An emotional cycle as soldiers return home

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After a decade of war, the welcome home ceremony has become a moment ingrained in American popular culture. The cheering, hugs and tears are staples of television newscasts. American beer and car companies regularly use the return of the soldier in ads designed to evoke patriotism and a sepia-toned sentimentality

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... ml?hpid=z2

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"WAR HEROES WEEKEND" ON AMC




AS I ponder’d in silence,
Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,
A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful aspect,
Terrible in beauty, age, and power,
The genius of poets of old lands, 5
As to me directing like flame its eyes,
With finger pointing to many immortal songs,
And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said;
Know’st thou not, there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?
And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, 10
The making of perfect soldiers?

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Be it so, then I answer’d,
I too, haughty Shade, also sing war—and a longer and greater one than any,
Waged in my book with varying fortune—with flight, advance, and retreat—Victory deferr’d and wavering,
(Yet, methinks, certain, or as good as certain, at the last,)—The field the world; 15
For life and death—for the Body, and for the eternal Soul,
Lo! too am come, chanting the chant of battles,
I, above all, promote brave soldiers.

[SadLuckDame]

Welcome home soldiers.
You've endured and stay it bravely
now be with your women, with your men and all the little children.
Hold your sister's hand, clap the brother on his shoulder and breathe,
you're home again.

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[mnaz]

praise god and pass the ammo . . .

in god we trust, inc. . . .

[jackofnightmares]

I had a happy childhood. Crazy mike cultivated my fears very nicely.

Seriously "The Cultivation of Fear" by a dude named Gebner I think. These are dark times, the consequences of Judaism Nietzsche might say.

In the meantime I am just concentrating on learning how to whistle in the dark.

Fucking Bernays that evil fucking genuis, lived to a ripe old age, so slick so happy to tell how he engineered consent.

I don't know what to say to friends who tell me about their good christian raisings.

thanks for dropping me a line mnaz
your posts are always worthwhile for me.

[constantine]

i like my sepia-toned sentimentality - it's cheap and needs little personal investment.

[tinkerjack]

Mr. Constantine. he got ice water in his veins.

Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more
susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures.
... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their
insecurities.
- George Gerbner

[constantine]

i've got coca-cola and pizza oil in my veins.

[gypsyjoker]

I got sugar and spice and everything nice in my veins

missing a lot of dots going around in circles making a point

the dots connect from this article and ted haggards pearly white smile and clean underwear to a pbs show I saw called Constanine's Cross.

[mnaz]

toxic stuff. and that crusader who ran blackwater too.

too many "agents of god" running around, convinced it's the final battle or something..

you reminded me of one, from a while ago...

on the road to the megachurch
he met an electromagnetic cloud
light blared down from the transmitter
it spoke in ominous, twilight tongues
time to take up the shield, make a stand
time to write love letters to holy violence
the megachurch has a fifty foot screen

on the road the light came down
love's light knocked paul on his back
humbled persecutor became a pastor
paul, paul, why persecutest thou us?
you once wrote the love chapter...

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I got the title of tv show wrong it was The Sword of Constantine

Eric Prince, Blackwater changed their name to Xe and moved their headwaters out of the united states but still doing a good bizness with uncle sam and other countries around the world.

I don't know much about the New Testament but Totenkopf or Perezoso sure seemed to know their scripture. I wonder what happened to him and e_dog too

thinking of St. Paul remember this one?

"Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ"
http://studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.p ... tian#p7988

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thank you for posting the poem
I am glad I reminded you of that one
I liked it a lot, it is
solid state poetry


Just for the heck of it I googled
he met an electromagnetic cloud

This Is Your Brain on God

Michael Persinger has a vision - the Almighty isn't dead, he's an energy field. And your mind is an electromagnetic map to your soul. ...

...the idea goes like so: When the right hemisphere of the brain, the seat of emotion, is stimulated in the cerebral region presumed to control notions of self, and then the left hemisphere, the seat of language, is called upon to make sense of this nonexistent entity, the mind generates a "sensed presence." ...



Persinger has tickled the temporal lobes of more than 900 people before me and has concluded, among other things, that different subjects label this ghostly perception with the names that their cultures have trained them to use - Elijah, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Mohammed, the Sky Spirit.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/persinger.html

sorry about the long replay
my mind wanders

[mnaz]

nietzsche used to hammer on the church for its "anti-christ" dogma . . . said the only true christian was (jesus) christ, who spoke of the kingdom within, not promised. of course, nietzsche hammered on lots of things, and he thought jesus was an "idiot," so go figure . . .

"Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ" . . . i like that one . . .

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Maxwell had a hammer too


Ah Nietzsche
I read a bit about his last sane moments
something about him crying and a horse?
I only know two books by the big N
I am trying to read H. L. Mencken;s translation of the Anti-Christ but the introduction keeps blowing me away

All the pogroms the Jews deserved ten thousand times over
but he was writing in 1915, he had not seen nothing yet.

THE ANTICHRIST
Author: F. W. Nietzsche
COPYRIGHT, 1918

Translator: H. L. Mencken

The case against the Jews is long and damning; it would justify ten thousand times as many pogroms as now go on in the world. But whenever you find a Davidsbündlerschaft making practise against the Philistines, there you will find a Jew laying on. Maybe it was this fact that caused Nietzsche to speak up for the children of Israel quite as often as he spoke against them. He was not blind to their faults, but when he set them beside Christians he could not deny their general superiority...

I have friends to who(m?) Jesus is a stumbling block,
I stumbled too

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. It is interesting to note that, despite his opposition to Schopenhauer's claim that compassion toward humans and animals is the basis of morality, Nietzsche finally ended his sane years by tearfully embracing a horse that was being whipped by its master. Thus Nietzsche's mind, to his last sane moment, was influenced by Schopenhauer. In this case, it was the doctrine of sympathy and compassion, not Nietzsche's own teaching regarding masters and slaves from his Genealogy of Morals.Lestrade (talk) 15:41, 30 January 2011 (UTC)Lestrade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AArthur_Schopenhauer

"What is a philistine? A hollow gut, full of fear and hope that God will have mercy!"

Goethe