It's sort of fascinating that even as our fundamentalists battle the perceived social and theological decadence in our own country, they're also at war with middle eastern fundamentalists who are battling the same thing in their own sphere. I don't know how to predict the outcome of such a conflict.
I'm glad some people have finally pointed it out in that fashion and I hope the fundamentalists would or could see this as well. I have to admit as the day wore on, I found myself grieving more for those who felt personally smacked by the anti-gay marriage amendments than the election itself. I don't know how to predict the outcome of such a conflict either. I don't know if tolerance is more generational, regional, gender-based or what... but I think that's got to be discovered.
I was also talking to K who noted the way the map was split along blue/red lines goes back to the civil war.
Maybe I'm taking it philosophically because this isn't the worst thing that's happened to me this year.
Yeah, it does tend to put things into perspective. Maybe that's why I'm having a hard time looking into the long term because everything seems to change so drastically week to week.
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Date: 2004-11-04 04:51 am (UTC)I'm glad some people have finally pointed it out in that fashion and I hope the fundamentalists would or could see this as well. I have to admit as the day wore on, I found myself grieving more for those who felt personally smacked by the anti-gay marriage amendments than the election itself. I don't know how to predict the outcome of such a conflict either. I don't know if tolerance is more generational, regional, gender-based or what... but I think that's got to be discovered.
I was also talking to K who noted the way the map was split along blue/red lines goes back to the civil war.
Maybe I'm taking it philosophically because this isn't the worst thing that's happened to me this year.
Yeah, it does tend to put things into perspective. Maybe that's why I'm having a hard time looking into the long term because everything seems to change so drastically week to week.