Think Draw - Picture - Washington Watches Over You

Title: Washington Watches Over You
created on 14 Feb 14

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Comments on this picture (24):
1. Burgandy wrote: Hey George:)
2. chelydra wrote: Just realized where the title came from - for the first five or six years of school, these grim smudgy black-and-white pictures of THIS face were looking down on us from the classroom walls.
3. chelydra wrote: (This is how he looked when we were on drugs.)
4. clorophilla wrote: well... Here in the '50 we had the president and the pope :-)
5. five wrote: Intense
6. bugoy1 wrote: Love the vibrant mix of color!
7. Normal wrote: He looks like he doesn't mind sharing a day with Abe.
8. hjjr wrote: he does have a direct stare...
9. chelydra wrote: That stare, along with the help of the French Navy, was perhaps a big factor in winning the Revolution despite losing just about every battle he got directly involved in. Intimidating but inspiring confidence at the same time?
10. chelydra wrote: I had an odd thought this morning... I was telling a ferner about how both Washington and Lincoln were posthumously sainted by their political heirs . . . almost like Stalin having Lenin stuffed, it was based on political calculations...
11. chelydra wrote: ...as much as on any sincere sense of loss, since the masses had to be brought into line despite their realization that victory was never going to bring economic justice...
12. chelydra wrote: (Shay's Rebellion, 1863 Draft Riots, the post-1865 triumph of robber barons who took over the new Republican Party, etc). ...
13. chelydra wrote: I caught the tail end of this as a kid in the 1950s, when their birthdays were almost like High Holy Days in America (except that Lincoln remained a villain in the South)...
14. chelydra wrote: ...but this was this odd thought: The Washington-Lincoln pairing corresponded precisely to God and Jesus (which I was also immersed in, thanks to Sunday School)...
15. chelydra wrote: Washington, like God, was beyond personality; there was no sense of him as a human being, with a sense of humor or any warmth at all... yet he was to be revered unquestioningly, since he was the Creator of the USA...
16. chelydra wrote: ...whereas Lincoln was the USA's Savior, and totally vivid and present as a unique character we could relate to. Like Jesus, he told anecdotes and gave eloquent concise sermons; he suffered and died for us, etc.
17. chelydra wrote: ...and since God and Country were the two things we HAD to believe in whole-heartedly, even to the point of needing to convert or annihilate anyone who didn't share our enthusiasm...
18. chelydra wrote: ... it's kind of interesting that the same exact kind of double-deity worship was the foundation for both faiths... and to complete the Trinity I guess both had their own spirit-thing, the Holy Ghost, and the American Spirit (eagles, flags, etc.)
19. chelydra wrote: And if Chelydropedia's are allowed footnotes, Gibbon points out in the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire that the notion of the Trinity originated with Plato and made its way into Christian dogma circa 250-350 AD (no trace of it in Scripture).
20. chelydra wrote: Here endeth today's lesson.
21. chelydra wrote: One more footnote: the USSR under Stalin did the same thing with Marx and Lenin, the latter being portrayed as a Christlike suffering savior... or maybe Marx = Moses, with the Dialectic of History being God.
22. suzze wrote: :)
23. Qsilv wrote: ..sigh... you do THE best damned sclera...
24. Login wrote: You're right Q ... almost watery.