rikky51 scribbled: The basics of sociology: Marx, Engels, Trotsky.

rikky51 scribbled: Hollywood speaks out...uh, yeah, right. The glorification of rabid anti-capitalists amassing vulgar fortunes, all the while lambasting the system that makes them rich, passes disgusting. Studies have demonstrated that these illiberal liberals are among the most venal skinflints. When they have donated their fortunes to the cause of socialism, then maybe I'll give more than a tinker's damn about what they say.

rikky51 scribbled: It's interesting that anarchy never appears directed at one of the greatest generators of authoritarian or totalitarian governance: Marxism--or, if you prefer--socialism. In case it never occurred to you folks, Nazis were socialists, too.

rikky51 scribbled: Yep. I surely will. I always want to hear what liars have to say.

rikky51 scribbled: Thanks, but no...

rikky51 scribbled: Religion doesn't have to explain natural disasters, because, as the title of the book points out, they are 'natural' disasters. They result from forces explained through physics. He exists, to begin with. I do not pretend to understand Him. I only understand that He knows that I am more than what I have let myself become; that we as a race are more than what we have come to. Whether I decide to become that person, or reject who I am in favor of some caricature of myself, will determine the outcome of my life. As the expression goes, I am a work in progress. Each of us is. Regardless of where we are in life, we are not the end-all that we like to conceit. This includes a megalomaniacal president, his fanatical followers, and every mind closed to God's hope and change. Get to work on yourself; you have farther to go than you think. I don't much care whether those who cannot perceive Him ridicule me with this or that silly adjective, or eschew me. Such is their loss and the misfortune of those who dwell in their egocentric world. I believe that He is both my personal Creator and the universal Creator. I also tend to believe that He is the Father--or, if you prefer--the spirit of Teaching, its Ideal, though as for that, He is infinitely more than anything we humans can conjure. Life is the unit, which He planned from the beginning. What we go through as humans, our very shared experiences, become the lessons. He will always promote your and my best interest and the best interest of all His creatures, whether or not they or I have it at heart. For that reason, He lets us fail, so that we may learn. Who's to say, then, that God does not intervene? He hasn't told me, but it seems reasonable that He does. He has given us ears, eyes, other senses, the power to reason, and the instinct to react. It's our failure to pay attention to Him that brings about our doom. If we are so foolish as to build our home on a flood plain, or on an earthquake fault, or in Tornado Alley, or along any coast likely to be struck by a hurricane; if we fail to take ordinary precautions, say, against lightning, large hail, and damaging winds; if we refuse to heed the warnings, whether from other humans or nature itself, should we blame Him when the natural forces that drive nature wreak havoc on our best laid plans? Some of us go so far as to reject Him, because some hardship befalls us, we lose a loved one, or some wish goes unfulfilled. No one should imagine for a moment that anyone is so special that he or she deserves a free pass through the exigencies that make life both a tribulation and a triumph. Not to put too fine a point on it, but crap happens. Most of the time, we know before it does. Pay attention. Remember: He is.

rikky51 scribbled: Hi, anyone out there have a thought they'd like to share? Always interested in a good, clean, lively debate.

rikky51 scribbled: SOME THOUGHTS: HYPERBOLE aside, Al Gore is not ruining children so much as he is trying to use children to undermine the core values of the United States. Yes, the United States has such values, which have put up the last great bastion of genuine freedom in this Marx-blighted, statist world. Of course, Islam would prefer that it became the single largest blight on the world, but that’s another issue. As for what the United States truly is, if you believe otherwise, you are a dupe, or you are a liar guilty of crimes against humanity. You are the enslaved, or you are the slaver … I BELIEVE an argument could be put forward that Karl Marx, more than any other seminal force in the world, may be labeled the so-called Anti-Christ… THAT as it may be, Al Gore visits schools ostensibly as a prophet, who proselytizes for the new old-fangled religion of the American Left. This, at a time when the Left's supporters and kindred spirits in Europe are turning apostate, at least, they who have at last seen through the great lie... OF COURSE, some will intentionally never see. Insofar as Marx was a German, and Marxists (socialists, communists, progressives, etc. etc., etc…) see the evil in Nazis but never in themselves, I shall use references peculiar to that particular reign of terror, though as for that, one can easily find similarities in soviet Russia, in communist China, and, I dare say, in certain so-called religions. The perpetually and purposefully blind include fanatics (see also apparatchiks, zealots, etc.) within the Eco-SS (the new schutzstaffel), which includes ELF, ALF, Peta, Green Peace, the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation, and most other conservation groups other than hunters and loggers; within the new Gestapo, ‘Ge’ as in Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Magna Mater, Tellus, Terra, earth mother, mother goddess, which includes the more, um…intelligent elements of the aforementioned groups (yes, damn it, pun intended); and within the new Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, a collective of organizations such as the mainstream press and the National Education Association. Of course, all these groups, along with the Democratic Party, ACORN, Apollo, and others, will be found together in the new Reichstag… FORGIVE me if I refrain from applauding the new Liberal Reich, which subsumes the Green Movement and many other groups, for having become more inclusive than the German Third Reich ever could have been… THAT saving the environment has very little to do with the purpose of the Green Movement should come as no surprise. In truth, Al Gore is a false prophet, whose purpose in spreading the new word is that of every other organization that makes up the new Reich: it’s political, not ecological. It’s power. It’s control. It’s money…

rikky51 scribbled: I fear that free2009all is having a bit of fun at your expense--id est, judging a book by its cover. The history is, by definition, populist, however one cares to classify the viewpoints contained therein. I do have a serious question, though. What criteria would you say the author used to select the stories and quotes?

rikky51 scribbled: I fear that free2009all is having a bit of fun at your expense--id est, judging a book by its cover. I do have a serious question, though. What criteria did you use to select the stories and quotes?

rikky51 scribbled: Let us hope that we have vehicles equipped with a dead man's switch just in case the writers of the "Left Behind" series are right and God is less good, caring, and loving towards His creation than I believe Him to be.

rikky51 scribbled: Sophistry, sophistry, all is sophistry. In point of fact, 'bah' is an exclamation of contempt, which I feel for the Obama adminstration and everyone in it, whether elected to it, appointed to it, or married to it by law or affiliation. 'Humbug' means in part "Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage," or everything that proceeds from the mouth of the godlike and wonderful Obama, Pelosi, and Reed et al. In other words, there is nothing quick in the saying of it; rather, it is a considered response to that which, as we have seen, has come to pass.

rikky51 scribbled: Sophistry, sophistry, all is sophistry. In point of fact, 'bah' is an exclamation of contempt, which I feel for the Obama adminstration and everyone in it, whether elected to it, appointed to it, or married to it by law or affiliation. 'Humbug' means in part "Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage," or everything that proceeds from the mouth of the godlike and wonderful Obama, Pelosi, and Reed et al. In other words, there is nothing quick in the saying of it; rather, it is a considered response to that which, as we have seen, has come to pass.