other posts reminded me of a scene from the Broadway musical "Pippin: His Life and Times".

The musical follows Pippin along his journey as he searches for meaning through an escalating chase for total satisfaction. In a classic heroes journey tale, he learns and grows from each person and challenge he meets along the way.

The story culminates when, upon having doubts one last time, he begins to question if anything can be fully satisfying, and if not, what to do? It is at this moment he is surrounded by everyone he has met over the hour and a half musical performance, and they proceed to goad him into performing a "Grand Finale" as a perfect, final leap of faith which will bring him nirvana.

After getting into the catchy song and dance being performed just for him, Pippin quickly realizes that this "Grand Finale" is a literal leap into a flaming hoop and catching on fire, burning him to death for "glory". Pippin has a come-to-jesus moment at the very last second, realizing he actually does enjoy the simple life, he does not actually want to kill himself in pursuit of perfection, and that in fact he is willing to sacrifice everything he has and is if it means being with his family and their love.

Interestingly, the "main player" throws a tantrum at Pippin's decision to pull out of the "Grand Finale", and piece-by-piece tears down the story, then the stage, then his costumes, and finally the music (in an incredible 4th-wall breaking narrative structure if I say so myself), all around Pippin and his family in real-time.

Furthermore: in the very beginning of the opening number of the musical, it is explained by the Main Player that every single character we (the audience) will see perform is part of a mystery traveling troupe of actors who are here to tell us the story of Pippin--that is, everyone is playing a part, except for Pippin. They are creating the story for Pippin, not with Pippin.

Quite literally, the play is about a group of people all playing a specific part in a reality specifically constructed for Pippin. Pippin is shaped and guided along their pre-determined path, similar to the Truman show (but notably written well before it), all designed to lead him to the conclusion that killing himself in a grand, destructive, attention-grabbing way is a reasonable and in fact honorable thing for him to do.

Remind you of anything?

The play ends with the Main Player speaking to the audience. He asks if any of us are seeking adventure, or glory, or perfection, or fame, and if so, to come find them. They'll be there "waiting, anytime you want us" because "we are right inside your head!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoW4CediRd4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzixpTajKI0

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Aug 14, 2022Liked by Jim Stewartson

I’m thoroughly amazed that you can keep on top of so much that’s going on. I guess being able to get by on little sleep is a superpower. I’m the opposite. As A Woody Allen character said “If I don’t get my 16 hours, I’m a wreck.”

My only comment is I don’t read his list of people to trust as endorsements. I mean Barr is anathema to MAGA now after he called BS on the election fraud nonsense. I think he was saying these are people Q said to trust in order to as he says keep tha anons sidelined thinking these folks had it all under control. So, I wouldn’t take Flynn being not mentioned in itself as a slight though I agree that Sullivan’s linking of Flynn to McChrystal and then showing McChrystal’s disdain for MAGA looks like Sullivan is moving against Flynn as you are saying here. Seems he is saying Flynn was using Q as an anti MAGA psyop (yeah,right) and grifting off it. Of course, the latter is true, but I’ll believe QAnon was an anti MAGA op when pigs fly.

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