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https://responsiblyfree.substack.com/p/on-peter-breggin-and-mattias-desmet

ON PETER BREGGIN'S CONSPIRACY FACT VS. MATTIAS DESMET'S CONSPIRACY THEORY & THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY

JUXTAPOSING: PETER BREGGIN & MATTIAS DESMET (ENGLISH | AD-HOC 27 & AD-HOC 28). Corona Investigative Committee, September 14, 2022

https://odysee.com/@Corona-Investigative-Committee:5/Juxtaposing1:f

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Thank you so much posting this. I'm LOVING your articles. May your tribe increase. You feel like a bit of a kindred spirit....much of what you write in your article about the "counter-church" is something I have been pondering since 2020---(check my substack in a few weeks-- I should be writing about this as well.) As the daughter of Polish immigrants, a father who escaped a Gestapo prison and fought in the Warsaw uprising, and a mother who lived near Auschwitz during the war and finally escaped Poland as the Soviets were closing the borders--I was raised in this ethos. I can still hear my father saying: Remember, Poland was the FIRST constitutional Republic in the whole world."

BUT I never knew the whole story before. Wonderful to read. My DNA was resonating...

Poles are a unique breed in Europe. For many of the very reasons you elucidate here. Deeply cultured, deeply noble, deeply erudite. Idealistic and romantic. (What other nation put wings on its cavalry's armor?) Principled, courageous (sometimes to the point of blind zeal) intelligent, loyal, patriotic. However, their greatest strengths are also their greatest weaknesses. Which is why they have been conquered so many times. But which is also why they have also triumphed--and saved others (Battle of Vienna).

A quick thought: When Poland was "baptized" in 990, she DID fall under Rome's jurisdiction, HOWEVER "the Faith, given once and for all" that she inherited, was the ORTHODOX faith. She has mostly held to THAT faith. She has certainly not fully embraced what passes as the Roman Catholic "faith" one sees today. And-- Poland has never seemed "western" Catholic to me. There is something much more akin to Orthodoxy in the ethos there. In any case, being "Roman" Catholic--under Francis--is now an oxymoron, since there is nothing much καθολικός katholikós (whole) about Rome today...having both stripped essentials from the Faith, and added heresy to it.

Since you consider yourself a trad Catholic, why not complete your journey "home" and head all the way east? Rome left the fold of orthodoxy in 1054 and has only continued towards even greater heresy since then. Why stay under Rome's "omophorion."?

I was (of course) raised Roman Catholic--we always had the icon of the Madonna of Czestochowa hanging in our house. And I still remember attending the Latin Mass (now you know how old I am!) BUT after Vatican 2--RC Christianity lost interest for me. I ended up in Charismatic Protestantism at 23, but somehow that was still not quite right. Something was missing in both of those expressions of Christianity for me. Finally about 15 years ago, I discovered Eastern Orthodoxy. Antiochian Orthodoxy to be precise ("where they were first called Christians")--and the cognitive dissonance--the NOETIC dissonance--resolved. Finally home.

If Poland does not hold fast to "THE Faith"--she will fall. If she embraces "Western Values"--which seem to be more like vices---she will strike a blow against her national character. At this point, she has more in common with Orthodox Russia, than her amoral western European neighbors. Her leadership seems to be a bit blind, thinking that the West--the US and Modern Europe--are somehow champions of faith and freedom....May she return to her roots.

thanks for "listening"...look forward to more from your bailiwick.

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