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One Love
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| Posted 9/27/2005 1:19 PM (GMT -6) |   | [IMPORTANT NOTE: The first of the sites below will show at least 2 VERY graphic and disturbing scenes involving Amerian soldiers posing with dead bodies and the like. Again, it's graphic. So consider this your warning for kids, parents or whatever. (For YOU, T.  ) ]
And this AFTER what we know about Gitmo and Abu Gharib...  Honest questions for after reading: 1. Can you even BEGIN to imagine what's gonna happen when wind of this really starts getting out to the world news centers, specifically BBCNews and/or Al Jazeera?? 2. Is anyone ELSE thinking about Germany 1945, with respect to the sheer callousness to human pain and suffering? I'm so glad that the Kingdom of God is NOT identical with Americanism, an OBVIOUS kingdom of this world. 
To all heresy-hunters and general lames...
"I'm connected nationwide, but from the South...
Respect game, and keep my name outcha mouth!"
--adapted from T.I. From P$C's "I'm a King"
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Similitude
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| Posted 9/27/2005 5:19 PM (GMT -6) | | | Sobering stuff! Also, see http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger59.html for a recent example of how far our government will go even against American citizens.
2. Is anyone ELSE thinking about Germany 1945, with respect to the sheer callousness to human pain and suffering?
Indeed, and the callous sanction of partial-birth abortion certainly has contributed to our national desensitization just as Hitler's life-devaluing policies did in Germany. I shudder to think of what else we may see justified by the State in our life times.
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selah
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| Posted 9/28/2005 4:51 AM (GMT -6) | | MephEternal said...[IMPORTANT NOTE: The first of the sites below will show at least 2 VERY graphic and disturbing scenes involving Amerian soldiers posing with dead bodies and the like. Again, it's graphic. So consider this your warning for kids, parents or whatever. (For YOU, T.  ) ]
selah:
Thanks Mephi. I appreciate that!
Meph:
2. Is anyone ELSE thinking about Germany 1945, with respect to the sheer callousness to human pain and suffering?
selah:
Yes.It's terrible. But it's not unique to this situation. We see similar "sheer callousness to human pain and suffering" in many popular "ACTION" movies too. Not to mention the lyrics to many popular songs... In fact, many of the ways we "entertain" ourselves are MESSED UP... and we keep raising the bar. I used to ask myself why? Now I know. Check out this clip I took from a link connected to your second article:
"Why would a site devoted to sex also reduce the horrors of combat to a spectator sport? According to one expert, this confluence of pornography and violent combat images may have roots in the way the human brain processes high-arousal information.
"For some people, any arousal--it doesn't matter if it is a negative image or a pornographic image--if it takes away the boring humdrum of everyday existence, it's all the better," says David Zald, a Vanderbilt University psychologist who studies how the brain processes emotional stimuli. "
Yep. That's what I THOUGHT!! raise the bar ...pass the popcorn ....press start...pulp fiction is on!!!
Mephi:
I'm so glad that the Kingdom of God is NOT identical with Americanism, an OBVIOUS kingdom of this world.
selah:
I'm so glad that the kingdom of God is NOT identical with America OR ITALY OR FRANCE OR AMSTERDAM, all obvious kingdoms of this world.
another clip- first article (emphasis mine):
"The soldiers thing, I think the ITALIANS picked it up first," Wilson says. "I've done interviews with the Italians, the French, Amsterdam. ... They were very critical, saying the US WOULDN'T pick it up, because it's such a sore spot. ... It raises too many ethical questions. ... I started to laugh, because it's true."
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BY the way, I wonder if that guy Wilson is married - WOW- what a catch!!!!!
Thanks again for the warning Meph.
love ya,
T
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"Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes—but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
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