evilgenius wrote:It is the Right which began it by focusing upon single issue politics. One by one they've taken singular moral issues, such as abortion and gun rights, and coerced people to vote against their more wide ranging best interests.
People know the world is over crowded and that life is becoming a grand game of musical chairs even if they do not understand human overshoot in cold hard ecological terms.
Cog wrote:Ya'll need Jesus in the worst possible way. I will pray for your doomed, yet valuable souls tomorrow.
onlooker wrote:This situation being one of a top down ruling structure
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
SeaGypsy wrote:avoiding responsibility is an auto response monkey brain
SeaGypsy wrote:There's not much evidence "God" is anything more than a way of lining one's self up, getting your ducks in a row so to speak. Sorry but long blathering spiels about "God"- just lose me completely. Not one new thought in any of it, just repeat dogmatic programming.
roccman wrote:SeaGypsy wrote:There's not much evidence "God" is anything more than a way of lining one's self up, getting your ducks in a row so to speak. Sorry but long blathering spiels about "God"- just lose me completely. Not one new thought in any of it, just repeat dogmatic programming.
well - most think god is good.
I have always wondered about, "In God We Trust".
What is the constitution of "god" - good/bad/ugly?
Who is the "we"? - the chosen+slaves or just the chosen or just the slaves?
And why is it that "we" need to trust in a god that is good?
I agree - the word "god" comes with baggage - and a lot of it. But like you say - just repeat dogmatic programming. I suggest we put god on the stand for a few questions.
Tanada wrote:Serious question. Would you define the desire to avoid responsibility a dark emotion?
In my accumulated experience I have come to realize that something like 95% of human beings would rather follow a bad decision maker giving directions than take responsibility for making their own decisions. This makes it easy for those who crave power and control because the bulk of the population will fall in line with their orders whether those orders make any sense or not. It is also the reason a 'free open culture' like the one created in 1789 in the USA doesn't often last past about 200 years because those in power maneuver to accumulate more power and the 'free voters' keep giving it to them generation after generation. It doesn't matter what cause they claim or rhetoric they use, the people in charge consider themselves elite and are under no desire to follow the wishes of the masses other than whatever lip service they must pay to keep from losing the power they have today.
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