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To: bray

Now when they recycle plastic bags or shut down a coal plant they believe they have saved the earth and millions of people because they saw a movie by Algore. They believe it with every fiber of their body, soul and minds so they will lead their lives in any manner the rulers say to save their gods. They are actually accomplishing nothing since plastic bags or coal plants have absolutely no negative effect on the world, but they want to believe they are saving the planet when in reality they are damaging it by not managing and developing it properly.


Once language starts turning bad it just keeps turning. To wit: the phrases Save the Earth or Save the Whales or Save the Planet all follow from the hackneyed “save a life,” “save your life,” etc.

But of course it is not possible to “save” anyone’s life in the way the phrase is used—you can only “extend” someone’s life with CPR, pulling them out of a burning building, etc.

Christians understand the only way a life can be “saved.”

But the word and the concepts were stolen from us long ago, and thus is the distortion now “truth.” And so it shall go with the “planet.”

—Which, I once heard, will become a barren nothingness 5 million years from now when the sun burns up and there ain’t no saving anyone from that.


51 posted on 02/24/2013 7:58:34 AM PST by PaleoBob
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To: PaleoBob

Save the Whales ....collect the set.


83 posted on 02/24/2013 1:24:54 PM PST by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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