At 09:14 AM 6/21/2007, you wrote:
>[Arlo,] > >What do you think about Bill O'Reily's recent comment, "... there will >be unintended consequences [of the Immigration Bill] all over the place. >The new census report says America's now one-third minority. And in four >states -- California, New Mexico, Texas, and Hawaii -- whites are the >minority." (Bill O'Reilly)? > >Does this (whites becoming the minority) give you, as it does Platt, >cause for concern? > >[Ron] >I think the majority of americans say "De Nada" to O'Reilly's concerns, >(joke) >"american" is not exculsive to one race or creed. The fact that our >borders are >so easily comprimised gives rise for some concern. This problem has been >largly >ignored for quite awhile. Probably due to large cheap labor forces. > > >[Marsha] > >So what do you do when a person, people, or a country you care about >seem to be behaving badly? What do you do when reason doesn't seem to >be working. I think a Buddhist might say to act responsibly yourself, >and chop wood & carry water. But I'm not a Buddhist, so I could be >wrong. And of course there are the actions I am blindly performing >myself that also add to the problems. I mentioned the MIddleEast and >the environment, but there are other ways of defining the problem. And >when I start looking at them, the problems change and grow >exponentially. HELP! > >BTW, to care about a person, people or a country is attachment. > >[Ron] >I like Platts comment, not much to add, but this: >to begin with yourself may mean to bring peace to yourself and let it >flow out >into the world instead of perpetuating stress with friction. when we >choose >to influence rather than to fight we may grow with a problem to over >come it. Hi Ron, To 'start with yourself' and 'work on head, heart and hand', and maybe how not to get sidetracked. Marsha moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
