On Jan 30, 8:48Â pm, Michael Gray
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>>>>On Jan 28, 11:59Â pm, Michael Gray
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>>>>>>On Jan 25, 4:42Â pm, donquijote1954
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>>>>>>wrote:>>>>>>> Hey, I'm asking you all --even Atheists-- to make an abstraction, or
>>>>>>> reduction to the absurd if you will, so we can have an idea where we --
>>>>>>> the nonbelievers-- are supposed to go. Are you afraid of it? Or you
>>>>>>> actually think it may be a fun place, like a sinful nightclub with all
>>>>>>> the girls dancing naked and smoking weed?
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>>>>>>> Just curious... ;)
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>>>>>>> ELECTIONS 2008
>>>>>>> (Now we threw in the "Dutch Package," gays, bicycles, prostitution and
>>>>>>> weed in one neat package --T-shirts too!)
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>>>>>>Hell is a Holiday Inn in Nebraska. Lawrence Welk is on every
>>>>>>television station, and the Inn is full of very fat Born-Again
>>>>>>Christians. The sun never completely sets, and the only thing on the
>>>>>>horison is a grain elevator with peeling paint.
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>>>>Do you think the Religious Right is part of this deceit game too? A
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>>> Yes, but as a mere pawn.
>>> The real culprits are the corporations and their elite.
>>> It has been US policy since the 50s to soak the plebs in superstition
>>> so that they can be easily manipulated as mindless compulsive
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>>> They thus encourage fundamentalist theology, and the false promise of
>>> easy solutions to everything.
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>>Well, I've got a slogan that says, "My struggle is not against the
>>puppet, but against the puppeteer"...
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>>And I do believe too that the puppeteer is an intellectual and
>>commercial elite --which I call the "Hungry Lion"-- that couldn't care
>>much about God or the Devil. They know Darwin is a reality and are
>>active practitioners of Social Darwinism. CAPITALISM IS DARWINISTIC!
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>>And the puppets most often play the role assigned to them: SHEEP. They
>>follow the shepherd into the cliff, and are happy to do so because
>>it's written in some nonsensical old book.
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>>But some black sheep realize the lion and the lies, and have the job
>>to spread the news.
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>>>>system that produces War, Environmental Recklessness and SUVs while
>>>>preaching to a Messiah that rode a donkey?
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>>> Exactly my point!
>>> Think about it.
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>>The sheep speak in a language hard to understand. They are a living
>>contradiction.
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>>>>"In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money
>>>>is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole
>>>>criterion of power." -Upton Sinclair, book 'The Jungle'
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>>> That is the zeitgeist that the corporate elite have created in Joe
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>>> It is maladaptive for most of the planet, except the wealthy minority
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>>The elites of this world --the puppeteer-- are fully responsible for
>>whatever is happening in this world. They feed religion as a form of
>>manipulation. They ignore the real issues like Global Warming. And
>>they are ultimately responsible for terrorism...
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>>"More than a century [written a century ago] has passed since science
>>laid down sound propositions as to the origins of the universe, but
>>how many have mastered them or possess the really scientific spirit of
>>criticism? A few thousands at the outside, who are lost in the midst
>>of hundreds of millions still steeped in prejudices and superstitions
>>worthy of savages, who are consequently ever ready to serve as puppets
>>for religious impostors."
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I know, I know. But it shouldn't be surprising, the truth is the
truth. Many people just don't want to see it, or can't see it. Here's
a very telling quote from a movie...
"YOU have meddled with the primal forces of NATURE, Mr. Beale ...
There is no America. There is no Democracy. There is only IBM and ITT
and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the
nations of the world today ... the world is a BUSINESS, Mr. Beale."
"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
Those are memorable lines from the movie 'Network.' In this satirical
view of COMMERCIAL TELEVISION, you get a prime time view behind the
curtains of the American media network. In it, the main character, Mr
Beale, tells the truth and nothing but the whole truth. Talk about the
opium of the people...
Memorable Quotes:
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are
bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing
their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust,
shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in
the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do,
and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our
food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local
newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-
three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We
know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like
everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We
sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting
smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our
living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted
radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not
gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to
protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your
congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't
know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the
Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've
got to get mad. [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING,
Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all
of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now
and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M
AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to
get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your
head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this
anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get
mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to
take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the
depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out
of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and
say it: [screaming at the top of his lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND
I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/quotes
