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Scholar
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Deny this
Throughout history, rich and influential people have repeatedly sacrificed their ‘own’ people (whatever that means) for gain in money and power. The ‘conspiracy’ view simply adds the logical possibility that these people, recognizing their common interest, have formed a structure and identity, and employ tried and trusted group psychology techniques to increase and maintain that interest. This is the truth (above and beyond all the nonsense that gets spoken) of high-level freemasonry and secret societies.
By definition, most of the people reading this (especially those who feel indignation) are no more aware of these techniques than are cattle of the intentions of a meat-worker. |
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NWO Janitor
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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To what "tried and trusted group psychology techniques" are you referring? And how did you escape from them yourself?
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The Spikey Mace of Love and Mercy
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Making Mytheon come to life
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Please cite some objective, corroboratable examples.
Please cite at least one specific, corroboratable example of this occurring. Please cite one, or more, specific examples of these techniques. Please explain why people would not be aware of these techniques (which I assume you have provided specific examples above per my request). |
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Amy: You should try homeopathic medicine, Bender. Try some zinc. Bender: I am forty percent zinc. Amy: Then take some echinacea, or St. John's Wort. Professor: Or a big fat placebo. It's all the same crap. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The ol' Same place
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Fine. I deny it.
Unless you can provide... proof. And welcome to the forum. |
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Muse
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 595
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"Deny this"
Done. Anything else? ETA: dammit regnad!!@!# |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: vuori
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Well, I see I was beaten to the punch, but...
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Jesus ... wasn't he the bloke who turned fish into wine and made the lepers multiply? -KateHL Violence is more acceptable than incest. I have been told to keep this in mind. |
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Master Poster
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Banned
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Montréal
Posts: 25,831
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"Deny this" ?
Ooooh, you're going to make alot of friends here!
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Abiogenic Spongiform
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: In a handbasket
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I can't deny it.
IN fact, I'm one of those in these secret groups...I'm in charge of hypnotic memory replacement. I have to do a touch up job on another forum poster, so we'll just add parminides to the "to do" list and get right on it. Can't have that troof get out, can we? *Huntsman hops onto his private Space Shuttle and launches himself to the secret base on the far side of the moon* |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 365
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Adding a possibility? Is the conspiracy view documenting observable human behavior, in a contribution to the social sciences. Or is the conspiracy view putting forward an inventive speculation?
A structure? Only one? Is this a formal organization, with formal membership and meetings, etcetera? Or is it a more like a network of individuals or families? Or is there no structure at all, just a broad group of people who cooperate in their common interest when they can, leave each other alone when they can't, and fight each other when they have to? What is this structure's scope? Is it local, national, regional, global? Are there many structures? How do they interact? As with structure, what is this identity? Is there only one? Do other identities, such as nationality, language, religion, race, sex, gender, family-membership, etcetera, ever trump it? Are there ever clashes? |
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Jellied eel and offal fancier
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Arcadia
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I wouldn't argue against a single word that you have said up there.
But to "arrange" 9/11 to pursue some idealogical goal would require a method. This is not a relatively simple Kristallnacht we're talking about here. If you're suggesting it was "arranged", what would be the method? Welcome |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Philadelphia, PA...USA
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For the last time:
Evidence FIRST....THEN conclusion. |
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If man came from dust, why is there still dust? |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: USA
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Deny this: Throughout history, rich and influential people have repeatedly conned the gullible into believe the most elaborate and complex conspiritorial causes for incidents, policies and actions in an elaborate effort to focus attention away from the fact that "***** happens"...knowing that if people believed that "***** happens" they would lose their fear of the rich, oligarchs and demand that they either stop ***** from happening or give up power.
You, my friend, have been had. |
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel. -- Homer Simpson |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I don't discount what you're saying, although I'm more in the camp that there are secret wars/rival conspiratorial factions rather than that there is one unified superelite.
A lot of these groups can be named and aren't so secret, others, more so. For example, the elite managers of global herion distribution aren't well known, although to accomplish their goals they need to be run by very smart people at the top engaged in a web of geopolitics. In contrast, elite members of the chinese communist party are probably not hard to identify, and are presiding over some of the greatest wealth increase/wealth transference the world has known. For all intents and purposes, they seem to run China much like you say: conspiratorially protecting each others' interests and coercing mass compiance using psychological techniques and control of mass media. ETA: And as someone else pointed out, a lot of the time, ***** happens. |
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I'm here to discuss ideas, not to get personal. I won't criticize you personally, please don't criticize me personally. I won't direct ad hominems at you, please don't direct ad hominems at me. I won't attack you or put you down, please don't attack me or put me down. Thanks. |
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Space for Rent
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Sunny blue sky, cold water.
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denied !
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"Yes. I often wonder why it is that the nutjobs, who clearly think they're among a tiny handful of people who "get it", are wholly incapable of communicating effectively enough so that other people can understand them and "get it", too." Gee Mack, JREF 5/15/09 |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: USA
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I will bet you that Law enforcement has a pretty good idea who runs the Heroin trade and how...catching them and making a case (or preventing them from bribing and influencing government officials) is a much harder matter. But, I feel pretty confident in asserting that the players are known to people who investigate and follow the trade.
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel. -- Homer Simpson |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,768
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Wait, is this person posting about 9/11 or just general Illuminati conspiracies in general?
