The Road Without Struggle

Leads to Destruction

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It’s not by mistake that we tend to walk the path that is paved, flat, and obstacle-free. It’s not by coincidence that this path is made available for us to walk and easy to find and access. It’s all by design.

I’m going to assume anyone reading this article has a pretty good understanding of who runs the world, what we are to them, what their goal is, and how we play into it. I think anyone who has found their way here likely has a better understanding of this plan than 95% of the population, if not more.

I know the people reading this are wise, discerning and maybe even a bit courageous. But if you are anything like me, sometimes you get focused on the things that don’t truly matter. Sometimes you get emotional over things you can’t control. On occasion, you may even play into “their” hands. You react the way they want you to react, and when doing this, you are in fact doing their job for them.

The people who control the world have conditioned us to desire ease. But it’s not like we haven’t been warned about this, or that this desire hasn’t been with us forever. Our desire for ease has been manipulated from the beginning.

Matthew 7:13 says, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.”

This verse refers to Salvation; the road to salvation is narrow, difficult and specific, and it’s also the only way. This passage is saying there aren’t multiple ways—there aren’t shorter and longer paths—some more flat, some steeper. It’s saying that, unless you travel this one specific road, you won’t get there … ever.

I think this verse applies to all areas of life. It’s easier to just go through the fast-food drive through after work. It’s harder to stop off at the grocery store to get healthier ingredients to prepare dinner. But if you take this easier path too often, your health will deteriorate.

It’s easier to plop down on the couch after a tiring and stressful day at work than to have a conversation with your children or spouse, or to go for a walk, run or workout. In this case, doing the more difficult thing might strengthen your relationships and body, while doing the easy thing may add to your problems.

It is by design that life is hard, that life is confusing, that life is so busy, that life is so exhausting. Systems have been put in place to intentionally make us desire ease because they’ve made our lives so exhausting and stressful.

While most of our lives may be physically easier than the general population a hundred or two-hundred years ago—most of us don’t dig ditches for a living—other aspects make life more difficult and stressful today.

We may have refrigerators, washers and dryers, supermarkets, computers, smart phones, and high-speed internet, but we have less free time than at any time in history. We have more stress than at any time in history.

Even with lightning-fast access to information in the modern age, truth can be almost impossible to find.

(If you reread that last line, it’s crazy to say out loud. It’s like claiming that transportation that is 400% faster takes twice as long to get anywhere.)

It’s not enough that the Cabal makes truth hard to find, but that they make lies easy to access. And it doesn’t stop there. When we find the truth, they then try to distort it, or make the truth appear ridiculous.

One recent example is Damar Hamlin, the NFL football player who had two heart attacks during a Monday Night Football game. In my opinion, the heart attack wasn’t staged. It wasn’t something the Cabal wanted to happen.

Afterwards, the majority of America came to the conclusion—whether they stated it publicly or not—that it might have been caused or influenced by the COVID vaccines. At this point, the Cabal could either deny that the heart attack was caused by the vaccines, or they could make the truth appear crazy.

They did both.

The media tried to make the first heart attack seem common—like there was a logical explanation for it that didn’t involve vaccines: a direct hit to the chest. But then he had a second one. The public didn’t buy it, so they tried to make the apparent truth appear crazy.

Shortly after the heart attacks, the Buffalo Bills had Hamlin make a public appearance at their stadium during a game. (Or maybe they had someone pose as him.) The man wore sunglasses, a hood and a mask. The camera men never gave us a clear picture of him throughout the day, and he didn’t do any interviews.

This was a set-up.

These people purposely made the situation appear as sketchy and deceptive as humanly possible so that the public would think Hamlin was either dead or clinging to life in an IC unit—that this man had to be a double. Mind you, I fell for this too.

Then the NFL paraded Damar Hamlin around at the Super Bowl a month later.

Everyone these deep state players fooled into believing Hamlin was dead or gravely ill now looked like a crazy person lacking all credibility.

In this situation, the deep state players not only added fuel to the fire, but they poured gasoline on it. In other words, they couldn’t deny vaccines caused the heart attack, so they chose to blow up the vaccine claim instead.

During and following the Super Bowl, the people who were starting to question vaccines quickly got back in line. Their coworker—the one who said Hamlin died from the vaccine—was wrong, as were the rash of vaccine deniers they had seen in the lead-up to the event.

This process is known as “poisoning the well,” and is a common practice by the Deep State.

That said, if we FIND the well, we’re already one step ahead of them, since they can no longer convince us that well doesn’t exist.

With the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein and conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, the Deep State can no longer convince us that the elites aren’t involved in sex trafficking, so they need to poison the well. With information of Epstein and Maxwell’s clients likely coming out soon, the Deep State needs to get out fake lists that SEEM legitimate, but are unfounded. That way, when these fake lists are exposed as fraudulent, the real lists won’t be taken as seriously.

(Side note: why does no one seems to know or care that Ghislaine Maxwell and Steve Jobs’ wife were best friends? Is Apple too big and important to tie to the scandal?)

