Excitement here at Agnosticrat, as I look toward the possibility of going audible!
I haven't quite nailed down the logistics, but I have been shopping for a new mic, and am looking at different methods of posting my rants. The truth is I hate typing. I never was good at it, and although I have been improving at hunt and peck, it seems to take me forever to check spelling, and you already know about my horrible sentence structure. Also I like to use sarcasm, and it really looses something when I have to type it out.
There are a lot of things that I want in the new setup, but one thing that must not change is your ability to post comments. If all else fails I will have to give an e-mail address for your response, and I would have to do a mail segment on the audio portion.
Either way this could get stupid, and I highly recommend you tune in for some laughs.
6 comments:
I quiver in anticipation of Agnosticrat Raw ;)
Now THAT's sarcasm!
lol
I am responding from an Internet in a stationery shop with two teen girls behind me. I came here to get in out of the rain. Restrict the raw sarcasm to English, por favor!
An agnosticast? Go for it!
Sunday, October 31, 2004
My positions were recently challenged by the statement that, “the Catholic Church supports the waging of a ‘just war’ like the one in Iraq”. I was forced to do some long-overdue homework, which I am happy to share with you. My initial blurt that I could not support that position of the Catholic Church was unnecessary, since we once again agree. I leave you to your own wise and careful evaluation.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
1994 U.S.Catholic Conference, Inc. - Libreria Editrice Vaticana
Vatican Council II, 1992
Excerpts; a complete reading of “Safeguarding Peace”; 2302 – 2317 is encouraged.
“These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the “just war” doctrine”.
2309 The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time:
The damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
All other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
There must be serious prospects of success;
The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.
See also; 2243 on armed resistance as a duty of citizens. Subject to the same elements and conditions.
Also
2313 Non-combatants, wounded soldiers, and prisoners must be respected and treated humanely. Actions deliberately contrary to the law of nations and to its universal principles are crimes, as are the orders that command such actions
2314 “Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation.” A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons – especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons – to commit such crimes.
1941 “….International solidarity is a requirement of the moral order; world peace depends in part upon this.”
I am audible!
As I sit in the new library on Oct.15, 2007, I am blogging and simultaneously listening to cumbia music in my ears.
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