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Originally posted by METACOMET
Your conclusion may be well meaning but it is without understanding.
You are simply an authoritarian; A vast majority of people are. There is an element of human nature that relishes in having control over another or others. Our current political and social construct is based upon the authoritarian values of physical coercion, compulsion and control. When these values are entrenched into a culture it becomes a positive feedback loop, and it takes hardly any energy to get into it. Power over others is a hell of a drug.
Your error- and the danger- is first in the conceit inherent in the desire to plan the lives of others; second, the force necessary to impose that plan on unwilling subjects. This is not a formula for freedom but for tyranny.
Obedience and subjection to authority is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can live in freedom.
edit on 11-7-2011 by METACOMET because: sp
Originally posted by Shoomoo
I reread the Georgia Guidestones.
Let's look at the commandments shall we? .
Originally posted by Partygirl
Illuminati, NWO, reptoids, Freemasons, Nibiru, depopulation agenda, etc. = FAKE CONSPIRACY
Dollar collapse, geopolitics of oil, rise of China, economic decline = THE REAL DEAL.
Learn to tell the difference...it isn't that hard...ultimately all you need is a kind of "smell test."
The fake conspiracies can be a lot of fun...but at the end of the day, they are fake.
Things are getting too serious now to run away from the real and hide in the fake.