Comments on: When Cosmo Roared http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/ Home of Heart, Mind and Really Big Issues Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:57:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: dougwe http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1303 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:15:49 +0000 http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1303 I think Dick Cheney is the perfect speaker. Who else is better suited to reinforce the principals that BYU so carefully cultivates...that any problem can be solved with smarter weapons and bigger tax cuts. I think Dick Cheney is the perfect speaker. Who else is better suited to reinforce the principals that BYU so carefully cultivates…that any problem can be solved with smarter weapons and bigger tax cuts.

]]> by: larryomiller http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1302 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:08:34 +0000 http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1302 "Anyone whose outlook on life at 50 is the same as when they were 20 has wasted 30 years of their life." - Muhammad Ali This might apply to the brainwashed BYU students and alumni. “Anyone whose outlook on life at 50 is the same as when they were 20 has wasted 30 years of their life.” - Muhammad Ali

This might apply to the brainwashed BYU students and alumni.

]]> by: gabespop http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1301 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:54:08 +0000 http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1301 "We should welcome him. He's a great leader." Hmmm. . . Doesn't sound human to me. Sounds like, as Holly suggested, his body has been snatched by an invading army. And, indeed, existentially oriented personality theorists such as Erich Fromm would claim that young men who utter such patently absurd and manifestly false statements that do nothing more than mimic the local worldview have not taken the first steps to becoming fully human. Being fully human, for these folks, requires a bit more thought, creativity, and insight than "We should welcome him. He's a great leader." A well trained chimp might be able to pull that off. How 'bout, "We should welcome him. He has a lot of explaining to do and we deserve a good explanation."? Holding someone to account for the gross mishandling of a misguided military venture is something someone who is using his or her full human capacities would do. And I for one think that the BYU students are up to that task. (And that's the nicest thing that this Ute alum will ever say about those knuckledraggers). “We should welcome him. He’s a great leader.”

Hmmm. . . Doesn’t sound human to me. Sounds like, as Holly suggested, his body has been snatched by an invading army. And, indeed, existentially oriented personality theorists such as Erich Fromm would claim that young men who utter such patently absurd and manifestly false statements that do nothing more than mimic the local worldview have not taken the first steps to becoming fully human. Being fully human, for these folks, requires a bit more thought, creativity, and insight than “We should welcome him. He’s a great leader.” A well trained chimp might be able to pull that off.

How ’bout, “We should welcome him. He has a lot of explaining to do and we deserve a good explanation.”? Holding someone to account for the gross mishandling of a misguided military venture is something someone who is using his or her full human capacities would do.

And I for one think that the BYU students are up to that task. (And that’s the nicest thing that this Ute alum will ever say about those knuckledraggers).

]]> by: msteele http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1300 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:15:42 +0000 http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1300 "Interviews with students on the issue revealed the response typical of BYU’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers world” While I personally think it's ok to have a sitting vice president speak at the BYU commencement, controversial or not, I also think it's even better that dissenting voices are allowed to express their point of view, inside or outside the university. I'm not so sure it's as good when we promote lame stereotypes when referring to people we disagree with. Just my pod of view, I suppose... “Interviews with students on the issue revealed the response typical of BYU’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers world”

While I personally think it’s ok to have a sitting vice president speak at the BYU commencement, controversial or not, I also think it’s even better that dissenting voices are allowed to express their point of view, inside or outside the university. I’m not so sure it’s as good when we promote lame stereotypes when referring to people we disagree with.

Just my pod of view, I suppose…

]]> by: chardonnay http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1292 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:22:24 +0000 http://mullentown.com/when-cosmo-roared/#comment-1292 Cheney and BYU are a perfect match. The evening news will have the VP`s boilerplate garbage & then pan to rapturous faces of the Y`s sycophants. The LDS Church has genius for lousy p.r. Sonoma State has Al Gore.....Cheney`s local approval rating is a solid 8%. RB Cheney and BYU are a perfect match. The evening news will have the VP`s boilerplate garbage & then pan to rapturous faces of the Y`s sycophants. The LDS Church has genius for lousy p.r.

Sonoma State has Al Gore…..Cheney`s local approval rating is a solid 8%.

RB

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