Oprah's Forced Disconnection

my crazy brain ^ | 10-22-16 | philman_36

[philman_36]

While I didn't intend to address religion so much on this thread it seems it is, perforce, a necessity now.

In the vein of a previous poster's observation, even these conversations can be divisive.

For we have been saved by grace through faith and this is not your own doing it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)

I'm of the mind that it all works together. "Let your light shine", as it were, through the way you live of your life and accept the sacrifice that was made by grace.

[tbw2]

People who think they have the right to censor your very word choice have no boundaries.

[uncitizen]

I bet Oprah was “encouraged” by obama to make this endorsement.

[philman_36]

People who think they have the right to censor your very word choice have no boundaries.

Are you declaring that I have indeed censored her words?
Say what you mean, don't couch your words.

Or have I simply pointed out that the ideas behind her words are wrong?

[philman_36]

I bet Oprah was “encouraged” by obama to make this endorsement.

That is always a possibility. Any number of people could have “encouraged” her to make her statements.

Either way, she is wrong, IMO, in her pronouncement.

[tbw2]

The liberals who think they have the right to censor word choice will not stop at your front door. The only freedom they support is sexual.

[uncitizen]

Yes she is wrong. I detected a tad of duress in her voice.

[philman_36]

It seems to me that liberals are more dedicated to repression than to freedom.

The only freedom they support is sexual.

For instance, the repression of sexual norms and the advancement/freedom of sexual perversions.

[philman_36]

Her body language is telling as well.

[Stentor]

What’s an Opra? Sounds like a brand of toilet plunger.

[philman_36]

What’s an Opra?

It's a number of things, apparently, including a misspelling of Oprah.
https://www.google.com/#q=opra

Sounds like a brand of toilet plunger.

https://www.google.com/#q=opra+brand+toilet+plunger
Didn't see one, but there are a lot of returns. {;^)

[butlerweave]

Oprah , the same Idiot that introduced you to Obama ,D’oh

[Vinnie]

Saw a short clip this AM of Oprah telling a audience ‘You don’t have to like her’.

[philman_36]

Oprah , the same Idiot that introduced you to Obama ,D’oh

Perhaps she introduced you to him, but Alan Keyes and the fickle Republican Establishment introduced me to him.

US Senate Race for Illinois - 2004

Imagine how different things would be today if the RNC had supported Keyes!

[philman_36]

Saw a short clip this AM of Oprah telling a audience ‘You don’t have to like her’.

The video I posted a link to has that in it along with the statement I addressed.

Did you watch it all?

[Twinkie]

“OKRAH” PUSHED OBAMA both times he was elected. Maybe OKRA
has grown tiresome now that women have seen her judgment
is not all that solid. The days of “living by every word
that proceeds from the mouth of Oprah” are hopefully over.

[tbw2]

Social justice warriors, the authoritarian left, are what CS Lewis warned us about - though his experience included religious authoritarians (Christians following Shariah's example) and Communist/totalitarian regimes that were pagan/state-worshiping. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C.S. Lewis

[philman_36]

The days of “living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Oprah” are hopefully over.

Hopefully. This wasn't the most...supportive...endorsement she's ever given.

[philman_36]

I'll see your C.S. Lewis and raise you a Samuel Adams...

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Never give up, never give in.

[Vinnie]

No, just the short clip. May have been the tease. All I could stomach.