I read this piece a few weeks ago--bought Scheffs’s book and just finished Ch 5--it’s a wonderful read. Came back to thank you for this essay--that pointed me toward it.
After reading the article by Liam and his Final Note to Friends, this paragraph stood out to me:
"My ears have long been ready to break. Hyperacusis and hypersensitivity – small noises sounding loud and soft noises at a distance heard with unbelievable, near superhuman clarity. I have long had this problem; I kept it at bay with earplugs. But dentistry, the violence to the nerves, moved the noise to the interior. It doesn’t pay to be superhuman. It eventually kills you. The very sensitive know this well." I know his pain well.
On the morning of July 5, 2020, I blew my nose and heard a little sound inside my head and my ears immediately plugged and by the end of the day I had roaring tinnitus and very muffled hearing in my left ear. After a couple days of it not letting up, I called an ENT and when I finally got in they said, it was nothing you did, gave me a pretty high-dose prescription for prednisone, an appt for an MRI and diagnosed me with 'Sudden Hearing Loss' and told me, 'Don't you know if you ever get sudden hearing loss you should call and get into an ENT right away?' No … in all my years I had never heard that. Needless to say, I had this what I called Sudden Roaring Tinnitus with Muffled Hearing for 3 months and after taking 500mg of flush Niacin every day starting in October, it started coming and going for longer and longer periods; now a much less debilitating high-pitched constant tinnitus is now there along with pretty bad hearing loss. Not until this tinnitus bout did I realize I have always had hyperacusis, and I felt Liam's pain and understand his not wanting to live anymore. The roaring tinnitus was unbearable and I told my husband on more than one occasion that I cannot live like this. Every time I hear of another person (especially the people who developed debilitating tinnitus after getting fuxxinated) who decided they cannot live with the constant screaming of tinnitus in their head, I say a prayer for them and thank God that I no longer have to live with the roaring tinnitus, at least. I will definitely get Liam's book. Thank you for another great stack.
If only Liam were here today to witness 2020 on…. and translate it. Although we do have some amazing journalist here on Substack that are thinking and making us think pretty darn deep! Thank you Dr. Rogers! Truly.
Great insights in this book. One chapter in and I'm hooked. I just finished Spontaneous Evolution if you are looking for another great read. It's written by two authors, a biologist and a political theorist/humorist. Highly recommend if you want some nourishment for the soul.
Thank you for sharing this discovery! The best part about substack. Added to my wish list. Which is so long as it is... but putting this one at the top. I’m hoping it will be helpful for my kids as well. I see the indoctrination only getting worse at school and it concerns me.
Just a little mama brag: my oldest is taking philosophy at my request and thankfully sees the value of it. She needed a question about ethics with a personal connection. I challenged her to ask if the hated QR code was ethical as that had a direct bearing on her life for five long months and still affects our family travel. She finally got to pose it this week and it was sadly not chosen for further discussion (and a girl she already hates had the nerve to laugh at it), but the point is she wanted to break the taboo about discussing it and said so in her argument. I’m immensely proud that she made the effort to go out of her comfort zone and I hope this flexing of little muscles will give her the strength to keep questioning and reject just going along with what we are allowed to believe. I see this issue everywhere and it’s really distressing. I cannot raise my kids the way I was raised and that feels impossible sometimes. But this is how I try and overcome it. Seeing others do the same is very heartening. 🙏
Wow. Just wow. Thank you, Toby for turning me, us, onto Liam Scheff. I'm halfway through the book and just blown away. Right?? What a game-changer, at least for most of us. The one that got to me most was the Big Bang and the electric universe. It just changed me like a bolt of lightning! I look on the world and the universe in a much different way now. Can't thank you enough.
Toby, did you know that Liam was in the process of writing a new book? I was watching his old stuff on YouTube, and he mentioned this many times in his videos from 2016. I find it strange that he said nothing about it in his "Final Note" / blog post. Also, writing a book requires strength and motivation, so his suicide story is quite suspicious unless his health indeed deteriorated in a short period of time.
Toby! I am right with you. Thank you SO MUCH for writing this essay, for introducing me to Liam Scheff (I'm going to get the book asap) and for your honest vulnerability. It's scary to face ostracism -- my guess is that the vast majority of your followers have done just that in the past three years, in varying degrees, and they don't seem fazed by your counter-culture honesty.
