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Craig Keefer's avatar

Some of us never fit in. This is why - it didn't fit us. This is good to learn.

Restoration Nation's avatar

I know! I knew I was rebelling against SOMETHING, I just didn’t know what. I thought I was the problem. I’m thinking of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, “Teacher, leave those kids alone. I hope to soon post here an article about how the Church did the same thing.

Craig Keefer's avatar

EXACTLY! I felt totally out of place in church - and they seemed to dismiss me ...just like school.

Nick Philliou's avatar

Dear author,

I enjoyed your wonderful reflections and research concerning human education. I have been teaching a long time and I've explored it all: Waldorf, Project based learning, classical, adjudicated youth, home schooling, two charter schools, and ultimately - what is available to the masses (and - the gig that pays better) PUBLIC SCHOOL! The hearts of teachers are still there but they really know not what they do (especially when society demands things like masks during the plandemic). I could talk to you for hours, days straight even - about heartache, hope, and most importantly - our children. Your conversation is what we need because it is time to combine and conquer! What is the answer? Or rather what are the solutions? My summer break is winding down - and in this my 26th year as an educator (22 in the classroom) I must always fight the good fight - and I will. God bless you.

Sincerely,

Nicholas Philliou

senseinickp@gmail.com

Cole N. Steele's avatar

And yet you call yourself an “educator” not a teacher.

Nick Philliou's avatar

are you a bot or can you explain your strange comment?

Cole N. Steele's avatar

Administrative staff of all sorts without teaching credentials that outnumber actual teachers call themselves “educators”.

Nick Philliou's avatar

I have never been an administrator. I am a certified Colorado Public School teacher Grades 1 - 12, in both English and Social Studies.

educator

noun

ˈe-jə-ˌkā-tər

Definition of educator

as in teacher

a person whose occupation is to give formal instruction in a school

Nick Philliou's avatar

Are you a bot or can you explain your strange comment?

Grow_Wizzard's avatar

The levels of deception and dis-connection are designed to sterialize the psychi, so reprogramming to Fear helps to control the masses. Stool has become more about unlearning than gaining knowledge. Thus Jim Rohn's statement from decades in the past "formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune." I like to add, "and you get to define what a fortune looks like!" I know people so poor all they have is money!!! Great post, keep doing what you do...Peace...

kmkess75's avatar

This Has Always Been A Spiritual Battle - The Godless Who Hate,

Suppress and Destroy.

vs The God Filled Who Love, Remember and Celebrate.

Featherjourney's avatar

My personal inner celebration when I finished college: Good! Now I can learn what I want to learn. I recognized the relief to be done with “their” syllabus. It was freedom! All that mattered was Nature and country life…so much to learn and there was joy to the quiet work of learning to live a quiet life on a quiet country road.

But one day, lying on the ground beneath 3 old red pine trees, listening to the beautiful sound of wind through those trees, in a moment of honest reflection, I realized I had everything I had wanted to be happy…but I wasn’t perfectly happy…now what?

It was a shift from seeking in the outside world to finding answers within. Thus began my devotion to a spiritual path. I may not be the best most dedicated student on the path to higher frequency but I have stayed the inner course for many decades now…

Which is why all of your articles resonate, OC…I truly love reading your words and thoughts, enjoying the currents in my mind, heart, and soul!

This was another great read!

Thank You 🙏❤️🕊

ALtab's avatar

That’s an awesome inspirational message, Feather. Beautiful and it resonates completely! Thank you 🙏 🕊️❤️

Featherjourney's avatar

You are always so uplifting! Thank you, Spirit Sister 🙏💖

Grace's avatar

Well written. My eyes were opened early due to obtuse physical abuse.

I observed and understood the games people played in school and in church.

The sugary sweet women in church that turned into acidic gossipers that held reign on the church steps after service was over.

The school curriculum that came with a crack across one’s knuckles if you weren’t paying attention or passing a note to a friend.

The boys in middle and high school that feigned sexual conquests on an innocent young lady that later committed suicide

Like many others I never fit in, I was the silent observer of other humans and took notice of the games people played.

