Posted on 12/16/2005 5:43:52 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
Giving credence to this psychobable drives this nonsense into the position as accepted science.
"Psychopolitics is the art and science of asserting and maintaining physical and mental dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaus, and the masses, thereby conquering enemy nations through "mental healing." (Russian Manual on Psychopolitics, by Laventi Pavlovich Beria...
Straight from the mouth of the satanist, evil chief of the NKVD.
Interesting how being a committed Christian really is becoming a counter-cultural activity.
........and American Catholic bishops give a rats ass.
Mixed bag.
Being a Christian I sympathize with her concerns, but alot of this article is just stupid. Sometimes people read just enough to be dangerous. Conflating "dialectic" and Hegel, as if he invented the word in the 2nd millineum AD? Dumbing down Hegel's thesis - antithesis - synthesis into a necessary overthrow of traditional logic? Connecting Hegel to the UN conspiracy to effect a one world government? Making words like "synthesis" and "consensus" into dark, esoteric, plots against all that is good?
Please. This stuff appeals to the half-literate.
The old Beria manual has over the years been portrayed as a piece of American propaganda by an anti-Communist group outside the government. I haven't heard much more on this very short book in recent years. I have a very old copy of it, hence my interest.
"Interesting how being a committed Christian really is becoming a counter-cultural activity."
It's a 2000 year-old tradition!
When was it ever supposed to be anything else ... aliens and strangers in the world .. 1 Peter 2:11
Cicero observed, "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gate is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself…he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist."
"Conflating...Dumbing down...Connecting...Making..."
Actually, she didn't do any of those things.
Of course, if you haven't noticed that there really is a "dark, esoteric, plots against all that is good" in progress, I guess it might look like that.
True, but in our parents' and their parents' generation, cultural Christianity was the norm...we are the first batch in a long time who have to make a concerted effort to be Christian...and the fallout is interesting.
Hegelian Dialect is a perfect example of what J. Budziszewski termed the "black magic spells of imposture and unraveling." Hegel's form of dialectics is itself an impostor. It effectively unravels truth and norms and then replaces them with a 'new truth' which is yet another impostor.
Yup. If you hear the word "facilitator," run!
Of course, like most philosophers, Hegel exempted his theory from his theory. By his own theory, Hegel can't claim that his theory is true, just another "thesis" or "antithesis" to be synthesized.
Sensitivity/diversity/tolerance bump!
There are four key elements necessary for a successful 'consensus process' operation. They are:This is exactly how the process works. This methodology has been perfected in colleges and government schooling, which is one reason why they will get my kids only over my dead body.(1) multicultural and/or diverse groups fueled by resentment and envy (necessary for causing social conflict)
(2) a social issue around which conflict can be created (example: Christmas, which is labeled 'exclusionary, insensitive, and hurtful' to diverse groups)
(3)the dialoguing to consensus process (psychological manipulation leading to abandonment of principles and positions)
(4)a predetermined outcome (example: Christmas parades successfully recast as 'Festival of Lights" or "Winter Holiday" parades that are inclusive of gay pride celebrants)
Seems like we've been overrun and represented by the Kommitet Gozudarskvenoy Bezopeznosti.
There are a million such plots. Most of them are open, not esoteric, and none of them are centered around the word "consensus", except at 3 AM on talk radio.
"You may categorize the two philosophies as…individualism versus collectivism or as the American versus the Russian…or as capitalism versus communism, or as Christianity versus Marxism. Can these opposites be reconciled, this antithesis be resolved in a higher synthesis? I believe…this can happen…through the inexorable dialectic of evolution."
Makes me think of Antiochus and the Macabees. Those days might be coming.
Evil needs good to exists as evil is a perversion and curtailment of good. Evil does not exist on its own, it is parasitic and reactive.
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