tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352157702024-03-13T00:26:03.875-07:00Think Or Be EatenEverything we know is wrong. It's the best kept secret out there. The truth is that life is threatened in a world controlled by greed and power. It's time to wake up, rise up and recreate the world that deserves to exist. A place of peace, equality and creativity that forever strives to become the best of all possibilities.Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-48234050501460493252012-12-25T05:03:00.000-08:002012-12-25T05:03:49.218-08:00Dogs Explaining Cats To Other Dogs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br />If you were someone like me who was sitting and thinking one day about how people develop a personal identity, and then you started thinking about how some people strongly identify themselves as "Christian" or any other religion, and then you thought about people you've known who have done this, and what motivated them, and then you thought "maybe I could do a quick search online" and you found an article at Wikipedia entitled "Religious Identity", and read it, maybe you would find a case of Dogs Explaining Cats to Other Dogs like I did.<br /><span style="color: #0b5394;">................</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Religious identity <br />From Wikipedia</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Religious Identity is a specific type of identity formation. Particularly, it is the sense of group membership to a religion and the importance of this group membership as it pertains to one's self-concept. Religious identity is not necessarily the same as religiousness or religiosity. Although these three terms share a commonality, religiousness and religiosity refer to both the value of religious group membership as well as participation in religious events (e.g. going to church). Religious identity, on the other hand, refers specifically to religious group membership regardless of religious activity or participation.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Say what? This is so stiff it squeaks. Look, if you're trying to give a good general definition of Religious Identity the first thing to get straight is that identity is personal. Across the whole spectrum of religion and identity there is probably a portion that will define itself in group terms but there are other large portions that will not. The above paragraph tells me more about the perspective of Dogs than it does about the Cats they're purporting to define. <br /><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Similar to other forms of identity formation, such as ethnic and cultural identity, the religious context can generally provide a perspective from which to view the world, opportunities to socialize with a spectrum of individuals from different generations, and a set of basic principles to live out. These foundations can come to shape an individual's identity.</i></span><br /><br />Dogs apparently believe that religion is given to people along with a personal world view, a group to socialize with and a bag of personal values. Some people may be given religious indoctrination by their parents, but a lot of people go out for themselves later in life looking for something to fill the spiritual gap. Dogs don't know about those people I guess. Dogs believe that religion is inflicted on people. Dogs see cats through Dog's Eyes and are missing how cats go about being cats. Dogs believe their own perception entails the subject in its entirety when in fact they seem not to grasp the depth, breadth or diversity of the subject. I also get the distinct impression that these Dogs don't like Cats, at all. Cats are stupid. Cats cannot be explained because they are just crazy for not being Dogs. There is something wrong with all Cats. Cats are inferior creatures. Cats are plain worthless.<br /><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Despite the implications that religion has on identity development, the identity formation literature has mainly focused on ethnicity and gender and has largely discounted the role of religion. Nevertheless, an increasing number of studies have begun to include religion as a factor of interest. However, many of these studies use religious identity, religiosity, and religiousness interchangeably or solely focus on religious identity and solely religious participation as separate constructs.</i></span><br /><br />Identity formation literature? Are these studies undertaken by Dogs by any chance? Is it wise to seek insight on spiritual matters from people who do not even believe there is any such thing as "spiritual matters"? If the entire concept of human beings having a spiritual component is dismissed as a belief in mythology, would these people be qualified to render a legitimate definition of religious identity? Can't you just feel the spirituality of this article coming through? <br /><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Of these types of research studies, researchers have examined the various factors that affect the strength of one's religious identity over time. Factors that have been found to affect levels of religious identity include gender, ethnicity, and generational status.</i></span><br /><br />Religious identity is so foreign to these folks that they have to scientifically research it. The Dogs seem to miss much of the feline. They are confident that a cat is an unintelligent scruffy mouse eating animal with its back permanently arched as shown in typical Halloween depictions. It has pointy ears and fish breath, and a tail. There is no body, no notable differences in fur, breed, size, behavior or temperament. All Cats are the same. It is only coincidental that the Dogs went into the studies with the firm belief, which Dogs widely accept as true, that cats are unintelligent scruffy mouse eating animals with permanently arched backs, pointy ears and fish breath. The Dog Researchers have no personal first hand experience of cats because they hate cats, but they are still sure they are right because they are the experts and they all agree with each other and that makes you automatically right. When experts agree, as in 4 out of 5 dentists, it automatically makes whatever they agree on TRUE. Everybody knows that.<br /><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>History<br /><br />During the early 1900s in the field of psychology, research on the topic of religion was considered important and ubiquitous. For example, researchers like G. Stanley Hall and William James conducted studies on such topics as religious conversion. In contrast, the public perspective on religion began to shift two decades later. Instead of religion being seen as an integral part of an individual's life and development and thus a necessary topic to research, scientists and scholars alike viewed religion as a hindrance to the progression of science and as a topic no longer applicable to the current times.</i></span><br /><br />Dogs believe that people backed away from organized religion because it was a hindrance to the progression of science and was no longer applicable to current times. Hey! Everybody thinks like Dogs. Right? 'Fraid not.<br />How Dogcentric.<br /><br />(This is my favorite part)<br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Contrary to social scientists' prediction of the general decline of religion over time and increase of secularization leading to a complete abandonment of religious studies, </i><span style="color: black;">(i.e. the wishful thinking of Dogs),</span><i> religion did not diminish and was instead acknowledged by researchers as a topic worthwhile to research. Scientists and scholars, like British sociologist John Thompson, realized that despite the neglect of religion in studies, the presence and impact of religion on individuals' lives were undeniable and did not disappear with time. Hence, a body of research on religion began to take root. Particularly, a handful of researchers were interested in examining religious identity during adolescence.</i></span><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;">................</span><br /><br />The scientific perspective now taught as incontrovertible truth in universities is that there is no God and that religion is stupid and people who believe in God believe in fairy tales and myths. The scientific perspective sees nothing amiss when it gives its own take on how the universe came into being, which is that it was suddenly and out of nowhere for no reason brought into being in a big explosion that cannot be explained. Where it came from cannot be explained. Why it happened cannot be explained. This does not at all seem like mythology to the scientific mind. It doesn't matter that there is no more evidence for that belief than there is for people to believe in God. Their own scientific fairy tales which they all agree to be true, are therefore automatic facts and you're stupid if you don't agree. And that's just so rational and scientific and stuff. <br /><br />Personally I don't believe that people came out of apes. I'm sorry, that's just silly. Tigers don't come out of snails, cows did not come out of squids. Especially not in the absence of evidence. Complicated math is not evidence, it is numbers and numbers can be crunched any way you like, ask any statistician or Wall Street accounting firm. Repeating over and again that a few broken old monkey bones are the missing link until the assertion quietly solidifies into widely accepted truth in their own gated neighborhood, is the basic staple of propagating all forms of bullshit to make people believe it. That still does not make it so. Bull is bull, no matter how many people buy it. <br /><br />Is there a God? I don't know, but what I believe and what you believe and what they believe is not the issue. There actually is no problem with a diversity of beliefs, unless some people want there to be a problem. The absolute fact is that nobody knows how the universe came into being or how we came into being or where we came from or why we're here, or any of the other answers to the eternal questions of our existence. Nobody knows. That is the truth and that is the fact. There are plenty of claims to "know" the answers to all of these questions, plenty of ideas, plenty of guesses, lots of meditation on the subject. It's a part of being human. But the fact is that nobody knows. Fundamentalist thinking does not equate to FACT. Fundamentalists would disagree but they're famous for their objectivity. It doesn't change a thing. They don't "know". Whether they're scientists or popes, nobody "knows". You can assemble whatever thoughts, facts, reason and opinions you like and cook up a belief system, but it doesn't make you right. No matter how much you believe it. Belief is not proof, it is belief. <br /><br />Why is this so hard for so many to admit? Why do they come unglued the moment anybody points out that belief or hypothesis or theory is not hard evidence or proof of anything? Why the authoritarian attitudes around the entire subject? Can't help but notice the knockdown, drag-out power struggle between groups who want to own the subject as private property. Once owned they alone will be able to decide the one and only take on it, forever and ever and ever. "WE are the sole owners of this subject and only our opinion is legitimate. If your opinion differs you are a stupid, dirty, nasty poo-poo brain and we hate you and you don't matter anyway because this subject belongs to us and our narrative is the only one that is valid. Neener neener." Because after all, ownership determines who has a valid opinion and who doesn't. It doesn't matter that nobody "owns" any subject.<br /><br />Science seems every bit as much a religion as any other religion. It is every bit as self important, prone to conflating group belief with factual evidence, every bit as comfortable with the woo-woo aspects of their story, and every bit as intolerant of other perspectives as any other fundamentalist authoritarian perspective out there. Pardon me for noticing the hypocrisy and self-important narcissistic arrogance but I will always believe that these things do not equate to PROOF that something is TRUE. The only thing they prove is that anybody can be a small minded dick head, and claims of status, education, or delusions of self importance do not determine whether something is true or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There was synchronicity at the root of this post that was not previously mentioned. A video came first.<br /><br /> <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyH2D4-tzfM"><u>What We Still Don't Know: "Are We Real?"</u> </a></span></b><br /><br />I watched this creepy BBC program on You Tube last night and then today found the Wiki article. The show left me feeling unsettled, to say the least. If you watch it you will see the Scientific Dogs I am referring to. Okay maybe my pounding the snot out of this Wiki article is a slight over reaction after watching this BBC show, but regardless, the Dogs of Science in their own words make clear to me that these are some scary people. I see in them the sprouted seed of a new Spanish Inquisition, in photo negative. The same monsters, the same selfishness, the same disrespect for people with different beliefs, the same arrogant self-entitlement to take the whole world which is not their personal property and which belongs to everybody, and treat it according to their own whims and not giving a damn what anybody else has to say about it. Everybody else is irrelevant because anyone who disagrees has an inferior intellect and doesn't deserve an opinion. Perfectly reasonable attitude, if you're a monster.<br /><br />As much as these folks claim to believe there is no God, it seems clear enough that they simply prefer to worship their own idea of God; science. Where is the difference?<br /><br />These worshipers of Science own a very specific world view and they have a game plan to promote, one that many average human beings would likely see as insane and disturbing. But they have convinced themselves of their righteousness and the show is meant to convince you of their righteousness as well. Because, as if it were God's will and they are on a crusade, they are proceeding onward to achieve silicon personhood for one and all without concerns about anyone feeling disgusted or being strongly against the idea. Concerns are not legitimate so they will be dismissed out of hand. Only stupid people have concerns and the concerns of stupid people don't count. This attitude lavishes the Scientific Dogs with nothing but credibility and a neon sign that reads, "Go!" <br /><br />Their world view and plan seems to center around the utter destruction of humanity and nature, permanently, and they believe this is not only a good thing but a wonderful natural progression for our species. Only stupid dumb people who believe in fairy tales and myths like God, or who believe that life has meaning or purpose, will get all upset over violating nature and disrespecting earth, man and animal, because they are too stupid to understand the awesome perfection of scientific anti-God perspectives which are the same as factual reality in these scientific minds. It is always and only stupid people who don't want the whole world destroyed by insane scientific, military or devil worshiping lunatics in the aim of attaining personal power, fame and wealth. Stupid people always get in the way of progress and it has to stop. Gaining total control via Science of a destroyed, dehumanized, for-profit, no rules, privately owned planet that only benefits half-human, spiritually disconnected, selfish irresponsible ass cracks, is the beautiful future of mankind. These precepts embody man's natural future and they represent the truth and all who disagree have the brains of an amoeba and should not be tolerated. They should simply be euthanized so that the rest of the intelligent people can get on with turning humanity into digital energy on silicon chips because that's just so GREAT. That's natural baby.<br /><br />At the end of the program I decided that I can't wait for every last one of these people to turn themselves into digital human beings with no bodies who live on teeny pieces of silicon. Don't let me stop you boys. Knock yourselves out.<br /><br />I guess it's true, insane people have no clue that they're insane. The question is, why do insane people always have monopolized access to the control panel? Why are they always in the driver's seat on this Earth Bus, with the rest of us stuck in the back screaming in fear for our lives? How do they just ignore us like we're stupid when in fact it is their own spoiled, overpaid social class who has done so much harm, like creating nuclear bombs for instance, or inventing psychiatry, and have made the most horrific "errors", over and over and over again, for centuries, and yet they unceasingly demand absolute respect and our undying belief that they are never wrong? <br /><br />I say, let's stop encouraging raging lunatics by treating them like regular people who are incapable of perfection. But who listens to me? All I talk about is common sense, and in a crazy world common sense is what's crazy. Being crazy is what's normal. <br /><br />I keep telling myself, I'm not from here. When the universal soul delivery beam projected my essence out into space it was aiming for a different world; a world of sane, decent people who don't run around slaughtering each other and who don't take to violence over every little freaking thing they disagree about. A world where nobody is dying for lack of food, shelter, clothing or medical care. An abundant world absolutely free of authoritarian control freaks where nobody is forced to believe anything or do anything or not do anything because everyone is responsible for themselves, and yet everyone is still happy to abide by the common sense rules that allow everyone to follow their soul and heart and create a happy, meaningful existence for themselves, and for others. But somehow when the Soul Laser Catapult 5000 shot my essence into space headed for Gamma Beta Fluffy Kitties world, I impacted a rogue asteroid and ricocheted backward, tumbling through space until I finally ended up landing down on this planet, Earth. The very moment I got here I started yowling, "You sent me to the wrong place! This is Earth! The planet of criminally insane, vicious, barbaric moron people! NO! You have to come and get me right now, I cannot stay here! This planet is quarantined out in the boonies safely away from everyone else for a reason! These people are terminally insane! They are dangerous, incorrigible, they have no capacity for a learning curve and cannot improve over time. They are hopeless! The planet is awesomely beautiful but these people are completely nuts! Get me outta here! NOW!<br /><br />Then a calm female voice sincerely replied, I'm so sorry. You did end up in the wrong place. It's going to be awful for you there. What a shame. You'll just have to make the best of it. You're there now. Once you're there, you're there. We can't help you. Sorry about that. <br /><br />No wonder so many babies come into this world screaming their lungs out. <br />NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not this planet! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <br /><br />[Taking a long, deep, exhale....]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />I'm better now. I just needed to get that out of my system.<br /><br />Being that it is now officially Christmas day, I've got some goodies for you.<br /><br />The first stocking stuffer is a book. I read it a week ago and got a heaping helping of enlightenment out of it. It's about authoritarian control freaks and what makes them tick. If you too have watched the Bombastic Clown Circus, (the loony corrupt lying politicians lying, cheating and stealing the country to ruins), then you too may have marveled at the dishonest control freaks freely reeking hypocrisy as comfortably as snarking down expensive caviar at posh DC social gatherings. The same politicians who said they were God fearing straight laced marriage defending pro-war Christian followers of Jesus, who railed against sex and drugs and rock and roll, ended up being the same ones busted as scam artists and frauds, criminals, pedophiles, or got busted for buying dope off of same sex prostitutes and for hitting on some guy in the public toilet stall next to his. If the words spoken by our dearly elected or just about anyone at the White House, have left you confused, aggravated, furious, this book may help. You've heard the insensate double-talk of politicians, assorted Press Secretaries, Military big wigs, and America loving Zionists devoted to selflessly serving our nation to death. If you cannot make sense of these people, if you cannot comprehend how such childish, shitty, dishonest felons can be calling the shots for this nation, this book might help you understand what their stupid freaking problem is. <br /><br />I read this short book in two evenings and it answered some big questions for me. It brought me to fully appreciate the resonance between authoritarian "thinking" and psychopathy. The name of the book is "The Authoritarians". The author is Bob Altemeyer, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba. It's not a story book, it is the product of this man's observations and analytical processing of the criminal antics of the political bullies in charge, who are, as we all know, complete morons that have ruined absolutely everything. But more than just revealing what makes these silly people so dangerous and so driven is addressing what makes all of the silly people who support them so incapable of seeing who and what these phony criminal losers really are. <br /><br />The book is free and can be downloaded in </span><u><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf">pdf form here</a></span>.</span></u><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <br />You can get a better idea of who wrote it and what's in it <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/%7Ealtemey/"><u>at the author's site.</u></a></span><br /><br />The second thing in the big red sock tonight is an introduction to the person who recommended the aforementioned book to me. I found this really smart, interesting guy on the a-Infos Radio Project website through one of his audio commentaries. I emailed him and said, this is great stuff. More please. He emailed me back and said more was on the way. He then mentioned that he'd never read Political Ponerology, which I had read, but that he'd read The Authoritarians, and he sent me the link. At first I thought I knew about authoritarians already, and I did, but I didn't really. There is much more to it, and after reading the book I felt as if another big piece of the puzzle was solved. <br /><br />If you like listening to serious minded people who are brilliant and fearless and who tell it like it is, and do it with class, with wit, with a bullwhip, <span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/65060"><u>you can find his latest commentary here</u></a></span>, and <span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://ongenocide.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/polls-show-israelis-racist-hateful-baby-killers-americans-stupider-than-frog-spawn/"><u>his blog "On Genocide" here.</u></a> </span> If we could push the likes of Limbaugh off the air and replace him with Keiran Kelly for 3 hours a day, our country's IQ would skyrocket. Keiran lives in New Zealand with his family in a coastal place nearby something called Kaiteriteri that is apparently paradise. Some people have it made. Others live in Silicon Valley. <br /><br />Reaching all the way down to the bottom of the big red sock for the last bit, here is something way cool and positive and uplifting. It's another BBC program. "Earth The Power Of The Planet - Earth". A guy with an accent thick enough to choke a horse takes you on a visually spectacular journey around the world, into space and to the moon, and shows you why life may indeed be something quite rare. <span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_pzxz71jDM"><u>Here's the link.</u></a></span><br /><br />Life is a miracle. <br /><br />And with that final thought I will wrap it up for today. I wish you everything good and bright and meaningful and happy for the holiday. Loiter under the mistletoe for me. I'll just be kissing the cat tonight. If I can catch him. He's a fast sucker. </span><br />
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Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-59723084217149567502012-12-17T20:20:00.002-08:002012-12-18T15:05:34.375-08:00Comment on "Breaking Point" by Vyzygoth<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You speak about the breaking point and, yes, individually we all have been and will continue to be stretched to whatever our limits may be; collectively, society’s behavior will manifest how all of us as individuals react.<br /><br />That’s why propaganda is important. That’s why 24/7 “information” is important. That’s why 24/7 “entertainment” is important.<br /><br />In this age of burgeoning electronic communication, people use their brains more as sponges and less as apparatuses designed to critically analyze, to just plain think. Sadly, the masses don’t think, they react, and that’s what our masters wish. <br /><br />Propaganda isn’t new. It’s been with us for as long as there have been power-seeking people who wish to lord it over their fellow citizens. What is interesting is that, upon the invention of the printing press, our masters discovered that, to propagandize, it was necessary for people to read. Illiteracy was actually an obstruction to manipulation, and without the ability to broadcast information through thin air, our masters encouraged all to read.<br /><br />Now we’ve reached a point where our masters no longer wish us to read, to dwell upon and analyze information; instead they wish us to soak in the images they project through TV and movies and music with the goal of inducing visceral reaction—brute, insentient, visceral reaction. They know beyond any doubt that if they get a critical mass of people to stampede and the rest will follow.<br /><br />That’s why a democracy is garbage. Despite that we’ve all been brainwashed into believing that democracy is such a great thing, no less than Plato, an unabashed elitist in his time, explained that democracy is only one step above the worst form of government know to humankind—tyranny, to which democracy inevitably devolves.<br /><br />Whoever visits this site and the related sites under the umbrella of thinkorbeeaten.com probably understands there is a movement to bring about a New World Order. That movement has been happening for centuries, but it has gained far more momentum throughout the last century and is now on our doorsteps like it or not.<br /><br />The final push for totalitarianism arguably began in this country with the events of Sept. 11 2001. That date, not Jan. 1, 2001, ushered in the final millennium during which our masters will gain complete control over the populations of the world.<br /><br />To attain that goal it will be necessary for our masters to make each and every one of us reach our breaking points. They will create the problems, the catastrophes, the tragedies, the deprivations. They will give us the chaos they are so fond of as a means of making us accept the supposed solutions and remedies they have also prepared, which, on face, will appear satisfactory to us, but which, ultimately, will bring about our enslavement.<br /><br />Those who know me know I cleave to a particular verse written by Robinson Jeffers in his 1944 poem “Be Angry at the Sun.” To me, it capably embodies the human condition in nine simple words: “The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.”<br /><br />It is doubtful that good people can prevent barbarous acts. I’d like to think they can, but six decades on this planet and an unadorned understanding of history tells me differently. However, each of us can resist joining the mob, choosing rather to live with a demonstrated compassion and intelligence that will keep us from becoming part of the problem.<br /><br />It is also doubtful that all serial shootings are organic, and that is taking into consideration those that have occurred since Whitman’s rampage in Austin, Texas, in 1966. On one level, the pathology of the shooters and shootings doesn’t matter because the victims are just as dead. On another level, it would be beneficial to study the individuals and circumstances with the hope it would result in timely intervention and future prevention. Strangely, the public never is provided access to this information, which surely exists, and the fact that it does exist but is never made widely accessible suggests that more than one perpetrator was a Manchurian Candidate.<br /><br />In my mind, the Newtown massacre portends perhaps something much different than you might divine from the event. To me, this event signals that our masters will be busy casting their beloved chaos upon us, but not before they succeed in banning firearms. Bad and crazy people don’t sweat gun control because they aren’t about abiding by the law. Total gun control only totally deprives good people—easily more than 99% of those who legally own firearms—from either defending their families and property or placing a good deal of doubt in the minds of bad people who are more than willing to execute home invasions if only they could be confident they’d meet no resistance.<br /><br />We will experience choreographed events in the near future that will stampede people into fear and frenzy. It might very well reach the much-anticipated “wild in the streets” level we hope we’d never experience. Then we will scream for martial law. And we will get it. But it won’t be our troops that will be called upon to keep the peace, and it could turn out that their methods of keeping the peace might not be a whole lot different than the methods employed by land pirates who go off plundering to meet their needs.<br /><br />Dark times are upon us. Don’t think that it can’t happen here because our masters have hinted throughout the past few decades that it will happen here. And those misanthropes would never lie to us about things so dear to their icy hearts.<br /><br />One last word: I think it pathetically ironic that our President can squeeze out a tear as he laments the horror of innocents cut down, and while that is an unfathomable tragedy, this nation is about to embark on yet another Middle East intrigue that will certainly cut down civilians and among them how many children? <br /><br />But, hey, they’re subhuman foreigners. Who fucking cares?</span></div>
Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-75880695276722982792012-11-01T20:15:00.000-07:002012-11-01T20:15:22.169-07:00Bringing America to Breaking Point<br />
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<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I heard someone say, "At least we don't have suicide bombers in America." Oh, yeah? I hate to break it to you but we sure do have suicide bombers in America. Ours are the ones using assault rifles to kill innocent people in movie theaters and places of worship. Ours are the ones shooting innocent people in shopping malls, in high schools and universities, in fast food restaurants, on military bases, and so many more places. Ours are the ones flying their small planes into IRS buildings or setting themselves on fire in front of a courthouse. Instead of strapping bombs to their bodies they use guns. Same effect, same outcome. There is no difference between the ones "over there" and the ones "over here".<br /><br />Mass murder/suicides are carried out by people who have come to the end of their rope. Because they will not be heard and there is nothing else left for them, they decide to lash out at as many people as they can with horrific violence before taking themselves out with more horrific violence. Death by cops in a hail of bullets, death by their own hand, or death by bomb, they decide to make this crime their last living act. <br /><br />These violent crimes do not happen accidentally. They are not mindless or spontaneous ideas carried out at the spur of the moment. Every incident is planned in advance. The plans are thoughtfully conceived, the dates and places chosen, the weapons and gear obtained all in advance. Specific reasons motivate each and every incident. <br /><br />What is the usual reason behind suicide bombers? Their crimes are about injustice that has become unbearable, whether real or imagined or somewhere in between, and having no means to make that injustice stop. They feel they have to do something about it. In a mental process we can't understand, they come to decide to murder innocent people, perfect strangers, which of course makes no sense at all. What is achieved by killing people you don't even know who have never done anything to you and in all likeliness never would? What is the point?<br /><br />Unfortunately, the bloviators of supposed public opinion end the story there, and we are all supposed to end the story there too. Judgment is swift and final. The perpetrators are condemned and branded as insane, as mindlessly violent, racist, extremist, driven by hate without reason, and are then written off as evil people beyond comprehension who deserve nothing from us but our deepest disdain. And then they are forgotten. <br /><br />The problem is that isn't the end of the story, it is only halfway through the story. The other half, the half they refuse to acknowledge existence of, the half that we are not supposed to care to explore, is as legitimate as the first half. To pretend otherwise only makes things worse. Ignoring the other half of the story guarantees violent escalation and more and more killings. I fail to see much difference between the condemned and those who condemn them when, in the end, both will be directly responsible for the mass deaths of innocent people.<br /><br />Yes, it is wrong for suicide bombers to kill people. No one can kill their way to happiness, peace or justice. That's just nonsense. Killing innocent people is evil. But there is another evil at play here, one that is perhaps responsible for creating mass murderers and suicide bombers in the first place. One that is responsible for keeping us in perpetual wars. One that has inflamed the whole of the Muslim world and caused America to be heaped with blame, shame and burning resentment. That evil must be realized and held equally responsible for the woes and harms it has always brought upon the world, and it always will. That evil is injustice, indifference to the suffering of others. <br /><br />Acts of human violence have been with us for millennia. There is almost always a reason behind acts of violence whether those reasons are reasonable or not. Some people aren't very good at being fair minded so they harm others because of their basic selfish inability to see things from someone else's perspective. But if anyone wants to claim to be fair minded it is an absolute requirement to try in earnest to put ourselves in someone else's shoes long enough to be able to see their side of the story. If we fail to do that we are by default being unfair. <br /><br />Justice is not possible when all involved are not considered. This is true in every situation where disagreement arises, and that includes the cases of American mass shooters and suicide bombers. It includes all criminal acts. If we cannot know the accused's side of the story then justice is not possible. It is impossible because we don't know the whole of the truth. How can there be justice when we don't have possession of the whole truth?<br /><br />It is often the case that once we understand how others see things we can understand why they feel the way they do. It is not uncommon to realize that if we were in their position, we would feel the same way they do. This isn't always the case but it happens with sufficient regularity that to ignore it or to impugn the process and refuse to engage in it is indefensible. That is, if we care about being fair. At the very least we'll have heard the whole of the truth after which point we are in a much better position to judge things.<br /><br />A serious complication is that some people are not interested in being fair. They really don't care about how others are affected by what they do. They want their way and will have it regardless of who it hurts. This is the evil we must learn to recognize and reject. That evil is the selfish indifference to other people's suffering, and there is no excuse for it. What legitimate excuse could there be? <br /><br />When unfair people want their way it invariably causes problems. Why? Because it means that somebody is getting screwed so that somebody else can have something that is not theirs to have. The entire concept of controversial subjects boils down to somebody wanting to be unfair and get away with it. Whenever I hear of some new or old controversy rearing its ugly head I always ask myself one question, who is lying? Because somebody always is. That is what a controversy is. It is rarely about a disagreement between two legitimate sides, it is about one side being unfair against another and people taking sides over it. If fair minded people can see it for what it is the controversy can be put down before it has a chance to take hold. But if people are politically pressured or brainwashed to support the unfair side, the so-called controversy will be able to take root and when it does it will inevitably cause terrible upset because of the injustice it will perpetrate. Controversy is about condoning political injustice and little else.<br /><br />Take a snapshot of American politics today, foreign and domestic, and you can't help but notice that this country is embroiled in endless controversies. America is at war with itself on numerous fronts and at war with country after country abroad. It never seems to end. To put it in a nutshell, there is a whole lot of political lying and injustice going on. And it's killing us. It's killing a whole lot of people. <br /><br />We can keep on doing things this way because we think it's right in spite of everything falling apart around us, there's an oxymoron for you, or we can decide to break through the political barrier that makes us think that seeing the whole story is an act of evil. Clearly it is not. It is the only act of good available to every one of us. I say we break through the barrier and take a good hard look at what the other sides of the stories are, there are a lot of them to choose from. This post is about American suicide shooters. In order to break through the barrier we need only ask one question. "Why?"<br /><br />Part 2 - The Politicians<br /><br />President Obama addressed the country after the Aurora movie theater shootings and the shootings just a few days later in the Oak Creek Sikh temple. While the media made hay framing the Sikh temple shootings as an act of racist hate, the president told America that it was time for some soul searching. <br /><br />I couldn't agree more. <br /><br />It is well past time to take a sober, naked look in the great American soul mirror. A top heavy number of millionaires in Congress an unelected billionaires buying their services seem to be long overdue for some well lit naked soul mirror time. Too many people living their lives in the first class luxury seats of making, persuading and buying American Policy have clearly never looked in a soul mirror, naked or otherwise. Quite a few seem instead to have walked straight through the looking glass to take up residence in a deviant fantasy world of their own creation, a world unaffected by the laws of nature governing the real and natural world the rest of us live in.<br /><br />The worst ideologues, fanatics, felons and operatives would become predictably outraged at any suggestion that they too should step into the bright lights and strip down in front of the soul mirror. People like these are dangerous and despicable. They deny outright the existence of another side to any story they wish. No matter how indefensibly heinous and criminally compromised their wrong-minded rhetoric and behavior, they demand to be respected as perfected beings who are always right. Then too are the ones who always want more war, more state secrecy, less rights for Americans, and more heavily armed authorities pointing more guns at more people. These should definitely engage in more than a few seconds of self reflection, but they won't. None of the worst of these people care about anything but themselves, their profits, their status and their power. <br /><br />If we really want to get some honest to God soul searching done, those are the people we need to start with. Why? Because it is down to these people how this country works. As you've probably noticed, such things are not up to you and me.<br /><br />The trouble is none of these people want to be revealed under any bright lights. They want to be kept safely apart from the public they feed on and control for their own purposes. Who they are and what they do cannot withstand scrutiny, meaning they can't afford to let anyone hear anything but their own side of the story. Their worst enemy is the whole of the truth. Their doings cannot be defended, explained or excused in the real world on this side of the mirror. They know it too, perfectly well. They know they are responsible for the destruction of our economy, the endless years of senseless wars, the destruction of constitutional law, the destruction of our schools, the division of our people into for or against, haves and have nots and all of the injustice and damage that brings. They know full well that they are responsible for the utter demoralization of our people via the double standards and brutality they brought into being to replace the common sense, justice and legitimacy of our system. They know they are responsible for all of it and they're proud of what they've done. They know what they're doing is unjust, but they don't care that it's unjust. Which goes to prove that these people are not incompetent, they are evil.<br /><br />Our perfectly good political process has been hijacked and taken over by highly driven scientists of control and deception. They are not invisible and they are not hiding. Their unwelcome presence from long ago has metastasized and grown so strong that like any cancer, it will take an incredible battle to remove them and stay alive in the process.<br /><br />This system, their system, is catastrophic. It has failed us. We can expect to see more and more acts of violence and killing not because Americans have too many guns or because Americans are violent racist murderers, but because of our government's insane policies, insane dishonesty, and it's intransigent refusal to stop making our system into one that facilitates immoral acts of grotesque hypocrisy and injustice, criminal deal making, and brute force in support of the selfish quests of a powerful few. The lawmakers' "money first" corporate mentality sees the 1% as their clientele and bends over backwards for them, using our money and our lives to service them. There must be something in it for them, but I have no idea what is worth such a terrible price. <br /><br />I ask you, what are the odds of any of these people doing any soul searching? The odds are zero for the simple reason that they have no souls. Those who have no souls cannot search them. <br /><br />The dark idiots (D.I.) responsible for the critical meltdown of justice, human dignity and hope that is spiraling our people into a black hole of devastation, that is pushing people beyond their limits, that is slamming the doors of reason, logic and fairness into the faces of hundreds of millions of people, they understand perfectly well what they are doing. The intentions of certain powerful people have been laid out in plain words for decades, they weren't hidden. None of what we are going through now comes as a surprise to those who are forcing millions of people down on their knees into poverty and hopelessness. The D.I. understand full well that injustice makes people angry. They know that treating people like dirt, that ignoring their valid complaints, that shutting people out of any chance at justice and prosperity, that showing people such revolting disrespect, that not caring as our nation bleeds out in front of the whole world, will definitely cause some people to take up arms and start killing. <br /><br />Dark idiots worship power over all else. Do they honestly believe that a system comprised of the utter desecration of human decency will not have terrible repercussions? No, they don't believe that. They know full well that their unmitigated selfishness and bounties of aggression and deceit amount to making war against the people of America. They are working with full intent and knowledge to strip Americans of all of their wealth and prosperity, health and freedom in order to strip us of all power and ability to fight them. They are only able to accomplish this by doing away with justice. That's where buying off senators and congressmen comes in. For the right price, those who are there to represent us are happy to destroy us instead. <br /><br />This destructive and self serving vision of the wealthiest few and its servants perpetrates injustice above all else. Injustice is the only means to grabbing hold of all that is not theirs to have. There is no other way to get it. How else could they get so much money and so much power other than through crime? No other way exists. These people are the physical embodiment of evil. They are completely indifferent to the suffering of hundreds of millions of people. They want us all dead. That is not a crazy conspiracy theory. It is the clear and visible result of what these people do. Every move they make makes millions of people weaker. It steals away health and life and eradicates human potential. This is the way they want it and they want it to stay their way forever. We are the enemy and they are doing everything in their power to undermine and eradicate us.<br /><br />So how just is that?<br /><br />Part 3 - No Mystery <br /><br />Is it really a surprise to anyone that America is being pushed beyond its breaking point? Can anyone really claim not to understand that to strip people of all dignity, all hope, and all prosperity is taking too much from humanity? Is that really confusing to anyone? <br /><br />Is it really unacceptable that people who are insulted, denied, denigrated, lied to and manipulated, ignored, undermined, used, abused and deprived of a voice are going to get angry? Is it really too hard to understand that cutting people out of all chance of living peaceful and prosperous lives will make people very unhappy? Is it really too much to understand that people are inevitably going to stand up and come kick your ass for doing so much damage to them and to their children? <br /><br />There is nothing confusing about it at all. And that is why the Department of Homeland Security just bought 450 million rounds of hollow point ammunition. And we were forced to pay for it. A lot like being forced to dig your own grave right before they shoot you in the back of the head and push you into it. Who the hell are these evil beings and why are they turning paradise into one great big filthy dirty concentration camp for all humanity? Why won't they just fuck off and leave us alone?<br /><br />I don't know who they are and I don't know why they can't get a life of their own instead of taking so many other people's lives from them, but there they are anyway. For decades they have poisoned our minds through their filthy dirty media, taking all that is sacred and beautiful and natural and life affirming and sloshing it with buckets of pig shit and blood, and celebrating every moment of it. As they glorify and sanctify death they have stolen the souls of children who will grow up to carry on what amounts to worshiping cruelty and death and doing evil all in the name of self gratification. They are teaching our people to destroy, to have no respect for anything but power and money, and to not give a damn about justice. They are recreating themselves, training people to hate and fear others as well as themselves.<br /> <br />America is dying for lack of love and compassion, lack of respect, lack of generosity and a life affirming spirit.<br /><br />And you want to know why we have people going crazy and shooting people in movie theaters? Really? It's just not all that mysterious.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want to ask you for your thoughts on something. While the subject is one that affects me directly, it is also one that affects everyone on a greater scale. This is a kind of problem that can be personal, familial, national, international and global. I am going to come at it from the personal level with the aim of keeping it focused and specific so that I can get your thoughtful insights and feedback.