Re: Our Lapdog Congress

In article <QcoCf.6479$rH5.898@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Istlota
says...

>There is an old adage which says that no one can ride your back unless you
>first bend over to let them climb on. Consider the case of Nelson Mandela.
>Some of his fellow South Africans attempted to enslave him, even to the
>point of slapping him into a physical prison for 27 years. And, yet, Mandela
>ended up as President of the country. This is the power of spiritual
>maturity. It does not require guns or bullets or stones. It requires a deep
>abiding belief in, knowledge of, Self.

I'm pretty sure my ancestors knew who they were. That didn't stop some Black
people, then some Arabs, then some White people from enslaving them.

Knowing yourself won't stop somebody from kidnapping you by force. Having the
ability effectively shoot, move and communicate often does.

>Notice what we are saying. There is Power, spiritual power, in Unity. Unity

Spiritual power won't stop somebody from putting you in chains and whipping you
if you won't work for free.

That takes a strong sharp sword or a firearms that shoots where you point it.

>is the All. God is the One who exists in All. Know Self, so that We, the
>All, can recognize the One in All. We can then advantage of the omnipotence
>and omniscience of the One, within us All, to bring Peace On Earth.

God is the excuse you use when you want to keep slaves, beat women or talk
people into flying planes into buildings. More people find it convincing than
"because".

>This message is not that hard to grasp. It is not other-worldly, or

I grasp the message of "intelligent design" too... I just don't believe it.

>My answer to your question. Yes, there have been times when I have enslaved
>someone. There have been times when I have stooped low, allowed someone to

Unless you're that guy in Pittburgh who kept the retarded women under his
basement, or at least a pimp, I'm thinking you've never REALLY enslaved anybody.

>> Strange, I ALWAYS say I DON'T. And just WHO is this alleged "god"?
>Horus?
>> Zeus? Ahura Mazda? Yaweh? Jesus? Allah? Cthulhu? Daehok?
>
>And, yet, you persist in what I suspect has been a life long struggle to
>seek justice, to make sense out of this world, to forge ahead in the
>direction you think to be the direction which leads to Truth and Justice.
>What is God, if It is not Truth and Justice?

God is whatever his worshippers say he is, be it an elderly Jewish guy sitting
on a cloud, or a Japanese marine biologist with astigmatism.

Truth and justice are truth and justice. They don't involve imaginary friends
or magic. They're what makes life better than a knife fight in the exercise
yard at Pelican Bay. Life is always better when you feel you can turn your back
on most people for a couple of minutes without getting a shiv in it.

"Do unto others" doesn't require a burning bush or big titted German girls
riding flying horses. It just requires first of all, an absence of malice.

>Change "God" to "religion" and we are in agreement.

"God" IS religion. Religion was created to exploit the imaginary figure(s) to
whom some abdicate their personal responsibility.

Don't get me wrong. I'd kill to support your right to believe in Amun, or Odin
or Baphomet. But make no mistake, I wouldn't step over a crack in the sidewalk
in the name of "god" OR "religion".


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