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People Who Can Kill And Walk Away ARE Pretty Special

The best sentence I've read all morning, edited, for NewAgers and clarity:

"Americans,..think they are rejecting the narrow-minded bias of the Western,...establishment, but they’re just adopting someone else’s narrow-minded bias."

Here's a whole paragraph of common sense, if you're starving:

"There is a debate to be had about the ethics of placebo treatments in human medicine, especially when it comes to pain. If a treatment makes you feel better, in some cases that’s just as good as actual improvement. Animals, however, don’t experience the placebo effect. They don’t know why we’re sticking them with needles or stuffing ground-up herbs down their throats. Those things only make you feel better. That’s not why you go to the vet."

Yes it is, God damn it:

Yes it God damn is,…

 

And They All Do Yoga

This White Girl Will Fight To Live Her Life As She Wants

Y'all just gonna have to back off, and try to be "open-minded",...

Women, Gays, And Weak White Boys (Ruin Everything)

He knows it's not fair whites give him Rap awards over blacks because he talked about gays 

The acceptance of this loser says more, about the generosity of black folks, than the open-mindedness (and talent, or lack thereof) of whites - but nobody rewards blacks for that:

 Don’t Hate Macklemore Because He’s White

Hate him because his music is terrible.

This is rap for people who don’t like rap that makes them feel proud of themselves for not liking rap, and for buying Macklemore albums, and as such it moves from bad music into immoral, bleached-out hucksterism, the undying legacies of Paul Whiteman and Pat Boone. At least the Stones and Zeppelin never claimed they were healing the blues as they were stealing from it.

Until whites decide to deal, this whole ugly set-up is totally gay:



  Not that black men can expect our supposedly "oppressed" friends to say or do anything - when they decide to run over us,…

 

Woo: If You've Got A Third Eye I've Got An Extra Target

Mormonism's malarky, but it's also a con job, so it's got bite:

 “In an article released this month by the LDS from their headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, church leaders and historians are cited in what is meant to be an explicit disapproval of past racially restrictive policies. Yet, an actual read of the article is disappointing.

What should be a mixture of apology and hope for black members reads more like a quasi-historical blame game, dumping some of it on Brigham Young, most of it on America’s mores during the early 19th century, yet none of it on the racism inherent in the doctrine. At no point does the LDS’s statement break canon or actually admit fault.

They even suggest that Brigham Young actually wanted black members to be part of the church by referring to the quote, “blacks would ‘have [all] the privilege and more’ of other members in the future” from a speech in 1852, which also includes gems like, “Cain and his posterity must wear the mark which God put upon them; and his white friends may wash the race of Cain with fuller's soap every day; they cannot wash away Gods mark" (Page 2, “To The Saints”).

This view is still the driving justification behind racism against black members in multiple religious groups, including Syriac Christianity and the Southern Baptist church. Those same ideals are echoed in sermons today, but no responsibility is taken for the incongruent racial implications because they are part of the Holy Scripture, and therein lies the problem. This is especially difficult for black members of the LDS church, who’ve had to ignore the worldview where they are not worthy of attaining higher rank or ultimate salvation.” 

Remember when the Republicans were trying to christen this open racism as America's new "nice" religion or some BS? "The Mormon Moment"? We were in such rank racial waters the gag reflex needed to be adjusted.

Blacks had the problem we were told. 

I still think "open-minded" Right-Wing racists defending Mormon racists, by accusing blacks who wouldn't go along of being "bigots," was a very good example of American racists attempting to be clever:

They actually thought they were being smart.

Unfortunately, clever ain't shit to reality,...

 

Blind And Stupid Used To Get A Lot Of My Sympathy

I’m tired of hearing the words 'I don’t see race.'

Though people might be trying to say 'I’m not prejudiced,' it sounds more like they’re saying 'I’m open-minded because I’m ignorant'....

