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The Twisted Motives Behind Political Correctness
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com,
As I have confessed in the past, in my early years I found myself active in the Democratic Party and the general liberal methodology. I had no understanding of the concept of the false left/right paradigm. I had no inkling of the dangers of globalism and central banking. I had no concept of decentralization or non-participation. I had never even heard of libertarianism. I knew only that George W. Bush was a criminal (and I was right), but the problem went far deeper than the GOP. I was astoundingly ignorant of the bigger picture.
However, what I did have going for me was an almost violent sense of nonconformity. I hated collectivists, yet I found myself surrounded by them while working within the leftist culture. It was the insanity of self-proclaimed “liberals” that taught me the true nature of the facade of politics. When I realized that the Democrats were essentially the same corrupt entity as the neoconservatives, everything in my life changed.
One aspect of liberalism with which I am now very familiar is political correctness. I didn’t understand it at the time, not until I stepped outside the cultism of it and looked in from a wiser place. It always bothered me, but I couldn’t quite grasp why until later. Then, it hit me like a revelation. Political correctness was not a political ideology. No, it was a religion, a full-fledged spiritual con, a New Age ghetto of frothing mishmash that is sociological voodoo. And the leftists were eating it up like steak night at an all-you-can-eat buffet.
These people were rationally retarded. Every idea they proposed they merely parroted from books and articles they had read. They were like malfunctioning automatons trapped in a cycle of discontented social criticism. Their desperation to invent meaning in the midst of their irrelevant lives made me feel ill. If they could not find a legitimate cause to champion, they would create one out of thin air and defend it relentlessly, regardless of how shallow it truly was.
When I outline my analysis of economic destabilization within the United States or I write about the rise of the police state, I am driven by a fundamental sense of concrete concern. There are indeed real problems in the world, swirling in a storm of obvious factual conflicts. But the warriors of the PC culture don’t see any of it. Rather, they fantasize about injustices that don’t exist, trespasses that are ultimately fictional. They imagine themselves champions of some greater purpose that, in the end, doesn’t matter.
Recently, I read a news story about a “transgendered teen” in Maine. When the boy was in the fifth grade, he decided to dress as a girl and demanded to use the girl’s bathroom at his public school, despite having the biological apparatus of a male. This story was international news, folks! Why? I can’t say, except that the mainstream media have made a point to focus on “gender optional” issues as if they represent some kind of civil rights uprising.
The issue perfectly illustrates the disturbing nature of politically correct culture.
Teachers at the school did not deny the student the use of restroom facilities. In fact, they allowed him to use the teacher’s bathrooms to avoid any confusion. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court, on the other hand, had other ideas. It ruled that the school’s refusal to allow the boy to use the girl’s facilities constituted a violation of the State’s anti-discrimination law. The ruling has been heralded as a massive victory for the politically correct narrative.
Now, let me make one thing clear: I could not care less about this boy’s sexual orientation (if he even has one). I do think the very idea that a fifth-grader at about the age of 10 is sexually conscious enough to develop a sense of gender dissuasion is absurd. Children who haven’t even experienced puberty yet, proclaiming they are transgendered? Utter nonsense. I find it far more likely that the student’s PC-obsessed parents influenced him to come to such a decision despite his naivety.
That said, a person’s sexual proclivities are not my concern. In fact, I have no interest whatsoever in the infatuations of any individual. That is a personal matter. I do not judge such people on their attractions. I do, though, judge people on how they handle their infatuations. What happens when someone wears his sexuality on his shoulder like a fashion accessory? Why is that even necessary? Is it not rather mentally backward for any person to base his public persona solely on his carnal compulsions? Do I dance around on the sidewalk bellowing to strangers how much I love the curves of women? Do I require a sociopolitical legal apparatus to vindicate my existence? Do I feel the need to shame gay people into publicly embracing my straight man’s libido? No, I do not.
The PC culture demands that we, as individuals, openly accept the sexual orientations of anyone and everyone; otherwise, we are labeled prejudiced monsters. It is not enough that we object in a logical manner. No, we must fall to our knees and thank the stars for the very existence of gender chameleons.
In the end, the psychological gender position of any particular person does not overrule his biological features. A child with a penis is a boy. Period. He will never be a girl. Ever. Not without surgical aid. And even then, he will never have the ability to give birth, which is the very hallmark of femininity. (Sorry, feminists, but that’s how it goes.) A boy, no matter his mental orientation, does not belong in a girl’s lavatory. The privacy rights of the girls outweigh the gender confusion of the boy. If I were a girl (why not play some gender games since everyone else is), I would beat the living hell out of any boy gallivanting in a dress in a bathroom I was using and make sure he never dared come back. And, by extension, if I were a rather mischievous boy with an aptitude as a peeping tom, why not dress up in a tutu in the hopes of getting a glimpse of the forbidden while being legally protected by the State?
The warped conflicts that arise, though, are not the creation of the child in question. A fifth-grader has no concept of gender rights or political correctness. This issue was a creation of the PC cult and its acolytes. These people don’t actually care about the children they involve in their legal dramas. They exploit them, with every intent to abandon them once they have chiseled their agenda into the gray matter of every American.
What truly motivates these people? Why do they do what they do? I think my experience with leftists makes me a well-positioned observer of the psychology of the culture. Here are the hidden thought processes I have witnessed while dealing directly with the PC army.
PC Elitism
One of the unfortunate side effects of religion is that proponents often use it as a means to feel superior to others. I have seen it in Christianity as much as I have seen it in any other belief system. It is the primary reason why I refuse to subscribe to organized and establishment-sanctioned spiritualism. Religion should be a personal experience first and foremost, not an easy way to fit in with the collective. Communing with others who share one’s beliefs should be secondary. Hypocritically, politically correct adherents often criticize Christians for their collectivist elitism while suffering from the same problem themselves.
PC culture allows participants to pretend as though they have some greater understanding of the world, an elevated knowledge of life that makes them superior to the uninitiated. It is important to understand that when a person pursues the methodology of zealotry, he doesn’t do it to make the world a better place; he does it to feel better about his place in the world.
The politically correct are so violent in the assertion of their ideals because they crave the subjugation of the mainstream and a recognition of their “rightness.” They don’t want people to “accept” their beliefs as tolerable. They want people to adore their beliefs as supreme. They want every man, woman and child to reinforce their ideals without question.
