Gustav Whitehead and how his story is a terrific example of how WE LIVE IN THE MATRIX...

You are totally wrong that I am a shill. Just an ordinary guy who does not like Iran (and leans pro-Israel, admittedly.)

Usually the anti-Iran people here are usually also anti-Israel and "anti-zionist."

Sorry, but Zionism DEALS with Israel. You should know that.

Again, YOU ARE WRONG.

You are totally wrong that I am a shill. Just an ordinary guy who does not like Iran (and leans pro-Israel, admittedly.)

Usually the anti-Iran people here are usually also anti-Israel and "anti-zionist."

Sorry, but Zionism DEALS with Israel. You should know that.

Again, YOU ARE WRONG.

And, oh yes--------you have not answered any of my charges about Ahmadinejad.

You are saying that Iran just wishes peace and love towards Israel and other nations in the region, right?

LOL.

(A lot of snips to focus on the salient points:)

However, I think the pedagogy is purposefully indoctrinated with the "appeal to authority."
...to promote the idea that certain individuals are experts and therefore authorities in a given subject, and their opinions are NOT to be questioned or challenged.

And, sadly, the vast majority have been tricked/manipulated/coerced into thinking in this way.
...an individual who has been indoctrinated and fully engrossed into the matrix believes as "gospel truth" everything he is told.
...He will violently defend these foreign, implanted ideas as his own!

I totally get what you're trying to say here about where our beliefs actually come from. People tend to believe that their opinions on any given subject are their own, but actually if they stopped and thought about it, they'd realise that the views they hold are the same as everybody elses, and on matters that they really no nothing about.

I've tried to explain this to people I know, and I just get a blank stare back lol. Some people just can't comprehend that some thoughts they have qre not their own. They have seen images or stories and in their eyes have come up with logical views and opinions based on that.

Not realising that the images and stories were slanted so as to make the viewer come up with thoughts and opinions that the MSM desires.

When you start questioning the reasons for why you believe what you believe, you start to notice all the bullshit.

And then you end up on GLP lol.

You should always question what you believe and why you believe it, just incase they really aren't actually your beliefs.

I think Socrates used to make his students question everything, which is a good thing and maybe something we should be teaching kids in schools today.

Have you ever heard of a man named Gustav Whitehead?

If you asked 100 random people on the street, "Who was the first human being to ever fly in an airplane?" how many do you think would give you the correct response?

What would your answer be?

"The Wright Brothers- Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first humans to ever fly!"

Why do you think this to be so?

Well, for one, that is what every history book says!
And, if you go to the biggest, most important history museum in the United States, The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., they even have the airplane they created and flew in, The 1903 Wright Flyer on display there!

In fact, here is a snippet from The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's own website,

[link to airandspace.si.edu]


"Removed temporarily from its place of honor in Milestones of Flight, the 1903 Wright Flyer, the world's first successful airplane, serves as the centerpiece of this exhibition, which celebrates the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights. For the first time, the airplane is being displayed on the floor, so you can get a close-up, eye-level look at the historic craft that ushered in the age of flight.

The first part of this exhibition tells the story of how Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the airplane—who they were, how they worked, and what they accomplished. The second part shows how their monumental achievement affected the world in the decade that followed, when people everywhere became fascinated with flight."




But, who is Gustav Whitehead, and why is his story SO IMPORTANT?

The Wright Brothers were not the first human beings to fly. Someone designed, constructed, and successfully flew in the air a flying machine, before they did. Not days, weeks, or months before the Wright Brothers....
TWO YEARS before the Wright Brothers ever flew, Gustav Whitehead flew in the air in a flying machine.

More than 100 different newspapers reported this incredible feat, newspapers from across the United States, Hawaii, to as far away as Australie, Germany, and France, Gustav Whitehead was reported as having flown in the air in a flying machine he built. In the year 1901.

Please, do not take my word for it. Do not *ever* trust the words of anyone, without independently verifying the information as true for yourself. Here is but one source which backs up the claims I write in the above paragraph:
[link to www.ctpost.com]
Please, investigate this yourself, and draw your own conclusions.



But, why is Gustav Whitehead not rightfully credited with the accomplishment?

Why has the true history not been reported?

Do you think this is an isolated incident? Do you think this is truly the only case of "revisionist history" in the world?

Why do so many human beings, perhaps even you, believe Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first humans to fly, when there is absolute evidence that a man named Gustav Whitehead flew two years prior, in 1901 in Connecticut?
Is it because The Smithsonian Institute says it to be true? Because The Smithsonian claims authority over historical fact, whatever The Smithsonian says is true, it *must* be true?

Do you accept as truth whatever is reported on the nightly news, the daily newspaper, the news websites that have three letters followed by a .com?

I close in asking you this:
What do you think about Iran?
Now, before answering, you might ask for clarification: What do I mean, "about Iran?" Am I asking about politics, am I asking about the nation's history, or something else?
I ask again, in total, however you want to answer the question: "What do you think about Iran?"


Again, I would wager that if 100 random people were polled, the vast majority would answer somewhere along the lines of,
"Iran? Iran is a terrorist nation!" or "Iran is a serious threat, they are trying to build a nuclear weapon so we have to stop them before they do." or "Iran is a country in the Middle East who has a crazy dictator as leader, Ahmadinejad, who denies the Holocaust ever happened, and is a psychopath who we need to kill because he is a terrorist and supports terrorists."

In reality, none of those are original thoughts.
Of those hypothetical 100 random people, I would also wager that less than five of them would be able to successfully identify Iran on a globe. I would also wager that less than two of them would have ever traveled to Iran, or that they even personally know someone of Iranian descent.
I certainly doubt of those 100 random people, more than ten would be able to name a single city or region of Iran.

Those random 100 people would in reality, know nothing about Iran. They would have not one single original idea regarding Iran.
But yet, these same exact people would somehow hold moderately strong to extremely strong opinions about Iran.
How?
How is it that someone can have a thought that is entirely foreign to their mind, an idea that was "injected" into their conscious/subconscious, but has remained there, and has been accepted as truth, and without being questioned by that individual, has somehow become accepted as an original thought?

Please consider what I have written, and I thank you for reading, I know this is more lengthy than many threads you may be accustomed to here on GLP.

I invite you to share your thoughts, after having read mine. Thank you, I genuinely look forward to reading what you have to say!