Im sure you believe your version of Patriotism is a noble cause. The fact of the matter is those ideals have been co-opted by the power industries of this country. When you go to war in Afghanistan or Iraq you are serving a master who's only interest is taking resources from another country.
You talked about wars, I talked about how they dont serve anyone but the power elite in this country because they have control over our military.
Wars don't bring freedom and they don't bring peace. They just make it easier to commit crimes against humanity by playing on peoples fear of losing their illusion of freedom.
Its not the government that betrays its people, government was put in place by us for us. Unfortunately it was taken over by the elite a long time ago, maybe even before we settled here. The fact is the government is run by a small group of us that is only interested selfish gain. The look at everyone else as slaves on their plantation and work very hard to keep us in a herd mentality.
America is the greatest illusion of freedom that was ever created. People think that they are free because they are able to move around freely in the pen while talking amongst each other about which political part they support, or what war they fought in and which side they took and how it restored there so called freedom. Or maybe we feel free because we can walk from one side of the pen to the other and buy things at an inflated price, while those prices are artificially inflated by a money system that is so complex nobody really sees how that currency is used to funnel wealth from people that might make a difference to people that want to keep their power systems in place and have no interest in changing their views to a more spiritual, ethical and sustainable future. You talk about wars giving people freedom; they donâ(TM)t do anything but mask whatâ(TM)s really going on behind the scenes. A concentrated effort to make people more susceptible to control so that the power elite can keep riding the gravy train at the expense of their own peopleâ(TM)s well being. Your second paragraph makes more sense than the first one, ill give you that. But if you think we live in a country of freedom then you haven't been doing enough home work on how this country really operates. People in power use both sides of an issue to keep people from making tough choices about their own free will. It happened in our civil war when banks took control over our currency, it happened during WWI WWII and its happening right now.
I like how you put "Patriotic American" in bold and italics. Like it means something. Patriotism is just another system of control used by people in power to get the masses to do things they wouldn't normally do. You and your family wasted your lives obeying a system of control that gives freedom to the wealth at the expense of the poor. The only freedom you see is a prison of lies and deceit that try to turn you in to a model citizen to serve the corporate rulers of this country. Im sorry its really time you need to wake up to the fact that freedom in America is a bold faced lie. It only exists in your mind. Try to do something that really sets people free and you will surely lose any freedom you think you have real quick.
That, my friend is an illusion created by powerful people running the us government covertly to give the people not in power a shinny image of what America stands for.
Its never been that way, just the illusion of it. This is a country for the powerful and the expense of the weak.
Money is a byproduct of what you do to enrich the lives of others, no by controlling peoples consumption. Consumption is just a word to demean the experience of the customer finding things they like while compensating the creator for there direct contribution to that experience.
Money is a byproduct of what you do to enrich the lives of others, no by controlling peoples consumption. Consumption is just a word to demean the experience of the customer finding things they like while compensating the creator for there direct contribution to their own experience.
The real scary part is that people go along with this because they dont know how to stand up for themselves. If we had people that stood up for humane behaviors these guys would disappear.
Sorry thats a cop-out. we can generally agree on how to procced with the most important things like energy, and making a living. But you have to be living from your heart and not from a place of fear to understand that.
The same goes for Socialism. People thing because it was abused by corrupt governments that it is some how evil. Not many people bother to look at it without all the history behind how it was used.
LOL are you serious? They are all in the same shell game. Selling out the American people to the highest bidder. Nothing is going to change untill we demand that the bankers be removed from office and be run by people who are looking out for the people, not corporations.
I can believe there is so much idiocy in this county, its pretty insane.
Its a big lie because it has been used as a way to keep dictators in power. Stalin used it as a way to force farmers into collectives, providing for the government's selfish agenda before they could have share to live off of. It was a way to starve people off to make them desperate so they would be much more likely to give in..
