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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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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