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Description Depending upon the situation, where you are and who is around you -- you are not allowed to question or criticize:

THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT
THE UNITED NATIONS
THE EUROPEAN UNION
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
ANY GOVERNMENT, PERIOD
JEWS
CHRISTIANS
MUSLIMS
ATHEISTS
THE POLITICAL RIGHT
THE POLITICAL LEFT
THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA
THE TRUTH MOVEMENT
LGBTQ
WOMEN
NON-WHITE PEOPLE

... the list goes on.

So no matter how much people virtue signal about "muh freedom" and "muh moral high ground" -- we do live in a global tyranny. This information is not meant to scare you, but inform you. The more people who are INFORMED AND REMAIN CALM, the more something can be done about it. If however people are only willing to become outraged, or stick their head in the sand -- then the fate of humanity will not be a good one, if people don't step out of this learned helplessness collective stockholm syndtome. The choice is yours. You can ignore this information, you can feel outraged and let that rage control you as if you are nothing more than a rabid dog, or -- you can calmly and rationally process the information, and start to ask questions and be open to answers that might be outside of what you've been taught to blindly believe in.
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Mesmerick In reply to ??? [2020-01-28 03:27:18 +0000 UTC]

You didn't even address my question, so I'll just dismiss this conversation as pointless. 

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SoftcoreWorks In reply to Mesmerick [2020-01-28 03:29:23 +0000 UTC]

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Mesmerick In reply to SoftcoreWorks [2020-01-28 03:32:30 +0000 UTC]

Humiliated? How? Nothing you said was insulting. Anyways, I hope having a great day is typical of TERFs like you!

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SoftcoreWorks In reply to Mesmerick [2020-01-28 03:33:34 +0000 UTC]

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SpyroLord In reply to SoftcoreWorks [2020-01-31 04:03:30 +0000 UTC]

Trannies only become Trannies so they can have a socially-acceptable reason to fiddle with people and kids in the bathroom.

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HopeSwings777 In reply to ??? [2020-01-27 20:52:38 +0000 UTC]

 

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paradigm-shifting In reply to HopeSwings777 [2020-01-29 00:14:56 +0000 UTC]

All governments, to include Israel, are corrupt. All politicians, are criminals. Politician and criminal are the same word. I don't hate Jews, or Muslims or anyone of any religion or belief system. But I am against the global criminal crime syndicate which runs all countries and corporations, without exception.

In fact, the Israeli government is the most tyrannical with its own citizens than it is with anyone else. There is also a lot of racism from average Jews against black Jews over there. Israel is as much of a shit show of tyranny as any other country. Of course many people will call me antisemitic for saying so, because they're ignoring the fact that I'm not talking about Jews. I'm talking about all governments.

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Eric-S-Huffman In reply to ??? [2020-01-27 17:10:04 +0000 UTC]

 

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paradigm-shifting In reply to Eric-S-Huffman [2020-01-29 00:28:18 +0000 UTC]

 

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SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM In reply to ??? [2020-01-27 10:21:07 +0000 UTC]

I find it funny when some people pride themselves in mocking certain religions and always conveniently omit one in particular.

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paradigm-shifting In reply to SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM [2020-01-29 00:30:52 +0000 UTC]

Yeah. Like how when Christians, Muslims and Jews refuse to see exactly how similar all of their religions actually are. Or when Atheists fail to realize that the word "religion" means "to bind" and has nothing to do with a belief in a supreme deity. When an Atheist tells me "I have all the facts and if you say otherwise, then you're an idiot" -- how is this different than a god-based religionist telling me "if you don't conform to what I say reality is, then you are sinning against God!" ...

Same attitude, different group. 

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SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM In reply to paradigm-shifting [2020-01-29 00:48:44 +0000 UTC]

Yeah... but religion is about more than that. To preface everything I'm about to say, I am not aligned or associated with any religious group. I am, by definition, an atheist.


