Got it, I enjoy yours too, and we’re trackin’ Peabody.

I hear you; good point. The thing is, the adjectives you used were not hateful, but factual. The only ad hominem was the word ” pig ” . Just sayin’?

I didn’t intend to sound hyper-critical. For the most part, I enjoy your comments. I don’t want to get into any political debates here. It got out of hand on other blogs and I unsubscribed from them. I’d rather not leave this one.

Thank you.

Laughter! I needed that 🙂

Well, when you quoted what I first said,and said it sounded like hate speech, I thought it had bothered you, and at the same time realized that you had a point about my having just decried hate speech with more hate speech of my own. So I corrected it, that’s all. You made a good point.

That sound you hear is me applauding this superb comment of yours, Mark. Years ago I read Malcolm X’s autobiography as told to author Alex Haley (“Roots”). Very interesting that Malcolm X, who’s real name was Malcolm Little, was for many years a thorough Jew Hater and a White Hater and a pretty much everything and everyone hater except for other blacks. He rose to prominence in the NOI BUT at some point he had an epiphany about hating – his WHOLE world view changed, for some reason. He realized that we humans ARE really “brothers and sisters” and that we DON’T have to hate one another and SHOULDN’T. That was his cognition if you’ll pardon the Scientologese. Anyway, with this changed worldview he began to advocate NOT hating but understanding and love between the races…he became publicly verbal about this as an NOI leader…and then they assassinated him!

And then, “festival of fuckery”…LOL!

Except for your last sentence, how I wish that what you just posted were not 100% true, Rosemarie.

Thanks, Mark. Because of my life experiences and the way I was brought up, I very much agree. I have to remind myself not to hate people who hate, though. Because they’re trapped in ignorance and fear. Analytically I know that hating is a complete waste of energy and time and never works. I have to keep keep reminding myself what MLK said about hating haters. Ghandi and MLK each had the basic concept of not hating, ever, very down pat, although they differed in the ways that they expressed it.

Who cares? There is much agreement here about the evils of scientology. Not so much with political comment having nothing to do with the discussions herein and is divisive.

I hate when that happens!