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Presidential elections are more about EMOTION rather than logic.

Voters are often motivated by FEAR, or HATRED, or ENVY.

The Trump campaign, run by some clever Jewish folks, has tapped into voters' feelings of helplessness, resentment and wounded pride.

Emotional messages trump logic, in branding and in politics

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However, Trump's campaign of fear, hatred and envy of Mexicans, Moslems and Blacks may have been just too negative?

Voters may at last have begun to realise that Trump is a Neocon Likudnik who is keen to bomb Iran and Syria.

Hillary is also a Neocon, but she may be benefitting from her "focus on making people feel joyful, inspired and empowered."

Emotional messages trump logic, in branding and in politics

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On 6 August 2016, Hillary Clinton is up 7 percentage points in a CBS survey, 7 in CNN and NBC, 15 in a Marist survey.

She's posting big leads in key swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire and Florida.

She's leading in Georgia, a state Republican Mitt Romney carried by 8 percentage points.

Trump campaign teeters on the brink

1. Your car won't start.

Maybe your driver, Hillary Clinton, has failed to put petrol in the tank.

Or maybe, your mechanic, Donald Trump, has failed to replace the faulty battery.

You phone the garage, and the garageman confirms that there is no petrol in the tank.

Problem solved. 

You always knew that Hillary had a rotten record.

You sack Hillary.

"But wait," says the garageman, "You are using the problem-solving principle known as Ockam's Razor.

"According to William of Ockham, simpler theories are preferable to more complex ones.

 

"I have to tell you that the battery is faulty. 

"Donald Trump failed to replace it. 

"So you can also sack Donald Trump.

"Clinton and Trump are secretly close friends?"

2.  Economists who follow Classical economic theory assume that we tend to make rational decisions. 

However, scientists who study our thinking have found that a lot of the time we do not act objectively, or rationally.

We largely see the world through biases.

Henrik Schoeneberg Philosophy Now

Some people do not want to see the faults of the Democrats and some people do not want to see the faults of the Republicans.

3. An Ad Hominem argument is said to be bad because in an Ad Hominem argument you are attacking the person's character rather than their argument.

Henrik Schoeneberg Philosophy Now

Hillary Clinton may have inherited some of her father's characteristics?

Her father, Hugh, was "was a 'bullshit artist", a family member once said.

Hugh "excessively spanked the couple's three children. He verbally abused Hillary's mother, Dorothy, and ... their relationship was 'sadomasochist'."

What about Hilary's policies?

Hillary did not plan the destruction of Yugoslavia, but, she went along with the plans of the Deep State to bomb Yugoslavia.

HILLARY CLINTON, THE CIA, THE MOB / HILLARY CLINTON'S LEGACY OF TERROR



Donald trump has a strange character.

Trump said, "I've known Jeff (Epstein) for fifteen years. Terrific guy.

"He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life."

Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana, in a sworn deposition, stated that Trump raped her in 1989.

NATIONAL SOCIALIST TRUMP.

What about Trump's policies?

Trump has blamed Russia for what happened in Ukraine.

"Our president is not strong, and he is not doing what he should be doing for the Ukraine," Trump said.

What Trump says on North Korea:

"Who else in public life has called for a pre-emptive strike on North Korea?"

Trump is willing to carry out a pre-emptive strike on North Korea

TRUMP AND WAR

When it comes to choosing Presidents, Ad Hominem arguments are OK, so long as they are accurate.

The allegedly 'nice guy' Jimmy Carter put the Islamists into power in Afghanistan.

4. When the BBC does a documentary on 9 11, it selects only the information that fits its case that 9 11 was not an inside-job.

9 11 REVEALED - The Daily Mail / WHO DID 9 11?

Confirmation Bias means using only the evidence that supports our pre-existing ideas, and refusing to look at the evidence that conflicts with our ideas.

"If I'm the President, we will attack Iran." Did Hilary Clinton actually say that?

Donald Trump: 'I Believe You Have To ... Strike Iran'.

5. When the BBC does a documentary on 9 11, they refer to the weakest and most silly conspiracy theory about 911 and then demolish that theory.

This is the The Straw Man technique, where you attack a weak aspect of someone's argument.

The pro-Clinton mainstream media will only mention Hillary Clinton's minor faults.

No mention of Cathy O'Brien.

MKUltra Whistleblower Cathy O'Brien.

The pro-Trump media will only mention Trump's minor faults.

Yet, the Donald Trump child rape lawsuit is credible .

