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Scott Benson


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Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship
Age: 28
Sign: Scorpio

City: Richmond
State: Virginia
Country: US
Signup Date: 11/3/2003

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Tuesday, August 30, 2005 
"i've said it 10,000 times. i don't understand how something that was
started to stand against the establishment took root in the longest
running establishment...

it doesn't make any sense to me."

-R.P.
Yerub-baal

 

are you refering to jesus christ hardcore? if so then next time we see each other i will explain...or try to.


 
Posted by Yerub-baal on Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 7:13 AM
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Jonathan
Jonathan Hastings

 
It's an old trick. Oppressive and/or Dominant regimes have done it time and time again. Kill the rebel (so he cannot renounce you) then claim him as your own and the "people" whose eyes are so fixed on the eyes (not the heart) of their hero will become distracted from what specifically he was standing for and against. This works because people tend to get caught up in the "moving" of a movement rather than its intended direction. If the establishment shakes hands with its enemy, this illusory concession, will make "enough" people believe that the establishment has "heard" them and is responding to their muddled pangs for change which have arisen from their varied personal discontents. Without a hero to unify their discontent people will generally run whatever machines the government or society has put in front of them without effecting change. (Disorganized discontent is worthless.) Also once the "radical" philosophy has been made innocuous without its visionary, a careful perversion of that philosophy can sometimes be employed to strengthen the existing establishment (so long as it still resembles its former enough for society to embrace it).

Having said this, i have no idea what JCHC means. If it's a trendy acronym substitute for Christianity I have a response to what you might be implying. True both church and government have abused his teachings after his death, and he spoke against them many times during his life, but it is not fair to reduce his message strictly to antagonism. There was a part of his teaching which was most certainly "PRO" something. This is what separates a visionary from the throngs that follow him or her. The masses are simply disatisfied. They sense something is wrong and they are AGAINST their current circumstance. The visionary however, far beyond disaffection sees or has an idea of how to escape the disaffection. He or she is running TOWARD something, not just AWAY from something. I encourage you (if you havn't) to supplement your knowledge of what Jesus was against with what he was for. The value of what he embraced far surpassed his refutations. (If i cry about the bad tasting food in the refrigerator and I go so far as to take it all out, i'm no better off than i started. It is useless to merely be against something. If I complain about the bad food and but also have in mind a better food, if i know what I am FOR in addition to what I am against, I am more likely to arrive at satisfaction.)
 
Posted by Jonathan on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 1:49 AM
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