I used to think I was crazy and the world was normal - Now, I'm rethinking that whole proposition.

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

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 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/wa...

http://www.grupo.org/dinn...

Ignore the world. Things will return to normal. Life is Grand.

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!

in the nut house if you are crazy. Cause I'm nutty as a fruitcake too ;)

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.

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.

by the pathocracy that runs it. They are turning us into a society of 'secondary psychopaths'.

Political Ponerology and Psychopaths
www.dailypaul.com/node/53...

Two-seed theory: The origins of the psychopathic elite
www.dailypaul.com/node/68...

Secret Societies and the REAL driving force behind the New World Order
www.dailypaul.com/node/59...

Vital Info to study: 25 WAYS TO SUPPRESS THE TRUTH: The Rules of Disinformation
http://www.dailypaul.com/...

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

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.

Welcome to my world!

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."

"not so silent majority"

"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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I'm Moobi, and I support this message.

"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 times a day.

You guys give me energy.

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.

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.

Oh no trust me You are not crazy at all. We are the leaders and the other sheeple just haven't figured out how to follow. There has always been a small minority that have prepared for the worst only to be ready when it finally came. Just think of Noah he built a big boat and they didn't even have oceans back then. The people laughed and scorned him and probably called him a conspiracy theorist or a kook. Now that all changed when the large doors closed on the ARK now did it. I imagine the people acted like sheeple do when disaster hits they go crazy and steal televisions and nike's. Now the rain is coming and our rights are going to be taken away one way or other its just nice to know that we will be prepared. The media is telling people everything is going to be fine and they are lapping it up like dogs. We know that nothing good will ever last and there has to be a correction so we will be ready. I do sometimes find myself hoping for a crash so it will thin out the idiots or atleast wake them up. The community is shot thanks to the new deal and the left and that has to be reversed and the only way that can happen is if something dread full happens.

the words right out of my mouth!! I have many days where I would like to be a sheeple again and go on with life and NEVER take off my rose colored glasses. But then again I want to know what is coming!! I keep my eyes open on rides so I can see what is around the next turn so I guess I should do the same with life.

since I have woken up, it is definitely a lot harder to be happy or look forward to the future. Sometimes I wonder what the hell to do. I am definitely not the same. It sucks sometimes.

Marilyn in Lake Jackson

I do believe the world has gone crazy, therefore I have become crazy too, in order to live in it.

I get you completely. All I can say is, after all these years when I saw a shrink, nobody could ever figure me out. Seeing with my own eyes the filth in present society, I turned and started forming my own opinion.

You are not crazy nor are you normal. You are a member of the growing conscious remnant.

Walking through department stores (why the hell would anybody need any of all this?) ---------- at a child's birthday (a quasi religious adoration of Hannah Montana?) ------------talking to relatives about the coming election (stuck in the muddy party paradigm made from dirty propaganda and the spittle of the money masters? --------------looking at web news titles (and how is this girl's 3rd DWI & pregnant sister relative to me?) ---------reading the posters at my local Town Hall (promoting the deadly HPV vaccination for teenage girls?).

We are with you.

Regarding your post on the ladies --- you should read Naomi's Wolf's book "The Beauty Myth" which she wrote back in the good ol' 90s. One of my first 'stirrings.'

all the women gone" and Yep, you're crazy all right! :-)

Your "conscience" is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. ~Richard Bach

Dave Ramsey always said Normal is broke so I am ok being weird!

~Mikael / Peace, love, Light and unity ~

they said other people were wierd, (my kids have been homeschooled) and then when they became teens, and met lots of people, they said "Mom, WE are the wierd ones!, and they are the normal ones! " But, fortunately, they grew and matured, and saw the truth, and said, "Mom, I guess if they are normal, I like wierd better!, or maybe we ARE the normal ones."

You are just NOW rethinking that proposition? OMG! Well I have been confident in that position since I was a teenager and even more confident about it as the years have passed!

Well...better late than never!

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"Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave fast enough to be a new source of energy independence."~ samthurston

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... everyone thought Galileo and Copernicus were crazy, that the world was flat, the Sun revolved around the Earth. These two were right; everyone else was wrong. We are like the Galileo and Copernicus of the modern age - one day, we'll have the last laugh.

You are Wonko the Sane:

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/Mike