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thr33tim3 wrote:

I just realized the humorous pun of all these people walking around with their Apple "I-Pods" plugged into their brains all day.

I, Pod? smile

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I just found this... oh the irony.  smile

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Another random thing I've noticed and have been thinking about since the start of this thread is the insincere/fake emotions thing.  I don't know if it's "pod people" or what it is, but I thought I'd mention it.  It gets so tiresome seeing people doing the fake "awwww...." thing, pretending to sound sympathetic about stuff....even worse, when it's not even something really bad or worth all the "awwwww" for in the first place. 

At my various jobs I do a lot of people watching, and many people have really strange behaviors, that's the best way to put it.  wink  A downright weird one is when somebody bursts out with some amped up laughter or manic mania, voice loud, eyes bugged out, strange bodily tics....then they turn around and literally, the next second, their face goes back to being fixed and stoney.  THAT'S a weird one, and I've seen it on lots of people.   It's like "mack mack mack mack mack!  AHAHHAAHAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!".....then blank stone face.   Bizarro.  Its weird because they don't seem to be in control of themselves or what they're saying or doing. Their body is just tic-ing wildly like they're having a seizure.   And to go from amped up "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" to stone faced silence from one second to the next....I don't get it.  What's THAT all about??  I've never done that in my life, and nobody I've ever seen growing up around me ever did such a thing.

Again, I don't know if it's "pod people" or it's something else, but whatever it is, at the core it seems to be people not behaving or responding in normal ways.  Something being off or wrong about their reactions, as well as the fake and insincere expression of emotions thing. 

Related to that is something else I've mentioned around NR, concerning people's reactions and responses not matching what's being said.  The wrong "fake emotion" being generated.   A response that doesn't match what I've just said, and so on. 

Here's an anecdote:   Back in 2000, when I lived in SoCal and was working for that richy rich real estate office from hell, I found myself talking to one of the real estate agents one morning.  She struck up a conversation with me while I was about to head upstairs to the second floor, so, we're standing there at the base of the stairs talking......about absolutely pointless, banal nothing.  Stuff so pointless we may as well have been discussing dust particles floating in the air.  (I'm sure people here can relate to being sucked into pointless conversations with people about absolutely nothing......) 

But it didn't take me long to notice that her eyes were glazed over and far away and it was like she wasn't even seeing me as she talked to me, again, about all this pointless nothing.  Then I noticed the way she was talking....the entire thing was NOT right.  Kind of robotic.  I became so weirded out that I began walking backwards away from her, and slowly crept up the stairs.  She meanwhile had continued to talk in that slow, far away almost robotic manner about absolutely nothing, staring straight ahead, not even noticing that I was no longer standing there until I was halfway up the landing.  Then I watched her finally trickle off slowly, like, huh? 

Maybe it was drugs.  Maybe it was something else.  I'll never know, but I've encountered a lot of people whose reactions and repsonses aren't right.   My current temp agency is a good example.  Earlier this year I had to stop by the office and pick up some keys for a new assignment and to try to discuss with them why I asked to be pulled off a previous assignment, and I walked out of there vowing not to deal with anybody there in person again if I can help it.   It was like Stepford Employees.  Plastered on grins with big eyes, not hearing a word I was saying, responses not matching what I was saying.  I may as well have been talking to the furniture.   I barely even started talking to them when I realized something wasn't right and just gave it up.     

There's so much to say about all of this, but I'll leave it at this.  There are so many theories as to why this is happening.  Is it medication?   So many people are supposedly doped up now on psych meds.  Is it poisons in the food?  Aluminum cookware??  Flu shots??  wink  Are people being replaced like a real life literal case of "pod people" ?   Is it realm incapability?  When two people of differing frequencies come together in the same realm, then it's like space time breaks down??  haha  "Place holders" due to realms shifting and branching apart?  I don't know, but I'd like to find out.

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Well, part of it could be the food. My friend and I took our daughters to the local ice-skating rink since they had the day off and we stopped and had....OHNO!..McDonald's (which I NEVER eat) and I swear, I was in a fog the rest of the day. I got reaaal quiet, and she's like, "are you okay?". I just felt like I was in this fog and couldnt get my brain to work.  It still is lingering a bit today.  I cant imagine how people can eat that stuff EVERY day!  So I put in a vote that part of its the fast food. smile

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I bet a bit of everything...
From the food, drugs, media to entities sad
Less evolved and/or “sleep”  souls are more affected.