Since you mention Shakespeare, I have to say that I read an article years ago that posited an alternate author: Aemilia Lanier, the first published female poet in England and a contemporary of Shakespeare's. I was so intrigued by the idea that during the entirety of 2020 I researched and wrote an entire play based on that supposition, and learned a TON in the process. Based on what I learned, it seems wholly impossible that Shakespeare created that body of work.
I also came to understand the power of the Shakespeare narrative. When I mentioned that I was writing the play to someone at The American Shakespeare Center in Virginia, that person was none too pleased. An entire infrastructure, economy, and industry rests heavily upon "Shakespeare," and those whose lives depend on it -- and there are many -- will fight to the death a counter-narrative. It's too de-stabilizing.
Hmm... might be time for me to write a companion piece to yours, here. Thank you for your courage; it's contagious. :-)
Thanks for posting about this book. It's incredible the parallels between today's situation and the history of vaccination. Even down to the gaslighting and ever retreating claims of effectiveness!
Right now anything that celebrates a refusal to engage in the widespread lies we seem to accept as part of this irrational culture is welcome. Thanks for thinking and writing.
Priests are held to higher standards than doctors. I listened to a podcast with a doctor last week, he said he did not go into the profession with the altruistic goal of helping others, and he believed most of his college classmates didn't either. For the past eight months I have been suffering with tinnitus. All past traumas now seem insignificant, I lost forty pounds in weight, and to eat I remember I have a child who still needs me. My life has come to a screeching halt, have lost friends, humour, work, creative pursuits, and everything that makes life worth living. The burden is too heavy for my family of origin to bear, so I don't hear from them often. I hope they don't weary of praying for me.
Wow 2 GREAT new shares today - Liam Scheff and ‘Lies are Unbekoming’. I didn’t know about either before this morning but ended up spending most of my day diving into both. Thank you, Toby! 🙏🏻♥️
I read this piece a few weeks ago--bought Scheffs’s book and just finished Ch 5--it’s a wonderful read. Came back to thank you for this essay--that pointed me toward it.
After reading the article by Liam and his Final Note to Friends, this paragraph stood out to me:
"My ears have long been ready to break. Hyperacusis and hypersensitivity – small noises sounding loud and soft noises at a distance heard with unbelievable, near superhuman clarity. I have long had this problem; I kept it at bay with earplugs. But dentistry, the violence to the nerves, moved the noise to the interior. It doesn’t pay to be superhuman. It eventually kills you. The very sensitive know this well." I know his pain well.
On the morning of July 5, 2020, I blew my nose and heard a little sound inside my head and my ears immediately plugged and by the end of the day I had roaring tinnitus and very muffled hearing in my left ear. After a couple days of it not letting up, I called an ENT and when I finally got in they said, it was nothing you did, gave me a pretty high-dose prescription for prednisone, an appt for an MRI and diagnosed me with 'Sudden Hearing Loss' and told me, 'Don't you know if you ever get sudden hearing loss you should call and get into an ENT right away?' No … in all my years I had never heard that. Needless to say, I had this what I called Sudden Roaring Tinnitus with Muffled Hearing for 3 months and after taking 500mg of flush Niacin every day starting in October, it started coming and going for longer and longer periods; now a much less debilitating high-pitched constant tinnitus is now there along with pretty bad hearing loss. Not until this tinnitus bout did I realize I have always had hyperacusis, and I felt Liam's pain and understand his not wanting to live anymore. The roaring tinnitus was unbearable and I told my husband on more than one occasion that I cannot live like this. Every time I hear of another person (especially the people who developed debilitating tinnitus after getting fuxxinated) who decided they cannot live with the constant screaming of tinnitus in their head, I say a prayer for them and thank God that I no longer have to live with the roaring tinnitus, at least. I will definitely get Liam's book. Thank you for another great stack.
If only Liam were here today to witness 2020 on…. and translate it. Although we do have some amazing journalist here on Substack that are thinking and making us think pretty darn deep! Thank you Dr. Rogers! Truly.
Great post. Watched the video on Lies are Unbecoming and was like, “Yep, true.” Thanks for the links and the perspective.