Needless to say, I never fit in either. But I learned a great deal in the process of living life.

The Lord expounds us to be ‘watchmen.’ Watch. Observe. Learn. Share and prepare for the unexpected.

Most of all Pray & Get right with the One and only True GOD of this world and look to the coming of His holy son Jeseus Christ.

Sandra Levine's avatar

Home schooling isn't for all, but those children have escaped much of what you write. In some places parents have replaced school boards. Some people are waking up to the old rhythms but not enough. The parents were brain washed by their own academia experience. There is hope. Bring God back into the public school and public square. Bring back the trades with training. It's on the way. Communism hit the schools of education first and infiltrated downwards since 1930. Long battle back. Thanks for your great observations.

Dogman Potts's avatar

Spot on ! I showed my best friend..I love her..she wagged her tail and licked my face....

Floridafan's avatar

Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ele Fraser's avatar

Yes, our dogs teach us a lot. So loving and forgiving. They know more than they can tell.

Shirley Bloethe's avatar

Thought provoking - I think it’s time many people are seeing this- and sharing!

Hermit Hank's avatar

This information reminds me and awakens in me the old saying, "There is MORE to life than living!" So yes, there is.

SirenaGrace's avatar

what a gift this [w]riting is! It reminds me what I've lost. Thank you!

Joe Kronner's avatar

OC I have a question, in this article you wrote:

"It was during this same era that time itself was renamed. BC and AD - Before Christ and Anno Domini - became BCE and CE. Secular, sanitized, detached from divinity. As if the calendar could be neutral. As if memory could be rewritten without consequence. It was a symbolic exorcism of God from time."

I am confused (maybe reading this wrong) but BCE and CE are VERY recent changes (within the last 10-20 years) and not the The Enlightenment (roughly AD 1650–1800) period that your previous paragraph referred to.

What did you mean?

God Wins!

God Bless!!!

Featherjourney's avatar

Interesting question, Joe.

Using google AI:

Early Use:

BCE and CE have been used since the early 18th century, with Jewish academics being prominent early adopters.

Growing Acceptance:

While the shift to BCE/CE was gradual, it gained significant traction in the latter half of the 20th century.

Reasons for Change:

The primary reason for using BCE/CE is to provide a more inclusive and neutral system, as the traditional BC/AD system is explicitly Christian.

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I wholeheartedly prefer the explicitly Christian. ❤️🕊🕊🕊

Joe Kronner's avatar

Thanks, although I am not convinced it's true. During my entire education through 4 years of college I never once saw it referred to as anything other than BC/AD.

News is Fake so is History.

God Wins!

God Bless!!!

Abso-bloomin'-lutely's avatar

It was right around the same time that "Jewish academics" in Eastern and Central Europe began "converting" to Christianity and initiated the use of the term "Judeo-Christian." This is no coincidence. To hijack our consciousness, they had to hijack not only our language, but also our religion. It's all connected.

Featherjourney's avatar

Good point! Christian means Christian…adding Judaism, that’s politics

ALtab's avatar

Me, too!!🙏🕊️🕊️

Billy Bob's avatar

Education over the last 135 years was designed to produce working minds, not thinking minds. Industry needed more bodies than thinking minds, now the need for either will supposedly dwindle as computer chips are added to the machines humans once made themselves. Perhaps that’ll be an opening to explore and find a real educational learning experience.

ALtab's avatar

I’m keeping this and sharing with several as this is absolutely what has happened over time, accelerated during my lifetime! One must return and be in tune with nature, music, etc…. God created it ALL and we have been so deceived! Thank you, OC, for sharing the awareness you’ve been gifted with!

Featherjourney's avatar

From our childhood years to our early senior years…The changes we have seen!!

And how blessed, to be witness to these times now…the greatest shift in a century!

Looks like you are catching up on reading…

You will love OC’s latest

https://observingconsciousness.substack.com/p/the-constitution-codified/comments

The video link towards end is powerful…the “miracle” that happened during the weeks of trying to write our Constitution

❤️🇺🇸🕊

ALtab's avatar

Thank you, Spirit Sister!!! It’s next on my list!🕊️🙏🇺🇸❤️