A day filled with surprises

[wood_artist]

Read more if you wish, but be prepared for strange happenings down at the Circle K. Allow me to suggest there is something herein you really don't want to miss. It's the last thing in the post.

Comments

[sandykidd]

Oh my.

He did say much of this in another email to Bart, but he put it a little nastier to you.

I suppose if he's gong to keep feeding us lines like these, I may as well use them for what they're worth. Teaching! His brother paid a visit to the Outer Alliance website and left some real gems behind as well.

You know what I love best about all this? They still haven't checked their condescention. As if they are in the teaching position here instead of the ones getting schooled. It makes me wonder what sort of lesson it will take to get them to actually learn...

What a delightful challenge.

[sandykidd]

Whoops, I misspoke. Jake's brother actually posted his issues to the blog of an individual OA member, not the community's site itself.

[wood_artist]

Although I haven't actually written the email yet, the general idea is this...

Thomas Jefferson wrote, in the Declaration of Independence, that...

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal...

Notice he didn't say "most all men are created equal" or "for the most part men are created equal" or even "all the men who agree with me are created equal." Equal rights, while often debated in the political arena, are not political until someone seeks to press their personal beliefs upon others. The words Equal Rights require no interpretation beyond a simple understand of the two words.

Those who attempt to parse those words should be up front about what they are truly saying, namely that they don't want equal rights for those that don't see the world exactly the same way they do. While that might seem a righteous position, consider if that same perspective were held by "those people whom you wish to exclude" and they were in power. Would you find their curtailment of your rights acceptable?

C

[illuminated_sin]

I'd bet he agrees that all men are CREATED equal, but the ones who go off the "righteous path," as he sees it, lose all claim to equal rights because then their actions prove they are no longer worthy. I've had so many arguments like this with people before. He's not going to change his mind, regardless. Using that sort of logic, he'll never think there's anything to change about his stance, because it is not he who has strayed or erred, it's everyone else. :-/

[wood_artist]

That's probably as likely a line as any. Sad, but nevertheless it does represent the thinking of some folks.

Thanks for stopping by.

C

[wood_artist]

I wasn't going to continue the conversation, but now I'm thinking that Equal Rights idea is just too good to pass up. I'll keep you informed.

C