-Caveat Lector-
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 02:03:36 -0800, Birds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
article <021b01c06359$a1871e80$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, which said:
> All I can go on is the stories, books and pictures I have seen
> and the movie etc. and newshows. According to what I was led to
> believe , was that everyone was lying down and dead from drinking
> the poison. So really, I would like to know then if not everyone
> committed suicide, what really happened there?
I think people get upset when they're told something and later find out
that it wasn't true. People expect the truth at all times. Those of us
who have become skeptical of information given as "truth" are coming up
with alternative theories to life and reality itself. There's no way to
know that any of it is actually true beyond that intuitive feeling that
makes you believe it.
This is a conspiracy theorist's list and being such, alternative
theories are a common thing. Everybody has an opinion. Some people
won't believe anything without hard proof. Those are people who want to
keep their feet grounded in proven facts, and they won't question
anything that's proven as fact. They accept what they're spoon fed and
they believe that faith is for the weak minded. Yet they have great
faith that what they're being spoon-fed is really true.
As conspiracy theorists, we question the truth. We're skeptical of
things touted as truth and so we may often change our ideas, which gives
us less credibility except among ourselves. We're going nowhere fast,
most likely, but when ths caca hits the fan and all the lies and deceit
are exposed and the truth comes out in full view, who will be more
equipped to handle a rapidly changing world than we conspiracy theorists
who have years of practice changing our minds about what we believe?
Who will become the new schizophrenics of the world but the ones who
bronzed their beliefs to stand the test of time? Right now we're the
quacks of the world. But I don't think that will always be so.
> I am serious and not being sarcastic because I do want to know.
> I cannot read and do the research I used to be able to do. So I
> am only going by the poplar vote regarding Guyana. I do know
> however it was a CIA ran operation. It was not just this cult
> and other things did happen there. That I have seen in writing
> in a conspiracy book I probably stilll have. I have many, many
> books. I researched and researched about myself until I could
> not research anymore. Now I have my facts, I have to face the
> consequences of my illnesses and I work hard for my life.
But are you basing your opinions solely on facts you've pieced together
or have you brainstormed to find any new connections -- made some
presumptions or intuitive guesswork? If you haven't that's not a bad
thing. But in my example above of people who never believe anything
that isn't proven with hard facts, they are as stagnant in growth as the
conspiracy theorists, but for different reasons. For example, I KNOW
there's life beyond Planet Earth. I just know it. I haven't seen it
and I can't prove it, but logic dictates that in all the billions of
galaxies, there is something else alive out there. Scientists won't
believe it until they see it. They can theorize as I've done above.
But while I do believe that there is life on other worlds, I don't
necessarily credit eartly events to alien activity. Believing in life
on other worlds is one thing and believing they're here is something
else.
I haven't seriously thought about alien presence on earth in a couple or
three years. At one point I so strongly believed it that I had visions
and experiences proving it to me. I believed I had some purpose to
fulfill that would get underway when aliens landed. I believed my
purpose was to help the world understand what was happening -- to be in
my true alien form, loving, caring, happy, cheerful, helpful, honest and
exist among the people and be at their complete service -- to be an
example of love. Then as people decide in their own time that they want
to see space, they can.
Now, I still consider that scenario. I still sit back and think about
it a little to see how it fits in with other things going on in my life.
But I don't base my every action on my hope of doing one of the two
things that would make me happy, one of those being what I described
above. I go to the movies, play video games, look at porno on the 'net,
play with the dogs, consider new job opportunities, run my paid-to-surf
programs, etc.... I don't talk about these kinds of things with people
I'm close to because they don't want to hear it. I don't run around
chanting "love and light" or "I AM that I am". I'm me. I'm a quiet
person and I like to keep to myself a lot. I enjoy being alone and I
enjoy being left alone.
ETM
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