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Think about the answer to this question; What is the basis for all of the problems we see in the country and world today? I have traveled to the Mount for the answer, and will expound on it. Hey, but you can add to it on the show because it's your day to be the producer.
Anything on your mind is important no matter what we are discussing or when we're talking about it.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot; former presidential candidate, former Massachusetts governor, present supporter of Senator John McCain for president, and possible vice presidential candidate, Mitt Romney will join me for a 16-minute one on one interview on The Gary Sutton Show.
Will he accept the vice-presidential offer if asked? We ask him the question, and you can hear the answer, and comment on the "softness" or "hardness" of the interview here.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
What's On Your Mind Friday
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ARGH! I can't believe I'm going to miss my man Mitt.
I'm still waiting to find out if there are any reasons other than "he looks too slick" that would explain why Americans didn't vote for him.
Might not be a bad move to take the VP nomination so that the people get a little bit more information about him. And the media gets another try at finding something wrong with him, which they honestly couldn't do during his Presidential campaign.
What time will he be on? I can probably pull like a 16 minute window of listening right when he's on.
Source of all the problems we find in the world today?
Tough question to put your finger on, but I'll give it a shot:
1. Religion
2. Tribal politics
3. overpopulation in some areas
4. greed
Rather simple answers I know, but the blog space is too short to address each one fully. You could spend an entire show discussing each one of them from a dozen different angles and the impact each one has on America and the world.
I have two sources:
1. Opportunistic, self-centered gits. This is your average warlord, dictator or kleptocrat, for example.
2. Miscommunication. I believe so many of our everyday problems are caused by miscommunication.
"Hey, Godot called; says he's running late." See what I mean?
Doug, I think Romney is on right now.
Fred,
Some interesting choices from you. I'm especially interested in your #1 choice of religion.
Couldn't it also be said that religion is the #1 source of all good in the world? I can see how you could say that "violence in the name of religion" is a source of many world problems, but not religion itself.
It's like money - the love of money is the root of all evil, so it is said...not money itself, but the love of it. You hit on that with your #4 choice of greed.
I personally think that HUMAN BEINGS are the source of all world problems..haha..that's kind of a generality but it is true. Maybe I should say it this way - "irresponsible use of free agency" is the source of all world problems.
Jay - come on man, a little more notice next time? Just for that I'm going to have to use BOTH of my free meal deals at the SAME TIME.
Somebody should tell Mitt to get on the blog. I must speak with him immediately.
So, the Mittster says McCain is a maverick, that would appeal to Democrats and in the next breath claims he is a conservative Repulican. You can't be both and McCain isn't.
Just for that I'm going to have to use BOTH of my free meal deals at the SAME TIME.
I assume you're aware that the free meal consists of a Mr. Pibb and a half-eaten bag of Funyuns?
Doug, I should have qualified my answer about religion being poisonous.
I should have said "organized" religion. Organized to the point it becomes theocratic and squishes every non-believer in it's path. History is full of examples.
Gary,
Since you've had callers on the American Airlines issue, I thought I'd fill you in on what really happened.
Last Feb/Mar there was a big scandal involving Southwest airlines that led to them paying millions in fines to the FAA. The problem was that some folks in the Dallas office of the FAA had a friendly relationship with Southwest people and allowed them a lot of leeway as to how they did things.
A new manager came to the Dallas FAA office and made it his crusade to end this practice and he blamed specific FAA inspectors for not requiring a strict interpretation of the rules. He put a stop to this.
Now the backlash is that FAA personnel are requiring strict readings of Air Worthiness Directives and unyielding enforcement of rules. In the case of American Airlines and their MD-80 aircraft, the were required to have a bundle of wires secured every one inch with a tie. A FAA inspector discovered a bundle with ties that sometimes were 1 1/4 inches apart.
So, the new antagonistic culture of the FAA led to AA cancelling thousands of flights to inspect these bundles and make sure the ties are 1 inch apart. BTW, the last MD-80 entered service in 1993 and no crashes or other problems had been tied to this "problem". In the old days of a "cozy" relationship, the FAA might have said "go ahead and inspect and repair at your next inspection", but the crackdown won't allow this flexibility.
The new relationship between the airlines and the FAA will likely cause this problem to repeat with some other issue.
BTW, can you tell me specifically what new energy technology would have solved our energy problems if the government hadn't been fiddling around for the last 10 or 20 years? I heard you say that exactly and was really curious.
Fred - I know this blog limits a good conversation, but I'm interested to hear more about your ideas regarding organized religion.
Are you saying that all organized religions are poisonous? If so, in what ways? Or is this an indictment of one particular religious body or set of beliefs? If you don't mind explaining.