Implementing socialism for certain functions that we absolutely depend on would be a benefit (As we do now in the United States with energy and medicare) if was put into the hands of the people for the people. Once you allow selfish people to consolidate power it always ends up corrupting the system, regardless of what kind of system it is. You really dont understand what socialism is, you just heard things about it and repeat as if its fact like 90% of the rest of the sheep in this country. Governments are run by people you dont blame the system for its problems you blame the people who are running it, and ultimately the people who put them their in the first place. Which is, unfortunately us. We dont have enough people in the world who want to understand what is happening behind the scenes. And this is why there is so much corruption in the world today. People tend to want to be controlled by others because they dont want to take real responsibility for there life.
That's almost true, but not quite. We have nobody to blame but our selves. Everybody has the ability to create a life free from the bullshit of corporatism. Two things come to mind: 1. Learning to conquer fear by undoing domestication in your own life though self-reflection which creates clarity of mind. 2. handling power responsibly by recognizing the destructive tenancies of self-importance. Once you overcome the enemies these enemies you are able to generate wealth though your own creativity, and you wont sabotage it.
This would be great if only it was the intention of government to stop 9/11 incidents. The reality is that this is a way for government to control the ability of people from leaving country when the economical shit hits the fan.
And if people reacted like this more often, you'd even force corporations to do less questionable things. It's not a boycott of a bad company, it's a boycott against a single bad policy to discourage it. If people boycotted companies "selectively" more often, some would use this as an advantage to gain customers over one of their policies, next over the other, and eventually push their competition to do the same
In my view, if a company has a history of supporting polices that are bad for its customers, then by definition it is a bad company. They maybe able to mend there ways in the future and then opinion can change. But until they can show me they are in line with basic human rights there is no quarter to the amount of bad press I will bring to their door step by speaking to my friends and family, writing bad reviews and the like. activism like this done on a small scale does make a difference, its just harder to quantify in the near future and the long term.
Voting in the primaries isnt going to do any good. Our political system is rigged towards special interests. Democrat and repuplican are playing the same game, the only way to get things to change is to change the political system not to allow campaign contributions from corporations and start shifting toward a 3rd party. But nobody is going to do that because they are locked into a state of fear that if either side wins it will just get worse. The first thing you need to remember is that things are always going to get worse before they get better, so it doesnt matter. Dont vote for candidates out of fear, vote your conscience.
On the day the SOPA passes is the day I stop, renting/buying dvd's, going out to see movie's, and purchasing music. This is the only thing that is going to stop the madness. I ask all of you to join me on this day.
Secondley I hate to say it but if you want your country back you have to withdraw your support from this system. That means stop supporting anything but community driven companies
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Mohandas Gandhi
My suggestion is to stop trying market yourself to the establishment and start creating your own future by becoming independent. Creating your own opportunities is the only way to get though this and you can do that when you are waiting for someone to give you a job. IMO that system is on its way out while more and more people realize they are happier working for themselves.
The system is rigged from the inside, no amount of voting people in to do our will is going to change that. before we can have legit voting we need to remove the financial incentives in congress to act against the people.
Its artist that inspire people to make discoveries that help in all the areas you have outlined. The only reason you dont see this is because it happens on a more abstract scale. Determining worth by looking only at the physical manifestations of the world is limiting your view to all that goes on in making this world a better place.
This very statement you have made is the reason why we dont effect real change in this country. You want to go back to the way things were. The fact of the matter is that nothing is free for us to use in peace when we have a system in place that is operating to harm the world and the people. You need to realize that we cant truly enjoy any of these things if they are not in the hands of the people.
Go back and read the prior part of my comment that you didn't quote: NO ONE "should be the ones", because no one should be using such blacklists, period. People cannot even agree on a precise definition of "spam" - one man's spam is another man's opportunity - so consensus blacklists can never work effectively.
LOL nice way to try and re-frame what spam is. There is no ambiguity here. You only want to change the definition of spam to suite your own purposes. Let me link to you the wikipedia article that has become the accepted definition of what spam is.
Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.
ISP's, people that receive email, and network providers all have agreed on this definition. You dont have to like it, but you are playing within this frame work that we have all agreed to. If you want to change the definition I suggest you go somewhere else and start your own Almost-Spam group and get people on board with what you think it is. Dont go around telling people that spam is some fuzzy thing that nobody agrees on because I can tell you right now you are full of shit.
