at 6:00 when they are discussing the pledge of allegiance, what they showed is not 100% exact. Before WWII, Americans did not put their hand over their heart. They heiled the flag, similar to how Germans saluted Hitler. Just thought it was worth knowing.
@Fishdogpigsquirrel Depends which state you where from or even school district, for instance those in the south took allegiance to the Confederacy flag. I believe it was California, that put their hand over their heart.
Canada bans Oxycontin, they finally figured out their fuken pharmaceutical drugs are worse than any street drug? Who the fuk is running this show? Israel's Prime Minister on world tour to get support to attack Iran.The media seems to be softening people up for a war, once again numbing the minds of the majority. This makes me very sad, somethings got to give. One world, one people, only in solidarity can we stop this shit?
Selecting this week's team for The Mighty Magpies (Aussie Rules Footy);
and/or
Slapping together a viable nuclear arms ban with a side order of enduring peace in the Middle East.
Just coming up to speed:
Estados Unitas, which crispy cooked the civilian populations of two cities with nukes, and has thousands of 'em, now wants to attack Iran because Iran might at some time in the future develop a nuclear bomb?
@1man4RBE Yes , a do as I say, not as I do policy? Then they wonder why are kids are so confused?If they want to stop school bullying , they had better set by example, which I guess if we look around the world, it is no different than an elementary school yard. Aussie rules football, luv it , we studied the game in school, though they wouldn't let us play the game, Rugby is all they let us play, lol
Only when the last tree has been cut down, only when the last fish has been caught, only when the last river has been poisoned, only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. - Cree Indian Prophecy
I agree that there is much ambiguity in this film, but it is a comprehensive topic difficult to cover effectively in even 3 hours. A review of the tech trends seems to confirm the ideas presented in the film, however, and pose a huge problem to our current monetary economic paradigm. Issues like technological unemployment, which even if jobs are always created (doubtful), frictional unemployment will become an issue due to exponential acceleration of displacement. Nanotech as well
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. -Edmund Burke. We need to get mad about the fact that our humanity has been kept from us. Our dignity has been stolen by greedy banksters and this monetary system. Wake up and fight for the rights of your children. Wake up and fight for your right to be human. Tell people how you really feel about the "system" Be honest, get the conversations on the table and that will be "SOMETHING."
There is no "them," there is only "us." We're all human beings. The unethical elites behave the way they do for a reason. It's a systemic problem, not a personal one. Bringing them all to justice and putting them out of power would just lead to someone else filling their place. The tendencies are built into the structure of the system itself.
Besides, when people get houses, does it have to be in the futuristic high-tech style?
Can people also get houses in other styles that we have used for decades and centurues like Tudor, Provincial, Mediterranean, Gothic, Georgian, Spanish Colonial, etc..?
@EasternMerchant By the same token you should feel the same thing. Therefore you have no right or authority to tell what system is best for me. I also weary of groups that promise a utopia and then threaten to kill innocent people to achievement. The halls of history are stained with the blood those who sought to establish a utopia and control everything. They range from kings long since dead to the most recent communist, capitalist, socialist, and fundamentalist dictators.
@viscon2011 "Therefore you have no right or authority to tell what system is best for me."
So, Do astronauts in a spaceship have the "RIGHT" to do whatever they want during a space mission? Or, are they required to follow "STRICT" guidelines in order to ensure the safety of the crew and vessel?
The only reason humans on earth haven't yet applied this in a global scale is because the dangers of not using resources wisely is not yet apparent to everyone on this planet.
"The Matrix is a system. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around. What do you see? Business people, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependant on the system, that they will fight to protect it" - Morpheus
The European Commission is attempting a last ditch attempt to revive ACTA.
But we can foil their plans.
Governments are turning their back on ACTA one by one, so the EC is asking their Court of Justice to give the treaty the greenlight & renew its momentum
We can push the court to see though the EC's ploy and look at all the legal implications of this censorship treaty on our freedoms -- forcing a negative decision that kills ACTA for good.
"be careful what.you say.from now on. elites are watching and waiting."
Indeed.
Every time you make a comment on a "progressive" (aka "subversive") thread like this or even just use the public library you leave a monitored trail;
Every time you email or phone somebody your communication is scanned by algorithmic filters that zero in on key words and invite close perusal by State personnel (U.S.; U.K.; Oz, et al).
So be vewwy vewwy qwiet an' careful when huntin' wabbits.
This video makes good sense overall. Some of the content has been thrown into question but there's no denying the rich have shafted us all. The idea of creating a proper, sustainable society has appealed to me for decades but the transition is going to be hard. It's almost like we need to have this idea to hand and when it inevitably crashes we use this to rebuild with, cutting out the greedy fucks that ruined it for 3 centuries but keeping the best of our endeavours.
It still surprises me, how some people have no idea about Kinovelax Diet Plan (search on google), even though many people get good results because of it. Thanks to my mate who told me about Kinovelax Diet Plan, I have lost crazy amounts of weight with it without starving myself.
Okay, this Venus Project sounds great, but I am confused.
How will people get housing? What will determne how large a house a person might get? Will they will all get a similar size? Is there a limit on how much of a home I can get?
Great question. I would say there's no limit. It's up to the individual. That sounds like madness in our current culture, and I will get to why in a second. Immediately your mind jumps to everyone having a massive castle with every amenity imaginable with a view of the ocean in tropical weather. Here's why that likely won't happen. Values are cultural. We value individual housing in the U.S. In some areas of Europe, it's the opposite. Houses aren't very popular yet people are happy.
I see so basically, people are different and have different wants and needs.
Besides, if this Venus Project comes true, many see that there is really no need for such a large house. Mainly because of the fact that it keeps them isolated and selfish.
Most likely beautiful structures and palaces will be shares among the public instead for everyone to enjoy.
@Cyrus992 Materialistic values. Besides, what part of the world are you liviging in? Where ever you are, you must be having it good, since you believe the whole world today has ''Milk and Honey'' system. 70+% of the world is suffering, if not by ''War'' then financially. The world financial system is on a brink of collapse, and you're talking about houses and palaces. This happends, 3rd World War is inevitable, leaving GOD knows how many dead this time. Where is ''Everyone'' in THAT picture?
@Cyrus992 Don't be naive thinking, this system will provide a safety for you. You got corrupt government and parasites such as federal reserve banks to strip you naked when ever they feel like, and then tell you ''What we did was legal'' - ''Everyone to enjoy''? Yeah, just look at the HELL you call earth today. Do research, how many starve, homeless, and let's not talk about countries with wars, or the young kids goverments send to die! The look at the other countries with financial issues!
