Posted on 09/20/2014 8:27:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Most baby boomers will remember the summer of 1967 as the Summer of Love, with huge gatherings in cities across the United States and Canada. Years later, Time magazine said that the overriding theme of the Summer of Love was “trust your feelings.”
Ten years later, the message was blasted into our collective consciousness with the release of George Lucas’s movie, Star Wars. In the film, the wise mentor Obi Wan Kenobi instructs young Luke Skywalker to “trust your feelings.”
Baby boomers then taught that “trust your feelings” message to their children and grandchildren. So now, young people are even more divorced from rational thinking than their parents were—a feeling-based worldview pervades our culture.
Fast-forward to today, where those children and grandchildren are now in power. They are congressmen and women, governors, and even the president. They use their feelings to make decisions on factual matters that require logic and rational thinking.
We feel bad for the poor, so instead of creating a rational program to provide them with employment and therefore dignity, we dole out billions, ne trillions of dollars in the form of welfare credit cards by which they can buy alcohol, marijuana, or whatever they may “feel” they need. This reliance on feelings has created dependency, irresponsibility, fraud, and victimhood, to say nothing of trillions of dollars in debt.
Take this whole issue with dealing with a group of murderous, bloodthirsty savages who call themselves the “Islamic State.” Our “trust your feelings” politicians rush to the television cameras explaining that those people are not really Islamic.
But the thugs of ISIS say that they are the true Islam. And furthermore, they say that their beheadings come as a direct order from their religious book, which they say their god gave them. To them, this is very logical and rational.
In accordance with their logic, they will do a whole lot of killing through their foot soldiers and sleeper cells in Western countries, including the United States. They have no emotional investment in these decisions, only clear-cut facts.
When Western politicians that make decisions based upon “trust your feelings” meet the cold reality of Islamist logic, hands down the Islamists will win—that is unless we begin to change either our worldview, or replace our current “feelings” politicians with logical, rational ones.
Back to my question, will ISIS destroy Western civilization? The answer is no—Western foolishness will destroy Western civilization. The instrument used for that destruction notwithstanding.
In these columns I have been raising the alarm louder and louder, but unless this warning is heeded in 2014, 2016, and every election thereafter, I’m afraid our Western civilization as we know it will go down the tubes.
Today, many people are wondering if ISIS will ultimately destroy Western civilization. But before I address that question, we need to take a little journey to discover what Western culture has done to itself.
Beginning with the age of reason in the 17th century, Western culture built itself on the foundation of reason and objective truth.
In the 1960s, however, Western culture underwent a radical transformation. A new way of looking at reality—focusing on the inner, subjective experience instead of objective truth—profoundly affected the baby boomer generation.
In 1967, Dr. Timothy Leary toured the U.S., speaking on college campuses with a psychedelic light and sound presentation called “The Death of the Mind.” He urged students to experiment with LSD, start their own psychedelic religions, turn off their rational minds, and reach out to the universe with chemical-altered feelings to “run on, tune in, and drop out.”
The idea is to gin up fear of them so that we can take and justify military action.
Others have posted great reasons as to why we are a sinking society. I can only add that we must see deeper. Western civilization, and we are a part, is sinking. Today's summum bonum [greatest good that we strive for], is the easy life. Money is its life blood. The root cause of our plight is the loss of religion with its emphasis on good and bad and substituting valueless 'freedom'.
This documentary shows it happened before.
First two minutes of the video seem to answer the question that it can happen.
See your view I think you should have a quick look at this documentary on the fall of Rome.
I had the same question as you then happened upon this documentary last night. The question really is are we heading for the dark ages? Is that possible in our modern times.
See your view I think you should have a quick look at this documentary on the fall of Rome.
I had the same question as you then happened upon this documentary last night. The question really is are we heading for the dark ages? Is that possible in our modern times.
Western civilization is ancient, dynastic, and powerful. It cannot be defeated by Neanderthals. It can only ever be surrendered to them.
Most likely scenario is that Isil is going to mark the beginning of the end of Islam. There has been a sea change in people’s view of Islam.
ISIS is a creation of the Obamatollah.
Every action, or inaction, he is responsible for as president has been to weaken the USA or aid the muslim terrorists?
Is there any reasonable person who believes that he couldn’t have created many, many jobs and ended the depression with the $900 billion dollar stimulus?
Intead it was peed away on losing schemes or just disappeared into thin air (or democrat pockets).
Is there anyone who believes he did not do his best to hand over Libya, Egypt, Iraq to the muslim terrorists?
