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So happy to make another blogger smile, Gome.
posted by
TARZANA
on June 7, 2005 at 8:22 AM
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TARZANA -- your comment cracked me up
I'm speechless.
posted by
gomedome
on June 7, 2005 at 8:09 AM
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I think foreign countries should exist to amuse one another, not to attack one another.
posted by
TARZANA
on June 7, 2005 at 8:02 AM
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empty_handed_painter -- if history is any indication the "movement"
should be short lived and already may be in decline. The rest of the industrialized world has been following a different trend in the growth of agnosticism, a trend which exerts presssure on a fundamentalist revival.
posted by
gomedome
on June 7, 2005 at 6:33 AM
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actually our country
is being dominated by the religious right
but an increasingly large segment is discarding "standard religion" altogether.
it looks like an imminent religious conflagration to me.
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 7, 2005 at 6:19 AM
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avant-garde -- I've always had a problem with a head of state referring to
another country as "Evil". It is a word who's meaning is based entirely outside of the realm of the concerns of an administration. "Right action" or "wrong action" or whatever, is much more appropriate a means of description than dragging a religiously based definition into the political arena.
posted by
gomedome
on June 6, 2005 at 9:11 AM
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TARZANA -- you lost me a bit on your first comment
but if you are saying that domestic issues and prevailing attitudes must be modified prior to tackling international issues I am in full agreement.
posted by
gomedome
on June 6, 2005 at 9:07 AM
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Avante-garde is right ... acting like a snake could very well get one demised.
posted by
TARZANA
on June 6, 2005 at 8:59 AM
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calling another evil
is to call yourself evil and then attack it. we are creating our own demise by our actions.
posted by
avant-garde
on June 6, 2005 at 8:51 AM
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I think religion is confused. I, for instance, had male members of my family who were in the Navy. I loved my family members very much when they were around. But we didn't ever go to church together. We all shared the same knowledge of the same Christian faith, but now they are all gone and there is no substitute for them. It is not the fighting that we love, but the people. When the people who's love you are fighting for are destroyed by the fighting, you have failed altogether.
Now my son is born of a man who likes to fight, and his current wife is formerly of the military, but my son's life will be torn apart by their fighting over their place in his life. I think they have failed. They were first in my life -- the Christians -- and they all failed me and my son, whom I gave a Christian name. What religious people need to understand is that if they can't preserve the peace and purity of relationships within their immediate and extended family, they can't win any other battle in our defense that is more important. The enemy and the foreigner got their stronghold amongst their own flesh and blood.
posted by
TARZANA
on June 6, 2005 at 7:04 AM
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