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libertypirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 03:21 PM
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The needle in the haystack… A media perspective
Sometimes things become less obvious when they are grouped with other similar things. It makes only the differences stand out and what are normally obvious traits become subtly hidden to the mind. Quite simply it’s key to fooling us humans, make important information redundant thus boring and no one will see it. You can put anything in the background this way.

Well that got me thinking...


http://benumbment.blogspot.com/2005/04/needle-in-haystack.html

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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 03:23 PM
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1. Kick!
wasn't there a report somewhere of a guy at Yale who claimed to have slept with Bush?
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 03:27 PM
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2. I think that would be his friend
Victor Ashe. google him and see what you find.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 03:37 PM
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3. The only people really fooled are the self-hating homophobic
homosexuals working for the repug agenda. They know not what they do because they themselves are blinded by self-loathing. They must work for the people who hate them the most.

Not uncommon. Just ask David Brock - goes to the issue of not being honest with yourself about yourself. They hate what they are even more than Robertson and Falwell hate who/what they are.
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libertypirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 04:24 PM
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4. I don't think so...
How could you come to the conclusion that they are only hurting themselves, when they lie to everyone even those that trust them?

Sometimes we need to imagine there is more that we don't know, then what we are sure we actually know.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:30 PM
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5. I didn't say they were hurting themselves - I said they were
self-loathing. The self-hating drowns out any possibility of rational thought about hurting themselves and others. They can't get that far down the road - they are stuck at the wall of personal disgust.
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libertypirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:52 PM
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6. I see your point, but also think there is just much much more
How do I know they are self loathing? I don't know anyones motivations for doing anything... Why do so many gay people find such an open atmosphere for gay people in the Bush Whitehouse?

Don't you think they would find somewhere to work that doesn't promote homophobia?

Would you go to work someplace that seemed out to get you?
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 10:18 PM
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7. I ask gay men all of the time why they go to Southern Baptist
and other rightwing churches. Frankly, they can't answer but the answer seems obvious. Because these men don't have internal love they are always looking for a group that rejects them to change their group think and love them.

Don't you get it - so many gay people hate themselves and are looking to come to self-love after acceptance by others. In the case of what appears to be repug acceptance of gays - they elbow each other and wink when they aren't watching.

Same with blacks. Same with browns. Same with women. There is no love in that party - just hate.

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libertypirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-13-05 11:58 AM
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8. Exactly why we need dialog...
On the left coast of uber tolerance we see people and many times not their particular flavor. I grew up in a neighbor hood where I had a lesbian to my left and a queen to my right. Also a friend of theirs on the opposite corner who seemed private, but I know he was gay too. I did not know much about him but the queen lived in a converted garage and my bedroom window was close. Maybe because of my own experience I can’t fully understand their self-hatred.

Here is the deal name one common consistent character flaw in those that impose harm to others, and it gets back to their self-hatred.

If I were going to blackmail or coerce a type of person for my own corrupt reasons I would want someone who is able to do things against their own best wishes.

Now just doing that mental map of self-hatred I can see your point.

I think we would be best to define a republican party image that would allow the people who want to do good to stand separate from those that are corrupt; not helping our information sources define the sides.
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