--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 3/19/06 1:35:03 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > You didn't say "pure" democray. We have a Democratic Republic and > it works > > very well. > > > > WHy would I have to say "pure?" I left out "pure" but it should have > been obvious from context. > > > > No, not necessarily, we speak of democracy very loosely all the time. How > many times have we heard MMY damn democracy saying it's no good and it doesn't > work. Yet he wasn't speaking of a pure democracy. He was speaking of > democratic republics. Nobody speaks of pure democracy without qualifying it as pure > democracy because it isn't a system in use on a national governmental > level.How many times do we all hear politicians speak about democracy in the world , > yet we all know they don't mean pure democracy as originally envisioned. So > no, what you really meant, was not so obvious from the beginning although one > could have assumed that is what you may have meant. >
Heh. Dance all you want. My reference to Democracy and Athens was all that you should have needed. You missed my joke. NOthing wrong with missing a joke, since I do it all the time, but don't blame ME because you didn't make what was definitely an obvious connection. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
