In the afterlife?

[SHRED]

If there is one do ya think Ronnie is meeting up with those tortured, raped, and then murdered Nicaraguans at the hands of his beloved Contras?

Fuck Reagan. I have NO sympathy.

[Don_G]

1. Contras?

What about each and every individual in the US and the rest of the world who he's screwed?

I hope he gets the chance to meet each and every one of them in the next life.

[SHRED]

5. True..true...

I couldn't resist posting up some reality after all the, "I didn't agree with his policies but..." hanky wringing posts on the DU.

Reagan was a fucking bastard who gutted environmental laws, busted unions, and caused so much pain and suffering throughout Central and South America, just to mention a few of his "lowlights".

If this makes me an insensitive SOB then oh well. I stand up for principles not feelings.

[lastknowngood]

2. Here here I agree 100% This bastard killed over 40,000 people

under his fuckin war against the peasants of south america so fuck him!

[SHRED]

9. Not to mention...

...the accelerated clearcutting of our forests during his reign.

Just couldn't stand him. Good riddance!

[Trajan]

3. What afterlife ? ...

BTW: .... hatred resides within, and affects only within ...

It's YOUR problem ....

[SHRED]

7. Tell that...

... to the dead Nicaraguan children who were the recipients of the Contra's hate. They might disagree with your "only within" bullshit talk.

[Trajan]

8. Reagan will perhaps wrestle with his demons in this 'afterlife' ....

and surely he has been as rotten bastard .... but honestly: lashing out in anger changes that ?

YOU feel a need to vent your spleen ? ...

That is INSIDE OF YOU .... and doesnt exist anywhere else ...

Hatred is poison .... use it carefully ....

[SHRED]

10. Huh?

I will always approve of anyone getting worked up over someone like him.

I don't think my passion should be defined as 'poison'. That is what you are calling it.

I can almost hear the ghosts of the tortured dead. I rant for them and against the principles and principalities that killed them. They are still with us today.

Sorry, I don't by into the anti-anger/hatred psychobabble. That crap was brought to us by gurus, shrinks, religious 'leaders', and politicians who desire to keep the masses docile and well trained for their 'following'.

[Trajan]

11. Whatever ....

You can refuse ALL decent advice .... til the cows come home ...

YOUR anger is yours: and no one elses ... like it or not ...

[SHRED]

13. Then I guess...

we are all just sealed units walking around the planet according to your theory. All passions are only 'within us'. None of them shared.
Or is it just anger that freaks you out?

BTW: Taking the fire out of my principles is NOT 'decent advice', in my book.

[Mike Niendorff]

16. re: "Taking the fire out of my principles is NOT 'decent advice'"

Hear hear.


MDN

[SHRED]

17. :)

:toast:

[nofurylike]

4. can only hope for such redress, at last. yes. n/t

[Cleita]

6. I have dreamed of the afterlife, not as heaven, purgatory and hell,

but as the same place we all go to for our just rewards or punishment.
If we wronged someone in this life, we may have to be their servant in the afterlife. If we caused suffering and death to others in this life we may have to spend our afterlife making sure that they get everything that we denied them in this life. I take this view from the beatitudes that Jesus spoke on the sermon on the mount. He makes a point of saying that those who have suffered in this life will be blessed in the afterlife, like "blessed are the ..... for they will be....", or in other words in a better place.

[LTR]

12. Reagan, in reality, wasn't very religious

I don't really recall him even going to church very often.

He's as much a fundie as he was a veteran.

Ironically, the fundie goons rallied 'round him. Go figure.

[mike1963]

14. Well, sorry to pee on the parade, but there's no 'afterlife'.

Dead is, well, dead. As in non-existance. Like the weed you pulled from your lawn the other day. It is no more. Just like before you were born...but not to worry, it's painless. And will be so for a very long time.
:eyes:

[SHRED]

15. There isn't?

Darn!

:mad:

[mike1963]

18. Yeah, it sucks, doesn't it?

:D