Comments on: “Highest First” by Nathan Otto & Eben Pagan… http://fromthedeskofmarlenegreen.com/highest-first-by-nathan-otto-eben-pagan/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:30:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nathan Otto http://fromthedeskofmarlenegreen.com/highest-first-by-nathan-otto-eben-pagan/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Nathan Otto Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:30:29 +0000 http://fromthedeskofmarlenegreen.com/?p=56#comment-65 Marlene, thanks for the post. It does take a "special kind of moron" to believe that we have a sustainable future for our race without making war a quaint and horrible anachronism. It takes a special kind of moron who is pathetically optimistic to think that we have any worthwhile future, or any future at all, without making new agreements about how we settle political dispute in and among peoples. If being pathetically optimistic is what it takes to create a future I want to live in, and that works for my kids, then sign me up. Skeptics, look to the future your skepticism is creating--is that the future you want? Obama doesn't need to yank the cord on the military-industrial complex for us to have world peace--as defined not by some never-never utopia but by ending politically organized killing and raping. We have just about got it already--we need a mop-up operation and new structures of peace that include the military option to take over failed states and build effective governance. Check our www.p5y.org Marlene, thanks for the post.

It does take a “special kind of moron” to believe that we have a sustainable future for our race without making war a quaint and horrible anachronism.

It takes a special kind of moron who is pathetically optimistic to think that we have any worthwhile future, or any future at all, without making new agreements about how we settle political dispute in and among peoples.

If being pathetically optimistic is what it takes to create a future I want to live in, and that works for my kids, then sign me up.

Skeptics, look to the future your skepticism is creating–is that the future you want?

Obama doesn’t need to yank the cord on the military-industrial complex for us to have world peace–as defined not by some never-never utopia but by ending politically organized killing and raping. We have just about got it already–we need a mop-up operation and new structures of peace that include the military option to take over failed states and build effective governance.

Check our http://www.p5y.org

]]> By: sceptic#2 http://fromthedeskofmarlenegreen.com/highest-first-by-nathan-otto-eben-pagan/comment-page-1/#comment-57 sceptic#2 Thu, 14 May 2009 01:18:29 +0000 http://fromthedeskofmarlenegreen.com/?p=56#comment-57 Hilarious. He talked to world leaders about peace... wow, fascinating stuff. I wonder if he realizes the US is the world's #1 threat to world peace. http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ I'm sure Obama will just yank the military industrial complex cord right out of the wall... Seriously, this stuff is so pathetically optimistic and blind to reality it takes a special kind of moron to believe it. remember kids... dream big, if you waste your life talking to bureaucrats, you can always fall back on your family's fortunes! Hilarious. He talked to world leaders about peace… wow, fascinating stuff.

I wonder if he realizes the US is the world’s #1 threat to world peace. http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

I’m sure Obama will just yank the military industrial complex cord right out of the wall…

Seriously, this stuff is so pathetically optimistic and blind to reality it takes a special kind of moron to believe it.

remember kids… dream big, if you waste your life talking to bureaucrats, you can always fall back on your family’s fortunes!

]]> By: John http://fromthedeskofmarlenegreen.com/highest-first-by-nathan-otto-eben-pagan/comment-page-1/#comment-51 John Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:30:48 +0000 http://fromthedeskofmarlenegreen.com/?p=56#comment-51 I think it's doing the most with what you have that counts. Money may remove some obstacles but without a clear vision there are unlimited new ones to take their place. A clear vision can overcome any obstacle. I think it’s doing the most with what you have that counts. Money may remove some obstacles but without a clear vision there are unlimited new ones to take their place. A clear vision can overcome any obstacle.

]]> By: Sceptic1 http://fromthedeskofmarlenegreen.com/highest-first-by-nathan-otto-eben-pagan/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Sceptic1 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:46:06 +0000 http://fromthedeskofmarlenegreen.com/?p=56#comment-50 Give me a break. Of course he can achieve "highest first", he has money. Eating organic costs money. Working out with a personal trainer costs money. Flying to Prague to meet with world leaders costs money. Having access to CEOs and Executives takes money and a high social standing, which he has thanks to his family fortune. This guy is dreaming if he thinks people who are living on minimum wage can achieve these kinds of things. It is ignorant, out of touch and quite simply offensive. This is the kind of blind-sighted stuff you would expect Paris Hilton to say: "anything is possible if you work hard". Why doesn't he use his money and open up some homeless shelters in LA so that people aren't dying on skid row. Give me a break. Of course he can achieve “highest first”, he has money. Eating organic costs money. Working out with a personal trainer costs money. Flying to Prague to meet with world leaders costs money. Having access to CEOs and Executives takes money and a high social standing, which he has thanks to his family fortune. This guy is dreaming if he thinks people who are living on minimum wage can achieve these kinds of things. It is ignorant, out of touch and quite simply offensive. This is the kind of blind-sighted stuff you would expect Paris Hilton to say: “anything is possible if you work hard”. Why doesn’t he use his money and open up some homeless shelters in LA so that people aren’t dying on skid row.

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