The Traveller: Discourse: Example of Cowardice

Quotes

George Orwell
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Stephen Biko
"The oppressors' most powerful weapon is the mind of the oppressed."

Kevin A. Carson
"Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters."

C. Spurgeon
“While I regarded God as a tyrant I thought my sin a trifle; But when I knew Him to be my Father, then I mourned that I could ever have kicked against Him. When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast."

Madeleine L'Engle
"Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous."

Troy Wisdom
"The truth needs no defense; it only needs witnesses."

Mark Horne
"There is no pleasure as exquisite as being told by someone with more income than you have ever had in your life that your politics are wrong because you don't have solidarity with the poor."

JRR Tolkien
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

Augustine of Hippo
"What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits."

Mark Horne
"The Bush-Obama killing continuum shows that there are no reformers; each successor builds on the power grab of the predecessor."

Robert A. Heinlein
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

BECAUSE IT STARTS WITH THE TRIVIAL LIKE THE ABOVE, BUT LEADS TO THE FOLLOWING:

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."

Neal Stephenson
"The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things....From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides. "

Monday, July 21, 2008

Discourse: Example of Cowardice

A number of friends, associates, and random bloggers of subjects of interest to me have linked to the blog entitled, "Scribblative Agincourting" (at wordpress which isn't very good), and so I have had a chance to sample a number of entries on that blog and have noted that they do not allow anyone to comment. I just want to state categorically that to say something provocative and then not allow anyone to dissent to your opinion is the height of cowardice.
Another observation I should like to make is that the way to spread the gospel and promote the reformation of society is not to jump up and down like a rebellious two-year old (verbally or in writing) and spew your opinions as if they were pronouncements from ON HIGH. Of course we all have opinions, but the height of courage and generosity is to invite discussion and (gasp) dissension.
Stalin would be proud of these "useful idiots".

My fear is that as our own evil empire (USA) grows in power, these fools will increase the probability of any Reformed Christians getting rounded up for the camps, when or if the persecution comes.

Now as my venting is over, I also want to ask why burn all that energy criticizing a civilization that is on its way to oblivion? Why not use your talents to build bridges to other branches of Christianity (instead of beating them over the head)?
Do you think the international bankers and their puppets give a rip about what you have to say about them?

Anyway, it was just for the record...

5 comments:

Stu 陶明瀚 said...: Apparently there was commenting available at one time, see;
http://scribblativeagincourting.wordpress.com/2008/01/
needless to say, I agree that his blog sucketh.; 10:52 PM
Mad Russian the Natural Philosopher said...: To be fair, I realize that there are several writers that contribute to that blog, so my remarks are to those writers who wrote some outrageous things and didn't permit comment. Anyway we all know the great evil that all nation-states commit, so there is no sense in obsessing about it, and that blog seriously obsesses about the great evil of the US. I can't think of a single country on earth in all of history that has not committed some atrocity to someone (someone might suggest the Swiss but some bad things happened there during the Thirty Years War).; 8:40 AM
Mark said...: You know, all you would need is to put up a mirror site with comments enabled....; 9:18 AM
Mark said...: http://jaiku.com/channel/scribagin/; 8:09 PM
Mad Russian the Natural Philosopher said...: Mark,
Thanks for the tip, I am not quite "web savy" yet as I have so many other "irons in the fire". The tools available for the web are so awesome now.; 10:53 PM