The Truth: I started to write a long letter about "truth" and it turned into a full blown essay, so I deleted it. I was talking with my dad about how some people just scream against everything and won't face the truth. I commented that I was going to do my very best to speak in favor of things instead of against things.
Well tonight I read a quote from Robert F Kennedy Jr. In speaking of people who disagree with him on the issue of global warming he said, "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." This is the exact kind of inflaming hate speech that the Muslims have become famous for. In fact, this is the exact rhetoric that is being played out by some clerics in Pakistan who insist on Islamic law to rule Pakistan instead of the laws that have been voted by the majority. Their position, as is Kennedy, is that if you don't believe what I believe then you are evil.
The problem is what they call truth and what others call truth. Here are two facts in which we disagree, global warming and abortion. This is not to say that all who believe in global warming believe in abortion, but from my experience that generalization is mostly true. I have yet to find one politician who is pro-life and green. If you know of one let me know.
So, the facts on when life begins is the issue for me. I feel that if there is life then it must be protected. Those on the abortion side would say that life only happens when the baby takes its first breath. When it is growing, moving, and kicking it isn't really alive - it is just a featus. I see an egg dividing and see the process as beginning, there is life. The heart is beating at 22 days, that is life. But, those on the abortion side of the debate feel that the right of the unborn baby aren't as important as the right of the mother and if she wants to kill the baby then that is her right. We disagree.
On the issue of global warming those who hold that the earth is warming and it is all a result of human intervention would also hold that if you disagree you are closed minded and ignorant. This is a position that has baffled me because in my case it is the exact opposite. I am as open minded on this subject as you will ever see. What gets them really mad is that I haven't made up my mind. Because I can look at both sides of the subject and critically look at both sets of data just makes them crazy! Last year we were supposed to have the worse hurricanes ever because of global warming, it was one the the lightest on record. This year they promised that it would be even worse than last years prediction, and here we are in the third month of the hurricane season without a single hurricane to date. The global warming crowd loves to point at the terrible heat wave in the southwest, but won't point out that it is snowing in Buenos Aires for the first time in 89 years. I was in Texas a few years ago when it snowed in South Texas and Mexico on Christmas day, the first time in over a hundred years. But because I see evidence on both side I am to be considered a traitor by Robert Kennedy, and a denier by others. I am just seeking the truth, and that just isn't allow in today's society.
What happened to the day when there was good intellectual conversation about subjects of importance? Why is it that if I don't believe as you believe I am a traitor to some cause? I am glad that there is conversation about global warming, I think that we will discover some great things, and hopefully some terrific inventions that will remove our dependency on foreign fuel. I long for the day when I can drive to work on electric. While I disagree with the religion of Al Gore, I am glad that he has made so much noise about it bringing it to the public's attention. He has shown that you can make a lot of money in this industry and has helped to turn it into the next Dot Com boom.
The truth is out there, lets find it together without bashing each other just because we may disagree.
Well tonight I read a quote from Robert F Kennedy Jr. In speaking of people who disagree with him on the issue of global warming he said, "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." This is the exact kind of inflaming hate speech that the Muslims have become famous for. In fact, this is the exact rhetoric that is being played out by some clerics in Pakistan who insist on Islamic law to rule Pakistan instead of the laws that have been voted by the majority. Their position, as is Kennedy, is that if you don't believe what I believe then you are evil.
The problem is what they call truth and what others call truth. Here are two facts in which we disagree, global warming and abortion. This is not to say that all who believe in global warming believe in abortion, but from my experience that generalization is mostly true. I have yet to find one politician who is pro-life and green. If you know of one let me know.
So, the facts on when life begins is the issue for me. I feel that if there is life then it must be protected. Those on the abortion side would say that life only happens when the baby takes its first breath. When it is growing, moving, and kicking it isn't really alive - it is just a featus. I see an egg dividing and see the process as beginning, there is life. The heart is beating at 22 days, that is life. But, those on the abortion side of the debate feel that the right of the unborn baby aren't as important as the right of the mother and if she wants to kill the baby then that is her right. We disagree.
On the issue of global warming those who hold that the earth is warming and it is all a result of human intervention would also hold that if you disagree you are closed minded and ignorant. This is a position that has baffled me because in my case it is the exact opposite. I am as open minded on this subject as you will ever see. What gets them really mad is that I haven't made up my mind. Because I can look at both sides of the subject and critically look at both sets of data just makes them crazy! Last year we were supposed to have the worse hurricanes ever because of global warming, it was one the the lightest on record. This year they promised that it would be even worse than last years prediction, and here we are in the third month of the hurricane season without a single hurricane to date. The global warming crowd loves to point at the terrible heat wave in the southwest, but won't point out that it is snowing in Buenos Aires for the first time in 89 years. I was in Texas a few years ago when it snowed in South Texas and Mexico on Christmas day, the first time in over a hundred years. But because I see evidence on both side I am to be considered a traitor by Robert Kennedy, and a denier by others. I am just seeking the truth, and that just isn't allow in today's society.
What happened to the day when there was good intellectual conversation about subjects of importance? Why is it that if I don't believe as you believe I am a traitor to some cause? I am glad that there is conversation about global warming, I think that we will discover some great things, and hopefully some terrific inventions that will remove our dependency on foreign fuel. I long for the day when I can drive to work on electric. While I disagree with the religion of Al Gore, I am glad that he has made so much noise about it bringing it to the public's attention. He has shown that you can make a lot of money in this industry and has helped to turn it into the next Dot Com boom.
The truth is out there, lets find it together without bashing each other just because we may disagree.
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