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Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Esoteric Teacher
Laws are natural and cannot be invented. Legislation is not law but merely evidence of law. Laws are self explanatory, and when legislation requires explanation, (which is almost always explained as being for your own good), this is the first sign that such legislation is not law. If something is for your own good, it requires no explanation.
The concept of law applied to human-beings cannot be seen as natural as we are less and less submissive to "nature".
What you call natural, I call basic common-sense.
Thus, laws are indeed created (see "law of the fittest") as they are no law to be discovered in "nature" but the laws of physics which are not choice-dependent.
Legislation is not evidence of law, it is merely an extension (for the worse I agree) of the first set of rules we choose to guide our lives.
Laws are not transmited through the genome, so we have to learn/understand them. As of it, laws ALWAYS require explanation as there are reasons for them to be chosen/selected. Even common-sense (what SEEMS to be fair/just) evolve with society and human understanding of ourselves. See ethics/moral.
Originally posted by mothershipzeta
Originally posted by 23refugee
How odd that you've chosen to quote the term "redneck" used in that context in a thread dedicated to uniting the common man against a tyrannical government.
Weren't the rednecks responsible for the largest armed uprising against the federal government, the common people who gave their lives fighting against a military weilded by the coporate elite?
Yes, the "rednecks" gave their lives. But they were fighting FOR a landed, wealthy elite who wanted to keep things as they were.
Originally posted by Jimerton
My view sees the biggest problem we discontents have is communication. With big brother listening to everything, how can we stay in touch with each other when/if we do challenge TPTB?
Originally posted by Dr. Livingston
Tell me then, how would we fight against an Apache war rig? .............So tell me ATS peoples how would we succeed? hmmm?
Originally posted by Druidae
Red Fox to Grey Squirrel, The Eagle has flown the nest!
~Druidae
Originally posted by nenothtu
Originally posted by Druidae
Red Fox to Grey Squirrel, The Eagle has flown the nest!
~Druidae
I heard that exact phrase once before, about 30 years ago or so. Do I know you?
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Esoteric Teacher
Laws are natural and cannot be invented.
Legislation is not law but merely evidence of law. Laws are self explanatory, and when legislation requires explanation, (which is almost always explained as being for your own good), this is the first sign that such legislation is not law. If something is for your own good, it requires no explanation.
Originally posted by Hack28
Originally posted by nenothtu
Originally posted by Druidae
Red Fox to Grey Squirrel, The Eagle has flown the nest!
~Druidae
I heard that exact phrase once before, about 30 years ago or so. Do I know you?
greatest memory ever
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Esoteric Teacher
John Paul,
Thank you for engaging in this debate, and before addressing some of your questions and concerns, I would first address any concerns some might have that our side bar of debate might be off topic. I would suggest that in a thread discussing the inevitability of revolution, the law is very much on topic.
…, I would first address any concerns some might have that our side bar of debate might be off topic. I would suggest that in a thread discussing the inevitability of revolution, the law is very much on topic.
I believe you are equating legislation and rules with law. Laws are universal and apply to everyone, everywhere. Laws are not contradictory, but legislation and rules certainly can be.
It is important to make the clear distinction between laws, and rules. Rules are guidelines created to mark boundaries within a game. …***SNIP***…That disregard for the law in no way diminishes the law, and instead diminishes the man who would disregard it.
Rules, on the other hand, can and should be challenged when they are working against you. Laws do not work against you. Rules often times do. I have come to develop my understanding of rules that work against you and what one must do when faced with such rules, and I call this understanding the Captain Kirk Principle.
…and I call this understanding the Captain Kirk Principle.
It has been years since I have seen that movie, so I am paraphrasing the lines, but this was the crux of it. Kirk understood that as an officer and captain of a starfleet ship that his primary concern was to protect his crew and ship, so he did what was necessary to do so in a scenario where no chance of survival was the game. He rightly understood that such a rule was contradictory to the game of command, and so he acted according to his mandate as a starfleet commander, and changed the rules so that his crew may survive.
Survival is the key, and when rules are thrust upon people, clearly diminishing the chance for survival, those rules are arbitrary rules that have been put in place to rig the game so only a privileged few can win. Winning is not contingent upon privilege, it is contingent upon besting your opponents. If rules work against you so that by playing the game your only option is to lose, then the only option is to change the rules.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
… I would suggest that in a thread discussing the inevitability of revolution, the law is very much on topic.