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Offline Cantarella

Re: WIse word for the day - Evil are seldom as evil, good are seldom as good
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2018, 08:13:40 PM »
Quote from: Kazimierz on May 18, 2018, 11:02:37 AM
If anything, things are becoming more obfuscated, if not darn right darker, both intellectually and spiritually.


It is an expected result; because it is sin which darkens the intellect and weakens the will.

As soon as people begin to let sin into their lives, it becomes a slippery slope that never ends and they do not realize because they have been literally blinded. 
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Offline Cantarella

Re: WIse word for the day - Evil are seldom as evil, good are seldom as good
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2018, 08:21:27 PM »
Quote from: Matthew on May 18, 2018, 11:07:25 AM
People are way too quick to declare someone "evil" rather than
"he is not on my side; oh well" or "he disagrees with me", or "we have a difference of opinion" -- any of those 3 items are MUCH more accurate and closer to the objective truth.

Somehow we've all been trained to have an "US" and "THEM" mentality about EVERYTHING, even Trad groups. It's ridiculous.

I think it is the sin of pride which is behind this. It really darkens the intellect and weakens the will.

Letting go of one's ego is such a liberating; but difficult thing.

People with big egos are slaves to themselves; but they do not realize.

One of the most important and distinguishing elements of Our Holy Religion is the Unity of Faith.

One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism.

We really should not depart from it.
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Offline alaric

Re: WIse word for the day - Evil are seldom as evil, good are seldom as good
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2018, 06:12:17 AM »
Quote from: Matthew on May 18, 2018, 09:25:20 AM
One thing I've learned in my life --

Those promoted as "evil", or thriving on hatred the way most people thrive on love, are seldom as evil as they are commonly believed (or maligned by various talk). That goes for the Mainstream Media, but also message boards, etc.

And those promoted as saintly, good, etc. (usually those on Your Team, I might add!) usually have some rough edges that their friends choose to ignore.

So many people make everything into black and white, as if some people are incarnate devils, and the other side is most of the way towards Canonization.

That's not how it works in this world. You'll find that most human beings are a mix of good and evil, truth and error, choosing God and choosing self.

You'd think more people would be wise enough to know this -- but how many buy into the ridiculous propaganda about Assad, or Putin, for example? Nothing has changed since the 1910's, when Germans were portrayed as subhuman "The Hun", and the 1940's when all the American wartime propaganda said ridiculous things about the Japanese. We would all like to think we're more advanced, more enlightened now -- think again!
This is spot on.
I've been saying this for years, I've observed for a long time now how the ((media)) has been demonizing specific leaders at one time or another or for one reason or another, look at how certain countries  (or their leaders)have now become our "enemy" almost overnight in some cases and they have really done absolutley nothing to us, other than put their national interests over the ((global)) entity. It's really pathetic how so many buy into this nonsense. But the reality is, is that many if not most people don't. I find most normal thinking people I meeet on a day to day basis, really don't believe Putin or Assad is our "enemy" or buy into the whole BS going on over there to begin with. No matter how much brainwashing they attempt on the masses.
Personally, I believe in just the opposite on what ((they)) tell us who or what is "evil" on just about every issue.
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Offline alaric

Re: WIse word for the day - Evil are seldom as evil, good are seldom as good
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2018, 06:19:36 AM »
Quote from: forlorn on May 25, 2018, 08:00:49 PM
This is one of the things that turned me off the Dimonds. Anyone Catholic they disagreed with on anything was suddenly the devil working through man and evil itself incarnate.
Those guys see conspiracy everywhere and demons and devils lurking in the shadows and hiding under  every rock.
While I enjoy some of their articles, they're a little much for me.
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Offline alaric

Re: WIse word for the day - Evil are seldom as evil, good are seldom as good
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2018, 06:28:08 AM »
Quote from: Matthew on May 18, 2018, 11:07:25 AM
Yes, such as various errors in the world (Feminism, Liberalism, Modernism, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, тαℓмυdic Judaism, Illuminati, abortion) and certain evil proponents of these demonic systems (Hillary Clinton).

But how many people are quick to place various TRAD CLERICS in the same boat as Hillary Clinton? When those clerics in question have actual followers who believe they are good priests! Such is a ludicrous affront to the truth.

People are way too quick to declare someone "evil" rather than
"he is not on my side; oh well" or "he disagrees with me", or "we have a difference of opinion" -- any of those 3 items are MUCH more accurate and closer to the objective truth.

Somehow we've all been trained to have an "US" and "THEM" mentality about EVERYTHING, even Trad groups. It's ridiculous.
I find people throwing around this "evil" nonsense really have no idea in the very definition or the truest sense of the word itself. It falls right in line with the word "love" or "hate", 9 times out of ten, those words are used totally out of context.
If you disagree with someone, it is usally on his error, especially in theology, doesn't make the guy "evil" because of it.
The older I get, I find very few "evil" people in the word, just as much as I find very few good ones.
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