Heyo Neil, thanks for sharing, I take it as caring. Not my logic though. I am not as happy as I could be in this group here is what I thought I had tried to communicate for quite some time. I have summed up my reasoning to construct a reasonable narrative for myself and also to give you a reason to know why you were right with your set up.
Happy sunshine everywhere. :-) 2015-03-18 2:11 GMT+01:00 archytas <[email protected]>: > Who would we not be apologising to? > http://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-evil-crimes-of-the-british-empire/ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_Genocide > > http://med-slavery.uni-trier.de/minev/MedSlavery/Members/stello/bibliobits/articlereference.2007-07-27.3233996517 > > As a kid Gabby, I imagined the Royal Navy at sea to prevent the drugs > trade in the Opium Wars, not support the trade. We are all had by > nationalism. Few of us grow out of it. I guess 'Israel' will not take > keenly to being reminded that all 2000 of Istanbul's Slavers' Club were > Jews. You know what Germans can be reminded of. Where is the moral hill > for your sermon on the mount? It is not unwelcome, but it is shrill, > boring and unknowledgeable - whereas you are not. What now then? > > > On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 11:18:05 PM UTC, archytas wrote: >> >> Welcome back Gabby. Have you had a mystic experience? We seem to be >> short of them in another thread on mystics. Unlike your old themes they >> seem to have been quickly forgotten. I see you have been 'reading up' on >> US hatestory. Alex Blum is good too. Of course, in 1861 when the old >> countries were imperialising and drug trafficking, we did mean to join the >> Confederates. The American mistake, by one vote, was not speaking the more >> peaceful German of the royalty you exported to us and the Russians so we >> could have a good old family squabble, or two. We might blame the Dutch, >> but then Allan has been placed amongst them. >> >> Have you read the history of the slaving in Europe and around the Black >> Sea? One hears remarkably little contrition on this account either. What >> to do then? >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 10:07:47 PM UTC, Gabby wrote: >>> >>> Right, here goes my lessons learned article… >>> >>> I have come to the conclusion that the American God varies largely from >>> the German God. Let me explain how I have arrived at this point. Before I >>> came to this group here I have always thought that God was sort of a >>> universal concept for anything that was not something. Here I became >>> introduced to the idea that everything had to be determined and defined >>> properly to be valid and to become accessible for an argumentative >>> exchange. Those who could or would not operate on this basis got banned or >>> when in doubt they get ridiculed, bullied ,and ignored. The representatives >>> of this system and how they themselves have defined their role as group >>> moderators has ever since reminded me of the God of the Old Testament in my >>> children's bible. Non-transparent execution of power over childlike >>> members. >>> >>> I soon began to draw connections from the strange habitus of the >>> performers in power to the belief systems under discussion here. Except for >>> the two eccentric British "cousins" all power performers and performers in >>> power were Americans from what I remember. No matter what kind of God >>> concept they proposed, they all had this transcending notion in their >>> appeal . It felt like the American myth is in constant need of feeding >>> itself with a self-perpetuating self-pride through a permanent celebration >>> of liberating one's own liberty from any sort of dependency. Fighting >>> everything that does not fit in that frame. I felt no responsibility, no >>> remorse, no historical conscience for their genocide of their First Nations >>> and for their Slave history, no awareness for possibly having been a thorn >>> in the flesh of somebody else. Nada. Not meant to be there. Hypocrisy >>> instead. >>> >>> I think and hope that I have more or less made my peace with God's >>> imprint on the Americans. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that >>> all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with >>> certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the >>> pursuit of Happiness." I take it the pursuit of Happiness was the first >>> indicator for transcendental sunshine demand when declaring one's >>> independence from the old continent. >>> >>> So, yes, the time is now. Peace. >>> >> -- > > --- > 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/oGOME0asbPI/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. > -- --- 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.
