Comments for SlackTide http://slacktide.wordpress.com stillness and transition~ambiguous uncertainty~adaptability Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:57:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Welcome by madmonq http://slacktide.wordpress.com/welcome/#comment-40 madmonq Fri, 30 May 2008 04:25:14 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/welcome/#comment-40 March '08? Where the blog posts at? March ‘08? Where the blog posts at?

]]> Comment on free tibet? by Jacob Freeze http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/free-tibet/#comment-39 Jacob Freeze Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:23:40 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/free-tibet/#comment-39 I bounced into your site from Common Dreams, where your comment about "anarchy for Wall Street, police state for Main street" made an impression. About Tibet... It occurred to me a couple of weeks ago that writing nasty remarks about China on travel blogs was one small way to punish the ruling elite for the ongoing genocide in Tibet, so I leave vivid descriptions wherever potential travellers to the Olympics may congregate... "The whole country smells like urine, except in the "wet markets," where it smells like blood, and don't forget genocide and the pauperization of small farmers, etc etc..." Obviously this sort of thing isn't consistent with the quietist esthetic of your blog, which I admire, but it's probably slightly better than doing nothing. Anyway, my low opinion of most tourists suggests to me that bad smells will scare away more of them than genocide. I bounced into your site from Common Dreams, where your comment about “anarchy for Wall Street, police state for Main street” made an impression.

About Tibet…

It occurred to me a couple of weeks ago that writing nasty remarks about China on travel blogs was one small way to punish the ruling elite for the ongoing genocide in Tibet, so I leave vivid descriptions wherever potential travellers to the Olympics may congregate…

“The whole country smells like urine, except in the “wet markets,” where it smells like blood, and don’t forget genocide and the pauperization of small farmers, etc etc…”

Obviously this sort of thing isn’t consistent with the quietist esthetic of your blog, which I admire, but it’s probably slightly better than doing nothing.

Anyway, my low opinion of most tourists suggests to me that bad smells will scare away more of them than genocide.

]]> Comment on Calling So.Cal Buddha’s by Linda http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/calling-socal-buddhas/#comment-37 Linda Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:32:22 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/calling-socal-buddhas/#comment-37 Hey, an update here on this story. Mae Angye was granted her green card, so she is free to stay in America, and can now go wherever she would like. She was about to head to Oregon, when she received notice that she was accepted to study medicine (I'm not clear where) in L.A. That's a lifelong dream of hers, so she has secured a new place to live there, and is going to be studying for awhile! Great! Hey, an update here on this story. Mae Angye was granted her green card, so she is free to stay in America, and can now go wherever she would like. She was about to head to Oregon, when she received notice that she was accepted to study medicine (I’m not clear where) in L.A. That’s a lifelong dream of hers, so she has secured a new place to live there, and is going to be studying for awhile! Great!

]]> Comment on free tibet? by Cendrine Marrouat http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/free-tibet/#comment-36 Cendrine Marrouat Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:57:18 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/free-tibet/#comment-36 This picture makes me wonder about the word "freedom". Are we, as individuals, free? If we answer NO, then we can understand what has been going on in Tibet and elsewhere. If we answer YES, then, what's wrong with the world? In any case, what can WE, as individuals, do to avoid repeating the same mistakes? Educate our children... This picture makes me wonder about the word “freedom”. Are we, as individuals, free? If we answer NO, then we can understand what has been going on in Tibet and elsewhere. If we answer YES, then, what’s wrong with the world?

In any case, what can WE, as individuals, do to avoid repeating the same mistakes? Educate our children…

]]> Comment on Ghost Forest Solitude by Mark http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/ghost-forest-solitude/#comment-35 Mark Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:46:46 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/ghost-forest-solitude/#comment-35 Sorry it took so long to get back to you, Riverbird. Your comment got lost in my moderated comments section. Please read my response to your comment of 3/7/08. I very much appreciated the poem above. Very nice. My email is: longinus62@gmail.com should you choose to respond there instead of by comment. Mark Liberty Just in Case Sorry it took so long to get back to you, Riverbird. Your comment got lost in my moderated comments section. Please read my response to your comment of 3/7/08. I very much appreciated the poem above. Very nice.

My email is:

longinus62@gmail.com

should you choose to respond there instead of by comment.

Mark
Liberty Just in Case

]]> Comment on Wounded Knee, war, and debt by lrh http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/wounded-knee-war-and-debt/#comment-33 lrh Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:39:42 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/wounded-knee-war-and-debt/#comment-33 what makes you think God makes this world unfair? if He/She didn't make the world unfair, then who did? what makes you think God makes this world unfair? if He/She didn’t make the world unfair, then who did?

]]> Comment on Welcome by madmonq http://slacktide.wordpress.com/welcome/#comment-32 madmonq Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:46:55 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/welcome/#comment-32 RE: Your comments about my comments about both of our comments at that crazy guy's blog. http://lordcrimson.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/obama-%e2%80%93-whats-your-game/ My comments were geared more toward the truly crazy. not you and especially me, the merely crazy Beside. It's hard to resist commenting on such rot RE: Your comments about my comments about both of our comments at that crazy guy’s blog.

http://lordcrimson.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/obama-%e2%80%93-whats-your-game/

My comments were geared more toward the truly crazy. not you and especially me, the merely crazy

Beside. It’s hard to resist commenting on such rot

]]> Comment on Calling So.Cal Buddha’s by thepoliticanandtheprotagonist http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/calling-socal-buddhas/#comment-31 thepoliticanandtheprotagonist Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:07:52 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/calling-socal-buddhas/#comment-31 Have you tried any of the Hostels in the So-Cal area. It sounds bad, but some are actually quite nice. Plus, the "Bohemian" kids who usually frequent the Hostels would probably really enjoy her company. I used to live in Ocean Beach, San Diego. The Hostel there was always full of foreign travellers with a strong spiritual sense. Just a suggestion. Peace. Have you tried any of the Hostels in the So-Cal area. It sounds bad, but some are actually quite nice. Plus, the “Bohemian” kids who usually frequent the Hostels would probably really enjoy her company. I used to live in Ocean Beach, San Diego. The Hostel there was always full of foreign travellers with a strong spiritual sense. Just a suggestion. Peace.

]]> Comment on slimy politicians and slick hilly by pittgirly http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/slimy-politicians-and-slick-hilly/#comment-30 pittgirly Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:28:10 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/slimy-politicians-and-slick-hilly/#comment-30 I like Edwards a lot, and actually felt that he and Obama were both on the same track with their populist message. HRC is definitely not that type of candidate, and will be seen for her "do anything to get elected" attitude soon enough...IMHO. I like Edwards a lot, and actually felt that he and Obama were both on the same track with their populist message. HRC is definitely not that type of candidate, and will be seen for her “do anything to get elected” attitude soon enough…IMHO.

]]> Comment on Another progressive for Obama by Lord Crimson http://slacktide.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/another-progressive-for-obama/#comment-29 Lord Crimson Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:10:32 +0000 http://slacktide.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-29 Hi riverbird My thoughts exactly about the picture of mine you commented on. Still, I wouldn't have it any other way. Can you imagine how boring the world would be with only one point of view? Lord Crimson Hi riverbird

My thoughts exactly about the picture of mine you commented on. Still, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Can you imagine how boring the world would be with only one point of view?

Lord Crimson

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