I'm letting Echidne of the Snakes speak for me today. She says,
O Happy, Happy Day!Happy Birthday, Echidne. Frankly, I feel like today is my birthday, too. I've been born anew today, into a world newly filled with hope.
"O Joy! O Happiness! O Chocolaty Cuddliness Everywhere! Orgasms! Enlightenment! Windows which clean themselves! Your heart's deepest desires satisfied at no cost!
"And why is this the happiest of all days? Two good reasons: First, we are slightly less likely to slide into WWIII now that the Democrats took a majority in the House at least. Second, this blog is THREE today!"
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Dear Athana and all the USA,
Congratulations!
South Africa celebrates with you.
Both Houses and Dumsfeld out to boot (was that a happy side effect?).
Love,
Terri in Joburg
Your world is pretty small if its hope is tied up in Congress ;)
Thank you, Terri. My faith in my fellow Americans is renewed. I am in awe at the outcome of these elections. As paxton points out, however, now we need to make sure Congress at least pulls hard on the brakes, even if it isn't able to reverse the train right away.
There are just too many things gone wrong to list. Too many things that need fixing immediately. The horror we've made of life in Iraq. The dying environment. Darfur. The Katrina victims still need tons of help. Bush & Co.'s imperialist plans to take over the world. Terrorism spreading because of Bush & Co.'s cowboy come-ons. Nuclear weapons getting into the hands of terrorists. We need to start talking NICELY again to Korea and Iran instead of shoving ourselves in their faces and almost daring them to shove back. We need our voting system overhauled. We need to reign in Big Money, Big Corporations first and foremost. They're running the US and if we could break their power we'd be half way home free on almost all our problems. We need to take back our mass media; they're all owned by Big Money, and they slant all our news to what Big Money wants us to hear.
And this is just the beginning.
And paxton's right: Congress doesn't have total control over a lot of this stuff. But it has some control. And that's better than none, which is what we had before.
"As paxton points out, however, now we need to make sure Congress at least pulls hard on the brakes"
That's not what I said ^_^
paxton,
Did you hear?
Right before the elections someone asked Jerry Falwell if he were worried about them.
Falwell said, "Not at all. God will take care of them."
So now the followers of Falwell know two things: God is a Democrat, and He's for stem cell research.
The Jews thought Messiah would take over the government in their day too ;) Instead he healed some peasants and taught a few people some old ideas and some strange ideas, then went and got killed.
*shrugs*
Can I address a completely different issue? I bring it up because of this post and the more recent one about school, plus a lot of previous posts.
Forgive me, since I've only seen a sliver of your life and may therefore be very wrong here:
You have a lot of anger against wrongness, which is admirable in a lot of ways. But you're so consistently indignant that I grieve for you.
Your happiest words are those of gleeful triumph. Your joy comes chiefly from seeing enemies fall. Your hope, as you have said in regards to Congress, comes from victory. You have the air of one threatened, one reacting against badness, one (as it were) so caught up in a battle that they forget why they are fighting.
What will you do when there is nothing left to reform? If you cannot find a battle, with you be able to enjoy peace? Would even your Goddess lose meaning, if she had no Yaj to oppose?
I ask because, you strike me not as one who is in love with a beautiful thing and fighting to protect it, but as one who is in love with fighting in the name of a beautiful thing.
Anger as a spark, to create an action, is a fine thing. But dear (<-- not sarcastically) Athana, it is all you are *about*. And I will tell you that if I scroll back through your entries, I will find strife after strife, and indeed, very little of the gentleness and love you campaign for.
"radical goddess thealogy"...and so wrapped up in being radical.
You're devoted to knocking down a wall...you're pushing against it continually. Are you really pushing, or are you leaning? Does it in some way support you? If you get your victory, if you topple the wall, will you just fall with it?
Is there something I don't understand, or have you truly lost your way?
paxton, I think you have the makings of a true Goddess man: caring, consistent, passionate, loving and kind. I deeply appreciate your concern. I'm doing fine, thanks.
=) That's good, Athana. I'm glad and you're welcome. =)
(look what you did! I read this at work and got all teary-eyed and had to hide in the kitchen =P)
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