I have been researching conspiracies since 1990 (as time permits) and have found that the powers that be (ptb) discovered that people who don't think are much easier to fool (this is important because lies as big as the ones we are now living under are difficult to conceal).

Particularly, they discovered that people who are engrossed in imagination since childhood are much easier to successfully lie to because of their affinity for suspended disbelief (they like it; they want it). With these types of people, it's much easier to cause them to overlook hard facts (physical laws) by flooding them with emotionally coercive information so that their evaluation becomes emotionally directed rather than logically directed (based on established physical laws). People who are emotionally directed in their decision-making are much easier to control.

For example: 9-11:

It's physically impossible (against the known laws of physics) for the existing fires to have collapsed the buildings (don't forget that 3 building collapsed, not two), yet the ptb were able to coerce some into believing the fires did cause the collapse of the three buildings because of our cultivated global culture that embraces suspended disbelief.

In other words, the official conspiracy theory (that fires collapsed the buildings) is physically impossible, yet some (a minority, yet a significant number according to polls) still believed the official conspiracy story because it was "emotionally easier" to accept.

Why?

Because accepting that physical laws remained in effect that day require the acceptance of a scary (emotionally unappealing) conspiracy that most people don't want to believe. Further, our emotions are continually swayed by cleverly-written speeches meant to emotionally draw us into the lie.

Remember this age-old mantra from the "entertainment" industry: "Listen To Your Heart" (beginning about half-way thorough this video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=F83XhHZPHnc


[color:"brown"]"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"[/color]

—Jeremiah 17:9

(read "deceitful" as "self-deceitful")


Keep in mind that the official conspiracy theory is that a bunch of guys in a cave who were horrible pilots subverted several branches of U.S. intelligence several times in a single day and performed nearly physically-impossible maneuvers with vehicles vastly different than the ones they trained in.

Since we write books that train and educate natural and alternative health practitioners, we have a lot of contact with this "culture". I find them extremely well-educated, particularly in relation to the lies and propaganda spewed by mainstream media.

These are "can-do" kind of people that don't blindly accept what they are told (which is why most of them got into "alternative" medicine to begin with). They do their own research and as a result, find the scope and depth of the lies we are living under. I particularly like these kind of people because they are people who are motivated to learn, and people who are motivated are people who care about something—a good thing.

As I've stated before on this forum, every person that I know who began studying conspiracies has eventually become a full-blown conspiratorialist. Why? Because the evidence is there to support it. Remember, it's difficult to conceal a lie of this size.


For a deeper look on my beliefs related to these things, please see this post:

No Need To Be Worried About Russ


Are we dumber than we used to be? ...

[color:"brown"]8th Grade Exam From 1895[/color]

This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, KS. USA.
It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley
Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by the
Salina Journal.


8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS - 1895

Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu., deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per m?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per are, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of theRebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates:
1607
1620
1800
1849
1865

Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono,super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd,cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane,fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced andindicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is theocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba,Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.