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Re: Coronavirus Craziness

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attofishpi wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:05 am
Gary Childress wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:29 am
attofishpi wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:05 pm

Do you live in the US? If so, why don't you teach the children that NO country is GREATER than any other - that actually the US is doing REALLY SHIT (as i predicted 3 weeks ago) at handling this virus. That they shouldn't listen to FUK TARD rich twats that US brainwashed simpleton masses elect?
What a bizarre response. :?
Why don't you extrapolate on what is bizarre in my response?

Of course, one wouldn't use the terminology I have used. More like, children understand that every country has many great things about it. We in the US should not be considering electing super rich people thinking that they are going to do the best by us, and in the ridiculous notion that because one is super rich, that they must have an extremely high IQ and also be benevolent to the betterment of US and mankind in general.

How does that sound for starters?
It's bizarre because it seems to have nothing to do with what I posted.
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Re: Coronavirus Craziness

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Dontaskme wrote:There are too many coincidences that point to this virus being released deliberately. ...
No there aren't. You need to grasp the difference between coincidence and causality.
You have to do your own research on why NOW ...
What you call 'research' is confirmation bias and selective reading.
This recent release is thought to have been a deliberate ploy to crash and reset the world's economy. ...
Who thinks this?

Is it because you lost your faith in your 'God' that you feel the need to have some agency responsible for events?
No one really knows the truth of why this virus now, but someone does, lets be clear about that. ...
:lol: Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
As for the lies that is the human story. There is now being put in place the following scenario.

Silent weapons, quiet wars.

One world government
One world currency
Martial law
Depopulation
Mandatory vaccinations
Cashless society
Artifical intelligence
Roll out of 5G globally
Agenda 2021/2030
Financial reset ...
There are so many holes in this that it's just not worth the effort, the gullible will believe anything.
Check Out - > Global Pandemic Conspiracy Event 201 - Crisis Planned Months Ago ...
:lol: Is this what you call 'research'?
Also, it might be worth remembering that.. If you write about hundreds of different scenarios that could possibly play out, you're probably going to get something right in the end. If they shutdown every country on this planet successfully, when the smoke clears, we'll be living in an Orwellian dystopia very similar to 1984. ...
Well many autocrats do appear to be taking advantage of the situation to shut down democracy in their countries but this is the exact opposite of your 'One world' stuff.
But what do I know?
Not much it appears.
The world is not what it seems, nor is it otherwise. It's really time to wake up else you lose yourself forever. Your real self will await your return, simply because it never leaves, it just watches on in complete detachment and amusement.
:roll: Hence allowing what you fear to come to fruition? I'm becoming convinced that democracy is wasted upon many of our citizens.
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Re: Coronavirus Craziness

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Arising_uk wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:17 pm
Dontaskme wrote:There are too many coincidences that point to this virus being released deliberately. ...
No there aren't. You need to grasp the difference between coincidence and causality.
You have to do your own research on why NOW ...
What you call 'research' is confirmation bias and selective reading.
This recent release is thought to have been a deliberate ploy to crash and reset the world's economy. ...
Who thinks this?

Is it because you lost your faith in your 'God' that you feel the need to have some agency responsible for events?
No one really knows the truth of why this virus now, but someone does, lets be clear about that. ...
:lol: Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
As for the lies that is the human story. There is now being put in place the following scenario.

Silent weapons, quiet wars.

One world government
One world currency
Martial law
Depopulation
Mandatory vaccinations
Cashless society
Artifical intelligence
Roll out of 5G globally
Agenda 2021/2030
Financial reset ...
There are so many holes in this that it's just not worth the effort, the gullible will believe anything.
Check Out - > Global Pandemic Conspiracy Event 201 - Crisis Planned Months Ago ...
:lol: Is this what you call 'research'?
Also, it might be worth remembering that.. If you write about hundreds of different scenarios that could possibly play out, you're probably going to get something right in the end. If they shutdown every country on this planet successfully, when the smoke clears, we'll be living in an Orwellian dystopia very similar to 1984. ...
Well many autocrats do appear to be taking advantage of the situation to shut down democracy in their countries but this is the exact opposite of your 'One world' stuff.
But what do I know?
Not much it appears.
The world is not what it seems, nor is it otherwise. It's really time to wake up else you lose yourself forever. Your real self will await your return, simply because it never leaves, it just watches on in complete detachment and amusement.
:roll: Hence allowing what you fear to come to fruition? I'm becoming convinced that democracy is wasted upon many of our citizens.
I fear absolutely nothing. I trust in God's ways only.

