[QUOTE=oestert]
Are we controlled by secret forces?
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[QUOTE=Zoe]
Most people who are new to the English language learn the basics first and then they learn to use English idioms – the unique phrasing of our language. If oestert is to be believed, he used idiomatic English before he knew the basics.
For example, he used
“I stumbled across this article” instead of “I found this article.”
“I believe the individual Hit the Nail 100% on the Head!” instead of “I believe the individual is completely right.”
“if I am only 50% on the right track this would make big waves!” instead of “If I am only half right in my conclusions, this would be very important.”
“and the ones “The Elite” running the show are very smart!” instead of “And ‘The Elite’ in control are very smart!”
Before I consider the value of your arguments about Jews, oestert, you will have to convince me that your posts here have integrity.
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So, there is no chance the OP went through some half baked “conversational English” course? 
Actually I agree with the O.P. Iget these voices in my head that tell me that
(A) The world is controlled by giant lizards
(B) I must kill people
© I totally must sleep with Jennifer Aniston and breed a race of super Humans.
[QUOTE=Malthus]
Actually - and it is a total hijack of this most amusing thread - from an anthropological perspective, when I was in Indonesia I was somewhat struck by the fact that the Chinese minority there seemed to occupy a societal “niche” very similar to that occupied by Jews in Eastern Europe prior to WW2 (my own ancestory on my mother’s side were Eastern European Jews).
That is, they performed many of the stereotypical “middle class” type functions in a largely agrarian peasant society, and were widely disliked by the majority - and the subject of periodic pogroms. The terms of dislike used against the Chinese (as I heard them from Indonesians) were eerily similar to those used against Jews, in my opinion - that they controlled all the money, that they were clannish and secretive, that they were engaged in conspiracies against Indonesians, etc.
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In similar fashion, Indians in Eastern and Southern Africa and Germans (ironically) in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe fulfilled the same middle-class outsider functions in their respective locales (and were similarly despised by the natives).
On some kind of meta level, this thread reveals the great mystery of the Third Reich.
Hitler’s writings were slightly more coherent but not iota less insane.
And yet in this case we are amusing ourselves, cat-like, with the ultimately disposable posts of oestert, whereas 80 years ago, there was an entire sophisticated nation ready to take similar nonsense at face value.
How does that happen?
Maybe if there were a huge, world wide depression, hyper-inflation, widespread economic collapse, and various extremist movements battling each other in the streets, oestert’s ideas would make sense.
Nah.
Regards,
Shodan
What, there aren’t those things? At least in Africa, there are, right? Maybe Africa is ruled by secret masters.
[QUOTE=oestert]
But again I do worry about the fact that the big brother is watching comments about this issue
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What’ll happen if this thread get’s deleted? He’ll freak.
[QUOTE=IntelSoldier]
What’ll happen if this thread get’s deleted? He’ll freak.
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How could we tell?
Sorry…
How could we tell!