I am particularly enjoying clarkkent's post and posts from others who are asking some very good questions or pointing out issues I think are important or are otherwise unaddressed.
edit: I wanted to add that I also struggled in watching this interview, I was not interested in her experiences on the craft, etc. I had been lead to believe by the hype that this interview would contain crucial info for the ground crew, but upon viewing did not find a whole lot of it, unless you count vague or intangible clues to be crucial info. Also nothing new IMO, but this has been said and been countered but I still think it's a valid comment. Towards the end, or actually, I should say just before the hour mark, I started skipping a few minutes at a time hoping I'd rejoin at a more interesting part. Not so much.
I've enjoyed reading this thread - it's been very interesting to read everyone's perspectives on it. It occurs to me that we are all unique in our experiences, our intuitions, our beliefs, which hopefully provides us with some uncertainty to the direction of the future.
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It's just me and my feelings, but I have doom exhaustion, and I am fed up with it and fed up with 'humanity' getting the blame for everything that's gone wrong on this planet. I certainly believe we all have a degree of responsibility, but I am just so
tired of hearing how we screwed it up royally. Did we? How long have our Controllers been controlling us? How long have they been suppressing alternative technologies? How long have they been getting us to get degrees that impart next to no practical/holistic information? How long have they been herding us into dead end jobs, into industries that destroy and pollute, etc? I do not advocate a victim mentality, but we aren't totally empowered either. I certainly feel like my potential has been limited - but I don't walk around everyday hating 'the elite' for it either - so please don't misunderstand my comments, I'm trying to point some things out that I don't see being pointed out a lot. (A defense for humans, I guess?)
YES - we all have personal choices we can make - we can stop consuming so much useless junk like HD tv's or SUV's, we can reduce reuse and recycle - but a lot of conscious people are also on limited incomes and can't afford to buy organic or fair trade products. Simple as that.
When industry, corporations, and governments refuse to invest in sustainable development, in clean technology, in holistic earth views, in natural health, in all of these things that would reduce our impact on the planet and restore some freedom/liberty/happiness to the human race, how responsible are you and I, as individuals? I have voted since I was legal age, always for the environment, always for people. Now that I am awake, I make the best decisions I can in my purchases and lifestyle choices. Which brings me to another issue - if people are ignorant - because they have never had an opportunity to get clued in (for various reasons) - are they just as responsible as someone who 'knows better'?
So when I hear people going around doling out blame equally across all humans - that gets me a little peeved, yes. I am not shirking responsibility - I am doing my part, I am doing what my means allow me to, and I will spread my awareness to people with ears to hear. But to dump all this environmental destruction, all the chemicals in rivers and lakes, the genetic modification of food, the diseases engineered to kill us, etc. etc. on people like me sounds like you're trying to induce guilt and regret. Forget it, once set out on this path you've lost me.
Maybe if we'd all dump the guilt and start holding our Controllers accountable, if we'd charge people for corporate crimes, if governments put teeth in their environmental protection laws, if corporations were not given status as 'persons' and their CEO's/managers/whatever were held personally responsible to the strongest degree of the law - the law that will be provided with teeth - maybe we'd get somewhere.
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Originally Posted by Bill Ryan
Resources (oil, minerals, water, food) are becoming depleted and scarce. The world's population is growing at the rate of an additional city per day. All this would be worrying enough if the world's leaders were actually trying to handle these problems, but they are not: they are obsessed with perverted ideas of destiny and power and regard you and me as pawns on a giant chessboard to be sacrificed at will.
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This is what also gets me. Suppose we make it through the turmoil, suppose 'they' don't kill 95% of us or whatever, suppose humans declare a truce and there's no more exploitation and wars, what kind of planet do we have? We've polluted our water to such an extent, human health and genetics are going down the crapper thanks to all this chemical soup we breathe eat and drink, animals are having deformities and health challenges, soils are depleted, etc. etc. etc. on and on - what's the point? This is why it's entertaining when governments make pollution reduction targets of 20% for 12 years from now. Ha! So many around me are plagued by smog days, affected by asthma - when you can't even breathe NOW, have we got 12 more years?? Will anyone be able to breathe then??