Peace
This whole pacifist thing is really hard. It doesn't come naturally to me at all. I'm more of a "raise the black flag and start slitting throats" kind of a guy really. Yet I am convinced that my Lord commands it of me, of all Christians.
This is my way of saying I've decided not be involved in the government at all, not even by casting a vote. I'll pay my taxes and obey the laws but that is all I'll do for them, and that only because the Lord commands that I do that much. He doesn't command me to be more involved than that though and I don't think he wants more than that.
Really, what I'd
like to do is march on Washington DC and burn it to the ground. Instead I'm looking for some way to minister to the homeless. That's the thing the Lord has been calling me to do for years, when I listen to him that is. I have been pretty good at ignoring the call but it has become quite insistent of late, I suppose I'll have to actually get off of my fat ass and do something before long or he's going to get rough. :-p
I vote none of the above for President
After watching the "debate" between Bush and Kerry last night my decision is made.
Kerry is just as insane as Bush. While saying that we should never have gone in there at all he then says that since we are there we must win. That is insane.
It makes as much sense as Bush saying that the
CIA report confirming what I and anyone who had an open mind knew before the war started, that there have been no weapons of mass destruction or programs to build them in Iraq since 1991, means that Saddam was a threat... Okaaay.
Let me try that. Because George Smith in Miami has an orange tree in his yard and sprayed it with insecticide, we need to invade... Venezuela! Yeah that makes sense in the same way as Bush and Kerry.
So then, since the choice is between irrelevant micro-party losers who will make zero impact, or Nader who is essentially a socialist, and two raving lunatics... I guess I just won't vote at all.
Does this mean I won't vote in the rest of the election? I have yet to make up my mind. That will depend on what my study and prayers lead me to do, I'll post here if and when I make up my mind.