tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720892118733899758.post5054761146558988403..comments2023-10-26T09:24:07.133+00:00Comments on COEXIST respect : action : harmony: Paradise Lost, or Active Redemption COEXISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051586683230955586noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720892118733899758.post-79571684183328614252017-08-31T06:22:31.223+00:002017-08-31T06:22:31.223+00:00This article is the basis of a discussion I was in...This article is the basis of a discussion I was invited to by Pippa Bartolotti, former leader of the Green Party of wales. Pippa is an inspirational person who I admire very much. <br />In common with the Green Party ( as political Entity) and the Inevitable spin that all Politics retreats into, particulalry the Green Party of Engalnd and Wales manifesto of 2017, as opposed to the 2015 effort which was head and shoulders above 2017´s risible effort, shows.<br />Whiclst I agree with many of the sentiments in this article I do find it long on rhetoric and very short on Evidence. A tragic evenbt prevented as a self evident truth is not Evidence it is a Faith Based appeal to the faithful, that way lies a lot of pitfalls particulalry in items where evidence can with patience be presented. <br />Jeremy Bentham hasd this to say on Self evident truths.<br />They are about “to assume,” as they tell us, “among the powers of the earth, that equal and separate ( 120 ) station to which” — they have lately discovered — “the laws of Nature, and of Nature’s God entitle them.” What difference these acute legislators suppose between the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, is more than I can take upon me to determine, or even to guess. If to what they now demand they were entitled by any law of God, they had only to produce that law, and all controversy was at an end. Instead of this, what do they produce? What they call sell-evident truths. “All men,” they tell us, “are created equal.” This rarity is a new discovery; now, for the first time, we learn, that a child, at the moment of his birth, has the same quantity of natural power as the parent, the same quantity of political power as the magistrate.<br />https://persistentenlightenment.com/.../details/cihm_20519<br /><br />To wit some evidence and debate no less, always bearing in mind that in Settled Seance 97% of Mediums agree that communication with the dead exists.<br />https://twitter.com/RogerGLewis/status/902786478371196928<br /><br />http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/08/more-on-eroi-letting-greens-know-score.html<br /><br />That Humans are both God an Satan we can leave for another day,<br />"We must now take precautions to prevent you from being embarrassed by something in which the ignorant majority is at fault for lack of proper consideration, and so from supposing with them, that man has not been created truly good simply because he is able to do evil. ... If you reconsider this matter carefully and force your mind to apply a more acute understanding to it, it will be revealed to you that man's status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior: it is on this choice between two ways, on this freedom to choose either alternative, that the glory of the rational mind is based, it is in this that the whole honor of our nature consists, it is from this that its dignity is derived." Pelagius.Longhaired bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17058948463599151617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720892118733899758.post-43185001166190729442017-08-31T06:19:24.290+00:002017-08-31T06:19:24.290+00:00This article is the basis of a discussion I was in...This article is the basis of a discussion I was invited to by Pippa Bartolotti, former leader of the Green Party of wales. Pippa is an inspirational person who I admire very much. <br />In common with the Green Party ( as political Entity) and the Inevitable spin that all Politics retreats into, particulalry the Green Party of Engalnd and Wales manifesto of 2017, as opposed to the 2015 effort which was head and shoulders above 2017´s risible effort, shows.<br />Whiclst I agree with many of the sentiments in this article I do find it long on rhetoric and very short on Evidence. A tragic evenbt prevented as a self evident truth is not Evidence it is a Faith Based appeal to the faithful, that way lies a lot of pitfalls particulalry in items where evidence can with patience be presented. <br />Jeremy Bentham hasd this to say on Self evident truths.<br />They are about “to assume,” as they tell us, “among the powers of the earth, that equal and separate ( 120 ) station to which” — they have lately discovered — “the laws of Nature, and of Nature’s God entitle them.” What difference these acute legislators suppose between the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, is more than I can take upon me to determine, or even to guess. If to what they now demand they were entitled by any law of God, they had only to produce that law, and all controversy was at an end. Instead of this, what do they produce? What they call sell-evident truths. “All men,” they tell us, “are created equal.” This rarity is a new discovery; now, for the first time, we learn, that a child, at the moment of his birth, has the same quantity of natural power as the parent, the same quantity of political power as the magistrate.<br />https://persistentenlightenment.com/.../details/cihm_20519<br /><br />To wit some evidence and debate no less, always bearing in mind that in Settled Seance 97% of Mediums agree that communication with the dead exists.<br />https://twitter.com/RogerGLewis/status/902786478371196928<br /><br />http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/08/more-on-eroi-letting-greens-know-score.html<br /><br />That Humans are both God an Satan we can leave for another day,<br />"We must now take precautions to prevent you from being embarrassed by something in which the ignorant majority is at fault for lack of proper consideration, and so from supposing with them, that man has not been created truly good simply because he is able to do evil. ... If you reconsider this matter carefully and force your mind to apply a more acute understanding to it, it will be revealed to you that man's status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior: it is on this choice between two ways, on this freedom to choose either alternative, that the glory of the rational mind is based, it is in this that the whole honor of our nature consists, it is from this that its dignity is derived." Pelagius.Longhaired bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17058948463599151617noreply@blogger.com