tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post8435331940102700679..comments2024-03-19T12:03:19.508+00:00Comments on Meeting The Masters: A Devilish MasterplanWilliam Wildbloodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-40384785332134177232016-06-24T11:10:47.614+00:002016-06-24T11:10:47.614+00:00I didn't vote either because I saw it as a los...I didn't vote either because I saw it as a lose-lose situation. Unfortunately there seems to be so much anger and almost hatred as a consequence that I do worry for the future, especially as the result was so close in percentage terms. It points to a real split in the country and what use is sovereignty when people look at each other in such a way? I think this is why we have to be in the world but not of it, detached from all this sort of thing. The trouble is when you have children you have to be invested in the future in some way. But you also have to have faith in God and know that, on the level that really matters, things are working out as they should and all will be well if you really do strive to accord your heart with divine truth.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-84681948802936061732016-06-24T10:54:33.445+00:002016-06-24T10:54:33.445+00:00Yes. I know you were not referring to EU and I agr...Yes. I know you were not referring to EU and I agree with your comment. I just feel very sad to see that this referendum has almost certainly been thrust upon us and then exploited to create divisiveness. Just looking at the comments on facebook today is very upsetting and polarised. It is making me feel very Socratic and to ask: Is democracy a good way to make decisions?! Even seems certain it is and these same people are horrified when the system they doggedly defend produces a result they dont like. But still this will udoubtedly have no effect on the unquestioning assumption that democracy is the best possible ideal to be exported and ironically *imposed* by western nations on other nations. How can one of todays comments to the effect that 'leaving the EU is a blow to democracy' even make any sense if the decision to do so has purportedly been made as the result of a democratic election? In the end I did not vote but this makes no sense. David Balfourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12099160562774064281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-47893228839230668292016-06-24T09:40:22.191+00:002016-06-24T09:40:22.191+00:00I wasn't actually thinking of the referendum w...I wasn't actually thinking of the referendum when I wrote about making one's own decision. It was to do with accepting or denying God. But the points you make are very valid. The political process has become so soiled and rooted in nastiness one wants nothing to do with it. People have no centre if they have no God so they seek a centre somewhere whether that be the EU or not the EU. But there is no truth in any of it.<br /><br />The 'good guys' certainly have their own plan but they don't interfere with free will. There is truth and there are lies and the choice is up to us. We have the truth inscribed in our hearts but because of the fallen ego with which we identify it we often reject it.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-88367453857633561272016-06-23T21:38:11.043+00:002016-06-23T21:38:11.043+00:00"but each one had to make his or her own deci..."but each one had to make his or her own decision..."<br /><br />I think this truth itself has been subverted as well and now used as a tool against us. It seems todays vote for EU has been deliberately used as a divisive wedge issue to foster feelings of fear, resentment, mutual mistrust and compulsory mud-slinging amongst the masses. In the end I opted not to get involved despite my gut inclination to leave. It seems like voting really is a rotten a process as Bruce once blogged. All I can see if a mixture of emotional reasoning and prejudices based on shifting ground, fear-mongering and impossibls economic crystal ball gazing as well very little actual facts to base it on. And yet everyone I know is *certain* that staying in the EU is moral obligation and progressive stance. They are as certain of this as they are that there is no God, that they will cease to exist at death and that the Universe is founded on complete randomness. But despite this staying in the EU is still progressing somewhere undeniably utopian?! But then you ask what the aimed at end point is for all the politics and what anyon actually wants to create by the political process in the long run and they dont know and seem confused by the question?<br /><br />Whatever these imagined devils are doing they are doing an excellent job it seems. I can only assume the good guys have a contingency plan but frankly I feel totally bewildered as to how the good guys will be able to fix this mess in the long-run. David Balfourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12099160562774064281noreply@blogger.com