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Posted by xconspirisist on Wed Jan 5th at 8:24pm 2005


A level geology student prespective;

India is a geological rollercoaster. If you look at geological represetations of the world over time you'll see pangea spliting slowly, and continents slowly moving into place, respectivly. India has plowed upwards very quickly, creating these sort of things over time.

There is copious amounts of evidence for a meterior, even two, hitting earth at the cretatious teriary boundry, causing the mass extinctions of dinosaurs, there is no doubt that humans could suffer the same fate as a result of a natural disaster.

( Appologies for spelling, dont have a spellchecker in msie, erw. )
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Posted by Jahzel on Wed Jan 5th at 8:30pm 2005


"Jahzel, I can honestly say I didn't even bother to read whatever bulls**t you're spouting."

^ Y' see, the attitude I was basically refering to. Everything I said is provable, admitted, documented, I've read the new 'War on Terror' proposals, I know for a fact they are taking away our human rights and civil liberties as part of this so-called global cackdown on terrorism. You are quick to label it as bullsh*t, which not only is incredably offensive, it's ignorant. Have you ever read Ashcroft patriot act? Do you know your consitutional rights? Well guess what, they are already planning on getting rid of your constitution and your human rights. Guess what, everyone is considered a potential terrorist regardless of class, race, or gender. Does that not worry you? Does it not worry you that the Government are responsible for the terrorist attacks and that they even admit that they carry out them? My friend, you need to wake yourself up.

Back on Topic-ish

Look what I found:

FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE REVEALS
POSSIBLE EXISTENCE OF
EARTHQUAKE AND VOLCANO ?WEAPONS?

POSSIBLE?

DEFINITE MORE LIKE

Extracted from
http://thememoryhole.org/mil/cohen-ecoweapons.htm

US Secretary of Defense Reveals Earthquake
and Volcano Weapons

This one might seem beyond belief, but we have it from none other than a sitting Secretary of Defense. In April 1997, then-Defense Secretary William Cohen was speaking at a terrorism conference at the University of Georgia. After some introductory remarks about the conference, Cohen takes questions from the media in attendance. A reporter asks a question based on the fake anthrax letters that had recently been sent to B'nai Brith. Cohen gives a strange answer, using the occasion to mention the exotic weapons being developed by terrorists (as well as--one would assume--governments).

Here's the exchange, taken verbatim from the transcript posted on the Defense Department's Website:

Q: "Let me ask you specifically about last week's scare here in Washington, and what we might have learned from how prepared we are to deal with that (inaudible), at B'nai Brith."

A: "Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we've learned in the intelligence community, we had something called -- and we have James Woolsey here to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important."

As for religion, I've got nothing against people who want to believe in something, but I know for a fact that religion was once created as a mass brainwashing device aimed at discouraging free-thinking abilities. "Its against God's will to free-think." "Free-thinking is a sin".

"If the FBI's motivating factor for busting down the Koresh compound was child abuse, how come we never see Bradley tanks smashing into Catholic churches?" - Bill Hicks.

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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Wed Jan 5th at 8:53pm 2005


You call a vague reference by a political official evidence? We don't even understand earthquakes well enough to accurately predict their occurrence, let alone control them. Do you even know what electromagnetic waves are? Did Cohen? From your statements I highly doubt it. If this is the kind of fact you rely on, I can begin to understand the preposterous conclusions you might come to.

And changing the weather? people have been trying that forever, and there are even scientists today who believe it is possible, but if you take a considered look at the energy requirements it simply isn't feasible. A quick calculation will show you that it would take the detonation of a very large nuclear weapon to say, change the air temperature of a 20 kilometer radial area by 1 degree Celsius. This is precisely the sort of change that climate models predict is necessary to influence things such as hurricane patterns.

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Posted by Leperous on Wed Jan 5th at 9:02pm 2005


People, please!

KFS, proton decay is something that's meant to happen on timescales of tens+ of billions of years- certainly not within the lifetime of our sun. By which time hopefully we'll be able to create binding gluon fields or some such to keep them in one piece

Yak, I'm not trying to convert anyone, I'm not good enough at that yet! A couple more years training here though...

