-Caveat Lector-
Have you ever moved to a new place and had no job? You look around and say,
"How can I make some money? So you start joining organizations like
Kiwanis, Elks, PTA. You think, "If I can make some contacts here, someone
will offer me a job."
I research history wherever I go--local "good ol' boy" stuff. In Texas we
call it "bidness." Look around you, Jim. This is what the real conspiracy
is all about--making money for the wife and kiddies and in the process maybe
becoming a shining member of the community. This is what the British class
system has always been. Do something useful for the people who control the
investments of the monarch so you'll be knighted or recognized. And how do
you control this network? Through doling out funds. Men who had the
financial acumen when our country was a baby were assigned to growing
communities in need of banks. In Texas, corporate banks were illegal or too
expensive to acquire charters for, so individuals with backing established
grocery stores which made loans to anyone who wanted to go into business of
any kind in the area. Collateral was primarily land and crops. The local
banker/merchant only got a small piece of the profit, and he only was
allowed to have that if he kept the secret of who he got the original
capital from. The secrets were maintained through lodges which were all
connected up back to the source.
This is all so simple and obvious. But it's hard to believe because it
means the conspiracy is us. People don't want to admit the things they do
for money and prestige. It easier to put a cloak of altruism or religion
around it. That's what the lodge does. It allows the men who do the dirty
work to rationalize what they do. They ask no questions. All they want is
to impress their family. And they pass their position in the lodge to their
own son. Anybody who agrees to play by the rules can make a name for
himself.
Linda Minor
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Conspiracy Theories
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> My point in the earlier message was not to decrease the amount
>of discussion or debate used around here, but to put the debate onto a
>more sound reasoning. If you wish to claim that ALL Masons are part of
>a huge conspiracy, then I would like to say that I have Mason friends
>who most assuredly do not have world domination in mind. Since I am
>assuming that you have to have some knowledge of a conspiracy to be a
>'part' of it, then I would say that you are wrong.
>
> If, on the other hand, you don't need to know that you are part
>of a conspiracy, then how do you know that there is one? It could be
>just a small, small group of people 'in the know' who can push a whole
>lot of buttons. I think that this small group is possible, but even
>then, individuals (and we have now narrowed the 'in the know' group to
>individuals, not huge organizations) tend to work on gaining things in
>their own lifetime if they are in it for power. If they are not in it
>for power, what are they in it for? If they are in it for power, don't
>you imagine that they would occasionally duke it out amongst themselves?
>Then we don't have a single conspiracy at all, but a number of very
>small conspiracies that sometimes work together, and sometimes work
>against each other. Kind of sounds like what I said in the last
>message.
>
> If knowledge of conspiracy is not needed to be a part of it,
>does anyone involved need to know about it? Could we have some kind of
>monstrous unconscious conspiracy striking at us? Creatures of the Id
>straight from Forbidden Planet? No.. I'm fairly sure that You are
>looking for a secret society of incredibly powerful white men who
>magically get along together perfectly and control everything (probably
>all descended from Merovingians). Kind of like the Smoking Man and
>company on the X-Files, but with even more control over things. I love
>it, but I really don't think it works that way. Incredibly powerful
>people tend to get that way because they plow over people who get in
>their way. Bill Gates is a wonderful example. I simply can't imagine
>that a group (please tell me.. how many are we talking here? A dozen?
>A hundred? A thousand? How many are 'in the know'?) of powerful men
>like that could tolerate each other for long at all. But hey, I could
>be wrong.
>
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and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright
frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects
spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL
gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers;
be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and
nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
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