The Mercy of the Creator as demonstrated by our ability to heal and be free of diseases when healthy.. I could go on for paragraphs with the qualities and attributes however I will refrain..
I will however say that as physical health and development is dependant on food, and exercise, that the spirit of man is also dependant upon spiritual, food, and exercise...
I would therefore suggest that the spiritual food for the development of the soul is the consumption of spiritual attributes and qualities, abundantly available to us.
And that the spiritual exercise is the demonstration of those qualities and attributes along with the various prayers and meditations prescribed by those great manifestations of humanity throughout the ages...
Therefore supporting my previous statement that it is not the knowledge or the abilities we have learned that is destructive in nature rather those actions and the intent behind them...
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@TheProgressiveAnarchist
I will however say that as physical health and development is dependant on food, and exercise, that the spirit of man is also dependant upon spiritual, food, and exercise...
I would therefore suggest that the spiritual food for the development of the soul is the consumption of spiritual attributes and qualities, abundantly available to us.
And that the spiritual exercise is the demonstration of those qualities and attributes along with the various prayers and meditations prescribed by those great manifestations of humanity throughout the ages...
Therefore supporting my previous statement that it is not the knowledge or the abilities we have learned that is destructive in nature rather those actions and the intent behind them...
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@TheProgressiveAnarchist
What are the criteria for something to be labeled as created and thus, rationally demanding the need for a Universal Creator.
When we break it down to see the necessary components of any creation, we see there are really always four basic characteristics of anything created; Creative Design, Organization of necessary material, Refinement of raw material, and ultimately the Final Details.
To explain this we will start with a building, we have no need to understand that someone in fact built it, nor do we have the need to see the builder to understand that he in fact exists.
Have you ever wondered why or how you know, or do you take it for granted. Through critical evaluation of our environment we have the ability to know and understand things, without having to actually see them.
For instance; we see that a star in the sky is a very small object and there is no way we can see it any other way, however we know it’s mass can be hundreds or billions times the mass of the earth or even our own sun.
Due to critical observation, we can watch a large ship leave the harbor and see it get smaller and smaller until it disappears from sight giving me the understanding of perspective and relative distance.
With the understand of trigonometry, we can use the measure of angulation to build a model representing the scale of our position and scale the distance to it.
Then with the understand of relativity between perspective, mass and distance and we can therefore safely conclude that a star must have a tremendous mass in order to be observed over the relative distance.
When we look at a building we know there was the initial idea to create something not seen before. In order to see it, it must first be rendered into "Design", without said "Design" it wouldn’t take the desired form and would be a random hovel. In our design we give organization to our thoughts and decide which shape and materials it will be created from.
Next we have the "Organization of materials" we will use to complete our design. Those materials being wood, stone, copper, steel, glass, brick or the raw materials that will support the overall design.
After we have accumulated the raw materials we need to "Refine" them appropriately according to their capacity within the design or we end up with a pile of raw materials rather than the planned structure.
Upon assembly according to the design the "Details"are integrated and we ultimately arrive at completion. When complete all details, which include aesthetic or technical purposes, things such as door knobs.. Some of them are heavier or more beautiful than others but they all have the same purpose. As such, every detail has a particular purpose to be there and accomplishes a particular task within the overall design.
When we apply these same four principles to the Universe we can’t help but understand the need for a Creator.
Upon critical observation and evaluation, we see that first the Universe is created or "Designed" to be a self replicating structure of nearly infinite design in that the stars have factories, trees produce seeds and chickens make eggs. We have the wind and rain and sun and seasons to sustain a system of self-replicating organisms. As the old engineering adage goes; If you want to know why something was built, look to see what it actually does and does best.
We see that it is “Organized” by the laws of physics and quantum mechanics into base elements that are capable of creating other elements due to the laws of physics and the fusion within stars; the materials in which every physical thing in the universe is made.
We see through the laws of physics that the materials for existence in the universe are "Refined” so much as how elements and materials are to behave according to their design capacity and the interactions within those forces.
When we break it down to see the necessary components of any creation, we see there are really always four basic characteristics of anything created; Creative Design, Organization of necessary material, Refinement of raw material, and ultimately the Final Details.
To explain this we will start with a building, we have no need to understand that someone in fact built it, nor do we have the need to see the builder to understand that he in fact exists.
Have you ever wondered why or how you know, or do you take it for granted. Through critical evaluation of our environment we have the ability to know and understand things, without having to actually see them.
For instance; we see that a star in the sky is a very small object and there is no way we can see it any other way, however we know it’s mass can be hundreds or billions times the mass of the earth or even our own sun.
Due to critical observation, we can watch a large ship leave the harbor and see it get smaller and smaller until it disappears from sight giving me the understanding of perspective and relative distance.
With the understand of trigonometry, we can use the measure of angulation to build a model representing the scale of our position and scale the distance to it.
Then with the understand of relativity between perspective, mass and distance and we can therefore safely conclude that a star must have a tremendous mass in order to be observed over the relative distance.
When we look at a building we know there was the initial idea to create something not seen before. In order to see it, it must first be rendered into "Design", without said "Design" it wouldn’t take the desired form and would be a random hovel. In our design we give organization to our thoughts and decide which shape and materials it will be created from.
Next we have the "Organization of materials" we will use to complete our design. Those materials being wood, stone, copper, steel, glass, brick or the raw materials that will support the overall design.
After we have accumulated the raw materials we need to "Refine" them appropriately according to their capacity within the design or we end up with a pile of raw materials rather than the planned structure.
Upon assembly according to the design the "Details"are integrated and we ultimately arrive at completion. When complete all details, which include aesthetic or technical purposes, things such as door knobs.. Some of them are heavier or more beautiful than others but they all have the same purpose. As such, every detail has a particular purpose to be there and accomplishes a particular task within the overall design.
When we apply these same four principles to the Universe we can’t help but understand the need for a Creator.
Upon critical observation and evaluation, we see that first the Universe is created or "Designed" to be a self replicating structure of nearly infinite design in that the stars have factories, trees produce seeds and chickens make eggs. We have the wind and rain and sun and seasons to sustain a system of self-replicating organisms. As the old engineering adage goes; If you want to know why something was built, look to see what it actually does and does best.
We see that it is “Organized” by the laws of physics and quantum mechanics into base elements that are capable of creating other elements due to the laws of physics and the fusion within stars; the materials in which every physical thing in the universe is made.
