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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (46103)	2/12/2004 9:36:01 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Malcolm, You and Maurice are two of the best people I have ever encountered on the Internet. Without all this wonderful technology, your views and values are passed on to only those that are very close to you. Now hundreds of us get to share your views and perhaps spread them to others. All this doom and gloom and hunkering down preparing for armageddon is worthless. In its worst form, it could become a self fulfilling prophacy. Sure there is danger each and every day. If you are lucky enough to wake up and can get out of bed each morning, any number of things can kill you. It took us a long time to get out of the primordial slime and separate ouselves from other living organisms. Howver, it has only taken us a few thousand years to develop languages and start to record our history. It has only been 100 years since Kitty Hawk and now we are on Mars. It was only 10 years ago that I had a 300 baud modem and 360k disk storage. Now you can't even give away that stuff to people in remote villages in India and China. Sure we have had our ups and downs. Sure there are pious people who have faith and certain they are to be rewarded with eternal life and happiness. Yet, some of these same people subscribe to preemptively killing others so they can also enjoy earthly pleasures. You don't have to be Muslim to subscribe to that kind of madness. It wasn't all that long ago when Viking marauders would go to the Bristish Isles and kill the Monks in their monestary. But look what happened. There are still a lot of Monks around today, but except for a few in Minnesota (many of whom are black), there are very few Vikings around. I don't believe the Monks ever took up arms. But yet, what is the trend? I just didn't think you had to be that smart to recognize the trend. Mary

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (46103)	2/12/2004 11:01:13 AM
From: brian h	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

""Maurice, I don't think you realize the political consequences of asking people about their political attitudes. Some kinds of talk are forbidden and therefore dangerous."" One would not appreciate Mao's political attitudes if one had gone through "Culture Revolution" times. On the same token, I had wasted two years of my youth lives stationed in an island outside a major China port. For what reason? To defend if those disgusting Communist leaders (Mao included) decided to attack the island to claim China's integrity. I blamed leaders on both side of the strait claiming they represented Chinese. I certainly would not appreciate anyone from China expressed his or her arrogant attitudes toward others again like Mao or Chiang and their subsequent leaders claiming that person represents Chinese or Taiwanese. That is just outright disgusting!!! BH