tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post3036611449289378682..comments2024-03-28T06:00:18.802-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Lost Story, Lost Society bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-10207791438240345072020-07-10T08:12:38.523-07:002020-07-10T08:12:38.523-07:00Well, either that, or their purpose is inadequate,...Well, either that, or their purpose is inadequate, pointing towards goals that are unachievable/destructive? On the one hand, people who just want to party and break things and put the blame on someone else, and on the other we have SJWs, neocons, health tyrants...cosmic dwarfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562864681773374828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-29445205350902638362020-07-09T19:00:25.506-07:002020-07-09T19:00:25.506-07:00I meant purposelessness. Is that what "exist...I meant purposelessness. Is that what "existential tiredness" is? Seems similar.RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-35906594209779010612020-07-09T13:44:18.477-07:002020-07-09T13:44:18.477-07:00Does that just mean powerlessness?Does that just mean powerlessness?RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-57239115414562530692020-07-08T21:44:02.196-07:002020-07-08T21:44:02.196-07:00"I find, what we call so-called Christians, a..."I find, what we call so-called Christians, are showing what they are when they attempt to improve their position on earth and not with the teachings of God."<br /><br />As stated, this is probably true. People who attempt to improve their position on earth AND NOT WITH (without) the teachings of God really are showing what they are, even if they do call themselves Christian.<br /><br />Nevertheless, just because this is true does not mean that we are to simply ignore the hell on earth in order to focus on our own personal, subjective experience with Jesus in heaven. In fact, reading the New Testament should show that our time on earth is meant to produce good by working to improve the “earthly experience”, not only of ourselves, but that of those around us as well. <br /><br />Matthew 4:23, 24<br />Matthew 5:14-16<br />Matthew 8:3, 13, 15, 16<br />Matthew 9:2-8, 22, 25, 29-30<br />Matthew 10:8<br />Matthew 12: 10-13, 22<br /><br />These references were collected by simply skimming through the first part of Matthew and all have reference to the things Jesus did to improve the “earthly experience. I could produce many more examples if I was to take the time, but nowhere do I find any thought or command that we are supposed to concentrate on our spirituality at the expense of the needs of others. In fact, James warns against this sort of action on the part of believers (James 2: 14-18) and admonishes us to practice our religion by “...visiting orphans and widows in their trouble...” (1:27)<br /><br />Unfortunately, too many Christians have the idea that “keeping oneself unspotted by the world” means withdrawing from the world. This attitude would be more in keeping with the Essene or Buddhist traditions than it is with Christianity. There is the saying that, “He is so heavenly minded that he is no earthly good.”, which is nothing more than a well-deserved slam of those who think so highly of their spiritual condition that they can’t be bothered to work to ensure that their neighbor has enough to feed and clothe her kids, but would rather steer her to a government program. <br /><br />Consider the economic, political, and social mess we are in today. How much difference would there be if vast numbers of American Christians had taken the commands of Jesus seriously in these arenas instead of consoling themselves with the thought that everything would be corrected and made proper—when Jesus comes back to slap some sense into those people. While we’re waiting for that to happen, our situation becomes worse and worse, which we then point to in order to justify our belief that nothing we can do will make it any better—and Jesus better get back here soon, very soon, or we’re all lost. <br /><br />Yes, we are supposed to think about the “ultimate experience with Jesus Christ in Heaven”, but we are also supposed to work in the experience we find ourselves on Earth. This is scriptural, again from Jesus, (Matthew 22:37-39)<br /><br />“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself...”, which the apostle Paul distills down even further in Galatians 5:14. <br /><br />“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”<br /><br />Justify inaction because the New Testament tells us to? Not the way I read it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156823478509665137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-90795940272888418622020-07-08T02:31:05.848-07:002020-07-08T02:31:05.848-07:00Matthew 16: 28 Verily I say unto you, There be som...Matthew 16: 28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.<br /><br />I think Christians do themselves, their neighbors, and God a disservice when they give up on this world.