tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post8143101266546318891..comments2023-09-11T19:56:03.229-07:00Comments on Think Or Be Eaten: CHRIST v. CHENEYAnghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-18573119029346295412010-01-13T19:27:38.103-08:002010-01-13T19:27:38.103-08:00Ang, I'm sure you have had many things going o...Ang, I'm sure you have had many things going on in your life, perhaps heavy enough to keep you too busy to blog, but you have, like, just vanished from 'blogosphere' and, while I realize you have a life outside of blogsville, you haven't said anything since august of 2009. Are you OK? We miss your insights Peace. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-9063949490380115752009-12-17T19:42:02.929-08:002009-12-17T19:42:02.929-08:00Hear hear!Hear hear!sigwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-52920881998498954312009-12-15T02:48:37.096-08:002009-12-15T02:48:37.096-08:00Cman,
Thanks for your comment, which by the way s...Cman,<br /><br />Thanks for your comment, which by the way spoke directly to my heart. Welcome to the netherworld of the awakened, offended and incurably frustrated. It's not that lonely a place anymore though overcrowding is never likely to be a problem. I'm much gratified to know you're on board. <br /><br />I do need to post about 4,000 things but you know, sometimes they make my head explode. I'm trying to avoid that if at all possible. Not sure it is possible. If that's the case then what the hey, I might as well post.<br /><br />Thanks for the gentle prodding. <br /><br />AngAnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-45823359515927733382009-12-14T22:52:40.005-08:002009-12-14T22:52:40.005-08:00First, Ang, let me say I've missed your input....First, Ang, let me say I've missed your input. I realize it must take a lot to keep on bloggin' so I don't get too upset when you haven't written. And thank you! I hang on to many of your posts, being absolutely amazed at your genius and understanding. Like anonymous has posted (thinking too much, sci-fi characters on t.v., etc.), and your reply: thinking, feeling too much, I am one of you! I am a retired old fart who only in the last several years has awakened from the deep sleep of T.V., Hollywood, newspaper induced somnambulism. And very recently I have lost four "friends" due to my questioning of their deep sleep status. It's amazing how entrenched the "programming" is in the human mind,and I am recognizing that the American mind is probably the most programmed mind there is. Four may not seem like alot, but due to my repulsion of the sheeple attitude that is so prevalent,I pretty much have chosen to be a hermit, a loner. I fought the good fight for years, warring against my own "wee small voice", screaming at me that the whole world appeared to be AFU'd, and I perceived that we collectively were sliding ever so surely into the abyss. I worked in medicine, and could see the grand scam at work. Thank God that is over, for me. Now I have time to investigate, study, learn, and your blog has been instrumental in clarifying many topics for me. So again, thanks.Cmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-36298330571253571332009-11-19T07:11:18.843-08:002009-11-19T07:11:18.843-08:00Hi saltman,
I know, I haven't posted in a lon...Hi saltman,<br /><br />I know, I haven't posted in a long time. I figured everybody would have given up on me by now and gone off to blogs that have something new to read. I've been swamped. As in alligators and knee deep fetid water. Not pretty. But I started writing down some ideas this week so who knows, maybe there'll come a post out of it in not too long. Thanks for checking in on me, it's nice to know somebody misses me. The check's in the mail.<br /><br />AngAnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-52593395673900520702009-11-18T20:45:45.994-08:002009-11-18T20:45:45.994-08:00I've noticed you haven't posted in a long ...I've noticed you haven't posted in a long time.<br /><br />Hope you're doing well, and wish you the best.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-63310429351573136132009-10-12T01:46:51.767-07:002009-10-12T01:46:51.767-07:00JohnB,
Excellent rant, thanks for sharing.
