"You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow... But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join you, never comes... If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked... But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between comes all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next... And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you... and you see that everything -everything- has changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed..."
From the book "They thought they were free"
That is why I'm skeptical of all outside information, including the stuff I read on here that I want to believe. I want there to be a convenient enemy like Satan, or the jews, and perhaps they are but in a pedantic sense.
I know one thing - everything I need in this life can be found within. Prayer, meditation, hard work, humility, introspection and a strong understanding of what's right and wrong. Protecting innocence and showing love to creation is what's right, what is wrong is glorifying one's own ego to the point of thinking yourself important compared to anything else. What's wrong is dark magic, pedophilia, deception and greed. So we stamp it out on the small-scale in our families and surrounding neighborhood. That's how we prepare. We don't hope, we don't put our faith in great orators and preachers, we become strong and stay patient. Our true enemies have never and will never defeat us if we are strong.
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