I know that tensions are high in the world and people are on edge about a lot of things. I humbly request that commenters on my posts please keep it civil, on topic and avoid any kind of petty arguments. I love reading viewpoints I disagree with and that I agree with. And if I misunderstand where someone is coming from, I will try to ask the commenter before reacting to what they've said. Please everyone, show each other courtesy and kindness as much as possible. Those of us here are so important to the future of society and we cannot afford to squabble amongst ourselves. When we do, the enemies of everything good rub their hands together in glee. I will leave comments alone for the most part, but if it gets too crazy, I'll delete them. I would hate to ever do that because it kinda goes against everything I believe about speech. Do let's disagree with one another if we must, but let's always be cordial and walk away if we have to. Thank you all for being here. Now, let's go fight tyranny, and not each other. 🙂
When someone is in control of their own life, adult to death, that person must plan for the long term or suffer in one way or another along life's path. When I became an adult, I had to get through the immediate but had an eye on what is next e.g., buying a car, a home, etc., etc. I believed that it was up to me to provide the means to achieve the things in life that would allow me to live and to experience some joy (marry, raise children, build and maintain my castle (home) the way that I (and my spouse/family) thought best.
It seems that the latest couple of generations have been fed a lie (mostly by "educational" institutions but also media and government) that they will never be able to achieve these things in any meaningful way and that their very existence is dependent on the assistance of the government. They have been taught that their parents, grandparents, especially if they are white, have co-opted opportunity and now there isn't enough opportunity for everyone. Such BS, I know but if the latest generations are not being told the truth, then they will believe what they are told. "You will own nothing and be happy". They don't know how to work towards the big goals (home ownership) and tend to focus on the "be happy" part.
I have read that there is a half dozen or so uber rich families who have been controlling the world through central bank financing from behind the scenes for centuries. I believe that there is at least some truth to this as I can find no other answer that can encompass such a large impact on various nations, societies over a long period of time. These wealthy families are thinking very long term and with their families' futures in mind. Everyone else are pawns if we choose to be.
When I tell a young person (twenty something) that they have a choice to be free or to be a slave they have no response as they did not know there was a choice to be made.
I believe that free-will thinking should guide the human species forward and not top-down control. If people give up their free-will for three hots and a cot, so be it, but not for me.
Your comment is better than my post Brian. lol. Excellent observations. Someone older than I, who I call my second mom, told me one time that these generations coming up now won't know anything different. Everything (all of the madness and tyranny) will be "normal" to them and because they've never experienced anything different (liberty/freedom) they'll just continue accepting everything. Even many of us here can probably compare our liberty, world views, etc to our parents and grandparents and see just how much we've lost (but only because we are awake to it all). I still try and hold out a bit of hope though. I especially hold out a lot of hope for those who have completely woken up spiritually, intellectually and philosophically over the last few years (especially the young ones and they are out there... just hard to see). Thanks for your great contribution Brian. :)
Something that I am trying to nut out the implications of is this trend to work from home, and study from home. This comes across as Freedom writ big, but is isolating oneself from others' ideas, and also means that one doesn't see one's peers wrecked from the clotshots.
University lecture theatres with only the lecturer. Demoralising for the lecturer and for anyone who might turn up.
Reagan said it well (paraphrasing): it’s not that people on the Left are unintelligent or evil (though many clearly are), it’s that they believe so many things that just aren’t so. For short: they are brainwashed. From a spiritual perspective, since they largely don’t believe In heaven or even God, they have a burning desire to create heaven on earth. Borne of pride (the sin God hates most) they fight the reality of a sinful fallen world full of injustice tooth and nail and it makes them borderline insane and turns them into the monsters they decry. It’s for the children.
Good article Rob. I love to see how your writing is evolving.
Might I offer this article as a companion to this article? Understanding and combating the "Woke Movement" for what it is IS the battle of our lifetime. The sooner we understand this reality, the better, but we better do it soon.
So much truth to that. I met a young man in his early 20's where I worked and his dream was making it big on YouTube. 15 years and 2 kids later... not so much. I always wished him well, but that dream is almost like intercity kids who dream of being a sports celebrity. I do believe I know where you are coming from on the contrast between Japan young people and U.S young people though. Japan still has some standards for education, etc. For now.
