I used to think I was crazy and the world was normal - Now, I'm rethinking that whole proposition.
Submitted by Ralph Waldo on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 19:28
Is it just me or does anyone else ever think this world has gone crazy.
Family don't live together, neighbors don't visit, most people are divorced or lonely or both. We have over 100 channels of TV and yet nothing worth watching. Great candidates like RP who are called crazy. Between the dumbing-down of America and it's obsession of money and materialism it makes one wonder.
I used to think I was crazy and the world was normal - Now, I'm rethinking that whole proposition.
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The American dream
The American dream used to be that people would come over to this country from anywhere and it didn't matter who they were or what their past was, they had the opportunity for a better life than what they had before. Now that has been skewed into, The American dream, to get as many material possessions as possible, in order to relieve your anxiety that your social status is not high enough.
I was thinking about this over the weekend. I was going to redecorate my house and it was going to cost a pretty penny. But then I decided not to because I realized I only wanted to do it to relieve some anxiety I had about not being up to par with everyone else. Strangely enough, that made me feel so much better. The more you play into it, the more anxiety you get. The more stuff you buy, the more you have to buy. It's never enough.
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"We will never give up. We will never give in." - Dr. Ron Paul
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"We will never give up. We will never give in." - Dr. Ron Paul
Nail on the Head - Dude
Nail on the Head!
Normal is what they teach
Normal is what they teach you in school and church. Sit straight, don't act out, go to work, pay your bills.
That's the main thesis of
That's the main thesis of FreeDomainRadio.com, which is an excellent series of podcasts (and youtube videos: youtube.com/stefbot) which I highly recommend.
Here's an example which is relevant today, being election day and all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbBItLemsM
just wait....
http://www.grupo.org/dinner
Settle down, get married, and have a family.
Ignore the world. Things will return to normal. Life is Grand.
I love what you said. Could it be...
Could it be that all the power elite (Central banksters) did was swap one form of slavery for another? One that didn't involved having to pay to take care of us or feed us in order to get labor out of us, but instead instituted the fractionated monetary system as soon as we forgot what the founding fathers fought for. Now all we are are "wage slaves" where all the money is borrowed from the Federal Reserve except for the interest which no money exists to pay. This creates all of us fighting to make money to pay our debts but somebody is caught with out enough money (no money was ever created to cover the interest).
After studying the fractionated monetary system this is what has become clear to me. It was designed with bankruptcy built in after all the borrowed debt is payed so it only leaves us all fighting for not enough money and somebody left holding the bankruptcy bag (unless you are one of the key players ("corporatacracy") then we are left paying for that debt. ....repeat cycle.
Bottom line, they want you to feel like your are crazy if you question this insane system.
Time to wake up!
See ya
in the nut house if you are crazy. Cause I'm nutty as a fruitcake too ;)
This election has served as a good wake up call
I'm starting to realize that Americans don't want to live by the principles of the Constitution. In fact, it's almost as if we are led by our mischevious Congress in finding shortcuts around having to abide by limitations so cleverly placed in the document. And alas, our people are all too eager to gobble up the spoils, almost like teenagers raiding the bar while the parents are away. Sure, we owe most of this misdirection to the manipulators who prowl behing the curtains and control our Congresspeople with special interests and PAC money, under the watchful eye of the global planners who own the media. They don't care who we elect, so long as it's one of their choices. But what really is eye opening, is that our general population has become so intent of following this charade. They have ears, but don't listen. They have eyes, but don't see. "Men will become lovers of money, and the love for others will grow cold." Hmmm, I've read that somewhere.
alan laney
Ralph
for years I thought the same way. I think this could be the best post today I'm not alone thinking this. Actually, after discovering Dr. Paul helped me realize that I wasn't crazy because he was talking exactly what I was thinking.
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We are becoming "ponerized" as a society
by the pathocracy that runs it. They are turning us into a society of 'secondary psychopaths'.
Political Ponerology and Psychopaths
www.dailypaul.com/node/53506
Two-seed theory: The origins of the psychopathic elite
www.dailypaul.com/node/68954
Secret Societies and the REAL driving force behind the New World Order
www.dailypaul.com/node/59200
Vital Info to study: 25 WAYS TO SUPPRESS THE TRUTH: The Rules of Disinformation
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/68785
I agree completely.
I once went on a 7,000 mile bicycle tour by myself for five months. Halfway through, I thought I was starting to "lose it". I remember sitting on a picnic bench in the middle of a Texas desert interviewing my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Afterward, I wondered if I was going insane.
I asked myself, "How do you know if you're insane if no sane person is around to tell you? And what if the only people around are also insane? Wouldn't they just tell you that you're normal?"
Thereafter it dawned on me that "crazy" was just a relative term and the whole world could be completely psychotic without many of us knowing. I'm pretty sure that's the case today.
People call me crazy because I refuse to wake up everyday, shave, put on the same kind of clothes, drive the same route to work, sit in a cube for eight hours a day doing the same thing over and over with the same people over and over, then drive home, eat, sleep, wake up and do it all over again. Sorry, I just happen to think that there are more important things we should be doing.
As far as the election goes, I think the majority of people are just retarded, not insane. Seriously... too much fluoride or something.
www.breakthemachine.net
kinda
makes me think of the movie idiocracy. to summarize it these two people get cryogenically frozen and wake up in a future where everyone is incredibly stupid and the two normal people are so much smarter than everyone else that the masses think the two are just homosexual. pretty dumb movie (pardon the pun) its just what it made me think of.
