Apollodorus

Sure, I might of course be wrong. I was just stating what my personal impression was after seeing that Buddhism which is otherwise quite thorough in o...

I agree. I wouldn't go quite so far as to call Buddhism "nihilist" in all respects. It still has some interesting contributions it could make. However...

Starmer was a total unknown to most people except to the Fabians. A barrister/lawyer to anyone who had heard of him if at all. I think he was running ...

I really don't know much about the role of British intelligence in this. I suppose I will have to look into it. But social engineering has long been p...

Agreed. But what good is a forum if you can't discuss controversial topics? We can't pretend that certain issues don't exist. And on this forum, in pa...

I wouldn't call Fabians "entryists into the Labour Party" as they co-founded it and have been sitting on its national executive from the start. Hundre...

I do agree with that statement. I certainly believe that mankind has a lot of growing up to do. And the current consumer-oriented culture that cares l...

Perfectly reasonable question. The Fabians of course, were fanatical believers in efficiency and aimed to build a society in which everything would be...

I've got the feeling you might be right there. And possibly one or two other threads, too. But we all do what we can ....

I think most people would agree with that. As shown by Rappaport and other historians, Lenin did like to see himself as a conspirator and the whole So...

Correct. Athena and I thought the political conversation we were having should be continued on a separate thread without this in any way affecting Jac...

Well, I suppose you could describe Christianity as a conspiracy against ignorance and evil but there is nothing wrong with that. As the OP says, consp...

It depends on how you look at it. I wouldn't call being awake an absolute "bodily necessity". Humans can live in a state of sleep or coma for a very l...

The new thread is at Open Conspiracy - Good or Evil? I thought we could start with the Fabians' book The Open Conspiracy and the political ideas sugge...

That's how it started. But close links with Europe's socialist parties were forged during WWII when socialist leaders fled to London and were carried ...

Great. I look forward to that.

African leaders also had links to the Fabians: Fabian Society JOMO KENYATA

They also had a Fabian Society in India and both Nehru and Gandhi were members.

And on literature: The Influence of Fabian Society on English Social Literature

And, of course, the Fabians were also influential on culture, the arts, etc. Fabianism and Culture - cambridge.org

For Fabian influence outside Europe see J. M. Sneyder, “The Fabianization of the British Empire: Postwar Colonial Community Development in Kenia and U...

Actually, "the whole world" wasn't my phrase. It's what Wells says in the book. Personally, I tend to think the Fabian influence was more on England a...

Maybe not all of them. However, the Fabians did reestablish the Socialist International after WWII which they controlled together with the Labour Part...

Correct. Also, is it still a "conspiracy" if it involves the whole world? Wells seems to think so. Maybe his ambiguity was deliberate. In any case, he...

Well, globalization is the agenda of many different groups. The Fabians were just one of them. There were, for example Anglo-American industrial inter...

Correct. Most slaves were white because whites were readily available. Some became slaves through debt but, increasingly, as prisoners of war. The ver...

According to some, Plato taught "animism" and "atheism". Is that true?

Wells also suggested a great central organization of “economic science” that will produce direction and function as the brain of the world community, ...

Sounds good to me.

Well, it is a critical study. However, the point about Fabianism is that it seeks to implement socialism by stealth. This is clear from the Fabians' o...

I agree. I think the problem with Buddhism is that it seems to have taken reincarnation from Hinduism but it reinterpreted it in a Buddhist context th...

Do you classify sex in general as "unhealthy activity", or is it just sex with unhealthy people? And would you classify theater as "unhealthy passive ...

To be quite honest, when I read statements like these: “... this temporal relation is also an ethical one, because it suggests that we’re the products...

Precisely. This is where I point out to critics that their presumed "scientific objectivity" is akin to (unconscious) "neo-Marxism", in view of the fa...

Well, I'm equally surprised that you haven't heard of it as you seem to belong to the more enlightened type of socialist (the type I normally have lon...

I totally agree. Some pretend to take an "objective" or "scientific" approach to religion that is bound to fail given that religious experience is lar...

Well, that's actually what I meant by "nebulous", i.e., in the sense of not easy to grasp by an ordinary person. Obviously, monks and ascetics would b...

I think that's a pretty accurate analysis there. However, it isn't just the military industry. The military industry depends on the corporate groups t...

I think that's your interpretation of Socrates. And some here have failed to properly distinguish "Socratism" and Platonism. They are two different th...

Correct. Black-on-black deaths are definitely something to look into without making it a "white problem". Incidentally, in the UK these groups highlig...

Well, I think Iamblichus, for example, would certainly qualify as highly evolved Platonism and not due to Christian influence. My point about metempsy...

Well, I thought so. Probably not much of the Enneads at all, and definitely not with a teacher. And how am I "defensive"? If you're saying that Platon...

Actually, people don't need to be Marxists per se, they can be Marxist-influenced or use Marxist-style interpretations of history or religion without ...

Of course they aren't even similar. Animism is just a belief in spirits. Platonism is an evolved philosophical system that aims to elevate the human s...

"In a way" is not good enough. That doesn't make Platonism animism. They aren't even similar.

Where belief in daemons originated is irrelevant. The point is that Platonic monism is not the same as animism. In Platonism, the world emanates from ...

Sounds good to me.

I've got nothing against animism. I'm only saying that Platonism is generally defined as monism. It revolves on the concept of Oneness, hence the Plat...

Well, I do appreciate your sense of humor. However, monism is definitely not animism. Animism means a multitude of spiritual beings. Monism means ever...

I don't know if you've read any of my OPs in the past. What I try to do is be very specific about what the terms I plan to use mean in the context I p...