I don’t like to focus on bad things or bad influences in this world because that tends to give those bad things power. I like to focus on the good things and your real power to change your reality. For now, let me give you an example of mainstream media that endeavors to take that power away from your reality by replacing it with fear and rumors of wars.
The following extract is from cnn.com:
Global warming could increase terrorism, official says
Global warming could destabilize “struggling and poor” countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday.
Climate change “will aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions,” Thomas Fingar said. “All of this threatens the domestic stability of a number of African, Asian, Central American and Central Asian countries.”
People are likely to flee destabilized countries, and some may turn to terrorism, he said.
“The conditions exacerbated by the effects of climate change could increase the pool of potential recruits into terrorist activity,” he said.
“Economic refugees will perceive additional reasons to flee their homes because of harsher climates,” Fingar predicted. That will put pressure on countries receiving refugees, many of which “will have neither the resources nor interest to host these climate migrants,” he said in testimony to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Reactions to the report broke down along partisan lines, with Democrats generally praising it and Republicans expressing doubts. Committee members had concerns about the report’s secrecy, reliability and use of intelligence resources.
Global warming may have a slight positive effect on the United States, since it is likely to produce larger farming yields, Fingar said…
Wealthy countries will be able to handle the situation better than poorer ones, he said…
The impact of fighting and preparing for climate change may be greater than the effect of global warming itself, Fingar said…
Fingar said the intelligence community had relied on the science of others because it did not itself monitor climate change. He said the assessment was based on midrange predictions of global warming.
Oh, dear.
There’s also petty theft in the US because of global warming and economic depravity. Does that mean everyone is potentially a terrorist the worse things get? Of course not. “Terrorist” is just a convenient label that eliminates any grey areas.
You saw that last statement from the article. This finger person is building inverted pyramids by relying on the science of others. He’s making grand assumptions.
The problem is as I stated in the post, Social Mood: Influencing the Elements: Mainstream media shapes public opinion. Public opinion becomes social mood, then social mood precipitates social patterns including whatever dramatic/traumatic events induced by that mood.
I’m not saying that the people precipitated the events of 9/11/01. The problem is that most people allow their emotional securities to be shaped and molded by mainstream media in such a way that they do not clearly comprehend and mostly deny all the facts behind the events of 9/11/01; such facts do not jive with the reality of the presiding social mood and emotional securities. They prefer the negative hallucinations which they label, “conspiracy theory.”
Most people do not want to face the reality of implicating their authority figures for any kind of wrong doing. Most people do not want and do not like the idea of having control over their own lives. Most people do not want to think and feel for themselves; they weren’t raised that way. They want the newspapers, magazines, TV, and big screen movie actors to do that for them. “That’s what authority figures are for…” is what they say.
You know what? I agree with you. “That’s what authority figures are for…” as long as they’re good people. So here’s a bit of advice, a rule to live by, a law of living life, holy scripture. If you’ve never heard this one, it’s time to get back to your roots, you lazy bastard:
Matthew 24:
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1] And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
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2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
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3] And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
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4] And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
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5] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
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6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
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7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
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8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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9] Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
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10] And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
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11] And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
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12] And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
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13] But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
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14] And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
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15] When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
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16] Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
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17] Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
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18] Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
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19] And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
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20] But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
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21] For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
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22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
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23] Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
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24] For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
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25] Behold, I have told you before.
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26] Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
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27] For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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28] For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
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29] Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
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30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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31] And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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32] Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
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33] So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
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34] Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
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35] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
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36] But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
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37] But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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38] For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
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39] And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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40] Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
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41] Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
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42] Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
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43] But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
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44] Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
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45] Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
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46] Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
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47] Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
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48] But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
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49] And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
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50] The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
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51] And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.