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This is a great thread.  It has triggered me to start thinking about a lot of things again; which is interesting as it comes at a time when I have realised that I am not as far along as I thought I was.  Or maybe I am just having a lot of new realisations - I guess having kids can do that to you.

Well there is some stuff I want to post here in this thread, and I will write that later.  At the moment though, I have a question for the posters here.  Why do you think it isn't just psychological reasoning for the way the pods are?  We are conditioned from birth till death, from every possible angle.  Add into this food, drugs, media, entities etc. and to me it makes perfect sense why pods are like they are.  But am I right in thinking that all here think it is something more than that?

To me at least, I feel that asking why the pods are they way they are is the wrong question.  After all they are in the majority, whilst we are in the vast minority (and I really suspect it is far worse than 80 / 20).  Surely we should be asking ourselves:

"Why aren't we like them?"

Why didn't the conditioning work with us, why do we see things differently?  I don't just mean our personal stories as to how we awakened.  I mean - even given our unique individual circumstances - how were we able to do it?

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Marcus wrote:

....... I have a question for the posters here.  Why do you think it isn't just psychological reasoning for the way the pods are?  We are conditioned from birth till death, from every possible angle.  Add into this food, drugs, media, entities etc. and to me it makes perfect sense why pods are like they are.  But am I right in thinking that all here think it is something more than that?

For me, my first tendancy in life is to look at the psychological.  I learned and understood about psychology before ever learning about the "woo woo" (ie, reanimated people, walk ins, neg entity possession/shadowing, etc. and so on...) and so that's where my first inclination tends to be when analyzing why people are the way they are.  I consider their upbringing, their personal happiness or lack thereof in life, and now psych meds as well. (Because I'm not on them myself, it never occurred to me before to consider that angle when dealing with somebody who's acting strangely, but now I know to keep that in mind.)  Also, as someone who had a bizarro life when I was younger, and the resulting....odd personality quirks because of it wink it would be weird of me not to consider psychology/homelife/upbringing/personal happiness for other people in turn.   And usually that seems to be what the issue is for most people.  However, there are those random odd cases where something else may be going on, above and beyond normal, explainable circumstances.   So, for me, I keep all of it in mind.  It's always open. 


Marcus wrote:

To me at least, I feel that asking why the pods are they way they are is the wrong question.  After all they are in the majority, whilst we are in the vast minority (and I really suspect it is far worse than 80 / 20).  Surely we should be asking ourselves:

"Why aren't we like them?"

Why didn't the conditioning work with us, why do we see things differently?  I don't just mean our personal stories as to how we awakened.  I mean - even given our unique individual circumstances - how were we able to do it?

Good point.  Because there are endless possibilities for what could be going on with "pods," and the strange characters we may find ourselves crossing paths with in life, maybe we should be more concerned with what the non-pods have in common.  !  So yeah, very good point. 

Granted, I'm not perfect either, and I've had my fair share of conditioning about many things.  Nobody makes it through this reality and gets to the finish line without being programmed and conditioned.   And here's something that's been on my mind lately - I believe wholeheartedly in timelines and parallel realities.  For every choice you make in life, the other choice exists as well, and is "somewhere out there."  The higher the probability for you making that choice, then the stronger that parallel reality is.  All of which means, there can be, and often are, many versions of the present "you" in this universe.   I've spoken with psychic people who've not only confirmed this fact, but one of them told me with some amusement that it might be interesting for me to get in touch with "me" on my other timelines.  Because those me's are very different from the me that's typing this post right now, on Noble Realms.   VERY different.  Those me's didn't turn out like this.  I'd already suspected it myself before she ever mentioned it, but to hear her say it and confirm this was a little surprising.  For me to wind up where I am in life, right now - strange childhood, crazy family, unusual personality, interesting life events, and with the last seven years being a crash course introduction into all things paranormal, metaphysical and conspiracy - meant something seriously rearranged and altered reality to force this timeline into place.  Where I am now is a square peg in a round hole.  It was forced, it did not evolve naturally.  It was like the universe decided one day, "Tag!  You're it!"...and yet, from what I intuitively get and what I've gotten from my psychic friend is that this "me" is my only truly aware and awake me/timeline out of the entire bunch, where I'm involved in the things I'm involved in, and doing the things I'm doing.  All the others fell to the wayside and faded into bland oblivion.  And there were definitely ones that didn't even make it past the age of 20. 

