Captain, there be trolls here!
Posted on 02/11/2006 3:20:33 AM PST by Lindykim
Enrico Ferri (1856-1926), a prominent socialist of his day, was an Italian criminologist who for many years was the editor of Avanti, a socialist daily. Writing in "Socialism and Religious Beliefs," he spoke of the all-important connection between Darwin's theory and socialism: "I add that not only is Darwinism not contrary to socialism, but that it forms one of its fundamental scientific premises. As Virchow justly remarked, socialism is nothing else than the logical and vital outcome partly of Darwinism and partly of Spencerian evolution." (www.marxists.org/...)
Enrico frankly discussed how and why Darwinian socialism serves as an alternate religion: "socialism is joined to religious evolution and tends to substitute itself for religion because it desires precisely that humanity should have…its own 'terrestrial paradise' without having to wait for it in a 'something beyond'…the socialist movement has numerous characteristics common…to primitive Christianity, notably its ardent faith in the ideal." (ibid)
To wit: Darwinian socialism (Marx's dialectical scientific materialism) is a secularized and distorted mirror image of the Christian teaching of divine providence. In as the Biblical model teaches that man and history are moving towards the Kingdom of God, scientific materialism preaches that man and history are evolving toward a terrestrial paradise created by Promethean humanists. The notion that both history and man are evolving upward through successive stages is what British philosopher Mary Midgley termed the "Escalator Myth." When speaking of scientific materialism's creation account, Ferri candidly admitted: "modern positive science…has substituted the conception of natural causality for the conception of miracles and divinity." (ibid) In other words, scientific materialists have reduced the personal Creator of the universe to the level of an impersonal animating force. It's this 'force' into which Promethean materialists tap, thus using it as the source of both their power and authority.
David Horowitz had this to say about scientific materialism's theology and creation account: "The victorious radicals had proclaimed a theology of Reason in which equality of condition was the natural and true order of creation. In their Genesis, the loss of equality was the ultimate source of mankind's' suffering and evil…The ownership of private property became a secular version of original sin. Redemption…was possible only through the Revolution that would abolish property and open the gates to the Socialist Eden---to paradise regained." ("The Politics of Bad Faith" www.discoverthenetwork.com)
In the Promethean project, everything from the cosmos to all living things, culture, customs, etc. are subject to evolution. The cosmos, or 'supreme being' is alive and in a constant state of transformative change. In speaking of the cosmos, Lenin used explicitly religious terminology: "We may regard the material and cosmic world as the supreme being, as the cause of all causes, as the creator of heaven and earth." (Vladimir Lenin as quoted in Francis Nigel Lee "Communism versus Creation," pg. 28)
Even the convoluted double-speak so peculiar to the Left is itself founded upon the notion of evolution, which no doubt explains why truth is a stranger to them. Dialectics (or more correctly: speaking in tongues) is what they call their snake-oil rhetoric. In Trotsky's words: "Vulgar thought operates with such concepts as capitalism, morals, freedom…etc. Dialectic thinking analyses all things and phenomena in their continuous change. Dialectics…teaches us to combine syllogisms in such a way as to bring our understanding closer to eternally changing reality." (The ABC of Dialectics, Leon Trotsky, http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky)
As double-speak indicates a need for secrecy, it comes as no surprise that dialectical materialism is likewise a hotbed of Gnosticism. Christian Gnostics were people who, when they read Scripture, claimed an ability to receive 'secret' knowledge from it, knowable only to them. Hence, they were practitioners of 'divination.' Modern Gnostics on our USSC have claimed to receive secret knowledge through 'auras, penumbras, and emanations" during their readings of our Constitution. Gnosticism, for obvious reasons, has a history of attracting megalomaniacs in search of secret knowledge to use as power over others. Frederick Engel's reveals that dialectical materialism is rooted in Gnosticism when he says: "An exact representation of the universe, of its evolution, of the development of mankind, and of the reflection of this evolution in the minds of men, can…only be obtained by the methods of dialectics." (The Making of Utopian Socialism," Frederick Engel's, www.marxists.org)
In the theology of scientific materialism, Judgment Day is the Day of Revolution. This is the day of redemption when, in the name of 'Absolute Science! Amen!" the evil bourgeoisie (Conservatives, Christians, white males, all heterosexuals, George Bush, Rumsfeld, etc) will be damned. Likewise, all evil social institutions such as private property, traditional family, absolute moral laws, the Boy Scouts, Christianity, the concept of sin, and man's created condition as either male or female will be demolished, thus allowing equality of condition to prevail. This is what the Left means when it rhapsodizes about 'peace.'
