It's important to have an enemy

[sweetnpetite]

when you're in politics.

Doesn't matter if it's welfare recipients, Mexican immigrants, the VietCong, the Russians, or the Taliban.

as Orwell said, "The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous."

 

[Setanta84]

Are you taking up Orwell's stance that modern states mainly use the friend-enemy distinction as a means of control over their population or are you taking the stance that the friend-enemy distinction is actually important to the practice of the political?

If it's the latter option, have you read Carl Schmitt's work?

 

[Stella_Omega]

When pleasuring your lover, how often do you prefer to use your oral skills, rather than your hands ?

This is a very important question. Please think it over carefully, and give it the full and detailed answer it deserves, with illustrative anecdotes wherever appropriate.

 

[bisexualsmoker]

when you're in politics.

Doesn't matter if it's welfare recipients, Mexican immigrants, the VietCong, the Russians, or the Taliban.

as Orwell said, "The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous."

And doublespeak definitely a prime weapon for use in these politics.
Turn the tables whenever it suits you so to speak(i.e the ministry of love spewing
hate and torture. )

Orwell a true visionary.

 

[rgraham666]

It isn'r just politicians that require an enemy. Many ordinary people do as well.

Which makes a certain sort of sense. An enemy is real. Goodness and wisdom, not so much.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

If you have any principles or values or good taste or opinions you have enemies.

 

[driphoney]

When pleasuring your lover, how often do you prefer to use your oral skills, rather than your hands ?

This is a very important question. Please think it over carefully, and give it the full and detailed answer it deserves, with illustrative anecdotes wherever appropriate.

*chuckle*

 

[voluptuary_manque]

When pleasuring your lover, how often do you prefer to use your oral skills, rather than your hands ?

This is a very important question. Please think it over carefully, and give it the full and detailed answer it deserves, with illustrative anecdotes wherever appropriate.

Oral, genital, digital . . . they're all good. Personally, hands are a lot more mobile though that may be more for my own pleasure than hers.

 

[jayce1066]

I misread this thread's title. Thought it was "It's important to have an enema".

Never mind....

 

[Athalia]

It isn'r just politicians that require an enemy. Many ordinary people do as well.

Which makes a certain sort of sense. An enemy is real. Goodness and wisdom, not so much.

I recently heard something on the radio about that. A Muslim cleric was explaining the true meaning of "jihad." He said that it means "struggle" -- particularly struggle against an enemy, but not a military or ideological enemy, according to mainstream Islam. The enemy is yourself, and the struggle is between you and all the things that get in your way of the perfect being you can become. These include hate, addiction, intolerance, envy, or anything else that puts obstacles in your way. He was particularly angry that militants insist on defining "jihad" as military struggle or holy war, and accused them of being too afraid to take the battle to the real enemy.

That made a lot of sense to me.

 

[TxRad]

I recently heard something on the radio about that. A Muslim cleric was explaining the true meaning of "jihad." He said that it means "struggle" -- particularly struggle against an enemy, but not a military or ideological enemy, according to mainstream Islam. The enemy is yourself, and the struggle is between you and all the things that get in your way of the perfect being you can become. These include hate, addiction, intolerance, envy, or anything else that puts obstacles in your way. He was particularly angry that militants insist on defining "jihad" as military struggle or holy war, and accused them of being too afraid to take the battle to the real enemy.

That made a lot of sense to me.

When you finally figure out that you are your own worse enemy, life gets so much simpler.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Dear Reader,

And thats why our TEX is a simpleton.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

When you finally figure out that you are your own worse enemy, life gets so much simpler.

In the deathless words of Pogo Possum, "We have met the enemy and he is us!"

 

[TxRad]

In the deathless words of Pogo Possum, "We have met the enemy and he is us!"

No truer words were ever spoken.

