Here are some questions that I'd ask Tulsi Gabbard or her dad, if I had the chance. Maybe I will submit them to her, via her Facebook page or something. "If you believe that children, minors, can give informed consent to be subjected to experimental medical procedures in which they will be chemically castrated, have their bodies mutilated and be sterilised for life because of their
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Not talking to anybody in particular here: The Washington Times is a right-wing propaganda apparatus for the Unification Church, just like how the Epoch Times is a right-wing propaganda apparatus for the Falun Gong cult. It was founded by Reverend Moon himself, the Washington Times was. Hyun Jin Moon, one of Reverend Moon's sons, is chairman of Operations Holdings, a subsidiary of the Un
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I see A guy like Dave McKay, and a guy like Ted Bundy, as not really being all that different. Same basic pathology, but different modus operandi and end goals. Sorry to go off-topic there.
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I was in Meadow Haven with some second-gen members of the Family, the Children of God, who told me that I did not belong there because I was not raised in a twisted, Bible-based sex cult like they were and therefore I could not possibly know the meaning of "trauma." These were very highly damaged people, hugely traumatized people. But they were wrong. Their trauma was not "worse
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No, I do not respect professional victims and people who I perceive to be professional victims. If I come across somebody who is promoting himself or herself on the basis of everything they say they are a "survivor" of, then most of the time this is a big turnoff to me. An exception to this, for me, is in the case of somebody who makes a bad decision as a youth, then expresses regret
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PS: people like Hassan and Grace, in my opinion, basically are in the business of creating victims where there were none, for purposes relating to self-promotion and marketing. Hassan is especially bad about that. He wrote a whole book about how people who voted for what's-his-name are "victims" of that person whether they realize it or not. I am not talking politics here: I am
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There are professional victims, and there are professional victim-hunters. Steve Hassan is a professional victim, and a professional hunter of victims, in my eyes. Nancy Grace is another one. This is probably the funniest SNL sketch I ever remember seeing, Rick. That's because Nancy Grace just INSISTS that the Black Professor MUST be a victim of Michael Richards SOMEHOW, even though
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On the other hand: Chris Butler is seventy-five years old. He's got more days behind him, then he does ahead of him. What will become of SOIF after he and his top lieutenants all die off? I reckon that SOIF will die off with them. It does not look as if he is going to appoint any "successor gurus" to carry on after he passes away. So I project that ISKCON will survive into
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A few more thoughts.... Why do I think it's futile, in the long run, to expect positive change in the ISKCON organization? It's because victim-blaming and perpetrator-absolving is baked into their scriptures, or at least, the way they interpret and apply those scriptures. That's the long and the short of it. Hare Krishnas have a teaching which says that milk which is touche
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Rick, I've lately been accused of being a "covert supporter" of ISKCON, and this is a charge I deny. This accusation bothers me, and so I want to write a few words in order to make my position plain. Thank you for allowing me to do so. I consider myself a former member of ISKCON who has many friends and acquaintances who are members in good standing of that organization. Some
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One more thing, Rick, and then I will not be back for a minute, since I do not want to be banned here. Just today I had lunch with one of the Hare Krishna devotees who was present when John Lennon and Yoko Ono put on the "Montreal Bed-in" in May of 1969. You can see him at about 2:30. Just today I had lunch with one of the Hare Krishnas who is in this video, but I will not tell you
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Rick: Why do I think it's evil? What do I think is so evil about it? Read a story from the Bhagavatam called "The Song of the Avanti Brahmana." It's about a man who was wealthy, who then loses everything, but he never blames God for his troubles. It's a lot like the Book of Job, The Song of the Avanti Brahmana is, but unlike Job the Avanti Brahmana blames himself
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EVERYBODY INVOLVED in the last Dallas case, was lying about what happened to that little boy, Rick. His parents, his teachers, the temple president, everybody. I am the one who blew the whistle and told the truth. I am the one who DID NOT lie. My conscience is clean. "Covert supporter," my ass. I think these people are beyond evil, the high ISKCON "leadership." Butle