So why are there these differences? Is it genetics? Cultural anthropology suggests that is not the case. Human beings seem to be very adaptable to cultural influences and can assume just about any set of values based on their upbringing. Imagine owning a Lamborghini. Sounds like heaven, right? That's because it's a status symbol in our culture. A "look what I earned" sort of thing. A measure of self-worth. Now how would it impress in an RBE? There would be no referent for such status
I suspect ownership would lose its appeal in an RBE. Think about it. Why hoard a large number of possessions you then have to maintain and find space to store when you can just get what you need on the go whenever you want? I used the cheesecake example earlier. Wouldn't you feel silly storing a mountain of cheesecake in your garage? Would your friends be impressed at your collection if they could just grab a cheesecake on demand whenever they wanted without storing large quantities?
Jacque Fresco goes into some *possible* ways in which people within an RBE might design their own houses. For that I suggest you watch Future By Design, which you can buy online or find on dotsub. If you search Future By Design I believe it is on the second page of results. Fresco also describes some of his proposals in the free pdf's available on the venus project website.
Getting criminals off the street doesn't solve any problems. If you want safety you need to understand the root causes behind those undesirable behaviors. If you rely on prisons you will never understand the factors driving the crime rate and won't ever truly be safer.
Lots of wonderful promises being made here. However, one of the most important promises--of which I hear no discussion--is the promise of the loss of personal autonomy. Personal liberty is the oldest, most natural state of man that has been curtailed by the good intentions of technocrats and social architects since the beginning of society. The problems laid out in this film need to be addressed but the solution puts the worlds resources in the hands of an elite managerial class. Dangerous.
They could still use tokens with numerical value, but no benefit outside of the casino. Playing poker online for free with imaginary money is no different. I don't mind playing poker for free, personally. Whether the resorts would be torn down or not would depend on the will of the people.
" They could still use tokens with numerical value, but no benefit outside of the casino. Playing poker online for free with imaginary money is no different. I don't mind playing poker for free, personally. Whether the resorts would be torn down or not would depend on the will of the people."
Can I still wear cool mirror shades and a ginormous ten gallon hat with the rim down so as not to give away my "tell?"
This video explains the CORE of the problem. ''Money'' Most have known about that for quite some time, but i doubt they knew what a BIG role it plays when it comes to greed and corruption. Monetary system is a slow and painful death to humanity. Addiction for power, because with power, you controle profit. With profit you controle people! I'm glad to see people waking up.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
Richard Nixon, if he were alive today, might take bittersweet satisfaction to know that he was not the last smart president to prolong unjustifiably a senseless, unwinnable war, at great cost in human life.... He would probably also feel vindicated (and envious) that all the crimes he committed against me -- which forced his resignation facing impeachment -- are now legal.
These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland.... They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
Only in Congress would you find a chorus singing mightily that the affluent and mighty need an extra helping of taxpayer largesse. Screw the kids in Head Start, the students receiving Pell Grants, the dislocated workers and the nutritional needs of infants--how can we better help JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon?
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we've got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, unanimously ratified by the U.S. Senate on June 6, 1797
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
If the bad act is committed by a member of a group you wish to demonize, attribute it to a community or a religion and not to the individual. But if the bad act is committed by someone whose profile, interests and agendas are uncomfortably close to your own, detach the malefactor and characterize him as a one-off, non-generalizable, sui generis phenomenon.
Stanley Fish, comparing reactions to Muslim terrorists attacking the World Trade Center and a Christian stabbing a Muslim cab driver in NYC
I've been watching a show called "Spartacus Blood and Sand", it is a great show, and depicts the way of life in the Roman period very well.The roman times where great times ,if you where wealthy, they say at the peak, there was only 400,000 actual Romans who of coarse where the upper crust the rest of them where slaves close to 55 to 60 million people. at the height of imperial power in the mid 2nd century AD, including the military.
The fall of the roman empire came about because of the greed and brutality by so few to so many, and it was when the common people stood together in solidarity that real change was made, this is true of the French, Russian, Chinese revolution's, the end of Apartheid, and the fall of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union.
Obviously, we could have spent that $1,000,000,000,000 wasted on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars more productively. But we all know that we wouldn't have. To fund health care or mass transit or R & D into clean, renewable energy, or ensure all Americans have adequate food and housing, and all children are well-educated, are liberal fantasies. Even incremental steps on those requires a political bloodbath. But funding actual bloodbaths hardly requires debate. Those are our values.
Last April in the Czech capital, Prague, President Barack Obama announced that the United States would seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons, but he warned that nations probably would not eliminate their arsenals in his lifetime. I am three decades older than the US president, yet I am confident that both of us will live to see the day when the last nuclear weapon is dismantled. We just need to think outside the bomb.
@1man4RBE Odd isn't it, how when at award shows they are given free stuff some think it great, they deserve it?, and when a homeless man is on the street , begging for money, we look at them with distaste, and ostracise them from society.
@69oneear Every christmas they give shelter to the homeless, and when it's over, the welfare programs are also over, they throw them on streets again...
" Every christmas they give shelter to the homeless, and when it's over, the welfare programs are also over, they throw them on streets again..."
Which is why leftists (not to be confused with American liberals) despise charity as a social mechanism (although personally helping your brother and sister whenever you can is always imperative) and insist upon social justice as one the primary tenets of socio/econ/political organization.
When my late father--Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer--denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.
Frank Schaeffer, commenting on the furor over some of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's words
@shayanzd In most cases religion creates atleast some kind of moralic setup for a future society, but in most cases it leaves people stuck in traditional patterns
What do we want the Church to do? We don't ask for more cathedrals. We don't ask for bigger churches of fine gifts. We ask for its presence with us, beside us, as Christ among us. We ask the Church to sacrifice with the people for social change, for justice, and for love of brother. We don't ask for words. We ask for deeds. We don't ask for paternalism. We ask for servanthood.
"Natural Reason tells us that because of the inadequacies we perceive in ourselves we need to subject ourselves to some superior source of help and direction; and whatever that source might be, everybody calls it God."
Being elected to a position of leadership should not be misconstrued as a license to do as one pleases at the expense of the will and trust of the electorate.
