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When you have the faith that your actions are based on your relationship with the GOD you understand and you believe that the choices you make work for the greater good and not just for personal gain then I would think you are on the right path.
Didn't Hitler have faith and understood and believed that his choices were approved by God and that his actions worked for the better good and not just his personal gain? Was he on the right path?
Sorry Starman, MY take on Hitler is much different. He may have been brilliant ,but he was also a drug induced ego-manic who spread hatred of others that were of a different race. He also wanted to conquer the world by force which cost a lot of lives!
Just like peeling an onion. There is a new lesson to learn with each layer that is stripped away. It may not get easier to peel the next layer away, it gets harder, but the lesson learned gets us closer to the core or ultimate truth.
I am yet to find a dictator like Hitler who emanated such kindness that people bent over backwards to accommodate.
Dictators rule people with fear and intimidation. If you ever find yourself in the presence of someone who is so intimidating that you can not speak your peace with out the fear of retribution, you need to run like wind.
Hitler was only at that place at that time because humanity didnt care about other people. It was such a dog fight dog society people cared little over who lived and who died. That is one of the wonderfully outcomes of the second world war it brought humanity to the world. We can no longer ignore atrocities that happen anywhere in the world.
Long live peace
Sorry Starman, MY take on Hitler is much different. He may have been brilliant ,but he was also a drug induced ego-manic who spread hatred of others that were of a different race. He also wanted to conquer the world by force which cost a lot of lives!
I think you misunderstood me. I was not attempting to praise Hitler. The purpose of my statement was to show that the subjective criteria of how one feels isn't sufficient to base the conclusion of certainty on. Hitler FELT he was right. If we are to go by feelings, as was previously suggested, then he was justified in believing himself on the right path. Something with which I disagree.
As far as Hitler goes, He and most of the German people just wanted rid of the Jewish people that were stepping up too high on the socio/economical ladder, leaving the Germans way behind. Hitler made the statement that German people would no longer be shining Jew's shoes. So, with that in mind, how far down the same path are we in regard to our own emigration problems and the huge influx of hispanics that seem to be "taking our jobs and welfare?" This might be a good time to self analyze our motives to gauge just what measure of "spiritual prudence" we are really using this moment. Remember, if we forget our history we are doomed to repeat it. Do we really, in GOD'S eyes, think we are more deserving than anyone else of the comforts of life we now posess? Or, would the spiritually correct thing to do be to open our arms and borders to help any and all?- Quite unlike Hitler did. Have we learned anything concerning the depth and bredth of Hitler's "spiritual prudence?" Does the good ole USA own and operate any concentration camps at this very moment? If we do then it would be easy to put the border jumpers in them. Would it not?
Your right Starman feelings are not enough to know if your path is right or not ,but as Magprob has said actions are also a gauge to being on the right path also the motivation behind the actions plays a part.
This might be a good time to self analyze our motives to gauge just what measure of "spiritual prudence" we are really using this moment.
Case in point-Manifest Destiny idea which created our present borders.
Mankind tends to use reasoning ability to justify satisfaction of needs and justification of emotions. Under this condition they feel they are on the right path and blessed by God.
Starman, haven't you or do you now know of someone that is really evil or wicked or greedy but still trick themselves into thinking that they are one of the best Christian folk walking this planet ? How can people lie to themselves and justify their negative traits into being ok? I think we need a Psycologist to explain that. As with Hitler, we saw the same thing but also an entire race of people doing it right along with him. How did Jim Jones convince all those people that Kool Aid was the right thing for them. I just do not understand the dynamics of it. All I know is that I have a built in Karma detector that goes off when I start to feel weak to greed, meaness and all those other things that tempt us. I know I will pay 100 fold for one indiscretion, therefore, I save myself the grief and just do what is right. It is like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer, it doesn't take too long to learn not to hit yourself in the head with a hammer. Some folks just never learn though.
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