December 2010
13 posts
Study Confirms Fox News Makes You Stupid →
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A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.
This is the second study that shows these results. The first study, done during the beginning of the Iraq war, showed that Fox News viewers were, again, the most misinformed when it came to everything about the war.
Here is a list of what Fox News viewers believe that just aint so::
- 91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
- 72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
- 72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
- 60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
- 49 percent believe income taxes have gone up
- 63 percent believe the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts
- 56 percent believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout
- 38 percent believe that most Republicans opposed TARP
- 63 percent believe Obama was not born in the U.S. (or that it is unclear)
Wow hard evidence. But this is extremely counter intuitive. Don’t they know the viewers will only be swayed by flashy graphics and misleading rhetorical questions? If FOX were ever to address this study, it would be in a story claiming outrage that 37% of Americans are STILL gullible enough to believe Obama was born here.
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Hi, WAA,
…I realize I did not prohibit you from posting my letter, but your editing of same does not encourage me to send more to you. Such is life. I hold no bad feelings towards you for your “editing sin”, especially since you at least did not swear at me as you did in your first derisive note to me, so long ago. My Best Wishes & Prayers For Your Growth In The True Parents’ Love.
Take a joke mannnnnn. Do you realize I think your logic is as skewed as you think my spirit is bitter?
Dave fleming sent this to me
And it’s too long to publish, and I’m too lazy to go find his email, so here’s a portion.
Huh? So the “me” who’s typing this is a figment? I beg your pardon! If I were a figment, I could not type this! No, grass-hoper, the DP-truth is deeper, oh………. so very much, astronomically deeper, including a “Restoration Formula” if YOU will, (i.e. the YOU that is NOT a figment). Whatever “peterreyes” is smoking, he does have a kernel of “Truth” in his “thought”. That kernel, is that much of what we believe to be “OurSelf” is not “Self”, but is actually what we were TAUGHT, (by persons, but mostly by circumstances), as we grew up. Much of that “Self”, (i.e. our “conclusions” from being TAUGHT), will be found to be INCORRECT, if I start huffing jenkem etc.
How incredibly arrogant, you really have no idea on the context of that post. Peter, I imagine, might have had the thought through his meditation, he can correct me or elaborate if he sees this. I had pretty much come to the same conclusion after a period of soaking up all the theoretical physics I could find, and then analyzing and experiencing what I found during times of softened ego-states, or simply psychedelic trips, due to a more imaginative and free thought process.
Here is where I finally checkmate you sir, your overreaching claims are your weakness. If somebody claims to know the absolute truth they MUST be open, nonjudgmental, and innocent when faced with new ideas. They MUST fully consider any possibility they have not thought of themselves, for if they truly had the absolute truth, then they would have had to consider all possibilities for the truth to win over, and that absolute truth must be superior to different ideas and this must be demonstrated by the truther through a full analysis. Your casual sweeping remarks on an idea that you clearly know not the context of, shows you do not have the absolute truth. If there were an absolute truth, I believe it would include the above in a clause somewhere and I think that can be agreed by anyone who’s been pulled by different worldviews. Notice how I used the words “I believe” because I do not claim to know the absolute truth.
It is impossible to simply know that you are right over anything else that you haven’t heard of, case in point there are millions of people all over the world with hundreds (thousands?) of worldviews that differ radically from yours, yet they each KNOW that they are right and that everyone who thinks differently is wrong. They all can’t be right, and most likely they are all wrong because they all will not consider that they are wrong.
Meditation Journal - 12.11.10
What we call “self” is a construct of the mind. It’s composed of the same stuff as the random thoughts that constantly come and go. The self is nothing but a memory in a collection of memories, a product of elctro-chemical reactions that serve a biological purpose. It is, in short, a figment of our imagination; a persistent and recurring dream.
Truth, I understand it now.
Why did you hide your "liked" posts?
Pretty funny question coming from somebody who hides behind anonymity.
I like a lot of tldr posts that seem interesting as bookmarks to read them later when I don’t feel like hard reading on tumblr.
Why are you vegetarian? Health? Environment? Ethics? Something else?
All of the above.
“He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (via oceanofmind)
Sometimes that’s the only way I can learn about the world.
Exploding-Moons...: Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole. But Joshua Cotter sure was (and I’m the guy who did it!). →
explodingthemoons.tumblr.com
So this excerpt showed up on HowWellDoYOUKnowYourMoons. Its so funny I just couldn’t resist. Josh Cotter may be the dumbest fuckwad on the planet to think anyone could possibly fall for this butt dribble of liquid poop.
EXCERPT FR0M JOSHUA COTTER’S MEMO TO AMERICAN MEMBERS: NOVEMBER 24, 2010
They do believe it, for example my parents refuse to beileve that Moon really has that much (which is why they donated to free Pak) and they think that what he does have, he shares with whomever asks. Goddamn I hope the UC credibility dies along with Moon even in the eyes of his believers, then we can all smoke a bowl and have a good laugh with eachother.
We are but symbols or ideas represented by the sum of our parts, and we only know our parts by the symbols that we’ve created for them. We love ideas, we buy symbols, we want to be described by symbols, we want to be identified by ideas. But we instantaneously assume our importance and value out of ego. We may be “real beings” but our definition of real is unaware of how little we know about our parts, our atoms. With what little I know about the true nature of mass, matter and existence, at this point it makes sense that a person is just an idea as much as an atom is. A person is just a more complicated idea. After thinking about that I wonder if that means our ideas, fantasies, and thoughts actually exist to same degree.
I am now a vegetarian.
It’s tumblr official now. I had what was hopefully my last turkey on thanksgiving. I love the taste of meat but food isn’t all about taste.
