Posted on 02/11/2014 4:24:08 AM PST by Kaslin
"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please." -- Epictetus
"The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match." -- Shaun Hick
There are few things on the planet more necessary than water. In fact, roughly 60% of the human body is water. Yet, water isn't ALWAYS a good thing as Noah could tell you. Virtues can be like this as well. In moderation, they're good for you, but taken to extremes, they become destructive.
1) Tolerance: A little tolerance is a good thing, but too much tolerance makes people blind, dumb and stupid. It's just fine for people and societies to set boundaries instead of giving the thumbs up to wallowing in a human pig pen. Yes, the Bible does say, "Judge not, that ye be not judged." However, it doesn't say there's no difference between the Bible and the Koran, right and wrong, or good and evil. We've taken tolerance to such an extreme that many Americans think it's better to abandon their morals, common sense, and history lessons rather than come across as "being judgmental."
2) Compassion: Compassion and $2.00 will get you a cup of overpriced coffee at Starbucks. At best, compassion doesn't mean much and at worst it has become an act of destructive self-congratulation. America is packed with angry, spiteful, nasty people who never give a dime to charity or personally help a soul; yet they consider themselves to be deeply compassionate for supporting harmful government programs with pleasant-sounding names. If you get into trouble, pray you'll be spared what passes for "compassion" in America today in favor of actually getting some real help.
3) Being nice: Sure, nice beats mean, but it's not an end unto itself. "Nice” is vanilla. "Nice" is generic. If all you bring to the table is "nice," you don't have much to offer. Furthermore, wanting to be "nice" keeps people from saying what needs to be said. It's the "nice" parent who has brats bothering everyone in the store because she won't discipline them. It's the "nice" relative who enables an alcoholic rather than encouraging him to go to rehab. It's the "nice" politicians who don't want to say "no" to anyone no matter how bad his lifestyle choices turn out to be. Meanwhile, our society seems to be getting ruder, stupider and more degenerate by the day, mainly because there are so many "nice" people who aren't willing to stand up and do something about bad behavior. Unfortunately at the end of the day, the nicest dog in the dung heap is still living in a dung heap.
4) Self-Esteem: We may be the first society in history to completely divorce self-esteem from actual accomplishment and self-worth. So, what happens when little Johnny, who coasted through school being told how "special" he was gets into the real world and starts getting his teeth kicked in on a regular basis because he brings nothing of value to the table? Next thing you know, he's marching at an Occupy protest, demanding government handouts and trolling the comment sections on conservative websites because he doesn't understand why he can't do anything productive with his life despite the fact he's been told that he's gifted. Instead of building a kid's self-esteem, we should be teaching him how to be good at things. Then he'll be of use to himself, his family and his society while building REAL self-esteem in the process.
5) Diversity: Diversity is a strength? Tell that to Afghanistan or Iraq. Both nations are so diverse they want to murder each other. That's not to say there isn't some value to diversity of thought, but we've taken it to such an extreme that we've started embracing tribalism. We tell immigrants to forget about the melting pot and embrace their old culture. We treat illegal immigrants who waltzed across the border two months ago as if they're indistinguishable from Americans. We sneer at patriotism and encourage Americans to fragment off from each other by race, gender, age, and sexual orientation. Then we're shocked that Americans have become so alienated from each other. Anyone emphasizing diversity should be aware that diverse groups of people generally don't get along particularly well. Conservatives and liberals? Northerners and Southerners? Muslims and Jews? Jocks and nerds? If these groups don't tend to see eye to eye, why should we expect other equally diverse groups of people to be best buddies while we're celebrating how different they are from each other?
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This post is way off.
1) Liberals have no tolerance for anyone who doesn’t think like they do.
2) Liberals only talk about compassion, look at how Sarah Palin and her family were, and still are treated.
3) Being nice? Read #2 again.
4) Diversity? Diversity of thought is not allowed even to a slight degree.
I love it. I’ll post it to FB so my yucky commie cousin can see some garbage from ME for a change.
