tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post5038276445658807760..comments2024-02-13T01:25:33.947-05:00Comments on The Gods Are Bored: On Clout, or the Lack ThereofAnne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15478513906953607043noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-89886412566409319782007-06-22T22:49:00.000-04:002007-06-22T22:49:00.000-04:00Hmmm... One could say the same thing about living ...Hmmm... One could say the same thing about living in community. Great idea, badly executed here in the US (where I was once told by a whole list of pagans that "community" is nothing more than people living in coincidental proximity). In my observation, bickering is worse in US groups than elsewhere -- and for one simple reason. We have confused several key concepts: "independence" with "isolation", "community" with "corporation", "duty" with "slavery", and "individual identity" with "ego". When we come to some clarity on these issues, perhaps we can learn to be individuals living cooperatively in community. And once we can do that, then we can think about "changing the world."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-87172540847628068212007-03-08T07:57:00.000-05:002007-03-08T07:57:00.000-05:00> In our country there is no God or gods, only cas...> In our country there is no God or gods, only cash.<BR/><BR/>You mean the Bored Gods: Plutus, Dis Pater, Mammon, etc.? One would think that they would get more direct recognition, seeing as how so many people worship them in all but name.<BR/><BR/>> Persistence will prevail.<BR/><BR/>That's what Sisyphus thought for the first 3,000 years or so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-1128139459868578172007-03-08T06:10:00.000-05:002007-03-08T06:10:00.000-05:00In our country there is no God or gods, only cash....In our country there is no God or gods, only cash. Power is money, money is power therefore money is god. The leaders have no interest in what is right or wrong for humans, only what nets the best return for the biggest players. I have said this many times in comments and blogging that the best educated minds are still doomed to make the same greedy mistakes in their leadership after studying eons of examples. It must be etched deep into the dna of every alpha human.<BR/><BR/>I will most likely vote third party as I always do (except for Kerry because I thought it was too important to get Bush Junior out) this time as well. Persistence will prevail.Tennessee Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754214529181108490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-77344593392340798802007-03-07T23:05:00.000-05:002007-03-07T23:05:00.000-05:00Democracy gives us the government we deserve. Just...Democracy gives us the government we deserve. Just saying.BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-64308493626604646032007-03-07T10:10:00.000-05:002007-03-07T10:10:00.000-05:00I was wondering if you were with the OBOD. I was ...I was wondering if you were with the OBOD. I was with them when I lived in the UK. That was pre-internet. <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure if the nature of neo-Pagan belief is condusive to unification. I have a feeling it would end up like all of the fractured sects of Baptists we have here in Appalachia, with everyone bickering about whose Goddess was better. <BR/><BR/>I love Al Gore. He actually was the Green Party candidate...we just didn't realize it at the time.Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10264435407129343604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-65996788148541637532007-03-07T08:35:00.000-05:002007-03-07T08:35:00.000-05:00I discourage voting for a third-party (like the Gr...I discourage voting for a third-party (like the Green Party). Voting for a third party doesn't convince the Democrats that they must become more liberal. It just tells them that you are unwilling to compromise at all, and if their platform is not 100% in line with your preferences, then you will not vote for them. Since they know that a 100% left platform will result in perpetual losses in national races, you have made yourself a non-entity in their eyes.<BR/><BR/>Vote far-left in the primaries, to show the party which way to turn, but hold your nose and vote for the centrist come election time. The alternative is more neo-cons (or worse).<BR/><BR/>Doesn't Nader's "There's no difference between Bush and Gore" line seem really, incredibly, abysmally stupid from our current vantage point?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-29851412604173518342007-03-06T22:12:00.000-05:002007-03-06T22:12:00.000-05:00BTWThat makes youPart of the problemIn trying to h...BTW<BR/><BR/>That makes you<BR/><BR/>Part of the problem<BR/><BR/>In trying to honor all these different things<BR/><BR/>Think about it.BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-56222137485246858152007-03-06T22:08:00.000-05:002007-03-06T22:08:00.000-05:00HumInterestingBut to have clout all the 'pagans' h...Hum<BR/><BR/>Interesting<BR/><BR/>But to have clout all the 'pagans' have to band together.<BR/><BR/>Na, that won't work either.<BR/><BR/>They have as many different views as the stupid christians and muslims. <BR/><BR/>Give up, all is lost. Just enjoy the rest of your life the best you can.BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.com