Letters to the Editor
kenkapkk
Published Letters: 120 Editor's Choice: 13
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Can't agree more
[Read the article: Battling Democrats' indifference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's unbelievable, isn't it. Quislings is the word. I have been a lifelong Democrat but I'm so disgusted I'm getting out. I will NEVER support or give money to the National Leadership in these circumstances. I'm working for an anti war congressional candidate here in Pa. Bob Casey is pathetic.
They are despicable enablers. They are just as responsible.
Ken
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Need one say more?
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Encapsulates beautifully in a cartoon the absudity of American's hiding under their beds about "terrorism". When Bush says "jump", they say "how high". Bush has done all the heavy lifting for Bin Laden. So sad. Sigh.
Ken
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boring brilliant jerk
[Read the article: The flying spaghetti monster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just love it when materialist driven people decide arrogantly (and stupidly) that any mystical expreience is all about "chemicals in the brain" and "hallucinations" or the "unconscuious". Since they don't have any, or are not predisposed to them, it has to be all hogwash. Richard Dawkins seems to be utterly unaware of the gnostic: that's *direct experience*, not belief or faith without proof (as opposed to atheistic or a-gnostic) aspect of the esoteric side of every major religion. Rumi was just nuts, eh?
This "have to see it through the senses or intellect" approach is about as up to date as a Ptolmeic approach to the Solar System. Hasn't Dawkins caught up to the "non locality" of consciousness yet, if he's so "cutting edge"? I thought he was smart. Dawkins should buy "The Secret" (a fine DVD primer on the unseen laws of the Universe) or listen to about 5 Abraham- Hicks CD's. Then just observe the truth of their perspective in action. THAT would be scientific (observable consistent phenomena following laws inherent in the Cosmos), and open, which Dawkins clearly is not.
You see, from a certain vantage point, spiritual matters are scientific. Yogananda explained great miracles according to Einstein's equation of E=MC squared.
Oops. I must be wrong and Yogananda's merger (along with a gazillion other mystics) with the Universe was either a scam or just a huge mind bender.
Kabir said" It makes me laugh when the fish in the Ocean says he's thirsty." Dawkins is in a spiritual desert. He may be a genius, but he's also a dope.
Religion and mystical spirituality are two different animals. Get with the program. Or if you're unwilling or unable, put down the megaphone.
Ken Kaplan
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Poor poor Andrew
[Read the article: Sullivan's travels]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I mean, we were completely deceived. It never occurred to me that they would not send enough troops to keep the peace or establish order, or, when presented with the evidence that they needed to do so, would simply refuse to entertain the argument. It's still incredible to me. So I'm afraid my answer to you is that I can't know. I think that it's something I'm still struggling with in that sense. I do believe that the case many of us made for the Iraq war -- those of us who didn't have access to inside intelligence -- was made in good faith, based on what we were told."
"I think I was way too gullible. I wanted, in a time of war, to give the president every benefit of the doubt. I was dumb to do so."
You said it.
Those who were "deceived" wanted to be deceived. There were many of us who saw through the charade from the beginning, the signs and evidence were apparent all around if you were willing to see. To "trust" this gang was a criminal act. I have no sympathy for Sullivan on this issue. The tree was poisionous, how could it be otherwise that the fruit would be also?
Mea culpa well after the damage has been done is feeble, if at least genuine. A hard look in the mirror of a gang (Hitchens, Friedman, Beinhart et al) whose names will be a blot on history as collaborators.
Ken Kaplan