# Chain: Conditions Of A People > *A place and its people carry a collective condition laid down by their own history* **The argument it traces:** A people's shared history of injury lays down a condition that outlasts the events that caused it → the condition attaches to the place and to everyone in it rather than to individuals separately → it passes down the generations and spreads by projection onto whoever is met → it has a signature, a particular fear that marks that people → so it is met by declining to take it on and declining to armour against it, since self-protection is what admits it **1** messages · **2** supporting · main statement not yet chosen --- ## Foundation ### 2016-09-09 - [[2016-09-09 Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love|Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love]] The condition named, explained and answered. Andrew opens "This is a nation without trust. Every soul, it seems, in this place is fearful and finds it very difficult to trust another... always wary of betrayal, very sensitive to the smallest innuendo," attributes it to history, "conditions brought about by these pains, of generations of mistrust," and describes its transmission by projection onto whoever is met. The response has two halves, do not take the condition on and do not armour against it: "put away your shield and your armour, to trust in God who will protect you... You will not be hurt. Only when you join into this condition will you feel that way." The thread's other messages observe the condition; this one builds the argument from it. --- ## Also touches on this *These messages restate or echo the idea rather than carry it forward, so they sit alongside the thread rather than in it.* - **2016-09-01** [[2016-09-01 Be Open to God's Love|Be Open to God's Love]] (witness) - The persistence stated, a collective condition outlasting the events that laid it down, "Even your country struggles beyond those conditions created long ago." Delivered in Germany, and deliberately not interpreted further than the words. - **2016-09-08** [[2016-09-08 You Are My Disciple Here|You Are My Disciple Here]] (witness) - The condition given its affective content, "The hearts that mend in this country are burdened... They are burdened with such pain and grief, anger and sorrow," and widened past the nation to "this part of the world, beset by strife for so long".