6. One technique used to disrupt sensible arguments is the The Red Herring technique.

The 2016 US Presidential election debate should consider subjects such as:

The CIA and Mossad's reported use of False Flag terrorism

The CIA and Mossad's reported use of child abuse rings

The CIA and Mossad's reported use of mind control.

However, the Powers-That-Be throw in lots of Red Herrings - to divide and rule:

Disputes about Race

Disputes about Gays

Disputes about Guns

Henrik Schoeneberg Philosophy Now

NON ATTACHMENT; HEALING

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A hospital doctor enters a ward for sick children who have a variety of ailments and disabilities.

Ideally, the doctor avoids being infected by any 'germs' that the children might be carrying.

Ideally the doctor avoids being 'infected' by any physical and emotional pains that the children might be suffering from.

There are a lot of children with 'problems'.

In the USA, 'child disabilities due to neurodevelopmental and mental health problems have increased greatly.'

'Nearly six million kids had a disability in 2010 - almost one million more than in 2001.'

dailymail

If we were to be infected by the physical and emotional pains of all these millions of children we would be in trouble.

However, we can have an influence for good on someone who is suffering.

1. Scientists have discovered that pairs of tiny particles can be invisibly connected even when they are some distance apart.

When the scientists carry out an action on one particle, the other particle is instananeously affected, even though it is many miles apart.

A Dutch team has proven that 'spooky action at a distance' is real.

dailymail.

2. According to some research at Princeton University

We can mentally influence - and are influenced by - the thoughts of others.

We can mentally influence biological processes in bodies other than our own.

We can mentally influence the functioning of non-biological systems.

The Next Great Turning - Context Institute

Sia Furler's 'Chandelier', from the album 1000 Forms of Fear, suggests mind-control?

3. A team of psychologists from Saint Louis University claims that stress can be spread from person to person like a virus.

We can be infected by the stressed person's odour, posture, facial expression and tone of voice.

The researchers put the participants into pairs.

One member of the pair had to make a public speech and the other had simply to watch the speech.

The researchers measured the levels of cortisol and a stress-related salivary enzyme in both the stressed speaker and in the observer.

The researchers found that the stress response in the witnesses was 'proportional to that of their paired speakers'.

ABC. / dailymail.

Saint Louis University is associated with the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind control programme.

Now, if stress can spread like a virus, so too can love and healing spread like a virus.

Can we feel compassion without feeling some of the suffering of the person in distress?

1. Imagine the doctor entering the hospital ward.

It does not help if the doctor is shaking and weeping.

The good doctor, while feeling compassion, detaches himself from suffering.

The good doctor detaches himself from his selfish ego.

It is the selfish ego which produces anger, grief, worry, and despair.

The good doctor is positive, loving and calm.

This helps the sick patient.

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2. Imagine you are the pilot of a passenger plane which has just been struck by some dangerous emergency.

It does not help you, nor the passengers, if your ego feels extreme fear.

On the other hand, a little fear might prevent you from taking foolish risks.

A game of golf would not be real if there were not some minor irritations; but you want to avoid the extremes.

3. Imagine you are the parent of a child who has just been killed by agents of the US government.

Ask yourself - why does the government carry out such acts of terrorism as part of its 'Strategy of Tension'?

They want to get you angry with, and scared of, the 'terrorists'.

When people are scared they will obey their 'big brother' government.

So, detach yourself from fear and anger.

Fear and anger make you sick.

4. There may be times when we are hit by extreme fear, anger, grief, worry and despair.

But we should practise non-attachment to such extremes.

This means not holding on.

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5. We should practise non-attachment to lots of things.
"All the delightful things of the world - sweet sounds, lovely forms, all the pleasant tastes and touches and thoughts - these are all agreed to bring happiness if they are not grasped and possessed.

"But if you regard them merely as pleasures for your own use and satisfaction and do not see them as passing wonders, they will bring suffering."

-Sutta Nipata

Blog: Pleasure and Joy

6. It is not a good idea to 'suppress' our feelings.

Research shows that people who are able to talk about their grief, anger or fear get rid of these negative feelings more quickly.

People who are not able to talk about these feelings are more likely to suffer ill health, mental or physical.

The 'good doctor' has the knack of being non-attached to grief, anger or fear when he enters the ward.

Some people get angry when there is a long queue at the airport.

Some people learn not to get angry.

They are not supressing their anger; they just don't feel anger.

We see ourselves as separate selves.

Our body feels the pleasures and pains of life.

Imagine switching out of the SELF mode into the NON-SELF mode.

