Jack777
January 24th 2005, 06:23 PM
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
It seems as though we live in a world where there is no right or wrong. We are evolved and biomutations according to some. Is that so? A lot think so. Moral relativism and moral equivalency have ardent admirers, quick to show us that something is not really wrong, it is only that we think something is evil. I made the simple observation that homosexuality is wrong. I meant that it is a sin and that God says that it is wrong to practice. What I did not say was that God calls it an abomination and Paul is not any more charitable about it in Romans One. I was immediately called a bigot for making an observation about reality. People believe that it is fine. That is a belief. I suspect that the Revelation of God might be rejected by some and one person who commented similarly seemed to get hounded about it.
It is funny but Osama bin Laden understands our myopia about right and wrong better than we do. He knows most of us think that God was joking around about all the things in the Bible that He said. The terrorists flew into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and right away there were people suspecting the Baptists might be plotting similar activities in Sunday Schools. Like they are going to take along fried chicken, cole slaw and bomb belts on Church Picnics pretty soon. Well, of course people could not quite say what happened on 911 was good, but then the elite made up for it by allowing how the untermenchen in the United States fly flags and are patriotic and we who believe in Jesus are the real enemies. Why, we’re the American Taliban and those poor terrorists are just good ol’ boys, freedom fighters, that’s what they are.
John Kerry knows a lot of people are stupid because a lot of people voted for him. He just said yesterday that we are going it alone. Alone? We have been in a coalition with many countries around the world in combating terrorism. How many countries does he need? I think what he really means is that we need to indulge in corruption and graft with the ones that were involved in the oil for food scandal. I am thinking he wants to be the chief guy in charge of all of that. Evil is enormous and menacing because people deny its existence and believe lies.
Fortunately there are a number of people who could not afford to go to college or most of the country would be stark raving mad by now. Math classes in universities have insane screeds against the evil Christians and the evil people that won’t do anything against us. Soapboxes are issued to new professors and they are expected to be used. Pretending that there is no evil does make it enormous and menacing. The paranoia and the moral idiocy in universities is in full evidence. A favorite teaching in universities is that good is evil and evil is good. This kind of moral confusion is seen as intellectually superior thought. This is one reason I have doubts about anything someone might have to say about theism mixing with The Theory of Evolution.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus The Rebel
The concept of vanity is elusive until one looks it in the face and sees what was always there before, but is not frightening. Virtue feigned under the power of one held captive by vanity kills little by little, the willing victim gulping down poison as if it were the best drink ever. Feigning virtue is a sort of vanity as absurd as claiming you are a poached egg, something like the lie that is so preposterous that we believe it. Acting under the pretense that we are doing something for the good of others is another virtue that is not real and becomes a primary principle of evil. Most of us have to depend to one extent or another on someone else whether we like it or not. Playing out a virtue to accommodate us is often the downfall of the one that is doing things for our own good. Things go smoothly but when things begin in earnest and we find out what the story really is we suddenly realize too late what we bargained for. Vanity and emptiness offered like fried eggs and bacon never satisfy, but we can depend on desire to take in evil wanting those fried eggs and bacon we will never get.
Ideas are like this. Rather than the heavy eyeliner and alluring perfume of a whore, some think ideas make us pretty. The whore comes to never need sex in a way that cannot be understood and we can come to never need God because of our ideas. I know someone who claimed that he was looking for the “All.” What he did manage to find was tequila and cocaine. The Delphic Oracle intoned, “Know thyself.” Neither the cocaine addicted tequila drinker nor the Delphic Oracle had the whole story. Delighting the ego and satisfying the mind is fine to do for some, it is a way of coming to a greater realization if we are truly blessed, a learning process. We have to come to know the Creator before we can know ourselves. However, most people take bits and pieces of this and that divorced from reality and then find virtue a principle of evil. It must be something like naplam that just spreads when in panic the person tries to wipe it off and it is smeared, burning more of the body. Ideas are great, but like the Scriptures can be taken and used for our own destruction. A lot of people have noticed that ideas separated from reality can be used to control other people and get what we want out of them. Jim Jones knew that. I listened to tapes from his compound recorded at night and his sonorous raving, modulating and shrieking in the night raised the hair on the back of my neck. In his case, he became the virtue separated from reality and he became a principle of evil.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars Of The Tortoise
Well, I have been reassured that ideas do not matter so much, but I know different anyway. It matters little that Hitler was a product of what he thought to some people. To miss and dismiss the power and the effect his worldview on him is a mistake. One way the ancient Hebrews thought of sin was mixing two things together that do not belong, causing confusion. That reality thing is important. It is difficult to impress the importance of not going too far with some things. To the intuitive observer, evil looks the same as good, or maybe even better in the visage we behold. Evil is only recognized if we know the face of Good thoroughly. The imago dei does not seem important to some.
