Comments on: Bile http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:43:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Stephanie Snider http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6870 Stephanie Snider Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:47:42 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6870 Gee Zen, I was just feeling almost cheerful about our elections(who woulda thunk?!), then I checked back and read your comment above. I actually hadn't thought of that one in such specific terms. Well, we'll see. We have to pray and think positive. I was in a state on our Election Day, thinking dark and bitter thoughts all the while, but...now there is a small glimmer of hope. We'll see. You know the old Korean saying about waiting by the river? Well, I hope it's not too broadly applied. Gee Zen, I was just feeling almost cheerful about our elections(who woulda thunk?!), then I checked back and read your comment above. I actually hadn’t thought of that one in such specific terms. Well, we’ll see. We have to pray and think positive. I was in a state on our Election Day, thinking dark and bitter thoughts all the while, but…now there is a small glimmer of hope. We’ll see. You know the old Korean saying about waiting by the river? Well, I hope it’s not too broadly applied.

]]> By: zen http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6599 zen Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:03:40 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6599 In improvement, but there are still a couple of more years left to go... Someone said suppose Bush cancels the Presidentual elections in the name of national security. He has changed other things and gotten away with it, using the fear card... In improvement, but there are still a couple of more years left to go…

Someone said suppose Bush cancels the Presidentual elections in the name of national security. He has changed other things and gotten away with it, using the fear card…

]]> By: butuki http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6542 butuki Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:17:06 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6542 This new development with Rumsfeld the Pitiless and Bush the Buffoon taking big blows is very heartening. Let's see where it goes. Somehow I don't think anything truly deserving will overtake them, though. But you never know... This new development with Rumsfeld the Pitiless and Bush the Buffoon taking big blows is very heartening. Let’s see where it goes. Somehow I don’t think anything truly deserving will overtake them, though. But you never know…

]]> By: J. http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6500 J. Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:33:31 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6500 Not American but have been sick of everything officially "American" this long while that Bush has been leading into violence, intolerance and repressions of freedoms. I've even felt the fear you speak about, hard not to when we know that "America" has been listening to conversations and reading online too. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if some of their ilk were causing your spam problems. But the good news is that Bush's party is out, and hopefully soon he will be too. Surely, his days of unchecked power are over, and with that, a little light shining in all the dark, a hope for the future. Not American but have been sick of everything officially “American” this long while that Bush has been leading into violence, intolerance and repressions of freedoms. I’ve even felt the fear you speak about, hard not to when we know that “America” has been listening to conversations and reading online too. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if some of their ilk were causing your spam problems.

But the good news is that Bush’s party is out, and hopefully soon he will be too. Surely, his days of unchecked power are over, and with that, a little light shining in all the dark, a hope for the future.

]]> By: zen http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6422 zen Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:38:50 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6422 You are indeed correct!! It is sad the direction the US has taken, and let GWB take us. Stephanie is very correct, free speech is becoming something that may one day be something the elders remember and speak of in lowered voices. It is a changing world here. Those who do not learn from history, repeat mistakes... New Rome, New Germany, the phoniex rises You are indeed correct!!
It is sad the direction the US has taken, and let GWB take us. Stephanie is very correct, free speech is becoming something that may one day be something the elders remember and speak of in lowered voices. It is a changing world here.

Those who do not learn from history, repeat mistakes…
New Rome, New Germany, the phoniex rises

]]> By: sasane http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6380 sasane Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:18:38 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6380 Once the final count is complete in the mid-term election, Bush might find himself in trouble... If the Dems are able to pry control out of the hands of the lapdog republican house/senate, then Bush, and his Dark Sith Lord Cheney, will be answering some very uncomfortable questions... Cross your fingers... As to lost friendships, they are never easy, but a friendship lost over a difference in political opinions was probably not worth keeping anyway. Friendship is not about judgement, so don't morn the loss, relish the freedom of ridding yourself of your false friends. True friends respect your opinions, ideas and your right to disagree with them. Who wants friend that behave otherwise?!? Hang in there Butuki... Once the final count is complete in the mid-term election, Bush might find himself in trouble… If the Dems are able to pry control out of the hands of the lapdog republican house/senate, then Bush, and his Dark Sith Lord Cheney, will be answering some very uncomfortable questions… Cross your fingers…

As to lost friendships, they are never easy, but a friendship lost over a difference in political opinions was probably not worth keeping anyway. Friendship is not about judgement, so don’t morn the loss, relish the freedom of ridding yourself of your false friends. True friends respect your opinions, ideas and your right to disagree with them. Who wants friend that behave otherwise?!?
Hang in there Butuki…

]]> By: butuki http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6370 butuki Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:25:29 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bile/#comment-6370 Stephanie- I don't know if I am going the right direction by consciously receding from conflict with others and seeking instead to find alternate ways of discussing our plight on the planet today. I am still, as I wrote above and you responded, full of despondent ire, but I refuse to give in to it, because such anger, I believe now, is the seed of despair. It is what Bush wants us to feel, to divide us and make us believe our weakness. That I will not do. And therefore I must try to find the words to express what it is that must be said and resisted. To remember who I am and what the world and its inhabitants mean to me. But I am unsure what to do about your comment... you asked me not to post it; does this mean you would like me to remove it from the blog? I will do so if that is what you would like. I do not want anyone to feel discomfort with what they write here. Pica- that was a good article. It made me think about the American tendency to color their history with songs of heroes and movies about honor. But the article also disturbed me... a vein of hankering for the old concepts of honor and glory, for chivalry in war, seemed to pervade the words, as if the writer were looking for some kind of beauty in what is happening now and what has happened in wars before. While I guess there is beauty in just about everything if you look hard enough, such a childish notion is deeply dangerous to our survival as a species. If we would only take to heart our resemblance to any group of apes infighting the futility and foolishness of our seeking dignity in conflict would come across so much more clearly. Yet, it seems we are incapable of rising above our animal nature. It is frightening to think that our survival and the life of the planet is in the hands of creatures who cannot see and care very little for their own lives and homes. Stephanie- I don’t know if I am going the right direction by consciously receding from conflict with others and seeking instead to find alternate ways of discussing our plight on the planet today. I am still, as I wrote above and you responded, full of despondent ire, but I refuse to give in to it, because such anger, I believe now, is the seed of despair. It is what Bush wants us to feel, to divide us and make us believe our weakness. That I will not do. And therefore I must try to find the words to express what it is that must be said and resisted. To remember who I am and what the world and its inhabitants mean to me.

But I am unsure what to do about your comment… you asked me not to post it; does this mean you would like me to remove it from the blog? I will do so if that is what you would like. I do not want anyone to feel discomfort with what they write here.

Pica- that was a good article. It made me think about the American tendency to color their history with songs of heroes and movies about honor. But the article also disturbed me… a vein of hankering for the old concepts of honor and glory, for chivalry in war, seemed to pervade the words, as if the writer were looking for some kind of beauty in what is happening now and what has happened in wars before. While I guess there is beauty in just about everything if you look hard enough, such a childish notion is deeply dangerous to our survival as a species. If we would only take to heart our resemblance to any group of apes infighting the futility and foolishness of our seeking dignity in conflict would come across so much more clearly. Yet, it seems we are incapable of rising above our animal nature. It is frightening to think that our survival and the life of the planet is in the hands of creatures who cannot see and care very little for their own lives and homes.

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