Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

(1) I would urge everyone to pause; to pause and consider the eloquent words of Neil Oliver in this monologue.

(2) What Oliver describes in his presentation is what I would call the government's inhumanity to man.

(3) The governmental premise of COVID isolation, quarantine, lockdown protocols and vaccine demands, are all antithetical to the essential human need, connection. Nothing within those regulatory rules has anything to do with public health.

(4) I -like most of you- can see the damage all around me; yet, we are supposed to pretend this ‘new normal’ is not isolating, not undermining, not killing the soul of the most vulnerable around us.

(5) Poet Robert Burns called it “man’s inhumanity to man,” a premise that as humans we are destined to be forlorn, because the feeling of sadness is a steeper slope than the rise of happiness.

(6) The counteracting force to battle isolation is fellowship, a larger connection to our community or social network.

(7) Isolation, loneliness and a disconnect from people is far deadlier than any virus. However, even more deadly is this toxic and purposeful division between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.

(8) No one in a position of political influence is talking about the damage to our social fabric created by government COVID regulations.
The silence is deafening; however, Neil Oliver is a voice in the wilderness who deeply understands the immoral nature of their silence.

(9) Mr. Neil Oliver eloquently explains his position that he will not participate in any system of forced or coerced division.

(10) When encountering an institution, business or enterprise that demands vaccinated status as a precondition; we will not participate or lend credibility toward such an abusive fiat by complying with their dictate or demand.

(11) Isolation starts with a rebellion against God, and we must be conscious about the human need to be connected.

(12) I will not divide my humanity, nor concede my core view of fellowship, simply to comply with the demand of another that I consider my brother or sister of greater or lesser value than myself.

Any business choosing that path will not benefit from my economic participation.

(13) Even in areas where churches are not forcibly shut down, many are seeing a structural shift where some faith leaders are willingly ostracizing their community under the guise of various COVID alarms or vaccination status.

(14) Fellowship is the essential ingredient to a purposeful life. How and why we interact with each other is how and why we recharge our core humanity. To see faith leaders willing to separate from the function of fellowship is alarming.

(15) Each of us has a different connection to our community. Each of us has a different level of internal strength… such is the nature of living. However, distance between people is manifestly not a good outcome when combined with the lack of food for the soul.

(16) Ultimately, it is the currency of human connection that is the true value in our lives.

(17) We have each felt how our positive influence upon the lives of others nourishes our own sense of purpose and fulfillment. Do not lose that. Do not think you can compensate for that through other arbitrary measures; you cannot.

(18) Beware of any voice entering your life to tell you the importance of separating yourself from your faith, family, friends or community based on their vaccine status. Evaluate these decrees very deliberately.

(19) Evaluate very closely what YOU are willing to give up for short term unproven benefit, if at all – because you will never recapture your humanity once you intentionally allow it to be destroyed.

(20) Once you stop flinching at emotional pain, you have not gained any benefit from a hardened heart or the inability to feel. Instead, you will have permanently lost something far more valuable to your health.

(21) Perhaps we are in this position today because we didn’t sit still enough and contemplate the real priorities in our lives.

(22) Perhaps a better choice is to choose fellowship, even with all the risks it brings... and in making that choice we protect our spirit, and our humanity.

(23) After all, what better time to think about our blessings than Thanksgiving.

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