We see through the laws of physics that the materials for existence in the universe are "Refined” so much as how elements and materials are to behave according to their design capacity and the interactions within those forces.
Therefore ultimately, due to the combination of the above factors, we, are the “Details”. Those small things that make it both operational and aesthetically pleasing.
Take an Oak leaf for instance, every leaf from every tree in existence has had the same basic form and function. Some are smaller some are bigger some healthier than others yet every one of them unique in nature. No two have ever been the same in all of history.
It’s literally the same with every single thing; People, plants, trees, grass, leaves, animals, raindrops, snowflakes, rocks, stones, storms, planets, stars, galaxies, moments in time, even atoms as they don't share the same space or time, the list is absolutely endless.
These are those details and the most impressive details about all of it, are us.
We do not just have form and function we are however hyper-conscious and therefore have the ability to see or understand things that “exist beyond nature” due to our ability to compare the differences of what we can see and the abstract concepts absent in hypo-conscious beings.
There is no perspective that I can see the earth without perceiving it to be flat, yet I know it is round. How can you ever prove it? We watch the stars, the sun, the moon and the planets and track their paths in the sky.
When we use critical observation and evaluation we come to understand that we are in fact on a spinning globe traveling through space, circling around the sun.
It is however, that exact ability to critically observe and evaluate the abstract nature of things, that makes us unique in all creation and without this essential ability, to understand things are not as they may seem, or are different than they physically appear, is what allows us to know we exist beyond what we see or feel or touch with our senses.
Due to this ability to think, observe and evaluate both natural and abstract concepts, we are capable of understanding that we are so much more than we appear, that there is without a doubt an omnipotent Creator, and that we are in fact a part of that creation.
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@TheProgressiveAnarchist
Take an Oak leaf for instance, every leaf from every tree in existence has had the same basic form and function. Some are smaller some are bigger some healthier than others yet every one of them unique in nature. No two have ever been the same in all of history.
It’s literally the same with every single thing; People, plants, trees, grass, leaves, animals, raindrops, snowflakes, rocks, stones, storms, planets, stars, galaxies, moments in time, even atoms as they don't share the same space or time, the list is absolutely endless.
These are those details and the most impressive details about all of it, are us.
We do not just have form and function we are however hyper-conscious and therefore have the ability to see or understand things that “exist beyond nature” due to our ability to compare the differences of what we can see and the abstract concepts absent in hypo-conscious beings.
There is no perspective that I can see the earth without perceiving it to be flat, yet I know it is round. How can you ever prove it? We watch the stars, the sun, the moon and the planets and track their paths in the sky.
When we use critical observation and evaluation we come to understand that we are in fact on a spinning globe traveling through space, circling around the sun.
It is however, that exact ability to critically observe and evaluate the abstract nature of things, that makes us unique in all creation and without this essential ability, to understand things are not as they may seem, or are different than they physically appear, is what allows us to know we exist beyond what we see or feel or touch with our senses.
Due to this ability to think, observe and evaluate both natural and abstract concepts, we are capable of understanding that we are so much more than we appear, that there is without a doubt an omnipotent Creator, and that we are in fact a part of that creation.
🖖😉🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
@TheProgressiveAnarchist
The Critical Stages of Change
Every seed must rip itself apart in order to become the sprout that will eventually become the blossom, so is it with the seeds of men in the critical stages of change.
When an old system is replaced by a better system the old system becomes obsolete. This has been the case of the horse drawn carriage, sailing vessels for transportation, oil lanterns and candles, wood burning stoves, caves for dwelling, mud huts and so many other examples. The problem facing the world today is one of similar however much larger proportions.
The old systems of nationalism, division of race, divisions of classes, war, destruction of environment, enforced scarcity for the material gains of profit, power, material prestige and ego of a few psychopaths with no end of selfish desires is at odds with the new system. A system of peace, good will and unity, a system of sustainability and generosity.
A system that abolishes the extremes of wealth and poverty and doesn’t allow the manipulation of people for gain. A world without borders unified in the idea that we are all here and must either share this planet or destroy it. When you see that the new system will make the old system obsolete those who are rooted so deeply in the old system will fight with everything they have to maintain it as is their psychopathic nature.
The problem comes when evaluating history we see what they have been and are capable of doing in the name of maintaining their perceived “right to rule”. When this finally comes to a head there is bound to be a collision of epic proportions where the one side, will, as they have stated time and time again “burn it all rather than let it go” or again “if we can’t have it no one will” this is why we must look to see what they have done in the past and are doing now as they know this collision is coming.
What preparation are they taking to prolong the convulsions of their dying empires and how many of us will suffer due to their Psychopathic arrogance? When you look at our time in these very simple terms you can’t help but recognize that we are on the cusp of change.
Concerning change and how quickly it can effect the world I refer to J.E. Esslemont in his book
“Baha’úllah and the New Era”.
"The old world has been passing through the death pangs of an old era and the birth pangs of a new, is evident to all. The old principles of materialism and self-interest, the old sectarian and patriotic prejudices and animosities, are perishing, discredited, amidst the ruins they have wrought, and in all lands we see signs of a new spirit of faith, of brotherhood, of internationalism, that is bursting the old bonds and overrunning the old boundaries. Revolutionary changes of unprecedented magnitude have been occurring in every department of human life. The old era is not yet dead. It is engaged in a life and death struggle with the new.
Evils there are in plenty, gigantic and formidable, but they are being exposed, investigated, challenged and attacked with new vigor and hope. Clouds there are in plenty, vast and threatening, but the light is breaking through, and is illumining the path of progress and revealing the obstacles and pitfalls that obstruct the onward way.
But, in the world of nature, the Spring brings about not only the growth and awakening of new life but also the destruction and removal of the old and effete; for the same sun, that makes the flowers to spring and the trees to bud, causes also the decay and disintegration of what is dead and useless; it loosens the ice and melts the snow of winter, and sets free the flood and the storm that cleanse and purify the earth. So is it also in the spiritual world.
The spiritual sunshine causes similar commotion and change. Thus the Day of Resurrection is also the Day of Judgment, in which corruptions and imitations of the truth and outworn ideas and customs are discarded and destroyed, in which the ice and snow of prejudice and superstition, which accumulated during the season of winter, are melted and transformed, and energies long frozen
Every seed must rip itself apart in order to become the sprout that will eventually become the blossom, so is it with the seeds of men in the critical stages of change.
