Are we all slaves?

[societyisthematrix]

This was posted on another forum and entitled "We are all slaves" but I think you're only a slave if you choose to be one. What do you think?

Think about your life. When you were a kid you had such big dreams. You could do anything if you wanted to. Then you started school and learned all this new information and the world was so new and big and full of so many possibilities. Then, little by little, your dreams died one by one didn't they? You started realizing everything you were taught was not entirely true. Not everyone could be trusted. But, who could you trust then? Your parents of course! Then you grow up a little more and start to realize your parents are just as confused as you. By the time youre about to graduate from high school the world has gotten very confusing. You enter the 'real' world. Now, instead of teachers monitoring your behavior 7 hours a day you have to scrape up enough money to live. You have to pay for rent, for food, for warmth, and for protection. All the necessities in your life are provided by complete strangers halfway across the world, put together in factories by people just like you. Congratulations! you are now a slave and the people that rule over you have their hand in your pocket and their foot on your neck. There is no escape from this system. Each and every day it gets more controlled, more inhumane. Cameras everywhere watching your every move. More of your income going to complete strangers, more complete strangers building useless objects for you to spend your time on.
Then, after youve given up on just about all of your dreams and settled for mediocrity, you decide to bring a child into the world to feel that you have some kind of purpose. The cycle begins again. Welcome to the machine.

[janeway]

A good summing up!

And if I may add something to it:
all along the way did you also always felt a kind of home sick? Even if you were at home? You felt somehow out of place?
Now that I have seen the matrix of society (helicopterview) I can never return to it; without despising myself and that is what I will never do, cause it is the only thing I really can depend on; myself.
I stepped out of that matrix as far as I can. Yes, lonely sometimes, but it is a road I choose, better than that boring repetitive sound of the matrix: work, amuse yourself, don't think, pay your dues, get tired, sleep, work, amuse yourself, don't think, pay your dues, get tired, sleep, work....

No fear of death, no fear of society, no fear; cause the worst thing that can happen is that you go home:)

[sweet cheeks]

We all give up something to be a part of this system.

Of course we are all slaves to a certain extent! ;)

[trinity1]

No fear of death, no fear of society, no fear; cause the worst thing that can happen is that you go home:)

Or you realise that this IS, in fact home . :D

[rastamasta]

Michael Tellinger would say so.

- INTRODUCTION CHAPTER -

Who are we? How did we get here? And, why are we here?

As we steadfastly march on the road to an unknown destiny, our ignorance has become our weakness and our arrogance has become a congenital disease threatening us with our own annihilation. In this book we will deal with the latest breakthroughs in science and technology, to reach back into the distant past in an attempt to unravel the extremely vague origins of humankind. It simply makes no sense at all, that as advanced as we have become, we have no absolute answers dealing with our origins and ancestry. Why has humankind been so obsessed with gold? And why are slavery and gold the two common denominators that can be traced all the way back to the very dawn of humankind?

The global population is torn between hundreds of religions and cults, all claiming to have the answers. Any semi-sober person will realise in an instant that they cannot all be right. Right? And yet it is religious dogma that has held billions of people captive through preaching death and destruction, threatening punishment by the ‘all mighty’ to disobedient pilgrims and promising reward and salvation to those who submit to blind faith.

The past 50 years have seen an explosion of new archaeological discoveries which have stunned scholars all over the world with its body of information. Over 500 000 clay tablets have been excavated and many of them have been deciphered. It is only in the past 30 years or so, that the true meaning and relevance of the tablets has been identified by a handful of broad thinkers. What was originally believed to be myth or fantasy, mainly due to ignorance by so-called scholars, has turned out to be documented historic evidence so fantastic, that it shakes the very essence of our existence.

I would like to take you on a journey of discovery, using the latest translations and revelations of the many tablets that speak about ancient events, long before a single word of the Bible was written. It is shocking to find that none of the stories of the book of Genesis are original, but rather watered down versions of much older stories conveyed in great detail in ancient clay tablets. Our journey will weave through precious detailed information which was left behind by our ancient ancestors, probably never realising that it would be treated with such suspicion.

The uncanny coincidences which link the many ancient civilisations by the same pantheon of ‘mythical gods’ are too fantastic to be accidental. We now have irrefutable evidence that there were strange powers on Earth who ruled the early humans with an iron fist. They dispensed punishment and demanded absolute obedience from the primitive new species. We will uncover the slow and painful path the newly created human race had to travel and the crucial role played by more advanced deities who had ulterior motives for our existence. We will uncover the terrible truth that the human race was indeed created in the image of our maker, but the maker was not who we’ve been led to believe. We will unmask the god of the Bible and other major religions, showing the difference between God with a big ‘G’ as opposed to god with a small ‘g’. The god who constantly displays humanlike behaviour, the god of vengeance we know from the Bible, turns out to be a god with a small ‘g’. Some characters will be instantly recognizable, while others have been so distorted by latter translators that we will need a little polishing to identify them. Many more questions will be raised as we postulate new theories surrounding our origins, demystifying God and allowing the reader to experience the much bigger picture of possibility.

