Warning
//This entry is not intended to be read, only judged, torn apart, and shit upon!//
May I start this post with what I know seems to be a random and erroneous statement? Yes.
I love Wikipedia with all my heart. It is the most reliable source for (at the least a synopsis of) any information that ever existed, and it is formatted into a simple search bar on an html document as this one. I find it extremely difficult to put into words how finding the most obscure piece of interesting and amazing information makes me the most ecstatic individual afixed to a planet that, indeed, is also inhabited by "freak waves," columns of water in the deep ocean that can jut out of the sea at over 100 feet tall moving at terrific speeds and in directions contrary to the normal waves below. Similar to when I stumble upon great epiphanies in music (finally understanding a cryptic lyric, or discovering [upon the thousandth listen] that I know every instrument's part of a marching closer and how they fit together--- most critically the brake drum, of course---) the hair on the back of my neck arises and my insides smile uncontrollably. I am perfectly content staring at a peer-submitted article on the web encyclopedia while listening to any good song.
May I move on to the point? Yes.
Tonight I was in good company laughing hysterically at hoe-downs and party quirks when a television show comes on. Pat Robertson and his wife, I presume, were the moderators of this broadcast. They are Christians, I assume. It has been implied, it is a Christian news show. They are of the religious right, I assume. The evening's stories begin and I am beginning to detect the onset of a feeling I cannot quite explain. It is not the feeling I get when researching Jupiter's hypercane or listening to Gustav Holst's Mars. If I were forced to pick some adjectives to describe it, the series: bitter, confounded, depressed comes to mind. Each story has a distinctive conservative flavor to it with overtones of Christianity throughout. These flavors are tasty flavors-- bitter to some-- home-cooking to others. That a television show cooks with such bold sensations of taste makes me happy that someone still knows the art of a culinary media. However, each article (I saw three) was just so obviously designed to promote a political platform through satiation of the public with reassurance that everything is just fine and that free-thought still isn't necessary. This was the creator of the afforementioned latter feeling... the one with bitter. harumph. It boggles me that people can be so content with sheltered-ness. The show stated in its first article that the everything in Louisville(?) would be A-O-K if everyone, when at the polls, would just think what the alternative to voting their traditionally conservative selves would be... the previsouly-stated wish-washy flip-flop wearing beurocrats unable to protect their country despite them having possessed every man, woman, and childs 12 guage. The false appeal to viewers to think for themselves revealed itself to be a method for spoon-feeding the story's more "subtle" message. The program followed this article up by broadcasting a report on how Russia is reverting back to a dictatorship under Putin.
May I venture sofar as to state some opinions I have in this political realm? Yes.
I seriously have some doubts about both France and Russia for their positions in the first Gulf War. Each seemed more interested in lucrative dealings with a greedy dictatorship than in their UN duties. But, honestly, who are we to judge? We gave Iraq their weapons in the beginning. A juicy morsel of irony for you that I'm sure you already know. Who are you by the way? I also am not so sure of the country itself. I hear tell (but only tell) that it is a very sheltered nation, a grudge toward America from the Cold War held over exemplifing this. HOWEVER, I cannot believe this program would be so bold as to criticize Putin for repeals of basic civil rights.
May I sit silently for a bit and listen to this song? Yes.
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I can't help but recall this phrase I heard once before: Patriot Act. Why go further? Because Pat Robertson's show did. Apparently, most media outlets in Russia can be loosely traced to the government. I suppose its too hard to do that in America, what with Rupert Murdoch owning everything.
The third article was about how the Pope didn't mean to offend muslims by claiming their religion brought nothing to the world but violence (Deus Vult?!)
May I state a few concise summaries of my opinions on ignorance, Pat Robertson, and Russia? Yes.
If Russia seems to be a less democratic country than America, that is because it is... and always was; Russia has been democratic for about twenty years of its expansive history, America has been for about two hundred twenty years-- roughly one hundred percent of its history; if the idea that I can compare problems between Russia's civil rights and America's scares you as much as it does me, you might have started thinking, in which case you probably aren't cut out for the religious right.
May I start a war on ignorance? No. The troops are occupied occupying in the war on terror.
Wikipedia's article on the religious right "might need cleanup" to "meet its standards".
//If you are reading this then you must have read the article. The author offers his sincere apologies, but commends you for your acquisition of new information and opinions. But still, he's mostly sorry.//
**Post-Post Edit**
I <3 Zach Braff.