I see Gary missed the boat on the number one danger we face that is leading to Armageddon.
Of course, I speak of Olav.
I thought Fred made his point rather well.
The notion of when religions squash and condem other religious beliefs (or non-beliefs) is where he thinks it becomes a problem.
Many religious sects understand the commonality amongst all the religions and are supportive of it. Some fringe groups and sects look to find ways to divide people with their religion. The latter are the dangerous ones as I and I believe Fred see it although I will let him speak for himself.
JMO - that's just what I'm getting at...I just want to know if he means all organized religions or just a few fringe groups, like you said.
And I'm not trying to make a point either, it's just to satisfy my own curiosity.
Fred: "I should have said "organized" religion. Organized to the point it becomes theocratic and squishes every non-believer in it's path. History is full of examples."
With the "Behead those who insult Islam" cartoon protester, you don't need to look at history but to the present.
JMO: "The notion of when religions squash and condem other religious beliefs (or non-beliefs) is where he thinks it becomes a problem."
Does exercising ones freedom of speech to expose evil that masquerades as a "religious belief" meet your threshold of condemnation?
I am asking because there are some who would like to claim that beastility, pedophilia, incest, rape, subjugation of women, and beheading of infidels are part of some "religious belief" and therefore shouldn't be condemned.
JMO: "Many religious sects understand the commonality amongst all the religions and are supportive of it."
I agree. These are the people who seek the advancement of a one world religion/government as described in Biblical prophesy. It will be easier of one ruler to control an "organized" religious body than it would be to control individual people of faith who are unwaivering in their Bible based religious beliefs.
Nevertheless, those who are observant see a number events that are incremental steps in moving society towards the fulfillment of prophesy. Those who aren't observant continue to be lost in the wilderness.
JMO: "Some fringe groups and sects look to find ways to divide people with their religion."
Since "some fringe groups" oppose the evil of beastility, pedophilia, incest, rape, subjugation of women, and beheading of infidels, the fact that these "fringe groups" have no desire to find commonality with those who practice such evil should not be a surprise to you.
JMO: "The latter are the dangerous ones as I and I believe Fred see it although I will let him speak for himself."
Some view anyone who takes a firm and uncompromising stand on anything as dangerous person. A person who is unwilling to compromise and yield to evil and injustice is not easily controlled. When we eliminated our moral, ethical, and religious beliefs in favor of being more tolerant, and flexible then it become easy for others to manipulate us into whatever those seeking control wants us to be.
Doug, JMO sent you down the right path. Let me continue.
In general, organized religions don't not like challenges or questioning of what they believe to be cast in concrete.
For example: Galileo almost got himself burned at the stake for his ideas about how the universe operates. At the time, the Church accepted the 'earth is the center of the universe' thing as promoted by Aristotle. The Church accepted that view, so challenging the Aristilian view was, in effect, a challege to Church teaching.....aka heresy.
The Christian Church jumped on board with some fantasmic biblical account of the creation of mankind and tried to challenge science with a pseudo-science they invented and called it "creationism" as if it had any relationship to science at all.
I have no problem with those who choose to believe in a God, but one's religious beliefs remain personal, and if you want to speak to God you can do it on your own. I don't think God would require a priest, rabbi, mullah, cleric, deacon, pastor, pope, bishop, cardinal, monk, nun, ensi, minister, or whatever else to act as an authority and intermediary to "lead you down the path to salvation." Christians have a great reverence for Jesus Christ, and rightly so, but he seemed to have no problem leading a decent life and setting a good example for all of us without joining up with an organized religion.
If somebody held a gun to my head and made me sign up to somebody's organized religion, I would choose ancient Egyptian. The afterlife could be what ever you wanted it to be, and there was no hell. If you led a decent, responsible life you got to map out your eternal journey doing the things that pleased you the most. If not, you would be swallowed up by a monster and simply disappear into nothingness.
We could talk more, but as you suggested, blogging back and forth is secondary to one on one discussion. Basically, organized religion was invented by man, and what do you think it was designed to do?
Well,
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I certainly don't want to go on some self righteous diatribe so I'll suffice it to say that I do agree in part with you, that there are millions of religions out there that all claim to be of God, and have their little nuances that make them ever so slightly different from every other man made religion on earth.
I would say that in my personal opinion, when you read the Biblical account of Christ you would find that he in fact established the one true church on earth. You're correct that he never joined a pre-existing, man made church. Part of his role, so I believe, was to become the foundation and head of the one true church.
So that would be my disagreement: you say all organized religion was created by men, I say all but one were.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I just find that kind of thing interesting.
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