Re: oh, what a beautiful mourning!
jordie chambers (jordiekc@rocketmail.com)
Thu, 03 Jun 1999 23:42:16 -0700 (PDT)
The urge to scrap and scrabble makes me want to believe
I'm one of 'the two'. Please let me be one of 'the two'.
---Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote:
>
>
> Come over here, Camille, & sit beside me - help me
> scowl at those two hilarious lads while they instruct
> us in the New, Bright, All-American way of Death.
> (The variety currently being practised in the skies
over
> Serbia.) If you bring your Australian solemnity
> it should go very nicely with my Scots Presbyterian
> self-righteousness. Talk about distusting paties.
> We'll show 'em.
>
> Incidentally, I *knew* I must have been mistaken
> about that hoedown commemorating Thor's divorce.
> What we'd been led to believe was a real hoot
> was evidently an EXTREMELY decorous gathering
> with bon mots being gently tossed around like
> petit fours & thin slices of weltschmerz served
> on Dresden plates.
>
> Scottie B.
>
Wow, your prose is wonderful. I missed your point though,
especially the connection between the 'New Way' and fire
bombing Dresden. Bush and others talked about a New World
Order that scared the life out of many people. If you
mean skepticism is a trend, take a look at any of the
Greek philosophers and the collected attitudes would judge
and call you foolish for that belief. Socrates died
because of that belief because conservative 'presbytarian'
type people are scared of change. That's not to say that
skeptics are the key to positive change. Skepticism
didn't prevent the manufacture of DDT and it still won't,
it's manufactured in the third world for it's inexpensive
and powerful applications. Skepticism can't prevent the
mutation of children in these agricultural areas. Neither
can you, whatever your starch collared presbytarianism
will allow you to face. You don't have a point Scottie,
and you're the one slurping in the weltschmerz trough.
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