As for my comments...I'm just reporting my surround.

Your responses are wasted on me, they are just meaningless words heard as blah blah blah.

To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about ever, so I don't know why you even bother responding to me.
If I could just grasp what ever it is you are trying to say to me then I guess we could be singing from the same page, but I'm just being honest with you, nothing you say to me makes any sense to me.

Arising_uk wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:17 pmIs it because you lost your faith in your 'God' that you feel the need to have some agency responsible for events?
There is only God.

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Dontaskme wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:41 pm
Arising_uk wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:17 pm
Dontaskme wrote:There are too many coincidences that point to this virus being released deliberately. ...
No there aren't. You need to grasp the difference between coincidence and causality.
You have to do your own research on why NOW ...
What you call 'research' is confirmation bias and selective reading.
This recent release is thought to have been a deliberate ploy to crash and reset the world's economy. ...
Who thinks this?

Is it because you lost your faith in your 'God' that you feel the need to have some agency responsible for events?
No one really knows the truth of why this virus now, but someone does, lets be clear about that. ...
:lol: Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
As for the lies that is the human story. There is now being put in place the following scenario.

Silent weapons, quiet wars.

One world government
One world currency
Martial law
Depopulation
Mandatory vaccinations
Cashless society
Artifical intelligence
Roll out of 5G globally
Agenda 2021/2030
Financial reset ...
There are so many holes in this that it's just not worth the effort, the gullible will believe anything.
Check Out - > Global Pandemic Conspiracy Event 201 - Crisis Planned Months Ago ...
:lol: Is this what you call 'research'?
Also, it might be worth remembering that.. If you write about hundreds of different scenarios that could possibly play out, you're probably going to get something right in the end. If they shutdown every country on this planet successfully, when the smoke clears, we'll be living in an Orwellian dystopia very similar to 1984. ...
Well many autocrats do appear to be taking advantage of the situation to shut down democracy in their countries but this is the exact opposite of your 'One world' stuff.
But what do I know?
Not much it appears.
The world is not what it seems, nor is it otherwise. It's really time to wake up else you lose yourself forever. Your real self will await your return, simply because it never leaves, it just watches on in complete detachment and amusement.
:roll: Hence allowing what you fear to come to fruition? I'm becoming convinced that democracy is wasted upon many of our citizens.
I fear absolutely nothing. I trust in God's ways only.

As for my comments...I'm just reporting my surround.

Your responses are wasted on me, they are just meaningless words heard as blah blah blah.

To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about ever, so I don't know why you even bother responding to me.
If I could just grasp what ever it is you are trying to say to me then I guess we could be singing from the same page, but I'm just being honest with you, nothing you say to me makes any sense to me.

Arising_uk wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:17 pmIs it because you lost your faith in your 'God' that you feel the need to have some agency responsible for events?
There is only God.

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People are dying horribly around you and you trust in God for what? To spare you? Is that all it's about? If there is a God, then God has already played his or her hand and it's the hand of evil. It sounds to me like you trust an evil God. If you are spared then you're being spared by an evil God. Congratulations. You're worshiping a demon.
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Gary Childress wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 2:37 pm
People are dying horribly around you and you trust in God for what? To spare you? Is that all it's about? If there is a God, then God has already played his or her hand and it's the hand of evil. It sounds to me like you trust an evil God. If you are spared then you're being spared by an evil God. Congratulations. You're worshiping a demon.
I think you are just being clueless as to what God is.


There is no 'you' because there is no other than 'you'

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Please feel free to wallow in your own despair but quit spreading your mind virus around the peaceful.

