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originally posted by: funkadeliaaaa
People willingly follow what they are told due to brainwashing techniques designed to both silence and blind the masses from speaking out against authority. Third eye opening techniques are one method they use. What better way to make people blind than encouraging them pushing our their third eye with their ego. Another deplorable tactic is encouraging people to swallow their own tongue and suppress and ridicule the individual with something unique to say. Thereby encouraging a society of automatons who do not entertain anything except what is acceptable by those dictating the parameters of their group think. Not just in terms of topics or content of speech. I mean in everyway. The society that exists at the moment is every evil genuises wet dream. An endless supply of automatons who are willing to do their bidding for peanuts.
/rant
originally posted by: funkadeliaaaa
a reply to: scattergun
What? You want list?
A list wont help you. Its everyone anyway... Group think can be enforced by anyone anywhere, and it will stick unless they are made the outcasts, instead forcing other people who don't conform to feel like outcasts. The sad thing is many are subservient to group think, and the continual cultivation of their conscience is completely forsaken. This is so common, its unfortunate how you fail to perceive and understand.
heres your list..not that it will help you
students
teachers
professors
researchers
academics
scholars
philosophers
sociologists
political commentators
politicians
public servents
doctors
nurses
journalists
blog writers
soldiers
cadets
artists
musicians
poets
theologians
religious followers
crowded spaces of thinkers
celebrities
actors
psychotherapists
policy makers
members of cults
police
secret agents
secret informants
spies
marketeers
farmers
miners
frackers
gm scientists
sports personalities
public figures
feel free to add any
originally posted by: scattergun
I'm a bit confused... Who is "THEY" again? What are "THEY", and where are "THEY".
"We cannot understand the world until we appreciate that most leaders are traitors and that mankind is victim of a diabolical conspiracy on an unspeakable scale. It's time we stopped fighting each other and addressed the real enemy." ~ Henry Makow
"Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand." -- Benjamin Disraeli; Prime Minister of England
"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the fields of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
- Woodrow Wilson, former President of the United States
“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.” – John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832)
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
Tim Weiner, author of The Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget, writes “There are two governments in the United States today. One is visible. The other is invisible. The first is the government that citizens read about in their newspapers and children study about in their civics books.” The second is highly secretive, interlocking agencies that carry out hidden agendas.
extremelifechanger.com...
For the Order wishes to be secret, and to work in silence, for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole. ~ Adam Weishaupt
The Secret Team is the name of “a powerful, brutally violent and treacherous international team”, says Prouty, 'with operatives in the academic world (scholars), in intelligence agencies (spies), in the military (both officers and enlisted personnel), in private industry (businessmen & women), in the world of corporate and public sector high finance (bankers, financiers and stock brokers), in the news media (electronic & print journalists), in the publishing industry in the United States and abroad (book publishers).''
It has powerful connections in dozens of countries all over the world. According to Prouty, the Secret Team overthrows and influences governments almost at will, all over the globe. At the core of the Secret Team are members of the CIA, the National Security Council, and various and sundry other military and civilian officials, intelligence operatives, business people and academics.
The Secret Team is "the real power structure" which Prouty compares to “a sprawling octopus”. It has the world and the United States in its deadly grasp. The Secret Team
Who is at the very top of the NWO?
"I hereby promise the Great Spirit Lucifer, Prince of Demons, that each year I will bring unto him a human soul to do with as as it may please him, and in return Lucifer promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the earth and fulfil my every desire for the length of my natural life. If I fail to bring him each year the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him. Signed..... [ Invocant signs pact with his own blood ]" -- The Secret Teachings of All Ages, page CIV, Manly Hall (33rd)
Lucifer Rising
How the Illuminati was established
The missing link that connects all conspiracy theories together
The Illuminati goes clear back to the Garden
originally posted by: Yeahkeepwatchingme
No mass enlightenment happening, the awakening is as manufactured as the crises they create to divide us.
New Age "spirituality" is just another TRAP set by the elite and inventors of religion, for the purpose of social control. People who aren't buying mainstream religion are in danger of finding true unified consciousness, which is exactly what the elite don't want, so they created New Age religion to keep people trapped in the matrix of CONTROL. It's like a last ditch effort to hold people down, to keep the ones who are "getting away" from escaping their control.
They're buying into bull# and believing in these mythic deities in the total and complete ABSENCE OF ALL EVIDENCE just the SAME as mainstream religious folks. Believing in fairy tales, myths and legends isn’t called being “enlightened” it’s called being gullible and living in the dark.
"New Age" Religion/Spirituality: Just more HYPOCRISY and MIND CONTROL
originally posted by: OrphanApology
a reply to: funkadeliaaaa
You believe that every human on Earth is a "they".
To you, the ego is bad and speaking out means you are believing what "they" tell you to believe.
Hate to break the news to you, but we are primates. We are social creatures that are an amalgamation of all of the people we have socialized with throughout our lifetime. There is no "they", there is only "I" and the people "I" associate with. Your ego is not evil, but it has been developed by the social experiences you have come into contact within your short life span.
You distrust all groups of people who congregate and form opinions. You distrust those who become leaders and those that choose to admire those leaders. You don't have the ability to tell the difference between that which has made us intelligent as a species and that which harms us. Socializing is not the root of all evil. Neither is coming together to form an idea which we agree on. Group think isn't always bad, but group control always is. If as you put it so disrespectfully(you obviously don't talk to people on an individual basis enough to respect them an ounce) these "automatons" choose to follow a particular thought or choice of action, it is not your place to choose for them how to use their own unit of human capitol.
