Even though it's a bit of a struggle for me to relate spiritually esoteric relevance to a movie psychopath quoting scripture, especially from the Old Testament, I totally understand the wretched context and accept the challenge. The movie is brilliant in its depiction of violent and interwoven victimate. Ultimately, like that word, obsolete. The projection of retribution should be a bit more of an elegant suggestion if virtue is already a lost cause, so as to relate to the most base instincts and desires. If those instincts are rotten it won't be so difficult to treat the desire to dispatch with dispatch.
I read it on a cereal box...
As an aside, the ancient Ammonites referred to by Ezekiel were reputed to be regularly engaged in sacrificing children, so there you have it...
Even though it's a bit of a struggle for me to relate spiritually esoteric relevance to a movie psychopath quoting scripture, especially from the Old Testament, I totally understand the wretched context and accept the challenge. The movie is brilliant in its depiction of violent and interwoven victimate. Ultimately, like that word, obsolete. The projection of retribution should be a bit more of an elegant suggestion if virtue is already a lost cause, so as to relate to the most base instincts and desires. If those instincts are rotten it won't be so difficult to treat the desire to dispatch with dispatch.
I read it on a cereal box...
As an aside, the ancient Ammonites referred to by Ezekiel were reputed to be regularly engaged in sacrificing children, so there you have it...
I would think that a true advocate for change can find ways to productively advocate outside of the noise of the perpetual dead ends disguised as righteous ideals in search of progress.
Frustrating for sure, but only on the survival level of existence.
Notions of comfort aside, indifference won't survive. Nor will evil men.
âRepublics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.â
âIt is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you."
âMankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.â
Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. Arlo Guthrie
âDo not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.â
âThe laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore. The laws by which the winds blow, and the tides of the ocean, like a vast clepsydra, measure, with inimitable exactness, the hours of ever-flowing time; the laws by which the planets roll, and the sun vivifies and paints; the laws which preside over the subtle combinations of chemistry, and the amazing velocities of electricity; the laws of germination and production in the vegetable and animal worlds, â all these, radiant with eternal beauty as they are, and exalted above all the objects of sense, still wane and pale before the Moral Glories that apparel the universe in their celestial light. The heart can put on charms which no beauty of known things, nor imagination of the unknown, can aspire to emulate. Virtue shines in native colors, purer and brighter than pearl, or diamond, or prism, can reflect. Arabian gardens in their bloom can exhale no such sweetness as charity diffuses. Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies.â
âHabit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.â