With the help of science and the corroborative evidence from thousands of ancient clay tablets, we are now able to weave together the full story which I like to refer to as the ‘Great Human Puzzle’. The thousands of years it took for the ‘slave species’ to progress from their labour camps in southern Africa, to the point about 9 000 years ago, when a wave of sudden civilisation spread around the world. From India, the Near East, Europe and the Americas. This journey will also resolve the many archaeological dilemmas regarding the missing link, which is clearly outlined by our advanced ancestors. We dispel the myth and the dogma that has kept humankind ignorant and fearful for far too long. The advances we have made in genetic engineering will help us understand that just because we can create life, it does not make us God.

We dispel archaic myths that belong in the dark ages and provide clear thinking individuals with the information to reach new conclusions. I would like to share with every reader the same incredible sense of discovery that I personally experienced as I unravelled the utter rubbish which I was conditioned to believe through my formative years. As terrible as this ‘new truth’ may sound, it will be the most liberating experience you will have.

http://www.slavespecies.com

[neo 1]

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3. UNDER THE DONINMATION OF THE SYSTEM = AN INTUISION IS THE LENGTHENING SHADOW OF ONE PERSON = WE ARE SLAVES TO THE SYSTEM , NO GETTING OUT OF THAT , SO YES WE ARE SLAVES , NOT BY CHOICE BUT BY CYNICAL DESIGN :eek: :confused:

[naturesdaughter]

We may be slaves but we do have some interesting possibilities open to us. In order to do the work 'they' require we must be capable, at least until AI, of independant thought and action, otherwise none of the complex tasks 'they' want done would get done. So even though we may be a genetically engineered species under the nearly complete control of 'them' we still theoretically have the power to revolt. "The proles always had the power to change everything, and yet. . . " Orwell

[drgonzo]

Think about your life. When you were a kid you had such big dreams. You could do anything if you wanted to. Then you started school and learned all this new information and the world was so new and big and full of so many possibilities. Then, little by little, your dreams died one by one didn't they?

My dreams never died, but then again I became aware and left school quite early. I'm playing the game, but not as a slave, and it's really not that hard to do it. You're only a slave if you're not doing what you want to do because of some other force.

I have very, very, grand ambitions and if I dwelled on all the things that could get in the way I wouldn't get anywhere. It's simply a matter of doing it, you have complete and total freedom, just like everyone else. This also means others can express that freedom by trying to stop you, but that is not enslaving you unless you give into it.

That whole situation you described though, it fits so many people perfectly and I've lost quite a few friends to that system. I had one friend who shared my ambitions for awhile, but as he grew up he began to get more and more involved in the system until it swallowed him. Now he'll probably be heading over to Iraq just so he can support his family, that is slavery, though I doubt he realizes it.

[teslafire]

Interesting thesis, I think we should start a poll on it to see where everyone on this forum stands.

[andrew wilson]

This was posted on another forum and entitled "We are all slaves" but I think you're only a slave if you choose to be one. What do you think?

Think about your life. When you were a kid you had such big dreams. You could do anything if you wanted to. Then you started school and learned all this new information and the world was so new and big and full of so many possibilities. Then, little by little, your dreams died one by one didn't they? You started realizing everything you were taught was not entirely true. Not everyone could be trusted. But, who could you trust then? Your parents of course! Then you grow up a little more and start to realize your parents are just as confused as you. By the time youre about to graduate from high school the world has gotten very confusing. You enter the 'real' world. Now, instead of teachers monitoring your behavior 7 hours a day you have to scrape up enough money to live. You have to pay for rent, for food, for warmth, and for protection. All the necessities in your life are provided by complete strangers halfway across the world, put together in factories by people just like you. Congratulations! you are now a slave and the people that rule over you have their hand in your pocket and their foot on your neck. There is no escape from this system. Each and every day it gets more controlled, more inhumane. Cameras everywhere watching your every move. More of your income going to complete strangers, more complete strangers building useless objects for you to spend your time on.
Then, after youve given up on just about all of your dreams and settled for mediocrity, you decide to bring a child into the world to feel that you have some kind of purpose. The cycle begins again. Welcome to the machine.

I don't agree. Life is what you make of it. It's a very simple philosophy, but one which I wholeheartedly believe in. I do not recognise your world as anything like that of my own.

[chester]

No slave here - but at the same time I must admit that each and every year the more I see the things I took for granted being taken away (stepping stone process) - esepcially personal freedoms - there have been moments where the slave arguement had a hearing in my head.

Ultimately though, as Andrew stated, its what we make of it.

I guess we have all heard, "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade!"

[bicycle]

if you are paying tax's then yes