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I cannot control you. You are your own control master - is what I believe in. [?][?][?] 2015-03-13 10:20 GMT+01:00 <[email protected]>: > I have known where Rigsy is for years. I have not heard from her > personally in years.. And I enjoy reading Neil's writings.. > > Donna why are you trying to be so controlling? Or should i say dictatorial? > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hope Sunshine <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:12 AM > Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Lament > > In another world it would be lamentable how you have kidnapped our Rigsy > and did not respond to Allan's asking where she was. You seem to like have > control over all worlds. > > Am Donnerstag, 12. März 2015 23:39:06 UTC+1 schrieb archytas: >> >> Rigsy got me thinking about lament, as she's off being Flora MacDonald, >> at least in shorthand. We regularly lament better times and the dead. The >> Scots lament the Battle of Culloden. We all might, as this unleashed the >> British rather than English on the world. It was an odd battle, between >> armies of seven and eight thousand, mostly Scots, and over in an hour. >> There were English there, some like the Manchester Regiment, fighting for >> the 'Scots' and there were Irish and Scots loaned by the French to the >> 'Scots'. And Germans and Austrians. Only one in five Scots' had swords >> and anyway, the hour was won by massed musket fire. It was then end of the >> Jacobite threat to the English throne, by then German. Things might have >> been different if a French fleet hadn't turned left too soon and landed in >> Ireland a couple of years before. >> >> Culloden is a miserable place neat Inverness. One soon laments being >> there and it is unlikely not to be cold and raining. Only simpletons would >> think this a battle between England and Scotland. It was about land and >> making more economic use of it, often by replacing people with sheep - >> hence, perhaps, today's term 'the sheeple'. This had been going on years >> all over Britain. My own clan, the MacArthurs, had been rewarded with land >> after Bannockburn, though the Campbells had stolen most of this by >> Culloden. Our great heroes, Robert le Bruce and Wallace, grew up speaking >> 'French', sometimes to highly literate spiders. Scots were generally >> frowned upon by more civilised English, French, Germans, Dutch and Swedes, >> even in America. There was no romantic era. Life was hard and then you >> died. We had our own South Sea Bubble, a colony amongst pestilent natives >> and mosquitoes that died to a man-women jack, something we were good at. >> We invented modern money economics through a gambler (John Laws) and the >> Bank of France, though another Scot, Adam Smith, gets the credit for the >> meaningless mannered subject. These days, huge numbers of us live where it >> rains less, though the five million left want a Scandinavian-style social >> democracy, even though our old folk let us down by voting against >> independence. Alexander Graham Bell stole the telephone from someone else >> and Logie Baird built a mechanical television. David Hume spoke some sense >> and there was a decent grave-robbing business around Edinburgh, which has >> gay lawyers and a decent French bistro and zoo with a very annoying sea >> lion. Maxwell did as much as anyone to give us modern science. We speak >> English rather better than the English as we have good schools. I rather >> like the English as they once banned bagpipes. >> >> So are you guys proud of your countries or in lament? I'm off over the >> sea to Skye. There's a toll. >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/minds-eye/xXneEGXorBQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *"as well as" = "equals"* Take a stand against sexism, racism and other forms of structural violence! -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
