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Sunday, November 11, 2007
12:01 PM
I think sometimes that people caught trafficking people, date-rape drugs, even these images should be shot at the side of the road by the arresting officer.
I don't want to live in the kind of world where people assign power over death to one, or a small group, or even all people through some democratic arrangement. Neither do I want to live in a world in which people rape and murder each other. Nor do I want to take up arms in this human river of slavery and blood. Yet those seem at times to be the choices presented us by what we accept as circumstance and principle, the only choices available.
It is difficult to accept that some other world is possible, in which humans choose not to do evil, but to follow, each in their own way, a light. One might even be tempted to say, that "only Jesus can provide the light!" or "only Mohammed!" or "only Punjab!" or whoever, or some un-thing that is nothing at all, an acceptance of negation of the self, which provides a false sense of self-justification for all that you do. Christians believe that Jesus is the way to salvation, but he himself said that God is the light, and God has given you a part of that light, your "lamp" by which to find your way through darkness.
But life is something one only reckons once. If one can be brought back from the dead, under that supposition it would still be just as much YOUR LIFE, with your choices to make.
Since clearly, a police state has not blessed this particular nation with peace, nor would it ever ours, a just nation and a just world must recognize the true challenge that must be faced: that none of us should choose to do things to another person who has not an equal capacity for choice, or which diminishes the capacity for choice. Only when we get that straight and we can figure out how to talk to each other will human beings ever stop their disgusting mis-use of others' bodies against their will. This certainly includes children, babies, and legally includes pre-born infants after six months term, all for the same reason; why our reason draws such an arbitrary line then, or why mindless political chanters do too, I shall never fathom. Otherwise, these reasons do not mean anything.
If the world were overrun by rage and lust, heavenly fire might be the only discernible option, and sadly, many want it so; they descend so far into their own pain that they give up. While the fire of the plains may have been natural sulfur eruptions, who knows, maybe Lot's guidance from the silver angels recorded in the book was everything it appeared to be. All too conveniently, we have our chained-up nuclear Hell at our disposal.
Everything is at stake, at every level of how we live with each other. The true challenge is we must all transcend, we must all choose to look past the barriers between us. Do we believe some must die in that unfolding process, just as the many innocent who have died at their hands? Is that question itself a pull away from the light that we believe in to know that such people are wrong in everything they did to their victims?
Dateline NBC and Perverted Justice keep reeling them in. Entrapment, no, it is not entrapment. No one could entrap me into that, because I'm not interested in sex with kids, and if these people were not, they wouldn't be guilty. Tie them up and give them a cigarette, then one two three, bang, or put them away in a hole and throw away the key. Neither can we go on forever dragging an endless train of people into jail. What if one day, some rival police state knocks our economy out from under our feet and the true criminals all break out?
Sex offenders and others can talk their way through parole without believing it, and go free to commit another crime, at which time, one would hope, they lose their last chance. But we cannot delude ourselves that jail is magically free of crime. I have heard lots of people make jokes about prison rape, because they are guilty they deserve to be victimized, but this only perpetuates the idea that the right to live unmolested by others is something only granted by the people, that it is not an innate right but only assigned through an invented compact between lawyers and legislators. If that were true, then these maniacs just couldn't help themselves, they are simply imprints in a machine, and it will go on forever. If you accept that kind of excuse, and rejoice for vengeance, then you accept the idea that we can never live in a world free from people hurting each other.
Yet I do believe that people can choose to care, they can make choices to live right. They can overcome the demonic urges that victimize themselves, they can choose not to victimize others, and they can again seek the light. Perhaps some do. That is the challenge, to bring about such a world. Cops shooting people at the side of the road would not do that.
death by firing squad?
I was looking at pictures of sexy adult women in their underwear, and less, the other day, and one gallery system persisted in presenting links to pictures of little girls, a site served out of a country that is said by some to be a police state. (You can report this kind of thing to http://www.missingkids.com and they will forward to the local cops.)I think sometimes that people caught trafficking people, date-rape drugs, even these images should be shot at the side of the road by the arresting officer.
