
Originally Posted by
aixelsyd
Been there done that. Though I was listening more to the fringe groups who were telling me that they were going to round people up and that we would be tortured and killed if we didn't go along with the future fascist regime. Hey, I was like fourteen and gullible at the time. =P But yeah, I was scared shitless about what was going to happen.
All I can say is that there is no such thing as a secret group of people who are able to wield fate. You don't need to believe in a sovereign God, necessarily, to believe that humans are limited and that even the loftiest plans are bound to backfire when they are based on unreasonable and unethical ideals.
With the conspiracy group, there are many who call Alex Jones an agent of misinformation. So there are conspiracy theorists who are constantly wondering if something is misinformation or not. Anything could be argued as being misinformation engineered to mislead people and so, with that mentality, it is impossible to know what is true, what is not, or to ever come to knowledge of the truth.
The thing to know is whether some New World Order is being planned or not, it is about control and it is about freedom. According to theorists, the bad guys want to control you...your thoughts, your movements, and to monitor your every move.
But the Catch 22 is that for many who are all into this conspiracy stuff, they begin to be so paranoid that they are being watched and monitored that they already self-censor to the point that they are not free to speak and act because they are so aware of a possibility of there being some Thought Police out there and that one slip will make for negative consequences.
So they are so busy worrying and living somewhere between the truth and the lie of who they are to where they have lost confidence to find who they are in this life and live their role in this life to be who they are. They have already sold their freedom to Big Brother because they are not living freely and fully.
You only live once and there are so many things to be living for and there are so many people you meet in your life who would benefit to know you for who you are and see you for who you are. (hypothetical you, not you, humblepie, in particular)
There are so many people, yourself included, who would benefit if you looked at life positively and put that energy being put into trying to figure out what other people may or may not be doing to be informed, prepared, whatever into something that is more local and concrete and is able to reach the world around you.
The idea is that there is power in numbers and in money and in authority. But the truth is power comes from within. If you have a hold on your own inner power, your inner world, and so on your world, the world outside of you can never overpower you. If you are free within you are free without/on the outside. No one can restrain you.
Things which breed negative emotions are more often than not useless, especially when there is nothing you can do about it or that it makes you feel helpless and powerless. This is how fearful prophecies become self-fulfilling ones whether there is some Illuminati or upcoming totalitarian regime trying to control you. No, it is you who controls you and if you let fear control you, then you have already lost if the point is not being controlled by some fearsome power.
Instead of worrying, think of your family, your kids, the people you love, the world around you, the good that people do. Those things are so much greater in your particular world than some distant prospect of a fearful scenario.
If I had to choose between being scared of the elusive 'Them' or choose between the people in my life who I care about and focusing on them versus 'Them', I think I would pick them.
It's easy to rely on one person to interpret the world and the facts for you, and that is essentially what a lot of people do, if not most people do who are taken into the conspiracy theory thing. But relying on other people to think for you means that you are subservient to another. People are scared of being brainwashed by the media so they let themselves have their ideas be controlled by someone else who tells them that if they don't listen to them, the media will get them. It's just a psychological tactic that fringe groups, churches, and any extremist group uses to make you so fearful of being a mind slave that you choose slavery, hence how the 'Freedom is slavery, slavery is freedom' mentality as coined by Eric Blair comes into play.
Believe me, I have been there and done that and wasted several years of my youth living like that and so I, having gotten tired of being so depressed that I thought it better if I literally dropped dead, said "to hell with it," turned my back on every authority and winged it, being open to learn from anything and anyone without needing to subscribe to any particular authority.
While I was depressed to the point of physical sickness prior because of all that negative crap, I have felt more stable, more free, and more myself since.
Just don't listen to that stuff if it brings you down. You are not turning your ear from the truth by doing so. You are protecting yourself, your mind, and opening doors for better opportunities lending towards growth instead. Because your life is your life and strangers on radio show programs, in seats of government, or on the Internet can tell you what they want to tell you, but none of them can tell you what you should do with your life or how to make the most of the time you have living. Only you can find what making the most of life means, and it seems that a bunch of mysterious maybes about the future which are shrouded in fear and foreboding are not conducive to really figuring out how to optimize time for yourself and for others.