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    Quote Originally posted by Aragorn View Post
    No, that is exactly why it's dishonest. Making claims and expecting people to accept them without that you supply any evidence for said claims is propaganda.

    Propaganda is a one-way street, not a discussion. It does not lead to all parties involved gaining any knowledge or wisdom from the discussion, but instead to one party indoctrinating the other parties with his/her own vision/ideology/opinions. I think the current state of the US American society — and of large parts of Europe — would be evidential enough of how and why indoctrination and propaganda are bad.

    Fairness dictates that if you have an opinion which would disrupt the natural flow of the discussion because of any objectionable qualities associated with the sources being cited in the discussion, then you should either present the evidence as justification for the disruption of said discussion, or refrain from disrupting the discussion altogether in the first place. If you do not provide a verifiable justification for why you are disrupting a discussion, then all you will have brought to the discussion is the very disruption itself.

    In the Dutch language, we have an expression for that, which translates to English as "throwing a stick into the hen house." And that's exactly what a troll would do. Not that I'm calling you a troll, of course. I am merely confronting you with the dishonesty of your tactic, because I believe that you yourself may not even be aware of this dishonesty, given that — as I said higher up already — it isn't the first time you do this.

    I distinctly remember that not too long ago, you were full of prejudice on account of both Abby Martin as an individual and RT as a news network — even though Abby Martin hasn't even been working for RT anymore in years — and that, after I confronted you about your prejudices, you had to admit that you had been wrong, and especially on account of Abby Martin.







    Don't be silly.
    True about Abby Martin...but I wasn't dishonest...I was being...being...being...stupid. We can call it stupid but it was really just wrong...so if being wrong is stupid then I was stupid...on the other hand if being wrong is just being wrong then I was wrong... I'm still not fully convinced...full disclosure...and I say that not to be 'disruptive' rather to be honest. Whatever her motivation, she is surely a dedicated journalist and as such I hold her in full respect (until she admits she is a Russian propagandist...but not until then)
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    Quote Originally posted by NotAPretender View Post
    I've never done that...so ok...The truth always outs in the end...so here we go:

    never mind...I am stating opinions...how could I do anything else...ban me if you like...I'm not into backing up anything I say...that isn't my point. It merely prolongs the agony for everyone. I placed my honest opinion out there...I know it is true and that's good enough for me...

    The nuance of this guy's words speak vastly louder to me than his words. Wouldn't you rather discover that on your own?
    Opinions are something that you have when you have made up your own mind. How can you have an opinion when you just reiterate somebody else's opinion? It's pretty hard to change a mind that is not your own. (I see this all the time with religious people). Very often it's wiser to say nothing. Please...

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    you know that is a bit of true wisdom there...something for me to listen to...but...

    I listened first and I heard words that are 'signals' to me about where the speaker is coming from. That is why i checked his background...it corroborated what my instincts were telling me. Unfortunately when that happens I form an opinion.

    Morality matters...period. It matters not from whence it comes. I have been trying to find ways to explain to Modwiz that Gaian worship is no holier than Abrahamic tradition, nor less than. That is the vital lesson to be learned. It is about what our individual spirits are saying to us where we gain insight. Allegiance is a poor substitute for faith...

    And most importantly it is misguided to 'condemn and criticize' others spiritual orientation.

    I have no idea how, really no idea, how ancient traditional spiritual beliefs have morphed into white supremacy but it is occurring. And it seems exceedingly, exceedingly strange to me.
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    Perhaps it is what my daughter refers to as 'Cultural Appropriation'? Another form of 'colonialism'?

    It is the Archontic infection in its living breathing manifestation?
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    Cultural appropriation is a tricky term. If you're trying to be something you're not, then it can apply. But if you're recognizing, enjoying, participating in a culture, it's not appropriation.

    People need to be able to celebrate culture without worrying about being accused of appropriating. We'll be fighting over every bit of clothing, jewelry, speech and song if we go too far down that road.

    Consider the fact of peoples all over the world living together with different cultural traditions. We can't all be in specialized enclaves, as in ghettos.


