Here people are all ballistic about "abortionists" being here and there and everywhere, around every corner and under every rock.
Well maybe they are, since most people wouldn't talk about this aspect of their lives.
But this is what gets me:
There are people walking the earth who have NOTHING to do with this subject --- never have. And yet, if their belief system is not unambiguously "in lock step" (as someone once put it) with certain political guidelines, then guess what? THEY ARE THEN LABELED "AN ABORTIONIST!"
This reminds me of how the Bible says that when Jesus died (an analogy to having his honor and reputation marred among people), he was crucified with a thief next to him.
Okay I am not accusing women who have had abortions of being thieves or even "sinners" necessarily, and particularly because things like rape or incest might have been involved, or other circumstances that we might only know what we would really do if we were in those sorts of dire circumstances.
But having to have an abortion does indicate that something went wrong or awry --- that something started must for whatever reasons be stopped, or a likelihood that someone somewhere was not a perfect saint. Or at least according to my traditional belief system that is what it indicates. And it is easy to judge others from the outside looking in.
Anyway this is just absolutely absurd the way masses of people have been convinced that people are "abortionists" who have never even given the subject a whole lot of thought, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT HAD TO GIVE THE SUBJECT A WHOLE LOT OF THOUGHT and it is not a part of their lives. But for purposes of political convenience, they must be labeled "abortionists" since their beliefs are not unambiguously in lock step with some agenda someone somewhere wrote up, and got it preached in pulpits everywhere.
Now back in the olden days (like when I was growing up), they didn't have to invent psuedo sins like this. Every one pretty well knew what sin was, and it usually had to do with things like being socially irresponsible, or sociopathic, etc.
Now we have got this whole pardon the expression nuveau nigger thing going. (I mean I want to say, "I am a nuveau nigger" --- even though I am not black. Did someone once say "Ich bin ein nigger?") Okay JFK was not a Berliner, but he nevertheless said "Ich bin ein Berliner" to show that he emphasized with the Berliners in their predicament.
Today we have got the whole second-class citizen thing going on again --- whether or not a person is black. People think it is okay to treat other people LIKE SCUM if they are not in lock step with their own religious or political beliefs. It is towards everyone who is not in political lock-step with certain people who sit around and devise religious agendas, with which to entertain and spook the masses about psuedo sins and all, such as having an ambiguous or not fully developed opinion on a certain subject one has never had to think about, except perhaps just a bit in an ivory tower.
Life experience, and often hardship, is what brings about honed priorities, or even beliefs about life. But no --- we just get our beliefs spoon-fed to us from pulpits. As a society, we often have no respect for the shoulders on which we stand. We just want to plunder and commandeer and superimpose our own supposed "higher agenda" and use the new-found juicy plum to substantiate our youthful dream fantasies of what we think reality should be. While I don't want to presume to know about fate (especially when I am only like a microbe in comparison to the earth's diameter), sometimes it seems little wonder that fate would be offended.
These modern-day problems (or phenomena or dilemmas --- whatever your term of preference) are not things to point at other people and say gee I'm so glad it's you and not me. These are social problems and/or phenomena for which everyone bears the brunt. If a child is not properly raised because he or she only has one parent, and that child therefore has to learn to steal to survive or eat, and continues the habit(of stealing, like when under certain duresses) --- well then we all end up bearing the brunt of this. This second class citizen stuff is not going to fly. Not with me anyway. I am tired of religious snobbery. Some snobbery in life is inevitable, but this religious snobbery is starting to stink to high hell and so help me God I will not be a part of it.
Extending our first report of "ISupportJoe", <a href="http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/8/28/174731/329">Sealed with a KISS: Strange Bedfellows, Joe Lieberman and the GOP</a> established a nearterm chronology of events coinciding with ISupportJoe.com's brief life as a Republican assigned to campaignsolutions.com IP address on the day of the CT primary.
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Public support by VFF for Lieberman and timing of these events close to GOP signals favoring his run as an 'indie' suggest that Joe may have been 'networking' the issues for some time in front of his defeat in the primary. In <i><a href="http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/8/28/174731/329">Strange Bedfellows</a></i>, we address some of the possible political and strategic stakes in consideration behind the scenes.
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This sums up the army's dilemma nicely. Given the seriousness of its endeavours in Iraq, there is no doubt that good communications are called for. However, one has to wonder what defines 'good communications' in the circumstances and what expectations will be set as a result. The military wants to build support among persistently skeptical Arab audiences, but doesn't want its story diluted by Arab opinion, which is a simple fact of life if it wants to engage with the Arab media.
According to the Sierra Club, childhood cancers have increased by 26% overall, while the incidence of particular cancers has increased still more: testicular cancer, particularly in young men has increased 300%, acute lymphocytic leukemia, 62%; brain cancer, 50%; and bone cancer, 40%. Asthma rates among children in some parts of North America are four times higher than they were 20 years ago. Has capitalism really made us healthier?
