On the eight day, God said, "Let there be Labor." On the ninth, "Let there be Management."
Why is there a disfunctional family at the root of monotheistic religion, for Christ's sake? Who agreed to just what, exactly? Why is Ishmael any less of a human being than Isaac, pray tell?
I am from a broken home, with a dead-beat dad, although I did have a happy childhood. My step-father, who is closer to me than anyone on Earth, is Jewish, but our step-family is disfunctional. We grew up during the time of The Brady Bunch, and that was my model then, but, like "the melting pot," models are only models.
My view of America is that it is a place where the diversity of the world can unite through the cooperation of cultures, and share a common history, a place of refuge and transformation, overcoming historical opposition and isolation, where we might learn to overcome, and beneficially assimilate, the inherent divisiveness of past history. I do not believe that the rest of the world should be "Americanized," however, especially by force. That is antithetical to the way things need to happen.
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The Beginning Of Philosophy:
On the eight day, God said, "Let there be Labor." On the ninth, "Let there be Management."
Why is there a disfunctional family at the root of monotheistic religion, for Christ's sake? Who agreed to just what, exactly? Why is Ishmael any less of a human being than Isaac, pray tell?
I am from a broken home, with a dead-beat dad, although I did have a happy childhood. My step-father, who is closer to me than anyone on Earth, is Jewish, but our step-family is disfunctional. We grew up during the time of The Brady Bunch, and that was my model then, but, like "the melting pot," models are only models.
My view of America is that it is a place where the diversity of the world can unite through the cooperation of cultures, and share a common history, a place of refuge and transformation, overcoming historical opposition and isolation, where we might learn to overcome, and beneficially assimilate, the inherent divisiveness of past history. I do not believe that the rest of the world should be "Americanized," however, especially by force. That is antithetical to the way things need to happen.
Posted by: bw | July 17, 2004 09:27 AM