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[facthunter]

Those WHITE Supremacists don't look too SUPREME to me.  I guess things are different in the  Land of large Personal arsenals.. What other place is like this and calls itself a democracy to be emulated.?  Having a free vote is better than force of arms, most "Thinking" people believe. Nev

[spacesailor]

Petrol generators ,

I suppose.

Sight & sound , helps when you can't see the laser. 

spacesailor

[onetrack]

Spacey, just what are you rambling on about??

[spacesailor]

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Edited December 13, 2024 by spacesailor

[facthunter]

Tick tick tick tick. Vee Haff Vays of making you tok.  Nev

[old man emu]

Global events are suggesting that the year 2025 will be tumultuous politically, economically and perhaps environmentally. Humans have the urge to look into the future and since time immemorial have listened to the words of soothsayers, so it is not out of the ordinary that as 2024 comes to its end, the prophets are publishing their predictions. Many are relying on the doom and gloom that can be milked from the writings of Nostradamus, and another seer, Baba Vanga, the Bulgarian clairvoyant who died in 1996 and has since become a cult figure among believers of soothsaying – and, as you can imagine, conspiracy theorists.

 

Here's one video giving predictions for 2025 and beyond. Perhaps I should have posted it in teh "Funny Videos" thread.

 

 

[nomadpete]

40 minutes ago, old man emu said:

Global events are suggesting that the year 2025 will be tumultuous politically, economically and perhaps environmentally.

Well I'm no soothsayer, but I  don't need to be, to agree with that!

[facthunter]

IF  ANYONE can predict the future, then It's ALL preplanned and NOTHING can be done about it.  I find THAT ILLOGICAL, to say the least.   Nev

[onetrack]

Oh, yes, just subscribe to my YooToob channel and send me $100 and I'll tell you what is going to happen to change the World enormously!

 

First off, on January 6, 2025, an Orange-tanned clown with fake hair is going to upset the World Order with idiotic decisions and orders, and from then, it will only get worse .....now don't forget to subscribe to me........ 🙂

[facthunter]

"In the  Last DAYS, there will be Wars and rumours of Wars" We certainly HAVE that now. with the accompanying absence of TRUTH.. Blessed are the Peacemakers. Hello? Hello.? ALL this at a time when more people seem to believe in SOME God or other.  Knowledge should save us from  weird BELIEFS and outright LIES. The first thing Hitler did was BURN all the Books. Now they control the Media.  SAME AIM. CONTROL the People. Nev

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

The first thing Hitler did was BURN all the Books.

Actually, Hitler himself had nothing to do with the burning of the books. 

 

Beginning on May 10, 1933, Nazi-dominated student groups carried out public burnings of books they claimed were “un-German.” The book burnings took place in 34 university towns and cities after the Nazi university student association created blacklists of works by literary and political figures such as Bertolt Brecht, Erich Maria Remarque, and Ernest Hemingway that were to be thrown into the flames. Works of prominent Jewish, liberal, and leftist writers ended up in the bonfires. 

[onetrack]

It's interesting how everything in our world is dual. This jells with the numerous religions that tell us there's good and evil, sacred and profane, ying and yang, etc. The Asian religions reckon it's all about balance, and this balance is rooted in Nature, and in physics - Newtons Third Law of Motion.

Dualism is a theme from the earliest ages of our Universe, and the general belief is that when one force increases, the opposing force will eventually respond.

 

I'm fascinated by the fact that dualism extends to every facet of our existence. We see and read about good and evil at work in physical terms every day - but dualism extends further than that.

We have a visible financial system - and a hidden financial system. None of us have any idea of the size of our hidden financial system, nor how it affects our everyday living. It has an effect, I'm convinced of that, and it's not a beneficial effect. The hidden financial system is aided by banking secrecy and powerful, rich people.

 

We have dualism in our information systems. We have truth, and we have the mistruths and misinformation systems, some simply pathetic and see-through - but numerous ones that are carefully crafted and controlled by the rich and powerful. Murdoch and Putin come to mind.

The Internet is the home of dualism. It thrives on secrecy and anonymity. It provides us with great and immediate communication and useful knowledge, but it also carries a lot of evil intent, misinformation, criminal activity, and attempts to control.

 

We have leaders who tell us what they can do, and what they will do - but the duality is, they lie to their subjects/constituents constantly, while their decision making is continually corrupted by powerful, secret forces, who don't want to be exposed, and who are out to further their own interests only - at the expense of everyone else.

