Had enough of my cave.
I just miss Elaine.
She was all I had here that
I could look at.
--- In CanYoAssDigIt@
wrote:
>
> Please don't go back to your cave!
>
> I'm sorry you've had enough of debate, but it's my opinion (and
> apparently that if Ignatius) that bad ideas should be countered with
> good ideas. All it takes for bad ideas to triumph is for good ideas
> to be silent. In terms of getting along and all that, I think it's a
> good idea, I would like to get along and all that, but Bobbie
> continues to aggressively promote hate and lies, and I have to agree
> with Ignatius, whoever he is. Perhaps he should have let the
argument
> stay where one whatever list he found it, but maybe he was just
> taking Bobbie at her word when she said she wanted it spread like a
> virus all over the place. I've used the same strategy myself - doing
> what she asked, but appending corrective comments to it.
>
> I like a flowering of free speech on my lists, and my blogs... but
> it's true that I've worked hard to stay out of Bobbie's way and to
> make sure she stays out of mine, it's a shame to have this stuff pop
> up again. At the very least, I hate spam, so i will consider making
> the list moderated again.
>
> I sent the following message to you on the YouTube account, but I'll
> send it to you here too.
>
> I'd be tempted to say that Bobbie does what she does because she's
> mentally ill (I'm not saying that to be mean, she has a history of
> psychiatric hospitalization and she says herself she's manic
> depressive) - but there are lots of people like her - that send
these
> false stories around that present them and their country in the
worst
> possible light. They seem to have a very distorted view of their
own
> religion. Take the story of the good Samaritan. Jesus didn't say
> that if you see a Jew (or a Mexican, or a Canadian or a Palestinian)
> sick by the side of the road, you should throw them on a cart and
send
> them back to Mexico... or throw them on a plane and have them taken
to
> Syria to be tortured.
>
> All this crazy nationalism is very scary, I am very pleased that one
> Presidential candidate, Dennis Kosinich, is calling it by the proper
> name - fascism. When Jesus said "render unto Caesar what is
Caesar's,"
> he didn't mean let Caesar grasp God-like powers... and since we
don't
> have Caesars in modern domocracy, we have servants, the only
possible
> relevant comment Jesus made on nationalism is rendered irrelevant.
>
> Jesus didn't say "waterboard the weak, for they wish to inherit a
> crust of bread"
>
> He didn't say "if you IMAGINE that a man wishes to slap you on the
> cheek, hang him in a cell and beat him until his legs are pulpified
> and then he dies."
>
> I feel very strongly about this stuff, and it seems like a mentally
> ill person who sends out hateful lies and encourages them to forward
> them to everybody they know is inviting trouble.
>
> The only one of all those comments that Robin Williams really said
was
> the last one - and it amazes me that people can read it without
> understanding that he was being CRITICAL of the new American
Fascism.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rick REED RxR <arexar4@...
> Date: Nov 10, 2007 4:34 AM
> Subject: [CanYoAssDigIt] Re: Fwd: The Plan, falsely attributed to
Robin Williams
> To: CanYoAssDigIt@
>
> NATT...
> Why isn't this group Moderated?
>
> All my Moderated Groups have proven to grow much faster
> as crap like this is avoided.
>
> I don't care for debate anymore.
>
> We can all get along or just ...
>
> well..I might return to my cave instead.
>
> --- In CanYoAssDigIt@
>
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