January drudion & I've had it with the Drude's xenophobic insinuations

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dodge one Jan 7, 2008 15:08:11
Replying to Bonzo the Cat

While you seem to be in command of a worthy solar lexicon,it expresses little ability to convey emotion or feeling towards the issue at hand. I'd like to see you go record with how you feel about issues that effect us all.The world is moving on in so many levels. Not everything is O.K. ! Under the guise of 'thats my culture' or otherwise. Communal stoneing! Female emasculation!The ubiquitous Burka!Segregation!Religous persecution!Wholesale De-forestation!Institutionalized poverty! How is it that the planet can not even agree to a standard voltage,let alone how to produce said voltage. Ever notice that most conversations regarding anything important almost allways take a tangent, Religous conviction vs. real world problems.As far as i know we have not had so much as a telephone call from any deity in a very long time. We are on our own here. Progress{whatever that is anymore} is going to have it's price.A pretty good start is what john wrote in the song imagine.He was a protester too.

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Bonzo the Cat Jan 7, 2008 15:14:17
Replying to dodge one

Eh - yes... I don't see where we differ in opinion? You indeed put forth as I say, that one should not look at "a culture", but at several reprobable acts, such as stoneing etc. I also agree with protest, but I hope you don't expect me to endorse protest that takes its protest as an excuse to judge an entire culture as a whole?

I may be misreading you dodge, but if I understand your first words, you accuse me of being cerebral to the issue rather than being emotional? The thing is, I believe in emotions, but not as the basis of moral superiority or discussion altogether. I mean, the "others" also "feel" very strongly about these issues (remember lynching mob for the Mohammed teddy bear?) - but does that make them right?

If the only reason you can find to be in favour or against something is how it "makes you feel", you might turn one way or the other. Reason gives the cause, emotion makes you support it. What do you think?