The Timeless Wisdom

[pknopp]

The point of the thread is that a careful study of the past reveal that the Bible, the instruction manual of Western Civilization is responsible for the advances mankind has accumulated, while following the texts that have devolved from Satan-worshiper, Karl Marx, have resulted in misery, genocide, slaughter and oppression.





7. "This is the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization. The principles of justice are laid down in the Torah and the Gospels, and implemented through human actions memorialized in judicial codes.
The written laws and rules are codifications of the unwritten ones worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience."
David Mamet



Compare this wisdom with the Left’s claim to coddle and cosset each individual from cradle to grave, and this will be Utopia.

In Orwell’s ‘1984,’ the Ministry of Plenty promised “our new, happy life.”

Stalin fancied himself as the "Constructor of Happiness"… Politics: News, Pictures, Analysis & Opinion | The Week UK



Now....which party mirrors the aims and methods of the Bolsheviks, Nazis, and Mao?



Simply note how it has worked out in the Worker’s Paradise, and Hitler’s version, and Mao’s. Didn’t seem like ‘happiness’ or satisfaction was much on display.

The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Matthew 25:40

 

[PoliticalChic]

The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Matthew 25:40

I'll assume that you'd like to compare what capitalism has done for mankind versus what the Leftists have.

It certainly makes my point.

 

[pknopp]

I'll assume that you'd like to compare what capitalism has done for mankind versus what the Leftists have.

It certainly makes my point.

Maybe some day some country will actually practice Capitalism so we can find out.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Maybe some day some country will actually practice Capitalism so we can find out.

Will that be before or after you become an honest person?

 

[PoliticalChic]

8. Government can’t give success, or happiness or well-being by providing free food, or home.

Just as earned success brings happiness, learned helplessness brings unhappiness. “We found that even when good things occurred that weren’t earned, like nickels coming out of slot machines, it did not increase people’s well-being,” he said. “It produced helplessness. People gave up and became passive.” A New Gauge to See What’s Beyond Happiness (Published 2011)



So where does happiness come from?
"Uncle Sam Can't Count," Folsom and Folsom

Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur: a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money; one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise Definition of ENTREPRENEUR



"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Walter Isaacson, "Steve Jobs," p. 329


Capitalism or socialism?

 

[PoliticalChic]

9. What could a three millennia old tome, the Bible, speak to moderns about happiness?

“The psalmist opens Chapter 128 with the following words: A song of ascents. Happy are all who fear the Lord, who follow His ways. You shall enjoy the fruit of your labors. You shall be happy, and you shall prosper.



In fact, it is among the first topics that the Torah deals with. Adam’s life in the Garden of Eden and his ultimate expulsion from that cocoon of workless income is a good starting point for the urgent debate we are having at the beginning of the twenty-first century, thirty years into the digital economic revolution. Universal Basic Income ( a guaranteed wage from government) is hardly a new idea. …. guaranteed annual income, or universal demo grant, it is a theoretical public program providing a periodic payment to all citizens without a means test or work requirement.

The Torah takes a different view. Man’s labor is part of his essence. It is literally his life’s work for work gives life. Without it, his vitality suffers, and his procreation is inhibited. In a sense, the Torah believes that a lack of labor is corrosive to the human being. The absence of a labor of love will lead to a vacuum of love for the next generation. Man cannot live, in all senses, without work.”
Michael Eisenberg, “The Tree of Life and Prosperity: 21st Century Business Principles from the Book of Genesis




We get to choose whether to believe politicians who will pay anything necessary to get the public’s vote, or take a lesson from Genesis. According to Eisenberg, the story of Adam, getting the first ‘guaranteed no-work sinecure, is a lesson on where worklessness leads….and it isn’t to happiness.

Such is the Green New Deal, and every other Democrat pie-in-the-sky scam.

 

[ChemEngineer]

Chic is perhaps DE BABE of USMB. At the opposite end of the spectrum is..... Hollie

 

[Hollie]

Chic is perhaps DE BABE of USMB. At the opposite end of the spectrum is..... Hollie

Did you know it's really creepy that you obsess over me and continually refer to me in various threads all the while falsely claiming you have me on ignore.

Like you, political chic does little more than cut and paste phony, altered and edited "quotes".