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Tuesday, 25 December, 2001 20:05

Bill O'reilly's article in the NYTimes.

My reply:
Bill O'reilly was right when he said that he would offend some atheists out there... I am one of those atheists, and Bill O'reilly and his ilk often offend me, and this happens so frequently that I'm sure that it's not accidental.

Bill calls Jesus, "A man whose philosophy became the cornerstone of democratic thinking." but I'm not really sure how the worship of a fictional god promotes democracy. Bowing down and worshiping something usually denotes slavery...

Bill says, "You don't have to be a Christian to understand the importance of the central theme of Jesus' philosophy – that a person love God and love his or her neighbor as himself." Well, sorry, Bill, but only christians seem to understand that, and then only the first part... the part that can't be proven. With your next words, you betray your thinking on loving your neighbors, branding them as destructive fascists.

Bill, like most christians that I know, insists that religious freedom means his right to brandish his cross in my face. I do believe that it means that I can be free of such intrusion, at least from my government.

And poor Bill, he is offended by the arrogance of those of us who dismiss the idea of a higher being... I, however, am offended by the idea that Bill is so arrogant that he believes that the supreme creator of the universe and everything, cares about *him*. And that, furthermore, *he* (that's Bill) knows exactly what this creator wants!


I got called pretty early this morning, first for CTs on a 20-year old who had rolled/flipped his truck at a high rate of speed. And speaking of high, he sure was.

He had a fractured spine and multiple internal injuries but he'll survive just fine, I believe. It took me about three hours to get out of there, but when I did, I didn't get called again until about 17:00. Took me a coupla hours to do several patients, and now, I hope, I'm home for the evening.

I had time to get a nice long nap today, so I laid down but I never could quite get to sleep, dammit, but that's just as well, that means that I should be able to sleep tonight.

Short work week, and then I still don't know if I'm working new years' eve and new years' day, I need to discuss it with Karen.

Well, I just discussed it with Karen, I will not be working new years. That was pretty easy.

Winter is finally here, it's getting down to 10F tonight, and only up to like 25F tomorrow. Doesn't really make much difference to me, it's just interesting to talk about... well, maybe not even that, heh?

Dammit, the months, the seasons, the years... they are all going so fast, and all that I seem to be able to do is drop my jaw and gawk. We are all helpless before the rush of time, but most of us can remain relatively unbothered by it... not me, I feel every minute bleeding out of my life, and I want it to Stop. Right. Now.

Once again, my words are unheeded, it's not stopping, nor even slowing down as it snickers at me.

Speaking of snickers... I have eaten way too much. This is my first holiday season without smoking, and man! does the food taste good! Gotta stop that soon, of course.


Thanx for being here!

All Material © 2001 by Douglas C. Franklin

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