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Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
What I am not certain I agree with is that there is genius behind it all. I think that greedy and unethical people with a lot of power can all act in very similar ways without having a master plan. Sort of by a form of financial natural selective action. (ie; people who behave in x way tend to do better in our culture than people who behave in y fashion, and over time, there is a predominance of people behaving like x in the halls of power and privilege.) You can have people act in very similar ways without actual conscious collusion.
Originally posted by dodadoom
reply to post by Aislin
Oo, oo, can I answer this?
Bind the devil in hell for a thousand years so we can have some peace?
Sounds good. Maybe let him out after that for awhile to deceive again, then toss 'im in a lake of fire forever? What you got?
An alien conscienceness fix for humanity?
Hey whatever works I'm all for! Just throwin stuff up here.
People are starting to get freaky anyway...
Originally posted by dodadoom
reply to post by Bombeni
My nephew has dreams of chinese troops patrolling our streets.
They keep telling him they are here to help, everything will be the
same. Dunno, just kinda weird.....
[edit on 23-2-2009 by dodadoom]
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
reply to post by Aislin
They say you cannot cheat (or con) an honest person. My observation supports that. People who are conned, are often conned by being promised more than they know they should get. By thinking that they will be taking advantage of the con artist. Of course, the con artist knows this and is using it to their advantage. It is OUR individual greed that leads us to support greedy leaders. And the solution is painfully simple. We need to be less greedy ourselves.
[edit on 23-2-2009 by Illusionsaregrander]
Originally posted by interested-one
The only reason in my opinion that the bible still makes sense is because it touches and is based on mans (includes women) human nature. The bible is basically a reference for dealing with human nature during the course of your life. You must put others welfare before your own and such. I know much more is involved in the bible but human emotions and human nature have NEVER CHANGED since Jesus walked the earth.