well, I'm intrested in the martial arts,intrested in things that most aren't intrested in like wondering about life, trying to find the things behind the scenes, Truths and Knowledge and to be in the state of Knowing, Alchemy, The Unknown, the forbidden and many other subjects that delve deep into the abyss....I want to go where no one has been, I want to ride the Spiral to the end, and beyond.....
I will listen to any type of music aslong as they help open ones mind. Music that inspires and can ignite that spark into a blazing fire.
Movies
Some movies that I like are V for Vendetta, The Matrix Trilogy
Heroes
I have no Hero, they are overated.....Murderers are usually the ones crowned with the title "hero" in these sick societies, when the true heroes are the ones trying to free your very minds, they are the ones usually rejected and labeled as "evil" by the authorities, and sadly the sheeple,the dumbed down public believe it instead of finding out for themselves....if you haven't found out by now that history is written by the winners, then you who call me the fool have become the true fools.....
About me: I'm 5'8-8 1/2" , Hazel eyes, dirty blonde hair, I'm mixed with spanish, indian, irish, italian, scottish, german, and many others I can't remember. I was originally from Phoenix Az.
Anarchism is an ideology that regards abolition of government as the necessary precondition for a free and just society. The term itself comes from the Greek words meaning "without a ruler." Anarchism rejects all forms of hierarchical authority, social and economic as well as political. What distinguishes it from other ideologies, however, is the central importance it attaches to the state. To anarchists, the state is a wholly artificial and illegitimate institution, the bastion of privilege and exploitation in the modern world.
A common misconception about anarchism, is that it is a state of disorder and chaos. An advanced, streamlined, anarchy-based system would entertain many forms of public organization for society's issues. All of which can easily be handled with less fear, and more common sense, and without a hierarchal government - where the power is severely unequal. Individuals can recognize collective needs and act on them without being forced. An Individual in archaic terms: the quality or state of being indivisible; in other words a Unique and undivideable Humanity.
Anarchism is a revolutionary movement that seeks to create societies organized through voluntary organizations that are run by consensus, and (of course) the independent action/choices of individuals.
This could take the form of workers' councils, neighborhood assemblies, networks of communes, agricultural cooperatives, affinity groups and various other arrangements that allow people to coordinate the economy and social life directly, and that place the responsibility and power over one's life in one's hands.
A society without authorities to answer to or people to give orders to.
No police, military, capitalists, prisons, or bosses of any kind.
A culture where the individual is valued - where racism, sexism and homophobia are not tolerated culturally and not encouraged by the very structure of society, as it is now in capitalist & state-controlled societies such as the USA.
A society where the collective and Individual is valued, & there are no rich or poor, no one starving while literally tons of food rot on the shelves or get thrown away everyday.
Common Myths About Anarchism:
*Anarchists advocate complete chaos*
This is a complete myth with no basis in reality. Anarchists do not advocate chaos and anarchy does not mean chaos. Similar slander used to be said about the ideas of democracy and republics. In places where a Monarchy was thought necessary the idea of elected governments was often equated with complete chaos. This association is the result of slander by the powerful (the state, corporations, etc.) that control the media and is, unfortunately, not a surprise. Since anarchists seek to overthrow them it is not surprising that they would slander anarchism with all sorts of absurd nonsense.
*Anarchists believe in mindless violence*
Another common stereotype is that of the mad bomb-throwing anarchist who advocates carnage and destruction for the sake of it. This too is a myth. Anarchists do not normally go around throwing bombs at everyone nor do we consider beating up old ladies a virtue. It is true that there have been anarchists who have used violence to advance their cause but this is true of every political philosophy. Republicans and democrats have used much more violence throughout history then anarchists, yet they are never demonized as crazed bomb throwers. Indeed, the state is not only inherently violent but the most violent organization in human history. It uses violence on a systemic level (in the form of police & militaries) and is responsible for numerous genocides. The state is vastly more violent than the most violent of anarchists.
