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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  3/21/2008 07:11 AM,Gene GeRue wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:40 AM, DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:
>
> > Ahh, but Gene, you are our peer, we are not being asked to consider
> > electing you to the most powerful office on the Planet.
>
> You are allowing me an even more powerful position--having access to
> your cognition. Beware, I just might cause you to embrace anarchic
> thoughts.

Gene,I don't recall you making false statements about the facts and 
the adjectives you used to describe the politicians were words that 
stated a personal opinion. That opinion may not have been flattering 
but it was not hateful, if has often been entertaining <g>.


> Perhaps one day we Americans will return to what I believe was Thomas
> Jefferson's position on such things, basically to neither ask nor
> offer personal religious thinking. This of course requires tolerance
> and respect. It is hard to be optimistic.

Tolerance is hard to find in today's world, we have whole chunks of 
the world that are not tolerant to any way of thinking besides their 
own. Hell, at times on this small list tolerance is in short supply.

Maybe tolerance has always been in short supply and the vast amount 
of intolerance that we see is just because the world is getting 
smaller so it's easier to see it?

Intolerance has always been as good a reason to invade your neighbor 
as has hunger, thirst, slaves or loot. Maybe that we "today" know of 
Thomas Jefferson's position on such things is because "He" lived in a 
different sort of time than we do today. A time when men truly 
thought of "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as something 
real rather than today where if you can't spend it it's not real, 
where "what's in it for me?" and "Don't get caught" have replaced the 
Golden Rule.


> Has anyone see the Golden Rule lately? I thought it was here but
> perhaps I only imagined it.

It's been changed, you must have missed the memo....








Rob

becida AT comcast.net
Western Washington State, USA
ps/ rereading this I see I'm not in the best of moods tonight.