When an old system is replaced by a better system the old system becomes obsolete. This has been the case of the horse drawn carriage, sailing vessels for transportation, oil lanterns and candles, wood burning stoves, caves for dwelling, mud huts and so many other examples. The problem facing the world today is one of similar however much larger proportions.
The old systems of nationalism, division of race, divisions of classes, war, destruction of environment, enforced scarcity for the material gains of profit, power, material prestige and ego of a few psychopaths with no end of selfish desires is at odds with the new system. A system of peace, good will and unity, a system of sustainability and generosity.
A system that abolishes the extremes of wealth and poverty and doesn’t allow the manipulation of people for gain. A world without borders unified in the idea that we are all here and must either share this planet or destroy it. When you see that the new system will make the old system obsolete those who are rooted so deeply in the old system will fight with everything they have to maintain it as is their psychopathic nature.
The problem comes when evaluating history we see what they have been and are capable of doing in the name of maintaining their perceived “right to rule”. When this finally comes to a head there is bound to be a collision of epic proportions where the one side, will, as they have stated time and time again “burn it all rather than let it go” or again “if we can’t have it no one will” this is why we must look to see what they have done in the past and are doing now as they know this collision is coming.
What preparation are they taking to prolong the convulsions of their dying empires and how many of us will suffer due to their Psychopathic arrogance? When you look at our time in these very simple terms you can’t help but recognize that we are on the cusp of change.
Concerning change and how quickly it can effect the world I refer to J.E. Esslemont in his book
“Baha’úllah and the New Era”.
"The old world has been passing through the death pangs of an old era and the birth pangs of a new, is evident to all. The old principles of materialism and self-interest, the old sectarian and patriotic prejudices and animosities, are perishing, discredited, amidst the ruins they have wrought, and in all lands we see signs of a new spirit of faith, of brotherhood, of internationalism, that is bursting the old bonds and overrunning the old boundaries. Revolutionary changes of unprecedented magnitude have been occurring in every department of human life. The old era is not yet dead. It is engaged in a life and death struggle with the new.
Evils there are in plenty, gigantic and formidable, but they are being exposed, investigated, challenged and attacked with new vigor and hope. Clouds there are in plenty, vast and threatening, but the light is breaking through, and is illumining the path of progress and revealing the obstacles and pitfalls that obstruct the onward way.
But, in the world of nature, the Spring brings about not only the growth and awakening of new life but also the destruction and removal of the old and effete; for the same sun, that makes the flowers to spring and the trees to bud, causes also the decay and disintegration of what is dead and useless; it loosens the ice and melts the snow of winter, and sets free the flood and the storm that cleanse and purify the earth. So is it also in the spiritual world.
The spiritual sunshine causes similar commotion and change. Thus the Day of Resurrection is also the Day of Judgment, in which corruptions and imitations of the truth and outworn ideas and customs are discarded and destroyed, in which the ice and snow of prejudice and superstition, which accumulated during the season of winter, are melted and transformed, and energies long frozen
and pent up are released to flood and renovate the world. Without change there can be no life. Even the mineral cannot resist change, and the higher we go in the scale of being, the more varied, complex, and wonderful do the changes become. Moreover, in progress and development among creatures of all grades we find two kinds of change; one slow, gradual, often almost imperceptible; and the other rapid, sudden and dramatic.
The latter occur at what are called “critical stages” of development. In the case of minerals we find such critical stages at the melting and boiling points, for example, when the solid suddenly becomes a liquid or the liquid becomes a gas. In the case of plants we see such critical stages when the seed begins to germinate, or the bud bursts into leaf. In the animal world we see the same on every hand, as when the grub suddenly changes into a butterfly, the chick emerges from its shell, or the babe is born from its mother’s womb. In the higher life of the soul we often see a similar transformation, when a man is “born again” and his whole being becomes radically changes in its aims, its character and activities. Such critical stages often affect a whole species or multitude of species simultaneously, as when vegetation of all kinds suddenly bursts into new life in springtime. Suddenly we see changes after seemingly long periods of inactivity."
There is a change on the horizon and it is accelerating.. This is our time so remember that what is normal to the spider is chaos for the fly.. We the people of this beautiful world are not the flies..
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@TheProgressiveAnarchist
The latter occur at what are called “critical stages” of development. In the case of minerals we find such critical stages at the melting and boiling points, for example, when the solid suddenly becomes a liquid or the liquid becomes a gas. In the case of plants we see such critical stages when the seed begins to germinate, or the bud bursts into leaf. In the animal world we see the same on every hand, as when the grub suddenly changes into a butterfly, the chick emerges from its shell, or the babe is born from its mother’s womb. In the higher life of the soul we often see a similar transformation, when a man is “born again” and his whole being becomes radically changes in its aims, its character and activities. Such critical stages often affect a whole species or multitude of species simultaneously, as when vegetation of all kinds suddenly bursts into new life in springtime. Suddenly we see changes after seemingly long periods of inactivity."
There is a change on the horizon and it is accelerating.. This is our time so remember that what is normal to the spider is chaos for the fly.. We the people of this beautiful world are not the flies..
🖖☺️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
@TheProgressiveAnarchist
Leo Tolstoy on Anarchism; "The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution. But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power."
Breaking through the Dogma, the story of Man.
In Genesis it is said “in the day that god created man created he them MALE and FEMALE and blessed THEM, and called THEIR name Adam”..
So ponder this, if “THEIR” name was “Adam” then who exactly is “EVE”??
Adam; is representative of the physical creation of mankind or the flesh.
-"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (note it says living being, not soul)
Eve; is representative of the Soul or Spirit.
-"It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him"
-"Because she was the mother of all living."
-"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."
-"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul"
The Snake; is representative of the (intellect) as it is the due to the intellect that mankind gains wisdom,
this is what differentiates us from the animals.
-"Now the serpent was more cunning/clever than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made."
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil; represents (The world of opposites)
-Only human beings understand the difference between good and evil, or knowledge and ignorance.
-"There is Only One Good, Knowledge, and One Evil, Ignorance." - Socrates
-Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
-"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate."
-The Snake says this to the woman alone (not the man) as the soul does not die and needs this world of opposites, to eat of it's fruit, which helps the soul grow and develop, as without this material world, we would not know of our physical, much less spiritual existence.
