I’m not patronizing you, bro, I am reminding you of the actual history you are mangling and overcomplicating with this conspiracy theory bullshit. If I were patronizing you, I would say something like, “Kozmik, I’m concerned for your personal well-being. Are you OK? Are you sleeping well? Have you discussed these feeling with a qualified mental health professional?”
And I actually do think you need to talk to a therapist or a psychiatrist, I just wouldn’t phrase it in that kind of patronizing way. You’re coming off as a crazy person.
I think he’s coming off as a laid-back, easy-going, “Head” type dude, attempting to be coy, wise, cagey, profound, cool, Socratic, observant, and insightful. He’s trying to be the boy who first says, “The emperor isn’t wearing any clothes.”
He screwed up by making a concrete claim. His style of Wow, Dude, It’s Zen! doesn’t work when you actually make a real prediction. It’s so Cosmic, y’know?
He should have fallen back to, “How do we know what we know?” and “Those who know don’t tell; those who tell don’t know” and “Four can keep a secret when three are dead” and “What we know is only a small part of what it true.”
Darlin’ boy, but blew it by claiming something that actually can be known.
I’m not sure how well I can explain it to you because I doubt you would choose to act like a paranoid lunatic if you felt that that’s what you were doing. But for the record, you’re coming off as a paranoid lunatic who thinks a small cabal of people are running the world in concert (in real life, these people have nothing to do with each other), and the evidence you have posted in support of your mental health - your relationship with the editor of the student newspaper and that moment, or whatever it was, with one of his colleagues - don’t make you sound healthier, they make you sound more unstable. That columnist at the student paper didn’t share a deep moment of understanding with you. The editor probably told her about the nutty letters you were writing and from your conversation she realized you were the one crazy letter writer. They were humoring you.
All of that probably sounds even more patronizing, but nonetheless, there it is. You’re not posting brilliant insights about geopolitics here. You’re just concocting conspiracies in your head. You are seeing stuff that is not there.
I have already been enlightened, by these revelations:
“…the Vatican is being bombarded and it was a Cardinal that slipped all that inside info out, not the butler as they’re claiming (he had no access to that info, duh.)…The military is on the streets of St. Louis, has made huge arrests already in Denver, Colorado and many other places being blacked out by the media (St. Louis is built on an unknown sacred city and that will be told soon as well, it’s more than likely why they’re there.)…When the Fed and the Vatican go down, it is then that the crimes against humanity will all come to the surface and vaccines will be exposed for what they really are…POISON.”
Yup, that’s from a thread in another forum on the evils of vaccines.
Kozmik has a long way to go to equal that level of crazy.
Care to explain how The New York Times humored me? I send an email. I recieved an email (from one Mary Drohan). I replied. I was published. I did not know her and she did not know me. No relationship. The New York Times does not generally print nutty letters:
[QUOTE=The New York Times, July 3, 2012]
To the Editor:
Bravo to Jimmy Carter for yet again stating the simple truth. I have been shocked and appalled by the dramatic change in the American conscience post-9/11. Even assassination, once an outright abrogation of human rights, has now become an achievement on which to run for re-election.
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MIRIAM LAWRENCE
New York, June 25, 2012
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YMMV
That columnist and me shared a moment of understanding… about the future.
If Kozmik claims to be that person, fine, the letter wasn’t nutty.
Of course, the version that particular letter that was published also didn’t claim mention anything about the Illuminati, secretive cabals, conspiracies of any sort, etc.
If it had included any of it, it’s been selectively edited. Secretive Illuminati censorship or editor wanting to ignore the crazy? You be the judge.
[QUOTE=George W. Bush, My Life, page 44]
I quickly tracked down a copy and was greeted by the screaming headline: “Fighting the Wimp Factor.” I couldn’t believe it. The magazine was insinuating that my father, a World War II bomber pilot, was a wimp. I was red-hot. I got Margaret on the phone. She politely asked what I thought of the story. I impolitely told her I thought she was part of a political ambush. She muttered somthing about her editors being responsbile for the cover. I did not mutter. I railed about editors and hung up. From then on, I was suspicious of political journalists and their unseen editors.
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George W. Bush was certaintly acting nutty. Third rule of politics: Always be nice to the editor.