tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post190116391372154404..comments2023-10-12T00:22:40.014+10:00Comments on Bush Out: Where Do Old Crusaders Go To Die?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post-3970522209500930422009-05-27T21:37:29.139+10:002009-05-27T21:37:29.139+10:00I've always wondered if his religiosity was just a...<I>I've always wondered if his religiosity was just a put-on, like his Texas accent shit. But it seems he was a weak 40-yo man who found something to cling to.</I> <br /> <br />A lot of the time, we become the person we choose to pretend to be. Bushwit chose to be the swaggering cowboy (despite being from New England), then the morally certain religious warrior (despite being a brain-damaged drunk.) It's not what he actually WAS in real life; it's the role he played until it became his reality. Or at least the personal reality he got other people to buy.<br /><br />I do the same thing -- play the hard-bitten, know-it-all, smart-talking Yank. And when I still lived back there, same role-play, just minus the Yank part. I don't think that's who I was in my soul, but I've been acting like that for so long now it's the truth. It's a decent act...Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post-31967484339405704772009-05-26T13:44:09.128+10:002009-05-26T13:44:09.128+10:00You have to wonder what George's bedtime conversat...You have to wonder what George's bedtime conversations with God are like these days. <br /><br />"So Lord, I'm trying to understand why the apocalypse you promised didn't happen, why all those dominoes in the Middle East didn't fall, and why you made me the laughing stock of the entire planet. God?... God....????" <br /><br />I've always wondered if his religiosity was just a put-on, like his Texas accent shit. But it seems he was a weak 40-yo man who found something to cling to. <br /><br />All these religions promise CERTAINTY when in fact the whole point of life and God and the meaning of things is the great mystery behind it. Deal with it, you dicks.Jaraparillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336314539987735082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post-57326617909451951952009-05-26T13:23:59.357+10:002009-05-26T13:23:59.357+10:00Let me tell you one factor that turned me off to o...Let me tell you one factor that turned me off to organised religion, for which I used to have some respect. (I thought it might lead people to act more morally than they would otherwise.)<br /><br />In the mid-1990s, I worked a lot at some psychiatric facilities in Florida. For a hoot, sometimes I'd work as a "psych tech" at the local Crisis Stabilization Unit. This was like being an orderly, a step down from being a nurse, which I was, but I got paid my normal nurse's salary. It wasn't hard yards, and it was fun observing the nutballs who had been dragged in by the police when they freaked out in the community.<br /><br />I noticed that a lot of the paranoid schizophrenics used to rave with religious delusions of a violent nature. It was all about who God wanted them to kill, and what the Devil was doing. Their hate-filled lunacy was not that far removed from the Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons. I could hear traces of that in the ideology of fundie preachers, and the hard-core religios I talked to in everyday life.<br /><br />Religion is fairy tales. When I hear someone talk about "God" I mentally substitute the name "Santa Claus" in what they're saying. They're loony.<br /><br />And now further evidence that a guy with the authority to launch nuclear missiles was as loopy as the smelly bloke who's talking to himself on the tram...Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.com