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Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 9:06 pm When confronted with the cruelties of nature the human beasts will show their teeth.

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Do you mean that free speech is not worth defending if it provokes angry growls?

it's a black & white, 'this' or 'that', kinda thing there's no middle ground pick one, act accordingly me: I'm free and I aim to stay that way How can you say this? The government is offering to protect you and your feelings. When you are promoted to become a part of a protected collective, no ...

You ignore the potential for Man's conscious evolution leading to a quality of being in which objective human meaning and purpose is a reality. No, I'm not in ignorance of it, I am in fact very aware of it. As a belief structure, meaning, I understand it as a quality of the human condition to want ...

But how do we limit hate. Or more to the point, how could we limit or curtail hateful behavior? How does hate take seed in human minds? Can there be a strategy that would channel a basic human emotion into a quiet state? More police? More cannabis? What? My experiences both in real life and oline h...

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin As we have seen, free speech in the secular world is believed to inhibit the goal of a peaceful society. Society has evolved to create what are called “experts” ...

"Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel." King George 111

Obviously being a traitor and a scoundrel is not a mark of sanity. It is logical then that anyone opposing King George must be eliminated as insane assuring a sane society.

Dachshund You are most welcome to take from me whatever, and as much of, what is worthwhile and good within me as you like. THIS is the act of offering love (caritas), it necessitates the annihilation of the ego,- the total surrender of the subjective "Self" and all of it pride, arrogance,...

DAM But like I've mentioned many times before, only within the dream of separation does meaning and purpose arise. Or put another way, separation is what mind puts there, via thought, which is just another concept for imagination of which there is no actual sight of except as an empty image, or sym...

Are you saying that caritas or agape refers to equality in materialism? Did Jesus die on the cross for the purpose of material equality? Conscious love refers to something far greater than pursuing a materialistic agenda. IMO it refers to awakening to the reality of what we ARE in the light of the ...

The highest form of love for animal man on earth is the love of types. Essential types are attractive when not masked by image so can be drawn to each other by something more genuine than image. Their essences are complimentary so relationships do not have to fall apart. The highest form of love is...

DAM But for me, conscious love is about allowing life to unfold unconditionally just as it does in the moment without resorting to reactive's or image worshipping. There is no time machine to go and undo the doing that is this ever unfolding unique life in every new moment. You are describing a dog'...

The unholy alliance is the norm for the human condition. Simone Weil indicates the means by which opinions can be reconciled. Society denies it and refuses opening to the means to realistically reconcile differences The combination of these two facts — the longing in the depth of the heart for abso...

The unholy alliance is the norm for the human condition. Simone Weil indicates the means by which opinions can be reconciled. Society denies it and refuses opening to the means to realistically reconcile differences The combination of these two facts — the longing in the depth of the heart for absol...

Men and women have the desire to become one as was initially intended. We have lost the beauty of the third sex and now must suffer duality. Aristophanes remembers the good ol days: https://locvsamoenvs.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/platos-symposium-189a-193e-aristophanes-on-the-nature-of-love/ “In the f...

DAM But like I've mentioned many times before, only within the dream of separation does meaning and purpose arise. Or put another way, separation is what mind puts there, via thought, which is just another concept for imagination of which there is no actual sight of except as an empty image, or symb...