tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post4891781253906570910..comments2024-03-18T11:28:36.841-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The Fatherland of Philosophybionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-5180826112340537102018-08-17T20:38:54.546-07:002018-08-17T20:38:54.546-07:00Gary North:
“There is always a theocracy.
The de...Gary North:<br /><br />“There is always a theocracy.<br /><br />The debate is over who or what the social system's god is. A society's god makes the laws.<br /><br />Theocracy is government by God's law--not just civil government, but all government. It is not a top-down imposition of biblical law by an elite of priests, but, in contrast, a bottom-up imposition of biblical standards over every area of life--areas not regulated by civil law for the most part--by those people who are morally responsible for making decisions. As the process of dominion extends the authority of Christians over more and more areas of life, we will see the creation of a comprehensive theocracy. It will not come as the result of some sort of "palace revolution," but as a result of millions of God-fearing people working to extend the reign of Christ over every area of life.”<br /><br />max<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-40395258171097631872018-08-17T10:24:22.902-07:002018-08-17T10:24:22.902-07:00Two points:
@Bionic: "To suggest that Judas ...Two points:<br /><br />@Bionic: "To suggest that Judas Iscariot at the end of the noose and John the Apostle in his last days on Patmos are somehow spiritually equal runs contrary to any possible human understanding of the words 'spiritual' and 'equal'."<br />The difference was in the choices they made.<br /><br />@Bionic: "Yet, it seems to me that one need not accept the idea of Original Sin to accept the idea that man is not perfect; we need not agree on the reasons why this is so in order to agree that it is so."<br />I have received a lot of flack for putting this forward on Misean blogs by people who say that this is implied in the statement but I disagree. I feel that Mises' base axiom, "People Act", is inadequate. The more complete axiom should, instead, be "People Act Ignorantly" - I think this is much more descriptive of the process and paves the way to deeper insights.Woody Barretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07174366266746908252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-89421616733006848432018-08-17T10:15:35.778-07:002018-08-17T10:15:35.778-07:00... and crossing from Massachusetts to Vermont, as...... and crossing from Massachusetts to Vermont, as I did on Wednesday, felt different to me - I could almost see the difference in the landscape, in the structures ... and looking across the river to New Hampshire from Vermont, as I've done on numerous occasions, gives evidence of the economic depression brought on by Vermont government meddling while, just across the river, there are few signs of a depressed economy. Even where I grew up in Maryland, just the differences between counties was noticeable. So, I have to agree with you 100%. I can't explain it but I have to agree.Woody Barretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07174366266746908252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-63511570577444241192018-08-17T08:53:17.300-07:002018-08-17T08:53:17.300-07:00The Z-man has an interesting observation in his la...The Z-man has an interesting observation in his latest podcast: Everywhere democracy takes hold, religiosity suffers.<br /><br />Could it be that democracy devours itself?<br /><br />The Z-man offers a quote from John Quincy Adams:<br /><br />“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.”Rienhttp://overbeterleven.nlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-35525631616088139572018-08-16T18:28:58.634-07:002018-08-16T18:28:58.634-07:00I am north of the St Mary’s River. This Sault Ste...I am north of the St Mary’s River. This Sault Ste Marie “feels” different than the one I see across the river. But I also felt most at home two days ago at Catholic Mass at St. Anne’s on an island with no cars. Which would I fight for, despite grand jury reports?Eric Morrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-34189162530343588082018-08-16T18:22:47.424-07:002018-08-16T18:22:47.424-07:00"Yet it is precisely this overlooking of orig..."Yet it is precisely this overlooking of original sin with its moral and intellectual results that seduces the democratic ideologists of the Neo-Thomist persuasion to arrive at their rigid and dogmatic constructions."<br /><br />It's funny that totalitarians consider themselves to be the least dogmatic people ever. Yet, the rigid adherence and enforcement of the party line is a dogma that is punishable by banishment, imprisonment, destruction or even death for any blasphemy against it. IpseDixithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02411994161249414489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-30730412433418274282018-08-16T12:50:38.201-07:002018-08-16T12:50:38.201-07:00It is interesting, but I don't think Catholic ...It is interesting, but I don't think Catholic doctrine since St. Thomas (maybe before even) holds that original sin affects the intellect. That is one of the things Reformers stood on as reasons for protesting and then seceding from the Roman Catholic church.RMBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-27988473179991589682018-08-16T08:13:43.020-07:002018-08-16T08:13:43.020-07:00"No, I do not advocate a theocratic state; no..."No, I do not advocate a theocratic state; no, I do not believe that only Christians (however you define that term out of the thousand possibilities) can be “libertarian.” My point is very simple:" - BM<br /><br />"Theocracy is the destruction of human freedom in the name of God. Libertinism is the destruction of moral norms in the name of freedom. Neither will do." - Father Robert SiricoA Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.com