I still don’t have much love for the Creationist movement, but this Ben Stein movie is hilarious. It, among other things, follows scientists who were blacklisted for being associated with “intelligent design.” It’s pretty well done. Made me laugh.
It’s fine for passive citizens whose allegiance is more or less irrelevant. If you were a functioning part of the framework –allegiance would be different. A soldier, for example, can’t question his orders. He must obey them, unless of course they are illegal. Our current climate nearly has solders requiring basic training in military law – with all the appeasement we’ve been attempting in Iraq when civilians get killed. Read more...(383 words, 2 images, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)
“Everyone would consider himself a patriot by Kevin’s definition, but though the definition sounds nice, it is functionally incomplete.” Read more...(161 words, 1 image, estimated 39 secs reading time)
This is a particular frustration for me: these new insincere definitions society is giving to words. We’re so comfortable and safefeeling that we can treat a word like Patriotism as an opinion indicator. We get to pretend we are pacifists – intellectually and morally superior to the ignoramuses who think war is ever needed – and associate hurt feelings to the word Patriot. Read more...(287 words, 1 image, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)
The problem I have with the word ”patriotism” is that it is inseparable from loyalty to ones country, and that (in general) it only comes into common use when we are at war. When we are at war, one is considered patriotic if one is willing to either go kill people for our country, or support those who go kill people for our country. Most wars in history (including those we have fought) are grossly immoral. Just read any book written by someone who served in WWI. As I said earlier, there were lots of great patriots in Nazi Germany. Read more...(162 words, 1 image, estimated 39 secs reading time)
I appreciate efforts to make positive comments. But holy horses ass don’t you hate being treated like you’re a stupid jerk who has no idea what’s happened in the past year? Read more...(782 words, 4 images, estimated 3:08 mins reading time)
There are plenty of words to describe an idiot who is in complete support of a regime, and usually names specific to regime. What would we call the soldiers right now deploying to Afghanistan who voted for McCain? They’re not patriots? Hell, most the soldiers I’ve had conversation with have a list of problems with the Administration (Clinton, Bush, or Obama) – or just don’t give a shit – but either way do their damn job. Read more...(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)
Honesty, I’ve bee mulling that (spending freeze) over for the past couple hours or so and I don’t know what to think. I’ve heard rumors Obama will talk about tax credits in the State of the Union Address too. I don’t know what to think. Read more...(351 words, 2 images, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)
Interesting. We each seem to nurse a different though similar definition of patriotism. Dr. Dove, I don’t think you strayed at all. Do I understand correctly that patriot for you equals someone in total agreement with the current powers that be? Read more...(276 words, 2 images, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)
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