Zimbabwean bishops, open letter "God Hears the Cry of the Oppressed"
It's not just the New Testament that the Right Wing Fundamentalists can't abide by - it's the whole bloody book:
When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Jacques is wrong about the flat earth myth. Actually very few ancient cultures believed in a flat earth. People can look out onto the horizon and the earth's curvature is quite obvious. The sphericity of the planet has been accepted scientific dogma at least as far back as the classical period.
The word "Sioux", is a native word , it can mean one, or more than one, There is only 13 charterers in most native American languages,there was no written history of NAN , everything handed down verbally or hieroglyphics, my great aunt helped in turning the oral into written Onida language in the late 70's.. it kinda sound s like German, very hard to pronounce
.Many of north American cities, parks, lakes ,states and provinces,and rivers are of native names, Toronto, means "the meeting place", a place where members of the 6 nations would meet to play games like lacrosse for centuries.
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
The New Testament and the direct quotes of Jesus of Nazareth, are clearly progressive.
It is far easier to offer support for left-wing philosophies than right-wing philosophies using Jesus and the Gospels for guides. Read them carefully. You will find an egalitarian, a man of peace, a man who tells you to love our enemies, a man who with his family became an illegal immigrant from Egypt into Israel, a man who chastised people who love material things, and Jesus blessed the common man.
For god, country and queen, how many lives and resources wasted for false patriotism. and worship of false deity's. As an Atheist ,I must admit all religions do have some good moralities to them. And if religious folk of all religions lived by what is written in their books, none of what we see in the world would be happening. Faith of religion is a personal thing, and if it is so sacred, it should be respected as such.But religion should not play any kind of role in government. or laws
@1man4RBE Hope you are feeling better my friend and all is well. Have you heard much local news about the move to create the World's Largest Marine Reserve in the Coral Sea, I actually thought they did that yrs ago.
Heard about the Barrier Reef project via an Avaaz email notification.
A great feature with Avaaz is that, once you sign on with any petition signing or other Avaaz activist project, they then notify you of other issues that you may be interested in.
The Avaaz virtual international team does all the grunt research work on all the issues already, making it easier to keep track of what's going on around the world and come up to speed on the numerous important issues facing us all.
@1man4RBE Avaaz, Democracy Now, Occupy Everywhere, Anonymous , and even those funny Anarchists are all great places to get informative information from, Avaaz is the best,for activism and participation, that counts.
[chapter 18:] "Who is really greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?' Jesus called a little child to his side and set him on his feet in the middle of them all. 'Believe me,' he said, 'unless you change your whole outlook and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven. It is the man who can be as humble as this little child who is greatest in the kingdom of Heaven."
[Matt chapter 11:] "Come to me, all of you who are weary and overburdened, and I will give you rest! Put on my yoke and learn from me. For I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls." [chapter 16:] "For what good is it for a man to gain the whole world at the price of his own soul?"
[In chapter 7:] "Treat other people exactly as you would like to be treated by them -- this is the essence of all true religion." "Be on your guard against false religious teachers, who come to you dressed up as sheep but are really greedy wolves." He admonished us to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's [taxes].
In chapter 6 of Matthew, Jesus gives a sermon... [re the rich, powerful, arrogant] "How happy are the humble-minded, for the kingdom of Heaven is theirs!" "Happy are those who claim nothing for the whole earth shall belong to them!" "Happy are the merciful, for they will have mercy shown to them!" "Happy are those who make peace, for they will be known as the sons of God!" "Don't pile up treasures on earth..." "You cannot serve God and the power of money at the same time."
In chapter 6 of Matthew, Jesus gives a sermon... [re the rich, powerful, arrogant] "How happy are the humble-minded, for the kingdom of Heaven is theirs!" "Happy are those who claim nothing for the whole earth shall belong to them!" "Happy are the merciful, for they will have mercy shown to them!" "Happy are those who make peace, for they will be known as the sons of God!" "Don't pile up treasures on earth..." "You cannot serve God and the power of money at the same time."
[Illegal immigrant] "Joseph got up and with the little child and his mother with him, journeyed toward the land of Israel. . .he was afraid to enter the country." Matthew 2:19
[Jesus tempted by the Devil about greed] "Man does not live by bread alone." Matthew4:1-11
Read the Gospels and cringe at what is written there as compared to our bullying. Compare it to Pat Robertson, the guy who got many votes running for President by saying we should use the CIA or other agency to kill the democratically elected leader of Venezuela. Read the comments from people who hate everybody and want to kill every Moslem in the world. Listen to how carefully selected and out of context right-wingers are in "quoting" Jesus. Compare that to the Jesus of the New Testament.
It is clear that humility, forgiveness, peace, love, tolerance, egalitarianism, etc. are all part of the direct comments of Jesus of Nazareth. In a nation that often announces its Christian faith, why is it so difficult to offer help, health care, support, tolerance, acceptance, etc. for everybody? Why do we focus on whom we can persecute and put in jail and have the state murder [capital punishment] and promote guns and be militaristic and be a nation of bullies? We Americans are hypocrites.
Stephen Harper has a chance to deepen his imprint on Canadian law and society, for decades to come. The sudden retirement of two Supreme Court judges has handed Prime Minister Stephen Harper the chance to remake the high court along conservative lines, opening a debate over how to select their successors.
By the time Stephen Harper’s term as prime minister is over, four years from now, more than half the judges who make up the country’s top court will have stepped down.
This shit has got to go, Harper is nothing more than a corporate croonie, the conservatives have allowed Canadian sorceress to be bought and controlled by a handful of piggy Elitists,
he is awind up watch in a digital world, The NDP won the popular vote, we must change our voting process to better represent the vote of the people, an Mp who represents only 10,000 constituents, has as much power as a MP who has 100,000 constituents, and it is usually these small strategically placed riding's that win elections.
For instance in Vancouver, most of the rich live in North and west van., the population is low but yet they have 4 riding's, where as the poorer and more populated east Vancouver only has one> this is manipulation of our so called democracy, and is not a true representation of the people..This scenario is even worse in the States, for it was only a small majority of the Christian coalition that put Bush and his Republicans in power both times.
This country needs a Canadian version of an Arab Spring she said. Things lies not with Harper but in the hands of the people, when we act together in our streets, neighborhoods and workplaces, the statement said.
She went on to give a series of media interviews. She explained she feels the Conservative government’s policies on the environment, social programs and the military are destructive, and that civil disobedience is needed to try and stop them.
