Inauguration Speech TidBits
Number of times the word "freedom" was used in today's word to the wise: 27
Number of times the word "liberty" was used in today's sermon: 17
Number of times the word "peace" was used in today's repitition frenzy: 1 ("peaceful outrage" also mentioned once.)
-The Word-
"Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills."
*Contemplating*... How might various groups of people interpret a statement like this? I understand how the core message could be interpreted as a very positive one -- or a very negative one. The above quote essentially says this: We don't consider ourselves a chosen nation, GOD considers us a chosen nation.
"After the shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet, years of repose, years of sabbatical - and then there came a day of fire."
???? "And then there came a day of fire"???? This reminded me of the film Boondock Saints, in which Willem Dafoe begins the recounting of a dramatic story with "AND THERE WAS A FIIIRREFIIIGHT!" *Arms stretched wide, enraged*. Excellent film, by the way.
" The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world."
Good call; let's spread the freedom. This seems like a "nice" idea, an idea so complex that it has to be packed away very tightly into perfunctory sound bytes that say absolutely nothing about how this will be achieved and just ends up making us look like THE purveyors of freedom and liberty, we who "God moves and chooses as he wills". Fodder for the masses; delightful.
Language -- it's great. Interpret it however you want, in the end, it means something only to you.
Whole transcript here.
"Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills."
*Contemplating*... How might various groups of people interpret a statement like this? I understand how the core message could be interpreted as a very positive one -- or a very negative one. The above quote essentially says this: We don't consider ourselves a chosen nation, GOD considers us a chosen nation.
"After the shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet, years of repose, years of sabbatical - and then there came a day of fire."
???? "And then there came a day of fire"???? This reminded me of the film Boondock Saints, in which Willem Dafoe begins the recounting of a dramatic story with "AND THERE WAS A FIIIRREFIIIGHT!" *Arms stretched wide, enraged*. Excellent film, by the way.
" The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world."
Good call; let's spread the freedom. This seems like a "nice" idea, an idea so complex that it has to be packed away very tightly into perfunctory sound bytes that say absolutely nothing about how this will be achieved and just ends up making us look like THE purveyors of freedom and liberty, we who "God moves and chooses as he wills". Fodder for the masses; delightful.
Language -- it's great. Interpret it however you want, in the end, it means something only to you.
Whole transcript here.
posted by TheZenFly at 11:02 PM
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