[Peace-discuss] Urbana City Council meeting last night

[John W.]

At 02:44 PM 4/15/2008, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

>"...woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out 
>of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others 
>are going in, you stop them."  Cf., e.g., the treatment of the Samaritan woman.


"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can 
know it?  I the Lord search the heart; I try the reins, even to render to 
every man according to his deeds, and according to the fruit of his doings."



>Karen Medina wrote:
>
>>cge>>flakier than a basket of fresh croissants.
>>
>>jw>Oh, indeed.  Much better to have a bunch of tough cookies
>>
>>
>>I've just recently realized that Jeez tends to regard more harshly those 
>>that he considers fakes than those he considers to be polar opposites.
>>
>>On that note, I'll share a quote from an email signature. If one thinks 
>>of the US and its role in Iraq while reading it, it has quite an effect:
>>
>>"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its 
>>victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber 
>>barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty 
>>may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but 
>>those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for 
>>they do so with the approval of their own conscience." C.S. Lewis