@1man4RBE Hello my friend, haven't seen you in a bit.How are you doing, I seen on Avaaz that Australia is setting up a 1million sqkm preservation reserve in the oceans around , that is fantastic, hopefully we can do that for the entire planet.I.ve been protesting the Canadian Gov., Conservatives want to make a mandatory sentence for marijuana possession,
@ aiiiunluckykid ... Seriously, after everything I have posted, which was 2 posts explaining how people can get out of the problems right now without the use of whatever Peter says and that's all you can respond with..... I think I smell a TROLL among the comments. Well people, don't take my word on it, Go and do your own research about "reclaiming your state Citizenship" and figure it out on your own if we need people like Peter and his crew in our lives or not.
at 6:00 when they are discussing the pledge of allegiance, what they showed is not 100% exact. Before WWII, Americans did not put their hand over their heart. They heiled the flag, similar to how Germans saluted Hitler. Just thought it was worth knowing.
Fishdogpigsquirrel 28 minutes ago
@Fishdogpigsquirrel Depends which state you where from or even school district, for instance those in the south took allegiance to the Confederacy flag. I believe it was California, that put their hand over their heart.
69oneear 18 minutes ago
Canada bans Oxycontin, they finally figured out their fuken pharmaceutical drugs are worse than any street drug? Who the fuk is running this show? Israel's Prime Minister on world tour to get support to attack Iran.The media seems to be softening people up for a war, once again numbing the minds of the majority. This makes me very sad, somethings got to give. One world, one people, only in solidarity can we stop this shit?
69oneear 1 hour ago
@69oneear
At my age it ain't easy multitasking.
eg:
Selecting this week's team for The Mighty Magpies (Aussie Rules Footy);
and/or
Slapping together a viable nuclear arms ban with a side order of enduring peace in the Middle East.
Just coming up to speed:
Estados Unitas, which crispy cooked the civilian populations of two cities with nukes, and has thousands of 'em, now wants to attack Iran because Iran might at some time in the future develop a nuclear bomb?
Footy beckons.
1man4RBE 42 minutes ago
@1man4RBE Yes , a do as I say, not as I do policy? Then they wonder why are kids are so confused?If they want to stop school bullying , they had better set by example, which I guess if we look around the world, it is no different than an elementary school yard. Aussie rules football, luv it , we studied the game in school, though they wouldn't let us play the game, Rugby is all they let us play, lol
69oneear 24 minutes ago
Only when the last tree has been cut down, only when the last fish has been caught, only when the last river has been poisoned, only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. - Cree Indian Prophecy
ZombywoofWazoodian 1 hour ago 4
Well I'm ready for an rbe world. It's time to make it happen y'all
rkfool 2 hours ago 2
My fear is that people will treat this as an academic work. These theories are highly inaccurate, overly simplified and prone to dramatics.
Burzum325 2 hours ago
@Burzum325
I agree that there is much ambiguity in this film, but it is a comprehensive topic difficult to cover effectively in even 3 hours. A review of the tech trends seems to confirm the ideas presented in the film, however, and pose a huge problem to our current monetary economic paradigm. Issues like technological unemployment, which even if jobs are always created (doubtful), frictional unemployment will become an issue due to exponential acceleration of displacement. Nanotech as well
SophistAssassin 2 hours ago
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. -Edmund Burke. We need to get mad about the fact that our humanity has been kept from us. Our dignity has been stolen by greedy banksters and this monetary system. Wake up and fight for the rights of your children. Wake up and fight for your right to be human. Tell people how you really feel about the "system" Be honest, get the conversations on the table and that will be "SOMETHING."
noangel9172 2 hours ago
Fuck the new world order, fuck the globalists, fuck the police, fuck the government, FUCK THEM ALL!
MinorCreativity 3 hours ago
@MinorCreativity
There is no "them," there is only "us." We're all human beings. The unethical elites behave the way they do for a reason. It's a systemic problem, not a personal one. Bringing them all to justice and putting them out of power would just lead to someone else filling their place. The tendencies are built into the structure of the system itself.
SophistAssassin 3 hours ago
@MinorCreativity
And let's give a shout out to valet parking.
1man4RBE 3 hours ago
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The only requirement one will ever have to deal with in your life in an RBE world is.....
What do I ENJOY doing today that will not harm other people or this planet? That's it!
Unlike the current system where you must ask yourself....
What do I NEED to do to survive the next month? As long as it's legal, I can do anything to earn my survival even if it might harm others.
EasternMerchant 4 hours ago
Besides, when people get houses, does it have to be in the futuristic high-tech style?
Can people also get houses in other styles that we have used for decades and centurues like Tudor, Provincial, Mediterranean, Gothic, Georgian, Spanish Colonial, etc..?
Cyrus992 4 hours ago
@Cyrus992
Sure can. You could build yourself a log cabin in the middle of nowhere if you wanted. Living in a circular city isn't required.
SophistAssassin 4 hours ago
@SophistAssassin
Sounds great... Thank you...
I just can't think of any major flaws to the VP. May be this is really what will work!
Cyrus992 4 hours ago
You have to have some hope when you see almost 80.000 likes and less than 5000 dislikes. Maybe all is not lost?
nansir 4 hours ago
How did I get to this idiocy from Rooster Teeth?
KamekoBruns 5 hours ago
si!
strakscombat 5 hours ago
Medics employed or have used ultrasound to cure cancer. It will work for of all cancers.
JonThm 5 hours ago
@EasternMerchant By the same token you should feel the same thing. Therefore you have no right or authority to tell what system is best for me. I also weary of groups that promise a utopia and then threaten to kill innocent people to achievement. The halls of history are stained with the blood those who sought to establish a utopia and control everything. They range from kings long since dead to the most recent communist, capitalist, socialist, and fundamentalist dictators.
viscon2011 6 hours ago
@viscon2011 "Therefore you have no right or authority to tell what system is best for me."
So, Do astronauts in a spaceship have the "RIGHT" to do whatever they want during a space mission? Or, are they required to follow "STRICT" guidelines in order to ensure the safety of the crew and vessel?
The only reason humans on earth haven't yet applied this in a global scale is because the dangers of not using resources wisely is not yet apparent to everyone on this planet.
EasternMerchant 6 hours ago
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EasternMerchant 6 hours ago
15 million people now know what is possible
t3hpez 6 hours ago
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"The Matrix is a system. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around. What do you see? Business people, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependant on the system, that they will fight to protect it" - Morpheus
boumar19721972 8 hours ago
ACTA:
The European Commission is attempting a last ditch attempt to revive ACTA.
But we can foil their plans.
