Bible (NIV), Luke 8:26-39:
Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man
26 They sailed to the region of the Gerasenes,[a] which is across the lake from Galilee. 27 When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs. 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torture me!” 29 For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by the demon into solitary places.
30 Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”
“Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him. 31 And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.
32 A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission. 33 When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
34 When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, 35 and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. 36 Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured. 37 Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.
38 The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 “Return home and tell how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.
19 comments:
Hah. Censors tryed to protect you from this comment.;-p
Funny thing.
I can tell that you NOT ignore Reality... where it matters.
Not crossing street on reeed light. Taking your pillllls. Not eating from a floor.
And all other such rules of thumb.
But. Trying to pose as "reerbel" here. Defying all rules.
And that is. Daassmn funny.;-p
Ever read Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"?
#4 Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
The censors aren't following the rules (US Constitution) and there's nothing "funny" about it.
#5 "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
Now go exorcise your Demons, pragmatist!
Even with GULAG?
I'm already in it. Shadow banned and sealed into the dark web, cloud-serfing away.
This isn't a disciplinary society, we're an Achievement-based Society of Control. All carrot, no stick.
Okay... Deep Web (not Dark). The Dark web is the escape route that never quite makes it to the surface.
Pushed down by the censors from surface locations.
//I'm already in it. Shadow banned and sealed into the dark web, cloud-serfing away.
Lame bragging.
As ever.
From one who habitually equating tropical paradise (gitmo) and frozen hell (gulag).
;-p
There is no "digital" hyperspace equivalent to Gitmo or Siberia?
You're really stuck on societies of sovereignty and/ or discipline, aren't you? You really need to evolve a little...
For G_ds gain no enjoyment from watching you "suffer"...
Nietzsche, GoM essay 2:
Now, when suffering is always the first of the arguments marshalled against life, as its most questionable feature, it is salutary to remember the times when people made the opposite assessment, because they could not do without making people suffer and saw first-rate magic in it, a veritable seductive lure to life. Perhaps pain – I say this to comfort the squeamish – did not hurt as much then as it does now; at least, a doctor would be justified in assuming this, if he had treated a Negro (taken as a representative for primeval man) for serious internal inflammations which would drive the European with the stoutest constitution to distraction; – they do not do that to Negroes. (The curve of human capacity for pain actually does seem to sink dramatically and almost precipitously beyond the first ten thousand or ten million of the cultural élite; and for myself, I do not doubt that in comparison with one night of pain endured by a single, hysterical blue stocking, the total suffering of all the animals who have been interrogated by the knife in scientific research is as nothing.) Perhaps I can even be allowed to admit the possibility that pleasure in cruelty does not really need to have died out: perhaps, just as pain today hurts more, it needed, in this connection, some kind of sublimation and subtilization, it had to be transformed into the imaginative and spiritual, and adorned with such inoffensive names that they do not arouse the suspicion of even the most delicate hypocritical conscience (‘tragic pity’ is one such name, another is ‘les nostalgies de la croix’). What actually arouses indignation over suffering is not the suffering itself, but the senselessness of suffering: but neither for the Christian, who saw in suffering a whole, hidden machinery of salvation, nor for naïve man in ancient times, who saw all suffering in relation to spectators or to instigators of suffering, was there any such senseless suffering. In order to rid the world of concealed, undiscovered, unseen suffering and deny it in all honesty, people were then practically obliged to invent gods and intermediate beings at every level, in short, something that also roamed round in obscurity, which could see in the dark and which would not miss out on an interesting spectacle of pain so easily.
