Comments on: A Brief History of Mischief: Sufficient to Have Stood Though Free to Fall

By: llxt

llxt — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:51:09 +0000

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By: lee lee

lee lee — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:50:12 +0000

maybe, but God totally gets Satan (and his power) back later on when he condemns him to an eternally burning fire pit! take that, mischief maker!

By: ecrussell

ecrussell — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:09:50 +0000

But you are commenting where I want you to

By: ecrussell

ecrussell — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:08:40 +0000

Certainly, God has the power (he makes the rules). The OT astonishes me because an all powerful God constantly fails to control his rowdy people. He should know better than to tell the kid in the toy store (or the humans in the garden), “you can have any toy except THAT one.” I think the consequences were inevitable.

Satan, in my opinion, was merely just a catalyst pushing humans to do the inevitable. Mischievous, yes. And maybe that is what power (in the ‘Dahl-plus’ definition) is:

“A gets B to do something B would not otherwise do” by understanding human psychology enough by knowing how and when to persuade and exploit.

By: kfrayz

kfrayz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:41:19 +0000

Robert Dahl {a political scientist} calls power “the control of behavior”…A gets B to do something B would not otherwise do…there always has to be a dominant person with power…giving the command…so…who was A?
God, Satan or…Eve?

By: emmy em

emmy em — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:13:00 +0000

You’re not the boss of me, I can comment anywhere I want.

By: Nonna Gorilovskaya

Nonna Gorilovskaya — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:00:59 +0000

Most people just follow directions…

By: lee lee

lee lee — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:18 +0000

important to note: the impulse to do things, whether those things or good or bad, comes from the same place…that irresistible urge to PUSH BUTTONS

By: ecrussell

ecrussell — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:40:31 +0000

I may start dividing (and judging) people along these lines. If I put you in a room with a button and a sign that says “do not press,” are you the type who would be odedient or are you the type that would make mischief? Are you a starer or a presser? The pressers obviously make things (good and ill) happen in this world.

By: lee lee

lee lee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:56:35 +0000

Why do I have this feeling that most of {middle} America (?) would just sit there and stare dumbly at the big red button?