Governments are turning their back on ACTA one by one, so the EC is asking their Court of Justice to give the treaty the greenlight & renew its momentum
We can push the court to see though the EC's ploy and look at all the legal implications of this censorship treaty on our freedoms -- forcing a negative decision that kills ACTA for good.
Please google Avaaz to sign the petition
1man4RBE 8 hours ago
Cool movie
19waffleman99 8 hours ago
be careful what.you say.from now on. elites are watching an waiting.
Mezmurized22 11 hours ago
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"be careful what.you say.from now on. elites are watching and waiting."
Indeed.
Every time you make a comment on a "progressive" (aka "subversive") thread like this or even just use the public library you leave a monitored trail;
Every time you email or phone somebody your communication is scanned by algorithmic filters that zero in on key words and invite close perusal by State personnel (U.S.; U.K.; Oz, et al).
So be vewwy vewwy qwiet an' careful when huntin' wabbits.
1man4RBE 7 hours ago
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S70184 11 hours ago
This video makes good sense overall. Some of the content has been thrown into question but there's no denying the rich have shafted us all. The idea of creating a proper, sustainable society has appealed to me for decades but the transition is going to be hard. It's almost like we need to have this idea to hand and when it inevitably crashes we use this to rebuild with, cutting out the greedy fucks that ruined it for 3 centuries but keeping the best of our endeavours.
noiseache 12 hours ago 2
@noiseache Exactly.
picasoko 8 hours ago
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It still surprises me, how some people have no idea about Kinovelax Diet Plan (search on google), even though many people get good results because of it. Thanks to my mate who told me about Kinovelax Diet Plan, I have lost crazy amounts of weight with it without starving myself.
nicholewill879 13 hours ago
2:12:20 thanks for the monty python reference :D
DarrenNormand22 15 hours ago
Okay, this Venus Project sounds great, but I am confused.
How will people get housing? What will determne how large a house a person might get? Will they will all get a similar size? Is there a limit on how much of a home I can get?
Cyrus992 18 hours ago
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Great question. I would say there's no limit. It's up to the individual. That sounds like madness in our current culture, and I will get to why in a second. Immediately your mind jumps to everyone having a massive castle with every amenity imaginable with a view of the ocean in tropical weather. Here's why that likely won't happen. Values are cultural. We value individual housing in the U.S. In some areas of Europe, it's the opposite. Houses aren't very popular yet people are happy.
SophistAssassin 18 hours ago
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I see so basically, people are different and have different wants and needs.
Besides, if this Venus Project comes true, many see that there is really no need for such a large house. Mainly because of the fact that it keeps them isolated and selfish.
Most likely beautiful structures and palaces will be shares among the public instead for everyone to enjoy.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Cyrus992 15 hours ago
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@Cyrus992 Materialistic values. Besides, what part of the world are you liviging in? Where ever you are, you must be having it good, since you believe the whole world today has ''Milk and Honey'' system. 70+% of the world is suffering, if not by ''War'' then financially. The world financial system is on a brink of collapse, and you're talking about houses and palaces. This happends, 3rd World War is inevitable, leaving GOD knows how many dead this time. Where is ''Everyone'' in THAT picture?
DooZooZe 14 hours ago
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@Cyrus992 Don't be naive thinking, this system will provide a safety for you. You got corrupt government and parasites such as federal reserve banks to strip you naked when ever they feel like, and then tell you ''What we did was legal'' - ''Everyone to enjoy''? Yeah, just look at the HELL you call earth today. Do research, how many starve, homeless, and let's not talk about countries with wars, or the young kids goverments send to die! The look at the other countries with financial issues!
DooZooZe 14 hours ago
@Cyrus992 Yup, that's right. It's logical and pleasant.
picasoko 8 hours ago
@SophistAssassin Couldn't have said it better myself.
picasoko 8 hours ago
@Cyrus992
So why are there these differences? Is it genetics? Cultural anthropology suggests that is not the case. Human beings seem to be very adaptable to cultural influences and can assume just about any set of values based on their upbringing. Imagine owning a Lamborghini. Sounds like heaven, right? That's because it's a status symbol in our culture. A "look what I earned" sort of thing. A measure of self-worth. Now how would it impress in an RBE? There would be no referent for such status
SophistAssassin 18 hours ago
@SophistAssassin great comment!
Baprener 17 hours ago
@SophistAssassin Precisely. Thank you for being intelligent, good sir or ma'am.
picasoko 8 hours ago
@Cyrus992
I suspect ownership would lose its appeal in an RBE. Think about it. Why hoard a large number of possessions you then have to maintain and find space to store when you can just get what you need on the go whenever you want? I used the cheesecake example earlier. Wouldn't you feel silly storing a mountain of cheesecake in your garage? Would your friends be impressed at your collection if they could just grab a cheesecake on demand whenever they wanted without storing large quantities?
SophistAssassin 18 hours ago
@SophistAssassin In other words, status is a scarcity invention. Loved your insights...thanks
TheDarkFenix 15 hours ago
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@TheDarkFenix
Second the motion re: Sophist Assassin insight and your paraphrasing of it:
"Status is a scarcity invention."
Hence the need to think outside the box.
1man4RBE 9 hours ago
@Cyrus992
Jacque Fresco goes into some *possible* ways in which people within an RBE might design their own houses. For that I suggest you watch Future By Design, which you can buy online or find on dotsub. If you search Future By Design I believe it is on the second page of results. Fresco also describes some of his proposals in the free pdf's available on the venus project website.
SophistAssassin 17 hours ago
@Cyrus992 watch some interviews, lectures by Peter Joseph ((:
ernyzaz 16 hours ago
@ernyzaz
Thank you.. I will try to do that if I have time.
Cyrus992 15 hours ago
@cyrus992
Theyd have to adapt. Take their resources and figure other ways to keep people coming.
callous21 18 hours ago
@unitedfatesofamerica
We have to give up some freedom for safety. You want criminals off the streets right?
callous21 18 hours ago
@callous21
Getting criminals off the street doesn't solve any problems. If you want safety you need to understand the root causes behind those undesirable behaviors. If you rely on prisons you will never understand the factors driving the crime rate and won't ever truly be safer.
SophistAssassin 18 hours ago
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If you take from this earth to sustain your life, you are just as guilty as anyone else, and should be considered equal with everyone else!
