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No force on earth can force a thought to happen. :?: Elephant! Did you think of an elephant? The thinker is the thought. The thought is the thinker. In the same instant. ''thought'' is a movement within stillness. The changing within unchanging. Did reading "elephant," make thought happen?

commonsense wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:53 pm

Where is the thread named something like Transitory Nightmare: 143 words?

There's a good chance that conditions are favourable for reposting your topic in the proper sub-forum. I didn't read your thread that I recall, so I don't have any suggestions about which category that would be.

What power? As I say: outside of PN and its forum, the owner and proxies aren't jack shit. There's no real power to speak real truth to. As for the 'facts': again, the owner, the proxies can do what they like 'here' (and that's limited to deletin' posts and bannin' posters [big whup]). c'mon, folks...

Awesome delivery.

The All-Powerful Lion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIiA4SM3LEY

Any thread can elevate to philosophy, even one inspired by the dearly departed (threads).

Come on now, assume as the absolute that there's nowhere to run to with silence, and like Winston Smith, you must reply.

Real truth to real power, in real time.

However, once something is posted and has been removed, then that’s censorship. Well, I've always seen censoring as what a gov does (you can't say that, print that, anywhere), but that may simply be my idiosyncratic view. Oh, you're right on there. That's another form of mind control. For example, ...

I think a good lesson provided by the mod for witnesses and participants, is the highlighting of attachment to one's own brilliance and past efforts.

Now let's see what happens, taking into account that nothing happening is a happening.



"Even if you lose, don't lose the lesson!"

For instance, some folks in the US government have been censoring a lot of information to Congress. With his legal authority, President Trump has stepped in and removed the censorship gag from that information. President Trump is saying, let’s cut the crap and let the truth shine. (At least then spi...

I get your point, Henry. However, once something is posted and has been removed, then that’s censorship. There’s lots of reasons for censorship. The reasons you mention are certainly justified. But then again, requiring another to bow to authority, even if the other is a vagrant guest enjoying a bit...

Were there pictures in the thread?

I think pictures are grounds for censorship in these conditions, unless they're presented as links and are relevant to the topic, although a few daring souls do push the envelope now and then, probably just some natural human urge to expand borders.

DAM wrote:No force on earth can force a thought to happen.

Elephant!

Did you think of an elephant?

“As Venezuela descends into chaos there is dead silence from all the leftists from @MMFlint to Sean Penn who cozied up to Hugo Chavez.”

- Dinesh D’Souza

Polls consistently show that in relation to other issues, voters could give a hoot in hell about the fabricated, intricately inferred connection between the weather and politics. For example, President Trump actually did not cause Hurricane Florence, and will not be the cause of future hurricanes. A...

It looks like there might be some other factors to consider. One biggie is the control of information, and controlling perception by how facts are presented to voters. This, and an indoctrinated world view*, can control the thoughts of voters. When thoughts are controlled, then what folks think is t...

Between the idea and action lies the mischief.