-This makes us, "Like" God, ie.. a conscious entity, that knows the difference between good and evil (knowledge or ignorance), it does not however make us god's ourselves.
The garden of Eden; represents the womb, where all the physical needs for physical development are met, and you are "naked" or innocent before being cast out.
-"The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
-"Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads"
-The "Tree of Life" in the midst of the garden and the "rivers that flow and water it", in this context, give an understanding of our physiology,
-Our lungs (the tree that gives life)
-Our brain (The tree of the knowledge of good and evil) the neuro network.
-Our circulatory system (the four rivers) being our left and right ventricles and atriums.
https://cdn.thinglink.me/api/image/499894501309939712/1024/10/scaletowidth/0/0/1/1/false/true?wait=true
Eve then takes the fruit to Adam because of this she, is now bound to Adam (the physical and the soul become one body)
“Because of this you will be bound to your husband and your desire will be for him."
-The spirit and flesh are bound as one.
-The desire for "him", are the (physical necessities) like food, water, shelter, and comfort.
-Our greed grows from this need.. Which is the cause of the enmity between the spirit and the intellect.
“There will be enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the snake, the seed of snake will bite at the heel of the seed of the woman, but the that heel will crush the head of the snake.”
-This is your conscience telling you know you are doing something you shouldn’t..
-Because they are bound together (the soul and the physical) "they will surly die"
In Genesis it is said “in the day that god created man created he them MALE and FEMALE and blessed THEM, and called THEIR name Adam”..
So ponder this, if “THEIR” name was “Adam” then who exactly is “EVE”??
Adam; is representative of the physical creation of mankind or the flesh.
-"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (note it says living being, not soul)
Eve; is representative of the Soul or Spirit.
-"It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him"
-"Because she was the mother of all living."
-"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."
-"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul"
The Snake; is representative of the (intellect) as it is the due to the intellect that mankind gains wisdom,
this is what differentiates us from the animals.
-"Now the serpent was more cunning/clever than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made."
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil; represents (The world of opposites)
-Only human beings understand the difference between good and evil, or knowledge and ignorance.
-"There is Only One Good, Knowledge, and One Evil, Ignorance." - Socrates
-Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
-"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate."
-The Snake says this to the woman alone (not the man) as the soul does not die and needs this world of opposites, to eat of it's fruit, which helps the soul grow and develop, as without this material world, we would not know of our physical, much less spiritual existence.
-This makes us, "Like" God, ie.. a conscious entity, that knows the difference between good and evil (knowledge or ignorance), it does not however make us god's ourselves.
The garden of Eden; represents the womb, where all the physical needs for physical development are met, and you are "naked" or innocent before being cast out.
-"The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
-"Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads"
-The "Tree of Life" in the midst of the garden and the "rivers that flow and water it", in this context, give an understanding of our physiology,
-Our lungs (the tree that gives life)
-Our brain (The tree of the knowledge of good and evil) the neuro network.
-Our circulatory system (the four rivers) being our left and right ventricles and atriums.
https://cdn.thinglink.me/api/image/499894501309939712/1024/10/scaletowidth/0/0/1/1/false/true?wait=true
Eve then takes the fruit to Adam because of this she, is now bound to Adam (the physical and the soul become one body)
“Because of this you will be bound to your husband and your desire will be for him."
-The spirit and flesh are bound as one.
-The desire for "him", are the (physical necessities) like food, water, shelter, and comfort.
-Our greed grows from this need.. Which is the cause of the enmity between the spirit and the intellect.
“There will be enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the snake, the seed of snake will bite at the heel of the seed of the woman, but the that heel will crush the head of the snake.”
-This is your conscience telling you know you are doing something you shouldn’t..
-Because they are bound together (the soul and the physical) "they will surly die"
Because we are physical we will have a physical death. However when we consume the tree of life, (in this instance "the tree of life" refers to the teachings of the prophets and the accumulation of spiritual attributes) and therefore exercise them in this material world, we develop the spirit and become spiritual beings.
-“Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”
I also find it quite interesting that in the first chapter God gives dominion over the whole earth which differs from the Garden itself and uses "them" defining the plurality of man rather than just a single man as dogma so describes.
-Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let "them" have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
-The "Our" is representative of the prophets not the plurality of God, and the "Them" is plural for man who has dominion... NOT JUST ONE MAN, rather referring to all mankind.
Now lets compare this to Old Kingdom Egyptian Hieroglyphics, it nearly always shows the Woman with her arm around the Man thus the spirit is in charge of the physical.
The Woman has a headdress that has a Snake and Falcon; snake for the intellect or intelligence, and the falcon for an intellect that soars in the heavens of spiritual development.
The man's headdress is normally depicted with only a snake showing physical intellect and allowing the spiritual to be in charge over him.
They are always presented with left foot forward and left hands presented, showing the feminine or spiritual reality, to give, and to help.
The collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom in 2181 bc and a 56 year period following it, there are many changes of rulers before the establishment of the Middle Kingdom in 2125 is where we see the beginning of a paradigm change.
In the middle kingdom with the advent of the Amun Priest class, it now shows the Man with his arm around Woman, showing that the physical is now in charge of the spiritual..
Our formerly soaring intellect is now shown as a woman with no snake or falcon, the destruction of intellect and only a physical intellect in charge.
The right hand is now forward for take, and right foot for aggression, endowed with all the properties or attributes of the physical greed, war, ignorance, destruction, and how do we see it in history.
We see just before this period, in Babylon, the same thing with the advent of Nimrod, who built the tower so that he might live in that tower like a god amongst men i.e. the corruption of religion.
We see at this time in history the first monies, in the form of coins with the depictions of the Centaur, Satyr or "Satan".
We also see the first wars and the tools to wage them.
After the death of Nimrod we see the wife Semiramis claim conception with her husband in the form of a Fish “Dagon”and give the rebirth of his form in the son Bar Nin, the son of Nimrod the reincarnation of the father in the son, begotten from a virgin.
We can follow this story from Babylon to Egypt with the rise of the Amun Priesthood and how it flowered into the Greek and Roman civilizations, and now into our entire western culture with the Trinitarian theology of Osiris the father, Isis the virgin Mother and Horus the Reborn son of God.
