Are You a Sheeple?

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1. No
2. Occasionally
3. Not really, but I don't have a life to live
4. Usually, not always
5. No
6. So what, sometimes there's nothing else to read, just because I sometimes read them doesn't mean I believe them
7. No
8. Sometimes you have to
9. Not really
10. There is very little that feels wrong to me
11. No
12. I buy unhealthy food because it tastes better and it's cheap. $3 for fried chicken sounds better than 10 for a damn salad
13. A great necessity, no
14. No

Last edited by GoatOnFire on 19 Oct 2007, 5:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

"zero proof that polio even exists today"



WHAT??? there are frequent outbreaks in Africa, and Afghanistan and Pakistan!! they think it's eradicated, and then it pops up someplace. the only way to stop the outbreaks is to vaccinate everyone.

Furthermore, what's wrong w/ doctors? or the FDA? What would we do w/out the FDA? How would we know drugs and food were safe? Have you ever read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle? Because that's what it was like before the FDA. I prefer my sausage without rat feces thank you very much.

Oh, and kool aid might be terrible for you, but that doesn't mean it's not delicious!

And newspapers? How else would you know what's going on in the world? I think it's important to keep up on current events. What's wrong with newspapers? We SHOULD pay attention to the world around us..... Granted, newspapers are biased, obviously, but there's no form of media that isn't.

Anyway, I think you're being a bit harsh on people. I don't think that kool aide and newspapers makes me a sheep!

There's an undergrad at my college right now from India who is in a wheelchair because of polio. Plenty of areas still have to deal with polio.

Yes to the ones I quoted. The third one isn't black and white though. People fear vaccines because they never had to fear what vaccines prevent.

Oh becca. I guess you never heard of biological warfare.
Thank goodness for Google, eh? Now you can find out all kinds of nifty stuff about all kinds of whacky situations. Just remember you heard it here first!

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Popular by the industry's standards that sell you glitz, sex and adrenaline in a shiny jewel box or nifty i tuney download. It sells because there's a payoff for you. Popular music is designed to dumb you down and distract you with *beats*. The video just added another level of commercialism where they now shove fashion, trends, politics and immorality in your face so that on all fronts the consumer is hooked on a feeling and has *gotta buy that CD* to be cool, with it, down with it, being accepted and other emotional needs. On a purely musical level there's little there to feed the soul, unless of course you'll go for junk food. Because that's exactly what it is for the ears.[/quote]

So if I have lung cancer, I can heal myself? If I need a heart transplant, I can mend/GROW my own? I should just cut someone else's out with my in-depth surgical knowledge that I definitely have? I had pneumonia in January of this year; would I have miraculously eliminated all of the gunk in my lungs if I simply believed in myself? Don't be an idiot.

Not all consumers of music buy it because it will make them "cool". Music is designed not to dumb us down, but to soothe us and make us feel emotions. I'd be lost without music. That doesn't make me a follower of the latest trend. And as for the junk food comment, each to their own.

Just because I read newspapers doesn't mean I believe every word said in them. "Funnies" are there to amuse ppl. They don't just buy a newspaper because of them. And you're obviously unaware that EVERY source of information ANYWHERE is biased towards the writers point of view. I think if you put your faith in conspiracy writers it is you who is part of the "sheeple", not us.

If I didn't get a shot for TB or meningitis who knows what would've happened. I'd rather be safe than sorry on that one.

And as healthy alternatives over here in England are most DEFINITELY of a higher price than junk food (which I like the taste of anyway, I don't just buy it to be part of the crowd), I simply cannot afford things such as soy milk, asparagus, or whatever is the new "alternative health" food this month. That, to me, is following the crowd and the advice of others. I'm perfectly healthy and I eat crap. I don't feel in the least bit more ill than when I tried this stupid health food diet. In fact, it made me lose weight and as I'm barely 100lb as it is, that isn't a good thing.

I think you are misunderstanding the definition of "sheeple".



Most of the things you put on that "you're a "sheeple" if" list does not explain what you mean by the term. If you had put maybe "if you believe everything they tell you in newspapers" or "if you believe everything a doctor tells you", or even "if you buy popular music because you think you should" maybe you'd be right. But you didn't. You made innocuous comments about ppl, but it went a little awry didn't it?

