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Jun 8, 2007 6:35:51 PM cite

What's the world's greatest lie?

by alchemists.law

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Dec 9, 2007 6:43:23 PM cite

Although it wasn't a lie when first conceived, the world's resources simply can't support Free Market thinking. So much of our current and future global strife is(will be) a result of this. In the west (particularly here in the US) it has become entitlement thinking: the belief that we are entitled to whatever we can get (damn the costs). So we use our influence to force our agenda across the globe in search of cheaper resources and labor. This is what has brought us to our current state. And if we successfully propogate this thinking to the population centers (China, etc) of the world, the future looks bleak indeed.

by mistweave

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Dec 7, 2007 7:01:51 AM cite

You are too ignorant---meaning child-like? You cannot decide for yourselves---meaning child-like? Our society expects you to act and function as an adult child might? The rules are for your own good! Unless we choose to break them and then the new rules are for your own good also? We, being your betters and metaphysical parents know what is best for you? The wealth of a society controlled through the effects/benefits of Mammon is our best shared hope? You know the Moslems hate us for such a philosophy? as a Child I acted as a child? A spoilt child? What adults may grow from a more educated, truthful soil?

by ozm8

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Nov 30, 2007 2:14:05 PM cite

That we protect and nurture the children of the world. Our future generation.

by umonahoes

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Nov 11, 2007 5:26:43 PM cite

I love you

by Thai sean

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Oct 16, 2007 2:14:35 AM cite

the church, in fact the catholics are jokin themselves. maybe there is something like god but it's one of the arrogantest things to use the natural impulse of mankind to believe in what they see. a confutation of the great book and an evil interpretation of it's wordz.. i think it's a very huge lie. same old story

by sparrow

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Oct 13, 2007 1:31:56 PM cite

by __anon_70489252

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Sep 14, 2007 2:35:23 AM cite

The greatest lie - as mainly told by neo-liberals and proponents of killer capitalism - is that it is a 'dog eat dog' world. That, since nature is revolving around competition of species in its 'survival of the fittest' form, it only stands to reason that we humans should operate on a same level. It is the greatest lie in that it is not only extremely damaging to our social conduct, environment and personal happiness, it is also an extremely incorrect analogy since violence along the stratum of Earthly species has always been as a 'last resort option'. Usually expressed in taking what is needed. Being blessed with imagination and thought, we humans in reality need very little to lead rich, fulfilling lives. So this deceiptful look of nature desperately needs to be adjusted.

by Windmill on Fire

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Sep 9, 2007 11:04:26 PM cite

The worlds greatest lie is that we believe we are everything that matters. We think we are the top-race and we are choosen to rule the world. With this illusion of fame and power we forget what really matters, we forget equallity and justice and love-> instead we promote power, money and hate. The greatest lie is that we believe we know everything and do everything right and by doing this fatal mistake we do everything wrong and in the end disprofit ourselves.

by Florita

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Sep 2, 2007 4:43:54 PM cite

The majority of the world has taken to heart the notion that good exists everywhere, in some form or another. They have been blinded by the media and government into thinking that good prevails over evil. But there is one fundamental problem with this notion: evil has power over man, it always has and it is most likely that it always will. People are murdered everyday. Crack dealers influence the lives of young adults everyday. People are paralyzed in car accidents--which can't really be called an accident when the other driver was drunk. Young men and women are getting injured and killed in a war that was based upon one man's ludicrous ambition. The world is not fair, and often times, good looses to evil.

by ADequalsfutbol

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Sep 2, 2007 1:54:13 PM cite

"everything is gonna be ok..."

by pabloperez

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Sep 1, 2007 1:42:53 PM cite

Is it possible to make somebody love you without telling this person that you´re interested in him/her and without asking him/her out?

by Joliemausie

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sorry but not likly

Feb 2, 2009 8:43:51 PM cite

I have been there and I realized you can’t make anyone love you; you will have to show yourself and your qualities. If they are the qualities that the other person is interested in you have a chance. However they may not want someone with qualities they may want someone with an exciting bad temperament, lots of people do. It might be love goes where it goes and we have no choice. Then if you are loving there will always have someone who appreciates it, however it could be your mom…

by Thai sean

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make?