The really interesting part of that story is the fact that Osiris, ascended to the heavens, to become the ruler of the "Heavens" whereas Horus, remained HERE, to reign as the ruler of the underworld, (here, is the underworld, this world is Hell).
If you note; "Satan", was given "Power" to rule (not authority).
The next question is what is necessary to "rule" the physical domain?
Physical power is derived by "rulers" as the ability to withhold the physical necessities of life through the utilization of violent force to enforce their will or laws.
-“Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”
I also find it quite interesting that in the first chapter God gives dominion over the whole earth which differs from the Garden itself and uses "them" defining the plurality of man rather than just a single man as dogma so describes.
-Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let "them" have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
-The "Our" is representative of the prophets not the plurality of God, and the "Them" is plural for man who has dominion... NOT JUST ONE MAN, rather referring to all mankind.
Now lets compare this to Old Kingdom Egyptian Hieroglyphics, it nearly always shows the Woman with her arm around the Man thus the spirit is in charge of the physical.
The Woman has a headdress that has a Snake and Falcon; snake for the intellect or intelligence, and the falcon for an intellect that soars in the heavens of spiritual development.
The man's headdress is normally depicted with only a snake showing physical intellect and allowing the spiritual to be in charge over him.
They are always presented with left foot forward and left hands presented, showing the feminine or spiritual reality, to give, and to help.
The collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom in 2181 bc and a 56 year period following it, there are many changes of rulers before the establishment of the Middle Kingdom in 2125 is where we see the beginning of a paradigm change.
In the middle kingdom with the advent of the Amun Priest class, it now shows the Man with his arm around Woman, showing that the physical is now in charge of the spiritual..
Our formerly soaring intellect is now shown as a woman with no snake or falcon, the destruction of intellect and only a physical intellect in charge.
The right hand is now forward for take, and right foot for aggression, endowed with all the properties or attributes of the physical greed, war, ignorance, destruction, and how do we see it in history.
We see just before this period, in Babylon, the same thing with the advent of Nimrod, who built the tower so that he might live in that tower like a god amongst men i.e. the corruption of religion.
We see at this time in history the first monies, in the form of coins with the depictions of the Centaur, Satyr or "Satan".
We also see the first wars and the tools to wage them.
After the death of Nimrod we see the wife Semiramis claim conception with her husband in the form of a Fish “Dagon”and give the rebirth of his form in the son Bar Nin, the son of Nimrod the reincarnation of the father in the son, begotten from a virgin.
We can follow this story from Babylon to Egypt with the rise of the Amun Priesthood and how it flowered into the Greek and Roman civilizations, and now into our entire western culture with the Trinitarian theology of Osiris the father, Isis the virgin Mother and Horus the Reborn son of God.
The really interesting part of that story is the fact that Osiris, ascended to the heavens, to become the ruler of the "Heavens" whereas Horus, remained HERE, to reign as the ruler of the underworld, (here, is the underworld, this world is Hell).
If you note; "Satan", was given "Power" to rule (not authority).
The next question is what is necessary to "rule" the physical domain?
Physical power is derived by "rulers" as the ability to withhold the physical necessities of life through the utilization of violent force to enforce their will or laws.
This is a stark contrast to a "spiritual heaven" where a "soul or entity of consciousness" is not bound by those "physical necessities" to survive.
"Satan" is known as the father of lies, whom appears as an angel of light. And like the state whispers, I can forgive you.
Name a tyrant that has not come using deception, and violent force, or "power" to lure the peoples in the name of public safety, national security or "for the greater good".
Religion; broken down to its roots "Rei" in Latin (coming from the Egyptian "Ra" meaning "One" and "Liggio" which we now use as "ligament", which binds bones together; thus the translation:
That which binds as one, or "UNITY"...
The traditional ideology of religion, is following of a particular dogma of separation. Anything that doesn't bring unity is actually the antithesis of "religion" in its true form...
Anarchy defined: as the unobstructed freedom of the individual, so long as those freedoms do not encroach on the equal freedom of others... Otherwise known as "Rightful Liberty" defined by Tomas Jefferson.
I don't often use the word "liberty" as "liberty" in naval terminology is "a temporary freedom requested from a higher authority" also known as "Admiralty Law" which today is known as corporate law.
So the greater question is; which fruit do we choose to feed ourselves?
The fruit of the physical or the fruit of life; peace, compassion, generosity, humility and love. Things we can not physically see however can demonstrate in our material world, in other words the attributes of spirituality, consciousness, and development in the abstract world.
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@TheProgressiveAnarchist
"Satan" is known as the father of lies, whom appears as an angel of light. And like the state whispers, I can forgive you.
Name a tyrant that has not come using deception, and violent force, or "power" to lure the peoples in the name of public safety, national security or "for the greater good".
Religion; broken down to its roots "Rei" in Latin (coming from the Egyptian "Ra" meaning "One" and "Liggio" which we now use as "ligament", which binds bones together; thus the translation:
That which binds as one, or "UNITY"...
The traditional ideology of religion, is following of a particular dogma of separation. Anything that doesn't bring unity is actually the antithesis of "religion" in its true form...
Anarchy defined: as the unobstructed freedom of the individual, so long as those freedoms do not encroach on the equal freedom of others... Otherwise known as "Rightful Liberty" defined by Tomas Jefferson.
I don't often use the word "liberty" as "liberty" in naval terminology is "a temporary freedom requested from a higher authority" also known as "Admiralty Law" which today is known as corporate law.
So the greater question is; which fruit do we choose to feed ourselves?
The fruit of the physical or the fruit of life; peace, compassion, generosity, humility and love. Things we can not physically see however can demonstrate in our material world, in other words the attributes of spirituality, consciousness, and development in the abstract world.
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@TheProgressiveAnarchist
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Frank Herbert, Dune
Frank Herbert, Dune
In Bastiat's essay The Law, he says "each of us has a natural right – from God – to defend his person, his liberty, and his property." The State is a "substitution of a common force for individual forces" to defend this right. The law becomes perverted when it is used to violate the rights of the individual, when it punishes one's right to defend himself against a collective effort of others to legislatively enact laws which basically have the same effect of plundering.
