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In reply to the discussion: Scotland independence: "a better organised and vastly more powerful version of the Occupy movement" [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)44. Understanding Occupy takes conceptual thinking ~ the ability to use the cognitive processes of
abstraction and conceptualization.
The majority of DUers get Occupy instantly, it is natural for them.
Others...not so much.
Those that get Occupy intrinsically understand that you can't kill an idea. (No matter how hard you try!)
Try this: Think of Occupy as a seed of a tree that cannot be killed. The seed has sprouted, and the tree is now growing, spreading roots and branches. Recent events in Scotland are a small branch of the young, healthy Occupy tree. Someday the roots of the Occupy seed will take all the nutrients from the noxious weeds among which it has sprouted, and the bad weeds will die. The shade of the mature Occupy tree will prevent the seeds of the noxious weeds from ever growing again.
Remain optimistic.
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Scotland independence: "a better organised and vastly more powerful version of the Occupy movement" [View all]
Zorra
Sep 2014
OP
Quite the amount of supporting evidence you've supplied to prop up your premise...
LanternWaste
Sep 2014
#3
For example, the SNP is a long-standing political party which has been working for this for decades
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2014
#41
Except for posters who often write, "in most things, I'm pretty conservative about..."
LanternWaste
Sep 2014
#5
Says the person who calls for indiscriminate bombing in Iraq, and damn the civilians.
Marr
Sep 2014
#17
I've never watched a person pull the wool over their own eyes... until today
LanternWaste
Sep 2014
#23
Only conservatives go around calling everyone to their left the "extreme-left".
SolutionisSolidarity
Sep 2014
#33
This is starting to sound everything leading to either Benghazi on the right or Occupy on the left.
randome
Sep 2014
#19
One of my favorite subjects because I can't understand why some think Occupy is Our Savior.
randome
Sep 2014
#43