tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post8465105997139558519..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-41481719227089604292015-07-09T04:43:57.277-04:002015-07-09T04:43:57.277-04:00At least the communists rejected rock and roll. ;)...At least the communists rejected rock and roll. ;)jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-66312005334976197852015-07-08T16:42:25.180-04:002015-07-08T16:42:25.180-04:00DULL<b>DULL</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-7729912146888383172015-07-08T16:41:11.160-04:002015-07-08T16:41:11.160-04:00DissidentDissidentFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-11649022244158407382015-07-08T16:40:03.643-04:002015-07-08T16:40:03.643-04:00DissonanceDissonanceFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-23550554308555246212015-07-08T14:01:19.714-04:002015-07-08T14:01:19.714-04:00Oh I agree with you. Really I do. NOTHING yet devi...Oh I agree with you. Really I do. NOTHING yet devised by the Mind of Man has had a more widespread pernicious effect than the secular religion of COLLECTIVIST-MATERIALISM spawned by the Hegel-inspired Karl Marx. Marxism in its purest form and the many vile derivatives it spawned have been responsible for more death, destruction, deprivation and sheer misery than any prior influence. FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-14038500265806812092015-07-08T13:53:27.749-04:002015-07-08T13:53:27.749-04:00DeprecatoryDeprecatoryFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-27746854426354604962015-07-08T12:38:35.845-04:002015-07-08T12:38:35.845-04:00DetractingDetractingFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-17962500236103622732015-07-08T12:38:08.707-04:002015-07-08T12:38:08.707-04:00DistractingDistractingFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-44772074780355646952015-07-08T12:35:51.349-04:002015-07-08T12:35:51.349-04:00Never that. Leftists are damnably purposeful, ruth...Never that. Leftists are damnably purposeful, ruthless and determined. FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-76268952594218037472015-07-08T05:13:41.778-04:002015-07-08T05:13:41.778-04:00But not desultory?But not desultory?jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-17514516540798572202015-07-08T04:47:22.208-04:002015-07-08T04:47:22.208-04:00Perhaps they haven't, and anyway it is not my ...Perhaps they haven't, and anyway it is not my interest to affix blame to either party. That doesn't stop me from considering such conflicts to be undesirable, and noticing the role of Religion in inflaming them. Mr Ghost seems to the idea that religion might be more malign than narcotics is ridiculous. If I consider only the damage caused by each -- keeping the benefits on a separate ledger for a moment -- I cannot dismiss it as easily as he does.jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-58132993382236003722015-07-08T04:38:55.377-04:002015-07-08T04:38:55.377-04:00I'm not talking about virtue, I'm respondi...I'm not talking about virtue, I'm responding to your "sophistry and guile."<br /><br />You surprise me. Do you think the insincere Christian will be saved?jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-19778769131740114932015-07-07T18:11:20.131-04:002015-07-07T18:11:20.131-04:00Rage addicts dont appreciate being given the oppor...Rage addicts dont appreciate being given the opportunity for a respite.<br /><br />They CRAVE endless turmoil, disharmony, acrimony and vituperation.<br /><br />Surely you've noticed? };-)>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-20147549616206680512015-07-07T18:06:48.037-04:002015-07-07T18:06:48.037-04:00Of COURSE Marx and Trotsky were sincere. So was Ad...Of COURSE Marx and Trotsky were sincere. So was Adolf Hitler.<br /><br />Sincerity is rarely synonymous with virtue.<br /><br />Far better to be a hypocrite doing good works for all the wrong reasons, than a sincere, maniacal fanatic gifted with "charisma" who is capable of seducing hundreds of millions into throwing their lives away for a set of demented, false ideals.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-44400927241038743512015-07-07T17:59:20.963-04:002015-07-07T17:59:20.963-04:00I forgot to add
Diseased
Despicable
Degenerate...I forgot to add <br /><br />Diseased<br /><br />Despicable<br /><br />Degenerate<br /><br />Deplorable<br /><br />Debilitating<br /><br />Disrespectful<br /><br />Deranged<br /><br />Damnable<br /><br />No matter what you cll it, the foul odor of fecal matter is unmistakable.<br /><br />You TURDOPHILES can have it. i don't want it.<br /><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30645037074496550982015-07-07T13:31:07.004-04:002015-07-07T13:31:07.004-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-29079262933931946282015-07-07T10:55:36.122-04:002015-07-07T10:55:36.122-04:00Now precisely who might "she" be?
And ...Now precisely who might "she" be? <br /><br />And what do you hunger for?FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-5400472938597822742015-07-07T10:53:40.524-04:002015-07-07T10:53:40.524-04:00Indeed, and ain't it a shame?
