Stoical

[poliphilo]

I did think of staying up to see the results come in. I'm glad I didn't. It's turned 9 o'clock and we still don't have a result.

But it looks like four more years of Bush.

I'm not going to make a fuss. I'm going to be stoical about this. If Ohio goes for Bush (as looks likely) it'll be a convincing victory. Demos will have spoken.

Look, I'm a European; I don't get Bush at all. Apart from a certain folksiness and ease around people, I don't see anything about him that would make me want to vote for him. I think he's unintelligent. I think he's a front man for the corporations. And I think his foreign policy is wrong in every particular.

Alexander the Great and his gang come clattering up the street. Horsehair plumes and flashing bronze. And they come across Diogenes sitting in his barrel. The greatest living general meets the greatest living philosopher. It's the ancient Greek equivalent of a photo-op.

So Alexander says to Diogenes, "Anything you want I'll give it you. All you have to do is name it."

And Diogenes says, "OK. Please get out of my light."

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[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

I think he's unintelligent. I think he's a front man for the corporations. And I think his foreign policy is wrong in every particular.

Exactly how I feel. I voted in my first presidential election yesterday, and I voted for Kerry. I don't so much love Kerry, as I hate Bush. Mostly for rights issues; I don't want there to be a ban on gay marriage, and I don't want a woman's right to choose to be thrown out the window either. I don't see Bush as having any concern for the rights of women, gays, minorities or those who aren't Christian...And, I'm Jewish. Most, if not all of the born-again Christians seem to want Bush, but they also seem to think that members of my faith are going to hell unless they convert :\

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

One of the scariest things about Bush is that he's breaking down the barriers between Church and State that the Founding Fathers tried so hard to cement in place.

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

Very true. My father is always worried that they're going to try to put prayer back into public schools.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I grew up with that. Prayer is mandatory in British schools. I can't think why. Actually, looking on the bright side, making religion compulsory is a good way of turning people against it.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

One of the scariest things about Bush is that he's breaking down the barriers between Church and State that the Founding Fathers tried so hard to cement in place. I drove by a local church this afternoon, and they had a sign out front: Vote with God A Baptist Church in Knoxville had on their sign: Because of Bible teachings this church is voting for Bush -- I heard this morning that when Kerry told everyone this was a very important election, the Evangelicals and Fundamentalists took him seriously, and went out and voted--for Bush.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

A BBC reporter was saying that she thought it was his "Biblical" stance on social issues that had won Bush the election.

How odd to think of God casting a vote.

And what a queer idea of God they must have to form that thought.

Their God is such a nosey-parker, such a fuss-pot, such an incorribible meddler in other people's business.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Their God is such a nosey-parker, such a fuss-pot, such an incorribible meddler in other people's business.


I remember how the fundamentalists tried to get Pat Robertson of the 700 Club (God cable show) elected. I guess they are euphoric and smug today: God has heard their prayers. Now they can REALLY get their issues shoved down our throats: after all, God wants it. It's--like a miracle!

Talk was circulating this morning that, if the endtimes were indeed coming now that Bush has been elected, at least the annoying fundamentalists would leave with the Rapture and leave the rest of us (damned) Liberals alone.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The Rapture is such a silly idea.

I saw a film about it once. There were all these people wandering around with 666 tattooed on their wrists.

I remember the title of a book an English theologian published back in the 60s or 70s. "Your God is Too Small."

Not only too small, but too silly.