All of which means -  Who is the real "us" ?   In this timeline we "woke up" and are pretty aware...but it doesn't mean we are in other timelines.  !!   Which means we could very well be like pod people in other timelines....or in my case, just living out a relatively bland and ordinary life, due to events playing themselves out very differently.  So maybe we shouldn't pat ourselves on the back so fast now!   big_smile big_smile  haha  Seriously....it's interesting stuff to think about, and it ties back into your question, about why are we different?   A revised version of that question could be, Why did we wind up different...on this timeline?    If some of us have our own personal proof that there are other  ordinary versions of ourselves in other timelines, then the question then becomes....who or what "decided" that certain versions (maybe only one version!) of ourselves would awaken?

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lyra wrote:

All of which means, there can be, and often are, many versions of the present "you" in this universe.   I've spoken with psychic people who've not only confirmed this fact, but one of them told me with some amusement that it might be interesting for me to get in touch with "me"

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Wow, now this conversation has taken some new and interesting turns.  Marcus, I've had the exact same question in mind:  Why are we not pod people?  In the past, I've chalked it up to a difficult childhood, which either forces you to be an individual who doesn't take authority at face value, or it crushes you. 

Okay, show of hands (for anyone who feels comfortable answering this):  How many of you, like me and Lyra, had a difficult or unusual upbringing?  It wouldn't necessarily have to be traumatic, just different.

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I've connected difficult and/or unusual upbringing with awakening as well. However, it is a double-edged sword to propose such an idea. One might simply say, "you think the way you do because you had a difficult childhood and are simply trying to explain it all away with conspiracy theories." While on the other hand, you could say, "the reason you haven't woken up to the reality of things is that you haven't had to face the problems of the world with your conformist, wealthy childhood." It's things like this you have to take into consideration.

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Lono wrote:

Wow, now this conversation has taken some new and interesting turns.  Marcus, I've had the exact same question in mind:  Why are we not pod people?  In the past, I've chalked it up to a difficult childhood, which either forces you to be an individual who doesn't take authority at face value, or it crushes you. 

Okay, show of hands (for anyone who feels comfortable answering this):  How many of you, like me and Lyra, had a difficult or unusual upbringing?  It wouldn't necessarily have to be traumatic, just different.

I had an almost perfect pod-person upbringing.  Classic "american dream" life-style etc.

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Mine was different, not what you would call a classic "american dream", Leave it to Beaver thing. But there was some "podness" to it. I also knew I was somehow "different". which caused me lots of turmoil emotionally.

In man's analysis and understanding of himself, it is as well to know from whence he came as whither he is going.   Edgar Cayce

Beliefs are tools for social conditioning, rather than expressions of inner realization or inner truth.   unknown
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Pictus, you have such a funny sense of humor, I appreciate your posts...
the mini-me pictures were brilliant. big_smile

Lyra, I have a lot of trouble understanding the concept of myself on multiple timelines, ala Preston Nichols et al. How do all these "versions" of myself relate back to one, centralized "core" self? It is the same trouble I have with the concept of "simultaneous" incarnations in Matrix V... it makes sense in its own theoretical concept, but how does it actually apply and affect us here in this, THIS, reality? If I could be "awakened" in this timeline but "asleep" in another, what does that add up to? How does one effect another, and to what end? Well, I doubt there is an easy answer to any of those questions, but this is what is stirred up in my mind. It just seems like that to say that THIS reality is just one of an infinite versions on infinite timelines... it feels like it kind of invalidates, or at least takes a lot of the "importance" of our experiences here. But then, maybe things are just so vast that that is the only way it can work... seeming like things are all seperated by different timelines, densities, etc but eventually they are all found to connect holistically...
It is just hard to understand how infinite timelines connects to a core-identity.. if anything, it seems like infinite chaos to me. Perhaps THAT is our core-identity in that case...?

I also find that "pod" thinking can permeate more than just the "faceless masses" or "80%" we are referring to. I see a lot of pod-mentality in the New Age movement, in terms of clinging to dogma, closed mindedness to "contradictory" material, insistence on "love, light and fluffy smiles" ONLY and seeing "bad feelings" as negative/hurtful. It is almost impossible to snap such people out of their belief systems, because you end up being called a "negative" person. It is similar to the kind of mind control people in religious cults such as Scientology or Jehovahs Witnesses get into... there is an internal censoring of all input from the outside world, it is all seen through a lens like "is this a voice of "light and love" or a voice of "darkness"??" and if it fits their pre-conceived concept of "dark thinking" they put up a wall instantly and stop listening. Many folks such as this refuse to look very deeply into political conspiracies of a physical nature such as trauma-based mind control and child abduction/trafficking.... "such a dark thing to consider, why tolerate such negativity in your thought patterns? Best to just drop it and meditate on "gratitude"..."

