Rally to Restore Sanity & March to Keep Fear Alive: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Join Forces to Change America
Posted by Olympus at 00:47, 19 Sep 2010http://www.keepfearalive.com/
http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/
'bout time fellas...
I've been watching both shows for years. They are well-written, very funny, comedy central political satire shows. Hosts Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are combining their viewership powers to rally hope stricken Americans to rise up on October 30th in Washington D.C. Seemingly, in response to the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial http://www.glennbeck.com/828/.
It seems like a long time coming but a damn good time to have arrived.
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14 April 2009
26 min 40 sec
Awe-some!
If I had the money and the time...this would be something worth attending.
Nice to see that the spirit of approfondement still lives on in US culture.
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
I love those two; the only thing that redeems American television —well, that and The Big Bang Theory ;)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Don't forget True Blood :D
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
I really don't think True Blood cares much about redemption, amigo ;)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Haha there is only degradation.
I should also mention that I will be attending this event!
Any other TDG followers going?
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
15 July 2010
36 weeks 4 days
Hey guys...
I'm not american and I don't live in the USA, but I keep close tabs on what goes on in that side of the Atlantic.
Regarding this rally thing, I'd start by saying that I love the Daily Show and Jon Stewart is smart and funny. But at this moment I must say he seems very much misguided. He said he wanted to rally the moderates and gave examples on right wing nuts and left wing nuts. According to him right wing nuts say that Obama is not born in the US, that he is a Socialist, blah blah blah... On the other hand left wing nuts say that Bush is a war criminal and that 9/11 was an inside job... Let me just say, WTF???
Bush isn't a criminal?? Jeez, probably not on Mars... About 9/11, I won't even touch that subject.
But the point is that John Stewart is trying to get people to cool down when there is absolutely no reason to cool down...
Personally I hate Glenn Beck and think he is an A-hole, retard, puppet and what not, but this is not the appropriate response to a retard!
Where I'm from we have a saying that translated is something like this: Never contradict a madman.
Let Beck speak he had a handful of crazies at his rally... Whoohoo!
But people need to start paying attention to what's going on without the need to form little protest groups...
Just remember "Lord of the Flies", group mentality is not what anyone needs anywhere at this time...
But I know that in the US everything is showbusiness!
Anyway, even if I was there I wouldn't be caught dead on one of those rally things...
Greets and keep your spirits high!
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
That is what my initial thought of it all was. Jon Stewart even had Clinton on the show he announced the rally and all Clinton did was what all politcians do best talk talk and talk about nothing. But then I thought, what if these rallies do change something for the better? I would like to say I was there. Even if our ideologies clash, I know that I will be preaching peace along with other likeminded people. Not only that but what the fuck have I done to help my community? I'm selfish and think the world will change at my very whim. But no more, a small step forward and outward is needed, change in my life means a change to my enviroment. We all need to start somewhere and we will never change the world sitting at our desks. But I completely agree with you.
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
IMO the problem when people start raising their voices is that they get more focused on hearing their own yells, than in actually listening to the other side's argument.
We're so used to seeing things in manicheistic terms. Either Bush was the greatest president ever (they were actually people who thought that not just too long ago; smart people too!) or he was the worst war criminal since Stalin.
Arguments get watered down when they become polarized.
So maybe Stewart is trying to get the excluded middle to be heard too. They are certainly not without fault, because like Dr King said:
but he also said:
So maybe the only solution that will prevent the descending spiral of violence is that the children of the light stop being so god-damned apathetic. That they realize is not enough to go to work and do your chores and pay your taxes and provide for your family and be nice to your next-door neighbor. That some sort of social involvement is needed.
And we also need to find a way to dispute without demonizing our opponents. Because the world is FILLED with people that don't agree with you and I.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
23 October 2006
6 hours 34 min
IMO the problem when people start raising their voices is that they get more focused on hearing their own yells, than in actually listening to the other side's argument.
Very true. Usually if you try to raise a point of fact, the other side complains of being interupted.
So maybe Stewart is trying to get the excluded middle to be heard too.
Nothing will be said about Israel's continuing theft of Palestinian land. Too much of a downer, man.
but he also said:
So maybe the only solution that will prevent the descending spiral of violence is that the children of the light stop being so god-damned apathetic. That they realize is not enough to go to work and do your chores and pay your taxes and provide for your family and be nice to your next-door neighbor. That some sort of social involvement is needed.
Very true. As long as the US tolerates Israel's continuing theft of Palestinian land, and the gradual genocide there...
At least I'll take a minute to write about this. Others can go downtown, get stoned, and have a few meaningless laughs.
I hope the weather is good for y'all.
I wonder who will be playing?
E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Hey E.P. Grondine
Where should I go to find good information on the Israeli/Palestine conflict? I'm not very knowledgable in the specifics.
