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Old 10-13-2008, 11:39 PM   #2
Anchor
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Default Re: The Intuitive Who Cried Wolf

Nice idea, but I see some downsides here.

Personal discernment is what makes it possible for any of the higher density entities to deliver any messages at all, without overtly infringing on free-will. The fact that there is both wheat and chaff, mandates the need for discernment, but the two things work together for the greater good.

It is my strong belief that the only person that can discern the truth of a message is each individual for thier own truth. That is done with whatever form of soul-contact works for each individual - and by no other method.

Lets take your idea to an absurd conclusion and assume that the system you propsed was so effective that an infallible "oracle" of "verfied truth" were bought into being. Information delivered by such a route or in accordance with its standards, could induce the listener/observer to relax on the personal discernment that is otherwise always required. If that happened some people would instantly be susceptible to the age old trap of believing what they were told.

All it would then take is for a high level "distributed" negative influence on all the contributors and "judges" of such a channel for a disproportionately increased negative impact - the force multiplier of a corrupted oracle for negative impact could be staggering.

That said some form of formalized background check with common-sense rules is a really good idea, but I think discussion should be entirely public.

These days anything done behind closed doors is, IMHO, asking for trouble.

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Last edited by Anchor; 10-14-2008 at 04:24 AM. Reason: p*ss poor effort improved :)
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