The true evil is in the desire taught by birth to control other people against their will.
That is all.
No that isn't true but you can beleive what the hell ever you want about me, i don't give a rats.
originally posted by: OrphanApology
a reply to: funkadeliaaaa
You believe that every human on Earth is a "they".
By this you must be trying to say its this imaginary "they" you pulled out of a magicians hat that has told me to beleive ego is bad. First of all, they by my defintion do not exist, it can involve a "they", but it can also be occur on an individual level. What exists is "group think" (the absence of an individual conscience), and it can flicker on and off like a light bulb in someones mind. For some however, its the only light they allow themselves to see by. If it goes off, they become blind and scared, because they have spent so long relying on the false light of group think that they no longer have the ability to see the world with their own inner light, the light of their own conscience, because it is inhibited during group think (looking out the window), and any time it is used it is only used to justify or explain problems of the world within the strict parameters of that group think. No one has told me to beleive any of this, i see it as clear as day in people with my own eyes. Some people grow out of it, and become healthy again, other people grow out of it and but are still scarred by it, many people never grow out of it, usually because they have been given esteemed roles in society that rely heavily on group think modalites, for example politicians and journalists. Some people evolve within it an usurp it with brute personality. The lauging SamyakSamBuddhas of group thought.
To you, the ego is bad and speaking out means you are believing what "they" tell you to believe.
This is not news this is an attempt to belittle an individual with opinions that do not conform to you picture of life. You can stoop this low but you'll only end up with mud in your face.
Hate to break the news to you, but we are primates.
We are sociable, thats true, but we also have the capacity to think independently of that social conditioning.
We are social creatures that are an amalgamation of all of the people we have socialized with throughout our lifetime.
wow you put the "they" back in the magicians hat and pulled out an "i", you have really cunning skills You must be a member of the magic circle. Anyway, your cheap distractions aside, none of that is relevent to the topic of GroupThink. There is very much a they, and yes your I probably exists somewhere among them, lol, but you are too blind to notice what we who see groupthink in action notice. By you logic, there is no media, there is no house of commons, no house of lords, no teachers union, no "they" except "i" ......Stop trolling.
There is no "they", there is only "I" and the people "I" associate with.
Here's some advice. Stop trying to define what you clearly dont understand. Ego is the self centred part of us, that causes human being to act out their self centred fantasies, which by nature do not involve the reality of pain and the reality of other people because they are by nature fantasies and by nature self centred. Ego is the root of all evil.
Our ego is not evil, but it has been developed by the social experiences you have come into contact within your short life span.
Not necessarily.
You distrust all groups of people who congregate and form opinions.
Not necessarily.
You distrust those who become leaders and those that choose to admire those leaders.
Youre getting way too personal, for my tastes pie face.
You don't have the ability to tell the difference between that which has made us intelligent as a species and that which harms us.
I never said it was. Youre just pulling these ludicrous accusations out of thin air.
Socializing is not the root of all evil. Neither is coming together to form an idea which we agree on.
I dont think you and I mean the same thing when we talk about group think. "GroupThink" as i refer to it is a phrase from the book 1984 by George Orwell, used to describe the conformity of the masses in a dystopian future that is not so dissimilar to the one we have today. I highly recommend reading it.
Group think isn't always bad, but group control always is.
Well, it is not how i put it actually, its how you put it. I said there is no choice involved, except "obey". That choice after a while becomes barely a choice either, but a compunction. They really are automatons. You think i dont know automatons on an individual level? You dont know me! My own older brother is an automaton! It doesn't get much closer to home than that! Btw nothing i have said is more insulting than reducing human value to "a unit of human capital" as you have just done.
If as you put it so disrespectfully(you obviously don't talk to people on an individual basis enough to respect them an ounce) these "automatons" choose to follow a particular thought or choice of action, it is not your place to choose for them how to use their own unit of human capitol.
That is all.
/troll
Why would you think that i am?
Anyway its not relavent to what im saying, its just a list of labels... No use really.
This is not news this is an attempt to belittle an individual with opinions that do not conform to you picture of life. You can stoop this low but you'll only end up with mud in your face.
We are sociable, thats true, but we also have the capacity to think independently of that social conditioning.
There is very much a they, and yes your I probably exists somewhere among them, lol, but you are too blind to notice what we who see groupthink in action notice.
Here's some advice. Stop trying to define what you clearly dont understand. Ego is the self centred part of us, that causes human being to act out their self centred fantasies, which by nature do not involve the reality of pain and the reality of other people because they are by nature fantasies and by nature self centred. Ego is the root of all evil.
Following ones conscience makes us intelligent. Not following it harms us.
Youre just pulling these ludicrous accusations out of thin air.
I said there is no choice involved, except "obey". That choice after a while becomes barely a choice either, but a compunction. They really are automatons. You think i dont know automatons on an individual level?
You dont know me! My own older brother is an automaton! It doesn't get much closer to home than that!
too lazy to question authority, etc. That would be okay, but when i use the words brainwashing, automaton, and conformity im crossing the line?
If you had bothered to read the rest of the thread
If you dont like threads like this you better find a different website.
its unfortunate how you fail to perceive and understand.
both silence and blind the masses from speaking out against authority. Third eye opening techniques are one method they use. What better way to make people blind than encouraging them pushing our their third eye with their ego.
"New Age" Religion/Spirituality: Just more HYPOCRISY and MIND CONTROL
"People who aren't buying mainstream religion are in danger of finding true unified consciousness, which is exactly what the elite don't want, so they created New Age religion to keep people trapped in the matrix of CONTROL."