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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

We don't look like all those folks who are supposed to be our cousins. 
Maybe it is the heat?  Besides, we don't have the cheek bones, don't have 
the nose, don't have the dark skin, don't have black hair.  Well, except for 
my mother, she had black hair <g>

Beaides, we'd be offended and think it was a slam to fight along side 
Custer.  He was a bit of a looser <g>  Sherman had no morals, so we wouldn't 
want to fight along side him either <g>

Lynda, who isn't being ornery, yet <<bg>>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "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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