What's your top 5 greatest scams for the last century

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   Castlepalomaposted 2 years ago

   For the greatest scams for the last century are... Imo
   
   1. Bankster
   2. Governments
   3. Corporationism
   4. Lightbulb conspiracy
   5. Marijuana conspiracy
   
   Covid handling is climbing very fast awaiting vaccines results in time.

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      Kyler J Falkposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      1. Marijuana as a "healthy" alternative medicine.
      2. House flipping.
      3. Spirituality.
      4. Ketosis as a "healthy" diet.
      5. Voting.

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         Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Kyler?
         
         1. Cannabis, or marijuana, has been documented for its medical benefits as far back as 2900 BC.
         How is proven schedule 1 or with no medical benefits.?
         2. I would in part, agree? .
         3. Spiritual is the 99% unknowns for me, what is it for you?
         4. In part, is sugar worse?
         5. Voting.
         Is it a dislike for assumed democracy or the handling of the voting ?

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            Kyler J Falkposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Medical benefits do not equate to being healthy. Radiation has medical benefits. Though a false equivalent, it shows where I don't agree with the media narrative, I just don't feel like breaking down the media narrative versus the realities of ingesting marijuana, nor the lack of research as far as latent neurological conditions go. CBD could go with marijuana, as well, with many false claims pushed by the media that just aren't appropriate (CBD is psychoactive, as defined by science, but most people believe it not to be due to the media).
            
            Spirituality is an offshoot of religion, and most-often used publicly as a way to manipulate others. It is great as a personal, private tool for coping with existence, but anything outside of that, anything publicized, is a sham for manipulation. In the last century it has become a booming market beyond the wildest dreams of the greatest con artists of the past.
            
            I'm not sure what you are asking about sugar. Ketosis is a high fat, low to no carb intake diet. It is bad for your system, and was first meant as a way to help obese people with major health issues lose weight really fast. It's a life-extending diet for those that are dying, not a diet for those who want to drop weight quickly but otherwise could do so without drastic steps.
            
            I dislike voting because the system is not that simple, and those who make it to the primaries do so by the will of those that truly govern us. You can't just sign up for the election, run, and get a fair chance. You must brush elbows with senators, foreign dignitaries, businessmen, etc. in every district, gain their support by making promises, and deliver to those who truly put you in that position. Voting is a show for the people, but the real deliberations are held behind large, expensive doors.

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               Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Cannabis works, because in part with nutrition saved my life. I grow cannabis medicine that saved others. I was one of the front runners who made it legal in Canada. Although, I say everything in moderation. Cannabis is my only medicine, once a week.
               
               Anything relates to obesity would be a serious scam.
               
               I would relate spiritual to imagination. For everything in one's life, was all once imagined.
               
               Is Religion not in your top 5 scams?
               
               Personally I don't vote, or take stake or stock in elections. Government is number 1 scam for thousands of years from my work in history museums. At least gotten better since the Kings.

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                  Kyler J Falkposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  No one is arguing its benefits, only that calling it "healthy" is like saying Adderall is healthy because of its health benefits. It's facetious, and it does a disservice to the consumer.
                  
                  Ketosis these days no longer relates to treating obesity if you discuss it within the context of its connotations, though, most people think of it as a regular diet. The diet treats obesity quite well, and has been shown to increase the lifespan of individuals dying of certain obesity-born illnesses, but it will shorten the lifespan of people who use it as an alternative diet when it isn't necessary for their life.
                  
                  Spiritualism is most-often popularized for the sake of selling products, and that's a trend that has gained significant power in the last century due to technological advances.
                  
                  Religion is not a last-century scam, it's an age-old scam; I was keeping my responses within your offered criteria. If the criteria were "greatest scams of all time" religion can go to number one.
                  
                  Yes, it has become much better, but the way to go to battle with our kings and queens has become much more complex and less attainable. Poison and blade used to be tools anyone could utilize, now you must dedicate your life to using metaphorical poisons and blades, if we can forgive the double metaphor. Voting is just the veiled poison used for placating the masses.

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                     Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                     Didn't know the term Ketosis, lots of accepted red meats like Fatty Meats That Are Perfect for Keto.
                     
