Comments on: My Picks for Top Tweets: 30 August 2017

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:22:58 +0000

In reply to Heather Hastie. American evangelical christianity has merged with the doctrines of the atheist Ayn Rand to produce the Religious Right wing of the GOP. It's as toxic a faith as you could imagine.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 01:37:43 +0000

In reply to rickflick. Interesting.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 01:34:40 +0000

In reply to Mark R.. I've been writing a post about Trump and the Evangelicals for the last few days. Not sure when it will be finished.

By: rickflick

rickflick — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 01:29:35 +0000

The complexity of the Islamic architectural detail reminds me of some ideas I read years ago. The artistic style is highly significant in reflecting the cultural and psychological perspective of Middle Eastern cultures. The suggestion was that the complex patterning is indicative of a philosophy that sees reality as a complex and incomprehensible flux as opposed to the Western, scientific, rational view of life as something to be brought into an organized system of understanding. The consequence is that Islamic culture has little appreciation of science and the enlightenment, and is opposed to the Western take on government because life is more of a kaleidoscope than a telescope or microscope. Religion takes precedence over science and never the twain shall meet – so to speak.

By: Mark R.

Mark R. — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:00:03 +0000

I loved the monkey teacher. Ha!

And re. the transgender soldiers; why is Trump such a sadist? Because he does the evangelical’s bidding. Other than groups like ISIS, I can’t think of another group of people as odious as the fundamentalist evangelicals. The intrinsic tragedy of this group is they actually (and arrogantly) think they are doing g*d’s “work”; whatever the hell that means. What it means to me as someone from the outside looking in: the creator of the universe must be petty and evil.

By: Mark R.

Mark R. — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:45:01 +0000

In reply to Heather Hastie. Me too!

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:50:09 +0000

In reply to Ann German. That poem is making me pronounce aquatic incorrectly in my head! :-)

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:47:50 +0000

In reply to Kim. Thanks Kim. It's always interesting to see what appeals to different people. :-)

By: Ann German

Ann German — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:23:25 +0000

THE OTTER
I state most emphatic:
An otter’s aquatic.
An otter loves water—
An utter fanatic.
It’s most acrobatic,
And quite charismatic.
I state most emphatic:
An otter’s aquatic.

From Douglas Florian’s “Mammalabilia”

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:19:56 +0000

This is one of your best collections so far!