docwebster ([personal profile] docwebster) wrote2004-07-29 10:25 pm

Well, now.

It seems I've lost another friend, no doubt because of how I feel about the band of thugs currently hijacking the White House. I won't shut up about how I feel, people. You'd best get used to it.

The older I get, the more of a mouth I get, apparently.
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[identity profile] isomeme.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations. If you're not pissing people off, you're not accomplishing anything. Recall one of my favorite proverbs from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "The cut worm forgives the plow."

[identity profile] nehi.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
*pats.* Dun worry, you won't lose me. ...Sometimes I want to stab you through the eye with a pencil, Mr. Conspiracy Theory, but there are a lot of my friends who I don't share politics with.

So don't worry. You're stuck with me.

[identity profile] yobadself.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
If you lost friends cuz of that, that's stupidity on their part. You rock.

[identity profile] darthgeek.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
So long! Don't let the door hitya where the good lord split ya!

Keep on ranting Doc. I appreciate it.

[identity profile] unkyrich.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Y'know, on the occasion that I post something philosophical or political, I worry about whether or not I'll piss off any of my friends.

Then I realize that it doesn't matter - those who leave (only one has, ever), don't matter, and those who stay, even if they disagree with me, know they have the freedom to do so.

I'm not sure what my point is . . .

[identity profile] ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone has their own opinions. Noone is going to 100% agree with anyone on anything. I have friends on both hands, left and right. I dont agree with everything you've said, and I don't agree with everything they've said.

That's the great thing about the USA. You don't HAVE to agree with everything. You SHOULDN'T agree with everything, otherwise, what's the point.

Unfortunately, not everyone can understand that with frienship comes acceptance and tolerance of other people's opinions, even if they don't agree with them.

That's why I give *everyone* grief. Pick a topic, I'll argue the other side, just to spite people. :)


Want to be a vegetarian, tree hugging hippy liberal? Then I'll be a meat eating, gun toting clear cutter. Whatever. ;)


As long as I get to piss off the religious right, I'm happy. ;P

[identity profile] nsingman.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
This is your journal, and you should feel free to express yourself as you please. I'm no fan of that current band of thugs, and you know that. I'm even less of a fan of Hanoi John and Ambulance Chaser John, and you know that, too. I certainly wouldn't ever ask you to shut up about how you feel, though.

After all, as a fellow MSTie, I know your heart is in the right place. :-)

[identity profile] shadesong.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I lost two after my last politics rant. One of them was someone who'd dropped Yendi and I a few months back after a rant of YENDI'S, and added us both back last month...

Dude, I don't keep my mouth shut. Deal or go away!

[identity profile] rsmit212.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)

As ticked off as I may get with what you say sometimes, you do provoke thought. If one side closes off the other, no progress can be made.

[identity profile] ministerofsilly.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. :)

[identity profile] rubber-shirt.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You won't lose me as a friend. :-)

[identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't blame you - if i were there i'd be scared and angry too

[identity profile] dandelion-diva.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The dinks don't deserve to read what you write.

You rock. And I love your voice, so don't even *think* of stopping.

Unless you want to. :)

Love you muchly.

Gessi
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[identity profile] helen99.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The fact that you do speak out gives me hope for the human race. Please don't stop... (not that you ever would)...

[identity profile] denity.livejournal.com 2004-07-31 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
With age come wisdom and more opinions:)