Skeptic Project

"I was niave to think that there was a 'they,' or 'them' that was responsible for the unexplainable wrongness of the world. But that's not true, I think. All one has to do to see who is responsible for the way things are is simply look in mirror. It's us and it's very personal. There is no they.

Therein lies the issue: how can we objectively challenge these social wrongs and institutions and belief structures without violently attacking our identities?

What I didn't say in the initial post that this guy was in face a woman, and this woman was in fact my wife.

I don't want to hurt my wife... and I see someone how is absolutely blissfully ignorant, because ignorance is bliss. The flipside is that knowledge is power, but what about people don't really care about power or those that are powerful? I don't want my wife to kill herself with the worry that I feel each day...

How do we deal with this epiphany, revalation, enlightenment when it suddently gets personal and ends up on your doorstep?

How, I ask?

I couldn't say anything but, "don't worry about it, I'm sorry. You're right, life is too short to worry about immeasurable issues. I won't bring it up again..."

My wife is no different. There are a million mothers, husbands, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters out there that we are eventually going to have to proverbially slap in the face with cold hard truth. And that sucks.

I can only go so far; I'm sorry. And don't think I don't feel that weight and guilt and responsibility, because I do.

I can't bring this issues up with my wife again simply becuase I choose not to. I believe in the movement and everything; I believe that something needs to be done and somebody needs to do something, and that somebody is probably us. But if I am ever put in a position to choose between the planet and my wife, with whom I love, I would choose her every time."

http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=99999&func=view&catid=231&id=278541#278541

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I love the Zeitgeister responses before they discovered this dude was talking about his wife.

Oops!

Matt, you should have a twitter or something.

Agreed.

Hilarious topic too! Can a RBE save a doomed marriage?

Fresco: "Just dump your wife and kid. It worked for me and now I get spongebaths from Roxanne every day!"

I wonder how many mental breakdowns and marital breakups/disputes zeitgeist is going to be repsonsible for.

Peter Merola and Jacque Fresco your lies are causing real life problems with people you should be ashamed of yourself for causing matrimonial disharmony across the planet. If I were you I would confess you are con jobbing them all with your conspiracist lies.