Posted on 09/08/2015 2:47:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I categorically refuse to be part of your 'us' or your 'shame.' If you were on my property right now, I would chase you off as fast as I would chase off a communist, and probably hit you with a stick more times in the process - because anyone on this site sincerely - should know better.
I've stopped myself numerous times in the past from clicking 'post' after starting a similar response to similar calls for 'us' to be 'ashamed.' Speak for yourself.
Let me state as an individual human created by God and dropped on this orb, self evidently free: DO NOT EVER include me in your personal 'we' or 'us,' especially when expressing your personal and irrational shame and self-negativity.
It is philosophically and morally more sickening than the actions of those who actually are the agents of what's going on today in this country. I can be responsible (able to respond) to the patently stupid and evil choices of those around me, but I am not accountable for their sins and will never take on the shame due them, as you seem to, nor spread it by passive inference to those listening to me or reading me by the use of the collective 'we/us'
I don't mean to be harsh, maybe reflect if you've been partially hypnotized by the collective evil scum we're exposed to every day in the media and the world ("The World" as Jesus called it") around us: to call oneself a free man and individual and simultaneously accept shame for the actions of others, or your inability to prevent them from taking those actions, is as much a denial of the sanctity of individual freedom, will and agency as it is to take it away from a man by jailing him for nothing, or taxing him to death for the sin of being more successful.
You can have your shame, I won't get near it, ever.
I am not condemning the voluntary cooperation of free clear thinking and informed individuals when I say the word 'we' is the most evil word in the English language and the most evil word in the history of mankind.
Please take that as extreme gut level moral outrage at an idea and not at you personally. I know we are all on the same side here.
And that is the truth
Claiming that the rot that destroys this country has nothing to do with you is much like the Japanese people who refuse to accept any of the responsibility for what their country did in World War II. Please keep you sanctimony to yourself and you may be quite certain that I will never put a step on your property. The only people who will do that are the ones who haul you off to the reeducation camp.
I don’t blame you because IO feel the same way
Yes, he does. Yet, it’s hard to pin the tail on the donkey because, “It depends on what the definition of ISIS”. Maybe Johnny McInsane can shed some light on the situation…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLEdpDpoTTA
If you can find the line where I claimed that, then I'll address it, but you won't.
"... responsibility"
I addressed that word specifically, and in relation to it's difference vs 'accountability.'
If you had a cold, or the flu, I would fight your cold, or flu, but that doesn't mean I would be fighting you. I think you have 'we' flu, that's all.
Obama practically bleeds "We" (you by inference) "should be ashamed." It's the unspoken mantra, it's the most destructive force in a host of destructive forces.
I don't think you should be ashamed. Why not just be disgusted or hurt? And then, if you choose, you can exercise 'responsibility.' There is no need for shame in that equation unless you are doing less than your heart/God demands of you -> but that is a question for you to answer for yourself, not to answer for others.
The question isn't whether it sounds sanctimonious. The question is whether it is correct.
Don’t care to argue, nice to know you.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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The Libyan, Iraqi and Iranian disasters too. Could add others.
"Death to America!"
Well, Obama got 'the deal'... no price was too high. And the deal's a dud...
Aww, why don’t we cooperate with him and do whatever he says, and that way he can own an Israeli disaster, too.
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