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The religious mind accepts that it is the "wretched man as described by St. Paul. Accepting the human condition is the first step to transcending it. The progressive mind in contrast must blame something or someone else. The success of the progressive agenda requires a scapegoat to blame. The scapegoat now is Donald Trump

scape·goat
ˈskāpˌɡōt/Submit
noun
1.
a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
synonyms: whipping boy; More
2.
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
verb
1.
make a scapegoat of.

The progressive mind could never come to realize the deep meaning in the following quotation:

“We have met the enemy and he is us”

What an insult! It is absurd to think that the progressive mind is part of the enemy. The enemy is the scapegoat for the progressives and presently it is Donald Trump. To suggest otherwise is an insult to the educated progressive mind - the only one capable of defining and condemning the scapegoat

Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 9:21 pm The progressive mind could never come to realize the deep meaning in the following quotation: “We have met the enemy and he is us".

Are you talking about the obvious deep meaning that almost anyone on the face of the Earth can relate to? Or are you distorting the quotation for some contrived meaning of your own that points to progressives as the enemy within "us"?

As usual, you attack "the progressive mind" with your gross misrepresentations, which are so dishonest. Are you really so threatened to realize and acknowledge that the "progressive mind" has depth of understanding rivaling your own?

Are progressives YOUR scapegoat, Nick?

Lacewing wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:02 pm

Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 9:21 pm The progressive mind could never come to realize the deep meaning in the following quotation: “We have met the enemy and he is us".

Are you talking about the obvious deep meaning that almost anyone on the face of the Earth can relate to? Or are you distorting the quotation for some contrived meaning of your own that points to progressives as the enemy within "us"?

As usual, you attack "the progressive mind" with your gross misrepresentations, which are so dishonest. Are you really so threatened to realize and acknowledge that the "progressive mind" has depth of understanding rivaling your own?

Are progressives YOUR scapegoat?

I don't have a scapegoat. I realize that the absurd situation as it exists on earth is the result of the fallen human condition which comprises our being. Blaming a scapegoat is just ignorance IMO. But again, I am not a progressive.

Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:13 pm I don't have a scapegoat. I realize that the absurd situation as it exists on earth is the result of the fallen human condition which comprises our being. Blaming a scapegoat is just ignorance IMO. But again, I am not a progressive.

You blame progressives and cast them as the enemy all the time. Do you not understand the meaning of "We have met the enemy and he is us" -- as it relates to you? Or do you think it only applies to progressives?

Lacewing wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:17 pm

Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:13 pm I don't have a scapegoat. I realize that the absurd situation as it exists on earth is the result of the fallen human condition which comprises our being. Blaming a scapegoat is just ignorance IMO. But again, I am not a progressive.

You blame progressives all the time. Do you not understand the meaning of "We have met the enemy and he is us" -- as it relates to you? Or do you think it only applies to progressives?

The quote makes the insulting suggestion that the cause of this apparent absurdism is the fallen nature of our being. What is the sense of one idiot calling another idiot an idiot? Yet the progressive mind believes that if it blames and eliminates enough scapegoats that we will live happily ever after. This is just silly. Since we are as we are, everything is as it is. Until we acquire the collective humility to recognize that the enemy is us nothing will change even with the finest speeches..

Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:28 pm ...the progressive mind believes that if it blames and eliminates enough scapegoats that we will live happily ever after. This is just silly.

And you think this is something specific to a progressive mind? Please explain how this doesn't apply to non-progressives.

Why do you vilify progressives so much? Don't you see that as "silly"?

Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:28 pmUntil we acquire the collective humility to recognize that the enemy is us nothing will change even with the finest speeches..

Do you recognize that YOU (and non-progressives) are part of that "enemy" that is us?

Everyone but Dumbald Trump is Dumbald's scapegoat.

- Not Imp. (Lol. I saw ya there, Imp.)

What is the sense of one idiot calling another idiot an idiot?