This is not a polemic against Theistic Evolution. I made the statement that Evolution is a religion. I did so because it is by definition a religion. It is based on beliefs and imagination. That was taken as a pejorative statement. I did not mean it as such, but that reveals much. It is ridiculous to tell me that someone has factual proof of something that did not require them to use their imagination and apply certain beliefs (hypotheses) about reality when in fact they have not seen one shred of physical evidence of the thing they say existed or may exist. Hitchcock wrote his famous book about Geology and called it The Religion of Geology. The fact that there are certain virtues of The Theory of Evolution divorced from reality that are fiercely defended as if life itself depended upon them, suggests all the more a religion and a false one at that. It seems a bad thing to credit the Creator with certain things that He says that He did. On the other hand, it is seen as a good to credit ideas with the same reverence in an absolute way. One concept corrupts and confuses the others. To me, that is a signal proof of being on shaky ground. People can tell me the age of the earth and adore that age as pretty and damn people if they do not see how pretty it is. Okay, it is pretty, but give me a break. As Jorge, I see the Creator immensely more interesting and real than something only indirectly measured, that seems a bad thing. How many people lived from the beginning of the earth to now armed with stop watches that can show me the time log? A show of hands…anyone…oh I see. I understand that it is a minor point in a way, but when exploring virtue apart from reality, there is a certain need to have things in order of importance at least. I sense that my opposition to Theistic Evolution is seen differently than it is.
“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd
Hitler embraced evil and I think that he knew that on some level. Someone commented that Hitler is no one to go by as an example of something to be avoided. That suggests to me that ideas and truth are held in a surreal fashion by some. The Apostle Paul said that a little leaven spoils the dough. It seems such a small thing to some to emphasize the Creator as the a priori condition and examine what His Word said about creation. It is not. Evil is said to be harmful. Once a course is plotted, things measured, and we set sail, well oh well.
“Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.”
Samuel Butler Samuel Butler’s Notebooks
For some reason, if evil touches good, it is good that is ruined and not evil. That is biblical and it always works that way. Everyone assuming this or that about an idea and not taking it seriously seems capricious at best. I think our only hope for survival is not on survival of the fittest but by keeping God in charge of this country and publicly declaring His sovereignty over our land.
Aleister Crowley The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
It seems as though we live in a world where there is no right or wrong. We are evolved and biomutations according to some. Is that so? A lot think so. Moral relativism and moral equivalency have ardent admirers, quick to show us that something is not really wrong, it is only that we think something is evil. I made the simple observation that homosexuality is wrong. I meant that it is a sin and that God says that it is wrong to practice. What I did not say was that God calls it an abomination and Paul is not any more charitable about it in Romans One. I was immediately called a bigot for making an observation about reality. People believe that it is fine. That is a belief. I suspect that the Revelation of God might be rejected by some and one person who commented similarly seemed to get hounded about it.
It is funny but Osama bin Laden understands our myopia about right and wrong better than we do. He knows most of us think that God was joking around about all the things in the Bible that He said. The terrorists flew into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and right away there were people suspecting the Baptists might be plotting similar activities in Sunday Schools. Like they are going to take along fried chicken, cole slaw and bomb belts on Church Picnics pretty soon. Well, of course people could not quite say what happened on 911 was good, but then the elite made up for it by allowing how the untermenchen in the United States fly flags and are patriotic and we who believe in Jesus are the real enemies. Why, we’re the American Taliban and those poor terrorists are just good ol’ boys, freedom fighters, that’s what they are.
John Kerry knows a lot of people are stupid because a lot of people voted for him. He just said yesterday that we are going it alone. Alone? We have been in a coalition with many countries around the world in combating terrorism. How many countries does he need? I think what he really means is that we need to indulge in corruption and graft with the ones that were involved in the oil for food scandal. I am thinking he wants to be the chief guy in charge of all of that. Evil is enormous and menacing because people deny its existence and believe lies.
