--- Rick posted this announcement: > > This evening (holland time), full moon day, in the Global Family Chat, Raja > Wilhelm declared that Holland is now invincible. Because it has reached the > required number of yogic flyers needed for the country. Holland is now > enjoying integrated national consciousness and is now a rising star in the > family of nations.
Gee, I hope. The New Yorker ran an article recently about the state of affairs in the Netherlands. (Sorry I can't find it to include a link here.) They actually have a rather unintegrated social structure there, from what I gathered from the article. The Protestants and the Catholics and the Humanists and the Muslims all have their own worlds. The image given was of separate pillars holding up one roof. All these groups went about their business without much conflict until recently. Now, disgruntled Muslims are using the internet to plan violent actions against the others. The police are guarding something like 20 public figures from Islamist death threats. (You'll recall filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed after making a movie about Muslim violence toward women.) If the Netherlands go without assassinations and riots, I might be inclined to believe it's risen to the optimistic levels of social coherence that Raja Wilhelm decrees above. But if I read of sectarian killings or riots, I'm going to file the good Raja's claim in the same file that has decrees about Mugabe's invincibility, Fairfield's pundits and other announcements of that ilk. ------------------------ 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/
