tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post146808999560468775..comments2024-03-08T02:20:47.836-08:00Comments on Rainy Day Thoughts: The seeds of the fathersRain Trueaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-36565317232776586222010-08-27T23:39:58.776-07:002010-08-27T23:39:58.776-07:00Deliver me, PLEASE!!!!
All I can say about Frankl...Deliver me, PLEASE!!!!<br /><br />All I can say about Franklin, IS...OY VEY!OldLady Of The Hillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02458879772193114892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-41431620658851193142010-08-26T22:08:45.624-07:002010-08-26T22:08:45.624-07:00To me, the world often seems to be one giant good ...To me, the world often seems to be one giant good ol' boy network, and the network is so fundamental.Mike McLarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17881672365554137673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-23384995929955360362010-08-26T07:43:04.047-07:002010-08-26T07:43:04.047-07:00As an artist, I find inside myself a transformatio...As an artist, I find inside myself a transformation departing from the ways of our culture. Being involved in the creative process is very satisfying. Creative expression directs anger possitively. Focus on making rather than tearing down is very healthy and healing. Debating politics and the act of trying to convert others to my way of thinking has not worked for me.<br />The more I paint the more I want to explore. I am not so interested in making a product of art to sell. What I hope to do is engage my grandchildren and friends in creating.<br />One of my projects is a chess puzzle for a group of four or more. It is a co-operative game inwhich all the pieces are used except the pawns. One person is the time keeper and historian who writes down the placement of the pieces and the moves. The diplomats who move the pieces must move all the pieces to the opposite end of the board from their starting place in the fewest possible moves. The game is made more complex by stationing pieces on two white boarders and two plack boarders. The diplomats win when they all have moved their pieces to the opposite side without blocking other pieces. Before the timer is started there is a long untimed creative discussion and treaty making process.Diane Widler Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-20633455698732864842010-08-26T06:20:13.834-07:002010-08-26T06:20:13.834-07:00The idea that you can inherit a religion is absurd...The idea that you can inherit a religion is absurd to me. The Jewish people are an ethnic group whose religion is closely bound to their ethnicity. But a Jewish person can convert to Christianity, Islam, or Zoroastrianism if he so choses, yet he still retains his Jewish ethnicity. My parents were Baptists. Was I born a Baptist? No, my ethinicity is Scottish. I can convert to Judaism, Islam, etc. but I will still be Scottish.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03204625068309822016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-85519647450325697522010-08-25T14:35:04.969-07:002010-08-25T14:35:04.969-07:00I think this is a wonderful post and I agree. Fun...I think this is a wonderful post and I agree. Fundamentalists have done more to destroy religion than any other thing. It is a cult based on the need to have someone else do their thinking for them. It is radical and dangerous whether it is the Catholic inquisition, the Muslim terrorist or the Christian abortionists killing in the name of Jesus. What is wrong with these people? I will never understand.Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18373134676852496647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-79661792469622787702010-08-25T11:15:06.167-07:002010-08-25T11:15:06.167-07:00Too true, Rain, too true. It's hard to prove ...Too true, Rain, too true. It's hard to prove a negative, and anyway what difference would it make? The need to divide in order to conquer, to demonize instead of rationally consider the information, the ability of loud-mouthed sons of famous people to reach a podium where other, quieter, more sane and gentle voices cannot .... I don't share Billy's beliefs but I've always respected him as an honorable apolitical religious leader. They are few and far between. Conflating religious fervor with political rantings leads to things like 9/11.<br /><br />I worry for our world.<br />a/bAshleigh Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-89056457672158652452010-08-25T07:01:25.999-07:002010-08-25T07:01:25.999-07:00I wonder why people want to believe garbage. Is it...I wonder why people want to believe garbage. Is it lingering anger from our fathers learned before we could understand and speak? Is it fear needing to be vented, seeking the easiest path like lightening? Like lightening the object upon which the anger is released need not make any sense. The venting of electrical forces is randomly destructive.<br />I read the Obama books and see in his early development his mother as an example of an openess and love of diverse peoples.Diane Widler Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-68159321153077795302010-08-25T06:30:26.702-07:002010-08-25T06:30:26.702-07:00Rain ,as you know , ideas are more powerful than b...Rain ,as you know , ideas are more powerful than bombs. And both Al Qaeda and Franklin Graham know that. Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed did too.Paulhttp://ShadowofDiogenes.blogs.com/shadow/noreply@blogger.com