tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5864073856265243675..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Resist implemented evil - solo dissidenceBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-51066852541668688272018-01-21T13:29:14.800+00:002018-01-21T13:29:14.800+00:00I think one of the great examples of not giving up...I think one of the great examples of not giving up in my lifetime is Poland. They had no chance of ever getting out from under communism and Russia, yet between the Catholic Church and their intense loyalty to Poland they prevailed and were even instrumental in bringing down the Soviet Union.And here I thought nationalism was always bad, but there you are: God 1, Evil 0. Ever since the scales began to fall from my eyes in the 80s I have found myself increasingly in the 'solo' position. It is still difficult to know when to speak up and how, but you are right it is fear that has held me back when I later recognise I should have spoken up. lgudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12774491337993415578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-6804152305636677662018-01-21T05:10:59.135+00:002018-01-21T05:10:59.135+00:00It is always only after a crime has been committed...It is always only after a crime has been committed that we are in any position to apply a corrective reprisal against the criminal. Great crimes no less than small ones cannot be fought until someone actually commits them.Chiu ChunLinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519192610708043962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-23647694280023609882018-01-20T13:26:24.028+00:002018-01-20T13:26:24.028+00:00@WIlliam. A valuable addition.
For most of us, t...@WIlliam. A valuable addition. <br /><br />For most of us, the problem is fear - and an insufficient recognition of the opposition between fear and love. It is often fear that drives pride - or, we try to 'use' pride to overcome the fear. <br /><br />And then I would say that faith in God (a loving and personal God) is the only real antidote to fear: the stronger that faith, the better it can overcome fear.<br /><br />Of ocurse, we are here in mortal life to learn, so we will recurrently be challenged by fear - our task, each time, is to overcome it with love. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-24658801898228727792018-01-20T12:48:21.814+00:002018-01-20T12:48:21.814+00:00This ties in with your previous post. If you are a...This ties in with your previous post. If you are able, through real repentance, purification of the ego self, prayer, imaginative response to nature and scripture etc, to make a connection to what you call Christ in the etheric and I think of as the living image of Christ in the heart, then, whatever the nonsense in the world, you will be able to resist that because you know the truth that goes beyond it. But you have to have faith and courage, and a certain amount of pig-headedness helps too.<br /><br />But it is essential that you resist being corralled into accepting falsehood just because everyone else appears to or, even worse, because acceptance of this falsehood is supposed to be what defines a decent person. At the same time, we must not allow ourselves to slip into the opposite reaction of pride that we know better than the rest of them. If we are able to resist worldly indoctrination we should know it is by the grace of God that we do so. Certainly it is to our own credit too because free will is always involved, but it is God’s grace that has given us the insight to resist.<br />William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.com