magicmary's Comments (197)

“Was not proposing that 2012 had anything to do with mainstream religion. I was making a metaphorical reference that the use by date (stamped on food products) has passed or that the shelf life of religion has passed. Not knocking people who really get what their religion is trying to teach but more and more people use religion to divide and as a justification of intolerance of every variety - a sure sign of decay that stinks to high heaven (if you will..)
The Mayan civilization may have been wiped out but the Mayans live, by the way. Will the same think happen to our civilization?”

“God/dess bless the New Agers! You don't see Drunvalo Melchizedek (for example - not promoting his deal) trying to be the moral authority for everyone on the planet or you don't see him and his followers trying to persecute non believers. He probably could care less if you get the whole flower of life thing. Those guys are all just holding onto a faith that the future could be transformative if there's enough of a critical mass of people becoming spiritual but not necessarily religious and recognizing the unity between all being, all life, regardless of your metaphorical set. In my opinion, mainstream religion's use by date is long past and it's time to get rid of the middle man between one's self and spiritual presence however you perceive it.”

“Doing God's work? REALLY!?!

Sorry, can't get SNL's commentary on their Really segment - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/08/seth-meyers-amy-poehler-g_n_349895.html - out of my head. We need to use that word as a thought bomb whenever there's anything about those guys in the media. Thanks Amy and Seth!!”

“For some reason I keep visualizing the villian in Dan Brown's latest book as Hank Paulson. Must be the bald head...”

“Give the President a raise to 1 million bucks and then make a law that says NO ONE shall make more money than the President!! Take all that dough that's left over and put it in people's 401K's. Or a national emergency fund. Or something. I realize I'm talking out of my emotions here but you get the point.”

“Keep after them Jan!!! As someone said a few posts down, they see themselves as the ruling class. That has to end. Period!”

“My cousin has been a militant vegan since high school and she's a babe. Not a damn thing unhealthy looking about her at all. Gorgeous hair, smooth skin, over 30 now. Strong - carries a backpack.”

“You know what's weird? If I go out to eat with someone and I choose a vegetarian entre they look at me and say, "I didn't know you were a vegetarian!" Well I'm not at the moment because I still have that bacon as comfort food thing going on. I have, however, increased good natural grown in the ground food and decreased animal products. I feel absolutely poluted when I overindulge in animal food. So I treat animal products like a drug you don't want to do all the time and go for the tofu and tempeh choices on the menu or the vegie burgers at the tavern. You know, a vegie burger doesn't give you that dead weight feeling in your stomach. Yummy!
It also drives me crazy that my family believes food comes out of boxes in the store. Food comes from the ground. The shorter the distance from dirt to plate the better it is for you! People don't read labels!!! What? there's as much sugar in my vitamin water as in my candybar??”

“Dairy production. Farming of milk cows. And lets not forget farming of pregnant mares to get their urine for Premarin - there are other alternative. They force the mares to drink more water than they need to get production up. Horrible.”

“Robert, I think you should do some PSA's dressed in the Freddy Kreuger character - what scares Freddy? Oooh, death panels!! But point well taken about fear mongering. The best we can do is make fun of them at every turn as loudly as we can! Also make fun of the willfully ignorant - the ones who believe in and hang on every word the fear monger's spew.”

“There is no hell in the bible. Check it out. It's a lie created by the medieval morality police.”

“All the political spouses should deny secks as in Lysistratra.”

“I think it's possible to be pro business without being pro evil. Basing a monopoly on a company that makes a profit off of denying sick people care is beyond evil. Healthcare should be non profit. Only in America does it make a profit.”

“Right.”

“I make my living being a problem solver and that extends into my private life. Not sure where you're hanging out...”

“Now there's an idea for a graph....”

“A bit of an aside, but women, when was the last time you took a 2 week vacation? Anyone? That used to be a fact of life! I think the marketplace is so ungodly demanding - much more than it used to be before we all started working.”

“We no longer have time for friends and family.”

“The thing that makes me sad and sometimes hopeless is that even though I am more educated than my father and I've got a "career", my dollar doesn't go as far as his did in the 60's. I grew up in a very nice house which is now considered "historic" and worth a ton of money (we sold it in the early 70's.. sign!). None of us kids could ever have a house like that. I say women are unhappy because as we gained power in the workplace, the middle class was being destroyed. So here we are, full of talent and careers, but our dollars are near worthless. I'm glad I'm not raising any kids because I see that my nieces will have less than me and my sibs and they are already 30 something.”

“"The contradiction between human rights and corporate power is at the core of the cancer now killing our democracy.­"

And has been since Reagan!!!!”

“I've been uneasy since Reagan.”

“Since I was a little kid, I never thought we lived in a free country and certainly not fair. When I found out in the 60's that black people weren't allowed to vote I said, "What? I thought this was a free country!" When I found out how brutally Native Americans were treated, I said, "What? I thought this was a free country!" When I realized that everyone had to work and there was very little if any flexibility in how they worked and no negotiating the terms of their working (I wasn't raised in a union household) I said, "What? I thought this was a free country!" When I realized that just about every healthcare plan I've ever had only allowed me to use certain docs and facilities I thought, "What? I thought this was a free country!"
The corporations have destroyed our freedom more than any, these days, powerless politician could ever hope to do.”

“These guys have ruined the news media. Controversy and scandal sells and so to make money these guys have to create scandal and controversty. Please continue to lobby all their advertisers to quit being a party to Marthyistic tabloid sensationalistic and downright vicious programming!”

“I think it was not too long after that there was a plane crash on Rockaway Island (? not from there..) and it was 2 blocks away from where my cousin lives. We all asked her if she ever thought about moving.”

“Since forever I've never turned the TV on in the morning. So I got in my car to go to work and heard one of the local DJ's say, "Well, this is an act of war isn't it?" I thought, what? What's an act of war, what? I don't really remember what they said after that. When I got to work, everyone was in the conference room watching the events as they were unfolding. We all saw the towers come down together. It was a state of shock. A little bit later, my supervisor called from Germany to say she'd be back tomorrow and to catch her up on what all has been going on at work. I told her I wasn't sure she'd be able to come back tomorrow and to turn on the TV in her motel room right now. She thought I was BS'ing her for a minute and asked to speak to someone else who told her the same thing. I remember my boss - the facility director - doing something about taking precautions about something. I had a friend who was going to be flying in from Boston that day, too, but that was not her flight and they'd canceled the trip all together.
I turn my TV on in the morning now. It's like since then, I just can't look away.”