“It is all the more real today when the collectivity tends more and more to swallow up the person in its shapeless and faceless mass.” 

“escape into the great formless sea of irresponsibility which is the crowd” (56)

“very often it is the solitary who has the most to say…what he says is new, substantial, unique.  It is his own. 

…

“only immersion in the general meaninglessness of countless slogans and clichés repeated over and over again so that in the end one listens without hearing and responds without thinking.”  (57)

I'm on the job hunt!

hey thanks Danelle, I like what you have to say about this.  I guess I've got some catching up to do with getting in the loop - I've tried to stay completely out of politics for so long, I'm guilty of giving my opinion too quickly like so many others.  There are so many sides to everything - good and bad.  Its probably fair to say the war can't be considered black or white. 

I  would like to hear more people's thoughts about this.

I used to believe that the Kingdom of God transcends all earthly realms of power.  So why worry, for example, who's president.  I still believe that God has complete control of the Universe, but that doesn't mean its best to wink at corrupt systems of power. 

Politics

This subject has been coming up a lot lately.  When I say a lot, I mean, I don't touch the stuff with a ten foot pole, and this month  I've had several conversations about it - with different people.  Strange. 

I've realized that I'm not as apathetic as I used to be.  I do have an opinion about what's going on in the world, and that opinion has been fueled by my faith.

so I've got an itch to say a few things. 

To begin with, fi you are under the assumption that Bush is a Christian, at the very least, the evidence points to mass failure on his part.  The number one principle Jesus taught in scripture was love.  The biblical Christain response (I say biblical because we can't measure up all the time) to the twin towers, or in dealing with Sadaam, or any other issue of war or terror, is far more powerful than what our country is exercising.  Overcoming evil is like fighting a fire.  You can't fight fire with fire, you have to use something of a completely different substance. 

In my idealism, I picture the war this way:  What if we had spent those trillions of dollors on overcoming the poverty of the countries that hate us.  What if we went into Iraq and built them wells and schools and fed them.  "Its rather difficult to bomb the people who are helping you." (that I got from Rob Bell)  The war would have costed billions instead of trillions - less people would have died - and the threat on our country would have dissipated over time.

I digress.

So lets not try and make Bush out to be Christian - let that between him and God, and lets not make politics about Christianity until politics and actual Christian principles begin to collide.  

I could go on much longer about many other things, but I'll save some for later.  By the way, please respond, especially if you disagree, I'm open to hearing the other side of things.

make that $1,000.00 in damages,

half for the accident

half for the leak before the accident

Mood:  I am feeling rather that life sucks at the moment