Consistency is easy. Thinking rationally to the point of taking contradictory positions is more mental effort than typical people can handle.
Of course, here at the SDMB (and its offshoot fora), we tend to have more capacity for mental effort than the norm. And we use much of it for Pit threads, kittehpix, and discussions instead of starting a movement. Anybody got any kittehpix?
And now for my $.06. I used to think that Sarah Palin was just as qualified for the position of VPOTUS as Dan Quayle had been – then someone (probably a Doper) pointed out that Quayle was a career politician with several years of service in the US Senate. So then I thought Palin was the worst politician of our time to go on the national stage.
C O’D is pushing Palin out of the inane politician spotlight. As far as I can tell, C O’D has no platform, no agenda, no experience (Palin was at least a small-town mayor and a state governor), pretty much no nothing except that she found a parade heading for nobody-knows-where and got in front.
I’m waiting for Bill to throw out another dead body from O’Donnell’s past this Friday. Who knows, perhaps she will summon up the powers of Satan and show up on his show.
I do find it interesting that all three members of the Axis-of-idiocy are women. I wonder if this is due to random chance? Sexism on our part? or some special derangement that is required for a woman to become a Republican candidate?
I have to think that Palin must be getting a little jealous of the attention O’Donnel is getting. For the past two years, Sarah has been the darling of the extreme right, the teabagger princess, the center of attention. Now, all of a sudden, here’s this piece of fluff who’s younger, prettier and crazier than she is, and the PYT is getting all the attention that Sarah is supposed ti be getting. That can’t sit well with Sarah. There’s not enough room for two princesses at this tea party. I think there’s only one way to settle this. Jello fight.
I said this in another thread, but the the thing that struck me about O’Donnell’s withcraft story was not that I care if she ever did it, but that I thought she was clearly making it up. That was really odd. She spoke of going on a “date” on top of a “Satanic altar,” but witches don’t have Satanic altars. None of the Wiccan/neo-pagan groups worship Satan or even believe in Satan. “Covens” with “satanic altars” are the stuff of fundy mythology, not reality.
Either she was making it up, or she totally didn’t understand what was going on (e.g. she saw a standard Wiccan altar and thought they were sacrificing babies on it), or maybe (I don’t think we can rule this out) some people were just totally dicking with her.
Speaking as someone with intimate knowledge about Wicca and other esoteric forms of ceremonial magick, there are at least a few forms of Western Ceremonial Traditions that do employ an altar upon which a young woman is laid (literally) by the priest. This provides the sacrifice of her sexual energies during a ceremony. This isn’t actually ‘Satanic’ in that that particular entity is not deliberately invoked. It sounds quite a bit like an Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) ceremony. For what it is worth, it is most distinctly not my cup of tea, but your mileage may vary.
I had that confidence, but I am slowly losing it. I figured – the fringier the Republican candidate, the better for Democratic candidates. But the crazies are not getting laughed at as much as I expected, and I am starting to be scared.
And to a non-inquisitive person of Christian background, that indeed might have seemed Satanic – that is, even if not explicitly referring to Satan, a religious practice with neo-pagan aspects would seem Satanically-inspired.
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