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   From: kittyp2060@hotmail.com   
      
   "noname"  wrote in message news:nu0kob$qoe$8@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > Wilson  wrote:   
   > > On 10/16/2016 6:21 AM, noname wrote:   
   > >> Tang Huyen  wrote:   
   > >>> On 10/15/2016 10:08 AM, noname wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> Siddhis are not done by the individual through some   
   > >>>> power the individual has accumulated, they are   
   > >>>> not-done by the individual and done by the world   
   > >>>> because it is necessary.  It's a fine line, and easy to   
   > >>>> think that what one's egoic self demands is what is   
   > >>>> necessary.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> This is my line of reasoning about the great mass murderers   
   > >>> being of some service to humanity. As I often say, great mass   
   > >>> murderers like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and recently, Pol Pot, are   
   > >>> good, perhaps involuntarily, in helping to keep human   
   > >>> population within earthly sustainability. Such population   
   > >>> reduction is natural amongst some animals, like lemmings.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> To borrow from your felicitous wording: yuge mass murder to   
   > >>> the scale of the above tyrants is not done only by said   
   > >>> individuals through some powers the individuals have   
   > >>> accumulated (though that is true), it is not-done by the   
   > >>> individuals and done by the world because it is necessary.   
   > >>> Such individuals are evil, but not entirely evil, as they   
   > >>> contribute some good to humanity, in the above purview.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Tang Huyen   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >> Remember the story of the farmer's horse, how everyone said "oh, this   
   > >> is   
   > >> bad!" when it ran away, how they thought it was "wonderful, your horse   
   > >> is   
   > >> back, and it brought a mare!", and all the rest of that story, which I   
   > >> assume all reading here are aware of.  Its point was what the farmer   
   > >> said   
   > >> whenever his neighbors concluded that fortune was done with him.  We'll   
   > >> see.   
   > >>   
   > >> Trump is feeling his oats, because he obtained wealth through   
   > >> navigating   
   > >> the worlds placed before him; in that sense his wealth came from   
   > >> virtue.   
   > >> It is when leaders begin to deify themselves, thinking their power came   
   > >> from something they made, forgetting that it was not themselves who   
   > >> placed   
   > >> the opportunities before them, that problems begin.   
   > >>   
   > >> The problem grows worse when power is passed down to children.  Even   
   > >> though   
   > >> daddy may have gained his wealth from virtue, the children cannot but   
   > >> realize that their own wealth was inherited.  When they begin to   
   > >> consider   
   > >> it their just reward for nothing, you have created a line between   
   > >> Nobility   
   > >> and paupers.   
   > >>   
   > >> Trump could win the election in a landslide.  The only thing he would   
   > >> have   
   > >> to do is promise a 100% tax on inheritance, all inheritance large or   
   > >> small.   
   > >> A leader who knows where his power comes from also knows that it is   
   > >> freely   
   > >> available to his children who deserve it, and will only set the ones   
   > >> who do   
   > >> not on a path of dissolution, whether it is open and above-board, or   
   > >> hidden   
   > >> in boardrooms.   
   > >>   
   > >> Of course the rich will find ways to pass their wealth to those they   
   > >> wish,   
   > >> but it would win him the election.   
   > >>   
   > >> What you spoke of, mass murders committed by mass murderers?  Did they   
   > >> make   
   > >> the opportunity for that by themselves, or is it something that the   
   > >> world   
   > >> saw as necessary, like a horse running away?   
   > >>   
   > >> I have no facts at my disposal, none.  I could collect some, if there   
   > >> was   
   > >> some true source for them, and then the facts could be jerry-rigged to   
   > >> look   
   > >> however someone wanted them to look.   
   > >   
   > > In a perfect world, any idea might work.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > I claim that it is a perfect world.  It constantly delivers what the   
   > voters   
   > of the cosmos need to counter their own flaws.  The cure is simple,   
   > universal awakening.  The mechanics of that are not so simple, it's hard   
   > enough just to awaken oneself, let-alone others.   
   >   
   > email: noname.1234567.abcdef@gmail.com   
      
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