[quote]THAT... PURELY RETARDED STATEMENT "FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE" NEVER APPLIES BECAUSE NOT ONLY MUST YOU KILL THE PEOPLE (THE ANALOGICAL OXYGEN) WHO FUEL THE ANALOGICAL FIRE (THE HATRED), BUT, IN THE END, THE HATRED LIVES ON IN YOU! USING YOU AS FUEL! FOR YOU TOO ARE ANALOGICAL AIR!
WHEN FIREFIGHTERS FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE BOTH FIRES DIE WHEN ALL THE OXYGEN IS CONSUMED. HATRED=THE FIRE. PEOPLE=THE AIR. TO KILL THE HATRED WE MUST CONSUME ONE ANOTHER THEN CONSUME OURSELVES! THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING! THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK/TYPE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!
Idioms:
fight fire with fire;
To combat one evil or one set of negative circumstances by reacting in kind....Enough said....[/quote]
-.- are you trying to refute my statement or support it? because it looks an awful lot like you are attempting to imply that i am not familiar with this terminology.
To combat one evil or one set of negative circumstances by reacting in kind.
Have i not just shown you how this is an ineffective and foolish way of attempting to combat anything in nearly every circumstance not dealing with fire?
Please, offer me more than this.. If you can.. which I doubt you can because to be honest, there is nothing more to be offered.. because it is just as i have claimed it to be--nothing more and nothing less.
Evil/negativity<---vs--->Evil/negativity=Evil win? or..
Evil/negativity<---vs--->Evil/negativity=Evil kills itself?
This is the question.
The point i make is that with fire, oxygen gives it life. Oxygen=Life source for fire. It feeds off of oxygen in the air.
With Evil/negativity, we are the host bodies which it encompasses and we (people/beings) are what gives it life. It feeds and grows off of us.
The only reason this rule applies to fire vs fire is because the two separate fires draw their life from the same force: the oxygen. Eventually, if they are close enough to one another, there ceases to be enough oxygen in the air to support two large fires resulting in a dying down process, and only when there ceases to be any oxygen left does the fire die.
The reason this rule is a silly thing to apply to matters concerning Evil/negativity is because the two separate evils draw their life from people/beings. If the two evils come together and clash, one evil will win, and what of the other? Does it just go away like the fires do? Only if the people committing these acts of evil also go away (like the oxygen), otherwise the evil will continue to feed off of them and the result will undoubtedly be an endless process like that which i described in my first post on page 11.
Evil is like a virus that is usually caught with good intentions, but people are frail and easily/often fall victim to their own hearts.
Evil, unlike fire, can only be fought by refusing to give ones self over to it. Evil is defeated by heroes.. Like superman for example.
Beheld as a modern classic example of an ideal hand of justice, let us learn from his example, eh?
He combats wrongdoers, yes, and yet he does not do so with evil. What inspires him to do so? Well, of course, there is the safety of the public which is at stake, but is there more? Yes. There is. He cares even for the people he fights. You can tell from his actions and his manner, he wants what is best even for them. That is the key!
He does not celebrate winning a fight. What would he do that for when it is not a victory for him, because his enemy is no man, but it is the evil inside of men. What would make him celebrate would be to see his enemy give up their evil ways and turn to righteousness, perhaps to even stand beside him against other evils. That would be a victory. That is the only possible victory when facing evil: To remove its current life supply without
becoming its
new life supply.
Superman could easily show no mercy for those he fights and literally throw them into the sun. That would be easier, eh? And would certainly solve the issue of keeping the public safe, but he does not act with
carelessness. He does not act out of
Hatred, but out of
Love and genuine concern. He acts and combats with men and women, yes, but always keeping sight of his true enemy within them.
Some may think that superman represents is a childish idea of heroics and justice.. but i believe the things i speak of to be self-evident.
Another great example of such combating of evil out of love is in the anime show Trigun with Vash The Stampede. If you are familiar with the show i am sure you will understand my point.
The matter is as simple as this: If you hate the people committing evil, then committing evil yourself is the easiest way to get rid of them, no doubt.. but..
If you hate the evil itself, then committing evil to get rid of those already doing so does you no good, for the people are gone but the evil lives on inside you.. in your heart.. on your face.. in your eyes.. and do you think that you will be able to hide it? Do you think no one will behold this stain upon you?
Say.. we are righteous, you and i, and
one is evil.. and we combat the evil within this
one with righteousness, until one day you turn to evil yourself in order to combat this
one. Are you not then also one for me to combat?
Not out of disdain for you.. it would not be as if i would love the idea of being
righteous more than i love
you, but because i
do love you so much.. for that very fact.. i would have to fight you so that you know what you have done is wrong.. that it is
evil and not good.. so that you may see your error and turn back from the way of lawlessness and cease being a vessel for evil.. that you may not inspire evil into the heart of yet another righteous one who may themselves fall into the very same trap and turn to evil in order to combat
you!Hmph.
