----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:33
PM
Subject: Re: [Fractint] Inauguration
email
Jim,
I have enjoyed your
fractals for many years now. Maybe I have not read the text associated
with them (other than the fractal cat stories -- I, too, am a cat person) but
I am totally disheartened by your and Jack of TraDeZ words here. This
has usually been a group that was, I thought, driven by the search for hidden
beauty in chaos. What goes after this is not fractal related but,
perhaps, is chaos related.
It appears that you and Jack, while two key
members of this Fractint group, may not be so driven toward the search for
hidden beauty. I am truly saddened.
Without your getting into a
deep descent into nastiness how can you believe this is the beginning or
hastening of the decline of this country? This last 8 years has been
truly horrifying for the USA and our reputation around the world. This
last regime has bankrupted this nation, not just financially (Billions and
Billions of dollars monthly going to what end other than killing people
needlessly -- US, Iraqi, Afghani people) but in trust within this country and
around the world. Bush has truly created chaos for us and the rest of
the world. This is not chaos in the beautiful Fractint sort but the
brutal, bloody, death affirming, hatred searching type.
Bush has
created this. Granted, this came out of an even greater horror of 911
but what he has done in response is truly terrible and in many ways
worse. Our world is not safer, kinder, or more beautiful but is filled
with fear, loss, death and ugliness beyond what I have seen in my 60+
years. The 911 event was caused by some fundamentalist Islamic
thugs. Our initial response into Afghanistan was justified but the
unnecessary escalation into Iraq was not. We (the USA via Bush), a
supposedly enlightened nation, created this and we are only beginning to pay
for it.
I am sure this, and other responses, will trigger a flamogram
type response (maybe this is exactly what you want!), but, in all good
conscience, how can you not have some hope that we might have a chance to get
ourselves out of the quagmire or cesspool that has defined the Bush
presidency? Do you want the continuation of the evil hostilities we have
seen?
Russ Nelson
A long time lurker and lover of Fractals -- since
Fractint v3.0
Apologies to Tim Wegner and the rest of the group for not
being Fractint related...
Jim Muth wrote:
At 03:51 PM 1/19/09 -0700, Jack of TraDeZ wrote:
On 2009-01-15 15:54, JimMuth wrote:
**************Inauguration '09: Get complete
coverage from the nation's capital.
(http://www.aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000027)
It's the beginning of the end for the country
I love(d) and grew up in. Thanx but no thanx.
I'd rather not watch.
I agree entirely. I plan on totally missing the
so-called 'big' event.
IMO, the new president is not the beginning of the
end, though he might hasten the decline. This
once-great country began its decline years ago.
And if anyone on the Fractint list thinks I actually
wrote the above advertisement for AOL, they should
turn in their fractals and resign from the list in
disgrace.
And if anyone wants to see some real debating on the
list, get me started on liberal politics or
conventional religion. Hmmm.... Maybe this is what
we need to get a little life back into the list.
Jim Muth
_______________________________________________
Fractint mailing list
Fractint@mailman.xmission.com
http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint
_______________________________________________
Fractint mailing
list
Fractint@mailman.xmission.com
http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint