I won't be returning to C's thread. I've unsubscribed to it and
will ignore it for a few days, then go back and read it; but I will not
be adding any more posts there. It's too risky for me, as I was already
silenced by A. and J. S. for offense given in A. M's T.
W. thread. I just barely made it back without being banned outright.
Background on me:
I barely made it through high school. I was a "super senior". It took me
an extra year to get my diploma, because of a lack of credits. I wanted
to be a rock star, played in a band, and was basically an ignoramus. I
failed every subject in my first senior year.
Never stepped foot in a college or university, thank the Flying
Spaghetti Monster. I was spared a proper "washing" and have remained
among the Great Unwashed. Phew, that's a good thing.
I currently work as a kitchen utility grunt in an assisted living
facility. I'm a career healthcare cook, and was in management briefly,
with the intent of becoming a Dietary Technician, but all that fell out
due to my manic-depression/ bi-polar issues.
I currently earn the Arizona minimum wage. So I'm not exactly waving the
flag for greedy capitalists, though I know enough to know that civil
rights and a free market have been the best boons to actual prosperity
and progress. Von Mises knew Marxism would end in disaster, in 1922;
also Hayek, and many others. I won't even mention that fiesty Russian
Jewish woman named Alisa, who sold lots of books and told of her
university experience in Petrograd during the 1918 disaster. Of course
she has been unpersoned in very Stalinist fashion, at least
intellectually, for a very long time.
I was born at West Point to a modest civil servant and a lapsed Catholic
mother. I lived in a 60 foot trailer, in a trailer park, until I was
twelve. I've written a novella, called "Fireflies of the Dusk", wherein
my protagonist is essentially me, but not me. The noted Spherian, S.
K., is thus far the ONLY person I know who has read that novella,
and she has told me that it's one of the best works of fiction she has
read. As you know, S. is a Muslim, and she and I have a long, healthy
correspondence via the Sp., and email. She wants me to read the
Qur'an, which she has sent me in a specific translation she finds the
best. I've read through the Qur'an before, but never made much headway.
This new version is far better, according to S., than any other
available.
I am a strident secularist, and a part of my activity on Facebook and on
my blogs has been to draw attention to liberal and moderate Muslims,
and their various websites, literature, and movements.
As for racism: I believe that racism can exist in a person in a strange
fashion: ie: some of the most virulent anti-white racists ARE white;
just as there are black people who seem to have a problem with black
people who have differing opinions, and in my view, they are racist in
their views.
I have seen some of the most virulent anti-Jewish nonsense coming from
Jewish people. Marx himself was a Jew. I consider Roger Waters, who's
father, I believe, was a card-carrying communist, to be one of the most
anti-Semitic people alive. I used to love Pink Floyd, until I discovered
his deep down dislike and suspicion of Jewish people. Of course he
claims he's not against any race, religion, or ethnic group, but his
actions against Israel, by attempting to "unperson" any musical artist
who performs in Israel, are disgraceful, and no amount of back-pedaling
can make his agenda more palatable.
I could write so much more, in an attempt to prove to you that I'm not
some kind of closet apologist for the extreme right. I am a centrist, a
liberal at heart, who is aware of the dangers of extremism on both ends
of the political spectrum.
If you wish to correspond with me, please do, but if you decide not to,
that is alright also. I understand you are a busy person.
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