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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: How quickly a bug gets fixed... Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:00:44 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <_6ZdP.418575$bYV2.357477@fx17.iad> <9g62oj9frmbk647s8dfurngii47pi14et5@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:00:44 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="39dbabe88bb8b57a60ed19edc53c2e9c"; logging-data="2512100"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Q1wJdoNdTD2Ds9OYKZqA8" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZwOYXb0C+TRqjpa6j9Z6OLOHRcQ= Bytes: 4937 On 2025-01-13, CrudeSausage wrote: > On 2025-01-13 07:25, RonB wrote: >> On 2025-01-12, CrudeSausage wrote: >>> On 2025-01-12 03:18, RonB wrote: >>>> On 2025-01-11, chrisv 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. -- “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