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originally posted by: AnkhMorpork
a reply to: loNeNLI
Except I understand what this means - "apart from me you can do nothing"
originally posted by: RedDragon
Why is it that self-actualization for humanity en masse is only achieved after a century of selfishness developed the technology to make it possible?
originally posted by: RiptKeys
Wow. This post and most of the snowflake response mentality literally set back our future by 500 years.
While you're building a new century of humanism, who is working and paying the bills? Your parents will die soon enough, and your comfy basement will no longer be available.
While you're getting in touch with your inner emotions and making your 3 foot bubble the best padded room available, who is watching the powers that be? Who will have the nerve to do the dirty # that needs to be done to make sure your precious ass gets food tomorrow.
Gen X will be the last generation before America's dismantling.
There is no enlightenment when there is nothing left but socialism. Your enlightenment will be slavery. And history will repeat itself again.
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ”Patriotism” is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ”patriotism” I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one’s own nation, which is the concern with the nation’s spiritual as much as with its material welfare –never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
~ ERICH FROMM, The Sane Society
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originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: AnkhMorpork
P.s Happy new year! I really hope 2017 is the year where people reject materialism. We will all be so much better off without that which we don't really need.
"The love of money for what it is, as opposed to the love of money merely as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life, can be recognized for what it is; a somewhat criminal, somewhat pathological propensity that one only will end up handing over to the specialists in mental disease."
~ Kenneth Galbraith, renowned American economist
originally posted by: AnkhMorpork
a reply to: surfer_soul
Good post.
I can't speak for other religions but Christianity appears to be all about individual Liberty, where the mutual commitments and obligations arise as free expressions of the heart when we are moved to compassion, although we are also reminded of the consequences of having a dead heart that doesn't give a # and that doesn't lift a finger.
The problem is when it's framed as an entirely exclusive proposition conditional upon "belief" in, instead of a rational and reasonable and compelling invitation and free gift.
I think that human ignorance and stupidity is the biggest problem, and I blame the desire to dumb people down to make the masses more manageable and less demanding.
I've come to recognize that indeed, collectivism and the collectivist mindset is a real enemy, because rights and freedoms are an individual and personal matter, where no matter how many individual's it may apply to, no group has such intrinsic rights, particularly which would supercede individual rights and freedoms.
God appears to operate one person at a time and goes in pursuit of the one lost sheep to lead them in, one by one, individually.
As much as I like your post, I'd like you to consider your own propensity to think about people collectively. We all do it of course, but it's not the right way to view the human being, not in Jesus' day and not now.
originally posted by: glend
You blame the ice-cream men for tempting your desires but arn't the desires your own? Its the unquenchable desires in all of us that blocks the light. Own them and kill them, before they do you, time and time again. I love your spirit AnkhMorpork.