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Im sure you believe your version of Patriotism is a noble cause. The fact of the matter is those ideals have been co-opted by the power industries of this country. When you go to war in Afghanistan or Iraq you are serving a master who's only interest is taking resources from another country.
You talked about wars, I talked about how they dont serve anyone but the power elite in this country because they have control over our military.
Wars don't bring freedom and they don't bring peace. They just make it easier to commit crimes against humanity by playing on peoples fear of losing their illusion of freedom.
Its not the government that betrays its people, government was put in place by us for us. Unfortunately it was taken over by the elite a long time ago, maybe even before we settled here. The fact is the government is run by a small group of us that is only interested selfish gain. The look at everyone else as slaves on their plantation and work very hard to keep us in a herd mentality.
America is the greatest illusion of freedom that was ever created. People think that they are free because they are able to move around freely in the pen while talking amongst each other about which political part they support, or what war they fought in and which side they took and how it restored there so called freedom. Or maybe we feel free because we can walk from one side of the pen to the other and buy things at an inflated price, while those prices are artificially inflated by a money system that is so complex nobody really sees how that currency is used to funnel wealth from people that might make a difference to people that want to keep their power systems in place and have no interest in changing their views to a more spiritual, ethical and sustainable future.
You talk about wars giving people freedom; they donâ(TM)t do anything but mask whatâ(TM)s really going on behind the scenes. A concentrated effort to make people more susceptible to control so that the power elite can keep riding the gravy train at the expense of their own peopleâ(TM)s well being.
Your second paragraph makes more sense than the first one, ill give you that. But if you think we live in a country of freedom then you haven't been doing enough home work on how this country really operates.
People in power use both sides of an issue to keep people from making tough choices about their own free will. It happened in our civil war when banks took control over our currency, it happened during WWI WWII and its happening right now.
I like how you put "Patriotic American" in bold and italics. Like it means something. Patriotism is just another system of control used by people in power to get the masses to do things they wouldn't normally do. You and your family wasted your lives obeying a system of control that gives freedom to the wealth at the expense of the poor. The only freedom you see is a prison of lies and deceit that try to turn you in to a model citizen to serve the corporate rulers of this country. Im sorry its really time you need to wake up to the fact that freedom in America is a bold faced lie. It only exists in your mind. Try to do something that really sets people free and you will surely lose any freedom you think you have real quick.
Sex while someone was asleep, after she consented to be in bed with the guy.. sounds like a bunch of bullshit if you ask me.
That, my friend is an illusion created by powerful people running the us government covertly to give the people not in power a shinny image of what America stands for.
Its never been that way, just the illusion of it. This is a country for the powerful and the expense of the weak.
Money is a byproduct of what you do to enrich the lives of others, no by controlling peoples consumption. Consumption is just a word to demean the experience of the customer finding things they like while compensating the creator for there direct contribution to that experience.
Money is a byproduct of what you do to enrich the lives of others, no by controlling peoples consumption. Consumption is just a word to demean the experience of the customer finding things they like while compensating the creator for there direct contribution to their own experience.
The real scary part is that people go along with this because they dont know how to stand up for themselves. If we had people that stood up for humane behaviors these guys would disappear.
Sorry thats a cop-out. we can generally agree on how to procced with the most important things like energy, and making a living. But you have to be living from your heart and not from a place of fear to understand that.
The same goes for Socialism. People thing because it was abused by corrupt governments that it is some how evil. Not many people bother to look at it without all the history behind how it was used.
LOL are you serious? They are all in the same shell game. Selling out the American people to the highest bidder. Nothing is going to change untill we demand that the bankers be removed from office and be run by people who are looking out for the people, not corporations.
I can believe there is so much idiocy in this county, its pretty insane.
Its a big lie because it has been used as a way to keep dictators in power. Stalin used it as a way to force farmers into collectives, providing for the government's selfish agenda before they could have share to live off of. It was a way to starve people off to make them desperate so they would be much more likely to give in..
