Comments on: Un-Armed http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html Music in Seven Days from Seven Writers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mike http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9690 Mike Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:24:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9690 ok...<br/>but I'm thinking an awful lot about bob seger these days. ok…
but I’m thinking an awful lot about bob seger these days.

]]> By: John Cramer http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9689 John Cramer Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:06:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9689 The Butcher would love stuff from all of you. I only mention it because Lost brought it up. I don't want to intrude. The Butcher would love stuff from all of you. I only mention it because Lost brought it up. I don’t want to intrude.

]]> By: Mr. Lost His Way http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9688 Mr. Lost His Way Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:58:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9688 I don't know if I want your thoughts on Bob Seger but I'll send you a more formal invite when back from Gotham anyway. I know the Butcher wants your postings too.<br/><br/>Look forward to it. I don’t know if I want your thoughts on Bob Seger but I’ll send you a more formal invite when back from Gotham anyway. I know the Butcher wants your postings too.

Look forward to it.

]]> By: Mike http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9687 Mike Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:49:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9687 Main reason I guess I don't post is I've never been offered the opportunity....<br/>I got my own blog, myspace, and twitter...<br/>but if you want my thoughts on bob seger i've got an essay for ya... Main reason I guess I don’t post is I’ve never been offered the opportunity….
I got my own blog, myspace, and twitter…
but if you want my thoughts on bob seger i’ve got an essay for ya…

]]> By: Mr. Lost His Way http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9686 Mr. Lost His Way Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:26:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9686 It is not a list of comments Mike. It is the thread with a frayed end.<br/><br/>You wonder why you stopped paying attention, yet glad you did, yet still here you are.<br/><br/>Why not post Candy Man? It is not a list of comments Mike. It is the thread with a frayed end.

You wonder why you stopped paying attention, yet glad you did, yet still here you are.

Why not post Candy Man?

]]> By: The Unspeakable http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9685 The Unspeakable Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:41:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9685 Its all personal Mr Lost. Its all personal Mr Lost.

]]> By: Mike http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9684 Mike Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:46:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9684 reading a list of comments without a thread.<br/>weird.<br/>makes me both wonder why i stopped paying attention over here and glad i did. reading a list of comments without a thread.
weird.
makes me both wonder why i stopped paying attention over here and glad i did.

]]> By: Mr. Lost His Way http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9683 Mr. Lost His Way Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:39:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9683 You got me there Unspeakable --should take my own advice. I didn't mean it as anything against you but as the consequence of putting it out there. Of course that's part of what is tiring to me about threads going a personal direction --all the added clarification that is needed.<br/><br/>Turning off the news doesn't mean harsh things happen. Sure, but I don't think NAP commentary has to mirror the "real" world. Frankly if it did mirror the real world it would be largely mundane...which you could argue it is =) You got me there Unspeakable –should take my own advice. I didn’t mean it as anything against you but as the consequence of putting it out there. Of course that’s part of what is tiring to me about threads going a personal direction –all the added clarification that is needed.

Turning off the news doesn’t mean harsh things happen. Sure, but I don’t think NAP commentary has to mirror the “real” world. Frankly if it did mirror the real world it would be largely mundane…which you could argue it is =)

]]> By: The Unspeakable http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9682 The Unspeakable Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:13:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9682 While I appreciate CB's comments at the end of this post and even find them disarming, I don't think anything has truly been resolved here, and I don't suggest that it should or ever could be. I also am not trying to turn this complicated exchange down one alley, while avoiding all others. If anything, I want to feel free to say whatever is ALSO on my mind here, all participant's social skills and personal history included. I am not a one dimensional or insulated and singularly reserved activist, as Mr. Lost His Way intimates by telling this audience that if religion comes up, I am sure to "pounce". What image comes to mind with that? An insatiable creature bent on devouring her prey for a purely selfish purpose... so that she may live another day? I am that creature only in poetry, because to be honest here- as much as I wish <br/>there was a way to survive physically and psychically without destroying precepts, I don't run this planet with the kinds of rules and protocol that allow such co-existence to thrive. I don't run this planet at all. If I did, would we all be forced to endure the violent carnage of a primitive tribal world? Uh... WTF are we enduring now, with faith at the wheel?<br/><br/>I know that much is lost in translation. We all know that. We all choose to say what we choose to say, with that on our minds I think. <br/><br/>I think it would be a mistake for the nonalignment pact to take a stance that required participants to behave in a certain way. We aren't total cretins here. We are men and women, and anything we say should be up for debate. I do mean ANYTHING by the way. Otherwise, what are you saying to your audience? Share but don't share? Say what you want, but don't say what you want? <br/><br/>i'll tell you what I can't handle, and the rest is just crap that bugs me, and may even make me cry to the point where I can't watch the news.. but do I turn the news off so I can avoid dealing with the reality of what mankind is doing and witnessing and being a victim or even a champion of? I can't handle the thought of losing my kid. Everything else is scenery. While I appreciate CB’s comments at the end of this post and even find them disarming, I don’t think anything has truly been resolved here, and I don’t suggest that it should or ever could be. I also am not trying to turn this complicated exchange down one alley, while avoiding all others. If anything, I want to feel free to say whatever is ALSO on my mind here, all participant’s social skills and personal history included. I am not a one dimensional or insulated and singularly reserved activist, as Mr. Lost His Way intimates by telling this audience that if religion comes up, I am sure to “pounce”. What image comes to mind with that? An insatiable creature bent on devouring her prey for a purely selfish purpose… so that she may live another day? I am that creature only in poetry, because to be honest here- as much as I wish
there was a way to survive physically and psychically without destroying precepts, I don’t run this planet with the kinds of rules and protocol that allow such co-existence to thrive. I don’t run this planet at all. If I did, would we all be forced to endure the violent carnage of a primitive tribal world? Uh… WTF are we enduring now, with faith at the wheel?

I know that much is lost in translation. We all know that. We all choose to say what we choose to say, with that on our minds I think.

I think it would be a mistake for the nonalignment pact to take a stance that required participants to behave in a certain way. We aren’t total cretins here. We are men and women, and anything we say should be up for debate. I do mean ANYTHING by the way. Otherwise, what are you saying to your audience? Share but don’t share? Say what you want, but don’t say what you want?

i’ll tell you what I can’t handle, and the rest is just crap that bugs me, and may even make me cry to the point where I can’t watch the news.. but do I turn the news off so I can avoid dealing with the reality of what mankind is doing and witnessing and being a victim or even a champion of? I can’t handle the thought of losing my kid. Everything else is scenery.

]]> By: cherry blossom http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/02/armed.html/comment-page-1#comment-9681 cherry blossom Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:57:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=943#comment-9681 thanks for your thoughts, stacey. i'm thinking. thanks for your thoughts, stacey. i’m thinking.

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