Don Quixokie

excerpted from maddowblog: Jilly... the whole issue with religion and faith is that it is personal. Your relationship ( or not) with God is your own. As is mine. God is found in conciousness alone because this is a relative universe bound by space and time. An island in the eternal, infinite, and absolute that is the mind of God. The only place that those exist is in the hearts and minds of men. To go back to the cosmic watchmaker argument (for which **** is trying to find an organic analogue in the creation and structure of eyes) it doesn't matter whether or not it is found, no hand needs wind it...it just keeps ticking away. Did God create the universe, design the world? It doesn't matter. In the Bible, the Name of God is "I AM." Cogito ergo sum is only half right. Sum, what ever you cogito about it. Things ARE, life IS. Unarguable. That is the starting point. If you try to look any further back for first causes the way **** is, you might as well sit in a corner...

Don Quixokie Chi'ren chi'ren. You would think that because of Santorum's appeal to the Chistofascist segment population at the cost of demonizing the vast majority of Americans, you would THINK that he wouldn't have a snowball's chance right now. What everyone has forgotten is that the electoral, the participatory political process (oh Jesus, the alliteration!) has been chronically deformed since the Red Tide of 2010.

I dreamed that my wife and I were at a party and we were writing poems. Then we went to a park and heckled squirrels until they fell out of the trees, stunned by our taunting.

Excerpt from Newsvine thread samenslow Since I am experiencing the revolution in Egypt, I tend to follow American comments on events here. What is rather sad is the those who cry out over an Islamist takeover of Egypt are often the same people who favor America as a Christian nation. They refuse to see their reflection in the mirror of Middle East politics - just because they are using a different holy book. These religious movements, often tied to nationalism, are very dangerous to both the societies and to the religions involved. Imposes religion becomes religion of public ritual - not a matter of the heart or soul. It makes no difference if it is religious dogma or political dogma (communism) that is imposed. People adjust and learn to be great hypocrites. Human development and intellectual growth is stymied as all want to appear to fit the current orthodoxy. The major change of the 60's social revolution was not that we changed our behavior. We jus...