The malfunction of this philosophy is that zealots are never finished. They must always find new ways to feel superior to others. So they continuously engineer new taboos and new sins, no matter how ridiculous, so that they can forever look down upon the laymen. Because of this, there will never be an end to PC law. It will go on forever, labeling numerous social interactions and stances as “aberrant” — never satiated and never satisfied.
PC Futurism
The young are always searching for ways to feel wiser than the old. This is just the natural way of things, at least in America. Now, I know from ample experience that age does not necessarily denote intelligence. I’ve met plenty of idiotic people who had decades of time to learn from their mistakes but didn’t. But the young, many of whom lack time and struggle, have a terrible tendency to either pretend that they have “seen it all.” Or they pretend that the very atmosphere of the day somehow gives them a greater insight than generations past. The reality is that most of them know very little of import. This attitude comes from a philosophy called “futurism” (popular with the Nazis and the Soviets), which holds that all the beliefs and discoveries of the past mean nothing compared to the beliefs and discoveries of the present. This ideology is alluring to the young, because it gives them a way to feel intellectually dominant over older and more “ignorant” people who are “behind the times.”
Political correctness is basically an appendage of futurism. By labeling elders as social bigots and products of a barbaric era who don’t understand the “lingo” of the PC elite, liberalism draws in and collectivizes the fledgling left. Younger generations are given a cultural avenue toward high priesthood, a right of passage usually reserved for the aged. They get to skip ahead past all the trials and tribulations of life and announce their deep awareness of the so-called greater good.
The values of forefathers past become archaic scrawlings of racist and prejudiced cavemen who could never appreciate the “brilliance” of today’s academia. The inherent freedoms of natural law that have existed since time began are nothing more than obstacles to them, standing in the way of a new and better world where they have somehow outsmarted human instinct and centuries of history.
PC Collectivism
The very foundation of political correctness is solidified in a desire for the perpetual reinforcement of one’s worldview. PC people need every other person around them to sing the praises of their pure virtues. If I happen to disagree with the idea of gender bending, for instance, as some kind of socially persecuted subculture that needs overt government protection, then I am, of course, labeled a hateful Neanderthal. If I stand in opposition to the concept of victim group status in general, in which the state demands that designated “minorities” be given special treatment regardless of the status of the individual, then I become a racist political fossil ignorant of the bigger picture. You see, if you disagree with PC culture in any way (even if that way is rational), you cannot win. To refute political correctness is to refute the god of the New Age; and to refute their god, even with concrete logic, is blasphemy.
This kind of blind faith in political correctness lends itself entirely to collectivism. The average person begins to think that without a viable appreciation of the philosophy, he may be left out or cast aside. Most people do not know how to function without the approval of others. Therefore, even if a father happens to have a healthy skepticism over the idea of a make-up wearing fifth-grade boy waltzing into his daughter’s school bathroom, he is likely to keep his mouth shut, because to speak out would be a risk to his position within the group, or the community.
PC Control
The prevalence of PC philosophy is not subtle. I have always found it interesting that political correctness seems to consistently support the demands of the state. Our system smothers children with it in public school, our workplaces are rife with the propaganda for fear of lawsuits and colleges are veritable breeding grounds for the PC oligarchy. Politically correct culture goes out of its way to constantly test others to make sure they are also true believers. This is exactly what is going on in the following interview with Jerry Seinfeld, who, to his credit, dashes the nonsense to the ground.
The truth is some discrimination is healthy, and some discord is needed for a society to remain balanced. As long as we don’t allow our disagreements to end in the physical harm of others, then those disagreements are our natural-born right. If you are a racist (this goes for non-whites as well), that’s fine. Just don’t act out your racism in a violent way around me, or I will have to put you down permanently. If you have a distaste of homosexuality (or asexuality, as seems popular nowadays), then whatever, I don’t care. You shouldn’t have to have organizations like GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) in your face attempting to force you to put on a smile for gaydom, coordinate man-on-man heavy-petting protests in your favorite restaurant (Chick-fil-A) while you’re trying to eat a damn sandwich, push boys into the girl’s bathroom, or trying to shut down your favorite TV shows because the stars happen to share your views (“Duck Dynasty”).
Now, PC proponents will argue that the very existence of bigotry does harm to society as a whole, and it must be educated out of individuals. Frankly, I see that kind of utopian fascism as a far greater threat to society as a whole than bigotry ever will be.
Look at where we are today because of the PC nightmare! We have a Nation on the verge of industrial and economic collapse, partly because companies are forced by law or persuaded by government subsidies to hire people with victim group status, even if they are unqualified, while ignoring highly qualified people who just happen to have lighter skin. We have children not even old enough to discover their own inherent character being clinically diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” by a psychiatric community of quacks, which conjured most PC terminology out of thin air. We have boys who are told that they are stunted for acting out their natural male impulses and girls who are told that true femininity is weakness and that they should act more masculine. We have a mainstream culture that coddles and infantilizes young adults, young girls who think promiscuity is the key to womanhood and that motherhood is disgusting (which I find rather ironic), and young men who have no testicular fortitude and no clue how to take charge of their own lives.
The American family unit has been completely destroyed. We have women who are ashamed to set aside careers to raise children because feminism frowns upon “breeders” who bring down the whole gender. We have men who abandon their children and refuse to take responsibility. And we have a weak-minded population addicted to collective affirmation and unwilling to think outside the box for fear of being shunned and shamed. Honestly, I can’t see a single redeeming quality to political correctness other than the fact that those people who espouse it do so loudly and obnoxiously, making it easier for me to identify and avoid them or to take special note of them as an obvious zombie threat in an America swiftly declining into mundane oblivion.
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i feel your pain
i smashed my hand at work, breaking three metacarples and three fingers and my wrist
i yelled "cunt" as the blood sprayed my face
back at work, the next day, i got called into the office for sexual harasment
the complaint came from a woman three rooms away thru 2 closed doors who wasnt even in the shop
i did the right thing
gathered my tools and returned for my final check
at which point the manager whined and cried....blah blah how could you quit with no notice...yer an integral part...putting us in a real spot....
My all time favorite was when I was on break , 2 men were maneuvering a heavy air conditioning unit on the roof. " Pick the mother fucking bitch up damn it. No, lift the fucker higher!" Every one was speechless as we were eating our lunches. I stoud up and shouted. " Hey, watch your mother fucking language. We mother fuckers our eating our mother fucking lunches down here!" Yup, I was back in the supervisors office once again. Im sure some are itching for Obamacare to push us into lay offs so they could have the excuse to let me go.
