Tinfoil Theory posted in a semi-serious fashion: Bush Appointments

[Ian David]

Look at Bush's policies and actions and ask yourself, "What Would The Antichrist Do?"


Now, I am not saying Bush is The Antichrist. But what if Bush thinks he is The Antichrist, and is behaving accordingly?

Bush would pretty much score a 100% on The Antichrist Achievement Index.

Destabilize The Middle East: Check
Destroy environment: Check
Increase poverty: Check
Encourage Theocracy: Check

And the list goes on and on...


Now, as I tighten my tinfoil hat and make sure all the flux connections are wrapped good and tight, I'll continue.

Appointing people who are competent to positions like the director of FEMA would not be important to The Antichrist. Any disasters would just be one of the signs of The End Times or whatnot, and death and destruction would actually be welcomed.

The important thing for The Antichrist wouldn't be to appoint people who know what they are doing, but to appoint people who can be trusted to do what they are told!

Cronyism would be key to consolidating The Antichrist's power. Obedience, not competence, would be the deciding factor.

And now I will shut-up and prepare to be berated for my silliness.

My tinfoil hat will protect me from your negative energy.

[jeff30997]

1. Butbutbut I thought that God was speaking true him !

:sarcasm:

[Ian David]

2. That was supposed to be a secret between Bush and The Amish

He didn't think The Amish would have television cameras there.

[Greyhound]

3. I just recently learned that the Amish have become money grubbing

hypocrites. Using computers and getting around the prohibition by keeping them in their barns. WTF, doesn't anybody follow their own silly rules anymore? :banghead:

[Ian David]

4. To be fair, there was an article on The Amish in Wired Magazine years ago

Which talked about The Amish and modern technology.

Their religion doesn't call for an outright ban on all modern technology across the board.

What it does call for is that each technology be evaluated and judged for its merit and proper place in their society, based upon several things. For example, how it would effect their society and their family.

Having a telephone in the home would be bad. It would interrupt meals, people wouldn't talk face-to-face anymore when they could just make a phonecall, etc. But having a telephone in a shack in the middle of a field where various members of the community can all share it to do conduct business with the outside world would be a good thing.

It isn't a "loophole," it's policy.



See this article:

Issue 1.06 - Dec 1993
The Amish Get Wired. The Amish?
By Paul Levinson


Most people consider the Amish an interesting collection of throwbacks who have turned their backs on the modern world. On a recent trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania with my wife and kids, I found this popular stereotype quite mistaken. Beneath the pastel shirts and black trousers and horse-and- buggies portrayed so vividly in Witness; behind the cornfields and customs that sway layer upon layer back to 17th-century Swiss/high-German roots, the Amish have not so much said no to high-tech as developed an ingenious strategy for getting the most out of it.

To begin with, the Amish are not one, but a variety of subtly, and in some cases drastically, different groups with a wide range of attitudes towards modern devices. Most importantly, no Amish group has rejected technology outright - rather, they struggle with the appeal of technologies, usually accepting a new machine at first, agonizing over its real and projected social consequences, and then deciding whether and to what extent it will be used. They come the closest I have seen to a living embodiment of a philosophy for technology.

In most cases, the Amish in fact accept new technology, while straining the limits of creativity to keep it from disrupting their social order. Electricity from central power companies is forbidden - sockets in the wall are appendages of an uncontrollable, huge, external, political-economic power structure - but electricity from 12 volt, self-sufficient batteries is all right. Phones are frowned upon (not absolutely forbidden) in the homes of most Amish, but since the 1930s, phone "shanties" on the edges of property have been permitted. These booths are seen as affording most of the advantages of the phone, while strengthening the communal use which the Amish see as crucial to a healthy life. As McLuhan pointed out, the phone line in the home makes our private lives more public than a walk outside.

The Amish proscription on centrally supplied electricity dovetails nicely with its religious-ethical dislike of mass media - like television, which usually can't run on batteries - and its content. But a new device has crept into some Amish homes and businesses: a clever little "inverter," which transforms 12-volt battery current into a reasonable likeness of the 110-volt power that comes from the socket. How exquisite the irony, then, when TV and yes, even computers are now connected to inversion 110-volt power.

More:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.06/1.6_amish.html

[jeff30997]

6. Aaaah!Now I get it!

[woodsprite]

5. I don't think you're silly. I think you're right!

Either he "is" the AC or he "thinks" he's the AC. Maybe the AC really is just a bad person - someone who thrives on hate, war, dismay, -- everything that is - well, AntiChristian. A plain stupid evil person that can get people to follow him. That would certainly fit him to a "T".

[elehhhhna]

7. Sometimes a jerk is just a jerk.

He might think he's Jesus Jr., but never the AC. Too vain.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

8. Interesting but I don't think * is the AC

Why be the AC and act so stoopid? But, I've started to think that the Shrub just might be being blackmailed into making some of these appointments and doing other things he does. Like, post "X" to the SCOTUS (or invade Iraq) or I'll leave your real TANG records laying on a table at Starbucks. And it doesn't mean the AC isn't lurking close to the BFEE. Anything's possible, that's what makes it so interesting. Happy tinfoiling B-)