Tolerance that has gone as far as suggested is not tolerance, it is condoning and celebration.
And unity is better than diversity. Commies divide and conquer.
You are spot on. Liberals have zero tolerance for anyone who doesn’t think like they do. They may talk about diversity and tolerance, but they never practice it.
Behind every pseudo virtue of the left is another real reason for their activities.
The real argument for gun control is slavery.
The real argument for diversity is division
The real argument for tolerance is ability to rape
Etc...
The left is sick.
But self-esteem is not a virtue. In fact, it is one of the “eight grievous vices” which St. John Cassian catalogued, indeed the most subtle and difficult to overcome of these vices.
If you read his work of that title, you will see that it is not just empty self-esteem which is a vice, but self-esteem growing out of accomplishment, and why.
Jesus didn’t mean “never” judge. . he was essentially pointing out that if you judge. . .you better be living in accordance with the standard by which you judge. . .He was also indicating that sometimes mercy, not judgement, is the more appropriate course of action. . .but even mercy doesn’t imply “business as usual”. . .God’s mercy is displayed within the context of recognition of my sin, the emotion of regret and repentance ...and the commitment to “go and sin no more.”
True enough, but if you ask a liberal if they're tolerant, diverse, etc etc, the answer is undoubtedly "Yes".
Mrs WBill has a friend that went to some AIDS charity thing recently. They hit us up to buy tickets (the answer was an unsurprising no....)
Anyhoo, I was making polite small talk with this person, and asked if their tickets were considered a tax writeoff. This person said, "I dunno, I didn't buy mine. I was comped".
Liberalism in a nutshell. They'll not only spend other people's money to support something they like, but also hit everyone else up for the same support - without investing anything of their own. And, they're perfectly fine with this, feeling smug and self-righteous about their tolerance, charity, etc etc etc the entire time.
It’s not really “taking it to the extreme”.
Their ideology is, at its base, Satanic, and Satan takes anything good and twists it to perversion and wickedness.
Those are what I’d classify as the “sheeperals”.
Their motivations, and their intellectual examination of any issue, doesn’t go beyond that feeling of self-righteousness they get for supporting “doing something nice”.
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I only know one “nice” Liberal. The others, and there are quite a few, are unfriendly at best and flat out nasty at worst!
Should be called “Five virtues that liberals use as hypocritical and cynical weapons to get what they want “
The Five Horsemen of the liberal apocalypse.
Kaslin, well and succinctly said. You posted: This post is way off.
1) Liberals have no tolerance for anyone who doesn’t think like they do.
2) Liberals only talk about compassion, look at how Sarah Palin and her family were, and still are treated.
3) Being nice? Read #2 again.
4) Diversity? Diversity of thought is not allowed even to a slight degree.
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Liberals demand all of these values from others. I seldom see them exercise them themselves unless it they provide them to each other...
Roger that. I think a case could also be made that the verse is commanding that we don’t judge others by our own standards, but by God’s standards. Because just a couple verses after the left’s favorite verse Jesus said this:
Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Impossible to obey this command unless we judge that people are dogs or swine.
It would also be impossible to engage in church discipline unless we judged that the offender had sinned.
Jesus also said this:
Joh 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Taken in sum, it’s clear that “judge not” doesn’t mean what the left desperately wants it to mean.
None of those “virtues” are really Christian virtues at all. Tolerance b necessity requires a subject -what are you tolerant of? Theefore not a virtue.
Nice: ? What is that? Again it is a subjective thing and PC whether one is described as “nice”.
Compassionate - The real virtue is Charity, i.e. as in divine love.
I cannot remember the other two, and would have to go back to the story, but you get my point.
OK:
Self-Esteem -is this a way to affirm pride in oneself? What are you finding in your own personality that gives you self-esteem??? Totally subjective and again, is influenced by current PC.
Diversity: diversity infers that you are OK with anything and everything, having no wisdom to differentiate between good and bad according to Judeo-Christina principles.
Exactly, and well said!
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