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It sounds like David Icke. If you really need someone to expound on this, you could read the source but we’re both on HN and likely reasonably similar. Can I gi
by hluska 5y ago
It sounds like David Icke. If you really need someone to expound on this, you could read the source but we’re both on HN and likely reasonably similar. Can I give you some loving advice??
Forget this. There’s nothing good in Icke. I’ve seen way too many brilliant hackers get sucked into David Icke’s bullshit on their way to a crash.
If you still really need closure, I can sum it up as the royal family, the elite and the ‘Illuminati’ are lizards, descended from aliens. Find architects who designed buildings for the Baha’i faith, then trace their contributions back to North American parliaments, legislatures and the like. Find the allusions to the Baha’i faith, find the allusions to Freemasonry and then you’ll see the projection of reality. Once you’ve seen the projection, you’re free from it.
Be safe. If you want to rap about the ideas with someone reasonably safe, I’m Greg and my email is in my profile. If you’re getting lost, I’ll give you my phone number.
Be safe and healthy.
Edit - The danger of Icke is that he takes basic geometry and civil engineering and somehow turns them into conspiracy. If you’re remotely scientific, you’ll see signs of Icke all around you. But some principles are principles because they work. We don’t need conspiracy theories to explain how professions grow.
Edit 2 - Don’t google David Icke. You’ll want the time back and I can’t offer refunds. :(
- batshit_beaver 5y agoWhat in tarnation
- hluska 5y agoI can’t make this shit up. The dude has published many books and found people who actually believe it all… If this startup thing doesn’t work out, maybe I’ll just start a cult. :) Edit - The second paragraph was a bad attempt at a joke. Don’t start cults. Fuck David Icke.
- colechristensen 5y ago> If this startup thing doesn’t work out, maybe I’ll just start a cult. :) I know you’re not being serious but unfortunately many people are in this kind of thinking. All over society are movements and groupthink driven by a small group of people that realized that you can get a whole lot of money and power by making people believe outlandish things.
- lowdose 5y agoJust enjoy the show!
- pstuart 5y agoI googled him. It took 3 seconds to realize I wanted my 3 seconds back.
- hluska 5y agoShitballs. Sorry bud - I edited the original post to suggest that people don’t google him. I’m sorry you went through that. :(
- pstuart 5y agoThanx, but I was braced based on your advice ;-) It's still in the same general territory as QAnon and the fact that 1/5 Americans drinks that kool-aid fills me with despair (and fear). https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/study-finds-nearly-one-five-americans-believe-qanon-conspiracy-theories-n1268722 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/study-finds-...
- b3morales 5y agoThough Icke predates QAnon by quite a bit, and I would almost say it is derivative of his "material". And the themes of the "Protocols of the Elders..." of course are shamefully evergreen in such discourse.
- pjc50 5y agoThis is why debunking doesn't work and "pre-bunking" is actively harmful.
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- hutzlibu 5y agoWell, I'd say for me googling him was fun. But I also just watched "Inside Job" a new cartoon series on netflix about all that(including shape shifting lizzard people), so I was in the mood. But I know, it is less fun, when you have to deal with people who takes that shit serious.
- Fnoord 5y agoI remember looking into this stuff around 2005, being intoxicated regularly (marihuana). What a waste of time. Anyway, I remember Icke plugging this fellow Credo Mutwa [1], some kind of shaman from South-Africa. The name sticked with me, cause I'm Dutch, and Mutwa kinda sounds like '<name> moet wa(t)' which in my mind jokingly meant "he's gotta earn a livin' somehow". All kidding aside, lunatics. Just reading his Wikipedia page (I'll plug it once more [1]) sheds enough light in the BS. Though, as long as you take it for what it is (fiction, comedy, propaganda?) its all good entertainment. Problem is, for most followers, it isn't entertainment... there's probably hordes of people not using safe medication, birth control, vaccines because of fellows like this :-( [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vusamazulu_Credo_Mutwa#%22Reptilian_agenda%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vusamazulu_Credo_Mutwa#%22Rept...