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Posts Made By: mike welsh

June 15, 2004 02:59 AM Forum: Politics

For the record...

Posted By mike welsh

In spite of what others here may think based on some of my earlier comments, i did not actually hate Ronald Reagan... i simply had no use for him.

i hated some of his policies, especially the repeal of certain energy-conservation laws that cost me a job.

He's in the past now, and his lionisation will go on unabated now. He has been canonised, elevated (arguably prematurely) to the Pantheon of Great Leaders. So be it.

i do have the deepest sympathy for his family for their loss, and for the years of suffering of a kind i would not wish on my worst enemy.

Mr. Reagan had a long and prosperous, productive life. He made quite a few people happy, and i guess that counts for a lot.

Requiescat in Pace.

-mw.

June 17, 2004 02:55 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the Day... 17.06.04

Posted By mike welsh

"We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love
one another."

-Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

June 24, 2004 06:01 PM Forum: Politics

Thought for the Day: 24.06.04.

Posted By mike welsh

"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way
that it cares for its helpless members."

-Pearl S. Buck, Nobelist novelist (1892-1973)

June 25, 2004 05:19 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the Day: 25.06.04.

Posted By mike welsh

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

-Richard Francis Burton, explorer and writer
(1821-1890)

June 29, 2004 02:36 PM Forum: Politics

See the baby?

Posted By mike welsh

"I suspect there are some in the world who can look at these pictures and still not see the baby." -DM

To anyone in general:

Look at the pictures of guys on death row... See the Baby?

Look at the pictures of Bin Laden, Saddam, GWB, Ronald Reagan, Bill & Hilary Clinton, Dick Cheney, Arafat, Sharon... See the Baby?

Look at the executioners of hostages... See the baby?

Look at the vast photos of the victims... all of the victims of all the wars and violence... See the Baby?

Look at the homeless person huddled under the overpass, the sick and the poverty stricken, the Unwanted who stand around us like Banquo's Ghost...

SEE THE BABY?

June 30, 2004 11:21 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the Day, 30.06.04.

Posted By mike welsh

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they
kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

-Voltaire

June 30, 2004 11:25 PM Forum: Politics

Thought for the Day, 30.06.04.

Posted By mike welsh

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they
kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

-Voltaire

July 6, 2004 01:38 PM Forum: Politics

Thought for the Day, 06.04.04.

Posted By mike welsh

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given
medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower,
U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)

July 6, 2004 01:52 PM Forum: Religion

"So one begins to doubt..."

Posted By mike welsh

"I once read somewhere that it is impossible to break a man's firm belief. If i ever thought that true, life in a concentration camp taught me differently. It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, which repeatedly "proves" that one is no longer a man. So one begins to doubt, one begins to cease to believe in a world order in which god has a definite place. One really begins to think that god is on leave. Otherwise the present state of things wouldn't be possible. God must be away. And he has no deputy."

-Simon Wiesenthal.


(first posted here 07.02.03)

July 14, 2004 05:40 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the Day, 14.07.04

Posted By mike welsh

"If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?"

-John Churton Collins, literary critic
(1848-1908)