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Originally Posted by Hard-Driver";p="
I have a wacky friend that has been going on about this. But has explained it very poorly
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Well, just because someone you consider "wacky" believes something doesn't mean it's automatically false. If a "wacky" homeless person wearing a purple suit and a tin foil hat were to come up to you on the street and tell you that 2+2=4, and then President of the United States walked up to you and told you 2+2=5, would the homeless person be wrong because they were considered "wacky" and the President be right because of his status? Of course not.
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and also believes that aliens live among us.
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Well, I'll say this - statistically, it's pretty much a given that other intelligent life has to exist in the universe. Now, if someone were from a highly advanced planet that had eradicated disease, suffering, war, etc., I would think they would look at earth as a very barbaric place, and wouldn't announce a visit...especially if they have something like the non-interference Prime Directive a la Star Trek. I think the following is pretty interesting:
http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_1_eng.htm
I think it's very hard to explain away the clear crafts on the following:
http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_2_eng.htm
check out all 5 parts of that link.
Now I don't know what your friend is referring to in regards to "aliens among us", but there is also the fact that people can be wrong about some things and right about others. So if the "wacky" homeless person from the previous example were to continue to talk to us and tells us 10+10=35, that still would not change the fact that he was right about 2+2=4.
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While 90% of his conspiracy theories are utter BS, it seems like there is something to this whole federal reserve is the devil idea.
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There is indeed something to it. The bottom line is profit. G. Edward Griffin, the man who wrote "The Creature from Jekyll Island," about the creation of the Federal Reserve, is actually rather reserved in his views compared to what people have assumed about him. But he does state that there is evidence private banks lobbied the government for the creation of the Fed. So, bottom line, what does that mean? Well, I've never known any business to pay money to lobby the government for anything other than a FINANCIAL BENEFIT. So, what benefit(s) are they receiving? I think the prior interview and the videos pretty well sum that up... They're making a lot of money - money which is made at the expense of the American people.
I highly recommend you take the time to read the following:
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/rapecon.shtml
And thanks for having an open mind on the subject.