You gottta pop some popcorn and watch this movie!

[babsbunny]

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Thrive full movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=BVEDwnvwQkM

http://www.thrivemovement.com/home

[Speck Tater]

1. Oh boy! Grab your popcorn and watch THIS THREAD!

From the web site:

My research in living geometry and frontier science led me into the realms of advanced knowledge encoded by ancient cultures and into “new energy” technologies that transcend the understanding of traditional physics. To my great surprise these discoveries compelled me to open my mind to the possibility that we are actually being visited by extra-terrestrials. How does all of this tie together? Let’s see…

I have been shown a vast amount of compelling evidence suggesting that UFOs of extraterrestrial origin (referred to by the military as AVCs – Alien Visitation Crafts, as opposed to ARVs – Alien Reproduction Vehicles, which are man-made advanced anti-gravity craft) exist and have been contacting and communicating with humans for many years – perhaps even centuries. This has huge implications. If other intelligent life is capable of getting here, then there must be ways to not only transcend space-time as we know it, but also to access energy in an abundant way that surpasses the capacity of any energy source currently employed on earth. It implies that we too could get off of fossil fuels, create more sustainable energy systems and go voyaging among the stars.

Quote: "Thrive brings together the new energy and Occupy movements..." (emphasis mine)

So now some free energy/perpetual motion huckster is running for the office of leader of Occupy. This should be interesting.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

3. Not just any huckster.

He's an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune. Lot's of money to blow on trippy trippy woo.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

2. I think I'll pass.

It's chock-full of mindless woo.

[Speck Tater]

4. It's absolutely mind-boggling to think that people believe this stuff!

I suppose that people will believe what they want to believe, no matter how ridiculous.

[Tx4obama]

5. Thrive DEBUNKED

Thrive as Holy Scripture: The Emerging Religion of “Conspirituality.”

http://thrivedebunked.wordpress.com/tag/foster-gamble/

[babsbunny]

6. If you watch long enough

Get past the UFO stuff (I love that part) It all sounds right!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

7. I'd rather watch this.

[Speck Tater]

8. If a huckster didn't "sound right" he wouldn't make it as a huckster.

Creationism sound right to people who think the Bible is infallible. The idea that the earth is flat sounded right to people before Columbus. Free energy sounds right to people with no education in physics. The Easter bunny sounds right to kids who are young enough to still lack experience of how the real world works.

Of course it "sounds right". That's why it can lead so many people astray.

Let me ask you this about free energy. Is there ANY reason why China wouldn't jump on this instantly if it worked? Never mind "big oil" in the west, there's nothing stopping Communist China from grabbing this technology and running with it, and if it works, using it to very rapidly dominate the entire globe! And the Moon. And Mars too. They could build free energy factories and free energy aircraft carriers and free energy space shuttles and free energy automobiles for all their people making them the richest and most advanced nation in the world. This is an opportunity they would never pass up in a million years.

But they haven't done it. Why? Because it doesn't work.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

9. Locking.

This violates GD SOP and probably DU TOS as well.