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Anything that questions 'the official line of events' in detail is always subject to mass ridicule, labelled as some kind of conspiracy, you get called a conspiracy kook. It's usually mainstream media and so-called education which makes sure that this attitude stays firm within the minds of the populous. It doesnt even matter if there is proof, if it is documentd, admitted, none of the truth is excepted, only rubbished.

... because 99.9% of the time, it is just that. It's nothing to do with mainstream media- go work for a newspaper and you'll notice there isn't some shady government man post-editing your stories to keep the masses calm and content. Go work for the government, and there isn't some Knights Templar telling you to start a war against so and so to start a new world order.

Governments like controlling people, and they will often spout complete bulls**t to get their way (in case you haven't noticed already). The only people who will have the technological might to alter climates and set off volcanoes etc. are, er, those with big piles of nuclear warheads. And given Iraq et al, do you really think they're competent enough to orchestrate terrorist attacks against their own people and "get away with it"? Can you imagine any organisation of hundreds/thousands of people organising something like that with no word getting out? Remember these are people at the top, not super intelligent evil robots.

And yes, a lot of things are strange and are counter-intuitive, such as dodgy looking moon landing photos. But at the end of the day, think about what's more likely and what has more evidence to back it up, and, importantly, realise that you don't know everything about circumstances (how the hell do you know how moon dust/gravity/etc. influences photographs?). I used to be in the exact same shoes as you and believe in faked moon landings, aliens, etc. etc. but after years and years of absolutely nothing turning up and more debunking going on than proof, chances are these things are just the usual nonsense that crackpots have been going on about since culture began, and scaremongering.

So basically, stop looking for ghosts until one hits you in the face and you can do something yourself to prove it!





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Posted by G.Ballblue on Wed Jan 5th at 9:31pm 2005


? quoting Orpheus
? quoting Yak_Fighter
Secondly, I'd say that the US is undergoing another religious re-awakening

side note: i have noticed this too. i have real issues with churches the size of shopping malls going up everywhere, yet people are still hungry. i have issues with my tax dollars helping put them up, and i have REAL issues with them not paying taxes on the building and whatnot.

most of this i have heard through the rumor mill, so i am not positive about the tax parts.

the way i see things going, its a last ditch effort to re-instill the fables and pagan belief system into the newer generations. i have met good people, and bad people, but being religious never signified which you would be. in fact i have met more genuinely evil people whom profess religious beliefs. *shrugs*

anywho's, i do however believe that natural disasters make you wonder about your place in the scheme of things. no one wants to face their mortality. and when its driven home so strongly as when something in nature takes a punch at you, people tend to look for the easy way out.

i know they will never outlaw religion, but i sure wish the people would wise up and smell the coffee.

Atheist?

I know you said how you "weren't going to rehash religion" because you've already said your thoughts... but you may want to rehash it, or else there may be some major confusion!

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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 5th at 9:44pm 2005


? quoting G.Ballblue

Atheist?

agnostic... i confuse myself, what difference is it if i have company?

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Posted by satchmo on Wed Jan 5th at 11:08pm 2005


An article from today's LA Times:
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CATASTROPHE IN SOUTHERN ASIA
Some See God's Hand in Remade Landscape
# Believers point to intact religious structures as evidence of a force far greater than waves. Was the devastating tsunami a warning from on high?

By Mark Magnier, Times Staff Writer

TALPE, Sri Lanka ? At the moment he was running out of air, trapped underwater with his head held down by a slab of concrete and his body repeatedly slammed by the surging tsunami, Evan Russell Kern called to Jesus to save him.

His appeal, the born-again Christian said, was answered almost immediately: The concrete broke apart, and he reached the surface.

Here in nearby Talpe, the Starlight Inn hotel suffered only minor damage ? mud on the veranda and a few branches in the dining room. Structures for miles around were devastated.

Owner Ginthota Polwattage Susil Asoka, a Buddhist, attributes the near-miracle to the good karma he has built up over a decade of charity work.

"Before, people weren't sure there's a God, but now they are," said Mohammed Nazar, a Muslim businessman in the town of Galle. "God has brought great floods as a warning. Whether you're a Buddhist, a Christian or a Muslim, this is a sign to live according to your religion."

