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To: RunningJoke
"When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion."

Poetic and true (could make a calendar of these things) I do not respect cowardice and therefore I have no problem voicing my opinion even when all others disagree

80 posted on 03/09/2004 1:16:23 PM PST by NativeSon
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To: NativeSon
In your previous post your warned me to be careful, because you thought others might take it as hate speech. This would be the stance of the weak. I think you have become one of the many that has made cowardice a fashion.

The other point, I have for you is that it seems you identify more with an ethnic group than you do with your individuality, yet another sign of your weakness as an individual.

"Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable than those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence. The shifts and devices the weak employ to escape an untenable reality are often preposterous, yet they somehow turn out to be generators of power. One thinks of the magic of words which turns thin air into absolute truths, and the alchemy of conviction which transmutes self-contempt into pride, lack of confidence into faith, and a sense of guilt into self-righteousness. Finally, self-hatred endows the weak with an exceptional facility for united action. Flight from the self almost invariably turns into a rush for a compact group. And certainly, this readiness to unite with others is a source of unequaled strength. Thus the soul intensity generated in the weak endows them as it were with a special fitness. There is a sober realism in St. Paul's stilted words that: God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty."
81 posted on 03/11/2004 6:15:47 AM PST by RunningJoke
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