Topic: Xpress Clothes

I don't know how many of you have heard of Xpress a.k.a. 'Structure' it's a clothing store usually found in malls but anyways. I wanted to point out maybe if anyone else has noticed about their shirts. A lot of their regular shirts have things like "Start a Revolution", "The all seeing Eye", and one shirt that mentions about government conspiracy and alien coverups. This isn't just on 3 shirts theres different combinations of things like this on all of their shirts, regular t-shirts that is.
I had to mention this because I've been shopping at this store for the past 4-5 years and thought it was kind of peculiar to see all of this all of the sudden on the front of their t-shirts but anyways just wanted to point that out for anyone who hasn't seen this or might be interested.

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Well I did not know they were doing this now, so thanks for letting us know!

But its rather trendy to be a conspiracy-buff these days, didnt you know!?  Hehe.  Just like being a "geek" is quite "in" at the moment -- just look at all the club-hoppers joining MySpace, they simply *love* pretending to be geeks!

Well seriously though, think about this:  this may be their great way of getting everyone to stop being serious about it.  Just make it a trend, everyone will be wearing these cute little conspiracy tee-shirts and have a good laugh.  Before you know it, everyone stops paying so much attention to it, and even those who have a genuine interest in it will get a bad taste in their mouth because its become a mainstream state of mind.

Just a theory.. a work in progress ;-)

This is no time for the righteous
Only the wicked survive
Bake up a batch of the Yellow Cake
Bake up a batch of the lies
- - - - -[ Yellow Cake - Ministry - Rio Grande Blood (2006)

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Yeah I was thinking that too Risen; that it's just becoming a fashion statement, trying to mainstream it all. But who knows it could help get this kind of stuff out there. People might actually start to wonder "hmm wtf am I wearing on my shirt anyways" and possibly do a little research themselves.

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Good theory, this new trend certainly has the effect of trivializing something meaningful. The alien trend of the 90s (t-shirts, stickers, keychains, posters, etc...) had a similar effect. Both work to desensitize people to the concept. Like vaccination it uses a weakened version to create an immune response against it. It's not just teen-wear, though -- there's also National Treasure, the Da Vinci Code, the Manchurian Candidate remake, and of course Conspiracy Theory and the X-Files / Lone Gunmen.

I don't think the timing is an accident. If the 'manipulators' would ever want to reveal a shocking concept to the general public but deflect it towards a half-truth that worked in their favor, the first step would be to desensitize the public in order to prevent uncontrollable chaos. The second step would then be drip-feeding the disinformation in order to build a base (among the fringe, usually) that can be 'vindicated' when the 'big revelation' is finally given. These T-shirts make people laugh at the fringe, but should "authority" ever come out and lay the "truth" on the table, these people would go with it except not be as shocked due to the desensitization.

Example: the Da Vinci Code, National Treasure, and Laurence Gardner material, which try to present the Human Powers that Be as benevolent protectors of truth and justice who are of divine lineage and therefore have a divine right to rule over us, in our best interest. This would require that the public first get comfortable with the idea of secret societies and their shaping of history, but with the spin that it was all for our own good.

Example: shows like "Taken", the pro-disclosure groups who want aliens to save our planet, or the shadow military faction behind the Chilbolton crop glyphs, Crabwood (alien-disk) crop glyph, and the recent Mayan Calendar crop glyph. These try to portray our government as the single obstacle between us and the good aliens, and that these aliens are communicating with us in preparation for First Contact.

Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.

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E3mpirical1 wrote:

I don't know how many of you have heard of Xpress a.k.a. 'Structure' it's a clothing store usually found in malls but anyways. I wanted to point out maybe if anyone else has noticed about their shirts. A lot of their regular shirts have things like "Start a Revolution", "The all seeing Eye", and one shirt that mentions about government conspiracy and alien coverups. This isn't just on 3 shirts theres different combinations of things like this on all of their shirts, regular t-shirts that is.
I had to mention this because I've been shopping at this store for the past 4-5 years and thought it was kind of peculiar to see all of this all of the sudden on the front of their t-shirts but anyways just wanted to point that out for anyone who hasn't seen this or might be interested.

Well that is definitely interesting.  I will admit I get my jeans at Express because they are the only ones that do any sort of justice to my minimal Italian ass!  wink

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montalk wrote:

I don't think the timing is an accident. If the 'manipulators' would ever want to reveal a shocking concept to the general public but deflect it towards a half-truth that worked in their favor, the first step would be to desensitize the public in order to prevent uncontrollable chaos. The second step would then be drip-feeding the disinformation in order to build a base (among the fringe, usually) that can be 'vindicated' when the 'big revelation' is finally given. These T-shirts make people laugh at the fringe, but should "authority" ever come out and lay the "truth" on the table, these people would go with it except not be as shocked due to the desensitization.
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There's also National Treasure, the Da Vinci Code, the Manchurian Candidate remake, and of course Conspiracy Theory ...

