Who Do You Serve?

topic posted Tue, December 6, 2005 - 2:14 PM by  Pedro New Je...
I didn't have change so I squated in front of the new paper box to read what I could of the front page story.
Geroge W. Bush had finaly commented on the Swift Boat Veterns For Truth" attack adds on John Kerry.

The presedent was critisized for not saying anything about them. In the article he was quoted as saying "...they were bad for the system."

A short laugh burst out of me. I then thought to myself, "Pedro! He's doing the best that he can. Six Billion people on the planet and every one is doing the best that they can with what they know and what they have available."

On the walk to the train I though about his statement and I remembered what Republican Senator John McCain had said about the same adds: "There dishonerable."

So here were two men; one being of service to a "system" and another of service to something called "honor."

I doubt I'd never have thought of that if it weren't for some science fiction show.
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Pedro New Jersey
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  • Re: Who Do You Serve?

    Sun, April 16, 2006 - 1:38 PM
    Very insightfull.

    We all exist because we beleive and need a higher meaning in life to confirm and retain our reason to exist.

    Harking back to Vicktor Frankl and his book: Man's Search for Meaning and The opening lines of Albert Camus's first essay in his collection of essays called: The Myth of Sisyphus. "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest - whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories - comes afterwards." Albert Camus.

    To know 'who you serve' and why is to know why you live and who you are.

    Gair
  • Re: Who Do You Serve?

    Mon, June 12, 2006 - 11:56 AM
    Actually, when I was rewatching much of Babylon 5 in 2003 or so, I was struck just how much the the rhetoric of the Bush Administration and Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign echoed the rhetoric of the fictitious Clarke administration, Nightwatch, MiniPax, et cetera.

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