I don't want to live in the kind of world where people assign power over death to one, or a small group, or even all people through some democratic arrangement. Neither do I want to live in a world in which people rape and murder each other. Nor do I want to take up arms in this human river of slavery and blood. Yet those seem at times to be the choices presented us by what we accept as circumstance and principle, the only choices available.
It is difficult to accept that some other world is possible, in which humans choose not to do evil, but to follow, each in their own way, a light. One might even be tempted to say, that "only Jesus can provide the light!" or "only Mohammed!" or "only Punjab!" or whoever, or some un-thing that is nothing at all, an acceptance of negation of the self, which provides a false sense of self-justification for all that you do. Christians believe that Jesus is the way to salvation, but he himself said that God is the light, and God has given you a part of that light, your "lamp" by which to find your way through darkness.
But life is something one only reckons once. If one can be brought back from the dead, under that supposition it would still be just as much YOUR LIFE, with your choices to make.
Since clearly, a police state has not blessed this particular nation with peace, nor would it ever ours, a just nation and a just world must recognize the true challenge that must be faced: that none of us should choose to do things to another person who has not an equal capacity for choice, or which diminishes the capacity for choice. Only when we get that straight and we can figure out how to talk to each other will human beings ever stop their disgusting mis-use of others' bodies against their will. This certainly includes children, babies, and legally includes pre-born infants after six months term, all for the same reason; why our reason draws such an arbitrary line then, or why mindless political chanters do too, I shall never fathom. Otherwise, these reasons do not mean anything.
If the world were overrun by rage and lust, heavenly fire might be the only discernible option, and sadly, many want it so; they descend so far into their own pain that they give up. While the fire of the plains may have been natural sulfur eruptions, who knows, maybe Lot's guidance from the silver angels recorded in the book was everything it appeared to be. All too conveniently, we have our chained-up nuclear Hell at our disposal.
Everything is at stake, at every level of how we live with each other. The true challenge is we must all transcend, we must all choose to look past the barriers between us. Do we believe some must die in that unfolding process, just as the many innocent who have died at their hands? Is that question itself a pull away from the light that we believe in to know that such people are wrong in everything they did to their victims?
Dateline NBC and Perverted Justice keep reeling them in. Entrapment, no, it is not entrapment. No one could entrap me into that, because I'm not interested in sex with kids, and if these people were not, they wouldn't be guilty. Tie them up and give them a cigarette, then one two three, bang, or put them away in a hole and throw away the key. Neither can we go on forever dragging an endless train of people into jail. What if one day, some rival police state knocks our economy out from under our feet and the true criminals all break out?
Sex offenders and others can talk their way through parole without believing it, and go free to commit another crime, at which time, one would hope, they lose their last chance. But we cannot delude ourselves that jail is magically free of crime. I have heard lots of people make jokes about prison rape, because they are guilty they deserve to be victimized, but this only perpetuates the idea that the right to live unmolested by others is something only granted by the people, that it is not an innate right but only assigned through an invented compact between lawyers and legislators. If that were true, then these maniacs just couldn't help themselves, they are simply imprints in a machine, and it will go on forever. If you accept that kind of excuse, and rejoice for vengeance, then you accept the idea that we can never live in a world free from people hurting each other.
Yet I do believe that people can choose to care, they can make choices to live right. They can overcome the demonic urges that victimize themselves, they can choose not to victimize others, and they can again seek the light. Perhaps some do. That is the challenge, to bring about such a world. Cops shooting people at the side of the road would not do that.
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I happen to believe Jesus is the way to resurrection and salvation on Earth and the heavens, and whatever unknown places out there that exist, but there are plenty of different ways for people to believe that can result, together, in a harmonious world in which children and others who cannot defend themselves all live in peace, including mine. To proscribe in advance a systematic "truth" for other people to believe is like the Pharisees, by systematically defining, they restrict the idea of truth to the system of symbols by which we communicate, in effect, they all mistake the messenger for the message.
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USChristianDemocrats.org editor : November 11, 2007 3:16 PM
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