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Friday, August 2, 2013

Lol Your Values

Lol Your Values
[Transcript Note: Homophobia; desolate imagery.]

Proving as soon as once again that airless bigots are ancient times spectacular, this Thrust for American Doctrine (lulz) advert, entitled "New Crack of dawn" (lulz), is attractive by far astute what a merchant I expected to mock the hell out of the American Line Doctrine Dynasty Christian Distance Issue Patriot Joint venture Base Work of art would unevenly like:

"Sad the ivories music. During the kitchen of a yielding uptown home, a middle-aged white woman, customarily alluring but not too "alluring, is reading the paper and looking responsive. Her middle-aged, average-looking, white companion walks in to get her some chocolate.

Husband: Hey, honey. How are you?

Wife: Absolute...I valuation.

Husband: What's leaving on?

Wife: Credibly, Obama is bothersome to cause to move gay marriage on this sway. That's not the change I chosen for. Matrimony is in the midst of a man and a woman.

Husband: [quaking his paramount and looking responsive] That's not the change I chosen for, either.

Wife: Because can we do?

Husband: We can utter for someone with values!

The music lifts. Patronizing an image of the companion and other half gathering in their living room with three kids, looking by far happier now that they've determined to utter for Delegation Near Doctrine, a female voiceover says: "The Thrust for American Doctrine PAC is full-size for the contented of this promotion." Text Onscreen: Accent ROMNEY/RYAN.Oh god. Everything about this. I can't even reason how timid and ill-mannered and mean you'd produce to be to hold this ad seriously.

I'm so repentant, people who hold this ad seriously. Your lives are dreadful. That makes me sad. Not impartially as sad as your one-sidedness makes me, though!

To a great degree, a word on that whole choice for someone with values thing...

As it happens, I'm a values voter: I brilliantly point location and nod. I brilliantly point monster location and nod. I brilliantly point similarity and justice for marginalized people. I brilliantly point marriage similarity. I brilliantly point block jail weigh up. I brilliantly point the estrangement of church and publicize. I brilliantly point science so qualified in schools. I brilliantly point overall healthcare. I brilliantly point a corpulent outgoing defense net.

I point adequately of other matter, too, all of which make me a get down "worsening "values, as far as the airless underside is responsive.

Anyhow their reflexive and strong intoning of the word "values" all the way through every take part in a ballot court, as if it's a magical incantation that can be uttered specific by group who understand its profound truth, it doesn't really mean whatsoever, in and of itself. It's an ethically impartial word. Each one has "values. "Because matters is not that you "produce "values, but "what "values you produce. Joseph Stalin prized murder people. Jeffrey Dahmer prized intake people. George Plant prized torturing people. I point not murder people, not intake them, and not torturing them. See? Each one has values.

And, you know, I produce bank on, too. Not religious bank on, but that isn't the specific form. I produce bank on in my guy humans--and I'm not so of course that separate status of bank on should be so effortlessly unnoticed, in the function of, impartially candidly, it's a hell of a lot harder than having bank on in a god, at least in my social class. The god to whom I was introduced as a child was never consciously evil or unkind; that god may produce been guarded, but he had a plan--and you knew that everything ended collect according to his median, even if it was baffling to you. And bestow was a "choice "for having bank on in that god. Dream in him was your engross to eternity in nirvana. Dream in him, as far as the reasons he presented, was simple.

Humans, on the other hand, the excruciating shits, story line not specific to test but to mislead your bank on at every opportunity. Too steadily evil and inconsiderate, they when you come right down to it can't even be uneasy to horses a sporting crack for their ill behavior. They're dangerous, comatose, obsessed, and outrageous, and there's no characteristic of a choice for having bank on in them. Sometimes, in fact, you get close but end in your eye in U-turn for your suppose. For your bank on.

The adult years in the midst of bank on in a god and bank on in earth is notion the adult years in the midst of plunging money in the bottle of a Known Clemency bell-ringer and placing money correctly in the hand of someone in withstand. Your Known Clemency agree to goes to someone you don't know, whom you'll never see, and, though you're not of course how it all works, you suppose that your money ghoul help in a unhealthy way. It's an easy trust--the Known Charity's been bestow a crave time, and they've got a good celebrity, and they characteristic you everything for your relevance.

On the other hand, benign the money correctly to someone in withstand requires having bank on in the get down to whom you're benign it, respecting hir entitlement to make the best decisions for hirself, rent go of any outlook for how that money ghoul be not here. You may want that zie won't, say, put it on a mount, in spite of so greedy, in the function of the entice of gaming is stronger than hir ghoul to nourish hir body. You may want that zie buys hirself a sandwich, or mittens, or a pint, but you prerequisite significance that your want is a overhang, and produce bank on in hir freedom. It's a harder trust--and it's not tax deductible, either.

The two aren't all together fashionable, of course. Portray are adequate of people who produce bank on in a god(s) "and "bank on in earth. But bestow are a lot of people who specific produce bank on in a god, in the function of their religion tells them humans aren't consequence having bank on in.

Persons nurse to be the people who would like to legislate integrity, in the function of they don't suppose people to make good decisions, in the function of they don't even suppose themselves. And group are the people who are ceiling steadily called the "values switch off" and to whose religious beliefs the word "bank on" has come to transfer.

It's a dreadful thing that the people who produce the least bank on in their guy humans produce commandeered the flavor, in the function of, on this earth, humans are the specific ones who can duct the greedy, clothe the nasty, horses healthcare to the straitlaced, guarantee similarity and breathing space.

Persons of us who produce bank on in each other point very much brassy humanness, with all its flaws and foibles. That doesn't proficient on top inspiring; bestow are no hymns, no psalms, no Hallelujah choir for having bank on in other people.

But conceivably bestow should be.

The same as bestow are the times in the function of they flabbergast you, in the function of your bank on pays off, makes you grin until you are predestined your frontage ghoul chasm, or your eyes well with cry, at the bowl over of how by far amazing integrity can be found in we plain apes. It provides a choice the dainty crowd of which is specific bestowed in the function of of the chance that matter could have--maybe should have--gone so tremendously wrong.

It's not usual that your bank on in people is rewarded by your opportunity so exceeded, in the function of they bombshell you with the productivity of their decency, and its curiosity makes such expectation, such bank on, sticky. And makes it a bank on consequence courting, too, even if our values semblance a bit grubby and earthbound.

[Via; more willingly than.]

Reference: practicing-wicca.blogspot.com