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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] It's almost over
  • Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:19:10 -0800 (PST)

Lynda's just being ornery . Her people didn't fight. Well , her people's
cousins sure did in the part of the country where our people our from. I
have a cousin from pensacola who took us to a little place in alabama called
"Fort Mims". Those Indians could have fought beside Custer and
Sherman............................................................

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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] It's almost over
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 3:07 PM
> Lynda wrote:
> > I would say that some of it is genetic and the other
> is taught. This
> > thread would be a prime example of it being taught.
> All but you are
> > arguing that it is somehow o.k. because that is what
> humans do.
>
>
>
>
> Excuse me, but I never said warring or violence or
> aggression was okay,
> in fact, I clearly talked about morality and justification,
> in that
> violence to defend oneself is morally justified in our
> society. After
> reading SusanJane's piece, I will allow that not all
> believe in self
> defense or resistance, but I think 99.9% of people on this
> planet will
> resort to violence to protect themselves or their family.
>
> > I know that my heritage didn't even have a word
> for murder until the
> > invaders came along. Yet the folks up the mountain
> did. The folks
> > up the mountain were always fighting with other folks.
> My people
> > thought it was crazy, a form of insanity <g> and
> to this day refer to
> > the folks up the mountain as "those crazy
> ****."
>
>
> Your people may not have had a word for murder, but did
> they not have a
> word for kill? When most people use the word murder, they
> mean
> pre-meditated, but kill doesn't imply that. Perhaps
> your people had a
> word for kill and not murder. Perhaps they had no
> experience with the
> pathological concept of pre-meditation, but they did have
> experience
> with the concept of hunting strategy and killing. Is that
> the case?
> Besides, perhaps your people were correct that
> pre-meditated murder is
> pathological or symptomatic of insanity. (I personally
> think so)
>
> And by the way, I am anxiously awaiting that English Muffin
> recipe. :)
>
> Bev
>
> --
> “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger.
> Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda
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