<br /><br />First I need to set about describing this thing I'm talking about. Bear with me, it's a bit complicated. Here goes.<br /><br />There is a sad truth that applies to humankind. It seems like such a simple thing and yet it has proven impossible to overcome. That truth, and the problem I'm talking about, are one and the same. <br /><br />I must try to put this in a nutshell so as not to try your patience. The best I can do is this. While the majority of people in this world are basically good people, there are always some among us who are not good. The ones among us who are not good are responsible for the vast majority of pain, suffering and destruction that affects everyone around them. They make life miserable for others. <br /><br />I call them shitty people. They are not honorable. They have no concern about being dishonest with others. They don't play fair. They are self serving. They are brutal. They cheat. They lie. They deceive. They destroy. They can be just downright mean. They are either incapable of, or disinterested in, considering the negative effects their words and actions have on others. They not only don't care how much damage they do to somebody else, they often enjoy inflicting it. <br /><br />There are some people who are nasty through and through. These are people who cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be escaped or avoided and there is no way around them. It is a nightmare to encounter someone like this because there is no chance that you can escape unharmed. You may not even be able to escape at all. People of this type are very scary once you realize what they are. It's not always obvious at first. These types are also very good at pretending to be good, decent, upright, respectable people. They are good at selling appearances of decency and respectability but they are neither good nor respectable. They are nasty and very dangerous people.<br /><br />But there are others who only behave in these ways situationally, in other words it's not their usual way of behaving. It is due to group influence that they behave in ways that would ordinarily go against their values and beliefs. Like George Carlin said, and I'm paraphrasing like crazy here, one on one people are great. Sit and talk face to face with someone and they are reasonable, intelligent, good. But get them into groups and they become insane and monstrous. I guess it's the gang mentality. Us against them. Separatist, aggressive, competitive, violent. All of that holier than thou crap comes in along with all of the self justification that allows and encourages breaking the rules of human decency in the name of taking their cause to victory. <br /><br />There are also others who behave very badly due to their own life experiences. The accumulation of scars and damage they have received in life, instead of strengthening them in a positive way, makes them cruel. They want to take it out on others. It's a form of payback, only instead of paying back those who harmed them they transfer their vengeance onto people who have never done anything to them. It's no surprise that taking it out on innocent people is so devoid of satisfaction. By never addressing the actual problem they never achieve what they need, which is full and sufficient justice. Therefore they must constantly seek new victims to brutalize, and on and on it goes. It becomes even more complicated when the humiliation and rage they feel are not legitimate because they are essentially nuts to begin with. Not fun to be around people like this at all.<br /><br />There are other reasons that people behave badly as well. Emotional immaturity, lack of knowledge about the world beyond their own tiny piece of existence, lack of education, even being born psychopaths. There are a great many reasons that people behave badly, but regardless of the reasons, the outcomes and effects are the same. Serious damage is done to others. Worst of all is how impossible it is to stop people behaving badly, and how often there is nothing the victims can do about it. Justice will not come. Often the victims cannot even explain to someone else what they are going through. They are not believed, or they are accused in some way. Too many times, legitimate victims have no means of defending themselves and the nasty persons win. They often win big. And the victims simply fade away, broken and demoralized and alone.<br /><br />That's a general description of the concept I'm talking about. Shitty people. People from all walks of life, all social and economic backgrounds, whether they do it alone, do it with a family, do it with a group, organization or on the job, rich or poor, old or young, all races, both sexes, all of them have some shitty people. Now here is the question I have that I would love to get your reasoned and thoughtful responses to. How do we deal with such shitty people?<br /><br />There is an old saying in America, "You can't fight City Hall". What that means is that one wronged person alone cannot take on City Hall and win. One person fighting for justice against a larger group of people, people enclosed to themselves, people all on the same page, corrupted, self serving, for a plethora of reasons and motivations, will be able to use an assortment of tricks and tactics, while backing each other up, in order to close ranks and present an impenetrable wall to the seeker of justice. One person cannot win against such a group. The group has strengths and resources that the single individual does not have. And when you throw into the equation that the group is a shitty group of people it becomes all the more impossible to prevail against them. It can often become dangerous to even try to take them on.<br /><br />When we're talking about formal, organized groups like the police, the courts, the government, institutions and so forth, you know that as a single individual you have no chance whatsoever of being heard or getting a fair outcome. This is about power. The group has it all, the individual has none. One person cannot prevail here. It is much more likely that he will be crushed out of existence. It doesn't matter that he is right and they are wrong, all that matters is who has the most power.<br /><br />Historically though, when groups become abusive their abuses are seen by the general public. The more abusive they become the more visible they become. And the more people they victimize the more chance there is that those victims will become a group that will then begin to have some power and can begin to fight back. The general public can see both the abusers and the abused and some of them will stand up for the abused. This is political and there have been countless successes against abusive powers. It's not always pretty but success is not out of the question when groups take on other groups to force shitty people out of power and restore justice into the status quo. When power is equalized you can fight for what's right. When you have no power you just get victimized.<br /><br />But how can a single individual fight back? Is there no hope at all for individual justice? <br /><br />Something that I find deeply disturbing is that there are a lot of people who have a nasty value system. We see this in the military, in those who remain invisible to us but who are the ones responsible for long range planning and overall military philosophy. We see this in big business, in Wall Street, in the class wars we're in today like hair on fire. Some people consider the world and the way it works and they ask themselves, what can I do to guarantee that I will get my way and have everything I want? And the answer to them is a no brainer. Use force. Force overcomes everything. Force, violence, the more overwhelming and unnecessary the better, literally reduces the enemy to ashes. This is the guarantee of total success. <br /><br />It means dropping all human decency, ignoring every law standing in your way, behaving as badly, as madly, as it takes to crush the opposition. The only rules that matter are the ones you make. <br /><br />This "philosophy" of total selfishness and brutality is in direct opposition to my own philosophy of life and my personal values. I feel respect for others. I do not believe that I should have whatever I want at any expense to others. I am a firm believer in the golden rule. But then I also have a fundamental desire to see everyone do well. I want everyone to be happy and get their needs met and live wonderful, free lives. But there are many others who do not want these things. They do not share my desire to see everyone else doing okay. On the contrary. They have no respect for others. They don't care about others. In fact, some of them despise others and want them all dead. There is nothing new here, this is imperialism and it's been strangling the world for millennia.<br /><br />But that same imperialist attitude is encountered at the personal level too. It is so common it's not even funny. We have a lot of names for it, racism, sexism, etc., but it boils down to that same exact mentality of self over others. There are people today snatching people off the streets and selling them into slavery, sexual slavery, labor slavery. It's happening in our midst, not just in far away places. This is a mindset that is pervasive. Other people are exploited for personal benefit without a single thought given to the injustice done to the victim. Nobody cares about the victim in their circles. In fact, people like this feel absolutely entitled to victimize others as much as they like.<br />ENTITLED to have a sexual slave. ENTITLED to exploit individuals or groups of people because it is what they see as beneficial to themselves and somehow that translates into entitlement to destroy other human beings at will.<br /><br />I can't speak to that because I don't understand it other than to say it is wrong and they are wrong and they are nasty, shitty people. I don't know how to not give a damn about doing harm to someone else. I don't know how to not care about someone's life being stolen, about enslaving them and using them for whatever I please. I could never do it. I don't even like being waited on at a restaurant because nobody is supposed to be subservient to me or to anyone else. But I'll tell you what, you'll find no shortage of people feeling entitled to top notch "service", and demanding it in the most obnoxious, snarling and insulting ways. As if it were owed to them to have someone else think of nothing else but serving them, breaking their back to keep them firmly ensconced in their delusions of superiority and entitlement to be treated like a king. To me people like this are just plain nuts.<br /><br />The reality is that people like me are snack food for people like them. Even though there are many more people like me than there are people like them, they have power. Shittiness is power. Full blown shittiness, the kind where the shitty person feels entitled to be that way, can make millions of people's lives absolutely miserable. They do more damage to more people in a day than I could ever do in a million lifetimes. I would never hurt anyone on purpose, it's not in me. <br /><br />I do believe in defending myself against shitty people who harbor the delusion that they are entitled to do harm to others for no good reason other than they want to. I know they're not entitled. Their personal delusions don't bind me or anyone else. I'll shoot 'em if they're fixing to shoot me or if they're shooting other defenseless people. Hell yes, I wouldn't hesitate because they don't get to force their personal will on others. I know the difference between right and wrong and nobody gets to run around stealing people's lives and happiness. No such creature exists who has any such right. It's nonsense. I wouldn't relish shooting someone in self defense, and if I killed them it would be deeply upsetting, but I wouldn't bear any guilt over it. Standing up for your own life in the face of imminent destruction is fair and square. They started it and if I have to finish it, I will.<br /><br />Not every situation is that clear cut and it's not always about imminent threat to life. At the personal level it's usually about beliefs, insecurities, immaturity, selfishness, jealousy, things like that. It's not a life or death situation, but the damage done is still very real. Being insulted, dismissed, ignored, being treated thoughtlessly or unjustly, these are all things that take a very real toll on human beings. It's that imperialist attitude of entitlement to not consider others again, it's amazing how common it is. <br /><br />What do you say to people like this? You have to deal with them. If you don't they'll just run over you like a Mac truck runs over road kill. But what do you say? Remember too how easy it is to become what you hate, we see it every day on the world news reports. If we say we must fight fire with fire then we become what we are against. We become the same as they are. We are not the same, and I won't have that taken away from me. <br /><br />So far I have found that the way to deal with these people is to simply speak the truth. State the facts of the situation in a way that is succinct, deadly accurate, and without anger. Truth is a mighty weapon and it can and does take down giants. Sometimes the truth is dismissed and I am accused of all sorts of preposterous nonsense. Sometimes people caught with their pants down will stand and angrily deny their pants are around their ankles and they will attack you for the rest of their life rather than take a look at their own ankles and see for themselves how silly they are. <br /><br />In your own daily life, how do you deal with the petty imperialists that stomp in and stir up discord? What is the best way in your experience to deal with the bullies, the liars, the cheats? Conversely, what is the worst way?<br />What has worked in the past and what hasn't?<br /><br />If anyone would care to offer anything up from their own personal life experience I'd be delighted to hear from you. <br /><br /><br />Addendum:</span></div>
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Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-59048621552294285532012-10-17T20:03:00.000-07:002012-10-17T20:03:46.083-07:00I Wonder If...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">instead of mass slaughtering civilians, civilian homes, schools, and critical infrastructure... only heads of state would be bombed. If the innocent civilian populations of all countries were strictly off limits in times of war, not to be touched by violence or destruction and instead only those directly responsible for war, those crying out and clamoring for war, would be the only ones targeted by the machines of war... I wonder, would we ever see another war? If only the presidential estates, the war think tanks, the political institutions, the highest seats of governments, parliaments and congresses were the sole targets of cluster bombs and land mines, if only the luxury homes and neighborhoods of the wealthiest and most powerful people were bombed to oblivion, if only the major corporations and major financial institutions and financial districts would be singled out for bunker busting, targeting by drones and D.U. munitions, which is only fair and right because these are the people responsible for war, if this was the way that wars were fought, do you think we would ever see another war?<br /><br />And what if the nation's capitol was in flames after being brutally bombed into ruins, after white phosphorous bombs were liberally dropped from the sky, as the guys in thousand dollars suits and ties were burning and screaming in agony, (at least the ones who survived), along with the ladies in high heels wearing those huge Pebbles and Bam Bam pearl necklaces, if these utterly important worldly men and women were trapped and bleeding underneath smoking rubble, skin burning unstoppably, limbs torn off, brains on the walls, instead of sending in help, we sent in heavily armed troops and police, not to assist these people, but to point machine guns at them, at the politicians and heads of state, you know, to prevent looting. I wonder how well that would go?<br /><br />I wonder if the bombed and injured politicians would applaud us and tell us we did the right thing in looking out for "stuff" in the midst of incalculable human suffering and need, instead of bending over backwards to save lives and help people. I'm sure they'd say it was the right thing to do. They've told us such behavior is the exact right thing to do, in Haiti, after Katrina, all over America, they've said so over and over again. <br /><br />And what if we rounded up the filthy criminal bankers and corrupt liars and insiders and all of the cohort of official criminals and we hooded and shackled them, stripped off their clothes, gave them drug filled enemas so they'd pass out and put them on airplanes, headed to points unknown, and 12 hours later we dropped them in a foreign country and left them there to be brutally tortured, anally raped with sticks and bottles and gun barrels, and hung from their wrists in some dark and filthy cell for days at a time without food, without medical attention, where they were beaten daily and their bones were broken and they were injected with drugs against their will and mentally tortured every minute of every day with no contact with the outside world and no hope, how do you suppose that would go over? Do you suppose the self same politicians who enabled the crimes and created these laws in the first place would still stand up for their laws and say, "It is good that you've done this to protect us all". Do you suppose that could ever happen? <br /><br />And what if any of those banker criminals and their partners in crime in congress and the greater political cesspit began to protest, saying, "You can't do this to us! We have legal rights! We demand a trial! We demand a lawyer! We demand the right to defend ourselves! We demand to know what we are being charged with!" And we said, "Shut your face, you ain't getting any of that. You're guilty because we say you're guilty. You're going to be in prison in a shit hole getting tortured for the rest of your life, you ain't got no rights, you don't deserve the benefits of our precious American rights", how do you suppose that would play out? Would the self same politicians who created all of this in the first place say, "Righto! Well done! It's the best thing for our country! That's freedom and democracy baby! That's genuine bona fide National Security!" Or instead, might they mess their own pants in fear and panic that it was all turning around and coming back to them, to the people who created all of these despicable practices in the first place?<br /><br />How can it be that we are supposed to see no hypocrisy in the way the rules apply to all of the equal beings in our free and democratic country? How can it be that some things are unthinkable wrongs when they are done to some people, but are heroic democratic patriotic goodness when they are done to others? Which is it? It can't be both. It is either good to do these things or it is bad to do them. Unless of course you believe that some people are better than others so they don't deserve equal justice, they deserve to elude justice and be rewarded for their crimes while everyone else receives injustice and pays the highest price possible for crimes and misdemeanors, whether they are guilty or not. Is that free and democratic? Is that good and right and National Security and Law Enforcement O-Tastic goodness? Or is it total crap? I think it's grotesquely obvious total crap but what I think is not the question. The question is, what do you think?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The people I know who are still sound asleep don't see anything going wrong. They are content and distracted, completely disconnected from the world that sustains them. They have no understanding of this. They think their state of disconnection is actually being connected. What are they connected to? The mass media.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some folks sit in front of a television set for hours every day. They will turn on the TV in the morning and leave it on all day whether they're watching it or not. The TV is the last thing that gets turned off at night. When they do sit down to watch it, their favorite shows are interrupted every few minutes with groups of advertisements trying to sell products of every conceivable kind. The ads don't just play once but are shown over and over and over again. The constant interruptions are outrageous and insulting but they don't mind. They don't feel the insult of it and won't refuse to put up with it. They would never say "Enough is enough", pull the plug on the TV set and cancel the cable TV account. It would never occur to them to phone the cable company and say they are no longer willing to be abused and exploited by people who want their money and that they're closing their account and won't be back until the commercials are gone. They will probably never just walk away from it all and go do something else instead. No. For the rest of their lives and their children's lives they will sit in front of the TV set for hours each day and night and intake the commercials as if the commercials are a part of the show. As if commercials naturally belong there like unavoidable thorns on a long stemmed rose. As if commercials are a natural part of television. It's a trade off they have come to perceive as normal and expected.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Trade offs in nature are not unusual. Coconuts have impossibly hard shells to break in order to get to the edible white nut inside. Watermelons are unfortunately studded with little black seeds that are not pleasant to bite on. Bees make honey but they also sting people, and so on. In nature the upsides often come with downsides. But there is an important difference between coconuts and TV commercials. TV commercials are not a naturally occuring phenomenon. In fact they are wholly unnatural. There is no human need for them. For the most part people don't like them or want to watch them. After an established fifty plus year track record it is safe to say that TV advertising is pernicious, destructive and hated. Any sane person of sober mind would undoubtedly agree that TV commercials should be abolished. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Television should be for people. It should be about people. It should benefit the public, not the ethically crippled profiteers who feed on our minds, bodies and cash. Television as a technology has the potential to reach, teach and inform. It could also facilitate two way communication as opposed to passive one way output, allowing people at both the local and national levels to actually talk back and to participate and do interesting things, even paradigm changing things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For instance, we could use the TV for voting. We could stop voting for personalities that pretend to represent us and instead we could directly vote on the issues that affect our lives ourselves. We could do that and actually have a say in how things are done around here. TV could be a people empowering technology that makes us stronger, smarter, wiser, more knowlegeable than we have ever thought possible. TV could lift the whole world higher. But no. Instead, the commercial TV product makes people passive and stupid, disconnected from reality, insecure and covetous. It addicts, disables and disempowers people, turning their brains to mush while making corporations richer through carpet bombing the human psyche with unmitigated idiocy and scientifically perfected mechanisms to undermine and destroy the capacity of people to think for themselves at all. TV is nothing more than a tool of exploitation of all of our people so that the rich and powerful can get richer and more powerful and maintain an ever increasing control over all of our lives to an extent that is truly horrifying. It's really quite rude.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I say things like that to those who are still asleep they look at me like I'm crazy. They don't deny what I'm saying they just don't see it as that big a deal. They are sure that they are too smart to be affected by anything on the TV set, programs or otherwise. They feel informed and in control and are not concerned about what I'm saying. By the same token they don't know anything about the economy or history or what their dearly elected are doing. They often don't even know the name of the vice president or for that matter the names of their alleged representatives. They can't name or describe a single piece of legislation that has ever been on the table or was passed into law and don't pay the slightest attention to all things political. They can however tell you all about Bart Simpson, sports, their favorite soft drinks, the Oprah show and their favorite places to shop and go out to eat, what the kids want to buy and have and do and with rare exception no one in their family ever picks up a book or considers reading or taking a trip to the library. They think I'm funny for even bringing it up.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To them I am the disconnected one. I am the one who does not see the way and the light. They are plugged in to "the happening" as it unfolds each day and is presented to them. They know who's who and what's hot and what's not. They know the latest movie that everyone wants to see and the newest cool cell phone model and all about cell phone plans and costs. They know all of the pop stars and all of the popular songs, the TV shows and TV stars and hottest people and movies out of Hollywood. When they turn on the car radio they enjoy listening to it while I can't stand the car radio for two seconds because it is sheer insanity. Insanity is the norm in this country. Insanity is good. Insanity is fun. Insanity for one and all is the goal and the reason for living. Plug in to the insanity and join the insanity collective and you can be normal too.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here's the thing. There is no such thing as "the happening". It is all an illusion. It is believed to be real because it is an ongoing story that people identify with. People live their lives vicariously through identifying with an externally generated stream of illusion. They take their identities, perspectives and values from an externally generated, pervasive, all encompasing, non stop, 24 hours a day, illusion stream. It feels real to them. It is real to them.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Take away the TV set, the movies, the advertising, the pop stars, the radio, shut it all off. Now tell me who you are. Tell me what is real. Tell me what matters now. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A shock of silence happens when the external bombast of the mass media collective is removed from conscious awareness. Attention is abruptly focused within instead of everywhere else except within. In that silence you can hear yourself think. Only in that silence can you hear yourself at all. The question is, can you stand it? </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Can you stand hearing your own mind and no other voices? Can you sit in silence and think? Can you bear being all by yourself? Have you ever considered doing something on your own, without anybody else being with you? Does the very idea of being alone frighten you?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you feel that being disconnected from everything happening out there would be horrible and unbearable and that you'd feel lost and alone and wouldn't know what was going on and wouldn't have the slightest idea what to do with yourself, then I have a question for you. Do you actually exist? </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Would there still be a "you" if you were blocked off from all of those external things and other people? Do you exist as a unique individual with your own identity and ideas that come from yourself and are not dependent on what anybody else thinks or says? Who are you? Do you know? Do you know what the meaning of your life is? Do you care about what it means to exist in a world floating in space, or why you are here, or why it matters? Does it even matter to you?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can't show you proof to support this, but my guess is that most people ask themselves questions about meaning fairly early in life. Around the time we're becoming teenagers we start to wonder about things like why we exist and where we come from and what it all means. This is the time when we stop being Mom and Dad's little acorn, a product of the trees they are, and we start to become a tree of our own. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The first thing a tree has to do is set down roots. Unless and until it can do that it can't do much growing. If the spot it tries to grow its roots into isn't optimal for growth then it won't become a big strong tree. It might not die but it will be limited in its growth and will likely come out small and scraggly and unable to produce much, if anything at all. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You are a tree. I am a tree. We are all trees. The difference is that we can decide when and where to grow our roots and just as important, what we want to use as our life's ground. Whatever we grow out of will be the foundation of everything about us. What we grow into and become is inextricably linked to that foundation. The roots I am speaking of are not physical, they are mental. The roots of our mind will determine who we are. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's easy to see how plugging in to the collective mass media illusion seems like an easy and obvious way out of facing up to and dealing with the questions of identity and meaning churning around in the turmoil of everything else inside us. It's also very difficult to ignore the mass media or avoid it. It's as if there are enormous flat screens floating over our heads at every moment of our lives depicting the ongoing stories, the illusions, of the collective. We have no control over what is projected nor are we a part of its story. We don't personally know any of the familiar people on its screens or anything about them and yet we feel as if we do know them and they feel like real and authentic people to us who are somehow a part of our lives. Nothing on the screens are our own story and nothing we see and hear has anything to do with our lives; but there it is anyway and the people projected there are glamorous and beautiful, wealthy and successful. They are cool, they are right, they are popular, or authoritative, or extreme or geeks or they're angry, rebellious, fighting back, lashing out, being stalked by a lunatic with a chain saw, having sex with everybody and anybody, there is always somebody up there to identify with. Whether we know it or not or like it or not we will emulate these illusory people. We will dress like they dress and try to look like they look. We will say the things they say and behave as they behave. They are our illusory role models, digital projections who are not even real, but we don't think about that. We just take it in as our reality.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If the collective mass media becomes the soil we put down our roots into then illusion becomes the foundation that supports our world view. Illusion becomes the source of our personal identity. And illusion becomes what interests us most. Life is easy to understand because all questions are already answered, all values are already assigned, and everything is pre-labelled, pre-chewed, pre-discovered and provided. Life becomes effortless. All you have to do is choose. Choose an identity and go buy the accessories that go with it. Life is but a dream.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nothing in the illusion can answer our questions of meaning, self worth or true identity. No illusion can supply the real meaning that is the only soil we can grow in. Even our growth is an illusion. Our thoughts and opinions are based on illusions, along with our self image and ideas about everything in the world. Our thoughts, feelings and values about these things don't come from our own tree, they come from a tree of illusions and we are only pretending they belong to us and are us. We will never feel whole or satisfied without answering those questions ourselves. Those questions will be like sneakers in the dryer of our minds, banging around waiting to be pulled out and dealt with. If we ignore them long enough or talk ourselves out of paying attention to them, eventually we won't hear them anymore. If we fear facing those questions, if we avoid them, deny them, or tell ourselves that they are proof that we are not like everybody else and we must hide them or nobody will respect us anymore, then eventually we will learn to successfully block out the noise they make inside our minds. It is a choice. Listening to our truth within, or choosing the collective mind. We can choose reality and truth and grow ourselves, which is plenty interesting and rewarding. Or we can opt to allow exciting and beautiful illusions to define us. We can let other people form our mind, construct our self image, think for us, and make us believe that we are no more than what they want us to be. If we allow the illusion stream to define us then our life is an illusion and we will be entirely unequipped to handle reality when it inevitably rears it's terrifying head and vomits into our lap. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Please, if you have kids, pull the damn plug on the TV. Don't let your kids sit in front of the thing morning, noon and night. They still have a slim chance to exist for real, not as an illusion. I don't know what life will be like when nothing is real anymore. The day is coming. In fact, it's pretty much here.</span></div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-91514600107010977972012-08-09T16:50:00.000-07:002012-08-09T16:50:46.991-07:00Politically Correct<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If so, you may want to consider the consequences.</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Consequences, you say? What consequences? </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, how about this one. Being politically correct runs the serious risk of you reducing yourself to a junk yard dog for the Thought Police. Are you the property of the Thought Police? Are they your masters? </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No, you say. I am no one's property but my own. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh really. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well here's a test. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You hear someone saying, "I am against all of this illegal immigration. I absolutely believe when illegal immigrants are caught they should be deported back to where they came from". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Or, "I can't stand homosexuals. They make me sick. They are all going to go to hell". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Upon hearing these things, how do you react? If you are a junk yard dog of the Thought Police, your reaction will be something like this:</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Woof!" "Woof Woof!" "There is somebody thinking incorrect thoughts! How revolting they are! I despise them! They must be corrected! I will go tell them how despicable they are and let them know they are not okay with me! I am entitled to do this because my masters told me so".</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you are <u>not</u> a junk yard dog of the Thought Police your reaction would be more along these lines:</span></span></div>
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<br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Whether I agree with them or not, everybody is entitled to their own opinion".</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Which of these reactions is closest to your own way of thinking? </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is no small thing. You may honestly believe that your politically correct opinions are your own, but they may not be. The more adamant you are about your popular politically correct opinion the more likely it is that your opinion is really not your own. The more intolerant you are of other people's viewpoints and opinions, the more likely it is that you have been brainwashed into holding your politically correct opinion. To put it simply, you have been cultified. You have been Jim Jonesed. You are no longer you. You are the property of the Thought Police and will spend years of your life barking at, snarling at, attacking and reporting on anyone you run across who is thinking unauthorized thoughts. Is that really something you set out to be? An intolerant attack dog of the Thought Police? </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Do you believe that what other people think needs to be policed? Do you believe that people with viewpoints other than your own are automatically bad? Do differing viewpoints offend you and make you angry? If so, why?</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If I like yellow and you like blue does it take anything away from you? No it does not. The same is true even if I am a racial separatist. A militia member. A neo nazi. A felon. Even if I question the holocaust. Even if I am a Muslim, or an atheist, or a Christian or a Jew. Even if I'm a liberal or a conservative. The nature of the difference is irrelevant. I can feel 100% different about a barrel full of things than you do and it will not affect you in any way. It does not take anything from you. It does not prevent you from having your own thoughts and feelings and viewpoints. You will retain everything that is rightfully yours. It is not a threat to you in any way when I see things differently than you do.</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My thoughts and opinions, viewpoints and beliefs have nothing to do with you. These are a part of my identity and I have every right to them, as much right as you have to yours. My beliefs coexist in this world with your beliefs, there is no problem here. So why then should you feel offended and angry at my rightful opinion? You could only feel offense and anger if you are intolerant of other people's rightful opinions. Your intolerance is a form of aggression against me. You want to use force to try to take away what is rightfully mine. Now which of us is wrong? Who is harming who?</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The simple reality is that everyone has their own thoughts and feelings and these are not up to anyone else to determine. I feel and think what I feel and think, and so do you. There is nothing wrong with this, it is normal and healthy and necessary. The one thing any of us have to offer is our own unique way of seeing things. It behooves us to listen to each other. If we don't agree it doesn't mean anything. It is not a reason to become enemies or to fight. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If we try to understand each other's position we will probably be able to understand why we feel the way we do. Once we understand why certain feelings and beliefs are held we can see that there are reasons behind them, that it's not just senseless or hateful thinking. It may be misguided or mistaken, but we can understand that if we saw what they saw, we would feel the way they feel. This is not a crime. If we honestly care about justice and peace then we are obligated to make the effort to understand other people's positions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Once we understand each other, we can see the bigger picture. We don't have to agree or embrace each other's beliefs. We can retain our individuality totally, but we can at least understand why we feel the way we do. We can see it is not a threat to us. We can simply agree to disagree. We can still be on courteous terms, we could even go out to lunch with each other. This is a good outcome. If we are civilized people we want a good outcome. We want to be able to get along with everyone we can. All it takes is some tolerance, some respect, and to make the effort to understand why other people see things the way they do. If we do this the odds of experiencing good outcomes and improved relationships are much improved. We can still respect the person but disagree with their opinion. We must make room for one another because the alternative is destruction. Will we kill our way to happiness? It doesn't work that way. It never has and it never will. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If we don't even try to understand someone else then how can we judge them? If we don't understand why someone else sees things so very differently than we do, then we do not know the whole story. We only know our own side of the story. It is always a terrible mistake to tell ourselves that only our side of the story is the whole story. It is not. As long as there is someone else involved then they have a side of the story too. To ignore it or dismiss it without listening and apply our judgment to them is evil. That's right. It is sheer evil. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is evil because we don't care about knowing the truth. When we don't care about what the truth is, then we are lost in dishonesty. We are dishonest with our own selves. Who can we be without truth? What will we become when we don't care what the whole truth is? Can we become wise and just when we don't care about truth? No. We can only become ignorant and unfair when we care more about protecting our own position than we care about understanding the positions of everyone involved. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the only way we can get to the whole truth.</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But what do we do when somebody is saying something that we strongly disagree with? </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Until you develop skills like tact and humor, there is only one acceptable way to respond, and that is to shut up. If you are incapable of letting someone have their opinion then the problem is with you, not with them. They are not doing anything wrong. They are not doing anything "to you". If however you attack them for their thoughts and feelings then you are definitely out of line. You have no right to batter anyone with your fists or your words. After all, who the hell are you and what makes you better or right or anything else? You have no right to dictate what others must think or feel. You wouldn't appreciate someone doing that to you, would you? Then don't do it to anyone else. If you truly can't tolerate what someone else is saying then leave. Be polite, but walk away. It's really that simple. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ostensibly, you hold your strong politically correct opinion because you want the world to be a better place. But if you truly want the world to be a better place then you must instinctively know that we can't get there through violence, abuse and anger. We have to learn to accept one another as is and never make the mistake of stepping on people by dictating to them what they must think and feel. They are capable of doing their own thinking and feeling. It is not our place to dictate anything to anyone else. Policing other people's opinions is not our job. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What our job is, is to learn how to handle it. Gracefully. Fairly. Objectively. Respectfully. That is, if that is the kind of world you want to live in. If that is the way you would like to be treated. If it is, then you had better treat others that way, and not just when it's easy but when it's hard. That's when it matters most. That's how we make real changes in this world, changes for the better. When we are fair with people. When we show respect for people by making human life more important than being right. When we make sure to preserve other people's dignity when interacting with them and don't feel entitled to tear into anyone for what they believe. There is no such right, I don't care what your cause is or how strongly you feel about it. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Understand, this is not about what other people think, this is about you. This is about who you are. This is about the kind of person you are. Are you a good and decent person? Then act like one. If you behave like a bully, like a junk yard dog of the thought police, then that is what you are. That is not being a good and decent person. That is being oppressive and controlling, judgmental and small minded. Hello? Think about it. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Letting other people be who they are is the most powerful truth in the world. Let them be who they are. Let each of us decide for ourselves what we think. If we don't do that, if we slam doors in people's faces, if we treat them with disrespect because of their beliefs, we are bringing misery into this world. We are bringing resentment and injustice into the world. We are forcing the creation of separation between equal beings, making some "good" and others "bad". This is wrongful and destructive. It does not make the world better, it makes things harder for everyone. These are the seeds of war. What do you help by planting them?</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is so important to show respect to everyone, it is absolutely necessary. That we disagree with them is irrelevant, that is never grounds to treat people with disrespect or cruelty. How could it be? What nonsense. We are not the end all and be all of the world, no one is. We are not special, no one is. We are all equal beings. We all count. Regardless of whether or not WE happen to agree or disagree with anyone else we are still equal beings and we still deserve to be treated with respect. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As long as we can agree to disagree, we can find a way to get along. It is only when somebody somewhere decides they must have their way and refuses to show a basic respect for others that everything comes apart. That is when violence begins. Injustice, cruelty, torture, imprisonment, intolerance, taking sides, name calling, nasty lies, manipulations... all of the things that tear relationships, friendships, and nations apart. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Everyone deserves to be heard. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Every side must be given equal time to tell its portion of the story.</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All sides must be considered before we can draw conclusions about anything.</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is far better to assume that everyone is at least partially right, rather than to assume only you are right. When everyone has a valid viewpoint, when everyone is right, we are much more likely to work together to find answers than we are if we refuse to acknowledge that other people actually have reasons for feeling what they do. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Political correctness is a lie. It is exactly the opposite of what it pretends to be. Political correctness is a method of controlling the minds of others. It is oppressive and deceptive. It turns people into monsters. It broadcasts orders to attack others, to behave with incredible selfishness and intolerance, it makes people feel entitled to behave rudely. What is "correct" anyway? Correct is different depending on the people looking at the equation. To be so arrogant as to presume that you are automatically correct and no one else can be correct is dishonest at best, and fascistic at its core. If you believe in freedom then being politically correct is a total contradiction. It can only be one or the other. Either you believe in freedom or you believe that people must be controlled by force. Which is it? </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If what someone else is saying makes you want to get in their face or hurl labels at them like racist, or denier, then you must stop yourself and ask yourself one question, "What's it to me what somebody else thinks?" Is it your problem what they think? No. Is it within your control to make them think otherwise? No. Is it your right to dictate to them what they should believe? No. Are you responsible for what anyone else thinks? No. Then why are you carrying their luggage? Let them carry their own luggage while you relax. It's not yours to worry about.</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You must accept that you have no power to change anyone but yourself. You cannot make people see things differently, at least not by attacking or disrespecting them. They will definitely not consider your perspective if you show no respect for theirs. You get back what you put out and if you put out a brick in the face don't expect hugs in return. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is also worth questioning why you feel the need to be so controlling of others. If you're losing friends over disagreements in matters of opinion, maybe you need to look at you for a change. Maybe you need to mind your own business instead of somebody else's business for a change. Why do you expect anyone to embrace your position in lieu of their own when all you do is come at them with insults and disrespect? You are only throwing gasoline on the fire when you do that, and yet you expect them to forfeit their honest beliefs and step over to your way of thinking? Is that silly or what?</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No matter who anyone is, or what they think, treat them with the same respect you want to be treated with. It is never about them, it is always about you. Your behavior is all you have control over, are you doing your best? Really? Is showing off your intolerance for others something to take pride in? Or is understanding that everyone has equal rights to their beliefs something to take pride in? I'd say it's the latter. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyone can be intolerant in the name of some greater good. Just like the Spanish Inquisition. Be careful who your masters are. If you don't you will soon find yourself steeped in hate and self-righteousness even as you claim to be against them. </span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bottom line: don't ever let anyone else tell you what to think. Think for yourself. And when you get to the point that you can defend someone else's right to their opinion, even though you disagree with what they're saying, then you'll have done more to do good in this world than you'll ever know</span></span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-19262287691697907192012-04-17T23:40:00.001-07:002012-04-17T23:44:53.461-07:00Beasts Just Wanna Have Fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__PDJGzH52M5nV2SbGic1a6Cl7ev9fEIZ5jJ00bai6WKe2AWIgKo1PZcILI_vgoZFVZCcmpQ2BiugrlVSAZZ80k5duUjSOo4hSEXzpFssFuUbv9bUbelUrn9UFeF6O2WZCpOn/s1600/Public+Good+Jourdan+Biziou.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__PDJGzH52M5nV2SbGic1a6Cl7ev9fEIZ5jJ00bai6WKe2AWIgKo1PZcILI_vgoZFVZCcmpQ2BiugrlVSAZZ80k5duUjSOo4hSEXzpFssFuUbv9bUbelUrn9UFeF6O2WZCpOn/s320/Public+Good+Jourdan+Biziou.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><u>Part One</u></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Something that is crystal clear to me is that nobody is perfect. All of us are flawed and lost and struggling for the duration of our lives. All of us encounter heartache, pain and disappointment, injustice and misunderstanding, fear and loss and need, and all of us must find a way to cope with these things. <br />
