John Kerry For Pope!

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18 Sep 2008, 4:53 pm

Snobbery in this case is the contempt for institutions, organizations, all persons outside your own person. There's no shame in learning from others.

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18 Sep 2008, 5:13 pm

slowmutant wrote:

Snobbery in this case is the contempt for institutions, organizations, all persons outside your own person. There's no shame in learning from others.

most institutions are manipulative organisations, and yes even 'freethinking' ones.. but the worse ones definately belong to schools, activist groups, charities, organisations..

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18 Sep 2008, 5:50 pm

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freethinking is having the information made available to you and being able to formulate your own opinion without prejudice form the scholastic institution.

What snobbery

I think he/she means that the term "freethinker" sounds snobby.

Personally, when I hear someone call themselves a freethinker, I picture them as a smug neckbeard because that seems to be a popular term among smug neckbeards, but that's just me. (I'm not saying that people calling themselves freethinkers are all smug neckbeards, but that's the image I associate with the term.)

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18 Sep 2008, 5:51 pm

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18 Sep 2008, 5:52 pm

ShawnWilliam wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

Snobbery in this case is the contempt for institutions, organizations, all persons outside your own person. There's no shame in learning from others.

most institutions are manipulative organisations, and yes even 'freethinking' ones.. but the worse ones definately belong to schools, activist groups, charities, organisations..

Say it ain't so, Joe ...

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18 Sep 2008, 5:55 pm

ShawnWilliam wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

Snobbery in this case is the contempt for institutions, organizations, all persons outside your own person. There's no shame in learning from others.

most institutions are manipulative organisations, and yes even 'freethinking' ones.. but the worse ones definately belong to schools, activist groups, charities, organisations..

Does the term 'organization' include corporations?

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18 Sep 2008, 5:55 pm

slowmutant wrote:

Snobbery in this case is the contempt for institutions, organizations, all persons outside your own person. There's no shame in learning from others.

I completely agree.

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18 Sep 2008, 7:10 pm

monty wrote:

ShawnWilliam wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

Snobbery in this case is the contempt for institutions, organizations, all persons outside your own person. There's no shame in learning from others.

most institutions are manipulative organisations, and yes even 'freethinking' ones.. but the worse ones definately belong to schools, activist groups, charities, organisations..

Does the term 'organization' include corporations?

All places of influence. . The places you love most are the places contributing to the most disgusting world agendas that are responsible for the world's decay. Charities, retails, movie industry, television industry, major electronics, Disney, Pharmacies, FDA, NSA, CIA, FBI, COP, Schools, Music Industry, Pop-culture Magazines, Newspapers, NASA, the Military, Major Brands and logos, the Auto industry, and lets not forget the drug dealers. . because most weed is laced with chemicals now, and makes natural, 'clean' hemp unavailable to most people.. rendering your memory of this "drug" an unpleasant one. And of course heroin and Cocaine. All supported by your friendly leaders. :hail:

While they fight an imaginary war on heroin and cocaine.. they're selling it.

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19 Sep 2008, 4:46 am

Whoa up there a minute, all I said was that I would prefer no pope, it then has mushroomed into me being a smug freethinker. I do think that some institutions have an agenda but I was not being particularly serious with the whole Harvard thing. I am very prepared to listen and learn from others provided that they put forward sensible and well thought ideas. I am concerned with organisations that put forward they view as the one truth eg religious groups, political groups etc. I believe in freedom of accurate information as opposed to freedom of speech

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