We don't need 'The War Against Terror' what we need is war against sectarianism

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

Hate to burst your bubble but that is a peculiarly English pastime and not at all shared up here by us skirt wearing heathens. Quite the contrary I feel there is much to be learned from the French. I think this English slating of the French to be a symptom of latent jealousy to be honest. just my oponion

Hee, hee. It's okay we hate the Scots too LOL.

Jealous, of the French - no way. What is there to be jealous of, their wine, their food, their rebellious nature, their sense of style, their family lifestyle.........okay so I am a bit jealous. But that is no need to stop hating them, it is an English past time, like cricket.

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by China Cat Sunflower

So maybe I'm not 100% solar, maybe I eat animals, maybe in a lot of little ways I'm not perfect, but I am doing this one important thing: restoring people's trust in honest craftsmanship one person at a time. My word is my bond, and my hand on yours means something. I think that's valuable.

I admire your desire to do your bit Chris and yes it is valuable. None of us are saints and get it all right, I am no doubt in the middle of the list somewhere and just hope not at the bottom.

All I am saying is that we need to be more aware of the chain we are involved in. Every time someone buys Cadbury chocolate instead of fair trade, another child loses their childhood and spends it working in cocoa fields. It is just so easy to not think about this and just deal with your chocolate craving. What about wood, if you buy wood to make hand crafted furniture but that wood comes from raping rain forests, have you created a thing of beauty? We must begin to feel responsible for our choices, not an endless guilt for them but start to feel good about the choices we make. That is when we will begin to change, because we feel good about what we are doing.

Salaam
Sally

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Muslimwoman

Hee, hee. It's okay we hate the Scots too LOL.

Jealous, of the French - no way. What is there to be jealous of, their wine, their food, their rebellious nature, their sense of style, their family lifestyle.........okay so I am a bit jealous. But that is no need to stop hating them, it is an English past time, like cricket.

lol, I'm gona send you a haggis next january.

[Pathless]

Originally Posted by Muslimwoman

All I am saying is that we need to be more aware of the chain we are involved in. Every time someone buys Cadbury chocolate instead of fair trade, another child loses their childhood and spends it working in cocoa fields. It is just so easy to not think about this and just deal with your chocolate craving. What about wood, if you buy wood to make hand crafted furniture but that wood comes from raping rain forests, have you created a thing of beauty? We must begin to feel responsible for our choices, not an endless guilt for them but start to feel good about the choices we make. That is when we will begin to change, because we feel good about what we are doing.

Agreed.

[seattlegal]

Originally Posted by wil

Is it? Much of the sectarian violence in the world has been between sects of one religion...not always between one religion and the world. Like Sunni/Shiia...whether it is more political or more religious the border line of this dispute is sectarian.

You claim the terrorists are not Islamic, while I tend to agree with you, isn't this also by definition a sectarian dispute?

You are there, and we are here and I am the eggman....so you really have your finger on the pulse more than I....but sometimes I think what we need is simplicity.

Where love rules,
There is no will to power,
And where power predominates,
Love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other.

- Carl Gustav Jung

[seattlegal]

Originally Posted by Muslimwoman

Hi Soopy

Correct, there is no set answer but we seem to be going from one extreme to the other. My Latin teacher used to bounce the wooden board rubber off my head and yet last year a local teacher was suspended for months and months for assaulting a child. The school and parents wanted him reinstated but it didn't happen. The great crime - two boys had locked a girl in a cupboard and stood in front of it. The teacher pulled one boy, by the arm, out of the way to open the cupboard. Hey presto, physical assault. When are we going to see that the answer tends to lie in the middle, it is wrong to bounce wood off kids heads but it is also wrong to stop a teacher from protecting a child. Why always react in a knee jerk way and go to the other extreme?

MW

Originally Posted by Snoopy

Hi MW,

I am indeed an exponent of the middle way. Although the board rubber doesn't seem to have done you any harm, you're Latin seems excellent!

s.

Originally Posted by Muslimwoman

Hi Snoop

LMAO hey wouldn't you learn quickly if there was a board rubber stotted off your head every 5 minutes?? Amazing I ever learnt anything really.

MW

The proper instrument is not a board rubber, but a fish. {Ask Snoopy}

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

lol, I'm gona send you a haggis next january.

Could you just send me a letter bomb, it would be more appreciated LOL

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by seattlegal

The proper instrument is not a board rubber, but a fish. {Ask Snoopy}

You think my teacher should have thrown fish at me??? lol

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by seattlegal

The proper instrument is not a board rubber, but a fish. {Ask Snoopy}

Aye, tis true. Fresh, mind, not frozen.

s.

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

Aye, tis true. Fresh, mind, not frozen.

s.

Oh yuk then my hair would get all smelly. Can you just throw the frozen stuff please, would rather have the pain than the smell.