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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 02:39 PM
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An utterly AMAZING forum
Make sure that your tinfoil hat is securely fastened before visiting: http://www.outlawjournalism.com/forum/index.php



One caution: I didn't delve too deeply, other than to get a basic sense of the insanity. It's entirely possible that the site is chock full of racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and the like. It's also possible that none of these are present.

Beware, just in case!

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meeshrox Donating Member (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:51 PM
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1. Yes, thanks for that...
Edited on Thu Apr-01-10 05:52 PM by meeshrox
For fun, went into a "science" forum. The asteroid that killed the dinos was a "passing supernova fragment"...right...

Name of the thread: "Experts confirm" asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs :rofl: Posters named "spock" and "neo" again,:rofl: so original!

Just wanted to share that tid-bit. :)

Thanks for that gem...entertaining!

ETA link: http://www.outlawjournalism.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5118
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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 12:32 PM
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8. Ha! That full post deserves repeating...
Edited on Fri Apr-02-10 12:34 PM by onager
if it were true, more likely a passing supernova fragment.

it did a lot more damage to our neighbors - destroyed one into pieces and knocked the ecosystem out of the other.

As for the earth, it was the fall of Lemuria.


Wow. What a site!

Some of the posters start out sounding relatively sane. Then go right off the deep end with their own pet theories. I also suspect some trolling skeptics, but as always, it's hard to tell.

The place seems to attract lots of Velikovskians and Edgar-Caycians, which figures.

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EvolveOrConvolve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 06:30 PM
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2. I found this amazing tidbit in a post on sanity
"I look at my existence as a kind of computer game where there are certain rules I must follow in order to get to the next level. I have to shoot those monsters and complete missions."

http://www.outlawjournalism.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4071

That's some scary shiznit.
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meeshrox Donating Member (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 08:47 PM
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3. What the fuck is he saying, anyway?
Was their name NEO? :rofl: I saw some great handles there, too! HA!
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EvolveOrConvolve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 09:23 PM
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4. I dunno, but it was a beautiful looking word salad
I don't think even he knows what the fuck he was saying. Probably thinks it will get him laid because he's this cool, mysterious dude.
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meeshrox Donating Member (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 09:25 PM
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5. Agreed...beautifully colored salad...
my aunt the caterer would be proud!
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 03:51 AM
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6. Oh look! "Big Pharma destroys Dr. Wakefield"

Today, the same tactics of disinformation and truth destruction are now being leveled against Dr. Wakefield, the courageous scientist who was the first to prove that vaccines were linked to autism. For the last twelve years, his research provided ammunition for opponents of mandatory vaccinations — people who were concerned about the safety of injecting synthetic chemicals and methyl mercury into the bodies of infants.

The truth was getting out and vaccine skeptics were winning the information war. The H1N1 vaccination campaign was a complete failure — 80% of Americans rejected the recent H1N1 vaccine, for example. Drug companies needed to shut down the opposition as quickly as possible and put a lid on any resistance to mass vaccinations. The whole future of profits for Big Pharma, after all, depends on the public accepting more and more vaccines for “preventive” medicine. This means you get vaccinated for all sorts of things that you don’t have and may never get. The vaccines are sold to people as a kind of chemical-based health insurance program.

To ensure the profitability of that future, Big Pharma needed to destroy Dr. Wakefield’s credibility. So they paraded a long list of pro-vaccine doctors and drug pushers in front of the media to accomplish essentially the same thing that was accomplished against Fleischmann and Pons in 1989 — the obliteration of their credibility in order to suppress the truth.


Looks like hours of amusing reading in there.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 10:18 AM
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7. Recommends "Darwin and the New World Order"
:eyes:

In the Minds of Men: Darwin and the New World Order

Amazon review:
"This is THE textbook for creationist apologetics

I have used this book extensively to teach classes, write papers, and debate issues..."

:banghead:

On the forum:
"This book confirms that Religion, politics and even most "scientific facts" are all based on opinions, human error, greed and guess work. Not facts!"

Oh joy, a thread that starts:
"Where we can talk about what filth the fundamentalist atheist idology, and pseudo-skepticism, really are!"

It's a cesspit.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-10 01:03 PM
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9. What a forum!
Edited on Sun Apr-04-10 01:03 PM by LeftishBrit
Yes, plenty of racism, antisemitism (including Holocaust denial), and general Ron-Paul-worshipping right-libertarianism.

And I found a lovely thread about Britain, including lots of links to the Daily Hate-Mail and similar and worse sources, and the inevitable question, "Is it any different from Nazi Germany?' Not to mention such gems as the following:

'Society today, which puts cushions under everybody's arms (from cradle to grave), and also bombards us with television and mind-killing "entertainment" probably also contributes to a rise in the number of old people with dementia.'

(Well, I suppose putting cushions under everybody's arms DOES contribute to a rise in the number of old people with dementia - that tends to happen when people are prevented from dying young.)

(On the evils of British attempts to reduce racism):

'babies are programmed to like that which is most similar and familiar to them, if they look like their parents and spend time bonding with their parents they will like them. put them in a daycare center with other babies and they will freak out, kids with other traits dont look like their parents or direct family.

This will surely end up with some type of "genetic determination of racism "bulshit reasoning emerging from the scientific establishment. then a genetic test for racism, of course the elites who have been inbreeding for centuries are not racist, for they do not carry the gene'.


(And more on same):


'So it would seem, yes. Predictive programming? Either way, it's quite obvious the pseudo-scientific / political agenda which is being so gallantly pursued.

Perfecting that which was left un-perfected

Stamping out "discrimination", eh? Would that be blue or red? Milk or juice? Here or there? Up or down? Do you like it or dislike it? Make or female? Now or later?

