“A wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.”
“Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.”
Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.”
“No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.”
Again said the Wolf, “You drink of my well.”
“No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.”
Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.”
Moral: The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.”
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For a few more years, the US will have absolute power over other people and we will use that power in an absolutely corrupt way at the behest of our overlords in Riyadh and Jerusalem. When retribution finally comes our way, no one will shed a tear for us.
What you said is possible but not probable in my view. There are more of us than them. Humans have AN inborn, genetic NEED TO BE FREE. To be able to act in their own behalf, and to also do so with others. Also you discount collective consciousness and spiritual motivation and spiritual actors, God if you will. How do you think all the decimated others by the West survived? By loving one another and spirituality. Im not saying it will not happen after a crash and collapse and a lot if discomfort even suffering, which will be of our own making, but Mercy is real, even for those that don't “deserve“ it. Thats the nature of Mercy, its unearned. My 2 cents.
“A wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.”
“Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.”
Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.”
“No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.”
Again said the Wolf, “You drink of my well.”
“No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.”
Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.”
Moral: The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.”
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For a few more years, the US will have absolute power over other people and we will use that power in an absolutely corrupt way at the behest of our overlords in Riyadh and Jerusalem. When retribution finally comes our way, no one will shed a tear for us.
Nor should they, for we do evil.
Hopefully that "few more years" will somehow dissipate more quickly than the quantum flash of an electron jumping orbitals. No tears should be shed.
GREAT post, Feral.
That’s not the future I percieve.
Explain, please.
What you said is possible but not probable in my view. There are more of us than them. Humans have AN inborn, genetic NEED TO BE FREE. To be able to act in their own behalf, and to also do so with others. Also you discount collective consciousness and spiritual motivation and spiritual actors, God if you will. How do you think all the decimated others by the West survived? By loving one another and spirituality. Im not saying it will not happen after a crash and collapse and a lot if discomfort even suffering, which will be of our own making, but Mercy is real, even for those that don't “deserve“ it. Thats the nature of Mercy, its unearned. My 2 cents.
I would say that, looking at history for humans, freedom is the exception and not the rule.
In fact, my post was just a 19th century translation of one of Aesop's fables.
Thats too much for me to engage. Aesop? not a fan.