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ELVIS and Osama Bin Laden....can YOU tell the difference?
Here's poem for Elvis so we can see what great results we have from sending Christian missionaries around the world to "civilize" the word!
Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" (1899)
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke (1) your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel, (2)
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
(1) Cloak, cover.
(2) Since the days of Classical Greece, a laurel wreath has been a symbolic victory prize.
Born in British India in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was educated in England before returning to India in 1882, where his father was a museum director and authority on Indian arts and crafts. Thus Kipling was thoroughly immersed in Indian culture: by 1890 he had published in English about 80 stories and ballads previously unknown outside India. As a result of financial misfortune, from 1892-96 he and his wife, the daughter of an American publisher, lived in Vermont, where he wrote the two Jungle Books. After returning to England, he published "The White Man's Burden" in 1899, an appeal to the United States to assume the task of developing the Philippines, recently won in the Spanish-American War. As a writer, Kipling perhaps lived too long: by the time of his death in 1936, he had come to be reviled as the poet of British imperialism, though being regarded as a beloved children's book author. Today he might yet gain appreciation as a transmitter of Indian culture to the West.
What is it today's reader finds so repugnant about Kipling's poem? If you were a citizen of a colonized territory, how would you respond to Kipling?
Originally posted by academic punk yo, this thread is some crazy-ass shit. Nothing but trouble oin thios one. No, I'm just gonna leave it be. Don't wanna get involved with this one...
Originally posted by ELVIS Dude, you're nothing more than a trouble maker...
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Boo fucking Hoo
YOU should stick to your basement sermons and conning the uneducated, the young, and the drug/alkie casulaties who will easily fall for your brand of shit.
I'm obviously too much of a challenge for you. You need sheep who are easily led, and who wont ask the tough questions, and make you explain your hypocrisy and hateful statements.
I'm a trouble maker? Simply for pointing out how YOU and extreme Islamic fundamentalists share the SAME views? oh, the shame.:p
If there was a true difference between YOUR brand of hate and exclusion, and theirs, you would have simply stated it. but you didnt.
Now you warn me about not "underestimating" you, as if you hold some power over me.
I can just hear Brie singing it now........"I've got you, under my skin"
And just like katydid, as soon as your hypocrisy is exposed, ot come the "you're a piece of shit" Do you pray with that mouth, sinner?
I guess you too have a long way to go..........
Originally posted by Kristy
Dude, what in the fuck is wrong with you? I'm full of hate and I do drugs.
Originally posted by cadaverdog
I posted under aliases and I jerk off with a sock. Anything else to add?
Originally posted by academic punk WHAT INSIGHT COULD I POSSIBLY OFFER???!? I'M STILL LOST ON "LOBSTER RIGHTS"!!!!!
I'm thinking that has something to do with the fact that eating shellfish (such as lobster) is referred to as an "abomination" in Leviticus, just as a "man lying with a man as he would lie with a woman" is.
So Elvis not only wants the Constituion ammended to ban gay marriages, but he also wants an additional ammendment banning seafood restaraunts (those dens of abomination). Though I'm not sure banning shrimp & crawdads is gonna go over too good with his neighbors in the Delta :D
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
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