Miffed;-)
" It's as if we must go through our day keeping our head down, saying nothing provocative that may possible offend someone's uber sensitive psyche."
Yet they are spewing the most inappropriate crap out 24/7 on the boob tube.
I agree my friend. Just so much verbal diarrhea in the name of hatred. Goy don't want you taking away their hatred. One day soon, goy are gonna be killing themselves over this shit. All I can say is leave New York out of it! We already suffered enough at the hands of those lunatic islamofacists!
There's a reason it's called ground zero.
USA....USA....USA!!
Sorry just a bit of collective affirmation...............................
Well said.
Homeschool your kids. The public schools are the devil's workshop (and private schools are not the way, either; home school your kids; do not delegate giving them a real education to anybody else). It's up to parents to raise their children to be God-fearing, and achievement is way higher with homeschooling as there is no 'no child left behind' or other BS or 'standards' imposed. Read the background to the public schools and how they are one of Marx's planks of communism. Dewey, all these humanists wanted this.
The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord. There is no fear of the Lord in the public schools. What if you profit the whole world but lose your soul? That is all that matters, where you spend eternity.
How do you explain the fact that 99% of the people here went to public school?
God has His people everywhere. He is ever forgiving and loves us so much He gave Himself to die for us. The Bible says to raise your child in the ways of the Lord, and he will not depart.
We need to get back to the godly family where the father is the breadwinner and disciplinarian and teaches his children the Bible scriptures, and the mother raises the children and home schools them, and along with the father instills in them a fear of the Lord.
Savings and thrift need to be prioritized, and wake up about what is going on with the currency and the usurious Zionist banknig system and how it is all part of their plan to dismantle the family and make it more difficult to make ends meet as they try to remove the wife from the home where she belongs, home making and raising the children and serving her husband. So many are complicit in this though, too, it must be reiterated, as they take on debt and live beyond their means.
The Godly Family has never existed. It's a fairy tale. Like your kid making The Big Leagues.
Other way around...
Reality is their illusion
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Their fiction is the reality.
The world is depressed.
"the usurious Zionist banknig system". Come on brother, no need to resort to political uncorrectness to make your point.
Exposing who is behind the fraudulent banking system is critical. I think a lot of the deception with this is with the foreign policy and AIPAC and how people are told by someone like Hagee that the Jews don't need Jesus to be saved, even though the Bible clearly states that nobody comes to the Father but through the Son. God's people are those who believe on the Holy Trinity.
i am a total believer
but stop dude
just stop
I'm not wrong on anything. There are tons of false prophets out there, wolves in sheep's clothing. Even so called fundamental Baptist preachers. More and more of the health and wealth new age BS is being taught as opposed to the Biblical teaching against sin. And humility and modesty need to be instilled as well.
I feel sorry for your children. You will raise them in the name of your religion and destroy their little innocent minds, forever corrupting their thinking with religious BS.
That's rich! Hahaha! So everything ill in society always comes back to the hebes, doesn't it? Goy are lazy as shit, and live way beyond their means. Jews fault. White women are fucking monkey looking black men and having millions of halfbreed kids on welfare. Jews fault. Your politicians are letting millions of Hispanic peasants into the country and rewarding them to boot. Jews fault. I think you guys need to take a realistic look in the mirror. Your lives suck because you suck. Keep crying that life isn't fair dummies.
How do you fit 1000 jews into a Volkswagen?
The ashtray
Oy vey!
Watch it monkey. You're about to get reported.
Hahahah
Q: Who was the most well known Jewish cook?
A: Hitler!
Shit dude, I haven't heard that one. You got me LOL.
Did you hear about the new German microwave? It seats 10.
jews run hollywood and have been making movies with black men/white women and trying to promote that before it even happened. Jews run porn business and have black men/white women. Jews run the record labels and have black rappers singing anti white hatred. Thouands of blacks mureder whites every year but never make the headlines that JEWS RUN.
Now it the Jews fault the ape men hate the whites? It's our fault your whore women fuck these apes? It's our fault you are too neutered to put down a race of violent, half retarded troglodytes?! Hahaha! You're sounding more like the blacks every day. Don't take responsibility for your own shortcomings. Another group is holding you back. You don't need Jews to ruin the white race, you're fully embracing failure in the fastest possible manner. Keep fucking monkeys white bitches!
Whats the difference between jews and santa? santa goes down the chimney
How do you get a jewish girls number? roll up her sleeve
got jokes fo' days yall!!
Dun almost made me spit outs mah KFC chicken!
Gori want ba-na-na?
Im actually German
I don't get why people are so surprised my grandfather survived the holocaust. Most guards did.
I'm punching out of the aircraft, this is outta control.....eject..eject..eject
Trav!
Whoa..., maybe!
LOL you're funny! Stupid, but otherwise funny...
Your ignorance is appalling. So we should go back to a world where the woman knows her place, fathers physically beat their kids to instill the 'fear of the Lord' in them, and looking for external bogeyman and scapegoats instead of self-examination of the individual's flaws and shortcomings.
And these guys are the always the same ones who wonder, "How did the evil people get such a foothold in our society?" After all, I'm sure this asshole only gives his wife a black eye when she deserves it.
Either that, or he's a damned good troll.
No, your plan sucks. I'd actually take the zionists over you. apart from the censorship and thought policing, which I'm not down with, I find them far more admirable than you Christian bible-thumping idiot types. Most of the zios have the good sense to be atheist or agnostic. You're absolutely drunk on fairy tales they [and the Romans] invented.
Get thee to youtube, and search ye for Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens and learn something for goodness sake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYaQpRZJl18
And what, we represent .0001%? I think that is within the possibility of escaping the indoctrination. God knows I didn't seem to learn a thing in school.
You know that 99% here went to public school how? What a friggin idiot. Go somewhere else.
Well, odds are, most people here did go to public school. Yes the public schools were bad, but frankly, the university system did more damage to me than the public schools.
But with a tremendous amount of effort, I managed to deprogram myself.
I am curious how my life would have turned out had I not been so badly miseducated in the first place.