Whereas justice has precise limits, philanthropy is limitless and thus government can grow endlessly when that becomes its function. The resulting statism is "based on this triple hypothesis: the total inertness of mankind, the omnipotence of the law, and the infallibility of the legislator." The relationship between the public and the legislator becomes "like the clay to the potter." Bastiat says, "I do not dispute their right to invent social combinations, to advertise them, to advocate them, and to try them upon themselves, at their own expense and risk. But I do dispute their right to impose these plans upon us by law – by force – and to compel us to pay for them with our taxes."
Bastiat argues in the work that a government consists only of the people within or authorizing it, therefore it has no legitimate powers beyond those that people would individually have:
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
He goes on to describe the rights that those individuals do have, which he recognizes as natural rights, based on natural law. He summarizes these as life, liberty, and private property, explaining that government's only legitimate role is to protect them:
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Therefore, government is simply an extension of these specific natural rights to a collective force, and its main purpose is the protection of these rights. Any government that steps beyond this role, acting in ways that an individual would not have the right to act, places itself at war with its own purpose:
But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.
Bastiat thus also points out that those who resist plunder, as is their natural right, become targets of the very law that was supposed to protect their rights in the first place. Laws are passed saying that opposing plunder is illegal, with punishments that will accumulate to death, if resisted consistently.
Whereas justice has precise limits, philanthropy is limitless and thus government can grow endlessly when that becomes its function. The resulting statism is "based on this triple hypothesis: the total inertness of mankind, the omnipotence of the law, and the infallibility of the legislator." The relationship between the public and the legislator becomes "like the clay to the potter." Bastiat says, "I do not dispute their right to invent social combinations, to advertise them, to advocate them, and to try them upon themselves, at their own expense and risk. But I do dispute their right to impose these plans upon us by law – by force – and to compel us to pay for them with our taxes."
Bastiat argues in the work that a government consists only of the people within or authorizing it, therefore it has no legitimate powers beyond those that people would individually have:
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
He goes on to describe the rights that those individuals do have, which he recognizes as natural rights, based on natural law. He summarizes these as life, liberty, and private property, explaining that government's only legitimate role is to protect them:
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Therefore, government is simply an extension of these specific natural rights to a collective force, and its main purpose is the protection of these rights. Any government that steps beyond this role, acting in ways that an individual would not have the right to act, places itself at war with its own purpose:
But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.
Bastiat thus also points out that those who resist plunder, as is their natural right, become targets of the very law that was supposed to protect their rights in the first place. Laws are passed saying that opposing plunder is illegal, with punishments that will accumulate to death, if resisted consistently.
Bastiat goes on to describe other forms of plunder, both legalized by the state and banned. He then concludes that the problem of it must be settled once and for all. He says that there are three ways to do so:
The few plunder the many.
Everybody plunders everybody.
Nobody plunders anyone.
He points out that, given these options, what is obviously the best for society is the last one, with all plunder being ended.
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@TheProgressiveAnarchist
The few plunder the many.
Everybody plunders everybody.
Nobody plunders anyone.
He points out that, given these options, what is obviously the best for society is the last one, with all plunder being ended.
By: DocWatson42
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@TheProgressiveAnarchist
A funny concept on the purchase of resources or land, is buying stolen property such as a painting...
If you are the 8th person to purchase the stolen painting and it is finally found. It still gets returned to the original owner..
Just because someone paid for stolen property doesn't mean they are the new owners..
The same laws (which are natural laws and not purely hypothetical) apply to the natural resources that are meant for everyone to maintain their lives..
Property is simply what every single human being can create through their own labor and creative capacity..
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If you are the 8th person to purchase the stolen painting and it is finally found. It still gets returned to the original owner..
Just because someone paid for stolen property doesn't mean they are the new owners..
The same laws (which are natural laws and not purely hypothetical) apply to the natural resources that are meant for everyone to maintain their lives..
Property is simply what every single human being can create through their own labor and creative capacity..
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The black flag is the symbol of anarchy. It evokes reactions ranging from horror to delight among those who recognize it. Find out what it means and prepare to see it at more and more public gatherings… Anarchists are against all government because they believe that the free and informed will of the individual is the ultimate strength of groups and of society itself. Anarchists believe in individual responsibility and initiative and in the whole-hearted cooperation of groups composed of free individuals. Government is the opposite of this ideal, relying as it does on brute force and deliberate fraud to expedite control of the many by the few. Whether this cruel and fraudulent process is validated by such mythical concepts as the divine right of kings, democratic elections, or a people’s revolutionary government makes little difference to anarchists. We reject the whole concept of government itself and postulate a radical reliance on the problem-solving capacity of free human beings.
Why is our flag black? Black is a shade of negation. The black flag is the negation of all flags. It is a negation of nationhood which puts the human race against itself and denies the unity of all humankind. Black is a mood of anger and outrage at all the hideous crimes against humanity perpetrated in the name of allegiance to one state or another. It is anger and outrage at the insult to human intelligence implied in the pretenses, hypocrisies, and cheap chicaneries of governments… Black is also a color of mourning; the black flag which cancels out the nation also mourns its victims—the countless millions murdered in wars, external and internal, to the greater glory and stability of some bloody state. It mourns for those whose labor is robbed (taxed) to pay for the slaughter and oppression of other human beings. It mourns not only the death of the body but the crippling of the spirit under authoritarian and hierarchic systems; it mourns the millions of brain cells blacked out with never a chance to light up the world. It is a color of inconsolable grief.
But black is also beautiful. It is a color of determination, of resolve, of strength, a color by which all others are clarified and defined. Black is the mysterious surrounding of germination of fertility, the breeding ground of new life which always evolves, renews, refreshes, and reproduces itself in darkness. The seed hidden in the earth, the strange journey of the sperm, the secret growth of the embryo in the womb all these the blackness surrounds and protects.
So black is negation, is anger, is outrage, is mourning, is beauty, is hope, is the fostering and sheltering of new forms of human life and relationship on and with this earth. The black flag means all these things. We are proud to carry it, sorry we have to, and look forward to the day when such a symbol will no longer be necessary
Appendix: On Anarchist Identity
Asked whether he himself was an anarchist, Santiago Sierra replied: “I regard anarchism as a political and behavioral philosophy with which I identify fully. However, anarchism is, above all, morality and implies a way of life without concessions. In this sense, I would not be, so much, because my life is far from that of any anarchist militant.”
This humble answer is reminiscent of the response of Chilean student José Domingo Gómez Rojas when special minister José Astorquiza demanded to know whether he was an anarchist: “I do not have, dear Minister, sufficient moral discipline to assume that noscript, which I will never merit.” Gómez Rojas was nonetheless murdered by the Chilean state while in custody.
