Posted on 12/20/2005 9:55:48 PM PST by Good Ole Paul
Edited on 12/20/2005 10:19:57 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
An intergalactic anthropologist visiting one nation on this off-the-beaten-path planet might draw some amazing conclusions. He (or it, or whatever) might conclude that many of the natives are members of a "White Deer Clan," as numerous illuminated electric likenesses of white deer have been erected in yards and on municipal properties. He might alternatively conclude that the indigenous population consists of devotees to some weird "Cargo Cult," where a gaudily-dressed demigod descends from above and distributes gifts to True Believers. He might conclude that this country worships the changing of the seasons, as everyone says "Seasons Greetings" to each other and symbolic snowflakes are hung on lampposts.
This off-world anthropologist would certainly see that the natives have an inborn drive to worship SOMETHING, but he would conclude that they are still primitive, ignorant savages who worship meaningless icons; barbarians who haven't yet progressed to the celebration of that great universal principle, "Love Your Neighbor;" pagans who ignore the Great Teacher who once walked amongst them. As he puts this poor little world in his rear view mirror, he might say a prayer for the soul of a nation that is so obviously hungering for Truth, yet still insists on worshiping tripe.
Didn't think about...I looked it up and it's field...
It is very fishy.
Now that is worth posting.
Or he might land at the Carnegie Deli and conclude that these dudes make one AWESOME pastrami sandwich.
Aha! The plot thickens!
Don't forget to add the misspelling of Christmassssssss to that list!
Crawling out of the woodwork today, it seems.
Maybe our ET would land in Billings and conclude that all libertarians are blue.
You other posters are all nuts. There's a lot of food for thought in this. You know, I never before read a drunken liberal critique of Christmas that said some hypothetical alien would find some human behavior peculiar. This is REALLY eye-opening. I'm seeing things in a whole new way. What a truly original, insightful message. You coming here to FR has really, really made an impact. In fact, your post will probably start reversing that silly "Merry Christmas" trend. Great work!
Favors must stop
Congress wants to close the final free speech loophole left by its earlier campaign finance reform emasculation of the First Amendment. Rather than answer the 527 organizations, politicians want to shut them down.
There is a simple solution to the problem of campaign finance excesses which would also solve budget deficits, high taxes and general corruption and until this single, simple solution is adopted, we will never really fix any of these problems.
We must reduce the number of favors government hands out. As long as government takes one persons money and gives it to another, makes rules benefiting one group over another, or issues contracts enriching some people with taxes collected from others, then people will continue to buy influence, politicians will continue to sell votes, and special interest groups will continue to manipulate laws, budgets and media. Citizens not only get stuck footing the bills, but they also get pitted against each other.
And as long as government has favors to distribute, there will be competition for those favors.
Paul Broshear
Mary Esther, Florida
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:VelGFv1cox0J:americasnewspaper.com/letters.shtml+Paul+Broshear&hl=en
NO WAY did the same Paul Broshear write the above LTE in the Washington Times as the missive about spacemen and Chistmass. It is Ray Sansom.
And an "r".
Say, Good Ole Paul, one would like to know why it is okay to bash Christian traditions and question the relevance to the religion.
One does not seem to hear the same protestations regarding Islamic traditions and whether they are scripturally sound.
But I am sure that atheists and people of other religons alike partake of the charitable Christmas giving.
LOL! Now THAT's pithy.
I need a monitor cleaning. I've never seen a blue libertarian before.
IB4TZ ?
What are you, a pirate? Okay, and an arrrr to you, too!
Troll; or a kid.
Yea, but that's almost directly out of Ayn Rand's "The Pull Peddlers," so just about anyone could have cut and pasted it.
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