What are the numbers? How many Japanese want to be an astronaut and how many make it? How many people want to make money on YouTube and how many do? In the beginning on YouTube it was rather easy, but now its tougher with increasing numbers of creators and maybe not an increasing amount of people using.
But sure, aspiring astronauts are studious makes sense.
LOL. Personally, I don't care what the numbers are. I write opinions only. I believe I know where Word Herder was coming from. It is definitely a fact that Japanese education compared to a U.S. education is like night and day. I believe Word Herder was just using the example of young people's aspirations in Japan compared to the U.S. to contrast the difference in the thinking between them. I believe Word Herder's comment was relevant to my post in that way. Thanks for stopping by Rick.
I simply make the point that education and aspirations of higher civilization is costly and will fail. Word sees Japan as a better model, that's ok with me. Japan is an island and a high tech industrial economy and dependent on inputs from global trade. They will fail like all the would be astronauts. I can move along so you don't have to make an argument.
We actually agree Rick. Word Herder agrees too if you've read her stuff. I think somewhere one or all of us aren't seeing where the other person is coming from. It's not a big deal to me at all. Sometimes, especially in writing alone, it's really hard to tell what someone really means. And these, after all, are only comments and lack a bit of context. Thanks for contributing. It means a lot.
The stress you place on individuality is the key here I think. I've always been of the opinion that an individual needs to come to their own conclusions, that way their actions are sincere. It does not prevent people from being deceived but a rigorous evaluation of one's own philosophy is the best we can hope for. "Do what thou wilt but harm none" is a good maxim from an unlikely occultist source. Regardless, it is thinking that points us in the right direction. What can we do? Turn away mostly. Refuse to take part in the reindeer games of the left. Ignore them and ridicule bad ideas, simultaneously building parallel systems of higher quality that push for win win outcomes. The problem gets serious when absurd systems are forced upon us. The same rules apply: noncompliance and mockery but the stakes just get higher. Live your truth. Be fierce. Stand your ground and let others live in the same manner.
I can understand how the left would be for forced vaccinations (it's for the greater good!), but I really don't understand the war mongering. Mick Jagger and Neil Young, what happened to you?
Actually, I know what happened -- you became terrified of death because you know you didn't really do much with your life.
Excellent observation Fat Rabbit Iron. I said right away at the beginning of the last almost 3 years to flatten the curve that one of the main reasons why people were/are so terrified of a scary scary scary so-called "virus" is because they truly believe that this life is it. At least when things like reincarnation, Valhalla, spirituality, resurrection of the soul and other things like that were fervently taught in society it kept people from fearing death so much. And knowing that their actions on this earth could affect what kind of reward they get in the end helped keep people more civil, brave and unafraid of things. And, for a lot of people, it motivated them to live a better life where their contributions to society and the world actually matter. . IMHO.
It's just the hypocrisy that gets me. I'm picking on Jagger and Young because their central message used to be anti-establishment and pro-individual. But it seems that behind all their talk of "spirituality", "social responsibility", and "higher consciousness" there's a deep existential fear. It's sad.
I would love to live in a world where people regarded the life they are living as their "reward" and their eternal life was manifested through their descendants.
Individually in our own lives we always have a choice as to what kind of ideology we embrace, what issues we are going to support or care about (or not). Politically I believe there isn't a choice and I definitely don't believe in a "right v left" in the *political* spectrum and haven't for a long long time. Hopefully you understood where i was coming from (and I may be misunderstanding your comment). My post wasn't about politics per se, it was about ideology and what people on the so-called "left" used to stand for and how insane they have become in recent years.
The Left is still around, we just got pushed out of the Party. We're old, mostly, and the youngsters are all brainwashed and addicted to their phones. They do what they're told and we talk to each other on Substack and marvel at how insane these people pretending to be "lefties" actually are... There's nothing but fascism and goofy mindfuckery going on there...
As for the traditional Leftists, I sort of was one, but not really, because I've always ALSO been conservative in some ways... The Righties also got co-opted and un-selected from their party, and also replaced with nonsensical insane people, just not as rabid and vociferous as the current Lef(acis)ts are...
We have to remember that this Globbist Psycho Parasite Fuckery has been planned for... DECADES!!!!!!!!!
and therefore we are reminded that undoing the stupid two-party system and replacing it with a two-potty system full of insanity has been slowly getting all the born-after-1970 kids rallied up into a lather of amazing stupidity and ignorance.
Oh, hell, that's enough of that... I'm trying to find something good to say about it, but it's giving me a severe need for chocolate...
The so-called "left" used to want the government to stay out of people's bedrooms. Now it seems they have done an about face and constantly want the federal government to sanction marriage between whatever/whoever and whatever/whoever. In other words, instead of getting government out of the bedroom it's like welcoming a congressperson right into your bed. Getting a license to marry someone is a permission slip in my mind and I have been against that from a very young age. If we are going to have permission slips to marry someone, it should be a state's rights issue in my mind. This is a complicated subject because on one hand, I think people should be able to fall in love with and marry whomever they want but at the same time I also don't think that certain kinds of marriages (between animals and people and other really weird stuff) should be promoted or encouraged either. It's a slippery slope. There was a time in society where a person fell in love, went to the church to get married and that was it. No government was involved. I don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere one time that the whole marriage license thing started to keep black and white people from getting married. But I *don't* know if that's true and I haven't researched it. But I sure wouldn't be surprised.
My mother said that in her day *The Bans* would be read out in church for three consecutive Sundays to give anyone a chance to object.
Now I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but it is a local community thing. But then one is being controlled by one's neighbours. It would be letting one know if the community was going to offer support or if you were going to be ostracised. I guess it's best to know that first, and even make the engaged couple have to think about it.
That looks like a cross between satire and Globby PANIC.
I don't think there's that level of stupidity anymore. I think the film is a hoax of its own.
Here's an idea... I read about some folks doing their own BILLBOARD BRIGADE... on their cars. Painted messages, or taped-up to the windows/changeable... Time to start letting people know it's okay to say FUK DAT POOP. ^_^ Remember HUMOR is a great tool to use against EVIL.
There are many millions of people who do not pay attention to what is going on around them. In their country, state or even their own community. Seeing something like that video might just be a trigger to get a portion of them to pay more attention and some of that portion to actually do something constructive.
I love humor. I even think I can be humorous. But if something is horrible, hideous, harmful, irredeemable, etc. then humor, IMO, should be the last thing to introduce on the subject. I cringe when I see "news" reports of something very serious, child trafficking for instance, where the mouthpiece finishes the report and immediately bursts into a full-face smile as he moves on the next piece. No dwelling on the horrific, no answers, no statement of opposition, just moving on. So, if the subject matter is so serious as to be labelled "EVIL" then I think an equally serious response is necessary if change or correction or prevention of further evil is truly desired.
I think I know where you are coming from here Brian. I don't know if you saw the spectacle of that horrible "male?" "teacher" in Canada that dressed in a dress with GIANT fake breasts with giant nipples and a blond wig supposedly in support of LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ or something? Anyway, I heard a host on something I was listening today making light of it and giggling and laughing about it. It was disgusting to hear this host laughing about something so serious as the grooming of children that is going on in classrooms across the western world. There's a place for humor... and there's a place where seriousness should prevail.
No, I disagree. I definitely do NOT want to be EVIL in return for EVIL. That is defeating the purpose of stopping the Evil!
And regarding humor-- I'm not talking about being silly about horrible things. I'm talking about using humor to address the sheer stupidity of these oligarch parasites. Eating bugs, my @ss!! There are many ways to use humor... MOCKING them is one way. Showing how ludicrous their plans are is another way... Humor can be and do so many things! It's creativity, which the Bad Guys don't have. If you don't want to use humor, you don't HAVE TO. It's just one tactic. It's the creativity that I'm trying to point up. ^_^
I did not say to be evil in return for evil. I said, "if the subject matter is so serious as to be labelled "EVIL" then I think an equally serious response is necessary". A serious response does not equate to an evil response but rather a response that is proportional to the "EVIL". If someone is committing "EVIL" against someone else, I disagree that mocking them is an appropriate, or useful, response. Then again, there are about 4,200 religions in the world and the word evil has a religious connotation so my understanding of what evil means may be different than yours.
Okay. I think we're lost in a forest when I'm simply trying to point at ONE tree.