In the NON-SELF mode there is no grasping of pain or pleasure.

But this is difficult for our minds to imagine, just as 'infinity' is difficult to imagine.

Some people write about the dangers of talking about the Oneness of everything.

"Holding to both the oneness and multiplicity of existence takes greater spiritual maturity...

"It requires being present with the moment with all it's paradox and radicalness.

"Experiencing both the bliss and sorrow of existence takes greater spiritual maturity...

"It requires us to be present to the entire situation of existence, our own and all others.

"In terms of our tradition, we describe this as the dance between emptiness and form and our path as the willingness to experience both and their mutuality.

"The main emphasis of our path is to show up wakefully to the play of emptiness and form..."

Not Duality is Not Non Duality | School of Yogic Buddhism

North Korean kids. By Benoit Cappronnier

Is life fair?

Why does one person apparently 'choose' to be 'good' and another person apparently 'choose' to be 'bad'?

According to some philosophers, our actions are either determined by matters such as heredity and environment, or they are a matter of chance.

Brazil. By carf

It suits the top criminals to believe that their 'wicked' actions are purely the result of heredity, environment and chance.

But, we do know that when people believe in some kind of 'free will', they do tend to behave better.

Ireland 1932. By pantufla

Some people have suggested that only one 'entity' has real free will.

And only that one 'entity' is good.

That one person is 'God'.

Or the Tao, or the Force, or the Holy Spirit, or the divine...

Paradoxically, it may be that if we give up our supposed 'free will', we can then follow the will of 'God' (or go with the flow, tune into the Tao, realise that we are part of 'God') and live happily ever after.

By Alexander Macfarlane

The Buddhists would say that our sense of being a separate 'self' is an illusion.

Blog: Pleasure and Joy

By maria dupovkina

This raises the question of why we are not all tuned into 'God' already.

One can speculate that if God is going to create 'a real world', then, as with a game of golf, there has to be an element of chance.

By IWGIA

Of course, things may always have existed.

The Buddhists would argue that 'God' may not be the best term to use.

Some Buddhists are not keen on the idea of a creator God.

By © Jamie Mitchell

Some Taoists would argue that every 'thing' and every 'action' is a mixture of 'good' and 'evil'.

"Taoists believe that nature is a continual balance between yin and yang, and that any attempt to go toward one extreme or the other will be ineffective, self-defeating, and short-lived."

What Taoists Believe

By Valery Titievsky

The Mohist philosophers in China believed that the purpose of life was universal, impartial love.

Mohism promoted a philosophy of impartial caring - a person should care equally for all other individuals, regardless of their actual relationship to him or her.[48]

Is free will an illusion?

Ruben V Rial-Planas writes

"We can test the problem with my most perfect identical twin: myself!

"Trying to remember the most important decisions I took in my life, I ask myself what I would have done if I had had the possibility to relive again any of the decisive moments of my life - with the same imperfect knowledge and with the same external constraints I had.

"The results of analyzing my perfect twin’s behaviour are, in my opinion, absolutely clarifying: reliving my life would have rendered a life identical to the one I actually lived.

By rongpuk

"I can distinguish between two types of events as determinants of every minute fact that occurred in my life.

"Some were the result of conscious decisions, in many cases taken as the result of an evaluation of pros and cons (always with incomplete knowledge of the real situation).

"As it is impossible for me to take stupid decisions (the stupidity defined by myself), I was forced to decide in a determined way, searching the best results.

"In other cases my behaviour was the result of random and/or uncontrolled external factors. In the first case I would repeat my action; in the second, my response would be forced.

"However, if the external random factors would be the same, I also would repeat my action

By Mayank Austen Soofi

"So, the life of my identical twin entirely repeating my own life shows that I never had a true free will...

"My identical twin shows me the inescapability of Hume’s fork: My actions are either causally determined or random.

"In either case, I am not free."

By babasteve

Etienne Vermeersch writes (Is free will an illusion?):

"Ruben Rial Planas shows in his 'twin analysis' that he has made two types of decisions in his life: 

"Those which were conscious, determined decisions.

"And the others 'the result of random and/or uncontrolled external factors'.

"To my astonishment he concludes: 'In either case I am not free', although he just made a brilliant analysis of the really free decisions: the conscious determined ones."

FEAR IS AN INFECTION THAT CAN BE CURED

Sia Furler's 'Chandelier', from the album 1000 Forms of Fear, suggests mind-control?

A team of psychologists from Saint Louis University claims that stress can be spread from person to person like a virus.

