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Post by donte on Mar 18, 2017 14:58:34 GMT 10
Spiritual meanderings....
Two old bearded codgers were sitting in the shade of the Pearly Gates. One wore a turban and had a Koran clasped in a bony hand, the other was bare headed and hugged a staff, the latter shifted the staff to one side and confided to the other….
‘I thought you would have returned and written a sequel to that book by now Mo’.
‘Not likely’ whined Mo ‘they would crucify me’
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Post by cster on Mar 19, 2017 9:14:50 GMT 10
Gates made out of clam shells, they must be biggies, Atlantian Gates perhaps.
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Post by madametarot on Mar 19, 2017 9:46:49 GMT 10
Cster, it could be just smoke and mirrors and nothing to do with oysters.
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Post by cster on Mar 20, 2017 8:08:30 GMT 10
Ah yes but lets face it more than one Oyster has sent one or so of our friends very close to the gates. Lest that's what they've said after the event. he he
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Post by tute on Aug 2, 2017 16:08:26 GMT 10
I wonder if Donald is taking any notice of his critics yet....
Whatever.....
After he stopped the waters from rising Barak Obama turned his attention to the Middle East.
During the eight years of the Obama administration, half a million Christians, Yazidis and Muslims were slaughtered in the Middle East by ISIS and other Islamic jihadists, in a genocidal campaign waged in the name of Islam and its God. Twenty million others were driven into exile by these same jihadist forces. Libya and Yemen became terrorist states. America – once the dominant foreign power and anti-jihadist presence in the region – was replaced by Russia, an ally of the monster regimes in Syria and Iran, and their terrorist proxies.
On the upside, the rising waters seem to be under control. More on the upside of increasing CO2, in addition to greening the planet and helping to increase crop yields the plants are getting better at using water.
Hmmmmmmm......
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Post by epictetus on Aug 2, 2017 16:59:15 GMT 10
Obama couldn't come to terms with the fact that the moderate Islam he knew as a boy at school in Jakarta** had morphed into the violent Jihadism of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah and kindred outfits. The centre-left, let alone the hard left and feminist movements still haven't got the message.
The fact that the centre-left, which dominates the media, can't accept that there is a substantial number of truly vicious religious fanatics among us is what drives public discourse on Islam and Islamism. The dilemma of liberal democracy, that it has to tolerate the intolerant, even those who are out to shut it down, is a challenge that will only be met when democrats accept that there are limits to their political philosophy.
Political leaders in the West have a further problem in that they don't have an alternative ethos or political philosophy with which to challenge the attractiveness of Islamism to its adherents, especially to alienated young men. Our leaders, in the main (I'll except Abbot from this), are hollow men and women with nothing to offer that gives meaning to people's lives. They stand for nothing (the "sensible centre") and inspire no one.
Politicians who do stand for something - principled people of the right or left - Sanders, Corbyn, Trump, Abbott - are treated by the media as oddballs and/or extremists until they find that these people do attract significant support. That takes the journos by surprise as no one in their own echo chamber admires people of principle. "Sensible centre" types like Turnbull found themselves on the nose at the recent NSW Liberal Party conference, and Turnbull is even on the nose among Liberals in his own electorate.
I don't have much hope for the future until the present state becomes untenable. When things really start to fall apart maybe people will look to men and women of principle once again. Of course, one possible outcome is that the people of principle will prefer authoritarianism to democracy. Time will tell.
**He was registered as a Muslim for religious education classes, though he may have been only nominally so.
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Post by cster on Aug 6, 2017 20:38:20 GMT 10
As you say Epic, " Of course, one possible outcome is that the people of principle will prefer Authoritarianism to Democracy".
Time will surely tell. Who would blame those able to lead from choosing to avoid Democracy after the way the plebes behaved.
I for one have not protested of our governments behaviour nor that of my neighbours.
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