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POLITICAL EVILDOERS:









What happens when folks sacrifice all other aspects of their beings in order to serve only one conditioned proclivity, ADDICTION, or single-minded trance?

Does such a condition not represent a state of EVIL?

How many forms of totalitarian causes have attracted and TRAPPED like-minded comrades, Nazis, zealots, jihadists, anarchists, nihilists, and exhibitionistic Californ-icating hedonists?

Is there any significant difference in the kool-aid ordered by Jim Jones and that forced by the likes of Akmadinijad, that has not heretofore been forced by the likes of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Saddam?

What single-minded, totalitarian purpose does not seek to sacrifice all Will to a singularly evil perspective, for self-contracting into a void of meaningless robotic-ism or nothingness?

Does not EVIL flourish as we sacrifice Will to mind control and as we lose such Enlightened Empathy as otherwise would facilitate the diversion and expansion of our arts, interests, and purposes?


A good soldier will identify with purposes larger than his physical body. In such service, unavoidably, he may risk his life; sometimes, however unintentionally or begrudgingly, he may lose his life.

A soldier may even come to intuit an imperative, when necessary to pursue an interpretation of purposes that are higher or of “God,” to willingly lay down his life.

Such a soldier would not directly or only be serving, on Earth, a singular God, but his interpretations of a plurality of present or future earthly purposes of God.

That is, such a soldier's here and now mindful purposes should be: manifold, not purely singular; creatively participatory, not merely reflexively directed or single minded.
We ought not so worship physicality over spirituality as to subordinate all other earthly, physical purposes to only one monstrous physical purpose.
God gives us life and earth; God gives us to appreciate that they (plural, not singular) are "good."



See:
http://www.problemofevil.org/;
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil.


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Snippet from http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGZkZDEzZDhkNzQ1ZWMwNmE0MGNmYzBjNjI5Nzc2YjQ=#more :
August 16, 2008 12:00 AM
Echoes of Berlin
Lessons for today
By Michael Barone

Vladimir Putin’s Russia did not invade Georgia solely because it is a country on its borders moving toward freedom, democracy and the rule of law, though that was one reason. He did not invade solely to intimidate other former Soviet republics that have moved in the same direction — Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia — though that was another reason. He invaded also because Georgia is the chokepoint on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline that is the sole means except through Russia of transporting oil from the Caucasus and potentially natural gas from Central Asia to Europe and the wider world.
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Some say we never should have encouraged Georgia by offering NATO membership, which was sidetracked by Germany; others say if NATO membership had been extended, Russia would not have invaded. Perhaps and perhaps. In June 1948, some said we should have withdrawn from Berlin, while others said we should have negotiated land access to Berlin in 1945. We are where we are, as we were where we were then. The question is whether we have the nerve and the ingenuity and the persistence to stay. Truman’s America did. Does ours?

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Bush Derangement Syndrome: Russia as a Strategic Partner
The president must withdraw the U.S.-Russia civil nuclear-cooperation pact.
By Andrew C. McCarthy

That apparently not being enough appeasement, Secretary Rice eventually persuaded the president to reverse course on Bushehr. The party line is classic State Department hocus-pocus. Bushehr is now good: It shows the mullahs they don’t need to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes because those scrupulous Russians will do it for them. Of course, everyone knows the Iranians are not really enriching for peaceful purposes. Indeed, that has always been the core of the administration’s case. So we are pretending the Russians are an honest broker, earnestly persuading the Iranians not to do something we know full-well they are not doing.

There is no stomach to honor the administration’s promise that Iran will not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons. To avoid acknowledging that embarrassing truth, no exercise in self-delusion can be ruled out. Thus, besides the Bushehr turnabout, the Rice Capades have also featured a “diplomatic offensive” that banked on the Russians (and the Chinese) using their Security Council muscle to coerce the mullahs into capitulation. (And Obama thinks he’s the Hope guy!)

The “offensive” was a pathetic goody-package: a futile effort to buy the mullahs off in exchange for an unverifiable promise to stop enriching uranium … with no requirement that Iran refrain from promoting terror. It began as a European initiative, but Secretary Rice was keen to join it, despite decades-old American policy against direct, official negotiations with Tehran’s terror regime. It was prayer masquerading as policy, patently designed to impress the “international community” that those cowboy days of the first term were over.

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If Putin makes a lot of money while Iran gets nukes, Putin is not going to worry about Iran one day threatening the Russian people. Putin doesn’t give a damn about the Russian people now — he and his cronies in the workers’ neo-paradise care only about lining their pockets.