EasternMerchant 19 hours ago
Even though I'm young I feel that most of the stuff that gets discussed is actually a life changing experience
bmxhuf 19 hours ago
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Lots of wonderful promises being made here. However, one of the most important promises--of which I hear no discussion--is the promise of the loss of personal autonomy. Personal liberty is the oldest, most natural state of man that has been curtailed by the good intentions of technocrats and social architects since the beginning of society. The problems laid out in this film need to be addressed but the solution puts the worlds resources in the hands of an elite managerial class. Dangerous.
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Period.
504Anon 19 hours ago
To put a full understanding of this film, viewers would thoroughly enjoy a book called "The Law" by Frédéric Bastiat
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How can Las Vegas benefit from the Venus Project?
How will the resorts operate? Will the use tokens with no value? Will the resorts be torn town and be replaced?
Someone please answer.
Cyrus992 21 hours ago
@Cyrus992
They could still use tokens with numerical value, but no benefit outside of the casino. Playing poker online for free with imaginary money is no different. I don't mind playing poker for free, personally. Whether the resorts would be torn down or not would depend on the will of the people.
SophistAssassin 19 hours ago
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@SophistAssassin
" They could still use tokens with numerical value, but no benefit outside of the casino. Playing poker online for free with imaginary money is no different. I don't mind playing poker for free, personally. Whether the resorts would be torn down or not would depend on the will of the people."
Can I still wear cool mirror shades and a ginormous ten gallon hat with the rim down so as not to give away my "tell?"
1man4RBE 18 hours ago
@SophistAssassin
I see. Then of course robberies and theflt would decline dramatically.
Do you think that a resource based economy will deliver larger and spectacular resort complexes?
Cyrus992 18 hours ago
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This video explains the CORE of the problem. ''Money'' Most have known about that for quite some time, but i doubt they knew what a BIG role it plays when it comes to greed and corruption. Monetary system is a slow and painful death to humanity. Addiction for power, because with power, you controle profit. With profit you controle people! I'm glad to see people waking up.
DooZooZe 22 hours ago
GENIUS!!!!!
aerofart 22 hours ago
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."
Barbara Ehrenreich
Never was there anything as wretched as old age coupled with poverty.
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival
1man4RBE 1 day ago 4
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1man4RBE 1 day ago 15
@1man4RBE why did you quote 100s of people, have you nothing original to say
mikeymikemikey1 4 hours ago
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"why did you quote 100s of people, have you nothing original to say"
Mikeymikeymikey, you've been told a million times not to exaggerate.
If you wish to engage in dialogue with me - rather than just snipe from behind the bushes - I await your convenience.
1man4RBE 4 hours ago
It's sensible and logical to argue that:
Our president and elected representatives must serve as a check on the military establishment, rather than issuing blank checks to them;
All wars, as required by the Constitution, must have a Congressional declaration before American troops and treasure are committed;
Our military can't win someone else's civil war (Iraq) or nation-build where the concept of "nation" is little more than notional (Afghanistan).
William Astore, Lt.Col. USAF (ret.)
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
James Madison
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Richard Nixon, if he were alive today, might take bittersweet satisfaction to know that he was not the last smart president to prolong unjustifiably a senseless, unwinnable war, at great cost in human life.... He would probably also feel vindicated (and envious) that all the crimes he committed against me -- which forced his resignation facing impeachment -- are now legal.
Daniel Ellsberg
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Irony:
These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland.... They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.
Ronald Reagan, Labor Day 1980
1man4RBE 1 day ago
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
Only in Congress would you find a chorus singing mightily that the affluent and mighty need an extra helping of taxpayer largesse. Screw the kids in Head Start, the students receiving Pell Grants, the dislocated workers and the nutritional needs of infants--how can we better help JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon?
Katrina vanden Heuvel
1man4RBE 1 day ago
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
1man4RBE 1 day ago
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Have you ever heard of any campaigning politician, in any other industrial democracy, promising to provide "an American-style health-care system"?
Ed Quillen
1man4RBE 1 day ago
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we've got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.
Stephen Colbert
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Woh, a Yes cover at the end, cool !
MrDemenseed 1 day ago
You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan.
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke's final words on 13 Dec 2010, according to his family
1man4RBE 1 day ago
[The U.S. is] a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
George Washington, "Letter to the Jews of Newport, RI"
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, unanimously ratified by the U.S. Senate on June 6, 1797
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1man4RBE 1 day ago
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As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
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As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
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As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
If the bad act is committed by a member of a group you wish to demonize, attribute it to a community or a religion and not to the individual. But if the bad act is committed by someone whose profile, interests and agendas are uncomfortably close to your own, detach the malefactor and characterize him as a one-off, non-generalizable, sui generis phenomenon.
Stanley Fish, comparing reactions to Muslim terrorists attacking the World Trade Center and a Christian stabbing a Muslim cab driver in NYC
1man4RBE 1 day ago
I've been watching a show called "Spartacus Blood and Sand", it is a great show, and depicts the way of life in the Roman period very well.The roman times where great times ,if you where wealthy, they say at the peak, there was only 400,000 actual Romans who of coarse where the upper crust the rest of them where slaves close to 55 to 60 million people. at the height of imperial power in the mid 2nd century AD, including the military.
69oneear 1 day ago
The fall of the roman empire came about because of the greed and brutality by so few to so many, and it was when the common people stood together in solidarity that real change was made, this is true of the French, Russian, Chinese revolution's, the end of Apartheid, and the fall of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union.
69oneear 1 day ago
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nansir 1 day ago
Obviously, we could have spent that $1,000,000,000,000 wasted on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars more productively. But we all know that we wouldn't have. To fund health care or mass transit or R & D into clean, renewable energy, or ensure all Americans have adequate food and housing, and all children are well-educated, are liberal fantasies. Even incremental steps on those requires a political bloodbath. But funding actual bloodbaths hardly requires debate. Those are our values.
Laurence Lewis
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Last April in the Czech capital, Prague, President Barack Obama announced that the United States would seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons, but he warned that nations probably would not eliminate their arsenals in his lifetime. I am three decades older than the US president, yet I am confident that both of us will live to see the day when the last nuclear weapon is dismantled. We just need to think outside the bomb.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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We call for a straightforward redesign of our culture, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty,
hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but also as totally
unacceptable. Anything less simply results in a continuation of the same catalog of problems inherent in the
present system." Jacque Fresco
69oneear 1 day ago
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Archbishop Dom Hélder Câmera
1man4RBE 1 day ago
True story...that's how it goes, they call you communist as if it's a swearing word.
