January 8, 2011
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Sing to me now
I feel like abusing Sarah Palin on twitter ("NOTICE HOW GUNS KILL??") but that's not very fair of me, and anyway, the events from this morning should have punctured an adequate hole in her career ("I can see you FAIL from my house!").
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You know what's funny about atheists? How we insist that God can't be real because no loving God would use a flood to kill everything on earth because oops! he didn't make us right the first time. And it also doesn't make sense how he's going to come back a second time and kill off a sizeable portion of the world (all non-believers) again in the Rapture. (It's like we're His beta video game. Haxxors, anyone?). And so we insist that, due to these logical fallacies, God definitely can't be real.
But fuck! What if that's exactly how it is? What if religion is not choice but reality? What if we're just God's playthings, and our only hope is to jump through His holy hoops? What are we going to do, sign a petition? "Man in the sky is really mean! Vote him out in the next election!" You can't logic your way out of His absolute power. Nobody ever said that the world had to make sense.
I guess this is what Odysseus felt like when he became disillusioned with the gods ("Oh so that's why we read ancient lit").
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Don't listen to Sarah Jaffe while reading activist literature. It's just not a good idea.
I want Giffords to be okay. I feel like Montreal Massacre all over again.
Comments (3)
La musique de la video est belle . Qu'importent les paroles ( que je ne comprends pas )
Le Dieu dont tu parles n' est certainement pas celui des évangiles .
Féminisme ? pas besoin de massacre de Montréal, le féminisme tuera la femme ..
Je ne sais pas si ce commentaire est congruent avec ce que tu veux esprimer.
Amitié et bon Dimanche
Michel
I have the sound off on my computer here...It's very early in the morning and we have a house filled with guests...And...I don't want to wake them. Ordinarily there are just the 2 of us...plus 2 cats and a dog. Now we have 6 more and 4 of them are sleeping in the living room. My desire is that they remain asleep for the time being....thus I am tiptoeing through the house ...from the coffee pot to the computer.
I will return later ...after our guests leave for Cocoa Beach and listen to the music on the video.
I don't believe God made us as His playthings...nor do I believe He made us as puppets. He gave us free choice. We could have a lengthy discussion on just how much control we have over our own lives.
I have a lot of confidence in Michel's taste, therefore, I look forward to hearing the music on the video.
As for Sarah Palin? My problem with her isn't her idea that we should be free to carry weapons and shoot moose , it's just her voice and her choices. I have a problem with screechy voices on women. I wouldn't award her with the "mother of the year"
I understand that Giffords also believed we should be able to carry weapons...concealed weapons. Like you, I want her to be ok.
Hate flows around us and seems to surround us. I refuse to add to it. From this unhappy event, hopefully we can learn some positive things...and not add to the hatred and blame .
Amitie et bon Dimanche.
(my French is a bit rusty but I do believe that was a positive statement of friendship and good wishes.)
@josaju - Thanks for visiting my site and for subbing! I understand that Giffords believed in the right to concealed weapons, but I think we have to make sure that crazy people don't have access to guns.
@fauquet @Josaju - I definitely did not write this post with an intention to offend, so thank you for not interpreting my words as an attack, and also for posting such generously kind comments! Bonne jounée!