Comments - Little Bunny Foo Foo - Reality Based Community2024-03-28T20:29:43Zhttp://realbc.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=1497000%3ABlogPost%3A28519&xn_auth=noTruthout article about Mikey…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-07-12:1497000:Comment:295282010-07-12T13:24:53.791Zpanhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/pan
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/no-dominion-the-lonely-dangerous-fight-against-christian-supremacists-inside-armed-forces61214" target="_blank">Truthout article</a> about Mikey Weinstein's fight against the dominionists in the military.
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/no-dominion-the-lonely-dangerous-fight-against-christian-supremacists-inside-armed-forces61214" target="_blank">Truthout article</a> about Mikey Weinstein's fight against the dominionists in the military. It just bloody boggles my min…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-06-11:1497000:Comment:290212010-06-11T22:48:35.823Zwaldopaperhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/2xud1wir51ar2
It just bloody boggles my mind that <a href="http://online.worldmag.com/2010/06/09/our-present-civil-cold-war/" target="_blank">these people insist</a> on passing themselves off as "Christians." Talk about "compartmentalization" (or dissociation)... they are absolutely blind their own actions being the precise targets of <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+15&version=NIV" target="_blank">Christ's criticisms of the "religious:"</a><br />
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<i>You hypocrites! Isaiah was…</i>
It just bloody boggles my mind that <a href="http://online.worldmag.com/2010/06/09/our-present-civil-cold-war/" target="_blank">these people insist</a> on passing themselves off as "Christians." Talk about "compartmentalization" (or dissociation)... they are absolutely blind their own actions being the precise targets of <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+15&version=NIV" target="_blank">Christ's criticisms of the "religious:"</a><br />
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<i>You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:<br />
" 'These people honor me with their lips,<br />
but their hearts are far from me.<br />
They worship me in vain;<br />
<b>their teachings are but rules taught by men.'</b></i><br />
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Oh soodie... the great "drug warrior" who is almost single-handedly responsible for over 200,000 students being denied financial assistance... because of past "drug offenses." What part of<br />
"<i>What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.'</i> " doesn't he understand? Easy. Same way he must have missed...<br />
<i>And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.</i><br />
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Why bother dragging out all the textual examples of this annoying paradox? <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=hypocrites&version1=31&searchtype=all&limit=none&wholewordsonly=no" target="_blank">You can easily see it yourself</a>. It's the very nature of dissociation/ compartmentalization... circular logic:<br />
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"It's not stealing when I do it"<br />
"Why is that?"<br />
"Because I am not a thief."<br />
"But... you are stealing."<br />
"It's not stealing when I do it."<br />
"Why?<br />
"Because I am not a thief." Rinse. Repeat. Ad Infinitum.<br />
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"They" don't get it... now... and I doubt they ever will. To me, "I am a Christian" is a self-canceling statement... sort of like "I have never told a lie." Oh really? You just told one right now. "But it's not a lie when I say it." Oh really? Why is that? "Because I am not a liar." Ohhhh shiiiit... THAT again....<br />
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Because they are "forgiven." Oh yeah, right. That may be one reason why I grasp the concept and soodie does not. I got caught with the wrong kind of plant 40 years ago. I am a "convicted felon." I will ALWAYS be a "convicted felon." If I live another 40 years... and 40 years after that... I will STILL be a "convicted felon." I will NEVER be "forgiven." FUCKING <b>NEVER</b>. Even if I were "sorry" (which I am NOT)... "forgiveness" would still not be an option. If there IS a "god," and if She does truly "forgive," she does not give such a thing lightly... nor easily... nor quickly. No, asshat, your "sins" are not "forgiven," and they never WILL be...unless... and until... you understand the NATURE of your "sin" which was not plugging your doodle into an unauthorized orifice... it was doing something to someone else that you would NOT want to be done to you. It was not living by the "standards" you willfully and forcefully imposed on others. You live by the sword... you fucking DIE by the sword. Karma is NOT mocked.<br />
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The relationship between men and women... between human beings... is complex and difficult. This is not to justify total "relativism" at all... in fact, what the book-smackers decry as "relativism" is exactly what they practice. Are there "absolutes?" Of course there are. Do we know them and their nature? Not exactly. And maybe they are only "absolutes" as far as the mathematical perception and probability of "moral certainty" goes. Who knows? One thing of which I am reasonably "morally certain" is that these simplistic fucks DO NOT "know." Maybe that's largely because they think they do.<br />
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You're right, hannah... this poor sot has been "broken" for a long time (depending on the definition of such a thing)... and even with such a huge tumble, I don't think he is even beginning to comprehend such a thing... being a granular digital black-and-white toad and all... and even though he is a reasonably smart guy... I don't think there are enough years available to grok such a thing. He will paper this over with bullshit... whatever happens.<br />
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Again, I think Tracy's story is much more interesting. I would love to write it... but it will be years before it is understood... if ever. i don't like you can't edit o…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-06-11:1497000:Comment:290202010-06-11T20:03:30.243Zhannah jhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/hannahj
i don't like you can't edit on these things...<br />
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on the 'story' the 'harder' quote was used as a header, but not the whole quote....
