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Originally posted by reconpilot
reply to post by jamie82
Dont be a bloody fool Jamie . When someone comes at your wife and child with a gun ,trust me, if you had a weapon and any balls ,you would use it . Victims who choose that do goody love and peace jive get sent to the ovens ,tortured ,raped and burnt at the stake .
get real . If this planet gets nuked mate ,its over . When a sun explodes in to a super nova ,its over .
So quit trying to sell me that fluffy new age crap mate . You want to roll over when when they take your freedom and wait for jesus to save your ass , go ahead . But you will wait and wait untils to damn late .
The play glorified renunciation and nonresistance to evil. Again and again it stressed the prospect of getting happiness as a reward for renunciation. The hero of the play (I use the word in a technical sense, for a pitiful hero he was for that matter) was out to discard his personality in order to get happiness. Why do people seek an unselfish conception of life? Is it because we have so much love and sympathy with the troubles of others that we begin to be ashamed of our selfishness which causes so much suffering? Or is it because we want happiness in exchange for a non-egocentrical conception of life?
In the play performed in the monastery the motive of the hero was the latter and not the former. He wanted bliss as a reward for discarding his personality. The play started with an exceedingly long monologue on the evils of existence. [...]
Originally posted by reconpilot
reply to post by jamie82
Thats divide and conquer for you . Left is right and right is left and all controlled from the center by Enki and his inbred family .
Originally posted by HiAliens
Fear kills intuition. You can't make decent choices if your emotions are wracked with negativity, and your mind is full of possible disaster scenarios.