tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post3972028349462184822..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: EmbarrassedAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-51037759663377937942010-08-05T12:35:37.311-04:002010-08-05T12:35:37.311-04:00How do you "quit being a Christian" unle...How do you "quit being a Christian" unless you aren't????<br /><br />Can you choose to unchoose a choice that wasn't yours to make? <br /><br />News to God and everybody else...jackscrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16163915446151636189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-46856691706875869442010-08-04T19:33:01.109-04:002010-08-04T19:33:01.109-04:00I'd say Ms Rice had a sudden surge of integrit...I'd say Ms Rice had a sudden surge of integrity. I heard interviews with her when she first claimed to have reverted; it was clear she had made God in her image and likeness and only accepted s much of Christianity as her god thought prudent. Her surge of integrity led her out of Christianity to a place where she and her god could be together without uncomfortable rules.Quasimodohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06975543902013031816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-83960447922079867732010-08-04T12:38:22.518-04:002010-08-04T12:38:22.518-04:00I'm in search of that fabulous movement I can ...I'm in search of that fabulous movement I can join that has no embarrassing members! When I join, it will confer nothing on me but honor. It will swiftly expel any member I consider heterodox or even unsightly.<br /><br />Nearly all of my family and my oldest friends are quite liberal. I try not to quarrel with them over their frequent insulting slips into broad disparagements of what "all conservatives" think. It's good practice for me, to remind me not to talk about pinheaded liberals that way, either, no matter how provoked I am.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-44162312067560291542010-08-04T01:22:09.646-04:002010-08-04T01:22:09.646-04:00Oh dear. Some conservatives do embarrass me. But I...Oh dear. Some conservatives do embarrass me. But I can't help but notice that I'd likely be more embarrassed by certain liberals.<br /><br />Or libertarians. Or centrists. Or whatevers.<br /><br />What I try to do is not constrain myself to any one ideology. Note the word "try". I am mostly conservative, sort of libertarian at times, and I have my liberal instincts to deal with also.<br /><br />Purity in any of the above mentioned ideologies nauseates me. <br /><br />I'd like to think that it's the purity that Bainbridge and Klinghoffer are embarrassed about, but I suspect it's more the political correctness of a certain viewpoint that bothers them. <br /><br />I also think it is about time that conservatives acknowledge they are promoting their own version of political correctness. It's just as nauseating to me as the liberal version.<br /><br />For example, I don't find it to be "unconservative" to be for some kind of defined amnesty for illegals. The qualifier "defined" separates me from the liberals who seem to want unqualified amnesty. <br /><br />Note the word "seem". I'm not sure that there is not agreement among some conservatives and liberals on this issue.<br />------<br /><br />I love the "do I have to pull this car over" theme.<br /><br />In my family it was "don't make me pull this car over" but the intent is the same.<br /><br />As a single mother in the early '80s before the days of carseats for toddlers and beyond, I arranged the backseat with the carseat for the infant between the two older children. (5 years difference between the baby and 1 year between the older siblings.)<br /><br />This worked very well. While the older two wanted to kill each other at times, neither one was willing to hurt the baby that both loved. Nor were they willing to risk the wrath of Mom if the baby were even upset. <br /><br />The other tool I used to calm all three was music. I would tell them that I could not hear them over the radio so they might as well stop complaining... or, I would use my own voice to calm them... or punish them depending on their age.<br /><br />Either way, I always set myself up as a the winner. I was the parent and I was in control. They could adjust their behavior in accordance with my wishes... or suffer.<br /><br />And suffer was defined by my pulling the car over. <br /><br />But, in reality I had no idea what I'd do when I pulled the car over than get out and scream. The fantastic thing about this technique is that my children didn't know that.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-48946289811982373072010-08-03T23:52:07.060-04:002010-08-03T23:52:07.060-04:00Thanks for the link, AVI.
Good post, especially...Thanks for the link, AVI. <br /><br />Good post, especially the section on the social need to belong to a tribe, and how that leads people to go along with all kinds of crazy ideas. People on both ends of the spectrum feel this, of course, but fortunately we conservatives are often so cranky and solitary that we are less likely to succumb to HIVE MIND. I hope. <br /><br />I believe that it's the lack of religious faith,(sometimes of family ties or strong patriotism) that makes this herding so strong. If you don't follow God, or family tradition, or serve your country, what's left? But to parrot the PC opinions and feel that one belongs. <br /><br />I tend to think that when people say they are embarrassed to be a ___ because of the buffoonery of ___, that they are just avoiding looking at something of their own that they SHOULD be embarrassed about. All of us have enough sins and weaknesses that we should worry lest our failings discredit our faith and noblest ideals. That we should throw ourselves upon the mercy of God, and beg Him to save us. The splinter in another's eye and the beam in our own...Retrieverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036341287285545932noreply@blogger.com