At le...JohnB,<br /><br />Excellent rant, thanks for sharing.<br /><br />At least they didn't award the Nobel Peace Prize to Netanyahu (et al). As it is they probably need to change the name to the Nobel Sleaze prize. Ever since they gave one to Henry Kissinger it's been blood stained. I'm not that up to date on who all has gotten the Nobel prize over the years but my guess is we wouldn't have to dig too far or long to pull out a stinky list of blood covered names. That's status quo, it's how they do business. Pretend you're swell when you're a vicious blood thirsty killer who uses democracy for toilet paper. <br /><br />Thanks for your comment.<br /><br />AngAnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-39516673479049737002009-10-11T23:17:50.984-07:002009-10-11T23:17:50.984-07:00Cheney is one of the vilest of a despicable cast o...Cheney is one of the vilest of a despicable cast of villains. Bush & Cheney belong in the same house of horrors as Stalin and Hitler, but the average Joe will not be able to make the connection or see history repeating itself. All through school they told us great sacrifices were made so freedom would prevail & future wars would be prevented. Obviously there has been a succession of wars ever since. We live in a culture of war & to the ruling class, the cannon fodder are used to increase their profits. People seem unable to grasp we are ruled by a class of elite psychopaths. It sickens me that anyone can see Cheney, hear his poisonous words & yet not recognize him for what he is. No incoming President is ever going prosecute an outgoing one. That would necessitate not committing their own war crimes or appear like a total hypocrit to the public. Better to lie & sneak around as they usually do. Did you ever notice when they get rid of a President it's usually for some minor incident, never the genocide they are actually engaged in. The release of the torture pictures may even have been intentional, to bring down the moral fibre of the American people, making torture that much more acceptable. A few are geniunely disgusted, the rest come to accept it as a necessity of war. That they should be outraged - & somehow aren't - never occurs to them & what's one more travesty when the landscape is already littered with the 'infotainment' version of truth. Obama's promised 'Change', but all he'll do is expand the war of 'Tribute'. That's why Cheney can come on T.V. and brazenly defend torture unopposed. Cheney & Obama are the same team & I wouldn't be surprised if Cheney is higher rank, so don't expect Cheney to go hunker down in his bunker just yet. Isn't it nice & convenient how Obama already received the Nobel Peace Prize & all he's done so far is let Bush & Cheney off the hook? Surely expansion of the war couldn't count as the reason to decorate him, so why? Unless he's getting the Peace Prize for some reason other than the one given. And who ever heard of an American President that EVER made peace? You can smell the duplicity. Someone had to nominate him within 11 days of taking office for the deadline. So he gets the Peace Prize just as he's about to expand the war in Afghanistan & open another front in Pakistan. If Cheney were really in danger of being prosecuted they wouldn't be having him on TV extolling the virtues of torture. Creatures like Cheney will continue poisoning the minds of Americans who think they are doing a patriotic duty supporting the war & adopting an aggressive posture towards anyone who disagrees. It's too bad they can't see how inhuman these creatures are. When it gets harder for them to defend the lie, those who are invested in the war, pressed upon us by the likes Cheney will become even more entrenched. They want your sons or daughters to serve as cannon fodder in their perpetual war of terror on terror, supposedly preventing terror with the application of terror. But who pays all these terrorists to terrorize? I'll bet it's the same people who pay Cheney's salary! And those who could put him away are fed at the same pig trough & can't be expected to change the rules. As Obama dashes the hopes of millions no one should be surprised when he cynically EXPANDS THE WAR, even as they gave him the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE! This is the epitomy of hypocrisy, but don't tell America maybe they're not that big on irony. And just why didn't Cindy Sheehan get the Peace Prize? I guess you have to be a by-proxy-murderer-of-innocents to get a Peace Prize given to ya! The real heroes don't need decorating anyway! Great thought provoking post!JohnBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04093390940008049869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-68192210711982701682009-09-29T20:24:41.721-07:002009-09-29T20:24:41.721-07:00Derek,
You have a far deeper understanding of w...Derek, <br /><br />You have a far deeper understanding of what's in the NT than I would ever claim to have. I appreciate your input. <br /><br />Thanks for your comment.<br /><br />AngAnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-47569128646039845492009-09-29T20:14:19.684-07:002009-09-29T20:14:19.684-07:00Anonymous,
