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My final conclusion: Of course they actually are a remarkable people no matter what one thinks of them.
Intellectually, on my own & rudderless, I'd probably lean towards something along Jungian lines.
originally posted by: The GUT
a reply to: 19Bones79
Surnames. Oy! I get it, I didn't really mean to just leave the impression I totally didn't but it's a whole 'nuther discussion and again one I've bumped heads with.
My final conclusion: Of course they actually are a remarkable people no matter what one thinks of them. And similar to your thoughts on self-fulfilling prophecy, I've wondered if the psychological confidence of believing you are God's chosen people creates a more optimized (if you will) race? It's either something like that or they are chosen for at least one purpose.
So the cream of the crop as it were rises to the top even in the criminal element and what are those that control the world but the largest and most powerful criminal organization ever.
I guess I'm saying I don't think it's totally exclusive at the top, though it might be.
Back to self-fulfilling prophecy, that real possibility has kept me literally pondering for hours. I've become convinced a prophecy self-fulfilled doesn't necessarily negate the prophetic part. But that's not the only reason I was personally able to move past the possibility. It's also just so dang weird, preternatural even, that one philosophy that's not universal would somehow self-fulfill a philosophy most don't adhere to.
You also, I'm pretty sure, refer to the part about people becoming lovers of self, increase of knowledge, etc. Freaky. Deaky. Dead-on. Again, to be fair, someone really in tune with human psychology might make a pretty good guess about that...if there weren't so many other examples of eery accuracy. Intellectually, on my own & rudderless, I'd probably lean towards something along Jungian lines.
One-world government, currency, generational "empire" control (that finally suggested to me preternatural organization in itself) natural disaster/disease, societal breakdown, the perpetual conflict in the ME et al, etc...I've semi-joked before that it was conspiracy theory that led me to God.
When I added it all up, I found it could be heartily debated but I couldn't outright dismiss it. Really enjoying this conversation, I can only imagine how cool and wide-ranging it would be if we didn't have to try and type it all.
In a forum like this, there are a few certain narratives which are promoted to form part of a collective will, which influences people, who then demand a reality.
It seems to me very ironic, to talk about waking up in an illusion, because the very purpose of this forum is to create an illusion of reality!
I appreciate that ATS gives misfits like me a place to vent. I only want to attack the popular ideas on this site, not the site.
originally posted by: 19Bones79
Even a non-believer such as myself can recognize an intelligence and a plan laid out thousands of years in the making, and the skill of interweaving said plan into folklore, legend and mythology, religion and culture in such a complex and skilled manner as to almost defy any sense of logic as it unfolds exactly as intended.
As if this is not the first time they've been doing it.
I'm leaning towards an intelligence that is not human, ancient, secretive and connected to only a handful of elites that know the true nature of our reality and acts as loyal servants to this intelligence.
It's obvious to me we are a slave species, in every sense of the word.
And that's not even touching the subject of different layers of reality.