tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post3392634558391228887..comments2024-02-17T04:06:00.805-05:00Comments on Just Not Said: An incredibly moronic assumptionJohn Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-16419162176685567882017-12-16T07:44:26.675-05:002017-12-16T07:44:26.675-05:00Ga --
No question, it takes much more course to bu...Ga --<br />No question, it takes much more course to buck the herd. To be politically correct these days, is, by definition, almost an act of cowardice. (Everyone wants to be "correct' in the eyes of society.)John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-25232742349906585262017-12-15T21:20:08.121-05:002017-12-15T21:20:08.121-05:00I would say the ones who did oppose those acts in ...I would say the ones who did oppose those acts in those times had bigger balls than anyone who opposes them now. And they who did then we can know they did because of their own individual deliberate choice and thought; the kind that is generated within the self without outside suggestion. So even more was it true and virtuous. <br /><br />Does every person today who says they oppose slavery say it with conviction, and not indifferently? Just as it used to be the value of the time to have slaves, it is the value of our time to oppose it. That is why a hero back then who fought against oppression, usually we only recognize today, deserved their statue.<br /><br />(Also, from what I've read, most of the people who vocally opposed slavery all the way back to the 1700s were priests or pastors. All the way back and even today, the disabled and poor receive more charity from the church than any Berkley hippy. I haven't seen a dime from a SJW go to a soup kitchen, hospital for the poor, or a home for the disabled, not a penny! I'm not religious myself, but I'm sharing this as this stands quite in contrast to the modern Hollywood liberal type or SJW we associate with activism.)<br /><br />-Ga <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-91354441658355302802017-12-12T20:57:52.678-05:002017-12-12T20:57:52.678-05:00Steven --
Ah, okay, I see. So the "higher&quo...Steven --<br />Ah, okay, I see. So the "higher" role they see themselves in is the moral high one. Gotcha. <br /><br />I wasn't talking about traditional Buddhists and Hindus, just the flakey Americans who like to imagine things like that. "Pseudo spirituality" is a good way to put it. John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-86059649090907268082017-12-12T20:54:56.630-05:002017-12-12T20:54:56.630-05:00To elaborate, he was saying that when people imagi...To elaborate, he was saying that when people imagine being in, say, Nazi Germany, they tend think they would have been the moral one who opposed it rather than complicit, which is more likely. Same with your example of slavery.<br /><br />re reincarnation...I think that's true but of the more flakey new agey types. Traditional Buddhists and Hindus think of themselves as having spent incalculable eons going from life to life in every circumstance imaginable, in both the lower and higher realms. Those traditional teachings are designed to be radically challenging to egotism and to encourage one towards meditation and insight, whereas the new agey stuff can be ego reinforcing and is sometimes thought of as a kind of superficial pseudo spirituality. Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15276736643046430370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-51097065804390569422017-12-12T20:32:20.167-05:002017-12-12T20:32:20.167-05:00Steven --
Ha, I'm sure that's true. Most p...Steven --<br />Ha, I'm sure that's true. Most people who believe in reincarnation don't see themselves as having been lowly serfs or peons in their previous life. <br /><br />I think that's true, most people just get beaten down by life and come to the realization that they're not going to become anything special. (That's me speaking from personal experience.) <br /><br />And yeah, when you're high on yourself is when you're most likely to make stupid mistakes. (Again, me, speaking from personal experience.) John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-12076814231160088752017-12-12T20:27:14.015-05:002017-12-12T20:27:14.015-05:00Jordan Peterson put it really well when he said th...Jordan Peterson put it really well when he said that people tend to cast themselves as the hero... (massively paraphrasing the next bit) when they imagine living in previous eras.<br /><br />It just seems like egotism and naivety to me. In fact, I think I did that a bit when I was younger myself.<br /><br />Do you think people tend to become less narcissistic as they age and mature? I think I've become more humble as I've gotten older, which to me just means more realistic..life can force you to realise your limitations and that you aren't as special or capable as you might have thought. But that's good because egotism underlies all kinds of mental suffering and can make you a bit of an idiot.<br /><br />Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15276736643046430370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-91902850600203666982017-12-12T19:35:07.202-05:002017-12-12T19:35:07.202-05:00Birdie --
I'm coming around to that viewpoint....Birdie --<br />I'm coming around to that viewpoint. They're not all crazy. But an awful lot of them seem to be either hysterical, or dishonest, or naive, or easily duped. John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-80025478693989117012017-12-12T19:23:07.972-05:002017-12-12T19:23:07.972-05:00Liberals deny reality, facts. I have read comment...Liberals deny reality, facts. I have read comments describing liberalism as a mental disorder. I think that I agree with such a statement.<br /><br />- birdieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com