Judy wrote: > Boy. How unhappy a person do you have to be to > launch this kind of gratuitously vicious attack > on somebody who's been entirely inoffensive? > Yeah, it reminds me of some of the vicious attacks by John Manning, Barry Wright, and Lon P. Stacks on Usenet. But, you've got to understand that there's not a lot to do when you're way over the hill and living in Spain or Brazil. Or, in New Jersey for that matter. But some people just feel better when they have someone to talk to, I guess. It must be way past midnight over there. You know, sometimes it just gets to you.
"Life as an expatriate is interesting. You live in a foreign country, among people whose language, if you are as lazy as I am, you do not speak well enough to express even a fraction of the things that are on your mind. You live among people whose customs are all different from those you grew up with. They eat different foods, have different forms of social interaction, hold different sometimes *very* different things sacred than you do. And, as an American living in their country, you try to learn from these people you meet, try to add to the sum of your knowledge and expand your own view of planet Earth to encompass theirs. But sometimes I'll be honest it gets to you..." Read more: From: Uncle Tantra Subject: Mr. Natural Is Alive and Well and Living in France Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: october 28, 2003