Fortunately there are a number of people who could not afford to go to college or most of the country would be stark raving mad by now. Math classes in universities have insane screeds against the evil Christians and the evil people that won’t do anything against us. Soapboxes are issued to new professors and they are expected to be used. Pretending that there is no evil does make it enormous and menacing. The paranoia and the moral idiocy in universities is in full evidence. A favorite teaching in universities is that good is evil and evil is good. This kind of moral confusion is seen as intellectually superior thought. This is one reason I have doubts about anything someone might have to say about theism mixing with The Theory of Evolution.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus The Rebel
The concept of vanity is elusive until one looks it in the face and sees what was always there before, but is not frightening. Virtue feigned under the power of one held captive by vanity kills little by little, the willing victim gulping down poison as if it were the best drink ever. Feigning virtue is a sort of vanity as absurd as claiming you are a poached egg, something like the lie that is so preposterous that we believe it. Acting under the pretense that we are doing something for the good of others is another virtue that is not real and becomes a primary principle of evil. Most of us have to depend to one extent or another on someone else whether we like it or not. Playing out a virtue to accommodate us is often the downfall of the one that is doing things for our own good. Things go smoothly but when things begin in earnest and we find out what the story really is we suddenly realize too late what we bargained for. Vanity and emptiness offered like fried eggs and bacon never satisfy, but we can depend on desire to take in evil wanting those fried eggs and bacon we will never get.
Ideas are like this. Rather than the heavy eyeliner and alluring perfume of a whore, some think ideas make us pretty. The whore comes to never need sex in a way that cannot be understood and we can come to never need God because of our ideas. I know someone who claimed that he was looking for the “All.” What he did manage to find was tequila and cocaine. The Delphic Oracle intoned, “Know thyself.” Neither the cocaine addicted tequila drinker nor the Delphic Oracle had the whole story. Delighting the ego and satisfying the mind is fine to do for some, it is a way of coming to a greater realization if we are truly blessed, a learning process. We have to come to know the Creator before we can know ourselves. However, most people take bits and pieces of this and that divorced from reality and then find virtue a principle of evil. It must be something like naplam that just spreads when in panic the person tries to wipe it off and it is smeared, burning more of the body. Ideas are great, but like the Scriptures can be taken and used for our own destruction. A lot of people have noticed that ideas separated from reality can be used to control other people and get what we want out of them. Jim Jones knew that. I listened to tapes from his compound recorded at night and his sonorous raving, modulating and shrieking in the night raised the hair on the back of my neck. In his case, he became the virtue separated from reality and he became a principle of evil.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars Of The Tortoise
Well, I have been reassured that ideas do not matter so much, but I know different anyway. It matters little that Hitler was a product of what he thought to some people. To miss and dismiss the power and the effect his worldview on him is a mistake. One way the ancient Hebrews thought of sin was mixing two things together that do not belong, causing confusion. That reality thing is important. It is difficult to impress the importance of not going too far with some things. To the intuitive observer, evil looks the same as good, or maybe even better in the visage we behold. Evil is only recognized if we know the face of Good thoroughly. The imago dei does not seem important to some.
This is not a polemic against Theistic Evolution. I made the statement that Evolution is a religion. I did so because it is by definition a religion. It is based on beliefs and imagination. That was taken as a pejorative statement. I did not mean it as such, but that reveals much. It is ridiculous to tell me that someone has factual proof of something that did not require them to use their imagination and apply certain beliefs (hypotheses) about reality when in fact they have not seen one shred of physical evidence of the thing they say existed or may exist. Hitchcock wrote his famous book about Geology and called it The Religion of Geology. The fact that there are certain virtues of The Theory of Evolution divorced from reality that are fiercely defended as if life itself depended upon them, suggests all the more a religion and a false one at that. It seems a bad thing to credit the Creator with certain things that He says that He did. On the other hand, it is seen as a good to credit ideas with the same reverence in an absolute way. One concept corrupts and confuses the others. To me, that is a signal proof of being on shaky ground. People can tell me the age of the earth and adore that age as pretty and damn people if they do not see how pretty it is. Okay, it is pretty, but give me a break. As Jorge, I see the Creator immensely more interesting and real than something only indirectly measured, that seems a bad thing. How many people lived from the beginning of the earth to now armed with stop watches that can show me the time log? A show of hands…anyone…oh I see. I understand that it is a minor point in a way, but when exploring virtue apart from reality, there is a certain need to have things in order of importance at least. I sense that my opposition to Theistic Evolution is seen differently than it is.
“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd
Hitler embraced evil and I think that he knew that on some level. Someone commented that Hitler is no one to go by as an example of something to be avoided. That suggests to me that ideas and truth are held in a surreal fashion by some. The Apostle Paul said that a little leaven spoils the dough. It seems such a small thing to some to emphasize the Creator as the a priori condition and examine what His Word said about creation. It is not. Evil is said to be harmful. Once a course is plotted, things measured, and we set sail, well oh well.
“Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.”
Samuel Butler Samuel Butler’s Notebooks
For some reason, if evil touches good, it is good that is ruined and not evil. That is biblical and it always works that way. Everyone assuming this or that about an idea and not taking it seriously seems capricious at best. I think our only hope for survival is not on survival of the fittest but by keeping God in charge of this country and publicly declaring His sovereignty over our land.