Former President Ronald Reagan has died aged 93

[Gossamer_2701]

I watched

him go by today...

It was on the tv at work today..... it was quite moving.... he would have

been proud.

[metroman]

It's like Stalin died or

something...they might as well suspend regular programming & play funeral dirges all day...Dont worry you're not

brainwashed America...go back to sleep...ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[Ash]

It's like Stalin

died or something...they might as well suspend regular programming & play funeral dirges all day...Dont worry

you're not brainwashed America...go back to sleep...ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

It's not that you don't have any class

Met, it's more like you don't have anything at all. I mean what... they preempt your favorite Lizard Cartoon

show?

I just gave you bad Rep for the Stalin thing. Geez!

[Gossamer_2701]

It's like

Stalin died or something...they might as well suspend regular programming & play funeral dirges all day...Dont worry

you're not brainwashed America...go back to sleep...ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

You know Met... if this were a

communist board, you would have already been taken out back and shot.... But it's not.... its an American board, so

say whatever you like.... all you doing is highlighting your own lack of character.

Enjoy your opinion and your

right to express it Met.... because it was great men like President Reagan that make it possible to do so.

[EXIT63]

"DUMBASS"!


-Red Forman

[DrSmellThis]

Kidding

around and trash talking is cool sometimes, but a lot of people want to "spit" on someone because they disagree with

their politics or religion. They belong to opposite political and religious viewpoints, of course. But moreover,

they identify themselves too much with those kinds of limited beliefs, and not enough with what's deeper inside

themselves.

This is self defeating to that deeper part. It's not even just that we're all Americans (mostly

the case here). We're all humans. We're also earthlings! Unless we come from those deeper selves, our unchecked,

surface selves will defeat them. We are literally volunteering for cancer of the soul.

So believing this, I

didn't see a problem praising Reagan; crying about his death; or feeling sentimentally moved in general about human

losses of loved ones; even though I saw many of his policies as destructive and ultimately wrong-headed for

fundamental human purposes. I loved his uplifting humanistic speeches, which were truly gifts to the country and

world. Also the 80's were a different time, when the Soviet threat was truly massive (hundreds of Soviet nuclear

missles aimed all over Europe, etc.) and relatively easy to comprehend. The man truly had some genuine positives

to him, a measure of integrity (Who cares if he smoked pot in the White House? ); and many of his worst political

"enemies" (e.g., Tip) saw that clearly. Plus, he just died. Deaths of fellow earthlings present easy opportunities

for our best, deepest selves to emerge. It's a wide open look at the basket from 10 feet in this respect, or should

I say casket? It's a moment of cease-fire.

As examples of self defeat, if someone with liberal views

wants to implement values of compassion, they risk muddying up their own minds and weakening fundamental projects

when indulging in their hate or disrepect (we all feel these things); just as those with conservative views

do when so indulging, reinforcing the very stereotypes that most have crippled themselves and their projects

politically.

The mutal disrespect here is therefore suggestive of resignation and admission of defeat on both

sides. Having this attitude, as we all know, is not the best way to get laid!