Do you want to know how to tell if this whole Elon Musk \/ Twitter thing REALLY is about free speech? I’ve got 3 simple ways for you to tell for sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know about you, but I find it pretty amazing when I see the reaction of so many people on the sale of Twitter. Obviously I understand the position of those who run it: the board: they want to make money and to do so they need to cater to the masses of the online community. They want the perception of being progressive, but not too much. Maybe left but with the perceived centre still in view.<\/p>\n
Obviously they have failed this dismally! They have gone far too far & have being secretly willing to not only influence or control the narrative but even going as far to censor and delete information. I mean what is this? North Korea? Now that\u2019s the Board.<\/p>\n
But to me it speaks volumes that millions of people who use this platform are so fragile, so scared of hearing a differing opinion. They are literally scared of free speech! They are obviously hypocritical too\u2026they were fine for that to happen when the Board was left, but now that Elon Musk wants to take over they are saying how dangerous it is to have censorship. I mean if that not hypocrisy I don\u2019t know what is.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But this is particularly sad for a nation or culture that started with such a strong basis and claims to champion free speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But what should be very concerning is that the censoring and even canceling of people – peoples accounts are getting cancelled – is happening over things that are factually true. It\u2019s not people inciting riots or hatred or violence or racism. It\u2019s people saying factual statements.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just yesterday, a top performing, world class athlete\u2019s account was cancelled for correctly stating that she was unfairly beaten by a man! As that was a couple of days ago there is now some doubt the account was genuine. But it is not an isolated incident. Journalist Savanhah Hernandez was cancelled over her coverage of the same issue when she interviewed a team mate of someone who lost a position to biological male Lia Thomas.<\/p>\n
Now I am not transphobic (I will not attack any marginalised group) and I don\u2019t think that things are as\u00a0simple<\/em> as xx \/ xy chromosomes in the debate. What these people are experiencing is real and can not be dismissed – I feel for them I really do. But there are conversations we need to have on the topic – how can that happen if people who state one side are censored or cancelled? It just can\u2019t happen.\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n Now if what they say is medically and physically true why should they be canceled?! Many doctors state that biologically, physically, a man is a man no matter what or who he feels or thinks he is. No matter what blockers or hormones he takes, his bone density, his muscle structure, his organs are all different to that of a female.\u00a0<\/p>\n How can that be silenced in an open debate? Isn\u2019t that the definition of bigotry?\u00a0<\/p>\n Many believe\u00a0that condoning and giving hormones is adding to the pain and torment the said person goes through. Obviously it presents the false notion to other young people that maybe their own feelings of discontentment or despair can be fixed by \u2018transitioning\u2019.<\/p>\n It can be argued that logic and statistics say the exact opposite of this. Pro trans countries (who champion transitioning) are reported to have suicide rates of trans people far above the rest of the population. They are over represented. Why aren\u2019t we talking about this? So, if changing yourself to be who you think \/ feel you are doesn\u2019t work – and being accepted for who you think or feel you<\/em> are<\/em> doesn\u2019t help in the long term – what does?\u00a0<\/p>\n If we look at the way we treat other disorders, can we get any clues? \u00a0<\/p>\n Take someone with Anorexia or Bolemia they come to you and say they are fat \/ overweight, (which is what they actually genuinely believe in their heart of hearts, w their whole being they are convinced, they know<\/em> it to be true, they think and believe and would say they know it to be true they would say that they are fat). Should we agree with them?<\/p>\n If we do, that could literally lead to their death. When they don\u2019t eat any more. They are dangerously thin. They are malnourished. We need to loving & carefully help them to see that they have a real condition and they need help –\u00a0they need to eat!<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n I personally believe that we need to treat all people with love and care – to meet them where they are at and be respectful no matter their disorder, habit, addiction or whatever it is. But we don\u2019t have to agree on everything. In fact, showing love, may involve saying the things that do cause a reaction & is painful to start with.\u00a0<\/p>\n We do a prayer ministry & we love to see the way Jesus brings healing to people with a wide range of issues. We don\u2019t judge them – we love them and we understand that the pull and power of\u00a0an<\/em>\u00a0addiction or any disorder or wound is\u00a0very, very\u00a0<\/em>strong<\/i>.<\/em> It is also not an easy thing to deal with – Psychology and Psychiatry have very little to offer in genuine, lasting change for a lot of these disorders. But I have personally witnessed Jesus do incredible things – make lasting changes in me when Cognitive Therapy – Psychology – none of that had answers no matter my trying.\u00a0<\/p>\n But Jesus makes lasting changes people who had all but given up. The change is incredible – I will put a link to what I am talking about. When Jesus does it, it is\u00a0effortless.\u00a0<\/p>\n [Link to Website https:\/\/wildeden.com.au\/ministry ]<\/p>\n But my main point is this: you can disagree with me. You might think that Jesus is just religion figure or you might be an atheist.\u00a0<\/p>\n My main point is that whatever my position on any topic, I am open to discussion and learning and debate and change. I want to hear your point of view. I want to learn from others. I don\u2019t want to close opposing views, opinions, experience, reasoning or research or anything down. That only leads to error –\u00a0every single time!<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n Look at all the major social platforms – they have become echo chambers – any differing view is closed down \/ deleted or cancelled. They all have there own algorithms to lower the coverage of posts or stories that show evidence against their chosen narrative. \u00a0<\/p>\n There is something that is far far worse in the bigger picture. What is happening on social media is magnifying part of the issue so that people are starting to see a deeper underlying problem. It\u2019s something that should be every persons biggest worry: you should be deeply concerned about this:\u00a0<\/p>\n We, (the West) we as a culture, have lost rational thinking!<\/strong>\u00a0So much so that people who have rational thinking and present facts, they stand out from the crowd! People go \u2018oh wow that is a bit shocking’. No, that’s just a fact. That is just a simple, baseline fact.\u00a0<\/p>\n The fact that we have lost rational thinking of our culture should worry you, because\u00a0it indicates that our cultures days are numbered. That\u2019s right – our culture can not survive past 2070!<\/p>\n If history is anything to go by, if all the other known cultures that have existed on the planet are anything to go by, we can not survive as a culture more than 50 years from now!<\/p>\n This is not my conspiracy theory – This has never happened in all of history. No culture in all of history has ever been able to turn itself around from where we were as a culture in 1970. In 1970 we hit the trifector of social stances that indicate a culture can not survive for 100 years!<\/p>\n Now that is long past now. What’s going on now in social media, is magnifying, it is just further evidence that this end to the West is certain and approaching even faster than predicted. I will link to the an article will be in the comments. I may post another video about the West. That is not my main point.\u00a0<\/p>\n