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Flying Spaghetti Monster to star at American Academy of Religion - Boing BoingThe Flying Spaghetti Monster will be discussed at the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting
The title: "Evolutionary Controversy and a Side of Pasta: The Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Subversive Function of Religious Parody."- Bush Death Watch: Countdown! / It's official: Less than one year until history slaps Dubya to the curb. Can you feel the tingle?
It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential election. It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep breath and flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody, Cheney-punched mouth and lets it be known to the world, to the universe, to its own numb and dejected soul just exactly how unwell it has felt, how much pain has raked its heart, lo, these past seven (eight, by then) years, by ushering in an entirely new political era, as we all exhale a massive sigh of long overdue relief that — praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha and the devil all at once — the long national nightmare of George W. Bush is finally over.
It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to actually dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will begin packing his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the world coloring book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a "Mission Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny as one of the bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of American history. - Comment is free: Mind your manners
I confess to a certain mischievous pleasure in provoking the more hysterical among them on the question of religion. My responders here on this subject consist of the same rather small coterie of defenders of the faiths, all but a couple of them luminous examples ("by their fruits ye shall know them") of the virtues and charity of what they profess; for anonymously they eject their streams of ad hominem bile, reminding one of what TH Huxley once wrote to Darwin about criticising ecclesiastics: they are like pigs, said Huxley, who all squeal together when one of them is poked. Faith's defenders on Cif are such that when the ideas they subscribe to are attacked, they attack the person who attacked their ideas; to small minds, a fair exchange.
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There is a link to the CNN story at the site about the FSM you mentioned.
It is worth reading to the last line. Very funny.
There is also involuntary humor in that the article calls the FSM a "pseudo-deity". As if there were such a thing as a real deity.
"TH Huxley once wrote to Darwin about criticising ecclesiastics: they are like pigs, said Huxley, who all squeal together when one of them is poked. Faith's defenders on Cif are such that when the ideas they subscribe to are attacked, they attack the person who attacked their ideas; to small minds, a fair exchange."
Unenthused. This is true of all in-group biased thinking. Let's not be small-minded enough to assume it true for only our adversaries.
That article about looking forward to Bush's departure from office seems very premature to me and really not grounds for any sort of excitement. That means we have to put up with the man for another year. History will judge all that we did not do to remove him from office. While I'm sure many of you hve been very active in attempting to assure his impeachment, history will note that a President who has shat all over the Constitution remained in office two full terms if he does remain. As John Edwards said about making George Bush veto Iraq funding bill, if we were most committed, we would, if an impeachment bill or movement had been rejected, we should immediately re-submit. There's still any number of catastrophes which could occur in W's last year and which you can be sure W will capitalize on to further pare down our rights.
".....in less than one year's time, Dubya will begin packing his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the world coloring book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution...."
You forgot to mention that his destination is likely to be an extradition proof (dare we hope for rendition?)hideaway to be provided by his Saudi / UAE best buddies. And I doubt that Bush even has, mangled or otherwise, a copy of the constitution as there were never any that I've heard of that had pictures to color in. If there really was an overseeing spirit that was in control of irony, "W" and Laura would be run over in a crosswalk by a drunken librarian, and their huge cash influx was pissed away by the twins, or even more to the point, given to charities to feed the poor and / or homeless.
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Why are people counting down to when he leaves? He needs to go now before does any further damage to the country.
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