We can’t be in a strategic partnership with a thug. Not on anything, much less nuclear power. Acknowledging this, which simply means opening our eyes, entails conceding that our Iran policy is also a dangerous delusion. But is there an open eye that hasn’t figured that out already?

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Snippets from http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmZhOGRlZTcwOTVlNmVmOWJhYmIzMmNhNGE5MjVmYzc= :

National Review Online
Pagan Problem
By Michael Knox Beran
August 22, 2008

Take a look at Freedom House’s 2008 map of the world, and it’s clear that free institutions are strongest in Europe, in what was once the seat of Christendom, and in places colonized by European nations — the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, India, and South Africa. Perhaps free institutions will one day prosper throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. At present they do not.

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The belief that we can dispense with God because we possess the power to be God is, Whittaker Chambers said, “man’s second oldest faith.” Its “promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.’”

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To his credit, Obama supports faith-based initiatives that counteract the sterility of secularism. But this single, painless deviation from liberal orthodoxy scarcely demonstrates that he has grasped the magnitude of the problem.

In Europe a decline in religious faith has contributed to the sterilization of the culture. Fertility rates tell the story: The former citadel of Christianity is no longer replacing its population. A similar trend is apparent in America’s “blue” states: Fertility rates in New England now resemble those of northern Europe.

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For all his faith-talk, Barack Obama is not that leader.

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EVIL IN LEAPING TO TRUST ONLY “BOOK SMARTS,” UNSEASONED BY HARD EXPERIENCE:

Inherited wealth, connections, position, and power, especially when unaccompanied by concrete, hard experience, such as military or entrepreneurial, often leads to disconnects with reality and moral purposefulness.

Adolescent whining and “acting out,” as if others “owe you,” apart from willingness to engage diligently in order to look after your own and your posterity’s interests, is not only obnoxious, but it also provides openings for EVIL, through sloth, envy, and gluttony, as well as through sordid sins they invite along.

So, why do Democrats work so hard to recruit whining felons, welfare abusers, and addicts? And why do Republicans work so hard to justify opportunists bent on whining and justifying the sell out of America and our environment?

Advocacy bent on recruiting and training members of any political party in support of such whining is both obnoxious and evil. So, where are the Moderating Adults, who should be enforcing discipline and instilling character?

GOD OF FARCE AND TRAGEDY:

In Western Civilization, we tend to be taught to idealize as if we are nations governed under the rule of law, rather than the rule of men. However, given practiced creativity of lawyers, it becomes difficult to imagine the twist or perversion that could not, depending only upon who is the judge, be rationalized and “justified” under law and our “living Constitution,” especially during this “age of toleration.”

As we profess that the Constitution "lives," but that God does not, so reigns Evil.

I begin to think that, absent underlying assimilation of common spiritual values, there is little hope for a multicultural citizenry to achieve cohesive governance merely through rule of law. Absent some sort of assimilation of moral values, relying merely upon enactments of law soon becomes, first, a joke, then, a tragedy. To those who believe, “We don’t need no stinking God,” I say, “Yeah, right!”

LAW:

Without a common appreciation for that which is most highly valued or sacred, every argument about property rights or law eventually reduces to emotional epithets. For evidence, look at the sort of “arguments” that are most relied upon by our competing politicians. For winning lay votes from electors and jurors, do not politicians and lawyers most often find it necessary to resort to arguments based on displays of emotion, grounded in body language? To that extent, are not words reduced to ambiguous filler, mainly devoid of meaning, except as pumped by emotional content?

Without “God,” what word or logos is there, really? "In the beginning was the word" (John 1:1-3, 10-14). Without God, we “come-let-us-reason-together” as shallow, emotional toddlers, viz: “did too; did not; you’re ugly; my dad can lick your dad; you're not my parent; I know I am but what are you; na na-na na-na na; etc.”

Professing atheists who demand “reasons” for all choices, apart from respect for “God” (Source of Enlightened Empathy) lead us first as jokes, then as calamities.

Those who SEE in their intuition a Source of Enlightened Empathy “see” that each of us is expressive of Something more than a self playing symphony.


GAIA:

Intuitively, there IS a Whole (“WILL”) that functions synchronously and simultaneously in respect of ITS SELF WILL. But, each Perspective that finds a niche within IT interprets, appreciates, or perceives IT differently, because the functions by which such Whole multi-tasks to relate to each Part are differently compartmentalized and Mediated. No Partial Perspective can perceive or interpret the Whole as IT truly IS. But, that does not mean that an intuition or implication of the existence of the Whole is incorrect. Nor does it mean that a Partial Perspective should not benefit, spiritually, by being open to attempting to intuit or receive guidance from such Whole.