I have been struggling this week. I seem less able to access the motivation to write my blog. I have been - and am - discouraged by the fact that, looking at my blog stats, people are not reading it. While I write it as part of my daily scripture study for myself, I'm still saddened that ideas I want to share are not being read. I would love to have my few regular readers engage in the blog and share their ideas and spiritual insights with me. One of my readers did so a few weeks ago, commenting on the post about the Molten Sea in the Temple and baptism for the dead. She sent the message in Messenger and we had a lively sharing of ideas and testimony. Perhaps I philosophize because I have a sad heart about so many things.
There seem to be so few forums for an honest meeting of the minds. Many people turn to social media, like Facebook, and that is not safe. Facebook censors their content quite aggressively now. Their "independent fact checkers" want to stop people from sharing posts which they say contain false information, which is their prerogative. However, I have noticed that they seem to censor posts that come from conservative sources. I have yet to see them censor liberal media. I felt I was safe and courageous in sharing my opinion in "open forum" of social media. I was wrong. Big Brother is watching (Orwell, 1984)
Most of what I share in my blog are my testimony on spiritual things and my opinions regarding the loss of our liberties, lack of respect for our history and leaders, and all other forms of "Political Correctness." I am grateful that Google, who owns BlogSpot hasn't censored my ideas. My conundrum is if I should continue to share testimony and patriotism in a forum where no one else reads it anyway? It shouldn't matter to but it does.
I am so frustrated that the liberal information agenda has so skewed reality to the point where otherwise intelligent people have no real concept of truth. They don't know their own history (which is one way Big Brother can control truth.) They certainly don't understand self-reliance and economic principles. They don't understand the importance of loving ones brother as oneself. So much of today's political agenda is driven by hate, anger, vengeance, greed, and an unquenchable thirst for power.
The Gadiantons are alive and well and they are running a shadow government right before our eyes. When we see it and speak out, we get our insights censored. They throw out the term conspiracy theorist to tar and feather it. But if there really is a conspiracy, then it is not paranoia.
When it comes to having influence, I am nothing. Still, I try to be a light in the darkness. I am saddened because I feel impotent and a failure. Because I am feeling at my weakest, I know I should be strong. Perhaps one day, I will understand how to do that.
© Dr. Kathleen Rawlings Buntin Danielson, May 2020
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