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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (7453)	2/12/2003 10:53:40 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Hi Karen, I have been thinking about dissidents.. A dissident is a critical thinker of her/his society.. not a uncritical follower, but one loyal to our beliefs. We don't sell out our principals. I think of you, me, PCT and PT again, EH, X, RD, MSI, BF, LL,(that Finn, who I understand, that crazy thinker, <gg> ) and many others I can't think of now who I appologize to.. Maybe we are born to understand things, it is hard to say in words, but it is just the way it is.. Do we come to that inherently, do we learn it ?, do we evolve into it ?.. I don't know.. But one thing I DO know , WE WOULD have BEEN,(speaking for myself only of course) DISSIDENTS in what ever SOCIETY WE would have been BORN IN because we are intelligent enough to understand and have the COURAGE to speak out about it.. Because WE KNOW, IMO (speaking for myself again) that all societies have warts.. Whether one lives in Finland, Sweden, Russia, Iraq, France, GB, US, Mexico, Canada, Belize, Germany, Australia, etc. (I am sorry again if I left someone out.. Why is that? Why we live in a particular society and understand above all other else , I don't know. BUT WE ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO IMPROVE THINGS and those around us... What else are we here for? I don't know of a Higher Calling.. c