The universities are also institutions where there is no reverence for God. I am for apprenticeships and direct hands on learning as opposed to sending young highly volatile people to these places for four years, and with mountain loads of debt racked up to boot. And again, even if in the worldly sense, the 'ROI' of getting a degree 'pays off', one has to take account of what I posted above about how the Bible says, what will it profit you if you inherit the whole world but lose your soul? These schools churn out more and more materialistic, secular, PC people who can't actually truly think for themselves. They get mired in the equations and math such as are taught in economics and in orwellian fashion taught to take things like the BS CPI and STATISTics as legitimate, not bothering to think about how BS these stats are or the immorality of debasing currency and stealing purchasing power away from people. Education has to be God-centered to hold true value. The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord.
Even 'Christian' universities secularize and do mainstream things to get funding, and the Bible makes many points about how it is the local, independent church that should be the focal point, not some college. And the mainstream denominations continue to deviate from the Word at an alarming rate. The best pastors I've listened to do not hold these fancy 'doctorates' and other master of divinity or what have you. Rather, these real Christian leaders read the KJV Word and meditate on it, and pray to God for discernment as they see God's workings in their lives and how they can influence others and win souls. They tell their congregation what they need to hear, not what is PC or what they want to hear.
Jesus Christ! Not everyone believes your fairy tale. Can't you give it a rest. No country will ever advance if its citizens are mindless Christians. Christians do no good for anyone, including themselves. PC was allowed by a Christian "turn thy cheek" culture. Do you see PC flourishing in Israel or Muslim countries. Of course not. We don't willingly let ourselves be ass raped by deviants, and minorities.
"My mom for most of her life was a Holocaust denier, and it was terrible for the rest of the family to have to deal with, until finally we had an intervention and we had a rabbi come to the family home and walk my mother through the history of the Jewish people. Then he made her watch Schindler's List. After that my mom did a complete 180.
Now, she can't believe it only happened once."
LMAO...
Jeselnik is a genius. He's unique, actually tells jokes {incredibly rare format} and is funny as hell. While a lot of his humor is based on saying "outrageous shit" he does it with a cleverness and artfulness that keeps it from getting tired.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
My dear mother taught me how to read, and encouraged it. For that reason only, public school did not interfere with my education, although it did make the attempt. Home schooling is simply priming the pump. People who do not educate themselves are willfully ignorant, and they get what they deserve.
We are the lucky ones, we refused to be broken, we refused to believe the bull that was served up.
I refused to stand for the national anthem in school. I refused to clap unless I deemed the deed or person worthy. So what if I was ostracised for it, so what if I sometimes got red lines and question marks against my answers.
I'm sure many others here of that 99% were square pegs. Then many more have probably woken up once they grew up and saw the real world.
Unfortunatly most of our former classmates have believed the bull from theday they entered school.
How can the fear of anything be a good start to a wisdom journey?
Seems like deeply flawed something something there.
ori
Because if you don't fear the Lord, you're going to hell, kid.
Simple as that.
I hope youre joking. I've always respected the contrarian views presented here. That's why I tolerate the Nazi sympathizers and pro-slavery bullshit I've read on here. But the religion has really got to go. Still cant figure why all these people worship some 2000 yr old middle eastern jew.....
Dude, there are some things we'll never understand. Just face it and quit making up bullshit no one could ever know. All religions are man-made....
LOL.
That was all sarc. Sorry I threw you off.
To make up for it, I'll dedicate my next bong rip to my main mon Jesús.
LMAO
You rock, Skate.
28 And fear not them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him that is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
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All religions are man made. Religion is man made rules to say you are good enough to get into heaven.
Jesus died for our sins while we were still yet sinners, and all you have to do is believe, no good works are necessary. Simple. Why not research it, read the bible, invest a little time, what can it hurt.
That is why Jesus said the prostitutes and tax collectors would enter the Kingdom of Heaven before any of the religious leaders.
Does that even sound like anything a simple man would make up. That is so revolutionary and flies in the face of all religions, you can not get any more contrarian than that.
If heaven means eternal consciousness, count me the fuck out. I'm sort of looking forward to "the end".
Thing is, you don't know. There might be no end. The general lack of memory of previous incarnations in homo sapiens doesn't imply a lack of memory in your next incarnation, should there be one.
What I'm trying to say is, buckle up man. You never know where you're gonna end up next.
Sorry there is no re-incarnation either. See the words of Jesus:
Matthew 12:42New King James Version (NKJV)
42 The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.
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If the queen of the South aka Queen of Sheba will be present on judgment day as the Queen, then in the last 2500 plus years she has not be reincarnated as anyone else since.
Meanwhile he himself is the reincarnation of Horus, Krishna, Buddha, Dionysus...e.tc.... on and on....
+ Like all great religious works, the theme is astrotheology, as above so below.
Jesus was the Son of the Sun. The literal and figurative reason for the seesun.
Look at all the halo's behind Churchianity figures. Sun worship, just like it has always been. Same in Hinduism, same in Judaism.
Jupiter is Jew-Peter, the rock on which the church was built and where lightening struck when il Papas resigned. It is also Zeus Peter is also the Vedic DyasPitur, the father of Thunder god Indra....
Abhram/Brahma/Abram/Ibrahim, Sarah/Sarahswati/Sara...
All the same. If we all under-stood that, poof, all religious trouble vanish.
ori
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/apocalypse-now/
As generation upon generation step on the spiritual metaphors that gave our cultural originators their freedom of expression, we look at each other with increasing scorn, fighting over the ways one has to be held captive to the literal interpretations of those very metaphors.
Aren't we lucky to bear witness to a small part of this? ;)
In deed and word SkateB. What a time to be alive and aware.
That is a pretty complex sentence construct there, BTW ;-)
If you can cut through the bullshit, so much ancient truth is being revealed.
I for one, love it.
ori
aman cara
brahmancharya
The Old Druids represented a very old faith, that stretched across the world, having a good amount in common with the forerunners of Hinduism and the Greeks.
However, you linked to a site which claims, in part, that "The Jesuits (openly) and the Templars (in a closet, the hidden hand) control every aspect of this world we live in. Take the “every” in context. I don’t mean down to the last detail. But yes, everything."
Which is false, and deliberately so, and tells me you have allowed yourself to be misled by the power that is right in front of your eyes.
The best place to hide, is often out in the open - and it is not 'the Jesuits' who can not be criticized, who have powerful lobby groups, and 20% of the world's billionaires, and wildly disproportionate representation in high office....
And rather than see this power, you have been made to chase ghosts...
That.... is power.