Atheism is about the rejection of any and all values one might derive from a belief in a higher power. I used to be a far-left, edgy anti-theist(atheist) ten years ago, but I realized that I didn't dislike the rejection of (seeming) objective reality that some hardline religious people subscribe to; I rejected the fact that they were committed to a set of ideals which takes work and a serious introspection to admit that we don't have all the answers. The point of view of my atheism(and I suspect many others)is a disdain and resentment for accepting responsibility for one's action, shucking off pride and ego and realizing that you can have values that require you to give something of yourself up to get something back in return.


When I saw happy families whose moral foundation was their faith, I scoffed at them at their belief systems... but I couldn't reject the fact that they were happy, healthy and together. They had a shared, pervasive culture. All successful culture, either familial, national, international or otherwise must have some kind of unifying culture to drive people to maintain some sense of community and civility. UNFORTUNATELY, this often means that people outside the culture become seen as the enemy, so it's not an all-encompassing solution to Man's problems.


Like with everything else, everything we do is a process and there is no skeleton key that opens all the doors(to success and enlightenment in this case).


Not being restricted to a single religious belief is all well and good. It keeps you open to other concepts, ideas and values, BUT it also means you don't have a community with which to bond, which can be dangerous. For instance, we're seeing epidemic levels of loneliness and suicide in the West, and I think that has a lot to do with out rejection of the very religion and values that built our civilization. The problem here is that nothing is replacing the faith in God that one tethered us together.


Now there's this general malaise that has come with "liberation" from God and gods. Now we're on our own but we're aimless. There's no underlying, socially-binding foundation upon which we're building this new society. We're all supposedly "enlightened" now but devoid of a universal value system beyond "do what feels good in the now".


Kids are now losing themselves into video games, trying to find purpose in fake worlds. Men and women , boys and girls no longer see each other as complementary but as competition. Marriage rates are dropping. Birth rates are dropping. Usage of anti-depressants and suicide are sky-rocketing. This is not good.


I think that what's going to happen--and appears to be happening--is that people are realizing they've been sold a bill of goods and are going to start turning in droves in the other direction looking for community, family and happiness and emotional validation through social media ain't gonna cut it.


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paradigm-shifting In reply to SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM [2020-01-29 07:25:11 +0000 UTC]

I agree with most of your observations. So I will elaborate with you on my perspective about religion, and why atheism is one.

First, lets look at the word religion itself. It just means "to bind". However, bind to what? Simple. To bind to perceived authority, which is usually human authority and in the case of god-based religions, human authority virtue signaling as the will of God. 

Of course this binding does have some advantages, as imperfect as they may be, and as much of a solution as none of it actually is. It creates that unity and structure and sense of purpose. However, I would argue that a "sense of" is all that it is. Something fake, attempting to masquerade as something real. Which is why all of it's successes and accomplishments have a shelf life, because the mask inevitably falls off to reveal the uncomfortable truths.

Atheism also binds to it's own sense of authority. The false idea that atheism is based on being logical and rational, and that a belief in the soul and God is somehow irrational and illogical. There has been much science, especially within the realms of quantum physics, that does provide at least some evidence that consciousness appears to exist and that the finite and infinite are both equally real. That matter is made up of energy, and that neither matter nor energy are ever created nor destroyed, but merely change form. So the science that both god-based religions and atheists dismiss as being fringe nonsense, seems to point to the idea that it is neither the case that "when you're dead, you're dead" nor are you some "soul" that is imprisoned in a meat puppet. But rather, that this seemingly physical reality is about is real as a holodeck program on Star Trek, and that consciousness is merely streaming itself through this interface in order to have experience.

Of course many scientists who are open minded enough and willing enough to look at and accept the evidence as valid, tend to go down an entirely different logical fallacy rabbit hole. They automatically assume that this is evidence that we all are programs running on a computer in a simulation. The reason this is a logical fallacy, is because if you look at that model, it becomes impossible to reach "the real reality with the real computer". It ends up being a logic bomb where reality is a computer program, running within a reality that is also a computer program, which also is a reality that is also a computer program, etc. The more simple explanation that these people refuse to look at is: energy can exist without the need of a material container to hold it. The sun seems to burn brightly just fine without needing to be encased inside of a Duracell battery.

