For the poorest country in the Western hemisphere to get hit with this catastrophe is unjust. Where are the Gods?
When you believe against all evidence that there is a personal God that cares and something awful happens, you go into all kinds of contortions - such as blaming the victims of random acts of nature - to safeguard the Personal God That Cares from the evidence. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
There are far more benign ways of dealing with cognitive dissonance (such as ignoring it) than blaming the victims. That he chooses to avail himself of one of the most harmful resolution to his cognitive dissonance imaginable therefore implies a personal moral failing that many who believe in a personal and caring god do not suffer from.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
So I am not surprised if few reads him. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
Also, I didn't read a whole lot of it. His style rubbed me the wrong way.
Check out this video at 1m35s.
"I read Kierkegaard"
"In that case, you can smoke" En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
