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  • From: Rob <becida AT comcast.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] More on Barak Obama
  • Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:19:12 -0700

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.





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