The important thing is to destroy the mechanisms that centralize violence and control.
Why a black flag? It is the opposite of surrender...
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/the-flag-that-is-not-the-black-flag-of-anarchism/
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Why is our flag black? Black is a shade of negation. The black flag is the negation of all flags. It is a negation of nationhood which puts the human race against itself and denies the unity of all humankind. Black is a mood of anger and outrage at all the hideous crimes against humanity perpetrated in the name of allegiance to one state or another. It is anger and outrage at the insult to human intelligence implied in the pretenses, hypocrisies, and cheap chicaneries of governments… Black is also a color of mourning; the black flag which cancels out the nation also mourns its victims—the countless millions murdered in wars, external and internal, to the greater glory and stability of some bloody state. It mourns for those whose labor is robbed (taxed) to pay for the slaughter and oppression of other human beings. It mourns not only the death of the body but the crippling of the spirit under authoritarian and hierarchic systems; it mourns the millions of brain cells blacked out with never a chance to light up the world. It is a color of inconsolable grief.
But black is also beautiful. It is a color of determination, of resolve, of strength, a color by which all others are clarified and defined. Black is the mysterious surrounding of germination of fertility, the breeding ground of new life which always evolves, renews, refreshes, and reproduces itself in darkness. The seed hidden in the earth, the strange journey of the sperm, the secret growth of the embryo in the womb all these the blackness surrounds and protects.
So black is negation, is anger, is outrage, is mourning, is beauty, is hope, is the fostering and sheltering of new forms of human life and relationship on and with this earth. The black flag means all these things. We are proud to carry it, sorry we have to, and look forward to the day when such a symbol will no longer be necessary
Appendix: On Anarchist Identity
Asked whether he himself was an anarchist, Santiago Sierra replied: “I regard anarchism as a political and behavioral philosophy with which I identify fully. However, anarchism is, above all, morality and implies a way of life without concessions. In this sense, I would not be, so much, because my life is far from that of any anarchist militant.”
This humble answer is reminiscent of the response of Chilean student José Domingo Gómez Rojas when special minister José Astorquiza demanded to know whether he was an anarchist: “I do not have, dear Minister, sufficient moral discipline to assume that noscript, which I will never merit.” Gómez Rojas was nonetheless murdered by the Chilean state while in custody.
The important thing is to destroy the mechanisms that centralize violence and control.
Why a black flag? It is the opposite of surrender...
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/the-flag-that-is-not-the-black-flag-of-anarchism/
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Bastiat, like many natural rights theorists, argues that God has given every person a right to defend their person, property, and liberty from the attacks of others. Since every person individually has the right to protect themselves, Bastiat explains, then they are perfectly justified in banding together and organizing a system that provides for every member’s defense against their personality, liberty, or property.
But Bastiat stresses that when people come together to form a state, they do not magically gain new powers or authorities. At all times, the collective right of defense “has its principle, its reason for existing, its lawfulness, in individual right.” Therefore, a group of people together cannot do anything that an individual would not be permitted to undertake alone. If it is unjust for one person to steal from another, then it cannot magically be made acceptable if any collective force or government does the same. Bastiat, throughout his essay, repeats this line: “the law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defence,” nothing more, nothing less.
LAW HAS LIMITS
For Bastiat, the law does not exist to regulate our personal lives, to redistribute wealth, or to organize and command people. At its best, the law is “a mere negation,” only requiring us not to harm others. What God we pray to, who we associate with, and how we earn an honest living are questions that the law itself cannot answer. We are left free by God to decide how best to answer these questions ourselves. Bastiat goes so far as to express that the law’s primary purpose is “to prevent injustice from reigning.”
However, Bastiat believes it rare for nations to properly relegate the law to its legitimate role of protecting people from the infringements, fraud, and attacks of others. Increasingly, the law perpetuates the very crimes it was established to prevent, and doing so on an unprecedented scale.
Laws are not handed to us on a silver platter; they must be conceived, created, and upheld by people. Yet those in power are not demi‐ gods. What Bastiat describes as the fatal tendency is universal. Politicians share that same flaw in their nature.
Bastiat laments that often “the law is made by one man or class of men” who are entrusted to make laws. Since everyone wishes to live with as little labor as possible, Bastiat explains that those in charge of the laws invariably will use them to plunder the population at large.
“Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, and gendarmes at the service of plunderers.” Worse yet, when legal plunder occurs the victim has no recourse as the law will treat them like a criminal if they attempt to defend their rights.
“See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.” If a law benefits one person at the expense of another, there is a high probability it is legal plunder. Secondly, if the law takes an action which a regular citizen cannot undertake without committing a crime, then legal plunder is likely afoot.
In a perfect world, the plundered would overthrow their current oppressors and abolish all legal plunder. However, Bastiat believes this is a rarity. Instead, often the plundered “may wish to share in it.” All of the competing interest groups, classes, and aggrieved begin to see the law, not as a check on injustice but a source of wealth hidden in the pockets of their neighbors.
Every group tries their best to acquire as large a share of legal plunder as they can by appealing to those who legislate. Bastiat laments that “the present‐ day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else.” Taking from one and giving to another merely moves pre‐ existing wealth around; new wealth is not created. Bastiat argues the state can actually drain wealth, as when state cronies dole out legal plunder to favored parties while, of course, taking a cut for themselves.
But Bastiat stresses that when people come together to form a state, they do not magically gain new powers or authorities. At all times, the collective right of defense “has its principle, its reason for existing, its lawfulness, in individual right.” Therefore, a group of people together cannot do anything that an individual would not be permitted to undertake alone. If it is unjust for one person to steal from another, then it cannot magically be made acceptable if any collective force or government does the same. Bastiat, throughout his essay, repeats this line: “the law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defence,” nothing more, nothing less.
LAW HAS LIMITS
For Bastiat, the law does not exist to regulate our personal lives, to redistribute wealth, or to organize and command people. At its best, the law is “a mere negation,” only requiring us not to harm others. What God we pray to, who we associate with, and how we earn an honest living are questions that the law itself cannot answer. We are left free by God to decide how best to answer these questions ourselves. Bastiat goes so far as to express that the law’s primary purpose is “to prevent injustice from reigning.”
