I don't have a question. Just tell us something you know, something you've figured out, big or small. Maybe mysteries is too big a word, but otoh, what's known to one person may not be known to many others, so I think there's always room for sharing discoveries.Homer Simpson's measly brain in MRI. Help a fella out, would ya?Blowing our minds?
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind."
It concerns me greatly how benign many people think advertising is. I've been looking at it since my teenage years (my stepfather who was wicked smart also had a somewhat atypical interest in it - both deriding and marvelling at it, at times.)
From your article: "Today we might call what Bernays pioneered a form of branding, but at its core it represents little more than a particularly brazen set of techniques to manipulate people to get them to do your bidding.
Its underlying purpose, in large part, is to make money. By convincing people that they want something they do not need, Bernays sought to turn citizens and neighbors into consumers who use their purchasing power to propel themselves down the road to happiness.
Without a moral compass, however, such a transformation promotes a patronizing and ultimately cynical view of human nature and human possibilities, one as likely to destroy lives as to build them up."
Advertising is the most obvious example of the power of propaganda. Much more insidious and dangerous of its use in manipulating the masses for political purposes. When it comes to that, people immediately think of Goebbels and Nazi Germany. But the craft has been perfected since then by the U. S. and western governments who know how to be less overt about it. When corporations, the state and "independent" media all conspire to control the narrative, people don't even see it. They're like cows in a feed lot who think their life is normal.
I mean it’s public knowledge... people just choose not to seek the truth, just like ignoring the fact that the world is Dosed everyday by Geo Engineering contracted Planes that are dumping Nano sizes aluminum particulates in order to reseal the ozone’s later from high amounts of solar radiation, the people from the 40s and 50s released hazardous Chlorofluorocarbons that tore open our ozone.
I think that these contracted planes that are also apart of The Paris Climate Agreement which binds every country that is in the UN in these contracted flight routes.
The fact that they drop metals that can cause autism in children, pollute our water, our air, our food with these particulates and other compounds such as copper sulfates, barium, silver iodine and other things doesn’t surprise me.
If anyone wants to call me a conspiracy theorist go right ahead, All you gotta do is read the official Paris climate Agreement it states it word for word of what they are doing.
People don’t want to wake up, they live under their blankets of safety, they don’t want to uncover these truths, why? Because they are scared.
Obama signed us into the Paris climate agreement, the us spends 400 billion dollars a year to fund the Paris climate agreement.
Trump tried to get the United States out of the agreement, he did for 7 months, every chemtrail ceased for 7 months over the United States , Then congress brought it back into operation.
Not even the president knows what funds the agreement, why did Obama sign us in?
The Democrats are very sneaky with environmental lies. They shove their agenda down people’s throats.
When I started eighth grade, my parents enrolled my syblings and I in a Catholic Private School. The only reason I was accepted was because of my syblings and my excuse of a possible mental illness. I mention this because had I not, I would have never learned my second most important secret to life.
We had Mass (Church for Catholics) every Wednesday morning, and sometimes "special guests" were invited to preach to the K-8th graders. I'm sure by now you can just TASTE my disdain.
My favorite part of the Mass was the Homily, or more appropriately, Bible Story Time. This was my favorite for one reason only, that it was applicable to Non-Catholics, Agnostics (me), and Atheists. Occasionally I even enjoyed them. Because of this, I grew to even enjoy the whole mass itself.
And every once in a while, maybe five times that year, my favorite Father would join us. As he taught me, so I hope to teach you.
Paraphrasing and summarizing his words, of course, he said:
"When I was around eight or nine, I hung out with a rowdy group of kids. And I mean they were bad, really the wrong kind of crowd. But I liked them, and hung out with them. Because I was a kid! You do that back then, and I'm sure you're doing it now!"
"But when my father noticed, now HE got bad, and banned my from being around with them.
She said no.
Well, I wasn't giving up there, I was a stubborn little guy! Now, what do you do when you're eight and your Mom say no? Well, obviously you go to HER Mom! So, as my last resort, and my only option left, I explained the situation to my grandmother, and begged her to over rule my parents' ruling."
"And she agreed. But only on one condition, she said, and I will never forget these important words of hers,
'I know your parents, along with everyone else's, are all telling their children to hang out with those who will be a good influence on these children. However, I will look in the other direction, because I see that were everyone to follow this philosophy, no one would be there for the bad crowd, the ones who really need help.
Now, I know most kids don't have the will to stay within their beliefs while changing others. But I've seen you. And you aren't going to falter in your position, you will stand tall. Like you Grandma did. And as you always will.'
"Although I didn't understand most of what she meant, I got the jist, or at least the part I most cared about! I get to be with my friends! My parents were miffed at first, but got it after a minute. They just mad sure I remembered to not allow them to 'contaminate me'."
However later in life, I thought her reasoning through, and realized the wisdom of all of it. You must be the light to allow others to see their way out of the darkness. They need it, and if you don't help them, who will?
"Let us pray."
Fortunately for me, I was 14, not eight, and able to fully understand, remember, and think about when I was home, what he was trying to tell us. And I lived by it as my main philosophy until i learned my first greatest life lesson. But! That's a different story. For another time!
"Life is like a whore, it takes your money and then fucks you and you hope you enjoy the ride". My friends and I made this saying as a joke when we were teenagers, but it rings true. I compare life to rape and robbery. It does things you do not like or consent to. It does things to you that you have no power to stop. It sometimes does things that nobody can help you with or cares to help you with. It is also a fact of life that your money WILL go to things you wish it did not have to. That is the dark side of life. It robs you and hurts you. However, it is up to you if you let the pain keep you down or you rise above. "Enjoying the ride" refers to the fact that you know you are powerless to stop life from doing what it wills but you deliberately focus on the good instead.
What is referred to as "God" is simply the uniform underlying energy, it's the basis of what we are made of. God simply is. We relate to that energy as an emotion... love or enlightenment. When we are in tune with that, we feel good, to be at one with our design. I believe this is true for all religions, however, alter emotions become involved and man always has to put his logical mind to work to control "god", and so it goes in many directions.
There’s no reason to fear death itself. It’s the end of a single cycle, ultimately no different than going to sleep at the end of the day. The only difference is, you wake up in a new life or you wake up in your chosen deities domain.
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