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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I am not much of a fan of Mr. Shapiro
but I did see <br>
a bit of wit attributed to him, a snappy<br>
comeback to some weird deranged chick about the Boy Scouts.<br>
<br>
Ben Shapiro may understand the so-called Judaeo-Christian
tradition as he wants to imagine it<br>
but the first thing that comes to mind to those seeking meaning in
life is<br>
<br>
<i>Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes ; vanitas vanitatum, et
omnia vanitas.</i><br>
<br>
It's kind of secret but it is a solution within itself.<br>
<br>
Interesting choice of words there "suicide jumped..."<br>
I am not sure what the similar catchy phrase would be for ODing<br>
and maybe Ben didnt either. <br>
Oh. I got it.<br>
"...lives wasted in drug overdoses rushed upwards by ..."<br>
<br>
Drug overdosing is really pretty dull, <br>
it's sort of like being sick, I'd think.<br>
It aint much fun when ya think about it.<br>
<br>
I was mystified by this business of atomization of individuals.<br>
My grandmother had these perfume bottles on her dresser<br>
that I never saw her use but I supposed that she atomized herself
<br>
some times in the past before I was a boy.<br>
<br>
I had read something about atoms and was always a little <br>
afraid of those atomizers, and my grandma indeed bade me<br>
to touch them not.<br>
<br>
...atomizing... classical liberals...<br>
I dont much feature a Thomas Paine or John Locke spraying himself
with eau de <br>
<i>anything</i> (although maybe Oscar Wilde or even Newton [Isaac,
not John] might,<br>
but I am not sure if they were really classical liberals...)<br>
so I really dont know what Ben is going after. I found some
reference to it under<br>
Bill Moyers but he used so many other words that I didnt
understand<br>
that I was like a grade school student looking up some enigmatic
polysyllabic <br>
sesquipedalianism and finding another inscrutable word as the
definition.<br>
<br>
I would guess that there is somewhat a loss of values in yer
post-Modern America<br>
(ok, ok, I used a c not the standard k)<br>
but those values aren't exactly the express domain of the
so-called JudaeoChristian<br>
domain. Those are pretty much standard values and it is a good
thing<br>
when the JudaeoChristians actually do embrace them.<br>
<br>
Any one can figure those values out on their own if they<br>
sit and think about it. Does anyone have to tell you<br>
what is good? The Creator is revealed in his Creation.<br>
<br>
The call for enlightenment is a very interesting one but I am
suspicious <br>
of Mr. Shapiro that what he is offering up is not exactly
enlightenment, <br>
or freedom, either.<br>
<br>
It is hard to ignore that the USA is regressing and has been a has
been in the <br>
making for quite a little while. <br>
<br>
One possible future is muddling despair. <br>
In some ways this is happening already.<br>
<br>
Another is physical violence and physical fragmentation<br>
not just mild disagreement and rock throwing and funny hats.<br>
Actually that future is rather likely.<br>
<br>
Yet another is spiritual revival.<br>
That is not impossible.<br>
<br>
Finem loquendi pariter omnes audiamus. <br>
Deum time, et mandata ejus observa : hoc est enim omnis homo, <span
class="reftext"><br>
</span>et cuncta quæ fiunt adducet Deus in judicium pro omni
errato, <br>
sive bonum, sive malum illud sit.<br>
<br>
ewj<br>
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Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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