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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (416041)	7/2/2011 10:18:58 PM
From: Jeff Jordan	Respond to of 436258

LOL...What are you some kind fabian ideologue? Obama is more than a tool...more of a planted creation?<g> Sheep in wolves clothing? "Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well."~ George Bernard Shaw ‘You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.’ ~Kruschev Socialists, like the Biblical Lucifer, always profess "good" intentions in their use of force, coercion, and intimidation upon mankind. Lucifer, Son of the Morning who held authority in the presence of God, but who was cast out for rebellion, seeking to take away the agency of man, his right to choose, his right to be free. It was Lucifer's wish and will to take away the agency of man, as the story goes, forcing all men back to heaven. “There was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (Rev. 12:7–9). LOL...."A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."~George Bernard Shaw The thing is Paul wasn't even a disciple of Christ.....but, had a miraculous conversion as Saul was on his way to arrest followers of Jesus.....perhaps a similar conversion happened 300 years later to the Roman Empire when Mithraism was replaced with Christianity in name only? who's to say what miracles of fishes and wine actually happened as the tone of biblical accounts changed from old to new testament. The Roman empire like America today was in decay Rise and Decline of Culture and Society/ Civilization as seasonal metaphor: Spring: Religion: Birth of a grand myth signifying a new conception of God. Fear and longing for the world. Earliest metaphysical organization of the world. High scholasticism. Politics: Feudalism, warrior aristocracies. Division between two primary Estates: Nobility, which is the estate proper, contains within itself the highest aspirations of its race and is therefore symbolic of the particular people in question, as well as being representative of Time in the sense of Directedness and Destiny; and Priesthood, which is the anti-Estate, pursuing eternal Truth and attempting to subordinate Blood to Intellect primarily through asceticism, but also through scholasticism. Summer: Religion: Reformation: revolt of the religious moderates against the early religion. Beginnings of a purely philosophical movement. Contrasting idealistic and realistic systems. Mathematical breakthroughs leading to a new conception of the world. Rationalism. The depletion of mysticism from religion. Politics: Absolutist states. Conflicts between aristocracy and monarchy. The political centre shifts from castles and estates to the cities. Autumn: Religion: Faith in the omnipotence of rationality. Cult of Nature. The height of mathematical thought. The last idealists. Theories of knowledge and logic. Politics: Struggles between the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. Revolutions. Napoleonism. Winter: Religion: Materialism: Cults of science, utility, and luck. Ethical-social ideals: philosophy without mathematics, skepticism. The last mathematical thinkers. Decline of abstract thinkers, and the rise of specialized academic philosophy. Spread of the last ideas. Politics: Democracy, the rule of the rich, followed by caesarism and bureaucracy. Weapons of Mass Instruction c-spanvideo.org