The Lack of What Jesus and Paul Felt Should Be Most Importantly Evidential in a True Christian... Empathy! There is in America today, a sort of mentality and inability to discern righteousness from fraud. This is evidence of a lack of critical thinking. The colleges and parents have fallen from a high perch set ages ago, on education in the mercies of life. There is also a lack of critical self-analysis, and critical analysis of others.
One fellow said to me, Professor, when I looked into the eyes or heard the voices of the poor folks making those commercials, I felt their pain and suffering. However, one would say, would they not want to protect others from such suffering, if they were sincere? Would they not be sensitive to those who are still suffering, or would they want others to suffer as they have? Which is the more measured and empathetic response? Which is the more Christian response? Would they not have wondered if all the trillions wasted in instruments of death and horror, have been better invested in our own people's good health and future, and in our crumbling infrastructure, of which New Orleans is a mildewing and stirring example?
Those responsible for the killing, which condemn violence in movies and video games, and yet applaud and wish for more killing, even after losing a loved one to killing or having been maimed in the killing fields, are they not, doing greater harm, by selling war to impressionable youngsters, who might also be maimed and/or killed? Is that neighborly?
I ask, Professor, how pornographic is selling hatred and slaughter to kids as something good. I feel sorry for and pray for those, which the puppeteers manipulated into being spokespeople for disinformation, mass murder, and fascism. How these people missed that Iraq and Al Qaeda were and remained enemies with each other until the Bushites with their mercenaries and the violence inflicted upon an innocent population-a population wanting only to live their lives as we live ours is beyond me. Apparently the puppeteers are using the maimed, the dead and the desperate, (sincere, perhaps, well meaning people), which the very people who are creating the commercials have caused to be dead and wounded, as unsuspecting shills to induce others to enter the horrors created by the (FOSP) Fascist Oil Stealers For Profits, to hawk a war for oil disguised variously as; bringing democracy to a nation bereft of it, to liberating the Iraqi people, to attacking the perpetrators of 9/11, to showing a people how to help themselves, to making the world safe from a potential haven for "terrorists." The thing they ignore is that Iraq was free of, and not a haven for "terrorists" until the Bushites their mercenaries and contractors, (some of which are incompetent), attacked, raped and ravaged the nation, it's people, its treasury, our treasury and every American child and person who is not in perfect health and most of those who are. Good Night and God Bless!
Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8. Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant position in college. He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising. MA's in Cultural Anthro, Painting and more. After being tenured he taught; architecture, anthropology, Theology, advertising, painting and drawing, entrepreneuring and Creative Profit Making. He produced a star-studded Music festival, had a radio talk show in Chicago, and cable TV show. Now, retired from Teaching, he paints, writes, and pursues other ventures.
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The eloquence and macabre beauty of your particular truth leaves me, nearly, speechless, but to say that I could not agree more vehemently if, through good fortune or brilliance, your words could have been my own. Thank you.
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Karma Rox (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments)
on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 1:57:23 PM
I as my wife, am utterly speachless!!! That has to be your "flagship" work! You have summed up the essence of the realities(perceived or not) which we experience in our "worlds" today. We have the "mosquito sprayers" mounted on the backs of Ford Rangers up and down our street every week! My electric is rediculous because I never open any doors or windows, even when it's beautiful out. This "prozac nation" they have created for us, through our own thoughts and depressions, is disturbing to say the least. If God is behind them, we could have walked around Iraq 7 times, blown our trumpets and watched the "walls come tumblin' down" without a single loss of life!!!! Thank You and God IS on your side and IN your heart!!! YOU ARE MY MENTOR (I'm 32 and my Grandfather was the only one I've had) so you know the "thoghts of the dead" because he speaks through you to me!!! PREACH ON PROF.! LET THE EMPIRE BE REVEALED!!!!!
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Joe Rathbun (8 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 142 comments)
on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 2:13:40 PM
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