tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3180735610097937087..comments2024-03-29T12:03:37.344+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Values are a product of System - but which System? Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-64416028142460699152020-10-13T01:13:06.605+01:002020-10-13T01:13:06.605+01:00Thanks for opening comments back up, Bruce. I real...Thanks for opening comments back up, Bruce. I realize it must be a chore to sort through, but I do get quite a bit out of reading your responses to questions and others comments. This really seems to be the only sane place left for me outside of my family. Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14131427883067501547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-68800593308643203272020-10-12T17:18:40.286+01:002020-10-12T17:18:40.286+01:00Ironically, it is only be knowing, believing and a...Ironically, it is only be knowing, believing and acting as though there is a higher system above this materialistic evil that we can even begin to effectively oppose it.<br />Opposing it may or may not succeed on a macro level, but it can surely succeed at the level of the individual. And individuals who reach that point of connection to God and the higher transcendent system stand out. Some people will be inspired. Some will hate those who oppose this material system (probably a majority). But the alternative is just despair.Jacob Gittesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-91082790047594669502020-10-12T01:06:05.429+01:002020-10-12T01:06:05.429+01:00I often wonder if any of this will ever become app...I often wonder if any of this will ever become apparent to the average person, or will it just be subtle destruction over the next few decades that most people won't even notice.<br /><br />In hindsight, I can definitely notice a difference between modern society and how I grew up, but most people seem to brush this off as just normal progression of things and therefore there's nothing to really be said about it. There definitely isn't an evil agenda shifting things in a certain direction!<br /><br />I like to think it's a net positive overall that I'm aware of all this NOW and already moved beyond despair to acceptance and hope, and everybody out there living aloof will have it hit them like a ton of bricks in the near future. And then my advice and condolence will finally be relevant and wanted. However, I suspect that people's lives will just get increasingly dull and meaningless and they won't quite be able to put their finger on why or what exactly has occurred.<br /><br />It's all too perfectly spectacular, boring, unprecedented, and coordinated/uncoordinated for me to NOT think something divine and supernatural is taking place.David Earlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06090067437261800696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-47533660979758225212020-10-11T21:19:57.381+01:002020-10-11T21:19:57.381+01:00Thank you for continuing to post your trenchant ob...Thank you for continuing to post your trenchant observations.<br /><br />Three comments: 1) ironically, the System promotes a kind of "openness" to many things (race, sexuality, etc...) but _never_ to its current configuration or presuppositions. 2) System incoherence (a fractured mind) is a mark of the diabolical (compare & contrast to the birth of science in Christendom). 3) If things are "coming to a point," perhaps this unpleasant interregnum will be used to establish the final antichrist system (from masks to Marks)?<br /><br />God Bless!MagnusStouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16975404335377881030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-7049277402045651212020-10-11T20:18:21.471+01:002020-10-11T20:18:21.471+01:00@edwin - That's a good point. I hadn't not...@edwin - That's a good point. I hadn't noticed it in that way. Of course, it is of a piece with the fact that the billionaire 'Davos' Establishment who control everything, are the ones who make this accusation, which ought rationally to be directed against-themselves, but somehow ends up by being against everybody-else...Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-34884279961683431622020-10-11T18:37:45.898+01:002020-10-11T18:37:45.898+01:00Interesting that although the System is everything...Interesting that although the System is everything and its authority unquestionable, the word "systemic" is now used to describe all supposed evils: we have, most notably, systemic racism, systemic sexism, systemic patriarchy, systemic inequality, etc. We appear to be engaged in an orgy of self-destruction in which everything is systemic and everything is evil and must be destroyed. Individuals are now either the maintainers or destroyers of systemic evils, defined by the government and communicated through its subservient media. Everyone is eager to dissociate himself from one or another systemic evil so that he can escape condemnation. But there seems to be no escape: one is now a villain because of one's race or gender or forbears. All are guilty, except the punishers, but even they turn on one another. We seem to have arrived at the war of all against all. Those who would save themselves must become like the Desert Fathers, abandoning all hope in a brighter world and turning inward to look for God.edwin faustnoreply@blogger.com