What good is knowledge if we don’t apply it?
For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity. Proverbs 24:16 ESV
The sting of failure cuts like a whetted knife. The butterflies in your stomach turn to fear, then to rage, then to disbelief. Dizziness. What does it mean? How can I have failed? And on something so stupid? The examiner was wrong. He must be! How am I supposed to know that!?
I was a straight-A student at Nautical College. From day one, I worked harder than I’d ever worked before. Post-2008, I had to. It was easier for me than for many students. I’d already got my BSc in Marine and Coastal Management and spent 4 years going to sea part-time with the Navy Reserve. I knew my stuff.
But I was about to learn that there is a world of difference between Knowledge and Performance.
In 2011 all my projects and sea phases were complete. With near perfect exam results, I faced the final challenge. The end of the level boss: The MCA Oral Exam!
For those unfamiliar with seafaring, that’s the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The orals are more like being cross-examined on a witness stand at a murder trial than an academic exam. There is no set list of questions or format. No recording is allowed. No open book. No time to check. And a single mistake means failure. They can ask you anything from the last 3 years of your life, and you have to answer.
People have dropped to the deck with stress during these exams.
If you’re going to take command of a ship, you had better know your stuff so well, that nothing can put you off.
I failed the first time. It hurt, and it messed up my career plans and delayed me from getting married. But the second time, I made damn sure I knew everything inside and out.
That is the difference between knowledge and mastery.
Now I am sailing as a Master Mariner, those rites of initiation still resonate. My job is to make decisions. And they had better be right, the first time. People’s lives depend on me getting the small things right, every day, with no excuses.
And when you get to my level, everyone thinks they know better. You let most of it go, but when it comes to safety, you better have the courage, the certainty, and the argument, to say no.
You make your decision, and you stand behind it. Whatever happens.
At sea, turning the steering wheel the wrong way at the wrong time could capsize your ship and kill 30 people. So it can get a bit frustrating when you come ashore and see people drifting, rudderless, doing as they are told. Forget Zoomers, it’s Generation Zombie.
That pre-dates Covid.
I remember one trip I spent 6 weeks north of Shetland in February. The whole time getting thrown about in 15-20 m waves the whole time. When I signed off, I flew down to Bristol. I was taking the bus to the train station, bound for Somerset, when I saw Temple Meades in the distance. Now, in Scotland, it is absolutely normal to stand up while the bus is still moving. It gives you time to get your bag ready. It minimises the time spent at the bus stop. You keep clear of old ladies and disabled people. There are many advantages.
In England, however, they have rules.
- Bus driver: ‘Sit down, it’s not safe, sir!’
- Me: ‘It’s OK, I’m exempt’.
- Bus driver: ‘What?! Sit down sir, or I’ll have to stop the bus!’
- Me: ‘Why? I am capable of standing. See, I’m doing it right now.’
- Bus driver: stops bus in the middle of a busy junction, until I relent.
- Me: ‘Well that’s safer, isn’t it? [Sits down – Hates England for a bit]
British people love rules because then they don’t have to think. Thinking hurts too much.
I am sick of thinking and talking about it, but it needs reviewing again. MRNA ‘jabs’ were and remain the biggest abuse of state power I have ever seen in my lifetime.
I didn’t get one, my wife didn’t get one, and my kids will never take one.
At this stage, we’ve had Covid twice now, anyway. So that fact is usually enough for most people to give up the argument and move on.
Yet, we did of course have the option of taking the ‘jab’ before we got covid. So why didn’t we? Well, the reasons are long and complicated, so I’ll keep it short to the basic ‘seafarer’s risk assessment level’:
- I knew the average fatality was 83 years old, with 6 co-morbidities
- We were not 83 years old, with 6 co-morbidities
- They could not possibly know that the ‘jabs’ were “safe and effective”
- Censorship around medicine was something completely new
- There is no such thing as ‘THE science’ – especially in an atmosphere of censorship
- I wouldn’t download version 1.0 of a Windows App to my phone. So why on earth would I put version 1.0 of Bill Gate’s mRNA soup into my body?
- I hate bullies. If I can’t stand up to this coercion, what chance do my kids have?
The funniest thing was, I got covid right in time before my employers asked me to travel for work. They were later astonished that I still wouldn’t take the vaccine, after having covid.
That blew my mind. If you get a disease, you get immunity. Simple.
What media were they consuming had convinced them that a vaccine will give them more immunity? Super immunity!? Do people have NO medical knowledge?
