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Don't you wish you could get off bandwagon once in a while?

opaquelens | 17.08.2008 12:46 | Analysis | Education | Social Struggles

Food for thought.

Greetings, angry banner wavers and axe grinders alike,

My name is Niall.

Firstly I would like to point out that my sympathies do not lie with officialdom or authority, and that I am not meaning to be snidey in the above introduction.

But doesn't being singleminded about freeing Palestine or Afghanistan or Iraq, or being lesbians against war, or succumbing to socialist/communist/anarchist ideologies take its toll on you after a while?

Don't get me wrong, I think the people that run this world are unbelievably sick, but I must admit that I have not found the people who use Indymedia to be very helpful. I think they are stuck on the polar opposite of their enemies. I don't think they want to change the system at all. I think they want to run it.

Did that hit a raw nerve? Good.

So what's my ulterior motive or agenda? Very simple:

www.shamanicfreedom.com

If you don't want to buy anything, fair enough, but there are links that will take you to other parts of the psychedelic community from my shop. I know you probably started out with the urge to think for yourselves when you decided that you did not want to tow the mainstream line anymore, and fair enough, but is it possible you may have been pulled onto a bandwagon of robot radicals who are just as much fundamentalists and zealots, and just as bad as the people they are condemning? Imagine how unbelievably sick it would be if they ran the world instead. What would they do if they had no reason to wave banners whilst fighting riot police?

I'm offering you a rabbit hole here. Go on, see how deep it goes. (the red pill)

Alternatively, get this page and make it an object of ridicule, taking the piss out of me. (the blue pill)

Either way, you've now gone into a different direction you otherwise would have done.

opaquelens
- e-mail: opaqulens@mac.com
- Homepage: http://www.shamanicfreedom.com

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A drugs advert

17.08.2008 15:36


Yeah, right. Buy our drugs and "free" yourself shamanically.

This is no better than receiving a viagra spam e-mail in your inbox.

What a load of commercial bollocks!

Tossers!!!

Mr Freeman


invisible hand of capitalist nonsense

17.08.2008 16:08

OK

comment started well - I agreed until I hit the hippy snake oil bit. I would refer you to richard ( who I think is a twat with his own problems ) dawkins, jon diamond re healers. Shamanic freedom or hippy ego? What is so wrong about the spirit of free enquiry? Do you understand about scientific method at all? Ihave a problem are 2000 years of fascist judaic/chrisitan/islamic wife beating ( I have some wonderful religious friends by the way but morality does not need religion ). Doesn't mean I don't fell anything spiritual. Therem are things that cannot be known/sense of wonder - I hit bedrock and my soade is turned ( wittgenstein ). But money grubbing idiotic hippy twats ( why is itr none of these shayou seem to have any practical skills whatsoever - and a fair few of you hippycrites seem to have the same psycho-sexual cromwellian puritan probelms as some of our trot indy mates here - soory friends but we do have a problem and a big part of it is CLASS based ).

oh the magic of money and sexism eh....
did I mention race/class i.e caste seee fash like jasper, ken et al for more details

next week - how many acres - how many imports , can britain feed itself or do we see a strategy of the malthuss variety...

music laughter, and having fun
hear the drummer get wicked

ps was going to talk abotun space/time big bang theory and the very nature of existence but it may just be out of this remit.

salvia divinorum


Commercial Crap

17.08.2008 16:17

Can this please be removed, its just an advert for somebody's drug selling business!

john


Now I see the light

17.08.2008 16:42

Of course, if we just take enough drugs, it'll solve all our problems. Why didn't I see this before? After all, people took lots of drugs in the 60s, and as a result capitalism was abolished and replaced by a classless, stateless society based on liberty and solidarity, right? Well, now I'm convinced, so I'll give up any political activity that might actually affect anything outside my own head.

Yoghurt-weaver


This truly is

17.08.2008 16:43

the biggest load of steaming bullshit I have ever seen!

WTF


Please get rid of this.

17.08.2008 16:48

This has no place on these boards.

S.London Skin