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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How quickly a bug gets fixed...
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:06:42 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-14, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2025-01-13, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>> On 2025-01-13 07:25, RonB wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-12, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>> On 2025-01-12 03:18, RonB wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-11, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> RonB wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The "enemy of my enemy" is not always my friend. Sometimes there is no good
>>>>>>> side. But if I had to pick one over the other, bombing and starving children
>>>>>>> (as the Israelis are doing) makes them the more detestable of the two sides.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At one point there was a large Christian population in Palestine. The
>>>>>>> Muslims aren't the only ones oppressed by the Israeli terrorists.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is going on over there is horrible, but we should not forget that
>>>>>> Hamas intentionally uses civilians as shields.  We also should not
>>>>>> forget that Hamas would happily slaughter *every last jew* if they had
>>>>>> the ability.
>>>>>
>>>>> And Israelis have been calling for the total anihilation of Palestinians.
>>>>> I'm not Muslim or Jewish. Neither side is worth a shit. I agree with Crude,
>>>>> just stay out of it.
>>>>
>>>> Both of their ideologies see us Christians as garbage, so I don't see
>>>> why they should allow themselves to beg for our help, why they should
>>>> accept it or why we would be foolish enough to offer it in the first place.
>>> 
>>> The obvious answer is... the West is run by the Rothschilds. Israel is
>>> comprised of their kith and kin. Mostly kin.
>>
>> That's why we shouldn't be surprised with the way Christianity has lost 
>> importance and how debauchery is increasingly permitted.
>
> Paganism (satanism disguised) always ends up in debauchery.
>
>   About the time when the Stoic idealism had begun to show the weaknesses of 
>   pessimism, the old nature worship of the ancients had begun to show the 
>   enormous weaknesses of optimism. Nature worship is natural enough while 
>   the society is young, or, in other words, Pantheism is all right as long 
>   as it is the worship of Pan. But Nature has another side which experience 
>   and sin are not slow in finding out, and it is no flippancy to say of the 
>   god Pan that he soon showed the cloven hoof. The only objection to Natural 
>   Religion is that somehow it always becomes unnatural. A man loves Nature 
>   in the morning for her innocence and amiability, and at nightfall, if he 
>   is loving her still, it is for her darkness and her cruelty. He washes at 
>   dawn in clear water as did the Wise Man of the Stoics, yet, somehow at the 
>   dark end of the day, he is bathing in hot bull's blood, as did Julian the 
>   Apostate. The mere pursuit of health always leads to something unhealthy. 
>   Physical nature must not be made the direct object of obedience; it must 
>   be enjoyed, not worshipped. Stars and mountains must not be taken 
>   seriously. If they are, we end where the pagan nature worship ended. 
>   Because the earth is kind, we can imitate all her cruelties. Because 
>   sexuality is sane, we can all go mad about sexuality. Mere optimism had 
>   reached its insane and appropriate termination. The theory that everything 
>   was good had become an orgy of everything that was bad.

Forgot to mention that this quote comes from Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton.


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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien