Back to my point. I will occasionally have a dream about someone that I don't see very often (or haven't seen in a long time). While they can be fun, they usually drive me crazy! I feel like I spent a fun day (or two) with someone, I have all the memories of the experiences and conversations that we had... except that they didn't happen! So, the next time I see or talk to the person that was in my dream, it's almost awkward because I have these amazing memories... but they have no recollection of any of it! How sad for me.
So that was the first thing I dealt with this morning. After I finished writing an e-mail about that experience, I opened up the next e-mail. It's a WHOLE OTHER KIND OF WEIRD.
Um, yeah. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The person who sent this to me quite clearly does not know me, even the tiniest little bit. It was all I could do NOT to write back and say, "Listen here, you right-wing, psychotic bitch, the fact that you clearly have no real knowledge about the history of our country or what the founding fathers were hoping for is enough to make me lose all respect for you, but the fact that you twist a speech that is supposed to bring our country together and give it your super special Conservative Christian Sunshine makes me want to never have contact with you again!"This should give us something to ponder.Dear Friends,As I was listening to a news program last night, I watched in horror as Barack Obama made the statement with pride. . .'we are no longer a Christian nation; we are now a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, . . . As with so many other statements I've heard him (and his wife) make, I never thought I'd see the day that I'd hear something like that from a presidential candidate in this nation. To think our forefathers fought and died for the right for our nation to be a Christian nation--and to have this man say with pride that we are no longer that. How far this nation has come from what our founding fathers intended it to be.I hope that each of you will do what I'm doing now--send your concerns, written simply and sincerely, to the Christians on your email list. With God's help, and He is still in control of this nation and all else, we can show this man and the world in November that we are, indeed, still a Christian nation!Please pray for our nation!
Ahh, but I didn't. No, instead I crafted a very calm (for me) response and said:
If I could kindly ask you to take me off the mailing list when you send out this kind of thing, that would be great. Otherwise, you'll start getting responses listing all of the blatant historical inaccuracies in the e-mail, as well as my own political views, which are drastically different than this e-mail! :) Thanks!Ugh. The person who sent it to me is one of my aunts on my dad's side that I haven't seen in, oh... 22 years? That whole side of the family will occasionally send out "YAY FOR PRAYING" e-mails or "PRAY FOR OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS SRSLY" e-mails, but those are easy enough to ignore.
Seriously, people. I know we all have our political views and preferences, but what if I slapped up a McCain Youtube link and said, "OH MY GOD, McCain is going to put all women into concentration camps and make them drill for oil during hurricanes in Texas!!!!" That might come close to the ridiculous untruths being circulated in that Obama e-mail.
After that, my day got moderately better... so I'm hoping this evening is great! I've been 11-8 at the library today, allll by myself. This is nice in a way, but it's pretty lonely. Add to that the fact that it's the end of summer session and nobody's really in class anymore, and we have a very. quiet. day. It's too bad I'm not writing a (real) novel; I could get some serious work done on it on a day like today! :)
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Apparently we are living in the land of the free and the home of the insane. I wonder if she prays for segregation and I pray for tolerance, what might God look more favorably upon?
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