[lit-ideas] Re: God loves a good laugh as much as anyone!
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:12:08 -0500
I'm very glad to see that Andy has not moderated her misanthropy in my absence.
She is the star to every wandering bark. And though she apparently sees the
pursuit of perfection as not only attainable, but is unforgiving in that we're
not perfect yet. If only everyone would think as she does! But where she sees
nothing but sameness in human history, I see enormous changes. I won't go
through the catalog, we all know them. Let me just say that on reading the last
sentence of the report, the fact that I burst into laughter tells me that we
have moved well beyond the self-defeating, moronic beliefs of those killers.
Humor is not only the best medicine, it's also the worst put down.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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From: Andy
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:13 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: God loves a good laugh as much as anyone!
Sounds like the people are zombified and in trance states. Pretty much
the norm throughout history. Not so different than stoning someone to death or
when during Elizabethan times it was customary to bribe the executor with the
Ax to make it quick. Likewise the Romans (whom we like to think we resemble)
threw people to lions and watched them get torn to pieces for entertainment;
crucifixions, Vikings accused each other of being baby lovers if they refused
to toss babies in the air and spear them. Abu Ghraib, Mi Lai (which was not an
isolated incident); serial killers get fan mail and marriage proposals in
prison by the boxful, and on and on and on. One has to wonder if God is shut
down too. We're created in his image...
--- On Sat, 6/28/08, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] God loves a good laugh as much as anyone!
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 2:47 AM
"Whoever, for the sake of money, for the sake of America, harms the
interest of the Islamic world will meet the same fate," Rehman said.
Gunmen with daggers then pounced on one of the men -- identified as
Jan Wali, 36 -- decapitated him and waved his bloody head to the cheering
crowd, according to an Associated Press reporter and AP Television News footage.
The militants then argued over how to kill the other man because he
may have been a teenager, before one lost patience and shot him with an assault
rifle.
The crowd erupted in cheers of "God is great!" and gunmen fired in
the air in jubilation. The celebratory gunfire killed two bystanders and
wounded six, local official Fazal Rabbi said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/368769_pakistan28.html
Mike Geary
Memphis
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