Posted on 04/03/2018 4:30:46 PM PDT by DeweyCA
++++ ad infinitum
The name for it could be 'intellectualism', but it's ultimately arrogance -- sometimes born of an omission which is ignorance or being misled, or pride and arrogance.
Either way it is no different from the act of walking off the roof of a skyscraper. Your reasons for doing it won't change your fate. It's an error, unless you want to die.
This secular humanism, or intellectualism, is an error, unless you want to suffer, and then die suffering. There need be no moral or ethical injection into the debate.
The Tao was there before you were born. You don't need to be a Taoist to understand the wisdom in accepting that fact. Humans are the children, not the father, in any casting of the hierarchy of things either in the universe or in religion.
When the child of things thinks it is the father of things, the things will eat the child.
Statism/Leftism promises a utopian “heaven on earth” and that is the bigger cause that gives Leftists meaning in life.
Only if they live in a vacuum. History has shown us how those “utopias” really work. Liberals are blind AND stupid, if they really believe that hogwash. I suspect that the politicians who advocate such systems, are planning on being at the top of the heap, since they know full well that that system is just as segregated into classes, as any other.
Western Europe is dying today after 70 years of enforced atheism. No society that has rejected God has ever survived more than 100 years. The first thing people in Eastern Europe did when communism fell was to turn to God. It looks like Europe will find religion again soon. The problem is, the religion will be Islam.
Collectivism ... even the sheeple can understand what it means ... and compare it to individualism ...
Logs are dead, inert objects that are heavy, get in the way, and are an obstruction to progress.
That pretty much nails it for what ideologues are and do.
Yep.
Suicide cults.
Menaces to society.
POX
Marxism is a death cult.
yep.
agree!
F.A. Hayek has a pretty good take on “social justice”:
“it does not belong to the category of error but to that of nonsense, like the term ‘a moral stone.’”
The concept of “social justice” is so ridiculous that it isn’t even wrong. “Social justice” is never defined with precision. There are no objectively valid bases for defining what is “socially just”; on the other hand, SJW’s can readily find all sorts of conditions that they call “socially unjust”. The SJW is incapable of defining the rules for individual conduct that would realistically assure an outcome that the SJW would deem “socially just”.
Marxism is a well-defined and coherent ideology with its own creation myth, rules of behavior, distinction between the chosen and the damned, prophets and anointed saints, ecclesiology, soteriology, eschatology, etc. It is based upon false premises and has caused disaster wherever tried. It is not nonsense, but is demonstrably a profound error both theoretically and empirically.
Demonic.
Given that the apostle John told us that sin was the fruit of the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, or the pride of life, how about covering two of the three with the following term for the human corruption of God’s justice:
“LUSTICE”
Yep. Religion = Reconnection (see etymology, e.g., ligature) to something greater than oneself - in this case, false and evil.
You should call them Democrats and then run against it.
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