how do you believ in this?"It is good to have friends. It is necessary to have enemies. [Nigel Jenkins]"

Question

i visited a 360 page and found a.m sentence as the profile message .bellow is the link to the very page:
http://uk.360.yahoo.com/profile-1eAyQ.A2erS0hKpZzA--

to read about Nigel Jenkins ,here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Jenkins


please disscuss.thank you.

Answer 1

Probably a competition philosopher. The theory is enemies are necessitated in competition in any 'theater' and fidelity to have progress in skills, competency and technology. One would think disease would be enough, but apparently not for some people. Disease is certainly an enemy. Did he mean that? I doubt it.

Answer 2

it's old garwy's page, i shouldn't take any notice of anything he says as he is the most pretentious liar i have ever met.

the only interpretation i can think of is that anyone without enemies is so bland they'd be boring.

it's even more absurd coming from garwy because he blocks anyone who is vaguely negative about his poems, if you don't flatter the little b*gg*r, he doesn't want to know.

garwy - have you ever regretted voting for thatcher in 1979?

oh, i forgot - you are never wrong. (have you reported me yet?)

dariush - hi, i looked at your 360 profile and see that you are iranian - i once lived in mashad, and spent holidays in teheran and esfahan. i had some good friends there, but it was before the '79 revolution, and i haven't heard from them since.

edit.

disliking someone can be entirely passive, it does not make one an enemy.

only garwyesque hubris could elucidate this.

do you know, nobody liked the boy at school, but we just ignored him, being an enemy takes too much effort.

Answer 3

the original quotation came from a nigel jenkins' poem called 'never forget your welsh' which dealt with the political chaos of britain in the early years of the thatcher administration.

the original context was:

It is good to have friends;
it is necessary to have
enemies ...
Keith Joseph - you are mad.
We hate you.

the thatcher administration in general had engineered open conflict with those elements of english society which it felt most hostile to it, and the brixton riots of 1981 form a major backdrop to the piece.

the point nigel is making is that while people may like you for any number of reasons (some of them frankly spurious) when someone hates you they usually have a good reason for doing so.

so it is the people who hate you who tell you who you really are.

(i have usually been very lucky in the people who have found me intolerable).

Answer 4

The elect are compelled to "hate that which is evil." Those whom willingly practice evil have become the enemy of the elect by choice, and deserve their natural consequences.

Answer 5

It is usually wise, to wisely choose, those you define as friends.
It is nearly impossible, to know who might choose you as the enemy.

Steven Wolf 2007

I suspect what often confuses me is, why as a species, we seem to encourage a protagonist in our "circle"? Obviously IDEAL may be a stretch, but why "Invite" anything less?

Then,,,,just to ramble. "The enemy of my enemy is often my friend."

"We have met the enemy, and found it to be US."

Sorry, I didn't, and rarely do Links.

"I usually "believe" what I know, and even then, question that. I rarely "believe" what others say."