Straw Man Speaks
PG keeps an open document on his desktop. When he feels the urge to comment somewhere, he composes the remarks in this document. Often, the comment is not posted, which is better for all concerned. This is an edited regurgitation. ~ There are three images in this feature. Does anyone know how to pronounce meme? Does is rhyme with theme, or Mimi, or Vajayjay? ~ I keep hearing that racism is prejudice plus power. How can You Tube commenters be said to have power? ~ Ms. Obama was performing at a fundraiser. The heckler paid to be there. Ms. Obama is fair game. If she wants to avoid controversy, then she can stay home and bake cookies. ~ Philosophy is the disease for that which it is supposed to be the cure. ~ What is “the Fuck”? Is there only one? Is it male or female? Is it a noun, a verb, a modifier, or a language functionary? When you give a fuck, do you gift wrap it?
We don’t know what Jesus really said. All we have to go by is how is he quoted in the Bible, aka the book that teaches people to hate me. ~ There is a citizenship test. One is the questions is a set of pictures of the Supremes, and you are asked to match the multiple choice name with the picture. Kagan looks gay, Sotomayor looks hispanic, and Ginsburg looks old and withered. I got Clarence Thomas and John Roberts, but missed the other ones. ~ If you don’t like the n word then don’t use it ~ Hypocrisy, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. That may be the only thing those two concepts have in common. ~ Theology has become either nuanced to meaninglessness or stratified to viciousness. Stay away from other people’s opinion. Read your own Bible, form your own opinions and have your own relationship with G-d. ~ If Georgia ever goes majority black, it will be white people who want a voting rights act.
Here is a post about a street preacher. “Bro Cope” was working the Dragon Con Parade one time. There is a dialog in the comments. “Bro Cope” says “To be quite frank with you, our main purpose is to get people moving – towards God or away. We can not by our preaching put a particular direction in anyone’s heart. What we can do by our preaching is to ascertain what is already there, and then to magnify what is there. If going away from God, we drive them further away.” How selfish. It is all about his enjoyment. The people whose enjoyment he is affecting are not considered. It is as if he wants those people to go to hell. A street preacher is like a dog that will not stop barking. They create untold ill will for Jesus. When you preach without trust, you speak in vain. You might see what the third commandment says about that.
Christianism is not a faith. It is a scheme for life after death. ~ Or maybe the laziness of the press. Just hang out and say what your boss wants to hear. ~ This is not all white people. Generalized comments like that are misleading, no matter what adjective you put in front of people. ~ “hopelessly corrupt political establishment” Is there any other kind? ~ Rhyming Hasselhof with Mazel Tov is close to unforgivable. ~ This is a shakedown by a disgruntled former employee. America is being played. ~ “what would Jesus say?” Matthew 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. ~ Using the nasty word, that demeans the speaker as well as the object, is not a privilege. When black people use the nasty word, white people don’t have to. ~ Rachel Jeantel and Rush Limbaugh would make a cute couple. RL is single, and has money. RJ is a fully equipped female. Both like drugs, which RL can afford. RL can afford to buy birth control for all the mad pnp sex they would have. Both have talent on loan from G-d.
Is Eli Lake jealous of Dan Drezner? Spell check suggestion: Drainer ~ After reading your bitchy rant I would say it is you who is the desperate one. Especially if you have the knowledge of knowing who posts “every hour on the hour” May I suggest you get a new hobby read a book, go volunteer, do something but please spare us all of your bitter drama ~ You should read the complete letter. The sample above leaves out important bits of context. I tend to disagree with the letter. I could live without writing, or editing photographs. I enjoy those activities greatly, and hope that I contribute something to the world through them. However, if they were taken away from me tomorrow … a highly unlikely possibility … my life would go on. It just would not be as much fun. ~ The more secrets you have, the more people are going to have access to them. Why did Private Bradley Manning have this capability?
While listening to Charles Bukowski read poems, PG remembered to put a replacement roll of toilet paper in the bathroom. ~ I decided a while back to write my comments out in a separate document before posting. If a conversation looks like it might be controversial, I like to make a copy of it before it is deleted. I would be interested in reading this exchange. I find that the concept of straw man arguments is frequently misunderstood. ~ I used to see his comments, and then they disappeared. Maybe I am on his list of terrible people. You can’t please everyone. ~ a conservative is a liberal who has been labeled racist ~ Mainstream Jesus worshipers poison more minds than WBC. It is easy to dismiss the clown antics of WBC. The problem is that the everyday Jesus worshipers are taken seriously, with devastating effects. ~ We don’t need to talk about racism. We need to listen. ~ July 17 is the birthday of Phylis Diller and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Looks are not everything. ~ Selah















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