Why would I want to see anyone suffer? I teach living debt free whenever I get the chance, including last week to the employees at my bank. I would like to live in a sustainable world and the only way I can see of getting there is to teach at every opportunity. But I can not teach those who do not want to learn. I do truly wish, Bright Blessings to everyone.
As for history, the big general sweeps teach us more than getting lost in quibbling over details. Even if Thucydides made up his whole book, it does not matter. He still lets us see through the eyes of someone in another time.
Kim
At 10:27 AM 8/17/2005, you wrote:
Hi Kim,
Don't let those secrets out Kim. You'll have more competition. Let them stay dumb and in debt. As far as knowing history, which history are we talking about? Are we talking about the history that says John F. Kennedy was killed by lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald? Or the real History?
Tom Irwin
- From: Garth & Kim Travis [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
- To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
- Sent: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:12:29 -0300
- Subject: RE: [Biofuel] The New Blue States/Country
- Greetings,
- What you say is true, but how many Americans know their history? Ask most
- Texans who won the civil war and they answer: Texas. While I do know that
- Texans are not the same as American's, in most people's books, about half
- of my neighbors are from California and they are no better.
- Somehow, it has become American to support our industry and stay in hock up
- to wazoo. What gets me, it that most of the stuff is not made in
- America. It is made elsewhere, an American name is added, then it is sold
- to Americans. The joy of living in the states is the right to pay off
- debts without a penalty, especially your mortgage. I do know American
- history and wish more Americans did and were proud of the good parts, I
- think it would make a nicer country.
- Bright Blessings,
- Kim
- At 04:00 PM 8/16/2005, you wrote:
- >"I was never told that it was un-Canadian to do for myself or to make
- >things at home. I am criticized in this manner about once a week, here in
- >Texas."
- >
- >OK you have my attention.
- >
- >ANY American who tells you that making something at home is un-American
- >hasn't the foggiest notion of this country's history and culture.
- >Ingenuity and individuality have contributed greatly to the American way
- >of life, for better or worse.
- >
- >If anyone you know has any doubt about this, tell them to do their your
- >own research and find out how many people in this country are amateur
- >inventors and basement tinkerers. This didn't just start yesterday. As a
- >new Englander, I admired so called "Yankee Ingenuity" and the folklorish
- >status that it developed throughout the post industrial revolution. Some
- >can argue that this kind of activity goes farther back than that -
- >applying extraordinary ingenuity during the revolutionary war with the
- >development and manufacturing processes used to produce the Kentucky long
- >rifle and other technologies of it's day. Many of the framers of the
- >constitution were tinkerers in their own right. Ask him/her if BENJAMIN
- >FRANKLIN sounds like a familiar name.
- >
- >Mike
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