A church that practices the faith of loving everyone just like Jesus promoted, is causing a problem? Firstly, we have a church that promotes love without a "but . . .". Secondly, has ABC and NBC seen the television shows and advertisements that they allow to be aired? So let's see if I have this right, the words of Jesus are not permitted, but using sex and nakendness to sell everything is the standard? Maybe the pharmacuetical companies can come up with a drug for stupidness.
What a scam.
Here people are all ballistic about "abortionists" being here and there and everywhere, around every corner and under every rock.
Well maybe they are, since most people wouldn't talk about this aspect of their lives.
But this is what gets me:
There are people walking the earth who have NOTHING to do with this subject --- never have. And yet, if their belief system is not unambiguously "in lock step" (as someone once put it) with certain political guidelines, then guess what? THEY ARE THEN LABELED "AN ABORTIONIST!"
This reminds me of how the Bible says that when Jesus died (an analogy to having his honor and reputation marred among people), he was crucified with a thief next to him.
Okay I am not accusing women who have had abortions of being thieves or even "sinners" necessarily, and particularly because things like rape or incest might have been involved, or other circumstances that we might only know what we would really do if we were in those sorts of dire circumstances.
But having to have an abortion does indicate that something went wrong or awry --- that something started must for whatever reasons be stopped, or a likelihood that someone somewhere was not a perfect saint. Or at least according to my traditional belief system that is what it indicates. And it is easy to judge others from the outside looking in.
Anyway this is just absolutely absurd the way masses of people have been convinced that people are "abortionists" who have never even given the subject a whole lot of thought, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT HAD TO GIVE THE SUBJECT A WHOLE LOT OF THOUGHT and it is not a part of their lives. But for purposes of political convenience, they must be labeled "abortionists" since their beliefs are not unambiguously in lock step with some agenda someone somewhere wrote up, and got it preached in pulpits everywhere.
Now back in the olden days (like when I was growing up), they didn't have to invent psuedo sins like this. Every one pretty well knew what sin was, and it usually had to do with things like being socially irresponsible, or sociopathic, etc.
Now we have got this whole pardon the expression nuveau nigger thing going. (I mean I want to say, "I am a nuveau nigger" --- even though I am not black. Did someone once say "Ich bin ein nigger?") Okay JFK was not a Berliner, but he nevertheless said "Ich bin ein Berliner" to show that he emphasized with the Berliners in their predicament.
Today we have got the whole second-class citizen thing going on again --- whether or not a person is black. People think it is okay to treat other people LIKE SCUM if they are not in lock step with their own religious or political beliefs. It is towards everyone who is not in political lock-step with certain people who sit around and devise religious agendas, with which to entertain and spook the masses about psuedo sins and all, such as having an ambiguous or not fully developed opinion on a certain subject one has never had to think about, except perhaps just a bit in an ivory tower.
Life experience, and often hardship, is what brings about honed priorities, or even beliefs about life. But no --- we just get our beliefs spoon-fed to us from pulpits. As a society, we often have no respect for the shoulders on which we stand. We just want to plunder and commandeer and superimpose our own supposed "higher agenda" and use the new-found juicy plum to substantiate our youthful dream fantasies of what we think reality should be. While I don't want to presume to know about fate (especially when I am only like a microbe in comparison to the earth's diameter), sometimes it seems little wonder that fate would be offended.
These modern-day problems (or phenomena or dilemmas --- whatever your term of preference) are not things to point at other people and say gee I'm so glad it's you and not me. These are social problems and/or phenomena for which everyone bears the brunt. If a child is not properly raised because he or she only has one parent, and that child therefore has to learn to steal to survive or eat, and continues the habit(of stealing, like when under certain duresses) --- well then we all end up bearing the brunt of this. This second class citizen stuff is not going to fly. Not with me anyway. I am tired of religious snobbery. Some snobbery in life is inevitable, but this religious snobbery is starting to stink to high hell and so help me God I will not be a part of it.
This sums up the army's dilemma nicely. Given the seriousness of its endeavours in Iraq, there is no doubt that good communications are called for. However, one has to wonder what defines 'good communications' in the circumstances and what expectations will be set as a result. The military wants to build support among persistently skeptical Arab audiences, but doesn't want its story diluted by Arab opinion, which is a simple fact of life if it wants to engage with the Arab media.
Carrington Malin, Dubai-based PR consultant
According to the Sierra Club, childhood cancers have increased by 26% overall, while the incidence of particular cancers has increased still more: testicular cancer, particularly in young men has increased 300%, acute lymphocytic leukemia, 62%; brain cancer, 50%; and bone cancer, 40%. Asthma rates among children in some parts of North America are four times higher than they were 20 years ago. Has capitalism really made us healthier?
A church that practices the faith of loving everyone just like Jesus promoted, is causing a problem? Firstly, we have a church that promotes love without a "but . . .". Secondly, has ABC and NBC seen the television shows and advertisements that they allow to be aired? So let's see if I have this right, the words of Jesus are not permitted, but using sex and nakendness to sell everything is the standard? Maybe the pharmacuetical companies can come up with a drug for stupidness.
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