I have to say I am generally in agreement with this thoughtful post which does not come off, in my view, as a criticism. And my reading of Admin's initial response is that it was off point; defending the excellence of the material on this site which was never in question.

The point of the original post was that there is a need to join enthusiastic feeling to the intellectual quality of the material in order to spread it far and wide. Revolutions proceed on passion guided by right principles, not on principles alone. The use of Thomas Paine was a good example of doing just that.

And I know from using forums on other sites that I have become enthusiastic (that's a feeling 🙂 ) about different threads because of the way the moderator interacts with the participants. On the other hand, I have avoided forums, moderated by very knowledgeable people because of their dismissive tone and found answers to my questions elsewhere.

Bing's suggestion of increasing the use of various forum moderators is a good one.

I'm not sure why Molyneux's critic is anonymous. I can't think why he would be afraid to be open about the points he almost makes.

Maybe he's a disgruntled self-righteous competitor who feels like M. has beat him soundly in the page rankings. That would be a reason to remain anonymous, so people could not check the critic's rankings and accuse him of sour grapes. That way he can seem more objective in his remarks.

The point he almost makes is the danger of Molyneux encouraging, and profiting from, cultism. He competes personally in the market place of ideas as a brand name the way many gurus in the patriot movement have done (and gone down in flames).

He has a genius for taking abstract ideas and making them personally meaningful to his viewers and listeners.

The God he does not believe in has given him a voice that is simply hypnotically lovely to listen to, so that you might think that he is talking only to you in his videos.

And therein lies the danger.

If a man or woman is not a critical thinker, they may well be seduced into being believers and followers(i.e., cult members). And Molyneux may not encourage this, but he does not discourage it either because he has made himself into a “brand” name. And this competes with the knowledge he wants to impart.

His disgruntled critic, who documented nothing from the Molyneux “bible” as being in error, did have one point that seems valid. And that is…

Molyneux is not at pains to show the philosophical underpinnings of his work, but speaks more like a wise oracle (which adds to his personal mystique).

So, I guess the moral of this post would be: remain a critical thinker, question everything and everyone, ask for evidence, and thereby prevent oneself from becoming seduced by propaganda…however beautiful it may sound.

The world is that much poorer and more dangerous with his leaving.

Here are some faces to put with his statistics.

Teens Helped Unsupervised, Roaming Children in Jersey City

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/teens-helped-unsupervised-roaming-children-in-jersey-city-20110617

Judge has harsh words for Mom before sentencing her for spanking her kid

http://www.volunteertv.com/national/headlines/Mom_pleads_guilty_to_spanking_own_child_124072014.html

What about stay and don't fight.

Most people don't know the power of consent and the power of withholding consent.

They simply haven't practiced it enough on a daily basis with petty bureaucrats both in government and in the private sector.

Ghandi just said NO, sat down and brought the British empire down in India.

If all of the people, or even a noticeably large number of them simply said NO and sat down, what good is firepower? Sure some few from among the crazies in the police force and military will shoot non-violent people [three cases in the news just recently], but not most of the people.

Non-consent is a powerful weapon, you may get killed using it as an individual lone ranger, just as Jesus did [remember he refused to enter the jurisdiction of the Sanhedrin, of Pilot, or of Herod so they could try him and kill him under the color of law, so they just murdered him.] But, if enough people just say NO, that is the greatest 'firepower' available.

Non-consent to wars of peace in the name of democracy has caused American military defeat in Africa, Asia, Central America. etc.

Non-consent en masse would be a powerful deterrent to a brainless government. Just think about it.

If everyone, or even a significant number of people going through TSA check points at say three major airports simply said no to xrays and gropes on one day, the Fourth Amendment (which some think makes us unsafe) would be online again. If this happened every day for a week, it would revive the constitution in several ways.

If everyone, or a significant number of people said NO to regulations prohibiting the use of video cameras made it a point to film policemen and women in public places, even if the cops are only having a cup of coffee, it would make the point clear that the servants are being watched by their lawful masters.

Or what if everyone with a cell phone seeing what was happening in the above video, stopped their cars and starting filming the action from a safe distance…what might that result in if the mayor was told he would be held personally responsible for the behavior of these thugs.

Non-Consent should be high on the list of effective defense.

Um…Aloha…Hello…Guten Tag…Top o' the mornin'…Where have you been???? A reality check is in order here.

Contemporary men cannot REclaim something they never had. Masculinity was REPEALED in the '60s. Just look, just look at H@rry R3id and you'll see what I mean. An empty shell. Can you even imagine for a nanosecond, conjure up a picture, even a black and white one, of what he would look like, talk like and act like, as a man?

Impossible.

It's like trying to imagine J@n3t R3n0 pouting her lips and sashaying around in a see-through baby-doll negligee!!

Men have not been feminized, they've been annihilated, recycled and reincarnated as P3l0si, Billary, N@politano,K@g@n, S0t0m@y3r, R3n0. Now there's a bunch of guys with some big cajones who fully understand the need for masculinity in the world.

Du-uh…It thus follows that men need to become MORE like women because since John Wayne died and Dirty Harry retired, masculine women are the only manly role models around.

Federal Reserve buying back debts that are owed to it. That sure puts the icing on the dumb-banker cake.

If you scroll down the left-hand column of the homepage there is a link to something called “Social Security – The Mark Of The Beast” This may give you some information that would be useful to you.