Even as global news networks detail the science behind the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami using multicolored graphics and detailed timelines, many Sri Lankans who lived through this catastrophe see the work of a force far greater than some powerful waves.

Frequently heard at devastation zones are the echoes of an Old Testament-style God who rewards the deserving and smites the unworthy, lashing out at corrupt rulers and punishing those who have abused nature in their headlong rush for wealth.

"Buddhists believe it's very important to keep a balance," Asoka said. "Nowadays, so many hotels in Sri Lanka pollute and dump garbage into the sea, so the sea is taking its revenge."

Even those whose belief in religion has waned admit their brush with this much raw power, which killed more than 30,000 people in Sri Lanka alone, has forced them to reexamine their view of faith and spirituality. New Zealand tourist Simone Grace, 32, said that as she fought for her life in a swirl of glass, knives and blunt objects after the waves roared through her hotel in Unawatuna that morning, she found herself engaged in a profound internal debate.

"In those 10 seconds facing death, I really thought hard about whether I should or shouldn't revert to religion," said Grace, a lapsed Roman Catholic, as she sat beside a stone statue of the Hindu god Ganesh.

Grace, who works in costume and film production in London, said she decided against a last-minute conversion, though the disaster had left her mulling weighty questions about death, life and her place in it all.

Organized religion provides solace to many, she noted. Still, she'd rather not be part of something that can divide people and engender intolerance.

"I'd just say I believe in a universal force," she added.

Malskaer Lispegh, a 47-year-old Danish resident of Unawatuna who ran a motorcycle rental business before the tsunami washed away all the bikes, said she had felt more vulnerable since surviving the waves by climbing on a rooftop and pulling her 12-year-old son to safety by his long hair.

"I've started to think, what's wrong with our global system, and why has so much pain fallen down on Sri Lanka?" she said in a friend's washed-out living room. "While I'm not a member of any organized religion, I find myself praying to something out there for help."

All that's a bit too ethereal for many Sri Lankans, who live in a society in which people are generally known by their religion, and the local temple, mosque or church tends to be the heart of their community.

Many locals' faith has been redoubled by what they view as evidence that the waves seemed selective in their destruction, sparing most religious buildings and icons. While structural engineers argue that religious buildings are typically bigger and better able to withstand a tsunami's fearsome power than ordinary houses, others here insist their survival in apparently great numbers is God's handiwork.

In Galle, concrete and plaster statues of Buddha, legs folded and expression serene, sit with barely a scratch amid piles of rubble. In Mullaittivu, statues of saints remain on the parapet of an otherwise destroyed seaside Catholic church. In Talpe, although the glass case around it has shattered, a 7-foot, orange Buddha at the Meegaha Dewalaya Temple appears untouched.

"Every place we go, the Buddhist statues are without damage," said Lionel Eerasinghe, a coordinator with the Sri Lanka Foundation, a civic group. "People believe they have special protection."

Many temples, mosques and churches have reported a surge in attendance. At the Kataguda Jumma mosque in Dewata near Galle, the number of people who attended prayers on the Friday after the tsunami swelled 30% to 2,000, said Imran Uwais, a teacher there.

"We don't have enough room," he said. "The wave is a curse, and people are getting the message, at least for now."

Asoka, the businessman, said Sri Lanka must take collective responsibility for what's happened. The country was once known as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean for its prosperity and sophistication. Recently, he said, it has lost heaven's mandate because of its corrupt leaders and greedy citizens.

"It's a warning to people to behave themselves," he said.

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Posted by Jahzel on Wed Jan 5th at 11:10pm 2005


The public started to question the war in Iraq and the so-called weapons of mass destruction so they go ahead and try to plant them themselves, their plan obvioulsy was foiled.

There whole agenda is full of flaws and they know it. They weave in and out of their lies to try and avoid attention. Mainstream media makes sure the public are about as ill-informed as it gets, and believe, as I've seen today, it works.

