You know, some people are just hungry and live in filth." Is this true or is it conjecture or is this a unnecessary bias comment. "You know" is a presumption.
"Afghanistan provides drugs to the West. " The of farmers of Afghanistan. consider the opium poppy as just another cash crop and do not consider it a crime to grow it. On Jul 27, 4:07 am, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > You know, some people are just hungry and live in filth. Afghanistan > provides drugs to the West. Conjure that. Memory of a PBS film- think > it was called "Trafficing" about the loop. > > On Jul 26, 5:22 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Are we losing the ability to reconcile in the world? Have we slipped > > so far from the understanding of brotherhood, of forgiveness that we > > have simply become a world of hatred and revenge. We are literally > > mortified by the specter of terrorism that is plaguing the world. The > > mindset of terrorism is anchored in the inability to allow forgiveness > > to override anger and instead caters to hatred, anger and violence > > towards those deemed the wrongdoers without regard for the harm > > imposed upon the innocent bystanders. > > Aside from that our culture seems entrenched in the business of > > revenge, we rather employ legal means to inflict suffering upon those > > who we think have done us wrong before we would sit down directly and > > discuss the problems. Politics seems to be leaning more toward > > instilling anger and fears among us which leads to a polarization of > > society while most media seem devoted to divisive and anger driven > > reporting with a general attitude of who is to blame. > > Can we ever stop sending messages attached to missiles, bombs and > > bullets? Our attempts to establish peaceful means of resolution have > > failed miserably because there is never a general consensus on any > > issue. We sanction and punish to no end in order to force change but > > to no avail. People are at war in every quadrant of the planet while > > new agitations are festering in the background waiting to emerge as > > full scale skirmishes. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
