Lol, you win.

Ok, thanks for taking the time, I enjoyed chatting with you.

Oops, sorry, never seen it.

This is seriously fascinating to me. I kept this bit to myself because I didn't want it to affect people's answers, but the thread is old enough now... my question and its answer arose from my religious beliefs, and here you are arriving at the same answer scientifically, that we are all followers by nature.

It eventually occurred to me after hearing the word "sheep" thrown around enough times that I've never met a person so original that they follow nothing and no one. Being told, for example, that I'm incapable of rational, intelligent, independent thought (because of my religious beliefs) by people who believe themselves to be superior critical thinkers... when the very idea of "critical thinking" was originally born from the mind of Socrates... another mere man, as fallible as any other, who himself believed he was guided by an inner voice that he alone could hear. So we religious folk are commonly ridiculed for aspiring to follow God by people who follow a mere man that, by today's definitions, would be diagnosed a schizophrenic. I do love irony, seriously, I really do.

To be clear, I've been debating religion with people for a very, very long time, so none of this upsets me in the least... I just find it all extremely fascinating.

Anyhow, the conclusion I eventually reached is that there's very real danger in denying our own nature as followers, because that's when we open ourselves fully to the risk of blindly following anyone and anything.

Not a clue what that means. Are you just compressing some chit?

I think the States have some 🤪

So it's just empty blathering then, when this German ambassador says they have our back. Great.

You addressed me, I responded... not to flatter you, but with my honest answer. If that doesn't suit you, by all means carry on chatting with someone else.

I believe it was gifted to us, to sustain us, all of us... but have to agree we no longer deserve it.

I've never had faith in politics, this isn't helping.

Unbelievable. Every day, I'm amazed that a man I don't even freaking know can piss me off this much on pretty much a daily basis. The man just literally has no shame, none, zero.

I'd seen warnings posted that this, in large part, is and is going to be a psychological type of warfare. I thought it was nonsense at first, till I saw the barrage of verbal attacks against Canadians continuing to grow in numbers and frequency at sites like Reddit... telling us we're useless and might as well give up. But then it occurred to me that when our enemy wants us to think we're doing it wrong, it's because they know we're doing it right!

So if they are, in fact, attempting to defeat us psychologically, then we need to fight back the same way: We need to maintain and guard our right thinking and perspective by continuing to read and post and share those articles that prove our efforts are working! When we read something that discourages us, we need to follow it up by also reading from the reams of encouraging news out there! Foremost, we need to remind ourselves and each other that we aren't alone in this... that, as Canadians, we are 40 million strong! And not only this, but we also have the support of Friends from all around the world, many of them even joining us in our efforts!

So we need to keep standing together and standing strong... knowing they would love nothing more than to see us give up, and in fact need for us to give up cause they know what we're doing is working!

Go Canada & Friends! 🍁🌍