Comments on: Bellamy’s Buzzer http://donklephant.com/2006/12/11/bellamys-buzzer/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DosPeros http://donklephant.com/2006/12/11/bellamys-buzzer/comment-page-1/#comment-142163 DosPeros Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:43:58 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/11/bellamys-buzzer/#comment-142163 That was a delight to read. That was a delight to read.

]]> By: Confused http://donklephant.com/2006/12/11/bellamys-buzzer/comment-page-1/#comment-142149 Confused Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:09:02 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/11/bellamys-buzzer/#comment-142149 Cicero, Thank you for a very thoughtful post that articulates what I have been feeling since 2003. I also thought that your reference to W.B. Yeats' poem, Second Coming was very appropriate. For those readers not familiar with this poem, I am including it in this post: The Second Coming TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Cicero,

Thank you for a very thoughtful post that articulates what I have been feeling since 2003. I also thought that your reference to W.B. Yeats’ poem, Second Coming was very appropriate. For those readers not familiar with this poem, I am including it in this post:

The Second Coming

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

]]> By: BenG http://donklephant.com/2006/12/11/bellamys-buzzer/comment-page-1/#comment-142112 BenG Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:16:28 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/11/bellamys-buzzer/#comment-142112 Thank you for such a well written post. Although some went over my head, I enjoyed your metaphors, they add so much to the meaning of what you're saying. Two suggestions for whatever they're worth: First, I too followed in line at the beginning of this war, from feelings of patriotism or from being hoodwinked, I'm not sure, probably both. But because of technology I was able to get info in a timely manner and adjust my thinking accordingly. I don't know why some see through the fog of war and change course while some, probably due to pre-formed biases, continue to march on. Technology offers us the opportunity to make informed decissions that we were not able to do before. I'm also not sure why the national media is so easily pushed around and offers little more than water cooler 'expert' analysis to help in those decissions, but we'll figure that out later. Secondly, and much more important to the future of any home owner, do whatever you can to exterminate the VERMIN ! I'm talking about your squirrel problem, of course. And do it before the snows start, or the expense will quadruple, besides spending a nice cozy winter destroying your home. Tis the much harder fight, but you will prevail. Thank you for such a well written post. Although some went over my head, I enjoyed your metaphors, they add so much to the meaning of what you’re saying.
Two suggestions for whatever they’re worth: First, I too followed in line at the beginning of this war, from feelings of patriotism or from being hoodwinked, I’m not sure, probably both. But because of technology I was able to get info in a timely manner and adjust my thinking accordingly. I don’t know why some see through the fog of war and change course while some, probably due to pre-formed biases, continue to march on. Technology offers us the opportunity to make informed decissions that we were not able to do before. I’m also not sure why the national media is so easily pushed around and offers little more than water cooler ‘expert’ analysis to help in those decissions, but we’ll figure that out later.

Secondly, and much more important to the future of any home owner, do whatever you can to exterminate the VERMIN ! I’m talking about your squirrel problem, of course. And do it before the snows start, or the expense will quadruple, besides spending a nice cozy winter destroying your home. Tis the much harder fight, but you will prevail.

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