In covering the Arizona law allowing cops to check immigration status, MSNBC had a headline, “Arizona Law Declares Illegal Immigration a Crime.”
BoardAd sent it to me without comment. But he is aware that he could have sent it to no one else without comment.
A crime is defined as doing something illegal. You may steal two cents as a misdemeanor, but is still a crime. But most people can’t think that way. Try sneaking into Mexico and see if it’s not a crime.
But I don’t think ANYBODY else would see the joke. Even Truck Roy took an explanation to get it.
BASICS. I work on basic the way Euclid worked on his logic. I don’t settle for “coming up with” an argument that wins a debate. I work at it and work at it and USE it until I can make the person I am talking to see how RIDICULOUS he is. He is not wrong on a POINT, he is doing pathological thinking.
You can hear Truck’s interview with me when he announces it. But I need HEIRS, people who THINK like me. I can’t afford to just laugh when some woman in a salon where I waited for my wife said, in the middle of her $500 hair job, “Looks don’t matter.”
It is a standard line, “looks don’t matter.” So standard that even in a salon no one sees it as funny.
And for me, the humor is running out. I got to get to my freezer or wherever the Lord puts me and I don’t want to leave behind a world of NOTHING BUT Pod People.
It would be nice to have others who can get the joke at the first line. It took me DECADES to develop this, so “I‘m just not smart like Bob” is NOT an excuse. I could have been understood, if not agreed with, by almost every literate American before WWII.
All crimes are illegal, gang!
Traitors are not hypocrites, gang. No one is more sincere than a traitor. He thinks that Jesus was Wise because Jesus told people to hurt themselves. Today’s race sincere is as sincere as the Trappist who treated himself the way no one would treat the lowest slave in the name “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
If a Medieval Trappist monk did unto another the way he did unto himself the other wouldn’t live a week.
Today’s treason morality is not radical. A person today who is Catholic immediately says something bad about Catholics, a Protestant talks down Protestant, and above all, a white wants his kind off the face of the earth.
This is not radicalism. This is the Medieval Trappism that the Trappists have now rejected.
If you make the other person see himself that way you can help them and us. But repeating “arguments” is a dead end.
Don’t expect to win. INTRODUCE them to THINKING.
The Mantra has taken so long to sink in that I have little time left to get people doing the thinking, sort of like Newton not being able to get around to gravity.
A lot of other people could have understood me before the Great Slave Generation came along. But THINKING, real thinking, is always rare.
#1 by BGLass on 05/03/2010 - 8:13 am
Ever since I decided to believe in Natural Reality, I’ve felt a lot less panicked. Even in a world violently committed to creating only Pod People, I’m convinced at least one new person will always Think. As a kid, I always wondered why people “couldn’t hear words.” That was the phrase I’d use to myself.
It’s why fundamentalism gets a bad name, imo. I was studying Judaism, and a Jew I knew was upset. “Go to Reform!” she kept saying. It terrified her that I was actually going to an Orthodox synagogue. Finally, I laughed and said if her communist relatives hadn’t destroyed MY church, I’d have gone THERE, but the whole point, imo, was that I wanted fundamentalism, and she couldn’t get that b/c the whole Idea of Jewish Fundamentalism made no sense to her.
In Judaism, it’s “Orthodoxy.” In Christianity, it’s (frowned upon) “Fundamentalism.” But a main point is that a word can mean what it means in fundamentalism. Not like in liberalism and Reform, where everything is a symbol and could mean exactly the opposite. So, to me, Reform was like Orwellian-speak.
But in fundamentalisms, it can take 2 months to go over one psalm. Every word is cross-referenced: for usage elsewhere, then considered in Aramaic, then in Hebrew, then in English, then in different translations. One word is a big deal. And what the author was trying to say is a big deal. (I mean, the author is GOD, which makes “a word meaning a word” very important.) Language is about actually SAYING SOMETHING. Like Odin hanging for runes, words are of utmost importance.
Real Education would show such fundamentalisms as “one paradigm” or way of approaching and discussing the subject or word, among many others. Then you might APPLY the Marxist model, or apply the Freud model, or apply the textual model. There’s an OBJECT, and you apply frameworks of understanding it. That’s what learning used to be about.
Wiki defines “fundamentalism” as a Protestant phenomenon, and says it has to do with “principles,” like they try to say the constitution does. In reality, it is a MODE OF TEACHING. But that can’t be discussed. Serious doctrinal differences aside, some Protestants would feel more comfortable in a Jewish Orthodox environment than liberalized Catholic, for these reasons. They are trying to meet with God by letting a word MEAN A WORD.
