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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 29, 2023 10:02:25 GMT -8
I couldn't agree more.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 29, 2023 10:55:41 GMT -8
I'm not a violent person. But that's when I would dispense a thumping….verbally at the very least.
You're not "worried," per se. You know for a fact that this is the case. As noted in a recent post, government does a horrible job "helping" because their "help" is not driven by need but by politics.
If the politicians weren't such scumbags (and the people who voted for them had even an ounce of honesty and nobility in them), there would be ample resources to help the handicapped.
Listen, I get hot under the collar about all this because the entire "social welfare" state is based on a lie. And the voters partake in this lie as well. Maybe it's the best we can do. But I seriously doubt it. We're just fat, lazy, selfish, and stupid.
I've had this conversation with those who support or even use drugs. "Don't you know that you're supporting a whole dark underworld of harm and suffering?" They don't care. Noble people are scarce.
I have a Catholic friend who believes that God forever preserves every good moment. That would be one gigantic thumb drive. But I suppose He could do it.
There is this "Hallmark Greeting card" saccharine idea often heard in our one-dimensional consumer culture that "Acts of good reverberate through time and are never lost." Well, that's a nice thought. And, indeed, acts of goodness do indeed tend to percolate through the society, at least for a while.
But these (to my ear) vapid sayings are given as an alternative theory to immortality or everlasting life. I say one or the other, but don't insult me with your stupid Hallmark sayings, product of the cringe-worthy "nice" people among us.
I hope William is in God's arms. I don't hope in some stupid Star Trek way that "As long as we remember him, he will live." There's much to be said for remembrance. But that is a notion, too, as used today that has been Hallmarked into a cultural inanity.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 29, 2023 11:17:25 GMT -8
I like everything you said, Herr Artler.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 29, 2023 11:21:02 GMT -8
You are correct. I recall having a conversation with a left-wing mother whose child is severely effected by autism. She is a big supporter of open borders, expanding the number of people who receive government help and such. After she finished her bit, I said something like, "You do realize that giving all that money to people who don't really need it is burning up money which your son and Kung Jr. will need?"
I don't remember that she was particularly worried about it as, like most, she thinks the government has endless funds. I worry because I know it doesn't and when the money runs out, it is the "useless" mouths which will be the first to suffer.
I am not so sure. In any case, my last memory of William saddens me. I am not so sure it is a good moment. It is now leading me to places which concern Kung Jr. and for which there are no easy solutions/ answers.
I also always thought the observation, "he will always be alive as long as someone thinks about him" to be nonsense. Some people still think about Charlemagne, but he has been dead over 1,200 years.
I understand people have difficulty with death. It is the great unknown, thus frightening. But moderns have become increasingly distanced from it, although it is still going to get us all. I particularly dislike the term, "he passed" as opposed to "he died." Like much in America, euphemism is substituted for clarity. Does saying someone passed make them less dead? Saying William "passed" doesn't make his death any less violent and sad.
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