I’ve seen these words used to deny racial privilege, to discount the experiences that people have with racism, to deny the whitewashing of people of color in Hollywood.

I’ve seen it used to sidestep the lack of diversity and inclusion in higher education, to back away from the sense of pain and responsibility that comes from acknowledging all the ugly racial dynamics that play out in our society.

Because if you really don’t see race at all, it doesn’t make much difference to the people whose livelihoods, cultures, and identities are all affected by racial inequality.

There are plenty of other people who will remind them of their race when they look for jobs and housing, when they walk down the street, or when they seek legal counsel.

'I don’t see race' is a personal statement. You, person who doesn’t see race, may have a cookie for being so free of prejudice (not really), but the same does not apply to the world around us."

"Je Suis Celui Que Vous êtes il Que Vous êtes Moi Et Nous Sommes Tous Ensemble" Is No Joke In French

How did "being open-minded" get to be considered good, when so many examples of it's pitfalls surround us?

Roger Gonnet,...is the subject of a special feature in the latest edition of French magazine XXI,.... 

This time however, his journey from dedicated Scientologist to the movement's most vociferous critic in France is told in the graphic-novel format. 

Gonnet's story is the centrepiece of a 34-page dossier dedicated to Scientology in the latest edition of XXI, which appears quarterly. 

L'Evadé de la Secte (roughly, He Escaped from the Cult) is built around his experience of the movement: but it also works in the basic story of Dianetics, Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. 

Bringing his story to life in a 30-page strip is Renaud De Heyn, a Belgian comic-book artist and illustrator with several books to his name. 

...De Heyn recounts how Gonnet and his wife Françoise got pulled into Scientology by his uncle, who with an American friend ran a successful franchise of the movement. 

At the time Gonnet was a business consultant and Françoise a teacher: but this was in 1973, at the tail end of what was still a thriving hippy movement in France, when people were open to all kinds of unconventional ideas.

Tell me something I don't know - TMR's got a "delusional thinking" tag. 

At the bottom of the post - look.

I'd love to have someone illustrate my cult story, especially for the French, since part of it takes place there and I find the frogs, generally, so on-the-mark about cults but so "off" when assessing America. And the cult of homeopathy. 

We, both, require more study.

Where was I? I don't know - Scientology's on trial in France, and will probably be getting the boot soon, or something. In this, we can learn from The Frog Nation. Nobody needs this shit.

 But make no mistake: 

From here on out,...

That's about as "open-minded" as we should plan on getting about anything.

FOR REALS,...

All The Great Sound Jockeys (Swim In Identical Spaces)

You can tell a lot about people by the music they make and/or enjoy.

Starting with whether or not they're really and truly "open minded".

In Jazz's early days, after the customers had gone home, artists held "cutting sessions" to compete and play with some unorthodox ideas they liked.

Nobody else would've understood.

I'm saying the artists studiously avoided the so-called "music lovers" they knew were lacking interest in, or failed to grasp, creation in service to the ears and mind - and not their heart or feet.

Those people in need of a pulse to run daytime.

Denied the best.

That's never changed.

America's got a mighty river of ideas, but forced to flow underground, where the sun-worshiping, self-proclaimed naturists are too scared to venture or swim.

They'll overwhelm you they're all there is.

Their outlook rules the airwaves - always the same - a weak municipal tap, available on demand, easily adjusted for hot and cold, and totally unavailable if you don't pay your bill.

Their art's not a resource or a necessity - but still life and death.

That's their "show" - demanded and paid for BTW - and one more recording artist's explanation for the sorry state of American political life:

When you're listening to those guys, we'll always be all wet,...

Those "Dummy" Books Just Aren't Going Far Enough,...

Yesterday it was someone admitting yoga and meditation are brainwashing, and today, we get this:

'I feel brainwashed – a robot of Scientology'

Of course, what these people probably don't realize is they've been brainwashed into the NewAge, of which yoga, meditation, and Scientology are just some of it's many-tentacaled subsets. Here, I'll remind you of the words of cult expert, Rick Ross:

"The success of a thought reform program relies largely upon deception and/or ignorance. Those who can see how it operates and understand its implications can be in a sense substantially inoculated."