Some magick is gray.
Are you referring to Jew-llers? The ones who knew and know just how to cut a diamond so that its light would trap?
AndTwerps world over buy it?
Like that?
What if they too are dupes? Wilful misdirection is a common trick, nein?
It is Us who give Them power
Welp, I guess I'm going to hell then.
See you there!
At least I won't have to ever shovel snow again.
They even celebrate Christmastime in Hell. No snow though. ;)
Save me a place next to the furnace, akak!
Amen. Simply believe on the Lord and you are saved. I've seen where a Christian goes soul winning and does it the right way, and first asks the person would you go to Heaven today if you were to die? A lot of times the first thing they would say was an account of their life and whether they had been 'good'. Believing on Jesus gives one eternal security that one will spend eternity in Heaven. There is no ambiguity; it is a binary matter. 'Purgatory' is manmade by the perverted catholic church (along with numerous other perversions of that church like marianic worship and relics and idolatry and obviously the pedophilia inherent to a corrupt institution, one that covers up crimes, as well as the Vatican financing activities--part of the NWO)
I repeat what I said above, which is that nobody comes to the Father but through the Son. You are doing a grave disservice to anybody in not telling them the truth about the most important matter. Jesus died for each and every one of us, and the instant an individual believes on Him he is saved. Doesn't mean we won't sin, as it is a constant battle with the fleshly desires and temptations, but we will persevere.
So poor Gandhi got screwed. To name one.
Gandhi is burning in hell as is any other non-believer on the Lord Jesus Christ. The wages of sin is death. We all sin, and we all inherited sin, and must be covered by Christ's precious blood shed to be fit for Heaven. God cannot tolerate any imperfection. He is a perfect judge.
I often if not usually agree with and upvote your posts, FMFMN, but I have to downvote this one.
Please keep your religious zealotry, and bigotry, to yourself.
We all fall short of the glory of God and it is only through believing in His death for our sins and Resurrection that we are fit for Heaven. Nobody gets into Heaven on good works. Believing in one's works as opposed to simple faith proves clearly that one does not trust in the Lord Jesus, but rather pridefully believes one can earn their way to Heaven.
Many non believers have accomplished some technological and scientific or what have you amazing things. But they still go to hell. And anybody who tells you otherwise isn't a Christian. What shall it profit a man if he inherits the whole earth but loses his soul?
Yeah, well there are billions of Hindus, Moslems, Buddhists, and those of other religions who all collectively believe that YOU are the deluded one, and it is YOU who will go to Hell (or be reincarnated as a worm, or fail to reach Nirvana, etc. etc.) for YOUR lack of faith in the "one true religion" --- even though they cannot agree on that "one true religion". And all of them have nothing but THEIR own particular book of "divine revelations" to prove that THEY follow the "one true religion".
It would all be funny as shit if it were not taken so seriously by so many --- and if so many millions throughout history were not (and did not continue to be) killed in the name of "the one true religion".
Yet again, I have to say it: as a whole, humanity is insane.
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Only Jesus rose from the dead and paid for our sins.
Prove it.
And while you're at it, tell me why you accept on faith (i.e., without proof) the Christian Bible, and NOT the Koran. What was the rational basis for your acceptance of the one over the other? After all, there is substantially greater proof of Mohammed's existence than there is of Jesus'.
give the guy a break though.
the whole point about faith is that it's UNPROVABLE.
"if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting".
I agree.
That is the whole point --- how is faith, then, fundamentally different from schizophrenia, or insanity?
well, if you accept the postulate that we're all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively...
then, the only distinction that i would make is that faith is like a mild (benign) form of insanity/schizophrenia that can be used for spreading love over fear in the hearts/minds of humanity.
Controlled chaos can be passed off as a functioning system, whereas raw chaos cannot be. That is why the false dichotomy of faith works.
is not chaos still raw - controlled or not?
here's a gift: spinoza's ethics
I think I'll listen to this through my workday tomorrow hehe.
edit: even a mindless listen through the workday leaves a subconscious footprint. ;)
I doubt you will be getting an answer to that one, akak. But if I had to guess, I'd say his daddy likely beat the fear of the lord into him. There's nothing rational about it.
Hey, I'll jump in on this one, if I may.
There are at least 24000 documents, (some redundant, admittedly) confirming Jesus, as a living man.
There are several 1000s confirming Mohammed(some redundant...) as a living man.
To be brief, Jesus' "miracles" were extraordinary. Dead back to life, walk on water, 8 pounds of food to feed 5000, restore sight,etc. Mohammed struck a rock with metal and got a spark. Jesus' message was love God, forgive others, repent, honor sinners with the truth, before judging, walk away if they don't believe, states God does NOT ultimately want man in hell. Mohammed was fear God and respect, repent, destroy that which does not do the same. , implication is God wants man in hell.
Jesus was never homicidal or suicidal. Mohammed wanted infidels crushed, and "wanted to die" every time "Gabriel" appeared.
There's more, but here's a start.
Well now he may be the only one who paid on behalf of YOU, but there are many other parallels pre-dating this particular death and resurrection. And on the 3rd day to boot. The story is actually quite common in many cultures... Even the coincidence dates relative to a particular solstice are not unique to the Sun, or even your Son.
When one digs deep, and with an open mind, it is astounding how obvious it is that Christianity is nothing but a synthetic religion cobbled-together from just about every other Middle Eastern and Egyptian religion and cult.
There is nothing new under the Son ...
The worst of it is, and I'm being very general here, is that it is all good stuff. No people shouldn't murder or steal or bang their neighbors wife. I don't need a particular faith to justify a belief in these things.
Throughout history religion has proven itself to be an unnatural barrier to many natural human thought experiments... So it must always evolve, or be proven false.
the new testament in less than 100 words
Interesting --- all I get when I click on the link is the message "This video is not available in your country".
It's a really bad movie, you really aren't missing much. Immortal man slowly grows in intellect over tens of thousands of years, does some preaching in the middle east early on, people get it confused, religion starts, he winds up teaching at a university, and has some friends over to help him pack for retirement so they don't figure out he hasn't aged at all. While getting ready to go he tells them al he is immortal. More like a play on film than a proper movie, only 1 or 2 total sets used.
Thanks for the synopsis.