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Failure to cope can make things expressly worse but that often doesn't stop us from failing to cope. Sometimes we decide to not cope out of fear (or stubbornness or any of your basic seven deadly sins), which invariably causes more of the same trouble and then we wonder "why does this always happen to me?" We end up blaming others for our unaddressed, uncontrolled personal, spiritual, and national imperfections.<br />
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Genuine coping requires some humility, a recognition that we are not by default always right nor are our desires and preferences by default the best thing for all involved. When we reject our own need for some humility we reject our own legitimacy and do real damage to ourselves and others. The problem is that it is often others who suffer for our lack of humility long before we do, if we ever do. <br />
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We are all human. None of us are imbued with all knowing, all seeing righteousness. None of us are superior to others by sheer virtue of the fact that it is we within our skin. Neither is anyone superior to others because they have a title or wear a uniform or badge. None of these things can magically turn a human being into a superior being. How could they? Good gravy. No external thing can change the basic truth that regardless of how highly we think of ourselves we are still ordinary human beings, imperfect and prone to every human fault and failing that all humans inherently possess. No one is perfect. <br />
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There is no such thing as someone who is never wrong. Those who would claim otherwise are full of bull pucky. Yet there are many who bristle and lash out at any suggestion that they are wrong, that what they are doing is wrong, that what they believe to be factually true or false is not true or false, demonstrably. These are people with false honor. They can seem to be honorable and decent but they do it selectively which means that in fact they are dishonest and dishonorable. Some tactically use the appearance of decency as a tool to get their way.<br />
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From what I've observed throughout my life a certain grotesque form of self-worship is not uncommon. A whole lot of people obnoxiously and openly express their belief that they are above all others although when confronted about this they will usually deny it. They will display self-righteous offense, they will lash out, they will proclaim that their behavior is justified, necessary and right and that any who disagree are criminals, crazy, evil or dangerous to society. They are unwavering and insistent that the rules do not apply to them because of their special status among us, whatever that supposed status may be. <br />
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Whatever the specifics of their stories, they will never directly answer the question as to how it can be that the rules don't apply to them. This question can never be answered honestly because there is no justification for the claim or belief that some of us are above the rules that apply to all of us. The bottom line is that society's special people believe that they are entitled to behave in any way they please and may not be held responsible for their actions. They will not hear reason. In fact they are impervious to reason and cannot be reasoned with, and as I see it, this is the real definition of insanity. This kind of insanity is the very essence of "power". <br />
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Power is the ability to do whatever you want regardless of the harm it does to others and to get away with it. I have always thought there was something wrong with people who hunger for power and it is finally clear to me why. To want this kind of power over others is not sane. It is criminal.<br />
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I have little doubt that those who are powerful understand this very well. They recognize the thin line that separates authority from power. There is an important difference between these things. Authority is granted by others while power is taken against the will of others. If we're talking about freedom, justice, and the legitimate rule of law then these can only exist in the presence of authority, but they cannot exist under the total control of those in power over everyone's lives. <br />
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Authoritarian rule is about having power and by definition it is antithetical to freedom. Authoritarian rule despises freedom and demands obeisance and terrible punishments are wreaked out upon any who have the audacity to hold contradicting opinions from the authoritarians in power. <br />
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What we have witnessed of authoritarian abuse of power are things like death squads that torture, rape and murder masses of people, especially poor people and indigenous peoples because such people are seen as filthy, not human and useless, and "cleansing" the world of them is necessary in the authoritarian perspective. The authoritarians may also have decided to take the land and natural resources for themselves and don't want to deal fairly with the dirty un-people who live on it so they simply order them exterminated. Authoritarians construct concentration camps to round up political enemies and other undesirable persons of various cultures, races and religions because authoritarians fear anyone who thinks differently, does not want to conform, is critical of authoritarian rule, especially if they are influential to any degree, or otherwise prefer living in freedom rather than living down on their knees to perpetual fear, brutality and total control over their lives.<br />
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These are the things that seriously threaten authoritarian control and vision and are aggressively dealt with in the aim of purification of the people and obtaining everlasting conformity in the kingdom. Authoritarians viscerally hate anything that might undermine their total control over others; and their tendency toward murderous retribution is well documented historically as well as in modern newspapers. This shameless brutality and injustice is the very nature and definition of power which is why I feel disturbed when I see so many people applauding authoritarian brutality and feeling the vicarious thrill of entitlement and unmitigated bigotry of the powerful to wreak revenge and mass murder on all perceived enemies. Once reached, this state of mind has left reason far behind and is well embedded in the self licking ice cream cone of insanity. It cannot be reasoned with and any attempt to do so will likely result in violence against the reasonable.<br />
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Few authoritarians are open or honest about their perceived entitlement to have total control over other people's lives. They understand that being blunt about it by simply proclaiming some self endowed right to control people would be rejected outright by those whom they wish to control and they would lose their position of power. This presents them a dilemma in that holding power gives them the legal right they need and want to do crime at will and get away with it, but doing crime straight out is not socially acceptable anywhere. So what is an ordinary man in power with raging criminal lusts supposed to do? <br />
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The answer is as old as it is easy. He simply lies about it. The standard authoritarian lie that works every time is telling people they are under threat from something and that horrible destruction and suffering will assuredly come unless he is allowed to take total control and save them all.<br />
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Authoritarian proclamations of entitlement to do whatever they want in order to uphold some supposed higher good even when what he does is clearly harmful to others should feel fairly familiar to us today. It is fear mongering. It is insanity. But it works every time. <br />
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Authoritarians show a complete and total lack of respect for others, which is also insane. Authoritarians display an abject refusal to put oneself in other people's shoes long enough to understand them, which is inexcusable as well as insane. Technical legalese that exists in support of excusing the inexcusable is completely insane. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> <br />
When authoritarian rule decimates a nation because it is intrinsically insane, how can we wonder why things are the way they are?<br />
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Authoritarians are dangerous because they refuse to acknowledge the reality that they are imperfect. They believe their station in life erases any imperfections and so they can never be wrong, no matter how wrong they are. At the risk of repeating myself, this is insanity. It is also insane to believe that you bear no responsibility for the harm you do when it's clear that no one else could possibly be responsible for your chosen actions. It is complete nonsense. People who are this kind of wrong can't afford to be honest, decent, compassionate or humble. They have no legitimate excuse or reason for doing the things they do. It is all self serving and rife with depraved indifference to others. It is criminal. <br />
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Seeing only ones own self interests and refusing to consider or respect other people's lives is the very basis of wrongdoing. When people who are not in positions of power lie, cheat, steal or murder they are prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law. Yet when those in power commit the same kinds of crimes to a much greater degree they are lauded and applauded. Instead of their ruthless self interest being seen as vicious and criminal it is seen as a sign of strength and single-mindedness. <br />
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The problem with single-mindedness, not only in people with power but in normal day to day relationships is that when more than one person is involved, more than one mind is involved. Whenever two or more are involved, anyone who becomes so single-minded that they forget or refuse to acknowledge the presence and equal existence of the other minds involved is exhibiting a gross failure of honesty. A total disinterest in understanding all sides in a disagreement can only lead to harm being done. It is unjust, unfair and unreasonable. <br />
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Sometimes a failure to empathize is knowing and pernicious but sometimes it is due to a habit of not trying to see things from the other person's perspective. Often when the other person's perspective is explained in terms of, "How would you feel if this happened to you?", we can suddenly understand and change our position. It becomes pernicious when we understand and still don't change our position and continue to cause harm anyway. This is standard procedure in taking power over others, you simply ignore their legitimacy and their entire being and do whatever you like.<br />
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I have on occasion been taken aback by people I personally know who defaulted into this attitude of self superiority. They are not only impervious to reason they reject it with outrage and holier-than-thou displays of temper. They have lashed out with stinging insults and crude remarks with the specific aim of causing hurt feelings and self doubt, expecting an apology for not seeing them as superior to me and for having my own opinion instead. These are ordinary people who demand subservience to them and an automatic yielding of self to their desire for power over your relationship. <br />
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It is shocking and bizarre to go through it, very unpleasant. It cannot end well, it never has. When people become impervious to reason they are not sane, and you cannot reason with insanity. Other than walking away, I don't know any other way to deal with people like this. Sticking around and trying hard to get them to see reason is pointless. They will not do it. And when they will not do it you have to walk away. <br />
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What possesses some people to automatically expect everyone to see things as they do? The simple reality that more than one mind is involved makes it self evident that such an expectation is mistaken. Why do some people believe they are so special that no other perspectives are legitimate but their own? What makes them so special? Can they fly? Can they walk through walls? Can they turn invisible? Can they morph into other people or things? Can they turn mice into poodles? Turn lawn clippings into pastry? No. They can't do anything special. They are every bit as human as the rest of us. We are all equal along these lines, none of us have special powers that others don't have. Yet this simple reality doesn't stop many humans from pretending to be more and better than others; and worse it doesn't stop many other humans from believing them.<br />
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<u>Part Two</u><br />
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What is a king? What is a queen? A duke, an earl, a prime minister, a president, a pope, a CEO, a general? Are politicians really morally entitled to destroy other people's lives for whatever reasons they claim? Are soldiers really morally entitled to kill strangers because they wear a uniform? Do job titles or sets of clothing make you right when what you're doing is wrong for the whole rest of the world? Are police really imbued with special entitlements to bust down doors without a warrant instead of just knocking, or to shoot unarmed people 71 times in their own home just because they came armed, have special clothes on, and somebody somewhere told them that the very rules they are there to uphold and embody don't apply to them? When you say you're doing something in the name of good but what you're doing is wrong, does that make it okay? Pardon me, but it does not. <br />
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A lot of people want to do wrong things for their own reasons; the definition of wrong being causing harm to others by intent for personal satisfaction. So how can you do harm to others with intent for personal satisfaction and hope to get away with it? There is only one way and that is to sell yourself and others on the idea that the rules that apply to everyone do not apply to you. <br />
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A few common examples:<br />
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-You are a special person called a Queen because you have a crown and a palace, get paid tons of money, are unaccountable to anyone for your actions or lack thereof, claim inclusion in an elite and special bloodline, and you command a bunch of heavily armed soldiers who will kill anyone who challenges the idea that you're just another lady with nothing special going on. <br />
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-You are a special person called a president because you live in a famous building, get paid tons of money, are unaccountable to anyone for your actions or lack thereof, and you command a heavily armed military force that will kill anyone who challenges the idea that you're just another man with nothing special about you and that you are indeed fully accountable for all of your crimes. <br />
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-You are an important person who is above the rules because you have money and power and powerful friends, <br />
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-because you are endowed by authority figures with special permission to do things that are wrong and/or you get paid an enormous salary to do them which somehow makes it right,<br />
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-because you wear a badge or are employed by authorities in an enforcement or intelligence position, <br />
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-because your work is of utmost importance according to you and you're a self-entitled ideologue,<br />
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-because it's a national security matter, <br />
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-because you're a famous television personality, or a corporate billionaire, or a mega church TV preacher, <br />
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-because you have a degree in something and are a lauded, applauded, respected and admired individual in your small circle of experts in their expertise so if they say you deserve a Nobel prize even though what you're doing is incomprehensibly destructive, then it must be true. <br />
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All of these examples have one thing in common. They all offer and expect unquestioning acceptance of excuses for certain people to do harm to others and get away with it. This is the claim of the special person. The rules do not apply to special people. The rules only apply to everyone else. And you are expected and obligated to be fine with that.<br />
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The excuses of powerful people are not part of the normal and usual life experience of the vast majority of people in this country or in the world. In fact the vast majority of people are told they are powerless and are treated as irrelevant to the interests of those with power. People are trained and convinced to give up their ability to think and act for themselves and to instead allow experts, officials and authorities to do all of their thinking and acting for them, and that they, the weak and powerless must simply do as they are told or be punished. People are repeatedly told that this is the better way to go and that to not go this way would bring on the end of civilization, raining down anarchy and chaos on us all. Yet should any thinking person understand what a crock this is, and should they stand their ground and refuse to bow down and obey self important liars claiming impossible authority over the lives of others, they will be harmed by authorities and/or taken away. And most people are just fine with that. <br />
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My question of the day is, what is this about? What is this need of some people to portray themselves as more and better than what they are? Why do so many people long for public adulation? What is this extreme passion for idolatry about? And why are so many ordinary people anxious and willing to worship these false gods?<br />
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There is no shortage of self important fakers selling the public all manner of nonsense about their special status in the world. They claim to possess special rights, access, wisdom, information or secrets that nobody else has. They offer to share it only if certain obligations are met. They offer to sell it. They sell the insane notion that merely on the basis of what somebody has inside their head they are superior or inferior beings, entitled to live and prosper or entitled to nothing at all. They often will require absolute and total loyalty, obedience, secrecy and will offer false feelings of superiority and smug insider status. These peddlers of human corruption and weakness are superb salesmen convincing people that obvious lies are truth, when they have nothing special at all going for them. They are nothing and no one special, but people buy it and take it straight to heart. <br />
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It boils down to salesmanship folks, the exact thing that's turned our minds and our country into a corpulent bowl of dumb green violent narcissistic jello. Salesmanship runs the world. Salesmanship convinces people that they want something they don't need or want. Salesmanship appeals to the inner beast which has no ability to think rationally, it only reacts from the emotional level. It's instinct is to free itself of worry, pain and fear, to avoid discomfort, hunger and need, and to be enveloped in safety, security, affection and plenty. Beasts just wanna have fun. <br />
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Like it or not there it is anyway. What allegedly and supposedly allows us to rise above all of the other beasts on the planet is not free will, it is the possession of a higher, finer aspect of being. One that allows humans the ability to think and reason rather than react, to do math and read, to understand concepts like justice, fairness, truth and lies and so forth. Where we have gone wrong is in assuming that possessing the ability to use those things is the same as actually using them. It is not the same. It's a bit like that exercise equipment you've got collecting dust in the other room. Just possessing it is not the same as actually putting it to regular use.<br />
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By the same token, possessing the capacity for engaging in higher thinking and feeling is not the same as actually engaging in it. Not using these potentials means the inner beast is in charge of our lives and it is not interested in and has no need for higher and finer things like compassion and justice or humility. What does a beast need with any of those things? People who believe in unleashing their inner beast and not forcing it to obey their higher and better will are the self same people who bloviate about survival of the fittest, the law of the jungle, and other such self excusing hogwash. The unleashed beast has no conscience and when he kills millions and steals trillions, he calls it success. And we believe him.<br />
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A successful beast relies on things other than higher thinking and feeling. If the beast is clever it can use deception to capture its prey. If the beast is physically small and impotent it can use poison or deliver a potent sting or bite to take down prey and ward off enemies. If the beast is big and strong it can use it's physical strength to overcome both prey and foe and take whatever it likes whenever it likes from whomsoever it likes. It can kill and not think anything of it. <br />
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Interestingly though, many of the greater beasts of the wild don't use their giant size and strength, cleverness, greater speed or poison to prevail over all others mindlessly and without normal and expectable reasons based on legitimate need. Never do we see a lioness who mindlessly kills deer after deer after deer just to pile them up in a great big pile and gloat over her killing ability. It would make no sense to her. She only kills to eat and she can't eat 200 dead deer before they become putrid, rotting corpses.<br />
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Consider also the elephant. A gentle creature that could crush the life out of any human in a second which instead consents to be used by humans for various human purposes in a mutual agreement. It is only when pushed beyond the limit of patience through humiliating, degrading and unkind treatment that an elephant will finally reach out and squash you like a bug. As the saying goes, even a rattlesnake will give you fair warning before it strikes. It takes a dang good and very understandable reason for a beast to kill a human being. It doesn't necessarily take any good reason at all for humans to kill other humans. Or animals. Apparently the great beasts of the wild have more going on than we give them credit for. They are not authoritarians. They do not offer excuses for insane behavior. They share the watering hole with all of the other creatures. The only entitlement that spans across all species is the entitlement to take what you need to survive and that makes perfect sense. <br />
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This applies in full to humanity too. The only difference being that humans, being possessed of the ability to use their higher mind, can at minimum show self restraint and take other people into consideration before acting on their desires. We don't rape whoever we see on the street that is sexually appealing to us. We don't take things from other people or from stores at will. It is this ability to behave in a civilized manner that makes us different from the other animals. But our failure to engage this higher potential undoes civilization, and brings on much destruction. When we refuse to control ourselves let's not pretend we are anything special. We become no different than wild animals.<br />
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Our narcissistic human egos want to reject the notion that wild beasts possess any higher qualities. We like to pretend that we are vastly superior to all other sentient beings on the planet.<br />
Understand that thinking oneself superior means entitlement to treat those who are inferior to you in any way you like. This is more insanity. <br />
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It wasn't that long ago that authoritative official scientific opinion was that animals had no capacity for emotions beyond alligator-brain fear and automatic responses to stimuli. These responses were chalked up to a strange concept they called animal instinct. They even asserted that animals didn't feel pain when you killed them. They weren't even really afraid when you held them down to slaughter them, they were just struggling and crying out mindlessly for no reason, and we believed them. <br />
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Scientific authorities were imbued with special powers of understanding beasts that mere ordinary people could never possess because ordinary people did not have the special official education and training these special authoritative people had. Ordinary people who owned, possessed and worked with animals every day of their lives have long understood that animals have wide ranging emotions, some quite deep and complex, and that they most assuredly feel pain and suffering. But the scientific authorities ignored the ordinary people's first hand experience and knowledge and dismissed it as nonsense and drivel and so much pooh-pooh. (So who are you going to believe? Me or your own lying eyes?) <br />
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This pattern of self excuse for breaking the rules of common decency is rife in authoritarian power culture. Look around and you will see it everywhere. All officialdom is the octopus of power, the arms of power. Officialdom serves and exists to serve power, and I have already established that power is insanity so officialdom exists to serve insanity. <br />
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Go ahead and tell me I'm wrong. You can't. We are drowning in a sea of insanity. Wherever you see injustice and brutality the odds are it is being carried out at the hands of officialdom. This is why cops get away with cold blooded murder, and soldiers too. Goldman Sachs and Wall Street stealing trillions, getting away with it, destroying the whole western economy, and handing you the bill. Radiation leaks from reactor malfunctions, deadly pills, synthetic food, polluted water and air, destroyed soil, military weapons and equipment that wreak permanent death and destruction all over the world. I'm talking about the clear cut cases of criminal behavior for which there is no excuse. When the perpetrators are arms of the octopus they walk free for their crimes. Their crimes will not even be crimes, they will be deemed something else and made okay, even good, fine and noble. A virtual encyclopedia of officialdom's euphemisms exist to support their lies. Everything from "enhanced interrogation" to "collateral damage" and beyond. These euphemisms exist to re-frame the horrible into the legitimate and elude prosecution. These are things that no man should ever get away with, and yet they do. Every day. <br />
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Official authoritative scientific opinions freed science, industry and the military to treat animals in any way they pleased without pangs of conscience for their cruelty. It has freed science, industry and the military to treat people any way they choose, in the name of whatever phony higher good or self interest they use as their official excuse for the rules not applying to them. People's homes and land are taken from them, jobs are shipped overseas, the prosperity of the people and hope for the future is decimated and destroyed, thanks to official authoritative expert opinions. <br />
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The damage done to health and well-being, to prosperity, to justice, to freedom, to all of us, is carried out by officialdom, not by the ordinary people. When are we going to realize that to blindly trust authority is idiotic? At best.<br />
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There is a reason that big industry and science seeks out and aligns itself with power and it mostly boils down to greed. Breaking the rules of normal human decency to make money is very lucrative and no one is going to be allowed to interrupt a thick and steady profit stream. Today, those who would attempt to shut down cruel factory farms or who agonize over the cruelty lavished onto animals sacrificed to scientific and military pursuits are so threatening to the profit stream that they have been branded terrorists. People who choose to stand in solidarity with poor and politically ravaged people in other countries are also perceived to be and treated as terrorists. That's how greedy and narcissistic humanity can be. But that's only a drop in the bucket, just one example of an ocean of human selfishness and cruelty, all of which has been made holy by the decree of the powerful.<br />
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Our American history of owning slaves for personal profit never went away, it has only used time and salesmanship to disguise itself and make itself not only palatable but pervasive and even highly esteemed. We have all heard that a hard working person is what defines a person's worth, and we believe it. Don't have a job? Then you are a scum bag and it's all your fault, you're just no good. Good people work so hard that they die at the office; the best workers have no lives outside the workplace, and most people deeply want to be good. They embrace their slavery and see nothing wrong with it. We all want to be good slaves and please our masters. Just try to get out of those ankle chains friend. You're not going anywhere. Today there is nowhere to go. There is no underground railroad, the slavers own that too, and it only goes right back to the plantation. Think it through until you see it, it's not hidden. It's all right before our eyes. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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The dreadful condition we are in all goes back to authority; who and what the masses of people accept as authority and believe is legitimate authority. There is an unshakable default assumption by many people that all authority is good and that it does what it does for our own good. Because we have this belief we are not only happy to obey our authority figures, we obey them without question. We believe whatever they tell us. We extend our deep and abiding trust to mere mortals who are every bit as flawed as the rest of us, in the unwavering belief that they are never wrong, they never lie, and even when what they're saying and doing stinks and looks fishy and is flat wrong we tell ourselves that there is a good reason for it and we keep trusting them anyway. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, of world class wrongdoing, lying, theft, extortion, murder and crime, we still believe they could never do wrong. At least not on purpose. <br />
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In America children never grow up. When they assume adult form they just become nationalists who transfer their love and undying trust for father over to the state, over to authority figures who do their thinking and deciding and acting for them and if anyone questions our official authority parents we get very, very angry. We will kick your ass. <br />
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We blindly place our lives in the hands of doctors we don't know from Adam, having no idea if that doctor is capable, was a D student, is a pervert or has a terrible record of causing death and injury instead of helping people get better. To us, every doctor is a pinnacle of perfection, incapable of being a flaming idiot or a crappy doctor and to question what someone's doctor says only makes you look like a crazy person. <br />
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We unquestioningly believe that whatever we see on TV must be true because they couldn't get away with lying to us. None of us seem to know that it's legal for the news shows we watch to lie as much as they like, no one will stop them and they will never be made to pay a price for it.<br />
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Our official state parents are infallible, godlike authorities, and that goes double for the police, triple for the military, and quadruple for experts in medicine, science, business, and politics. And if you aren't an officially recognized expert and you know they are wrong and say so then you are either a lunatic telling lies or a crazy person trying to make trouble. And none of this ever strikes us as slightly bizarre. If the authority figure says it is so then it's a fact and that's that. If you don't like it go live in some other country with a dictator and see how you like it. Oh the irony.<br />
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What is authority? What does it mean? Does anyone but us really have authority over our lives? Is authority by definition always right? Is challenging authority wrong? Is it evil? Is it really anarchy? And if it is anarchy is that a bad thing? I guess it all boils down to who you ask and I'll throw this in for whatever it's worth, the majority is usually wrong. <br />
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Right and wrong are not established by consensus. Right and wrong are indelible truths, in spite of the high volume trumpeting about absolutism and blah blah blah. A tree is a tree is a tree, and right is right and wrong is wrong and all of the expert salesmanship in the world can't change that. What salesmanship can change is the way people see things, hence the multi-billion dollar industry called perception management. <br />
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Enough!<br />
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I want to think for myself. I want facts, not opinions, not assertions, not gilded lilies, not TV news mannequins telling me how to feel; just give me the cold, hard, boring facts and I'll take it from there. I want to hear all sides of a story. I want to listen to first person accounts, not third, fourth or 55th person retellings of who knows what. I want to hear differing viewpoints and see the outcomes for myself. I want to hear what the accused has to say in his defense and do not find someone guilty who is not allowed to give his side of the story. I do not find someone guilty because authority accuses someone of being guilty. That's just not good enough. Show me the proof and above all let the accused speak for himself. Give him access to the same media coverage as his accusers so I can hear his side of the story in full. <br />
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I don't want to accept anybody else's opinion as my own. I will decide my own opinions and positions and perspectives for myself. I am a work in progress and if I cannot do those things for myself then I might as well be dead for I would not exist in other than physical form. I would not be alive I would be dead where it matters most, in my mind, heart and soul.<br />
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And that is why folks, I strongly recommend we all consider with true sobriety just who and what authority figures we would lay our lives down for, because the sad reality is that corrupt authority kills people and destroys nations first and foremost. This is not hidden, not today and not throughout history. People often say follow the money. This is true but the second part should be follow the dead bodies, because this will paint the whole picture. This is what reveals false authority.<br />
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There are two primary sources of ultimate authority over human lives and they are the crown and God. It has been so for millennia. The crown is mortal, temporary, weak, imperfect and corruptible. God is immortal, eternal and incorruptible. The crown is by definition imperfect. God is perfect. But the crown conflates itself with God's untouchable perfection and in so doing it makes sheeple out of people and gets brother killing brother in the name of God and country.<br />
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This is all driven by expertly delivered salesmanship that preys on emotions and so it prevails. Emotions become the same as truth when these things have no connection. Emotions are very real and they are indelible and once aroused or provoked they will stand. Emotions cannot be questioned or criticized because doing so is an unjustifiable attack. Emotions are our most primary property and we are very possessive of them and we feel fully entitled to them because we are entitled to them. What we are not entitled to do is act wrongly because of our emotions; yet after reaching a point of heightened emotions we no longer care and we do terrible things to others, feeling absolutely entitled all the way. The successful conflation of authority with the incomprehensible truth of nature and creation we call God is ludicrous on it's face and a piece of shameless nonsense.<br />
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All of the officially sanctioned authority figures we have, meaning sanctioned by the crown, are to be deemed automatically good and right and to be believed and obeyed. The many authority figures in our lives all wear a crown in some form or another, be it a uniform or a badge or a title or a bank account, it is a version of the crown imbued with all the same authority of the crown. The crown excuses the wearer of all liability and responsibility. Wearing the crown makes you automatically right and to be obeyed and anyone who disagrees is not only wrong but evil, a scoundrel, a criminal, a thug, an anarchist, a terrorist, someone the media tells the public to fear and hate and the public fears and hates them on command. The crown is the symbol of being excused from natural reality and getting away with it, and the crown today is donned in many forms. I am not saying that every single person of authority is untrustworthy or bad or wrong, on the contrary there are some who earn our trust and are accountable for their actions. But the temptation to abuse power is impossible to resist for many mortals and if the temptation doesn't get you, the peer pressure to conform and threats to ruin your life and career probably will. If that fails a generous amount of money buys most everyone off. Those last few die-hards, people of virtue, people who stand for natural truth, for the real right and wrong, they are our social lepers whom nobody likes. <br />
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The crown is inextricably linked to human sacrifice and here's why. A whole lot of humans have to die to support the lifestyles and power of the crown and it's octopus, and because the crown is seen as infallibly right and driven by noble motivations and concern for the people, not second to God but wholly equal to God, then whatever the crown says, wants and does is automatically right. This is how and why human sacrifice carries on without stop and why we are in unending serial wars. This is why we have poverty and injustice and officials and experts who shamelessly and routinely abuse us all. <br />
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I will believe that a government is legitimate when there are no more poor people and the prisons are empty. Until then, not so much.<br />
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I don't have to tell you how wrong all of this insanity is. I shouldn't have to tell you that false authority is just that, false, and that nobody, none of us, have to live down on our knees before any other mere mortal. If you believe that a mere human being is somehow above you just watch where their feet are when they walk and you will see that theirs are on the same ground as yours.<br />
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I hate special people, I really do, and I am sick of them. I am beyond tired of watching crooks, liars, killers and thieves present their new crowns and don them before us so that they may live their lives above all the rules of God and nature and right and wrong. I've had about all of that I can take.<br />
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Never give your trust away for free. Require that it be earned and set your standards high. Your failure to do so will precisely determine the quality of your life and your children's lives because the ultimate responsibility for your life is in your hands, not in the hands of any authority figure on this earth. No authority figure, official, doctor, scientist, politician, military officer or institution will ever have to take responsibility for your actions, life, health or well-being. They may claim the force of the law as they tell you what to do, as they demand, command, or order you to comply; they may claim the right to prevent you from doing what you need to do to preserve your life and soul; but before you do whatever they tell you, since you will bear the ultimate and full responsibility for your actions, since you alone will have to pay the price if and when things go very wrong as they often do, you had better make sure it's really something that you truly believe is right. Because the blood stains, regrets and repercussions will forever and only be on your own hands. </div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-52186941984828855822012-04-17T23:39:00.001-07:002012-04-17T23:43:11.043-07:00A Message To Jerry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
I read your comment and before I say anything else let me say this, I am sorry. Thank you for caring enough to be mad at me. I have not abandoned TOBE, I've just been in a quiet space for a while. <br />
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A lot is going on in the world, not much of it good. How many posts can I write about what is so obvious to those who are paying attention? This is all going to play out and I don't see what can be done about it. What will be, will be. Not in a mystical sense, in the cause and effect sense. In all honesty, what's happening is nothing new. It happens over and over again. The "new world order" isn't new at all, it's old and putrid and ugly and offensive and it never seems to die. It's the same old desiccated, heartless and selfish elite establishment types who think the whole world belongs to them on account of their superiority and all and they deserve whatever they want and you don't. Read some Dickens, it's nothing new. They're back and going for every last crumb, right here in the free and democratic USA. By the same token they should all refresh themselves with a good reading of the French Revolution which they are also bringing back. Round and round it goes.<br />
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I haven't posted to the blog because I wanted to be able to say something positive and uplifting and true and not make people want to go lie down in a dark closet with a depression worse than a root canal. It's been a bitch to find something positive and true to say. Not necessarily because there is nothing positive and true going on, maybe I just don't know about it. Logic would indicate that is most likely. I am sure good things are happening, somewhere.<br />
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I had to disconnect from everything for a while, for as long as I needed to, for the sake of my spirit. Instead of paying attention to the criminals in charge, I watched TV shows I'd never heard of before on YouTube and learned things. I discovered Ghost Adventures and now believe that spooky things are very real, although I doubt the accepted take on what it really is, is accurate. Who knows who or what the entities are? I would not presume them to be anything or anyone we expect them to be, it feels much stranger than that. Personally I don't think it's such a good idea to play with invisible people but that's just my sensible opinion. People are free to do as they will with invisible people, just don't ask me to come along.<br />
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I might also mention that I went to a local historical park with digital recorder in hand, in the dead quiet of a rainy Tuesday night with the crazy idea of catching an EVP. I wanted to prove to myself that such things are real because it sure seemed like a whole lot of credible people were reporting getting them. I got one within the first two minutes of being there and all I can tell you is this, I will never do that again. It scared the pee wall eyed crap out of me and I am done. But now I know for sure the phenomenon is real, which is what I set out to find out. What it all means is a whole 'nother thing. <br />
