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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (104521)	5/18/2005 4:49:31 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Okay, well, when you are finished laughing, here is my opinion of Cyprian's posts. I can see how people would find them offensive, because they find his belief system offensive. I personally start to get offended at extensive Bible quoting, because I am an atheist and it is just revolting to me. I think that the responses to his posts made clear that people were offended. The responses were well within the terms of use in the sense of dealing with the post, not the poster. So I think people generally have the idea of how to deal with offensive posts. Thank you! But again, as much as you dislike Cyprian's point of view, I am sure it is deeply held and he didn't simply write the posts with the intent of being foul and uncivil, or calling names. I have the same problem with the posts of (I won't mention his name or he will probably be here in a flash), and that is why I insisted his sources must be major, mainstream media, and no hate sites. At the same time, we could have a fascinating discussion about how America's pro-Israel stance is very out of the international norm (Israel is supported by almost no other nation). I read an article the other day about how the Neo-Cons dummied up the reasons, but really invaded Iraq to create a pro-western democracy so that Israel would have an ally in the region, and that is not far fetched. But look at the mess it has created! Now Iran feels even more threatened, and is developing nuclear bombs. Israel should not have been created, in my opinion, and its existence may destroy the whole planet eventually. And Israel's human rights abuses against the Palestinians, who were living there peacefully on land that they owned when the Zionists threw them into refugee camps, are extremely vile, include massacres, and span decades. Ariel Sharon and Menachem Begin and all the early leaders of Israel were terrorists of the most violent type, predating any Arab terrorists at all, who simply reacted to the horrible way they were treated by the Zionists.