Subject: Re: Gay Teletubby?
Hi Steve,
Well, I guess you're right.... It seems that Falwell wasn't the first one
to decide a purple Teletubby is gay. Still, it seems to me its pretty
ridiculous to ascribe much sexuality to cartoonish characters such as the
Teletubbies, no matter who is doing it.
By the way... things do not whittle themselves down to just two sides...
there is always a whole constellation of views and data to be considered
when "figuring out" just about everything. But I figure you were just
using a turn of phrase... rather than seriously suggesting that there are
only two sides or views of every issue. That is a problem that I have with
Falwell sorts... they really don't seem to have to firm an idea of what's
going on around them. Pat Robertson is a prime example... I think he is
clinically insane.... not merely a holder of viewpoints I often disagree
with.
Superstition is insanity.... for many folks it is such a minor form of
insanity it effects little but their choice of lottery numbers or they
may feel an unreasonable aversion to stepping on sidewalk cracks.... but
for a great many of the so-called "religious" they are plainly incapable
of sorting reality out from imagination and speculation.
In common usage, many superstitions are considered to be religions... but I
don't consider superstition to be religion... I relegate it to the realm
of mental disorder... all of humanity is at risk when appreciable
segments of the population cannot think rationally and instead substitute
superstition and folk belief for clear thinking.
I am not a pure rationalist... I appreciate poetry and art and
mysticism... but I know the difference between poetic/mystic abstraction
and concrete reality. I know what is inside my head and what is outside of
it and understand the interplay between external and internal life. A
great many folks do not. They are dangerous to themselves and others...
most particularly their children. They are forever teetering on the brink
of irrational outburst and action against others based upon the most
appalling misunderstanding of the nature of their own mind and of the
world around them. They scare me... they are not fully sane and are liable
to plunge into lunacy unpredictably. The Middle East is awash in such
lunatics and the Middle East is a literal hell on earth becasue of it.
Sincerely,
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From: Caroline Evans <ab523@osfn.org>
Caroline
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