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From: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 15:57 John Fields wrote: > On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:55:24 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >John Fields wrote: > > >> --- > >> It will. Any society which worships death is bound to die. Either > >> through suicide or "death by cop". > > > >Islam doesn't worship death. You misunderstanding is a classic example of how > >the USA gets it wrong, by being over-simplistic about every issue. > > --- > See, that's part of what I mean by "America Bashing." > > I may be wrong about Islam's (or its practitioners') apparent > penchant for death, (although, reduced to its simplest terms, I > doubt it) but then you take _my_ error and try to make it seem like > it applies it to the entire country as if _I_ was all of America, My experience here and elsewhere suggests that Americans are for the most part either poorly educated about or simply indifferent to matters outside their own borders and consequently have some pretty odd ideas about what goes on there and how / why it does so. I do know that an educated minority is somewhat better informed but unclear as what percentage it represents. > and then tag it with your own simplisic oversimplification of the > situation in order to try to make it seem like we're a nation of > misguided fools and all we have to do is listen to the likes of you > and everything will be all right. You could learn something you know ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 15:59 John Fields wrote: > On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:58:14 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > >John Fields wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:07:18 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > >> <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >Interesting how hating Saddam made one a weak wimpy leftist back then, > >> >and hating him now makes one a strong rightwing patriot. > >> > >> --- > >> And what did hating the US make you back then, > > > >Probably considered vaguely irrational. > > > >> and what does it make you now? > > > >An increasingly popular opinion reflecting concern over the USA's inability to > >get the picture. > > --- > I asked what it makes _you_, not what popular opinion was, but no > matter. Since you seem to identify with popular opinion, I suggest > you're merely one of the sheep who is blindly caught up in a sheep > stampede, LOL ;) I was hard pressed to find a good description. You see I don't *hate* the US nor does anyone else I know. Exasperated about the USA would be more accurate. Graham
From: John Fields on 4 Aug 2006 16:01 On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:15:14 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >Simple things amuse simple minds ! --- Here's one for _you_: a: goto b b: goto a -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 16:01 John Woodgate wrote: > In message <44D390B7.75A4B9D1(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Fri, 4 Aug > 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes > > >The UN plan didn't give Israel all the territory. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UN_Partition_Plan_For_Palestine_1947. > >png > > That was never going to work, was it. Three bits, two joined by a narrow > corridor and the third completely separate. And huge long borders with, > at least, unfriendly people, if not actively hostile. > > A real 'horse designed by a committee'. Presumably done by taking into account the local population distribution. Seems you can't win. It was a British plan btw ! Graham
From: John Fields on 4 Aug 2006 16:05
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 06:55:38 +0100, John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <fep4d2pnbc1sjgbihd3eh27itvb5jlmu0u(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 >Aug 2006, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> writes >>On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:53:08 +0100, John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> >>wrote: >> >>>In message <34c4d2p7opp8cvr997gvhfnm0sf7047gsn(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 >>>Aug 2006, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> >>>writes >>>>the grass-roots likability of most Americans. >>> >>>As manifested by the personal abuse levelled at any dissenter in this >>>and many other threads? >> >>Well, John, I think the "abuse" is retaliation against constant >>America-bashing, and I don't really think this is grass-roots, do you? > >It IS a public face of a section of US society; a small section indeed, >but the whole society is too big for anyone, even sociologists and >anthropologists to view in toto. > >The nature of the abuse gives a terrible impression of the intelligence >of the abusers. --- Thank you for that. I agree. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer |