knobmeup wrote:
a bit of quasi religious manipulation is one thing...
what truly sickens me is that icke can be paraphrased as saying, you are condemning your progeny if you dont cough up.
that is sick. just fucking sick.
That's still part of the same religious manipulation mate ... `Think of the children`... has been utilised to annihilate followers from the start ... 'Suffer the children and bring them into me' (paraphrasing). It's all part of the manipulation of the energy of procreation.
It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
Religion always leads to rhetorical despotism. This leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities. It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil. It feeds on deliberately twisted meanings to discredit opposition. It leads directly to hypocrisy which is always betrayed by the gap between actions and explanations. They never agree. Ultimately, it rules by guilt because hypocrisy brings on the witch hunt and the demand for scapegoats.
You may think of this only as sexuality but we prefer the more basic term: procreation. It has many facets and offshoots and it has apparently unlimited energy. The emotion called 'love' is only one small aspect. This energy must have an outlet. Bottle it up and it becomes monstrously dangerous. Redirect it and it will sweep over anything in its path. This is an ultimate secret of all religions.
Quotes from the Dune series, Frank Herbert.