                     New York strip steak. Ben A. ...
                     Ribeye steak.
                     Claudia TotirGetty  ...  Pork belly..
                     Lamb chops. Shutterstock. ...
                     Chicken thighs..  ...
                     Babyback ribs.
                     
                     Most of disease comes from meats, very hard on our liver. Including covid.

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                        Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                        Adderall
                        The risks range from restlessness, aggression, and increased blood pressure and heart rate to stomach problems, paranoia, psychosis, seizures, heart attack,stroke and death. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
                        
                        Cannabis
                        Side effects
                        Sleepy, horny, hungry and no deaths directly. Less addictive than coffee.
                        
                        Legal drugs kill more than illegal drugs.

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                           Kyler J Falkposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                           Your take on Marijuana is the exact reason I put it at the top of the list. One day the sciences will take the forefront, but more time needs to pass so the novelty can wear off. When the novelty wears off, when we can actually perform the necessary studies (most are time-locked), the general population will argue it like they argue about tobacco.

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                              Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                              Tobacco has killed more than all drugs combined and all wars since the second world war.
                              
                              There is no proof a human being has been died directly from cannabis.
                              
                              There was a monkey killed once By FDA masking the monkey. Then shoving 60 joints into his mouth and then they called it death by brain damage.
                              
                              They fried and egg and called it, :Brains frying on marijuana.
                              Still nobody died of cannabis
                              
                              They threw a 25 pound bale of cannabis from a 10 story building and killed a lab rat on the road.
                              
                              They made propaganda reefer maddness where one person took one puff from a reefer, Then they jumped out of a buildings.
                              
                              Still nobody died from cannabis in reality.

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                                 Kyler J Falkposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                                 I could care less about death rates from any drug, it isn't my concern with cannabis. My concern is that people, including yourself, are highly unaware of the long list of long-term side effects, especially those that are neurological in nature, of abusing cannabis; either that, or you would rather push for these facts to be under the rug until science has the chance to really hammer home these facts with long-term studies in the proper contexts.
                                 
                                 THC consumption is directly linked to birth defects, psychoses, and is also being studied as a catalyst for latent mental illnesses with prolonged abuse. We don't even have a way to empirically measure what "abuse" is for the drug yet, either, except for the consequences the abuser self-reports, or what medical staff can glean from anecdotal presentations from the patients they treat.
                                 
                                 Though there is much available information you are unaware of, or willfully excluding now, I promise you that marijuana will be hotly debated within the next twenty or so years just like tobacco. Just like tobacco, as well, the cost of education will be the health of many of those who believed the half-baked optimism from the businessmen who sell the idea that marijuana consumption is "healthy", "risk-free", and/or "recreational".
                                 
                                 Weed is a drug, it has both positive and negative effects, these effects are both long and short-term, and as of yet there isn't enough science to punish those who deserve it for profiting off of the stupidity of the market. It's a scam for most, but a great medication for those who use it in such a way. Though it must be noted, I have no further desire to discuss this; you are very into picking things apart for the truth when they don't support what you already believe, but you seem ready to die on this hill.

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                                    Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                                    Cannabis is a herb r soft drug foremost.
                                    
                                    Tobacco is the most opossible substance I can imagine from from cannabis.
                                    
                                    I do recommend not smoking pot or smoking lettuce for all that matters.

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                                       Kyler J Falkposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                                       Smoke it, eat it, it makes no difference to the facts; there's even less research on 11-hydroxy which is what THC becomes when you eat it. However, there is a lot of research (relatively) to suggest that it is even more dangerous neurologically than smoking it. This is, of course, not discussing what many would call neurotypicals as the focus.
                                       
                                       It won't matter, it doesn't matter, but I hope you recall this conversation when it all comes out as unarguable. It is inevitable. As I said, though, you're prepared to die on this hill and I won't put any more effort into helping you do so.

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                                       Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                                       ... for that matter.

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                                       Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                                       Reefer maddness will go away with the mediccines of plants. Since they are far greater than us  in mass weightand historically.

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                  wildernessposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  "Cannabis works, because in part with nutrition saved my life. I grow cannabis medicine that saved others. "
                  
                  Did you publish a double blind study, with thousands of test subjects, and peer review as confirmed your work?  (COVID vaccines were tested on 30,000 subjects and are still being claimed to be unknown
                  
                  If not then you have no authority to make those statements.