See, no matter what kind of cult (or cultist) I encounter, they can't get me because I reject NewAge as a whole (I frustrated a couple of Mormon missionaries a few days ago, because - no matter what they said - I could show them their beliefs in a NewAge manual, of one kind or another, that I keep in my library). The rest of these fools are so ignorant of NewAge jargon and ideas - and so intent on trying to appear "open-mined" - they're suckers for every cult on the planet.

 

And sad to say, in the 21st Century, there's still a sucker born every minute,...

 

Real Starship Troopers: Would You Like To Learn More?

Surprise, Kids! Here's (yes!) another new documentary with a cult theme - it's called The Institute:

A missing girl, a cult-like organization and its guru, a well-meaning public agency no one has ever heard of, and the actual brick-and-mortar cities of the San Francisco Bay Area. These are the ingredients in a reality-bending game profiled in Spencer McCall’s documentary film The Institute, which showed at this year's Slamdance Film Festival. More than 10,000 people played the Games of Nonchalance, but who was behind them and what was the point?

This one's a lark - it's actually a film about a cult-themed game - but the set-up is based on a understanding of cult psychology and environment, starting with unleashing it on San Francisco, where - armed with little-to-no information at all - many curious "open-minded" types simply do as they're told. Ought to be somewhat as entertaining as watching the real thing:

  Let the games begin,... 

  

Finally: This Political Season's Got A Perfect New Dance

Along with being a symbol of what it takes to pull the lever for president in November, this video includes a special nod to all the Will & Grace-supporting, Chick-Fil-A-hating "open-minded" types out there, because (I can only guess) everyone knows how badly gays want to be left out of representations of perversion. and bad taste.

O.K., I'm lying. Fuck that. It's all about PRIDE, Fool, no matter what. 

P-R-I-D-E. 

There's no escaping it anymore,...

George Jefferson Shows How Science Beats Religion

I saw this on Ann Althouse's blog, where she was announcing Sherman Hemsley's death, but immediately got fascinated by the Devil's NewAge lingo ("I think we're really connecting here in a positive way. And I'd like to cut through all of that victim/demon negative imaging, you know what I mean?") which is exactly how The Dark Lord would talk if he existed - using vaguely open-ended, thought-stopping language designed to put the "open-minded" at ease while he screws them. That's how NewAgers operate anyway:

Telling us to think only positive thoughts - not the consequences of dealing with evil. 

 Needless to say, I'm having this same conversation daily,...

 

And Proud Of It!

Oh, man - Liberals - they're so great! They're so cool! They're so open-minded, and they only oppose conservatives because we're so wrong! O.K., fine, but how do you explain them opposing one of their own?

My first taste of ‘lockstep liberalism’ came when I was kicked off DailyKos for saying it seemed to me that John Edwards might have had an affair. I didn’t act like it was the worst thing in the world or the height of immorality; I just thought it seemed suspicious when the National Enquirer reporters caught him at the Beverly Hilton. For the sin of discussing my suspicions. I was banned from DKos and I still am, after being viciously hammered for days. And when Edwards admitted to the affair – I was still banned.

And banned you will be, my good man. That's how it works when you go against Liberal orthodoxy, the Liberal narrative, the Liberal lie they're trying to promote across the land. Because, Oh, man - Liberals - they're so great! They're so cool! They're so open-minded, and they only oppose conservatives because we're so wrong!

That's just how they roll,...

Next Up: How Much Better And More Peaceful Everything Would Be If Women Ruled The World

Here's another great example of what trying to be "open-minded" will get you:

An online event intended to let China's mistresses celebrate their status and air grievances quickly descended into a slanging match yesterday.

