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horus, I know you call me the sweet/sour girl but again, you know, same
thing, everything is exactlty what it is not.  We are imprisoned within our freedoms.

posted by Kelli on November 7, 2004 at 7:14 PM | link to this | reply

Freerein many thanks for your comment. Just let me add force here in a

broader sense; for example, when people don't pay tax they are put in jail; police use force, and so on. Force is used in the internal affairs as well, when law cannot convince.

posted by Luxbring on November 7, 2004 at 9:17 AM | link to this | reply

Horus, force is the answer

when reason is abandoned.  Reason is the antithesis of Religion, you cannot apply reason to prove religion, but you can use it to show how the ideas that make a religion are useful or not to those in society as a whole.  When others don't embrace your views and you want them to on the basis that your views are somehow deified, than force, through fear, becomes your first weapon.  Fear causes people to abandon reason and leads people to manifest their fear to validate their belief in fear.  Christian Americans were influenced by the fear messages of GWB, Cheney and Rove, so that they wouldn't use reason to make their political decision--This administration promised to use force to provide security, ie, allivate fear, but it is only reason that can dispell the myth by the  investigation of cause and effect that can bring security.  Force is the tool of the insecure to provide security, but it ultimately creates more fear and insecurity.  Religion relies on the use of force to impose its view on others--in politics, when reason is abandoned, or used as a placibo to sanction power and dominance over others, moral principles are cast off and all are victims.  This is how political leaders can justify their actions to go to war, because others don't embrace our particular belief in how this experience should be lived.  Most of our "belief" is created in the earliest stages of development and, in a Christian, Muslim, Jewish, culture, it is founded on ideas that define their religious views.  It's a difficult thing to lock out the impressions of childhood and be critical of what you learned--but the application of reason requires that you do--otherwise, change cannot occure.

Peace,

Freerain

posted by freerain on November 7, 2004 at 9:13 AM | link to this | reply