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                     Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                     I can because I grow and sell legal foods and medicines, knowingly the well being by results of first hand experiences . Everyone, has gotten better health up to date now.
                     
                     Where, vaccines manufacturing stopped testing the shots on animals because all of the animals died & then they directly started experimenting on humans.
                     
                     Same month, globally last year, covid cases have increased 2 1/2 times regardless of vaccines rollouts.

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            Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Pot is not healthy. it creates a very yin or acidic bloodstream and as we all know an acidic blood stream is detrimental to a robust physical state and  eventually leads to cancer. It is bad for the gums, softening them. It is bad for the brain, affecting the sense of time and well-being, leading to paranoia. It is bad for the personality which becomes stupid-like. Pot might be okay for those who are dying and need relief. Not for teens and young adults whose brains are still forming until 25 yrs of age.

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               Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               FDA won't do honest test on cannabis. They Claim to own a patton on cannabis.
               
               Dr Oz and %85 of the public approves cannabis is a mediccine.
               
               It the 80% 0f the collective consciousness of the people, I trust. It is the main people power that overpowers the Government scams ultimately.

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      Sharlee01posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Not hard to come up with 5 dishonest schemes.
      1.Biden winning the election with "very little" campaigning.
      2.The media and their quest to make the news not report it.
      3. The games that are being played out in Congress --- both sides
      4.BLM  --- "BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives." IMO they have accomplished very little, and at this point are drawing negative publicity.
      5.Sending COVID patients into nursing homes knowing even after being told that COVID was highly contagious.

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         Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

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            Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Most of your scams are related to political Government, in the ballpark of my worst scams number 1. I would shut it down a little, like too much TV boob and violence, it is possible a waste. I check in occasionally to see what opposite direction to go.
            
            That woke movement is much related to the 60s black movement and now the black lives matter.
            Maybe us whites, should attack American asians for being better at a standard of education and a better standard of living in North America with great envy.
            
            I'm tired of my daughter calling me a privileged white racist and not allowed to enjoy life. Guilty by association of a few greedy bastards wealthy whites. There again, asians have many more billionaires than us in North America. You rarely see whites over in China or people of colour.
            How racist can one get.
            
            I married a Mexican, toured 4 and half continents. Dated mostly non white women.
            Yet, still I must be incurable racist, wail she is half white.
            I disagree with C16 laws in Canada. Makes me a homophobic and a homosexual at the same time. One can be fined for $100,000 or jail. For refusing to call them those names among the 29 gender name spectrum. From male to mixed identity gender to female.
            Maybe they can take the gas off their political justice cult.
            
            What is the world coming to? .
            Alexander the Great revenge.

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         Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         BLM is a hate group. Who do they hate?
         The police.

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      Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      What is the lightbulb conspiracy?

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         Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Thomas Edison has a lightbube still running for 120 years.
         
         lightbulb conspiracy?
         The concept is corporations design lightbulbs and mostly every products for a short lifespan for profit, not for publics best benefits.

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            wildernessposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            The rest of the story is that most bulb damage occurs at the moment of turning it on; the bulb in question has never been turned off (or only once).  In addition is is so dim and yellow as to be virtually worthless outside of mood lighting.

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               Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               How romantic.

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      gmwilliamsposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      1. Religion, greatest scam of all time.
      2. Relatives i.e. the lazy, parasitic ones who always want something. Relatives who are socioeconomic vampires.
      3. Welfare, time to reduce welfare 80%-95%
      4. The concept of beauty.
      5.  The concept that  poverty is a noble, spiritual thing....egads, man.
      Here are some more:
      1. Communism
      2. Government health programs. Pay for YOUR OWN healthcare.
      3. The current tax system.
      4.  Money is the root of all evil.  Really, what BS.
      5. Obedience to authority, never questioning authority.

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         Sharlee01posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         OH yes !

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         Kyler J Falkposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         1. Yup.
         2. Glad I don't have any of those, but diehard family loyalty ideals always confused me anyways. Parasites need to be removed.
         3. Ehhhh, maybe not that much, crime rates would skyrocket.
         4. Heck yeah, I love looking at everyone and everything in every context.
         5. Poverty sucks eggs.
         