"The State is the organized authority, domination, and power of the possessing classes over the masses the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the universal solidarity of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all the rest. This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the State is, from the standpoint of the State, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue Thus, to offend, to oppress, to despoil, to plunder, to assassinate or enslave one's fellowman is ordinarily regarded as a crime. In public life, on the other hand, from the standpoint of patriotism, when these things are done for the greater glory of the State, for the preservation or the extension of its power, it is all transformed into duty and virtue This explains why the entire history of ancient and modern states is merely a series of revolting crimes; why kings and ministers, past and present, of all times and all countries — statesmen, diplomats, bureaucrats, and warriors — if judged from the standpoint of simply morality and human justice, have a hundred, a thousand times over earned their sentence to hard labor or to the gallows. There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: 'for reasons of state.' "
~Mikhail Bakunin-Theory of State~
*Anarchists,by definition, are opposed to organization*
The vast majority of anarchists are not opposed to organization. What anarchists are opposed to is hierarchical organization - organizations in which one group of people tells the other members what to do. Instead anarchists advocate organization without authority, where all members have an equal say in group decisions.
What Anarchism Really Stands For:
Anarchy comes from the Greek and literally means "no rulers." Anarchists are anti-authoritarians who seek to abolish domination. It is important to differentiate between different two types of authority: legitimate (or rational) authority and illegitimate (or irrational) authority. In other words, there’s a difference between being an authority and having authority. Being an authority means that a person is recognized as competent for any particular task based on her or his knowledge and individual skills. It is socially acknowledged expertise. Legitimate authorities are experts who are particularly knowledgeable, skillful or wise in any particular area. It may be in our best interests to follow their recommendations, but they have no power to force us to do so, nor should they. Legitimate authority is this kind of authority, the authority of an expert.
Having authority is a social relationship based on status and power derived from a hierarchical position within a group. It means dividing society/the group into the order givers and the order takers. The order givers, the authorities, tell the order takers what to do and they must obey. This is illegitimate authority. A boss, for example, is an illegitimate authority because employees must obey his orders. When something is described as "authoritarian" it usually means that it uses illegitimate authority.
Hierarchy is essentially institutionalized authority. It is a pyramidally structured organization consisting of a series of grades, ranks or offices of increasing power, prestige, and/or remuneration. Those with lower ranks must obey those with higher ranks. Hierarchies maintain control by coercion - the threat of negative sanctions (physical, economic, social, etc.) against those who don’t obey. Hierarchical organizations are, by definition, organizations that are run by elites. Those on the top, the elite, have more power then those on the bottom. Hierarchical authority is the authority that is inherent in any hierarchy. This is the same thing as illegitimate (or irrational) authority - that is, relations of command and obedience. Another name for this is domination.
Anarchism is extreme skepticism of authority. The basic idea is to abolish domination in favor of a society based on voluntary cooperation. As the anarchist Noam Chomsky said:
"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. That includes political power, ownership and management, relations among men and women, parents and children, our control over the fate of future generations (the basic moral imperative behind the environmental movement, in my view), and much else. Naturally this means a challenge to the huge institutions of coercion and control: the state, the unaccountable private tyrannies that control most of the domestic and international economy, and so on. But not only these. That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met. Sometimes the burden can be met. If I'm taking a walk with my grandchildren and they dart out into a busy street, I will use not only authority but also physical coercion to stop them. The act should be challenged, but I think it can readily meet the challenge. And there are other cases; life is a complex affair, we understand very little about humans and society, and grand pronouncements are generally more a source of harm than of benefit. But the perspective is a valid one, I think, and can lead us quite a long way." [1]
Following Chomsky's logic, anarchists argue that hierarchy, bodies of people having authority over others, is unjustified and should be abolished. Some anarchists take this a step further and oppose other forms of authority; a few argue that "legitimate authority" (expertise) is also unjustified, but most do not. Unless a good justification can be given for any form of authority it should be abolished. In the case of hierarchical authority anarchist believe there is no valid justification for it; all major hierarchical institutions should be abolished. Instead of dividing society into a hierarchy of order givers and order takers everyone should have control over their own life and an equal say in group decisions.
How the could this kind of society be achieved and maintained? Has it or anything similar ever been done? How can we apply this in our everyday lives to better our struggles & communities NOW? How could we achieve a long-term social revolution?
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT ANARCHISM:
http://www.anarchistfaq.org
OR http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/
LINKS:
http://www.infoshop.org
http://www.akpress.org
http://www.libcom.org
http://www.indymedia.org
http://illvox.org/about/
http://www.zabalaza.net/
http://www.ainfos.ca/
http://www.audioanarchy.org
http://www.awalls.org/
You can always check out the local infoshop (anarchist/radical library & bookstore), Anarchist Black Cross, Food Not Bombs, Indymedia, Anti-Racist Action, Earth First! or other collectives/organizations in your area - and if there aren't any, start a group that works on something you're passionate about.
"Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood,
Thou art the grisly terror of our age.
"Wreck of all order," cry the multitude,
"Art thou, & war & murder's endless rage."
0, let them cry. To them that ne'er have striven
The 'truth that lies behind a word to find,
To them the word's right meaning was not given.
They shall continue blind among the blind.
But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so true,
Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken.
I give thee to the future! Thine secure
When each at least unto himself shall waken.
Comes it in sunshine? In the tempest's thrill?
I cannot tell - but it the earth shall see!
I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will
Not rule, & also ruled I will not be! "
~John Henry Mackay~
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“Do not seek illumination Unless you seek it
As a man whose hair is on fire
Seeks a pond.”
~Sri Ramakrishna ~
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"Anything is one million paths.
Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path;
if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions.
His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition.
He must look at every path closely and deliberatly.
There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily:
Does this path have a heart?"
~Don Juan Matus~
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"Man, in order to escape his conflicts, has invented many forms of meditation. These have been based on desire, will, and the urge for achievement, and imply conflict and a struggle to arrive. This conscious, deliberate striving is always within the limits of a conditioned mind, and in this there is no freedom. All effort to meditate is the denial of meditation. Meditation is the ending of thought. It is only then that there is a different dimension which is beyond time."
"Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all thought, for thought and feeling dissipate energy. They are repetitive, producing mechanical activities which are a necessary part of existence. But they are only part, and thought and feeling cannot possibly enter into the immensity of life. Quite a different approach is necessary, not the path of habit, association and the known; there must be freedom from these. Meditation is the emptying of the mind of the known. It cannot be done by thought or by the hidden prompting of thought, nor by desire in the form of prayer, nor through the self-effacing hypnotism of words, images, hopes, and vanities. All these have to come to an end, easily, without effort and choice, in the flame of awareness."
~Jiddu Krishnamurti~
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"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
~Jiddu Krishnamurti~
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"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion."
~Gautama Buddha~
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"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so, for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
~Voltaire~
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"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality."
~Michael Ellner~
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"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the
round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently --
they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them,
glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore
them because they change things... they push the human race
forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough
to think that they can change the world,
are the ones who do."
~Steve Jobs~
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"Many things are necessary for observing. The first is sincerity with oneself. And this is very difficult. It is much easier to be sincere with a friend. Man is afraid to see something bad, and if, by accident, looking deep down, he sees his own bad, he sees his nothingness. We have the habit of driving away thoughts about ourselves because we fear the gnawings of conscience. Sincerity may be the key which will open the door through which one part can see another. With sincerity man may look and see something. Sincerity with oneself is very difficult, for a thick crust has grown over essence. Each year a man puts on new clothes, a new mask, again and again. All this should be gradually removed---one should free oneself, uncover oneself. Until man uncovers himself he cannot see."
~G. I. Gurdjieff~
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"You cannot learn to swim if you fall in the sea during a storm. You must learn in calm water. Then perhaps if you fall in you'll be able to swim."
~P.D. Ouspensky~
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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
~Martin Luther King, Jr~
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"Warriors have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The average man acts only if there is the chance for profit. Warriors act not for profit, but for the spirit."
~Don Juan Matus~
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"Self-importance is man's greatest enemy. What weakens him is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of his fellow men. Self-importance requires that one spend most of one's life offended by something or someone."
~Don Juan~
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"What seems natural is to think that a warrior who can hold his
own in the face of the unknown can certainly face petty tyrants with
impunity. But that's not necessarily so. What destroyed the superb
warriors of ancient times was to rely on that assumption. Nothing
can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of
dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under
those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to
withstand the pressure of the unknowable."
~Don Juan in "The Fire from Within" by Carlos Castaneda~
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"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality.
To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself."
~Timothy Leary~
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"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."
~R.D. Laing~
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
~Goethe~
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"If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others."
~Arno Gruen~
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"To develop a more or less accurate self-image...is simply to gain a comprehensive awareness of those facets of yourself which you didn't know existed. And these facets are easily spotted becuase they show up as your symptoms..."