i don't like you can't edit on these things...<br />
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on the 'story' the 'harder' quote was used as a header, but not the whole quote.... 'It's only getting harder'
s…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-06-11:1497000:Comment:290192010-06-11T20:01:48.063Zhannah jhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/hannahj
'It's only getting harder'<br />
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straight from that christian mag! i love that the whole quote was "It's only getting harder on family life," says some rev....<br />
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broken man my ass, he has been broken his whole life more like!<br />
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a line going around facebook recently is 'if going to church makes you a christian, then standing in your garage could make you a car' or some such pearl of wisdom.
'It's only getting harder'<br />
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straight from that christian mag! i love that the whole quote was "It's only getting harder on family life," says some rev....<br />
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broken man my ass, he has been broken his whole life more like!<br />
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a line going around facebook recently is 'if going to church makes you a christian, then standing in your garage could make you a car' or some such pearl of wisdom. Well... peep this if you have…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-06-11:1497000:Comment:290182010-06-11T18:29:54.996Zwaldopaperhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/2xud1wir51ar2
Well... <a href="http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16790" target="_blank">peep this if you have the stomach for it</a>:<br />
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"I prayed multiple times a day, sang hymns with emotion and tears, felt each time that it wouldn't happen again, read the Bible every morning. . . . So how in the world did I have a 'torrid' (which is an accurate word) many-year affair? How could I <u>compartmentalize</u> it so much?"<br />
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(World Magazine claims to report the news "...from a perspective committed to the Bible as…
Well... <a href="http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16790" target="_blank">peep this if you have the stomach for it</a>:<br />
<br />
"I prayed multiple times a day, sang hymns with emotion and tears, felt each time that it wouldn't happen again, read the Bible every morning. . . . So how in the world did I have a 'torrid' (which is an accurate word) many-year affair? How could I <u>compartmentalize</u> it so much?"<br />
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(World Magazine claims to report the news "...from a perspective committed to the Bible as the inerrant Word of God.")<br />
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That would make it rather hard to get a biographical critical perspective on the Literature, wouldn't it? As civilization and our former "nation" collapses upon our toiny heeds, I'm hearing the same old blow in krakkkerland about "god, guns and gays" ... the standard pablum for the past 40 years. No serious discussion about energy, environment, economy or peace. You can repeat the magic words with "emotion and tears" until your cracked underwear falls off... but it won't help you understand the process of enzymes interacting on biomass to produce ethanol... so you can use switchgrass... or even (gasp!) hemp... instead of food-plants.<br />
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If the "Holy Spirit" were indeed present, it would inspire a oneness with nature and humanity... it would produce a more acute understanding of the clash between tribalism and globalism instead of a freshman-level coloring-book analysis of ancient Literature. As the Great Teachers have tried to explain, the literal interpretation of the parable will mask its meaning. "The letter killeth and the spirit giveth life."<br />
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These book-smackers need to take a few Literature classes. Finally... some more thoughtf…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-06-08:1497000:Comment:289432010-06-08T16:28:42.186Zwaldopaperhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/2xud1wir51ar2
Finally... some more thoughtful commentary on this greasy shit. I sure as hell couldn't do it... swept up as I was (and still am) in me own Schadenfreude orgy. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060304150.html" target="_blank">Michael Gerson</a> makes "the case for grace."<br />
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<i>"Moral conservatives need to admit that political character is more complex than marital fidelity and that less sensual vices also can be disturbing."</i> Yeah, really…
Finally... some more thoughtful commentary on this greasy shit. I sure as hell couldn't do it... swept up as I was (and still am) in me own Schadenfreude orgy. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060304150.html" target="_blank">Michael Gerson</a> makes "the case for grace."<br />
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<i>"Moral conservatives need to admit that political character is more complex than marital fidelity and that less sensual vices also can be disturbing."</i> Yeah, really disturbing... like genocide and ecocide... heading full-tilt boogie toward omnicide.<br />
