[Rhodes22-list] Politics? Religion? Inspiration?

[Brad Haslett]

Howard,

Welcome!

Rember these three things from me.

I love sailing!

I love to argue with people and  I've done it face to face with a lot of
people on this this list!

Stan and Rose built and have supported a beuatiful boat,  you'll be damn
lucky to own one.

Come to da' list loaded with bear shot!

Brad



On 8/22/06, howard kitzmiller <bestpestcontrol at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Lulluy by and good night, go to sleep little baby, go to sleep go to sleep
> go to sleep little baby,
> 'we are wishing you well now.   Sweet dreams will come your way.  Lulluby
> and good night.
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com>
> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Date: 8/13/2006 6:37:56 PM
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Politics? Religion? Inspiration?
> >
> > Frustrating day here!  Can't get my 12 year-old car to run or the much
> older
> wife to buy off on a new Volkswagon diesel - something about all the new
> construction equipment.  Here's something I stumbled across in blogsphere
> that made me feel better.
>
> *Psalm 9-11: I will fear no evil
> *By *Jules Crittenden <jcrittenden at bostonherald.com>*
> Boston Herald City Editor
>
>    Sunday, August 13, 2006 - Updated: 09:09 AM EST
>
> *D*o you know anyone whose Sept. 11 fears have returned Someone with a
> sick
> feeling and a tightening of the chest, bordering on panic Someone
> distraught
> or perhaps just withdrawn and distracted in the past few days
>
>        What do you say to calm their fears We drive each day on highways
> where the likelihood that a dumptruck will veer into our path far
> outstrips
> the possibility that we will find ourselves on an airplane targeted by
> terrorists. The chances that we will get it in any number of benign but
> equally deadly ways are exponentially higher than the chances that those
> who
> want to kill us will, in any given case, succeed.
>
>        Logic is irrelevant in combating these fears, as it is with
> children
> who fear monsters under the bed. This is not to disparage these fears. The
> threat is real. And while statistically remote, there is a factor that
> elevates terrorism beyond the many mundane fates we all dodge daily. It is
> the malice.
>
>        There are men out there who want us dead. This is undeniable. They
> want to see us all dead. Each and every one of us. They don't know our
> names, they don't know what our thoughts are about their grievances. They
> don't know what our actions are and how we've lived our lives. They don't
> care. They just want us dead.
>
>        I wish I had a sweet, comforting post-Sept. 11 lullaby to sing the
> ones I love to sleep when they experience fear of these evil men. But I
> don't. Lullabies combat false monsters. Real monsters require something
> different.
>
>        Psalms, like lullabies, give comfort. But they don't mask or deny
> the
> threat. They embrace it, and show the way to strength and ultimately
> comfort
> from within. What might a psalm say to anyone whose 9/11 fears have been
> reawakened
>
>        Strong, ruthless men and women go long hours without sleep for you.
> They do everything they can to keep you safe. They are your shield. They
> will kill for you, and die for you.You can take comfort from that
> knowledge
> and draw strength from their example.
>
>        But that is not enough. There is something you have to find within
> yourself. It may be that one day, our shield will fail, and the insidious
> foe that operates from beyond our borders and even within them will
> penetrate that shield and kill some of us again.
>
>         You must decide for yourself that you will not let them deter you
> from your path. If they rise against you, you must be prepared to meet
> them.
> Prepared to be ruthless in defense of what you love. It may mean that you
> will die. We all do someday. As a friend of mine who knew what he was
> talking about once said, it's not a matter of whether we will die, but how
> we will die. And when the time comes, the best we can hope for in this
> life,
> the one thing we might be able to control, is that we die well.
>
>        Each of us must look within ourselves for the strength that pushed
> the passengers of United Flight 93 forward against their hijackers on
> Sept.
> 11, in a successful if tragic assault that prevented further death and
> destruction.
>
>        We must look to the bravery of men such as Rick Rescorla, the
> British-American security executive and Vietnam war hero who shepherded
> thousands of people out of the World Trade Center but who stayed back
> himself with the last and ultimately died in the wreckage.
>
>        They are towering figures, but each of us has a little, just enough
> of that in us that we can draw on, to carry us through. We honor them by
> endeavoring to live up to their example. It begins by repeating to
> ourselves
> the words from which others have drawn comfort in time of war and peril
> for
> more than 2,500 years.
>
>         I will fear no evil.
>
> .............here is a footnote from the author at the blogsite source:
>         "I'd like to note that while I am not particularly religious, I
> consider the 23rd Psalm one of the greatest pieces of literature of
> western
> civilization and also one of the greatest comforts in hard times even for
> an
> unrepentant sinner such as myself.
>
> Ditto,
>
> Brad
>
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