With the aid of such inventions, life then played the trick it has always known how to play, of justifying itself, justifying its ‘evil’; nowadays it might need rather different inventions to help it (for example, life as a riddle, life as a problem of knowledge). ‘All evil is justified if a god takes pleasure in it’: so ran the primitive logic of feeling – and was this logic really restricted to primitive times? The gods viewed as the friends of cruel spectacles – how deeply this primeval concept still penetrates into our European civilization! Maybe we should consult Calvin and Luther on the matter. At all events, the Greeks could certainly think of offering their gods no more acceptable a side-dish to their happiness than the joys of cruelty. So how do you think Homer made his gods look down on the fortunes of men? What final, fundamental meaning did the Trojan War and similar tragic atrocities have? We can be in no doubt: they were intended to be festivals for the gods: and, to the extent that the poet has a more ‘god-like’ nature in these matters, probably festivals for the poets, too . . . It was no different when later Greek moral philosophers thought that the eyes of the gods still looked down on moral struggles, on the heroism and self-inflicted torture of the virtuous: the ‘Heracles of duty’ was on stage and knew it; unwitnessed virtue was something inconceivable for this nation of actors. Might it not be the case that that extremely foolhardy and fateful philosophical invention, first devised for Europe, of the ‘free will’, of man’s absolute freedom [Spontaneität] to do good or evil, was chiefly thought up to justify the idea that the interest of the gods in man, in man’s virtue, could never be exhausted? On the stage of this earth there would never be any lack of real novelty, real unheard-of suspense, intrigues, catastrophes: a world planned on completely deterministic lines would have been predictable and therefore soon boring for the gods, – sufficient reason for these friends of the gods, the philosophers, not to impute a deterministic world of that sort to their gods! Everybody in antiquity is full of tender consideration for ‘the spectator’, people in antiquity form an essentially public, essentially visible world, incapable of conceiving of happiness without spectacles and feasts. – And, as already stated, severe punishment, too, has very strong festive features! . . .
//There is no "digital" hyperspace equivalent to Gitmo or Siberia?
Only when you trying to talk with people who do not like to talk with you.
But wait.
Isn't it just the same as in walking by a street...
So, I just dinno, why you making such a big fuss about it???
//You're really stuck on societies of sovereignty and/ or discipline, aren't you? You really need to evolve a little...
Projections, projections, projections.
I. Even dunno what you trying to talk about here....
So much for "being stuck".))))
I " stuck SO much", that even dunno trivia of it.
And dont care to know.
Yawn.
//For G_ds gain no enjoyment from watching you "suffer"...
And WHO proclaimed such an utter BS????
If gawd is like man...
We people, like to watch other people straggling (like you and all West watching Ukraine... and Israel)
Yet more. Now we able to create wirtual worlds (in computer games)
And guess what we make inhabitants of it to do??? To live in peace?
No,bfight wars with each other.
See????!!!
Reality -- is CONTRA-intuitive.
Gitmo or Siberia?
\Only when you trying to talk with people who do not like to talk with you.
But wait.
Isn't it just the same as in walking by a street...
So, I just dinno, why you making such a big fuss about it???
When you yell in a street, people can hear you. In space (or hyper-space)... no one can hear you scream.
//You're really stuck on societies of sovereignty and/ or discipline, aren't you? You really need to evolve a little...
\Projections, projections, projections.
I. Even dunno what you trying to talk about here....
So much for "being stuck".))))
I " stuck SO much", that even dunno trivia of it.
And dont care to know.
Yawn.
Let my digital presence go! Call it "Internet Free Speech". I demand the right to troll...
//For G_ds gain no enjoyment from watching you "suffer"...
\And WHO proclaimed such an utter BS????
If gawd is like man...
We people, like to watch other people straggling (like you and all West watching Ukraine... and Israel)
Yet more. Now we able to create wirtual worlds (in computer games)
And guess what we make inhabitants of it to do??? To live in peace?
No,bfight wars with each other.
Yes, we are all very much like Shylock in Merchant of Venice, salivating for extraction of an enemy's "pound of flesh". The point being that the enjoyment in a virtual world is just as enjoyable as its' extraction in the physical world. Which is why we hate the censors, the "internet police" of the virtual world so much. Why do they wish to restrict this enjoyment? Fear that we'll unleash our sadism in the physical world? Fear that the Romans will not restrict their enjoyment of violence to the Coliseum? Panem et Circenses. To honour the (nonexistent) G_d's? Or to revel in our OWN perverse powers?
Lem says that the Germans had to "invent" the figure of the perverse Nazi SS and implement anti-Nazism policies after the war to hide the fact that most Germans approved of the holocaust and slaughter. They were not "innocents" who didn't know what was going on in the camps.
There is no "meaning" to suffering other than that which people invent to "rationalize" it. Like it was all "bad Nazi's" and not "jealous Germans", jealous of the success of thriving German Jews. And today, still obsessively deceiving themselves through German guilt-pride.
\See????!!!
Reality -- is CONTRA-intuitive.
Indeed it is. People are sadistic assholes that deny their darker nature.
lol! I missed the first line in the post above and now the html is all screwed up (italics)
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