There is nothing I'm saying that I feel is absolutely THE answer, or that you have to understand what I'm suggesting, or that any of this conversation is some kind of required anything. Clearly you don't like the idea of humor so DON'T USE IT. You've chased it right outta me, and unless you send me chocolate straight away, I'm not talking to you No Mo.
Dear Word Herder, I understand that you meant to use humor as a tool to highlight certain aspects of the subjects that you disagree with, but you wrote, “Remember HUMOR is a great tool to use against EVIL”. I then stated that in my opinion (IMO) I didn’t think there was anything humorous about evil and that evil should be dealt with on an equal level of seriousness.
So, I provided my opinion (not telling you what to think or write) and you proceeded to tell me “No” and then say I wrote something that I didn’t write. I don’t take kindly to being told what to think and I detest the twisting of my words. Notice that I didn’t say I detest the misinterpretation of my words because I also understand that the way someone writes can be misinterpreted but with simple questions the writer can provide clarifying answers. Rather it is the twisting of my words into words I didn’t write and meanings I didn’t mean that I detest.
I consider “EVIL” to be something that is adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked, among other things. I still don’t see the humor in evil and I see having fun with evil as building tolerance for evil things.
Of course, and obviously, you have a right to your own opinions on the matter. We disagree. You presume yourself to be offended and demand “chocolate” to continue a conversation I did not want to pursue in the first place but if you had found it in yourself to stop telling me I wrote things that I didn’t and telling me what I think about humor or anything else for that matter and stop telling me what to do, I wouldn’t have felt the need to correct you. But now that I have, you might like to apologize to me. Otherwise, I am done with this conversation.
Dear Rob D, I apologize for this distraction from your writing.
I know that tensions are high in the world and people are on edge about a lot of things. I humbly request that commenters on my posts please keep it civil, on topic and avoid any kind of petty arguments. I love reading viewpoints I disagree with and that I agree with. And if I misunderstand where someone is coming from, I will try to ask the commenter before reacting to what they've said. Please everyone, show each other courtesy and kindness as much as possible. Those of us here are so important to the future of society and we cannot afford to squabble amongst ourselves. When we do, the enemies of everything good rub their hands together in glee. I will leave comments alone for the most part, but if it gets too crazy, I'll delete them. I would hate to ever do that because it kinda goes against everything I believe about speech. Do let's disagree with one another if we must, but let's always be cordial and walk away if we have to. Thank you all for being here. Now, let's go fight tyranny, and not each other. 🙂
When someone is in control of their own life, adult to death, that person must plan for the long term or suffer in one way or another along life's path. When I became an adult, I had to get through the immediate but had an eye on what is next e.g., buying a car, a home, etc., etc. I believed that it was up to me to provide the means to achieve the things in life that would allow me to live and to experience some joy (marry, raise children, build and maintain my castle (home) the way that I (and my spouse/family) thought best.
It seems that the latest couple of generations have been fed a lie (mostly by "educational" institutions but also media and government) that they will never be able to achieve these things in any meaningful way and that their very existence is dependent on the assistance of the government. They have been taught that their parents, grandparents, especially if they are white, have co-opted opportunity and now there isn't enough opportunity for everyone. Such BS, I know but if the latest generations are not being told the truth, then they will believe what they are told. "You will own nothing and be happy". They don't know how to work towards the big goals (home ownership) and tend to focus on the "be happy" part.
I have read that there is a half dozen or so uber rich families who have been controlling the world through central bank financing from behind the scenes for centuries. I believe that there is at least some truth to this as I can find no other answer that can encompass such a large impact on various nations, societies over a long period of time. These wealthy families are thinking very long term and with their families' futures in mind. Everyone else are pawns if we choose to be.
When I tell a young person (twenty something) that they have a choice to be free or to be a slave they have no response as they did not know there was a choice to be made.
I believe that free-will thinking should guide the human species forward and not top-down control. If people give up their free-will for three hots and a cot, so be it, but not for me.