However, Bastiat believes it rare for nations to properly relegate the law to its legitimate role of protecting people from the infringements, fraud, and attacks of others. Increasingly, the law perpetuates the very crimes it was established to prevent, and doing so on an unprecedented scale.
Laws are not handed to us on a silver platter; they must be conceived, created, and upheld by people. Yet those in power are not demi‐ gods. What Bastiat describes as the fatal tendency is universal. Politicians share that same flaw in their nature.
Bastiat laments that often “the law is made by one man or class of men” who are entrusted to make laws. Since everyone wishes to live with as little labor as possible, Bastiat explains that those in charge of the laws invariably will use them to plunder the population at large.
“Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, and gendarmes at the service of plunderers.” Worse yet, when legal plunder occurs the victim has no recourse as the law will treat them like a criminal if they attempt to defend their rights.
“See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.” If a law benefits one person at the expense of another, there is a high probability it is legal plunder. Secondly, if the law takes an action which a regular citizen cannot undertake without committing a crime, then legal plunder is likely afoot.
In a perfect world, the plundered would overthrow their current oppressors and abolish all legal plunder. However, Bastiat believes this is a rarity. Instead, often the plundered “may wish to share in it.” All of the competing interest groups, classes, and aggrieved begin to see the law, not as a check on injustice but a source of wealth hidden in the pockets of their neighbors.
Every group tries their best to acquire as large a share of legal plunder as they can by appealing to those who legislate. Bastiat laments that “the present‐ day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else.” Taking from one and giving to another merely moves pre‐ existing wealth around; new wealth is not created. Bastiat argues the state can actually drain wealth, as when state cronies dole out legal plunder to favored parties while, of course, taking a cut for themselves.
Bastiat explains that when he explained his idea to French socialists, they replied to him that if he didn’t want state‐ run education, or a mandated religion, or legally enforced equality, he was thus entirely opposed to education, religion, and equality.
https://www.libertarianism.org/articles/introduction-frederic-bastiats-law
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https://www.libertarianism.org/articles/introduction-frederic-bastiats-law
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You know what really annoys me with this Ukraine situation and all the public outcry about Russia bombing cities is the fact that all these people seem to forget about the ILLEGAL WAR in IRAQ and how our former Prime minister Tony Blair is a WAR CRIMINAL who has just literally been handed a KNIGHTHOOD.
The hypocrisy is staggering and the virtue signalling even worse.
The first question I would ask is this: If you were truly a madman and hell bent on conquest then what regard would you have for civilian casualties? If you surrounded a city that was full of enemy troops why not just bomb the whole thing and be done with it no more enemy right?
Second if you were in that city and there was a humanitarian corridor opened for evacuation why wouldn't you take it, unless you were being held hostage or afraid of being shot for leaving but then I refer to point one?
So if you took the opportunity to leave when it was available and were shot at for leaving or while leaving; WHAT IS THE PURPOSE and WHO BENEFITS from your presence?
If however YOU are the opposition in the city, and and know those who surrounded it wont bomb it because of the civilians (again point one) then the only reasonable explanation for not allowing anyone to leave or shooting civilians would be using them as "Human Shields"..
Do you not remember what the western alliance did to Iraq? How many civilians they killed with their "shock and awe" campaign on Baghdad? They levelled an entire city (and most of the country) and what do you do about it? Nothing. You just forget.
The same way you forgot how the allies during WW2 killed MILLIONS of civilians by carpet bombing entire swathes of heavily populated areas and infrastructure in Germany.
Or what about the needless deaths during Afghanistan where they took out entire generations of families to target one person?
Are you starting to see the problem here?
You only CARE when told to care by the talking heads of the propaganda media. Your emotions are not your own, your ideas and thoughts are not your own, you are simply a shell of a human being, living a life of conformity that you don't even understand you are part of.
The time has come to ask the difficult questions, to look at why you think and feel the way you do. Put down the TV remote and pick up your phone and start to do yourself some due diligence by putting together the current situation for yourself.
Those of us whom are asking the critical questions are pleading with you to see the error in your ways and come back onto the right side of history where you all belong.
The time has come to think for yourselves.
Your humanity actually depends upon it. 🖖🧐🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
You know what really annoys me with this Ukraine situation and all the public outcry about Russia bombing cities is the fact that all these people seem to forget about the ILLEGAL WAR in IRAQ and how our former Prime minister Tony Blair is a WAR CRIMINAL who has just literally been handed a KNIGHTHOOD.
The hypocrisy is staggering and the virtue signalling even worse.
The first question I would ask is this: If you were truly a madman and hell bent on conquest then what regard would you have for civilian casualties? If you surrounded a city that was full of enemy troops why not just bomb the whole thing and be done with it no more enemy right?
Second if you were in that city and there was a humanitarian corridor opened for evacuation why wouldn't you take it, unless you were being held hostage or afraid of being shot for leaving but then I refer to point one?
So if you took the opportunity to leave when it was available and were shot at for leaving or while leaving; WHAT IS THE PURPOSE and WHO BENEFITS from your presence?
If however YOU are the opposition in the city, and and know those who surrounded it wont bomb it because of the civilians (again point one) then the only reasonable explanation for not allowing anyone to leave or shooting civilians would be using them as "Human Shields"..
Do you not remember what the western alliance did to Iraq? How many civilians they killed with their "shock and awe" campaign on Baghdad? They levelled an entire city (and most of the country) and what do you do about it? Nothing. You just forget.
The same way you forgot how the allies during WW2 killed MILLIONS of civilians by carpet bombing entire swathes of heavily populated areas and infrastructure in Germany.
Or what about the needless deaths during Afghanistan where they took out entire generations of families to target one person?
Are you starting to see the problem here?
You only CARE when told to care by the talking heads of the propaganda media. Your emotions are not your own, your ideas and thoughts are not your own, you are simply a shell of a human being, living a life of conformity that you don't even understand you are part of.
The time has come to ask the difficult questions, to look at why you think and feel the way you do. Put down the TV remote and pick up your phone and start to do yourself some due diligence by putting together the current situation for yourself.
Those of us whom are asking the critical questions are pleading with you to see the error in your ways and come back onto the right side of history where you all belong.
The time has come to think for yourselves.
Your humanity actually depends upon it. 🖖🧐🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Woke-ism is an insane perversion of the reality of what it truly is to awaken. 🖖🧐🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️