Janet wrote:
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>>The Planetary chess set has been reset up. And another game commences.
>> America may have sacrificed a bishop but it gained a dominant
>>position of castles and knights.
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> Joe tries to impress while giving away his total ignorance of the
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> Janet
Apparently my little contribution was impressive enough to stimulate
your routine, knee jerk (emphasis on jerk
response to anything YOU
don't understand. But i am curious, in your omniscience, what is it you
think i don't understand? geopolitics? envinronmental catastrophe &
collapse? or chess? Do you understand the chess reference was intended
as a metaphor? Look up a good map of our military dispositions in and
around the oil producing nations. The battle lines are drawn and our
knights and castles (military) occupy the high ground even if at the
cost of a bishop or 2 (our philosophical justifications.)
"60. ALLEGORIA DE CAISSA. (An Allegory on Chess)
Consider for an Example the Game and Play of the Chess, which is a
Pastime of Man, and
worthy to exercise him in Thought, yet by no means necessary to his
Life, so that he sweepeth
away Board and Pieces at the least Summons of that which is truly dear
to him. Thus unto him
this Game is as it were an Illusion. But insofar as he entereth into the
Game he abideth by the
Rules thereof, though they be artificial and in no wise proper to his
Nature; for in this Restriction
is all this Pleasure. Therefore, though he hath All-Power to move the
Pieces at his own Will, he
doth it not, enduring Loss, Indignity, and Defeat rather than destroy
that Artifice of Illusion.
Think then that thou hast thyself created this Shadow-world the
Universe, and that it pleasureth
thee to watch or to actuate its Play according to the Law that thou hast
made, which yet bindeth
thee not save only by Virtue of thine own Will to do thine own Pleasure
therein."
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JL