Implementing socialism for certain functions that we absolutely depend on would be a benefit (As we do now in the United States with energy and medicare) if was put into the hands of the people for the people. Once you allow selfish people to consolidate power it always ends up corrupting the system, regardless of what kind of system it is.
You really dont understand what socialism is, you just heard things about it and repeat as if its fact like 90% of the rest of the sheep in this country. Governments are run by people you dont blame the system for its problems you blame the people who are running it, and ultimately the people who put them their in the first place. Which is, unfortunately us. We dont have enough people in the world who want to understand what is happening behind the scenes. And this is why there is so much corruption in the world today. People tend to want to be controlled by others because they dont want to take real responsibility for there life.
That's almost true, but not quite. We have nobody to blame but our selves. Everybody has the ability to create a life free from the bullshit of corporatism. Two things come to mind: 1. Learning to conquer fear by undoing domestication in your own life though self-reflection which creates clarity of mind. 2. handling power responsibly by recognizing the destructive tenancies of self-importance. Once you overcome the enemies these enemies you are able to generate wealth though your own creativity, and you wont sabotage it.
This would be great if only it was the intention of government to stop 9/11 incidents. The reality is that this is a way for government to control the ability of people from leaving country when the economical shit hits the fan.
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-more-attacks-on-file-sharing-culture-and-technologies-pledge
http://www.change.org/petitions/no-more-attacks-on-file-sharing-culture-and-technologies-pledge
If your car can talk to lights there is a good chance they can use it to id cars on the road. Where and when.
In my view, if a company has a history of supporting polices that are bad for its customers, then by definition it is a bad company. They maybe able to mend there ways in the future and then opinion can change. But until they can show me they are in line with basic human rights there is no quarter to the amount of bad press I will bring to their door step by speaking to my friends and family, writing bad reviews and the like. activism like this done on a small scale does make a difference, its just harder to quantify in the near future and the long term.
Voting in the primaries isnt going to do any good. Our political system is rigged towards special interests. Democrat and repuplican are playing the same game, the only way to get things to change is to change the political system not to allow campaign contributions from corporations and start shifting toward a 3rd party. But nobody is going to do that because they are locked into a state of fear that if either side wins it will just get worse. The first thing you need to remember is that things are always going to get worse before they get better, so it doesnt matter. Dont vote for candidates out of fear, vote your conscience.
On the day the SOPA passes is the day I stop, renting/buying dvd's, going out to see movie's, and purchasing music. This is the only thing that is going to stop the madness. I ask all of you to join me on this day.
Secondley I hate to say it but if you want your country back you have to withdraw your support from this system. That means stop supporting anything but community driven companies
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mohandas Gandhi
My suggestion is to stop trying market yourself to the establishment and start creating your own future by becoming independent. Creating your own opportunities is the only way to get though this and you can do that when you are waiting for someone to give you a job. IMO that system is on its way out while more and more people realize they are happier working for themselves.
The system is rigged from the inside, no amount of voting people in to do our will is going to change that. before we can have legit voting we need to remove the financial incentives in congress to act against the people.
Its artist that inspire people to make discoveries that help in all the areas you have outlined. The only reason you dont see this is because it happens on a more abstract scale. Determining worth by looking only at the physical manifestations of the world is limiting your view to all that goes on in making this world a better place.
This very statement you have made is the reason why we dont effect real change in this country. You want to go back to the way things were. The fact of the matter is that nothing is free for us to use in peace when we have a system in place that is operating to harm the world and the people. You need to realize that we cant truly enjoy any of these things if they are not in the hands of the people.
LOL nice way to try and re-frame what spam is. There is no ambiguity here. You only want to change the definition of spam to suite your own purposes. Let me link to you the wikipedia article that has become the accepted definition of what spam is.
Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.
ISP's, people that receive email, and network providers all have agreed on this definition. You dont have to like it, but you are playing within this frame work that we have all agreed to. If you want to change the definition I suggest you go somewhere else and start your own Almost-Spam group and get people on board with what you think it is. Dont go around telling people that spam is some fuzzy thing that nobody agrees on because I can tell you right now you are full of shit.