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		By: Dave		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/11/the-giffords-shooting-and-mere-words/#comment-221751</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For those who are familiar with English gematria, the system of assigning numbers to letters, if you enter Sarah L. Palin, which is her full name with the middle initial, you will get the numeric value of 666. Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden in English gematria have a numeric value of 660, which is the approximate number of the beast. But only Sarah L. Palin has the numeric value of 666, which is the biblical number of the beast.

For those who don’t understand, Google — English gematria. I have included two separate links to two separate English gematria calculators below for you to see it first hand for yourself. See it and heed its meaning. I had always foreseen this since the 2008 election campaign. Now I proved it for everyone to see.

But wait, what do we have in store for the future? Here it is below so look into these words in the English gematria calculators in the links also –

American beast = 666
Lady of evil = 666
A martial law = 666
Anarchy U.S.A. = 666

http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/count.html
http://real-world-news.org/numerics/english-gematria.html

According to Hebrew gematria, the system of assigning numbers to letters, the name Sarah Palin, without the middle initial, also has a numeric value of 666.

The name “Sarah” in Hebrew is spelled:
Sarah = ×©×¨×”
Shin = 300
Resh = 200
He = 5

The name “Palin” in Hebrew is spelled:
Palin = ×¤××œ×<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />×Ÿ
Pe = 80
Aleph = 1
Lamed = 30
Nun = 50

Total = 666

×”×× ×˜×<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />×›×¨×<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />×¡×˜×•×¡ ×<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />×¢×œ×• ×‘×©× ×ª 2012. ×¨××• ×”×•×–×”×¨×ª×]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those who are familiar with English gematria, the system of assigning numbers to letters, if you enter Sarah L. Palin, which is her full name with the middle initial, you will get the numeric value of 666. Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden in English gematria have a numeric value of 660, which is the approximate number of the beast. But only Sarah L. Palin has the numeric value of 666, which is the biblical number of the beast.</p>
<p>For those who don’t understand, Google — English gematria. I have included two separate links to two separate English gematria calculators below for you to see it first hand for yourself. See it and heed its meaning. I had always foreseen this since the 2008 election campaign. Now I proved it for everyone to see.</p>
<p>But wait, what do we have in store for the future? Here it is below so look into these words in the English gematria calculators in the links also –</p>
<p>American beast = 666<br />
Lady of evil = 666<br />
A martial law = 666<br />
Anarchy U.S.A. = 666</p>
<p><a href="http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/count.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/count.html</a><br />
<a href="http://real-world-news.org/numerics/english-gematria.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://real-world-news.org/numerics/english-gematria.html</a></p>
<p>According to Hebrew gematria, the system of assigning numbers to letters, the name Sarah Palin, without the middle initial, also has a numeric value of 666.</p>
<p>The name “Sarah” in Hebrew is spelled:<br />
Sarah = ×©×¨×”<br />
Shin = 300<br />
Resh = 200<br />
He = 5</p>
<p>The name “Palin” in Hebrew is spelled:<br />
Palin = ×¤××œ×™×Ÿ<br />
Pe = 80<br />
Aleph = 1<br />
Lamed = 30<br />
Nun = 50</p>
<p>Total = 666</p>
<p>×”×× ×˜×™×›×¨×™×¡×˜×•×¡ ×™×¢×œ×• ×‘×©× ×ª 2012. ×¨××• ×”×•×–×”×¨×ª×</p>
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		By: Hong		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/11/the-giffords-shooting-and-mere-words/#comment-215502</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Palin released a statement decrying the partisan rancor being used to politicize this tragedy. She doesn&#039;t specifically name the left or anybody in the liberal media but the reaction, so far from them, is predictably lame.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/137411-clyburn-palin-intellectually-not-to-be-able-to-understand-whats-going-on-here]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palin released a statement decrying the partisan rancor being used to politicize this tragedy. She doesn&#8217;t specifically name the left or anybody in the liberal media but the reaction, so far from them, is predictably lame.</p>
<p><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/137411-clyburn-palin-intellectually-not-to-be-able-to-understand-whats-going-on-here" rel="nofollow ugc">http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/137411-clyburn-palin-intellectually-not-to-be-able-to-understand-whats-going-on-here</a></p>
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		By: SteveH		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/11/the-giffords-shooting-and-mere-words/#comment-215476</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The obsession the left has with language manipulation seems to me to come from their recognition of inferior numbers to win at the game of politics without it. So they seek to change the rules of what it even means to &quot;win&quot; or at the very least confuse the rules for all players involved.

