tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post7156897623198455876..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Looking Backward 2015 - 1859Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-75509984162358570992015-11-16T13:37:38.563-05:002015-11-16T13:37:38.563-05:00He committed the musical sin of writing a piece of...He committed the musical sin of writing a piece of crap, he committed the sin against economic justice of pretending to be all about "no possessions" as he lived in the friggin' Dakota and was sitting on an estimated 800 Million in c 1980 dollars. He committed the stupidity of attributing war to religion when religion is one of the very minor motives of warfare.<br /><br />I note that you ignore any people of color and all women among those murdered, as well as any who may have been religious and who would not welcome Lennon's atheist dirge, not to mention any who had any idea what good music was. I seem to recall it was a death-metal band playing, I wonder how many of them are fans of the "smart" mop head. <br /><br />No one who went to Notre Dame knew they weren't going to get killed, same for any other religious service held in the aftermath of the attacks. Just as so many of those people of color in "other places" have been murdered by ISIS and its associated nihilists as they attended mass or other services. Those lives don't count to you sitting on your ass in the greater NYC area, gassing about the lives of white boys, some of whom, I'd bet, were those Christians you despise so much. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-77158825548679506922015-11-16T13:18:27.210-05:002015-11-16T13:18:27.210-05:00Wow.
So because John Lennon wrote a song that com...Wow.<br /><br />So because John Lennon wrote a song that committed the to you unforgiveable sin of suggesting God doesn't exist, you feel justified in pissing on the graves of all the people (white boy rock fans, BTW) who got blown away in that theater.<br /><br />What a petty, vindictive, small-minded sack of shit you are.<br /><br />BTW, Nobody got killed at Notre Dame on Saturday.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-66362310542951025712015-11-16T13:08:25.186-05:002015-11-16T13:08:25.186-05:00Big deal. Lots of people sang religious music in v...Big deal. Lots of people sang religious music in venues more likely to be the target of another attack, such as Notre Dame. <br /><br />I'm not impressed with the rote performance of that meaningless and dirge like drivel. You being impressed by it is a sign of its meaninglessness. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-46562260022661046652015-11-16T12:44:56.347-05:002015-11-16T12:44:56.347-05:00Oh, this is wonderful on so many levels.
https://...Oh, this is wonderful on so many levels.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNRCTC1ElXQ<br /><br />A genuinely brave guy plays Lennon's "Imagine" outside the theater in Paris over the weekend.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-80414152790696968762015-11-16T10:48:25.349-05:002015-11-16T10:48:25.349-05:00"So much of the strife among those opposites,..."So much of the strife among those opposites, on the so-called right and so-called left, are turf fights and gang wars when they, like gangs, share the same view of life."<br /><br />Yup. Nobody fights like family. Keep that in mind, and much of the persistent strife of the world makes sense. Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-83519953407056056942015-11-16T10:28:47.392-05:002015-11-16T10:28:47.392-05:00Some people say that the difference is between a m...Some people say that the difference is between a material god, a god who is subject to the same forces and conditions of things in the material universe and God who is the creator of the universe which God permeates but who is nothing like the universe and the things in it. The "God" of so many fundamentalists is that kind of pagan-material god as is the "god" of Cosmotheism and, though he didn't call it "god" Ernst Haeckel's ultimate reality. <br /><br />I almost included Carl Sagan's statement about "The Cosmos" and I might but it's very probably that Timothy McVeigh's "god" is the very "Cosmos" that Carl Sagan waxed so poetically over in his big TV moment. Considering the vicious antisemitism of the Cosmotheists - clearly based on their hatred of both the Mosaic and Christian view of life and the universe - their vicious, murderous hatred of Jews, it is ironic that they would be in such basic agreement with Sagan. <br /><br />I am more convinced every time I look into this that that difference is the very essence of the difference between American style liberalism and its opposite, no matter what name is used to identify it. So much of the strife among those opposites, on the so-called right and so-called left, are turf fights and gang wars when they, like gangs, share the same view of life. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-91249665523909140092015-11-16T09:49:39.632-05:002015-11-16T09:49:39.632-05:00I suppose we could get into a conversation about h...I suppose we could get into a conversation about how "reason" is a god to some on-line atheists, but that's too subtle a discourse for most of them, for whom "god" can only be the God of Abraham or a superhuman figure like Zeus.<br /><br />Funny thing is, they completely misunderstand both figures, and trying to explain their error to them just makes them the more certain they are right. Kind of like the fundie Christians and Muslims they so despise.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com