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"<i>Yet moral liberals have something to learn as well. The failure of human beings to meet their own ideals does not disprove or discredit those ideals.</i>" Welcome to rhetoric 101... and this is the button soodie and the kartoon-brains are pushing the hardest. It's true. But soodie's fucked-up kartoon "religion" applied to complex political policy was fucked up from the git. It ain't bad policy... it's bad religion. Methinks the problem might be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation" target="_blank">dissociation</a>. More on that later.<br />
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I found <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052303827.html" target="_blank">E.J Dionne Jr.'s commentary</a> much more useful.<br />
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"<i>Why does it even have to be said that a devotion to family has nothing to do with ideology?</i>" Slam-dunk bingo... even bats can do that (not to disparage bats)... and they probably don't have a lot of kartoon-ass "ideology" running around in their little batty brains. Maybe it's because we like to think things are already doing are the greatest virtues... well... until we stop doing them. "Capitalism" is a good example of this.<br />
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"<i>How many more scandals will it take for people who call themselves Christian to rediscover the virtues of humility and solidarity?</i>" No finite amount of "scandals" will do that... because dissociation kicks in. Because they are not prone to "humility and solidarity," therefore they can't be very great virtues. Like so many Israelis: they can't possibly be the perpetrators... they're the victims. We ALL dissociate... it's a defense mechanism... how could we even be a part of this evil fucking empire if we did not?<br />
<br />
"Either I am a Christian or I am not." This is "granular" dissociation at it's worst. What fucking bullshit. And here in krakkkerland, we're getting bumper-sticker "theology" aplenty: "Christians aren't perfect... just forgiven." What a pile of stinking reeking pigshit. No, dipwad... when you lie, cheat, steal, murder... or do whatever the fuck it is to somebody else that you would NOT want done to you... then you are NOT a "Christian." I am always on the horse... even when I am not on the horse.<br />
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Such is the "permanent" state of "grace." I have been told that you can not "fall from grace." The fuck you can't. I've done it hundreds of times. What makes Grace so amazing is that you can climb back on the horse. You have to be truly sorry for the shit you've done... no... not just because you "got caught," or as bat-head said, God "outed" you. No, soodie ain't sorry. Even now, he's engaging in more back-biting political manipulation... not "renewing his walk with..." oh fuck it. It makes me sick.<br />
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When Gerson pontificates, "Whenever we mock moral shoddiness, laziness and frailty, we mock into a mirror," well no-shit-sherlock. I do it every fucking day. Don't YOU? Here's a capper for that alle…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-05-27:1497000:Comment:286792010-05-27T17:47:21.861Zwaldopaperhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/2xud1wir51ar2
Here's a capper for that allegory... directly from Herman Melville:<br />
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/whaling/player/" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/whaling/player/</a><br />
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absolutely worth the time it takes to watch!
Here's a capper for that allegory... directly from Herman Melville:<br />
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/whaling/player/" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/whaling/player/</a><br />
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absolutely worth the time it takes to watch! And here are the sorriest lit…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-05-26:1497000:Comment:286682010-05-26T19:48:14.963ZBOhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/BO
And here are the sorriest little bunnies of all... <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/view/" target="_blank">The Wounded Platoon</a>. An example of american culture in concentrated form.
And here are the sorriest little bunnies of all... <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/view/" target="_blank">The Wounded Platoon</a>. An example of american culture in concentrated form. "It is no measure of health t…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-05-26:1497000:Comment:286672010-05-26T18:28:13.543Zhannah jhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/hannahj
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~ J Krishnamurti
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~ J Krishnamurti 26.4% of USans reported some…tag:realbc.ning.com,2010-05-26:1497000:Comment:286662010-05-26T16:58:15.498Zpanhttp://realbc.ning.com/profile/pan
26.4% of USans reported some sort of mental disorder in the past year.......<br />
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That means your chances of dealing with someone with/recovering from a mental disorder are greater than 1 in 4......
26.4% of USans reported some sort of mental disorder in the past year.......<br />
<br />
That means your chances of dealing with someone with/recovering from a mental disorder are greater than 1 in 4......