Theos-Talk Archives (October 2001 Message tt00038)

On the contrary Nos, the world Michele describes is the complex world of
living color. It is the world in which we act. Your world of 'Why didn't
we' , why don't we', and 'how dare we' is the simple world of black and
white. You fool yourself when you look at the world through rose colored
glasses and convince yourself that the color you see is not distorted.

No matter when we move to eradicate terrorism, you will ask why we didn't
move earlier. No matter what we do, you will criticize our motives. Nos,
we are selfish - same as you. Can you deny your selfish motives, even in
these discussions? Do you hold us to a higher standard than you hold
yourself? 
The question in the end is who will win - the selfish US who has
historically raised the bar of freedom for one disenfranchised group after
another - or those selfish others who continue to repress and/or attack
every group that is not them.

Not one standard,
Bill
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> From: nos <nos@granite.net.au>
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: Theos-World Fw: [nadervt] Warning: The present condition of
the U.S.
> Date: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:32 AM
> 
> If only we could all live in such a simple world.
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> Why didn't the world do anything about this repression to women BEFORE
> WTC911?
> 
> Why hasn't the US/UN done anything about the repression and OVER 1
> MILLION DEATHS in Tibet?
> 
> 
> Can I ask what degree you are studying Officer Jenny?
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> 
> Cfud
> 
> Negative observations silenced
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michele Lidofsky [mailto:officerjenny@mindspring.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2001 1:41 PM
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Fw: [nadervt] Warning: The present 
> condition of the U.S.
> 
> 
> nos wrote:
> 
> > So what - it's ok to hate as long as you choose the right enemy?
> 
> Of course we can have no enemies and hate no-one.
> 
> We can also have a totalitarian movement, who are tribalists of 
> a medieval brutality succeed, and impose their vision of utopia on us.
> 
> They forbid women to have an education, health care, work, or 
> to walk on the streets unless completely covered by a face-mask 
> and a tent. They bury a woman suspected of adultery up to her 
> shoulders before stoning her to death. They kill suspected 
> homosexuals by collapsing walls on them. They have driven 
> millions of desperate fellow Afghans into exile, and leave the 
> remainder to face destitution, and starvation. Religious 
> freedom, social mobility, tolerance, the guarantee of rights 
> and liberties in law, are all unheard of.
> 
> The left, who were happy to have left millions to the mercy of 
> Communism and the gulags, may also be happy to leave millions 
> at the mercy of this kind of Islamist terror - lining up as 
> usual on the side of oppression and lies.
> 
> As Chris Weinkopf of the NY Daily News has noted, moral 
> equivalence is rooted in a kind of moral stupidity (or moral 
> denial) - it's the inability or refusal to ever make 
> distinctions between the genuinely good, the merely unpleasant, 
> and the patently evil.
> 
> Michele
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