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1. General Buddha March 15th, 2007 12:53 pm

   Imagine an alien being is reading this article. Wouldn’t he think we’re out of our minds? Or better yet, wouldn’t he think that these humans are very much primitive? Or even better yet, given that he has studied us throughout history with our foreign policy aims, wouldn’t he think that it is a self-fulfilling prophecy? Then given that he has established our self-fulfilling prophecyness, and the fact that most “modern” men are ignorant of what is actually being done in the world in their name compared to what is actually being declared, wouldn’t he think that these poor souls are being lead ignorantly and hypocritically into establishing more power for it’s upper classes?

   A drop creates a ripple effect, the ripple effect pushes us outwardly, then we lose sight of the epicenter because we are too busy swimming against the current. Dive, dive dive! The forces of a wave aren’t so powerfull once you are under water, and this permits you to swim more easily towards the center. Hopefully you at least took a deep breath beforehand, or else you just might drown. I ride the waves everyday. What about you? Ohmmmmm!!

2. Ragdoll March 15th, 2007 1:39 pm

   And then we had ElBareidai today delivering in a CNN interview
   a warm call to remember before it is too late that we are all of us one human family who would do well to get rid of all nuclear weapons before mankind get seriously hurt whether from a computer error, or the act of a madman. I might add it sounds like Christian Evangelicals should be added to the possible triggers of such event.

   It may seem off the subject but whatever the admirable Mr. ElBareidai’s religion, it sounds a lot closer to what I thought were Christian values. The Christian Evangelicals and their Israeli cohorts meanwhile are preaching terrorism, it just doesn’t go by that label yet because once again they want the STATE to do it, and as Bush and his former buddy Sharon demonstrated over and again, as long as it is the State committing what amount to terrorist acts it doesn’t count as terrorism.

3. namvet67 March 15th, 2007 2:09 pm

   With Israel in control of our Congress, and the Jesus freaks snake jumping in the White House, Iran will be the recipient of the United States of Everything’s next blunder in their crusade to make their god’s happy.
   Hoa Binh

4. Chicago March 15th, 2007 2:56 pm

   Organized religion is a scourge on society! They brainwash them, then use them, and they are to stupid to realize they are being used, they give them money and they have sex with their kids! But they all know just how you are to be, just ask them! Religion will kill this world.

5. Gail March 15th, 2007 4:41 pm

   General Buddha March 15th, 2007 12:53 pm

   “Imagine an alien being is reading this article. Wouldn’t he think we’re out of our minds? Or better yet, wouldn’t he think that these humans are very much primitive?”

   Too funny!

   It seems the evolution of mind has reversed itself tremendously over the last seven years. Is it a lack of vital nutrients and oxygen to the brain or do people really need to be told how they should think? Or is it a combination of both?

   The way things are going in this world right now, I would gladly join aliens from another planet. What could be worse than the lunacy taking place on planet earth?

6. expatincebu March 15th, 2007 7:05 pm

   And they call Islam a violent religion! Yet here these nuts are gladly working for global destruction of the human species. We need to re-evaluate what the most violent religion is.

7. judi March 15th, 2007 7:33 pm

   So where are the watch dogs of our Constitution that aims at keeping religion out of State practices and decisions? These right wing bigots have been a blight on our schools and on every independent thinker for hundreds of years. I just don’t understand how these misguided pricks fail to see their own illusions of some end times. Remember the old adage, “Don’t believe everything you read? or hear?

8. hetzer March 15th, 2007 7:46 pm

   The lower middle class needs something to fear and to be angry about. The dumber the better. Their alliance with the useless rich is unholy.

9. General Buddha March 15th, 2007 9:35 pm

   Gail March:

   “It seems the evolution of mind has reversed itself tremendously over the last seven years.”

   The last seven years? I’d say we’ve been regressing more and more since the time of the ancients. I don’t think the ancients split themselves into two camps of left and right. They used both hemispheres of the brain.

   “Is it a lack of vital nutrients and oxygen to the brain or do people really need to be told how they should think? Or is it a combination of both?”