Mistresses were joined by cheating husbands and wronged wives in an online chatroom for the inaugural "Festival for Mistresses."

The time and date chosen - 3:30pm on March 3 - was significant, as in Chinese mistresses are nicknamed "Little Three," as they are the third person in a married man's relationship.

However, despite being dubbed a festival, good cheer was in short supply.

Things got off to a bad start when, in her introduction, an invited wife proclaimed her loyalty to her husband.

She was assailed by mistresses mocking her "loyalty" and teasing her by saying they would seduce her husband.

Our advice:

Leave the "open-mindedness" to those with no brains in their heads,...

Nix What's In Your Wallet? What's In Your Brain?

Australia's Sydney Morning Herald had a pretty good article about a woman named Carli McConkey and "how the unwary fall victim to mind control" (and isn't it strange we don't see more articles like that in America, where the phenomena is most prevalent?) We thought it was worth mentioning.

After 40 plus years of cult indoctrination, themes of NewAge mind control exist throughout Western culture already, so we're going to look at the McConkey story the Sydney Morning Herald presents and see how many of our regular themes are in this one lady's life story, and also how they form a matrix that's almost impossible for anyone to escape without critical thought. (Anybody else notice how NewAgers multi-task, with chiropractors promoting homeopathy and the like? That's an especially easy tactic.)

"Prison walls and chains are not necessary when one believes these things,'' says Clinical Professor Doni Whitsett of the University of Southern California, who has been working with cultists and their families for 20 years. "Carli's is 'a tragic textbook case', she says" and here's what was in Carli's textbook - and may also already be in yours:

The NewAge doomsday prophesy of Armageddon in 2012. (Read the book, seen the movie, right? Why?)

"New Age personal development" groups. (Thanks, Oprah!)

The concept of "Mind Body Spirit". (Brought to you by a nearby hospital or "wellness center")

Psychic readings. (There's one of these frauds found on almost every street corner,...)

"Metaphysical" beliefs and seeing Metaphysical ''signs''. (If you're seeing any of these, what you need is psychiatric help.)

Keep an open mind, or ''leave your logic at the door'', to avoid ''judgmentalism". (This is merely telling you not to think as they either pick your pocket or otherwise try to take something you've got - like your soul.)

Cleansing impurities. (Your liver does that already.)

''Intuition''. ("Guessing".)

Being told one can ''manifest'' (or make) things happen in the real world using your mind. (AKA The Secret scam and Transcendental Meditation.)

Encountering the "bait and switch" cult technique of saying the first course will fix everything, only to be informed that to become fully ''integrated'', there were no fewer than 17 other courses, all at considerable expense, to do. (Scientology.)

Hanging out on dating websites. (This is just a bad idea all around - can't you walk outside and talk to people?)

Communes. (Communism.)

Women wearing headscarfs to signify subservience. (Or anything other than it's cold.)

Attending "workshops". (Or "seminars", or "retreats" - they're always offering a fucking "retreat".)

Public nakedness. (We know, We know, but still - we don't know these people.)

Vegan diets. (Once they control what you eat, they can control your mind, and a diet with no meat means you're less likely to fight back.)

An apparently random reward-punishment system. (You know, like Obama tries to do.)

Reincarnation. (This is just stupid to believe in.)

The Intergalactic Council of the Universe. (This is even stupider.)

The city of Atlantis. (We're really dumbing down now.)

''Spirit guides". (Pain works better.)

Cult leaders pretending to have god-like powers. (Adults "pretending" at all.)

Feminism. (Female guards at concentration camps.)

Any outsider claiming to have a symbiotic relationship with someone already in a marriage is probably a cultist. (Why would anyone want to insert themselves into another's marriage anyway? Don't they already have a life?)

Don't be a sucker - none of these things are important to anyone's life or well-being:

Just don't go there - or get away from them now - because they're only propagated by the ugliest of people. If you don't believe us, look at Louise Hay above - gross!