Posted on 03/22/2022 11:56:20 AM PDT by pburgh01
You're so dumb you don't even know who I'm talking about!
You already told everybody who he is in your post # 134 to me.
Remember?
Eh...I sure am sick of disagreeing with people who should be my allies, but...even allies can have differences.
Good reporting.
Sometime I consider the notion that is a ‘design flaw’ but then I refocus on the fundamental Truth. We are all partaking of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
If we are unable to understand just what Evil truly is, and what can result from it, the the concept of Good is pretty much meaningless.
I believe that is a fundamental difference between Us and Them (deliberately capitalized)
WE (Conservatives and true Christians) believe that fundamental evil exists, it is in our nature, and we must be vigilant in both ourselves and others, and we will always have to fight against it to keep from being overpowered by it.
THEY believe that humans are perfectible, that any evil that exists is caused by us (via ignorance, poverty, disease, called PID) and that evil can be socially engineered out of us (in this case, as Conservatives, it may have been appropriate there to deliberately capitalize "US") in their futile journey to reach their "Utopia". In other words, evil doesn't exist. It is only caused by us, and it can be eradicated. This ignorance, that we are perfectible, that innate evil doesn't exist, that it can be socially engineered out, and that Utopia is reachable, makes them extremely dangerous.
Fatally dangerous to all of us and our liberty.
Because as much as we believe in God and all that goes with it, they believe (with even more intense religious zealotry) that Government is the answer. While we may appeal to God, they appeal to government and do all they can to lay their hands on the levers of power to become "God".
That is Leftism.
As Whittaker Chambers said in his famous work "Witness", in describing the fight between Communism (Leftism) and our concepts of God and Freedom:
And that passage entirely defines Leftists if you replace "Communism" and "Communists" with "Leftism" and "Leftists".
It is why Leftism, as the core of the Democrat Party ideology, is wholly incompatible with Freedom.
It is also why I have long viewed Leftists and the Democrat party as Domestic Enemies of this Republic.
I am certain your reference to “The Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil” is what made that Whittaker Chambers quote bubble to the top of my mind...
Thank you.
I agree. Been thinking Ukraine needs to be buying ICBM’s and shelling Russian cities instead of the whole war being fought in their own cities….
I started reading ‘Witness’ by Chambers several years ago. I was unable to do so or get far into it because my vision was occluded so to speak. I returned the book to the library as I had a case of cataracts in both eyes. I literally thought that I was going blind.
I had a great eye Doctor and she fixed me up real nice. So I was just thinking about it a few days ago and starting that work over. I will likely do so very soon. I have long been intrigued by it.
Interesting. You and I have the same problem, perhaps with a different etiology. I used to be a prolific reader. When I went on vacation, for a week, I would take five books with me, and burn through all of them.
Loved reading. Just loved it. Nothing like getting completely engrossed in a book, and realizing it is 3 AM...
Then...I was unable to read anymore. My eyes could not focus for more than a few minutes before my eyes began blurring, burning, and tearing. I stopped trying after a while, it was awful. Saw eye doctors, changed prescriptions, got bifocals, trifocals, reading glasses, nothing worked.
So, I have been listening to audiobooks now for years. I have a subscription with Audible.com, it is $20 a month and I get three books of my choice for that price. They are a disgustingly Leftist organization, though, and now part of Amazon.
But I enjoy them. I will say, there are certain books, I have three versions of: Hardcopy, E-Book, and Audiobook. “Witness” is one of them, and I have a few others such as “The Road to Serfdom”, “The Federalist Papers, and “Blacklisted by History” just to name a few. The E-Books are for reference, and electronically marking up.
Funny, I have a copy of “The Road To Serfdom”, and it is what made me go for E-Books. My hard copy was so marked up it was impossible to find anything, like looking for a needle in haystacks of needles! It was quite funny, EVERYTHING was highlighted in yellow, scribbles on the sides of all the pages...:)
Heh, stupidity. E-Books are great though...if you mark them up, you can electronically search through things you marked up.
Anyway, good luck!
-—nothing worked-—
I had a similar problem that developed recently. I went to the eye doctor for my annual visit and told him.
He gave me some eye drops, morning and night. Guess what? that made an amazing difference
Sigh. I know. Tried those too, three or four different types. Didn’t work, darn it.
I might try them again, though.
(I am glad they worked for you!)
I got the impression that power is needed to keep the radioactive parts of a nuclear power plant cool and safe. I doubt Putin has any desire to seize a nuclear wasteland, or have all that radioactivity blowing over Russia. Also, some power control areas may be difficult for them to destroy with taking serious losses themselves.
So far as suggesting a significant part of Taiwan’s population is OK with coming under Chinese Communist authoritarian rule, I have no doubt they are watching just how well Hong Kong is being treated.
On comparing Ukraine with Afghanistan. Ukraine has a relatively uniform population speaking either Ukraine or Russian language, or being bilingual in these two related languages. Afghanistan has a number of distinct tribal areas speaking distinct languages, and also having historic animosities and conflicts. Afghanistan has a number of powerful and successful warlords who have no doubt made their accommodations with the Taliban. Russia was very cruel to the Afghan population and if they tried another invasion would no doubt be far more severely treated than the US army was. Very few analogies between them.
The US is such a failed state that everyone ones to come here. I will start worrying when people start to move elsewhere.
I believe Arecibo was destroyed by a hurricane, possibly by Maria. Photos look really bad. My son living in PR said the year after Maria, PR was like a third world country, and as a small construction company he had his best year ever. A lot of mainlanders have vacation/investment property/condos in PR which need reliable service in their absence. He also did a lot of work helping his wife’s family with post storm problems.
Today at a Black Sea port, Ukraine appears to have successfully damaged/destroyed? a ship transporting resupplies for the Russian troops. Even if offloaded, the Russians still have to transport it many miles to their troops, facing ambushes and attacks along the way. Anyone have any idea how many such ships Russia has available there?
Thanks for the links. Can you find any for the Russian supply ship in a Black Sea port that was reported shelled by Ukraine?
It looks as if President Trumps talks with Putin even convinced him he could grab the Ukrainian tarbaby. If nukes are avoided, this could be the end of Russia as a threat for many decades.
Five or six now, depending on condition this may be less. It depends on which ones are serviceable. All of them are pretty old.
The gimmedats come to the US to get stuff for free.
That is a sign of a failed state—not a civilized one.
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