   I believe it is a lack of detailed information and self-retrospection. But I guess you’re right if you equate nutrients with information, and oxygen with self-retrospection.

   “The way things are going in this world right now, I would gladly join aliens from another planet.”

   What if I told you they were all around. I certainly don’t consider myself to be barbaric, therefore I surely mustn’t be human

   “What could be worse than the lunacy taking place on planet earth?”

   Earthlings wanting to put a base on the moon while ignoring, and even worsening their conditions back home.

   Ah! I’m loving the alien more and more during these strange days that are upon us all! Ohmmm!

10. ezeflyer March 15th, 2007 11:18 pm

    Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

    Mammon, n.: The god of the world’s leading religion.

    Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

    Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

    In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

    What this country needs and what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

    War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.

    The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

    The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

    Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

    Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

    Ambrose Bierce

11. Essie March 16th, 2007 6:22 am

    Hagee
    One thing is for certain: This millioner Hagee, and by association all his followers, are simply nuts. If a prophecy is accurate and is destined to happen no matter what, then why is this believer in prophecy advocating an attack on Iran so as to prevent the prophecy from happening? He does not make sense. Some Evangelicals may truly be bible creeps, but Hagee and his elk are in the pocket of AIPAC. The Zionists are smart. They want American blood to be shed for the expansion of Israel. You’ve gotta hand it to them. I also wonder if the z prophecy has said anything about the Jews migrating to the Middle East to steal other people’s homeland.

12. WmC March 16th, 2007 9:11 am

    “The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching,” Hagee wrote in “Jerusalem Countdown.” “Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran followed by Ezekiel’s war (as described in Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39), and then the final battle — the battle of Armageddon.”

    Imagine basing a major foreign policy decision on the superstitious scriblings that are, what, 1500 years old? This is what passes for “rational argument” nowadays in right wing and AIPAC circles? General Buddha understates the absurdity.

13. gmkaake March 16th, 2007 9:52 am

    I thought we were living in the Tribulations? LOL!

14. General Buddha March 16th, 2007 10:18 am

    ezeflyer:

    Religion: The son of fear and ignorance of the unknown explaining to the masses that only one man may attain enlightenment to avoid having too many enlightened beings and lose control over their minds.

    Daimons (demons): Originally a designation for gods, but later used for beings intermediate between gods and humans who could influence human destinies and cosmic processes for good and evil. The Greek philosophers regarded them as the divine component, or devine voice, in human beings. The Daimons were often held responsible for everything fateful, and in this sense they come close to approximating the concept of destiny.

    These materialists obviously listen to their evil voice. But I guess they will be seen as having listened to their good voice when the shit hits the rotating propellor by declaring that it was all predicted by themselves, when in fact they will have only self-fulfilled their own divide and conquer plans. Which voice do you listen to?

    Immortality: Something that we all possess, but of which the Fabricant, sorry I meant the Vatican, wants you to believe is only attainable by one being. Then you have the other schools of thought who teach that reincarnation is the eternal cycle of being. So therefore we never actually die in a spiritual sense, we reincarnate and are all immortal. But there are ways of cheating that cycle, of which nomore I may say.

    But I do have to say that your descriptions of the corporation and politics is right on target.

    A rat who gnaws at a cat’s tail invites destruction! Ohmmmm!!

15. Nietzsche March 17th, 2007 11:38 am

    Gail,
    This is not funny. Sad maybe. Disappointing, even tragic.

16. Lobo Gris March 19th, 2007 2:27 am

    The wisdom of the founding fathers of this country in making the separation of church and state the law of the land becomes more and more self evident every day.

    If we had lawmakers that were committed to abiding by and enforcing the law we wouldn’t have near the problems we face today.

    Lobo Gris

17. prog-rocks March 19th, 2007 10:52 pm

    I think, a generation from now, the Israelies will look back and think, “you know, we really should have passed on all that ’support’ from the right-wing fundamentalist republicans…”

18. bnrihesizoto December 26th, 2007 8:36 pm

    tittatiwypixa…

    exhuwapizuho…

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