tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post114052750664010715..comments2024-03-25T04:46:46.000-04:00Comments on Casting Pearls Before Swine: StressedMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140661230825744612006-02-22T21:20:00.000-05:002006-02-22T21:20:00.000-05:00Oh, Mark. I'm a doofus. I see now. :-)Oh, Mark. I'm a doofus. I see now. :-)Erudite Redneckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830721195868387265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140627175818964312006-02-22T11:52:00.000-05:002006-02-22T11:52:00.000-05:00ER,Assumptions made concerning the Marx in hell bi...ER,<BR/>Assumptions made concerning the Marx in hell bit... As far as I know, he never professed Christ. And while many communist try to say Christianity is a form of it, as long as it is a godless system, it has nothing to do with Christ.<BR/><BR/>BTW, check out my site, you will discover an old friend. :)<BR/>BlessingsTimothyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05701766558833763752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140614654522620112006-02-22T08:24:00.000-05:002006-02-22T08:24:00.000-05:00Ah, my brother, my idiot. That really was tastele...Ah, my brother, my idiot. That really was tasteless that time. (Idiot is a term of endearment between the two of us. Don't get too excited.)<BR/><BR/>Mark, lately I've been a little concerned about you. You sound kind of lonely. Maybe you should be getting out more. I know that's none of my business, but like I said, I'm concerned.<BR/><BR/>If I knew a good lady in your neck of the woods, I'd introduce you in a heartbeat.Daffy76https://www.blogger.com/profile/01410962054554919573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140584151076067372006-02-21T23:55:00.000-05:002006-02-21T23:55:00.000-05:00I'm not at all surprized that Helen Keller was a s...I'm not at all surprized that Helen Keller was a socialist...<BR/><BR/>She was deaf and blind, after all...<BR/><BR/>Okay, that was in bad taste.<BR/><BR/>Lord, I apologize for the Helen Keller remark, and be with all of the starving Pigmies down there in New Guinney...tugboatcapnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751281215697965077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140578524056732592006-02-21T22:22:00.000-05:002006-02-21T22:22:00.000-05:00It's right there in the post, ER...."Anyway, I am ...It's right there in the post, ER...."Anyway, I am grateful for the prayers and good thoughts from the two people I have shared this with. It is a comfort." <BR/><BR/>I only told two people what I was going through. You were one of them.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140578441978001582006-02-21T22:20:00.000-05:002006-02-21T22:20:00.000-05:00??I missed it, and I can't find it. But that's OK....??I missed it, and I can't find it. But that's OK.Erudite Redneckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830721195868387265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140577944219277502006-02-21T22:12:00.000-05:002006-02-21T22:12:00.000-05:00And you accuse me of going off-topic.....ER, I sai...And you accuse me of going off-topic.....<BR/><BR/>ER, I said I was grateful to you. Did you catch that?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140576091514235732006-02-21T21:41:00.000-05:002006-02-21T21:41:00.000-05:00Truthfully, I was not aware Helen Keller was socia...Truthfully, I was not aware Helen Keller was socialist. But it makes no difference. If I think a quote fits the subject, I will use it. I have used Adolph Hitler, and others I don't necessarily agree with in the quotes I use. I have been considering using quotes from Bertrand Russel, but haven't yet. He was one of the worlds most famous athiest.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140571481030770982006-02-21T20:24:00.000-05:002006-02-21T20:24:00.000-05:00Ah, well, there is this from the "Karl Marx" entry...Ah, well, there is this from the "Karl Marx" entry at Wikipedia:<BR/><BR/>Marx's acceptance of this notion of materialist dialectics which rejected Hegel's idealism was greatly influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach. In The Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach argued that God is really a creation of man and that the qualities people attribute to God are really qualities of humanity. Accordingly, Marx argued that it is the material world that is real and that our ideas of it are consequences, not causes, of the world. Thus, like Hegel and other philosophers, Marx distinguished between appearances and reality. But he did not believe that the material world hides from us the "real" world of the ideal; on the contrary, he thought that historically and socially specific ideologies prevented people from seeing the material conditions of their lives clearly.<BR/><BR/>Not much to go on. I sure wouldn't assume he -- or anyone else, really -- has a "corner of hell." Assumes too much power on the part of the man. Assumes too little power on the part of God.Erudite Redneckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830721195868387265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140571040810949332006-02-21T20:17:00.000-05:002006-02-21T20:17:00.000-05:00Religion is one thing; Christ is another.Religion ...Religion is one thing; Christ is another.<BR/><BR/>Religion IS the opiate, or the distraction, of the people. Christ is the savior.<BR/><BR/>Mark, re; so what? You bash liberals at EVERY TURN. It would seem beneath you to quote one approvingly.<BR/><BR/>Unless, you know, you're, you know, being, you know, inconsistent or something. :-)<BR/><BR/>Titus, on what ground do you condemn Karl Marx to hell. I'm just askin' -- was he explicitly anti-Christian? I really do not know. I've got his mangum opus around here somewhere, but I haven't read much of it ...Erudite Redneckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830721195868387265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140553070251585022006-02-21T15:17:00.000-05:002006-02-21T15:17:00.000-05:00Mark,Give me my opiates of the people... give me C...Mark,<BR/>Give me my opiates of the people... give me Christ, let us be like Him... Karl Marx can have his own corner of hell all to himself. <BR/><BR/>Hell is the opiates of the godless.<BR/>BlessingsTimothyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05701766558833763752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140552723888552662006-02-21T15:12:00.000-05:002006-02-21T15:12:00.000-05:00No complaints, here, friend. I'm just sayin'...No complaints, here, friend. I'm just sayin'...Dan Trabuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14303597141397042669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140549601638887432006-02-21T14:20:00.000-05:002006-02-21T14:20:00.000-05:00Dan, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creatu...Dan, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx <BR/><BR/>There. I quoted another one. So what?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140545226756404902006-02-21T13:07:00.000-05:002006-02-21T13:07:00.000-05:00You know, don't you, that you're quoting a well-kn...You know, don't you, that you're quoting a well-known socialist in Helen Keller (as well as a wonderfully wise woman)?<BR/><BR/>In response to a newspaper (the Eagle) she wrote:<BR/><BR/>"Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! What an ungallant bird it is! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent. The Eagle is willing to help us prevent misery provided, always provided, that we do not attack the industrial tyranny which supports it and stops its ears and clouds its vision. The Eagle and I are at war. I hate the system which it represents, apologizes for and upholds. When it fights back, let it fight fair. Let it attack my ideas and oppose the aims and arguments of Socialism."<BR/><BR/>Your scary socialist moment of the day, brought to you by Miss Helen Keller.Dan Trabuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14303597141397042669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1140532787761771412006-02-21T09:39:00.000-05:002006-02-21T09:39:00.000-05:00Mark,Glad to hear the problem is dwindling away. I...Mark,<BR/>Glad to hear the problem is dwindling away. I think most of our stress in our world revolves around money. There never seems to be enough, even when we have one dollar more. I was going through the tax stress yesterday, trying to get every thing in order to take to the accountant. Yes, I felt a bit of stress as well. I kept laughing to myself, wondering if there could not be a more secular endeavor, when friend reminded me that rendering to Caesar was biblical as well. That helped on the perspective for me. But I love the foxhole analogy. Comparitively speaking, we have it easy here in the states.<BR/>BlessingsTimothyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05701766558833763752noreply@blogger.com