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Originally posted by rex23
reply to post by 3NL1GHT3N3D1
We can only be played if we allow ourselves to be pawns. The powers that be only have the power we hand to them, and people should take responsibility for their own lives and actions - people choose to take offence, and, even if you disagree with that statement, the offended certainly choose to react with violence and hatred (and I mean on both sides of this particular lunacy: the Islamic world reacting with hatred to a stupid film that most will have never seen, the Westerners reacting with hatred to pretty much anyone who won't agree that the Western way of life is simply the best thing ever ever ever). I just wish everyone would get the snip over themselves, more humility is needed, the ability to conceive that even though you believe something to be true that it still might not be. Oh how we'll laugh if it turns out we are just brains in a jar living through a whack simulation.
Originally posted by Hefficide
Then we first have to strip away the deceit and lies that we've been conditioned with for generations. Then we have to own our personal accountability for our own actions. And then we have to educated ourselves to avoid being fooled and manipulated further.
That which separates us is trivial in comparison to that which unites us.
~Heff
Originally posted by imod02
Originally posted by rex23
reply to post by 3NL1GHT3N3D1
We can only be played if we allow ourselves to be pawns. The powers that be only have the power we hand to them, and people should take responsibility for their own lives and actions - people choose to take offence, and, even if you disagree with that statement, the offended certainly choose to react with violence and hatred (and I mean on both sides of this particular lunacy: the Islamic world reacting with hatred to a stupid film that most will have never seen, the Westerners reacting with hatred to pretty much anyone who won't agree that the Western way of life is simply the best thing ever ever ever). I just wish everyone would get the snip over themselves, more humility is needed, the ability to conceive that even though you believe something to be true that it still might not be. Oh how we'll laugh if it turns out we are just brains in a jar living through a whack simulation.
I realy realy agree with this, but we must remember TPTB have been using us for millions of years, humans are built to follow a leader. The leader gives us food , shelter and a good life. If we change TPTB what will take there place? A new TPTB, we change goverment but the main things stay the same, its the way life is, better just to live life
Originally posted by jamsession
reply to post by Unity_99
ditto. and if they ever manage to start ww3 over such a ridiculous excuse of a movie, then this will be the biggest prank pulled on us in the entire history of this planet. shame on all of us if we ever fall into this trap in this very age of flowing information, really.