Forever?
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Boltlady
Governor
There's a good probability that the stars are numbered.
We just don't know what it is...yet.
Addy
Stand up for the people!
Thanks for the links, H.
I watched the clip, although I wish there had been an English translation..
Starting Again would have been a fitting title as well! What a sad movie this must have been.
Now, since you have educated me on the movie -- the words of Cole Porter's song fit into the movie theme perfectly..
I watched the clip, although I wish there had been an English translation..
Starting Again would have been a fitting title as well! What a sad movie this must have been.
Now, since you have educated me on the movie -- the words of Cole Porter's song fit into the movie theme perfectly..
MaryAnne
Governor
Truly wondrous description, H. I don't know the answer. But I am glad to have been here for whatever time I will be allowed!!
I have been searching for the answer to the beginning of time and infinity since I would lie on my back in the yard and look up at the sky,or the stars at night as child. That bothered me something terrible Still does, to be honest!
KnotaFrayed
Mayor
Thanks MaryAnne, some very good thoughts to ponder, especially in light of the document that guides those we elect to represent us as human beings.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/preamble
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/posterity
KnotaFrayed
Mayor
KnotaFrayed
Mayor
:thumb:Truly wondrous description, H. I don't know the answer. But I am glad to have been here for whatever time I will be allowed!!
KnotaFrayed
Mayor
More good pondering H. Muir....The one constant of the universe seems to ironically be change and seeking a balance while in the flux that keeps it out of balance.....The way we measure time is through the relativity of motion, no motion, no change and nothing to measure the passage of time with....Here on earth mountains are thrust to the sky by various means from ocean bottoms, then worn by freezing and thawing (expansion and contraction) wind, rain to erode and flow back to the oceans and slide once again to their floors, only to start the cycle all over again....Generations come and go....go and come.....and so too, to some misfortune, do their firsthand memories of lessons learned in life about what harms humankind versus what helps.....Although sage memories and warnings are recorded under all manner of description, from spiritual and religious to practical and secular....some of new generations remain skeptical and have want to defy collective knowledge, long in the collecting....strong in wisdom and so some humans carry humankind with them into their repeats of what is already known to be harmful and discordant to peace on earth....The changes that forever bring no change.
GordonGecko
President
One key strategic disadvantage the Right has is.....either due to ideological hatred or partisan hatred or racial hatred, they cannot conceive that Barack Obama can "out think" or "out manuever" them.
In fairness, it was a failing of the Left too in the early 80s, who thought Reagan rhetoric (never mind policies, they didn't matter and still don't) would "never take hold", yet they did, for decades.
20 years from now "Obamaism" will still be influencing American politics, if on the most basic level of a precedent will have been set for a minority President. But on other levels, the precedent that even in a weak economy....a Democrat can beat a Republican who still touts the old 20th Century GOP talking points. It's not exaggeration to say that if the Republican Party doesn't change....it WILL go as extinct as the Whigs did in the 1850s.
In fairness, it was a failing of the Left too in the early 80s, who thought Reagan rhetoric (never mind policies, they didn't matter and still don't) would "never take hold", yet they did, for decades.
20 years from now "Obamaism" will still be influencing American politics, if on the most basic level of a precedent will have been set for a minority President. But on other levels, the precedent that even in a weak economy....a Democrat can beat a Republican who still touts the old 20th Century GOP talking points. It's not exaggeration to say that if the Republican Party doesn't change....it WILL go as extinct as the Whigs did in the 1850s.
I don't dismiss Obama as a short-term thinker, but get real -- he's a poltiician pushing through the policies he can get through given the limitations put upon him via our system of government. No more, no less.
The column presented described a war, that that the need to win a war is such long-term commitment -- but where, for example, is Obama's longterm commitment to winning the actual wars that were ongoing when he took office? Even if you disagree with the wars themselves, "We're going to stop and go home and leave our enemies be" isn't much of a long-term strategy (it's effectively the strategy that was already in place on 9/11).
I have no hatred or animosity toward people with whom I disagree politically. I don't think that Obama, or liberals in general, are evil. I think the policies they pursue are wrong, and I think the tendencies of those policies is to reduce individual freedom by turning the government into a busybody and a scold. Forever? It seems unlikely -- and we can certainly hope not.
The column presented described a war, that that the need to win a war is such long-term commitment -- but where, for example, is Obama's longterm commitment to winning the actual wars that were ongoing when he took office? Even if you disagree with the wars themselves, "We're going to stop and go home and leave our enemies be" isn't much of a long-term strategy (it's effectively the strategy that was already in place on 9/11).
I have no hatred or animosity toward people with whom I disagree politically. I don't think that Obama, or liberals in general, are evil. I think the policies they pursue are wrong, and I think the tendencies of those policies is to reduce individual freedom by turning the government into a busybody and a scold. Forever? It seems unlikely -- and we can certainly hope not.