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Back to YouTube, I have also watched every episode of Real Crime, a kind of British version of Unsolved Mysteries about horrible terrible crimes committed against innocent people who never saw it coming. Serial Killers, child abductors and murderers. In fact the Real Crime series proved so dark, horrible and scary that it led me to the Australian and Canadian equivalents of the same theme and I watched all of their episodes too. I think I watched over a hundred episodes of horrible terrible bloody murders and crimes of all conceivable nastiness and I learned a lot about the way killers think and see things. It was interesting to compare the crime stories coming out of each of the four English speaking countries and to get a feel for each culture's way of seeing and thinking about these things. <br />
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England seems to have a lot of serial pedophile child killers, Canada has some noteworthy stealth murderers, America has all kinds of loonies but to be fair it's a much bigger country than the others and not nearly as supremely violent as the foreign presses like to make out. Every country has depraved lunatic serial killers running around so none are any better or worse than others.<br />
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I do think that hands down Australia's serial killers are the scariest and most horrifying, but it could just be the graphically realistic recreations of those crimes done for Australian TV which are not typical in the USA, Canada or Britain. It's hard to say. Because really, how do you compare Jeffrey Dahmer to the lone gunman who simply kills everyone he sees in a particular town one day? Horror is horror. <br />
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Now you may think this is all really dark and depressing, but to me it was a step up from where my spirit was. It was sunshine and lollipops compared to the depressing place inside my head and heart. Let me make clear, that depressing place was not the product of what I read in the newspapers, it was due to the painful loss of someone I cared about very much. It hit me hard and the last half of last year is still a blur to me. It was not a good time for me, and I'll leave it at that.<br />
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I am only just now beginning to feel like myself again, so I hope you can understand that I didn't abandon TOBE or retire or anything like that. That is why I didn't write a post to say good bye, I'm not done yet. I obviously won't be posting on a schedule of any kind, other than my own unpredictable one, which is the whole point of having a blog, at least to me. <br />
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That said I am putting up a new honkin' long post today, mostly because of your message and the resultant kick in the butt it gave me to finish the post I started two weeks ago. I went straight away and finished it. <br />
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I heard you, and I hope you don't give up on me. <br />
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Ang</div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-78285085950183503992011-11-07T12:40:00.000-08:002011-11-07T12:41:28.447-08:00Arrogance. It's curable.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJNqE5P-X0uw_JHvPagLTt1o02wQh3VCm29-dZH4h3Du8yHXWQX2vd1YP4CmJICnstTLGqO31n3zALQus2bHgnCHPaFRFS2X9bu6-45LXF2IvslF0v3TdPFVNOlH8-3KIQiSi/s1600/arrogance.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJNqE5P-X0uw_JHvPagLTt1o02wQh3VCm29-dZH4h3Du8yHXWQX2vd1YP4CmJICnstTLGqO31n3zALQus2bHgnCHPaFRFS2X9bu6-45LXF2IvslF0v3TdPFVNOlH8-3KIQiSi/s320/arrogance.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> American politicians. Israeli politicians. <br />
Rabid oxymoronic pro-war Christians. <br />
Rabid self-superior anti religion Atheists. <br />
Rabid pro-Zionist anti everyone else Jews. <br />
Cold blooded Conservatives. Pointless Democrats. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Deviant Republicans. <br />
Privately Owned Senators. Check toting Lobbyists. <br />
Corporate Monopoly Media. Corporate Media Whores. <br />
Idiotic Authoritarians.<br />
The Politically Correct. <br />
Corrupt Capitalists. Corrupt Militarists. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Corrupt Nationalists. Fascists. The War and Death cults.<br />
Free Marketeers and all unhinged Ideologues. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The filthy rich. The investment class. The Fed. Wall Street. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Big Insurance. Big Credit. Big Banking. Big Business. <br />
Big Carbon-Total Control One Worlders.<br />
National Security. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The TSA. The FBI. The DEA. ICE. The CIA. The IRS.<br />
The completely insane Pentagon superstars. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The shameful State Department upper crust. <br />
The militarized "shoot first and ignore questions later" Police. <br />
The sadistic Criminal Justice and Prison Systems. <br />
Unaccountable Private Security Forces. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Loony over the top Swat Teams.<br />
Superstar Generals. Superstar Clergy. Superstar Economists. <br />
Twisted Lawyers. Bought off Judges, Jurors, Politicians, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Experts, CEO's, Doctors, Scientists, Professors, Journalists. <br />
Organized Legalized Criminals.<br />
Official Terrorists. Official Torturers. Official kidnappers.<br />
Marketing, Advertising and PR Firms.<br />
Hollywood's dreck delivery systems. </b><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">WILL THESE PEOPLE EVER SHUT UP?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Can't they just go away and leave us in peace?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because here is the truth and the bottom line: The whole lot of these nonstop loud mouths are arrogant, self serving, and selfish; and when combined as they are today in their incessant orchestrated cacophony of bull pucky, they are RESPONSIBLE IN FULL for ALL of the gargantuan problems bringing this country to the literal brink of total destruction. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What is wrong with these people?</span></i></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What would it take to make them sit down and shut up?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What would it take to make them understand that </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">everything in the world is not all about them? </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What would it take to make them see how obnoxious and destructive they are?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>What would it take?</i></b><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Do these people not have any sense at all of what is right and what is wrong? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Or are they so self worshiping that all they can see is themselves and all they can think about is what they want and all they can hear is their own bloviating voices?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Would it kill any of these people to just one time, stop and think about what it's like to be on the receiving end of their arrogance and blindness and viciousness? Would it kill them? Really? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lord knows we don't want them to die. We DO want them to knock it off and start acting like reasonable, moral adult human beings with a conscience because frankly America as well as the whole of this world is beyond sick to death of them all and their endless, insane drivel and addiction to violence. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Please. You people of the above-mentioned categories, shut up.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is way past time for you to feel inconsolably ashamed of yourselves. It is way past time for you to face yourselves in the mirror and see what the whole rest of the world sees in you.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just because you're so sure your way is right doesn't make it so.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You are wrong about so many things.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In fact, the whole lot of you are more wrong </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">than you've ever been right.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That you've ever been right at all is debatable.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When are you going to be done terrorizing and destroying our country and the rest of the world?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When are you going to be finished crushing people for no reason other than you want to?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When will you be done destroying justice?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Stealing people blind?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Turning the constitution into a faded memory </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">in the name of God and country?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Selling our country out from under our feet?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When are you going to be done feasting on the flesh of children and violating human dignity?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When exactly will you be through poisoning, hating, beating, imprisoning, torturing and killing people you don't happen to like?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Exactly how many more bombs will it take getting dropped on how many more people before you lot can finally call it a day and go on home?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">America and people all over the world want your answers to those questions. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because what you're doing is wrong.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And we want you to stop.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What you are doing doesn't work </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and you should have faced it by now.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You have cost us uncountable trillions.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You have cost us even more in things that are beyond price.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We refuse to pay for your self-serving escapades anymore.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And don't you dare attack Iran, don't you dare start one more war. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Don't you dare!</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We don't like your value system.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We are not interested in living down on our knees to you,</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">or paving your personal streets in gold,</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">or keeping you in luxurious quarters,</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">or bleeding under the violence of your billy clubs,</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">or your bombs, </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">or choking on the smoke of your tear gas canisters,</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">or living in fear under your nosy surveillance systems,</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">or your personal data collection or digital eavesdropping,</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">or dying because of your corruption.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Come up with the cash yourself boys, we're not picking up your tabs anymore.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why should we?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What's in it for us?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When have we benefited from anything you have done and continue to do?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Where is the return on our investment?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is no return. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then we must withdraw our money.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's only common sense.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Which of you capitalists would do otherwise?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You are totally out of control.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We don't know you people.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You claim to be unaccountable to the people </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">which only proves how lost you have become.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We don't want or need what you are doing. Not in America, not anywhere else in the world.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The truth of the matter is that a rather large number of you folks should be behind prison bars for the rest of your lives. And you know who you are.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are other people standing by to take the wheel. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Qualified people. Sane people.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People who don't agree that violence is the answer to all questions.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People who don't think it is too much to ask to know what those who take our paychecks are up to.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People who know that official secrecy is cover for official crimes.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People who know what is right, and what is wrong.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People who don't play obscene favorites.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People who put life before money.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People whose values and morals are in order.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People who know that killing is wrong.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People who can see all sides without taking one.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is what we need. That is what we want.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is not what you do.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You've got the money and power disease. You are sick with greed and sadism and arrogance.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The only known cure is humility.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Develop some.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">.</span>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-53436353009169277382011-09-16T18:12:00.000-07:002011-09-17T22:29:15.354-07:00What I Have Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCj6h8dLEHYlpfLpOHz1ieu2nrjIqt-lH4WtH49lTQ8hakorSdjhYBHmJVsPZqh7CU2T3IUjI3v4y3kE05fupKT80OFiqAAKM8qrNcHAb1YFIRoMfC2ZcAcR7TAa6RyJbpTaz/s1600/frog+and+stars.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCj6h8dLEHYlpfLpOHz1ieu2nrjIqt-lH4WtH49lTQ8hakorSdjhYBHmJVsPZqh7CU2T3IUjI3v4y3kE05fupKT80OFiqAAKM8qrNcHAb1YFIRoMfC2ZcAcR7TAa6RyJbpTaz/s320/frog+and+stars.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was somewhere around 2004 that I first ran across David Icke online. Someone had posted a video of one of his day-long slide presentations at a theater in England. It was just him up on a stage talking to a full house of people listening intently to his every word. <br />
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I started to watch it and was immediately engrossed in what he was saying. He was saying what I was seeing. He was making sense. He was stringing together all of the pieces like beads on a necklace and revealing how they were all connected. <br />
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I was so excited. At last, here was somebody talking about the things I was trying so hard to gain insight about. I had done the rounds and never found anything that felt real to me. It was a waste of time going to political web sites, especially the supposedly popular ones. All they did was go around and around and manufacture tangled plates of talk spaghetti. They accomplished nothing. They provided no insights. It was a great big endless taffy pull of 'he said - she said' and upholding the same viewpoints and framing of officialdom and big media. It all stayed on the same mainstream acre and never strayed off it. David Icke swerved all the way off it. He was coming at it from a completely different angle. <br />
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The first four hours of that video had me riveted. It was straight facts, history, and connecting the dots. I was starving for it. Here was someone who had some answers. I felt so gratified and was not going to budge until I saw the whole thing. At the end of the fourth hour he told the audience it was time for a lunch break and to go eat something and be back for the next part in an hour. I took fifteen minutes and then fired up the next segment. Everything was going great, then all of a sudden he started talking about lizard people. I will never forget how I felt. I was absolutely livid. I jumped to my feet in outrage. It was some kind of sick joke. The guy had made a fool out of me. I was sorry I'd ever had the misfortune to run across this stupid video. I shut it off and walked away. <br />
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I went back to sifting through all kinds of things looking for clues, and reading everything I could get my hands on. I had a lot of catching up to do. I was keeping track of what was happening day to day with the absolute intent of knowing who all those people were in congress by name and by face. I was going to watch them and listen to them until I personally knew who they were. At the same time I was going backward in history to understand a great many events I'd heard of but didn't honestly know a thing about. Iran Contra, the Kennedy assassinations, the first Iraq war, Colombian drug lords, senators dying in plane crashes, the Franklin Scandal, the CIA, black ops, false flags, Operation Gladio, Operation Mockingbird, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kent State, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Pan Am/Lockerbie. The list goes on and on. It was pretty damned awful finding out what a bunch of lying, murderous, corrupt men had always been smiling in our faces while doing unspeakable things behind our backs. I was finding out real things, true things that most people didn't know and it was double damned awful finding out that telling friends about them made me lose all of my friends. They reacted to me as if I had gone over the edge and they were very impatient with me. They didn't want to hear it. To them I was sadly misinformed and too dull-witted to know how wrong I was. Or just plain crazy.<br />
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It was tough going at the time. The whole country was in the most terrifying pro-Bush fervor. Nobody would dare say anything that sounded like they had a problem with what Bush was doing. The few that did got served up to the likes of O'Reilly who cut them open and tore their still beating hearts out in order to spit on them. Dissent was unpatriotic and any who doubted the 9-11 story or were against the horror and crime of the Iraq war were nothing but scum. It was really vicious. It was the first time in my life I was ever truly afraid. I was afraid of my own government. People who disagreed were in danger, that much was clear. You had to watch what you said and who you said it to because many people, including long time friends, were becoming every bit as bad as O'Reilly and every bit as insane. <br />
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Combing through leads on the internet and reading from good sources who proved themselves still left a hole where media used to be. I wanted to listen to informed opinion, to hear other perspectives. The media was being torn down. Professional journalists were let go, newspapers bought out, international news offices completely disappeared. There was one perspective on every channel and war was good, the government guys were honest and trustworthy, arresting people for what it said on their tee-shirt was good, and the Patriot Act was patriotic. No photos of flag covered coffins were ever seen and we'd for sure find those WMD's eventually. It was an information crisis. There was no information. And the government was allowing media conglomeration like nothing I'd ever dreamed could happen. I found Robert McChesney and watched <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lYGyIaK80" style="color: #0b5394;">"Orwell Rolls In His Grave"</a><span style="color: #0b5394;">.</span> I saw <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvPXR_6cn0s" style="color: #0b5394;">The Corporation</a><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span> and Danny Schecter's<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4437853756074043715" style="color: #0b5394;">"Weapons of Mass Deception" </a>on the spin about the Iraq war. <br />
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I read Alex Constantine's investigative article on aspartame and immediately gave up "diet" soft drinks and sugarless gum. Found Betty Martini and Dr. Russell Blaylock and knew I'd never get another annual flu shot. Haven't caught a cold or annual flu bug since. Alex Constantine's piece on the Presidio child care nightmare introduced me to the stomach turning world of ritual abuse and pedophilia and the usual protection of the wicked by the media and officialdom. <br />
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Then I found Jeff Rense. He has covered a heck of a lot of ground and his archives are a great place to get lost in. Jeff Rense gave anybody a chance to have their say, even when they were totally loony. And to his credit, Jeff Rense remains a consummate professional with all of his guests. He is never rude. He never attacks them. He does not go for anyone's throat. He honestly tries to be objective though sometimes he's not any better at it than the rest of us. That's okay. He's allowed. Jeff Rense's show has drawn back the curtains on a great many things. He deserves credit for his hard work, and I give it to him. <br />
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I found Alex Jones and watched his earliest videos. He was definitely onto something. He didn't make anything up. I'd never heard of him before. The first show I listened to was an interview he'd done with a big time lawyer whose name escapes me; who was coming out with some insider information about official crimes. He seemed to be telling the truth. If what he was saying was true, and it appeared to be true, he was taking quite a risk. I think he's dead now. That happens a lot I've noticed. I took in Alex Jones' show each morning for several months. This was well before he went pseudo mainstream, and being so new to this kind of information I found it hard to blame him when he'd hit the wall. I absolutely give him credit due for shining lights on dark places, but about the time of his first "big" movie it was time to move along. Can I use the word "spazz" without it being a criticism? Because I don't need to criticize the man. It was just time for me to go.<br />
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I found Air America and Randy Rhodes and Mike Malloy, but Air America went down the bunny hole. Not much of a loss. I did find Mike Malloy again and hung onto him for dear life for a good while. I feel sincere gratitude for his being such a decent, real man with his values in sound order. He hated war and killing and he talked about Israel and Palestine. He referred to the Bush regime as "the Bush crime family". He was so kind that he took personal emails and answered them too. He even mentioned my very first web site on his show and I got thousands of hits. First class human being Mike Malloy. God love him. And his Kishka Polka too.<br />
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I bought Mae Brussel's radio archives and went to sleep at night listening to them.<br />
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Maria Heller. Greg Szymanski. Black Ops Radio. Radical Radio. Ralph Schoenman. Dave Emory. Red Ice. Guns and Butter. Freedomain Radio. TUC radio with Maria Gillardin (who irritates the crap out of me because first she tells you what the speaker is going to say and then he comes on and says it and then she immediately comes back and tells you what the speaker just said. It doesn't seem to bother anyone else but it drives me up the wall). Coast to Coast. Jordan Maxwell. Unwelcome Guests. C-SPAN. Indy Media. World Affairs Council. Tons more. I've lost track. I'll bet Google could give me a complete list of everyone I've read and listened to over the last eight years. By now Google certainly knows more about me than I do. That's not very helpful to me. More perplexing is wondering how it could be of any use to them, or any of their damned business in the first place. <br />
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I found newspapers from all over the world. Canada. Australia. England. Ireland. Russia. Germany. India. China. Jerusalem. Countless web sites. Some did mind bending, serious research and quietly put it out there to be found. Some were just places to visit where brilliant people I hadn't found yet were contributors. Some web sites kept their eyes on corporate badness - congressional bribes, er, campaign donations - war crimes - billions blown on corruption, waste and fraud in Iraq - whistleblowers - and the clumsy inbred thuggery of Bush's second stolen presidential election, to name a tiny few. And then there was a literal explosion of political documentaries coming out and a ravenous public hunger for them. My first web site pbsBlog.com was nothing but pages of links to movies about things we'd never see on TV. <br />
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All the while the corporate/military/intelligence/congressional complex was relentlessly bunker busting American freedom and justice. You could not keep up with it. The hostile corporate takeover of America was the real weapon of mass destruction. <br />
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Switching through the television channels one day in utter disgust with the dreck and mindlessness of it all, I got all the way up to a little clump of channels in the 9,000 range. I had no idea there was a 9,000 range. These few channels at the end were listed way after the pay movie channels and the pay sports channels and the dozens of radio channels and dozens of foreign language channels in Spanish, Chinese and Hindi. After all that there was a channel for UCTV, and Link TV and Free Speech TV, tucked in-between Mormon TV, Evangelist TV and Catholic TV. Free Speech TV was fundraising. Then Democracy Now came on. I was thrilled.<br />
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At the time Democracy Now only had some 130 affiliates picking up the show. It was just Amy Goodman, no Juan. She used to do a War and Peace report where she actually did reporting on the war. Some of it was really good. She reported on things at the other end of our bombs and it was eye opening. I watched it every day. It was quite good for a while but then it went straight down the tubes. <br />
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Democracy Now never even mentions the wars anymore. The War and Peace report never mentions war or peace. Fukushima is long forgotten. Nothing of import seems to make it on the air anymore. She won't touch anything of actual relevance with a ten foot pole. And I really don't care if some 93 year old lady who lived a dream life in some creative career making good money has died. Good. Fuck her. I'm glad she's gone. Make room for somebody else. I don't know her. I don't care. It isn't news. I don't care if that sounds terrible, it's beyond ludicrous. I don't want to hear about orgasms or gay marriage or anything having to do with anyone's bodily fluids. It's not news. I don't care. I couldn't care less about incredibly old people finally giving it up after living totally great lives as writers, dancers or 1940's entertainers, having a ball and wanting for nothing. I don't feel sorry for them. I've never heard of them. It's irrelevant. It's not news. Democracy Now is DOA. They also do totally fake news. They're way gone. What else is new? And just once I wish somebody in the media would give us a Spock frown and say that Mexicans comprising over 50 percent of the US population in less than a decade is somewhat of a shock. It is not automatically wonderful and delightful and happiness in every way. Just once I'd like to see an honest discussion on things like this. I'm not holding my breath. I've moved on.<br />
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I also found Patriot radio and hung out there for a while. It didn't take long to realize it was a total crock. It's a game show. If anybody thinks they're going to take America back they just don't get it. There is no going back. Nothing ever goes back, it moves ahead, for better or for worse. If anyone thinks they can shoot their way out of this they are very sadly mistaken. Killing your way to happiness is the problem, not a solution. It's a seduction that keeps people distracted or hopped up on Patriot dreams and heart squeezing tales of our saintly founding fathers. It's all a crock. Very effective way to keep people chasing their own tails and missing the whole point, thereby precluding any interference with the game plan.<br />
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I don't know how I found Vyzygoth's Grassy Knoll but it was the first radio broadcast that required me to take notes and do homework. No ads, no incessant breaks for nonstop commercials, just the serious business of getting the picture. His knowledge of history is truly impressive as is his general knowledge base. He brought in a steady stream of interesting people who were into interesting things and discussed things I was clueless about. Hence the notes and homework. It was great. Just what I needed. He had on guys I'd never heard of like Alan Watt and Michael Tsarion and he spoke with victims of organized mind control and horrific ritual abuse. He looked closely at Columbine in an excellent series and the Port Arthur Massacre too. When Dunblane came up I already knew the story. The shootings in Norway will without doubt end up on the same shelf. The Informer series on law and the constitution was a kick in the stomach not to be missed. His shows on 9/11 pounded the stuffing out of nonsense and skipped the pointless arguments that amount to nothing. Vyzygoth opened a lot of windows. <br />
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Alan Watt is warm and soft spoken. He is very informative but in a way that pushes terror and hopelessness. I listened to a lot of his audio before he got on Patriot radio. I don't anymore. I can't take it.<br />
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Michael Tsarion is a great speaker and I've watched most of his videos. He is fearless and walks right over sacred cows without apology. His study of history and his take on things parallels David Icke's story of alien beginnings. <br />
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It doesn't phase me at all anymore when David Icke talks about lizard people. I don't have to see anyone morph into a serpent to believe it. It's perfectly clear these people are reptiles. In fact I see David Icke's story as much the same as what it says in the bible. You say airplane, I say big silver bird. Could we be talking about the same thing? I believe there is an ultimate truth and I further believe that anyone can find it if they look for it. There are 360 directions to set as starting points. If you and I are both searching for the same thing, and you head to the left and I head to the right, and we spend our lives picking up a trail and becoming one with it...should we really be surprised to see each other when we find what we've been looking for? Would we need to argue over the reality that your journey and my journey were completely different? Could it matter more how we got here than that we have come to the same place? I would throw my arms around you and be very happy to see you there. We would have much more in common than not.<br />
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I have dug into all of these things over the last eight years, always against a backdrop of endless and horrible ongoing war. Now the war is killing ordinary people just like you and me in multiple countries. Average Americans don't know their leaders are seen as barbarians in the eyes of the whole rest of the world. I think they would be truly shocked to realize it. They don't know that American arrogance and disrespect for people in other countries has gone so far for so long that America is now hated. If they were able to see why, they would be heart sick. They don't know how lied to and manipulated they are, or how cut off, brainwashed and fearful they've become. They don't see how their leaders are working so hard to provoke world war three and what a bunch of cold blooded bastards they really are. They don't understand that their own elected officials with an entrenched network of insiders set out to break America's back and incite the world into bloody conflagration that will finally be happening here and not over there. The jobs are gone, the constitution is irrelevant, and the economy is reeling like a drunk about to pass out. None of it by accident; all of it on purpose.<br />
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About one year ago, I felt like I had finished a long and complicated crossword puzzle. I put my pencil down. I looked around and saw a lot of other people had finished their crossword puzzles too, some a very long time ago. I could also see that a whole lot of other people were still working on theirs; and a great many others hadn't even gotten started. There was nothing to do but wait for more people to finish. There was nothing left to say. There is no more evidence to drag out and leave in the middle of the road for people to find. All of the individuals and organizations I've mentioned above and many, many more have dug up all the evidence anyone could ever need. The reality of it all is piled up in mountains all around us. Folks trip over the evidence with every step they take. They just can't see it. The moment anyone desires to see it, they will see it. Like the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. <br />
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So I unplugged from it all and wandered off. <br />
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I distracted myself. I sat and hurt. I worried. I felt very alone. I stopped paying attention to the violence and filth and lies that never stop pouring into our consciousness. I did not forget about any of those things, I simply stopped carrying them with me. I know they are there. They aren't mine. I don't control them. They are separate from me. They are not a part of me nor are they joined with me. They are completely foreign to me. If anyone had the power to make it all stop I am sure they would make it all stop. <br />
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I also saw that to directly engage the monster only makes it grow stronger. To engage it is to validate it, to validate it is to give it control over us. <br />
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I thought about the future and I thought about the present. I saw how hard it is for everybody to find a hole in the ice to poke through for air and to discover that there's a whole other world above the ice. I saw how much I've neglected myself and the price I have to pay for that. I asked myself what I was going to do for the rest of my life and realized I had no idea. <br />
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It isn't so easy to get angry at people anymore. I know from my own experience how easy it is to get pulled off course. For a while I was blowing up in a rage over minor things; never at a person only at inanimate things, and I swore my head off and howled like a dang fool. The angrier I got the more I raged, and the more I raged the angrier I got. It was a closed loop of stupidity and pointlessness. There was no satisfaction to be got, only more rage. I would never get to what I needed which was to not feel angry anymore. I decided to not get angry next time. Instead I would laugh. Wish I'd thought of that sooner. I can't recommend it enough.<br />
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I have gone from thinking that we have so little left to hold on to, to guide us, to help us find a way out of all this to seeing that what we need to hold onto, to guide us, to help us find our way out of all this is each other. We have all we need. So much struggle and worry and fear when nobody needs it. Nobody wants it. It is all for nothing. It doesn't have to be this way. We can honestly, truly, just let it go. None of it matters. It isn't real. This is not who we are. I know this in a way that I can't put into words. The static and confusion, the hate and the war, all come from one source: fear. Fear isn't there naturally, it is fully and completely imposed on us. It is a prison. The only way out is to love our way out.<br />
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I know. What a horribly hokey thing for me to say. The thing is, it is true. <br />
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All that we know to be good has come out of love. No good ever has, or ever will come from any place devoid of love. It is the most natural thing in the world to respect one another and to have empathy for each other. It is normal to love our brother, no matter who he is or where he is from.<br />
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</div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-9773419738468477452011-08-15T12:26:00.000-07:002011-08-15T12:30:22.325-07:00The Invisible Realm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAnR1xa2ISOsxGp0-Moal-A3cfU6_vg2KtLvNdM7uprK8xy9mr9dnB7zLZrJ9iZOav6A46qvKhdUKuVtc4gz7YhyK_AP8Yr5ExBCH_TI_xsMj2RonGNWujwCHUURj4HyS5zoD/s1600/lion+looking+up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAnR1xa2ISOsxGp0-Moal-A3cfU6_vg2KtLvNdM7uprK8xy9mr9dnB7zLZrJ9iZOav6A46qvKhdUKuVtc4gz7YhyK_AP8Yr5ExBCH_TI_xsMj2RonGNWujwCHUURj4HyS5zoD/s320/lion+looking+up.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our bodies are formed from the elements of the Earth, we literally come into physical existence out of the Earth. Where does our consciousness come from? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We know that everything that exists comes from something else that exists. Living things come from other living things each according to its kind. Consciousness then could only come from consciousness. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Is consciousness created during the process of human reproduction? Is it carried by the sperm to the egg or does it already reside inside all those eggs? That doesn't make much sense. Nor is there much reason to believe it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Consciousness is not a physical thing. It has no physical elements to be constructed out of. It has no physical structure. No size or weight or depth or breadth. Our minds and souls and dreams are not physical, but they are real. We all have them, know them and experience them. Their existence cannot be denied, even though they cannot be proven to exist. Nonetheless they do exist. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Does the lack of proving they exist mean that they do not exist? Apparently not. It would seem to mean that things can exist whether we can prove it or not. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nonphysical things exist in nonphysical form. Consciousness comes from consciousness. Isn't it safe then to say that there is a nonphysical realm of conscious existence? And that consciousness comes from it? It would seem to be so. Why are we so reluctant to believe in the existence of a nonphysical realm? Why do we dismiss as absurd or impossible something that is a lot more likely than not? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The nonphysical realm is something quite different than our physical one. It has no physical form. It's not physical. So where is it? Do nonphysical things need a physical place to exist in? Or do nonphysical things only need a place to exist in a physical realm? If so, when they are not in a physical realm, where are they? Does the idea of "where" even apply to that which is nonphysical? Maybe a better question is when does "where" apply to nonphysical existence? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh boy, this is getting confusing. Maybe it doesn't make sense to try to apply physical concepts to a nonphysical realm; to things that we know to exist that we can't prove to exist using physical forms of detection or measurement. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We know our consciousness is here with us. It is not separate from us. Is it alive? Our bodies are alive. No part of our bodies are not alive. Everything in our living body is alive. If any part of our body is dead we are in deep trouble. Unless it is excised we will sicken and die. Consciousness would have to be alive.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our physical bodies die and return to the Earth. But living consciousness is not physical. How could it die? Where does it go when our bodies die? "Where" does not apply. It does not die. It doesn't go anywhere. It just is. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It comes from is. It goes to is. It just is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, that can keep you up all night thinking about it. It still won't get you anywhere. There is nowhere to get. There is only is. We are in it. It is all around us. You're soaking in it right now. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We can't find the invisible realm because there is nothing to find. It isn't in a place, it just is. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Are we separate from the realm of living consciousness? Can we be separated from something that has no physical coordinates? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why do we believe that there is some kind of curtain between us and the nonphysical realm? Is there a veil there? Or is it that our physical bodies cannot enter the realm of the nonphysical? What would prevent our nonphysical minds from entering that realm? Can our minds even be separated from a place that has no physical coordinates? Isn't that realm in the same place as the rest of living consciousness? No place? It just "is"?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Do we believe that there is a curtain of separation between the physical and the spiritual because we have been told to believe there is? We are told over and again that there is a curtain that separates us from the invisible. It is a required belief unless we want to be called nuts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some people say that there is a place called "the other side". We go to the other side when we die. Not before. And no one comes back from the other side. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Other people tell us that there is no such thing as "the other side"; that this is all there is. That consciousness is a product of the brain, the ordinary output of a machine. Humanity is an aberration, a hiccup, and so is all life. They say that life has no meaning or purpose. There are no invisible realms. Our existence is merely a random cosmic accident that has no inherent value whatsoever. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Those who believe so would easily accept that nothing that happens here matters. It would therefore not matter what we do to others or to the Earth. There are no such things as wrong or right. Life is not sacred, it is more akin to a virus. It is destined to burn itself out and that will be that. It's no surprise that those who preach this belief see no problem with any kind of ghastly genetic experimentation and wouldn't see anything wrong with eliminating most or all of the human species. If nothing has meaning then nothing matters. Do what you will. What else is there to do?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My own analysis finds that belief much harder to accept as true than the existence of an invisible realm of living consciousness. Far too many people from all walks of life and from all over the world and over thousands of years have given accounts of experiences with an invisible realm. How many of us have had personal experiences of things that cannot be explained according to the supposed rules of the physical world we live in? I have had a few of those experiences myself and I know without a doubt they were real. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is far from unusual for people to become aware of inexplicable things because of seeing, hearing, feeling or sensing something that is not a part of the accepted order of physical law. People have had a lot of nonphysical reality experiences and have come back to tell us about them. Near death experiences are often reports of experiences in a nonphysical realm. Many people have seen ghosts. Many have heard voices from nowhere; have even recorded voices that nobody heard at the time of being recorded. These are not rare or unusual events, they are incredibly common. How many more millions of such unexplained events would it take to begin wondering if there is something there to look at? What actually can justify not looking at them when they are so consistent and voluminous?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Something about this seems strangely suspicious to me. It is not a position of reason to insist there is nothing there. That is a position of unreason. It is a position of reason to study what people are reporting. It would be reasonable to consider some things differently.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The physical world won't provide us with answers to our questions about nonphysical things or tell us what happens to us when we die. Our invisible selves are obviously very real. There is an invisible realm. Do we come from it and go back to it like our physical bodies come from the Earth and go back to the Earth? Can we go back and forth in the invisible realm at will? Don't we live in it? Can we even be separated from it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Could it be that we once knew all of this stuff and somehow have forgotten it almost completely? So much so that we don't even know that there is an invisible realm of living consciousness, much less that we have anything to do with it? Have we been made to forget how to live in both realms while we're here? Have we been made to forget how to access the source of living consciousness?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why do the hierarchies of power and control over our lives insist that there is no truth to notions of invisible realms? No life after death? No spirits? No God? No universe teeming with all manner of life forms all around us? We once could not see the microscopic life forms that teem all over us, around us and in us until we got the microscope. But they were there. Why wouldn't there be more things all around us that we aren't able to see? Wouldn't it be more likely than not? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In spite of tens of millions of people whose direct personal experience has shown them that there is without doubt much more to our existence than meets the eye, why the continued insistence that it's only nonsense? When consciousness cannot be proven to exist although we know it does, why is it foolish to already know that there is more than this physical existence? Isn't the foolishness in insisting otherwise?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For whatever reasons we are urged to believe that there is no invisible realm, there clearly is one. Why are we told to not believe what we already know is true? I have a feeling that the answer to that question is far more interesting than we might think. "The Unexplained" is not all that unexplainable. What really is unexplainable is the adamant insistence that there is nothing there when we know there is. </span></span></div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-64208467065517426132011-08-06T18:31:00.000-07:002011-08-06T19:00:46.156-07:00The Most Dangerous Fundamentalist Extremists In The World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-bcER6zul28wCEcqT2nF3xc7HCx92ZsBrRBhITTnzs203BJeVUMLUwVERxmV2j_ocEL1MoL1PKCzBxSQbTM0xEipR8Lp0r7PudsmR-xN3reieu_na2DJyjs89NS6Bx5rAS2F/s1600/BruteForce.