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I challenge anyone to come up with a better way to control people.
I challenge anyone to come up with a better way to control people.
ArtemisE
I was thinking to myself. That there really could never be a better control mechanism than faith paired with the concept of an omnipresent entity watching your every move.
It really is brilliant.
Do what we say because our guy is always watching. It's the ultimate big brother!
Then pair that with. When they ask you to prove it.
You say. Oh I don't have to. You just gotta have faith!
Faith!?! What's faith?
That's believing in something against all logic and with no evidence......devastating.
I challenge anyone to come up with a better way to control people.
The NSA has jack $((1- on the religions when it comes to big brother.
Regards,
AE
ArtemisE
reply to post by InhaleExhale
Putting a gun to everyone on earths head would be incredibly expensive. That's not sarcasm. Just pointing out religion is incredibly cheap. No video cams. Not even a really big man power need, atleast per capita. Don't have to find or make the guns or ammo.
On money I agree but think religion wins. Heck look how many people give there money away to churches. If you polled the population they would answer religion, but most would choose loot when the chips wee down I agree.
Plus money might take
More labor and resources then religion. The cost benefit analysis has to be considered .edit on 23-2-2014 by ArtemisE because: (no reason given)
Put a gun to a persons head or a loved ones head and I bet you get a person do just about anything.
ArtemisE
reply to post by InhaleExhale
Putting a gun to everyone on earths head would be incredibly expensive. That's not sarcasm. Just pointing out religion is incredibly cheap. No video cams. Not even a really big man power need, atleast per capita. Don't have to find or make the guns or ammo.
On money I agree but think religion wins. Heck look how many people give there money away to churches. If you polled the population they would answer religion, but most would choose loot when the chips wee down I agree.
Plus money might take
More labor and resources then religion. The cost benefit analysis has to be considered .edit on 23-2-2014 by ArtemisE because: (no reason given)
well, there is the godless mass media telling entire societies ''if you see it here, its a good thing''. The godless media is THE ultimate control mechanism....maybe even an order of magnitude more powerful than any faith. It controls without even acknowledging its own presence...everywhere yet nowhere.
@ ArtemisE..... I was thinking to myself. That there really could never be a better control mechanism than faith paired with the concept of an omnipresent entity watching your every move.
there really could never be a better control mechanism than faith paired with the concept of an omnipresent entity watching your every move.
Golden Rule
Faith and belief are not the same bird. Faith is actually an intuitive form of trust. This faith is not limited to religion or religiousness and is activated in love for another. A loving mother's regard for her offspring often involves faith in them, say when they may be travelling far from home, wishing them a safe passage. Faith receives confirmation in the form of synchronistic messages and observations which are personal and unprovable to a third party. This confirmation after a while becomes so unavoidable that faith is developed to a higher degree. Faith grows wings. Faith increasingly leads a person into the unknown as one's doubt is made to look absurd by and by.
Belief on the other hand is the true "Psy-Op." Belief is never reassured by synchronistic events. This is because belief dulls the senses and perception. Belief is encapsulating. Belief is only confirmed by more belief. Belief has an agenda, Faith does not. Belief leads to the known, faith to the unknown where the believer is lost.
Belief leads to religion, faith leads to religiousness.