God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’
God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule
The Onion continues to rock – “Holy Fucking Shit: Attack on America” – but that story was almost a weeper.
I haven’t had a nuclear
I haven’t had a nuclear war dream in many, many years. Had to wake myself up out of it.
In more normal news – yesterday I tried upgrading the “photon” (my computer) – new CD-ROM, mobo, and chip. cd-rom came off w/out a hitch, but I had to go back to the old mobo/chip. 🙁 (and even that was fraught with problems…much reworking of IDE & power cables.) ah well, today I will try again, this time with Chad around.
still not sleeping very well.
I actually wrote in my paper journal yesterday, which is the first in a long time. I was on the bus, riding home from Seattle, and I just had to write, longhand rather than in my handspring. It felt good.
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.” – Carl Sagan, via Scripting News. Which thought is a big part of my personal morality.
“With malice towards none… WITH
“With malice towards none… WITH CHARITY FOR ALL; WITH FIRMNESS IN THE RIGHT, AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE RIGHT, LET US STRIVE ON TO FINISH THE WORK WE ARE IN; TO BIND UP THE NATION’S WOUNDS; TO CARE FOR HIM WHO SHALL HAVE BORNE THE BATTLE, AND FOR HIS WIDOW AND HIS ORPHAN– TO DO ALL WHICH MAY ACHIEVE AND CHERISH A JUST AND LASTING PEACE AMONG OURSELVES, AND WITH ALL NATIONS.
Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865
I’ve always loved that speech. Found on Comstock. Lincoln was my first hero.
I can’t find my old
I can’t find my old pin with the picture of the earth from space with “peace” in several languages written on it. the pin must have broken off at some point…years ago, I’m sure. sigh. I still don’t have an answer, only an internal surety that war isn’t it.
but I still get the feeling that what I think doesn’t really matter. we will go on “America’s Crusade,” as the News Tribune is calling it, guns blazing and damn the torpedos. and it won’t fix a god-damn thing. nothing I’ve read convinces me that we can do anything that will make a difference, except maybe for carpet-bombing the middle east/central asia with food.
maybe I didn’t post yesterday…suddenly
maybe I didn’t post yesterday…suddenly I can’t remember. as Matt wrote in his email…it’s been hard keeping track of the days.
I’ve spent way too much time at MeFi, and I think I’m burnt out on it. I can’t keep track of all the conversations I’ve been in, or the track my own thoughts have taken through them. I’ve overloaded on articles and opinions and fears and anger. I’m finding my agnosticism and pacifism hardening, which I’m not sure is what I really want.
what happened to yesterday’s posts?!
yeah, it was kottke –
yeah, it was kottke – this post – which I found sort of moving anyway.
oh, and I got this
oh, and I got this from kottke, I think – whoever it was got it from NASA (obviously). I’m gonna do something with it; I just don’t know what.
