Comments on: The Kabbalah of the Blogosphere http://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html reflections on culture, politics, and religion from an evangelical worldview Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:34:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tgirschhttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-15952 tgirsch Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:34:27 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-15952 <b>Aaron:</b> <i>Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I've never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats.</i> Huh? If you must know, yes, I'm romantically involved with a liberal, am myself a liberal, and I have no idea what my parents' politics are because they have always made it a point never to discuss them with us, something for which I give them a tremendous amount of credit. And for the record, how did you know I switched from GOP to Democrat (circa 1998, by the way)? As for rational reasons, I have plenty:<ul><li>The "fiscal responsibility" of the GOP, my primary attraction to that party, turned out to be all smoke and mirrors.</li><li>I am an atheist, and the GOP was increasingly pushing a strongly pro-Christian, anti-everyone-else agenda, including supporting a "Christian Nation" amendment.</li><li>I believe that reasonable environmental protections are important; the GOP believes that such protections are unnecessary government interference. Our positions here are incompatible.</li><li>While I find some aspects of abortion troubling, I strongly support a woman's personal autonomy, and by extension, her right to choose. The GOP's stated positions are wholly incompatible with this.</li></ul> There are others, of course, but those are the primary reasons. There are still certain areas where I find myself more closely aligned with the GOP than with the Democratic party. Gun control springs to mind. But on most issues, the Democrats are the least of evils as compared to my personal politics. Aaron:
Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I’ve never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats.
Huh? If you must know, yes, I’m romantically involved with a liberal, am myself a liberal, and I have no idea what my parents’ politics are because they have always made it a point never to discuss them with us, something for which I give them a tremendous amount of credit.
And for the record, how did you know I switched from GOP to Democrat (circa 1998, by the way)?
As for rational reasons, I have plenty:
  • The “fiscal responsibility” of the GOP, my primary attraction to that party, turned out to be all smoke and mirrors.
  • I am an atheist, and the GOP was increasingly pushing a strongly pro-Christian, anti-everyone-else agenda, including supporting a “Christian Nation” amendment.
  • I believe that reasonable environmental protections are important; the GOP believes that such protections are unnecessary government interference. Our positions here are incompatible.
  • While I find some aspects of abortion troubling, I strongly support a woman’s personal autonomy, and by extension, her right to choose. The GOP’s stated positions are wholly incompatible with this.

There are others, of course, but those are the primary reasons. There are still certain areas where I find myself more closely aligned with the GOP than with the Democratic party. Gun control springs to mind. But on most issues, the Democrats are the least of evils as compared to my personal politics.

]]> By: Leah Guildensternhttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-15951 Leah Guildenstern Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:26:19 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-15951 Joe, Thanks for the compliments! Glad you like your placement on the tree and the description of Yesod. You did a nice write up on the whole concept. Tgirsch, the grouping is more a style thing than necessarily a content thing. (And I actually hadn't started reading your blog until today, so any categorization is yet to come. :-) ) Joe,
Thanks for the compliments! Glad you like your placement on the tree and the description of Yesod. You did a nice write up on the whole concept.
Tgirsch, the grouping is more a style thing than necessarily a content thing. (And I actually hadn’t started reading your blog until today, so any categorization is yet to come. :-) )

]]> By: Aaron's Rantbloghttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-15950 Aaron's Rantblog Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:08:12 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-15950 Thanks for the shout-out. And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch. Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I've never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives. I loved <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica. By the way, I don't know if you ever learned that you got a <a href="http://la4israel.org/wordpress/index.php?p=1112&more=1&c=1" rel="nofollow">Blogopoly</a> piece back in February. Thanks for the shout-out.
And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch.
Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I’ve never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives.
I loved Foucault’s Pendulum. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica.
By the way, I don’t know if you ever learned that you got a Blogopoly piece back in February.

]]> By: Aaron's Rantbloghttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-20990 Aaron's Rantblog Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:08:12 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-20990 Thanks for the shout-out. And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch. Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I've never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives. I loved <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica. By the way, I don't know if you ever learned that you got a <a href="http://la4israel.org/wordpress/index.php?p=1112&more=1&c=1" rel="nofollow">Blogopoly</a> piece back in February. Thanks for the shout-out.
And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch.
Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I’ve never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives.
I loved Foucault’s Pendulum. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica.
By the way, I don’t know if you ever learned that you got a Blogopoly piece back in February.

