The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing. - Edmund Burke (maybe)

Analysis: If you do nothing in the face of evil, then how can you be a good man?

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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is looking. - Anonymous

Analysis: Integrity is doing the right thing, period.

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What are others that you can think of?

Maybe the good men are not facing the evil and the "doing nothing" is simply not seeking out the evil to destroy it. Which begs the question, are all good men obligated to seek out and dispatch evil?

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Originally posted by 12131:
The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing. - Edmund Burke (maybe)

Analysis: If you do nothing in the face of evil, then how can you be a good man?

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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is looking. - Anonymous

Analysis: Integrity is doing the right thing, period.

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What are others that you can think of?

Burke had not taken into account the effect of modern insurance.

I have preached for years that the more nearly correct version of his saying is, “The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Have Insurance.”

As far as the integrity saying goes, the “even when” excludes no cases, so what’s the difference?

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

As far as the integrity saying goes, the “even when” excludes no cases, so what’s the difference?

Good point by 12131 and good insight by JALLEN.

My contribution is; how come the sayings "birds of a feather flock together" and "opposities attact" are both true?

^^ One is for superficial acquaintances, the other's for people you actually know. It's all about time and crises.

My personal favorite: "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide."

Yeah, well, maybe what I think about some woman's butt or my choice of boxer shorts on any given day is none of your buisness.

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

No, slow is just slow.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
As far as the integrity saying goes, the “even when” excludes no cases, so what’s the difference?

No need for redundancy.

^^ It's not always easy to explain the concept of "don't waste any time, thought, space or energy" to 21st Century Americans.

It sounds great until you realize what a sheepdog does. Yeah, it protects the flock from outside threats, but only so the shepherd can shear them of their coats or slaughter them. And if it fails to do its job it will meet the same fate.

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
As far as the integrity saying goes, the “even when” excludes no cases, so what’s the difference?

No need for redundancy.

Take it up with the Department of Redundancy Department.

Matthew 4:9 New International Version (NIV)

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“All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

Sounds great right? Reportedly, one Christian organization used it as their motto. It’s certainly Biblical.

Not so fast as context is king. This is the part of the Bible where Jesus was tempted in the desert after fasting, and the devil is offering all the kingdoms of the world if Jesus bows to him and worships him.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
It’s certainly Biblical.

Not so fast as context is king.

Yeah. Similar to the gun-toting Christians who trot out Luke 11:21:

"When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe."

They puff out their chest and crow about how they're a strong man who's fully armed, so therefore their stuff is safe. Just like it says in the Bible, right? You even see it on ballcaps, t-shirts, tattoos, morale patches, AR dust covers, Glock slide plates, magazine baseplates, etc. etc.

They neglect to examine the context...

In this parable, Jesus is describing how he's stronger than the Devil. The parable continues on in Luke 11:22 with:

"But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armour in which he trusted, and divides his spoils."

Basically, Jesus is saying that even when the Devil is strong and in control of someone, Jesus is stronger, and can free whomever the Devil believes he controls.

So that "well-armed strong man" that they're so confidently claiming to be is actually the Devil, and he's about to get his fiery ass handed to him by Jesus.

As a rule of thumb. .......

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Matthew 4:9 New International Version (NIV)

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“All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

Sounds great right? Reportedly, one Christian organization used it as their motto. It’s certainly Biblical.

Not so fast as context is king. This is the part of the Bible where Jesus was tempted in the desert after fasting, and the devil is offering all the kingdoms of the world if Jesus bows to him and worships him.

Whatever Christian organization uses that as motto, they are certainly not Christians, as far as I'm concerned.

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Originally posted by cas:
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

Yup:
Just as idiotic as 1 = 1 = 2

Right. Should be something like: "Start slow until you're smooth; once you're smooth you can go faster."

Q, I intentionally used the past tense because it didn’t last long as their motto.

Several things could’ve happened to wind up with that motto - you get group think in meetings (meetings because none of us are as dumb as all of us) , some people don’t care about mottos and and agree quickly to get out of the meeting, some “Christians” have never read their Bible, etc

1 is none...two is one.

1 is not none. 1 is much better than none.

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
1 is none...two is one.

1 is not none. 1 is much better than none.

The idea behind "Two is one, and one is none" is clever, but, yes, I agree, the actual line is just stupid.

Remember, you can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor.