reply to post by Revolution-2012
No worries, it happens. Gets hard to keep track of who said what sometimes.
Though it sounded scary when you were talking doom and gloom there, I didn't get scared. Thanks for not fearmongering.
Originally posted by NatureBoy
reply to post by surgence
This is my point i was making with the Huxley quote, alex is 100% sure in his mind that he is the only right answer - this is a very bad place to start from, he isn't willing to get in a rational debate with someone all he wants to do is shout them down and throw info bombs around...
Someone who thinks this way had no problem editing the truth to make his point clearer - i.e. tell a lie to prove he's right
) - now there are loads of semi-rich rothschilds (and few SUPER rich) doing things like making wine and collecting oddities (alien
artifacts, lost arcs, gods beard, etc) - many of them just live the life of mild-intellectuals going on talk shows, radio programs, etc talking about
things they believe in.... Originally posted by Outlawstar
Originally posted by Lasheic
reply to post by Frankidealist35
He tries to put together all the dots.
Therein lies part of the problem. Dots are just dots. You can draw all sorts of patterns with dots, but that doesn't make your picture valid. For instance, look to the stars. For generations people have been drawing pictures in the stars and assuming they guide our lives. Yet... it's a completely subjective picture they draw. For instance, let's just zoom out of our solar system a mere 1.6 light years and see what happens to all those beautiful pictures we've connected the dots to make.
Conspiracy Theories are the same way. Alex Jones is spinning a fantasy for his consumers, whether he believes it himself or not, because you cannot apply linear thinking to a chaotic non-linear system such as society, the economy, technology, politics, etc (and especially not all of them combined) and expect them to hold up under serious objective inquiry.
It's an illusion.
And I suspect that fear is not all that AJ mongers.
[edit on 12-5-2009 by Lasheic]
Your discounting of Alex Jones on the whole, is a BIG mistake on your part, and making comparisons like that are generally appliable, but your point on subjectivity alone renders it invalid in this case when applied to your own situation.
researched how entire towns have been marched into the forest and shot dead