D is for Disma...Indeed, and ain't it a shame? <br /><br />D is for Dismal. <br /><br />D is for Dirty. <br /><br />D is for Depressing. <br /><br />D is for Degraded<br /><br />D is for Demented<br /><br />D is for Dysfunctional<br /><br />D is for Disparagement<br /><br />D is for Derogatory<br /><br />D is for Deserted<br /><br />D is for Depraved<br /><br />D is for Deprived<br /><br /><b>D is for DYLAN –– as in <i>BOB</i> not THOMAS</b>.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-18650073143061825952015-07-07T09:13:46.099-04:002015-07-07T09:13:46.099-04:00FROM THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (C.S. LEWIS)
SCREWTAP...FROM THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (C.S. LEWIS) <br /><br />SCREWTAPE (a Senior Demon) DERIDING GOD: <i>“He’s a hedonist at heart... He makes no secret of it; at His right hand are ‘pleasures forevermore’... There are things for humans to do all day long without His minding in the least – sleeping, washing, eating, drinking, making love, playing, praying, working. Everything has to be twisted before it’ s any use to us.”</i><br /><br />This is a recurrent theme for Screwtape – that the Enemy (God) is the inventor of pleasure. He then goes onto browbeat Wormwood (Screwtape's nephew, a young demon in training) for allowing the patient to fall in love. He then goes on to describe where the patient’s girl friend lives and her family. About it, he comments:<br /><br /><i> “The whole place reeks of that deadly odor... and the house is full of that impenetrable mystery.”</i><br /><br />To what, is Screwtape referring? What is the odor? To what, does Screwtape liken this woman’s home?<br /><br />When referring to heaven, Screwtape quotes George MacDonald:<br /><br /><i>“Nor shall we ever know that repose in the Father’ s hands which the Lord knew when the agony of death was over and He entered the regions where there is only life, and therefore all that is not music is silence (for all noise comes of the conflict of Life and Death) – we shall never be able, I say, to rest in the bosom of the Father, till the fatherhood is fully revealed to us in the love of the brothers.”</i><br /><br />Why does Screwtape detest “music” and “silence”? <br /><br />Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him. Psalm 37:7 What does this verse say about the importance of silence?<br /><br /><b><i>“We will make the whole universe a noise in the end. We have already made great strides in this direction as regards the Earth.”</i></b> <br /><br />~ ScrewtapeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-8465627324504045892015-07-07T09:01:28.266-04:002015-07-07T09:01:28.266-04:00"Religion" is like fire. It's value ..."Religion" is like fire. It's value is completely dependent in the uses to which it may be put.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-57041053081274945302015-07-07T08:59:39.661-04:002015-07-07T08:59:39.661-04:00Ah, but it was only MYSELF I "confined" ...Ah, but it was only MYSELF I "confined" to the United States while frankly admitting I knew very little of the situation in modern Great Britain.<br /><br />The anti-Catholicism of which you speak was never violent or disruptive of the social order in my country. As I've outlined numerous times when discussing my own family's immigrant past, a century ago virtually ALL immigrant groups disliked, distrusted and were overly competitive with, openly hostile to, and blatantly abusive of one another. It was never a mere matter of a quasi-Blue-Blood Establishment unfairly pitting itself against immigrants.<br /><br />Conflicts of this sort –– and far worse –– seem to make up the essence of human history. Attempts to affix blame and hold perpetrators responsible and subject to punishment don't appear to have helped very much.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-76254846686924101442015-07-07T07:54:23.972-04:002015-07-07T07:54:23.972-04:00Very Dylan-esque.Very Dylan-esque.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-47163129665410157772015-07-07T03:27:13.497-04:002015-07-07T03:27:13.497-04:00I haven't read him much, but I assume Marx was...I haven't read him much, but I assume Marx was sincere. I haven't read any Trotsky either, but I know Hitchens deeply admired his writing.jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30116352789688073782015-07-07T03:22:07.190-04:002015-07-07T03:22:07.190-04:00It's harder to dismiss it when they're pla...It's harder to dismiss it when they're planting bombs in your town, as they were when I was growing up.<br /><br />I didn't know you were confining me to America, but anti-catholicism in your country was popular in the 1920s, which is not quite out of living memory but near enough. Certainly not "ancient," but I understand that you Americans perceive history on a shorter scale than we old-worlders.<br /><br />Would you allow that the divisive forms of "Christianity" (you must be tempted to pull a No True Scotsman fallacy, but Resist!) as practiced in cities like Belfast and Glasgow can be as dangerous as drugs?<br /><br />Anyway this is Mr. Ghost's claim, not mine. But I do think that "religion" can be both dangerous as well as beneficial, it depends how it hits you. Like Weinberg said, religion is what is needed to induce a good person to do evil.jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-20477430513238954272015-07-06T18:22:06.070-04:002015-07-06T18:22:06.070-04:00I'm not prepared to say what's going on am...I'm not prepared to say what's going on among the various branches of Christianity in the British Isles, but the conflicts you cite are certainly no signifiant part of American religious life today, and have not been at any time in living memory. From where I sit I would have to say they may be either ancient and now moot, or agenda-driven and entirely mythological.<br /><br />The USA was founded as a predominantly PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN nation, despite the much vaunted "Deism" attributed to our Founding Fathers.The Great Migration of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a large influx of Roman Catholics. A culture clash resulted, and for a long time a powerful anti-Catholic sentiment prevailed among many of the Protestants whose families got here first.<br /><br />Fortunately, that's pretty well dissipated now, although Evangelicals and Fundamentalists still take a hard line against Mormons, which I, personally, think ridiculous. But virtually no one gets VIOLENT over these differences.<br /><br />That went out with the advent of The Enlightenment.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.com