Your comment is better than my post Brian. lol. Excellent observations. Someone older than I, who I call my second mom, told me one time that these generations coming up now won't know anything different. Everything (all of the madness and tyranny) will be "normal" to them and because they've never experienced anything different (liberty/freedom) they'll just continue accepting everything. Even many of us here can probably compare our liberty, world views, etc to our parents and grandparents and see just how much we've lost (but only because we are awake to it all). I still try and hold out a bit of hope though. I especially hold out a lot of hope for those who have completely woken up spiritually, intellectually and philosophically over the last few years (especially the young ones and they are out there... just hard to see). Thanks for your great contribution Brian. :)
Something that I am trying to nut out the implications of is this trend to work from home, and study from home. This comes across as Freedom writ big, but is isolating oneself from others' ideas, and also means that one doesn't see one's peers wrecked from the clotshots.
University lecture theatres with only the lecturer. Demoralising for the lecturer and for anyone who might turn up.
Reagan said it well (paraphrasing): it’s not that people on the Left are unintelligent or evil (though many clearly are), it’s that they believe so many things that just aren’t so. For short: they are brainwashed. From a spiritual perspective, since they largely don’t believe In heaven or even God, they have a burning desire to create heaven on earth. Borne of pride (the sin God hates most) they fight the reality of a sinful fallen world full of injustice tooth and nail and it makes them borderline insane and turns them into the monsters they decry. It’s for the children.
Good article Rob. I love to see how your writing is evolving.
Might I offer this article as a companion to this article? Understanding and combating the "Woke Movement" for what it is IS the battle of our lifetime. The sooner we understand this reality, the better, but we better do it soon.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/understanding-the-woke-movement
I believe most can not be reached, they do as they are told and that's it.
Kids in Japan want to be astronauts when they grow up... Kids in the US want to be Youtubers.
GEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
There is no future as an astronaut.
Why not??
So much truth to that. I met a young man in his early 20's where I worked and his dream was making it big on YouTube. 15 years and 2 kids later... not so much. I always wished him well, but that dream is almost like intercity kids who dream of being a sports celebrity. I do believe I know where you are coming from on the contrast between Japan young people and U.S young people though. Japan still has some standards for education, etc. For now.
What are the numbers? How many Japanese want to be an astronaut and how many make it? How many people want to make money on YouTube and how many do? In the beginning on YouTube it was rather easy, but now its tougher with increasing numbers of creators and maybe not an increasing amount of people using.
But sure, aspiring astronauts are studious makes sense.
LOL. Personally, I don't care what the numbers are. I write opinions only. I believe I know where Word Herder was coming from. It is definitely a fact that Japanese education compared to a U.S. education is like night and day. I believe Word Herder was just using the example of young people's aspirations in Japan compared to the U.S. to contrast the difference in the thinking between them. I believe Word Herder's comment was relevant to my post in that way. Thanks for stopping by Rick.
I simply make the point that education and aspirations of higher civilization is costly and will fail. Word sees Japan as a better model, that's ok with me. Japan is an island and a high tech industrial economy and dependent on inputs from global trade. They will fail like all the would be astronauts. I can move along so you don't have to make an argument.
We actually agree Rick. Word Herder agrees too if you've read her stuff. I think somewhere one or all of us aren't seeing where the other person is coming from. It's not a big deal to me at all. Sometimes, especially in writing alone, it's really hard to tell what someone really means. And these, after all, are only comments and lack a bit of context. Thanks for contributing. It means a lot.
The stress you place on individuality is the key here I think. I've always been of the opinion that an individual needs to come to their own conclusions, that way their actions are sincere. It does not prevent people from being deceived but a rigorous evaluation of one's own philosophy is the best we can hope for. "Do what thou wilt but harm none" is a good maxim from an unlikely occultist source. Regardless, it is thinking that points us in the right direction. What can we do? Turn away mostly. Refuse to take part in the reindeer games of the left. Ignore them and ridicule bad ideas, simultaneously building parallel systems of higher quality that push for win win outcomes. The problem gets serious when absurd systems are forced upon us. The same rules apply: noncompliance and mockery but the stakes just get higher. Live your truth. Be fierce. Stand your ground and let others live in the same manner.
I can understand how the left would be for forced vaccinations (it's for the greater good!), but I really don't understand the war mongering. Mick Jagger and Neil Young, what happened to you?
Actually, I know what happened -- you became terrified of death because you know you didn't really do much with your life.