    So don't pretend you're an Indian, as in American. Just know what it means when you wear something and be able to tell about it. Give the people credit. That's sharing culture.

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    Oh yeah, we all do it all the time...

    When my daughter complained about that it gave me pause...I didn't disagree with her because I want her to find her own way in terms of values (as long as they have a solid foundation, of course). But what I didn't say was that I view cultural appropriation as a measure of respect. But as long as the motivation is pure...ah, there I say it...purity...it is all about purity...moral purity...

    Moral purity holds a place of prominence in my consciousness. We can do, say, feel anything we want as long as our motives are pure!
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    Quote Originally posted by enjoy being View Post
    The creation story:

    The swirl (it seems obvious now) is analogous to the Mayan 'G' symbolising the Cosmic Father = creation/universe and the Tree, of course 'T' is integral to knowledge, life.
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    I have abandoned this thread. It is was removed from the relevant category and, other issues that make efforts to expand our connection to a greater reality fruitless in the current forum environment and composition of members.

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    "To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" -- Voltaire

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    Interesting I always took the Goldilocks story to mean that Goldilocks was a presumptious little b*tch going into somebody's house and making herself at home...really
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    To know you do not get it, is important.

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    A book on the Patupaiarehe of NZ. An excerpt of which I placed in the Lounge thread too... They are often referred to as fairy folk, but their description is more like a demigod race of sorts, within the book are tales of encounters with them. These are not the only mythical beings spoken of in NZ, some seem to be 'just' peoples of early inhabitance of NZ, who could well have been ancestors of the Lemurian culture and others.



    Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori

    Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori — Introduction — Maori Legends of the “Patu-paiarehe.”


    A New Zealand poet once lamented the dearth of fairy lore in these islands, and in his ignorance made complaint:

    Why have we in these isles no fairy dell,
    No haunted wood, nor wild enchanted mere?

    He declared that this lack of faerie glamour must be filled by the imaginative writer—“The poet's art—as yet without avail—must weave the story.” It was unfortunate that a writer with so sympathetic a muse had never heard of the Maori's rich store of fairy legend and wonder-tale, of endless folk-talk about the supernatural, the sprites of the woods, the elusive Patu-paiarehe, the mysterious wild men of the mountains, the strange spirits that haunt great pools at river-sources, and streams and lakes. For all this in endless variety we have in New Zealand. There is not another country, not even Ireland or the fairy ridden Isle of Man, so full of folk-memories and primitive beliefs of this kind. The only reason that the pakeha does not know of it is that very, very few have gone to the trouble to delve into this class of myth and tradition and preserve while there is yet time the curious and poetic tales which crystallize for us the old Maori belief in unseen presences and the fairy folk that haunted many a lofty mountain and many a shadowy wood.

    Fairies, giants, fabulous monsters, marvel-working magicians, strange apparitions of forest and alp, have ever been found in countries of such a mountainous, broken and generously-wooded character as New Zealand, and it would be strange indeed if so imaginative a race as the Maori-Polynesian had not peopled the land with all manner of curious extra-human beings.

    Poetic above all the other myths of the strange and supernatural are the many stories which tell of that mystic race the Patu-paiarehe. This name Patu-paiarehe is the term applied by the Maori to the mysterious forest-dwelling people who for want of a more exact term may be described as the fairies of New Zealand. They are spoken of as an iwi-atua, a race of supernatural beings, and they are accredited with some of the marvellous powers attributed to the world of faerie in many other parts of the globe. Some folk-tales of the Maori describe them as little people, but the native fancy does not usually picture them the tiny elves common to the old-world fairydom. Most of the legends I have gathered give them the ordinary stature of mortals, while at the same time investing them with some of the characteristics of the enchanted tribes of other lands.

    The Patu-paiarehe were for the most part of much lighter complexion than the Maori; their hair was of the dull golden or reddish hue “uru-kehu,” such as is sometimes seen among the Maoris of to-day. They inhabited the remote parts of the wooded ranges, preferring the highest peaks such as Hihikiwi, on Mount Pirongia, and the summit of Te Aroha. They ventured out only by night and on days of heavy clouds and fog. They lived on forest foods, but sometimes they resorted to the shores of sea and lake for fish.

