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You need to stop for a while and think about whether you are approaching the entire thing from a very narrow perspective: the American one. It is as valid as, say, the Eskimo one, or the Tanzanian one, or the Tongan one. I mean: your NSA and CIA, and your three football-field sized UFOs only holds in your society, which happens to be the American one (more exactly, the post 9/11 American one, fading away as a superpower since the 80s). It does not apply at all to, say, the Moldavian one. Your NSA/CIA is just a domestic issue which affects, deeply, Americans, one of the many peoples on this planet which look as alien to the rest as the rest looks alien to you. I call that UFOlogical Provincialism.
originally posted by: Direne
a reply to: The GUT
GUT, really, don't you think your deep readings about those secret and obscure agencies have had a devastating effect on your ability to discern reality around you? So, after accusing me of being a vampyr, an alien, a NSA agent, or an AI algorithm, what's next? A terrorist? Don't you think you are looking for weapons of massive destruction there where there is just a dusty desert?
You need to stop for a while and think about whether you are approaching the entire thing from a very narrow perspective: the American one. It is as valid as, say, the Eskimo one, or the Tanzanian one, or the Tongan one. I mean: your NSA and CIA, and your three football-field sized UFOs only holds in your society, which happens to be the American one (more exactly, the post 9/11 American one, fading away as a superpower since the 80s). It does not apply at all to, say, the Moldavian one. Your NSA/CIA is just a domestic issue which affects, deeply, Americans, one of the many peoples on this planet which look as alien to the rest as the rest looks alien to you. I call that UFOlogical Provincialism.
That you live on a permanent state of anxiety seeing NSA agents everywhere is a symptom of how deep the disease has extended in your society. It tells the story of those policemen under permanent terror who see armed black people everywhere, and who shoot readily projecting their fear onto them, a fear turned into bullets.
If everything you do not understand you call it disinformation, how would you ever learn? If day in day out you label truth as "mere opinion, just a view", what does that mean? Soon you will be living in a society where the individual won't dare to dissent, lest he be accused of being "a disinformation agent". What would be next? Ku-Klux-Klan? A witch hunting? Who's the guru here? You?
there is trouble ...trouble for us because someone brought a multiverse translator here and it was..is used by a few to shape lives of a multitude...
originally posted by: The GUT
a reply to: criticalhit
I'm generally enjoying your mind and spirit and I basically agree with some of your points about Direne sharing here and--I say this with some reservation--"answering questions."
I'm not sure you're aware of how content at the uber-mysterious FL has been seemingly, nay, obviously generated to reflect current speculations and/or particular interests of some longtime thread participants? Never validating any of that info, but always dangling the carrot they have proof of this or that. Yeah, that yanks my chain a little, but more than that it gives me information about the entity I'm dealing with. Direne talks a lot about real trust and truth in communication, yet...
Further, it might be somewhat shortsighted of you to infer that FL has no agenda monetarily or otherwise because they don't "promote" it in the way that you promote on the web. The fact they don't might (probably) mean much more than you think it does. So, you seem fairly sharp and sweet natured, but possibly a tad naive and maybe even yourself susceptible to the type of teacher/student relationship cathexis often associated with Eastern philosophy and practice: The need for a Guru.
Yes, I agree with you. Yet, a prey is just a prey when there is a predator around, while predators are always predators, even if there is no prey around. On the other hand, communication is not enough. Telling the truth when you communicate is. You can always use communication to deceive your prey.