Agendas Agendas Agendas
I continually warn lurkers and others here to be sure to identify the agenda behind what someone has written. Almost everything on the web is editorial as opposed to news, that is, most everything you read and see on the web and indeed on other media as well is opinion, not fact. That of course also includes what I write.
You Know points us to www.dismal.com. While this was an interesting article on the overvaluation of the dollar which has occurred numerous times in the past, it did not predict the end of the world. Instead the writer was pointing people to possible investment gains to be had by investing in foreign currencies which he argues are currently extremely undervalued. He probably writes for or works for some type of institution that would profit from such a move.
LaRouche makes extremist statements almost weekly, which You Know feels we should see here. LaRouche, like Pat Buchanan and countless other fringe politicians have to make extreme statements to get any press. They mainly have the goal of making a living from this, but certainly would, like Adolf Hitler, take advantage of a depression or other troubling event to attempt to seize political power or increase their political influence. He clearly has an agenda behind each statement.
You Know also has an agenda. He needs people to believe that he is right. He stands to become a king over the earth whenever this catastrophe happens. He has admitted this in the past in reply to my posts. He has an agenda.
Hal Lindsay, Timothy Levay, Jack Van Impe all have agendas too. Van Impe has his wife sit and read gloom and doom forecasts for an hour and then tries to sell you a book. Lindsay and Levay also write and sell gloom and doom books. Doomsaying is right up there with pornography when it comes to titillation and its value it just about as long lasting.
Last but not least, the Watchtower Society has an agenda. They want you to sell their books. Their agenda is quite different from the majority of Jehovah's Witnesses who I believe are mostly honest hearted people who want to live a good life and have the world be a better place. Unfortunately they don't recognize that you can work toward those goals in much better ways than selling books and magazines that basically repeat the same information every 6 months or so.
Shame on anyone who tries to scare people into not living a full life and making themselves, their families and their friends happy in the beautiful world we live in.
hugs
Joel
