tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post7324152212048753685..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Why Are So Many Welsh Teens Killing Themselves?truepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-62980886859392974562008-01-30T05:48:00.000-08:002008-01-30T05:48:00.000-08:00I believe our advancements in communication and in...I believe our advancements in communication and information are creating new internal conflicts in the human condition.<BR/><BR/>While the Media is believed by society to provide the truth. In fact they are only motivated by partisanship, corruption and greed.<BR/><BR/>Our youth recognize hypocrisy but don't have the wisdom or vision to see the way to overcome it. <BR/><BR/>For some, a future of corruption is too stressful to bear.<BR/><BR/>For others, the stress motivates us to overcome the hypocrisy.<BR/><BR/>We no longer have the alternative or opportunity to censor communication.<BR/><BR/>We need to pull together, during this time of communication revelation, to share the truth and overcome hypocrisy and corruption.<BR/><BR/>When we have compiled a new public book of truth, how similar will it be to the Bible?Rob Misekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15302768489050327563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-8624314291861460332008-01-29T15:40:00.000-08:002008-01-29T15:40:00.000-08:00"They said to Cyrus: [L]et us leave this small and..."They said to Cyrus: [L]et us leave this small and barren country of ours and take possession of a better. There are plenty to choose from...."<BR/><BR/>Cyrus... replied "that they might act upon it if they pleased, but added the warning that, if they did so, they must prepare themselves to rule no longer, but to be ruled by others. 'Soft countries,' he said, 'breed soft men. It is not the property of any one soil to produce fine fruits and good soldiers too.' The Persians had to admit that this was true and that Cyrus was wiser than they; so they left him, and chose rather to live in a rugged land and rule that to cultivate rich plains and be slaves."<BR/><BR/>Herodotus, The Histories, final paragraph. Trans. Aubrey De Selincourt.<BR/><BR/>When there is on offer nothing but blood, sweat, toil and tears it is a good life. A life of ease is a life not even worth hanging around for.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-49069253827016583372008-01-29T13:21:00.000-08:002008-01-29T13:21:00.000-08:00I believe there is an element left undiagnosed in ...I believe there is an element left undiagnosed in the inversion that you suggest a paradox. We do “possess the means to interact with others to an unprecedented degree,” but that does not necessarily lead to nourishment. Constant eating without digestion –without the turning inward of resources- is no nourishment. The inversion is that the young are encouraged to believe in their own innate ability to nourish the world, rather than to seek that, which will nourish them. They would do well to turn in toward themselves to a greater degree, turning away from the many ill-conceived campaigns to which they are encouraged to give their lives. <BR/><BR/>Feelings of responsibility, and lack of any resource to improve upon the fault does produce despair.maccusgermanishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01887574496312472556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-72612305407501766032008-01-29T13:03:00.000-08:002008-01-29T13:03:00.000-08:00I remember seeing a tv program some years ago abou...I remember seeing a tv program some years ago about the case of a woman who repeatedly - four or five? times - killed her infant children.<BR/><BR/>She and her family had been examined by all kinds of investigators, including a doctor convinced he had discovered some new kind of malady or crib death phenomenon, I can't remember which, for which he became famous in the medical literature.<BR/><BR/>Finally, someone somehow saw through all the deceptions and the woman admitted here crimes. It turns out she was primarily motivated by all the love and attention that came to mothers who had lost a child. She was so empty, spiritually, she had no other relationship to the sacred and communal to rely upon. <BR/><BR/>Britain will discover the more primitive forms of sacrificial violence if it cannot hold on to the Judeo-Christian truths, whether in a more traditionally religious (ritual) or secular (deritualized) form. In fact, the widespread unwillingness to name this violence for what it is - e.g. the government's latest outlawing of "Islamic terrorism" in favor of "anti-Islamic violence" - is simply a recognition that one may no longer speak higher truths that unveil primitive sacrificial violence for what it is.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.com