Best of times throughout the holidays!

I want to welcome all the new members to the group and wish everyone the best of times during the holiday season. We've had quite a jump in membership over the past month, more than usual for some reason. And a few of these new members are coming back on a regular basis which is also unusual. Welcome to the group and I hope to see you regularly and sticking around. Whether you're new or old to the concept of Empire Building and the dissenting against it. If you're new to it I hope we can persuade you to stay and learn from us on it and how it effects us and the world around us. Possibly change the sources you get your news from to better information.

I recently wrote a new welcoming page now pinned at the top of the message board replacing the old one. Please use it to get a feel for what the group is about and attempt to address our goals. [agnostic.com]

I'd like to highlight one part of that message at this time.

Not all people coming into this group will understand what we are attempting to communicate right away. Some of them will never understand, may not give it the time to understand, may not want to understand, or could take a considerable amount of time to understand. Please refrain from attacks on these people with name calling or other negative gestures in which such acts degrade the attempt to educate these people, which can lead to deterring them and others witnessing such to stay interested in our goals. Please show patience by not being the type of people we see in the arena of the establishment political scene! I truly understand some people make it difficult! But using the same empty useless rhetoric without attempting to use intellect we see on social media sites will only harm our group and the message we are attempting to use to unite us all. I would prefer they leave on their own! Some people just can't or will not face the truth suffering from cognitive dissonance.

I've have felt the pleasures and pains many of us are dealt within our dissenting ways since coming to this site. The political aspect of it that is in post. And since creating this group. I created this group after being dealt a sort of pain in another group from a smart ass who took it upon himself to suggest I do so if I wanted to deliver my opinions and ideology, being mine deferred from his. Paraphrasing a bit being it has been so long. As though being in a group here, or anywhere, must mean you have to be of a certain mindset in a cult way to be allowed to speak or exist within? But having become tired of the vast majority of establishment conditioned rhetoric we find on social media on the politics page, and within this group I'm referring to, it wasn't quite that bad of an idea. So now you have me to deal with While he obviously missed all the diverse empty rhetoric bickering going on around him and myself within that group, he's probably still lost within the delusional reality, and his own that goes with it.

I personally think we have a dam good thing here! If I do say so myself. While maybe I do seem to have a group managed to my opinion, ideology, and agenda, I also offer the ability to debate and share opinions and resources. And we have members with other good sources and opinions than my own of course that occasionally participate also! . And we have had very few problems that come with social media and other groups who have members who bicker like the divided tools of the establishment. I would hope that is because most of our post are indeed those which provide good information with links within that are hard to deny if properly read and used. Those who do not proceed with purposeful intellectual intend and then deal out establishment rhetoric often easily expose themselves. Either having not read the article, or unable to provide an intellectual debate using the information within.

Anyways. Back to pain and pleasures. We often make the statement of those outside the group, paraphrasing, being lost in the MSM narrative of conditioning. I kind of had a sense of this on a post this morning even. How hard it is to get people to see the Empire Building we speak of and its effect. The crimes of our government and media. The pleasure for us is when I see people I once received hard times and negative comments from coming into the group from the political forum and now participate on a somewhat regular basis. Who in the past didn't quite seem to understand our message, but now do. We have at least 3 members in this group who fit that profile. And we have a few others who I can say conduct a more pleasurable experience in posting here than I've seen from them in other post outside the group. We can help change by speaking out. One person at a time!

Thank you all for being here! Best of times to you for the holidays!