Someone recommended that movie...
...to me. I only made it about 15 minutes into it.
Then on another day, visiting my parents who still have cable, caught the last 30 minutes or so of it.
We are already there, in societal terms. Sure we know how to make striped toothpaste, but there is definitely a powerful mass hypnosis in effect.
Patterns. We eat everyday, we sleep every day, we drink every day we breathe every day, all sinusoidal patterns. Hmm, I will break the work pattern and not go anymore, then I'll just walk the Earth every day, but then when and how will I break that pattern... Hmm...
Life is a sin wave. I'm starting to stop finding new ways to label -10 and 10.
Off I go to drive to work again. For some damn reason... :)
Funny One
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In an insane world, the sane man appears insane.
Welcome to my world!
The universe appears to be
The universe appears to be infinitely pointed with each point creating the reality of it's expansive wholeness. Sanity is relative.
I think the human race and the universe as a whole is divinely perfect in all it's imperfections, but that's not to say I don't feel a little crazy from time to time. How could we know sanity without experiencing craziness ourselves?
How can we know freedom without first knowing captivity /restraint /limitation /imprisonment /subjection /confinement /slavery...
We must be asleep to awaken. Enlightenment and ignorance are mutualy co-arising...
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"Better to be flexible like bamboo than rigid like oak, for when the storm comes bamboo will bend and survive, where as oak will crack and die."
Perfectly stated!
I am surrounded by friends and family that are so fearful of the outcome of this election; whereas, I believe that whoever the 'winner', the changes that occur will only serve to fan the flames of the liberty movement. It will be darkest before the dawn, and the only way to wake the sheeple is for them to experience tyranny firsthand.
The Earth...
...is definitely a unique coalescence of energy, indeed.
We have written history
We know about slavery because of written history. We don't do it anymore because it's wrong. If we do not learn from history or ignore it we will eventually destroy each other and ourselves.
Check out Interpol. Slavery is still very much with us.
International movement in slaves is major money, mostly women and children are being sold. Don't kid yourself. Also, why do you think we have minimum wage? Have you ever tried to live on it? Our whole society is based on paying people less than they need to stay even, it is called inflation.
This kind of slavery is very
This kind of slavery is very sad, but there is another kind, a subtler kind of slavery that exists within us all. Addiction. Almost everyone is addicted to something that goes against their better judgment. If we could be free from our addictions and craziness, we would be in a better place to realize a truly free society.
Ron Paul is a great roll model. His only addiction appears to be fighting for freedom.
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"Better to be flexible like bamboo than rigid like oak, for when the storm comes bamboo will bend and survive, where as oak will crack and die."
Ron Paul IS my role model:)
Addictions=Escapism. They serve as a way to flee from the sad reality of our unhappy existence. We choose to be addicted because our 'vices' bring us comfort and give us the perception of happiness. Without them, we would have to face the fact that we are slaves and maybe even have to do something about it!
Now I must go - Step 1 of my RPAnonymous program says I'm not allowed to visit sites like Daily Paul:)
Yea...
...my first addiction was breathing....
We are the...
"not so silent majority"
The Emperor Responds...
"How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life."
-- Marcus Aurelius
That's one of my favorite quotes as it reminds me that anything can happen at any time. My philosophy of life keeps me sane by permitting me to accept (note, please, that I didn't say "condone") everything happening in the world as part of what I like to call The Grand Human Drama. The GHD has been going on a long ole time, and will continue well after we're all dust. So fight the good fight, people, but don't let it make you too f*c*ing crazy.
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"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson
Yeah i come here at least 3
Yeah i come here at least 3 times a day.
You guys give me energy.
The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Once upon a time...
They used to think burning people who the church considered witches was normal too. Now we can look back and simply say witches never existed and the church did it as a method of controlling dissent.
We all know what the future will say about our current times. We are not the crazy ones. There are only a few prominent voices of our time and those in control are struggling to keep it by ever increasing means of pressure.
46% of USA wants socialism (allegedly)
This is what a talk show host was saying on the radio tonight. Evidently, some poll was taken (Gallup, I think, but I'm not sure) and the results were that 46% of Americans welcome socialism and/or flat-out want it here in the States. The host, admittedly quite liberal, went on to say that arguments positing that we'd be giving up freedoms under a socialistic system are just stupid arguments, and that people in this country are overwhelmingly ready to try socialism (you know; "change" and all that).
Aside from the "stupid argument" statement, I sadly believe his other statements might actually be accurate, in that people are willing to embrace something about which they know little or nothing (as we've seen throughout this campaign season). Now, the host didn't say anything about the demographics of the poll (e.g., was it a cross section of demographics, or targeted and compartmentalized; etc.), and without such backup information, its validity is obviously questionable. But, since the information was reported by a popular liberal host on a popular liberal show, you can bet a bunch of liberals will soon be citing it as the gospel truth, thus perpetuating the illusion that Americans want socialism. Good grief.
100% of USA wants FREEDOM
Apparently, you can't believe everything you hear or see in the media because an overwhelming majority of the American people simply want personal and financial freedom, peace, and believe in the power of the Constitution.