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Julius, this is NOT a culture war, and nothing philosophical about it at all. We are and have been for quite some time, in a very HOT war and thousands if not millions have already been maimed or killed.
This is not a War that almost anyone will or has recognized as such as it is being fought with people's health and state of mind, their very thinking or ways of thinking in fact.
ALL living men and living women are being forced to do what many avoid whether they know it or not, and that is to stand in their claim for what they believe and therein lies the very centre of the problem. What do people actually believe?
A friend addressing a hall of people will ask - 1. hand up who has an opinion about the Christian Bible whatever it may be? 99% hands go up. 2. Who has read the bible fullyu keep their hand up? 3-5 out of maybe 100 still up. 3. How can you have an opinion about a book you have not read? 4. So how did you get your opinion?
It is difficult to impossible to be truly independent minded when many or most of the opinions or beliefs we think are 'us' or our own are not.
With no true ethical core and no morel code we hold next to life itself people are hollow empty vessels and their souls simply blow around with the winds.
People like to thjink they are responsible and accountable. Are they in reality?
I agree that this is already far more than just a cultural or philosophical war in any traditional sense even though armies are not yet on the march — the victims are already piling up in many different ways. It's heartbreaking to see what is going on all around us even as this war is completely invisible to many, including to many of the victims who often defend the very people and systems that are destroying their lives.
Of all the different forms of freedom to which we aspire, the "ability to follow our own independent compass" in both thought and action is, I think, the most rare.
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Excellent advice, thank you Kalle!
Julius, this is NOT a culture war, and nothing philosophical about it at all. We are and have been for quite some time, in a very HOT war and thousands if not millions have already been maimed or killed.
This is not a War that almost anyone will or has recognized as such as it is being fought with people's health and state of mind, their very thinking or ways of thinking in fact.
ALL living men and living women are being forced to do what many avoid whether they know it or not, and that is to stand in their claim for what they believe and therein lies the very centre of the problem. What do people actually believe?
A friend addressing a hall of people will ask - 1. hand up who has an opinion about the Christian Bible whatever it may be? 99% hands go up. 2. Who has read the bible fullyu keep their hand up? 3-5 out of maybe 100 still up. 3. How can you have an opinion about a book you have not read? 4. So how did you get your opinion?
It is difficult to impossible to be truly independent minded when many or most of the opinions or beliefs we think are 'us' or our own are not.
With no true ethical core and no morel code we hold next to life itself people are hollow empty vessels and their souls simply blow around with the winds.
People like to thjink they are responsible and accountable. Are they in reality?
I agree that this is already far more than just a cultural or philosophical war in any traditional sense even though armies are not yet on the march — the victims are already piling up in many different ways. It's heartbreaking to see what is going on all around us even as this war is completely invisible to many, including to many of the victims who often defend the very people and systems that are destroying their lives.
Of all the different forms of freedom to which we aspire, the "ability to follow our own independent compass" in both thought and action is, I think, the most rare.
probably because of the very low survival rate ! :-)