They had presumably read in the Guardian or whatever. Thinking the only reason I wouldn’t take the jab, is because ‘I don’t believe in covid’. Belief is very important. Clearly, I should now see the error of my doubting ways, now that I had recovered from the real illness, and repent.
Now, to their credit, they left me alone. But it was extraordinary to see the reasoning. Especially when I know one of them had the same medical training that I’d had.
So what happened?
People had prior knowledge but either:
- didn’t apply it
- doubted themselves over authority
- lost courage in the face of social pressure
- had their fear response overwhelm their judgement
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. Galatians 1:10 ESV
Now, here is where I get dark. Trigger/conspiracy warning.
This point of debate is what has convinced me that there is a eugenics element to this whole thing. The whole vaccine thing has in effect been both an IQ test (which many failed) and a way to identify obedience.
- A vaccine is supposed to activate your immune system. Triggering it with a lesser amount of disease than a natural infection
- It is supposed to then activate your immune system, which does the work. Not topping up every 5 minutes. Your immune system has a memory. Otherwise, what would be the point?
- Thus, how could it be the case that you get MORE immunity, from a LESSER amount of pathogen?
- Once immune after a natural infection, how could it be the case that a jab will make you more immune than immune?
That’s how I didn’t need years of medical data, and long term peer-reviewed studies to make my decision on this matter. I looked at the evidence:
- I’d had Covid
- I didn’t die
- The magic I-Word medicine got rid of my post covid symptoms in 2 days
“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire
And I looked at the noise coming from those around me:
- Take it for other people (even though it doesn’t stop transmission/infection)
- Take it to stop mutation/variants. (Although vaccination causes selection for vaccine-resistant strains)
- Take it because I’m nagging you, and you’re a bad person.(How about no).
It never made any sense. Any of it. Purely from a logical propositional standpoint. You didn’t need statistics to see that it was all a bluff.
It made me so angry that our entire society was being destroyed. For what? To save 83 year olds, when the average life expectancy in Scotland is only 76? How about we get people even living to 83 first, Queen Nicola?
The sympathetic part of me pities the people who have fallen for the lies. They include many of my closest family and friends. They are victims of state propaganda, regulatory capture and the British Brainwashing Corporation. They live in a different world from me now. One that I cannot see as anything other than a socialist fantasy world. A kind of Potemkin hobbit world, where our benevolent leaders work only for the greater good.
That’s the world we live in now. The only question now is when will the Morlocks come for their dinner?
“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.” Voltaire
There are some signs of hope, albeit too late for the 1 in 10,000 jabbed now suffering permanent heart defects.
A friend who worked for the NHS got her booster jab the same day my wife and I came down with Delta. She got more sick from her booster than we did from the disease.
Another NHS acquaintance told me that she and her colleagues refused their next booster. This was because so many had gotten ill from the first booster. She recounted the meeting:
‘The manager sat us all down and read a prepared statement from NHS Scotland. It was all about the importance of taking the vaccine boosters, to ‘protect the NHS and patients’. One of the doctors just said ‘HOW’? If it doesn’t prevent infection, how will it protect anyone? The manager had no answer and just read the same prepared statement over again. Most of us kept quiet and just didn’t show for our appointments’
You’ll be pleased to hear that my friend quit the National-Socialist Health Suckers. She is now much happier working for a lesbian couple, selling jewellery on etsy.
People should have been completely over covid fearmongers after the first 6 weeks. The data was in, even back then, and it was all public. And yet, here we are. The best thing about Omicron though is how many people I speak to, who do not care any more. They gave in to the Jolly-Jabbers and took their vaccine in the hope they’d stop getting nagged all the time. And they still got Covid and had to isolate! There isn’t a single person I know who hasn’t had covid at this point. It’s marvellous.
‘Never again, I can tell you’, said my neighbour.
Let’s hope so.
Funny how we did an about-turn and went straight onto Ukraine though? SAGE and Fauci disappeared overnight. Right onto the next thing. No looking back.
Here is the lesson for today. When people are scared and shouting at you, do not lose your head. That is only social pressure. You need to make your own decisions, for your own life. Base your decisions on observable reality. Not fear and panic.
To do that, you need knowledge. You need the ability to remember that knowledge at crunch time. And you need the courage to apply it to your decisions.
What is more likely? That the rules of biology that took millions of years to evolve have all now reversed? Or that the politicians are lying to me?
No prizes, apart from your health, and your pride.
By the way, if you’ve gone this long without an mRNA shot, congratulations. You have backbone! If you can survive this level of peer pressure, you can handle anything! You definitely wouldn’t put people on trains to the camps. Have a cup of tea and pat yourself on the back, you absolute Master.
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV