Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-11 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
I agree fully with what you write below. However that is not the perspective I want to bring forth here. It is useful to look at complex issues from many perspectives. If we can hold simultaneously many perspectives, we get closer to the truth. Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-06 Thread Angela Mailander
Irmeli, your question is right on the money. Hitler was schooled in Le Bon's 1895 The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. It is still a good source for how social engineering is done. Young Dove recently posted an excellent rant on how easy it is to sway the masses. It is the result of

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-06 Thread Angela Mailander
I know, Irmeli. I've lived in China and in India--not as a tourist. I actually lived in those places. But, as you can see if you read my latest post to Willitex, female American soldiers are raped by their comrades in epidemic proportions. That tells you a lot about the status of women in the

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-06 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Irmeli, your question is right on the money. Hitler was schooled in Le Bon's 1895 The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. It is still a good source for how social engineering is done. Young Dove recently

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hagen J. Holtz hagen.j.holtz@ wrote: Irmeli said: Practically every time they (the

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread Angela Mailander
I agree with you and Hagen completely about what you are seeing in the Muslim community in Europe. I have no reason to doubt your experience. The disagreement comes in blaming the Muslim religion for this state of affairs. There is nothing in the religion per se that brings about the things you

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread wayback71
You might want to read the book, Murder in Amsterdam by Baruma, a Dutch journalist who has spent about 15years living in the US. AFter the murder of Theo Van Gogh, Baruma decided to return to Amsterdam and see just what was going on. The influx of Muslims and all the problems you talk about

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread Stu
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Angela! I also know personally some Muslims or former Muslims, who have come as refugees to Finland, and they are truly fine people. E.g. I have learned to know a conductor from Afghanistan, to whom I'm hiring

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread Angela Mailander
Who's we, white man? We think we don't hold slaves only because we don't understand that a sweat shop in China is tantamount to slavery. When China tried, recently, once again, to do something about it, American corporate interests blocked their efforts completely --in a kind of non-military

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip We have made some token progress with regard to the status of women, but you see how easily our Purusha men forgot all about that. Last time I taught at a university in the States, I got $10,000 less per year

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread pavvlovs_dog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: snip We have made some token progress with regard to the status of women, but you see how easily our Purusha men forgot all about that.

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: Hi Angela! I also know personally some Muslims or former Muslims, who have come as refugees to Finland, and they are truly fine people.

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
Hi Angela! At least you can have that kind of job. You can choose your husband, and divorce him, if he treats you badly.If a man rapes you, you are not made guilty for it, and being killed by your family members because of this crime. Women's position may not be perfect in the west either, but it

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-04 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must have some very different Muslims in Europe than the ones I have met here. In 1982 I taught a very unusual class of ESL at Kent State University. All 25 guys from Muslim and Arabic speaking countries.

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-04 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hagen J. Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Irmeli said: Practically every time they (the nuslims) publicly say something, they make themselves just ridiculous, and show that their capacity to formal operational thinking, or abstract conceptual thinking,

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-04 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hagen J. Holtz hagen.j.holtz@ wrote: Irmeli said: Practically every time they (the nuslims) publicly say something, they make themselves just ridiculous, and show that

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-04 Thread Kirk
All human beings are the same. They all have the same emotions. All laugh when happy and weep when sad. There are no broad civilizations that produce radically different behavior in human beings. ---This all beings is the same thing overlooks individual propensities. There was an interesting

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-04 Thread Angela Mailander
Yes, Irmeli, I have discussed female mutilation with these gentlemen. They are no longer young. Let's see, they were in their early twenties in 1982, so they are now pushing fifty. They are all intelligent, kind, and spiritually inclined men who appear to respect women. At least, they respect

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-04 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
Hi Angela! I also know personally some Muslims or former Muslims, who have come as refugees to Finland, and they are truly fine people. E.g. I have learned to know a conductor from Afghanistan, to whom I'm hiring an apartment. I don't perceive any serious defects in his reasoning. During the

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-03 Thread Hagen J. Holtz
Irmeli said: Practically every time they (the nuslims) publicly say something, they make themselves just ridiculous, and show that their capacity to formal operational thinking, or abstract conceptual thinking, is poor. They combine categories in a wrong way all the time. And this is not about

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hagen J. Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Irmeli said: Practically every time they (the nuslims) publicly say something, they make themselves just ridiculous, and show that their capacity to formal operational thinking, or abstract conceptual

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The parallel I would draw is to those who hold to Vedic ideals so strongly that they would insist on maintaining the caste system, even in a country that not only doesn't believe in it, but has made some of its

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-03 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Mar 3, 2008, at 8:22 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: The cases I'm aware of were all *lost* by those hoping to uphold their right to pursue the caste system in America, but they continued to do it after paying the first fine. My friends in New York who have to do business with these people say that

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-03 Thread Angela Mailander
You must have some very different Muslims in Europe than the ones I have met here. In 1982 I taught a very unusual class of ESL at Kent State University. All 25 guys from Muslim and Arabic speaking countries. They were an amazing bunch of young gentlemen, and the only classes I've ever taught

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-03 Thread Stu
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must have some very different Muslims in Europe than the ones I have met here. In 1982 I taught a very unusual class of ESL at Kent State University. All 25 guys from Muslim and Arabic speaking countries.

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: You must have some very different Muslims in Europe than the ones I have met here. In 1982 I taught a very unusual class of ESL at Kent

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-03 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: You must have some very different Muslims in Europe than the ones I have met here. In 1982 I taught a very unusual

Re: Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-03 Thread Angela Mailander
Well, it's certainly possible that some of my very nice students later became vicious Muslim hit men, but the guys I still correspond with are intelligent and spiritual men with families. And they do not believe, for example, that all Americans are as evil as the Blackwater guys seem to be. a