I had a very difficult childhood and am still living a very impoverished lifestyle, and while I don't BLAME my lack of apparent success on "conspiracy theories", a lot more has begun to make sense since I started my process of self-education on the subjects and realized just how much control has been exerted to keep "non-pod people" from achieving success and a "comfortable" standard of living... let alone self-sufficiency to become seperate from the herd. Its painful when New Age believers dismiss me as "negative", because I am interested in the Truth, not just affirmations that "intuitively feel right" just because they "sound so nice".

Tim

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I'd say I've had (or am still in the process) of a different upbringing.  If we do choose the families we are born in then it kinda makes perfect sense why I'm in the one I'm in.  My dad liked to control the family - so it seems that led me not only for physical freedom, but spiritual also.

Actually, everything seemed pretty "normal" for the first 10-12 years.  Except as a child I had a very very wild imagination (I would always be creating a game/fantasy or roll play and thought that I could talk to God lol).  Then once my older brother and sister moved out to univercity things changed so rapidly and its still happening to this day - like a chain reaction of events that led here.  So the past few years have been very weird, in a great way!

And its funny, I remember talking to my friend a while back and my parents were fighting and at one point I was like "I'm going to snap!".  And I did.  It lead to depression for about a year, but also led me on my quest for knowledge!  So when I did finally "snap", there went my mainstream belief system!  Perfect timing. wink

Concerning the different timelines, how come we are kinda locked in "this" one, when there are many, many, many other realms and dimensions with different selves?  Is it like a tree, and we are the leaf that doesn't know s/he is on a tree? And there would be many leaves... but why do we only experience one?

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Hehe, I am now getting emails from various "Pod-Casting" websites because I submitted my mp3 podcast feeds to them like a month or two ago... so I just checked my mail and got an email saying:

"Your Podcast Was Added to Pod-Planet.com"
feed.truesoundhealing.com

I feel like I am living on Pod Planet, for sure. smile
Tim

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Lono wrote:

Okay, show of hands (for anyone who feels comfortable answering this):  How many of you, like me and Lyra, had a difficult or unusual upbringing?  It wouldn't necessarily have to be traumatic, just different.

Well my point wasn't necessarily about trying to establsh a connection between troubled childhoods and being a non-pod.  In my last post, I was more interested in the idea of parallel realities and probable timelines and how there are other versions of ourselves out there who may not be as awake as we are 'here."  Granted, for me, it seems this entire (weird, often times negative) life I've led has been manipulated and forced like a square peg into a round hole, and was not the original way things went, which means there are other timelines where things went very differently...and where I'm more bland and "normal' as a result.  So yeah, definitely, maybe in creating a weird childhood/teen years, it indeed led me to where I am now which matches what you're theorizing.  (Although to be honest, I think that in my other timelines I'm still smart and aware and 'real'...just not taking things to the extreme that I have in this timeline!  big_smile  )  Yet Marcus apparently had a normal upbringing, which implies having an inherant soul awareness that's not dependent on environmental circumstances;  and then there are those who have had abusive childhoods and grow up to mimic and repeat the same cycle of abusive, asleep-at-the-wheel pod person mentality as their parents, seemingly unable to achieve self awareness to analyze their own selves.  So who knows.   

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Regarding timelines:

When we were talking about it here on this end a few nights ago, one theory that was tossed around was the idea that a soul arrives here and can be "on call."  Different timelines have different purposes and uses - not all of them are going to go in the same direction.   So if somebody has a use in "waking up" in one timeline, then they will, and be "activated" I guess could be the term for it.  And if they don't...then they won't. 

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Also another idea is that abduction happenings will trigger a person to wake up and be more alert in their waking lives.   Sometimes I just inexplicably "know" certain ideas and concepts, and sure, I could have already known it before incarnating, but I often wonder how much has been fed to me either during abductions, or during the dreamtime when we travel about and go other places?   Maybe if those things weren't being fed to me or shown to me while I sleep or during abductions, then I'd just be another cog pod in the wheel.  Of course that's a "what came first, the chicken or the egg" problem, because you have to wonder why someone is targetted for abductions in the first place in order to even be fed information - means they have something unusual going on.

Okay, I'm just thinking out loud at this point and rambling, so I'll stop now....

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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