You’re right. I just get a little peeved when others twist my words around or "put words in my mouth" and reduce everything to an unreal 2-dimensional plane. For instance, you claiming "me and my kind" support "these killing bastards." I don’t support killing of any kind. I don’t even know what "my kind" means. When someone says there are only two choices, I also find that offensive to the discussion. And yes, much of my concern is for Bush’s lame way of dealing with this. And his Father’s policy…and Reagan’s. They are the ones who built Saddam up giving him the weapons to do the terrible things he did. But none of that mattered as long as we had access to cheap oil. Rather than giving him the means to do these things they could’ve taken them away.
But let’s take a look at your situation, which I’m sure you do not deserve. Is this not exactly what I’ve been discussing? Is this not person A attacking person B, person B retaliating by attacking person C, who then attacks person D? I admire you for having the conscience not to attack back but to flee with your life and luckily, some possessions. I just don’t think we can teach people to not kill innocent children by killing innocent children. If person A attacks person B, and person B retaliates, shouldn’t person B retaliate against Person A? Doesn’t that make much more sense? Why take it out on others?
And about this muti, or witch medicine. Do you live in South Africa? Why does murder have to happen for this medicine? Is it in short supply? Is it considered illegal? Here in the United States we have a similar war. It’s called the War on Drugs. It is a war on drugs that are derived from Nature. Plant based drugs mostly. We don’t like these drugs because they are not patentable. We prefer to use drugs that are derived from petroleum. Petroleum-based drugs are patentable and have great value. They may not work as well, or may be much more toxic than the natural ones, but they possess the ability to put vast sums of money into the fewest number of pockets.
If you look at these natural drugs and their origins, you will find that their use parallels many religions. The Incas had coca, from which we get cocaine. Scientists have synthesized patentable forms of cocaine, like xylacaine, benzocaine, lidocaine, Novocain, procaine, but only cocaine is derived from Nature. The others are synthetic and cannot compete economically with the natural versions.
Ancient Greece had the religion of the Eleusinian Mysteries and drank a potion called kykeon. Strong evidence points to kykeon being a tea made from the ergot fungus from which Albert Hoffman synthesized LSD.
Judeo-Christianity had wine and something called "strong drink." We don’t even really know what "strong drink" was, but we do know what it wasn’t. It wasn’t distilled liquor since distilling wasn’t discovered for over a 1000 years. The Bible also mentions cannabis, the Hebrew word kannabosm, which has been translated into "incense." Scientists have synthesized the THC molecule too, but it also cannot compete economically with the natural plant, which grows for free, so it has been outlawed.
Hinduism had the sacrament soma, which was likely the Amanita Muscaria mushroom, which also appears cryptically in Judeo-Christianity. So muti and the witchcraft association fall into this same category of "medicines’ that have been subjected to the Pharmacratic Inquisition, of which the Bush family are major players.
My guess is that muti is a drug that may have enormous medical value, but has not yet been synthesized. Once synthesized, the price will skyrocket and natural muti will be outlawed, if it isn’t already.
We don’t need to kill bugs with a sledge hammer, especially if the bugs are on children. And we need to identify which bugs are harmful and which bugs aren’t.
Peadge š
"DD" wrote in message
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:40:20 -0700, "Peadge"
wrote:
Ya’all sleep tight, now, ya hear?
Peadge š
‘kay, o’kay Peadge:-)
I did deserve a much more harsh answer then this. You accused someone else of having a limited vocabulary, and that could have being said to me as well, because English is not my home language.
(I can talk four languages, but there is of course a difference between talking and discussing:-)
The reason for my attack is because I live in a city (and country) where, if I walk down the street now after dark, any further then to only the cafe over the street, I must carry a gun. Carry a gun or the wasps will attack. A country where murders and hi-jacks are every days events. A country where inocent people get murdered and beheaded for the sake of muti (witch medicine ((wrd)) ).
And we hate this kind of living. Hijackers have tried to hijack me. In less then six week apart, two break-ins in my car for the sake of a radio. I am lucky. Other people can tell weird stories. This is a place where you dare not to stop for a hitchiker. I stopped for two ladies with a small child at eleven at night, at been attack by men hiding in the bushes. I got away. Even saved my car:-)
The world is sick. My heart goes out to an Palestinian girl with her baby sister or brother in her hands running over the street with blood on their faces. So do I feel about Iraqi women and children. So do I feel about woman and children in my own country fleeing from the wasps.
Peace Peadge:-)
Dave