Dnarever wrote on Aug 22
nd, 2022 at 9:02am:
The problem with you two buckets story is that the starting bucket is not clean.
Both buckets would contain good people, less good people and miserable people in about the same proportions.
I want access to the 1st bucket.
I do not want access to the 3rd container.
And i would suggest, that you would not want access to it either.
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FURTHER ANALOGIES.....1/
Q. When you change the engine oil on your vehicle, why do you fill it with virgin, clean/new engine oil ?
The old, dirty engine oil will still allow your engine to run.
So, why would you want to 'change out' the old oil with clean, new oil ?
2/ If your school age teenage daughter is pregnant, she isn't 'just a little pregnant'.
[i.e.
"Its nothing to worry about dad. I'm only a little pregnant."]
She is pregnant.
Because someone, has impregnated her.
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AGAIN.....Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1555994118/9#9 Quote:
IMO, if we join what is precious with what is vile, we do not in that act, 'improve' that which is vile.
We merely corrupt that which is precious.....
.....e.g.
I have two buckets.
The first bucket is full of clean, fresh water.
The second bucket is full of sewage.
Q.
If i pour both buckets into a third container, what do i get?
A.
A third container, full of diluted sewage.
Conclusion?
While i could safely drink from the 1st bucket, i could *not* safely drink from the 2nd bucket, or the 3rd container.
So it is with evil, that is 'tolerated' by good people.
No matter how many times we repeat the phrase, "Tolerance is good.",
...our tolerance of what is clearly evil, is not a virtue.
It is a process, a progression.
GOOD, AND EVIL....Whenever we choose to become tolerant of evil [in our midst] [ungodly values], it is certain, as night follows day, that we ourselves, will become evil.
i.e.
If we are tolerant of what is clearly evil, it is because we now ARE evil.
When we embrace the concept of 'tolerance', but what we are prepared to tolerate is clearly evil,
...we become those, who are evil, OURSELVES.
Our 'tolerance' of evil, is not tolerance.
It is (a) wickedness.
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"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."
- Sallust / Bits & Pieces
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why It's Called Made In America
Principles to Live By - 1942
1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong
3. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
4. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
5. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
6. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
7. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
9. You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
10 You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.
William J. H. Boetcker, Presbyterian minister, 1942 Source: TruthOrFiction
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/l/lincoln-quotes.htm
Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There are only two races in the world, the decent and the indecent."
Victor Frankl - Nazi Holocaust survivor
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
- Thomas Mann
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise.
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
- The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- Professor Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.