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-bcER6zul28wCEcqT2nF3xc7HCx92ZsBrRBhITTnzs203BJeVUMLUwVERxmV2j_ocEL1MoL1PKCzBxSQbTM0xEipR8Lp0r7PudsmR-xN3reieu_na2DJyjs89NS6Bx5rAS2F/s320/BruteForce.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you want to find the real radical true believers, the real plotters of government takeovers, the real bomb setting terrorists, the real haters of our freedom, the real killers of countless innocent people, then you'll need to look away from all of the usual places. It's not the Muslims. It's not the Christians. It's not the Jews. It's not any organized religion that you're aware of, yet it is the most powerful religion in the world. It is the religion of Doing Business.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Muslims, Christians and Jews have the same basic human values. They all believe in the sanctity of life. Life comes first. Protecting, nurturing and saving lives is held as the most important thing. Life is precious. Life is a miracle. Everything is done around and in support of life. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But we ordinary people have very different values than the fundamental believers in Doing Business. Some who believe in the religion of Doing Business share these values too, but I'm not talking about them. The ones I'm talking about are the dangerous extremists who believe that you can kill your way to happiness and they make it a regular part of Doing Business. When they Do Business people get hurt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Radical fundamentalist believers in Doing Business talk about all of the same values as we have and claim to hold them as their own, but there is one big difference that makes their value system a complete inversion of ours. That difference is the order of their values, what they hold in the highest esteem and will protect no matter what it takes. To these fundamentalist fanatics, the reason and purpose of life is Doing Business. Doing Business is the highest good. Doing Business is doing God's work. Doing Business always comes first. Doing Business is the answer to all problems. Doing Business will set the world free. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This isn't economics, this is hardcore whacko fundamentalist religious belief. These are the most dangerous people in the world. They terrorize humanity and don't see a thing wrong with anything they do. They will always place Doing Business above protecting human life. Above protecting the environment. Above human rights. Above safety. Above human decency. Above justice. Above the law. Above common sense. Above freedom and democracy. None of those things will ever be allowed to stand in the way of Doing Business. Not anymore than you would be willing to let anything get between you and your religious beliefs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the radical true believers in Doing Business the fervor and excitement of Doing Business is all that matters. Doing business is everything. They love Doing Business. It is all they want to do. It is all they think about. It is all they care about. Everything else is unimportant. They're not necessarily pernicious although they may be, but they are disconnected from anything that is not about Doing Business. They're not aware of anything beyond Doing Business. They believe that this world belongs to them and everything and everyone in it is either here to be exploited or it is in the way. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When you're doing business and something gets in the way, you find a way to get it out of the way. You have to get it out of the way or just plain get rid of it so that you can go on Doing Business. And if what you have to get rid of is some other country's leaders who believe that protecting, enriching and defending life comes first instead of Doing Business, then you do some business to have them taken out. You don't feel bad about doing this, it is how business is done. When you do business you bring prosperity wherever you go and that means you are God's gift to this world. Any who stand in the way of God's work are evil so removing evil-doers from the earth makes the world a safer and better place. You are absolutely entitled to destroy whoever and whatever is in your way, it is your God given right. This is the same self-excusing logic that all fundamentalist extremist religious whack-jobs believe. It is exactly the same thing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now not all the true believers in the religion of Doing Business are actually all that delighted about killing people. Many of them find it distasteful and ugly, and sad even. They would be truly hurt to be called heartless and uncaring. They would be outraged at being called terrorists or war criminals. They would say they feel sad when hundreds or thousands of indigenous farmers or peasants or modern city dwellers are killed or displaced and are suffering, starving or being tortured or blasted into bits by bombs and bullets and so forth. They would say nobody enjoys seeing ravaged dead bodies, of course it bothers them to see that. It gives them no pleasure, they are not beasts. But when they are trying to do business, to save the world through Doing Business, and people fight them, it must be dealt with. It's nothing personal. It's just Doing Business. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When they are trying to Do Business in Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere in the world and there are civilian casualties, this is a normal, reasonable and expected cost of Doing Business. The military, which Does Business as it's primary function, calls it collateral damage. That makes it all right. It's not like they wanted innocent civilians to get killed, it is that it simply can't be helped sometimes. The military is there to Do Business and the deaths of innocent people is one of the unfortunate costs of war. War is Doing Business. Since Doing Business is the most important thing, since it is the highest and noblest good, it is not wrong when innocent people die.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is not an exception to the rules of Doing Business it is a basic rule. This rule is in place all around us, it is common practice in every big corporate entity and plenty of small ones too. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Like when miners die in mine collapses because the mine owners refused to spend the money to make it safe for people to work in there, you and I would find that inexcusable and reprehensible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Or when tons of contaminated "No regulations" peanut butter horribly sickens or kills dozens of kids and adults and the peanut butter plant is not closed down or even fined after it gets inspected and is found to be teeming with scary health and safety hazards. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Or when airlines know about dangerous mechanical problems that need to be fixed, but they don't fix them because they don't want to spend the money or lose revenues by taking airplanes out of service long enough to make the planes safe; then a plane crashes and hundreds of people die. You and I would see that as a preventable plane crash that should never have happened and we would be furious. When you're doing business, you don't see things as you and I see things.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here is how it goes in the corporate value system. Take the example of the preventable airplane crash. When executive officers are made aware of necessary safety enhancements the first thing they do is call their accountants. The accountants crunch the figures on the costs of these safety enhancements. They take everything into consideration, not just parts, not just labor, but downtime too because when a business has downtime, it is not Doing Business. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When the final costs are determined the accountants present the executives with the information. Regardless of the amount, the executives will also want to know how much it would cost them if they do not do the enhancements and there is a plane crash that destroys an airplane and kills everyone on board. The executives call their legal team to determine the amount of payments they'd have to make after the lawsuits that would be waged against the airline for the wrongful deaths of loved ones. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because the airplane is insured, losing a plane is not that big a deal especially if it is nearing retirement. There would be some loss of revenue until the airplane could be replaced and put into service. There is also some cost associated with PR and damage control, and legal costs are considered but since they have in-house lawyers those costs are minimal too. Those costs are totaled and added to the total amount of the lawsuit payouts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now the projected cost of doing the repairs is compared to the projected cost of a plane crash. If it costs more to make the repairs to the fleet than it would cost to lose a plane and make survivor payouts then the right thing to do is obvious. Don't make the repairs. Keep those planes flying. Letting a few planes crash is cheaper. It's just good business. It would be silly to do otherwise. Doing Business is the highest good. Lives lost are a secondary consideration. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is the way it is. It is standard business procedure. It is not shocking. It is not bizarre. It is the norm. Companies will always tell you that everything they sell you is safe, that it is what they say it is, that it does what they say it does and when what you get is not what they said it would be you simply cannot be surprised. On the contrary, when you get what you pay for then you can be surprised. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tired of constantly paying for a new cell phone because they break all the time? DVD and MP3 players that croak after a few months or are DOA in the box? Why is this so common and why don't they get their shit together? Well, here's why. After manufacturing a thousand electronic devices if a company suddenly realizes the design has a defect and the devices are more than likely to fail, they are not going to trash them and start over. They are also not going to stop and go back and take the time to replace the known defective parts. Not all of the devices have those defective parts, maybe half or less. They are going to ship them to stores and deal with customer complaints later. That's why.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Three thousand people a year die in this country from food poisoning. Fifty million people a year in this country get food poisoning and survive. Removing the dang regulations to prevent all that food poisoning was just good business. When a production run of baby food tests with a too high level of some contaminant or another, they might not pull it. They'll find out how contaminated it is first and unless it's ebola strength instant death they'll just ship it out to stores. They know how unlikely it is that food poisoning, serious illness or death will be able to be tracked back to the source. If it happens they'll deal with it then. Who cares? They have a business to run. </span></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Despicable? Yes. Rare? Unfortunately, no. This is true with defective tires on cars, toxic dyes in clothing, lead in toys, poisonous fumes in carpets and paint, the list is literally endless. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The FDA routinely approves drugs that they know are killing people. A new tablet for indigestion causes a certain percentage of people to have a heart attack and die. They know this before the first box ships. It's been calculated three ways from sundown exactly how many people will die, how many people will suffer permanent heart damage, kidney damage, liver damage, etc., and out of those how many reports from physicians will be filled out and sent back to them.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Those reports are how they do clinical drug trials now by the way. They know only about ten percent of serious adverse reactions to drugs get reported back to them. Everything is on their side. It will take a very long time and tens of thousands of deaths before physicians themselves begin talking to each other and comparing notes and figuring out that the drug is killing people. Time is still on the drug makers side because so few of the victims will be alive to sue them over it. When the drug company is finally accused of killing people again they just deny it and walk away. The few really determined victims families and injured survivors who can somehow drag BigPharma into court will still have to fight a long uphill battle against a company that has more money than God. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To the drug company, it really doesn't hurt a bit. They are making so much money selling people drugs they know do damage and cause death that it's not even funny. Who's going to stop them? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And folks all drugs do some damage, that's just reality, not a news flash, a fact doctors knew back in the 1940's and people in general have always known. When you ingest anything that is not food there will be a downside.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The bottom line is there is nothing whatsoever standing in the way of drug companies putting out anything they want. No matter what happens they will get rich. And the FDA is there to support Doing Business, not to look out for you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dead mouse in a soda can? A rat in your KFC box? Duh. You have no idea what you may have eaten and never knew. It's only when it's obvious enough to see it that you'd ever have a chance to know. They know. It happens. So what? What are you going to do about it? Nothing. They are home free. Every once in a blue moon somebody will take one of these huge corporations to court and win but it ain't easy. And the media without exception portrays the injured American as a money grubbing slime ball and the corporation as the victim. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The examples of these kinds of things are voluminous beyond number. But you get the idea. It's not the exception, it is the rule. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now back to the subject at hand. Here's the point. In case anyone out there hasn't noticed it yet, the most extreme, the most radical, the most insanely pious devotees of Doing Business have managed to take over our government. They go way beyond rat droppings in your cupcakes. These people are insane. Their religious zealotry and idealism has been bunker-bustered into the hallowed halls of the federal government through all three branches. Their doctrine is being taught in colleges and universities as economics even though it flies in the face of long held and proven standard economic theory and practice. Their economics are faith based, not evidence based. These guys are the penultimate believers in Doing Business. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the year 2000 this faith based economic system became our official state religion. Executive level government employees who refused to convert were dismissed from their careers and replaced by true believers. Jobs weren't given based on merit, but on true belief and willingness to serve. Dedicated, experienced government workers who had upheld the fair and honest business practices that kept things honest and reasonably accountable got laid off. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lawyers and lobbyists worked hard to support Doing Business, and the congress turned into a whore house of business deals and business gifts like free trips to European Golf vacations and corporate jets. Lobbyists handed out checks from people Doing Business to our elected representatives on the floor of congress, on live TV, as if it was perfectly normal and not criminal bribery. Our process of government was shamelessly bought and sold in acts of Doing Business as we watched in disbelief and horror. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Those first four years were the moment the church of Doing Business had prayed for all their lives. The believers were in ecstasy. Their arrogance and hubris beamed from their grinning faces. God was behind them all the way and they knew it was true because God was rewarding the followers of the scriptures of Doing Business with staggering profits and wealth. Their taxes were slashed and slashed again, all regulations were swept away, fraud was named a fair business practice and not a crime. At last they were free to live the American Dream and prosper and Do Business with all the stops pulled out. Anything goes, and indeed, everything is gone. To the radical true believers the world was being saved right before their delirious eyes; they saw themselves as heroes and prophets, men amongst the most favored of God. "Our children will sing songs about us".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The holy doctrine of Doing Business was jack-hammered into every department of government and Doing Business while those of us out here who do not believe in their strange religion felt sickened and horrified by the systematic destruction being wrought before our eyes, before the eyes of the whole world. These crusading zealots were and still are on a mission, one they worked hard to get started for many years. Now they have America in their hands and they are going to convert it, no matter what it takes, by force if necessary. They have Business To Do in the Middle East and they wasted no time pushing America into war. They told us it would take six weeks and pay for itself and the people there would shower our troops with flowers. But it was just the beginning of Total War, endless war, and with any luck, a world war of biblical proportion. That was the plan they wrote and published a year prior, and it was God's work. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here on homeland soil, George W. Bush had his own To Do list to accomplish. One of the earliest items he began to preach was globalization, public/private partnerships, privatization which all mean the same thing. Doing Business by selling off public land, public resources and everything we think of as ours to rich people Doing Business all over the world. They've sold pretty much everything including our rights and our prosperity and our freedom and our health, the list is too long to mention here. Surrounded by ebullient, applauding true believers of his doctrine, the Patron Saint of Profit quickly blessed the torrential storm of contracting out to private business what the government is there to do. He privatized as much of what the government does as he could, including the most sensitive and top secret things as well as the defense of our nation. Why do those things ourselves when we can Do Business and pay contractors exponentially more for doing work that we can't check or keep track of or verify? It was brilliant and perfect and great for America he told us. The truest believers wanted to shrink the size of the government down where it would be small enough to drown it in a bathtub. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You wouldn't think it would be much of a surprise that with each passing year of his term in office, more and more Americans hated what he was doing. They hated the corruption. They hated the lies, the manipulation, the insulting religiosity and attack dog mentality of Bush supporting republicans. They were shameless and without conscience. They were out of control. They were doing incalculable damage and somehow his followers couldn't see anything wrong. But objective and ordinary working class people were getting screwed and abused and ripped off and lied to and thrown under the bus and they knew everything about it was wrong. The congress people who had rolled out the red carpet to these corrupt, insane zealots made America sick. The 2006 congressional elections made it perfectly clear. Congress people were thrown out of there in droves. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The zealots couldn't believe it. They were completely taken by surprise to find out that they weren't our dearest heroes who we adored and admired and agreed with. We saw them as criminals and scum and they were sincerely shocked. But it didn't matter that we didn't want what they had to offer, and it didn't matter that we threw that batch out and put a new one in. Nothing changed. Nothing at all. It didn't even change when the whole republican party was thrown out the back door and spit on and told to go away and never come back. In fact after Obama took office things got worse and haven't stopped getting worse. The zealots never went away. They stayed out of sight just long enough to regroup and repackage the same message in a different way that people wouldn't recognize. Tea Party, people would support that. They want a Tea Party really bad. They want change they can believe in. These people were going to give us everything we wanted. They were not going to stop doing God's work no matter what the people want. The more angry the people get the more the zealots dig in. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The War on Terror has morphed into more creative expressions of doing God's work, now including the terrible threat of terrorists that come from right here at home. Especially dangerous are those who are not in alignment with their radical religious beliefs, their political views, and even their personal opinions. Millions of Americans have been secretly investigated and their names added to lists of suspected terrorists and those people can no longer get on an airplane. Last time I looked it was nearing one million names. Today they have to feel everyone's tits and crotch at the airport in order to keep us safe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fundamentalist extremist whack-jobs have driven America well into the belly of their beast. That belly is sacred too, by law. Anyone who doesn't agree with them is considered a likely terrorist. We live in a police state. Police no longer need warrants. We are no longer free. We are openly at war in at least four countries and secretly killing people in over 70 more countries. If these people don't like you, wherever you are, they're doing the business required to take you out. America is brain dead and only a respirator is keeping the body warm. We need a miracle.</span></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So when these people say that the human needs of Americans are superfluous and public money spent on health, education and human needs is wild and frivolous spending, they aren't kidding. Those who can't find jobs should not be rewarded with unemployment checks, they need to get up and Do Business. Those who cannot afford health care need to shut up and go Do Business. Old people are worthless and don't deserve anything. Doing anything to help those who do not Do Business is just plain evil. Social security is evil. Medicare is evil. Negotiating for lower prices for essentials is evil. Unions are evil. Taxpayers do not deserve to receive the benefit that comes of paying taxes. The most deserving recipients of tax benefits are those who are Doing Business. And the more successful and prosperous they are at Doing Business, the more they deserve the abundant rewards from our tax coffers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Those who are unemployed, underemployed, elderly, disabled, sick, young or students are not doing anything to deserve benefits from the government. These are the people who deserve to bear the costs and tax burdens of the most prosperous, and so they are. When the big banks blew all of our hard earned money gambling in con games for the rich, the government proclaimed they were too big to fail and gave them trillions of dollars while Americans got kicked out of their homes. To them this was noble and compassionate, for these big banks had Done Business in a big way for a long time and now in a moment of need they deserved to be helped. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To put this in a slightly different perspective for the sake of contrasting the idiocy, imagine people coming to control of our government who had this same kind of over-the-top belief in and love of football, and their vision was a world of pro football stadiums holding pro football games in exclusion of everything else. Nothing else mattered. Everybody just needed to get up and get out there on that pro football field and play with everything they've got and all of the world's problems will be solved. The fact that grandma can't even get out on the field and shouldn't have to doesn't matter to them. There is no room in their radical vision for any deviation. It is this or it is nothing. If you can't play pro football you don't count. You're out. Nobody cares about you. That would cut out roughly half of America on the basis that we have babies, children, pregnant mothers, sick people, injured people, disabled people, students, people in hospitals, old people and people important to us who don't do mainstream things at all, like artists, writers, film makers, poets and spiritual leaders. But still, out of the remaining half of the people, how many would honestly have a chance of success out on their playing field with all of their insiders, important connections, huge dollars and humungous pro players who can easily play pro football and win? Are we really going to send pregnant women and people in wheelchairs out there? How about kindergartners? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The whole world cannot be about just one thing that some group of guys decide everybody else has to believe in as much as they do. That is the definition of insanity. It makes no sense. It is impossible. Plus it is just really really creepy. But that's what selfish, arrogant radical extremists believe and they don't care who doesn't like it. They decide they are right and you are wrong by decree. You don't get to have your own side. To them there is no other side. They are not sane or reasonable people. They have no respect for the vast majority of the people in this world because very few people are able to get up on their private, exclusive playing field and join their game. And very few people are willing to give up what they love and believe in to redo the world in the vision of insane people who hate everybody who is not what they think everyone should be. That's simple reality. This is not hard. The fundamentalist radical response is that they will create their own reality. Don't they all try? And don't they all fail? But that's never stopped them from trying once again to kill their way to happiness. What they do is not about reason or reality or facts, it is about belief. They cannot be reasoned with. Reason and evidence will never touch them. These people do not believe in the sanctity of life. They are organized criminals and killers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Are you getting the picture? It begins to make a lot more sense when you understand that what they seem to be saying is not really what they're saying. When they talk about national security and freedom and democracy they are coming from a very specific and different place than we are. They are the exact opposite of everything we believe in. And they have robbed us blind, they have robbed the world blind, and they are galloping the globe spreading their religion with bombs and bullets and they are sure they are heroes. They want to destroy this country and they want to destroy the European economy too. This horrendous destruction is serving them well. They have worked very hard to destroy everything we have all worked so hard and so long for, everything that has meaning and value to us. All of that has always been in their way. And in ten little years they've taken almost everything away. All that's left is grandma's monthly social security food money and what's left of a social safety net, and they're working on that right now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If nothing else, know this. These people don't care about you. They don't care about us at all. They don't care if we die of hunger or if we are homeless or if we can't afford to see a doctor. They don't care. We are here for them to exploit and use and manipulate, and yes, even slowly poison to death with food and drugs and polluted water. It's all good. It's Doing Business and we're all losers in their eyes. The question is, what are we going to do about it?</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The first thing to do is to recognize the truth that they are very different than we are. This is something they have always known that we didn't know. This is something they have used to achieve their wildest successes without us understanding what was happening or why. They have always known how different their values are from ours. They know it very well. They know how we think. They know how we feel. They know what we want and what we believe in. They know what bothers us and what scares us. They also know that we didn't know the kind of people they are. We believed they were just like we are. We were not well informed. That gave them one hell of a business advantage. Most of us could never believe that anyone could be so evil as these people, especially not our own government. Even today with everything coming apart at the seams many find it impossible to believe that they have been lied to and used and manipulated by people who know exactly what to say to appeal to our values and decency in order to screw us blind. It is time to climb up onto the back of that elephant in the living room to finally see the simple reality that the whole rest of the world can see. Our leaders are the most dangerous radical fundamentalist extremists on Earth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's not exactly that these "leaders" are lying to us, they are often telling the absolute truth. It's just that it means the exact opposite of what we think it means. It is a cruel and sorry deception that is sadly our fault for not knowing about their kind. Their kind has been killing, enslaving and robbing humanity since before Christ was born. It is time for America to realize that we have nothing in common with these people. When America understands who and what these people are about, they will not be lied to anymore. It's really that simple.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is nothing we can do to change these people. They cannot be changed. They are who and what they are. The only way that we can affect change is to educate others about this simple reality that is hidden in plain sight. Not knowing the difference between your friends and your enemies is extremely dangerous to your health.</span></span></div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-49901082340981337472011-05-22T16:02:00.000-07:002011-06-21T19:04:52.081-07:00DEATH IS JUST A SIDE EFFECT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6O2Z02UdTZMfTCKNHN8KaKJB_WdWvxRLY7aOXBlZEoP_fbvYAFOSbWBHOlfwTgOxqj2UcX_LSNIAk5L81x0S9Oaq7eQ6cjBACiT84gMXXd34_WMc0UBBAR0Qa0-iFfh_Qum_P/s1600/High+Tide.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6O2Z02UdTZMfTCKNHN8KaKJB_WdWvxRLY7aOXBlZEoP_fbvYAFOSbWBHOlfwTgOxqj2UcX_LSNIAk5L81x0S9Oaq7eQ6cjBACiT84gMXXd34_WMc0UBBAR0Qa0-iFfh_Qum_P/s400/High+Tide.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The story of the Titanic is legendary. An infamous ship that sank a hundred years ago but the telling of its sudden demise is still as fresh as if it happened yesterday. Hollywood turned the story of the Titanic into a tale of love and romance and made it unforgettable in the style that Hollywood is uniquely capable of. Breathtaking visuals made it seem like you were there, YOU were aboard the Titanic. You could almost smell the salt air and feel the wind on your face.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Much has been written about the Titanic. Many questions have been asked about its Captain and crew; and countless researchers have studied infinite details about her voyage and have written countless books on the subject. Yet I wonder why it is that in spite of the lasting sensationalism and endless curiosity about the night the Titanic was ripped open by a giant iceberg and sank, little has been learned about this deeply symbolic tragedy. We have missed the point entirely, not seeing the forest for the trees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Titanic was proclaimed unsinkable. It was the firmest belief of its builders that their state of the art technological marvel was built so well that nothing could stand in its way. This high density hubris was later downplayed and even denied, but whatever denials were voiced after the fact cannot change the facts in evidence that prove quite clearly that Titanic's builders did believe their ship was so powerful and so advanced that it really could not sink like every other ship in the sea. The single verifiable fact to support that assertion is the small number of lifeboats installed on the ship; not nearly enough to save all souls aboard. Not nearly enough. The builders did not see a need to place sufficient life boats on the Titanic to carry all passengers. The last thing they believed possible was a need for lifeboats. They were indeed so full of themselves that they believed they had conquered the ocean with their money and their steel and their world class cutting edge technology. They'd thought of everything, they were certain of that. They were in love with themselves and certain they had achieved the status of modern miracle makers. They were wrong. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Have our modern men of money, steel and science learned anything from the abject humiliation of Titanic's builders? Or haven't they in fact chalked it up to hundred year old technology that is nowhere near the sophistication of our own cutting edge, modern technology? Yes, the Titanic's builder/owners egotism was silly but our own egotism is fully warranted. That was then but this is now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh really. I'd have to say that the lesson has been missed entirely by the very same people today as their historical counterparts from a hundred years ago, both of which were and are every bit as high on identical hubris, and every bit as blind to the simple fact that in a hundred years from now all of this current cutting edge technology will look like silly tinker toys to the science and technology star chamber of the future. What makes a little bit of humility such an impossibility? Especially when it is incontestably clear that not a man on this earth knows all. Not a man on this earth is above nature. Humility would seem a common sense attribute, would it not? But when have any of these men ever allowed common sense to get in their way?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What is this willful insistence that 'we' are always the most superior beings in the universe, regardless of ordinary feet-on-the-floor reality? Why does this idiotic belief prevail in spite of the steady stream of tragic examples that prove we're not half as superior as we like to tell ourselves we are? How do they do it? How do they ignore their abundance of failures, errors and losses as if they didn't exist? How can a thing both be and not be at the same time? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Easy. Semantics plus double think. It's easy to invent tidy imaginary categories to place blown up space shuttles in; categories that cannot touch self-excusing arrogance with a ten foot pole. Categories made up out of whole cloth that are systematically deemed anomalies instead of constant colossal failures. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">An example of Formula One S+DT (semantics and double-think) we are all forced to contend with is the created impossible category of "side effects" in pills. There is no such thing as an effect on the side of anything. Every effect is a full effect. Death is not a side effect, it is up front and in your face every bit as much as the touted effects the pills manufacturers want to use for marketing their single unit doses of chemicals. To call the terrible effects of pills "side effects" is an ingenious marketing technique, actually separating the bad from the good; at least in the mind's eye, even though no such separation is remotely possible. In this way the truly horrible failures of industry and technology can be separated from the illusion of progress we are sold. So-called progress that in fact amounts to mostly less-than-overwhelming successes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And yes I am sorry but they are less than overwhelming. Overwhelming successes are few and far between. When was the last time the captains of science and industry literally knocked your socks off? Since President Kennedy decided to send a man to the moon, there really haven't been that many truly, totally new, earth shattering, life changing, paradigm shifting technological successes. Which is strange really, considering the gob smacking amounts of money taken by the Pentagon, er, the government, from the people, to lavish upon the spoiled and pointless sector of scientific R&D. Weapons technology has advanced to levels beyond comprehension, need or want, but we're still using telephones, washers and dryers, and driving gas guzzling cars like our grandparents did. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But I digress. The marketing strategy of S+DT pretends it is blasé' reality to separate technology's horrendous failures from the glorious personal status, power and profits of for-profit scientific pursuit. Formula One S+DT is brilliant, even if it is completely dishonest, unethical and downright mind borking for average people to contend with. Without their perfected power-marketing techniques to sell perception control to the masses, the wizards of modern Invention For Profit would not be able to pretend to live up to their untouchable gospel mythology of self superiority, superhuman capability, record breaking brilliance, and advanced though impossible elevation in human intelligence, multidimensional vision, and general superstar quality. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">HORK.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To put it simply, it is all total bullshit. Where's the beef? Sure, Velcro is neato but is the world a better place for it? Hardly. No matter how many shocking and destructive outcomes inflicted on us all, regardless of how many tragic and deadly failures that modern technocrats deliver to us, from Chernobyl and Fukushima to for-profit medicine and for-profit justice and for-profit war to for-profit global privatization and monopolization known as globalization, to life defiling nature insulting GMO's, none of the millions of tons of human carnage and toxic fallout is ever acknowledged, apologized for, or admitted to. Never do we see those responsible, the revered super luminaries of staggeringly costly unprofitable killing technologies, or extremely profitable but dubious, deadly or just plain toxic technologies, stepping up to the plate with hat in hand to admit responsibility and apologize for lost lives, damaged health, destroyed cities, irreparable ecological damage, irradiated lands, poisoned air, soil and water. Never do we hear those responsible for the poisoning and destruction of everything we depend on for life and health confessing with heartfelt apology for yet another obscenely expensive, incomprehensibly destructive, technological, scientific, medical, legal, congressional, military or professional failure of biblical proportion, which is precisely what they are time and time again. The face in the camera says things that sound right but the arms and legs of the corporation are doing something else entirely. Standard Formula Two: Say What They Want To Hear But Do What You Want To Do. Lying is standard operating procedure. They lie even when they don't have to lie. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The timeless and valuable lesson of exchanging raging idiotic hubris for a tad of honest humility has not been learned. By the looks of it, at least in America, it probably never will be learned.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Part of the problem may be a matter of definitions. How do average people define success and how do the types of men who pull together money and talent to create star wars, deep ocean oil rigs, mega factory farming, TV Dinners and nuclear weapons define success? If their definition of success is making a slew of money while gaining social status, fame and power then blowing up Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be a stunning success. To average humanity, it could never be a success to incinerate hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the blink of an eye, and leave hundreds of thousands more suffering unspeakable agonies for which there is no relief or repair. This would be a terrible, traumatic, shameful failure, impossible to make up for; at least in the eyes of those who don't see the definition of success as having anything to do with the mass accumulation of personal wealth, status and power regardless of costs to others. In fact, average people would consider that to be a crime, and a very serious crime at that. A death penalty crime. There's just no excuse for that kind of behavior, we ordinary folk would say, at least a fair number of us. What better definition of criminality is there than profiting oneself at the expense of others, by force or by lies with depraved indifference to the damages and suffering caused to others. Greed is not good. Greed is flat out evil. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That shameless, self serving, sociopathic greed is the very definition of evil was something not lost on those who engage in it. In fact, in order for these types to rise to their current positions of crushing, shouting down dominance and the shameless eating of our living bodily flesh before our very eyes every single day of the year, they knew they had to "do something" about the public perception that who they are and what they do is "evil". They had to find a way to magically separate the evil from the deed; an optical illusion that seems to cleanse the evil out of the greed. They knew they had to head it off at the pass, beat the complainants to the punch, discredit the objective reporters of gob smacking, undeniable facts which every man, woman and child would easily see with their own innocent eyes - specifically that what these greedy, nasty, selfish people were up to was nothing less than calculated and shameless undermining and termite like destruction of our country. This, they knew, had to be turned into the unimportant "side effect" of an otherwise totally glorious top of the line, prestigious, award winning success; i.e. an organized crime-athon taking all wealth from all people leaving economies crushed, all living things indebted for the rest of time, and the global population reduced to dirt sucking poverty.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You and I and other normal human beings would have a tough time coming up with a way to spin that kind of offensive, malodorous shit into gold, but it would not be tough at all for these types. The alchemy of turning mountainous piles of stinking, diseased hog shit into super sonic futuristic green and democratic peace and freedom rail cars filled with silken threads of pure "we are one" happiness and joy gold is possibly the one and only real talent that these supreme pricks truly possess.. They can turn any shit anywhere into something the public at large will perceive as good, or at the very least not nearly all that bad so shut up about it. Damn them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Who can tell them they are wrong for believing that force gets you whatever you want, fast? It does. A gun to the head makes rape so much easier. Who can argue with them that lying, cheating, stealing, raping, murdering, extorting, framing, making things up and denying reality are weapons with no equal? Decent people are defenseless against them. An expertly told lie can chop the head right off any honest Joe, at least it can when they do it. They are not beginners at this stuff. They are the undisputed Kung Fu masters of deception and crushing their enemies into submission or a bloody pulp, which ever comes first. Because they excel in means of criminal action, they mistake themselves to be superior beings to the rest of the human race which does not see things or value life the way they do. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While they believe they are the unequivocal superiors of all humanity because of their unrivaled success at creating wealth through synchronized acts of sociopathic organized, global crime, they have fallen into the same trap of embarrassing delusional grandiosity that big name, big dollar movers and shakers throughout all ages of modernity seem to be inflicted with. ANYbody can bonk somebody else over the head and take their stuff, you don't even have to be able to read to behave like a thug. Literally ANYbody, of any age, any gender, any intelligence level, any level of education or lack thereof, ANY body, can use brute force, lies and Genghis Khan methodology to kill people and take their stuff. There is nothing clever about this. It requires no talent. It is not proof of superiority over anyone. In fact, this is what we normal people would call being a "Loser". Big time. A Big, Weak, Pussy-Baby Loser Asshole Chump, to give the exact technical term. (I'll bet you didn't know that technical term did you? Amazing all the sheeott I know, ain't it?) BWPLAC, "bwip-lack": A festering eternal sore on the tender backside of the world. Always has been. Always will be. What is wrong with these people and when Dear Lord will they ever go away and leave us alone? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The answer dear Nell and Roger is "never". They will never fork off and leave us in peace and sanity. Why? Because they have nothing better to do than to obsess over and plan out the many ways they can use to torture this world completely to insanity and death. When they've killed every living thing, poisoned every bit of ground, air and water, decimated every fish in the sea, blown up every flying thing, bird and beast, when every child has been fully molested and blown into red mist, when every adult has been humiliated and dehumanized to the point of regressing to boneless primordial ancestors who must kill themselves just to make the goddam pain finally end...when nothing is left but a stinking, smoking ball of death and decay and the hugest pile of cash, gold and jewels you ever saw in your life, then they will step forward out of their state of the art secret underground lair, beat their chest like a puny gorilla and proclaim with unrivaled stupidity, "I WIN! I HAVE GOT IT ALL TO MYSELF AND I HAVE DESTROYED MY ENEMY ENTIRELY! THE WHOLE OF THE WORLD IS MINE! I AM GOD!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A bit anticlimactic I would think without a frenzied round of applause and cheers of "Hooray!" "Well done!" "What a man!" and all that sort of thing. But there will be nothing there to respond one way or the other. Not even a bird to fly overhead and shit on his suit jacket. Not even a pig to grunt and leave a puddle of pig shit in his honor. Not a daisy left to make a "I'm The Biggest Winner EVER!" Same-Day-Delivery bouquet. Not even a leaf to fall gently to the ground as if to say, "I'm blown away!". Not a single thing will be moving except billowing trails of smoke and the stench of burning corpses. Yeah boy howdy, what a winner. What a superior being. What a dickhead.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hey wait a minute. Isn't this the story of Satan's rebellion against God? Didn't Satan say, "I'm better than you are, I can control the world, I have the power and the glory and I'm smarter and more Godlike than you are?" I'm paraphrasing of course, it was something along those lines. And didn't God say, "Bite me you wad of toad crap! You're dreaming!" Or something along those lines.., and then didn't the angels all start throwing punches and taking sides, some going with Satan, some staying with God?