JOIN THE
THOUSANDS OF WARRIORS IN STATE CtC FORUMS!
The ONLY way to join a
CtC state forum (which includes the
Canadian and Australian CtC Warrior forums
for purposes of this process) is by
submitting the request specified
here
precisely as instructed on that page.
Once you have applied for membership in a
state group, you will receive a "Welcome"
message within a few weeks either from me
directly, or through a
"noreply"@"googlegroups.com email (depending
on which type of group I have created for
your state). You must carefully read
through this message, and follow all
the instructions therein exactly in
order to be able to participate in the
group.
IF YOU'VE ALREADY APPLIED TO JOIN A STATE
GROUP AND ARE WONDERING WHY YOU'RE NOT
GETTING ANY GROUP EMAILS, you probably
applied for a state forum for which I have
set up a "Google group" but haven't ever
accepted the invitation to join!
Completing the application for those groups
(which currently include Arizona,
California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia,
Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas,
Utah Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin)
requires clicking on the link in the
"Welcome" email that says "You can accept
this invitation by...".
Doing so will bring up a page with an option
on the left to "Sign in to GoogleGroups".
Click there.
On the page that comes up, either enter your
pre-existing Google account information, or
click the button that says, "Create an
account" and go through the account-creation
process.
When you click on the "finish" (or
"continue") button or link, you will be
taken to a page that asks you to click a
link in order to accept the invitation to
join the group. Do so.
Now you will see a page that lets you pick
how group posts will be sent to you (daily,
weekly, never, etc.). When you have
finished making your selections on that
page, you will be taken to the group forum
and can begin posting and reading.
IF YOU TRY TO LOG IN TO THE GROUP SITE and
see the message that "you cannot view the
group content or participate in the group
because you are not currently a member", you
must click the "Sign in to Google Groups"
link on that page in order to proceed to
where you can accept the invitation to join
the group by going through the process
described above.
IF YOU CAN'T FIND THE ORIGINAL "WELCOME"
MESSAGE SENT TO YOU, go
here.
In the top search field type the name of the
group to which you applied (i.e.
GeorgiaCtCWarriors, NewYorkCtCWarriors--
others will use the same format).
Click on the "Search groups" button
alongside that field. On the page that
is invoked, click the hyperlink that
consists of the group name and nothing else
(That is, NOT the one that says "Groups
matching NewYorkCtCWarriors"). That
will take you to a page that tells you that
"you cannot view the group content or
participate in the group because you are not
currently a member". You must click
the "Sign in to Google Groups" link on that
page in order to proceed to where you can
accept the invitation to join the group
(this will involve creating a Google group
account if you don't already have one).
NOTE: You must use the same email address to
create your account and/or log-in that you
provided when first applying to me for the
group.
A
Word To CtC State Forum
Participants
Just so everyone understands (and not
meaning to sound too impatient): The
forums do not exist to provide venues in
which some folks can be made to spend their
time and energy explaining to others why
various notions, theories or silver-bullets
which appear nowhere either in
CtC or on this site (but are nonetheless
floating around-- or raging through-- the
"tax honesty" community) are incorrect or
irrelevant (click
here for a partial list of these
erroneous notions, and detailed comments
about many of them).
I will say as plainly as possible what I
have by necessity said many times before,
but usually with more circumspection (and
can't seem to say often enough): Any and
all notions concerning the nature of the
"income" tax-- how it is applied, why it can
be thus applied, how it interfaces with the
legal system and so forth-- which I have not
included in one of my books or in an article
I have written or expressly endorsed and
posted on
losthorizons.com are either
wrong or are irrelevant to the tax.
They are raised or promoted either in
ignorance or for ill purposes.
Such notions should not be debated or
discussed-- doing either is a waste of
valuable time and energy. There is one
kind of simple response that is appropriate
when presented with "alternative" or
"supplemental" notions of this sort:
"You didn't find that in
CtC or on
losthorizons.com, so put it out of
your mind. Here is what is
actually true about that aspect of the
tax..."
or,
"That notion has already been shown
to be erroneous at [the relevant "misunderstandings"
page]..."
or,
"Since there is no actual (or
unambiguous) evidence demonstrating the
accuracy of the contrary or disputatious
notion you advocate, while on the other
hand a huge, constantly-growing body of
every conceivable kind of evidence--
including even the nuanced character of
governmental efforts to discourage the
CtC-educated-- unmistakably demonstrates
the complete accuracy of CtC, why are
you bringing this up? What is your
real agenda?"
If this gentle approach isn't effective, let me know so that I can remove
this individual-- now revealed as either
uneducable or a deliberate "agent
provocateur"-- from the forum.
Keep in mind that those who wish to keep the
truth spinning its wheels, and making as
little forward progress as possible,
routinely and systematically exploit two
basic human foibles:
1. The natural tendency of those whose
education is incomplete to mistake sporadic,
creative (and carefully indirect)-- but well
publicized-- tax agency resistance to a few
educated filings as meaning that there is
some piece of the puzzle missing (imagining
that otherwise, the generations-old scam
that even now continues to successfully
bamboozle 180 million Americans 24/7 would
have just thrown in the towel and abandoned
the field, rather than continue to cast
about for some silver-bullet of its own that
will frighten or confuse students of the
truth into retreat or disarray); and
2. The equally natural tendency of everyone
to be attracted to notions that are
presented as, or appear to be,
resistance-risk-reducing tricks or
short-cuts.
Thus, there is a constant effort to seed the
"tax honesty" community (and
CtC forums directly) with notions
designed to invoke both of these unfortunate
tendencies in order to distract forum
participants from their primary purposes of:
I rely on everyone posting on any forum to
help keep it in focus, and productive. Posts
amounting to offenses of the sort described
above, persistent straying from the three
primary purposes of the forum, or evidence
of a failure to keep current with the Lost
Horizons newsletters may result in removal
from the forum without prior notice.