Mitsomitsos 1 day ago
@1man4RBE Odd isn't it, how when at award shows they are given free stuff some think it great, they deserve it?, and when a homeless man is on the street , begging for money, we look at them with distaste, and ostracise them from society.
69oneear 1 day ago
@69oneear Every christmas they give shelter to the homeless, and when it's over, the welfare programs are also over, they throw them on streets again...
Mitsomitsos 1 day ago
@1man4RBE i mean, they shouldn't even call you like that, cause it gives you immediately certain attributes.
Mitsomitsos 1 day ago
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@Mitsomitsos
" Every christmas they give shelter to the homeless, and when it's over, the welfare programs are also over, they throw them on streets again..."
Which is why leftists (not to be confused with American liberals) despise charity as a social mechanism (although personally helping your brother and sister whenever you can is always imperative) and insist upon social justice as one the primary tenets of socio/econ/political organization.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Ok nice to see that not only me see some more things even if I dont have white hair...
88TheScythe88 1 day ago
Wealth without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice
Gandhi's Seven Deadly Sins
1man4RBE 1 day ago
When my late father--Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer--denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.
Frank Schaeffer, commenting on the furor over some of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's words
1man4RBE 1 day ago
If patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels, piety must be the next to the last.
Anon.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
RON PAUL 2012 and 2016
The666Account 1 day ago
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izantv 1 day ago
@1:31:38 is not correct, religion does have a blue print for society, islam for example has the system of an islamic state ! ! !
shayanzd 1 day ago
@shayanzd In most cases religion creates atleast some kind of moralic setup for a future society, but in most cases it leaves people stuck in traditional patterns
PowerOfRealMusic 1 day ago
I hope we can figure this all out. What a beautiful world it could be. Peace, Love, Light.
smguardian 1 day ago
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Celticlight1 1 day ago
What do we want the Church to do? We don't ask for more cathedrals. We don't ask for bigger churches of fine gifts. We ask for its presence with us, beside us, as Christ among us. We ask the Church to sacrifice with the people for social change, for justice, and for love of brother. We don't ask for words. We ask for deeds. We don't ask for paternalism. We ask for servanthood.
César Chávez
1man4RBE 1 day ago
"Natural Reason tells us that because of the inadequacies we perceive in ourselves we need to subject ourselves to some superior source of help and direction; and whatever that source might be, everybody calls it God."
Thomas Aquinas
Celticlight1 1 day ago
@Celticlight1
Yep...Thomas was always a bit of a worry to the fellas in the Vatican.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
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Being elected to a position of leadership should not be misconstrued as a license to do as one pleases at the expense of the will and trust of the electorate.
Zimbabwean bishops, open letter "God Hears the Cry of the Oppressed"
1man4RBE 1 day ago
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
Kurt Vonnegut
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Religion is what the common people see as true, the wise people see as false, and the rulers see as useful.
Seneca
[Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, humourist.]
1man4RBE 1 day ago
It's not just the New Testament that the Right Wing Fundamentalists can't abide by - it's the whole bloody book:
When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:33-34
1man4RBE 1 day ago
15,062,778 People opened his eyes.
CStudio69 1 day ago
Jacques is wrong about the flat earth myth. Actually very few ancient cultures believed in a flat earth. People can look out onto the horizon and the earth's curvature is quite obvious. The sphericity of the planet has been accepted scientific dogma at least as far back as the classical period.
Jacques is right, however, about everything else.
dennistodd 1 day ago
@dennistodd
The Earth is a sphere?
Since when?
Nobody cc'd ME.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
@dennistodd yes, I think the flat earth society began to show up around the beginning of the last millennium?
69oneear 1 day ago
thank u !!!!!!!!!
MerciAye 1 day ago
The word "Sioux", is a native word , it can mean one, or more than one, There is only 13 charterers in most native American languages,there was no written history of NAN , everything handed down verbally or hieroglyphics, my great aunt helped in turning the oral into written Onida language in the late 70's.. it kinda sound s like German, very hard to pronounce
69oneear 1 day ago
.Many of north American cities, parks, lakes ,states and provinces,and rivers are of native names, Toronto, means "the meeting place", a place where members of the 6 nations would meet to play games like lacrosse for centuries.
69oneear 1 day ago
@69oneear
My wife got mad with me when I opined that "Vegetarian" actually meant "Bad Hunter" in Great Plains Native American languages.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
@1man4RBE lol,
69oneear 1 day ago
If the God you believe in hates all the same people you do, then you know you've created God in your own image.
Anne Lamott
1man4RBE 1 day ago
A Sioux Prayer
Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds
Whose breath gives life to the world, hear me
I come to you as one of your many children
I am small and weak
I need your strength and wisdom
69oneear 1 day ago
@69oneear
A quite poignant and apropos prayer from the Sioux nation.
Many thanks.
( Being half - Jewish and trained in law, I'd always thought "Sioux" was a verb.)
1man4RBE 1 day ago
May I walk in beauty
Make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
And my ears sharp to your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things you have taught your children
69oneear 1 day ago
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The lessons you have written in every leaf and rock
Make me strong--------!
Not to be superior to my brothers, but to fight my greatest enemy....myself
Make me ever ready to come to you with straight eyes,
So that when life fades as the fading sunset,
May my spirit come to you without shame.
69oneear 1 day ago
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
Kurt Vonnegut
1man4RBE 1 day ago
O, what a godly outside falsehood hath!
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
1man4RBE 1 day ago
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The New Testament and the direct quotes of Jesus of Nazareth, are clearly progressive.
It is far easier to offer support for left-wing philosophies than right-wing philosophies using Jesus and the Gospels for guides. Read them carefully. You will find an egalitarian, a man of peace, a man who tells you to love our enemies, a man who with his family became an illegal immigrant from Egypt into Israel, a man who chastised people who love material things, and Jesus blessed the common man.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
For god, country and queen, how many lives and resources wasted for false patriotism. and worship of false deity's. As an Atheist ,I must admit all religions do have some good moralities to them. And if religious folk of all religions lived by what is written in their books, none of what we see in the world would be happening. Faith of religion is a personal thing, and if it is so sacred, it should be respected as such.But religion should not play any kind of role in government. or laws
69oneear 1 day ago
@69oneear
Amen, brother.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
@1man4RBE Hope you are feeling better my friend and all is well. Have you heard much local news about the move to create the World's Largest Marine Reserve in the Coral Sea, I actually thought they did that yrs ago.
69oneear 1 day ago
@69oneear
Heard about the Barrier Reef project via an Avaaz email notification.