Then of course people then ask "if consciousness is merely streaming itself through a physical hologram in order to have experience, then why can't our consciousness perceive everything else that is outside of this experience?". Well, thats actually an easy one. The human body is a biological computer. So it is the same answer as why one computer can run softwares and do things that another can not. Because within this construct, the finite exists within the infinite. This means, everything has it's limitations. You need the existence of limitation in order to have any sort of structure. If there were no limitations, you would not be able to tell the difference between anything and anything else. Everything would be a monotone abstraction without meaning, purpose or function. If a video game did not have limitations, you could not have a video game. If suddenly you could do everything, it would mean you couldn't do anything at all. There would be no difference between one thing or another, and experience would have no value.

Now lets look at the idea of God. What is God? I can answer that easily. God is a word upon which humans anthropomorphize upon, and usually it is their worst traits and qualities. So what this word "God" means directly depends upon who you ask. In a basic and most common form, a god is not a deity but rather simply that which is worshiped. What is worship? Unwavering loyalty and blind belief in a person, construct or idea. Of course in order to have unwavering loyalty and blind belief, one must consider themselves to not be blind at all, and to deem others who do not think as they do to be the blind ones. This is why there is so much division right now at the moment. The Internet continues to rapidly increase the awareness of the average human being, and with that awareness -- comes chaos. Because with that awareness, comes the increasingly unavoidable realization that the majority of what we've been taught, is pure bullshit. People create their own personal identities around what they have been taught to be true. So when this is wrecked, they either struggle to cling to their former identity despite the absolute futility of doing so, they search quickly for some new identity to build by latching onto a new perceived authority, or they become entirely nihilistic as you described. A void created with nothing to fill it.

God-based religons are merely structures. Sets of boundaries and limits through beliefs. Just as everything else is as well, even physical things. We did not pick jet planes off of jet plane trees. First, it started with a desire to fly. With this desire, came imagination. Through imagination, came invention. So even the physical things we create are manifestations of our own imagination. They are not themselves absolute realities. They appear as absolute realities because you can walk up to a jet plane and touch it and surely it is quite real to the touch. However, most people have a very limited idea of what "real" is or means. Very shallow. Which is why most people have very narrow views of the concept of "reality". Very few people ponder and use their imagination to explore questions such as "what is reality, really?". Most would rather assume they already have a good grasp on what reality supposedly is, and then proceed to have irrelevant dick measuring contests with others who believe differently.

So in short, you might say that a god (capital or small g) is that which a person surrenders their power over to. It is a total denial of their own power. The idea that we have to deny our own power in order to have civility, peace and stability is the very concept that makes civility, peace and stability have short shelf lives. When we deny our own power, we by default surrender it to nefarious elements who understand there is a sucker born every minute, and no shortage of stockholm syndrome minded people looking for saviors to follow.

The default operating system of the mind has no bias towards good or evil. In fact, the operating system is a very simple one. Survival through adaptation, adaptation through imitation. So if we lived in a completely truly benevolent world, then failure to adapt to and emulate that world, would mean a lack of ability to survive. The same with the malevolent world we currently live in. If you have one world and wish to shift to the other, it means the complete destruction of the former world to create the next, and that destruction comes through rapid exponential change. When one world is being destroyed, the only way to survive the destruction is to make ones self aligned with the new world being created. The new world is always the polar opposite of the old world. We've had a malevolently world for an unknown amount of time. Some say we had a benevolent world hundreds of years ago and that most of history has been fabricated. Which is a valid theory because as history itself admits: history is nothing more than the story told by the winners of wars. For example, had the nazis won world war 2, our perception of history would be entirely different and Adolf Hitler would be revered as humanity's savior. Just as one example. Even if what we know of history is correct and we've had a malevolent world for untold thousands of years, now that world is being destroyed. This tends to be what happens when truth begins to flood the room.

Now I need to define benevolent and malevolent for the context I'm speaking in. Malevolent can be defined as cancerous. Dysfunction. Out of alignment with the natural flow of Earth and the Universe. Parasitic. Benevolent can be define as being in harmony with Earth and the Universe. This does not mean some utopia where everyone thinks the same things and loves each other. It just means that metaphorically speaking, it is innate common sense that you don't stick your genitals into a blender and turn the blender on. The consequences are obvious. No explanation is needed. There is an immediate repulsion reflex at the thought of such an idea. So with this sort of world, people understand their connection to each other. That a fart fills the room. Harming other and harming self are the same thing. The idea that one cooperates with those who are compatible, and leaves anyone who isn't the hell alone. That it would be mutually assured destruction to do otherwise. So ironically, that which could bring about world peace (the word peace simply meaning the absence of excessive continuous conflict) is actually a rather selfish idea. The idea that if self does not desire itself to be harmed, that it does not do harm to others because the consequences will eventually come back home to roost.

One of many things that most Christians completely miss, is the meaning of the Adam and Eve story. The idea of the tree of life vs the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What this metaphor is attempting to explain, is that all sin comes from the first sin of arrogance. That if you deem yourself to be "good" then you will deem all others who have different ideas than you do, to then be "evil". If a person is dehumanizsed and deemed as evil, then any evil act can be justified if it is perceived as being a means of fighting evil. You can murder, torture, do any level of horrible shit to anyone that is deemed as being "evil". So this is pure arrogance, and why it leads to all of the other shady things people do. There is no act too terrible within the pursuit of destroying evil. This is how the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" takes away "the tree of life". For when humanity thinks in such arrogant terms, then total destruction of that world is inevitable -- even if it takes thousands of years to reach that climax.

So, Greta Thunberg isn't entirely wrong. Completely outside of any climate change debates -- I'd say that 10 years is a pretty good logical estimate of how long humanity as we've known it has, until it succumbs to it's own total self destruction. Not through climate change or nuclear war, but the total destruction you were already explaining and that I have also outlined. These increases in nihilism, apathy, narcissism, etc with a continuing decrease in empathy, compassion, appreciation, etc, etc. We're on an exponential rapid acceleration so of course that sort of world will destroy itself, and it would be reasonable to say that the majority of humanity will suicide itself in this process, seeing as this is already the case.

So for most people, this next decade quite literally will be the end of the world. For humanity as a species however, I don't think that humanity or the Earth is going to suffer total devastation. Our infrastructure will still be here. Electricity will be here. The internet. The roads. Cars. It will all still be here. The minority of humanity which survives will not be a small minority. Tens of millions of people, at bare minimum. More than enough to have society, culture and genetic diversity for continuity of species.

This new world won't be some perfect utopia. You will still have disagreement, hate, etc. I don't think these things can be purged from humanity and I don't think they are supposed to be. But rather, we're supposed to learn self control, instead of letting these things control us. Finally learning the lessons of history because we have an accounting of the total shit show of consequences that comes from failing to learn these lessons, is what will provide incentive for that self control. A humanity based in self control, rather than the belief that controlling everyone else is the only means of survival -- is what will bring about a better world. Also, there will still be a minority of the population that is mentally ill. So another lesson is: don't put psychopaths in charge of the world.

There is also a false belief that incentive-driven productivity can only come in the form of threatening one's survival. That if one's survival is not threatened, that people will become lazy. This is scientifically untrue. Positive incentive is not weak, and in fact is stronger than negative incentive. It is trauma which makes people lazy and nihilistic. We're getting to a point where many people view this world of "threatening one's survival as a form of incentive" to mean that there is no point in doing anything, no point to life and no point to survival. The idea of why bother existing in this world Live fast, die hard, do as you will -- fuck the world because the world has already said fuck you.

So the fact that increasing numbers of people are feeling this way is absolute evidence that a world of negative reinforcement by threatening one's survival does not avoid laziness, it creates it to pandemic levels.

So this has lead our current society to think that the orwellian cliche is the truth of reality:

WAR IS PEACE. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. SLAVERY IS FREEDOM.

