gone swimming...
Well, not just swimming, but canoeing and boogie boarding as well, conditions permitting. Huh? My partner and I are having a holiday (that's 'vacation' for you decandent Yanks) on the North Coast of New South Wales (the 51st State Of The Union for you Yanks.) So don't expect too much ranting for the next ten days. Then again, don't expect too little either. ;-) I have access to her laptop and her dial-up! :-) Isn't it sad how when a blogger goes on holiday they still blog? Sad... Truly sad...
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watch the floods. don't drown and be careful of lightning strike. Stay away from Mt Warning during a thunderstorm...
Anon, thanks for all the good advice. :-)
Jeff, yeah, a holiday is a much needed thing right now. Quite therapeutic really. I'm noticing slivers of sanity flickering through my brainscape already. No chance of me being "born again", Jeff. But I have been giving more than a little thought to starting a religion called The Church of Jesus The Heretic. It would focus on my heretical interpretation of Jesus's teachings, there would be no mention of the Old Testament, God, Heaven or Hell. Emphasis would also be put on Jesus's model of anti-capitalistic socialism. Wanna join?
Hmmm... can I be your Peter, oh wise one?
Anon, I have a problem with the phrase "your Peter". "your" seems to suggest that you want to belong to me and that you think I'm Jesus. I think perhaps a spot of therapy might be helpful in your situation. ;-)
Nonono..., lets' talk about it now. Why spoil a good holiday by not blogging! :-)
Jeff, (1) Re: possible misunderstandings - let's keep it here in the blog where the whole world can see them. (and)(2)Re: Politics in religion - I'd say religion IS politics. Alpha and Omega. So, "separation of Church and State" was, is, and always has been, an oxymoron. A clever ruse as well...
The real mistake is to be sucked into thinking that religion is ANYTHING BUT politics (the politics of mind control.)
I ranted about it HERE
Yep, it's about power, Jeff. But i think what I'm addressing is a subset of power: Thought control. Controlling (covertly influencing) how they think, what they believe, how they feel, in order to have power over them. But hell yeah, it sure is about power and control. And none of it is about democracy. "Democracy" is just a convenient scam by which the people can be suckered.
The problem I have with the US brand of democracy is that it enshrines capitalism and disallows/attacks/kills socialism or communism or any other non-capitalist economic model, so it's already non-democratic. It's capitalist totalitarianism, and it imposes itself wherever it can, without regard fro the wishes of the target population. In this regard America and its band of global marauders must be stopped quickly and absolutely. I just don't know how that can be made to happen.
Well, yeah, Jeff. But now you've got America forcing globalised totalitarian capitalism (in the guise of "freedom" amd "democracy" onto the rest of the world via the World Bank, the IMF, and even US Aid. And if that fails, it's time for those two big sticks, economic sanctions and military intervention. The local (target) population has no say.
You've got one brand of (highly discredited) economics being imposed on the whole world and no one gets to vote on it. That's democracy? Big Business has hijacked democracy. You can only have a "democracy" that's Big Business friendly. I hate that kind of totalitarian brand of politics and in that sense I hate America and those who blindly support this shit.
And how can it be stopped if you are prevented from voting against it? You can't even debate it. They will not discuss it. They just deny, lie and obfuscate and that's the killing of democracy right there, Jeff.
So militant pacifists such as myself yo-yo between ranting, vebally challenging Americans (and their cohorts), or plunging into depresssion whilst the more articulate and literate people write books on these issues. But the great brainwashed masses won't read them and their "education" systems don't want you to read them.
Less pacifistic militants resort to vandalism, sabotage and guerilla warfare (neatly dismissed as "terrorism") and in the absence of a democratic process inclusive of their voice, I cannot blame them. We know they are fighting for the very survival of their human rights. In a sense they are the last of the freedom fighters.
If there were genuine democratic outlets for their concerns and ideas, I would condemn their violence, but given the seriousnessand the urgency of the threat against them and the total lack of genuine debate, negotiation and representation being afforded them, I can only empathise with them and hope that they choose more peaceful means of fighting for their cause, but people being brutalised and victimised rarely resort to "enlightened" methods of resistance (Human Nature 101). And the prime cause for all this lies with "The West" and its top bully and instigator, America the "Brave".
Here endeth the rant. :-(
Right. But this is serious stuff. How can it be stopped?
Nah. I don't know exactly what you mean by KA-BOOM, Jeff, but whether you mean that we're going blow each other up or whether you mean blowing "them" up is the only way, I'd have to say that thre has to be another way and we need to find what that way is.
Maybe a grassroots program of education by left wing groups. I dunno. I just don't like KA-BOOM scenarios.
You're being a bit nihilistic aren't you, Jeff? Back in the days of BBSs and Fidonet (92-95), I used to use a tagline that said "F*ck nihilists, they'll amount to nothing in the end."
That's very generous of you, Jeff. Thank you. Often I see no hope of the world ever sorting itself out. It's headed for doom. That's when I get despondent and depressed. The places from which much of society derives its meaning is a hollow sham to me. And sometimes existence seems so pointless that I want to end it. But so far I've held back from taking that final step although I've been at the very edge on several occasions. The only thing that's been stopping was not wanting to cause pain to those who love me. But one day I'll probably decide that their pain is not my problem, just like my pain is not their problem...
One day at a time...
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