10-24-2020, 01:24 PM
(10-24-2020, 04:11 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(10-24-2020, 02:38 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I have no doubt that Biden will have his work cut out for him and it's very obvious to me that he's not up for the task and it's also obvious that he's not in the same league as FDR either. It's to bad that you didn't invest more time in building a relationship with Jesus than you invested with the Democratic party, you wouldn't be in need of a Liberal puppet trying to play the role of Jesus on Earth these days.
I don't know what YOU mean by "building a relationship with Jesus," but many have testified for the last 2 millennia about having been visited by him. And this lady did "build a relationship" with him, and she's not the only one. But if you think building a relationship with Jesus implies just reading and believing in the Bible as interpreted by church doctrine, and that this somehow conflicts with the Democratic Party and Liberal puppets, well, those who have actually been with him (and I know a few) might beg to differ.
https://www.lovewithoutend.com/Apparitio...Christ.htm
https://www.lovewithoutend.com/Love_With...d_Book.htm
I suggested that Classic X'er "find Jesus". He is not going to find the Buddha, for example. He is not going to develop a viable moral compass from atheism or agnosticism as did someone like Bertrand Russell. (Russell is arguably the most accessible of all philosophers, and I suggest that devout Christians read his Why I Am Not a Christian, which would compel some devout Christians to challenge some assumptions. Classic X'er has even more basic assumptions to challenge, assumptions that make him a miserable person more vulnerable than he thinks. He is, in view of his ideology, one crippling accident away from becoming 'expendable' to the Master Class of the USA.
Classic X'er seems to hold a social-Darwinist view of the world even when such is contrary to his economic interest. He would fare better if more people in his area could afford air conditioners, which are somewhat of a luxury in places where brutal heat is more sporadic (the Twin Cities) than where it is entrenched for at least three months of the year (Kansas City). With his social-Darwinist Weltanschauung comes no milk of kindness and no meaning in life other than an economic struggle on behalf of irresponsible people to whom the rest of us are either responsible or expendable. If he has children, then a social-Darwinist regime could easily turn those into cannon fodder in wars for profit, which is itself tragedy.
Roman Catholicism and mainline Protestant churches have had to deal with that cruel ideology and have rejected it. It would be best that he know why such is so. If he must find Jesus to imagine a better world in the here and now , and not simply "pie in the sky when you die", then he would be a kinder and more agreeable person.
This is not the first time that I made such a suggestion. I did much the same to someone who slandered me as a homosexual child molester. Sometimes I get desperate in my moral arguing, and I must turn to pragmatic appeals. He mocked my appeal... "You went to church? You hypocrite!"
No, he was the hypocrite for failing to recognize that I could be right, that acceptance of homosexuality (if not child molesting, which mainstream LGBT people excoriate especially if they have child custody just as I do) i8s necessary for law and order which I consider vital to a civil society. Gay-bashing is lawlessness, and it is not my duty (let alone ability) to convince a gay-hater that I be 'straight'.
My father had just lost his wife to parkinsonism after heavy involvement in her care, and I wanted him to reconnect with Humanity in something other than a custodial setting. I would have introduced him to bar-hopping if that would have found him meaning. It was not easy, and my effort eventually (and inevitably) failed, and I have paid a high price for that failure even if such is not my fault. Loyalty to parents under difficult circumstances is a virtue.
No nation can afford a Master Class or Master Race.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.