by Dreams End » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:51 am
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>First of all, who said anything about the Illuminati?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Some guy named Rothbard posted this: <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Under the prayer tower is one of the programming sites. Billy Graham, a handler himself, helped launch Oral Roberts University , and is a friend of Oral Roberts. From the Illuminati's point of view Tulsa is the Guardian City of Apollo. The City of Faith is to be the center for healing from AEsculapius, a demon related to Apollo.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I guess I confused him with you. Sorry about that.<br><br>Roth...somewhere in your brain, there is a switch. When it's flipped back on you will be dangerous (in a good way.) Please go find it and flip it on. It's the one that says:<br><br>"Criticism of aspects of a theory is a different beast from total disbelief/debunking."<br><br>I said quite clearly and repeatedly that the Oxnam thing is something I myself had been interested in since long before you posted this. I really did say that. Go look!<br><br>I also said I'd read his book (have you?) Perhaps this proves my interest?<br><br>I also said I tried to get info on his family. It's there in my post...really. Why would I do such a thing? Because Oxnam is a blueblood coming out about DID and that is interesting in a parapolitical (i.e. R.I.) way.<br><br>I said I hadn't found much. Then I critiqued some of the information that Fritz included because I don't think it's well sourced and depends on some a priori assumptions, such as wcc = satanic.<br><br>For example, you included this in your post:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>G. Bromley Oxnam has a long history to him of working for the elite.....Christian churches were organized by the FCC and WCC for the Illuminati." <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Now please stop posting things and then saying you didn't post them. I think we all agree there is one and only one Roth around here.<br><br>What's fascinating on a personal level is that I was maybe the only one who took interest and looked further into the Pat Robertson thing you posted. I even posted a second photograph that seemed to suggest the strange "lion's paw" pose was used at least twice (though it could have been an unretouched version of the original we saw from Time Mag. Hard to tell.)<br><br>I also supported at least the idea that Michael w.'s use of runes, given the subculture he appeals to, was at least "odd." And I gave information about Michael W. that I knew about since he lives here in Nashville.<br><br>As far as I know, I was the only person to look with serious interest into either of those ideas you put out.<br><br>Yet you continue to see me as a total debunker or something. <br>Suggesting that the evidence provided for various assertions in that post is weak is different from suggesting that all of it is wrong. Some of us actually care if this stuff is really true and would prefer not to pull in alot of misinformation along with it. <br><br>Anyway, if you want to deny that "Illuminati" was a big part of your original post, go right ahead. But when you hit that switch in your head, go revisit this stuff and started tossing out the chaff from the wheat. I don't think the picture you get will be a whole lot less scary than the one you've already got, but it will be a bit more accurate and freer of those frustrating and unsupported generalizations that so many in this area toss out so nonchalantly THEREBY TURNING OFF POTENTIAL ALLIES IN THE QUEST FOR TRUTH.<br><br>Now enough of that. I don't know why, Roth, but despite our very different starting points, I really always want to end up with us on the same side (well, I mean with this stuff...not with your libertarian politics). It's sort of like two people who speak two different languages...very different languages...looking at the same stuff and trying to communicate. Here's the crux of your post that really is the point you were trying to make:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>"Tulsa is one of, if the main center for the campaign to infiltrate Christianity via the Charismatic/Pentecostal movement with programmed multiples. G. Bromiey Oxnam, 33° Freemason, was head of the FCC churches, supportive friend of Billy Graham, G. Bromley Oxnam has a long history to him of working for the elite.....Christian churches were organized by the FCC and WCC for the Illuminati." <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Let me take it apart piece by piece and agree you have a diamond in the rough...but the rough is misleading and perhaps intentionally so.<br><br>The idea that Fritz put this out 13 years ago really is impressive and I did miss that reference to the timeframe. We can't argue with the fact that Oxnam is claiming to be, and for all that I can see really is, just such a multiple. I also suggested in my original responses that his book is of more interest for what it doesn't say, for it's clear to me that whatever happened to him that he feels he's got closure on (as portrayed in the book, anyway) he seems to be either getting or telling only part of the story. I also suggested that he was very careful to make it clear that none of his blue blood relatives were involved in the bad stuff...and the way he went about it led me to be particularly suspicious that they were, in fact, involved.<br><br>But within that statement, we have the idea that it's the Pentacostal/Charismatic movements that are targeted. Could be....I've been around these folks and it is a little odd...definitely an altered state (I think maybe like a light, mass hypnotic trance?). But I simply read that statement as an unsupported a priori statement. I want the "next" Fritz to avoid such...to evaluate the witness statements, to inform us where this info comes from (such as you can without jeopardizing lives) not to be a prick, but because the unsupported stuff is often just plain wrong. In any event, Oxnam is not part of that movement...and I'm pretty sure it's not associated with WCC either so it's not even consistent.<br><br>Back to that paragraph. None of that is sourced. Part of it I wish was and is probably easy to verify...and that's Oxnam's friendship with Graham. But then the statement about how FCC and WCC organized churches "for the Illuminati"...see that's what frustrates me. Is there some evidence out there that these organizations were controlled by elites? Or is it that they are too liberal and the conspiracy right simply assumes this? Anytime a church movement of any kind is too active on behalf of social justice and taking the part of the poor, they have historically been labelled "communist" and Illuminati is simply another way of saying that in these circles. To me, it's clear that when some element opposes the power structure and is given a negative label, this is the reason.<br><br>I don't know much about WCC and I don't even know what FCC is. And when I'm told that they organize churches on behalf of the Illuminati, I know exactly 0% more than I did before I read that statement. And here's the harm in it from what I imagine might be your perspective. As a potentially interested person, when I see ill-sourced, a priori assumptions like "the Illuminati is behind WCC" I not only tune out the current statements, I will (not intentionally, but it happens) tune out even perhaps more substantive discussion as simply being of the same sort. I assume I'm not alone in this tendency.<br><br>I am learning not to do that. You can thank Dave McGowan for that. When I started reading his stuff about Satanic cults, etc, it was most effective because he is NOT religious and had no religious point to make or souls to win. He just tried to follow evidence. And though his perspective, from what I know of him, really is that there's a very longlived conspiracy here (and he gets some stuff really wrong in my view about, for example, the witch trials) i.e. basically something similar to "Illuminati" theory, he is VERY aware of the genesis of much of that theory, the uses to which it has been put and how it clutters up current discussion. <br><br>I'm not saying religious people can't write about this effectively, so you can get your finger off the "christian oppression" button. I'm saying that anyone, religious or non, must be very careful about how they research this stuff...because I happen to be very certain that much of the extraneous stuff is there not just because of mythologizing of this material (and that has happened to a certain degree) but because of intentional efforts to muddy the waters. Go and research "Ted Gunderson" to get the idea. No SRA case of importance has not featured this man. Portrayed in a negative light by all who have worked closely with him, the question becomes is he just a slighly paranoid, overzealous and socially unskilled man, drifting from one crimescene to another, or is it possible that this "former" FBI agent, this man who once supervised 750 field officers (getting that from memory...maybe wrong) didn't suddenly get "kooky" but is just doing his job?<br><br>Think about it. If he's still working for the FBI, why would he be "exposing" these things? Why would he be pushing people well BEYOND what the evidence supports? Simple answer...check out the results in nearly every case he's been involved in. Witnesses discredited, legal case shattered.<br><br>In other words, Roth, in a way too longwinded post, I don't criticize because I think the core of this is false...I criticize because I think the core of it is true. And if it is, it's important. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>