10.04.06.1580
There’s a lot here, but it’s a great read.
Thank you SS because you have given me something interesting to read for a moment.
@ Sky’s “The truth about Mohhamad” thread, I had a thought:
Yes, it is Imperialism to want to change another nation’s justice and moral systems. In Iran they believe it is just to kill gays, for example.
In a thread earler I had asked which you would think is worse:
Killing a dog or sexually stimulating it.
Some people chose the “kill” option.
This was an example of personal moral-ideologies vs the life of a mammal on earth.
The same thing happens in Iran. Do they choose moral-justice or allowance of life? It is possible to see something harmless – as a contemptable act worthy of death, and it is also possible for that view to be considered as both: “truth” and “justice”. The degree of insanity and linear moral mimetics is staggering if one saw it clearly on earth, and ofcourse there is an abundance of retarded ideas in many cultures. But now we finally see beliefs clash.
Iran:
“Hey, you can’t have sex with a man! That’s evil!”
USA critics of Islam:
“Hey, you can’t kill those gays! That’s evil!”
If you hadn’t noticed, hate and morality are rather plastic, and can exist without even a grain of actual reason, as they are based not upon reason but upon banality mimetics.
As far as I can see, hardly anyone on the face of the earth is actually “right”, but instead, they have simply chosen one of the sides which they have witnessed, and begin to immitate that which another has already immitated, [most often] for the sake of immitation…
Interdependancy and anti-self-sufficiency are what keeps people glued to eachother in a society, and if they did not mutate socially and emotionally into the state of inter-dependance there would not be the powerful, foolish mobs which you see today. It’s rather a paradox that their own indoctrinated weakness gives them some strange form of strength, but I guess it worked, evolutionarily…
Some of my favorites (I don’t know that all of these are on the site.):
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” --Gen. Omar N. Bradley
“Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.” --Garet Garrett
“War has become a spectator sport for Americans.” --Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger.” --Hermann Goering
“Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.” --JFK
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.” --George Bernard Shaw
“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.” --Josef Stalin
“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.” --Malcolm X
Good quotes guys. One quote I liked that wasn’t on the lists is:
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein
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Another that I haven’t checked the list for:
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” --Jimmy Carter