Comments on: Obama, Black Friday, and Immorality http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/obama-black-friday-and-immorality/ Random thoughts about life with God Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:01:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dcn. David http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/obama-black-friday-and-immorality/#comment-222 Dcn. David Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:45:40 +0000 http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-222 I still think you need to check your stats. I'm pretty sure the orgy is an equal opportunity problem. Do you really think the folks "who protest[ed] Obama" were more likely to "participate in the Black Friday consumption ritual" than folks who supported the Obama campaign? C'mon. If that were so, then problems like the Long Island Wal-Mart stampede wouldn't have happened. Your thesis could be better, more objectively advanced if you had also pointed out the hypocrisy of the Lefties, who claims to care about their fellows, but nevertheless participate fully--as fully as their Right Wing brethren--in grabbing the last X-box off the shelf. I still think you need to check your stats. I’m pretty sure the orgy is an equal opportunity problem. Do you really think the folks “who protest[ed] Obama” were more likely to “participate in the Black Friday consumption ritual” than folks who supported the Obama campaign? C’mon. If that were so, then problems like the Long Island Wal-Mart stampede wouldn’t have happened.

Your thesis could be better, more objectively advanced if you had also pointed out the hypocrisy of the Lefties, who claims to care about their fellows, but nevertheless participate fully–as fully as their Right Wing brethren–in grabbing the last X-box off the shelf.

]]> By: beinganddoing http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/obama-black-friday-and-immorality/#comment-221 beinganddoing Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:11:01 +0000 http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-221 Dcn. David. Sorry I lost you there. I did not mean to imply that only social/political conservatives engage in the orgy. I only wanted to point out that immorality takes on various guises, and the people I know who protest Obama as the end of morality are some of those who most fully participate in the Black Friday consumption ritual. As far as any politician or party leading us into the "Promised Land" I am not a believer. True change will not be brought about by altering the political landscape. Rather it comes by the struggle I noted above, that of being close to God. That being said I have more hope in the potential of our President elect than I would have had had McCain been elected, and certainly more hope than the current administration. It is just not ultimate hope. Peace, Leon Dcn. David.

Sorry I lost you there. I did not mean to imply that only social/political conservatives engage in the orgy. I only wanted to point out that immorality takes on various guises, and the people I know who protest Obama as the end of morality are some of those who most fully participate in the Black Friday consumption ritual.

As far as any politician or party leading us into the “Promised Land” I am not a believer. True change will not be brought about by altering the political landscape. Rather it comes by the struggle I noted above, that of being close to God. That being said I have more hope in the potential of our President elect than I would have had had McCain been elected, and certainly more hope than the current administration. It is just not ultimate hope.

Peace,

Leon

]]> By: Dcn. David http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/obama-black-friday-and-immorality/#comment-220 Dcn. David Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:18:50 +0000 http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-220 Um. I'm actually pretty sure the folks participating in the obscene ritual you describe include the sadly mistaken folks who have "put their trust in princes" and think Pres.-Elect Obama will lead us to the Promised Land. In fact, the perpetrators in the Long Island trampling incident were almost certainly (statistically speaking) among the most frothy of the Obama supporters. I was with you right up to that paragraph of illogical conclusion-jumping. Um. I’m actually pretty sure the folks participating in the obscene ritual you describe include the sadly mistaken folks who have “put their trust in princes” and think Pres.-Elect Obama will lead us to the Promised Land. In fact, the perpetrators in the Long Island trampling incident were almost certainly (statistically speaking) among the most frothy of the Obama supporters.

I was with you right up to that paragraph of illogical conclusion-jumping.

]]> By: just an apprentice http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/obama-black-friday-and-immorality/#comment-218 just an apprentice Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:43:43 +0000 http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-218 Yes Yes

]]> By: justjamesblog http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/obama-black-friday-and-immorality/#comment-217 justjamesblog Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:16:56 +0000 http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-217 Well said, indeed. Well said, indeed.

]]> By: Timm http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/obama-black-friday-and-immorality/#comment-216 Timm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:02:35 +0000 http://beinganddoing.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-216 Right on! Right on!

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