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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2325)9/23/2002 9:10:36 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6945
 
Why is a tent more noble than a house?

When you've done without indoor plumbing for a year let me know how you like it.

Have you cut a winter's worth of firewood and hauled it and stacked behind your house? Or butchered your own hog, grown all your own fruits and veggies and canned them and filled your cellar with them?

I did all this as a kid and I don't think that lifestyle is any more noble.

Now having said that I will say I'm glad I experienced it. And I think it would be good for kids today to experience some of what I did for at least a part of their childhood.



To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2325)9/24/2002 12:43:15 AM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 6945
 
<<< On Friday night, the former head of the Israeli Air force, General Eitan Ben Eliyahu, posing as a news commentator, ended the evening news magazine with his analysis on the so-called demographic problem - he said "eventually we will have to 'thin-out' the number of Palestinians living in the territories". >>>

zmag.org



To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2325)9/24/2002 9:11:29 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6945
 
Historically the only tent dwellers have been nomads - Bedouin, who are a small minority in the Arab world, Mongols and other central Asian nomadic herders, and Native Americans of the Great Plains. Houses are much more efficient unless one is constantly on the move.