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
23 October 2006
6 hours 34 min
Hey E.P. Grondine
Where should I go to find good information on the Israeli/Palestine conflict? I'm not very knowledgable in the specifics.
Hi Olympus -
The conflict has been intense and is very complex. I think that most of the histories have had some sort of bias one way or another. Perhaps no good history will emerge until it is over.
Not only does any historian or journalist writing on it expose himself to attack by one faction or another, he won't make any money either - the situation is so bad, no one wants to spend any of their free time reading about it.
Thus I doubt if anyone here will know of any really good history of it.
For the partition and foundation of Israel, no one good history
exists that I am aware of. "Dangerous Ally" is probably a good place to start for the period after that to 1964.
After that, about the only thing to do after that is to read the Presidential histories and assemble facts from out of them. A number of facts about the operations of the parties involved are very poorly publicly known. The only reason I know much about them is because I wrote on them for my history of cosmonautics. I ended up covering proliferation, the spread of the technologies.
But like the other 6 billion people living on this planet, I am really tired of being taken along on this ride by say about 6 million or so people.
E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Thanks for explaining it like that. I get confused when I read the posts about it cause they seem to go over tons and tons of material.
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
22 November 2004
5 weeks 16 hours
Of course the solution is for more people to act more reasonably. And for people to be a tad nicer to each other.
There was a guy roughly 2000 years ago, or so the story goes, who preached that. They nailed him to a cross for it. Whether you are a hard core fundamentalist Christian or an atheist who believes Jesus was invented - the story is old and instructive.
Older than this story is the fighting in the Middle East. I grow tired of the explanations of who started it this year, or this decade, or this century. Let's face it, the people and interests who started this fight have been dead for so long, the folks who built the pyramids didn't remember them.
And if we stop the Israelis from behaving badly, things may quiet down for a while. If we give all the land to the Palestinians, or a reasonable part of the land, things may settle down for a while.
But the fighting will start again very soon. Apparently it has nothing to do with who lives there, its something in the location. The prosaic explanation is that it's a bottleneck site for land routes as well as sea routes. The spiritually inclined may find more spiritual reasons - lots of bad spirits in that area.
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
it's hopeless then?
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
5 weeks 16 hours
pretty much, yeah
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We are the cat.
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Forgot to mention that I'm also pushing to legalize weed... I dare someone tell me that ain't worth fighting for XD
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
By all means get your free pot. It certainly wouldn't hurt things down here in Mexico if you started growing your own weed ;)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
1 May 2004
3 weeks 4 days
If the USA were to fully legalize pot, the effect would be devastating for Mexico. A huge cash crop for the Narcos is pot, and without the revenue from this cash-cow, they would be out spent by the Federalis in no time. Drug money is the life's blood that funds their private armies and fortunes of bribes. Once it is gone, the Narco State will collapse.
I'm with Olympus on this one . . Legalize it, defang the Narco State, and free up hundreds of billions of misspent US Tax dollars to be used instead for innovation, energy, and jobs. . . the REAL problems with America.
ASM
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
The Narco State would surely suffer a huge blow; but it certainly won't disappear overnight.
And the reason for that is that the Narcos would surely seek to diversify their business to other venues. Like good ole prostitution and racketeering. There's also the lucrative transport of illegal immigrants, pirate music and clothing, the stealing of oil at PEMEX refineries, express kidnappings, and a huge etcetera.
With every State there are always products and activities the State will try to forbid. And that will always foster a black market. Always.
This is mainly an economic problem. The Narcos deal with drugs because there's a market for it. If the market disappears they will just move to the next one. The number of gangs will probably shrink and only the most violent and powerful will remain.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Pot legalization will change so much in North America for the better. Still won't stop the coke raddled hedge fund masters from conquering an already conquered people but hey their probably no fun to get high with anyways :)
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
I'm looking for some ideas on what I should put on my protest sign. Please pass on any ideas y'all have... Maybe something with a comedic ironic twist? I don't know. What I do know is I don't want something that obvious but rather something obscure and funny but meaingful and deep.
Any ideas?
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
or
or
I'm sure other guys can come up with something better. Why don't start a new post with the question?
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Obama is a secret Furry... lol I like that one
I'm going to take your advice and make a new post for it.
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
14 April 2009
26 min 40 sec
Olympus,
go for it -- I've got a few slogans waiting to deflower your new thread.
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
I must say, I thoroughly enjoy the titles you give your comments. There are now only 2 things that can survive eternally in space and time... One is change...two the amount of departments Inannawhimsey creates XD
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
20 March 2006
2 weeks 8 hours
I am so tired of causes and wars and crap. Could we just go off into middle field and find something else to occupy our minds? Everything seems so silly and redundant or over-used. One day, I went to sleep and when I woke up, for an instant, I did not know what I was (sleep was so deep). That instant was so refreshing to not be hindered with the weight of existence in this same old movie. Over and over and over we tramp back and forth over the same old ground. I am tired of all the causes and all the BS each faction leverages upon another. Could we not discover a zone, something new and so bazar that we could embrace it and create a new universe? We all seem so mundane when you come right down to it. I hate lady GaGa...It's been done so many times before. We need anti-think.
