Politically Incorrect Thread About Pod People (Page 9 of 16)

This is very true - (I was going to comment on this yesterday but got tired of blabbering and decided to leave it for another time.) 

For starters, in any discussion about "pod people" or its related phenomenon, there has to be a list of traits or behaviors...which can be a pretty subjective thing.  No two people are going to agree on what constitutes "pod behavior," and anytime somebody mentions a trait or observation, somebody else is sure to pipe up with, "Oh, but I sometimes do that..." or "Oh, my beloved Aunt Bertha does that, but I know she's not a pod!" etc.     My definition of pod people isn't the same as what was established at the beginning of this thread, and for me, I don't think Pods are just people with mainstream viewpoints who want to stay within the safe confines of a life that amounts to a lie, basically.  For me, pods are people who:

1.  Act highly programmed....and that DEFINITELY includes the New Agers.  In fact, they often times act more pod-like then a mainstream person.  But being highly programmed, sometimes with those glazed over eyes, and sounding as if repeating and rehashing a script that's been pounded into them, whether it be hate rhetoric spouting Republican Bush loving conservatives, or Love n Light fluffy New Agers talking a bunch of New Age lingo gibberish.

2. Seeming inability to question or analyze themselves, or change their viewpoints and be flexible. Ties back into being highly programmed.   Very rigid, very set in their ways, will not bend, will never admit they're wrong about something and make appropriate adjustments.

3.  Get their identities from something outside themselves.   Copying what the media shows them and following trends; Latching onto the New Age scene and adopting a new "new age alter ego name," wearing the special new age clothes and using the lingo, etc.   Just wherever and whatever else can provide them with an identity-of-the-moment to latch on to and mimic.  Lack of self generated identity and individuality.   Herd mentality...whatever the herd may be, and the herd can be something "alternative."

Those are three biggies off the top of my head, although those aren't the only ones, and it's how I would define "pod people," which is a slightly different definition than what was established as the beginning of this thread.

Ok, seriously? You guys? I totally appreciate you, like, bringing up how SoCal people talk because its, like, been on my mind, like, for a couple days now and its like, totally funny how synchronous this forum is. I, like, totally grew up in, like, upstate NY, but like, I still totally was always, like, hearing all the popular girls in my school talking like "valley girls", ya know? And, I was, like, oh my gawd where are they, like, getting that from? And I remember, like, thinking as a young kid "they are totally talking just like the people on TV!" Later I, like, totally learned that most American TV was, like, totally produced in Southern California, ya know? So, I was, like, oh my gawd I totally get it now! It is sooooooooo freaky! I include all the, likes, because it is like, totally how my girlfriend who grew up in Orange County talks when she gets really excited and doesn't pause to collect her thoughts.

And now I've moved to Northern California, and it is all about ranches and cattle and rolling hills and fields and stuff out here, and a lot of the people totally affect a "southern drawl" kinda accent, which I also find bizarre because I have relatives in North Carolina, and THEY are supposed to have a southern accent, not Californians! It is like the "country" lifestyle has made everyone adopt a "country&western" style accent, which of course is basically a product of the country&western music industry more than anything else.

I really think it is because of TV. People immitate what they hear. It is eliminating the concept of "regional dialects"... god forbid if the "global dialect" becomes like SoCal American Speak.

I got rid of my TV a few years ago, but I love British comedy, and lately I have been listening to Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's podcasts, and I find myself emulating their vocal styles and phrases like "brilliant".. even just in my head thinking to myself. It is, like, totally hard not to pick things up like that, innit?
Tim

pod people... head games.....

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haha... I've seen these last 2 pics twice now and have laughed out loud both times... thanks for the levity guys

I think this is because he was expecting a quick response like "eh the wife" or "f*cking immigrants" or something, and he really didn't want to hear your 'life story'. He miscalculated, he thought you were like him, but once you started talking, he realized he couldn't relate to anything you have to say. Alas.

Souls with the potential to awaken, but who remain asleep for part of their lives until the dawning of a new realization, become increasingly dissatisfied, unfulfilled, and bothered by the cog-in-the-wheel lifestyle. That is because they have something higher within that requires more than social and material sustenance to thrive. The same cannot be said for others who grow increasingly content the more they submerge themselves within the meme pool of the mainstream collective, who have antipathy rather than amazement for ideas and phenomena beyond their familiarity, who never awaken in life nor learn spiritual lessons from its experiences.

The distinction I am making here is not between souls whose potential to awaken in life has been activated (awake souls) versus those not yet activated (sleeping souls), but between people who have the potential to awaken in life versus those who do not have that potential at all. While the potentially awake souls are all unique, I do not sense the same level of uniqueness among those without that potential. Reading their vibes indicates a rudimentary sentience, a bit vacuous and two dimensional. Before me may stand two people with identical pod-like behavioral traits, but one may have something truly conscious behind his eyes while the other would not, and the first later demonstrates being a unique but asleep soul while the second turns out to be a more rudimentary soul neither interested nor here to experience anything beyond material success. So I find it necessary to classify pod people into two categories, people with the potential to awaken but still asleep, and people without the potential to awaken in this lifetime.

I understand your point. The question is whether as you say different responses to identical outer physical conditions are due solely to variations in the learning needs of souls (which I do not doubt ), or whether the difference in response is sometimes attributable to whether the person is even a sentient soul here to learn versus an embryonic soul simply here to exist. So I'm talking about a deeper difference than just variation in soul needs; what I have in mind is a fundamental difference between soul type that accounts for the difference between non-pods and the permanent pods. If I understand your post correctly, you were addressing the difference between non-pods and temporary pods, temporary in the sense that they can and will awaken if given the appropriate support and triggering in life.

Without self-awareness we would not be capable of action that transcends outer influences, instead we would be reaction machines. Many pod people are reaction machines in that they seem to lack self-awareness and freewill to be anything other than expressions of their social and genetic programming, and so they function as meme-bots. The point I was making in my last post is that to become a non-pod requires something nondeterministic inside, something self-aware and introspective to respond actively rather than reactively to external stimuli... that it's not so much about whether a person responds with spiritual growth to one experience while another responds negatively to it due to mismatch between soul need and experience, but about whether a person responds at all in conscious/spiritual manner to any and all experiences in life. I have come across enough people who seem entirely incapable of responding in any original or sentient manner to experiences that I must conclude there are permanent pods who cannot awaken in this life because it is not their purpose to learn and develop, merely to exist and grow.