by Dreams End » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:04 am
Not having much trouble confirming Isherwood was gay, since he was...you know...gay and everything. Having a bit more trouble confirming he was a pedophile. As in, no mention outside of bible believers site. Did find a reference about jilted female lover Ada Verdun Howell, who <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>consoled herself with many lovers, including Christopher Isherwood, who soon fled, leaving Ada convinced he was ‘a pederast at heart’ <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>But...come on..isn't that like a man saying "she didn't sleep with me so she must be a lesbian"?<br><br>Anyway, this article is what's wrong with using Larouche (if that's who wrote it) as a source. There will be lots of fact, informed speculation, uninformed speculation and outright lies.<br><br>The issue of elite manipulation of spirituality and the "new age" phenomenon is not new to this board. Having personally switched from "new agers are just self-absorbed neo-hippies" to "there's something more sinister going on here (i.e. Maurice Strong, Rockefeller, Esalen, the Nine, State of the World Forum, Soros, etc etc)" I think we shouldn't judge the overall thrust of this info too harshly. The problem is that it's...a big problem. Really hard to unravel who the players are behind the scenes...how much they've directly influenced various movements vs. how many movements have just picked up on themes they put forward, vs. how many movements simply grew organically. <br><br>So when one goes at this with a rather reductionist framework such as the homosexual/English-masonic conspiracy, it does three things.<br><br>1. It twists the available evidence into almost unrecognizable form.<br><br>2. It adds bullshit and outright lies to fill in the gaps that prove the worldview is correct.<br><br>3. And most importantly, and maybe even most deliberately, obscures what is actually a very real and very serious phenomenon, discrediting research into what I think may be the heart of darkness we all sense is there. <br><br>I'm not one to go claiming I know what the "Illuminati agenda" is. If there really is an actual Illuminati, I guarantee you that anyone who really knows and exposes their agenda is doing so only from beyond the grave. Double shot to the head, don't you know. Or maybe a midnight canoe ride...whatever it takes.<br><br>But I think that, too, is reductionist thinking. I've posted lots and lots about various weird connections among new age circles...Jeff and others have as well. (I guess I should put Jeff first...I just sort of follow his lead usually)<br><br>And as with things like RA and population reduction/eugenics, Larouche is the only one out there really exploring these subjects. But I come not to praise Larouche, but bury him because he is the leader of an actual and dangerous cult with overt intel ties. <br><br>It is the limited understanding of the traditional left in the U.S. about how elites appear (to me, from my limited vantage point) to operate in this world. Partly its because many on the left are compromised somehow. I'll bet you lots o' cash that there are pictures of Alexander Cockburn with his hand in some illegal cookie jar sitting in a scientology vault somewhere, for example.<br><br>But again, that's said half in jest and is reductionist. <br><br>Partly it's a limit on a "structuralist" and "materialist" worldview that itself is reductionist. <br><br>I wish I really had insider knowledge. I see lots of evidence of elite machinations in spirituality, the "counter-culture" (more like "check out counter-culture"), popular media, etc. And some of it goes so deep...in fact, so deep that it seems like serious overkill...soooo much work for obscure and, to me, what seem like minimal effects.<br><br>I was thinking about this on the Chip Berlet thread. If the reports about him are true and he does get money from a known CIA front (I couldn't confirm this myself, but I've heard CIA allegations from other sources) thing about all this entails...a guy spending his life engaged in a complete sham...or maybe straddling a series of compromises that would make our heads spin...creating a false dichotomy between ignoring conspiracy theory on the one hand or embracing Larouche on the other. It boggles the mind.<br><br>And if we think that these elites aren't messing with all things mind altering, we are certainly naive. From wholesale manufacture of cult groups, to infiltration and manipulation of same, to use of mind altering drugs on unsuspecting victims and knocking off a few to keep it quiet, to the uses of hypnosis to create Manchurian candidates (thank GOD they stopped that after congress caught them...guess we can all rest easy now), to the elaborate, multilayered and byzantine series of foundations that pump money into all kinds of things in various attempts to control the zeitgeist if you will, to the even broader circle of elite foundations funding radical groups specifically to keep them reigned in and direct them in more "useful" directions, hell, if I keep going I'll just have to reprint Jeff's whole blog (please don't move to myspace Jeff...ick.). <br><br>Add to that my belief, with some evidence but without real proof, that things like "alien abductions" are really mind control projects...implanting memes more directly than even Hugh would ever suspect into an army of apocalyptic new age warriors waiting for the right trigger to....to....who knows what the hell....<br><br>The grand plan, the final step to bring on the "new world order"...this never happens. Always, it's by degrees and always cryptic, hard to analyze and even self-contradictory. Always the big event is just around the corner. And always it never arrives.<br><br>In short, I don't know what the hell they are up to. I know who SOME of THEM are, and I know in which direction to look to see their handiwork, but I don't claim to have the big picture figured out. <br><br>Speaking of triggers in popular media...y'all go rent Taxi Driver for me. Nevermind the obvious parapolitics....movie==>Hinckley==>Bush etc. Watch the movie and look for a scene in which Deniro watches Jody Foster pass in front of his car. There is not one wasted camera movement in that entire film...anyone can see that. Just before the camera goes to Foster, it pans right, following a truck. The truck has an image...a sort of multi-armed spiral shapes and the word "Masters". The camera follows it very deliberately until it is revealed to actually say "Cake Masters" with "Cake" having been out of frame for most of the shot. <br><br>Weirded me out and I've never seen it mentioned. Think Hinckley noticed? Something like this shape below only all in one color and inside a circle not a square (and maybe it is triggering somehow...so use caution in viewing???)<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/graphic1/tilings/logsphex.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Sorry for that little diversion...but I'd been wanting to ask if anyone else had seen that. <p></p><i></i>