RE: The West, The Whites, Satan.
Your posts resonate with me, Gazeeboh. I share your frustration with this country of ours. I'm ashamed of what this country has become and I wish that every American could understand what I mean by that.
To me Satan is temptation, not a man. To personify Satan as a human would be just as ignorant as our Christian brothers and sisters. I respect Satan but do not worship Satan. I know enough about Satan's purpose to know that, in the big picture, Satan's role is very important. We must look at Darkness as a way to better ourselves through example. Darkness teaches us morality not by telling us what we should do but what we should not do. I have experienced the power of the One True God whom I call 'Source' and I do NOT want to be it's foe. I fight with Satan whenever I contemplate my addictions or my desires. I draw my life from Source and I use Satan as a scaffold.
Darkness has no original ideas so do not look to it for comfort of salvation.
"Know your enemy." Rage Against the Machine
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RE: The West, The Whites, Satan.
I do not think any one else could have put it as clearly and as beautifully as you have. I believe we are all frustrated with our countries at one time or another especially when our voice does not count. As it is the government is doing a good job representing Satan.
Its a question of balance
The civilizations of the east may call American "The great Satan", but one must remember that they are doing it to pander to to their own populations, they don't really care what the West think.
It is true that the secular West is excessive in its wealth, myopically planning for short term gain and ignoring the long term ramifications of its decadence and avarice. However, the conservative East is just guilty of a litany of sins. Repression of the female principle in open society, outdated and arbitrary law with punishments based more on social standing and connections than anything else, prohibiting free thought, repression of the poor and using the uneducated and mostly ignorant masses to further the political agendas of the elite classes.
I sympathize with you as you are speaking of your own country, but do not lose sight that in order to survive, mankind as a whole has got to find a balance of Western progressive thought tempered with Eastern conservatism.