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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (171135)	8/13/2001 11:52:34 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I post here because I'm fascinated by the lock-step "Christian/Conservative Group Think". And I post here because I am fascinated by "people" like PROLIFE who will make the most unbelievable statements like he just recently made. "WHen did I ever say I respect all religions?" is a priceless gem. PRICELESS. Yes, I have NO delusions about changing anyone's "mind" here. If a person hasn't learned to think for themselves at this point in their little lives, it probably ain't ever gonna happen. "An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to an empty head. "All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium." "To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not." "The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole." "Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves." "Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions." "The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance." I think ALL of these apply to this merry little band of fools.