 Plus they seem to be on a mission to find the holy grail of reliably faked sincerity through language manipulation. Barak Obama&#039;s candidacy was nothing if not the latest tactics in this field deployed with rather marked success against a nieve and uninformed electorate.

 But i think it turns out their swallowing of their own faked sincerity has left them more clueless every day as to what sincerity even looks and feels like to an average American. On some level they know this and are in full fledged panic mode that their gamble to deploy these tactics not only just worked short term, but dug them a massive hole it may take generations to climb out of.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The obsession the left has with language manipulation seems to me to come from their recognition of inferior numbers to win at the game of politics without it. So they seek to change the rules of what it even means to &#8220;win&#8221; or at the very least confuse the rules for all players involved.</p>
<p> Plus they seem to be on a mission to find the holy grail of reliably faked sincerity through language manipulation. Barak Obama&#8217;s candidacy was nothing if not the latest tactics in this field deployed with rather marked success against a nieve and uninformed electorate.</p>
<p> But i think it turns out their swallowing of their own faked sincerity has left them more clueless every day as to what sincerity even looks and feels like to an average American. On some level they know this and are in full fledged panic mode that their gamble to deploy these tactics not only just worked short term, but dug them a massive hole it may take generations to climb out of.</p>
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		By: Sergey		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Professional psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer nailed it best:
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011106068.html]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Professional psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer nailed it best:<br />
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011106068.html</p>
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		By: Doug		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/11/the-giffords-shooting-and-mere-words/#comment-215470</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I&#039;m too cynical, but the incredible outburst of fingerpointing from the left seems contrived to me. It makes no rational sense to do this within hours of the tragedy even  if you believed this nonsense.  Perhaps this egregious outburst was staged to create great controversy so the president can come and appear to be the moderate healer of the nation!  Sorry my cynicism is showing.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m too cynical, but the incredible outburst of fingerpointing from the left seems contrived to me. It makes no rational sense to do this within hours of the tragedy even  if you believed this nonsense.  Perhaps this egregious outburst was staged to create great controversy so the president can come and appear to be the moderate healer of the nation!  Sorry my cynicism is showing.</p>
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		By: Perfected democrat		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I found this related comment (from last June), while googling around this evening at the philosophyforum.com site, and which seems (to me) to clearly illustrate the nature of the bitterly personalized cognitive disconnect which reflects very common left-wing thinking, their actually somewhat common preoccupation with &quot;language&quot; as a theme, and simply being challenged (as in any &quot;political&quot; disagreement); it is epidemic historically at the left. Hence the ability to use this incident to launch a brazenly hypocritical and misrepresented political attack against (targeting) their perceived right-wing political opposition:

&quot;3 of 3 people found this post helpful
Posted Jun 24, 2010 - 10:39 PM:

Words have always been used for good and ill alike. It depends on who is talking.

Orwell was prescient in many ways. During the last 20 to 30 years, the right wing has been waging a concerted effort to devalue some of the words of the left (a process called pejoration) and to boost the value of their own terminology (a process called amelioration). As a consequence, it has become much more difficult for progressives (even that is a devalued term) to employ their traditional vocabulary. The &#039;political center&#039; has been shifted quite a ways to the right of where the middle used to be. &#039;Liberal&#039; is now a slur meaning extremist and far left, even though &#039;liberal&#039; now occupies the area formerly held by moderate republicans of 40 years ago, say. &#039;Socialist&#039; is about as linguistically acceptable as the word &#039;ass hole&#039; and so forth. Unions have become one of those troublesome &quot;special interest groups&quot; and corporations are now counted as &#039;persons&#039; thanks to the right wing of the Supreme Court. Those dirty unions are getting in the way of an honest corporation (a person) making an honest buck, and similar bullshit.

Language isn&#039;t magic. It takes more than clever editing to manipulate people. But it is, never the less, a very useful skill. The left would do well to get much better at the language game.&quot;


Perhaps one might (try to) rationalize that both left and right have been equally culpable, but the sheer body count of strictly neutral, civilian political victims during the twentieth century - victims of very common left-wing, politically dogmatic campaigns, from Stalin and Hitler to Cambodia, Maoist China and North Korea - for any simply perceived (or contrived) &quot;political&quot; disagreement, belies that assumption. The so-called &quot;right-wing&quot; may not be pristine as a stereotyped group, but their sheer numbers of victims pale by comparison.

