You Gotta Have Faith

[poliphilo]

People mostly accept the version of reality that's presented to them by parents, teachers, preachers, journalists, politicians and other authority figures. They'll say, "you can't believe everything you read in the papers" but they mostly do. People have faith- a quality recommended to them as wholly admirable by the fraudsters and psychopaths who run the world.

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[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Even the atheists like Richard Dawkins, ask us to believe in them when they tell us evolution is real and God doesn't exist. I haven't read all the detailed evidence, just a book penned by said Dawkins.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, exactly.

Dawkins can muster a strong case against Biblical literalism, but that's not the same as disproving the the existence of God.

[algabal.livejournal.com]

In the US, I believe this attitude exists mainly towards the military. I would like to see that attitude disappear.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We have the same thing in a dilute form.

It is not allowed to say anything critical about our soldiers (aka heroes and brave boys) but perfectly OK to send them into battle ill-equipped and to refuse them the help they need when they emerge on the far side damaged and shell-shocked.

[algabal.livejournal.com]

The U.S. veteran's administration has turned denying benefits to veterans into an artform, even though it's their legal obligation to try and help the soldier prove his or her case.

It's bad PR for the military to acknowledge how many 'wounded warriors' (how I hate that cloying phrase) are coming back insane, maimed and suicidal, so it's in their interest on many levels to try to keep that figure low by simply denying they have a problem.

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

This is true--I have friends and former students who have returned broken in mind and body--and the VA has made them worse instead of better while denying their injuries are war related.

One of my friend has video tape of the firefight that trapped her and her group for over twelve hours while the Black Water mercenaries were SUPPOSED to aid them in getting out, but left them there instead. They had inadequate ammunition and came very close to being wiped out.

Now, they deny her PTSD and say her physical injuries are not war related but a product of "arthritis."

Another young woman I know was raped in Afghanistan--and when she went to the VA, they said group therapy was in order--so they put her in the supposedly "only available" therapy group--all male, all sex offenders.

Seriously?

This is the best we can do for our troups?

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

No shit, Sherlock!

My mother is the primary case for this. If she gets a random email from some nutjob forwarded on by her nutjob relatives which jives with her view of the world, she INSTANTLY devotes herself to defending its truth FOREVER.

For example, an abortion of an email arrived about a year ago regarding the Queen of England and how she despised Michelle Obama who supposedly manhandled her and was rude and obnoxious to her. Supposedly the queen did a sekkrit queen-to-courtier message--something to do with placing her purse in a certain location--and later told the individual that she "never wanted to be in the same room with that obama woman again."

Even though I DISPROVED this to her via Snopes.com AND other media sources, she still clings to the fallacious "news report" which was in fact some email her brother who is a Rush Limbaugh worshipping nut forewarded on from some other Limbaugh loving moron.

It is really too bad that humanity is not hatched like sea turtles and that we can't rush to the sea, self-sufficient, immediately after cracking out of the shell.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If only Michelle Obama had treated the Queen with back-slapping familiarity!

In reality both women are far too canny to cook up any kind of diplomatic faux-pas.