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From: jmfbahciv on 13 Dec 2006 10:24 In article <457D67DA.47E5F2B6(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >You're aware he's from Poland ? >> >> >> >> >> >> Yes. He's been giving us some the gossip from that end of >> >> >> Europe which is quite different from your end. >> >> > >> >> >Us ? >> >> >> >> Those who are reading this thread. >> >> >> >> >It's only recently I've seen his posts in this thread. >> >> > >> >> >Would you care to elaborate ? >> >> >> >> Did you not learn a lot from those posts? >> > >> >I've only seen a couple. I got the impression he wasn't keen on the idea of >> >moving to the USA. >> > >> >What did you learn ? >> >> That Poland has taken a different approach during the difficult >> and long job of transforming their economic and political >> infrastructure from Communist-based market to a Capitalistic market. > >A different approach to whom though ? Does it matter? What matters is that it is different. Every political locality is different because of the history and traditions of the people who create that politics. Reverting back to one's old ways after having a foreign entity enforcing its own brand, will take different approaches with different peoples. > > >> He gave enough pointers that could keep people studying for 20 years. >> They seem to have an anomoly (compared to the way the US handles >> things) which may or may not pose serious political problems in their >> future. > >What's this anomaly ? I answered back with a post. I can't quite recollect the details. > > >> And that's just from one paragraph that he wrote. Gossip has >> a lot of information if you listen well. > >Maybe so, but don't let your imagination run away. I don't. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 13 Dec 2006 10:26 In article <elmh2m$88k$3(a)blue.rahul.net>, kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >In article <457D707B.125ED31C(a)hotmail.com>, >Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >[.....] >>Secularism is speading. I believe what we are seeing may be no more than a >>religious backlash against 'modern thought'. I rather feel it's dommed to fail. >> >>As a kid I recall it was unheard of not to be Christian. Now no-one even blinks >>an eye about it but I would like to see our first atheist Prime Minister though. > >The trend is the other way in the US. A smallish fraction of "christian" >thinking has gained a large following and significant power since the >1940s. The real threat (long term) of extremists is from the home grown >ones. That danger is now secondary in a list of priorities. The danger will disppear if Western civilization is destroyed. /BAH
From: T Wake on 13 Dec 2006 15:14 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:elp5uj$8qk_006(a)s896.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <457D67DA.47E5F2B6(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >You're aware he's from Poland ? >>> >> >> >>> >> >> Yes. He's been giving us some the gossip from that end of >>> >> >> Europe which is quite different from your end. >>> >> > >>> >> >Us ? >>> >> >>> >> Those who are reading this thread. >>> >> >>> >> >It's only recently I've seen his posts in this thread. >>> >> > >>> >> >Would you care to elaborate ? >>> >> >>> >> Did you not learn a lot from those posts? >>> > >>> >I've only seen a couple. I got the impression he wasn't keen on the >>> >idea > of >>> >moving to the USA. >>> > >>> >What did you learn ? >>> >>> That Poland has taken a different approach during the difficult >>> and long job of transforming their economic and political >>> infrastructure from Communist-based market to a Capitalistic market. >> >>A different approach to whom though ? > > Does it matter? What matters is that it is different. Yes it matters. You need to say who it is different from for it to be different.
From: T Wake on 13 Dec 2006 15:15 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:elp63h$8qk_007(a)s896.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <elmh2m$88k$3(a)blue.rahul.net>, > kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >>In article <457D707B.125ED31C(a)hotmail.com>, >>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>[.....] >>>Secularism is speading. I believe what we are seeing may be no more than >>>a >>>religious backlash against 'modern thought'. I rather feel it's dommed to > fail. >>> >>>As a kid I recall it was unheard of not to be Christian. Now no-one even > blinks >>>an eye about it but I would like to see our first atheist Prime Minister > though. >> >>The trend is the other way in the US. A smallish fraction of "christian" >>thinking has gained a large following and significant power since the >>1940s. The real threat (long term) of extremists is from the home grown >>ones. > > That danger is now secondary in a list of priorities. The danger > will disppear if Western civilization is destroyed. Well, as the chances of "western civilisation" being destroyed in less than a generation or two is almost non-existent, it seems this is a more pressing concern.
From: unsettled on 13 Dec 2006 20:05
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <el6q75$tev$1(a)blue.rahul.net>, > kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: > >>In article <cfe5c$4575a308$4fe71d5$13749(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > > > <snip> > >>>I give you "feminine instinct" to ponder. >> >>No thanks. That and Quantum Physics at the same time may make my head >>explode. > > > Oh! That would explain why the theory of everythings posted > here never explain men. > > > <snip> > >>Your "sane" assumes that the data going into the logic are the facts as >>you believe them to be. If you believed that banging on a drum made it >>rain and that you needed rain to make your corn grow, you would logically >>bang on a drum. To someone without that idea, a man walking around >>outside banging a drum, may look insane. > > > The banging of the drum gives people something to do while > waiting for the rain. There are two concepts at work here, while similar in sound they're different in concept. Humans of all ilk need understanding because they'll never be understood. |