Truth is there is not a single part of our lives, hardly a moment which does not contain some form of discrimination. And as with everything else one could possibly imagine, these sick bastards want to "fix" this.

Ah yes, brace yourself people, here comes the "war" on discrimination

You're right Splinter. Due to their superior breeding & genetic fibre, naturally none within the ranks of the elite could ever be "racist", "terrorist", suffer from any dangerous mental problems, tell a lie, steal or kill.

Such notions are in fact utterly inconceivable.

And the slave shall serve.'

(Yikes!)
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-10 09:30 PM
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10. Wow!Get a load of this bullshit!
How to Become a Millionaire Self-Help Guru (it’s easy!)

Now you can become a millionaire as Self-Help Guru! Just follow this simple six-step plan and in no time you’ll be living the life you thought you would have if you followed the advice of Self-Help Gurus!

STEP 1 - Pick some ubiquitous aspect of being human, something that a large number of people experience — like having unpleasant thoughts or feelings, having difficulties at work or in relationships, or having parents — and tell people that having this common condition is, in fact, proof that there is something wrong with them.

STEP 2 - Make up a theory about why they have this newly-minted “problem.” Don’t get too caught up on this step. Any theory will do: unremembered visits from aliens, “astral demons” that only you can see (this is a good one because nobody can prove you wrong!), having sadistic “parts of you” that want you to be unhappy, or the old classic, having parents that weren’t perfect when you were a child. Part of the theory must include the idea that not believing you have a problem is, in fact, proof you have the problem (you’re just in denial about it).

STEP 3 - Write a book or, better, give a workshop that promises to fix the “cause” of the “problem.” If you can come up with a cool name for the problem, the cause or the end-result, so much the better. Here are some examples that have worked well in the past: Inner Child, Co-dependence, Enlightenment. The key here is to engender an AHA! experience — a moment where the person feels some release or a rush or, at the very least, the idea that they can be free of this human experience once and for all. This is especially easy in a workshop setting where, frankly, if you charge enough money and put a bunch of strangers in an unusual place you’re guaranteed to get “results.”

The book and workshop circuit can get you to the 6-figure mark, but if you really want millions, then you need these next steps.

STEP 4 - Create the “ADVANCED COURSE” for when the students don’t quite “get it,” or who “lost it” when the adrenaline they got pumping by yelling “YES!” for 3 days wore off, or for when, for any reason, “it’s just not working.” Make sure you promise to reveal secret techniques that will speed up the process 100 times! At the end of the course, make sure you collect testimonials from people about how they FEEL their life will change in the future… use these to keep promoting the earlier books, workshops, etc.

STEP 5 - Begin a training program, certifying others to teach your technique. Make sure you:

* Charge at least 10x what your workshops cost… after all, you’re giving these people a livelihood!
* Get a percentage of whatever your mini-me’s earn when they use your material

STEP 6 - Keep building the list of participants from all these programs and then, simply, repeat from Step 1, selling your “newest, greatest, most life-changing discovery yet!” to the ever-growing group (or, by now, groupies). Ideally make your new works available as books, CDs, DVDs, telecourses and anything else you can think of. By the way, you don’t need to start from scratch! You can use the exact same “problems” and “solutions” you’ve already used, just with newer, cooler names! Oh, and make sure that you have enough new material to distract people from some events that will likely happen as you carve out your self-help millionaire niche: bankruptcy, divorce or affairs, health problems, kids who say you’re a fake.

Step 6, done correctly, can put you on a rocket ship to riches.

OPTIONAL INCOME ACCELERATOR - Use this optional step very carefully, as it can either put you on the ULTRA fast path or lead to a humiliating crash and burn. Here it is: Claim that you’re channeling all your teachings from a mega-smart non-physical being. This “being” can be from another planet, or from Atlantis, or merely a universal intelligence, but make sure it speaks with an ever-evolving accent. Don’t underestimate the power of this tool.

See you at the top!

:hide:
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
What a strange site.
Definitely homophobic.Whats interesting,though,is there homophobia does not seem to be religously inspired.It appears many there see it as a means by which the 'NWO' controls population growth and curtails dissent by the 'pussification' of men.

Have not come across any rascism yet.

Definetlly anti woo,as referenced above.

I will say this.There are a couple of posters who are very knowledgable concerning propoganda and dis/misinformation campaigns.Too bad they are on the wrong side.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-10 09:41 PM
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11. Well gosh.
I had no idea the jews attacked us on 9/11. I thought it was them other fellers. Live and learn, I guess.

http://www.outlawjournalism.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2866
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 08:07 AM
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12. That's nothing. Didn't you also read that we INFLUENCED ALEISTER CROWLEY?! Gasp! Horror!
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-10 07:48 AM
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13. How to tell the difference between REAL clouds and the government clouds:
I had this fear back in 2002ish.

That they would eventually get so good at it, and it will have been going on for long enough people will genuinely lose the ability to tell real clouds from fake ones.

Here's a trick: The nature of clouds is SO precarious of a system that quantum effects alone can move clouds. That is, just by looking at them. If it's mentally malleable, it's probably a real cloud.

I used to sit with a powerwand (turned on) and punch holes in clouds for fun. With my mind.

Impossible is nothing.


If you can poke holes in a cumulonimbis cloud using nothing but your mind and, apparently, a "powerwand," then it's a real cloud. Otherwise, it's a NWO-sponsored chemtrail designed to either give you cancer or to make you infertile, thus causing depopulation. Good to know, really. Here I was all this time, believing my third grade teacher's lies about "evaporation" and "the water cycle."
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-10 12:30 PM
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14. i have a suspicion
that he was just masturbating until the clouds went away
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-10 05:11 PM
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15. It's cloud illusions I recall...
I really don't know clouds at all.

(The poster doesn't, anyway!)
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