Like the Epstein and Maxwell situation, Hollywood and the media poisoned the well with the ‘Me Too’ movement. When they could no longer hide the secrets of the ongoing and pervasive sexual abuse in Hollywood by executives, they threw a few people like Harvey Weinstein under the bus so they could express their ‘shock and dismay’ at the abuse, shielding them from public scrutiny in the process.

Once the media felt they HAD to expose the sexual abuse in Hollywood, they started a campaign to make the claims seem ridiculous. Now women and men were making increasingly-absurd claims. The more ridiculous the Hollywood machine could make the claims, the more likely people would dismiss the legitimate, serious allegations they obscured.

School shootings and mass shootings are good examples of events planned and executed to create a distraction or a narrative. When people recognize them for what they are, the Deep State steps in and poisons the well. When the growing sentiment online is that dozens of people were murdered to push a gun-control narrative, the Deep State often infuses the situation with faulty theories that no one actually died—that everyone was a paid actor, etc.

This causes most people to view the original—and organic—idea of a planned event as crazy talk.

When the US government took down the Twin Towers, people started to question the motives, rationale and mechanisms behind it with worrying persistence and possibly accuracy. In response, the Deep State pushed the idea that the planes that hit the towers were actually CGI. Because witnesses actually saw planes hit the buildings, this poisoning PsyOp created doubt over the US government’s involvement in the takedown of the towers.

More recently, with the train derailment and toxic aftermath near East Palestine, Ohio, we’ve seen the Government and media try to ignore it as though it didn’t happen. They’ve tried to downplay its severity. But, because they couldn’t hide it from the public, their next undertaking is to poison the well by pushing exaggerated claims.

When people latch on to some of these intentionally-injected claims, the media will attack ANY CLAIMS as being false and ridiculous. The general public will think that, because a couple of things were exaggerated, the WHOLE situation has been exaggerated.

It is important to look at every situation with the understanding that if these Deep State players can’t hide the truth, they will try to poison the well. Whether it’s the Nord Stream pipeline being blown up, or video of what appears to be Biden falling down stairs, or video of Biden in Ukraine, they want to trick us into overplaying our hand. They want us to make statements that they can later poke holes in.

When something big breaks, I try not to react immediately. I tell myself to be patient and process the information before reacting. Sometimes the story is straightforward, and sometimes they are trying to get you to take the bait.

(The 48-hour rule works nicely in this context.)

What we are experiencing is nothing new. Long ago, systems were put in place to enslave us, both mentally and physically.

With many Americans fighting exhaustion and having no free time, we don’t push back at the system that enslaves us. Often, we don’t even have the time or energy to recognize we are slaves to the system in the first place.

Propaganda and lies are made easy for us to access. The truth is hidden, hard to find, and in some cases even scrubbed from the records entirely.

The world is purposely made confusing, to the point where six-year-olds seek gender reassignment because they don’t believe they were born in the right body. Instead of planning a weekend playdate with a friend, they are preparing for major, irreversible surgeries. All this because the system needs confusion and obfuscation to survive.

Racism is seeded because the system needs division for control. The system funded the Black Panthers and the KKK at the same time. It funds BLM and White Supremacist groups today. If the populace is full of fear and anger toward others, they won’t recognize they are being controlled. They won’t recognize the real enemy.

At the end of the day, for the public to be controlled, we need to be too busy, too tired, too confused and too angry and afraid to think. If we are perpetually kept in this state, we won’t fight back effectively.

It’s understandable why so many choose the easy path—the one prepared for us, as the right path is narrow, rocky, steep, and overrun by obstacles.

It’s easier to just accept what the media tells us, to believe the government has our best interests in mind. There is less push-back if we glorify other’s mental disorders. It’s easier to parent if you parrot what your children’s teachers teach them.

It’s less stressful if we all agree.

Stress.

Stress is created by the chaos of competing factors. No time, no energy, constant fear, anger and confusion.

The saying, “idle hands are the devil’s playthings” is true.

If you don’t have enough responsibilities in your life, you are likely to seek drama. Drama that will complicate your life.

The Cabal system tries to fill both ends of the spectrum. On one end, they create a welfare state to keep the people they view as ‘human waste’ occupied and content. On the other end, they foment a situation where the working and middle classes are so overwhelmed by the simple act of surviving that they can’t AFFORD to have ANY drama in their lives.

There are no easy answers or solutions to the situation in which we find ourselves. We must first recognize that we live in this contrived system. We must understand the purpose and goal of this system, even if it is virtually impossible to live completely outside of this system.

And we must recognize that our only hope is to destroy the system.

And we destroy the system by not giving in to it. By not taking the easier paths they set out before us. By not avoiding confrontation. By not falling for their tricks. By pushing back wherever and whenever we can.

When the 99.9% refuses to be ruled by the 0.1%, the game is over.

They understand this, and this is why they put so much effort into making us believe we aren’t controlled in the first place. That we are free.

We were before. And we will be again.

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