By the way, since you mentioned it, and for whatever it's worth, I once had a friend whom I honestly have reason to believe was not "normal" as far as aging was concerned. He once or twice let slip, then eventually proved to me, that he was much older than he claimed to be and appeared. He hinted several times that he would eventually 'disappear', and that was exactly what happened later on. To this day I wonder where he might be, and just how old he really was (and is?).
you're a harsh critic ;-)
you must have strong pre-conceptions about "reality" and/or have not fully developed your sense of humor, but i digress....
it's a great film without all the fast-moving cameras and action to "wow" everyone into passive stupidity...for 90 minutes of dialogue, the film touches upon evolution, history, religion, philosophy, etc. and actually makes you think...
the acting is not great compared to big cinema, but after all it took about $300k to make the film.
the beauty is in Jerome Bixby's script.
Didn't mean to shit on your cupcake. I had never heard of it before watching it and I went back later and watched it again. Like I said it was more of a play than a film and it just didn't resonate with me is all. Don't let my quickie review stop you from checking it out.
As far as I know my only preconception on realaity is none of us know what it is. I also think Plato fluffed the role of philosophers since he was one.
as long as your shit is tasty, i will tolerate it ;-)
and i completely agree, the film is very much like a play. the story will resonate or it won't. and, i don't expect Joe Six-Pack to watch the film and come away enlightened, but you have to plant seeds
plato was self-serving just like the rest of us...btw, you might like this set of videos, if you have a fleeting interest in philosophy (or math).
I think it was Hicks that helped me kick my philosopher compulsion. Having wasted years reading Aristotle to Zeno it was Hicks who helped me realize it is more fun to drink and dance with the ladies at the party than sit around discussing the vagaries of isms.
Links look interesting, thanks.
a life with no fun is...depressing.
the greeks are nice if you want to understand the baseline for the evolution of western thought/philosophy.
the narrator of those videos, surprisingly, has a sense of humor. i was initially expecting some more nonsense "secret histories", but was pleasantly surprised with the products he has put together on an oft-neglected school of thought.
You just need to delve more deeply.
I'm not being a dick - you had the interest/passion once, you can sharpen the blade.
Wilhelm Windelband's A History of Philosophy series is gorgeous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Windelband
good stuff! i didn't know Schweitzer was an offshot of Windelband...
my baseline is Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy.
hmmm...well, i'm in europe and it's working fine.
here's a vimeo copy that will work for everyone (no censorship): http://vimeo.com/51703552
but you need to fast forward to 54:28 to get the relevant scene...
the whole movie is great though...well worth the 90 minutes...
Of all the countless religions that have existed from the dawn of time every single one of them is wrong. Apart from the one you happen to believe in.
I'm just surprised Gandhi can't get a pass? I mean, the good lord has always been very flexible on many things... From science to the subject of property.
Get thee behind me, moron!
You know, you probably think magicians are evil, too.
For your arrogance and hate, I think you deserve a brief illness requiring you to piss out your ass for a day or so.
I think I think I think /// You might have the shits in your future
As you sit and shoot liquid feces out your ass, ask yourself if Jesus of Nazareth would have wanted you on his bowling team. You seem like a real twat.
the real jesus story
[WARNING: not for ultra-conservative christians who lack a sense of humor]
Matthew was a Jewish tax collector who became one of Jesus’ disciples. The Gospel of Matthew forms the connecting link between the Old and New Testaments because of its fulfillment of prophecy: Jesus is the Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Way, the Truth and the Life - to all peoples.
Jesus Prepares the Disciples for Prosecution
Matthew 10:16: The opposition of the Pharisees – the religious leaders - would be like ravaging wolves. The disciples’ only hope would be to look to their Shepherd for protection.
Matthew 10:24: “If the head of the house has been called Beelzebub, how much more the members of his household.” (10:24)
Matthew 10:25: “Beelzebub was also known as the lord of the flies and the prince of demons. The Pharisees accused Jesus of using Beelzebub’s power to drive out demons (see 12:24). Good is sometimes labeled evil. If Jesus who is perfect was called evil, his followers should expect that similar accusations will be directed at them. But those who stand firm will be vindicated (10:22).”
– Life Application Bible, New International Version
The message: Take your cross and follow me.
The difference being that this "2000 year old, middle eastern 'Jew'" as you put it, was actually killed because he stood up to authority. I didn't see you upsetting or disrupting the money changers like he did.
Bwahahaha!!!!!! You made me spit out my cereal. Good one friend! Great way to start the day!
Their are truths in those ancient books, documents, texts, scrolls, etc...
Imo however, they have been distorted, parts omitted, illusions added and lies mixed in.
Your opinion would be different if you were an educated man.
I believe in a Creator because of science.
As to the nature of that Creator, I am a Christian because of Occam's Razor.
Do yourself a favor. Set out to prove that the Bible is plainly laughably wrong. But, this time, make the effort based on science (real science, that is), reason, and archeology instead of the collective sneerings of Yahoo and Salon know nothings.
I guarantee you will find it interesting. Well, I did, anyway.
Touche'
Reminds me of the Peanut butter factory theory "Complex chemical reactions every day for a hundred years, still no new life forms." Or the "7 day creation is impossible" rebuffed by black hole event horizons.
Science screams "Creator"
Councils of Nicea. You're right.
I guess i will forget the hundreds of answered prayers, the things regarding God that happened to me that were 1 in a billion chance of them happening, dreams, visions, and on and on...
New King James Version (NKJV)
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
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Let's hear some testimonies brother. The power of God is real.
Yes it is...Acts 2:17"'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGz8UT4Alvw
I know, I was asking you to share some of your testimonies about what God has done in your life.
I should add that none of our dreams or visions should ever contradict the bible or reveal any new doctrine, otherwise it may not really be from God.
I never dull of amazement when someone gets so huffy over a "2000 yr old me jew..." cause he "has to go". If you believe he's so un-important, why get so upset? I'm honest when I say I've never sat around hating on Budda, or Zoroaster. Believe they were philosophers, some think more, but I don't get spun over it. Friend, they'll do much to extract Christ from the American converstation, and even so, "they" try now. You think many a city is lawless, now? Just wait. Think you've never benefitted from Jewish/Christian ethics, in America? Careful what you wish for...?
P.S. Most who hate on Jesus Christ, in my experience, have very little knowledge of the man or his followers. Are you one of these?
Ahem, 'Jewish/Christian ethics'? You think they're the same? Check the Talmud and report back.
