Conflict and Violence

Evil Cannot Always Be

Shamed Into Submission...

Insanity Cannot Always Be

Reasoned Into Compliance...

It Isn't "Peace" That Stops Chaos

Peace, Is The Result Of What Happens When Chaos Is Contained

There Might Be Circumstances When A

Double Negative Is Necessary

And The Only Alternative By Which To Make A Positive

rsg 4/16/09

Arragned To Compliment

Ultimately... When It Comes To The Incomprehensible
Economy Of God And His Mysterious Providence
There Is Not One Thing That Is Arranged
To Be Only Subordinate To Another -
Subordination Is Merely Situational
They Can Only, Ultimately, Be Complimentary

When Elements Of The Created Order Exist
Relationally Out-of-Balance With Each Other
Those Relationships Then Become Adversarial
They Compete Rather Than Compliment
The Other Believing Perceptually, It Is More Necessary
a.k.a. "Better" Than The Other...
That Is Why The Essence Of The Fall Is
"Dis-Integration"

rsg 12/09/2008

More Thoughts...

We All Know In Ourselves

The Urge To Avoid The Bad...

By Not Risking The Good...

r.s.g. (I think!)

Thoughts To Ponder On - From "UnSpeakable" by Os Guinness

If there is not God to blame for evil,

the we humans are fully responsible.

But if evil in the modern world has grown worse rather than better,

are we really capable or worthy of such responsibility?

Os Guinness


A Basic Fact of Life

Is That Any Of Us May Suffer

And All Of Us Will Die

Os Guinness



There Is No Time, No Part of The Globe

Free From Evil

'The Crust Of The Earth Is Soaked With The Tears of The Suffering

Eleonore Stump


A Single Death Is A Tragedy,

A Million Deaths Is A Statistic

Joseph Stalin


It Is Easier To Denature Plutonium

Than To Denature The Evil Spirit Of Man

Albert Einstein


Historian Will Durant

... There Have Been Only Twenty-Nine Years

In Which There Was No War Under Way Somewhere,

But Does This Say Something Overwhelming About Us As Humans

Or Is It Only A Tasty Morsel For Dinner Party Conversation


Raph Waldo Emerson

He Has Seen But Half The Universe

Who Has Never Been Shown The House of Pain.

As The Salt Sea Covers More Than Two-Thirds Of The Surface Of The Globe

So Sorrow Encroaches In Man On Felicity

"A Problem From Hell" - Stuff About Genocide

A Role for Light in Darkness

Scattered over the vast and

Vividly hued canvas of human history,

Are the expansive, black and corrosive stains of genocide.

Chillingly

With few exceptions

Christian light within those broad pools of darkness

Spattered in and out chaotically

A few isolated dots

Distinguished mostly by complicitous,

Cool gradations of gray.

Why not purifying light?

Steadfast, blindingly brilliant-

Hot penetrating pools of white radiance

Inexorably consuming the oppressive darkness

Restoring the fouled canvas surrounding us?

(r.s.g. 1/04)

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If you falter in times of trouble,

how small is your strength!

Rescue those being led away to death;

Hold back those staggering toward slaughter.

If you say, "But we knew nothing about this,"

Does not He who weighs the heart perceive it?

Does not He who guards your life know it?

Will He not repay each person according to what He has done?

Proverbs 24:10-12 (NIV)