If your definition of "self evaluators"
I got on a self elevator once and was alone with this beautiful, built, very sexy dressed woman. She gave me this real slutty look, hit the stop elevator button between floors, then walked towards me and bent over and starte......what...OH,,,self EVALUATORS! OK never mind!
No seriously, since Tie brought up Rev. Wright and I'll go to the video Tie posted of his infamous sermon. Preachers like lots of various public speakers will use hyperbole with crescendo to bring the listener to a peak point and then used this the drop down and make a deeper point for the listener to consider. Wright did the same but after he built up to his "Chickens home to roost" he used this and the upset of the previous weeks events to say to everyone to take a look at yourself. Be willing to examine yourself and don't be afraid to do so. The message of Jesus also equally sez the same thing and yeah it's not pleasant at times doing so.
Would anyone here, especially those who proclaim the christian faith dare decry me as some unAmerican if I point out in Matthew 26 where Jesus told Peter, "those who live by the sword will die by the sword." I know in context to the situation at the time in which these words were uttered but think of the greater logic here. Does the bully not eventually go down? Even age will make an old man of him and then what becomes of him when he faces a younger and stronger man? Remember Hollywood and the aging gunfighter who either tires of the life of aggression and wants to get away from it or continues until he meets a younger and faster gun and the lifeless body of the old gunfighter lay in the street proving Jesus' point perfectly. Or what if the crowd tires of the bully and faces him down. What are political revolutions? Using a broader context of Jesus words, how do we use the sword and at what peril to ourselves?
I'm not even a self professing christian (although I marvel at Jesus' wisdom and lessons) and I clearly heard Wright's ultimate point and yeah it wasn't comfortable but when is self examination comfortable? Is it comfortable for the sinner to examine himself to the teaching of Jesus and would anyone dare call him a traitor other than another sinner? Going back to the wise point and observation made by Jesus to Peter before being taken away by the Romans, I do see his point from a philosophical POV in a much greater context and thus the reason I marvel at him and thus I grasped the
non-aggression beliefs of libertarian/anarchist ideals.
Also because someone criticizes a gov't policy does not in any way mean they hate America. I contend that America and the gov't which dominates it are 2 very separate things entirely and if people truly had any real choice at all and with all the facts in hand, what America would be and what the gov't is would be so obvious, it would be equal to the difference between Jesus and Satan himself and IMHO I'm not using HYPERBOLE either, that is what I think of our gov't!
I think D is dead on the money about a sleeping giant of self evaluators in this country and more and more of them are starting the stir. Like D finding some measure of truth in Ron Paul, so too have I with the likes of say Dennis Kucinich or Ralph Nader although we disagree on so much. The fact is, the walls built by political operatives and vested interests otherwise known as left and right are starting to crack and crumble and none to soon IMO either. Even President Bush wasn't wrong all the time and same true of Obama. I applaud his stand on marijuana and lessening the drug war effect it could have and I applauded his early openings to Iran but this window seems to have closed at this point. But of equal measure neither is Ron Paul always right. But where Ron, Dennis, Ralph have faults, they at least have shown a sincerity and aren't out with evil or self serving intent like so many others are on both sides of the oligarchiacal political isle. The biggest reason Social Security is bad is that Congress used the money as some type of slush fund instead of making a locked away piggy bank and I've no doubt they will manipulate healthcare just as well. Their word is no good with me.
But the only way to move past that oligarchy is the courage to self examine, question and yes even challenge the status quo. Doing this will require self evaluation and national evaluation and it won't be pleasant, it won't be comfortable. But if we don't and continue course, where will we end up?
jmo.
BTW D, what websites you been visiting?
We will have the same result --the bomb does not go off --should Jack Bauer "interview" the bomber ???
