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    Posted by turtleman on February 8, 2019, 4:47 pm, in reply to "More from #jpcon"


    "What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic."

    The underlined bit is woefully incomplete. Ironically, this powerless love - which is cowardice and counterfeit, which is selfish rather than giving, which is sentimental and anemic and therefore doomed to utter failure when tested - is the very source of ressentiment. And so this cheap love feeds something far more dangerous than mere sentimentality and anemia: vengeful, spiteful, pathological hunger for power that will stop at nothing - slander, deception and even murder - to achieve it.

    Dr. Evil: "You know, we're not so different, you and I."

    turtleman

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