Excellent observation Fat Rabbit Iron. I said right away at the beginning of the last almost 3 years to flatten the curve that one of the main reasons why people were/are so terrified of a scary scary scary so-called "virus" is because they truly believe that this life is it. At least when things like reincarnation, Valhalla, spirituality, resurrection of the soul and other things like that were fervently taught in society it kept people from fearing death so much. And knowing that their actions on this earth could affect what kind of reward they get in the end helped keep people more civil, brave and unafraid of things. And, for a lot of people, it motivated them to live a better life where their contributions to society and the world actually matter. . IMHO.
It's just the hypocrisy that gets me. I'm picking on Jagger and Young because their central message used to be anti-establishment and pro-individual. But it seems that behind all their talk of "spirituality", "social responsibility", and "higher consciousness" there's a deep existential fear. It's sad.
I would love to live in a world where people regarded the life they are living as their "reward" and their eternal life was manifested through their descendants.
They answer to an iniquitous higher power, the promise of immortality is a potent motivator..
Oh bless, some people still think there is a choice of left or right.
Individually in our own lives we always have a choice as to what kind of ideology we embrace, what issues we are going to support or care about (or not). Politically I believe there isn't a choice and I definitely don't believe in a "right v left" in the *political* spectrum and haven't for a long long time. Hopefully you understood where i was coming from (and I may be misunderstanding your comment). My post wasn't about politics per se, it was about ideology and what people on the so-called "left" used to stand for and how insane they have become in recent years.
The Left is still around, we just got pushed out of the Party. We're old, mostly, and the youngsters are all brainwashed and addicted to their phones. They do what they're told and we talk to each other on Substack and marvel at how insane these people pretending to be "lefties" actually are... There's nothing but fascism and goofy mindfuckery going on there...
As for the traditional Leftists, I sort of was one, but not really, because I've always ALSO been conservative in some ways... The Righties also got co-opted and un-selected from their party, and also replaced with nonsensical insane people, just not as rabid and vociferous as the current Lef(acis)ts are...
We have to remember that this Globbist Psycho Parasite Fuckery has been planned for... DECADES!!!!!!!!!
and therefore we are reminded that undoing the stupid two-party system and replacing it with a two-potty system full of insanity has been slowly getting all the born-after-1970 kids rallied up into a lather of amazing stupidity and ignorance.
Oh, hell, that's enough of that... I'm trying to find something good to say about it, but it's giving me a severe need for chocolate...
"They want government to tell us who can be married and who we are allowed to marry (a permission slip from “the man”). "
Not sure what you mean there.
I like the Eisenhower quote, emphasizes how instutionalised most people have become.
Don't suggest it but maybe voting will be allowed for toddlers up.
The so-called "left" used to want the government to stay out of people's bedrooms. Now it seems they have done an about face and constantly want the federal government to sanction marriage between whatever/whoever and whatever/whoever. In other words, instead of getting government out of the bedroom it's like welcoming a congressperson right into your bed. Getting a license to marry someone is a permission slip in my mind and I have been against that from a very young age. If we are going to have permission slips to marry someone, it should be a state's rights issue in my mind. This is a complicated subject because on one hand, I think people should be able to fall in love with and marry whomever they want but at the same time I also don't think that certain kinds of marriages (between animals and people and other really weird stuff) should be promoted or encouraged either. It's a slippery slope. There was a time in society where a person fell in love, went to the church to get married and that was it. No government was involved. I don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere one time that the whole marriage license thing started to keep black and white people from getting married. But I *don't* know if that's true and I haven't researched it. But I sure wouldn't be surprised.
My mother said that in her day *The Bans* would be read out in church for three consecutive Sundays to give anyone a chance to object.
Now I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but it is a local community thing. But then one is being controlled by one's neighbours. It would be letting one know if the community was going to offer support or if you were going to be ostracised. I guess it's best to know that first, and even make the engaged couple have to think about it.
Watch: https://thehighwire.com/videos/plandemic-3-coming-soon/
That was mildly terrifying.
I found it to be both infuriating and depressing.
Thanks for the link. I was just thinking that someone should put together a video like this. Now just need to share.
That looks like a cross between satire and Globby PANIC.
I don't think there's that level of stupidity anymore. I think the film is a hoax of its own.
