Alas, You Don't Need Monsters For Monstrous

We Already Have Plenty Of Fundamentalism And Fundamental Sects Like For Instance Rabbi Schneerson And Chabad Lubavitch. They Feel More Secure Because They Are In The Warm, Caring/sharing Community. This Is The Difference Between Community (gemeinschaft) And What Ferdinand Tönnies Called Gesellschaft: A Kind Of Setting In Which You Have No Rights To Do Anything Unless You Pay For It, And No Right To Get Anything Unless You Prove That You Are 'credit Worthy'. In A Gemeinschaft, However, You Have A Place At The Table Guaranteed Whatever Happens.

Security Was The Demand Which Set In Motion Labour Movements In History; Trade Unions, Friendly Societies, Consumer Cooperatives Were All About Compensating For The Impotence Of Individual Resistance.

I Guess My Claustrophobia Is Incurable - Feeling, As I Tend To, Ill At Ease In Any Closed Room, And Always Tempted To Find Out What Is On The Other Side Of The Door.

It Is Easy Now To Break The Vows. It Is Even Easier To Part Your Ways If Vows Haven't Been Taken.

I Think That The Essential Instruction Of The Bible Is Very Much Topical. The Sole Problem Is That With Every Change Of Historical Setting, You Need To Readjust The Interpretation Of The Message.