First of all I'd like to thank the Paracast for another awesome episode. I'd also like to thank Nick for all his research! Just tremendous what you have been able to dig up.
Nick - one question:
You talk about a lot of documented evidence for investigation by the Collins group into the occult and related mysteries. What I didn't hear were a lot of specifics or documents to the backgrounds of the Collins group. Maybe I am missing something but it seemed like you started with a premise that these people were interested in the occult and therefore you conclude they were hard core, right wing Christians? Was this documented? Was this what witnesses told you, and how did they deduce this? I wonder to myself if they might not be more on the side of occult followers themselves (at least a different occult than Christianity)?
Comment to stir some crap up ;-):
As the hosts discussed at the end of the episode, where is outrage over what these people we call government are doing to us? The biggest indoctrination of them all, bigger than the military or Christianity, is the legitimacy of government itself, a monopoly on violence (as Obama admits - see Youtube). Wake up people! We have a farm right here and it is called the land mass of the US of A - where your labor will be forcably taken from you to bailout huge corporations, bomb brown people and then tase and xray you to boot.
The fiction that is government is that you supposedly have accepted the social contract by being born here. Some dudes signed a paper in 1776 that says so (ignore that the government they lived under though that was illegitmate) - so obviously its true! Because we can vote for the lesser of two crap political oligarchical gangs what they do is supposedly legitimate. You can't vote your way for no system. Instead of Jewish Zombies who are their own father and talking snakes we have Keynesian economics, consent of the governed and men in robes called the Supreme Court whose word is holy.
Madness if you stop and think about it.
Yes, yes, tell me to move to another illegitimate, government land mass somewhere or point to some places where there exists violence with lack of government - that doesn't change that violence is at the core of the government system and it is immoral. It might be hard to accept that government could cease to exist and we could still live peaceably and successfully, just like Neo couldn't imagine life outside the Matrix or the world couldn't imagine life without the system of slavery. I mean if we got rid of slavery, our ancestors thought - where would all the slaves work? How would the cotton get picked? I guess we need to control other people to be able to live in society?
I'll get off my periodic soapbox now. Thanks everyone! *hugs*
Nick - one question:
You talk about a lot of documented evidence for investigation by the Collins group into the occult and related mysteries. What I didn't hear were a lot of specifics or documents to the backgrounds of the Collins group. Maybe I am missing something but it seemed like you started with a premise that these people were interested in the occult and therefore you conclude they were hard core, right wing Christians? Was this documented? Was this what witnesses told you, and how did they deduce this? I wonder to myself if they might not be more on the side of occult followers themselves (at least a different occult than Christianity)?
Comment to stir some crap up ;-):
As the hosts discussed at the end of the episode, where is outrage over what these people we call government are doing to us? The biggest indoctrination of them all, bigger than the military or Christianity, is the legitimacy of government itself, a monopoly on violence (as Obama admits - see Youtube). Wake up people! We have a farm right here and it is called the land mass of the US of A - where your labor will be forcably taken from you to bailout huge corporations, bomb brown people and then tase and xray you to boot.
The fiction that is government is that you supposedly have accepted the social contract by being born here. Some dudes signed a paper in 1776 that says so (ignore that the government they lived under though that was illegitmate) - so obviously its true! Because we can vote for the lesser of two crap political oligarchical gangs what they do is supposedly legitimate. You can't vote your way for no system. Instead of Jewish Zombies who are their own father and talking snakes we have Keynesian economics, consent of the governed and men in robes called the Supreme Court whose word is holy.
Madness if you stop and think about it.
Yes, yes, tell me to move to another illegitimate, government land mass somewhere or point to some places where there exists violence with lack of government - that doesn't change that violence is at the core of the government system and it is immoral. It might be hard to accept that government could cease to exist and we could still live peaceably and successfully, just like Neo couldn't imagine life outside the Matrix or the world couldn't imagine life without the system of slavery. I mean if we got rid of slavery, our ancestors thought - where would all the slaves work? How would the cotton get picked? I guess we need to control other people to be able to live in society?
I'll get off my periodic soapbox now. Thanks everyone! *hugs*
Obviously I'm only talking about the modern US military. The only reason I brought up the soviets earlier was because I wanted to examine the religious element, not the national one.
Originally Posted by stphrz
There are also other pressures; from peers, from economic circumstance, and in some cases from society. Just like religion.
No one is born into the military, pressure or no pressure. If you're suggesting that voluntary enlistment by an adult is somehow equivelant to religious practices like circumcision or baptism which are inflicted on infants then you and I or on very different wavelengths indeed.
Originally Posted by stphrz
Then there's the bait and switch angle. Yes, someone signing up for the army should know what they are getting themselves into. Unfortunately this isn't always the case. Sometimes they are outright lied to. Some recruiters use high pressure sales tactics and make promises they have no business making. The victim only finds this out later. Again this sounds similar to recruiting by cults. By the time you are in, it's too late and you are trapped.
All that may be unfortunately true but (and I hate to have to say it like this) anyone who signs up for military service and doesn't understand what that really means is an idiot and I have no sympathy for idiots.