Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 38 Editor's Choice: 2
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Balance the ticket
[Read the article: Obama Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since Obama is offering us chocolate milk with a dash of African Christian bitters, there should be an oriental lesbian cookie on the side.
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Obama the Muslim
[Read the article: Barack Obama is a Muslim, and other stories]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why waste your time on stupid innuendo. If Obama is or was a Muslim and ended up denying his faith by joining a Christian Church, there would have been a death sentence from some some crazy mulla long ago.
Ignorance is when you play with yourself. Stupidity is when you enjoy it.
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Obama on Israel
[Read the article: No peace for Obama on Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I may paraphrase JFK, "Ask not what Obama wants Israel to do for him or what he might do for Israel, but what Israel can do for this country as the only democratic state in the Middle East.
Negotiations with terrorists recognizes their strength and our weakness. Any compromise is a victory for terrorism. If we want what the Palestinians and all the peoples suffering under terrorist rule in the guise of religious orthodoxy truly desire, we must never negotiate, never tire, never shop for peace when we are hungry.
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How do I survive?
[Read the article: I survived -- now how do I survive my survival?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's too bad that you know what you are, but you never found out who you are.
Life is not a mind game. No one knows what the next second will bring. We live in a dream world of beliefs and expectations, a comfort zone of identity.
Why can't you enjoy the moment without expecting a trolly car to crash through the roof?
Expectations are bad habits based on beliefs. Stop living in a dream world and enjoy each moment, each day, each opportunity to be yourself as long as you can.
You never did this until you believed that somehow your life might end. We all fall into that belief trap. Now you have the opportunity to live for who you are and be what you want to be.
By the time we are old enouth to learn that lesson, most of us we are too feeble to enjoy what living has to offer.
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Darwin and God
[Read the article: Can't Darwin and God get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, let me get this straight, if someone interprets his or her beliefs, however they may or may not agree with the views of another, belief itself is sufficient to claim reality, veracity, and honesty of their opinion?
Science does not allow for such hypocrisy. Incomplete information is exactly that: What may be implied, deduced, induced or inferred is theory, hypothesis, premise or supposition.
Discussing belief with a believer is like negotiating with a terrorist. A believer can not compromise. It is not in the nature of belief. Belief is an emotional attachment to a comfort zone of self-identity. To question a belief is to attack the ego of the believer. The reaction is violence or rejection of an opposing or alternative argument.
Reason has nothing to do with it.
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We are Family
[Read the article: We are family]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Michael Gazzaniga, a neuroscience pioneer, does not understand the belief process that is not only intrinsic to the physiology of the brain and central nervous system, but is the development that permitted the brain to function in the real world and in the virtual world of imagination. Belief was free to adapt feelings and emotions to memories from which a world of infinite possibilities were possible. This gate keeping allowed ideas to be freely associated whether they were rational or not. This virtual reality is the source of self-identity.
The real world is based in learned survival behavior that keeps us safe within our limited senses and feeble reactions. We are creatures of habit, constantly surprised by unexpected or unintended experiences.
Most, probably all animals have some or all senses more highly developed that our own. This is because hightened senses would interfere with our ability to concentrate on the few, eight to ten, different impressions we are able to be conscious of at any one time.
Nothing in our brain capacity or our studies of animals has indicated that they do not grieve, play, laugh, feel anger, fear, joy, or love. Where thay differ from humans is that they show no signs of hate, vengence, genocide, or other human forms of behavior, unless they are treated inhumanely, a condition peculiar to the belief ability of humans.
What is unique about humans is their ability to live in a virtual world and feel so comfortable in it that they believe that to be reality. No other animal, none with greater sensibilities and sensitivities would dream in the wildest of such dreams of such horrors.
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Biden his time
[Read the article: Could be Biden time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama needs the experience and connections, the respect and the stability og Biden to get him thinking in specifics instead of platitudes and quick fixes he spouts - if he gets elected.
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Jesus and Orgasm
[Read the article: Jesus loves you -- and your orgasm]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All beliefs are a cheap thrill. Religion is organized masturbation. The idea that the perfect orgasm is the coming of Christ should remind you of the sexual roots of all religion in procreation.
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The Bush Legacy
[Read the article: Bateman: "The McLaughlin Group" on Bush's legacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A legacy is something handed down from the past, The true value will be determined by those who survive and haw they interpret what they have inherited.
Now That George W, Bush has been dead these many, we may look back and try to remain objective about his legacy.
His attempt to overthrow the Statutes of Virginia and the First Amemdment, includng the separation of church and State, religion and state, press and state, and the righs of people to assemble and petition to redress geievances, will take at least a couple of generations to correct.
The activist Supreme Court will have to be replaced. Faith based and culture based special interest groups will have to be relegated to their place behind the individuals who have the inalienable rights this nation represents.
The politicians will ahain have to swear their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to protect and defend the United States.
These Dubya years will be remembered as the Great Selfish Generation and looked on fondly as proof that the country is strong enough to survive even the internal ennui that caused the destruction of the Chin, the Tartars, Egypt, Rome, and all the empires that were in the end blinded by faith based delusions of grandeur.