The self destruction of humanity as we've known it, is like an avalanche. Once it has started, it must come to conclusion. It can not be stopped. But again, as painful of a thing as this is, it does not have to ultimately be some negative thing. I see it as the cancer cutting itself out, so that health can be restored. So the best thing we can do as individuals, is to survive it with our humanity in tact. To keep our compassion, empathy, appreciation and all of the good qualities. To look at every negative as a positive opportunity to create positive change. To not fall into nihilism and self destruction. And to know that if we do not end up as collateral damage, that we will be the pioneers of a new and better world.

I don't think there is a sky wizard dictating the fates of anyone. However if there is a singular being which "created the universe" then I would argue that this being is the sum total of all consciousness which makes up the universe, which means this being is the universe and we are part of that being. But definitely not a sky wizard.

Even if this is not the case, I don't even think that such a being is required to exist in order for their to be life after death. Especially when one thinks of it on the quantum level and sees that there is no life, or death -- but merely change and transition. Besides, are you the exact same person as you were 10 years ago? I'd imagine not. So in a way, the person you used to be has "died" so that the person you are could be born. So birth and death are merely experiences within this seemingly physical but in actuality non-physical experience of what we call reality.

So if someone feels that there is a void inside of them which needs to be filled, they might want to consider filling it with themselves and their own power. Knowing that they can learn about their own power, explore it and learn how to use it -- if only they are willing to let go of their societally programmed addiction to learned helplessness. To understand that all of these feelings of dread that they have, are merely a program. A mind virus. A load of bullshit. And to let go of that trash and allow themselves true freedom. That with that freedom, they can create positive change. Instead of just adding more fuel to the fire.

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DKMagickRealm In reply to paradigm-shifting [2020-04-14 20:10:28 +0000 UTC]

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paradigm-shifting In reply to DKMagickRealm [2020-04-14 20:22:16 +0000 UTC]

Destructive people are by default, self-destructive. Self-destructive people, self-destruct. This is how the cancer cuts itself out. The rest of us just need to do our best to make sure we're not in the metaphoric blast zone of that. There will always be those who wish to control and harm others, but these are always the extreme minority. The reason we're in our current situation, is because we stupidly seem to want those types of people to control and harm us. We, as a society, seem to view them as brave and bold and successful and something to be admired. After this whole clusterfuck is over, hopefully humanity decides that scum is not to be admired, much less put in charge of the world.

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DKMagickRealm In reply to paradigm-shifting [2020-04-14 20:42:52 +0000 UTC]

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Brendan1903 In reply to SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM [2020-01-27 13:07:03 +0000 UTC]

IrrationalWiki and Snopes remind me of this fallacy in particular.

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SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM In reply to Brendan1903 [2020-01-27 13:09:12 +0000 UTC]

It's especially irritating when you know the offending party is trying hard to be edgy, but also has to abide by the currently popular political correctness so they just pretend one group doesn't exist to denigrate. It's a deep-seeded resentment for western culture; resenting the hand that feeds.

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Brendan1903 In reply to SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM [2020-01-27 21:37:21 +0000 UTC]

Lol. You described the alt right in a nutshell.

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SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM In reply to Brendan1903 [2020-01-27 22:31:05 +0000 UTC]

Boy, that's a stretccccchhhhhhh you had to make to come to that conclusion. Not what I meant AT ALL, but keep up with the hate, I guess.

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Brendan1903 In reply to SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM [2020-01-27 22:45:11 +0000 UTC]

By alt right I mean the David Duke and Richard Spencer types.

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SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM In reply to Brendan1903 [2020-01-27 22:57:49 +0000 UTC]

The "alt-right" is a tiny, tiny, tiny fringe minority that the media inflates to give themselves something to faint on their couches for. It's also a blanket, catch-all pseudo insult for morons who don't like debate. I've seen people I know who are extremely liberal get called "alt-right" because they had views that were slightly to the Right of Marx and Lenin. So many of these words have no meaning because the people engaging with them have no idea what their definitions are; it's just a blunt weapon for them to swing that they think will hurt others.


The kinds of people who conveniently leave out certain groups when bashing organized religions do it concertedly because it's not a criticism of religion, but of culture; western culture. I'm an atheist but I see some value in all religious faiths. The problem is religion; it's people. It's a paradox because without people religions wouldn't exist but the adherents of those faiths can take any appreciable value those beliefs could impart and use them as weapons instead, tarnishing the concepts of the religions themselves.


The people who typically blanket attack others with "alt-right" are usually westerners with a deeply resentful attitude towards western culture, and likely harbor a lot of personal guilt and self-hatred for a variety of reasons. How they show penance to themselves and express that outwardly is by projecting a hatred for the very culture--and its success--that has provided them with so much prosperity. It's a kind of suicide cult for unhappy westerners.


It's a kind of new-age original sin for neo-pagan atheist types. "I am born of sin so I hate the sinner--me." It's a sad, pathetic existence.

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Brendan1903 In reply to SHADEDRAWSDOTCOM [2020-01-27 23:42:09 +0000 UTC]

You are absolutely correct. The skeptic community has the same problem.

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Enriks-Da-Writer In reply to ??? [2020-01-27 05:41:28 +0000 UTC]

If this is a truly free world, then we are free to criticize. Unfortunately, the global tyrants will do everything and anything they can to silence those who disagree and those who truly want the world to be better.

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paradigm-shifting In reply to Enriks-Da-Writer [2020-01-27 07:23:55 +0000 UTC]

A big problem is that no human being ever views themselves as being the tyrant, they all view themselves as being the hero of their own story. Every tyrant who has ever done anything nasty, views themselves as a hero savior who was doing what needed to be done for the greater good of all humanity and the creation of a better world. This includes all of the so-called "elites" that run every country in the world from behind the scenes so that they can keep the rest of us distracted with all of the war theater divide and conquer dog and pony show insanity. It also includes even your most deranged and insane regular average individual who thinks themselves to be someone who is fighting against tyranny and oppression, in favor of truth, justice, love, unity, understanding and a better world. 

So it is easy to see that even those which we consider to be the most vile monsters in history, had legitimately good intentions. It is simply a matter that their concept of "good" was pathologically distorted, warped and twisted.

I think that if someone is wondering whether or not their own perceptions are warped, some simple logical self-diagnosis can accomplish this.

#1 - if a person can even ask that question at all, then they are probably on the right track. Only a warped personality refuses to question themselves.

#2 - if a person wants to know if their concept of morality is twisted, they can ask themselves the question "does my concept of morality involve trying to force the world to be as I think it should be, or does it involve continuously molding myself into the person I would rather be?"

Anyone who thinks they can change the world by force, has proven themselves delusional. This is historically true. Every attempt has been a horrible disaster, which is why history always repeats and lessons are never learned. Anyone who seeks to create more positive change in the world by becoming a better person, chances are their perceptions are not all too warped, if even at all. They realize that the only thing in this world they have control over, is themselves -- and if they want to see more of the things in the world that they want to see, then they have to be the very thing in the world that they desire to see in their own external. Knowing this, they also realize that it is indeed morally wrong to try to change others by force. They find it to be relatively easy to respect the rights of others to choose their own path, even if that path is completely self destructive. They understand that no one can be "saved" and that only the willing can be inspired.

People who's sense of morality is twisted up and corrupted, will have a "HOW DARE YOU!" attitude towards anyone who disagrees with them or presents any evidence or line of questioning that might suggest that something about reality might in fact be different than what is being believed.

This is why we see all groups, all movements, all political orientations, religious, etc, etc, etc having this "HOW DARE YOU!" attitude when they are subject to any form of questioning or criticism, even when it is done in a civil and polite way. It is all taken as harsh. As if no one is allowed to question or contradict "the king / queen" and as if doing so, is blasphemy against God (or whatever the person worships as their god, if not a literal deity).