         1.1. The totalitarian nature of it scares me, but otherwise it would never thrive where we are in the US.
         2.1. I support these for those with jobs that don't pay enough for basic necessities, let alone American health plans. There was a time I needed insurance but couldn't afford it, and it was terrible having to bum prescriptions off of other people. General welfare is important.
         3.1. I like taxes, I think it is our spending that is the problem.
         4.1. I love money so much. "Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop!"
         5.1. Always question authority, and never disregard reason.

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         Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         GM
         
         1, Religion is shrinking alot, still population and political power needs alot more work on their religious wars and criminal rap sheet. 
         
         4. The concept of beauty is truth for me.
         
         5. Yes, way too much over obedience from Religions and Politics.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   1. The public school system.
   2. Retirement managed by the government.
   3. Processed foods such as white flour and white sugar.
   4. The medical profession when it overrides the knowledge and ability to heal ourselves.
   5. Allowing and fostering career politicians.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   Now that you bring it to conscious attention, it seems our lives are run by scams:
   an  e n d l e s s  amount of them.
   
   What are we to do with this awareness?
   
   C H A N G E ?

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   what would life be like with less of these scams influencing us?

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      Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Best off changing ourselves first. Others will follow from our good example, rather than tyranny.

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         Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Finding joy within and not being so obedient to everything which we follow so obediently! There seems to be no shortage of obedience in the human population.
         
         We are too obedient to customs, habits, traditions and all the powerful influencers and simulators that we mindlessly follow day by day. We need to go within and find our own inner natures, (reality feedback from within.) There we will find our true natures which exist beyond the tyranny of the outer-world which we allow to rob us of our creativity, sense of Self and our ability to guide our own (free!) WILL.

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            Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            +++

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            tsmogposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Are you proposing anarchy? Just curious . . .

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               Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Do anarchists believe in freedom within boundaries?

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                  Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  Oh yes, they set business and personal boundaries. Plus structure themselves like a family in self government and free trade.
                  My community eco village is basically an anarchist group, not allowing vaccined people within the community.
                  
                  Remember me saying It will take 100 million died from my repeated nightmares, a few years back. Some in our community say 90% of world population will die. Although my initiatives side says they will wake up earlier for survival.
                  Also predicted bitcoins when it was $2 will be best investment, today its $3000. Better switch to pirates coins, now.
                  Dam it, I put all my money into Legalization of marijuana, tiny houses and organic foods. Although its starting to pay off better than anything now.

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               Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Oh no no no and yes. Who would dare to disobey our eveydays Gods, we give a 1/3 or half our money to.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   The boundaries which the US Constitution sets forth have been whittled away and are not being valued or followed. This lack of appropriate boundaries and guidelines are the reason prosperity is so hard to come by. For instance, the taxing, fee collecting and over-regulating of individuals, businesses and manufacturing/building companies has increased for the last fifty years. This can be considered taxation without representation.

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   hard sunposted 2 years ago

   1. The notion that the most honorable way to make a living is to slave away for someone else, like a big corporation, until the government decides they can give you back a small check each month when you are a senior citizen.
   
   2. See number one as this notion had us giving away all the very things that result in true self sufficiency and thus true freedom.

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      Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Most senior have to work to make ends meet. Lucky I love to work.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   Here is a scam: The leading of our children into virtual-land through teaching them almost exclusively through the use of screen technologies in and out of school.
   
   They will know one thing and one thing only: The Screen World.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago

   they will not know how to navigate in the real world.
   
   Will this lack of ability to operate in the land of reality be beneficial once they become adults?
   Of course not,
   
   Yet, it continues ...
   every single day.
   We hand them over the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad the PC, the Chrome book, the Game Boy and we have bought into the SCAM that these technical devises are good for our children. It will make them smart! How easy it is to hand them our cellphones/mini computers wherever we are: In the restaurant, car, store ... school class room ...
      
   
   We are neglecting our youth, in my view ...

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      Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Love to teach sandsculpture to all ages. Now with the vaccines, the covid maybe more airborne now.

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