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Chico
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Hmmmm
Flipping heck, you sure you guys are mere contractors. I'm impressed.
Threaded, I agree with you that the decline of the Roman empire is being mirrored. I disagree with the reasons though. The spread of wealth in a modern society is drastically different to the Roman model.
I think it's just a fundamental truth that all great civilisations decline when people stop being simple and martial and become soft. The archetypal example of this isn't even Western. In India the original warrior caste, the Kshatriyas, were supplanted by the book readers, the Brahmins.
And so it goes ....
Flipping heck, you sure you guys are mere contractors. I'm impressed.
Threaded, I agree with you that the decline of the Roman empire is being mirrored. I disagree with the reasons though. The spread of wealth in a modern society is drastically different to the Roman model.
I think it's just a fundamental truth that all great civilisations decline when people stop being simple and martial and become soft. The archetypal example of this isn't even Western. In India the original warrior caste, the Kshatriyas, were supplanted by the book readers, the Brahmins.
And so it goes ....
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Is there such a thing ?
It seems to me that wealth is not so much spreading around, as more being deliberately funnelled in to the hands of the few and the powerful, including governments. This has many repurcussions for the have nots, and I forsee a time when the have's will suffer the consequences of their greed.
Argue all you like about every man being equal and having the same opportunities...that's idealistic claptrap.
The maths is simple...deprive people of food and they starve. Deprive them of water and they thirst. Deprive them of money and they are deprived of everything else, material and immaterial. No money = no hope.
Is there an answer ? Yes. Are we unselfish enough to change our thinking and our lives to place others first instead of ourselves ? Are we heck !
We are constantly having to work harder in order to survive, and maintain our lifestyles. And when we are working to survive, our key priorities are to ourselves and our immediate responsibilities. This leaves no room for altruism. In fact, it effectively sabotages it. Break the cycle, and we can change direction. But to break the cycle require colossal effort, and the world is not economically or even spiritually mature enough to embrace such change on a monumental scale.
Governement is about control and interference in our lives. Instead of being an elected body, to oversee the smooth running of our lives, it has turned in to a spiteful Nanny, who knows best, and must invent new ways in which to stifle our freedoms and cull our spirits. The more freedoms Nanny takes away, the more we rely upon Nanny to provide for us. Nanny is no longer a benign entity who looks after our best interests, but a cranky parasite, that we have elected. The irony is absolute.
We crafted these chains that fetter us.
The limit of our potential was fashioned by our own hands. We are masters of our own demise.
And deep down, we know it is wrong. We scream and kick at the injustice of it all. Then turn over for another caning, because the old saying holds true.
"Better the Devil you know, than the Devil you don't"
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So then Chico, we have a 5 page thread and you have still managed to avoid answering my question. YOU stated that all men are made in God's image - if this is the case any killing of another human being equates to the wanton destruction of your God
Think carefully before you cut and paste, sorry I mean answer
Think carefully before you cut and paste, sorry I mean answer
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