SOS
I REMEMBER: When I read R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz's work, THE TEMPLE OF MAN, I hit upon some material that liberated my mentality for an instant. It was the thinking that we today are too materialistic and that we do not think beyond or Anthropocosmically or Anthromnic. We do not read the symbols of existence which is the language of the All. It is said that the Egyptians thought gestaltly. Holistic leveraging would include all that man inculcates. I wish we could move into that direction.
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
But THAT requires action. Not apathy.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
I'm starting to think you are actually planning on attending...aren't you?
We live in a utopia right now, but it's filled with horrors. Still though, I understand your viewpoint and I've known for quite some time that one day I will reach the point your at. Shit who am I kidding I've already been there and done that lol thus my whole reason for going, I've not cared enough :D
edit: Also, I'll probably not care anymore in a few months and then care again next year.
edit2: Also, I imagine you know this one well Enigmni...Everything is 50/50
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
20 March 2006
2 weeks 8 hours
I am on a tangent to explore new realms that are so massive that I could never understand those who revel in the dusty exploits now associated with Liberalism or Progressivism. In fact conservatives too. There are many more realms of thought that constitute real human leveraging in truths that intrigue me to no end. It is actually so beautiful that I cannot even understand why I thought beauty was only skin deep. Mind is so fascinating that one can barely think upon what was past fancy. It is so hard to push this mentality higher at this level. But it is entirely worth the supreme effort to discipline one's thinking like an Egyptian...the Pharaoh means of inculcation as per de Lubicz, is where I am headed. Manly P. Hall's CONCLUSIONS pointing up that man is held in Complex Ignorance is true. We need to get over our preoccupation with Ignorance of Ignorance by getting out of the loop of silly pop culture and arrive at new and higher goals. But I digress.
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
Back in those days, the Pharaoh was a living god and the rest of the people were ants subject to his will.
It took a lot of pain and suffering to start reverting this hierarchical system, so that we could arrive to this point, where are allowed to think we can emulate the Pharaoh's potential.
Personal enlightenment is great; but that should not forbid us of looking at what's happening in the rest of the world —for isn't it why we are herein the first place? to learn what we can on this level, and try to improve ourselves by improving the lives of others?
That's why I cannot stomach the hermit that decides to go out into the desert and live in a cave, so he can find salvation. How can he do that if he turns his back on his fellow man? That's a foolish way to spend your life, and that's NOT what the Nazarene came to teach.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
5 weeks 16 hours
That's why I cannot stomach the hermit that decides to go out into the desert and live in a cave, so he can find salvation.
Personally I don't mind the hermit that finds salvation in the save. I mind the hermit who comes out of the cave, having acquired The Truth(tm), and starts the next big organized religion.
Typically it is then required that his followers sacrifice their personal interests in this world for the greater good of "the church" or "society".
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
Cowardice is better than fanaticism I guess.
But the hermit way is IMO despicable because he doesn't give a sh*t about his brothers.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
I truly fear that one day my willpower will drain and I will be mentally forced into solitude and division. External pursuits are so tiresome aren't they? Escpecially when the reward is minimal(relative to the intent) which in today's society is overwhelmingly true, specifically, righteous pursuits(defined by ones own mind). Today's world is seemingly built to reject such changes from the norm and when some ideas do come through they become exploited solely for profit. The only way to combat this seems through a healthy balance of external and internal activities but even then there is so much more going on.
Would some of you agree?
P.S. Hermitude(?) sometimes seems like the only way to keep sane(relative of course)
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
I definitely agree that some balance between inner and outer pursuits is the best way to deal with it, as well as a more honest method to grow as a person.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Sometimes, I feel like I'm already a hermit.
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
Oh yeah? well, let's put THAT to the test, shall we:
What did you do last Friday night?
1)Went out my friends/girlfriend/co-workers
or
2)Stayed home
;)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Well I went to a co-workers birthday party last Friday. Does it matter if I had a shitty time? lol
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
12 April 2007
7 min 20 sec
If there were women present, then it doesn't :-P
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
1 year 10 weeks
Touché, sir, Touché... Previous statement retracted! Humbled I have become XD
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
20 March 2006
2 weeks 8 hours
it takes a little of this, and a little of that...to make a recipe for existing in the moire arena.
Someone does not know of the middle way...
There is no religion higher than truth...we do not need anyone to tell us how to exist. It is already programmed into our computers...we just do not listen to our inner God. We listen to the pop culture instead looking for recognition of our own existence in the eye of the evil one.