Mr. Loughner&#039;s preoccupations weren&#039;t exclusively a manifestation of his mental illness, he was clearly influenced, even inculcated by the steady drum beat of the casually virulent Bush-hater left-wing patter prevalent for over a decade; as well as his favorite music when he was smoking; Anti-Flag (http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2011/01/08/jared-loughners-how-to-mind-controller-video/).

Note, from (tonite&#039;s) Wikipedia, in reference to Bill Ayers: &quot;Larry Grathwohl, an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated The Weather Underground, claimed that Ayers wanted to overthrow the United States government. In an interview in January 2009, Grathwohl stated that:

    &quot;The thing the most bone chilling thing Bill Ayers said to me was that after the revolution succeeded and the government was overthrown, they believed they would have to eliminate 25 million Americans who would not conform to the new order.&quot;[59]

How is that related? The level of hypocrisy exhibited by the Democrats, concerning this incident, and their accusations of Sarah Palin, in particular, of fomenting violence is simply outrageous. If Sarah Palin is somehow an appropriately culpable subject for the left media, William Ayers, Barak (“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,&quot;) Obama&#039;s good friend, as well as left-wing genocidal advocate and icon of their &quot;progressive&quot; movement, is also certainly relevant.

If the Tucson killings are, indeed, more complex than Mr. Loughner&#039;s personal mental illness, and there is any serious group culpability for this incident, it clearly belongs at the left. Mrs. Giffords wasn&#039;t just any Democrat, she was sympathetic to the Arizona alien invasion issue, Jewish, and a staunch supporter of Israel at a time when the Democrats have all but betrayed Israel over even basic issues concerning Jerusalem. The left-wing on &quot;campus&quot; haven&#039;t been kind to Jewish students openly loyal to Israel, to say the least... This is all clearly related to the &quot;progressive&#039;s&quot; insidious power agenda. We should know by now how the &quot;blame game&quot; is played.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found this related comment (from last June), while googling around this evening at the philosophyforum.com site, and which seems (to me) to clearly illustrate the nature of the bitterly personalized cognitive disconnect which reflects very common left-wing thinking, their actually somewhat common preoccupation with &#8220;language&#8221; as a theme, and simply being challenged (as in any &#8220;political&#8221; disagreement); it is epidemic historically at the left. Hence the ability to use this incident to launch a brazenly hypocritical and misrepresented political attack against (targeting) their perceived right-wing political opposition:</p>
<p>&#8220;3 of 3 people found this post helpful<br />
Posted Jun 24, 2010 &#8211; 10:39 PM:</p>
<p>Words have always been used for good and ill alike. It depends on who is talking.</p>
<p>Orwell was prescient in many ways. During the last 20 to 30 years, the right wing has been waging a concerted effort to devalue some of the words of the left (a process called pejoration) and to boost the value of their own terminology (a process called amelioration). As a consequence, it has become much more difficult for progressives (even that is a devalued term) to employ their traditional vocabulary. The &#8216;political center&#8217; has been shifted quite a ways to the right of where the middle used to be. &#8216;Liberal&#8217; is now a slur meaning extremist and far left, even though &#8216;liberal&#8217; now occupies the area formerly held by moderate republicans of 40 years ago, say. &#8216;Socialist&#8217; is about as linguistically acceptable as the word &#8216;ass hole&#8217; and so forth. Unions have become one of those troublesome &#8220;special interest groups&#8221; and corporations are now counted as &#8216;persons&#8217; thanks to the right wing of the Supreme Court. Those dirty unions are getting in the way of an honest corporation (a person) making an honest buck, and similar bullshit.</p>
<p>Language isn&#8217;t magic. It takes more than clever editing to manipulate people. But it is, never the less, a very useful skill. The left would do well to get much better at the language game.&#8221;</p>
<p>Perhaps one might (try to) rationalize that both left and right have been equally culpable, but the sheer body count of strictly neutral, civilian political victims during the twentieth century &#8211; victims of very common left-wing, politically dogmatic campaigns, from Stalin and Hitler to Cambodia, Maoist China and North Korea &#8211; for any simply perceived (or contrived) &#8220;political&#8221; disagreement, belies that assumption. The so-called &#8220;right-wing&#8221; may not be pristine as a stereotyped group, but their sheer numbers of victims pale by comparison.</p>
<p>Mr. Loughner&#8217;s preoccupations weren&#8217;t exclusively a manifestation of his mental illness, he was clearly influenced, even inculcated by the steady drum beat of the casually virulent Bush-hater left-wing patter prevalent for over a decade; as well as his favorite music when he was smoking; Anti-Flag (<a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2011/01/08/jared-loughners-how-to-mind-controller-video/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2011/01/08/jared-loughners-how-to-mind-controller-video/</a>).</p>