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Are all of these greedy, Godless pricks Satan's fingertips incarnate, stomping all over decent humanity with utter disdain and total jealousy, being destructive, illogical, obnoxious, selfish, arrogant and mind explodingly idiotic, just for the sake of trying to hurt and offend God Almighty?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Could it be true?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nah! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Chortle, snort.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sounds pretty good though. It does seem to answer a whole bunch of questions, doesn't it? Maybe we ought to try to fake them out, you know, when you walk by, say, some big banker scum-bag, just walk by and go, "Hey! How's Satan doing? Heard from him lately? What's he been up to?" And see if they spill the beans before catching themselves. Like, "Oh he's FINE. He's doing great in fact. Just heard from him this morning when he called out our daily orders. He said "Keep on forking everyone and everything and don't stop till they're all dead! Do you hear me?" And we all laughed and said, "Yes we hear you Satan, Lord and Master of we the evil, hollow minions of pointless, meaningless existence! Duh we hear you! We have it memorized, you say it every day! JEEEEEZ!" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How likely do you think that might be, say, on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being not likely and 10 being absolutely likely?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A minus 72?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yeah. That's the same thing I got. Minus 72. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still, you always have to check out every possibility. You never know.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If we could just get pictures of these guys bare butts we'd probably find little pointed red tails on them.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have no doubt about that. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No wonder they keep those butts covered at all costs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gee whiz, I really digressed there. Sorry about that. It wasn't even an acid flashback or anything, I'm just naturally weird. Cool, eh? You're hardly the first to say, "no". But wait.. hang on a minute please, let me get back into my serious mood and get all sober and stuff again so I can tell you more symbolic insights I had about the Titanic and the former country known as America.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">America. Geez I miss that place. It was a great place. Not perfect. Screwed up in fact. Miserably. But they knew the difference between right and wrong, had lots more fun money to spend, had more great music than you could ever hear all of, had Mimosas at fancy hotel brunches at two in the afternoon for like $7 per person, and had real live belly dancing right afterwards where you could sit and eat and watch exotic gyrating ladies while discover ing amazing new fruits like Asian Pears and stuff like that. We don't have that anymore. Now we have Achtung! 71 Shots Fired Police Thugs and creepy airport twist-o-wads that grab the crotches of five year olds, and nuns, and crippled people, to make you feel SECURE. This is a very different place. I don't like it here at all. Plus it's falling apart at the seams like an old loaf of bread. It's leaving crumbs all over the place. Dang it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hey do you remember back when we used to could go get like any food we wanted and it would have no MSG on it whatsoever? EVER? And back when there was no such thing as aspartame or any other Just-Like-Home-Made-Special-Chemical Warfare-Insecticide Recipe All Natural "low calorie sweetener"? Gosh, I sure do. I even remember fresh, local produce, just picked that morning, still warm with life giving sunshine. Boy, those were the days weren't they? Those were the days before the USS Satanic purposely blew out its own portholes and blamed it on the Middle East, working overtime to sink this ship of state and drown us all like a clutch of kittens in a burlap sack. Glug glug. Evil people are no fun at all. None. That much I can tell you for sure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But seriously, think about what else was missed entirely in the true story of the Titanic. Have you ever heard of this country referred to as a "ship of state" before? Well please don't miss the glaring metaphor. This is the Titanic. Complete with not nearly enough lifeboats for all the passengers. Complete with delusional, detached spoiled rich people who have everything there is to have but don't see any reason to stop there, alongside an entire coast to coast size collage of people who have been rolled and mugged in the Wall Street Alley of the All Star Thugs, and then again raped and pillaged by the Federal Reserve Bank which is not federal, has no reserves and isn't even a bank, but that's okay, our dearly elected are on the job. They'd catch something like that in a heartbeat. Unless there was enough money involved to make them look somewhere else. Well what do you know, they never saw a thing. I can see it from here, 3,000 miles away, but I guess you actually have to LOOK or you never will be able to see it. More bribes gentlemen? Would you like fries with that? Or hookers and champagne? You got it. Film at 11, unless you go along.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So here goes the ship of state sailing along, most of the passengers asleep or feelin drowsy, some staying up late and getting smashed at every bar on the way back to the cabin, then the good Captain says "G'nite Lads!" and heads off to his own cabin for some microwave popcorn and hot buttered porn. But back in the mailroom, an overworked communications clerk has piles of inane personal messages from spoiled rich people they want sent immediately to other spoiled rich people so the overworked clerk has to hurry to click them all out in Morse code and nobody's there to help him out; so when a real message of actual life and death import comes through to him he looks at it and throws it in the trash can.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why? Because infantile rich spoiled people sending messages to "Pookie" and "Wufflebits" are always given priority treatment over data like "we're all gonna die if we don't look out for damned icebergs". Don't be stupid Pookie. Money is the highest value of man and the truest. How much money you have is the exact determination of how much you matter above all other people. So if you're a certified moon pie moron who gets off on licking orangutan belly buttons, but you have a few billion dollars in the bank, you're the most important person in the room no matter what room it is. Whatever inane drivel comes out of your mouth takes precedence over all other information including the ship is sinking and Godzilla is eating your grandmother in the parlor. Yes that's right. No matter how much of a twisted scum bag you are, because of your billions, ill gotten or otherwise, you will matter more than everyone else, even more than people who actually are worth a damn in this world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And please let me reiterate that that kind of money, personal billions, personal hundreds of millions, are ALL ill gotten. There is no other way to get that kind of money. You can't EARN it. What job could you do that would pay you that kind of money? The answer is easy, no legitimate job. There is no such thing as a legitimate job that pays anybody millions or billions of dollars. No such thing. If there were such a thing everybody would be working those jobs, but there is no such thing as a legitimate means to EARN billions or hundreds of millions of dollars. Which means what? Those who have it didn't earn it. They got it some other way. As previously mentioned, crime does pay. It pays extremely well. I don't know about you but the only way I can think of to get shit loads of that kind of money is via crime, one way or another. What do you think? Got any other ideas? I didn't think so. So you see? Once again, plain old ordinary common sense shows us the answers to questions we're supposed to think are too complex to understand. Nonsense. Just hold it up to the light and sniff it and if it stinks like a dead fish you'll know it's just another big fat lie. Like all the other big fat lies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh dear. Did I trail off the path again? Jeepers, I am sorry about that. Where was I? Oh yes. The way to determine the true value of a human being is by counting the money in his bank account.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now I know what you're saying, you're saying, "But Ang, that's just not true! Money is no indicator of human value or importance or any other thing! Money is an external, it has nothing to do with being human. It's irrelevant. It is meaningless. It says nothing about the person holding it. It means nothing. It determines nothing!" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know that and you know that, but THEY don't see it that way. Understand something. We are talking about people who can, with a perfectly straight face, say, "Oh come and try our latest, newest, amazingly new, breakthrough PILL! It will cure your headache in two minutes flat and make you see little pink angels flying around your head. It has a teeny little side effect that is of no real concern, it can make your heart stop. But what are the odds? It's perfectly safe! Honest!" And they can, will and do, aggressively, relentlessly, shamelessly market this new heart stopper pill directly to med students across the nation, and they pay big docs big bucks to endorse it and say its great and sell it to colleagues and friends, and the drug company pretends there is no such thing as people dropping dead left and right from their heart stopping. Death is just a SIDE effect. Those dead people must have been doing something WRONG with their pills. Those dead people probably only died to try to make us look bad. Those dead people had to have been weird sexual perverts and mentally unstable because normal peoples hearts don't stop, only freaky peoples hearts stop. Probably crack addicts or holocaust deniers because good, decent normal people will only achieve freedom from pounding headaches. Those dead people were doing it wrong. They were bad people. Pills good. Dead people bad. Buy our pills today so that you can dance through the daisies and so we can get even richer than God and his first cousin and his whole family on his mother's side. Big Pharma. What pigs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You know what? I gotta level with you. I think I'm just too goofy right now to go on trying to show you the serious parallels I see between the unsinkable Titanic hitting the iceberg and going down while the band played on until the very last moment... which is totally bizarre, just like our dry-humping, mad-dog media-clown 24/7 news shows made of perfectly disconnected All Natural Twinkie filling (hydrogenated whipped pig lard with poisoned cottonseed oil and USDA organic phenylacetaterseeyalaterwookiebitsandpiecesthyl, plus foaming agents) with bacon bits on top for your scholarly edification. ...Yep. That'll UP yer EYE QYEW fOr sUre. Fan-tastic.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
I don't know, what do you think? Too goofy? Not goofy enough? Does anyone give a rat's ass on a rolling donut?<br />
I wish I had a picture of that.<br />
Okay. That does it. Too goofy it is.<br />
I have to go.<br />
Really.<br />
I do.<br />
Big kiss. <br />
On the CHEEK. <br />
The FACE cheek. <br />
Oh never mind the kiss. Handshake n' bake. There you go. <br />
Later gator.<br />
My voice now fading out...<br />
Hey watch out for icebergs you unsinkable miracle of nature!<br />
As I disappear into a tunnel...<br />
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R-I-I-I-N-N-G-G!<br />
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Is that a phone ringing? <br />
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Yes? Who is it?<br />
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"IT'S GOD ON LINE ONE". <br />
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Oh WOW.<br />
And it's for YOU. WOW-WOW. <br />
You must be VERY special!<br />
I knew it all along.<br />
I... am not special at all. <br />
So...I'm gonna go get a donut WHILE YOU'RE ON THE PHONE WITH GOD. <br />
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Catch me up later tho'. K?<br />
</span></span>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-5509567339519201822011-03-05T23:27:00.000-08:002011-03-05T23:27:35.058-08:00ITGK 7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thinkorbeeaten.com/ITGK6/index.html"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwEwdIAhQw64UGNB_Trc_bdfbnTduu_8jaodYPaWiz55Kr-kgqdVc-pFyEOFXJjaOIIeEwre1bWD7hE1BWFPfrtkEhCORvaqK_QpCpmWfylBZyVPUn8ZlMAEYCcYk-oIHdcIy/s320/itgk6.png" width="258" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">ITGK 6 Winter 2010</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.thinkorbeeaten.com/ITGK6/index.html">Link to Issue 6</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We're getting underway on issue 7 of the ITGK ezine</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> with a target date of May 1 for online publication. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'd like to invite interested readers of my blog to submit one of their own original articles for consideration and possible inclusion in the May 1 issue. The deadline for submissions is April 15th, 2011. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, you will not be paid for your article. You will retain all of your rights to your work. If your submission is selected it will be seen by people from all around the world. I will have no part in the selection process. Send questions and submissions to angtobe(at)gmail.com. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Links to all previous issues of ITGK are on the <a href="http://www.thinkorbeeaten.com/">Think Or Be Eaten home page</a>. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you're sitting there considering it I really want to encourage you to go for it because the folks who come by here, consistently knock my socks off. I can't check out everybody's blogs and links (yet) but when I can I absolutely love to do it. I wish I could have breakfast at everybody's house, that would be amazing. I'd want to know where you are. What are you thinking about as we head into Spring 2011? What is most on your mind? What do you see ahead? What do you think is really happening? Write about it. Send it to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-72490480336192509512011-03-01T11:24:00.000-08:002011-03-01T11:24:07.509-08:00Identity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxe0JvF3qDpBq6uZoAz18LPQmo2glIz7BrhuZiFQDHxqhBX9bERz2Agt8PNI9bQB1zuqKXqvpFwfaQvXI4ajz1AMnm-Vu8QDZ1F_BNJRan7cs7WgiHLh3DCZ3oNYLv1XwPKFY8/s1600/FairyNest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxe0JvF3qDpBq6uZoAz18LPQmo2glIz7BrhuZiFQDHxqhBX9bERz2Agt8PNI9bQB1zuqKXqvpFwfaQvXI4ajz1AMnm-Vu8QDZ1F_BNJRan7cs7WgiHLh3DCZ3oNYLv1XwPKFY8/s320/FairyNest.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We all start out as females in the womb, at least that's what they say. I don't know how a clump of cells can be deemed to be female. I know it's about chromosomes but still, can you be a female before you even have a body? Gender is a simple and specific thing, it's about genitals. Genitals are either female or male. They determine reproductive function. The rest of the body parts are not particularly female or male although hormones do make females more female and males more male; but you don't have female cells and male cells. They're just cells.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A developing fetus isn't anything but cells for a while, and then it begins to grow. Within a few weeks a body begins to take shape and then it develops its gender. It's a bit of a stretch as I see it, pragmatist that I am, to say we all start out as females. It sounds like dumbed down pop science that misses the point and sensationalizes it. I think we all start out as humans. We all start out with everything in common, our humanity.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It takes us a long time to get here from the womb. Nine months of gestation. In 266 days our bones and organs have to develop, and our skin and eyes and fingers and toes and brains. After we've got all of our parts we're still not even close to being fully developed but we have to leave the womb because we're just too big to stay there any longer. Unlike other mammals, on the day we are born we're still not all the way here yet. We'll have a long way to go before we can even stand on our own two feet. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't think it's untrue to say that for a lot of people, even after we can stand on our own two feet and long after we've reached puberty, some people never really grow up. From my own observations it seems that some people never get here at all. They're here but they're not here. They exist but they're not conscious of that fact beyond the most rudimentary sense of it. Their basic personality developed along with their physical body and about the time the body got done growing up, so did the mind. Anything that gets in after that will likely be the result of a life changing experience because from their perspective, they're all grown up. They're done. They know all they need to know and they go off and do life and never look back. Their identities were constructed from external bits and pieces like a birds nest, from stuff that is easily picked up from their immediate environment. A few strands of floss, a few sticks of straw, a nice bit of fluff or two, tamped down at the bottom, build up the walls, and plaster it with a collection of labels. This is who we are. We all do this. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But it's not who we are, it's just who we think we are. In my way of looking at it, we're not really here until we realize that our constructed identities are just that, constructed. I think once we blow off the resistance we get upon realizing that, and if we are willing to go against the grain and trust ourselves instead of submitting to the overwhelming pressure to conform, and we choose to take our walk on an uncharted path, a place where nobody's gone before, when we set aside the birds nest and choose to discover who we really are, that's when we get here. That's what I mean when I say that a lot of people don't seem to ever get here. Wherever "here" is.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of course the truth is that we are all here whether we realize it or not. You don't have to know that gravity exists to be living in it. You don't need to know what's happening on those billions and billions of stars out there or the billions of worlds around them to find yourself in the universe, or find the universe in yourself. The workings of the totality of all that is will go on whether they are comprehended or not and let's face it, we cannot comprehend the totality of all that is. There will always be infinitely more that we don't know than we do know. So who we really are is more a measurement of awareness. We are each a unique, singular combination of everything we know plus everything we don't know. What we don't know shapes us as much as what we do know. In that sense, the totality of all that is, must already be a part of us. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What is our identity but a stage of knowing? Identity can be finite and static if we think it is or want it to be, but it doesn't have to be. I can't accept that I am finished with mine. I don't want to be the same person tomorrow that I am today, and I already know I won't be. Who I really am, I finally understand, is someone who will never be done with this process. I love that. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I still have a bird's nest, as we all do, because it is necessary for us to be able to see each other. For some the bird's nest is all there is, but for others it is only the beginning. It is a portal that goes to a much bigger place, a fascinating place, a completely unique place. It is the door to everything. Have you had the experience of striking up a conversation with someone, birds nest to birds nest, only to find that theirs is a portal too? And when they open that door just a little bit, they let you get a glimpse of so much more inside them than you'd ever know was there unless and until they felt safe enough to let you come in for a while. When I can talk with people from my portal to theirs, these are the best conversations in the world. Communicating at that level is fantastic. To me, that is what it means to be real. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is so much pressure on everyone to build their little bird nest and live their whole life in it and never think beyond it. To wonder if there's more is not received warmly. I think most people can hear the messages urging us from within to ask ourselves if what we see makes sense. There will come a moment, whether it is conscious or not, when we will choose to either follow our own heart or to conform. I think a good many people choose to conform and are aware they are doing it, and they will live out their lives knowing they are not being true to themselves. It's usually because the money is good or it's easier to not make any waves. It does make waves when we break free and do life our own way, in fact it separates us from everyone else. That separation is so hard for some that they will abandon themselves for the benefits that conformity brings. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Those who are willing to go it alone are only claiming their rightful place in the universe, taking up their space and time and understanding it is their space and time to take up. For whatever reason, that outer world of trivial pursuits, of appearances and herd think does not like people who won't forfeit what really has meaning in order to get in line, place your nose firmly into the bum of the animal in front of you, and walk wherever they walk for the rest of your life. Those who refuse to believe that that is all there is and that is all we need will not be understood by those who do believe those things. In fact those who do believe that's all there is often feel threatened by people who take off their own shackles and walk free. It scares them. But I can't think of anything more scary than never really existing in the one time and place that I know for sure I will be here. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-11136789206591400852011-02-27T05:46:00.000-08:002011-02-27T05:46:31.643-08:00F*CK THE POOR!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUHCj7cMUirOUTky7rIFp3VxbCYN6fTBTjhEyGnDgK0A-trqvAnawx4FY-awv1USHl48hUN-kAr2nqCQW9T82KYjGtAYhZBCGN-i663R0oj9DRq3P2ZuIFbLJpe10dcQQ40ghX/s1600/john+boehner+bedpan+of+shame.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUHCj7cMUirOUTky7rIFp3VxbCYN6fTBTjhEyGnDgK0A-trqvAnawx4FY-awv1USHl48hUN-kAr2nqCQW9T82KYjGtAYhZBCGN-i663R0oj9DRq3P2ZuIFbLJpe10dcQQ40ghX/s320/john+boehner+bedpan+of+shame.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mr. Boehner's Poison Tea Party Wants It All:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Let The Jobless and Homeless Die. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Did you vote for that?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<i>Why should I have to care? Why should I have to help? I have wealth and security and luxury, my bases are covered. I can afford great quality health care. My teeth are perfect. I have money to retire on and live quite well. I have a nice home and some property and damn it, I worked hard for every last bit of it! It's mine! All mine!<br />
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Who cares if old people are starving to death in their homes because they can't afford food? It's not my problem, let 'em die. Get 'em out of here, they're not doing any good for anybody anyway, they're just using up resources and not producing anything. Why should I have to pay for their food stamps? If they can't work f*ck 'em, they don't deserve to eat!<br />
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If people can't find jobs, why should I have to pay for their unemployment check? If people lose their jobs and lose their homes is it my problem? No. I really don't care. It's their problem, they have to deal with it. The government has no business taking my money from me and giving it to poor, useless, stupid, jobless people. Why should I have to fund their laziness, their drug and alcohol treatments, their stupid kid's lunches? This is government robbery! <br />
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Cut all public entitlements! They are freebies for the unproductive class that the productive, responsible class has to pay for, it's a crime! Slash social programs off the budget! Cut the losers loose! People have to fend for themselves and not expect the government to take care of them. If you can't carry your own weight, then too bad. You should just die, nobody needs you. You're a burden to society. You're the criminals and the crack whores that turn our city streets into crime and violence infested ghettos. You're just inferior beings who aren't worth a damn. You want everything for free. Free education. Free housing. Free food. Free doctors. Well I'd like to get everything for free too but I can't! I have to earn everything I have the hard way! Why should you have it any different? If I have to work for everything then so do you! I don't care if you're starving. I don't care if you're homeless. I don't care if you can't find a job. I don't care if they take your home or repossess your car. I don't care! You don't matter to me! You don't matter at all in this world because you aren't worth a damn! <br />
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Don't you understand that we make people weak with all of these molly coddling free perks? Food stamps, Medicare, low rent housing, public schools. Subsidized energy bills! Social security! Enough! I am sick of paying for the lazy lifestyles of worthless losers and I want it to stop! Make them get up off their asses and take care of themselves. Make them find a way on their own. It's the Christian thing to do! If people become dependent on the state they can be controlled by the state, don't you see that? It opens the doors to tyranny and dictatorship where people must obey the state in order to get their needs met. The last thing we need is a public option for health care! Why don't you just call up Communism on the phone and have it come over and run the country because that's what government run health care is! It's socialism! It's communism! It's the end of freedom! We can't allow the government to get between patients and their doctors, I'm telling you, it will lead to the end of freedom and democracy and the end of this great country!</i><br />
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Yep. That's what it says on the front door of hell. It's chiseled right into the wood. "Why should I care?"<br />
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How shameful that our dear new speaker of the house Mr. Boehner believes in this immoral creed and is making a stand for it. "Once and for all", he seems to be saying, "F*ck the poor! Screw the single mothers working for minimum wages, too bad that their kids go hungry! Screw the old folks! Screw the young folks! Screw the students and screw the handicapped! Screw the jobless and the homeless and the sick! We don't give a damn about their lives! Sure we can afford to help them, but we don't want to!"<br />
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This is the richest country in the world but the richest people in the country don't like helping people. They hate helping people. It makes them want to vomit. Helping people is just so wrong! They are kicking and screaming and flailing about as if they're paying taxes like the rest of us. <br />
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The wealthiest people have all of the wealth, but they don't want to help anyone. They just want more and more for themselves. Just because they are morally obligated to do as much as they can for people who don't have anywhere near as much as they have and no way to get enough to survive, doesn't mean the rich should have to do the right thing. They haven't so far. They don't have to care. They don't have to give anything back. They can be as selfish and greedy and immoral as they please. If they don't want to do anything for this country then they shouldn't have to. <br />
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If they think that poor people and sick people and people in need are worthless then obviously it must be true if the rich are saying so. If they say that poor people's lives have no value then it must be so, must it not? Are the rich not the most perfect people in the world? Are they not above all of us? Isn't it their job to decide whose lives have any value and whose don't? Are not the rich perfectly qualified to make a fair and reasonable determination about the value of other people's lives? After all, all of that money they have makes them smarter than everyone else, doesn't it? No, actually it doesn't. Our dear wealthy elite ain't no better than the rest of us. Thoughts to the contrary belong in the slop bucket of delusional self-importance. How embarrassing for them.<br />
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Yet our dear Mr. Boehner wants to stand by the corporate and wealthy elite in solidarity, and to show the whole world what a cold hearted immoral selfish pirate he really is. He is not ashamed of his callous indifference to little old ladies starving to death in their own shabby, unheated homes. He is above all that. He is a lofty and superior being who cannot be bothered with the irrelevant desperate needs of the American people who've lost their homes and their jobs and have nowhere left to go but down. No matter that half the nation can't afford health care, what do such things matter to the corporate and banking elite of our country? Trivialities of no import. Let them eat cake. <br />
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Yes, Mr. Boehner will find himself in good company when he gets to hell. He'll have plenty in common with the folks who dwell there. He and his ilk can go on bloviating forever about how unreasonable it is to expect them to feel a sense of moral obligation when they have so much while so many others have nothing at all. It doesn't matter that they have nothing because the congress took it from them and gave it to wealthy corporations and wealthy bankers and wealthy elites, Mr. Boehner and his political class still don't feel bad about it. They see no reason whatsoever to give something back to America, or to help those in need, or to help those who can't play on the same gilded, invitation only, professional playing field they're so comfortable on. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Mr. Boehner thinks it is absolutely moral to tell Americans to sleep in cardboard boxes and try to catch some rats for dinner. He says that not helping is the best help. Gee thanks Mr. Boehner, what a guy. What's that you say? "Let them die" is good for their moral character development? How would you know what is good for moral character development sir? You don't show any sign of moral character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not a trace of shame. My, my. What we have here are living, breathing examples of the definition of immorality. I suppose we owe them our thanks for giving our whole country this graphic example of brazen, shameless immorality. Look children, look at the men who do not care about their fellow man. That's them right there. That is what they look like. That is what they say. All of America is now witness to the spectacle of living and willful depraved indifference to humanity and the crass worship of bottomless greed at any expense to the people. This is your political class at their shameful best. It looks like Mr. Boehner's political base and its corporate crusaders for 'free rides for the rich and hand the working class and the poor the bill' couldn't care less about America or her people. As far as Mr. Boehner is concerned let them all die. Who needs them? After all nobody matters but him and his cronies. Only rich people count. Isn't that what we all voted for? I don't think so Mr. Boehner, I think you're in for a big surprise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Immorality is not about dirty pictures my friends; immorality is about proclaiming your callous indifference to the suffering of others without the slightest trace of shame. Take a good, long look at it. It's ugly, isn't it? You'll never forget that sick feeling in your stomach or that rage beginning to boil inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If we were to believe Mr. Boehner's strange idea of Christianity and morality we might believe that the teachings of Jesus Christ included a sermon entitled "Forget the poor, who cares!" But those of us who are a bit more familiar with the actual teachings of Christ will recall no such sermon. There is no such sermon and there is nothing remotely resembling that putrid perspective. Jesus Christ told us to help the helpless and protect the weak. To heal the sick and feed the hungry because we can. We have the resources and they don't. We have the moral obligation to help those who have fallen through the cracks of this toxic, rigged rat race. Not everyone is cut out to make it. Not everyone can make it. If those who benefit and prosper most from this rat race want to make it the only game in town, then they had better see to the needs of those who cannot participate or benefit from it. This is not the private playground of the wealthy. We all have a moral obligation to render aid and assistance to those who cannot help themselves and to not pretend that human lives have no value without a dollar sign next to them. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">If you disagree then how do you support your assertion that some human life matters while other human life doesn't? How do you measure this supposed difference in life value? The only measure that you can apply is your own subjective value system, and that is a measure of nothing but your own pompous, self-important arrogance. Money is no determination of the value of human life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Are we not obligated to rescue everyone in a plane crash and not just the people who can pay to be rescued? How far will you take your monetary valuation of human life? Life is only for those who can afford it? According to who? You? And who are you? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In a traffic accident or an industrial accident, we don't ask burn victims or someone with a broken back if they can pay a hospital bill before we do anything to help them. If they said they couldn't pay a hospital bill would we just leave them in the wreckage and walk away? Is that your picture of a moral society? Is that what you think would be Christian and moral? Would you really want to live in a world like that? Moral people aren't capable of thinking that way. I would suggest that a moral person would find such an attitude to be reprehensible and despicable and they would be incensed by it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whether we rescue air crash victims or supplement the unemployed, it is the same principle. The difference is only a matter of degrees. Mr. Boehner thinks it would be better to turn his back and walk away from Americans caught in the crashed up rubble of this economic disaster. What if we applied his logic toward the victims in the OKC bombing or the hundreds of people injured on 9-11 when the towers collapsed? Would we just have left them to die if they didn't have insurance? I am too terrified to ask.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Those in our country who are struggling financially to survive did not create this financial disaster. This entire economic nightmare was willfully created by the wealthy for the wealthy. There is no accident here, this was the goal. The victims of elitist greed have done nothing wrong. The people who blew up our economy are the ones who did wrong. Don't let them get away with it! America's shameful political class is responsible for the hunger and the unemployment and the homelessness and the exorbitant costs of survival in this rich man's world. Those who are prospering the most in this climate of extremes of wealth and poverty are the most obligated to do something about all of the suffering and loss that has resulted from their gambling games and selling off our means of prosperity. To cut off help to those who will not survive is criminal. It is immoral. It is disgusting and inexcusable. You and your class can afford it Mr. Boehner. Open those fat wallets gentlemen, it won't kill you to do the right thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You rich folks in politics and corporate royalty, and you wall street criminals better get off your high horses and snap into reality. You have lost your way. You have far more than you could ever need and you'd better start spreading it around because everything is out of balance and the weight of plenty is all on your end of the scale. It is immoral to expect people to starve so that you can increase your levels of luxury and status a few more notches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Only those who have plenty can help those who have nothing. Where else can the help come from but from those who have it to give? That is why there is an obligation and why there is no excuse to condemn helpless people to die of want and to write off their lives with your disconnected rhetoric befitting of addlepated, spoiled royals. You wealthy captains of industry have enough to spare without giving up a single yacht. How can you possibly pretend to excuse yourselves? Are you no longer human? You might want to check because it doesn't look like it from here.</span></div></div><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-24994652550427262082011-02-26T05:08:00.000-08:002011-02-26T05:13:19.664-08:00The Department of Explanation on Power and Authority<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6CgQP93owc7TQNtTv87RuPz-52uBuCci6xBrraN-lkHQZ262hShAVD5bWE-6QUjwuZhBhrHQN1Xj6PD8ZPGb8iyHh8vel595vsdeJbFnZFjNhyqc908yBRWi_MW6Kv5GLcyR/s1600/denial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6CgQP93owc7TQNtTv87RuPz-52uBuCci6xBrraN-lkHQZ262hShAVD5bWE-6QUjwuZhBhrHQN1Xj6PD8ZPGb8iyHh8vel595vsdeJbFnZFjNhyqc908yBRWi_MW6Kv5GLcyR/s1600/denial.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Okay everyone, please take your seats...can we get it quiet in here for the presentation? Wonderful, thank you. Is the projector ready? Yes? Great. Pull the screen down please Earl, and could you get the lights too? Thank you. <br />
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Hi everyone, my name is Chris and I am from the Department of Explanation. We are a science based body tasked with helping people to understand things they might find confusing about our country. <br />
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For example, sometimes people have asked how it can be that on Sept. 11, 2001, that the two tallest skyscrapers in the country fell down into their own footprints in a pile of their own dust and rubble after no more than a seemingly small fire that lasted about an hour. They say things like, "That's impossible" and "This has never happened before in the history of skyscrapers and fires. How can this be explained?"<br />
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Well sure, if that is how you think about it of course it would seem strange to you. All it takes is the proper information and everything can become clear. It's so easy and there is just no need for Americans to be confused about anything that happens in our country. <br />
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My job at the Department of Explanation is to travel around the country explaining things that people are having trouble understanding. When we at the D.E. determine that an unusually high level of confusion exists in the public about certain things happening in our country, like things that the government does or foreign policy or constitutional rights or mass shootings or arresting children and so forth, the D.E. creates Special Information Packages specifically to help people alleviate their confusion or concerns over specific topics. These Special Information Packets, or SIPs, will help to replace confusion and concerns with clarity and understanding. All that most people need is a good explanation for what they don't understand and the Department of Explanation was created to fulfill that need. I am delighted to be able to be here today and to serve the American people through my work at the D.E..<br />
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Did you know that the earliest presence of the Department of Explanation had its roots in working very hard with the scientific experts at Popular Mechanics studying the events of Sept.11? Our combined effort and painstaking research resulted in the very helpful report given to the 9-11 Commission that explained everything. Our effort proved so very helpful to the American people that the Department of Explanation was born and now it helps people all over the country to understand things that don't make sense to them. We at the D.E. know that when something seems strange at first glance it's never really strange at all, it just needs to be explained. We are very good at what we do. In fact our director brought you The Pancake Theory which I'm sure you remember and I'm sure it cleared everything up for you. We at the Department of Explanation believe that no one has to be confused anymore. We are committed to ridding the country of all confusion. Wouldn't America be a much nicer place to live when no one is confused anymore? We think so and we're working on it.<br />
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Today's presentation is going to be a very special one. I'll be showing you a film today that you've never seen before. I am positive what you are about to learn will be something absolutely new to you. The reason I can be so certain of that is that it is only because of the efforts of the D.E. that we were able to get this film and the information within it declassified and released to us to be able to show it to you. We at the D.E. believe that this information should not be kept secret and that it is important for the American people to know about it in order to alleviate a growing confusion about government power and law enforcement powers. The American people shouldn't have to be confused about these things, these are serious topics and we should all enjoy the clarity of understanding what official power is. We should know where official powers come from, how official powers are created and what official power means in our lives.<br />
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Will you start the projector please Earl? Thank you.<br />
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This is an old film so it is in black and white and it is a bit grainy but you'll be able to see everything fine. <br />
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All right........ what we're seeing here is a white room with a six foot by six foot cubicle, or beam chamber, off to the right. You can see that it has plexiglass windows on all sides and there is also a plexiglass window on top. These windows allow us to see inside the chamber when it is in operation while keeping the chamber tightly sealed so that none of the energy it will shortly be filled with is able to leak out.<br />
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A Power and Authority Technician, or PAT, is entering the room. The PAT is taking a seat at the small control panel on the left. The PAT is all dressed in white, wearing a white lab coat and white gloves, white pants and white shoes. A pair of white rimmed protective goggles are loosely hanging around PAT's neck. <br />
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As you can see, PAT is busily entering numbers into a digital display area using a numeric keypad. PAT makes a few adjustments using various dials and switches on the panel, and now we see several lights have come on across the top of the panel. The system is now ready and on stand by.<br />
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What is this system? Ladies and gentlemen, meet the G. E. Authority Maker 5000. This is where all power and authority comes from. This has been one of the best kept secrets of all time. Almost nobody knows that this machine is what has given our elected and appointed officials, our law enforcement officials, our justice officials and our military officials power and authority over our lives. It might seem strange to you when you first hear about it, but it isn't strange at all. Let's watch how it works.<br />
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A man wearing a uniform has entered the white room and PAT waves him in, directing him to the open side of the chamber. PAT instructs him to step inside the cubicle and to sit down in the center area upon the GXZ73 Authority Platform. He walks to the side of the cube opening, ducks his head down for clearance and steps inside. He now turns around and takes a seat on the platform. He is comfortably seated and watching PAT through the front window. The uniform he is wearing appears to be the uniform of a police officer... with an insignia rank of sergeant. <br />
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Speaking into a microphone on the control panel, PAT asks him if he is ready. He nods once. The cubicle door is closing, there it goes, click, into place. The chamber is now sealed.<br />
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Using the keypad PAT enters a five digit number. The display reads three point zero five four four two. The G.E. Authority Maker 5000 message panel asks for confirmation. "Police officer. Sergeant. Confirm: Y or N?" PAT inputs the confirmation. The display scrolls to the default settings for a three point zero five four four two beam. It then scrolls a list of the beam calculations, lists the specific energy frequencies that will be used and their strengths and suggests the optimal duration for the P&A beam procedure. PAT enters a confirmation code and presses the "start" button.<br />
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You are now witnessing the transformation of an ordinary man into a man with power and authority. Isn't this amazing? It certainly is amazing, and it's absolutely real.<br />
It is also perfectly safe, it does not harm the officer's health in any way, in fact he can't feel a thing. The powerful light he is bathed in will only last a few seconds and then it will shut off and the beam procedure will be over. He will leave that cube a genuine bona fide police sergeant.<br />
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All of our brave and heroic officials must go through this procedure to be imbued with genuine authorized power and authority over our lives. They will each receive a similar beam procedure that is specifically tailored to their particular levels of power and authority. <br />
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What is the beam and how does it work? The beam consists of a proprietary blend of various organic and synthesized energy frequencies that can be combined in various ways and adjusted for intensity, pulsation and duration. Beam procedures vary in time duration ranging from 10 seconds to a maximum of 10 minutes. After the beam procedure the ordinary guy who stepped into the G.E. Authority Maker 5000, will step out imbued with real and actual power and authority. Wow, how cool is that?<br />
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That's all there is to it. That was not confusing, was it? No, it was very easy to understand, especially when you can see the procedure for yourself, and you have all done just that. You are among the very first to get this newly declassified information. Right now you are among a very few who know where our nation's power and authority come from. Very soon though, everyone will know. <br />
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Why is this information important for everyone to know?<br />