Now.. do you REALLY BELIEVE in the term first recorded in print in the Wall Street Journal? Uh. Oh.

Honestly, I had no idea it was coined by the WSJ first. As a matter of fact, I don't know where I first heard it. One fine day it appeared on the net in some connotation or another and it was claimed as a fine analogy for the unconscious collective.

Faith is blind. So no.



I wanted to, but my parents said they were unhealthy.



I used to watch cartoons as a kid, and wanted more of them, but now I don't watch TV much.



What's the FDA?



Authority figures are usually politicians, and they're dirty liars. So no. And I don't take well to people who need their egoes strummed.



Newspapers are full of crap that make people with emotions react. It's boring to me. So no.



I would like to, but I know in reality it doesn't always happen.



I have no faith.



Female fashions are too flashy, gaudy and reveal too much skin. So no.



There's a difference between results of a scientific test that are made as objectively as possible and most people believing in something with nothing but faith. So no. I don't really care how it feels anyways; it only matters what is actually there.



If you mean like that lame Mazda commercial, of course not.



It's on sale?



Since adding antigens could promote resistant bacteria to grow, that might actually be not beneficial. So no.



Pop music usually involves some crappy sappy love lyrics that are empty, or sung by empty people, and are, I guess, cheap. So no.



That's nice to know I'm still a robot.

Junior Senior, a dash each of Hellogoodbye and Justin Timberlake, some older Nsync, Say Anything, Ted Leo, Broken Social Scene, The Unicorns, Weezer's Blue Album, They Might Be Giants of course, Annie, and a little bit of Beyonce - mainly because she's so damn fly.

Well, I guess I should tell my advisor to stop treating her stage 4 lymphoma with chemotherapy then. I guess she should also stop taking the medications that are stopping her liver (infiltrated by tumors) from failing. Who knows, yellow might be an attractive color for her.

Where are the studies you got this information from by the way? Or did you just make these numbers up?

I don't doubt that lifestyle changes and herbal supplements can be helpful in the case of chronic illnesses, or possibly even some acute illnesses, not to mention prevention, but homeopathy is not the be all and end all of health, just as medical science doesn't hold all the answers either. For holding such unyielding opinions on the efficacy of homeopathy while rejecting medical science as a whole and refusing to refute the objections of others with logic rather than rhetoric... jjstar, I name thee "sheeple."

No way!
Usually not willingly.
I suppose you cold say that.

Sometimes.

Hell no!
Yes. I am a journalism major, after all.

Sometimes.
I pretty much have to.Not really. I usually don't find out about fashion trends until people start talking about how much they hate them.Not anymore.
Yeah. They don't usually convince me to buy the products, but many of them are just fun to listen and sing along to.
Yes. Or sometimes I just buy it because it's appetizing. Well, they can do nothing but good.
That can mean all kinds of things these days, but the short answer is: Yes.

I guess by these harsh standars you could say I'm a Sheeple, but I really only do this stuff because I like it or because it helps me get through life more easily.

Finally, a kindred spirit who understands good food.

People who believe internet quizzes can define people are sheep...and anyone can choose to live how they want. Also three times not getting the Flu vaccine has nearly killed me(I have asthma and nearly inevitably get pneumonia if I catch the flu). Do some research. I find people who try to all be different terribly amusing and they all end up alike anyhow. And I have epilepsy from a head injury ..without my medicine I have 4 to 7 seizures a day and no diet or herbs will help that.

but go ahead you need self justification it's common among the young.

A. if you believe the spread of polio is due soley to biological warfare, you should do some research on infectious diseases

B. if it it is biological warfare, and we know that terrorist groups have access to the polio virus and are infecting children, shouldn't we make it a priority to vaccinate these children as quickly as possible? you just made yourself an even better case for vaccinations. now that you mention it, it's actually a very scary thought.....

anyways, i think it's important to vaccinate kids so they don't get sick. if that makes me a sheep, so be it
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Yes, I believe in routine vaccinations, and anyone who knows their history and has an ounce of sense will realize this is based on solid facts. Do you know what infant and child mortality rates were before routine immunizations?!? Staggering! We live in an age where we have few serious diseases to worry about, we have it very good. We're extremely fortunate.

And what is this "sheeple" stuff? Aside from categorizing and labeling and name-calling, that is.