 

[fuckwaffle]

I recently heard something on the radio about that. A Muslim cleric was explaining the true meaning of "jihad." He said that it means "struggle" -- particularly struggle against an enemy, but not a military or ideological enemy, according to mainstream Islam. The enemy is yourself, and the struggle is between you and all the things that get in your way of the perfect being you can become. These include hate, addiction, intolerance, envy, or anything else that puts obstacles in your way. He was particularly angry that militants insist on defining "jihad" as military struggle or holy war, and accused them of being too afraid to take the battle to the real enemy.

That made a lot of sense to me.

is this the same guy that then went out and pronounced that a woman should be stoned because her face wasn't covered in public?

religions even have politicians who say, preach one thing and do another.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

When pleasuring your lover, how often do you prefer to use your oral skills, rather than your hands ?

This is a very important question. Please think it over carefully, and give it the full and detailed answer it deserves, with illustrative anecdotes wherever appropriate.

Very often, as much as I possibly can, although my hands love to feel a woman's body and I think I might need restraints put on them in order to keep it strictly oral. I just don't have that kinda discipline, sorry!

But yeah, the last lady I was with, she was deliciously curvy and top heavy...and it was a cock-hardening thrill to feel the weight of the various curvy areas of her body pushing against my lips and cheeks.

 

[squarejohn]

Those who have no enemies, have no character.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Those who have no enemies, have no character.

Those who think enemies define character are merely trolls.

 

[squarejohn]

Those who think enemies define character are merely trolls.

Honor, loyalty, courage, duty, temperance, humility, adherence to the Golden Rule, are some of the indicators of character. Anyone who displays these in his manner of living is certain to have enemies, even by those who possess the same qualities.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Honor, loyalty, courage, duty, temperance, humility, adherence to the Golden Rule, are some of the indicators of character. Anyone who displays these in his manner of living is certain to have enemies, even by those who possess the same qualities.

That's a better statement.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Really, I find the thesis unlikely. I don't need any enemies, don't want any enemies and try to conduct myself in a manner suitably dignified that I don't attract any enemies. There certainly people I don't like and don't associate with but that's not the same thing. An enemy is someone who is a positive danger to you and yours and therefore has the potential of being treated like vermin. That's an enemy. Anything less is an annoyance.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Honor, loyalty, courage, duty, temperance, humility, adherence to the Golden Rule, are some of the indicators of character. Anyone who displays these in his manner of living is certain to have enemies, even by those who possess the same qualities.

Depends on how you define enemy.

Jesus Christ had no enemies. Many where enemies to him, but he was enemy to none. He did throw the moneychangers out of the temple. He was angry with them and he dealt with them, but he did not exhort his disciples to make war on them, or anybody else. He loved even those who would call him enemy, and refused to fight to save his own life.

I am not talking about trying to please or be liked by everyone. It can't be done. I am talking about rilling up the masses against an imagined foe in order to get them to follow you. (I am the only one who can protect you from the enemy) My point is that is not in any politicians best interest for there to actually be peace and tranquility, therefore they will never give that too us. Nor even safety and security. They must keep us uncomfortable and keep expending the promise that they can give us what we lack... yet never deliver more than a slight boost to keep us coming back for me.

Unlike parents who are authority figures who want the best for us and have our best interest at heart (hopefully) politicians are authority figures who have THEIR best interest at heart. And that is to keep us locked in to fear of some enemy, weather it be fascism or socialism. Peace will never ever come through politicians. sadly.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

There are interesting books about Jesus, the best of them is EXCAVATING JESUS by John Dominic Crossan.

Crossan autopsies the Gospels and sifts the history of Palestine circa Augustus and Tiberius. Several events depicted in the Gospels cannot be true because facts refute them. Jesus of Nazareth is mostly legend, like Paul Bunyan and Dracula.

Jesus was likely a fringe anarchist with a socialist flavor, who was exploited by Jewish politicians years afterwards.

 

[Seduc1ove]

I misread this thread's title. Thought it was "It's important to have an enema".

Never mind....

This can be very important as well. Gotta cleanse.

 

[Liar]

I misread this thread's title. Thought it was "It's important to have an enema".

Never mind....

I too, was sorely dissapointed.