Here's an idea... I read about some folks doing their own BILLBOARD BRIGADE... on their cars. Painted messages, or taped-up to the windows/changeable... Time to start letting people know it's okay to say FUK DAT POOP. ^_^ Remember HUMOR is a great tool to use against EVIL.
There are many millions of people who do not pay attention to what is going on around them. In their country, state or even their own community. Seeing something like that video might just be a trigger to get a portion of them to pay more attention and some of that portion to actually do something constructive.
I love humor. I even think I can be humorous. But if something is horrible, hideous, harmful, irredeemable, etc. then humor, IMO, should be the last thing to introduce on the subject. I cringe when I see "news" reports of something very serious, child trafficking for instance, where the mouthpiece finishes the report and immediately bursts into a full-face smile as he moves on the next piece. No dwelling on the horrific, no answers, no statement of opposition, just moving on. So, if the subject matter is so serious as to be labelled "EVIL" then I think an equally serious response is necessary if change or correction or prevention of further evil is truly desired.
I think I know where you are coming from here Brian. I don't know if you saw the spectacle of that horrible "male?" "teacher" in Canada that dressed in a dress with GIANT fake breasts with giant nipples and a blond wig supposedly in support of LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ or something? Anyway, I heard a host on something I was listening today making light of it and giggling and laughing about it. It was disgusting to hear this host laughing about something so serious as the grooming of children that is going on in classrooms across the western world. There's a place for humor... and there's a place where seriousness should prevail.
No, I disagree. I definitely do NOT want to be EVIL in return for EVIL. That is defeating the purpose of stopping the Evil!
And regarding humor-- I'm not talking about being silly about horrible things. I'm talking about using humor to address the sheer stupidity of these oligarch parasites. Eating bugs, my @ss!! There are many ways to use humor... MOCKING them is one way. Showing how ludicrous their plans are is another way... Humor can be and do so many things! It's creativity, which the Bad Guys don't have. If you don't want to use humor, you don't HAVE TO. It's just one tactic. It's the creativity that I'm trying to point up. ^_^
I did not say to be evil in return for evil. I said, "if the subject matter is so serious as to be labelled "EVIL" then I think an equally serious response is necessary". A serious response does not equate to an evil response but rather a response that is proportional to the "EVIL". If someone is committing "EVIL" against someone else, I disagree that mocking them is an appropriate, or useful, response. Then again, there are about 4,200 religions in the world and the word evil has a religious connotation so my understanding of what evil means may be different than yours.
Okay. I think we're lost in a forest when I'm simply trying to point at ONE tree.
There is nothing I'm saying that I feel is absolutely THE answer, or that you have to understand what I'm suggesting, or that any of this conversation is some kind of required anything. Clearly you don't like the idea of humor so DON'T USE IT. You've chased it right outta me, and unless you send me chocolate straight away, I'm not talking to you No Mo.
Dear Word Herder, I understand that you meant to use humor as a tool to highlight certain aspects of the subjects that you disagree with, but you wrote, “Remember HUMOR is a great tool to use against EVIL”. I then stated that in my opinion (IMO) I didn’t think there was anything humorous about evil and that evil should be dealt with on an equal level of seriousness.
So, I provided my opinion (not telling you what to think or write) and you proceeded to tell me “No” and then say I wrote something that I didn’t write. I don’t take kindly to being told what to think and I detest the twisting of my words. Notice that I didn’t say I detest the misinterpretation of my words because I also understand that the way someone writes can be misinterpreted but with simple questions the writer can provide clarifying answers. Rather it is the twisting of my words into words I didn’t write and meanings I didn’t mean that I detest.
I consider “EVIL” to be something that is adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked, among other things. I still don’t see the humor in evil and I see having fun with evil as building tolerance for evil things.
Of course, and obviously, you have a right to your own opinions on the matter. We disagree. You presume yourself to be offended and demand “chocolate” to continue a conversation I did not want to pursue in the first place but if you had found it in yourself to stop telling me I wrote things that I didn’t and telling me what I think about humor or anything else for that matter and stop telling me what to do, I wouldn’t have felt the need to correct you. But now that I have, you might like to apologize to me. Otherwise, I am done with this conversation.
Dear Rob D, I apologize for this distraction from your writing.
Someone said Del B is controlled opposition and maybe they're right...