A great feature with Avaaz is that, once you sign on with any petition signing or other Avaaz activist project, they then notify you of other issues that you may be interested in.
The Avaaz virtual international team does all the grunt research work on all the issues already, making it easier to keep track of what's going on around the world and come up to speed on the numerous important issues facing us all.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
@1man4RBE Avaaz, Democracy Now, Occupy Everywhere, Anonymous , and even those funny Anarchists are all great places to get informative information from, Avaaz is the best,for activism and participation, that counts.
69oneear 1 day ago
@69oneear
Yep...there's a good deal of interaction between these groups and others, with many folks reaching out...I get interesting emails.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
From the cowardice that dare not face new truth,
From the laziness that is contented with half truth,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
Good Lord, deliver us.
Kenyan prayer
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Yep...no doubt about it...Jesus was a hard core commie.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
[chapter 18:] "Who is really greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?' Jesus called a little child to his side and set him on his feet in the middle of them all. 'Believe me,' he said, 'unless you change your whole outlook and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven. It is the man who can be as humble as this little child who is greatest in the kingdom of Heaven."
1man4RBE 1 day ago
[Matt chapter 11:] "Come to me, all of you who are weary and overburdened, and I will give you rest! Put on my yoke and learn from me. For I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls." [chapter 16:] "For what good is it for a man to gain the whole world at the price of his own soul?"
1man4RBE 1 day ago
[In chapter 7:] "Treat other people exactly as you would like to be treated by them -- this is the essence of all true religion." "Be on your guard against false religious teachers, who come to you dressed up as sheep but are really greedy wolves." He admonished us to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's [taxes].
1man4RBE 1 day ago
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In chapter 6 of Matthew, Jesus gives a sermon... [re the rich, powerful, arrogant] "How happy are the humble-minded, for the kingdom of Heaven is theirs!" "Happy are those who claim nothing for the whole earth shall belong to them!" "Happy are the merciful, for they will have mercy shown to them!" "Happy are those who make peace, for they will be known as the sons of God!" "Don't pile up treasures on earth..." "You cannot serve God and the power of money at the same time."
1man4RBE 1 day ago
In chapter 6 of Matthew, Jesus gives a sermon... [re the rich, powerful, arrogant] "How happy are the humble-minded, for the kingdom of Heaven is theirs!" "Happy are those who claim nothing for the whole earth shall belong to them!" "Happy are the merciful, for they will have mercy shown to them!" "Happy are those who make peace, for they will be known as the sons of God!" "Don't pile up treasures on earth..." "You cannot serve God and the power of money at the same time."
1man4RBE 1 day ago
[Illegal immigrant] "Joseph got up and with the little child and his mother with him, journeyed toward the land of Israel. . .he was afraid to enter the country." Matthew 2:19
[Jesus tempted by the Devil about greed] "Man does not live by bread alone." Matthew4:1-11
1man4RBE 1 day ago
Read the Gospels and cringe at what is written there as compared to our bullying. Compare it to Pat Robertson, the guy who got many votes running for President by saying we should use the CIA or other agency to kill the democratically elected leader of Venezuela. Read the comments from people who hate everybody and want to kill every Moslem in the world. Listen to how carefully selected and out of context right-wingers are in "quoting" Jesus. Compare that to the Jesus of the New Testament.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
It is clear that humility, forgiveness, peace, love, tolerance, egalitarianism, etc. are all part of the direct comments of Jesus of Nazareth. In a nation that often announces its Christian faith, why is it so difficult to offer help, health care, support, tolerance, acceptance, etc. for everybody? Why do we focus on whom we can persecute and put in jail and have the state murder [capital punishment] and promote guns and be militaristic and be a nation of bullies? We Americans are hypocrites.
1man4RBE 1 day ago
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1man4RBE 1 day ago
Quem é brasileiro dá joinha!
kakaastra 1 day ago
@kakaastra Português conta?
FloribellaVsDB 1 day ago
Stephen Harper has a chance to deepen his imprint on Canadian law and society, for decades to come. The sudden retirement of two Supreme Court judges has handed Prime Minister Stephen Harper the chance to remake the high court along conservative lines, opening a debate over how to select their successors.
69oneear 1 day ago
By the time Stephen Harper’s term as prime minister is over, four years from now, more than half the judges who make up the country’s top court will have stepped down.
This shit has got to go, Harper is nothing more than a corporate croonie, the conservatives have allowed Canadian sorceress to be bought and controlled by a handful of piggy Elitists,
69oneear 1 day ago
he is awind up watch in a digital world, The NDP won the popular vote, we must change our voting process to better represent the vote of the people, an Mp who represents only 10,000 constituents, has as much power as a MP who has 100,000 constituents, and it is usually these small strategically placed riding's that win elections.
69oneear 1 day ago
For instance in Vancouver, most of the rich live in North and west van., the population is low but yet they have 4 riding's, where as the poorer and more populated east Vancouver only has one> this is manipulation of our so called democracy, and is not a true representation of the people..This scenario is even worse in the States, for it was only a small majority of the Christian coalition that put Bush and his Republicans in power both times.
69oneear 1 day ago
This country needs a Canadian version of an Arab Spring she said. Things lies not with Harper but in the hands of the people, when we act together in our streets, neighborhoods and workplaces, the statement said.
She went on to give a series of media interviews. She explained she feels the Conservative government’s policies on the environment, social programs and the military are destructive, and that civil disobedience is needed to try and stop them.
69oneear 1 day ago
@1man4RBE Hello my friend, haven't seen you in a bit.How are you doing, I seen on Avaaz that Australia is setting up a 1million sqkm preservation reserve in the oceans around , that is fantastic, hopefully we can do that for the entire planet.I.ve been protesting the Canadian Gov., Conservatives want to make a mandatory sentence for marijuana possession,
69oneear 1 day ago
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only 15.000.000 views? Wtf?
ernyzaz 1 day ago
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mxjixffinul 1 day ago
@ aiiiunluckykid ... Seriously, after everything I have posted, which was 2 posts explaining how people can get out of the problems right now without the use of whatever Peter says and that's all you can respond with..... I think I smell a TROLL among the comments. Well people, don't take my word on it, Go and do your own research about "reclaiming your state Citizenship" and figure it out on your own if we need people like Peter and his crew in our lives or not.
noneya39 1 day ago
mushrooms ,lsd ,no money ,peace.
lightsoljer 1 day ago 2
@lightsoljer Hehe. Peace.
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