Fear what God can do to any person at any time, and be thankful for the blessings He gives us. God loves us and is for us; He came in the flesh and lived a blameless life yet paid an undeserved penalty on the cross, a debt that we sinners deserved, that we might avoid the eternal fire of hell and be reunited with Him in Heaven.
There is all sorts of 'knowledge' and manmade 'wisdom' and philosophies out there, but God's law is built on the solid rock, unshakeable, and morality is not subjective. People think they can redefine rules with their PC agenda; well God will have His vengeance, and He will bless those who keep His Commandments.
All I know is the longer I live, the more I believe. This holds true for two reasons:
1. I have been blessed and aided many times in my life. I hope He doesn't tire of looking out for me.
2. There is no doubt in my mind we are being ruled by very, very dark people whose actions very closely resemble the 4 main pillars of Satanism. There has to be an opposite to that and I believe it to be Jesus and God.
I would also like to distinguish between faith, religion, churches, priests etc. My experiences have led me to have faith. The rest are man-made and as such can be manipulated. I prefer small monasteries to churches. Quiet, unassuming and humble. Just you and your faith.
i can accept that
what i can not accept is that there is only one true religion
one god yes
one religion no
unless of course god went to school, and hated geography class, or maybe just some of the places on this earth he made, because the christians seem to be unevenly distributed across the planet
you can not convince me that the god i believe in would damn someone to hell because he lived in the wrong spot at the wrong time and was never exposed to christianity
Jesus was 100% clear on this.
John 14:5-7
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
And...
Matthew 16:18
18 And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4FsAQtnGN8
the bible has been translated so many times by so many different people, that meaning can be lost or changed
and in 1 AD, people in the frikkin south american rain forest had zero opportunity to have been exposed to christianity
they should have know to build a boat to cross the ocean to get to church just because?
concept fail bra
I think if you tried to teach my kid creationism, he'd just laugh at you. Homeschool is for parents who arent secure enough in their values to face the world and/or for kids who are afraid to compete......
How long has it been since you were in school? I remember very few of my classmates of the sixties that thought their parents knew a damn thing. School back then discouraged parental involvement in actual classwork, as they were taught in the "old ways". Parents haven't a chance against the education system, especially if parents work. Parents don't fear competition unless it is knife fighting in the hallways. They are actually more concerned about their kids not getting the education the feel will be required in their future. Simply look at the satistics of public education today. Its not good.
What backwater school system did you go to and that is BS about not helping your kids with their education. I work consistently 50+ hrs a week and when I am not traveling make damn sure I help my son at night with his homework instead of watching TV or other frivolous crap.
How long has it been since you had kids? Obviously never. The homeschool crowd is a just as bad (on the other end of the spectrum) as my wife's hippie friends who wont cut the boys hair b/c they dont want to conform to gender labels. It you're fucking kids LIFE. Not some experiement to test your sociological theories
I'm not delegating the education of my kids. That's my job. But the school I've chosen to send mine to has been a useful socialization tool.
Oh, they're getting "socialized", I'm quite sure.
Having someone lump all homeschoolers into one type of people bothers me. I am not a religious fanatic. Just someone who was too terrified to take her five year old to public school so I listened to my gut and didn't. I homeschooled three kids, all graduated from college and now have good jobs they like in their field. Mostly I just took them to the library and turned off the tv. Read to them and made sure they learned math. Didn't put them in school till high school. One went to high school by enrolling in city college. The socialization they got was from adults. They may not have been smart about all the nasty stuff kids do to each other in school but we don't miss that part of a government sponsored education. They also know how to cook, do their own laundry and use a skill saw. And know the value of being honest. And none of them has any college debt. Public school is bullshit for most kids. Have lots of homeschooling friends with similar stories.
Same here, homeschooled mine to avoid a dysfunctional public system that couldn't teach them effectively after a point. One ran into small-mindedness (you're not from around here, are you?) which turned into juvenile torment; the school never intervened / took it seriously, so my wife stepped in and taught. That one has a B.A. now, and still likes us.
The other saw the best and worst of public school; developmental speech delay landed that one in the special kids class. Not stupid, just didn't talk as well or as fast as others. A gifted teacher, frustrated and saddened by the real special kids (who would never be able to learn, live alone or manage a career) saw a kid who had real ability, and spent some time catching my kid up. That one has a two-year (Associate's) degree from community college now, and is going back to finish the B.S. degree in the fall.
The gifted teacher was rewarded by having her class dissolved, and the children "mainstreamed" to save money.
My kids use computers (constantly), have varied interests and can hold a conversation. They keep an eye on the news, one got two postcards this week from a friend in Australia, has visited Canada twice, and plans to move there. The other is still thinking on a path, probably using computers somehow, and knows the world isn't running right. They both can do math (up through Calculus) and enjoy good food, good people and helping others when they can.
The world they will inherit is unworthy of anyone who is worthwhile. One had a few small loans (less than $5k total), and we are helping pay them off. The other has no debt, and probably won't have any at graduation. I hope they find paths that avoid dependency, debt and degeneracy, but this is the Earth we are talking about. Still, I made it, and so must they, on their own terms, with the reality they encounter. Perhaps they are smart enough to solve the problems others have made for them.
Having someone lump all homeschoolers into one type of people bothers me. I am not a religious fanatic. Just someone who was too terrified to take her five year old to public school so I listened to my gut and didn't. I homeschooled three kids, all graduated from college and now have good jobs they like in their field. Mostly I just took them to the library and turned off the tv. Read to them and made sure they learned math. Didn't put them in school till high school. One went to high school by enrolling in city college. The socialization they got was from adults. They may not have been smart about all the nasty stuff kids do to each other in school but we don't miss that part of a government sponsored education. They also know how to cook, do their own laundry and use a skill saw. And know the value of being honest. And none of them has any college debt. Public school is bullshit for most kids. Have lots of homeschooling friends with similar stories.
HOMESCHOOLING: My CHINESE CPA used to have a great come-back to that,
His point was that if I didn't send my kids to public school how in fucks name would they ever deal with the real-world?
The problem with private school or home-school, is you end up with dysfunctional people sure they're book smart, but they're BAMBI in the headlights for the likes of GS/JPM.
The public education is system is a lot like send your kid to the FEDERAL PRISON system, yes he'll get fucked, but he'll come out a man.
The real world ain't beautiful, and especially the USA.
