Hilarious!
This amusing rant sounds right out of Barcelona circa 1936.
Best Laugh Of The Day...
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DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor
"Tiglath" <temp5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Really? When you look at the Earth from space, it is striking.
> There are no national boundaries visible. They have been put there
> like the equator and the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn,
> by humans. The planet is real, the life is real, but the political
> separations that have placed the planet in danger are of human
> manufacture -- PEOPLE MADE.
>
> The Golden Rule's wisdom implicitly recognizes that all the beings in
> this little world are mutually dependent. It's like living in a
> lifeboat. We breath the same air that Russians have breathed, and
> Zambians and Tasmanians and Iranians, and people all over the
> planet. Whatever it is that divides us it is clear the planet will
> be here for a long time to come, but will we?
>
> We need to marginalize people like Bush and other leaders who preach
> one thing and do another, and especially PATRIOTS who thing that the
> artificial division on a part of our planet confers them superiority
> and can tell the rest of the world what to do or else.
>
> If a human group does better, knows more, and thrives past other
> groups it should spread its wisdom and knowledge PEACEFULLY and by
> example. No God commands us to ram democracy down the world's
> throat.
>
>> > All the more
>> > noticeable in a president who rules with his faith. Bush clearly
>> > told us that he believes that God wants men to be free and that this
>> > belief guides his foreign policy.
>>
>> And I believe him. And his foreign policy has shown that.
>
> It's no different than violent Jihad. Same **** different sewer.
>
>> > I recall "Do unto others as you would have then do unto you." I
>> > don't recall "God wants all men to be free."
>>
>> Stuff concerning the universality of freedom generally has
>> more to do with Jefferson or Locke, and it's simple enough
>> to replace "self-evident" with "God-given" - the speakers
>> of those phrases mean the same thing.
>>
> I dispute that. Freedom is not a right any more than being wealthy is
> a right. As long as humans need gods to wor****p, leaders to tell
> them what to do and lawyers to mediate their disputes they cannot be
> free.
>
> My income taxes MEAN that I have to work a certain, not small number
> of hours to sup****t the programs and decisions of others, many of
> which I don't agree with, like the Iraq War. And if I don't pay I go
> to jail. The alternative is not to work and live in a park. Some
> freedom.
>> > And religious people seem to see nothing wrong that their most sacred
>> > tenets are just window dressing.
>>
>> Ritual? All people have rituals. Some rituals are formal, some
>> are not.
>
> A tenet is not a ritual. Learn the difference.
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