In a brutal, but much deserved condemnation of Marx's dialectical materialism, David Horowitz wrote: "In every revolutionary battle in this century, the Left has been a vanguard without a viable future to offer, whose only purpose was to destroy whatever civilization actually existed. Consider: If no one had believed Marx's idea, there would have been no Bolshevik Revolution…Hitler would not have come to power; there would have been no cold war." (The Politics of Bad Faith) Additionally, more than one-hundred million people would not have been slaughtered.
By the turn of the century, Marx's idea (the religion of scientific materialism) had crossed the Atlantic where it then began to metastasize in America. It was not long before it began to bear rotten fruit. By 1932, William Z. Foster, head of the Communist Party USA stated: "Class ideologies…will give place to scientific materialist philosophy…the American Soviet government will…further the cultural revolution (by doing) the following: schools, colleges, universities will be coordinated…under the National Department of Education…studies will be revolutionized…cleansed of religious, patriotic…ideology…students will be taught…Marxian dialectical materialism; general ethics of the new socialist society. Science will become materialistic…God will be banished from laboratories as well as from schools." ('Toward Soviet America," by William Z. Foster, 1932)
So now its America's turn to be sacrificed upon the altar of Promethean narcissism, for having learned nothing from his corpse-littered past, bloody-handed Prometheus continues to doggedly pursue his fantasy of a terrestrial paradise—in the name of 'Absolute Science! Amen!"
Copyright Linda Kimball 2006 About the writer: Linda is a writer and author of numerous published articles and essays on culture, politics, and worldview.
She has her own website, too, complete with a photo of Linda.
http://www.lindakimball.com
Vanity, thy name is Linda, apparently.
Did poster Lindykim give you permission to publish private information about them? You seem to think you're a real smart ass for 'outing' this person.
Methinks the mods are sleeping in out there in California. It's not even 7 AM there yet.
Well, George, let me help get their attention by hitting the abuse button on your posts here, since revealing a poster's private information without their consent is considered a very serious offense.
Don't violate poster privacy - Don't reveal online another poster's phone number, address, or other information that the person hasn't already made public for everyone on Free Republic.
"Don't violate poster privacy - Don't reveal online another poster's phone number, address, or other information that the person hasn't already made public for everyone on Free Republic. "
The fact that Lindykim is Linda Kimball was acknowledged by her in a recent thread. That there is a lindakimball.com is public, not private information, as a Google search for "Linda Kimball" will demonstrate.
Linda Kimball has a website, where she has links to her articles, as published in various blogs. That is not private information, nor is her identity as the author of these postings.
Sorry, fink, but Linda Kimball outed herself a long time ago.
Linda Kimball has a website, where she has links to her articles, as published in various blogs. That is not private information, nor is her identity as the author of these postings.
Yes, George, if that's the rules then I guess it would be ok with you to post your public Google information:
MineralMan as a registered poster on various forums, some listing your email address, some have your eBay account information, some your home selling web site link (with a photo of you), your Mineral selling website (with photo of you), your phone number, and on and on. But that does not mean you want any of that PUBLIC GOOGLE INFORMATION posted here. Does it? Or are you going to be a complete hypocrite when it comes to 'your private information'?
If that was true, Mm would not have been thought himself so 'clever' for publishing the info he did.
