Original RI quotes only

[Cosmic Cowbell]

I think the determination among the conspiracy-aware not to be deceived, to always rise above "the sheeple," often leads to another extreme, where one can end up just as clueless in one's understanding.

[Nordic]

Sarah Palin is nothing but a tool, used by the PTB, to turn "liberals" into a bunch of frothing-at-the-mouth panicking bait-takers.

Babs has spoken, Sarah Palin will not be President of the U.S. She will be staying in Alaska.

Sarah Palin is the red-flag being waved at the bull, while behind the stadium, the bull's entire family is being turned into hamburgers.

Originally posted here.

Funny, I was really really stoned when I wrote that, for the first time in .... ages.

[JackRiddler]

Part of growing up is in learning to distinguish between responsible and irresponsible ways to make money. Given that corporations normalize improper ways for making money they are a legitimate threat to the long term viability of society. As is the CIA no doubt. But I still do not see a great difference between making the CIA into the favored scapegoat in preference to corps.

Because I consider that ‘reality’ may be vastly different than are our pictures of reality, I tend to have more allowance for wrong thinking. (If it’s allowed to be) given that the whole community uses incorrect premises to create this picture, it cannot be surprising that insight would be mixed in liberally with delusion. The insights sometimes seem to be accidental byproducts of a desperate desire to establish internal consistency for ones modeling of reality. Now I like internal consistency and modeling of reality, but as for accidental byproducts and desperate desires, not so much. Still if this is the manner that aggregate consciousness advances in understanding, then fine. So we have rubber and many other ‘accidentally’ produced compounds. And it’s good that gasoline was not dumped on the ground for long as a waste product because the first drilled for oil was refined for use as lubricants. Yet here we are a hundred years later, still mutually hypnotized into thinking that ‘internal combustion devices’ are required as motive power to get from point A to point B.

And here we remain, going three steps forward then three steps back, with an occasional trip or skip forward, usually by accident.

From a longer post here:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30050&p=369001#p369001

[Allegro]

Certain of my caregivers assert that the perps' failure to "mine out" whatever part of our being holds a connection to the spiritual is what allows us to retain a core inviolate sense of self and eventually to escape. On the other hand, some abilities that might be considered metaphysical were isolated to parts and developed. [Refer.]

[Nordic]

if people eat soy products they will eat pretty much anything

Stephen Morgan

[Joe Hillshoist]

Because you'd have to be Jesus not to be a corrupt fucker from go who enthusiastically supports the status quo. This is all power lovers know of the moral universe: you're either a corrupt fucker or a naive hypocrite. If you're not exactly like them, or aspiring to be them, or keeping your place, then you're a loser / jealous / a fanatic who outrageously partakes in the same benefits of electricity, cars, and breathing on the same planet.

JR


(Thanks for bumping the thread Nordic.)

[Jeff]

"To rebel" inherently implies that the initiative has already been lost and one is merely reacting. Time for a more radical etymology.

[eyeno]

The swamp's drained, we can see the naked ghouls all dancing, and nobody gives a fuck. But they will, and that I'm already mourning.

Norton Ash

[Allegro]

…Attacking science as a means of advancing extraordinary knowing is at least as counter productive as science denying ESP out of hand. [Refer.]

…The time will come when a means is devised for this without muddying the scientific fields with a bunch of egocentric loonies. This will happen from within science itself from all the professionals who have experienced the inexplicable and just can't hide it anymore. [Refer.]

[eyeno]

eh, why bother? sara palin will just shoot it

justdrew

[Joe Hillshoist]

This thread teaches once again that the one thing people will fight to the death for on the Internet (death by arteriosclerosis or lack of sleep) is semantics.

The Riddler strikes again.

[crikkett]

Re: George Lucas - The World Will End in 2012

For most in the developed word "The world ending" means the electricity goes out.

[JackRiddler]

See? Exactly. This schizoid hall of mirrors routine is now the mandatory, S.O.P. filter for how we're interpreting the news. It's deliberately crazy-making and then we get into big arguments about it.

False Flag Attacks are an even more effective weapon when they're not actually employed at all. They only need to exist, and the conversation is permanently fractured.

Is it live or is it Memorex?

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30949

[norton ash]

Nathan 28:

There's even an appeal to divinity ("Our judge is the market") that belongs in Ayn Rand's version of Night of the Hunter.

[Allegro]

... I'm quite content with RI remaining a niche concern, and I don't believe it would be recognizable if it appealed to a larger audience/community.

And I thank God every day for you characters, too. [Refer.]