Your own Proof thats OBEs a real ?

[CFTraveler]

Actually, we had a link to these issues in the out of topic experiences subforums. No one seemed to have a problem with it at the time, I wonder if that's changed.

[Lionheart]

Do you know what they did to people like us when everybody believed? We were tortured, hanged, and burnt at the stake. Trust me, the LAST thing you want is for there to be "Proof." This age of skepticism and scientific reasoning is keeping us alive, honey.

That statement has more than truth than you think in it. There are already Countries in the World that are beginning to target "Esoteric" websites. The more people that believe and "see" as we do, the more we become a threat to those that wish to suppress this info.

[TimeTravel]

That statement has more than truth than you think in it. There are already Countries in the World that are beginning to target "Esoteric" websites. The more people that believe and "see" as we do, the more we become a threat to those that wish to suppress this info.

You mean he delete Esoteric website from the net ?

[Lionheart]

You mean he delete Esoteric website from the net ?

No, I mean they will censor/ban them in their viewing areas. I didn't even think this was possible, until I read up more on it. I know the Chinese ban/censor many sites and that last year the UK was also going to implement some plan of Censorship. There is whole bunch of info on the web pertaining to "Censorship". They will get away with it too as long as they keep describing Esoteric as a form of Porn.

I would post a link to that info, but I am new here and I see that is frowned upon.

So, like me, if you want to learn more just do a Google search on "UK to Censor Esoteric Websites". Supposedly, Russia will be the next to do this.

[John Sorensen]

No, I mean they will censor/ban them in their viewing areas. I didn't even think this was possible, until I read up more on it. I know the Chinese ban/censor many sites and that last year the UK was also going to implement some plan of Censorship. There is whole bunch of info on the web pertaining to "Censorship". They will get away with it too as long as they keep describing Esoteric as a form of Porn.

I would post a link to that info, but I am new here and I see that is frowned upon.

So, like me, if you want to learn more just do a Google search on "UK to Censor Esoteric Websites". Supposedly, Russia will be the next to do this.

Googled that title thanks.

Interesting reading. The same ideas have been thrown around here in Australia in recent years. Certain parties within the government (the fear mongering types who don't understand HOW the internet works) have been been trying to implement harsher restrictions on internet use via "filters" for "public safety"

Other than the fact that people sharing child-pornography (the illegal pornography that we don't want, no sane adult is trying to ban consensual age appropriate porn from consenting adults/consumers, that would be a dictatorship) don't post it on open access sites, but on file sharing networks under pseudonyms, where internet "filters" have little to no effect on finding it, stopping it etc.

What filters do do is penalise Joe public accessing ordinary legal sites of all types, including ANTI-child porn sites, awareness and safety networks for abused people etc because of the archaic and completely backwards way in which these government filters work (or don't work).

There is a much larger issue at stake. When the internet came along, it took power away from governments and world media, and into the hands of citizens. This is the first time this has happened in our recorded human history.

Previously it was with was either church, monarchy, government or media that CONTROLLED and distributed information as a limited resource, releasing the information that it deemed "appropriate" to keep people in line.

What happens when the official worlds combined media says there were NO atrocities of civilians or friendly fire in country "X" from soldiers from country "Y",

but then Joe Public with his mobile phone records and instantly uploads live footage showing EXACTLY the opposite is "true"?

Well, it's makes the media, and governments like total idiots, who are clearly directly lying, not just massaging the truth, but lying and getting away with it.

So what world wide free information source would most governments (regardless of what type) like to control, regulate and censor with absolute authority? Take a guess.

How does this larger issue get ignored? By masking it with other "public opinion" issues such as internet filters, porn etc and scapegoat, moralising etc.

The central issue is one of FREEDOM and CHOICE.

What happens historically to those who did NOTHING when their rulers took away their "freedoms" one by one, or in some cases overnight? Did their society improve? Did they find more happiness and contentment in life from their benevolent rulers turning against the very people they were intended to serve?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-0...rnbull/4939156

At no point in that article will you see any official actually admitting to any incompetence, or that every major IT leader in Australia spoke out against the filter with damning criticism, not on any emotional grounds like my post here, but in a very nerdy bullet point list of every thing that does not work from a technical point of view.


*As far as the Filter in the UK banning all sorts of irrelevant sites, anything such as the "esoteric" sites for example. Well esoteric and other "key words" from their list are just words, and can be changed, substituted or forgotten.

A site could be re-skinned overnight and change the words it uses, obviously not say 5+ years of articles, but it would just mean communities migrating to new websites with different terminology to avoid such filters etc.