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m goodwin

- 14 Dec 05
- 8:29 am
What Lapham says about religion, "it�s either true and revealed, or false and heretical" is precisely right. Whenever I used to get into political discussions in the States (I live in Greece now) all Bush supporters, who were usually religious as well, had this mental barrier and were unwilling to even consider an opposing opinion to whatever their god, their preacher, their mommy and daddy or their president told them. At least when I talk to Europeans we come to a certain amount of political agreement. Maybe things are different now. A lot has happened in a year. Though I can …

Posted to Lapham's Way
- 14 Dec 05
- 6:47 am
Regarding ThePopulist's comment 'We do in fact control our destiny, and we can manage our secular affairs precisely because it has nothing to do with �luck�.' (no comment on the �secular� part of that sentence) Proceeding: If you read Vonnegut's passage, the bad luck and good luck he's referring to are the following: "Crop failures, wars, plagues, eruptions of volcanoes, babies being born dead�. What he's saying is abstract. He goes on, "the guessers gave us the illusion that bad luck and good luck were understandable and could somehow be dealt with intelligently and effectively." They guessers are trusted because they …

Posted to Your Guess Is as Good as Mine
- 21 Dec 05
- 7:41 am
Haha, I'd like to add a little something to what Rocco so eloquently provided us with, even though it's critical and a little mean. Luminous Beauty--I'm getting tired of the quotes. Camus, Bob Dylan, your poet friend--none of it is really hitting home for me, at least not in reference to the essay. And your name, Luminous Beauty...maybe I should change mine to Cosmically Attractive, or something to that nature, if that's how you like to do it. I also want to add to the thing about Ghost Rabbit, though you said it perfectly, Rocco, "If you refer to yourself in …

Posted to Your Guess Is as Good as Mine
- 25 Nov 05
- 10:02 am
THANK YOU! I read Dowd's article in the Times and was pretty disgusted by it considering I am a 26 year old female single, professional. I read it online and noticed that it was the top emailed article on the Times. What a crock of SHIT! Women like that can continue to be financially dependent on their husbands and waste their ambition if they want. It's just a high-society fuckin fantasy she's living in.

Posted to The Times Disses Women
- 11 Nov 05
- 10:48 am
Who should our radical youths look up to with their naturally wild and energized spirits? Guys like Reda Zine. The writers for IntheseTimes are like the Lester Bangs of political reporters. I'm amazed by how wonderfully active in politics my friends are who were once RAISING HELL all over eastern Iowa. KEEP UP THIS SPIRIT! THIS IS WHAT REVOLUTION IS MADE OF!

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