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Sunday, February 15, 2015

9/11 Truth Movement, G.K. Chesterton And The Ouija Board

Dear J,

Thanks for the forward.

I watched a sizable chunk of "Christopher Bollyn Dares To Return To The U.S." and, as often happens with conspiratorial 9/11 themes, I was attracted by the questions raised. http://www.ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com/page/27040.html

But I always come away from 9/11 conclaves with the sense that a tremendous amount of otherwise useful political energy had been wasted on a dead end - an end that would be essentially fruitless even if the hypotheses were proven.

30 years ago, I was driving through Henrietta, New York, on the south side of Rochester. 

I was trying to explain Jung's concept of "synchronicity" to a friend, telling her "it refers to non-causally inter-related events that seem strikingly meaningful in ways that defy rational analysis." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

My companion failed to grasp what I was attempting to convey so I started formulating a different explanation when a red light suddenly slowed our lane of traffic. 

As we came to a stop, I saw that the license plate on the car in front of us began with the letters JUNG which made me yelp: "Look! That's it! That's what synchronicity is." 

Since then, I have speculated that there are positive synchronicities and negative synchronicities and that the latter create apparent meaning in certain highly unlikely circumstances where there is none. 

I propose that the beliefs of 9/11 Truthers are analogous to the findings of many people, including my favorite writer, G.K. Chesterton, who experimented with the Ouija Board in his youth, eventually realizing that it was a strikingly seductive device that hinted at truth just often enough to lead people astray without yielding any actual benefit.

"My brother and I used to play with planchette, or what the Americans call the ouija board; but we were among the few, I imagine, who played in a mere spirit of play. Nevertheless I would not altogether rule out the suggestion of some that we were playing with fire; or even with hell-fire. In the words that were written for us there was nothing ostensibly degrading, but any amount that was deceiving. I saw quite enough of the thing to be able to testify, with complete certainty, that something happens which is not in the ordinary sense natural, or produced by the normal and conscious human will. Whether it is produced by some subconscious but still human force, or by some powers, good, bad or indifferent, which are external to humanity, I would not myself attempt to decide. The only thing I will say with complete confidence, about that mystic and invisible power, is that it tells lies. The lies may be larks or they may be lures to the imperilled soul or they may be a thousand other things; but whatever they are, they are not truths about the other world; or for that matter about this world." -- from The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton.

Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of G.K. Chesterton Posts

Here are the first seven google hits to my key word search: "Chomsky, 9/11, YouTube".

I think the last of these hits is a good place to start.



  • Noam Chomsky Slaps Down 9/11 Truther ... - YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDDhN9j5C14

    Nov 27, 2013 - Uploaded by David Pakman Show
    Video source: Bob Tuskin http://youtu.be/3i9ra-i6Knc --NoamChomsky shuts down a 9/11 truther --On ...
  • Noam Chomsky discusses 9/11 Conspiracy ... - YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrEDo9ChSdQ

    May 7, 2011 - Uploaded by RPShredow
    I disabled comments cause I'm tired of my inbox being spammed with you conspiracy dipshits. Anyone else ...
  • Noam Chomsky on 9/11 Conspiracy Theories - YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhlWLNvZs1I

    Oct 26, 2013 - Uploaded by dicklck
    On 10/29/2009, MIT professor Noam Chomsky launched the LSE "Center for the Study of Human ...
  • Chomsky dispels 9/11 conspiracies with sheer ... - YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwZ-vIaW6Bc

    Oct 29, 2007 - Uploaded by dailybackground
    Hat tip to http://onegoodmove.org And yes, I know I'm about to get an avalanche of angry conspiracy theorists ...
  • Noam Chomsky 9/11 Truth rebuttal - YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1HGY5jTj9Q
    Aug 9, 2012 - Uploaded by Stew Bradley
    Far too often I've had people tell me that they refuse to discuss9/11 Truth because Noam Chomsky rejects ...
  • Noam Chomsky Debunks 9/11 and JFK Murder - YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7SPm-HFYLo

    Apr 12, 2008 - Uploaded by Adam Phoenix
    See Noam Chomsky speaking in Budapest at the Kossuth Klub hosted by the "Lehet Mas a Vilag ...
  • Here's The Video To Share With Anybody Who Still Buys ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com/.../noam-chomsky-911-tr...