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Wow. Just saw a religious commercial on TV during the morning news... and here’s what Billy Graham’s son said:

Maybe your heart has been gripped by fear as millions of others have during this Coronavirus pandemic
But I want you to know that God loves you
He made you, he created you
He knows everything about your life
You don’t need to be afraid
Jesus said I’ll never leave you nor forsake you
If you’ve never invited Jesus Christ into your heart
If you’ve never trusted him as your saviour
You can pray right now, so do that.
Just simply pray this prayer:
God, I’m a sinner
I’m sorry for my sins
I believe Jesus Christ is your son
And I want to invite him to come into my heart, and into my life
I’m willing to trust him as my saviour, and follow him as my lord
And I pray this in Jesus name.
If you pray that prayer -- Call this number that’s on the screen, do it right now. We’ve got someone who will pray with you, and talk with you and encourage you. God bless.

Okay...a few observations and questions...

Fear is being used to recruit, and the words sound like some kind of weird mind control tactic (how would any of it make any sense to anyone who isn’t mentally compromised and desperate to latch onto anything?)
If God loves me and created me, why is he putting me (and all of us) through this?
If Jesus said I’ll never leave you or forsake you, where is he?
Why do I need to tell God I’m a sinner?
Why do I need to say I believe Jesus Christ is God’s son?
If Christians are not being protected/spared from this by their saviour and lord, why would I want to take on such beliefs? Just so that the religious organizations can collect some money from me and get me to mindlessly repeat crazy words and vote the way they want... even when the person they vote for is the exact opposite of all they supposedly stand for?
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Dontaskme wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:41 pm Your responses are wasted on me, they are just meaningless words heard as blah blah blah.

To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about ever, so I don't know why you even bother responding to me.
If I could just grasp what ever it is you are trying to say to me then I guess we could be singing from the same page, but I'm just being honest with you, nothing you say makes any sense to me.
Do you have any insight into your projection?
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commonsense wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:39 pm
Dontaskme wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:41 pm Your responses are wasted on me, they are just meaningless words heard as blah blah blah.

To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about ever, so I don't know why you even bother responding to me.
If I could just grasp what ever it is you are trying to say to me then I guess we could be singing from the same page, but I'm just being honest with you, nothing you say makes any sense to me.
Do you have any insight into your projection?
Yeah, I see it as a movie show passing through.
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Dontaskme wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 3:21 pm
Gary Childress wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 2:37 pm
People are dying horribly around you and you trust in God for what? To spare you? Is that all it's about? If there is a God, then God has already played his or her hand and it's the hand of evil. It sounds to me like you trust an evil God. If you are spared then you're being spared by an evil God. Congratulations. You're worshiping a demon.
I think you are just being clueless as to what God is.


There is no 'you' because there is no other than 'you'

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Please feel free to wallow in your own despair but quit spreading your mind virus around the peaceful.

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Just more stupid assertions by a blind god botherer. Go worship your demon if it makes you feel better.
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Fear is being used to recruit

Yep, by religious hucksters, political hucksters, snake-oil sales-folk, etc.

Fear-mongering is time-honored & traditional: ain't nuthin' new under the sun.

So: guard your head.
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Police in the UK have stopped people buying fags, booze and easter eggs as they are not "essential".
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They might get away with that in China but the English are not used to living in a fascist police state. And all to protect old people from something extra that might kill them? Makes no sense.
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They will be shooting young people next for sneaking out to meet friends and putting the lives of old people at risk.
It's not the first time the young have been forced to give up everything by their 'betters'.
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Sculptor wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:33 pm Police in the UK have stopped people buying fags, booze and easter eggs as they are not "essential".
Over here our local government has firearms retailers listed as "essential" businesses. Yes. Our society is insane.
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Gary Childress wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:28 pm
Sculptor wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:33 pm Police in the UK have stopped people buying fags, booze and easter eggs as they are not "essential".
Over here our local government has firearms retailers listed as "essential" businesses. Yes. Our society is insane.
the constitution says they are essential... insane indeed...

you say you want a revolution....

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