The same thought occurred to me, that He is only on the side of the righteous, virtuous, and just people of goodwill and pure intentions. Which would rule out the vast majority of we vicious and predatory animals that just like to think of ourselves as humans, when we’re really only animals (homo sapiens). He said plenty of things that confirm this, one of which was

“I pray for them. I am not praying for the world(or the people that are of the world), but (only) for those you have given me, for they are yours.” - John 17:9

And specifically about the apocalypse :

“For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God’s chosen ones” Matthew 24:21-22

It’s true that “unchecked growth is the motto of the cancer cell”.

And that nature’s program has predation/feeding upon itself as its prime mechanism of survival, which runs on boom and bust cycles. For example, when conditions allow for echinoderm populations to explode everything that feeds on echinoderms is having a pleasant and easy time of living “high on the hog”. But when that overpopulation inevitably leads to collapse(bust) due to resource depletion, plague, environmental/social dysfunction and disorder, etc, that’s when all the beings whose existence depend(ed) on the pleasant and easy times of abundance get to see the real cost/bill of having profited from that oh so very temporary abundance.

Homo sapiens can attempt to structure their societies any which way that suits them based off of the conditions they’re dealing with at the time. But unless they somehow graduate from animal-hood, or at least attempt to transcend being slaves to their instincts, they’re destiny as animals will remain unchanged.

Yet i optimistically happen to see that a percentage of our species choosing not to reproduce(even for selfish reasons) is a good indication that some of us are able to control/deny the impulses of the body as a means of damage control. These things have been observed and studied for some time now, and fall under the categories of ‘Malthusianism’ and ‘social decay’

Thanks for your thoughts on the matter, and i agree. It’s the intent that counts. Whether you believe that you’re making “good” or “bad” decisions that do or don’t “improve” the world, it is what is in your heart and mind which will absolve or convict you. We and the world will die either way, but while we and it were around did we have good or evil in heart and mind?

Another question might be, “good”, “bad”, “improved”, or “worsened” according to whom? You, me, mother theresa or pol pot? We make our decisions based off of who we are, or at least who we think we are. Yet none of the things that make us be and think the way we do are in our control. Which is why no one can ever be what they aren’t, or stop being themselves in any way.

If you are someone that really wants to know a difficult and painful truth then you will seek it no matter how much effort it takes, and if you are someone that would rather just accept an easy and pleasing lie then you will probably do so because it takes no effort at all. At this stage of the world, everyone having to inexorably be themselves just happens to include a vast majority of confused, conflicted, and understandably frightened, individuals. But, as Schopenhauer put it, “you can choose what you will, but you cannot will what you will”. The very laws of physics govern and determine who, where, what, how, why, and when everyone and everything is, in relation to everyone and everything else. Therefore only God is and will stay perfectly good, the rest of us are compelled, and at risk of being corrupted, by the circumstances of causality.

A person can kill an animal out of sadism(malevolence), or euthanasia(benevolence), but the vast majority do so unemotionally, out of the biological necessity to fuel one’s monkey-suit. The last example is indifferent natural function, wherein what is “good” for the family of hawks is not “good” for the rabbit family. Nature persists by feeding on itself mercilessly, with every one of its children being equally consumer and then consumed. But what sort of person with any sense would like to be devoted to such a master as nature, who, if it had a personified view, would only ever view you as a thing to be constructed, used, fed upon, dismantled, recycled, and then forgotten forever? Only animals are content with such a situation, and only because they are incapable of knowing, wanting, or doing anything better.

Whether you who are wearing that monkey-suit has intentions of benevolence or malevolence is the crux of the matter, and whether one can change their intentions or be an accurate judge of the intentions, of either themselves or others, based solely on the limited information given by outward appearances or one’s own ideas of oneself and others.

The nazi’s, of both past and present, claim(ed) to be desiring and doing “good”. But if one’s idea of “good” involves profiting materially, or attempting to profit, from practicing cruelty and causing suffering for others then any non-delusional individual will easily see through the self-deception. Is this not the same superficial and vicious “good” of the hawks and rabbits? Which reveals that such people as those are just self-deluded animals. They may be a little more mentally complicated and convoluted, but they have the same intentions as any other predator- to feed. And they manage to give themselves permission to do so by rationalizing their predations, with invented religions and politics, in order to get what they want and believe themselves “good” and “right” for doing so.

This ramble has gone on long enough, so i will close simply by saying i hope you’re able to believe that i had only other people’s benefit in mind by typing it all out. And i believe that you and anyone that is able to think that they aren’t a good person is on the right path. A path which can lead from the selfish and stupid animal-hood which we are all born into, due to the stupid and selfish animal impulses of our parents and grandparents before us, to human-hood which is the only true good to be had on a naturally vicious, and thus evil by default, world like this.

Plato said, “many are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics”

Christ said, “many are called(into existence), but few are chosen (to become more than animal)”

And it’s been distilled down through the ages to this current global situation, where many are the homo sapiens but few are the humans

Being someone “just trying to survive” doesn’t make anyone good, it makes them an animal. And animals are amoral by default, because they lack the capacity to be either moral or immoral

nussink!

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Whatever gets them out of Cuba i guess. Maybe a few lucky ones will even survive and be able to get resident status…

I’ve definitely noticed a difference in temperament between long haired chihuahuas and their standard breed short-haired counterparts. That difference being the short-haired are a bit more high strung from the centuries of inbreeding (just like Germans have higher blood pressure/hypertension issues).

Maybe the long hair gene mutation came from an infusion of less anxious genetics into the breed, or allowed for some benificial physiological changes to the nervous system. Who knows. But seeing your pic made me wonder if long-haired chihuahuas came from mixing the line with papillons, because they look like mini-papillons

American traditions don’t like it when something prevents them from happening

That makes sense, since, as far as i can tell, the U.S. seems to be a modern hybrid of the British empire which spawned it and the German war machine it assimilated into itself about 80 years ago.

I’d like to fly

To be fair, America wasn’t really happy before this whole Kimmel kerfuffle (which is barely a blip on the radar at this point). And I’m not up-to-date on the emotional socio-cultural barometer of Australia. Anyone know how Australia’s feeling atm?

It will be no rerun brutthas…

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