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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
If any other group of Americans held the nonsensical, nearly delusional beliefs that these people espouse, they'd simply be written off as total wackos and (rightly so) left out of the national conversation. But they're "Christians" so we have to listen to their incredible stupidity and sheer, willful ignorance. Obama is going to make the US a Muslin country? What does that even mean? What shred of evidence is this woman basing this crap on? And when President Obama leaves office and she is still free to practice her bizarre and very very sad faith and still sees it given incredible deference in this nation, will she even recognize that she was wrong? And that she is really, really stupid?
Paraphrase from a site:
Religious Righties are zombies that are repelled by brains.
This bears repeating:
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Perhaps you'd like to enlighten us wicked liberals, how is it you people can claim to beleive in less government while trying to ban everything your religion doesn't like?
I never could figure that out, either- want to take a shot at answering that question?
You must have realized that there are a few very conservative Christian denominations, like the Amish, who interpret the tenets of Christian faith very strictly, and yet manage to do so without demanding control of the government so they can rule over the personal lives of those who don't share every last one of their views on proper religious behavior.
"In my experience, when delivered in person, such rants are generally followed by a careful perusal of the dessert counter at the coffeehouse, or a flip of the phone to check where the party is, that evening.
That's what's called being a poser."
"Poser"?
Father, forgive him, he knows not what he says.
And why would I bother with a dessert counter? Dessert grows in my backyard. Silly cabdriver! As far as a cell phone, I've never owned one and I likely never will, but I used one once. Does that make me a poser?
cabdriver also wrote:
"I'm not bemused by your professed unhappiness, bigguns."
I'm not unhappy. I live with joy. Whatever globally happens, my time is finite and I breathe and move accordingly.
cabdriver also wrote:
"What bemuses me is, more generally, the unspoken undertone in ALL of the misanthropic laments of this nature that I've ever heard: "humankind is a pox on the Earth (myself and present company exempted, of course!)"
Silly, silly cabdriver! Of course I'm part of the problem. My choice to use this toxic, fossil fuel burning computer is proof.
cabdriver again:
"I've never observed an emotional cast of genuinely doomstruck misery and self-loathing from anyone who has ever expressed such sentiments. And I've spent a lot of time observing people in mild-to-severe states of emotional distress."
And your smug assurance that you've witnessed a sufficient sampling is your undoing. Still, I wish you well and even more, I wish your grandchildren well as they begin their climate-induced migration. Maybe one or more will survive. If that happened, that would be the only cool thing on their hot trek.
Okay, I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about everyone else I've personally heard saying the same thing.
Of course I'm part of the problem. My choice to use this toxic, fossil fuel burning computer is proof.
All I can say, is, Ted Kaczynski came to pretty much the same conclusion. So he took the next logical step, jettisoning modern technology completely, or nearly so. If he hadn't gotten into terror bombing, that integrity might have counted for something positive. It might even have prompted me to change my opinion about that approach being misguided. He had real moral force behind that particular decision.
Where's yours? It being the case that you share the same uncompromised loathing of synthetic modernity, and all...
because what I find most problematic about your stance is that it's emblematic of people who don't know what real trouble is, or how to face it. In an authentic crisis, people who start muttering "we're all doomed" get a rag stuffed in their mouth, because the people actually pitching in can't afford to hear it.
You have harvestable food in your back yard, an artifact of technology with nearly mythic capabilities in front of you, who knows what other sort of advantages...and you insist we're all doomed. Your human consciousness is a miracle, and you'd rather indulge in the idea that it's a mistake, part of a terrible joke played by a sadistic and insane supreme being that doesn't exist.
That doesn't get anything for anybody, and it shallows the deep.
Buckminster Fuller said it: it's not much of a challenge to be brilliantly negative.
No one who breezily forecasts certain apocalypse for someone else's offspring is in much of a position to make observations about someone else's supposed "smugness"- unless, perhaps, they think smugness is a good thing, and intend it as a compliment. Nor, for that matter, do they have any logical grounds for deriding the folly of another persons dire prophecies of doom. The only difference I find between eco-catastrophist apocalptics and Hal Lindsey apocalyptics is their argument over whose disaster is more inevitable. The premature certainty is pretty much identical.
There are REAL issues...Ya know, back in REAL LIFE.
This is important, it is time to focus on real life for a minute,
So how about put the imaginary friends away for a second.
Jeezze, Yes, it does piss me off. These are grown ups making important decisions on real matters...based on make believe.
YES, THAT IS A PROBLEM
It never fails to amaze me how ready people are to stereotype a huge segment of the population. The worst of it is seen during political campaigning.
Dan Kauffman is quoted as saying, "...and we've got a lot of people who want the government to take care of them and be their God, and take care of them cradle to grave; they call themselves liberal Democrats."
Sheer stupidity. Democrats don't all want to be taken care of from cradle to grave. If that were the case and democrats had sufficient power to make it happen, the United States would be a very different place. Think about it, Mr. Kauffman.
I'm a life-long democrat who has worked hard for every dollar she's ever earned. I have never once gotten anything from the federal govenment by way of financial help or support. I consider your comment to be both degrading and highly insulting.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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