Brad, get used to it. Obscenity is the name of the game, though no one who uses it or benefits from it would call it that. However, it does make one wonder where the world is going and how fast it will get there. Rich and powerful countries behaving like rogue states (though calling others that) terrorize and destroy poor ones on trumped up grounds of harbouring terror and possessing weapons of mass destruction. People in positions of trust and power with large corporations cheat and steal from those who trust them. Even that icon of pathological perfection, Martha Stewart, is suspect of being villanous. And now the huge media conglomerates whose role is to persuade us to buy and consume while pretending to entertain us have acquired even more power to do these things by taking public officials to bed with them. See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/05/opinion/05HERB.html?th Compared with everyone else, Madonna is the least offensive pretender. At least she is open about what she is pretending to be. Ed Weick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "futurework" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:53 PM Subject: [Futurework] The ultimate praying machine.... > > http://www.bmw.com.sa/Products/automobiles/7/ > > Note the first image (or maybe it's the > second image...), which I have screen-captured in > case you have trouble seeing it: > > http://www.users.cloud9.net/~lcp/bmw_sa2.gif > > They have a model, the L-7, which has special luxury > features and is not, I believe, available in our > oil-importing nation. > > Somehow it seems to me that this is as obscene > as America having a titillating > pop singer who calls herself The Mother of God (Madonna). > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