I can sure appreciate that. I was tal...Anonymous,<br /><br />I can sure appreciate that. I was talking about real Christian values, not imperialist values with a Jesus sticker applied for credibility. No doubt the term 'Christian Values' strikes fear in many hearts, including mine.<br /><br />Thank you for your comment.<br /><br />AngAnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-52693437811122743162009-09-29T19:33:47.540-07:002009-09-29T19:33:47.540-07:00I agree with you in principle, but setting an exam...I agree with you in principle, but setting an example was only a part of Jesus' mission. "We wrestle not against flesh and blood..."<br /><br />Jesus didn't humble himself just to show us how to live; Christ is God, and He's been telling us the difference between right and wrong--teaching "human decency", if you will--since the Garden.<br /><br />Nor did Jesus come to save us from evil <em>men</em>; he redeemed us from the clutches of intelligent evil, literal supernatural entities who seek our destruction, through His sacrifice on the cross. It was tragic because we made it necessary.<br /><br />It's not quite true that "few of us could live up to him or his standards". In fact, the Bible tells us that <em>no one in the history of the planet</em> could live up to his standards, and that is the whole point of Christ on Earth: all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and thus the blood sacrifice of the only perfect, sinless man in all of history (gruesome, I know, but it's God's universe and His rules) was required to pay the debt.<br /><br />The human agents in this long-running play, like Cheney, are useful idiots for the real enemy. Working for the other side, to be sure, and it's sad that so many professing Christians still don't see it.Derek Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03191226783685510239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-89674811015117378212009-09-28T05:44:24.727-07:002009-09-28T05:44:24.727-07:00Love your writtin's,however being a descendent...Love your writtin's,however being a descendent of the ''trail of tears'' the term ''christian values''scares the living shit out of me.<br />aho<br />mfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-41887279625115130732009-09-21T14:47:03.072-07:002009-09-21T14:47:03.072-07:00Anonymous-
Wow. You sound exactly like me. My m...Anonymous-<br /><br />Wow. You sound exactly like me. My mother once told me, "You think too much", and she also believed that I felt too much. There comes a point where you realize that you're not doing it wrong, you're just doing it at a level that a lot of people aren't interested in going to. A lot of people prefer playing the game, because it doesn't require much thinking, it only requires competing for position and financial rewards. But for those of us who are not fed by those things alone, for those of us who operate at a different level than that, telling us that we think too many thoughts or feel too many feelings is like saying our hearts beat too much or our hair grows too much. It's just who and how we are. Bottom line though, people who step back and think are a minority. <br /><br />In the heat of amped up highly politicized stuposity gripping the country, it's the people who don't get caught up in the fever of the masses who are attacked and ripped to shreds for saying things people don't want to hear. People like their lies and their phony baloney hot air balloons of fluffy pink American perfection and Donna Reed happiness, and they'll fight you to the death to retain their illusions thank you very much.<br /><br />And you're right, of course, that waking up and facing the firing squad of reality is literally overwhelming to any feeling person. To rip someone's happy little world out from underneath them leaves them hanging in the wind, which is one of the scariest things in the world. I don't know that its fear that keeps people from seeing what's right in front of their faces, because you'd have to suspect in order to feel fear. I think people are expertly trained and conditioned to automatically dismiss anything outside the status quo, and it's something else entirely that comes into play when you run up against hard headed uninformed people who want to snap your neck for what you think or feel.<br /><br />I have often thought the same exact thing, that the movie monsters we grew up with have exited the screen and are now stomping through our streets in the flesh. I hear you anonymous, I really do.<br /><br />No, I did not know that about Netanyahu visiting Russia. I'm not surprised if that's what happened. What I'm finding interesting now is the way Russia is being invited to join the world like any other country, no longer being demonized and vilified, no longer held out as the western world's great communist threat. Political powers in Europe are inviting Russia to join with them in order to fight the global terrorism movement. Sigh. That's how easy it is to create monsters or friends. Whatsoever the tv sets shall decree, so shall it be for everybody. Well almost everybody. Thank you for your comment.<br /><br />AngAnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-72349215769588019482009-09-21T14:17:25.233-07:002009-09-21T14:17:25.233-07:00Ang, I enjoy reading yout posts. The title of your...Ang, I enjoy reading yout posts. The title of your blog intrigued me. I have been told that I think too much, to the point where the person semi-accused me of engaging in "intellectual masturbation", to which I replied, well, in my view we are all being stroked by someone in life. I know whose hand is on my d*ck, do you? But that doesn't seem like a valid answer, primarily because of the high school gym-locker aura surrounding the answer. But reading thru your posts causes me to think even scarier thoughts, why scarier? Because the majority of people would not understand, or more likely would be paralyzed by the overwhelming ramifications of what is transpiring. Its as if one of those sci-fi- monsters we saw as kids on TV were to materialize right here, now. And demand X. Most people would roll their eyes and reach for the phone..., until it happens. And then of course they are of no use, not even as slaves.<br /> On a side note, did you hear that Netanyahu of Israel went to Russia to get Putin's help in bombing Iran. There were threats involved, Russia basically told Israel to f- off. Netanyahu threatened to turn Moscow into a mushroom cloud, at which point Putin physically threw the zionist out of his office on his ass! Ang, the wolves who control the world are having what amounts to brawl among themselves. And we, the nobodies of the world, how do we rate? That's what concerns me. Please keep posting, you have a great mind!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-27026806503793284442009-09-18T13:11:44.603-07:002009-09-18T13:11:44.603-07:00Ang,
This refrain could equally apply to Presiden...Ang,<br /><br />This refrain could equally apply to President Obama:<br /><br />"What would it be like to stand for death, torture, lies, obfuscation, cheating, manipulation, undermining and destroying your entire nation while decimating its credibility in the eyes of the world, and be able to look people right in the eye and claim you're doing it all for the good of the country? Just how scrambled does your head have to be to think that engaging in crime and immorality in everything you do is good for your country?"<br /><br />Matter of fact, it might apply as far back as Andrew Jackson! Be as or MORE critical of your political acolytes and demigods as the opposition's.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03867588299169549560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-29431769582331465302009-09-07T22:33:59.535-07:002009-09-07T22:33:59.535-07:00Me not am smart but me wisn't am like mean. In...Me not am smart but me wisn't am like mean. In Bizarro world we am poke stick in Man Cheney and toast Man Cheney wif fire, then eat. Then we am laf and laf. Me want kiss person Ang many time.dwighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06368919356700678077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-89844818512082736372009-09-07T06:52:33.002-07:002009-09-07T06:52:33.002-07:00hey, me again—Jesus! Ang, you really know how to p...hey, me again—Jesus! Ang, you really know how to pick some .. ahh, confounding subject matter. Only an initial reaction. Like I had to like, percolate it a bit. Still do actually, but then—it's .. deep. In my circles I keep on the web, Christ is not taken seriously. Even mwar is guilty of .. Well, the culture precludes serious consideration. And rightly so—the current versions are grotesque. Although limitations in understanding, however prevalent, are no excuse for shallowness. Jerry Falwell and others are to blame. When Jesus said repent, they thought he meant murder.<br /><br />“We're a God fearing nation, and we'll kill anyone who says otherwise.” ~ George W. Bush. This is an actual headline I still vividly remember, along with a large photo of George accompanying it, about 9 years ago now. I didn't even know how to use a computer then. It took up 1/2 the front page of an actual newspaper, and was left abandoned on a table in the Asian Food court, in a mall I frequented at the time. It was one of those posterized 'Outbreak of War' type headlines, and the pic wasn't that flattering either. I would feel uncomfortable drinking Whiskey off of it.<br /><br />The Cult of Amerika: apathetic reliance upon undeserving Leaders. Many christians are actually Satanists in denial. "Satan incarnate preaching his evil spew from pulpits, .." Haha—sorry, shouldn't laugh. Someone's been drinkin' Whiskey from <i>that</i> table .. "<i>Jerrrryy</i>." Nominalism, I recall is the label given — theology .. some study I did .. long time ago now. Not everyone who says Lord, Lord will enter .. the kingdom. It's starting to come back to me now. Jesus said that, in the NT, and I recall on yet another dry / boring church attendance, listening to yet another shameless request for more money from an ex-govt employee, to help build his investment property portfolio .. it suddenly occurring to me, gazing around—that <i>he</i> (the Christ) was referring to <i>christians</i> ! Ironical. I mean, who else calls him—Lord, Lord, <i>piously</i> ! Hypocritically ? Satanists in denial, <i>of course</i> ! an aha moment. Jesus.<br /><br />Love to comment .. much more, but fear I need beautifying just as much, maybe more .. zzzzzzs<br /><br />“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” ~ <i>James Madison</i> (1751-1836)baz reconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10082979204179726297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-56495570546965551662009-09-04T19:25:18.075-07:002009-09-04T19:25:18.075-07:00Astra,
Thank you. I'm glad somebody could se...Astra,<br /><br />Thank you. I'm glad somebody could see where I'm coming from. <br /><br />You know, you have possibly the coolest name I've ever heard. I'd love to sashay down a marble staircase and say, "Hello, I am Astra Navigo!" But I digress...<br /><br />thanks for your comment.<br /><br />AngAnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385030071978985956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35215770.post-44902776319885359432009-09-04T17:00:53.545-07:002009-09-04T17:00:53.545-07:00You've left nothing out here.
Good post - bec...You've left nothing out here.<br /><br />Good post - because I happen to agree with you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com