To: AndyBaker if you’re talking about Christ, the Spirit of God, who dwelt within Jesus the man – i.e. the Word made flesh - then you're not right. God, as Jesus, taught humanity many profound and esoteric truths. The crucifixion, amongst many other things demonstrated that God intimately shares and understands the world
To: BakerStreet What destroyed Rome is what WILL destroy the US. It isn't about imperialism, it is about thinking of everything in a detached, figurative way. It is about seeing death and destruction and threat and wondering how we can spin it to make a dollar or win a vote. Ahistorical twaddle. A frightened man emoting hysterically and
~waves @ bella and blows her a kiss~
The thing is Terp, he brings it on his own self. Like I did/have. He either A) Really believes all that he posts. -OR- B) He just likes to start shit. Which one describes you, Lucas?
To: Xythe A very interesting post. Not so much for its content, which is a mishmash of Christian-based pre-supposition, but for its speculative nature - which I take to be serious and genuine. To: little whip. You were my first teacher in these things and we still have not exhausted all the things you have to teach me. An excellent response, well-ballanced, and full of meaning for those that have eyes to see and ears to hear, without being incautious with those things entrusted
To: all Thank you for these kindly thoughts (and the hug). We had a much better day today. We went and looked at the house, which we both really like; I got the glimmer of a suggestion of a remotely tentative possibility of being employed again (which is all I need to revive my flagging hopes) and we had a splendid feast at the 3rd Street Diner - a bowl of fries in a very excellent brown gravy and a lamb gyro for me, and pastrami on rye with fried zucchini for Sabrina, washed down with
Godly people are like crazy people. Crazy people don't know that they're crazy and wouldn't care if they did. Godly people don't know they're Godly, and wouldn't care if they did. If you believe you have faith - then have faith and quit thinking about 'being Godly'. Everything else is the irrelevance of those who think they have something to say when, in fact, there's nothing to be said because there's nothing that can be said. Tell me, do you think mountains have to pra
To: foreverserenity Thank you for the good thoughts. I've got past my rage for now, though it's never really that far away. It's embarrassing to think of the drunken ass I made of myself yesterday, and mortifying to think of how badly I behaved towards Sabrina. It isn't fair that she should pay the price for my frustration. I dread even the possibility of being homeless. I've been there once before in my life and it was not a good experience -
GRRRRRR. Where has the edit button gone?
Yesterday a 17 year old girl in a wrinkled white skirt told me I was too smart to do the job that another office-bimbo-emptyheaded little Fothermucker had contacted me about at the weekend, gooing syrupy nonsense about an 'interview' Monday (yesterday) and being 'placed' by Wednesday (tomorrow). Despite my firm intention not to allow my hopes to be raised by th
As I said, Lucas, you really are not the brightest bulb in the box... It was a half ass apology. At least he had enough guts to do something. Frankly, I was suprised he did so. I wouldve expected less from him. It was not any kind of apology. It was, and is, a rhetorical device designed to appease so-called 'liberal' critics who wish us
Lucas... If intellect were a fluid you wouldn't be able to muster enough from your own resources to drown a legless flea. NO, Benedict has not apologized. What he's said is "I'm sorry y'all got your panties in a knot over what I said but hey - fuck you, buddy". Or words to that effect. His intervention was a deliberate gambit in a game that he's played for awhile now: to re-establish and reinvigorate a debate between the two principal roots of European culture i.e. Gre
To: BV I read the whole of the speech, and commented on it here WWW Link . So far from Benedict's comments being 'thoughtless' they were in fact part of an evolving and on-going work on Benedict's part to redefine and revitalise a sense of Europe and its intellectual heritage that gives space for reason and faith to work together. His comment on the words of Manuel II Palaelogus defined a bounded and an unbo
I'm not certain if this is the right place to announce this but... I'm considering creating an occasional blog called 'Pope watch' since Benedict has had something interesting to say about politics and violence and religion ever since he came to the Pontificate. So far he has avoided overtly racist political language. But he has not avoided what have been called overtly racist political positions, especially as regarding Turkey's application to become part of the European Union - which
To: moe99 The Moslems pander to racism, I would prefer that those opposing them do not. Islam is not a term identifying a race, and nowhere throughout the article did I refer to race as a component in those things I was arguing against, or for. Perhaps my preference for the liberties, freedoms,
To: cactoblasta Islam will settle its own internal differences the same way every religion does - violent internal conflict followed by the externalising of threats to abstract foreign concepts (in this case the West), and all ending in empty battlefields and a peace born from the crushing necessities of rebuilding.
To: all As ought to be obvious from the original post, I'm in fundamental agreement with everything said so far. Last night I spoke with an old friend, Raimi Gbadamosi, in England. Ours has been and still is an argumentative relationship, and we've argued about everything under the sun; art, sex, politics, his relationships, my relationships - I was once deeply enamoured of his former girlfriend, the ever-wonderful Natalie, while she
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Pakistan. That detestable, debauched, disgusting agglommeration of subhuman filth has, once again, legalized rape. I have no interest in Pakistan or Pakistanis beyond their immediate incineration through nuclear fire. They are among the most degenerate, disgusting, corrupt, vile, and abominable of all those creatures that pass for human in these lazy, lackadaisical ti
And while I'm thinking about it... America is both a Republic and a Democracy. As a Republic it grants to its citizens rights, and exacts from them obligations. As a Democracy it gives to each citizen a voice in the affairs of the body politic - and that voice is a right completely independent of any condition of person other than citizenship. You may not like what your Democracy does, and you have the right as as citizens of a Republic and a Democracy to make that dislike know
My... what an eclectic collection of prejudice and stupidity we have here. Let's begin with the facts, shall we? Whatever the origins of homosexuality (or, for that matter, heterosexuality), be that in genetics, social conditioning, or the operations of the faggot fairy, the truth is that some definite per centage of the American population is homosexual. What is the defining condition of being American? Citizenship. Whatever else American homosexuals are, they are citizens in
To: jennifer1 Thank you.
To: scatter629 To begin - thank you for an intelligent, articulate response. I appreciate it. If there should be anyone commenting publicly on the moral or even logical superiority/inferiority of one of the tenets of Islam, especially those pertaining to jihad at this particular point of out history, it should be coming from Muslims, from which a lot of s
Yesterday I spent a large part of the afternoon working on an article titled 'The Pope, the Muslims, and the Eurodweebs'. JU devoured almost all of it as I attempted to edit it from the forum 'Tools' tab - something I don't recommend anyone else to do. This is not a rant about the shortcomings of JU. I mention it to explain why the truncated remains of that article a
For a people so in love with free speech that your right to it is enshrined in the First Amendment you're terribly prone to its most prurient expressions - both politically and sexually. You use sex to sell everything from SUVs to a cure for vaginal warts, you sexualise your children to the point where it's safer and simpler to watch TV ads when the kids are home from school than it is to go looking for kiddie porn on the net; and you react with terrified outrage at the mere sight of one small,
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