tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post4933471284358232710..comments2024-03-28T13:06:46.297+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Harsh life lessons resisted - and yet they might so 'easily' be learned...Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-30801150236979390142021-10-14T06:48:11.294+01:002021-10-14T06:48:11.294+01:00@J - It hadn't really struck me either, until ...@J - It hadn't really struck me either, until after I had written the post. But it is a contradiction that a society which is 'officially' pure materialism (such as the world now, or the USSR) - which implies that thoughts are merely epiphenomena; should also use this thought-crime concept (even if not named) that thoughts are the origin of actions, more important than actions - and the ultimate goal of policy is to monitor and control thoughts... even unconscious thoughts (e.g. the concept of implicit racism).<br /><br />I would say that at this advanced state of evil now, those who pursue evil are seldom simply evil - but usually at least doubly so; such that knowing the falseness requires At Least two contradictions of the mainstream story - never just one. Evils sustain one another like a web - and we cannot be freed by cutting a single strand. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-45804406139698456602021-10-14T04:35:01.842+01:002021-10-14T04:35:01.842+01:00For the first three quarters of this post, I was n...For the first three quarters of this post, I was nodding along. As a long time reader, I was following in the tracks we've already laid down, and nothing you wrote surprised me, though you articulated it better than I could have.<br /><br />So I was not ready for the surprise twist at the end! By the "end", I mean, "Or, is it because of the opposite: because at a deeper level than he is prepared to acknowledge Modern Man knows that the spiritual is objectively real; so that any-thing he thinks will affect reality - will change the world... And then he would be known as responsible for what happens! (i.e. The reality of 'thought-crime'.)"<br /><br />That is a very novel thought, not resembling any thought I have had before.<br /><br />Is that what's happening? It seems like it could be, although I never suspected it. It seems to have explanatory power. Maybe their gnostic and magical ways of thinking are not entirely wrong, but are just another evil inversion of some deeper truth, in this case a truth about the power of our thinking and its connection with salvation.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04699323493832882000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-3583309064686178712021-10-13T14:56:48.230+01:002021-10-13T14:56:48.230+01:00I feel as if things will continue on degenerating ...I feel as if things will continue on degenerating and "coming to a point" with most people not noticing even until Christians become public enemy #1, the Mark of the Beast arrives, and the majority are on board with it being "666 just to troll those selfish ignorant Christians" while proudly flaunting their Mark.David Earlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06090067437261800696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-60597036208681958692021-10-13T13:44:29.932+01:002021-10-13T13:44:29.932+01:00This is a problem I've been having for months:...This is a problem I've been having for months: fighting against the lure of sagging back into the comfy cushions of "Everything is normal". Sometimes it's like drifting off to sleep, only to suddenly jerk wide awake again, and remind myself, "No, things are NOT normal. They haven't been normal for almost 2 years, and so I'm not required to behave as if they were." Yet people look at us, we who have realized how out-of-tune the times are, with round-eyed amazement, wondering "What happened to so-and-so? I used to read his blog, but now's he's just lost it." No one will admit that our behaviour has changed because the world around us has changed. Instead, they plump for the easiest explanation, one which doesn't require any self-examination: "Suddenly, for no reason at all, everyone went insane." Dr. Mabusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04190706197508265132noreply@blogger.com