Great insights in this book. One chapter in and I'm hooked. I just finished Spontaneous Evolution if you are looking for another great read. It's written by two authors, a biologist and a political theorist/humorist. Highly recommend if you want some nourishment for the soul.
It's good to have permission to think, isn't it?
Thank you for sharing this discovery! The best part about substack. Added to my wish list. Which is so long as it is... but putting this one at the top. I’m hoping it will be helpful for my kids as well. I see the indoctrination only getting worse at school and it concerns me.
Just a little mama brag: my oldest is taking philosophy at my request and thankfully sees the value of it. She needed a question about ethics with a personal connection. I challenged her to ask if the hated QR code was ethical as that had a direct bearing on her life for five long months and still affects our family travel. She finally got to pose it this week and it was sadly not chosen for further discussion (and a girl she already hates had the nerve to laugh at it), but the point is she wanted to break the taboo about discussing it and said so in her argument. I’m immensely proud that she made the effort to go out of her comfort zone and I hope this flexing of little muscles will give her the strength to keep questioning and reject just going along with what we are allowed to believe. I see this issue everywhere and it’s really distressing. I cannot raise my kids the way I was raised and that feels impossible sometimes. But this is how I try and overcome it. Seeing others do the same is very heartening. 🙏
Wow. Just wow. Thank you, Toby for turning me, us, onto Liam Scheff. I'm halfway through the book and just blown away. Right?? What a game-changer, at least for most of us. The one that got to me most was the Big Bang and the electric universe. It just changed me like a bolt of lightning! I look on the world and the universe in a much different way now. Can't thank you enough.
Toby, did you know that Liam was in the process of writing a new book? I was watching his old stuff on YouTube, and he mentioned this many times in his videos from 2016. I find it strange that he said nothing about it in his "Final Note" / blog post. Also, writing a book requires strength and motivation, so his suicide story is quite suspicious unless his health indeed deteriorated in a short period of time.
Link to his YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@liamscheff/playlists
Toby! I am right with you. Thank you SO MUCH for writing this essay, for introducing me to Liam Scheff (I'm going to get the book asap) and for your honest vulnerability. It's scary to face ostracism -- my guess is that the vast majority of your followers have done just that in the past three years, in varying degrees, and they don't seem fazed by your counter-culture honesty.
Since you mention Shakespeare, I have to say that I read an article years ago that posited an alternate author: Aemilia Lanier, the first published female poet in England and a contemporary of Shakespeare's. I was so intrigued by the idea that during the entirety of 2020 I researched and wrote an entire play based on that supposition, and learned a TON in the process. Based on what I learned, it seems wholly impossible that Shakespeare created that body of work.
I also came to understand the power of the Shakespeare narrative. When I mentioned that I was writing the play to someone at The American Shakespeare Center in Virginia, that person was none too pleased. An entire infrastructure, economy, and industry rests heavily upon "Shakespeare," and those whose lives depend on it -- and there are many -- will fight to the death a counter-narrative. It's too de-stabilizing.
Hmm... might be time for me to write a companion piece to yours, here. Thank you for your courage; it's contagious. :-)
Thanks for posting about this book. It's incredible the parallels between today's situation and the history of vaccination. Even down to the gaslighting and ever retreating claims of effectiveness!
And the 15 day rule?! Incredible!
Right now anything that celebrates a refusal to engage in the widespread lies we seem to accept as part of this irrational culture is welcome. Thanks for thinking and writing.
We do live in mode-earn times😉
Your best piece yet. Don’t be scared, brother. This the hill. We right on time. And still plenty of time to go because death ain’t real neither.
Priests are held to higher standards than doctors. I listened to a podcast with a doctor last week, he said he did not go into the profession with the altruistic goal of helping others, and he believed most of his college classmates didn't either. For the past eight months I have been suffering with tinnitus. All past traumas now seem insignificant, I lost forty pounds in weight, and to eat I remember I have a child who still needs me. My life has come to a screeching halt, have lost friends, humour, work, creative pursuits, and everything that makes life worth living. The burden is too heavy for my family of origin to bear, so I don't hear from them often. I hope they don't weary of praying for me.
Wow 2 GREAT new shares today - Liam Scheff and ‘Lies are Unbekoming’. I didn’t know about either before this morning but ended up spending most of my day diving into both. Thank you, Toby! 🙏🏻♥️