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Yo Karen
Posted by: Stuart Gort ( USA ) on July 19, 1999 at 19:24:19:
In Reply to: it was a question posted by Karen on July 16, 1999 at 21:00:04:
:: Oh, honey, never fear. I am hard to 'fluster'. Debating is entertaining to me. Good way to sharpen my arguing skills, LOL Comes in handy. You have your perceptions and I have mine. Quite often neither of us will be 'right'. That's why it works so much better when people put their heads together, gives a more complete picture. Being passionate and obstinate does not always make one clearer, this goes for me, you and everyone else. You insinuate too much. Who advances my ideologyy? Now I actually have an 'agenda' too? Boy, you and Stu, paranoia will destroy ya. Oy, did you have a mother? Was she kind? Was dad nice to her? If you are happy and content in life, which is ever so possible and free too(magic word, haha) Why would my 'agenda' matter? Why would my being a peaceful, caring person rain on your parade. Misery loves company I guess.People have agendas, Karen. Often the most horrid of them are hidden with calculated resplendence an implemented with emotional guile and deceit. Paranoia is an irrational fear of something which doesn't exist. Objective truth, however, is worthy of passion and obstinance. Objective truth, whatever it may be, if it may be, by definition will collide quite violently with all other agendas. If I may be so bold, I would say that I've stumbled across a few of these truths. One is that God exists, loves us, and gives us morality which shows us our need for Him. Another is that capitaism has created a vast and undeniable middle class as no other system has. If I become too preoccupied with my own happiness and contentment, while staring at my naval I may allow a thug to steal what little freedoms my sons may have in which to exercise their rigths to puruse these things. Or perhaps their freedoms will be lost slowly over time by the left constantly redefining happiness and contentment in their terms. I'm not saying exactly what your agenda is but I'm quite sure there are many agendas here that oppose my vision of happiness for my sons. Serious, to be sure, but I write this with, appropriately enough, Brahms' Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) on the stereo and a local microbrew aside the keyboard. I enjoy this immensely and I will miss it after democrats figure out how to tax it. Stuart Gort
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