~Ken Wilber~
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"Sexual repression supports the power of the church, which has sunk very deep roots into the exploited masses by means of sexual anxiety and guilt. [It] engenders timidity towards authority and binds children to their parents. This results in adult subservience to state authority and to capitalistic exploitation. It paralyzes the intellectual critical powers of the oppressed masses becuase it consumes the greater part of biological energy. Finally, it paralyzes the resolute development of creative forces and renders impossible the achievments of all aspirations for human freedom. In this way the prevailing economic system(in which single individuals can easily rule entire masses) becomes rooted in the psychic structures of the oppressed themselves."
~Wilhelm Reich~
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"Mankind is caught in the cycle of fear, apathy and hatred. These human instincts drive hierarchical politcial systems and bureaucracies that most often limit the basic human right of the pursuit of hapiness. A society whose foundation is fear, apathy and hatred sets up a system which fundementally affects the hapiness of the individual. It represses individual development and maintains a cyclical behavioral pattern of superiority and inferiority and a class society founded on untrue ideals."
~Mark Zimmerman~
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“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
~Hermann Goering~
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"The State is the organized authority, domination, and power of the possessing classes over the masses the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the universal solidarity of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all the rest. This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the State is, from the standpoint of the State, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue Thus, to offend, to oppress, to despoil, to plunder, to assassinate or enslave one's fellowman is ordinarily regarded as a crime. In public life, on the other hand, from the standpoint of patriotism, when these things are done for the greater glory of the State, for the preservation or the extension of its power, it is all transformed into duty and virtue This explains why the entire history of ancient and modern states is merely a series of revolting crimes; why kings and ministers, past and present, of all times and all countries — statesmen, diplomats, bureaucrats, and warriors — if judged from the standpoint of simply morality and human justice, have a hundred, a thousand times over earned their sentence to hard labor or to the gallows. There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: 'for reasons of state.' "
~Mikhail Bakunin-Theory of State~
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"It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!"
~Emiliano Zapata~
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"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it".
~Mahatma Ghandi~
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"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up."
~Martin Niemoller~
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"Where ignorance reigns, life is lost"
~Zack de la Rocha~
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"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people."
~Carl Gustav Jung~
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"People go on blithely organizing and believing in the sovereign remedy of mass action, without the least consciousness of the fact that the most powerful organizations can be maintained only by the greatest ruthlessness of their leaders and the cheapest of slogans."
~Carl Jung~
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"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt~
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
~Jiddu Krishnamurti~
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"[...]People are in a prison by choice and every couple of years or so, when elections come up, they just re-decorate their prison cell, put on a new tapestry, maybe some new furniture, believing that change has occurred, however, they are still in prison, essentially being imprisoned by choice, while believing this is freedom. A prison for their mind."
~Krishnamurti~
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"You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it."
~Krishnamurti; Authentic Report of Sixteen Talks given in 1945 & 1946
p. 85.~
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"You yourself have to be the master and the pupil. The moment you acknowledge another as a master and yourself as a pupil, you are denying truth. There is no master, no pupil, in the search for truth."
"You must understand it, go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind, with everything that you have, to find out a way of living differently. That depends on you, and not on someone else, because in this there is no teacher, no pupil; there is no leader; there is no guru; there is no Master, no Saviour. You yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything."
~Talks by Krishnamurti in U.S.A 1966 p.73~
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"If you are very clear, if you are inwardly a light unto yourself, you will never follow anyone."
~Krishnamurti's Talks Benares - India 1949
(Verbatim Report) p.38.~
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
~Margaret Mead~
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"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul."
~Carl Gustav Jung~
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"A man must first of all understand certain things.
He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions,
chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new.
Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before.
To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world;
one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth.
The wish alone is not enough.
To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is,
and first of all in oneself.
And this nobody wants to know."
~Gurdjieff~
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"Ideals and blue-prints for a perfect Utopia will never bring about the radical change of heart which is essential if there is to be an end to war and universal destruction. Ideals cannot change our present values: they can be changed only by the right kind of education, which is to foster the understanding of what is."
~Education and the significance of Life- Krishnamurti~
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“The very definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.”
~Philip Mangano~
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
~John F. Kennedy~
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"The Individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so Monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
~J. Edgar Hoover~
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"Credulous at best Your desire to believe in Angels in the hearts of men.
But pull your head on out of your hippie haze and give a listen
Shouldn't have to say it all again
The universe is hostile, So impersonal
Devour to survive, so it is, so it's always been"
~from "Vicarious" by Tool~
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"You are not your job. You are not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You are not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
~Tyler Durden~
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"I say, never be complete. I say, stop being perfect. I say, let's evolve and let the chips fall where they may...The things you own end up owning you."
