dougsoderstrom13 Sep 2002

Well limness:

You still do not get it---do you? You say that my poem represents the fact that I am apparently some kind of reactionary. By saying that do you mean to imply that I am somewhat conservative? Well, if so, you totally missed the point of my poem. In fact, I am a Christian Humanist----meaning that I am basically a political liberal (in fact I am very liberal) yet I believe in the ethics of Jesus Christ----in that if one is to be "a Christian" it is very important to want to be as (live as) much like Jesus Christ (or even Buddha or Muhammed, or Khrisna) as one can----even if one is a Moslem, a Hindu, a buddhist, a Jew, or whatever else one might be. As for the poem (given my political and spiritual leanings), I am very much against the idea of George Bush wanting to go and invade Iraq. As I indicate in my poem (the last line, that is), I do not think that we need "more mangled bodies lying on the ground."
And that could well be the result of a war with Iraq, especially if the war were to expand to the rest of the Middle East.

So limness-----do I now make things a little clearer for you in terms who I am (that is the political and spiritual orientation that I have)???
Your Friend,
Doug