From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   > watching this netflix series on the dude from brazil   
   > "John of God".    the ultimate charlatan,  in fact he is   
   > without a doubt the biggest charlatan ever.   He rapes   
   > women like crazy but he got caught and has to go to   
   > the pokie for 19 years.   Which means he will die in prison.   
   > I can't believe how many people he bamboozled.    Opray   
   > and Wayne Dyer even fell for his horseshit.    What does   
   > that say about them?    Careful what or who you believe   
   > these days,   soon they will be in jail.   
      
   ### - it's easy to deal with ALL this shit really: just don't 'believe' in   
   anything! nada! :)   
      
   i.e., they start's people off small believing in santa and the tooth fairy   
   and they get presents/rewards for doing so, see? and so now they's hooked!   
   no wonder then they start lookin' around for other things to believe in   
   too like god and religion, country & flag and all the promises of rewards   
   THEY purportedly offer! beliefs are then piled upon beliefs until   
   'everything' gets approached in like-manner! a 'believer' has thus been   
   born and has come into the societal fold ready to be milked on a daily   
   basis... and boy do they gets milked or wot lol :)))   
      
   better than crappy 'belief' is an open mind that tests/tries everything   
   but 'believes' in nada, things are then accepted/not-accepted and/or   
   probed/tested over long periods of time, what seems to work goes in one   
   pile and everything else in the other pile, there's no need to 'believe'   
   in any of it either way! something either works (has some effect) or it   
   doesn't! and everything about it by way of explanation is debatable and   
   on-going!   
      
   take lucid dreaming for example: you know it's a real thing because you've   
   personally experienced it yourself many times, there's no need to   
   'believe' in it because you 'know' it instead, what you DON'T have to do   
   is believe in the various 'explanations' for it and about it that people   
   may come up with that should then all be taken with a pinch of salt while   
   testing to see what (if anything) happens when doing it yourself...   
      
   'beliefs' therefore being just like taking out a line of very expensive   
   credit: once you commit you have to pay that fucker back whether ya likes   
   it or not!   
      
   'belief & believing' being a damn crappy way to move around in the world   
   imho, one that's wide open to abuse, and boy do they abuse it!   
      
   poor oprah lol, she's so very ordinary really then huh aww :)))   
      
   (so now ya know how wallyworld actually functions heh, it's ALL based on   
   belief & trust) ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)