True true, especially with regard to the UFO part of things.  But perhaps the reason behind the particular books you mention here is more along the lines of desensitization but damage control.  A lot of the secret society information, especially, I think has gotten into public view against the wishes of TPTB.  If they had their way, I bet, no one would know anything about them still.  But due to the dedication and diligence of a lot of researchers out there, a lot of truth on that subject is now public knowledge.  So TPTB are reacting by attempting to take control of and spin the information which the public already (unfortunately for them) knows.   To whatever degree I may be right about this, the mainstreaming and spinning of this stuff actually is evidence of small victories for the forces of truth, who previously had to work hard just to get these concepts into the public mind at all.   Again, a small victory perhaps but it's something, and it shows "they" are not as omnipotent as they may want everyone to think.

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While I agree with what's already been said here so far, something that went through my mind as I read people's ideas was that whatever it is that we think is finally being "revealed" is SUCH small potatoes.  It really is.   I will try to detangle the thought ball that's in my mind right now, but basically, ancient civilations apparantly knew WAAAAAY more than modern man gives them credit for.

We have all this "high tech"  technology nowadays, but in the past, they were able to move around 10 ton chunks of rock through the use of sound vibrations and tuning forks. 

We have all this technology nowadays, but they were able to configure complex astronomical measurements down to the smallest degree...stuff we weren't able to do until the last 50 years....and only because of computers.  They did it without.

We have all this technology and yet they were extremely knowledgable about the locations and working of the Earth's energy / ley lines.  The Neolithic structures are built on these lines, designed to utilize these lines, and are also simultaneously designed to allign with the stars to serve functions that are kept secret from us nowadays.  Time travel, teleportation, object manifestation out of thin air through the use of rituals.....people have no clue nowadays that these things were a regular part of every day life for certain cultures in the past.  It's all been lost to us now..........................except for the few who hold this information, being the keepers of ancient knowledge, you could say.

If people want to think that stuff is being "revealed" in T-shirts at Express, well, that's fine.   But the eye of Ra is so small potatoes, it's so just scratching the surface of the surface of the surface.  It's meaningless and inconsequential, imo.   Which is exactly why it's out there.

If we're being told something, you better believe that there are things 10,000 times more spectacular being hidden from us.

It's like throwing candy at a crowd of kids to appease them.  That's what these supposedly "revelatory" movies and T-shirts and everything else is all about.   They're tossing candy at us, whom they view as a crowd of stupid children / sheep, and laughing about it as the crowd buys them up, or as the crowd walks away from books like "The DaVinci Code" or movies like "National Treasure"  thinking they're all "on to something!" 

I've been coming to realize over the past year just what may have been going on in the past....if there even is such a thing!   because I still don't fully believe in this reality, and think that things are not as they seem to be......but IF there was a past as we believe it existed, then these civilizations had such incredible knowledge of things that the average person can't comprehend nor believe in.   It's shocking.   All the talk about past civilations such as Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, etc. are interesting in their implications.  Here we are, thinking we're it, the only ones, we're all that...the average person is asleep, drifting along in a comfortable illusion of splendor, completely cut off from the past, their own ancestors, esoteric knowledge that the ancients engaged in on a regular basis, not even aware that these civilizations ever existed, oblivious to their accomplishments, and what it can mean for us as the human race, and our potential.   It's scary and alarming!   

People talk of the civilizations that rise up then fall, only to be born again in another form down the line, having to relearn everything from scratch to eventually rise up the level that the other civilizations once attained, and we, modern humans, are the latest version....and we're about to crash and burn again.   But truly, I don't see ourselves as the latest version.   I see us as more of a bad replica gone awry.  We're like a facsimile of a facsimile.   We started our ascent, but then somehow skipped over all the stuff they knew and did in the past and jumped straight to computers and technology to have  "A.I." do everything for us, and think for us, entertaining us so that we just drift along, asleep, then die.   However, the ancient civilizations did it all without computers, and meanwhile, there are those modern "keepers of knowledge" if you will, the custodians of high esoteria who have made sure to keep what they know about those ancient civilizations hidden from the masses.   

That's it for my thought ball.   I untangled it the best way I could!   wink  Sorry if I'm a bit "off topic" and all.    And here you just wanted to talk about T shirts!!   big_smile

"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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I still really like their jeans.  cool

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As much as I like some of Express's clothes, I can't in good consciousness pay the $50+ per item of clothing that they insist on charging.   And $50 is a low estimate - some of their pants are over $70 a pop.  I've grown to loathe clothing stores like them -  The Limited, Express, and all the rest that populate the malls of America, over charging for an item of clothing that's not worth it.   If you are an office girl in need of a wardrobe, you'll be wearing a shirt, pants/skirt and blazer;  Pants at $50 - 75 each / skirts at $30 - 50 each, shirts at about $30 - 35 each and blazers at about $50 each, (unless you get the blazer skirt/pants set, then it's $100 total)  it will cost you $100 - 150 .......per outfit....................Times 5.   But then again, who only has exactly 5 outfits for work?   So, yes, look at the math.  YIKES.   But, they continue to thrive nonetheless because there are rich kids using Daddy's credit cards that shop there.  So, these stores exist for those people.   For awhile it seemed that our choices were either overpriced places like that...or cheap discount clothiers which don't have nice stuff.   Like TJ Maxx and Ross Dress For Less.   bah!  yuck!!!!     But alas!   Hark!   I have found a place called Kohl's!  Plug!  And they are a godsend!  big_smile  Nice clothes, in a nice store, for cheap!   And they are opening one in Charlottesville next month so I won't have to drive to Richmond!  Yippee!  smile

