post enlightenment turn

[David Morris]

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On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> It's all about setting limits. Inquisitors die, murderous emperors die,
> freewheeling freethinkers die, Rock gods die, but even God is having
> trouble killing off the corporations and the demigod-like Roosevelts, who
> as DaveMonroe  revealed in the latest  internet coup have finally been
> exposed through careful ear photo comparisons. It all traces back to the
> Roosevelts; they were everyone, everywhere, the whole time.
> On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:
>
> > It's good to know that folks like the popes of the medieval inquisitions
> and crusades weren't really as terrible as we think they were, hm?
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:17 PM, CHRISTIAN kumpe <Kumpe3000 at gmx.de<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Re: post enlightenment turn
> >
> > My wife and I talked about the pope's speech in the German parliament
> last year. If we got him right, pope claimed that enlightenment itself laid
> the foundation to all the totalitarian terrors, because it took away  these
> god given limitations, which lend conventional tyrants their excuses to run
> the show, and gave way for freewheeling free thinkers to pursue their
> limitless goals.
> > So if we accept pope's approach, no turn was ever necessary to make us
> suffer, enlightenment itself was the wrong turn...
> >
> > Best,
> > Christian.
> >
>
>
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