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robertpaulsen

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Wed Nov-17-10 06:19 PM
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25. If Technology is a religion & Infinite Growth a church & Oil is God...

Then that would make Nuclear Fusion the Messiah.

Thanks for posting this, GliderGuider. I had written a blog post back in September that referenced Michael Ruppert's spiritual views, but my perspective went whirled around the pop culture blender. I'll post it here later.

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-Mike Ruppert: God on the Table	GliderGuider	Nov-01-10 03:00 PM	#0
- sadly, not surprised to see this unrec'd here... as for the counter-weights	villager	Nov-01-10 03:08 PM	#1
- Yes, that's my preference these days.	GliderGuider	Nov-01-10 04:20 PM	#4
- That, I think, is "the work" for all of us....	villager	Nov-01-10 10:35 PM	#17
- So you have chosen ignorance.	darkstar3	Nov-01-10 03:12 PM	#2
- It's not that I've stopped asking "Why?"	GliderGuider	Nov-01-10 04:25 PM	#5
- With respect to: "...technology can be judged ... to be either a success or failure"	Jim__	Nov-01-10 03:51 PM	#3
- Does consciousness change anything?	GliderGuider	Nov-01-10 04:42 PM	#6
- I can't imagine why anyone at DU would un-rec anything by Mike Ruppert,	Raksha	Nov-01-10 04:44 PM	#7
- "By definition	skepticscott	Nov-01-10 06:19 PM	#8
- +1000	trotsky	Nov-01-10 06:28 PM	#9
- I think it's more the fault of the economists than the scientists.	GliderGuider	Nov-01-10 06:51 PM	#11
- Science and technology are the opposite of wishing for something.	trotsky	Nov-01-10 07:42 PM	#12
- The wishing doesn't come from the science	GliderGuider	Nov-02-10 08:06 AM	#19
- The classic equivocation gambit.	trotsky	Nov-02-10 06:23 PM	#20
- I don't see them as two different meanings	GliderGuider	Nov-02-10 07:02 PM	#21
- Of course you don't.	trotsky	Nov-02-10 09:53 PM	#23
- The fact that people rely on something	skepticscott	Nov-01-10 08:10 PM	#13
- Who cares what happens in reality?	laconicsax	Nov-01-10 06:45 PM	#10
- Quite the elogium of the Hindu world with its detachment from	dimbear	Nov-01-10 08:21 PM	#14
- I wasted years of my life trying to understand environmental issues as philosophical problems	struggle4progress	Nov-01-10 08:37 PM	#15
- Interesting. I've gone in exactly the opposite direction	GliderGuider	Nov-01-10 09:08 PM	#16
- unrec.	Odin2005	Nov-01-10 10:41 PM	#18
- Excellent! n/t	DeSwiss	Nov-02-10 07:09 PM	#22
- Thanks to everyone who helped out on this thread	GliderGuider	Nov-03-10 09:46 AM	#24
- If Technology is a religion & Infinite Growth a church & Oil is God...	robertpaulsen	Nov-17-10 06:19 PM	#25
- Your post reminded me of something of Joe Bageant's I recently read:	DeSwiss	Nov-17-10 07:11 PM	#26
- A bailout..........!	klatu	Dec-01-10 11:57 AM	#27

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