[deMolay]

What kind of sheeple are you? Baaaaaaaaa. http://neithercorp.us/npress/?p=287

[Blacksmith]

An old one.

[deMolay]

Glad to see you still have your sense of humour, Blacksmith.

[PrestonSturges]

You left out the Christian Reconstructionist crowd that believe in a theocratic dictatorship and using violence to get there like Sharon Angle and their enablers like Rand Paul, who looks like he never learned to tie his own shoes.

The Tea Party is the most conspicuous bunch of sheep at the moment. Giver them a conspiracy theory and some slogans to yell, and boy howdy they are happy because they might just be on Fox!

[Pretorian]

Preston whom do you consider yourself to be if they are sheeple? Pastor? Woolf? God? Tapeworm in one of the above?

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'P')reston whom do you consider yourself to be if they are sheeple? Pastor? Woolf? God? Tapeworm in one of the above?

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'P')reston whom do you consider yourself to be if they are sheeple? Pastor? Woolf? God? Tapeworm in one of the above?

[PrestonSturges]

I may have asked this before - do you have some sort of point you want to make?

Declarative sentences are your friend.

[PrestonSturges]

The common thread for many sheeple is an alcoholic parent, and the coalcoholic (codependent, coaddicted) parent that backs up their authority.

Picture the stereotype alcoholic parent - insecure and compensating by telling everyone off, full of themselves, dumber than a bag full of hammers, threatening and scary to the kids. Fear, shame, and guilt rule the house. The kids have any critical thinking ability beaten out of them at an early age. There's your sheeple. And they'll rush to serve any sort of authoritarian.

The GOP got really weird when they started appealing to these adult survivors of crappy families by using actual unrecovered addicts as their figureheads. Many of us looked at W and saw (with or without a drink in his hand) a stupid drunk, we look at Glenn Beck and see a pathetic crackhead, but folks with alcoholic parents are likely to see "The Holy Spirit." because for them, God is the anthropomorphic Sky Daddy passed out on the couch in his tighty whities with a giant plastic jug of Popov vodka who occasionally wakes up and throws a few thunderbolts.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'W')hat kind of sheeple are you? Baaaaaaaaa. http://neithercorp.us/npress/?p=287

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I') may have asked this before - do you have some sort of point you want to make?

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'W')hat kind of sheeple are you? Baaaaaaaaa. http://neithercorp.us/npress/?p=287

[Outcast_Searcher]

Gotta love this kind of stuff. Everything is a conspiracy, and if you don't believe it, then you're one of "them" or a useless idiot.

Whatever else the internet is, it's a natural breeding ground for paranoia. Whatever bizarre beliefs or fears you have -- you're just a few clicks away from being able to share (and fan) those fears/beliefs with similar minded people.

And with no devil's advocate nonbelievers to hinder the process by proposing rational alternatives, the beliefs can spread like wildfire.

Fabulous.

Color me a skeptic sheeple.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'T')he common thread for many sheeple is an alcoholic parent, and the coalcoholic (codependent, coaddicted) parent that backs up their authority.

Picture the stereotype alcoholic parent - insecure and compensating by telling everyone off, full of themselves, dumber than a bag full of hammers, threatening and scary to the kids. Fear, shame, and guilt rule the house. The kids have any critical thinking ability beaten out of them at an early age. There's your sheeple. And they'll rush to serve any sort of authoritarian.

The GOP got really weird when they started appealing to these adult survivors of crappy families by using actual unrecovered addicts as their figureheads. Many of us looked at W and saw (with or without a drink in his hand) a stupid drunk, we look at Glenn Beck and see a pathetic crackhead, but folks with alcoholic parents are likely to see "The Holy Spirit." because for them, God is the anthropomorphic Sky Daddy passed out on the couch in his tighty whities with a giant plastic jug of Popov vodka who occasionally wakes up and throws a few thunderbolts.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I') may have asked this before - do you have some sort of point you want to make?

[efarmer]

I know some very fine Jewple Sheeple, I wonder what's up with Pretoriple, perhaps he has thin wool.

[Roy]

One thing is for sure. I was thinking about this last night. I don't know anyone outside the internet who likes to talk about current events outside of sports or showbiz.

Not one person other than my wife. I know some of every type of sheople (that should be the correct spelling) listed in the article.

I guess I'm the nihilist sheople type. It all started when I picked up my first book on WWII in the third grade, called Climax at Midway. And got worse when I started researching Pearl Harbor in depth in the early 90s. I found PO by accident while researching car hop up parts. Even back then I knew something wasn't right but chose to live like everyone else, maximizing personal gain, fun, and consumption. It was fun... wine women song, hot cars, motorcycles, sports, and lots of stuff.

When I first became aware of PO, I tried telling people I knew. That cost me some friends and alienated some family members.

It was then that I decided that it wasn't my job to inform those who didn't want to be informed. My job is to provide for my family now and in the future, whatever that future may hold. Whether that's complete collapse of this country, or business as usual for the rest of my life. I think the latter is far less likely than the former and that's what separates me from everyone I know in the meat world.

So I just don't give a ****. I do what I need to do and the let the rest wallow in their ignorance. Even trying to discuss inflation and the Federal Reserve with intelligent people causes them to get glassy eyed and change the subject. When all that info is uncontested fact; easily verified. People just don't want to know.

**** it and let the chips fall where they may. Life is too short for me to worry about other people when it seems that I consume all of my available energy just to provide for my family (one foot in the 'real world') and to prepare for an uncertain future (one foot in the 'doomer world').

Doom can come at us from so many different angles, whether it's PO, climate change, NWO, currency collapse, deflation, hyperinflation, et al. No one can predict which one it will be, or if it will be none of them.

So I just keep my nose to the grindstone and be the change I want to see. Nihilist-light perhaps. No need to be miserable when it such misery has no impact whatsoever on reality. That's what I believe.

Yeeee haaaaaa: it's gonna be one hell of a ride no matter what happens!

[deMolay]

Good Post Roy. The average person does not like doom and gloom. Even tho I think most folks know something is seriously wrong. They haven't quite put it into words, or put their finger on it yet. In my opinion all the dooms are basically tied to over population in one way or another. And in the case of North America uncontrolled immigration will overwhelm the enviroment. Food, water, pollution etc. brought on by increased population, what breathing space we may have had to correct problems will be wiped out by the rapidly increasing numbers in immigration in Canada and the USA.