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Contemporary misleaders

And when ‘history became serious’, we can see the results of having left these unfit people in power.
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Needless sacrifices to vanity
How many tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians will have died, needlessly, due to the will, vanity and power of one man?

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“Honestly, Augustine!”
A man who cannot write his biography without God, intervening all the time, rather conveniently, with some of his teenage friends, senselessly destroys pears on a tree, and the old man projects himself into the psychology, an infant… And so we’re all supposed to be born sinners?
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The History of Mankind?
Is it less that people live in History unawares, than that History lives in them?
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“Are you serious?”
Most I know have seriously not begun to think.
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A Godless Evil?
While we are certain there is Evil; we can only try to believe there is a God to give it meaning… And while we may be able to accept the reality of Evil in the world without God, is it not less tolerable to imagine Evil without Judgment…sone how?

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A question of politeness
Being polite among those who live by ideas they have little if ever questioned, of which you have studied the histories, ambiguities and problems. 😊
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🇺🇸 center of photo At the very end of a dirt road, up a hill, where no one would ever come by chance, the neighbors on the other side of the “holler” have their American flag flying up a pole. Only visible to me, barely, when the leaves of the many trees between are fallen in the winter, and wind waves the red and white stipes
They who would have voted for Trump, twice.
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“Have a nice* day.”
That enjoyment is a (the?) main goal of life is one of the more unconscious, even “unquestioned/able” assumptions of multi-millions.
*from Latin nescius “ignorant, unaware,” literally “not-knowing,” from ne– “not” (from PIE root *ne– “not”) + stem of scire “to know”.
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“Republicans”?
Being a “Republican”, especially these days, is not a political position, but a mentality.