    The Huffington Post
    Nov 26, 2013 - MIT linguist and peace activist Noam Chomsky has delivered what ought to be the coup de grace to what's left of the 9/11 conspiracy theories. ... want to take a physics class... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCLHL5iToJ8.
  • I should mention that I admire Chomsky but in no way adulate his views or think he's right on every topic.

    Paz contigo

    Alan


    On Sun, Feb 15, 2015, JK wrote:


    On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Forbidden Knowledge TV <newsletter@forbiddenknowledgetv.com> wrote:

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    Dear J,  
    These are Parts 1-3 of a presentation 
    and Q&A with Christopher Bollyn on his 
    new book, "Solving 9/11: The Deception 
    that Changed the World," recorded on 
    September 14, 2014 at a San Diegans 
    for 9/11 Truth monthly meeting. 

    Christopher Bollyn is a journalist who was 
    investigating the events of 9/11 when, 
    along with physicist, Steven E. Jones, they 
    discovered solid evidence of Thermite in 
    the dust of the Twin Towers in August of 
    2006.

    This quickly got them both into trouble 
    and Bollyn was quickly forced to flee the US, 
    with his family, after being brutally attacked 
    and TASERed on his own property by three 
    unidentified, heavily-armed men, who had 
    been milling around his house for days in 
    suburban Chicago.

    The attackers turned out to be undercover 
    police officers and Bollyn was maliciously 
    prosecuted and convicted with a Criminal 
    Misdemeanor charge for attacking *them* 
    - the exact opposite of what had actually 
    happened.

    This conviction would have incurred a jail 
    sentence but the judge, who himself was 
    evidently pressured into handing down this 
    bogus ruling allowed Bollyn three weeks 
    before sentencing. This gave him time to 
    gather his family and to flee the country.

    Bollyn had not returned to the US since 
    2007, before making the presentation 
    filmed here, in September 2014. (Bollyn 
    has a Bench Warrant for Arrest in the State 
    of Illinois but he is free to move about the 
    US in the rest of the 49 States).

    Despite his seminal role in discovering 
    Thermite in the 9/11 dust, the focus of his 
    investigations has not been on the "hows" 
    of the buildings' collapses or the "hows" of 
    the planes' hijackings, as in Rebekah Roth's 
    recently-featured hit book, 'Methodical Illusion.'

    Bollyn's 2-part book, 'Solving 9/11: the 
    Deception that Changed the World' focuses 
    on the "whos" of 9/11. 

    That the State of Israel figures heavily in what 
    he uncovered have led to the predictable 
    charges of "anti-Semitism", which are 
    ridiculous on their face, especially when one 
    knows that Bollyn chose to live and work on 
    a kibbutz in Israel after graduating from 
    High School and that he avowedly loves the 
    Israeli people. 

    His condemnations are aimed toward a
    criminal faction within the US Government   
    and toward the extremist, Right-Wing Likud 
    Party of Israel - NOT at the Israeli people or 
    at "Jews," in any way, shape or form (the 
    conflation of these often disparate groups 
    being an unfortunate one, made by many 
    Jews and Gentiles, alike).

    Bollyn's 2-part book is available at Amazon 
    and it can also be read, free of charge, online 
    from these links:

    Book 1

    Book 2

    Bollyn writes, in the preface of his book, 
    "A modern republic like the United States 
    cannot continue for very long as a free nation 
    with a government and media that lie to the 
    people about the murder of thousands of its 
    citizens and illegal wars supposedly waged 
    on their behalf. This is clearly a state in the 
    process of a revolutionary change. The 
    American people will not tolerate a police 
    state using such outrageous lies to rob them 
    of their money and freedom."

    59:43

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