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Subject: Re: RE: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:00:35 -0500
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On 8/30/2024 12:38 PM, cyclintom wrote:
> On Thu Aug 29 11:22:19 2024 John B.  wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:44:48 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed Aug 28 08:52:52 2024 Catrike Ryder  wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:26:56 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:11:31 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>>>>> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:30:48 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 06:03:43 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>>>>>>> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> During the reign of Louis XIV, French mathematician and philosopher
>>>>>>>> Blaise Pascal diagnosed why some lust for power. In his Pens?es,
>>>>>>>> Pascal wrote, ?I have often said that the sole cause of man?s
>>>>>>>> unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.?
>>>>>>>> Pascal explained that, out of the inability to sit alone, arises the
>>>>>>>> human tendency to seek power as a diversion.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://intellectualtakeout.org/2024/08/people-without-meaningful-lives-seek-power/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think that the comment " Ridley?s description of the grinding
>>>>>>> poverty of the average person just a few centuries ago". Disregarding
>>>>>>> the word "grinding" the difference between living when I was a lad and
>>>>>>> living today show the same, rather great, differences. For example. We
>>>>>>> lived a few yards short of 1 mile from the school - grade 1 through 3.
>>>>>>> so I wasn't allowed to ride the school bus because the school bus was
>>>>>>> for those that lived "more then 1 mile from the school". So from, the
>>>>>>> age of six I walked a mile (less a few yards) to school, and home,
>>>>>>> each day.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Most people in town walked a mile, or so, to work and home.Of course
>>>>>>> most of them had a auto but why would one drive a car to work? It's
>>>>>>> only a few minute's walk and the price of gasoline!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cars were for Sunday afternoon after church when one might make a
>>>>>>> short trip in their going Church clothes before Sunday Dinner. After
>>>>>>> all. If one had a car one wanted the neighbors to know it, didn't one?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Generally, married women didn't work... "you mean you let your
>>>>>>> daughter marry a man that couldn't support her?".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not working, "being on the town", meaning you were on the dole and was
>>>>>>> something to be ashamed of. I can still remember my mother telling me,
>>>>>>> "don't play with those kids, they are on the town".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And, the strangest thing... we didn't realize how cruelly we were
>>>>>>> being oppressed :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What a shame that mankind's drive to escape poverty has now turned so
>>>>>> many of them into fat, lazy parasites. What a shame that so many
>>>>>> politicians cater to those lowly individuals.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, Timmy is a bit off target. You see Tommy you live in a country
>>>>> that prides itself on being a "democracy" and in a democracy
>>>>> politicians listen to those that will vote for them.
>>>>
>>>> I fear for the future of the USA.
>>>>
>>>> ?When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will
>>>> herald the end of the republic.?
>>>> --Benjamin Franklin
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The manjority of an educated population know better trhan
>> that so they have to destroy education by hiring the mentally
>> handicapped like queers, tranny's and women's "rights" advocates that
>> believe that woman's rights is being able to murder their already born
>> children. We HAVE the solid evidence of doctors doing this.
>>
>> Oh! you mean like doctor Kermit Gosnell, who   was convicted of
>> first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies authorities said
>> were born alive before having their necks cut with scissors
>>
>> Or to put it another way... YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
>> We even have recordings of "social workers" convincing young pregnant
>> women that because they got pregnant that their lives will be over if
>> they don't murder their child.
>> -- 
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John B.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John, please don't talk about things you don't understand. There is a VAST difference between actually murdering a baby and simply leaving a new born alone in a cold room to freeze to death.


I give up. What's the difference?  Not legally, not morally 
so what is it?
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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