I also feel that those of us who's minds are not warped, need to be especially vigilant over this next decade because no one's mind is immune from becoming delusional, and we're only just seeing the beginning of an incredibly intense decade for humanity. We're all going to be challenged in ways we can't even imagine just yet. Personal survival as well as the survival of our species is going to require enough of us keeping our integrity at high levels and our minds as sane as possible. Those who fail to do this, will destroy themselves. We're already seeing it.

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Enriks-Da-Writer In reply to paradigm-shifting [2020-01-27 07:57:09 +0000 UTC]

True.

It's really sad so many people crossing the line and not realizing it. Or perhaps they do and simply do not care as long as the ends justify the means or somewhere alongs those lines.

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paradigm-shifting In reply to Enriks-Da-Writer [2020-01-27 08:16:19 +0000 UTC]

Extremists don't realize it, but most people aren't the total full retard extreme. So for most people, there are different varying justifications they use which in my observations, all stem from their state of learned helplessness and inability and / or unwillingness to learn about the personal power of the individual to affect meaningful change.

The common ones that I see are:

"well i know they're all corrupt, but I have to pick the side that seems to cater most to my personal needs!"

These people WILL NOT realize that both sides are the same ONE SIDE playing the people off. They WILL NOT see that no matter which side they vote for, that the end result destination is THE SAME. The reason they will not realize this, is because of their sense of powerlessness through indoctrinated learned helplessness. These people will often contradict themselves in an attempt to seek external validation, as they attempt to keep their own contradictions hidden from themselves. One classic example, is those who realize that the elections are rigged on 3 levels: the candidates are always all loyal to the corporations who fund their campaigns, the electoral college can swing the vote any way they want to by design, and electronic voting systems are ridiculously easy to hack. Yet even knowing these 3 things, they will still insist that voting for someone is still somehow making a difference.

"well i know that both sides are actually just one side with two wings, but i have to take a side otherwise i'm a passive spectator who is doing nothing!"

They do not realize that refusing to participate in this criminal system, is the most active SOMETHING that a person can do! These people can only rule by the consent of the governed. If we withdraw our consent, we can change the game completely. Again, people just have ZERO sense of their own personal power to affect positive meaningful change. They think that a politician has to do it for them, and that they are completely helpless and incapable.

"but if no one voted, this country would fall, and what system would we replace it with?"

They fail to realize that this country is already falling. It is going to collapse, it is inevitable. What rises from those ashes and what we replace things with, directly depends upon the level of maturity of the masses. When you have an immature, insecure, insane masses -- then no matter what system is in place and no mater what *.rcy, *.ism, *.olgy, etc that system is -- the whole thing is doomed from the start if the integrity of the citizens is completely fucked. People don't want to see nor prepare for the unavoidably inevitable. If whomever survives this mess ends up with higher maturity levels, then perhaps maybe we can bring this country back with something that looks more what the founding fathers intended. But there is going to be a fall. Even if that fall only lasts a week before we spring back up with something better, there is still going to be a total collapse. It is coming. So the question of "what would we replace it with?" is irrelevant. The larger question will be: how much maturity and integrity will the survivors have, and how willing will they be to acknowledge and use their own personal power to affect positive change? 

If people also better understood how the banking system actually worked, they'd be able to better see their own personal power, because they'd be able to better see how they were scammed out of it.

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Enriks-Da-Writer In reply to paradigm-shifting [2020-01-27 08:44:19 +0000 UTC]

Holy shit, I did not realize it went that far down the drain.

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paradigm-shifting In reply to Enriks-Da-Writer [2020-01-27 08:51:57 +0000 UTC]

What do you mean by "it"? People's self image?

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Enriks-Da-Writer In reply to paradigm-shifting [2020-01-27 09:00:51 +0000 UTC]

That and how they tend to justify their actions or inactions.

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paradigm-shifting In reply to Enriks-Da-Writer [2020-01-27 09:18:09 +0000 UTC]

 

 

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Enriks-Da-Writer In reply to paradigm-shifting [2020-01-27 10:55:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for sharing these, dude.

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paradigm-shifting In reply to Enriks-Da-Writer [2020-02-28 23:49:25 +0000 UTC]

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