dpdownsouth
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the evil elite!
I didn't say it was the creation of an evil elite. Just sticking to one example, how much of contemporary culture is the result of the efforts of corporate marketers and PR people?
the evil elite!
Look, I made that comment as a response to a rather general statement that dpdownsouth wrote:
...how much of contemporary culture is the result of the efforts of corporate marketers and PR people?
haha... agreed. and tricky, eh? I mean, we're all playing the consensus reality game and have a justifiable need to draw the "crazy line" around certain beliefs... but an underlying assumption of the consensus reality thing is that it's just a convenience... there's no reality.++++++++++
and sane/deluded?
A convenience we'd better hold on to! There is a faculty of discernment, at least regarding outer limits of probability. I finished the Alcorn podcast, and having referred you to him for his tomz type work I now believe he too crossses "the crazy line" as the podcast evolves. He talks of shamanic journeying in which he and his wife (Barbara Stone, the third entry in Gayle's presentation of shrinks who work with spirits) communicate with various clans of Djinn entities and pacify them all. I have studied these entities enough to seriously doubt this wild claim.haha... agreed. and tricky, eh? I mean, we're all playing the consensus reality game and have a justifiable need to draw the "crazy line" around certain beliefs... but an underlying assumption of the consensus reality thing is that it's just a convenience... there's no reality.
Well this is where this started:I thought you were replying to my comment because you quoted me.
Would you rather your daughter had befriended Nathanial? I suppose that if he was willing to leave her so easily he couldn't have been dangerous.One issue that has not been raised is that earthbound "ghost" entities who attach to humans can in some cases be so evil as to be classified with demons proper. For they may have been psychopaths, murderers, pedophiles et al when they were alive as humans, and may incite their attachees to simlar crimes. This is widely known in the afterlife studies field. I studied Betsy Begstrom's "compassionate" approach and was astonished. Again, discernment is required!
Years ago my 12 year old was on a solo hack with her horse and told me she heard a disembodied voice say "I am Nathanial, I am 4 yrs old and I'd like to be your friend." I took her for a pow wow with my Buddhist treacher, who told her he was a ghost who seemed lonely; if he showed up again my daughter if she chose could simply tell him please go away and don't come back. My daughter chose to do that; she is common sense through and through.
haha... probably true. that should at least be our starting position, eh?Re your question at the end of the great interview I just listened to:
I think all social movements that are not met with police-force by the government or with violence by Antifa are actually government- or corporate- or NGO-sponsored
I've had only a very limited view of this? how significant is this movement?On the other hand take "Querdenken 711"
Michael ChossudovskyRe your question at the end of the great interview I just listened to:
I think all social movements that are not met with police-force by the government or with violence by Antifa are actually government- or corporate- or NGO-sponsored and thus wanted by the forces that want to move society in a certain direction, i.e. the "Great Reset".
Take Friday's for future. Greta is invited to elite institutions.
Take BLM, no government is stopping it, even if it gets violent those are peaceful protestors.
On the other hand take "Querdenken 711" that is trying to debunk the Corona-propaganda and had that great demonstration in Berlin. This one is met with force because it goes against the government-sponsored narrative.
Just data-points ...
Sources: https://querdenken-711.de, https://www.nichtohneuns.de
I knew nothing about ghosts at that time. He never came back, but I trusted her decision, and still do. Trickster spirits are crafty.Would you rather your daughter had befriended Nathanial? I suppose that if he was willing to leave her so easily he couldn't have been dangerous.
David
With large sums of money ... money would become meaningless, and in a world where most things are measured in terms of money, that would be disorienting.
Well can't you use your imagination? I mean suppose you are worth 80 billion, you can go to any shop and buy the whole store if you really want to. You can fly anywhere, eat anything, buy girlfriends, or wives (at least until they get stroppy), buy a super-yacht, etc. Once you have that amount of stuff, you need people to look after it, or just see it just rot.I will happily take donations to test this theory.
you can go to any shop and buy the whole store if you really want to. You can fly anywhere, eat anything, buy girlfriends, or wives (at least until they get stroppy), buy a super-yacht, etc.
I don't want to generalise that and claim to say that modern culture is just a construction of the evil elite!
I still think that sort of life would become incredibly vapid. Everyone needs some challenge in their lives - but not too much.Brother, you're not helping your case.
Agreed, and when you combine the two effects you get people who can go off the rails and take society with them :(And the problem with someone having 80 billion is not so much their potential to inspire envy (if they actually do) but rather the damaging effects such a concentration of wealth can have on the democratic project.
I agree with most of that - although it did go on a bit!I think we agree that Modern Culture is not just a construction of the Evil Elite, but they do play a very significant role in it.
Human Nature also plays a large part. Here is a good article about why Leftists can believe such obviously insane things that harm society like Covid Terror and Multi-Culturalism...
https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of-the-leisure-class-a-status-update
This is why it's impossible to reason with them. Their beliefs are largely based on Status-Seeking, not Reason, Logic, & Evidence.
Hmmm I don't intend to accept a CV19 vaccine unless forced - does that make me a member of the upper class?When an affluent person advocates for drug legalization, or anti-vaccination policies, or open borders, or loose sexual norms, or uses the term “white privilege,” they are engaging in a status display. They are trying to tell you, “I am a member of the upper class.”
I forgot to add that the Buddhist said all ghosts who approach you will leave if you ask. Now I do not beleive that / have more of my own expertise. Now I would ask 1) why was that ghost unable to cross over? 2) was he really a little boy, or a trickster using the right voice and appeal?Would you rather your daughter had befriended Nathanial? I suppose that if he was willing to leave her so easily he couldn't have been dangerous.
David
Those are good questions, but from what I have read, there really are 'lost souls' that somehow failed to make the transition when they died. Has your daughter had any more contacts with spirits?I forgot to add that the Buddhist said all ghosts who approach you will leave if you ask. Now I do not beleive that / have more of my own expertise. Now I would ask 1) why was that ghost unable to cross over? 2) was he really a little boy, or a trickster using the right voice and appeal?