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| Agent Matt | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 14:20 |
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 Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | The more you tell people they have to do something, the more they will fight against your ideas regardless of how good they might be. That attitude has cost more organizations my support than I can count even though I agreed with their goals. In some cases, I found myself actually motivated to try and accomplish the exact opposite of their goals as a result. For example, the Sierra Club actually makes me want to litter. | |||||
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| anticultist | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 14:32 |
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 Brainwashing you for money Level: 15 CS Original | I have a tip as well: Avoid spending thousands of dollars/rubles/euros or pounds buying your gurus paraphernalia and paying to visit him. Instead take a cardboard box cut a hole in it and slide a nice smiling image of your favourite spiritual/technological leader in it. Then take an empty milk carton and cut a hole into it. Now speak into it as loud and authoratative as possible, and be sure to make up any thing you can think of. The more it goes against your common sense and the rest of the worlds known facts the more realistic it will be. Problem solved you now have your very own guru in a box which is transportable to any location you choose. Guru in a box™ | |||||
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| Sil the Shill | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 15:17 |
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 Level: 9 CS Original | To be fair, not all activists are new age wackos seeking a Guru :P. | |||||
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| anticultist | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 15:26 |
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Brainwashing you for money Level: 15 CS Original | Tip for activists not seeking a guru: Guru in a box™ is offering a one chance only update, send us your email address and we will send you a choice of activist packs to choose from. Included in our glossy prints are images of poor homeless people, droughts, icebergs, forest fires, unemployment queues, toxic waste, scrap heaps and many many more great causes. Not only this we will send you a limited box strap, now you can take it to the streets ! Cause in a box™ is a subsiduary co. of Guru in a box™ | |||||
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| Sil the Shill | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 15:30 |
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Level: 9 CS Original | If the box is made from recycled newspaper, then I think we're good to go. | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 15:35 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | I didn't even have ZM/TVP in mind when I started this thread. I was actually irritated by some fanatic on the NRDC site. Human Rights Campaign and Planned Parenthood have lost my support lately. Sad. "It only takes twenty years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea." - Robert Anton Wilson | |||||
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| Sil the Shill | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 16:17 |
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Level: 9 CS Original | I wouldn't put every cause on the same tier as TVP. If you don't mind me asking Matt, what turned you off from HRC and Planned Parenthood? Not asking this like "Well they could do nothing wrong, so what was it. Hmm?!" Just curious. | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 16:25 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | "If you don't mind me asking Matt, what turned you off from HRC and Planned Parenthood?" Fanaticism. My support for their goals hasn't changed. Only my support for the organizations. I can go into more detail later, but right now I'm going home. | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 17:07 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | "HRC" HRC as an organization doesn't turn me off, but the members do. The vitriol against Obama really bothered me, especially since he is the first President who really brought gay rights issues to the mainstream dialogue. That point could branch off into a billion different ones, but that's really the gist of it. The zealotry turned me off. "Planned Parenthood" I have become so weary of organizations like Planned Parenthood turning medical safety issues into female social politics. Again, that point could branch off into a billion different ones as well. | |||||
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