Without definitions, you cannot have real thinking.
It’s funny that Marx went on about this. His idea of the connection of “theory and practice” was key to “spontaneous revolution.” Ideas and Actions would connect, people would be thrown into Reality-based thinking— and that’s when they’d see that Marx’s own social class should rule the world and that would be best for everyone. It didn’t work out, but they’ve been writing tomes to fix the stupidity of the masses ever since. “The workers are smarter than us,” cannot occur to them. They cannot read words. And they cannot see the writing on the wall, either, (or remember That it’s God, himself, who Writes on the Wall, in the Book of Daniel, lol).
P.S., it’s heartbreaking to see the sidelined teachers in America. I would have no place in a school system and I know it— they want police.
#2 by shari on 05/03/2010 - 8:24 am
You said yourself that you never know WHO you are influencing. I have no doubt that you won’t be leaving behind pod people. We just are not in charge of everything. As for thinking, I find that sometimes I can’t think for love nor money. Other times I can’t STOP thinking. I don’t know why that is, but I bet a lot of people are the same way, both men and women.
#3 by Dave on 05/03/2010 - 10:02 am
Anything worthwhile takes sustained and real effort.
Wordism holds such large sway because it is so easy. The public as a whole is self-destructive because it is so easy to be like that. It is incredibly easy to become some sort of ideologue.
Your just pay your money and take a ride. That is what most people are like. They just wander around a system of purchase alternatives looking for a ride that appeals to them as if they were at a carnival. This is also the exact behavior of Mommy Professor.
College and universities are so popular among the young because it is so easy to follow that delusion as a solution as to what to do with their lives. It doesn’t matter that it results in enslaving debt, the frightened kid wants a solution. The predators lie in wait.
But to observe the world your very own self and then attempt to explain it with your very own mental horsepower takes real and sustained effort. To deal with life with autonomy and to get on stage and suffer the painful experiences that constitute real learning is another road entirely.
None of us are that bright. What is obvious and real comes into focus only with sustained effort. But the key is doing your own thinking and for that, you have to set aside books and look into the world directly. You have to set aside other people’s explanations and come up with your own.
Now the explanation of what is going on in relation to the new law in Arizona is easy. Nonwhites and anti-white white traitors are making war on us.
This war is not going to end. It is a permanent condition. We have no choice but to fight.
We are being forged in a crucible of endless attack. And our enemies will attack and attack and attack and attack.
My advice to my people is that they had better toughen up.
#4 by Peter rabbit on 05/03/2010 - 10:47 am
Consider us pollen people…some will waft in the wind causing alergic reactions while other will pollinate future generations.
#5 by Gator61 on 05/04/2010 - 8:23 am
I have always seen the obvious. I just needed Bob to point it out to me.
Actually I have always seen the obvious. I can remember as a child watching Dr. Suess’ Sneeches. If you recall it was all about two groups of Sneeches. One had stars on their bellies and one didn’t. The star belly sneeches had all sorts of fun, games and weenie roasts, which they wouldn’t allow plane belly sneeches to participate. Along comes a man with machines that can put on and remove stars for a fee.
Even as I child, I figured out that the Star Belly Sneeches were the best Sneeches on the the beaches. Both groups of Sneeches had the same beach. Both had plenty of money to spend on the star on, star off machine. Why didn’t the plane belly Sneeches just play their own games and have their own weenie roasts?
Asking questions like that in school did not make me an “A” student. Fortunately I had parents that encouraged Mantra thought even if they didn’t didn’t know it was called Mantra thought.
I am grateful to Bob for giving my natural inclination a more solid frame work and to the members of BUGS for moral support. It isn’t always easy to be the only one that can see things as they really are. It was tough being the only kid in the class that didn’t get the “correct” lesson of the Sneeches.
#6 by Berserker88 on 05/05/2010 - 8:04 pm
Thanks to BUGS I now constantly think about how amazing it is that nobody THINKS. I’m was always amazed about many nursing homes don’t have a morgue area in which to store deceased remains. The “experts” drew out plans to build facility where people will go to die, yet never THOUGHT about what happens when said people die.
#7 by backbaygrouch4 on 05/13/2010 - 6:10 pm
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley while speaking of the Arizona law opined, “Technically, it is not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts.” This lack of illegality raises the question, Why does Massachusetts need an Attorney General? It is a great sound cut, the sort of thing one could build an election campaign on. She will answer to the voters this November without an opponent.