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10/19/2020 11:15 AM |
Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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There are several ways to look at this. Mine is, the last thing Progressives/Socialists want is people who do not have to be managed, for what would the Welfare State be needed for? Conceptually, our countries have become Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon," where everyone can be watched by guards from a central location, only digital cameras make the building unnecessary. Keeping people in perpetual adolescence, which gov't schools do very well, suits the goals of central gov't planners and consumer-capitalists alike.I define "consumer capitalists" as industries which do not merely manufacture goods and services, which in itself is harmless, but consumer demand for them, which mass-production requires. Their propaganda is designed to created demand by appealing to sinful ego needs. Therefore, parents who discipline their children Biblically, resulting in sober, self-sufficient, productive citizens, are subversive to this scheme. |
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10/10/2020 12:06 PM |
Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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Carl in Asheville wrote: ... discernment within the Body is a primary task of the Church. If we don't get it right now we will be unfit to judge after our glorification. The starting point for Christian ethics is the Ten Commandments. However, even conservative churches today neglect or de-emphasize God's Law, either supposing it is opposed to Grace, or applicable only to Jews. So young Christians are starved of detailed instruction on it, falling into pragmatism ("whatever works") or subjective pietism ("God told me") instead. |
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10/8/2020 11:59 AM |
Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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Mike wrote: My Grandparents, Dad, and Aunt among those from Italy. Helps me appreciate liberty a bit more, I think. I'm curious: what part of Italy? Southern Italians, I'm told, are pretty different from northerners culturally.Fun fact: Dr. Federico Faggin, U. of Padua graduate, led development of the 1st microprocessor, the 4004, at Intel. He later want on to found Zilog, which was a keen competitor for awhile during the '70s, and *still* markets Z80 derivatives. |
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9/22/2020 5:27 PM |
Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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Jim Lincoln wrote: You know what they say about hindsight , Neil, it's usually 20/20. the Puritans were doomed to fail because they believed in Neither you nor anyone else can prove such a generalization. And I'm not interested in your Hobby Horse. |
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