tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post3530167137358619824..comments2024-03-28T03:24:11.539-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : The Unexpected SnakeDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-72514947999952408652016-05-16T23:30:26.896-04:002016-05-16T23:30:26.896-04:00Daniel - this is one of your best articles and wri...Daniel - this is one of your best articles and written for the likes of these people in this video:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwFRZRkShPIAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566596463821700682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-81483679942908725262016-05-04T07:28:24.182-04:002016-05-04T07:28:24.182-04:00Mr. Greenfield, I understand the purpose of this a...Mr. Greenfield, I understand the purpose of this article, but your snake metaphor reveals your ignorance of the natural world and perpetuates a pernicious myth. This idea that snakes spend all their waking hours wanting and seeking to bite human beings is ridiculous. Snakes are wild animals which will defend themselves when threatened, like almost every other wild animal on the planet. A snake wants nothing more than to be left alone by humans.<br /><br />Try picking up and hugging a raccoon (or a squirrel, or a fox) and see what happens. But the snake gets the reputation and the raccoon doesn't.Eustace Cranchhttp://www.point1engineering.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-102534234478998652016-05-01T15:55:57.065-04:002016-05-01T15:55:57.065-04:00"Things that are poisonous bite."
Think..."Things that are poisonous bite."<br /><br />Think it is we bite things that are poisonous. Venomous creatures bite us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-53327758785046290602016-05-01T12:27:11.158-04:002016-05-01T12:27:11.158-04:00"Humans are born with a susceptibility to tha..."Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception." from the Bene Gesserit Codajdfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05642580947088764081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-67561496244637286902016-05-01T05:32:04.935-04:002016-05-01T05:32:04.935-04:00I'm sorry to say the West needs horrific shock...I'm sorry to say the West needs horrific shock therapy to change the thinking of a sizable minority away from such ego-based dismissal of evil. A majority of Leftists will never make this shift, but I sizable enough could to make the difference. Seriously, if you have 10 misguided Liberal/Left friends, at best 1 or 2 are capable of proactive change. Every Aesop fable has multiple novels embedded in the psychodynamics involved. Stephen J Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14250355497674756363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-23407205071794551512016-04-30T14:50:19.609-04:002016-04-30T14:50:19.609-04:00You've said it all.
Now let us return this sna...You've said it all.<br />Now let us return this snake to its place of origin, along with it's foolish bed pals! <br />And next time VET the Bastard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-79448449596720686812016-04-30T14:13:41.781-04:002016-04-30T14:13:41.781-04:00Anonymous, our young only read People magazine and...Anonymous, our young only read People magazine and airport literature, if they read at all.<br /><br />Personally, I am tired of presenting the other cheek. Yes, I know being a Christian I should not say that. Well, I do. And I'm ready to sort it out with the Lord when my time comes.<br /><br />It's one thing to pardon your offender. Another very different one is to put a target on your chest and stand in front of a murderer and say "Shoot me. I deserve it." The former is noble. The latter is stupid. There is no virtue in stupidity, no matter what the left tells you.<br /><br />I'm all for giving ISIS, radical Islam, or whatever denomination they prefer, a taste of their own medicine. It's the only language they understand so speak to them in their own language.<br /><br />Now I could expand my opinion to great lengths, but it's the weekend and it's a lovely day where I live, so I'll put aside the insanity of politics and go and take some fresh air.<br /><br />Great post, as usual, Daniel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-63186638819984143042016-04-30T12:17:59.411-04:002016-04-30T12:17:59.411-04:00Then there are the farmers who wouldn't touch ...Then there are the farmers who wouldn't touch a snake with a ten-foot pole themselves but instead build moats around their farms and enact legislation mandating that all their neighbors warm snakes.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16437051786062104009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90354832505899229852016-04-30T03:35:14.220-04:002016-04-30T03:35:14.220-04:00The Leftist has a special self-hatred.
