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Monday, January 19, 2009 8:33 PM
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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
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