I'm a bad American. President Obama is speaking on TV tonight, and I'm sitting here wondering which of my DVR programs I'm going to watch to fill the hour. I figure whatever he says I'll read in the newspaper tomorrow. So, maybe I'm not such a bad American after all, it's just a matter of time management.
I'm not big on foreign affairs and the Middle East. I've never been. I'd make a lousy Jew, because I pretty much ignore the region. I figure, they've been fighting for five thousand years and they'll be fighting for five thousand more. I don't know of another culture that is as combative. Everything they do over there - Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Iran et al - is designed to bring their hatred of somebody to the front. It isn't the way I conduct my life and I don't understand why a culture would want to propagate that sort of thing.
Since I was a kid (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) I've been hearing about tensions between the Jews and the Arabs or some other group. We've been contributing to the war efforts of one or the other of them for decades and where has it gotten us? Three-dollar a gallon gasoline and a lot of dead young men and women, that's where.
One thing I ask myself: Why would a God who supposedly cares about life and humanity place the one most valuable asset (oil) under the most disruptive area on the earth? If he had put a giant oil field in Australia we would probably be paying a dollar a gallon for gasoline.
It causes me to lose faith in ... faith.
The president is going on TV tonight to tell us that he is sending 30,000 more people to Afghanistan to fight some war or other, and simultaneously tell us that he has a 19-month withdrawal plan. That's nice. How would I feel if I were a kid going over there knowing that the guy who sent me wants me to come home in a year and a half? I'd feel like a driver with 11 points on his record - Don't get into trouble. Is that really the best plan? The guys at Fox News are going to piss their pants over this one.
Meanwhile, I'm checking my DVR recordings. "Heroes" is on.
4 comments:
Not watching Victoria Secret fashion show? LOL!!!!
Are there people in the U.S. who never watch TV at all? I mean, except for Amish people and the like.
Is there a life beyond surrogates? Should there be?
junior:
98.2%
The percentage of households with at least one TV in 2001.
(That's approximately 2,500,000 homes without a TV in America, give or take)
2.4
The average number of TVs per home in 2001.
susan: for some odd reason, watching women prance around in skimpy costumes doesn't appeal to me.
Why would a God who supposedly cares about life and humanity place the one most valuable asset (oil) under the most disruptive area on the earth? If he had put a giant oil field in Australia we would probably be paying a dollar a gallon for gasoline.
Exactly. And being a supposedly "All Loving" and perfect Supreme Being should make him speak out on that much war. You'd think he'd at least tell them all to cut it out. I know believers say, "Well, if he intervenes then he's not giving us our free will."
Well our parents, lawmakers and police take away our free will once we steal, kill or otherwise fuck up.
You'd think the love side of him would at least say something. I mean, the world is much worse off then it was when he wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah. Yet somehow he can't be found. That's because he doesn't exist.
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