when you have a thread that claims to show the 'faces of evil' you are merely revealing the hatred and evil within yourself.

you can only recognise what you yourself are.

anyone who contradicts the labelling of this 'evil' can then only fall victim to the same 'evil' of those purporting to expose the 'evil'

if you have evil within you , you will see evil in others.

Originally posted by JohnySeagull
when you have a thread that claims to show the 'faces of evil' you are merely revealing the hatred and evil within yourself.

you can only recognise what you yourself are.

anyone who contradicts the labelling of this 'evil' can then only fall victim to the same 'evil' of those purporting to expose the 'evil'

if you have evil within you , you will see evil in others.

aha get over it man
these people are evil, that doesnt make me evil saying that

Originally posted by BrokenCircles

....and what is it that you think you are seeing within others, in this thread?

i cant see anything. my eyes are wide shut.

Originally posted by UniverSoul

aha get over it man
these people are evil, that doesnt make me evil saying that

well the thread proclaims that these are the faces of evil. in the faces of these people we can see evil. you state that these people are evil and so agree.

you claim that this does not make you evil. ok. well lets start with the fact that you are a judge. you are judging these people by their appearance. are you comfortable with that. do you do that with everyone you meet?

Originally posted by sir_slide

to be honest if he served me at a gas station looking like he does in those photos then yeah, I would probably get a creepy feeling from him.

wow. you clean out do admit that you judge people by appearance. I wasn't expecting that. sorry. didn't realise you were aware of this. I'll leave you to it.

I'm here to defend you, Sir_Slide! (although you're doing an excellent job defending yourself, it can't hurt to have some moral support)

I think this thread is a real hoot! Absolutely brilliant! I loved it when I found it the other day! This is hilarious and bravo for finding all those photos.

But, speaking of moral (so to speak... ) this thread has taken a ridiculous turn into the land of "straw man" logic on the matter of judgments, hasn't it?

The attack seems to run on the specious logic of

1) all judgment is evil (this is an assumption that is by no means a priori fact and is in fact self-contradictory, as it is a judgmental statement by itself)
2) judgment is by definition evil (again, unsupported except perhaps by poor understanding of religious dogma?)
3) anything that is in any way evil cannot be trusted in any sense (akin to "if you're wrong about one thing, you're wrong about everything - A has some B in him, therefore A is entirely B - and we might toss in Walt Whitman's "Do I contradict myself? Yes, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes."
4) by judging others to be evil, thereby displaying evil tendencies oneself, negates the value of the original judgment

therefore--- nobody is allowed to have any opinion on anybody or anything ever again.

The underlying tone of the attack against you is judgmental in itself, and thereby your enemy is, by his own argument, quite evil himself.

Making judgments and intelligent evaluations is a mark of intelligence and the ability to both learn from experience, recognize patterns, and formulate moral conclusions. One might disagree with another's conclusions, but not rightly object to his having made conclusions at all.

Moreover, the attacker also presented false comparisons in an effort to trip you up (and you shrewdly did not fall for it) - the people featured in the OP are public figures who have both sought public life and wield a significant power over others. They are fair game for gibes. They are not like the guy pumping gas down the street.

A good sense of humor also goes well with intelligence, and the original post is extremely funny.

I think the antagonist here may well be more comfortable in the company of plankton or other simple creatures that don't make judgments, and don't laugh.

-- Sky

I'll have to agree on the creepy Pope angle...I said it when he first got chosen... The whole Hitler Youth thing is just icing on the cake... I mean, really? What were they thinking?

That guy just gives me the willies......