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The Anonymous Secret Hold

POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Saturday, September 25, 2010 16:26
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NIKI2

Monday, May 17, 2010 5:03 PM

Oh, Cavalier, I would love to believe you're right, it would be so wonderful!

I have my doubts, too, given human abilities to turn ANYTHING developed for good into something to be used for evil, but I'll hold a good thought. I haven't yet seen enough people stand up and question things yet to give me much hope, and given HOW effectively Murdoch has "cornered the market" on informtion globally, it's hard to believe it will get better...at least before it gets far worse!

When you have enough people who want to be spoon-fed things which enhance what they want to believe, such as in FauxNews, and it become the highest-rated SINGLE place people get "news", it says something both about the manipulators AND those being manipulated, which doesn't make me feel hopeful that what you postulate might come to be. Sadly...

As to "God", I disagree. "Intelligent", "creational" and "casual" don't relate to the majority of humans through history. Few people are born or raised as "casual" observers of religion, and "intelligence" doesn't necessarily cohabit with "faith". When people are born into a belief system and it is reinforced, it takes sincere effort to look at an issue dispassionately, especially when society expects one to accept unquestioningly. That hasn't been the case. And I heard some stuff about how Catholics view the Church and the Pope even now which surprised me; people change slowly and with difficulty.

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

HKCAVALIER

Monday, May 17, 2010 6:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Niki2:
When you have enough people who want to be spoon-fed things which enhance what they want to believe, such as in FauxNews, and it become the highest-rated SINGLE place people get "news", it says something both about the manipulators AND those being manipulated, which doesn't make me feel hopeful that what you postulate might come to be. Sadly...

You gotta put your futurist hat on now and look at the trending. Are more and more people (young people) getting their news from Network TV or are fewer and fewer of them going there? I'll grant ye, Fox News has a lock on the aging technophobes, hands down! But so freakin' what? The internet has been doing what it's doing for 15 years (more!) without having the plug pulled--that says a lot to me about how the power is shifting globally. The internet is constantly mutating. The best TPTB can do about it is get their fingers all over everything, make sure they "know" what's going on, but to coin a phrase, they can't stop the signal. There is definitely such a thing as too much information when it comes to controling a populace. Yes, there is the Totalitarianism of the Willing forming over on the right, but that thing'll eat it's young, just watch.

Anyway, lot more to say, but I'm on my lunch break.

HKCavalier

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KWICKO

Monday, May 17, 2010 11:02 PM

Get rid of the "anonymous" and "secret" parts of it, and I'm happy. You want to put a hold on an appointment? Fine. Step up and state your reasons. Or at least step up and let yourself be seen and counted, so your constituents can either call you on it or support you for it. You want to put a hold on a vote? Same rules apply: you can do that, but you're going to do it in public.

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

BILL7

Friday, September 24, 2010 6:15 PM

You spelled believe wrong. Your thesaurus didn't tell you that, did it?

BILL7

Friday, September 24, 2010 6:22 PM

You spelled believe wrong. Your thesaurus didn't tell you that, did it?

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Hk

Assuming that people are intelligent and creational. The nonexistence of god as a human has been evident for millennia to the casual observer, the hypocrisy of the church has been wide-open for centuries since the invention of the printing press.

I would like to belief in your future, but for some reason I keep seeing this as a brief renaissance, and future humans being pulled back into a corporate controlled media world, when giant multinational conglomerates own the ultimate information sources and modify the search results etc so that the non-critical thinker can lookup a dubious statement and find erroneously that it is true because a controlled information source says so.

NIKI2

Friday, September 24, 2010 6:46 PM

Hello "Bill". You just joined us today, yes? Why did you feel the need to retrace the list all the way back to MAY in order to make a point about a misspelled word? Just curious, seems kinda strange.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

RIVERLOVE

Friday, September 24, 2010 7:44 PM

In light of the stunning revelation of that particular radioactive spelling mistake, I am compelled to reveal for the first time that I "forgot" to ante up once during a friendly family poker game back in 1992. I'm horribly ashamed, but I do feel better now for having gotten it out for everyone to see. Whew, yeah man, better!!!

NIKI2

Friday, September 24, 2010 7:46 PM

Yes, absolutely: Forty lashes with a wet noodle for you, young lady!

By the bye, the two posts above are the ONLY ones "Bill" has made, after just joining today. Gee, I wonder who he is?

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

KWICKO

Friday, September 24, 2010 11:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bill7:
You spelled believe wrong. Your thesaurus didn't tell you that, did it?

You're mistaking a thesaurus for a dictionary. That's the second time I've told you that, "Bill". ;)

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BILL7

Saturday, September 25, 2010 2:31 AM

Niki2 said
Hello "Bill". You just joined us today, yes? Why did you feel the need to retrace the list all the way back to MAY in order to make a point about a misspelled word? Just curious, seems kinda strange.

The word wasn't really spelled wrong, it was just the wrong word and I think they used a thesaurus to write the post..