Odds ‘n’ Ends
Posted by: branwynne77 on: July 3, 2008
**I meant to respond to Dmarks’ comment earlier (the Declaration of Independance post): I think ‘the people’ should rise up through grass roots political action, not by means of an AK-47. Though there would be be a certain irony in sticking an AK-47 in the face of a staunch, NRA card carrying Republican. For the record, I would never condone such behavior–this is merely an observation.
Or fellow liberals such as myself can settle down and start outbreeding the neo-cons, thoughtlessly adding to the world that is already beginning to feel the strain of too many consumers.
**12-21-2012–the date of the Mayan prophesy of the world’s destruction and/or rebirth. (I hope.) It is also the date of my last care payment. Figures the ‘warranty’ on the Earth would expire right as I pay off my car loan…
**I get it that some people aren’t cool enough don’t like homosexuals and want to ’save’ them. People are entitled to their religion. Just as gay people are entitled to be themselves. What I don’t understand is this:
“Hey you. Yeah, you disease ridden, pervert that should be killed….I’m here to tell you that your future home is in Hell! I care about you to demean and degrade you! I’m trying to save you from your folly. Hey…Why are you yelling at me to get lost?”
Using degrading words to convince someone they are in the wrong is the tactic of a naturally abusive person. Or a crazy individual. When I want to persuade someone, I usually don’t insult them. It’s counter productive.
It always amazes me that religious nutjobs (and they are proud to be called nutjobs, by the way) dish out words of intolerance…..that they know offend gays…..yet when gay people defend themselves—the zealots scream, “Hypocrites! They’re not tolerating us berating and attempting to humiliate them back into God’s good graces.”
What are gay people supposed to do? Just take that verbal, and yes it is, abuse? Hell to the n-o! I reckon this kind of behavior to those people who tease an animal—then complain when it bites them in the ass.
I’m not asking for everyone to embrace gay folk—really, it’s their loss—but just to live and let them live in peace.
Besides, there are more important issues for the Christian fanatics to address.The Church of Scientology for one. Tom Cruise is another issue. Seriously, he’s scary. Anti-Christ, were I inclined to go for the Christian mythos, scary. The Church is powerful. And it is rich.
6 Responses to "Odds ‘n’ Ends"
July 3, 2008 at 7:24 am
P.S. Tom Cruise IS scary. Read his unauthorized biography (or maybe you already have). I know there are two sides to every story and I haven’t heard Tom’s side…but there must be some truth in the story and that is the scary part. I agree with you, if I was a religious dogmatist, I might think he’s the Antichrist too. I used to think it could be George W., but I think he’s too stupid for the job.
July 3, 2008 at 10:44 am
The liberals have won the breeding thing. I think very roughly 1/3 of Americans are liberals. Neoconservatives are very few, and don’t even include Bush and Cheney in their numbers.
July 3, 2008 at 10:50 am
“Though there would be be a certain irony in sticking an AK-47 in the face of a staunch, NRA card carrying Republican. For the record, I would never condone such behavior–this is merely an observation.”
Actually, the NRA types, like everyone else, see that as assault (no matter what type of gun or weapon is being used), and always a crime. Unless, perhaps, the guy sticking the AK-47 in your face happens to be a homeowner and you have just busted into his house. There, you have some difference. The NRA types tend more to favor the ‘castle doctrine”
July 3, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Thanks for making me a smarter person, Dmarks. 
I was mostly being sarcastic. 
. The NRA members that I’ve met tend to be very respectful of their guns and always treat them as if they were loaded–even if they weren’t.
The guns, I mean, not the owners.
July 4, 2008 at 2:56 am
I still remember the Simpsons episode where Homer changed the TV channels by shooting at the channel changer.
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July 3, 2008 at 7:22 am
It’s amazing what the Judeo-Christian concept of hell will do to the living. I detest the idea of missionaries of any kind. These people are overcome with their anxiety to save others because of the very definition of the word “others”- it is inconceivable to them that otherness is an illusion and that we all come from the same source of consciousness and all are accepted by this consciousness, since it created everything and possesses infinite compassio. Indeed we are all parts of God and through Earth-imposed “separateness” we learn that we are actually one. I believe we are all here as parts of God to experience for him, and to evolve in the process. This evolution does not include hounding others and killing them for not conforming to religious dogma, it is an evolution of kindness and compassion. Each of us makes up the whole. Without any one of us, the whole would not be complete, all the pieces are needed. Even the “least” among us is important and required by the whole.
As for the gay community, I find them very refreshing. Every gay person I have personally come in contact with has been kind, creative, and empathetic. It troubles me greatly that they are singled out for persecution because of a verse in Leviticus – the same book in the Bible that calls eating shellfish “an abomination.” We got over the shellfish thing…why can’t we let the rest go too?