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Rick: I am sharing information in terms of numbers, hard data, demographic information and Texas state law. If "some people" don't like it because they have a chip on their shoulder and are so, so territorial then that is not my problem. But don't worry. I will desist and from now on will not address what's-his name-unless he addresses me first. The Indian immigra
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PS, Rick: I also helped to prevent ISKCON from covering up some shit, and risked my life to do so. That's why I carry a weapon at all times now. The temple president had to resign as an indirect result of what I did, and I got banned from my local temple over it. You know what I am talking about. So I don't know how that makes me a "covert supporter" of ISKCON. I am not
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rrmoderator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Drop it. > > This board is NOT about Texas or politics. > > Cease and end the petty squabbling. > > Hopefully this won't end in banning, but if it > continues it will. Rick, I am not here to troll anybody. I am here to share information, and correct misinformation. I have nev
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She is playing a long game here. She's not going to be running for state office anytime immediately soon. She will need to be here as a continual resident for at least two years, in order to run for a seat as a state representative and for at least five in order to run as a Senator. This means that if she eventually becomes VP, she would not be eligible to run for public office in the sta
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Since you are addressing me directly, FORREST, I reckon that I have the right of reply. Rick, please allow me this. I come amicably, and in peace. Here is my position: It was not your talking shit about Texas that offended me as much as the fact that you were parroting a stereotype that is based on ignorance, and on that principle it bothered me. You were pre-judging and condemning Texans
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She'll need to be paying property taxes and be physically residing in Texas for at least twelve months in order to become a legal resident, but after twelve months she will be eligible to run for office here, if she is not VP by then. She could not be better situated, in terms of the Texan community of Indian immigrants, potential constituents. These are, in general, highly conservative pe
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It's really very shrewd of Tulsi Gabbard to establish residency in the state of Texas, Rick. The Indian immigrant community here is HUGE; we are number two only to California in terms of Indian immigrants. NASA, the IT field, etc. Don't worry. I will desist and never meant to insult anybody personally. It's just that I could not take the insult to my beloved homeland. I took
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Yes sir. I understand and will comply. Of course victims are real, and I don't mean to imply otherwise. It's just that I don't believe in what some people today call the "victim economy" or the "victim hierarchy." That's all I am trying to say.
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PS: here's a clue for you, FORREST: there are non-white American conservatives too. Texas is full of them. Shocking, isn't it?! :-)
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Your ignorance and prejudice is showing, FORREST. Not to be argumentative, but writing as a native Texan I want to point out that Texas is only about 39% white, is about 40% Hispanic, and 21% "everybody else." One out of every three Indian immigrants in this country lives in Texas. So it's a majority non-white place, and the demographics are trending more and more in that direct
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Some of them do, but not all of them use such techniques. I am familiar with all this, sure, neuro-linguistic programming and such. Because I don't believe in promoting a victim narrative when it comes to involvement with such groups, I don't believe that people who have become part of some group or other were "hypnotized" into doing so. In other words: I don't bel
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It's from John Douglas, that phrase. "Manipulation, domination, and control."
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Party on, FORREST.
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RUN_FOREST_RUN Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Broken is, as broken does. > > RUN. Today he gave me a very nice pipe as a gift. It's a hand pipe for cannabis, that I will use forever and keep safe and protected. But I do not, and will not, pressure him to go on the record AT ALL. I do not even mention it when we hang out. We just smoke, li
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Dahmer was trying to form a sort of "cult" of his own, in terms of his attempted collection of slaves for his earthly life (and for his imagined afterlife). Much like the Zodiac, Yes. I am familiar with Dr. Vaknin and his thought.
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"Heavy is the head that wears the crown." Exactly.
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He even had the opportunity to materially benefit from the Turley case, more than twenty years ago, but he did not want to go on the record then either. He told me that he regretted that decision, though. He could have been paid, at the very least. It could have helped his family, at the time. But he did not want to visit the past at all, back then.
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