That's both the bane and the benefit of ideas. Once set in motion inside the mind they have their own, almost self-sustaining, momentum.SINsister wrote: Someone's going to buy into the bullshit, whether it's completely ignored *or* whether it's plastered all over every newspaper and website, though. There's no accounting for sheer stupidity, in this world. What's the answer, then? No one can really prevent folks from believing or following anything, can they? One needs only to look at Hitler's legacy.Ultimately, the masses of followers are often far more dangerous than the lone lunatic could ever hope to be...
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...not to mention that for many people, it's far easier to simply go along with the herd than to think for themselves. They ain't called "sheeple" for nothing, innit? 

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Sheeple! I've not heard that for ages 
(Last time was from a f*cked up Chaos Magickian with an incredibly inflated sense of his own importance
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never heard it, eh thanks



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you need help, yesterdaymarkfiend wrote:Sheeple! I've not heard that for ages
(Last time was from a f*cked up Chaos Magickian with an incredibly inflated sense of his own importance)

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<----- wonders what a "Chaos Magickian" is?
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Someon who's read too much Crowley usually.James Blast wrote:<----- wonders what a "Chaos Magickian" is?
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Ah! one or two of the Bozos over at DR thenmarkfiend wrote:Someon who's read too much Crowley usually.James Blast wrote:<----- wonders what a "Chaos Magickian" is?

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And usually straight over a cliff, into the Olduvai Gorge but calling them "Lemmeeple" would imply a Motorhead connection that's somewhat unwarranted.SINsister wrote:...not to mention that for many people, it's far easier to simply go along with the herd than to think for themselves. They ain't called "sheeple" for nothing, innit?

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