Now the nuts are texting images of themselves with their hands OVER THEIR HEARTS like a freaking Pledge of Allegiance -- but allegiance to a MAN, kittens, NOT a flag or country or idea -- a MAN-- and we are back in the deep end of the Insanity Pool.
Here's Harvey's original immortal blog post from 2008.
Unfortunately the weird kid unexpectedly won the class president election, and we found out it wasn't so funny.
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As for the #ForALL campaign, Governor Rick Perry wins. 16,000,000,000,000 times.
Since @barackobama has forgotten how much he's added to national debt #ForAll our kids to pay off... twitter.com/GovernorPerry/…
— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) September 20, 2012
Michelle Malkin eggs them on on Twitchy. Ace of Spades HQ steps up.
H/T: Harvey at IMAO.US and Top Notch Commentator, RG
Now that the nuts are texting images of themselves with their hands OVER THEIR HEARTS like a freaking Pledge of Allegiance -- but allegiance to a MAN
ReplyDeleteThat's the first thing I thought of when I saw those. This cult of personality stuff is just yech, un-American.
The Bama-in-a-box is definitely the funniest of those and the caption is perfect. The hands reaching and the you-build-him Obama pieces one seem the creepiest. The hands win that contest though, makes me think of people reaching out to God. Come on people, be atheists or pick a religion, this create your own god stuff is repellent.
I've read someplace that we are hardwired to look for a god/higher power/whatever, which I have to admit would seem to be a good reason for one to believe, since no one has yet been able to postulate a workable theory for how this would be evolutionarily useful.
DeleteAnyway... The point is that a large portion of society is pushing God out of the picture, claiming we've outgrown those childish beliefs (unless we're one of those hick bitter clingers). So now they have to find something to fill that God-shaped hole. Some folks fill it with an alternative view of the Divine such as Wicca, or something cultish such as Scientology or some other strange modern spiritual creation. Some fill it with Elvis. And I guess those who consider themselves too sophisticated to admit to anything that could possibly be defined as a religion do this.
I'm sure that some of those joining win the #forall go to church/synagogue/whatever, but iof those that do, I'd bet that the vast majority don't actually think at all about what they really believe. They just do things out of habit, or like lemmings.
The hands win that contest though, makes me think of people reaching out to God. Come on people, be atheists or pick a religion, this create your own god stuff is repellent.
DeleteI was going to quote G.K. Chesterton here, but found this.
At any rate, I do believe that, as Library-Gryffon said, we are hard-wired to believe in SOMETHING because as conscious beings, we can remember the past and project the future, which means we are doomed to ask the basic three questions of existence: Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where will I go?
These questions MAKE us human, for animals do not ask them. And once asked, we can never know the answers. At least not "know" them in a provable way, so we are left to have faith in something other than ourselves or to dismiss those questions altogether and decide none of it means anything. Because, no matter HOW intellectually superior an atheist feels, he is basically, "This doesn't mean shit." Okay.
But the human NEED to have answers to those questions still exists, even when we try to dismiss them. So we find their meaning in collectivist organizations, in the worship of a man, rather than a god. It is no accident that collectivist societies, even when using religion, always have a head honcho, someone idealized by the masses, someone unreachable and distant and considered "wise." Someone who will make ALL the decisions. The left is finally showing it true need to that someone.
It's scary as hell.
I've read someplace that we are hardwired to look for a god/higher power/whatever, which I have to admit would seem to be a good reason for one to believe, since no one has yet been able to postulate a workable theory for how this would be evolutionarily useful.
DeleteThere certainly seems to be plenty of empirical evidence that it's hard-wired. Either the need for belief is there because God put it there or it confers some unknown evolutionary benefit. Either way, being virulently anti-belief is irrational.
Because, no matter HOW intellectually superior an atheist feels,
The "intellectually superior" are the ones that annoy me. Many very obviously haven't given the question much thought, saying they're atheist is a shortcut to intellectualism. "I want to be an intellectual, intellectuals are atheists, so if I'm an atheist I'm an intellectual." I recognize those minds, in prior centuries they would have been in the mob burning witches in order to be considered devout.
Not true of all atheists of course. I think the real intellectuals don't feel the need to shout it in peoples faces and tell believers that they're stupid. Probably some people use the term as a quick way of saying "Go away, I don't believe what you do and I don't want to get into a big philosophical discussion about it."
I think you've got a point about the intellectualism. There certainly seem to be more avowed atheists (which in itself is a form of religious belief, though most absolutely hate it when you point that out!) among the soi-disant intelligentsia than among folks who, no matter how bright they are, work for a living. Smart folks who are secure in themselves are quite happy to let you believe what you want to believe as long as you don't force them to believe what you believe. It's only the insecure ones, who are probably the ones who are most likely to wonder if there isn't really something out there, who have to try to get everyone else to believe as they do to validate their beliefs.
DeleteAnd now I'm off for some more coffee since my brain is total wool this morning.
When a man says he will part the waters, and actually pulls it off, we call him Moses.
ReplyDeleteWhen a man says he will slow the rise of the oceans, and does no such thing, we call an ambulance.
When we're bored of calling him Zero or Resident, maybe we should start using King Knut?
DeleteWhen a man says he will slow the rise of the oceans, and does no such thing, we call an ambulance.
DeleteAnd get him a syringe of Thorazine. And a new white jacket. Unless we elect him to the Presidency instead. Then it's a White HOUSE. We are so humped.
When we're bored of calling him Zero or Resident, maybe we should start using King Knut?
Brilliant!! Reminds me of the poem by Shelley which I posted here a few weeks ago: Ozymandias. I studied that poem in an English class years ago and the one thing that struck me about it was that America, with its unique system of government had, at loooong last, disabused mankind of the kind of rule by the kind of man who believed himself immortal. We are back to that crap now.
I'm thinking "Wing Nut".
ReplyDeleteI certain that Peanut would be CODE! But he is kind of a goober.
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