>I am motivated to strive for a
>survivable option for the future - so sorry.
That's the point Eva. You have a specific agenda in mind, and then reject
any information that doesn't support it.
We all do that to some extent, but "thinkers" will revisit beliefs when
presented with new scientific evidense that opposes them. "Observers" will
revisit beliefs when their own senses oppose them. But true idealogues
neither "think" nor "observe", and are willing to burn for their beliefs:
"An Englishwoman, who was married to a Portuguese named Vasconcellos in
Madeira, was accused of heresy in 1704, and sent to the Inquisition in
Lisbon. There she was kept in prison for over nine months; she was flogged
several times to persuade her to confess, and her breast was burnt in three
places with a red-hot iron. At last, she was taken to the torture chamber
and strapped into the Spanish chair; an iron slipper, heated in the fire
until it was red hot, was placed on her left foot. The flesh was burnt to
the bone, and she fainted. When she came to, she was once more flogged until
her whole back was a mass of blood, and then threatened with the slipper on
her other foot. Unsurprisingly, she signed her confession, and was
eventually released." [ pp. 78-79, THE HISTORY OF TORTURE, by Brian Innes,
St Martin's Pr., 1998 ]
( Remember that all she had to do to avoid torture was to change her
opinion . )
That is precisely why our Founding Fathers left America in the hands of the
rich. America’s government was designed to be corrupt because the moneyed
class is more "rational" (calculating) than either elected officials or the
general public. http://dieoff.com/page168.htm
"Irrational" political movements like communism scare the hell out of
"rational" people -- except of course, those who have nothing to lose.
Jay