]]> By: Aaron's Rantbloghttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-26183 Aaron's Rantblog Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:08:12 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-26183 Thanks for the shout-out. And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch. Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I've never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives. I loved <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica. By the way, I don't know if you ever learned that you got a <a href="http://la4israel.org/wordpress/index.php?p=1112&more=1&c=1" rel="nofollow">Blogopoly</a> piece back in February. Thanks for the shout-out.
And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch.
Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I’ve never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives.
I loved Foucault’s Pendulum. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica.
By the way, I don’t know if you ever learned that you got a Blogopoly piece back in February.

]]> By: Aaron's Rantbloghttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-29061 Aaron's Rantblog Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:08:12 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-29061 Thanks for the shout-out. And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch. Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I've never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives. I loved <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica. By the way, I don't know if you ever learned that you got a <a href="http://la4israel.org/wordpress/index.php?p=1112&more=1&c=1" rel="nofollow">Blogopoly</a> piece back in February. Thanks for the shout-out.
And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch.
Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I’ve never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives.
I loved Foucault’s Pendulum. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica.
By the way, I don’t know if you ever learned that you got a Blogopoly piece back in February.

]]> By: Aaron's Rantbloghttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-29906 Aaron's Rantblog Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:08:12 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-29906 Thanks for the shout-out. And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch. Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I've never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives. I loved <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica. By the way, I don't know if you ever learned that you got a <a href="http://la4israel.org/wordpress/index.php?p=1112&more=1&c=1" rel="nofollow">Blogopoly</a> piece back in February. Thanks for the shout-out.
And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch.
Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I’ve never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives.
I loved Foucault’s Pendulum. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica.
By the way, I don’t know if you ever learned that you got a Blogopoly piece back in February.

]]> By: Aaron's Rantbloghttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-33832 Aaron's Rantblog Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:08:12 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-33832 Thanks for the shout-out. And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch. Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I've never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives. I loved <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica. By the way, I don't know if you ever learned that you got a <a href="http://la4israel.org/wordpress/index.php?p=1112&more=1&c=1" rel="nofollow">Blogopoly</a> piece back in February. Thanks for the shout-out.
And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch.
Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I’ve never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives.
I loved Foucault’s Pendulum. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica.
By the way, I don’t know if you ever learned that you got a Blogopoly piece back in February.

]]> By: Aaron's Rantbloghttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-34810 Aaron's Rantblog Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:08:12 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-34810 Thanks for the shout-out. And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch. Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I've never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives. I loved <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica. By the way, I don't know if you ever learned that you got a <a href="http://la4israel.org/wordpress/index.php?p=1112&more=1&c=1" rel="nofollow">Blogopoly</a> piece back in February. Thanks for the shout-out.
And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch.
Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I’ve never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives.
I loved Foucault’s Pendulum. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica.
By the way, I don’t know if you ever learned that you got a Blogopoly piece back in February.

]]> By: Aaron's Rantbloghttp://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2004/06/the-kabbalah-of-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-35649 Aaron's Rantblog Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:08:12 +0000 http://evangelicaloutpost.com.s17512.gridserver.com/?p=696#comment-35649 Thanks for the shout-out. And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch. Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I've never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives. I loved <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica. By the way, I don't know if you ever learned that you got a <a href="http://la4israel.org/wordpress/index.php?p=1112&more=1&c=1" rel="nofollow">Blogopoly</a> piece back in February. Thanks for the shout-out.
And Charles Johnson is an incredible mensch.
Any chance that tgirsch is either romantically involved with a liberal or is rebelling against Republican parents? I’ve never met anyone who had rational reasons for switching from the GOP to the Democrats. Membership in the GOP was likely an accident of birth. Recall Churchill and Shaw on young liberals and old conservatives.
I loved Foucault’s Pendulum. Reading Eco is an education in esoterica.
By the way, I don’t know if you ever learned that you got a Blogopoly piece back in February.

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