"MineralMan as a registered poster on various forums, some listing your email address, some have your eBay account information, some your home selling web site link (with a photo of you), your Mineral selling website (with photo of you), your phone number, and on and on. But that does not mean you want any of that PUBLIC GOOGLE INFORMATION posted here. Does it? Or are you going to be a complete hypocrite when it comes to 'your private information'?"
My friend, I do not post vanities using that information, do I? It's never hard to find out who someone really is if you want to. I do recommend that you not post that information, since I have not made it public here, nor do I intend to do so.
Lindykim is Linda Kimball, and posts her own material here. She has said that she is Linda Kimball, and the information on her site includes other articles of hers, as well as links to other sites. It is a blog.
Does it have personal information on it? I don't know. I have not looked for such.
You're stretching the point here. Nothing I posted reveals anything about Lindykim that is not already public knowledge here on FR.
What you propose to reveal about me is not public knowledge, and finding it is not based on a simple Google search. Do not post it.
Further, some of that information you think you have is no doubt incorrect. Be very careful.
You think MM pats himself on the back for figuring out that a poster whose FReepname is lindykim, and who posts frequent opinion pieces authored by Linda Kimball, isn't one and the same person as the author of the opinion pieces?
You should perhaps consider that what for you is a brilliant deduction might for others be a pretty darn obvious and mundane conclusion.
First, your wrong about that. It was very simple indeed.
Second, you're very sloppy and have left all of your info 'out there'. I mean really?! You sign up here under the same name you use elsewhere, with enough 'what I do, where I am' info to make the match a virtual cinch, and are surprised? Not too smart are we?
And thirdly, rest assured, I would not post your info under any circumstances, period!
"Second, you're very sloppy and have left all of your info 'out there'. I mean really?! You sign up here under the same name you use elsewhere, with enough 'what I do, where I am' info to make the match a virtual cinch, and are surprised? Not too smart are we?"
As you have no doubt discovered, there are a lot of "MineralMans" out there. From what you have written, some of your information is incorrect. Some of it is probably correct.
You are right. Most people who believe themselves to be anonymous are not. If I really wished to be anonymous, trust me, I know how to do that. Perhaps I have done just that. Perhaps not.
I have no doubt that what you believe to be my information has been passed around in private messages. That's fine, but the information you have is incorrect, at least in part.
I do not publicly reveal my identity on Free Republic. That's my choice, as it is yours. It's possible to discover my identity, as it is possible to discover almost anyone's.
I will say this to you: If you believe you have my identity, I caution you not to use it in any way that might be considered threatening. That has happened in the past to me, and did not end happily for the person doing the threatening.
I love you madly, BB, but you couldn't be more wrong about this. Marxism's "to each according to his needs" is pretty much the opposite of natural selection.
A source that most creationists accept, the Institute for Creation Research, has this article posted at their website:
Darwin's Influence on Ruthless Laissez Faire Capitalism. Yes, ICR links Darwin to good ol' capitalism.
It is beyond dispute that Marx wrote most of his work about communism before Darwin published Origin of Species, so there is zero intellectual influence of Darwin on Marx. Marx's final work, Das Kapital, came out later, but it makes no reference to Darwin or to evolution. All of Marx's earlier writings on communism were done before the world had heard of Darwin and his theory of evolution. So I repeat -- Darwin had zero intellectual influence on Marx.
And of course, vice versa. Nothing in Darwin's work even remotely hints at anything resembling communism. The two men lived at the same time, but they no more influenced one another than did Idi Amin and Ronald Reagan
I know that you don't think much of Darwin, but to link his work to Marx is just plain inaccurate.
Can I make a simple suggestion to stop doing whatever it is that makes people want to threaten you? I mean if that is a reoccurring problem, maybe some self-examination is in order...
I have no doubt that what you believe to be my information has been passed around in private messages.
That I would not know anything about, have never participated in, in any way, shape, or form, and would not.
... a rip-off of the Beech Starship design, IMHO.
"That I would not know anything about, have never participated in, in any way, shape, or form, and would not."
Good.
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.-- W. S. Gilbert
Wow, you really need to read a little more mythology. And a lot more history.
Cool it.
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