by Princess 17 Replies latest jw friends
Er, just to take the opposite viewpoint, it doesn't seem like a big deal. This nation is capitalistic. Businesses provide what the people will buy. If people didn't buy them, they'd stop. It's just the way it is and it works pretty well, imo.
I do have a new flag of a Monet painting, but didn't put it out because the neighbors might misinterpret it as an affront.
Cheers and have a great Saturday!
Pat
I think it was very good to show our support and unite as a country, but it has become very commercilized. many people are trying to make a buck. this year in my town, they had the christmas lighting ceramony and all the lights downtown are red white and blue. I kinda like the idea, but then again I see it as a constant reminder, but then again maybe we need to be reminded to be on guard against anything else that could happen
I bought two flags, one for the house, one for the car. Can you believe it, someone stole the one off my car.
The flag is kinda special to me as I've had to wipe my feet on it in order to eat after about a week of no food (long story). Flag burners really bother me as you can imagine. If you don't want to display the flag, great, good on ya, but don't insult it.
YERUSALYIM
"Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
[Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
Even this tragedy will fade away along with everything else that rouses the interests of the American ppl. I don't know if you can attribute it to resilience or fickleness, but in this country after a while EVERYTHING eventually gets old. No matter what happens.
ONE....
bigboi
Murder is a tough thing to digest. It's a slow process and the WTBTS's got nuthin but time.
Yeru, have you ever posted your story about wiping your feet on the flag, etc? I'd like to read it sometime. I hope you didn't think I was insulting the flag, but rather that a flag on an orange is insulting.
Thanks for your comments, I see now that I am not alone in my disgust over the commercialism. My husband saw a sign in a car that said "show your support, fly a flag" or something to that effect. I think it's great that people feel the need to fly a flag but when they start telling me to do it, I get defensive and angry. It is a personal choice and no lady driving by in her car is going to make me fly a flag because she made a sign saying I should.
The orange was good. I had to throw the flag sticker in the garbage with the orange peel. I know you aren't supposed to throw flags away, but I didn't know what else to do.
Princess
Hello, Princess.
After the Eleventh, I had my spate of patriotism also but I got over it a lot faster than most. The ubiquitous displays of "We Love America" got old real quick (although that NY Stock Exchange TV commercial, with the chime at the end, chokes me up every time).
True patriots don't need to tell others that they are patriots, just like genuine Christians don't need to tell people what THEY are, brandishing crosses or carrying bibles or quoting scriptures 24/7.
tj
Ps. I'd eat the orange, but honor the flag sticker. I hope you didn't just toss it into the trash... it shoulda been burned, after a brief ceremony of course.
You... didn't just toss it...
did you?
oooops, Princess....
... never mind!
I have approximately 200 feet of those crystallized rope lights in red, white, and blue draped in the huge oak tree in my front yard. Just because "I can." I have a small flag in my window and an antique colonial one on display at my business. Isn't it great to have the choice of whether or not you want to fly a flag?
Like Jelly I've felt no pressure to fly a flag and those displayed by members of the community were there before 9/11. For so long now we've been a nation divided along ethnic and political lines. So much infighting. It's a shame that it took something like the WTC disaster for us to wake up and smell the espresso. Liberal or conservative, black or white, christian or muslim-we're all in this together. We're all Americans. The flag is something we all have in common. Personally it's good to feel like a part of something again.
Jelly, You wonder about the government's skillful use of propaganda. I wonder more about whatever happened to the brand of journalism that nailed LBJ's and Nixon's balls to walls on a daily basis during the Vietnam era? I wasn't alive back then so I only have archives to rely upon for information. They reported everything pro and con and we were the better for it. We are a nation born out of dissent. It is a good thing. It keeps one honest. "The first casualty when war comes is the truth."-Hiram Johnson to the US Senate in 1917.
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