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To: Ge0ffrey

Border clash on El Paso “Bridge of the Americas” Border Bridge.

By Mexican people POSING as Caravaners, who in all likelihood will be too far south to really do anything. They will be trying to get shot, to generate bad GOP optics.

That’s the last surprise.


23 posted on 11/03/2018 8:08:33 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

“When I say that evil has to do with killing, I do not mean to restrict myself to corporeal murder. Evil is that which kills spirit. There are various essential attributes of life — particularly human life — such as sentience, mobility, awareness, growth, autonomy, will. It is possible to kill or attempt to kill one of these attributes without actually destroying the body. Thus we may “break” a horse or even a child without harming a hair on its head.

Erich Fromm was acutely sensitive to this fact when he broadened the definition of necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others-to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredectibility and originalty, to keep them in line. Distinguishing it from a “biophilic” person, one who appreciates and fosters the variety of life forms and the uniqueness of the individual, he demonstrated a “necrophilic character type,” whose aim it is to avoid the inconvenience of life by transforming others into obedient automatons, robbing them of their humanity.

Evil then, for the moment, is the force, residing either inside or outside of human beings, that seeks to kill life or liveliness. And goodness is its opposite. Goodness is that which promotes life and liveliness.”

M. Scott Peck, “People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil”

I remember specifically how Peck described evil as political power exercised to deny the other’s individuality and livelihood. I have both known and worked with such people. There’s a price to pay if they win. Always.


28 posted on 11/03/2018 8:27:49 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Meprry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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