<p>Note, from (tonite&#8217;s) Wikipedia, in reference to Bill Ayers: &#8220;Larry Grathwohl, an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated The Weather Underground, claimed that Ayers wanted to overthrow the United States government. In an interview in January 2009, Grathwohl stated that:</p>
<p>    &#8220;The thing the most bone chilling thing Bill Ayers said to me was that after the revolution succeeded and the government was overthrown, they believed they would have to eliminate 25 million Americans who would not conform to the new order.&#8221;[59]</p>
<p>How is that related? The level of hypocrisy exhibited by the Democrats, concerning this incident, and their accusations of Sarah Palin, in particular, of fomenting violence is simply outrageous. If Sarah Palin is somehow an appropriately culpable subject for the left media, William Ayers, Barak (“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,&#8221;) Obama&#8217;s good friend, as well as left-wing genocidal advocate and icon of their &#8220;progressive&#8221; movement, is also certainly relevant.</p>
<p>If the Tucson killings are, indeed, more complex than Mr. Loughner&#8217;s personal mental illness, and there is any serious group culpability for this incident, it clearly belongs at the left. Mrs. Giffords wasn&#8217;t just any Democrat, she was sympathetic to the Arizona alien invasion issue, Jewish, and a staunch supporter of Israel at a time when the Democrats have all but betrayed Israel over even basic issues concerning Jerusalem. The left-wing on &#8220;campus&#8221; haven&#8217;t been kind to Jewish students openly loyal to Israel, to say the least&#8230; This is all clearly related to the &#8220;progressive&#8217;s&#8221; insidious power agenda. We should know by now how the &#8220;blame game&#8221; is played.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For those speaking of &quot;projection&quot;, I am reminded of a long debate on Facebook with several people.  The debate centered around &quot;judging&quot; and was religious in nature and mostly quiet civil.  On one side you had the &quot;religiously tolerant&quot; side who were all but saying one Christian cannot recognize sin in a fellow Christian, lest he &quot;judge&quot;.  The other side, which I was on, argued that was a misunderstanding of &quot;judge not&quot; and offered counter scriptural arguments with the repeated observation we are &quot;all sinners&quot;-and &quot;judge not&quot; is not an excuse to say sin is not sin.  Finally one fellow, from the other side, chimed in to say, and I paraphrase from memory, &quot;We have to get rid of this idea if we disprove of someones actions we love them.&quot;  Later I realized this was an unintentional mirror of this guys heart-he was admitting he did not love those whose lifestyle he disagreed with.  I thought later , since he was trying to argue with religious sounding language, that i should have pointed out to him that if Christian missionaries try to convert Muslims , by his own standard that means they hate the muslims-or the apostle Paul, who was persecuted for spreading Christianity, by this man&#039;s standard, must have hated those he was trying to convert.
Yes, its projection, not truth.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those speaking of &#8220;projection&#8221;, I am reminded of a long debate on Facebook with several people.  The debate centered around &#8220;judging&#8221; and was religious in nature and mostly quiet civil.  On one side you had the &#8220;religiously tolerant&#8221; side who were all but saying one Christian cannot recognize sin in a fellow Christian, lest he &#8220;judge&#8221;.  The other side, which I was on, argued that was a misunderstanding of &#8220;judge not&#8221; and offered counter scriptural arguments with the repeated observation we are &#8220;all sinners&#8221;-and &#8220;judge not&#8221; is not an excuse to say sin is not sin.  Finally one fellow, from the other side, chimed in to say, and I paraphrase from memory, &#8220;We have to get rid of this idea if we disprove of someones actions we love them.&#8221;  Later I realized this was an unintentional mirror of this guys heart-he was admitting he did not love those whose lifestyle he disagreed with.  I thought later , since he was trying to argue with religious sounding language, that i should have pointed out to him that if Christian missionaries try to convert Muslims , by his own standard that means they hate the muslims-or the apostle Paul, who was persecuted for spreading Christianity, by this man&#8217;s standard, must have hated those he was trying to convert.<br />
Yes, its projection, not truth.</p>
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		By: Curtis		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SteveH, when I think of how &quot;upside&quot; down things have become, I think of the word &quot;satanic.&quot; It may be unbalanced of me; I&#039;m not sure. Perhaps I&#039;ll leave that determination to the individuals described in the quite awesome, hilarious, and hilariously sad essay below:

http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/articles/080612jb_en.html

