Re: a quote for rumpl

On 17 Jan 2006 13:19:11 -0800, "Florida" <demeter547opine@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>Rumpelstiltskin wrote:
>
>> > If god had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise.
>
>> Yeah, except of course that I think of anthropomorphic
>> gods like Jehovah as pathetic wishful-thinking by people
>> who feel uncomfortable without a master, like dogs. The
>
> Mm. I pictured it used more as a bland little weapon - "hey, you
>got a problem, don't bother me, take it up with god." You know, as in
>accepting J.C. as your personal weapon.
>
>> above also sounds like slave-mentality apologetics to me
>> in my encrusted old age. I fell for such stuff when much
>> younger, but no more.
>
> Lawrence Durrell commented acidly on "mercy" as "that obscenity of
>the old-testament mind, only able to picture mankind crouching under
>the whip".



"... We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of
them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful.
They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They
are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously
inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually
accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the
sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they
be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table? They
should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it...."

Wilde - from "The Soul of man under Socialism"
http://wilde.thefreelibrary.com/Soul-of-Man-under-Socialism



>> Now I have to go out and apologize to some dogs
>> for equating them with humans. Dogs are clearly much
>> finer animals than are we humans.
>
> Depends on your dog-acquaintances, believe me. Some suthun bad old
>boys enjoy training dogs to start at stupid and vicious, then work down
>from there.


San Francisco city-people dogs tend to be even-tempered.
We don't have many guard-dogs trained to be dangerous, at
least not the ones that go out for walks with their mommies or
daddies in my part of town.





In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak:
but for that one must have long legs. --- Nietzsche
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