Posted on 03/29/2005 12:27:06 PM PST by Aquinasfan
Felos clearly states that he hears voices in his head that tell him when someone wants to die this way
Thanks for posting this information. Felos is a fruit loop.
"Felos wrote about his ex-wife, "To her, I seemed unattractive, sexually unexciting, balding, boring, and just not enough fun to be with....she didn't need me anymore. For her, marriage to me inflicted a fate worse than death. She admitted that for the past year or so she had wished for my death, and whenever I flew hoped the plane would crash." (pg 7)"
Wow. Flame away, but I feel very sorry for the man right now.
Pain feeds on pain, and creates even more in its wake. This explains a lot.
Ever since Plato, utopian reformers have believed that given the child, they could produce a revolutionary cadre, and the interwar movements inspired a bumper crop of radicalized youth groups. Fascists celebrated their "Giovanezzi," "Hitler Jugend," or various Falangist copycats; the Soviets organized an elite "Comsomol;" even Socialists had their "Red Falcons." Not surprisingly, American Communists created the "Young Pioneers" (1926) and "International Workers Order Juniors" (1930). But, as Paul Mishler demonstrates, these were Communist youth with a difference; American Communists developed pluralistic aspirations and party auxiliaries, so that "Red Diaper Babies" reflected American reformism as much as Communist educational theory. Incisively and concisely, the author argues that in the United States the "Popular Front" mentality was in place even before Moscow authorized left-of-center collaboration to combat fascism. Ironically, due to their very recent arrival in America, indigenous Communists worked within the American milieu, and thus stood Red pedagogical theory on its head. Because communists were contributors and participants in New Deal era popular culture, communist youth were entertained as well as edified: a folksy time was had by all.
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During the 1920s American Communists' ideas about a youthful revolutionary cadre were shaped by orthodoxy inspired by the writings of Frederick Engels, August Bebel, John Spargo, and Grace Hutchins: cultivate childhood autonomy, separate children from parental authority, stress a generation gap, and incite youthful rejection of their elders' values. Their organizations should be a "Soviet of Children," bellwethers of Marxist critique and oppositionalism. Therefore, during the 1920s, children were asked to create their own cadre within public schools, to campaign for lunch programs, to oppose teachers' discipline, and to "correct" history curricula. The Communist Children's Movement also mobilized against "paramilitary" Boy and Girl Scouts as "capitalist tools." But by the 1930s, American Communist youth education had been reconceptualized, and the impulse was indigenous, predating Muscovite imperatives; during the "Popular Front," American Communist youth were bellwethers of Marxist enthicism and (to borrow a current shibboleth) family values. Catalyzed by their own experiences as well as the Depression and New Deal, leftist immigrants synthesized radicalism and second-generation culture, and aspired to a socialist democracy at once Marxist and Jeffersonian, pluralist, and integrationist. How they raised their children is the core of Mishler's pathbreaking study. | 2 |
Raising Reds is about afterschool programs and racially integrated summer camps, recreational activities borrowed from mainstream society, and civil libertarianism to distinguish cosmopolitan assimilationism from bourgeois nationalism (the "isms" are clearly explicated). Softball leagues, marching bands, even merit badges aped the Scouts. The range of activities revealed a diversity within American communism that belied outsiders' fears of a Red monolith: Communist-produced primers and readers celebrated both immigrant and native-born workingclass heroes (Mishler is the first to do a content and time-context analysis), afterschool programs and summer camps chose either to stress ethnicity (especially among Jews and Finns), interracial solidarity, or American folk culture and music as protest vehicles (Mishler provides an example in microcosm of each type). Above all, the various activities and auxiliaries taught respect for their parents' culture and past as well as contemporary struggles for economic, social, and racial justice. In Raising Reds, Mishler lucidly and convincingly elucidates the distinctive features of American Communist pedagogy, and the book would be an excellent monograph for college courses on education history and theory, as well as useful on American social history reading lists. |
Fecals is, er...Felos is a scatological minion of the anti-christ. As Rush said today, why the need for a candle, music, and stuffed animal in her room during the last hours if she is in a "vegetative state?" Pure evil, superficial drama. His actions and words are reminisence of the mentality of that group that committed suicide trying to hitch a ride with that comet wearing purple sweats and Nikes.
Right here. Badge and all.
Snytax too.
There's a tax on syn??
uh oh...
Nice try. Wrong.
Oh my God!
He is the spokesperson for the devil.
This IS a battle of good vs evil.
This guy is one mellon short of a load!
"Doesn't John Edwards say he channels children?
And Hillary claims to have channeled Eleanor Roosevelt...
And now Felos is channeling coma patients..."
Yeah, and Dan Rather has conversations with Ed Murrow's ghost. So this is why you won't see this in the main stream media. It's "natural" for those who are on higher planes.
His comments about the Holocaust are the icing on the cake.
This IS a battle of good vs evil.
If anyone still had any doubt, this should remove it. But it's amazing that so many people can't see it for what it is.
We take good popes for granted. There hasn't been a bad pope in the media age. I hate to imagine a bad pope in our day and age.
He looked so much more sane than the protestors that were coming unglued. It just goes to show that presentation is the deciding point for many people.
"We take good popes for granted. There hasn't been a bad pope in the media age.:
Indeed, no bad popes but many bad bishops and cardinals. It is a wonder (a miracle?) that the Church is as fortunate in its pontiffs as it has been. May the Lord continue to bless it with unwarranted grace.
Regards
Only a sadist or the most gullible dupe would believe someone starving to death is a beautiful thing to watch.
When describing the "cathartic releases" of "blocks of my unconscious past" from his body (20), Felos describes the process: "As these unprocessed experiences entered my throat, I often felt absolute, unimaginable terror-like I was being murdered, hacked to bits.
Years ago, a woman with whom I worked, who was a practitioner of zen buddhism, ... described dreams she was having which were just like this (i.e. being chopped to bits).
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