Dereke says,
“To be honest Bob I am 26. I just rounded down to make it simple.”
“Whoever orchestrated WWII did a good job. I grew up guilty for a holocaust I didn’t particiapte in. Collecetive guilt, as I understaind it, is the work of communistis. I thought that was what my forefathers fought against – not for. ”
What Derek said was that he had been LISTENING to this crap for twenty years. Assuming he did not have a radio plugged in his ear when he was born, it would take at least six years for him to become aware of what the buzz was.
On the other hand, if I had known that I was not talking to a twenty-year-old, but to a decrepit old man of twenty-six, I would not have bothered.
So let’s blame my calling Derek a twenty-year-old on him.
Shame on you Derek!
As for collective guilt, remember that long before its bastard Communism came into existence, the church taught that every infant deserves eternal agony because of some sin its first ancestors committed.
Collective guilt is a disease that many have exploited.
Collective guilt is a DISEASE. We need to root it out and destroy it the way we went after plague and smallpox.
#1 by Derek on 12/08/2005 - 12:14 am
Good one Bob. I like the age joke.
It seems to me that collecetive guilt is much the same as the common cold…it is common. You can’t do much about it other than minimize or resist it on an individual basis.
Quarentening (sp?) didn’t work. Look what happened to Germany after WWII.
Worse yet look at what happened to America.
#2 by Peter on 12/08/2005 - 1:09 pm
I like this one, Bob, humorous and upbeat.
Paradise is a place not of this world. It’s “up there” but it isn’t Heaven proper. When Adam and Eve chose to partake of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, they chose to partake in experiences in this world where there is both good an evil. Their Father didn’t want them to leave the all-good Paradise and go where there was suffering equally among the beauty. However, Adam and Eve had children here. Thus, their children inherited the fruit of their decision. It is just like if some parents chose to live in a big, crime-infested city and work eighty hours a week. The children would suffer because of their parent’s sin. Anyone that teaches “that every infant deserves eternal agony because of some sin its first ancestors committed” is wrong. It’s just what happens when we’re here where there is both good and evil.