--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- 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. >
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