 

We are facing an age when power and wealth will become even more concentrated than it is now, and with this comes more corruption of decision-making, and poorer outcomes for the average person.

Strangely enough, a substantial number of people know that so many of our systems are wrong and perverted, but don't know what to do about it.

They seek major change, and vote for people that present themselves as leaders and agents of chance - but as we know, nothing changes, regardless of who is leading the country.

 

I expect at some stage, there will be a gathering of like-minded people who are totally fed up with our systems of leadership and decision-making, and they will join up to carry out major revolutionary change.

I believe this gathering of like-minded people is the "stone cut without hands" mentioned in the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar in the Book of Daniel in the Bible. I don't know what it will take to generate such a powerful gathering, but increasing distrust and hatred of many countrys deceitful leaders, and the perverting power of the super-rich, will surely gather pace in coming years to create major changes. The starting point must be a fairer taxation system, which is so perverted in favour of the rich today, it's a joke.

 

[spacesailor]

Totally Agree , those

Revenuer's 

Are so greedy.  But only from the poor .

Wage Slavery.

spacesailor

 

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, onetrack said:

I expect at some stage, there will be a gathering of like-minded people who are totally fed up with our systems of leadership and decision-making, and they will join up to carry out major revolutionary change.

That is what resulted in the French Revolution. I don't know if those were the exact factors that resulted in the recent Syrian overthrow.

 

If Trump and his cohorts can't lower the price of groceries in the USA, and maintain their "if there is no bread, let them eat cake" attitude, I wonder if a revolution could occur there. There is a difference between the French and USA situations in that the USA has a large group of people (Democrats) who didn't swallow Trumps crap. That group is not likely to join in a revolution, but would sit back and let the MAGA mob destroy the Republicans.

[facthunter]

IT WAS HITLER's IDEA. FFS. Perhaps one day you will not destroy MY posts with  lengthy Esoteric  Elaboration.  Just ONCE Pretty please? Nev

[nomadpete]

Nev, none of us wish to 'destroy your posts'.

 

Please accept the spirit of debate. We all can learn from trying to see another's opinion. All it is an opinion. Something based upon what somebody else has been thinking about.

 

We value all inputs to the discussion.

 

Please do not lose heart just because somebody might have a different opinion.

 

Edited December 28, 2024 by nomadpete

[onetrack]

Take a chill pil, Nev, you know OME likes to grab a stated view and elaborate on it. But he is largely correct.

 

Hitler may have approved of the book burning and whipped up the anti-Jewish frenzy in Germany in 1933 - but it was GOEBBELS who orchestrated the book burning, manipulating the Nazi-dominated student unions. Goebbels gave a rabid speech at the book burning, Hitler was nowhere to be seen at the bonfire.

 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/book-burning

 

 

[old man emu]

I was peeling potatoes to cook them and noticed that they hardly had any eyes at all. Not like the ones I peeled as a kid where there were eyes all over them. I wonder if they have bred new varieties that can only be grown from cloned stock. That might be correct since the potatoes are all of a very similar shape.

[facthunter]

My POINT was this behaviour is common with dictators and was  LOST in the minutia . Any thing that went on was approved by Hitler. . That's the way HE did things.. Elimination of Education funding is in the same vein a la Trump. It's often VERY hard to make a point here. if one is subject to" Correction" all the time. I also try to keep things simple and short on Forums.  Nev

[facthunter]

Might be Dutton Spud OME.   Nev

[onetrack]

Re the gloomy prophecies and predictions for 2025, I personally believe we'll see an upsurge in assassinations of CEO's and other prominent corporate personalities in the near future - such as the assassination of Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO in the U.S.

 

A telling sign is the support for Luigi Mangione's murderous action amongst everyday Americans - and the interesting part is that Mangione came from a good family, and had no prior signs of criminality.

He was obviously driven to this dreadful act by an increasing fury of his poor healthcare treatment - and many Americans obviously feel the same way.

 

I can see many CEO's becoming fugitives like Putin, fearful of their safety and lives, especially where their corporate actions are seen as purely motivated by greed and self-interest.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/27/united-healthcare-brian-thompson-poll

 

 

[Marty_d]

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

Might be Dutton Spud OME.   Nev

It'll leave a bad taste in your mouth.

[facthunter]

Tassie Brownell's are better. Nev

[facthunter]

There's few things worse than a really rotten spud. Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

I reckon that democracy is a far stronger system than autocracy, and we are seeing a fair battle between the two right now.

Nev is clearly correct about Hitler and the book-burning, gosh you wouldn't last long under Hitler if you disagreed with him on something fundamental.