Jan 31, 2008 7:07:58 PM cite

you can't make someone love you. You can love someone you barely know. You can love someone who is your best friend. You can love someone and not have a relationship with them at all.

by asrai

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Sep 1, 2007 1:37:44 PM cite

Do you think that animals can feel jealousy, pity and the wish to take revenge?

by Joliemausie

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Aug 31, 2007 11:40:10 PM cite

This is blasphemy in it's highest, and most common, form. To claim that a book, or books, passed down through manipulating human minds and hands, can tell us anything about God is truly a great lie. So many people lay their hopes and dreams in a Holy Book that encourages, in some places, hatred, intolerance, sexism, racism, etc. The authors of such books were grappling with their own God-experience, but we cannot ignore that they wrote within a specific historical and sociological timeframe. If there is anything to be learned from the Holy Books, it is that everyone experiences God in his and her own way. God is not necessarily a God of absolutes, not a polarizing God separating the world into clear rights and wrongs. People tend to go to the Holy Books for answers to moral dilemnas, but the grey area is overwhelming. I believe true spiritual maturity is knowing and acknowledging that we do not know God, and that we can only stand in awe of God's mystery.

by Gina

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Aug 31, 2007 9:06:00 AM cite

we move within and sustain by our action or inaction. all over the world there are cries for co-operative change, and in our hearts we ALL know those changes would have positive benefits to our entire biosphere.

by LiRuFong

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Aug 28, 2007 5:44:18 AM cite

That the truth exists

by ximetesis

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Aug 25, 2007 2:36:28 PM cite

Once upon a distant time, at the dawn of mankind, someone made a discovery much more powerful than fire. This discovery was the lie, and the knowledge how to use it. He couldn't make the others in the tribe do as he said, they would not listen to him. Until he learned the trick to refer to a higher power! He probably also learned how to predict the next thunderstorm, that gave credibility to his claims. Now they would follow his rules or face punishment from above. The rest is history.

by _fred_

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Aug 23, 2007 6:20:17 AM cite

The devil would like everyone to believe that lie so that no one can inherit to kingdom of heaven.

by Penny777

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Aug 22, 2007 10:10:20 PM cite

The Old Testament little tyrant god, the despotic, neurotic,lying lesser god,the god that gave commands then instructed they be broken.The god who caused great emnity by dividing man into types and tribes,winners and losers according to his whim and his word.Set man vs man, man vs woman, and all vs nature and animals.The god who claimed to create us from mud or spare rib,who claimed to create all, claimed to create our natures as a reflection of his and vilified and punished our natural and noble creativity, curiosity and quest to know. A self-hating god, completely schizophrenic, divided himself into 'good' and 'evil' waging internal war and projecting such upon humanity. The greedy, jealous and terminally insecure god who claimed to destroy mankind except for one who conformed to some agenda.The god who condoned and encouraged slavery,polygamy,deceit,revenge.The god who threatens that he shall, he will destroy mankind and the Earth for our 'sins' and not content with this impending horror, terrorises us with the 'final judgement' and eternal torment of our very souls - eternal, forever, forever .....No wonder he's to be feared if we believe, psychotic maniacs are terrifying. Thankfully, it's fiction. This god is man-made and we can tell this by his utter lack of scientific explanation of anything in the natural creative process to lend him credibility. To compensate for this lie, we are terrorised into never asking for explanations, because we are told that we are not worthy of god's explanations; we're mere, worthless clay on his potters wheel to mould or discard as he deems fit. I know where this god comes from, I know who's responsible for this greatest lie. Those who concocted this OT nightmare-tale of misery; it reflects their agenda perfectly and as it plays out, we are expected to believe it's GOD's will! hahahahah NO. Who wants to divide and rule? Who invades, rapes, plunders and destroys? Who hides knowledge and promotes lies? If this god is real then how can we respect something that hasn't the rudimentary knowledge of sibling rivalry (Cain/Abel) biology (men don't birth women from ribs) the immaculate conception (as if procreation was filthy and unnatural; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and neurosis) sex via possession with etheric entities, if it is so that 'as above so below'. It is tragic to be in it but comical to witness from a distance where this horrible unbelievable lie has taken is taking and will take us unless we see the honest plain truth. Look at Palestine - the creators and worshipper of this horrible, insane deity are hell-bent on fulfilling their own prophesies and over 2.2 billion people claiming to be 'believers' do nothing but support the global ruin and threat of annihillation of the human race because 'it's god's will' and feel powerless to seize the day. If they really are what they say they are, followers of JC then what are they doing with this Old Rubbish of the Old Testament. There is nothing to fear in this lesser little wizard of oz entity and his inventors. We are the light and the way we are in hamony with creation once we drop this garbage and get on with creating.

by DaftAida

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Aug 21, 2007 12:18:34 PM cite

my answer can be for an individual or for a group, a community, a nation. we can do anything we put our minds to doing? but we can't get it done alone. we need each other.

by flipzoid

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