Aristotle on Politics (Kebir Blue)

i agree with you Scarlet. Kennedy was often labeled as being part of the New World Order.

Cold Rolling--why don't you start a thread?

There really can be only ONE truth

I'm not saying that I know it just that I'm closer than most.

I'm still waiting on a coherent response from Jojo. LOL!

SG--same old, same old. No solutions offered.

LOL I'm almost sorry I don't watch mainstream news any more!


(It's full of solution Parsifal~ Speak out! Step 1: Identify the problem.)

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But they've been informing for over sixty years. They keep saying that armageddon is at hand and the world is coming to an end or that we're losing our freedom. They lose their credibility. Information without action is useless. From the TV evangelist who says to send them money to send the message that the end times are at hand to LaRouche with his convuluted message, to those who say alien spacecraft land in 1948, to Kennedy being assassinated by a conspiracy, it's all the same. It's true that there are bad people out there and we should put criminals behind bars. But let's not take away our freedom in the process.

Freedom is a state of mind and you can be held hostage by your own thoughts and addictions or you can see yourself as not being in bondage to the "dominate culture". Most of them are false prophets.

We are living in the same solar system right?

I would expect you to say something like that if it was evident that it was business as usual rather than being obvious that we are being ushered into a police state. You're coming from the perspective that nobody's been proven right over the last sixty years, erroneous assumption. The evidence is overwhelming.

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How is anyone losing credibility if this is what's happening?

The problem is that we don't see a clear cut solution, but the answer to this is not to deny the problem.


...but I'm up for a subject change

Parsifal, I agree. There isn't any dire emergency. I might not have been clear earlier, but I don't think anything is happening quickly... because I don't think anyone is behind the gradual loss of freedom. If someone were behind it with some dark agenda, we would already have been led into the police state before I was born. I don't think there is any clear end, just that a slow, gradual slide toward state property and autocracy is occurring is the tiniest steps. One person in the right place at the right time could probably turn it around, but right place and right time would probably so coincidental and obscure as to not be known. Maybe the 52nd president gets the idea in his head at a young age that if he isn't entitled to anything he didn't earn, then nobody is. Maybe someone who'll be remembered as a history-maker winds up being introduced to Emerson instead of Sartre, Rand instead of Marx, Dostoevsky instead of Ellis. Mayb

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Freedom is a state of mind and you can be held hostage by your own thoughts and addictions or you can see yourself as not being in bondage to the "dominate culture". Most of them are false prophets.<!-/Quote-!>

The vast majority of people would agree with you.

even in "free" societies there is control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zPVa0_6gxc

A coherent response to an incoherent response to my question will not be forthcoming.

You have successfully responded to a coherent response and subsequent request for a coherent response incoherently. Congratulations and "check" and "mate"!

I once witnessed a checkmate without either player taking any pieces. It was the single greatest game I ever witnessed.

The two Koreas have exchanged fire and South Korea is scrambling fighter jets.

Looks like it is ON and POPPIN on the Korean Peninsula. I wonder how this will suck the US into another war.

GoodNight, I hope to not be at war with North Korea by the time we wake up. LOL

Weighing in on Dutch healthcare system.

So, how does the Dutch system work?


Their system is fairly simple, everyone is required to purchase insurance from highly-regulated private providers. They describe it as "private health insurance with social conditions". Insurers are tightly regulated for quality, provision of basic services, and to prevent discrimination, as they are required to accept everyone in their coverage area at a flat rate, no matter what their health status. To prevent loss of profitability from chronically-ill patients, they have a risk equalization system so that rather than losing profits from recruiting sicker patients, insurance companies are compensated for providing service to those patients who need it most. And if a citizen wants to change companies, or buy additional insurance they are free to. It's a system that encourages competition, but is regulated to prevent the companies from selecting on

SG- yes it's all Canada's fault. lol

It aint over 'til the fat lady sings

Korea