We can be infected by the stressed person's odour, posture, facial expression and tone of voice.

The researchers put the participants into pairs.

One member of the pair had to make a public speech and the other had simply to watch the speech.

The researchers measured the levels of cortisol and a stress-related salivary enzyme in both the stressed speaker and in the observer.

The researchers found that the stress response in the witnesses was 'proportional to that of their paired speakers'.

ABC. / dailymail.

Saint Louis University is associated with the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind control programme.



The murders of various citizens on 9 11 - were all part of mass mind control. (Mind Control)

In the 1930's it was not just the Nazis who were researching mind control.

It was also the British and their allies. (Mind Control)


Chandelier, from 1000 Forms of Fear, suggests links between mind control and child sexual abuse?

One way to bring about mind control is to cause extreme terror.

This can cause the mind to split.

A person can develop an extra personality designed to 'house' the terror which the main personality cannot handle.

It is possible to create several compartments in the mind, each with its own personality.


This man is an actor, working for the CIA and its friends. He has been used on lots of different occasions. All the Mad Moslems are controlled by the spooks. The British first started promoting extremist Islam as a way of breaking up the rival Ottoman Empire.

People within the security services of the USA and UK, among others, have perfected the technique of splitting and programming people’s minds through the use of torture, terror, drugs and hypnosis.


Obama, reportedly mind-controlled.

Among the victims are children from orphanages, children of the military, and various people in the entertainment industry.

The alternate personality emerges when certain trigger words are used by the 'controllers'.

The victim is unaware of what is happening.

Sometimes the victims are used as sex slaves or suicide bombers.


"Obama is gay."

Obama is reportedly mind-controlled.


“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game,” stated Gladio operative Vincezo Vinciguerra. (Vincenzo Vinciguerra / NATO’s secret armies linked to terrorism?)

The general public are of course also subjected to this 'mind control'.

Think of how the news broadcasts create terror.

They tell us to fear bird flu, weapons of mass destruction, a new ice age, aliens etc.

Think of how we are hypnotised by endless repetition of dishonest messages such as: Gaddafi did Lockerbie; Mubarak hurt Egypt; Ben Ali's Tunisia suffered great poverty...

11-year-old Aaron Hern was one of the victims in the Boston Marathon bombings. abclocal.go.com

How should we react to the victims of the Boston Bombs?

Can we feel compassion without feeling some of the suffering of the injured?

1. Imagine you are a doctor entering a hospital ward where there is a child victim.

It does not help you, nor the child, if you are shaking and weeping.

The good doctor, while feeling compassion, detaches himself from suffering.

The good doctor detaches himself from his selfish ego.

It is the selfish ego which produces anger, grief, worry, and despair.

The good doctor is positive, loving and calm.

This helps the sick child.

schweitzerfellowship.wordpress.com...

2. Imagine you are the pilot of a passenger plane which has just been struck by some dangerous emergency.

It does not help you, nor the passengers, if your ego feels extreme fear.

On the other hand, a little fear might prevent you from taking foolish risks.

A game of golf would not be real if there were not some minor irritations; but you want to avoid the extremes.



3. Imagine you are the parent of a child who has just been killed by agents of the US government.

Ask yourself - why does the government carry out such acts of terrorism as part of its 'Strategy of Tension'?

Boston Marathon

They want to get you angry with, and scared of, the 'terrorists'.

When people are scared they will obey their 'big brother' government.

So, detach yourself from fear and anger.

Fear and anger make you sick.

4. There may be times when we are hit by extreme fear, anger, grief, worry and despair.

But we should practise non-attachment to such extremes.

This means not holding on.

michaelwilliammcdonald.blogspot.com ...

5. We should practise non-attachment to lots of things.

"All the delightful things of the world - sweet sounds, lovely forms, all the pleasant tastes and touches and thoughts - these are all agreed to bring happiness if they are not grasped and possessed.

But if you regard them merely as pleasures for your own use and satisfaction and do not see them as passing wonders, they will bring suffering.

-Sutta Nipata

Blog: Pleasure and Joy.



6. It is not a good idea to 'suppress' our feelings.

Research shows that people who are able to talk about their grief, anger or fear get rid of these negative feelings more quickly.

People who are not able to talk about these feelings are more likely to suffer ill health, mental or physical.

The 'good doctor' has the knack of being non-attached to grief, anger or fear when he enters the ward.

Some people get angry when there is a long queue at the airport.

Some people learn not to get angry.

They are not supressing their anger; they just don't feel anger.