~Tyler Durden~
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"VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI"
"By The Power Of Truth, I, while living have conquered the universe."
~Faust~
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"Most people are other people, their thoughts are somone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde~
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"Cowardice askes the question:"Is it safe"?
Expediency asks the question:"Is it politic"?
Vanity asks the question:"Is it popular?"
But conscience asks the question:"Is it right?"
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is
neither safe, nor politic, nor popular
but one must take it because one's conscience tells one what is right."
~Martin Luther King~
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"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
~H.L. Mencken~
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me Truth."
~Thoreau~
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"Oh, foolish man, what can you not be made to believe?"
~Adam Weishaupt~
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"To put and end to this sorrow, to hunger, to war, there must be psychological revolution and few of us are willing to face that. We will discuss peace, plan legislation, create new leagues, the United Nations and so on; but we will not win peace because we will not give up our position, our authority, our money, our properties, our lives. To rely on others is utterly futile; others cannot bring us peace. No leader is going to gives us peace, no government, no army, no country. What will bring peace is inward transformation, which will lead to outward action. Inward transformation is not isolation, is not withdrawal from outward action. On the contrary, there can be right action only when there is right thinking and there is no right thinking when there is no self-knowledge. Without knowing yourself, there is no peace."
~Krishnamurti~
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"Some of you will nod your heads and say, "I agree", and go outside and do exactly the same as you have been doing for the last ten or twenty years. Your agreement is merely verbal and has no significance, for the world's miseries and wars are not going to be stopped by your casual assent. They will be only stopped when you realize the danger, when you realize your responsibility, when you do not leave it to somebody else. If you realize the suffering, if you see the urgency of immediate action and do not postpone, then you will transform yourself and the world."
~Krishnamurti, The Last and First Freedom~
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"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free - to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think, feel and act. "The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective."
~Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley~
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"The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens."
~Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl~, Ph.D., former German defense ministry official and advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner~
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"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. "[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions."
~Henry Kissenger, World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994~
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"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy."
~Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976~
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"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
~JFK~
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"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
~George W. Bush~
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
~Daniel Boorstin~ .[this is the illusion that the mainstream news media projects to the sheeple]
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"Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such person, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck."
~Thomas Jefferson~
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"When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil."
~Thomas Jefferson~
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"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."
~Isaac Asimov~
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful"
~~Seneca the Younger~
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"Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon - it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory."
~Euginie Scott~
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"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him"
~Ezra Pound~
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
~Albert Einstein~
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"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding."
~Albert Einstein~
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"There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance."
~Gautama Buddha~
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"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion. Truth is a pathless land. When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself."
~Krishnamurti~
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"There is more then flesh behind this mask, Mr. Creedy. There is an idea, and ideas are bullet-proof."
~"V" From V for Vendetta~
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"With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth...but we, as gardeners must beware... For some seeds are the seeds of ruin and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous."
~"V" From V for Vendetta~
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"You were already in a prison. You’ve been in a prison all your life."
~"V" From V for Vendetta~
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"Words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of Truth."
~"V" From V for Vendetta~
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"More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives."
~"V" From V for Vendetta~
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“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say they do not know what to do, and do nothing.”
~Henry David Thoreau~
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"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
~Dresden James~
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"A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy."
~F.W. Farrar~
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“The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.”
~Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German chancellor, leader of the Nazi party~
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“The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.”
~Bertrand Russell~
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"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, 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 dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."
~Morpheus~
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"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can hear, what you can smell, taste and feel then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."
~Morpheus~
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"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
~Morpheus~
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"Don't think you are, know you are."
~Morpheus~
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"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
~William Shakespeare~
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once."
~William Shakespeare~
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil is for Good people to do nothing."
~Edmund Burke~
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow"
~Anais Nin~
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"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself."
~Sophy Burnham~
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"Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered; those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid; thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win."
~Kongming(Zhuge Liang)~
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"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle—the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other."
~Douglas MacArthur~
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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
~Walter Lippman~
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
Who I'd like to meet: I'd like to meet and converse with ppl of like mind, ppl who search for Truths, ppl who Keep and uphold the Code of Honor, Truth, Freedom, Justice and Loyalty. Those of intellect and Virtue, that have no fear of the unknown...because you see, I am on a Quest for Truth and Truths and Knowledge to be in the state of Knowing, the state of living essence.....
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