This is becoming a shark feeding frenzy of Media demanding that I believe different versions of the demented beliefs. Which ever outlet I side with demands I become a believer. I am not Normal to begin with, otherwise I MIGHT actually take up arms and shoot at a target they suggest. Should I take a Gravol to control the vertigo as they spin me around, aiming at phantoms.
Hollande is strutting about like a shrunken , down sized de Gaulle after he nearly lost France to a Troop of Disgruntled Foreign Legionnaires from Algeria. al Jazeera wants me to believe that there is a war against all Muslims. CBC wants me to believe that the Muslims are about to attack the country. Wait we are in a deep freeze and any Arab set upon conquering Canada must contend with unimaginable Arctic Cold and if they want to rob a gas station on the way they will probably freeze to death in the dark. Hollande wants us to believe he is the reincarnation of de Gaulle or Vercingetorix. Kerry wants me to believe he speaks French. Putin probably wants me to believe he is Vladimir Monomahk the slayer of Turks. These tough-guys are not so crazy as the Media. They have remained silent for now. One Canadian media outlet is attacking our National Outlet , CBC, as cowards , yes they used the word correctly, who refused to show the Charlie Hebdo images on air( they were Blacked -Out). Maybe Oprah Winfry can get them to confess on prime time T.V. A Montreal journalist , has bared his chest ( but no soul was to be seen) and declared that CBC ordered him to self-censor out of fear. What a show. Actually the Russian media is being rather discreet, what a shock. No one has the wherewithal to post the price of oil or the disposition of ISIL and the Saudi invasions. vib I will snicker from my warm hovel in this cold blast. I am waiting for the much feared promised global warming to arrive. Just where is Al Gore now that I want to believe in his delusions? If I pick one belief will the others stop pestering me? No I guess it is more like an attack of Blackflies or mosquitoes. Perhaps Glen is correct "Beliefs don't kill people. People kill people" I might add "Believers have the right to kill non-believers". -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen Sent: January-08-15 7:24 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god On 01/08/2015 03:49 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Or that they are mentally ill and need `retraining'. But that takes > us down the road of recognizing the danger latent in faith, which I > don't think the US is close to doing. Exactly ... though it goes beyond just faith to any sort of psychological problem, I think. E.g. It's fine if you're deluded into believing, say, the "law of attraction" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_%28New_Thought%29> as long as you don't do things like rely on it to heal your children or somesuch. Beliefs don't kill people. People kill people. ;-) -- ⇔ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