The globalists know people are eventually going to wake up and be outraged at their blatant attrocities. For this reason they made sure that we live in a time of 'terror threats' and such which make way for a global police state, and that anyone who opposes must surely be a terrorist and a threat to national security. I mean this is stated in the Patriot Acts I & II and Homeland Security, 'any act of misdemenour that endangers lives' is an act of terrorism. And now they are saying these 'terror' crimes need life imprisonment. This is admitted! They are saying that, this is also in the proposals, that 'any one who criticises government policy should be charged as a terrorist for being a potential threat to homeland security'. Whistleblowers are being sent to prison or executed for uncovering corruption. You can be quote 'secretly arrested, secretly tortured, secretly executed if you endanger Homeland Security. Even the word 'Homeland' is synonymous with Nazi Germany.They also have 'compact camps' to send you to if you disagree with the governments policy. Neo cons all over will agree with this proposal, it's ridiculous.

Now they're going round harassing members of public threatening to arrest them under homeland security legislation. The thugs in police attire are going round tasering people, folks have died, they tasered a guy in a wheelchair who 'needed to be detained', they have tasered children as young as 6, cs-gas sprayed young babies! This is in the mainstream news. This is terrible.

You may sit there and go 'oh well, doesnt bother me, I've got nothing to hide, I'm not a terrorist, I agree with what they're doing if it means we're going to be safe', but in a few years time your human rights will be taken away, your freedom as a citizen completely abolished, your activities monitered daily, your DNA on a national database etc. This is not a war on terror, this is a war on our freedom and civil liberties. You need to wake up and stop ignoring these issues and get yourself free from this paradigm. This is important stuff that may benefit the lives of your families and friends and generations in the future.

Anyway.

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Posted by Gwil on Wed Jan 5th at 11:18pm 2005


Sounds terrible.

Good job you don't live in America really.
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Oh by the way, don't you realise that tapping into this train of thought, whatever it is is just the same as "blindly following the government"?

Theres a big train called irony and it's heading down your way. Who's really been brainwashed?


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Posted by Leperous on Wed Jan 5th at 11:27pm 2005


... because giant bronze statues weighing several tonnes are really going to be washed away or destroyed, along with the stone mosques standing around wooden shacks, and because all those other people who prayed to Jesus/whoever in their last minutes were saved



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Posted by fishy on Wed Jan 5th at 11:28pm 2005


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the 7 day creation idea is universally accepted as a metaphoric representation only. no one actually believes it took a week.. the number denotes phases, or time frames not "days"

or if people were interested enough to try and piece together a history that has been fragmented into various religions/myths, they may find that a very similar [but much older] story of creation was known in ancient Sumeria, that has been found on stone tablets that come in sets of seven. Moses being a temple priest in Egypt, which had it's roots in Sumerian culture, he was well aware of the original creation stories. the book of Genesis is the end result of these stories being passed down through 6000 years, sometimes by no more than word of mouth, and sometimes worse, by bad translation.

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Posted by Gwil on Wed Jan 5th at 11:32pm 2005


A wee statue of Ghandi survived in India too, and that was pretty flimsy/unprotected.

Indeed, it is just coincidence - I bet a ton of smaller mosques/temples were washed away.
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Posted by Jahzel on Wed Jan 5th at 11:33pm 2005


Who's really being brainwashed? Anyone who believes that we are fighting against terrorism and that we need a national DNA database and biometric fingerprint scanning to win the war on terror. Also anyone who hasn't even bothered to investigate the Patriot Acts I & II, Homeland Security, PNAC, and FEMA proposals yet claims that it is all bullsh*t and nothing to be worried about. When the same proposals are trying to be launched in this country, UK, then yes it is worrying - especially when we have now seen the introduction of the UK Bill of Rights, almost identical to the American Patriot Act, also the new 'compulsary' ID cards that 'help the good guys fight against the bad guys'.

I'm sick of this mindless, unthinking, unquestioning attitude polluting innocent minds through mainstream media and religion. Irony, brainwashed, I think you are not picking up on what I am talking about. I do not follow a Government that plans on introducing a global police state - a global Nazi Germany. I oppose all formsof Govermnet tyranny and corruption and so should you, infact so should everyone. As a matter of a fact, you seem unconcerned about your life in the near future and the lives of others. And if you want to carry on smirking about this then do so. Just remember theres only one window of oppotunity available to expose the New World Order agenda and if we do not do so now we will never win this good fight. It's in your court.