May I start this post with what I know seems to be a random and erroneous statement? Yes.
I love Wikipedia with all my heart. It is the most reliable source for (at the least a synopsis of) any information that ever existed, and it is formatted into a simple search bar on an html document as this one. I find it extremely difficult to put into words how finding the most obscure piece of interesting and amazing information makes me the most ecstatic individual afixed to a planet that, indeed, is also inhabited by "freak waves," columns of water in the deep ocean that can jut out of the sea at over 100 feet tall moving at terrific speeds and in directions contrary to the normal waves below. Similar to when I stumble upon great epiphanies in music (finally understanding a cryptic lyric, or discovering [upon the thousandth listen] that I know every instrument's part of a marching closer and how they fit together--- most critically the brake drum, of course---) the hair on the back of my neck arises and my insides smile uncontrollably. I am perfectly content staring at a peer-submitted article on the web encyclopedia while listening to any good song.
May I move on to the point? Yes.
Tonight I was in good company laughing hysterically at hoe-downs and party quirks when a television show comes on. Pat Robertson and his wife, I presume, were the moderators of this broadcast. They are Christians, I assume. It has been implied, it is a Christian news show. They are of the religious right, I assume. The evening's stories begin and I am beginning to detect the onset of a feeling I cannot quite explain. It is not the feeling I get when researching Jupiter's hypercane or listening to Gustav Holst's Mars. If I were forced to pick some adjectives to describe it, the series: bitter, confounded, depressed comes to mind. Each story has a distinctive conservative flavor to it with overtones of Christianity throughout. These flavors are tasty flavors-- bitter to some-- home-cooking to others. That a television show cooks with such bold sensations of taste makes me happy that someone still knows the art of a culinary media. However, each article (I saw three) was just so obviously designed to promote a political platform through satiation of the public with reassurance that everything is just fine and that free-thought still isn't necessary. This was the creator of the afforementioned latter feeling... the one with bitter. harumph. It boggles me that people can be so content with sheltered-ness. The show stated in its first article that the everything in Louisville(?) would be A-O-K if everyone, when at the polls, would just think what the alternative to voting their traditionally conservative selves would be... the previsouly-stated wish-washy flip-flop wearing beurocrats unable to protect their country despite them having possessed every man, woman, and childs 12 guage. The false appeal to viewers to think for themselves revealed itself to be a method for spoon-feeding the story's more "subtle" message. The program followed this article up by broadcasting a report on how Russia is reverting back to a dictatorship under Putin.
May I venture sofar as to state some opinions I have in this political realm? Yes.
I seriously have some doubts about both France and Russia for their positions in the first Gulf War. Each seemed more interested in lucrative dealings with a greedy dictatorship than in their UN duties. But, honestly, who are we to judge? We gave Iraq their weapons in the beginning. A juicy morsel of irony for you that I'm sure you already know. Who are you by the way? I also am not so sure of the country itself. I hear tell (but only tell) that it is a very sheltered nation, a grudge toward America from the Cold War held over exemplifing this. HOWEVER, I cannot believe this program would be so bold as to criticize Putin for repeals of basic civil rights.
May I sit silently for a bit and listen to this song? Yes.
" ."
I can't help but recall this phrase I heard once before: Patriot Act. Why go further? Because Pat Robertson's show did. Apparently, most media outlets in Russia can be loosely traced to the government. I suppose its too hard to do that in America, what with Rupert Murdoch owning everything.
The third article was about how the Pope didn't mean to offend muslims by claiming their religion brought nothing to the world but violence (Deus Vult?!)
May I state a few concise summaries of my opinions on ignorance, Pat Robertson, and Russia? Yes.
If Russia seems to be a less democratic country than America, that is because it is... and always was; Russia has been democratic for about twenty years of its expansive history, America has been for about two hundred twenty years-- roughly one hundred percent of its history; if the idea that I can compare problems between Russia's civil rights and America's scares you as much as it does me, you might have started thinking, in which case you probably aren't cut out for the religious right.
May I start a war on ignorance? No. The troops are occupied occupying in the war on terror.
Wikipedia's article on the religious right "might need cleanup" to "meet its standards".
//If you are reading this then you must have read the article. The author offers his sincere apologies, but commends you for your acquisition of new information and opinions. But still, he's mostly sorry.//
**Post-Post Edit**
I <3 Zach Braff.