tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post1312989189487067390..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Untrue Things IIAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-70484852622665629862021-02-26T16:39:56.305-05:002021-02-26T16:39:56.305-05:00Good to knowGood to knowAssistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-48164902624008854062021-02-26T16:18:26.163-05:002021-02-26T16:18:26.163-05:00"giving aid and comfort to the enemy"
T...<i>"giving aid and comfort to the enemy"</i><br /><br />This is properly understood as actual aid, not psychological aid. If you took in German infiltrators from a WWII submarine, provided them with food and directions to their target, that's what this is meant to embrace. It's not meant to encompass just saying nice things about Hitler, as de Valera (a US citizen) did after his suicide came to be known.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-86976247046482799942021-02-26T10:39:04.882-05:002021-02-26T10:39:04.882-05:00Be guided by the Golden Rule.Be guided by the Golden Rule.Aggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089648434324058300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-47669021288869715382021-02-25T22:20:59.284-05:002021-02-25T22:20:59.284-05:00I remember being reluctant to sing hymns, even aft...I remember being reluctant to sing hymns, even after I became a Christian, that stated that I loved Jesus or was happy in God or other things that weren't exactly true at the moment--and were usually only sporadically true. I didn't want to be a hypocrite.<br /><br />After a while I realized that many of the hymns are aspirational, and I'm allowed to try to select those aspects of my life that I want to be most important--so long as I don't try to kid myself.<br /><br />Churchill tried to inspire the British, facing overwhelming odds, with claims that his hearers would never surrender. Death before surrender.<br />Hitler did something similar when Germany faced overwhelming forces. His aspiration was flavored with suicide, and was poisoned by how they got in that position, and in the end he _wanted_ Germany to be destroyed--but earlier, when defeat was likely but maybe not inevitable, what were the differences between his and Churchill's calls? Does it boil down to the justice of the goal?jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com