A quote to tempt the circling doves:

There is no greater arrogance than demanding that a human being sacrifice his conscience, his intelligence, and even his capacity of sense perception on the altar of the absurd. &quot;In the end, who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes,&quot; Groucho Marx used to ask. When the joke is transformed into reality, humor becomes a satanic farce.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SteveH, when I think of how &#8220;upside&#8221; down things have become, I think of the word &#8220;satanic.&#8221; It may be unbalanced of me; I&#8217;m not sure. Perhaps I&#8217;ll leave that determination to the individuals described in the quite awesome, hilarious, and hilariously sad essay below:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/articles/080612jb_en.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/articles/080612jb_en.html</a></p>
<p>A quote to tempt the circling doves:</p>
<p>There is no greater arrogance than demanding that a human being sacrifice his conscience, his intelligence, and even his capacity of sense perception on the altar of the absurd. &#8220;In the end, who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes,&#8221; Groucho Marx used to ask. When the joke is transformed into reality, humor becomes a satanic farce.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;&quot; I realized at that moment that there was a completely unbridgeable moral gulf between me and him&quot;&quot;
Kolnai

 I&#039;ve experienced similar. It strikes me as being an inversion of morality, as weird as that seems. Because having slight variations or ideas on morality doesn&#039;t explain liberals being 180 degrees wrong on almost every important issue. And for some reason they think it&#039;s you and i with the skewed morals. When in fact we&#039;re probably very closely aligned with the ideas of morality of a JFK or Hubert Humphrey, both prominent liberals just 2 generations ago.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8221; I realized at that moment that there was a completely unbridgeable moral gulf between me and him&#8221;&#8221;<br />
Kolnai</p>
<p> I&#8217;ve experienced similar. It strikes me as being an inversion of morality, as weird as that seems. Because having slight variations or ideas on morality doesn&#8217;t explain liberals being 180 degrees wrong on almost every important issue. And for some reason they think it&#8217;s you and i with the skewed morals. When in fact we&#8217;re probably very closely aligned with the ideas of morality of a JFK or Hubert Humphrey, both prominent liberals just 2 generations ago.</p>
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		By: LAG		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/11/the-giffords-shooting-and-mere-words/#comment-215303</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just watched Patrick Leahy talking about the power of rhetoric to move people to madness. His delivery seemed to put the lie to every word he uttered. Maybe that was his intent, though, just to make sure he didn&#039;t drive someone over the edge.

Neo, your question reminded me of my youth in the magic decade (the six-zero&#039;s). I recall that adults regularly complained to the yoots that the lyrics of their music was having an evil effect. The response, as I recall, was always that mere words were harmless.

I agree and disagree at the same time. You can conduct an experiment if you like (and speak German). Go watch a video of Hitler working a crowd. I doubt you will be moved in spite of the fact that his German audience is ecstatic. Even if words have the power to motivate, and I think they can, they must land on fertile ground.

Where this killer was concerned, I&#039;ll go with the good Doctor Krauthammer--there wasn&#039;t anybody at home.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just watched Patrick Leahy talking about the power of rhetoric to move people to madness. His delivery seemed to put the lie to every word he uttered. Maybe that was his intent, though, just to make sure he didn&#8217;t drive someone over the edge.</p>
<p>Neo, your question reminded me of my youth in the magic decade (the six-zero&#8217;s). I recall that adults regularly complained to the yoots that the lyrics of their music was having an evil effect. The response, as I recall, was always that mere words were harmless.</p>
<p>I agree and disagree at the same time. You can conduct an experiment if you like (and speak German). Go watch a video of Hitler working a crowd. I doubt you will be moved in spite of the fact that his German audience is ecstatic. Even if words have the power to motivate, and I think they can, they must land on fertile ground.</p>
<p>Where this killer was concerned, I&#8217;ll go with the good Doctor Krauthammer&#8211;there wasn&#8217;t anybody at home.</p>
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