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Originally Posted by MorganGrayson
JR...it ain't a hangin' offense, I'm certain. (Don't get all weasly on my now, my man. It's *your* stand, take up flag and rifle and defend that sucker!) 
Peaches...they make *flavored* instant grits? Lawdy, lawdy, somebody git me my lavendar water 'n' smelling salts, I do believe I'm gonna have one o' my spells! 
PornoDoggy...you quoted George M. Cohan.  |
but its all subjective right? you are assuming that i have something to defend and that same *something* is your *something*. but we live in subjective realities.
i am not threatened by bush and i dont care what he says or does. he is the president. and the fact is that he will be until the next election... thats the deal. thats what we all signed up for and agreed to. worrying about what he says or does, placing blame or writing 100 letters a week to Michael Moore will not change anything that happens between now and Nov 2006.
then the election comes... and then what happens? someone new gets elected. I would guess it will be a democrat (assuming they can find an electable candidate and can align themselves behind a clear vision). and you know what? the general balance of discontent will not change. it will just shift to the other side of the isle and the defenders will become the attackers and the attackers will then become the defenders. both will agressively devote themselves to fulfilling gods plan with little thought or consideration to the general insignificance of their behaviors. in 2009, MikeAL will be posting all the reasons to take a stand against President Picklepoo with equal ferver and conviction and similar arguments (or equally strong arguments) and you will dismiss it as the ramblings of a right wing wacko with no perspective.
meanwhile, i will probably continue to focus on being happy and enjoying my life. is that selfish? i think so. i really can't argue that its not. i did try. i am here with my wife for a very short time and i will not spend it worrying about welfare reform, taxes, social security or possible war with n. korea. i wll not devote every momemt of my waking existence to fighting for anything. i have no need to. i have no deep rooted need to believe i matter... to make some meaning of my life, to feel i have a purpose as most people do. i have considered the fact of course that i am wired completely wrong - but i am what i am.
i used to debate politics quite a bit. not out of some deep rooted and tightly held system of belief as MikeAI does or as PD does... but i realized in the end, i was doing it because its a safe way to argue. you can always find an argument, there are usually two right answers and if you get pinned in a corner, you can start pulling out the issues of the past to drive a point home. you can always believe you won that argument.
although i learned a lot (in a sort of twisted and perverted way), i changed nothing. i changed no ones views... and no one changed mine. i came to understand that ones political views have little to do with the policies and views or vision of a political party, but more to do with who every person is as a person, deep down inside. i have often believed that it is more an issue of being left or right brain dominant which impacts and shapes how you view the world and your perception of it and generally breaks us all into 2 groups, each of which, represent 2 basic ways of viewing the world
i believe that political debate is always about one seeking to validate and affirm their own views, rather than one seeking some objective truth.
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."