If it's the former than his "logical possibility" involves doing something that would be physically impossible (performing a hoax on a 9/11 scale without anyone leaking it). But since this is just the general "Conspiracy" forum I didn't know if he was referring to that. |
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Opinionated Jerk
Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: New York
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Keeper of the Kool-Vax
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Far East...of Canada
Posts: 20,816
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Bullshaite. If this was all the CTers were trying to say, we would never even hear from them, much more have to deal with them....what godamn crap this statement is... The CTers take this hypothesis, and from it try to convince everyone through cherry picked quotes, half truths, and speculation, that this is the case for all things, 9/11, JFK, Aliens, blah blah blah...SO THE ABOVE QUOTE IS FAR FROM ALL THE CONSIPRACY VIEW SIMPLY ADDS. For those who believe that these societies are anything more than "wealthy" fraternities and boys clubs, i suppose so... and so that we wouldn't dare seperate you from the rest of the CT swine, you complete your statement with an insult...thanks ASSF&*KER... TAM |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Dallas, TX
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It's more than that, though, isn't it? He's saying that A is true, therefore A is true, and since they are secret we can't disprove it.
Well, Mr. permanides, here's my assertion to you: All the world's leaders are being controlled by chips implanted in their brains by viscious overlords from the planet Mizar-5, who monitor the Earth's events from their secret cloaked space stations around our planet. You are oblivious to this as a steer is oblivious to the intentions of the meat packer. Is there any substantive difference in what I said and what you said? |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Sorth Dakonsin
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! What do you think you're doing? Shut up wit da secrets already!
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Science doesn't lie. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: USA
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel. -- Homer Simpson |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Boston, MA
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You too? Cool, which evil group bent on world domination do you belong to? I've thrown my hat in with the evil lizard men from beyond Pluto, though I guess due to recent shake ups in the astronomy world they will need to change their name to 'Evil Lizard Men Form Beyond Neptune'. They haven't got a secret base yet, but the did build a theme park in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter. It's better the Disney, it's got an orgynasium.
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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: In the argyle
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At which level of Freemasonry will I be able to exercise this mind-control? I would like to use it to make ladies disrobe. And if the societies you speak of were secret, you wouldn't know about them or their techniques, would you, my great big Parma ham? If I could tell you what I know about a particular organization, it would make you permanently incontinent. Deny that.
Oh, and welcome to the forum, Jason. |
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"Please, keep your chops cool and don’t overblow.” –Freddie Hubbard What's the Harm?........Stop Sylvia Browne........My 9/11 links |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Making Mytheon come to life
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Amy: You should try homeopathic medicine, Bender. Try some zinc. Bender: I am forty percent zinc. Amy: Then take some echinacea, or St. John's Wort. Professor: Or a big fat placebo. It's all the same crap. |
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~The Rascal~
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Master Poster
Join Date: Nov 2001
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You're not the boss of me. |
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Enturbulator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Right here!
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Please don't bash parmanides so much.
After all he is risking his own life here by exposing the secret cabal. Surely if they can do those complex conspiracies, they can trace his IP and find him and snuff him out. Just like they did with all the rest of the people exposing the conspiracies. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The ol' Same place
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Master Poster
Join Date: Nov 2001
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You're not the boss of me. |
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Unimpressed Female
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: 8th level of Hell - Maleborgia
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egads. And he's from my generation?!
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If anyone told you that I'm a nice person, they were either from a different level of existance, lying through their teeth or mentally instable. "We? That better be you and that invisible aardwarck in your pocket you are talking about, because I KNOW you are not stupid enough to open a giant can of whoop ass by claiming you know what I think." Stop Sylvia Browne |
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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: In the argyle
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"Please, keep your chops cool and don’t overblow.” –Freddie Hubbard What's the Harm?........Stop Sylvia Browne........My 9/11 links |
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Enturbulator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Raccoon Death Squad Leader
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Southeast of Disorder
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As a card carrying Illuminati, I just want to let you wacky Skull and Crossbone and Free Mason members know that we do have a special program that allows you to use our secret club house when you are visiting from out of town. Please note, however, that if you are going to use the Jacuzzi we ask that you take it easy at the open bar. Some members do indulge a bit too much and things can get a little crazy in the hot tub. Don't ask me what can happen when George W. stops by.
Just thought you should know. |
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"Our history is in part a battle to the death of inadequate myths" - Carl Sagan Even Mother TeresaWP doubted. |
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Enturbulator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Right here!
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One last word on this:
tubalcane |
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Guest
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Scotland
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Taking aside your silly first paragraph. Could you define exactly who or what are "cattle"?
Am I to assume that by cattle you mean, normal working individuals, with families and responsibilities? You know people that actually contribute something to society and actually add to the society that you choose to condemn. Funny thing is I always find that those that are opposed to society are not actually part of it and contribute very little. Anyway have fun not contributing, not being part of and condemning the cattle that built up the society, you mock. |
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Keeper of the Kool-Vax
Join Date: Jul 2006
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They do not contribute because most of them are social outcasts, stuck to their computers where anonymity can grant them the chance to interact without judgement. The trouble is, the reason they can't function in the real world comes out in their activities on line. They just don't like anyone, so they will just spend their time whining about the evil world, rather than going out and making a difference.
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