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-79346889902251655642020-07-07T12:17:10.221-07:002020-07-07T12:17:10.221-07:00What really bothers me is where this fatigue comes...What really bothers me is where this fatigue comes from. "Social energy" is too vague. It seems to me that said community becomes either complacent following success, or frustrated by a lack of progress towards their goals. Either way the issue seems to boil down to a collective lack of broader perspective, a sense of "this is it, nothing else to see here."<br /><br />https://youtu.be/eQXHc-tJMXM<br /><br />Douglas Murray calls it "existential tiredness" in the video. It rhymes well with my feeling that, even though it's true that there are deliberate civilization destroyers in our midst, and that the rationalist basis for modern Western civ is flawed, these factora don't fully explain what's going on. There is a widespread willingness to simply stop caring about - indeed, to wilfully destroy - the past and future.<br /><br />That saying about bad times -> strong men -> good times -> weak men -> bad times seems quite true these days.cosmic dwarfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562864681773374828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-38336883724843815032020-07-07T10:07:35.172-07:002020-07-07T10:07:35.172-07:00“If there is one fact we really can prove, from th...“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.” <br />― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting ManStephanoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14073698879609914175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-24977593018618879572020-07-07T10:07:10.962-07:002020-07-07T10:07:10.962-07:00“If there is one fact we really can prove, from th...“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.” <br />― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting ManStephanoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14073698879609914175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-59498210089948465472020-07-07T09:36:51.926-07:002020-07-07T09:36:51.926-07:00The narrative I see around me is that we are at a ...The narrative I see around me is that we are at a stage of civilization so advanced as to be beyond such barbaric things as accepting the tiniest risk of dying of disease, or seeing virtue in our terrible forefathers, or undertaking the style-cramping task of raising children.<br /><br />Our snowflakes see themselves as the very apex, the culmination of eons of history. None before or after can hold a candle to how smart and virtuous they are.<br /><br />This is evidently the end game Progressive narrative, the perfecting of mankind. Turns out that perfect man is a spoiled brat who couldn't survive a day without his smartphone. PRIMITIVISM, as Barzun would put it, does have its appeal.<br /><br />I'm waiting for the realization to dawn on these people that they are quite mortal and not special at all. Things will really get fluid then.cosmic dwarfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562864681773374828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-15637181408002597832020-07-07T09:35:24.749-07:002020-07-07T09:35:24.749-07:00I find, what we call so-called Christians, are sho...I find, what we call so-called Christians, are showing what they are when they attempt to improve their position on earth and not with the teachings of God.<br />From what I read in the New Testament I wouldn't spend to much time in improving the earthly experience but concentrate on the ultimate experience with Jesus Christ in heaven. jpmrwbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08397167756312469458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-6543068206690212972020-07-07T08:45:42.791-07:002020-07-07T08:45:42.791-07:00The story for Christians is pretty simple. It the...The story for Christians is pretty simple. It the same narrative we have been preaching for 2000 years.<br /><br />Secular libertarians probably won't ever have one because there is no agreement. Maybe Right Libertarians can have one that is parallel to the Christian narrative but I am not waiting on it.RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-35410811029593055212020-07-06T16:29:34.514-07:002020-07-06T16:29:34.514-07:00Thank you, Mark. I found the conversation between...Thank you, Mark. I found the conversation between Kotar and Pageau - and Pageau's comments in other videos on these same topics - to be very enlightening.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-51474608008077475892020-07-06T14:19:00.767-07:002020-07-06T14:19:00.767-07:00One of your finest essays BM. Bravo.
My take on ...One of your finest essays BM. Bravo. <br /><br />My take on it is that we are in deep, deep trouble. The propagandists seem to have won.<br /><br />The only hope we have is that God promised victory in the end and God will not let us down. The other hope is that a great story teller will come to help us out and de-program some of the poor deluded we see around us. <br /><br />I have had conversations with people who can not understand that sunlight will purify. That sunlight will kill germs. That viruses can't live in the direct sunlight of Florida in the summer. <br /><br />May the story teller come soon!Mark Stovalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06786242384416215872noreply@blogger.com