August 2011
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Nation's Top Climate Scientist, 140 Others Arrested at White House →
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“NASA’s Dr. James Hansen, perhaps our nation’s preeminent climate scientist, was arrested with over 140 others at the White House today. Scientists, environmentalists, farmers, students, and other concerned citizens were gathered in the nation’s capitolto protest the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that threatens to ruin many pristine habitats and spell certain disaster for the global climate system. Their stirring acts of civil disobedience made for yet another dramatic day in the series of scheduled protests that continue to put pressure on President Barack Obama to cancel the 1,700 pipeline.”
*rubs eyes* I really shouldn’t be allowed to research philosophy. In the past 24 hours, I’ve gone from holding up a comforter and screaming “WHY WOULD A 22 YEAR OLD PEE ON MY BED?!” to holding my chin in my hand while stroking the length of my gray beard with the other, simply questioning “Why?”
"Good" War
He died in the fertile fields
Making small advances on an endless spectrum
While his country watched reality on TV
They said it was meant to be this way
As the flag was folded
His torn body laid to rest in peace
The War on Terror, it was a Bait and Switch
He met the call, then they pulled the switch
One hero per kilo, that’s the cost now
No, he wasn’t martyred in some hero’s fight, for liberty or whatever
No, it was the President’s brother, the heroin smuggler
He was protecting him
This is the good war, right?
Yeah, this is the good war
His buddy’s still there, a piece of him died too
And he carries that burden around with him
Like a sack of shit welded to his heavy, broken heart
He knows his number’s just a random one
If they just so happen to hit his truck
You know it all comes down to luck
Maybe quick thinking
Pills and artificial limbs
This is the good war, right?
Yeah, this is the good war
They caught Bin Laden the other day
And the country’s frat boys celebrated in blissful ignorance
They’ll probably never feel the pain,
But they’ll proudly fan the flames
This is why they hate us
We don’t learn shit
Four million refugees
Tens of thousands dead
We made our mark on this beautiful country
And in propping warlords up from the most violent extremes
To build a “new” Afghanistan
We killed the country’s dreamsThis is the good war, right?
Yeah, this is the good war
And the ones with missing limbs
And broken minds
It’s not a TV show for them,
They’re in it for a lifetime
The good war
Right?
How Could You Worship That God?
So a while ago I asked someone how they could worship a God that sends most people, including many of their loved ones, to hell. She just recently came back with an answer from her Pastor or Priest (I forget which it was, hell maybe it was something else Idk, maybe she talks to the Pope on a regular basis, it really doesn’t fucking matter). The answer was that it saddens her that that happens and if she was God she would let them in, but she doesn’t expect God to do so for her or her loved ones benefit. The following is what I couldn’t find the nerve to say:
I have to say, that answer is a total piece of shit, and putting it any less vulgarly than that just doesn’t feel right to me.
The point of that question isn’t to ask if you are saddened by it happening or if you pity the people being sent to hell; No, the question is what is it, “how can you worship a God that does that to anyone you care about?” Sure, it’s nice to say that you would let your loved ones in if you had the choice, but that’s not the question. Why would you WORSHIP and PRAISE a God who hurts the people you care about? Are you really that entrenched in your beliefs that you are willing to accept your loved ones being tortured forever if it is being done by your “all-loving” deity? The only alternative I can see is even uglier, and that’s just that you don’t care about your loved ones all that much. I’ll tell you why I have such a hard time comprehending this: if I believed in the Christian God then I have to accept the notion that he’s burning and torturing my father in hell FOREVER and I’m not okay with that. I would have to accept that most of my friends will meet the same fate. That’s not okay by me either. I would not be willing to worship him, I’d call him a monster, I’d call him a tyrant, and I most certainly would NEVER willingly bow my head to him.
When I ask that question I’m not trying to change your mind, I’m not trying to make you become an atheist like me. I’m trying to understand how you could praise a being who feels the need to torture a good portion of your loved ones for all of eternity. I’m trying to understand why it is that you would love rather than hate such a being and most of all I’m trying to find an alternative to the two theories that I outlines above because quite frankly I don’t want to see you as either brainwashed and lacking in the questioning of your ideas or cold and callous.
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This Rant is Not Very Focused; Oh Well
So remember when that tea partier flew a plane into an IRS building in Houston Texas? There is a certain word that wasn’t used to describe him. Remember when those white christian terrorists in the Michigan Hutaree militia were arrested for stashing homemade bombs? That word again, wasn’t applied to them in the media. Yet not only are animal rights activists labeled terrorists by the media but they even get an Act named after them; It’s called the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.
There’s a good example of real media bias. Pay attention and stop whining about it leaning slightly to one side of the spectrum that has been pre-defined as rational debate and start questioning the basis of the spectrum itself and what its very existence says about bias in the media.
