SeaGypsy wrote:... but picking up a machete and swinging it at people will almost certainly get you shot.
We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus. Now a virus is an obligate cellular parasite and my contention is that evil is quite literally a virus parasite occupying a certain brain area which we may term the RIGHT center. The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right. And right here we must make a diagnostic distinction between the hard-core virus-occupied shit and a plain, ordinary, mean no-good son of a bitch. Some of these sons of bitches don't cause any trouble at all, just want to be left alone.
AgentR11 wrote: .... as funds do get tight, I think this gentle compassionate treatment of the dangerously broken will come to an end. They can have a box, and some daily food. After they die, open the box, hose it out, ready for the next.
vision-master wrote:What will the Christians do?
Sixstrings wrote:vision-master wrote:What will the Christians do?
Christians ought to consider what Christ said:
"As you do unto the least of these you do unto me."
Buddhism says the same thing, phrased differently as "buddha nature" -- even animals have buddha nature, if you're cruel to an animal you're really hurting yourself.
So that's where I stand. I don't care if the Nibiru asteroid is hurtling towards us and all the oil is gone and I haven't eaten for a week -- I'm still going to be a good person. I'm going to keep my morality.
Maybe the real question of this thread should be.. what happens to all of us after hedge funds and billionaires and banksters and the rest of the top 1% have taken all the money.
Martin Niemoeller, a priest and Member of the Council of the German Protestant Church, who spent himself 8 years in Nazi concentration camps, said this on the Nazi era: "When the Nazis started arresting the communists, I remained silent, for I was no communist. When they arrested the social democrats, I did not speak out, for I was no social democrat. When they imprisoned the trade unionists, I kept my mouth shut, for I was no trade unionist. When they took the Jews, I said nothing, for I was not Jewish. When they came to take me, there was no one left to speak out.
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