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Saturday, July 6, 2019

The Greek Warrior Philoctetes & My Obligation To Publish Views That Are Personally Repugnant

I understand occasional need for “political silence.”
However, Trump’s unrelenting passion for non-disclosure — coupled with his footsy-playing fondness for a meddling enemy of the United States is a toxic brew that will have predictably toxic results.
Truth cannot prevail when assailed by so much darkness.
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  • KK You'd rather provoke Putin to using weapons of mass destruction on whoever he considers to be an "enemy?" It's not Trump who sold 20% of our country's uranium to Russians so they could line their own pockets with the gold they stole from American citiSee More

    • KK: well he didn't return and it's sad to me but it was a theory and I never said it was TRUTH.. only that I believed it was possible and so hopeful to me that he would because I love this country and wanted us to heal. I know if JFK Jr. is alive and willing to risk his own life and all he enjoys of whatever he has found in way of peace and happiness for himself to serve the kind of ungrateful HATEFUL humans who continue to slander and demonstrate so openly their HATE towards anyone who dares to oppose the spoiled rotten brats acting out in this generation ? If I were John and had survived what he did to save his family if it's true he had I would have a very hard time even thinking about returning to a country where his own father had been killed by a party who got away with murder and continues to push murder and legalizing the most perverse imaginable sexually immoral behavior as their main agenda. Not to mention they continue to punish anyone who publicly rebukes them for acting out in ways that make most of us sick to our stomachs.
  • Fred Owens Could you please block Karen K?
    • Alan Archibald I have long considered the ancient Greek tale of Philoctetes an essential myth - and, oddly, a myth that is essentially overlooked. (In passing I note that mutual friend Ron Firman brought Philoctetes to my attention in the late '70s.)

      Philoctetes was a sailor/warrior who, returning from The Trojan War, was bitten by a poisonous snake during a provisioning stop. 

      The resulting wound would not heal and gave off such a repulsive stench that his mates marooned him on the island of Lemnos.

      From that moment, Philoctetes' ship could make no progress against unrelenting headwinds.

      Finally, this ceaseless adversity persuaded his former crew members that the gods were punishing them for abandoning their fellow. 

      And so they returned to Lemnos to pluck Philoctetes from his exile. Immediately, "the winds" turned in their favor.

      Notably, Philoctetes was the single mythological "subject" most frequently "treated" by ancient Greek tragedians.

      Philoctetes

      Wikipedia

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoctetes

      Ever since learning this curious tale, I have lived with a keen sense that "abandoning one's fellows" -- no matter how they "stink" -- is "against the will of the gods."

      And so I am bound to give Karen a soapbox for as long as she wishes to contribute.

      You are familiar with many of my criticisms concerning "conservative" "Christians" and the "authoritarian absolutism" that undergirds their essentially unkind, merciless, punitive disposition.

      I will also mention what I consider "conservative" "Christians'" essentially selfish (and fearful) quest for personal salvation. By way of counterpoint, consider The Bodhisattva Vow: https://www.lionsroar.com/the-bodhisattva/

      Couple "conservative" "Christians'" punitive disposition with absolutism's need to protect belief by forcing Reality to fit "divinely ordained" credos, and the inevitable outcome is not only conservatives' willingness -- but their eagerness -- to tell ANY lie in defense of ANY philosophical or theological "truth" they deem indispensable.

      Consider QAnon's nonsense about John Kennedy Junior: 

      John Kennedy Jr. Is Not "Returning" On July 4, 2019, And On July 5, QAnoners Will Tell Us He Did
      https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../john-kennedy-jr...

      "Conservative" "Christians'" ultimate justification for visiting retaliatory vengeance on non-believing "infidels" is that you and I are "baby killers" and they, of course, are completely removed from such utterly damnable monstrosity.

      But if we take a deeper dive it is highly debatable whether pro-lifers' proscription-of-abortion is not part of a cultural matrix that's paradoxically responsible for social and cultural conditions resulting in HIGHER incidence of abortion than those societies in which pro-choice sentiment makes legal abortion available. 

      Sister Joan Chittister: Most Pro-Lifers Are Not Pro-Life But Pro-Birth
      http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../sister-joan...
      Philoctetes - Wikipedia
      EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
      Philoctetes - Wikipedia

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