"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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lyra wrote:

While I agree with what's already been said here so far, something that went through my mind as I read people's ideas was that whatever it is that we think is finally being "revealed" is SUCH small potatoes.  It really is.   I will try to detangle the thought ball that's in my mind right now, but basically, ancient civilations apparantly knew WAAAAAY more than modern man gives them credit for.

We have all this "high tech"  technology nowadays, but in the past, they were able to move around 10 ton chunks of rock through the use of sound vibrations and tuning forks. 

We have all this technology nowadays, but they were able to configure complex astronomical measurements down to the smallest degree...stuff we weren't able to do until the last 50 years....and only because of computers.  They did it without.

We have all this technology and yet they were extremely knowledgable about the locations and working of the Earth's energy / ley lines.  The Neolithic structures are built on these lines, designed to utilize these lines, and are also simultaneously designed to allign with the stars to serve functions that are kept secret from us nowadays.  Time travel, teleportation, object manifestation out of thin air through the use of rituals.....people have no clue nowadays that these things were a regular part of every day life for certain cultures in the past.  It's all been lost to us now..........................except for the few who hold this information, being the keepers of ancient knowledge, you could say.

If people want to think that stuff is being "revealed" in T-shirts at Express, well, that's fine.   But the eye of Ra is so small potatoes, it's so just scratching the surface of the surface of the surface.  It's meaningless and inconsequential, imo.   Which is exactly why it's out there.

If we're being told something, you better believe that there are things 10,000 times more spectacular being hidden from us.

It's like throwing candy at a crowd of kids to appease them.  That's what these supposedly "revelatory" movies and T-shirts and everything else is all about.   They're tossing candy at us, whom they view as a crowd of stupid children / sheep, and laughing about it as the crowd buys them up, or as the crowd walks away from books like "The DaVinci Code" or movies like "National Treasure"  thinking they're all "on to something!" 

I've been coming to realize over the past year just what may have been going on in the past....if there even is such a thing!   because I still don't fully believe in this reality, and think that things are not as they seem to be......but IF there was a past as we believe it existed, then these civilizations had such incredible knowledge of things that the average person can't comprehend nor believe in.   It's shocking.   All the talk about past civilations such as Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, etc. are interesting in their implications.  Here we are, thinking we're it, the only ones, we're all that...the average person is asleep, drifting along in a comfortable illusion of splendor, completely cut off from the past, their own ancestors, esoteric knowledge that the ancients engaged in on a regular basis, not even aware that these civilizations ever existed, oblivious to their accomplishments, and what it can mean for us as the human race, and our potential.   It's scary and alarming!   

People talk of the civilizations that rise up then fall, only to be born again in another form down the line, having to relearn everything from scratch to eventually rise up the level that the other civilizations once attained, and we, modern humans, are the latest version....and we're about to crash and burn again.   But truly, I don't see ourselves as the latest version.   I see us as more of a bad replica gone awry.  We're like a facsimile of a facsimile.   We started our ascent, but then somehow skipped over all the stuff they knew and did in the past and jumped straight to computers and technology to have  "A.I." do everything for us, and think for us, entertaining us so that we just drift along, asleep, then die.   However, the ancient civilizations did it all without computers, and meanwhile, there are those modern "keepers of knowledge" if you will, the custodians of high esoteria who have made sure to keep what they know about those ancient civilizations hidden from the masses.   

That's it for my thought ball.   I untangled it the best way I could!   wink  Sorry if I'm a bit "off topic" and all.    And here you just wanted to talk about T shirts!!   big_smile

That was very good Lyra. It opened my mind again to the idea of everything isnt what it seems to be. Thankyou

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Kohls is a pretty nice alternative, indeed.  Although I find it depends on the location -- some of them dont seem to have crap, like the one nearest me.  But the second-nearest one up in Delaware has nice stuff and is running a sale almost all the time.

All hail the mighty Kohls -- at least, until they slip and start to suck, like they always do...

This is no time for the righteous
Only the wicked survive
Bake up a batch of the Yellow Cake
Bake up a batch of the lies
- - - - -[ Yellow Cake - Ministry - Rio Grande Blood (2006)

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big_smile Go you, Lyra.

Fan club pending.

"Would it help if I got out and pushed?"

"It might..."

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Lets start a khols fan club? But I too think khols is what will bring down corporate America!