Posted on 12/21/2004 9:55:35 AM PST by St. Johann Tetzel
Maybe Minn. is part of France. It is a blue state.
Ordinarily, that would be the Right's loss.
The other fact that is apparently totally lost on you is that it's not the Left that is necessarily available to be "won over," but those who are undecided.
You must be a heck of an advocate for your Christian beliefs if you have no interest in winning over those who are opposed. Wouldn't you fault radical Islam for having that same attitude toward those who oppose their views?
Don't bother to answer that unless you have something THOUGHTFUL and INSIGHTFUL to say, please.
Personally, I have trouble with dogmatists of ANY stripe.
While you're content to defend the appeasers who populate the corner offices in corporate America. Conservative? You? Bah! You don't know the meaning of the word.
I have to confess: I read some of your posting history and I think it is YOU who do not understand not only the meaning of the term "conservative," but any of the significance of the whole struggle.
Something you have "perfected," however, is the "art" of sniping and taking potshots in every direction, almost at once.
Maybe it's your social life that is needing your attention: "Bah, humbug!!!"
Gotta run...places to go, things to do, people to see!
Merry Christmas, Old Cracker!
The other fact that is apparently totally lost on you is that it's not the Left that is necessarily available to be "won over," but those who are undecided.
It is wearisome to try and follow this meandering stream of consciousness. Let me know when you've made up your mind.
Why not enlighten me? What is the significance of the whole struggle?
I consider you to be a dogmatist; it may be impossible for you to be enlightened about any viewpoint but your own current one -- or at least not worth my effort as it appears you are primarily hostile and secondarily see "arguing" as debate and worthwhile, and it is neither debate nor worthwhile at the level at which you are accustomed to engage: name-calling, etc.
The struggle: is not casting aspersions on others with quick (though not quick-witted) answers, but honestly exploring differences until an understanding is reached that there is no point of conjunction (and why that is) or that there is a third understanding that may emerge for one or more parties.
Get it?
Sorry to borrow the term "dogma" from someone else's post; I was thinking the same thing but hadn't come up with the term at that point -- but it fits like a glove. More accurately, at least colloquially in the circles I move in, "doctrine" is the positive aspect of "dogma" -- and you, sir, are a dogmatist -- and good doctrine and dogma do NOT always occupy the same space.
But I may be coming dangerously close to "casting my pearls before swine" (to quote Someone Else and no offense meant).
I agree and the VFW gave Target a "heads up" that weighs BIG in my book.
Why hurt St. Judes? why hurt the many other worthwhile charities that Target does help? and why risk hard working Americans employed at the stores being fired or laid off due to these boycotts?
? Huh?
Sign me up for the movement. Government's role is not to subsidize broadcast ventures that can't make it in the real world.
Wal-Mart hasn't destroyed anything. The consumer has made Wal-Mart successful. That's who is supposed to make the decision.
LBQHTAS HYTEA RTRQW !! F..K
"Questioning" is short for "confused and gullible kids who are being actively recruited by paederasts into the 'gay lifestyle.'"
I'm with you.
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