It is important because when Americans see police officers or senators or high level cabinet officials or SWAT teams, sometimes they see themselves as equals to their officials. They believe that no one has legitimate claims of power or authority over anyone's life and so if they disagree with what the officials say or do they often refuse to obey the orders given to them by their officials. <br />
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This can cause problems which can result in the injury or death of the misguided citizens whose only real crime was not understanding that their officials really do have real power over them. Once people can see films like this one and can observe how power and authority are literally transferred into the bodies of their officials, they will no longer feel doubt about officials having power over them. They will know the power is real. They will be much more willing to immediately obey the commands given to them by any officials and will not need to question those commands. <br />
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When people understand that officials have genuine power over them, and real authority, they will not mind so much when their neighbors doors are kicked in, in the middle of the night or in broad daylight, and their neighbors are perhaps shot dead in the street or out on their front lawn, and their dog is shot in the head, and all of their private property like computers and cell phones and printers and jewelry and family photos and old letters and papers and toys and cash and hard drives and scanners, etc., are confiscated and taken into storage as evidence to be used when your neighbor or his surviving family is prosecuted in court for terrorism and other charges. There is no need to be concerned when this happens to you or someone you know because it will never happen to anyone who is not a threat to your freedom and a dangerous criminal. If you see events like this happening, don't worry. Relax and know that men who are superior to you are keeping you safe so that you and your family can live healthy and happy lives in the best country in the world.<br />
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Reality Revision effective 2/26/2011 replaces the following text from earlier versions of this publication.<br />
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"All power and authority derives from God. All rights derive from God. Authority can only be granted by those who have God given rights, upon others for the purpose of carrying out specific duties or work of benefit to all. No one has power over us but God."<br />
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All instances of the above text should be removed and replaced with the above revision.<br />
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<br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" />Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-66295028523411238782011-01-24T15:11:00.000-08:002011-01-24T15:30:01.407-08:00SPARE ME<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKfyJp8PtJGBq2LaVn1BKJqvXoAYb2dxLhxyUtax2YoCmWTD4hTl2kRSyvTXLdfktQmQhrFsPdGN6gl96D4HlEvsIH5VyfjXOG12yqTOzQEvf7R9GDae3b4h0HhJeCEMIFtra/s1600/no-u.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKfyJp8PtJGBq2LaVn1BKJqvXoAYb2dxLhxyUtax2YoCmWTD4hTl2kRSyvTXLdfktQmQhrFsPdGN6gl96D4HlEvsIH5VyfjXOG12yqTOzQEvf7R9GDae3b4h0HhJeCEMIFtra/s400/no-u.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
Oh please. Spare me your drama queen finger pointing judgment of my being. What do you know of me? Not a thing. You stand there with that look on your face, calling me racist, or antisemitic or unpatriotic or any other knee-jerking self-superior subjective judgment of my person... and all of your nose in the air bluster is nothing but hot air. It is play acting. It is caustic, insulting, divisive, unhelpful, illogical, unwarranted and plain stupid. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
What is the matter with you?<br />
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You're not fooling me or scaring me or making me recoil in horror for fear of your branding me with your mark of some sort of politically correct Zorro, carving a big R for racist with a circle around it on my forehead for all to see. Your cartoon tattoos of judgment are a plastic joke. The only thing about you that is real is your viciousness towards others. And you're supposed to be so much better than the rest of us? You can't even respect people with a different opinion than yours, what's so superior about that? That is the bottom of the barrel in human attitudes my friend. It's called intolerance, it's bigotry. You are what you rail so loudly against. <br />
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I don't care how self-superior you feel, you are not the end all and be all of human perfection. Who told you that you were? What are your qualifications for this lofty self image? You don't have any qualifications, and according to you, you apparently don't need any. Your personal sense of superiority comes from nothing more than a bloated, overbearing intolerance for all who are not just like you. Well my goodness, you're just as imperfect as the very people you are so quick to judge.<br />
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People I ask you, where's Gandhi when you need him? Where is any natural man with a lick of sense who knows the difference between a bag of hot air and a hole in the ground? Where are the shepherds of the soul with the visionary messages that raise the human consciousness as opposed to shoving its face down into the dreck and the mud of ignorance and fear and selfishness? Where are the voices of men who lift us to something higher by speaking to us of humility and appreciation and mutual respect? Where are all of those voices? Are they all dead? All of them? How did that happen?<br />
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Where is the common sense? 'Common sense' is an oxymoron, it's not common at all. It's quite uncommon. It is so uncommon in fact that the universe has to send us occasional exemplars of common sense, light bringers, those with the gift of genuine superiority that is always and only revealed by true humility and undying courage, by selfless generosity, kindness, patience, fairness and honesty and never by self-appointed, self-aggrandizing, trumpet blaring, wealth accumulating, gun toting general announcement. <br />
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It is hard not to notice that the most hated people on earth have often been those who simply tell the truth. You can get killed for that you know. It seems that truth is something that most people don't want to hear. People prefer to be lied to. They want to be told stories that support the pink bubble they live in, stories about how superior they are, or what victims they are, or how brilliant, entitled, deserving, educated and sophisticated they are. People want to hear that they're special, that they're better than other people, even that their version of God told them so, so it must be true. <br />
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As a brief aside, if your version of God says that 'your people' (whatever that means), are superior to all other people on earth, what was the point? Why would the almighty being, the creator of all that is, an intelligence so profound and so beyond you that you cannot even fathom it, what point would there be in this being's mind to singling out one stripe of humanity and telling them he favors them? <br />
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If God the almighty didn't like the rest of his human creation he wouldn't need your help to get rid of them. He could handle that himself. If he created them he could uncreate them, but that hasn't happened and it never will. So maybe it's not that God singled you out to dote on, spoil and favor so much as he singled you out to hold responsible. Maybe he expects better from you because he knows you can do better. And maybe just maybe your interpretation of being "chosen" does not equate to you being given permission to act like the most violent scum of the earth in existence and get away with it. Maybe it really means you're supposed to do God's work for him, which, as previously noted, is not to exterminate everyone but yourself.<br />
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But you can't handle that, can you. You? Keeping all of God's Ten Commandments? That will be the day. <i>Thou shalt not kill</i> is just too much to give up. You like killing. Face it, you like killing. You know it's wrong but you just tell yourself that you're killing for God/country and you feel superior and entitled to go kill people. Here's a tip for you, you missed the mark on this one. Your God, should he really exist, will definitely be filling you in when you get to your version of heaven. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There must be a special place in hell for those deluded souls who break every law of God and man in the belief it is God's will for them to do so. Is insanity punishable by eternity in the fires of hell? Only if it's insanity by choice. Insanity by lazy following of the rabid herd. Insanity by refusal to use the brains and the heart God gave you. Short answer, yep, you're going to hell. And all of you anal probing torturing scum bags for God & country, I hope you like pitchforks because you'll have one up your ass for the rest of all time. Now that's patriotic. And Godly too.<br />
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To pick up where I left off before, I was saying how it's hard not to notice that when people are demonized and vilified in the press, when it reaches a point of total saturation and orgasmic hate and fear, chances are near 100% certainty that the object/s of all that hate and fear are neither demonic nor villainous. They are not inhuman or ungodly people. They are not like animals. They do not hate us for our beliefs and ways. They are not out to get us. They do not eat our flesh or drink human blood. They do not take babies out of incubators and leave them on cold floors to die. They are not rabid haters of little old innocent us, nor have most of them even heard of us. Indeed, "they" are just ordinary people and none of them, repeat none of them, run this insane world. None of them want to destroy it or own it or kill it anymore than we want those things. They want to be left in peace to raise their families and live ordinary lives. <br />
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The fact is, the moment we nationally vilify others we feel entitled to kill them and let's face it folks, this country is Murder Inc. USA. Our leaders control the killingest military force in the world. The American killing machine will go anywhere, anytime and kill anyone, for any reason, for no reason at all, one at a time, in pairs, in mass numbers, in any variety and combination of ways, with or without torture, rape and disemboweling, with or without electrodes attached to genitals and breasts, and all at no cost to the supposed beneficiaries of all this killing. The American people, in semicomatose submission to the killer clown kings that lead this nation to endless war, will pay for every penny of it. They will pay for every bomb, every missile, every warhead, every bunker buster, every tank and plane and drone and concentration camp, every weapon and every drop of chemicals, every method of radiation and burning of flesh and they will do so by and large while not having any idea about any of it. They will put themselves and their grandchildren 7 generations forward into cast iron prisons of usurious debt that they will never, ever, ever be able to extricate themselves from, due to the illicit and unnecessary interest rates charged on all those hundreds of billions of dollars borrowed in order to keep on killing and killing and killing the whole damned world a hundred times over so that we can feel "safe". That's freedom baby. <br />
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That's our biggest gift to humanity folks, our bottomless hate driven fear of brown people, go ahead and tell me I'm wrong. Americans love to hate. Not all of us by any means, but enough of us to do so much damage, it's hardly news. American bigots are ignorant, self-superior, hostile bullies that can be riled up and led as easily as exciting a kitten with a bit of string. All it takes is a concerted symphony of talking heads on TV spewing out hate and fear of people and love and respect for war, while pointing the finger somewhere "over there" and saying, "we are in terrible danger because those terrible people hate us and are going to come kill us in our beds!" That's all it takes and boom! We're off to war. Again. And we're being seen naked and genitally groped in every airport in the country because we are so afraid that maybe somehow somebody else might come along with another firecracker in his underpants and give us a good scare. <br />
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We can't handle it. We can't handle anything anymore, the whole damned world has become a direct threat to us. We're ready to kill everything, anywhere anytime just bring it on because we're reduced to cowering whimpering fearful clinging followers of blatantly illegal, false, bloodthirsty authority that has made a total mockery of everything we are and everything we stand for and everything we believe in. We're fine with that, just don't let any of that evil socialism seep in here and don't let any of them towel headed moozlums get us! Don't let them bring their America hating God hating women hating Sharia law into our congress and force us to wear towel heads and beat our women and hate ourselves. Because that's just so likely to happen unless we wage war on the whole of the Muslim world and take all of their oil while we're at it and also pave the way for the infected carbuncle on the ass of the world known as Israel to move forward in their vision of Israel-World. More land for Israel. More and more and more land for Israel. Yes, they really need all that land. Would everyone in the middle east please leave? Israel is moving in. And the US military contractors, agents and guns for hire are laying the sidewalk for them. <br />
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Is anybody really missing any of that? Really?<br />
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You know, me saying that, just calling it like I see it, if it came to the attention of the bigots and warmongers in control of our poor, castrated, confused country, would get me immediately branded as antisemitic and unpatriotic and un-American and maybe even as a terrorist supporter. Even though all I'm doing is reporting what is there to see, it is not hidden. I am telling the truth as I see it. How can that make me any of those things? <br />
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Well, the short answer is it can't. And it doesn't. <br />
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What is this about? All these attacks on people who won't tow the line of the illegal foreign corporate entity pretending to be our government? Why the brutality and bullying and forceful insistence that when we see what we see that it is not what we see but something else entirely that they will explain to us. These people are telling us what to think.<br />
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I don't need any help with how or what I think. I didn't ask for anyone's input on what I think. You don't get to dismiss me, I'm your equal bubba, deal with it. I see things different than the mindwashing sales pitch that's constantly being crammed down our throats. I think what they're selling is wrong. I think they lie about everything. And I think nothing they say deserves to override what the rest of us have to say. I know for sure that not one of those arrogant gas bags and phonies, dual citizenship senators or pentagon denizens or mass media propagandists is remotely qualified or entitled to tell me what to think. Every last one of them can kiss my big fat butt. <br />
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I will think what I think. I will say what I see. I will criticize the wrongdoing done in the name of this country. I will criticize the vile scum posing as our representation when we have so little real representation. Money talks and money walks, and money and guns are running our lives. Money and guns and a desire for domination so profound that it is the way it has always been on this poor little violence and greed ravaged world since forever. There's nothing new about this. This is the dark spot that goes round and round and round our world blocking out the sun and bringing on death and war and violence and rape and human sacrifice and pillage...all in the name of some authority or another. It's always the same people doing the same things.<br />
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The mighty, mighty cocksuckers are having their field day on earth, again. They want World War III so bad they can't stand it. They are working overtime like radioactive cockroaches scuttling about in the dark, in the walls, underground, with their tapped lines and intercepts, their media control, their plane loads of cash and prostitutes and hidden cameras, their illicit private contract killers, their bottomless funds, their legions of clueless youthful recruits to carry it all out for them, their well honed needle sharp experts at manipulation, all working so hard, so relentlessly, every night and day, around the clock, to set Christians against Muslims, Jews against the world, to create armies of disgruntled head shaving angry racists, masses of discontented, disillusioned, hopeless, grasping, hungry, homeless, jobless ordinary people, and stirring the pot, stirring the pot, turning up the heat. A steady stream of lighter fluid is added to the mix and then one day, when the moon is in the right phase and the moment is right they will simply toss in a single lit match and it will explode into violent, earth shattering hate and destruction. And mark my words, the self same creators of all of this hate and death and suffering will stand before us and look right into the television cameras to tell us that we have no choice but to nuke the shit out of whoever they'll say has done this to us. And we will say and do what we always say and do, "Hell yeah! We're number one! We'll make them pay!"<br />
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Will anyone hear me telling them this is all contrived? It's all about money and power games and misguided sexual overdrive acting out a need to dominate everything that moves in order to feel secure that you'll get what you want and need and beyond. No, no one will hear me. In fact I'll be branded unpatriotic, un-American, antisemitic, and a terrorist supporter because I don't want to kill anyone. Because killing is not an answer it is a depraved sport, and a lucrative sport at that, and I don't stand behind that or anyone who does. We have out of control murderers galloping the globe for God & country, for The Cause; which as you know means anything goes, anything at all in the name of The Cause. And anything is going. Everything is going.<br />
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It all boils down to selfishness. And the delivery vehicle is so called political correctness. <br />
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I'm telling you that there are no such things as political correctness or preexisting conditions or the internet. There is only us. Just people. Plain, ordinary, human, mortal, imperfect people. People of all walks of life, all ages, all stages of health and sickness. Some are honest and honorable, some are wise, some are brave, and some are ignorant and small minded. We're all just people. Our needs are the same no matter where we live: food and water, clothing and shelter, love and health and something meaningful to do with our lives. That's not hard to understand is it? How can it be hard to understand that when people, any people, are systematically deprived of any of those things that there will be serious trouble? <br />
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All of the world's people have hearts and souls, we all love our children and we all want to leave the world a better place. We all want to live in a just world, a fair world, a kinder world, a world without violence and armies and land grabs and power struggles. And if all of those mighty, mighty cocksuckers would just fuck off and leave the people of this world alone, we might just be okay. But they won't.<br />
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I say don't hate your neighbor. Don't hate your neighbor if they have a problem with illegal immigration. Every country in the world is filled with people who react just like we do when their borders are overrun with people from other places. It's not racist, it's a normal response. The feeling of being overwhelmed, overridden by strangers is scary and threatening. Massive immigration upsets the entire status quo. It uproots personal status and security and if you don't think that's very serious indeed then you just don't think. If you want to call that 'racist' then you need to get honest inside yourself. <br />
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People who are unhappy about illegal immigration, people of other faiths and cultures, people with other values and priorities than yours are not wrong, they are what they are and who are you to judge them? Your position is not automatically right, why would it be? Would it kill you to take people as they are and love them anyway? No, but it will kill a lot of people if you don't.<br />
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Before you point at Muslims and exclaim they're crazed and violent extremists who hate us for no good reason, why don't you take a look at who is telling you those stories and who is benefiting from those stories being told? Because it isn't you, and it isn't me. It's the same old mighty, mighty cocksuckers who are raking in bottomless pits of benefits in dollars, the financial terrorists; plus their symbiotic enabling of the other mighty, mighty cocksuckers who forever lust to commit murder; mass murder for pleasure, mass murder as surrogate for sexual domination of the entire planet. Only the mighty, mighty cocksuckers benefit. Everybody else loses. <br />
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So please, spare me your judgment about my being and my person. I don't care if I'm not okay with you, I really don't. Your position is yours and mine is mine and if you will not shake my hand and be my neighbor anyway, then the real problem my friend, is you.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">There's a lot of head butting out there these days, something I don't have much taste or tolerance for. I don't see brute force as a proper determinant of winners and losers. Brute force is, in truth, an ultimate position of weakness. Brute force is desperate and afraid of truth. It hates and dismisses truth. It punishes truth. Brute force specifically aims to destroy the existence of truth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">No legitimate thing is harmed by the truth about it. It is only the illegitimate that cannot withstand its own truth being revealed. The truth destroys the lies. Positions based on lies are decimated instantly once the truth about them is known. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is why it's always been so obvious to me that things like gag orders slapped on whistleblowers, press censorship, police brutality against peaceful dissent and back room political deals are based on lies and reasons that cannot withstand the light of day. Governments that oppress, threaten and violate their own people are openly admitting that who and what they are, who and what they serve, have nothing to do with legitimate leadership concerned with the good of the people they ostensibly exist to serve. Oppressive regimes serve only themselves, and they demand that all people serve them instead of it being the other way around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why should the public serve authority? There is no reason for people to forfeit their own needs, wants, beliefs and values to instead serve the selfish self-interests of so-called authorities. Yet this is the status quo all over the world. But why do the vast majority of people in this world accept and support this arrangement? What do we see happen when authority becomes destructive, oppressive and unjust? That destructive, self-serving authority lashes out with brute force, sometimes killing millions of its own people. Authority would be much more amenable to straightening up and flying right if it did not have the option of using brute force to terrify and destroy its critics. Brute force is weakness and fear personified.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Authorities are mere mortals like everyone else. They have no special qualities that separate them from those they dictate to. People in positions of authority cannot fly or turn invisible or walk through walls or escape death. They must eat and sleep and drink and feel pain and confront the same private challenges that every person in the world must confront and deal with in the course of a lifetime. Authority figures are every bit as prone to weakness and selfishness, dishonesty, deceit, lying, stealing and cheating as the rest of humanity if not more so, they are not above any of it. They are not exempt from bad behavior. They are not always honest or right or even all that well informed or well intended. And the more authoritarian they are the less likely it is that they'll even really give a damn about the effects their demands have on anyone else. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is anathema to justice. It is the opposite of what is fair and decent and moral and ethical; in a nutshell it is wrong. It is purely self serving. When that self-service reaches the heights of arrogance and cruelty, the truth of who and what selfish authority is cannot be covered up. It virtually screams its true identity and purpose from every hilltop and rooftop. It is like Godzilla rising up out of the ocean and coming ashore, stepping on villages and power lines and howling as sparks fly beneath its feet. It is not at all subtle. It demands everyone's immediate and total attention. And every thing that every one does can only be in response to this monster on the loose in their lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is nothing new. How many centuries have gone by with this kind of corrupt, self-serving power at the helm of nations and cities and religions and economies, enslaving people and waging wars to conquer and claim the territories, wealth and resources of others? Pick up the newspapers today and read of examples around the world of repressive, violent regimes engaging in slaughter, in vote rigging, in threatening, imprisoning, torturing and killing of political dissenters and competitors. Even here in the good old USA we witness republican factions working very hard to remove millions of people from registered voters lists, in particular people who are poor and black and very likely to be voting for democrats. Republicans are eternally obsessed with finding reasons to call for people's right to vote to be taken away from them. In some states, anyone who has ever been convicted of a felony has had their right to vote taken from them, although this makes no sense and is irrelevant to voting. No one's legal, or moral or birth rights are ever subject to denial by anyone else for any reason. It's just stupid to pretend it's anyone's call to decide who has rights and who doesn't, and yet we hear this all the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Prominent democrats in our hallowed halls of government shamelessly proclaim that anyone accused of being a terrorist, just accused mind you, not proven to be a terrorist, that such persons upon accusation should not be entitled to legal rights, no day in court, no lawyers, no phone calls, not even a basic level of humane treatment. They deserve nothing, once accused, meaning they only deserve to die. This sort of arbitrary condemnation of others is heinous and baseless, and if nothing else, none of our dearly elected or anyone else for that matter, has any right or business deciding who is good enough to live or die, or who is good enough to deserve equal treatment under the law. But go tell them that and you'll get a choir of Sarah Palins in your face. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">When it is so clear that people who behave this way are illegitimate at the very least, and it is obvious that this self-serving, judgmental, repressive arrogance and hypocrisy is destructive to the people, then how can it be so pervasive and growing stronger by the day? Why don't people see it for what it is? How can filthy lying whores like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, most of our dearly elected and the far right political/religious extremists be able to capture and recruit so many Americans and bring them into their demented, destructive fold?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">What it boils down to can best be summed up in a question. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Which of these two things do you believe is the most important? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">1) Knowing right from wrong</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">2) supporting "The Cause" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Because it is the clash of these two immovable forces that causes the outrage, resentment, fear, intolerance and outright hatred battering our country into bits and pieces of security obsessed, unconstitutional, inhumane, disastrous self-destructive cluelessness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">It very much matters which one you pick. Let's look closer at those choices and see why. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Right and Wrong</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">For different people to live peacefully side by side they must have just one important thing in common. They must agree to the definition of right and wrong and then abide by that definition. As long as all parties involved do that, not much else has to be held in common. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Right and wrong are impartial. They are no respecters of persons. They see no rank or status or wealth or philosophy or religion or political affiliation. Right and wrong are right and wrong no matter who you are or who you think you are. Right and wrong are the same for everyone. If it is wrong for you to kill then it is also wrong for me to kill. This is simple stuff, a child can easily understand it. Regardless of choice of or lack of religion, right and wrong still apply the same across the board. Regardless of nationality, gender, age, income level, education or lack thereof, right and wrong apply the same to one and all, and can be understood by one and all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Supporting The Cause</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Enter "The Cause". The greater good. The war effort. The church. The political party. While we're at it toss in the ugly underbelly of human weakness: racism, sexism, religious bigotry and all bigotry including heart-swelling nationalistic love of country. Conflate heart-swelling love of God with heart-swelling love of country and you've got the mother of all righteous causes to support. Suggesting otherwise would likely get your ass kicked, at the very least. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ever since that horrible moment when g.w.bush looked the world in the eye and said, "You're either with us or you're against us", he set in motion the exact recipe for disaster that would culminate in the ultimate destruction of America. He probably didn't set out to destroy America, but he certainly did achieve exactly that. Why? Because his entire premise and foundation was an untruth. He was just plain wrong. There are many more options than either being with us or against us. Asserting there are no other options sealed America's fate. The entire foundation of his war effort, his war on terror, the national security state, his beliefs about market fundamentalism, all of it, was wrong. Wrong in the sense of right and wrong. So in essence, what sounded like righteousness was a hollow foundation, a foundation that could not exist and never did exist. All the cheerleading and belief in the world would not turn empty air to wood or stone. There was no "there" there. There is still no "there" there. And all of the lying, scrambling of facts and figures, obscuring of information, secrecy, and congressional bills passed in the world cannot change that. It is all based on a lie compounded by hundreds and hundreds more lies to try to cover and support the first foundational lie. To use a word I've grown to loathe, it's simply not sustainable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Supporting The Cause supersedes right and wrong, and that of course is untenable and false. You cannot ignore and defy right and wrong any more than you can ignore and defy gravity. You can try, and they sure do try, but you cannot succeed. Supporting The Cause by definition includes doing whatever it takes to prevail. That specifically means ignoring right and wrong. It specifically means becoming monsters "if need be", in order to assure that our cause emerges victorious. When nothing matters but supporting the cause then all actions proceed from extremes of selfishness. By contrast when right and wrong decides our behavior we are thinking of others and not only of ourselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Supporting The Cause means looking the other way when you see horrific wrong doing, corruption, murder, any and every wrong thing. Because The Cause is all good then to criticize it is to say that it is not all good. To say that it is not all good is to be against it. It makes you a threat to The Cause, it makes you the enemy. It must be "my country right or wrong", no matter how wrong it gets. It will be "my religion is good, your religion is not my religion so it can only be bad. You are not on my side so you must be my enemy". This is thinking inside "The Cause". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Supporting The Cause has created euphemisms like "collateral damage" to describe and excuse the deaths of innocent civilians. That's just one example but there is a virtual library of such euphemisms. Supporting The Cause has enabled and funded the existence of covert departments of government that overthrow governments in foreign countries, so much so that it would be foolish to believe it hasn't been happening here as well. Of course it has been. To those who do this work it is all for a greater cause.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Cause is completely egocentric. It becomes the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter how many people die, or how much injustice is wrought, all that matters is supporting The Cause. The Cause can only see The Cause and nothing else. People are used for the good of The Cause. Murder, torture, false imprisonment, cruelty and abuse go hand in hand with supporting The Cause. It is because The Cause supposedly defines and stands for the highest definition of what is right and true and good, then it would only seem logical that nothing done for the good of The Cause could be wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">But that would be wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Causes are transient and fleeting. Right and wrong will still be here after The Cause blazes through and torches everything to ashes. Right and wrong are irreplaceably valuable. Right and wrong guide us. When right and wrong no longer matter then what is left? Arbitrary brute force to achieve whatever your selfish aims are. And that is precisely what America has devolved to. It now approaches every threat, real or imagined, every challenge, every problem, every annoyance, every failure to fully submit to its will with overwhelming force. It throws hundreds of billions of dollars at military might and security forces, equipment and training, and everything else has been thrown under the bus, including the people of this country along with their well-being and future. Now the people are the suspicious enemy. The people are being scrutinized to determine their individual allegiance to "The Cause". Those who don't care about false causes or meaningless labels and instead put human life and simple right and wrong first, they are becoming the enemy, the new domestic terrorists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">There is nothing wrong with loving your country or loving your God or laying down your life in support of what you love and believe in with all of your heart. What is wrong is believing that the most private and personal choices people make in a free world, like who and what they love and believe in, has to be the exact choices you make or else they are your enemy. That is wrong. All any of us have a rightful expectation of is being treated the same as others inside a community that knows the difference between right and wrong and otherwise leaves us alone. The Cause can never leave others alone because it is desperate to prevail. It exists only to prevail and for no other reason. It is forever asked to prove it is right, but it cannot. All it can do is try to kill dissent, literally, until everyone is dead but those who support The Cause. And if that is not the very definition of evil, then I don't know what is.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-33251094960733417702010-12-29T14:37:00.000-08:002010-12-29T14:37:58.544-08:00Freedom, Servitude & Things Not Hidden that Go Unseen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVeBIQKM6-ufjrHMd2SiFxiGtspEnG7ra-1ukylojfu3WkjcjvipG8Yc4Fj_9kEiiCZeJqHnkfgfd5hVXq90pGrdPKjoVapiJifzNuaFHTrxCJP3zhn2-XMOGSF9o_hW_ihAt/s1600/car.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVeBIQKM6-ufjrHMd2SiFxiGtspEnG7ra-1ukylojfu3WkjcjvipG8Yc4Fj_9kEiiCZeJqHnkfgfd5hVXq90pGrdPKjoVapiJifzNuaFHTrxCJP3zhn2-XMOGSF9o_hW_ihAt/s1600/car.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please rise and put your hand over your heart while the authorities recite the National Security Poem.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"You may not speak</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so that we can keep you safe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may not see</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so that we can keep you safe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may not hear</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so that we can keep you safe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may not ask</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so that we can keep you safe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may not know</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so that we can keep you safe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may not complain</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so that we can keep you safe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may not refuse</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so that we can keep you safe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may not live</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so that we can keep you safe."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Amen."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may now be seated.</span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zombie. Borg. Robot. Android. </span></span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Animated non-living things without self awareness that perform automatic functions.) </span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Slave. Servant. Soldier. Worker. </span></span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Living humans who must forfeit personal identity and forego self-interest to obediently perform the will of another. These humans give up their own free will to become an extension of somebody else's free will. Doing so is called performance of duty, employment or slavery.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Cult member. Extremist. Fundamentalist. Member of a collective.</b></i> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Persons who give up personal autonomy after being convinced by extremely effective brainwashing that they want to be worshipful, obedient members, followers and believers of a brainwasher's will. The promised reward is religious/spiritual/political attainment/status/reward by way of receiving supposedly superior/special knowledge that only the brainwasher has.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whether mechanical or human all of the above entities have one overriding theme in common: they are servile. They are all required to operate devoid of free will. Dissent is unwelcome. Resistance is punished. Refusal to perform as instructed for any reason having to do with rational self interest such as staying alive, or conscience such as not wanting to kill innocent people or take people's homes or property, or any other expression of individual free will asserted as a legitimate cause for disobedience, is deemed unacceptable, criminal and punishable. Servile entities don't get an opinion. Their free will is irrelevant. Nobody cares about what they think. Their claims of conscience are also irrelevant. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are a servile entity you have only one purpose for living and that purpose is to obey your master; at least according to the masters. Disobedience is not tolerated. Willful disobedience can get you fired, court martialed, attacked by other servile entities, imprisoned, beaten up, tortured and even killed. The message is clear, obey or suffer the consequences. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is interesting to note that the creation of robots and androids to replace thinking, feeling, disobedient humans has long been the serious desire of the controlling wealthy, the capitalists, industrialists, military leaders, dominators, tyrants and slave owners. All of these entities are notorious exploiters of humanity in their pursuit of personal profit, power and status. They all want and demand the same thing: unthinking, totally loyal, completely obedient workers, slaves, citizens and soldiers who will work long hours for little or no pay, with few or no benefits, few or no human rights or other rights, who exist only to do what they are told. They are never to question or challenge authority, never act disobediently, and lay down their lives without hesitation should their master/owner/commandant/leader order it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is clear that this arrangement definitely benefits those in control. What is not so clear and is little discussed is how little benefit there really is in being the one who is controlled.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wouldn't you think that people who are willing (or unwillingly forced) to give up their own personal self interests, life goals, free will and self determination for someone else to use for their own self interests, life goals, free will and self determination would be paid extremely well for such a valuable thing? What is more valuable than the freedom to create one's own life? To work not to achieve someone else's vision and goals but to achieve your own.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That is after all the most basic and obvious thing for us to do with our lives. Not to work at the baker's shop but to own your own bakery. Not to bake their recipes but to create and bake your own. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not to be told what to do but to decide for yourself how to best manage and use your own time. To set your own standards, establish and live by your own values, to come and go as best suits you. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not to be imprisoned by arbitrary wage ceilings imposed by others but to keep the full fruits of your own labor, which is the only way and chance there is of accumulating wealth of any kind for most working people. For the vast majority of us being employed means being functionally poor, forever. Being self employed and working hard can and often does create a very nice, comfortable level of wealth that allows you to be independent and free. Giving that up so that someone else can use your body for labor, your hands and your mind for their own uses and benefits... you would think this would be something highly prized and appreciated and therefore very well compensated, but no, it's just the opposite. The pay sucks and your life is owned and run by people who use you. They profit, you don't. It's a hole that is very hard, if not impossible, to crawl out of. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When people give up their own free will, their own freedom, their own self interests, their own dignity for any reason or cause, they become non-persons. They don't count anymore. They are mere objects, tools to be used by their owners. People who allow themselves to be used by others for those others' personal enrichment are not respected for doing so. They are often treated quite poorly. They are used and used up and discarded. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When anyone forfeits their self respect, they won't be respected for it, they'll be used and abused. Is anyone confused by that? It's very simple. It is not hidden.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am always saddened when I hear of soldiers coming home from active duty who are wounded and/or spiritually decimated and coming apart at the seams; in particular when they come home but do not receive necessary support or medical care or must wait impossibly long periods for appointments and/or get terrible care that is in fact not care at all. In essence they're abandoned. At the same time I'm always a bit incredulous when soldiers families or other advocates express surprise over this abandonment. Not because it's not outrageous because it certainly is heinous and outrageous, but because of one basic, simple fact that every person who joins the military should know but which strangely and often doesn't seem to register. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is not hidden. When you join the military you literally sign your life away. You sign complete and total ownership and control of your body and your life over to the US Government; whoever and whatever that may mean. Your body and your life become the legal property of unknown others who are free to do anything they want with you or to you.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> When you sign your life over to someone else to use in whatever way they see fit, you're taking quite a serious risk. You will get no written contractual assurances that you will get anything in return for entering into this bizarre one way legal agreement. When you join the military you are required to sign countless legal documents. The US Government is getting their legal end covered in iron clad chains and shackles. When you sign your name countless times you are attesting that you are of sound mind and adult age and that you freely choose to forfeit your conscience and free will to become the legal property of an entity that can and will use you in whatever way it sees fit. Once you do that, you no longer have a voice. You are not free to leave. Your opinion is not wanted. Your dissent will not be tolerated. Your well-being will not be assured. It was your choice. You made a legal contractual irrevocable agreement to give your life over to be used by a government. You surrendered your free will and your life, and you agreed to be promised nothing of equal value in return. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Think about it. You are required to sign legal ownership of your body over to the government and to release them from all liability for any harm or sickness or disability or death that comes to you in performance of your job duties. The only reason they have any interest in you is because you are willing to become government property with no rights of any kind. And what is it they want to use you for? Killing. They will use you until they use you up. To them, thousands of soldiers getting killed is all a part of doing business. And in this government especially, they clearly don't want to pay for medical care or benefits of any kind. They are legally entitled to send you back home in a bag or box or just drop-kick you to the curb. So when it's clear they only want you if you're killing for them, then when you're no longer able to kill, they have no use for you, how can you be surprised when they don't give a rats ass about what you need? The higher-ups are not disconnected. They understand just fine. They just don't give a damn. Nothing is hidden. It's all right out in the open, yet how many soldiers do not or will not see it? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To be forced, coerced, convinced, sold, steered, marketed or otherwise shoved into a direction that leads to a lifetime of servitude is to be deprived of freedom. Freedom to live life on one's own terms. To be convinced that giving that up in exchange for endless servitude is a good thing is to be convinced of a very old and very evil lie. What is it to discover one's own possibilities, interests, feelings, passions, principles, strengths and weaknesses but to discover one's own truths? What else matters so much as that? What else can hold any meaning for us but our own truths?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zombies. The walking dead. These are people who have been separated from the important work of truly being alive, learning to understand themselves and others through coming to understand the world we all live in. This can only truly be done through independent discovery, independent thought and reason and living in service to one's own conscience. To understand truth, to own truth, you have to get to it on your own and when you do that it becomes a part of you. You know why it is, you know what it is, and you know what it means. You also know it is not a full and finished whole but only a part of a frankly inconceivable greater whole. We can not be given truth or simply be told what is true. The only way any of us can get to truth is by virtue of devotion to finding it, and devotion is something that comes from the heart. It is what it is. This search for truth, for meaning, for understanding, for self, this is the unique journey of every person's lifetime. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or... you can skip all that and just be out to make money and enslave people.</span></span></div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-87418491988558602842010-12-14T18:00:00.000-08:002010-12-14T18:01:53.737-08:00So Free And Democratic n'shit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7T-pCFCEapbtRIbyLyrkLaaW_xfqCjlAeBUMJ9R1f9hxQKt8fk4s8nxp2s_Y27C9APvFLOloHi-6Z30Ktb68VFw6TzdAaD-uYJYT7PND-TlugjUzgbvmqM0iM9Z0ur-CQ8rMp/s1600/happy+pig+in+suit.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7T-pCFCEapbtRIbyLyrkLaaW_xfqCjlAeBUMJ9R1f9hxQKt8fk4s8nxp2s_Y27C9APvFLOloHi-6Z30Ktb68VFw6TzdAaD-uYJYT7PND-TlugjUzgbvmqM0iM9Z0ur-CQ8rMp/s1600/happy+pig+in+suit.png" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A long long time ago before there were such things as politicians, people used to talk to each other and tell the truth. They simply spoke their thoughts and feelings and talked of their experiences and pondered life's questions, sorrows and joys openly. They had nothing to hide and no reason to connive or contrive for people who were more than likely relatives anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You'll have to check me on this but I suspect that right after someone invented money the first politicians showed up, about five minutes later; and sadly it seems politicians will never go away. As long as there is money flowing freely out of the people's pockets and into the tax man's coffers, there will be politicians. And as long as there are politicians they will do what politicians do, which is to loyally serve their only two real clients, the rich man and the tyrant, both of whom forever want only one thing: everything. They want more than anyone else, more than anyone needs, more than even makes sense. They want control over what is not theirs, because they want what is not theirs. They require special rules which exempt them from legal, moral and ethical behavior in order to get their hands on what is not theirs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They also want other rules which will literally or figuratively disembowel anyone attempting to protect what belongs to them in order to keep it from being taken by the rich man and the tyrant. They want many special rules like exemptions from paying taxes, exemptions from legal responsibility for their harmful acts against others, and special legal privileges that allow them to pay cash to the state in lieu of life imprisonment or public hangings for felonious acts as would befit any other citizen. The politician's job is to facilitate their clients receipt of these things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The steps of facilitation are simple and straightforward. It is done by accepting generous amounts of money from their clients to purchase one or more performances, the standard political play-acting of saintly state's rhetoric delivered with bellowing voice and masterful language, complete with fist pounding debate, name calling, character assassination, bribery, blackmail and so much more. Every trick and tool in the dirty little politician's toolbox will be used behind the politician's back while the front side delivers windswept drama dripping honey thick oration toward winning the objects of their dear and generous clients hearts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All of these things are done while the politician publicly pronounces himself to be the trusted friend of the people, a friend wholly devoted to whatever they want to hear, a literal physical embodiment of lily white virtue and honor, a valiant protector of all that is righteous, noble and true; and most of all selfless. Politicians must scratch and claw their way to the tops of rarefied marble pedestals where they then are able to pronounce their selfless saintliness and honor to all the good citizens of the state, rich and poor alike. This is the first lie of politicians. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But it is hardly the last. When one's first foot forward is a balls out, shameless and preposterous packet of lies, then nothing else can follow but more lies. Indeed, one must lie from that day forward about every single thing. As years go by, the depth, breadth and sheer number of lies, deceits and manipulations stack up into inextricably interconnected layers built up into great kingdoms made of stale, bug infested crackers. It is nothing but a house of cards, having no substance, no glowing record of good deeds done, no evidence of the people's quality of life having improved, no trace of selflessness or all that much service. There will be a great deal done that delivered generous portions of self-enrichment but these are never shared with the public, they are taken home and used to enjoy a much better quality of life than the average citizen could ever dream about. After achieving such a dubious track record, any grandiose proclamations of service and nobility are transparent enough to expose the facade of a crumbling cracker kingdom and to make clear the complete lack of shining alabaster castles and towers. The jig should be up but the other politicians will now expound upon the noble and glorious career of their fellow public servant until he dies and then afterward too, because it is in their best interests to continue pushing the first lie of all politicians. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The people are always told that politicians are decent people with no personal agendas, qualified people, people who do not lie, cheat or steal, who love their country, love their people, worship the same God the public does, and work long, hard hours battling out legal concepts in order to ensure prosperity, freedom and democracy for all. They have to say things like that because if they told you what they were really doing they'd be tarred and feathered and run out of town, or hung in the public stocks for weeks to let children laugh at them and throw rotten produce at them, and then they'd be executed for being the scum of the earth. Because, in a nutshell, politics is a series of agreements made between the rich man and the state wherein the state holds you down so the rich man can rape you. There's your prosperity, freedom and democracy right there.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
Woohoo! More tax cuts for the rich! </span>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-87214948499545333122010-11-29T17:27:00.000-08:002010-11-29T18:17:38.988-08:00Murder, Ominous Parallels, and the TSA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRfu7byG9LZLqhzB9f_TBHuCfGikCl9HuUzJeRRDBuaj_bQWt87KTeWb5ScJ9pSLiUxg6GnmDe83-bVXyHo9VWYfa2pNSww33GTJbf3m_ZJMxATqO2n546ncxOAhk4DgQEuSp/s1600/julian+collender.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRfu7byG9LZLqhzB9f_TBHuCfGikCl9HuUzJeRRDBuaj_bQWt87KTeWb5ScJ9pSLiUxg6GnmDe83-bVXyHo9VWYfa2pNSww33GTJbf3m_ZJMxATqO2n546ncxOAhk4DgQEuSp/s320/julian+collender.gif" width="256" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Greetings and hallucinations. I've got something a little different for you today. It's something to listen to. It is a segment of audio from a radio show at Radio4All that I listened to a week or so ago and cannot get out of my mind. I listened to it again today and afterwards I noticed that my body felt as if I'd been crying my guts out for hours, but I haven't been crying. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Murder</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">This story is about a 25 year old guy, somebody's brother, somebody's son, who was brutally murdered, shot dead in the street by a militarized cop using an assault rifle. The young man's name was Julian Collender. He was unarmed. He had no criminal record. He had not committed a crime. But that's only the beginning of this real life horror story.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I want to put this up here for you to hear for yourself, even though it's not a happy thing. It's a real thing. This is war. This is Baghdad. This is Palestine. Except for that this is Brea, California. </span><span style="font-size: small;">This should not be happening but it is and not just in Brea, CA but all over the country. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those whose idea of a perfect world being one in perpetual war are in charge of this country. This story of one family's total devastation and horrendous treatment by authorities is only one tiny snapshot of what it's like to be on the receiving end of American imperialist authoritarian arrogance. All done to feather the bankster's vulture nest with capitalism's most basic and lucrative industry: war. Here's your Neo-Con-Zionist/Nazi ideology in its natural state, brutal and inhuman.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">It takes my breath away.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Original audio source:</span></div><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/47022">http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/47022</a></span></div><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Justice for Julian website:</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://justiceforjulian.com/">http://justiceforjulian.com/</a></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speaking of brutal and inhuman I would like to recommend some further listening. The Vyz is recording chapters from a book entitled “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America” which <a href="http://thinkorbeeaten.com/theknoll/op.html" style="color: #cc0000;">you can find here</a><span style="color: #cc0000;">. </span></span></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The book was written shortly after WWII and it goes into great detail about the Nazi philosophy, if you can call it a philosophy. The gwbush regime literally did a play-by-play straight out of the Nazi playbook, it's no accident nor is it my imagination. I assure you I could never imagine any such things on my own, it is there in the open for one and all to see, if you can see that is. Those who can see, will see what I see, what the author of the book saw. It is definitely worth your contemplation. Whether or not you agree is not the point, the point is to consider the facts in evidence first and then decide what you see. </span></span></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>TSA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which leads to the next logical step in today's equation, the lovely and wonderful TSA. I will never set foot in an airport again, and I knew that way back when they brought us the silly ass shoe bomber and exploding toothpaste or whatever nonsense it was that changed flying forever. I cannot tolerate idiocy when it comes to my person or my life and I won't tolerate it. I don't have to tolerate it because I said so. It is my life and these are my rules, like it or lump it, I'm the only person on earth who gets to make my rules. If I went to the airport I already know that I'd have a very serious problem with naked body scanners or getting felt up by complete and total strangers, and I know myself well enough to know that I would not be able to control my anger, and that would land me in jail or worse. So I won't fly again, at least not as long as the TSA is terrorizing flying America with their assinine WOT tactics aimed at us instead of actual scary people doing harm to innocent people. I'll take a bus or train or drive my car instead of flying, and I'm fine with that. As airlines continue to lose revenues they might start paying attention to why.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The TSA is the natural product of an out of control, corporate worshiping, developing police-state control grid. What the TSA is doing is clearly not about airport security, nor is it about keeping anyone safe. </span></span></span></span> We're as safe as we're ever going to be, with or without any TSA at airports. We the people are not the terrorists but we'll have to stand in for them because you see, there are no terrorists so the state has to create them. It does this to justify itself and the money it uses up and all the rest of the horrendous useless shit it gets up to. Big "security" is very lucrative and it is fun as hell to be bullies and thieves with badges that can do anything they want and never be held accountable. They are not going to give that up, not without one hell of a fight. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Creating your own enemies is standard behavior with false authority. True at airports, true at war. We have no honest to goodness enemies to make war with so we create them as needed with our unconscionable behavior, always done in the name of our own vainglorious goodness. We are supposed to buy the flatulent, offensive nonsense about our own heavily armed invasion forces being the good guys and only those who don't appreciate being invaded being the baddest of the bad guys. The worst you'll hear anyone in the media say about this howling outrage is that our dear government is well intentioned but horribly inept. They're not evil, they are only mistaken and clumsy in their endless quest to deliver freedom and democracy around the world. Even when it's perfectly clear that 'freedom and democracy' must mean something very different to them than to the rest of us. To them it means millions of people standing in ankle high rivers of their own blood amidst the radioactive dust and rubble of what used to be cities, apparently. Because that's just so free and democratic.<br />
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There is a pretty much zero percent chance that any person in the USA boarding an airplane on any given day, or every single day, will be armed and/or bearing explosives. We the working class people are not the problem. We were the victims, remember? Electronic rape of every man, woman and child and the truly horrific treatment by TSA power-droids of the traveling public doesn't even make sense. If actual airport security was the point and aim of the TSA, what they should be doing is questioning people about current or prior military or police enlistment as these are without exception the grand shooters and murderers of innocent strangers in large numbers in public places. Period. It's never anyone's wheelchair bound 92 year old grandma, or six year old little boy or girl, or ordinary working class dad or mom. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The TSA's game show is such an inane waste of money, man hours, resources, time and energy that it's shockingly stupid. If 99.9% of people at the airport are already known to present no risk or threat to anyone, ever, then why are they wasting any time at all looking at those people? Shouldn't they put 99.9% of their time and energy looking where there really are terrorists? You know, good old fashioned police work. But that's just it, there are no terrorists, that's why they have to go out and make them up and frame them. How many times have we seen it already? The FBI/Police, whoever, go out and pick some young and stupid petty thug and drive him up the wall offering him lots of money if he'll agree to take their bomb and blow something up with it. It's clear cut entrapment, meaning there is always a zero percent chance any of these railroaded patsies would ever blow anything up on their own. They don't have the brains, the desire or the skill to do anything more complex than snatch purses or six packs. The TSA is not only doing everything except making us feel secure, it is so destructive of legally protected rights, of our human dignity, of basic freedom and obligatory two-way respect that it's clear that the entire TSA is not what they claim it is. It is the proverbial 1984 big black boot on the backs of our necks grinding our faces in the dirt forever. This is their idea of security? Well who is being made secure by all this? Oh right, They are. Not us, them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The TSA is there to let us all know that we are nothing, but authority is sacred. Your life is irrelevant. So is your grandmother's life and your wife's life and your child's life. You are an insect who will obey every command given to you by authority, and obey it immediately and fully, without hesitation, with no questions asked, no matter what you are "ordered" to do or you will be made to pay. Comply or die. Think I'm kidding? Do not cling to any fantasies about your freedom, you are not free. And don't test it unless you're in the mood for the Julian Collender treatment yourself. They may not take your life, yet, but they will take everything else they can from you. Your dignity, your self-respect, your God given rights, along with your sense of justice and common sense, security and well being, not to mention your freedom to say what you think and do as your conscience dictates. To these people your conscience is irrelevant. Any form of non-compliance with the heavily armed thugs in uniforms is not for the greater good and so exercising your conscience makes you the enemy. In other words, doing the right thing makes you the bad guy. That's how the Nazi "philosophy" works, and how the TSA works; the individual does not matter beyond whatever good he can do for the greater cause. Life is cheap in Nazi land, and now it's cheap in America too. Ain't freedom and democracy great? I'm sure they would be, if only we could try them out.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since I'm broaching this subject I may as well take it all the way home. The next time you hear some TeaParty-er or anti-Obamarino stomping their feet about taking their country back, ask them if they've been on an airplane recently, and if so, did they go through the Rapiscan (Rape-iscan) or get the</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> EMCABG (pronounced "em-cabbage")</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Enhanced Molestation Crotch And Breast Groping? Because if they say they had no problem at all with being electronically raped and made into an insect by dim witted authoritarian thugs, tell them the entire blame for the state of the nation is on their shoulders. That's right, their own shoulders. It's also on their shoulders if they hated the idea of being body scanned or felt up by thug perverts but in order to avoid inconvenience or embarrassment, they just went ahead and put up with it. They're even more to blame. This is where the rubber hits the road. This government is never going to do what we won't let it do. It can't. What it will do is push, and push and push and it will go exactly as far as we let it. If we let it tell big, fat lies and force us to become like stupid barnyard animals, stripped of dignity and legal rights for no legitimate purpose, then they'll do exactly that. When it's placed in your hands, when it comes down to you, what do you do? Refuse to be treated that way or bend over and take it? <br />
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It comes down to one decent person at a time standing for what's right and refusing, flat refusing to put up with any shit from the government whatsoever. Damned right that comes at a price, hello? Is that a newsflash to anyone? So when this or any other similar situation lands directly in your lap, when it is placed directly into your hands, into your life in real time, and the question is, will you stand for what you believe in or will you snivel and fold like a puking, mewling dog... and you opt for the dog role, then honey you're what's creating these thugs. You're what's creating this whole nasty ass system. If you're not willing to die to protect your God given rights I can assure you nobody else is going to do it for you. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the airport Americans are shit-canning freedom and democracy because it's too inconvenient to do what must be done to retain them. Instead of saying, "Don't touch my junk or I'll have you arrested", and not getting on the damned plane, they are saying "Okay, I'm too dumb to know for sure what's mine and what isn't yours, I'm as cheap and easy as you want me to be, so help yourself to my dignity and rights. Look at my wife naked. Feel my wife's breasts and my kid's genitals, go ahead, because I'm too much of a spoiled pussy to do what I damned well know is right. I am an insect." </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Really, stop blaming Obama and liberals and everyone but yourself. If you refuse to stand for what you know is right then what you'll get is whatever they give you, which is exactly and precisely what you'll put up with. So maybe you really are an insect. And isn't it ludicrous for an insect to complain about governmental abuses? Yes it is. I rest my case.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">L<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ast but not least, a lighter note to end this on. You'll like this, I promise.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.pbsblog.com/index">EXCLUSIVE: TSA Unveils New Genital Visualizers </a></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></a></span>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-814672476418389172010-11-18T22:30:00.000-08:002010-11-18T22:44:44.926-08:00Broken Wheel<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2I1qUJY_Up7F5qHsBy8YT-eJwew461QEZ07kVh37fxSf1NNoZSIG6QP1nlfVL1GUP53Homte3x9u5DwQPjdI1lX0xZVk3Nf5HjRtyD1H9NfjRLdsp8WR21Gc1VYT5ngNAgHI/s1600/brokenwheel.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2I1qUJY_Up7F5qHsBy8YT-eJwew461QEZ07kVh37fxSf1NNoZSIG6QP1nlfVL1GUP53Homte3x9u5DwQPjdI1lX0xZVk3Nf5HjRtyD1H9NfjRLdsp8WR21Gc1VYT5ngNAgHI/s320/brokenwheel.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="goog_819023818"></span><span id="goog_819023819"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I won't deny it, sometimes I can get dang depressed about the endless stream of evil things happening in our bruised and broken little world, much of the worst of which comes at the hands of our own dear incorporated govmint. I can also get sorely depressed about my own personal life; I could give you a whole long list of things that have gone wrong, mistakes I've made, things that should never have happened but did happen, encounters with predators and thugs of all kinds, getting ripped off, used and disrespected... you know, life. I have taken my share of damage, maybe more than some maybe less than others, but damage happened.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It can be painful to understand accumulated damage in retrospect knowing there is nothing I can do about it now. I can't go back in time and relive something and make sure it comes out right this time or make sure it doesn't happen this time, or be braver this time or less gullible, whatever it is that I think would have kept me from taking on another brick in my private wall of hurt. A private wall which, my guess is, everybody has. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> If you're living you're going to get hurt, in fact if you're not getting hurt you're not doing much living. Private walls encircle us all, built from the bricks of life experience. Maybe we use these walls to protect ourselves but it's just as likely they could imprison us instead. A real danger lies in becoming so imprisoned behind our private walls of pain that we can no longer see anything beyond them; all we can see are those awful bricks, each one imprinted with the indelible story that placed it there. It does hurt to lose irreplaceable things like time and health and trust and hope, fill in the blanks with your own words. It can be hard to sit in peace with the knowledge that life shouldn't have been this way and it wouldn't have been this way, if only...</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> If only what? If only we'd had different parents, a different family, a different education? If only we'd been born in a different place, or in a different time? If only we'd had enough money to overcome some of the uglier roadblocks to happiness, maybe then we wouldn't feel like we got into a fight with life and lost. But would any of those possibilities really have prevented us from getting hurt in this life? Honestly? I very much doubt it.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Being undermined, used, cheated, lied to, violated... again fill in the blanks as you please, these kinds of things shouldn't be the structural underlying factors of anyone's life but I'm sorry to say, I think they often are. It would seem they'd provide precious little to build a life on. Wouldn't you think that only by extricating oneself from these types of things could one begin to clear a space for a personal foundation on which to build an actual life? And wouldn't never having these things crop up in the first place be even better?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It would be like the difference between being handed a broken wheel at the start of a race or one that isn't broken. A broken wheel is useless. You don't know how to repair it. You don't have the knowledge or the skills to know how to fix it but unless you can make it work you won't be going anywhere, so you have to try to do what you can. You try this and that, it doesn't work, time whizzes by, finite resources are strained to depletion. You take bad advice from good people and bad advice from bad people and end up with things worse than they already were. You are painfully aware that you must fully invest every bit of yourself just to get that broken wheel into a basic, usable state while in the meantime you're not covering any ground, you're just continually struggling with a frustrating situation that is only made worse when you can see the guy next to you getting handed a beautiful brand new wheel that is not broken; and he sets it down and hollers, "Weeee!" and off he goes. It's doubly insulting when you know the guy is a moron and a genuine jerk. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> For that guy, deserving or otherwise, life is good. He probably can't conceive of what it's like to be handed a broken wheel that doesn't work and won't go anywhere and you can't fix it and it all sucks and never stops sucking. He has no frame of reference for that sort of thing, it isn't in his life experience. He may not be a bad person at all, just a person who has zero understanding of something he's never been through himself. Which only makes sense.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> But then again, maybe he knows full well that he just got handed the sweet and easy ticket to success. For him, other people's troubles and their broken wheels are their own problem. He's probably even glad that your wheel is broken. Hell, plenty of people out there spend all day long trying to figure out how to break other people's wheels. They understand it's an unbeatable handicap to run in a race against people who have no feet. Some would even hire others to cut the competition's feet off and there are always those happy to show up and take the money and do it. Think Nancy Kerrigan for a literal example of that metaphor. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Dishonorable people are a dime a dozen in this world. It grinds my craw (whatever a craw is) whenever I see people like that win, and the fact of it is people like that win all the time. Crime does pay. It pays extremely well. In fact, it's the only thing that does pay extremely well. You and I were told just the opposite, we were told that crime never pays. That was just one of the million lies they tell us during our formative years, and that one's right up there with "Wonderbread builds strong bodies in 12 ways". The criminals of culture are experts at breaking other people's wheels if nothing else. They excel at pulling off dirty deeds and they're never bothered by conscience over it. On the contrary, they're very pleased with themselves. The real geniuses at it can turn abject filth into some noble sounding thing and people will not see the filth and will instead give them a standing ovation and a prize. I'm telling ya, it is scary out there in the real world. Things are next to never what they seem and they are definitely never what we're told they are.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It doesn't seem right that bad people win so often. Where is the justice in this universe when nasty, mean and selfish people take all and good people have to suck mud and die? That might well be the question that spawned conformist religiosity so long ago; and who else would step in to play the lead role and answer that question but the very same people who made folks ask it in the first place?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I put it to you that this obnoxious, offensive paradigm is status quo with our species. I'm saying this is nothing new, in fact, it's as old as the hills. It has always been like this no matter when you were born or where. It would be very rare and unusual, if not impossible, to not have to run the whole gauntlet of oppressive negative forces restricting most people's lives, confining every life to be lived inside boundaries that are invariably asserted as real and legitimate when they're neither, defined as normal when they're not, and set and enforced by external, unknown others without you getting any say in the matter at all. Society at large simply accepts this status quo, and not passively. They deeply accept it at face value and believe only what they are told to believe about it. They will attack anyone who actually thinks about it, analyzes it or questions it. They will also happily kill anyone who refuses to be enslaved by the lies and manipulations that turn entire nations into intellectually and emotionally disconnected children living inside grown up bodies. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> What a set up. It's an eternally repeating loop. It's the perfect recipe to protect those who feed on others, those who lie, cheat, steal and manipulate while simultaneously ensuring a steady supply of willing victims. The parasite clown kings of earth hoist themselves and each other onto all the highest of the high public pedestals for every last sheeple to look upon and worship. All it takes is walling in the minds of people from childhood, never showing them anything beyond the props that are used in the daily production and denying there is anything beyond those props should anything else be inadvertently dragged in. The mind is thus imprisoned, and when it is imprisoned it ceases to be, because when it thinks it knows all there is to know it stops thinking. It stops asking questions. It stops seeking. It stops learning. It stops caring. And it resists worthwhile change. Change would mean the answers you already possess are wrong. A shut off mind can't adapt. It cannot change. That might be why bringing new information to the old table is often a total waste of time and can be about as welcome as the plague. All the hard facts in the world won't penetrate the brain of someone who has stopped thinking. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Are you with me so far? You are? Great! Then roll down your socks into ankle donuts and follow me back to the broken wheel scenario. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It is flat understandable that being handed a broken wheel in life can cause some serious unhappiness. Especially when we can see the blatantly unfair way that certain other people are predictably and invariably handed beautiful brand new unbroken wheels. But here's the thing. Did you ask for a wheel? Did you desire to be entered into someone else's race? Are their rules of any interest to you? Do they mean anything in your life? </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Why would you want someone else to hand you a wheel in the first place? Especially when it's clear that what they're handing you is a rigged game, a handicap, something that will hold you back while helping someone else win this rigged race? It's a perfectly good question to ask, what's in it for me? Who's game are we playing here and why? </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It is true that for the most part we don't have much choice about being in "the race". If you want to eat, if you want to fit in, if you don't want to be called a loser and a freak and be rejected from inclusion in the action and activity around you that does everything from get you food and shelter to friends to sex to love to choices of ways to spend your time and life then you are essentially forced to get in the race and pedal where they tell you to go. But you don't have to buy into it and you don't have to believe in it and most of all you don't have to accept it as it is and just go along. You don't have to take anyone's broken wheel onto yourself. You can say, "No thanks, I'm making and using my own wheel, it's one of a kind and it's mine all mine". If you're a thinking person you have to get to the point where you realize what nonsense everything in the phony rat race is and how truly little the blabbering, posturing, plastic circus of fools have to offer that has any real value, substance or meaning. And I think when you realize that, that is the moment, or at least the beginning of the metamorphosis, that honest to goodness sets you free. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> You can't get to here without going there first. Broken wheels open your eyes. Then you can finally see. What matters is not what they're doing out there, but what you think matters. That is an immovable truth that "they" cannot do anything about. They know this, it is not a news flash by any stretch. They know it exquisitely well. They know that all it would take to blow their whole False World of the Parasite Clowns to pieces is enough people thinking like this. With enough people seeing right through them not a shot would need to be fired. No riots would occur. In an atmosphere of peaceful silence, their games and all of their lies and senseless ways would become like melting snow. They would no longer control the race. They would no longer control the outcome. They would no longer control anything.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> But that will never happen. At least not in my lifetime. I don't see much chance of millions of people who can no longer think on their own getting to the point where they can see truth they've been told does not exist. They are literally hypnotized and can only see what they're told is there to see. Love those people, be kind to them, but don't waste time trying to jump-start their minds, and don't turn your back to them because they just might drive a knife through it. Why? Because instead of thinking and perceiving the world around them, they live in perpetual fear. And nothing gets fearful people more excited than something coming along that sounds like change. Different is bad, it doesn't matter a whit if it's true. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> If you think about it, it only makes perfect sense. If you don't know anything about the world you live in beyond what you've been told by others, you will live in fear. People fear the unknown, and the real world that exists beyond their own lives is literally unknown to them. They would deny that of course, but that won't change the fact. Ignorance or denial or even straight out dishonesty cannot change what is true. What is true will be true whether we know it or not, or like it or not, or agree with it or not. It will be true even if we deny it is true. It will be true even if we say something else is true instead. Nothing we do will touch what is true. What is true cannot be changed by anything we say or do.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This is probably why so much time, energy and money is spent on covering up, literally burying what is true and then asserting that something else is true instead. It is most often done by laying something else on top of the truth to partially or completely obscure it. When people ask, "What is true", they will point and say, "Here is where the truth is, come and see it for yourself. We will show it to you". And they will point to where the truth is said to reside and people will look and what they will see is what has been laid on top of the truth. Then they will say, "Now we know what is true". Only they won't know what is true and they'll probably never figure that out. It's not exactly impressive or complicated to throw a whole lot of people off the trail of truth. It is devious and dishonest though. And it's par for the course. Anywhere there is money flowing, there is a sea of bullshit to float it on. Show me one exception and I'll eat my hat.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> But you know what? I think that deep down inside people know they don't have the real truth. They just can't stand the idea of it. A shut down mind doesn't want anything to change. People usually don't like change anyway, at least not when the status quo is comfy enough to tolerate and the rewards for playing the game keep coming in. A state of ignorance is a matter of will, not a matter of truth. Deep inside where truth rings like a bell, they don't hear that ringing. They hear lots of circus music and talking heads and assertions played on endless repeating loops and they're told that unless everything stays the way it is then everything would fall apart and chaos and anarchy would turn the planet into literal hell. People see the finger pointing and stage-show posturing, but they don't hear that ring of truth. The closer they get to noticing that and asking themselves what it means, then the closer they get to the most important fork in the road of a lifetime. Do they strike out on their own and begin searching for the truth, or do they choose to remain ignorant by dismissing all available information and demanding they are right and everyone else is wrong? If they decide to remain ignorant it is because it pays to remain ignorant. It's much easier, it is effortless in fact, and since you're making everything up as you go then you can also make up the idea that you're right. If they decide to strike out on their own and hunt for the truth we'll probably never hear from them again because they'll be dang busy for the rest of their lives. Regardless of the choices made, the truth will never go away. Ever. It will always be there, it is always there to be discovered and understood. Ignoring it won't change it. Denying it won't change it. Hiding it won't change it. It will always be there.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /> <br />
</span></div>Anghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-66160302554136766572010-11-03T19:49:00.000-07:002010-11-03T19:49:47.376-07:00Are you sure?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTRccrNdZhjjog1_CAZPkiBpcKqAdQfngk_OIHyHjY8E9eH6BHi-edFo1bql5rKw8iLlHdtEL0KXdC89HCqG5ESPf4VgpxydIJCtGvO4NKpvgekNh4KPG_6TmrqhlXV6B1MgI/s1600/crazy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTRccrNdZhjjog1_CAZPkiBpcKqAdQfngk_OIHyHjY8E9eH6BHi-edFo1bql5rKw8iLlHdtEL0KXdC89HCqG5ESPf4VgpxydIJCtGvO4NKpvgekNh4KPG_6TmrqhlXV6B1MgI/s320/crazy.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What's up with software makers having their programs ask you if you're sure you want to close a program? When you click the "X" in the corner of a program window, or when you navigate to the drop down menu and choose "Exit", what happens? Does the program close? Sometimes it does but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes instead of just doing what you told it to do, it asks you, "Are you sure you want to exit?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why does it do this? Why wouldn't I be sure? What manner of bizarre lingering doubt do software creators imagine exists in the mass mind of humanity that would make it so unlikely that anyone would be unable to determine whether or not they "really" want to exit a software program? Is this hard for most people? Do most people usually click the "X" and then ask themselves, "Should I have done that? Did I really want to exit the program? I can't tell for sure if I wanted to exit or not. Oh dear, what should I do? Help me please."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am sorry but barring so few examples as to make them not worth mentioning, I put it to you that over 99.9% of the time when ordinary computer using people click the "X" they do it because they are through using the program and want to exit it. They are not ambivalent about it nor are they confused. They are not drenched with sweat due to overwhelming insecurity over the decision. They harbor no doubt or hesitation. They are done now. They want to leave. It is over. They click the "X". Why do software manufacturers find this so difficult to believe?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What is the message your friendly neighborhood software selling corporation sends you when you can't even close a silly computer game without everything coming to a halt so that your computer can demand that you make damned sure you know what you're doing? The message is straightforward. You are too stupid to properly click things on your computer and you need to be second guessed 100% of the time to make sure you don't do something catastrophic like close your program when you didn't really mean to close your program. Not that you couldn't just reopen your program if that were the case but ignore that and pretend there's a serious "X" clicking related threat here. What's the deal?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is apparently the belief of certain software makers that most people are so pathologically inept and tragically insecure that they don't usually mean they want to close a program at any time, including when they purposely move their mouse pointer all the way across the screen way up to the uppermost corner where they have to carefully align the mouse pointer directly atop a little bitty "X" and then click on it. Software makers are certain that nobody means to do this. Ever. It is always an error when anyone tries to close a program. Yet by the same token these very same software companies feel perfect security in the ability of people to know for sure when they want to open a program, because there is no such thing as a message asking if you're sure you really want to open any program on your computer. So... no one ever opens programs they didn't really want to open, they only close programs they didn't really want to close. Is it just me or is this truly bizarre thinking on the part of software companies?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It would seem that some software companies are convinced that there could never be such a time in anyone's computing life when they would be done using the software. This is an inconceivable situation to these companies, many of whom themselves never, ever close any of their computer programs. Ever. It would have to be a gross accident, a mental blip, a moment of total stupidity for anyone to actually believe they were done using the software program. You are never done using the software. Do you understand? Never. You don't have a life. You don't have other things to do. No. What would be normal, reasonable and expected is for you to sit at your computer twenty four hours a day for the rest of your life using the software. "Why would anyone ever want to close any computer program?", they seem to be saying. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why would anyone click the "X"? Are you sure that's what you want? Are you sure you know how you feel? Are you sure you know what you think? Do you need help making sure that you can think all by yourself? You may think you're done using this program right now, but are you? Shouldn't you think it over and reconsider that idea because it's probably wrong? You are too dumb to know what you want. We're here to help by telling you how dumb we think you are over and over and over again. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is not only not helpful, it is scary. Not to mention insulting. It also makes little sense. On the average, how often does it really happen that people close programs when they didn't want to close them? Does it happen so often that the best course of action is to save people from their own hopeless stupidity by making them confirm they want to close a program 100% of the time before the program allows them to do it? I don't think there is any evidence to support that. At all. None. In fact I would say that it is so unusual that people accidentally close programs that it's not even worth the time to calculate the percentage of times out of a thousand that it happens. Besides, even if it does happen, so effing what?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What does a software maker care if I accidentally close a program when I didn't really want to close it? Does it affect them in any way? No. It is irrelevant to them. I really don't see the logic in this strange setup or any reason for it other than to perpetuate the insulting and untrue suggestion that computer users are too stupid to open and close programs of their own cognition within any acceptable margin of error. It is arrogant and impertinent and they can kiss my unamused butt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ever heard of personal responsibility? If I close a program accidentally and lose work then I learn not to do that again. It might happen again, but it won't happen very often. I am sure this situation is best left to the individual experiencing it. I'm not seeing where software manufacturers feel the need to be included in or to prevent this sort of personal learning curve. It doesn't appear to me to be anything within the venue of writing computer programs. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't think so. My personal behavior is none of their concern. At least not on Earth. Instead of second guessing me maybe they should concentrate more on writing programs that don't crash or go cattywompus quite so much.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Perhaps this particular default was written into programs as a form of insurance for new users, but you know, you can only be new at computing for a very short time, then it's not new to you anymore. Should operating systems or software programs be set up to cater to the most temporary class of computer users, new users, on a permanent basis? Who would benefit from this? Maybe a computer school for new computer users, but no one else. Not the average home user. Not the average business user. So, again, I am confused as to the need for this second-guessing the intelligence of the user being built into software programs and operating systems, and I wish they'd knock it the hell off. </span></span><br />
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