And now he is working on Israel, Syria and Afghanistan.
AMERICAN AWAKE... OBAMA IS A TAQIYYA MUSLIM!!!!
Former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard takes aim at Barack Obama, a man whose election he once warned would be welcomed by terrorists.
“I think it’s always a danger that you get complacent,” he says. “I was surprised at the complacency in President Obama’s speech a few months ago to the West Point graduation ceremony where he talked about the strength of the threat in, I thought, rather too relaxed a tone of voice.”
The left’s ostrich syndrome cover up Islamic savagely.
Gruesome as they are, these photos are necessary to be shown. We have to awake the world to the Islamic threat.
As Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, one of the last Christian rulers before the fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Ottoman Empire, in a dialogue with a Persian Muslim scholar, he asked:
Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.[
We better start being clear that we need to defend our faith and our way of life. lest we loose them.
Horrendous photos of ISIS’ barbaric crusade to spread Islam now underway...................
Do not allow children to see these photos.
This is really bad stuff -— please delete quickly if you are at all squeamish! (this is no joke!!!) This is why this vermin must be eradicated completely.
Caution!
These pictures are truly graphic and depict Nazi type brutality. These people are not animals, animals don’t kill for sport.
Subject: Photo Evidence of ISIS’ Crusade to spread Islam now underway...
THIS IS ROUGH STUFF !!
If you cannot handle brutality, please go no further, it is not nice to see, sorry but true !!!!! If this doesn’t get you worked up and want to destroy these animals nothing will. It might just stir up Obama but I doubt that anything will...
These photos show ISIS brutality in action. The photos get worse as you progressed through them. They show the ISIS’ treatment of Christians and other “Infidels” in Iraq and Syria.
The photos were received from a Franciscan priest to show with what we are dealing and to begin to understand what is at hand in order to develop solutions.
AMERICAN BEWARE OF TAQIYYA MUSLIMS!!
“Those who do not learn from History are damned it repeat it” George Santayana
ISLAM, RELIGION OF PEACE
Remember Otranto
http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/how-the-800-martyrs-of-otranto-saved-rome
y Famagusta
http://archive.redstate.com/story/2006/7/25/104316/421
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Islam is as much a religion of peace and tolerance today as it has been since its foundation by Muhammad in the 8th century.
THE ISLAMIC STATE IN IRAQ and Syria
MUSLIMS Crucifies and behead Christian boys
Gruesome and revolting pictures
https://www.google.com/search?q=isis+beheading+children&rlz=2T4NDKB_enUS0538US0540&biw=1024&bih=515&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=dSccVM7aO6nI8gGq9YHIDA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ
MUSLIMS MASSACRE CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ahz3BEhkyho
WHO ARE NIGERIA’S BOKO HARAM?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VN_7A3mNKg&feature=player_detailpage
“Those who maintain that understanding jihad as a holy war constitutes a sort of deviation from the true Islamic tradition are therefore not telling the truth, and history sadly demonstrates that violence has characterized Islam since its origin, and that Mohammed himself systematically. We must also recognize the natural right of every society to defend its own cultural, religious, and political identity. It seems to me that this is precisely what Pius V did.”(Christianity and Islam in History by Monsignor Walter Brandmüller, president of the Vatican Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences)
ALLOW IN U.S. ONLY PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS FLEEING FROM ISLAMIC SAVAGELY
DEPORT ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORT RADICAL MUSLIMS TO THEIR OWN COUNTRIES
If we got the word out to the muslim community this is what would happen if one more jihad attack occurred over here.....
Will ISIS Bring About the Demise of Western Civilization?
No. Not any more then one division of the Nazi army could have taken the world to the brink of destruction. But the Nazi Army did and Islam could also. Do not allow our spineless and weak leaders confuse you and trick you. ISIS is not the enemy it is one faction one division of the real enemy and that is Islam.
A better question might be: "is the end near."
Seems like the answer is a resounding "yes."
No.
While it’s easy to mock Obama saying ISIS is “not Islamic”, it’s just as wrong and misleading to talk about “radical Islam”, as though what ISIS is doing is somehow a new and revolutionary departure from some supposedly non-radical traditional Islam. ISIS are Muslim fundamentalists, not radicals. To suggest otherwise is just as dishonest and/or naïve as saying they are non-Islamic. I cringe every time I hear someone like Dick Cheney or John Bolton use the term “radical Islam”.
Peace and Love is irritated that America is not the all bad that they want it to be. They are going to spin ISIS as much as they can.
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