In These Times

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• • 16 Dec 05
  • 6:32 am

  Does it matter to us if George W. is “good” or “bad”? He’s not a pharoah, he’s a president. Jesus may love a sinner, but that doesn’t mean he’d vote for a heartless boob to fill a position with the command of nuclear forces because he claims to be a follower. Jesus never struck me as a chump, but I think he did fail to take sociopathy into account…
  
  This thought interested me the way that all of our religious, moral, and creation stories always have. The message of Jesus for me will remain that true introspection and respect for self …

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• • 16 Dec 05
  • 6:34 am

  I must question not the content of Mr. Vonnegut's writing but its ultiamte intent. That humanity has survived many an age of guessing cannot be disputed. My fear is that the real issue, the constructive assimilation of what we know into our cultures, gets lost in the frame of "guessers". What we know and what wish to know has always been object oriented. In fact I would go so far as to say that not only what we think but what we feel is manipulated constantly by self interest. Just to bring this down to the ground a parable from my …

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