Noting the simplistic black & white view.

In truth, Nick, you are so lost in rhetoric that you seem to now be largely out of touch with the actual reality that lies behind language. The actual reality is treated contemptuously by you as a hindrance to your "more important" biblical goals.

Thus your locked-in use of language, always reciting the exact same words and same phrases in the same way. Why? Because you do not actually understand their meaning. Rather, you seem to loosely interpret all words in a metonymous way without comprehending the visceral reality that lies behind words when spoken by those attempting to be truthful.

This is why your claims are so often reckless, regularly obviously wrong and occasionally genuinely heinous ... Forgive him, Lord, because he has no idea what he is saying ...

Dalek Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:43 pmEveryone but Dumbald Trump is Dumbald's scapegoat.

St Nick is sweating on Comrade Trump delivering the apocalypse he craves.

Greta wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:53 pm

Dalek Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:43 pmEveryone but Dumbald Trump is Dumbald's scapegoat.

St Nick is sweating on Comrade Trump delivering the apocalypse he craves.

Oh, that's what he's after.

Dalek Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:10 pm

Greta wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:53 pm

Dalek Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:43 pmEveryone but Dumbald Trump is Dumbald's scapegoat.

St Nick is sweating on Comrade Trump delivering the apocalypse he craves.

Oh, that's what he's after.

Trump is a destructive stooge in this scheme, just focused on self-aggrandisement and increasing his family's wealth and power. The hard core Republican evangelists, on the other hand, truly do want the planet scoured of secularists, Muslims and nature ("corrupted nature" as I've read them refer to it).

Thus the Chosen Ones can live undisturbed atop one another in towers that reach to the clouds in vast cities of concrete and steel. They won't need nature because they will have God's blessing for all eternity. Actually, I don't think destruction-seeking Abrahamics have thought it through that far, or at all.

All politicians should be questioned before running for office, and any who wish for the Apocalypse should be disbarred from holding positions of power because their aim will essentially be sabotage.

Of course no "progressive mind" is envisaging humanity living "happily ever after" as claimed by The Unhinged One.

"Concerned" would be a more accurate description.

Greta wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:23 pm

Dalek Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:10 pm

Greta wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:53 pm
St Nick is sweating on Comrade Trump delivering the apocalypse he craves.

Oh, that's what he's after.

Trump is a destructive stooge in this scheme, just focused on self-aggrandisement and increasing his family's wealth and power. The hard core Republican evangelists, on the other hand, truly do want the planet scoured of secularists, Muslims and nature ("corrupted nature" as I've read them refer to it).

Thus the Chosen Ones can live undisturbed atop one another in towers that reach to the clouds in vast cities of concrete and steel. They won't need nature because they will have God's blessing for all eternity.

All politicians should be questioned before running for office, and any who wish for the Apocalypse should be disbarred from holding positions of power because their aim will essentially be sabotage.

Trust me when I say that Putin is Dumbald's handler. Dollars to doughnuts.

Dalek Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:27 pm

Greta wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:23 pm

Dalek Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:10 pm

Oh, that's what he's after.

Trump is a destructive stooge in this scheme, just focused on self-aggrandisement and increasing his family's wealth and power. The hard core Republican evangelists, on the other hand, truly do want the planet scoured of secularists, Muslims and nature ("corrupted nature" as I've read them refer to it).

Thus the Chosen Ones can live undisturbed atop one another in towers that reach to the clouds in vast cities of concrete and steel. They won't need nature because they will have God's blessing for all eternity.

All politicians should be questioned before running for office, and any who wish for the Apocalypse should be disbarred from holding positions of power because their aim will essentially be sabotage.

Trust me when I say that Putin is Dumbald's handler. Dollars to doughnuts.

Yes, Comrade Trump must have been naughty in business (or funny business) while doing business in Russia and Putin definitely has him under control.

Greta, I was secretly hoping to see you write a response to Phil's question on dying