Seeing mora...The Leftist has a special self-hatred.<br />Seeing moral superiority in phony humility,<br />He refuses to exercise judgement,<br />discarding his key to survival.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-88834672307238786732016-04-30T01:23:50.236-04:002016-04-30T01:23:50.236-04:00And the child. I used to catch wild animals in my ...And the child. I used to catch wild animals in my shirt and turn them loose in my room believing I was going to feed and raise them so they would be safe and healthy. So many snakes bit me, I thought wrongly that only poisonous ones bit. But I had no idea what poisonous ones looked like even.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04334322377237286384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-88054047333334098082016-04-29T18:58:14.592-04:002016-04-29T18:58:14.592-04:00A very fine essay indeed .One to keep in mind
Dav...A very fine essay indeed .One to keep in mind <br />Dave SAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-58942986251221917922016-04-29T17:30:07.217-04:002016-04-29T17:30:07.217-04:00Of all people, Whoopi Goldberg made this point in ...Of all people, Whoopi Goldberg made this point in what has always remained for me one of the most brilliant and memorable moments in the history of Star Trek. The topic is this very one - Picard giving safe harbor to a murderous Borg ---<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eZrgUC8ixA<br /><br />Andrew Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613559746465759550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-39135967230241345852016-04-29T17:29:05.994-04:002016-04-29T17:29:05.994-04:00A brilliant analogy Mr. Greenfield--and once more ...A brilliant analogy Mr. Greenfield--and once more you are absolutely on target.D.D. Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07889687059761117441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-41384631636948349952016-04-29T14:20:47.876-04:002016-04-29T14:20:47.876-04:00Authorities in Sweden invited snakes to a whopping...Authorities in Sweden invited snakes to a whopping five percent of their population, mostly to teach Israel a lesson on ‘farming’. They are by now the rape capital of the world. We will see when they reach the seventeen percentage of Israel…<br />Turning their country into a test lab speak volumes about the much praised Scandinavian paradise. Frau Merkel and the Pope are green with envy.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-11445837762332046192016-04-29T14:10:43.772-04:002016-04-29T14:10:43.772-04:00It takes one snake to know another. Man tries to ...It takes one snake to know another. Man tries to escape God's judgment of his sin by attempting to atone for his unrighteousness through choosing the sacrifice. The problem is that sin is rooted in every human heart, so "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts." (Proverbs 21:2) God is not interested at all in the stinky sacrifice of self-righteousness, but rather in this: The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Psalm 51:17)Bearinhearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02228307011847397224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-89527099602428127122016-04-29T08:44:51.109-04:002016-04-29T08:44:51.109-04:00The whole radical paternalism thing as pushed by C...The whole radical paternalism thing as pushed by Christianity and now the secular community is unworkable and always has been. Generosity like everything else has to be rationed or it gets used up. And once it is gone all hell breaks loose. Johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08858734208780946905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-21813049325554072142016-04-29T00:28:50.316-04:002016-04-29T00:28:50.316-04:00I don't see how I can pass this one up -- the ...I don't see how I can pass this one up -- the world would be a lot better off if we made every political leader memorize Aesop's Fables and penalized any who failed to put them into practice (that was his original mission, in fact).<br />As Daniel explains so well, "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return" IS NOT THE SAME AS "those who do evil / have had evil done to them."<br />He said: "Only the fool or the sociopath genuinely believes that evil is returned ONLY for evil. " (caps added because I can't do bold). One of his earlier statements is clarified by making this contingency explicit rather than implicit: "But the assumption that evil exists ONLY because evil has been done to someone else, tracing back to an original primal evil of injustice that can only be healed with social justice, is itself evil."<br />The attempt to justify doing evil by claiming prior victim-hood is (literally) as old as the story of Cain and Abel. That story is in the Bible for a reason, and it's the same reason that Aesop tried to get across: some people are going to do evil regardless of what is done to them, and you have no obligation to enable them (in fact, you have an obligation to stop them).<br />I think it is interesting, though, that the Moral of the Biblical tale is primarily "Take responsibility for your own actions" but the Moral of the Fable is "The Greatest Kindness Will Not Bind the Ungrateful."<br />Cain (according to common interpretations) acted out of envy and anger. The Genesis account suggests that Cain could have controlled his emotions and NOT have done evil to Abel, despite his feeling offended (the first Special Snowflake looking for a Safe Place?): Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you furious? And why are you downcast? If you do right, won't you be accepted? But if you do not do right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must master it." <br />Jews and Christians, taking this lesson, teach that the proper response to kindness is, indeed, gratitude, and go further, teaching that the proper response to having evil done to them (alleged or actual) is to do good in return: being responsible for their choices and actions.<br />The Snake simply acted according to its nature: it had no concept of responsibility toward the Farmer, and thus no gratitude to guide its choices.<br />And herein lies the application to Islamic terrorists doing evil in (alleged) return for (alleged) evil done to them. Islamic terrorists (and frankly, any other kind) see no reason to be grateful for kindnesses done to them because it is their entitlement and due to them. They think they are already acting righteously (in accord with Allah's commandments, not contrary to G-d's as was the case with Cain), so that the evil they do to non-Muslims (including their own selection of apostate Muslims) is not something to be controlled, but is exactly according to their nature.<br />(INSERT required caveat that not all Muslims are Islamic Terrorists, that many repay kindness with gratitude and forebear to repay offense with violence, but they are NOT THE ONES who are going around killing people all over the world.)<br />AesopFannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-16941377321600459752016-04-28T21:26:45.094-04:002016-04-28T21:26:45.094-04:00The real poison is the guilt instilled into infant...The real poison is the guilt instilled into infant minds;<br />the Eden forbidden fruit lie.<br />An infinite series of causal tit-for-tats ensue.<br />How monstrous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-66126673337477277412016-04-28T21:20:29.859-04:002016-04-28T21:20:29.859-04:00Thanks, great article! One of my favorite parables...Thanks, great article! One of my favorite parables ...Infidelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-86022699278271298432016-04-28T19:59:24.659-04:002016-04-28T19:59:24.659-04:00I trust it is not lost on you that Donald Trump us...I trust it is not lost on you that Donald Trump uses EXACTLY this fable/story repeatedly to express his view on islam....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-45021130937794852612016-04-28T19:42:52.185-04:002016-04-28T19:42:52.185-04:00I see I am not the only one to recognize the ancie...I see I am not the only one to recognize the ancient wisdom of Aesop. Apparently our do not read the ancient wisdom any more...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-64382812073550159372016-04-28T17:23:06.025-04:002016-04-28T17:23:06.025-04:00Torah forewarns us that 'being kind to the cru...Torah forewarns us that 'being kind to the cruel ultimately leads to being 'cruel to the kind'. Today's liberalism (radicals) with its warped thinking actually believe it's okay even with its obvious consequences (moral relativism = immorality). <br />Common sense no longer exists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com