    They had a great aversion to the steam rising from the Maori cooking-ovens, and to the sight and smell of kokowai, the red ochre (hæmatite earth mixed with shark oil) with which the Maori bedaubed his dwelling and himself. They were greatly skilled in all manner of enchantments and magic, and they often employed these arts of gramarie to bewilder and terrify the iwi Maori. Nevertheless we find them at times living on good terms with their Maori neighbours, and indeed (see the Story of Tarapikau in “The Wars of the Fairies”) guarding the interests of their friends of the outer world and resenting any interference by Patu-paiarehe from another district.

    The Patu-paiarehe, in a number of these fairy tales, constituted themselves the guardians of sacred places and visited their displeasure on those who neglected the rites for the propitiation of the forest deities.

    This class of folk-tales no doubt originated in the actual existence of numerous tribes of aborigines who dwelt for safety in the more inaccessible parts of these islands. Many of them were reddish-haired, with fairer complexions than those of the Maori; the remnants of an immeasurably ancient fair-haired people who have left a strain of uru-kehu in most Maori tribes. As in the case of the ancient Picts (whence the word “pixy”), who were driven to take refuge in the caves and mountains of Scotland and Wales and the Peak of Derbyshire, the forest-dwelling refugees of New Zealand gradually became to the more powerful race an enchanted wizardly tribe, possessed of powers of transformation and of becoming invisible at will. The Patu-paiarehe were, as a rule, shy and peace-loving. The fiercer foresters, the Maero of legend, were not unlike the Fynnoderee of Manx country tales who played malevolent tricks on the farmer folk.

    The dense and thickly-matted character of the New Zealand forest, with a closely-woven roof of foliage through which the sunshine was filtered to a twilight, in the inner sanctuaries of the Wao-tapu-nui-a-Tane, made strong impression on the imaginative Maori mind, and it was natural to people the heart of the bush with unseen presences and supernatural creatures. The conjecture-provoking sounds heard in the forest in the quiet of the night, noises known to those who have bivouacked much in the high woods, heightened the popular belief in the existence of fairy folk.

    Patu-paiarehe legendry in the North Island, so far as my enquiries go, is associated chiefly with the forested peaks of the Waikato-Waipa basin, the Cape Colville-Te Aroha range, and the hills about Lake Rotorua. That beautiful mountain Kake-puku, in the Waipa Valley, was a fairy resort; there is a deep wooded valley on the western side beloved of the Patu-paiarehe from Pirongia mountain. They did not venture to other parts of the mountain because they sometimes saw the Maori fires burning on the summit and on the eastern and northern sides. Their path was in the drifting clouds and low-lying banks of fog like the Irish fairy king in William Allingham's old song:

    “With a bridge of white mist
    Columbkill he crosses,
    On his stately journeys
    From Slieveleague to Rosses.”

    In the South Island the sterner character of the landscapes, the tremendous craggy heights that wall Lake Wakatipu about, the vast white chain of the Alps, the solitudes of the tussock prairie, the silent forests, the deep, dark blue alpine lakes, tended to provide grim legends of the Maeroero, the page 7 wild men and giants of the mountains, rather than folk-talk of the Patu-paiarehe. There was also a basis of fact in the historical tradition of the Ngati-Mamoe fugitives driven into the trackless forests of the great south-west, there to disappear, to vanish like the moa. “They still haunt the western forests,” said an old man of mingled Ngati-Mamoe and Ngai-Tahu blood, when we discussed the mystery of the vanished clan of his people. “They are an iwi-atua, gifted with supernatural powers. The reason they are not seen by pakeha explorers is that they can call down the mists and clouds of the mountains to conceal them, as they did long ago when they were pursued into the wilderness beyond Lake Te Anau. Na te kohu i whakaora—the fog is their salvation.”*
    ....
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    Quote Originally posted by Aianawa View Post
    To know you do not get it, is important.
    Ok, I was being nice...I do get it...but I think it was unnecessary...
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