This is the only place I can be myself, page 1

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Welcome PassedKarma, please grab a chair, drink some coolaid, so what's the agenda???

ATS is like the chill-out club, ain't nothing like being aware of worldly events in real-time, while questioning authority and being labelled crazy conspirator, while trying to understand the complexity of all there is...

Peace

reply to post by PassedKarma

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If you're weird than so am I.......Oh oh....now you got me thinking

When out in society you have to act normal. Act is the word that is important. When you awaken it is a good thing but remember that there are a very lot of people out there that are not aware that they are doped. Some are aware and still choose to eat the foods that dope them up so they don't have to act. There is a section of the brain that when stimulated can make people more creative and think out of the box. I just read an article about this area on Science Daily. Some foods and spices can suppress this area by lowering metabolism. I think it was by the left temporal lobe.

You aren't weird, you are just different. Don't go doing anything radical or threatening or they will drug you up.

reply to post by PassedKarma

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S n F

Totally agree with you I lurked for years and finally felt so strong about an issue I had to sign on. Even though I don't post much means I have problems with writing due to how I was raised, the abuse and the Military School I attended for 4th, 5th and 6th grade. To say how lucky I am is to say that one of the 5 families I boarded with taught me how to read at a very early age. I was forced out as they tried to blackmail my mother into adopting me. I was wanted. That is not the point the point is that they taught me how to read between 4 years and 6! To understand the why I point this out is many of my brothers who went to the same violent Military School as myself had to take special reading course when returning to the main stream.

I served 3 full years. Many stayed longer. I did not start to learn till I went to a privileged High School named Justin High School in Napa. I was already thinking but had no tools. Very lucky to have a Brother take interest in me and stayed my advisor for 3 of the 4 years. Forced to take a GED so I would not be a further expense! No senior year for me.

So that is why I don't write and I love this site as many of us feel the same way and those who don't and are not trolls I respect you. Why because all of you guys minus the trolls force me to examine my true feelings. Not since Justin where they taught me proper values, Thank you Mr. Grobel who did 3 - 4 years in Peace Corps rather than go in to the army, he taught us to examine ideas and how to think. Thank you Sir!

So OP you have found a home that many of us are at peace albeit the topics that sometimes comes up is worrying. It is far better to have ones head out of the sand contemplating the issues than to be like my soon to be ex wife who rather not know.

I guess I should also be thanking my brothers and sisters here who are like minded (not necessarily in views) that this is an important site to spend many hours of each day in.

Thank you everyone except for the trolls....

reply to post by IceHappy

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From what you just wrote.. you should write MUCH more. I have a feeling you have a lot of things that the rest of us could learn from

Originally posted by Advantage
reply to post by IceHappy

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From what you just wrote.. you should write MUCH more. I have a feeling you have a lot of things that the rest of us could learn from

Thank you that a star for you. What takes someone two mins to write (lol at me) takes me 20 mins to decide if and when I do tons of time in rewrites as grammar for me is a foreign language! Those years in school I was just trying to survive. I am in awed of the many thinkers here. I feel I don't belong but abused people don't think highly of themselves. I have in my life given far more than I have received but I don't fit anywhere. American living in the UK.... BUT I do think and cannot turn it off. Its words of wit which I am a serious not a funny person are hard to form. I hate using the word I as it makes me feel self centered when givers are not at all.

I have 1.33 stars per post. Stars are meaningless but for me again LOL it gives me a feeling of acceptance. Not big headed - no accepted - there is a huge diff. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your reply. Normally I would send this in a U2U..... Just thought I do it in the thread cause I have viewed to many trolls lately and you make a difference again IMHO!

We who may not have been accepted in life or feel that way does not mean we are without value. I am totally overwhelmed by the post at times in ATS and proud to be a member!

reply to post by PassedKarma

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Even those members that I tend to disagree with 100% of the time occasionally come up with comments that are nothing short of brilliant. That makes this place pure gold to me.

Originally posted by IceHappy
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Thank you for that image! It made my day completely and perfectly described how I feel!

It is like a little proverb I wrote a while back:

"A lamb knows that it's a sheep,
but not that it is cattle.
Neither does it know the difference
between dependency and independence
or the difference between
captivity and freedom;
and will forever believe
it is in its natural habitat
until someone can prove otherwise."

reply to post by ABeing

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Just for you one more conspiracy cartoon that I was just sent to by a friend who laughs at me and my thoughts on where this world is heading. Once again we have members who challenge our thoughts on ideas few in the world contemplate so some of our true friends do the same..... The lady who sent this to me is 7th Day who believes we are living at end of times. Her Church in the last 200 years have made several "Wrong" Predictions. Have not many of our members here in ATS???? Does not mean that they are wrong. Think of George Orwell's book 1984.... Are we not almost totally there now albeit 29 later than his book predicted!?!?

To me there is a joke the advent of the computer is what has added "Big Brother" to be where we are today. Anyone old enough to remember the first Apple Computer Commercial? Here it is for all to see!!!!



Sometimes I feel like the first Lobster talking..... Hope you see this ABeing and hope you get the same enjoyment!

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Hadn't seem that video before! The reference to the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in Apple's logo is rather mysterious too..!

And if that wasn't enough, the company taking over the market now is "Android". *facepalm*

I bet the next popular product will be a wireless, constanly wi-fi connected computer, no larger than a grain of rise that can be implanted in one's hand or forehead and the company that produces it will probably be called either "beast", "baphomet", "goat", "devil, "demon", "serpent", "nephilim", "alien", "illuminati" or even "satan"!

And the modell title will probably be "mark 222x3" lol!

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