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Posted by Crono on Wed Jan 5th at 11:46pm 2005


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Who's really being brainwashed? Anyone who believes that we are fighting against terrorism and that we need a national DNA database and biometric fingerprint scanning to win the war on terror. Also anyone who hasn't even bothered to investigate the Patriot Acts I & II, Homeland Security, PNAC, and FEMA proposals yet claims that it is all bullsh*t and nothing to be worried about. When the same proposals are trying to be launched in this country, UK, then yes it is worrying - especially when we have now seen the introduction of the UK Bill of Rights, almost identical to the American Patriot Act, also the new 'compulsary' ID cards that 'help the good guys fight against the bad guys'.

I'm sick of this mindless, unthinking, unquestioning attitude polluting innocent minds through mainstream media and religion. Irony, brainwashed, I think you are not picking up on what I am talking about. I do not follow a Government that plans on introducing a global police state - a global Nazi Germany. I oppose all formsof Govermnet tyranny and corruption and so should you, infact so should everyone. As a matter of a fact, you seem unconcerned about your life in the near future and the lives of others. And if you want to carry on smirking about this then do so. Just remember theres only one window of oppotunity available to expose the New World Order agenda and if we do not do so now we will never win this good fight. It's in your court.



People aren't brainwashed, they're lazy. There's a world of difference.
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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Wed Jan 5th at 11:51pm 2005


You just got squashed by that Irony train, dude, and you don't even know it.

You should get used to the idea that there is such a thing as chaos, mistakes, and random natural events. Not everything is part of a grand unified scheme to screw you. If you think about it, your point of view is rather egocentric.

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Posted by fishy on Wed Jan 5th at 11:52pm 2005


Jahzel, delusional just does't seem strong enough a word.

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Posted by Gwil on Wed Jan 5th at 11:54pm 2005


And to lash on the irony further, isn't the essence of this conspiracy theory the same that was at the heart of the Nazi desire to gain power - ie an international conspiracy of governments and jews.

Same s**t, different wording.
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Posted by Cassius on Wed Jan 5th at 11:54pm 2005


? quoting Jahzel
The Globalists have always sought to develop a one world government, a global fascist state. This agenda has been happening for years, and if you open your eyes you should see that it is nearing completion. Now that the Middle East is under Globalist control because of the so-called 'War on Terror', other regions of the world affected by the disaster are now going to be under Globalist control. The Red Cross, those who are in charge of 'saving lives' will keep most of the funding as they did post 9/11.

Yeah, and Valve leaked HL2 on purpose to increase sales and take over the universe!!!!!111 ONE ONE ONE OEN EON EOI I KNOW ALL ABOUT IT





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Posted by Gwil on Wed Jan 5th at 11:56pm 2005


CONSUMERISM AND MEDIA ARE OUT TO EXPLOIT YOU!

No s**t, it's called capitalism and market economy - and this guy http://www.davidicke.com/ , is laughing all the way to the bank by exploiting people still living in the age of the X Files.

I could write any old tripe and link it randomly up with international events of past and present, and write books just like this guy.

Oh BTW it wont help coming back with conspiracy theories - we are just the mindless, brainwashed masses, after all. We believe in the government.

God the irony is seeping out to dangerously high levels...

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Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Jan 5th at 11:57pm 2005


I saw a good conspiricy thing on sky one a few months back. It was talking about people who have aparently decoded the bible by taking every 5th letter and seeing what it comes up with and there was one bit that they had "decoded" and it said something about some one coming into power and trying to take over the world (it didnt say that exactly but thats what these "experts" took it as).

now one of those "experts" has decided to do the tora and he says that he found a passage that says the world will end next year so either I can beleve him and not give a s**t about this govermental tyranny or vise versa.

This show was quite interesting I didnt beleve a word of it but was still quite interesting they also did one on the new world order and it just made the people that beleve in them look like crackpots. [addsig]





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