Letters to the Editor
kenkapkk
Published Letters: 131 Editor's Choice: 13
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What if?
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What if the soul had virtually complete control over the basic dynamics of its incarnation? What if souls virtually never enter the body during the first trimester (when 90% of all abortions happen)? What if the soul would never incarnate in a fetus where probabilities are extremely high an abortion would happen? What if your child told you they circled around you waiting to come in when the time was right when you previously had an abortion? What if no life is ever wasted or lost? What if souls actually *cause* miscarriages often for various reasons? Since 800,000 fertilized eggs are lost a year due to loss of attachment to the uterine wall, why isn't the cry throughout the land that this one of the great medical problems of all time? Does this make "God" an extreme abortionist? Is there a violation of the separation of church and state going on here, because one religious view, in my opinion, an ignorant one, is being legislated?
Notwithstanding the very real emotional and visceral issues that exist around this that are not meant to be minimized, what if the abortion issue will in a century be viewed in the same fashion as a level of ignorance akin to torturing those who believed the earth went around the sun, or the persecution of left handed people? Yes the fetus feels pain, but it is a rudimentary consciousness. Is the soul yet present? I'm sorry to be blunt, folks, but we rip up other sentient forms of consciousness such as trees and plants for our needs and slaughter the shit out of animals for food (I'm guilty as well) but freak over the very formative development of the human frame?
I do believe we should be very careful around abortion, but the sexual and control hysteria surrounding it has drowned out most sanity. If proper contraception is encouraged, and quick, very soon abortions happen, there is literally "nobody home" to worry about.
I know this group, highly intelligent but metaphysically immature, will think I'm crazy. Read "Journey of Souls","Destiny of Souls" by Michael Newton, "Return from Heaven" by Carol Bowman and similar works by highly grounded, competent researchers in this area, then see how you feel or think about this debate.
What if? What if it really for the most part is not the issue people think it is?
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Neocons?
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought Bionic Woman looked interesting especially with Katee Sackoff, until the boss proclaimed "We're the good guys, a private company that makes sure rogue outfits that want to destroy the world get stopped".
Shit, a Neocon AND Blackwater fantasy riff. Didn't they dream this crap up in the White House? Except they thought it was real? The show lost about 98% of its appeal at that point.
When do these people grow up?
There's always Battlestar Galactica.
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Huh?
[Read the article: The Internet is making us stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is the Salon audience far more knowledgable and perceptive then half of the blockheads you feature? I got this "civility" crap from the Inquirer and the DNC liberals that staff it (although they ARE good people), highlighting **Leiberman** as a casualty of this "rabid polarization".
Josh Marshall said it best (paraphrasing) when he moved from a centrist to a more emboldened stance, that to claim the need for civility and dialogue when the other guy is basically coming at you with a knife was to be a chump.
Its not that the Democrats are too partisan, they're NOT PARTISAN ENOUGH in fighting against what has emerged as a neo fascist ethic from the right.
I'm all willing to dialogue with someone who makes sense, Krstoff has written good articles on this in the Times, but conservatives are so driven by power needs, this idea of common ground is virtually useless. And if the author knew his history, he would be well aware that since the post WWII period, it has been the right with their first poster boy, Nixon, who have ramped up this division to accumulate and maintain power in this country.
Americans have been involved in this kind of stuff since the beginning of the Republic. They used to circulate "scurrilous" pamphlets. How do you think Hamilton and Burr ended up in a duel?
Please spare us from these whiners who recreate history and contemporary events in their own insipid fantasy.