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The same CHINESE CPA had rich parents who sent him to a private CATHOLIC school, he would say "The means fucking bitches on the planet", hitting kids with rules and stick's everyday. He would say, no problem sending his kids to public-school, but no fucking way would he even said an asshole to a CATHOLIC SCHOOL.
Probably why so many american's are fucked up, you know when you HIT a kid, he grows up to be a HITTER.
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Home-Schooling, I have had my share of this on both sides the kid side and parent, and in most cases it was the same parent who breast fed the kid until 8-12 years of age, the kids end being afraid to live outside the home, essentially autistic.
We really would be better off without you.
Taking the time to read the piece would put my post far down the line, and I wish it to be near the top.
Political correctness is a Marxist invention, a favorite term of Mao, who said that one must be politically correct not just in speech but in thought, not just in consciousness, but asleep. It is a tool the communists use to control, to shape and reshape, as an excuse to imprison and kill. It is vile, insidious, dangerous beyond Western understanding.
I hope all the jaded, cynical, arrogant, impetuous, hubristic and misled of ZH will come to understand its meaning in the context of what is being done to them. I hold out hope for you all. It is not all a bankers plot. They have been enlisted in their way as you have in yours, by communists. Your anger is just but it is misguided.
Yuri Bezmenov is the beginning of understanding. Golitsyn is the apex. Nyquist and Loudon carry their torch.
Bezmenov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpODYhnPEo
Golitsyn
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20963870/On-New-Lies-For-Old-1984-by-Anatoliy-...
Nyquist
http://www.jrnyquist.com
Loudon
http://www.trevorloudon.com/
Politicial Correctness is the underlying fabric behind Orwell's 1984. It is the requirement of conformity in all aspects of consciousness, with the explicit goal of conforming the subconscious.
Of course, the levels of enforcement differ with the totality of power of the State, but all Political Correctness is backed up by violence. Radical Marijuana has covered this in quite some detail...
BUTT the BIG BUTT is its NOT the same everywhere,
In greece its still pretty much "LIVE AND LET LIVE"
In the BUDDHA-BELT where I live, its pretty much "LIVE AND LET LIVE", so long as you don't harm another.
Only in the USA, do I see the worst fucking PC, where every FEMI-NAZI goes full retard on words like pavlovs dog.
Make no mistake boys, its NOT the same elsewhere, many a place where a man can still be a man.
"The feminist – as a woman trapped in a woman’s body – is at war with the authentically feminine. Grasping the mantle of masculinity, the indoctrinated feminist would make every heterosexual marriage into a homosexual coupling. Here the misconstrued feminine compels the masculine to surrender its dominant role, and social calamity must be the result." --JR Nyquist
Hillary 2016, ... then we will say how MANNISH MAN all of you really are,... Hillary, will Vince Foster all of you anytime she wants.
Just today on the WASH-POST where they compare RAND-PAUL to HILLARY, and they both agree 100% on everything.
In summary, given that ZH loves Rand Paul, why not just come out and admit you love the NAZI bitch as well?
good thing that zerohedge does not ban, nor has it ever banned, any commenters for being politically incorrect; or pointing out the obvious wrt what tribe the criminals that run central banks and governments belong to.
do i really need to add the /sarc off flag or is the above self-evident?
Yes, it is a good thing for you that they do not ban anti-semitic fools who blame all on a Zionist plot. It is not such a good thing for humanity.
Original Poster's have the ability to delete commenters, should they not have a clever answer to your questions, you have been warned.
Keep it light, keep it simple, keep it dumb, and you shall be immortal.
dude, if any one knows, you know:
first, you were banned for talking too much as satoshi101. then you resurfaced as satoshi911 and were banned for talking too much. and then still talking too much as satoshi401. and here you are, satoshi411, one day short of two weeks, and still talking too much. keep up the good work.
Before that as Gully Foyle.
Who is John Galt?
Wouldn't surprise me, you have plenty of alts.
Talking 'too much' is that really a crime on ZH?
Then what about fonestar? If commenting too often and too much them fonestar would not be an immortal would he?
Let's see 401 last 4 weeks, 101 lasted 2 days, 911 last less than a week, and 666 lasted months, ... 411 god only knows, ... but deleted or banned for 'too much'. Nada
Only one thing gets you banned on ZH, and that is 'too much truthiness',
Me thinks that reason that fonestar is an immortal is ..
1.) fonestar is a tyler
2.) fonestar is talking btc shit, which is permitted
ZH is a lot like animal-farm, all animals are equal, but some more equal than others.
Its not that you talk too much, its that you talk divisive crap - you make en effort to interject odious crap into rational debate in an attempt to create division, or derail - you are a troll.
You are making an argument for political correctness. There a more than a few people here who write long, empty posts using good grammar and punctuation. You find out who they are real quick and then ignore them. It is a waste of time. Now you get someone who gets you to actually think about things that may be uncomfortable or challenge your beliefs and this person gets attacked.Yes, it feels good to read posts and go back and forth with people who share the same views and opinions as you. But how valuable is this? How much have you learned? How have you improved your understanding and utility as a human?
What really is going on in the world? Who is calling the shots? Is there a point in trying to figure it out to plan ahead? A lot of people left Europe in the 1930's. The armchair QB sits here today and says that those who didn't were stupid. I am sure it was very hard to make the changes required to do that. Leaving all that you built and loved.
What do we in the US do here today? Do we leave? Do we prep? Do we take a blue pill everyday with our morning coffee?
First off, ZH is pretty clear about it policies.
Secondly, you meant to say "original posters" not "original poster's". God damn, I'm tired of reading shit from people who don't know the difference between the plural and possessive.
I know you young'uns don't give a crap about this shit, but for those of us who spent the time and effort to learn proper syntax in school, stuff like this is like waving the "I'm an idiot, ignore everything I say" flag over your head. It just sticks out like a giant sore thumb when you read down the thread. Misspellings are EASY to explain away (anyone can fat-finger the keyboard). But not that. Those kind of errors are like a giant neon sign above your head. You don't want to know what that sign says to people of my generation. It isn't complementary.
dude, its te mother fucking internet
let it go
we arent writing college term papers
So it's OK to go out in your underwear in public some of the time, just not all the time, is that it?
I can't stand apologists for laziness, much less apologists for willful ignorance.
no, but you can go out into the internet in your underwear
"I'm an idiot, ignore everything I say"
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I hear you loud and clear.
What about Francis Sawyer?