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Originally posted by Bioshock
At what point is "doom and gloom" acceptable? I'm not even saying that what you said was accurate, I'm simply curious. I don't understand the logic behind refusing to read something because it may make you angry, sad or scared. Are these not normal human emotions? The world isn't all sugar and daises. There are insane people in this world that genuinely hate you and I simply for breathing. There is a reason we lock our doors at night.
Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away. At some point all these people that think ignorance is bliss are going to need to come back to reality.
Originally posted by coltcall
Originally posted by Metha-Don
Effin commie degenerates.. Looks like we actually lost the cold war.
You've got to admire how the Soviet Union closed up shop and came back as a Capitalist powerhouse controlling much of the energy supply of Europe.
Originally posted by Metha-Don
Originally posted by coltcall
Originally posted by Metha-Don
Effin commie degenerates.. Looks like we actually lost the cold war.
You've got to admire how the Soviet Union closed up shop and came back as a Capitalist powerhouse controlling much of the energy supply of Europe.
I with you on that one! We are so effen screwed..
Originally posted by VoidHawk
reply to post by Bioshock
Wow! what that woman in the vid said is alarming, and whats even more alarming is the number of people in this thread who just dont get it
Originally posted by Bioshock
Originally posted by Morgenstern89
reply to post by BO XIAN
I don't "favor" either of them.
The one you favor, though, is intellectually dishonest when reporting, and fully relies on it's audience to use only their base intellect when reading and interpreting their stories. There's something to what they have to say, I'll give you that. But it's about 1000x less severe than they make it out to be.
I'd rather sift through the MSM bull than subject myself to the doom and gloom churned out by Infowars and similar organizations.
At what point is "doom and gloom" acceptable? I'm not even saying that what you said was accurate, I'm simply curious. I don't understand the logic behind refusing to read something because it may make you angry, sad or scared. Are these not normal human emotions? The world isn't all sugar and daises. There are insane people in this world that genuinely hate you and I simply for breathing. There is a reason we lock our doors at night.
Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away. At some point all these people that think ignorance is bliss are going to need to come back to reality.
Originally posted by Morgenstern89
- Doom and gloom is acceptable when there's a legitimate reason for it. I'm not saying there's not a lot of shady government stuff going on, I'm sure there is, but not -everything- is a conspiracy. I mean just look at this thread. She's just some lady. Just some lady! Some lady talking about how schools need more funding and that having poorly funded schools hurts the kids. That's basically all she is saying, and it's turned into something about the State wanting control over your kids. I mean, are you serious here? Allowing this doom and gloom mentality to overtake the conspiracy community does nothing except ruin the credibility of conspiracy theorists and make everyone look like crackpots. It's already happened, unfortunately. You're all working against yourselves by flipping out over the smallest thing, and not using any critical thinking skills.
- I'm not not reading it because it makes me angry, sad, or scared. I'm not reading it because I've been familiar with Infowars for close to a decade and haven't yet had a bar code tattooed on the back of my neck or been shoved into a FEMA camp. Everyone acts like he's so noble for presenting this "news" to people. He's no better than the rest. He relies on getting hits by writing sensationalist headlines and telling his target audience what they want to hear. That's -exactly- what happened in this case, and you guys can't hear it any other way.
- You lock your doors at night so a crook doesn't break in and steal your laptop and your wife's jewelery, not so that TBTB can't send commandos in the middle of the night to kidnap you and your family. You know as well as I do that if they wanted to a lock on the door wouldn't deter them. The fact that you believe that this scenario is even within the realm of possibility for your average person is very telling.
- I know the world isn't just some happy go lucky place. It's not a matter of preferring ignorant bliss to reality, though, because what AJ pushes isn't reality. Sure, the MSM is sanitized, but at least it doesn't spin things out of proportion with the goal of working their viewers up into a tizzy over nothing.
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Originally posted by DestroyDestroyDestroy
Can this possibly be more sensational? She doesn't say any of those things in the video; what she's trying to get at is that it takes a community to raise a child, which is very true.
It is only true when the community that the child lives in is worthy of raising said child. I happen to disagree. My wife and I raise our children. We seek no outside help as outside help typically creates damage that we have to then undo.
If my community was worthy of raising my children with me, we wouldn't see the current polical regimes.edit on 6-4-2013 by bigfatfurrytexan because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Bioshock
This is not just some random woman, this person is a MSNBC reporter. She has the eyes and ears of the nation. If this was just some random woman it wouldn't bother me as much as it has, but this is mainstream media. And honestly, what credibility does the conspiracy theory community have as it stands? We're constantly mocked and ridiculed by the media as it is. There is no credibility, there is only fact.
And yet there is a bar code and Twitter/Facebook code on everything we buy. What was the biblical statement? You can not buy or sell without the mark of the beast? If we're going just by scripture, we're already well done that path buddy.
The MSM doesn't spin things out of control? What about the liberal media refusing to even talk about Fast and Furious? Fox News spins things out of control on a daily basis. What about Benghazi? The MSM is a thousands folds worse than Alex Jones. Does the man push things to the extreme? Yes, but for very good reason. Historically speaking, what Alex Jones talks about is the NORM for our species. Peace and FREEDOM is a very rare thing when it comes to humanity.
Let me explain: your child, as you did, and all children do, undergoes socialization. Community is the foundation for socialization. Your child is a product of his or her community/culture.
Is your kid property - or a member of the community?