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posted by LadyCeeMarie on July 26, 2006 at 1:18 PM | link to this | reply

Ceemarie, ypu are the LIGHT of HIS word for adding your positive comments

and coming to visit our little blogs. (By the way, I love looking at your pciture because there is a brighter light that shines through, directly from your soul). Shalom; Praise the Lord; Jehovah has us all under His Wingspan.

posted by salem8 on July 26, 2006 at 3:10 AM | link to this | reply

Oh Ypunday-

YOU do my heart good!  It is wonderful, the background and wealth of knowledge you possess.  I say that with all sincerity and always leave your site feeling better for having read it.   Continue to always hold yourself in highest regards, my dear one, and no detractor will have a chance to cast a shadow upon your Godlight!  He lives!  He lives!  Christ Jesus lives today!
Cee

posted by LadyCeeMarie on July 25, 2006 at 8:38 PM | link to this | reply

I accept your approach OFFBEATS. I still wonder if we have not punished the

real culorits enough, and why we gave up on catching Osama Bin Laden?

posted by salem8 on July 25, 2006 at 7:26 AM | link to this | reply

Wow, Ceemarie, thanks for showering God's agape on earth. I caught some of

that wonderful sunshine coming from your heart. You are truly a marvel of God, a shining example...I will try to loive up to the ideals you describe, for Lord knows, those are my ideals. Thanks, thanks and more ...

Shalom/Salaam/Shanthi Aum/Amen (Praise Jesus the Christ)

posted by salem8 on July 25, 2006 at 7:24 AM | link to this | reply

YP

I think it is up to the individual and in their ability to debate any subject. As to forgiveness of 9/11, no I will never forgive or forget that day. It would be sad if we did forget as we would be destined to have it repeated. Just my 2 cents

posted by Offy on July 25, 2006 at 7:21 AM | link to this | reply

Ah, such delicious comments, I forget the question.....oh yes, I vote

No Blocking.  I have only had one dissenter, and he eventually begged forgiveness.  Shower them with love and forgiveness and most of it will go over their heads but you will have created a most loving and positive experience for yourself by following the adage, "What would love do?"

I, too, feel I am a humanist and am frustrated with the state of the earth, the global warming, the massive change that is upon us that we could have prevented.  Present day prophets don't see anything much beyond 100 years.  I am also a spiritualist in that I know this human body is but a shell for me to carry out my mission, whatever that is!  When it is my time to return home, I will grab the nearest exit and do  just that, gladly!

I am sure that MC knows this song so well, "La Vie En Rose," a world where roses grow.  I am also a romanticist!  It was a special song last year for a special 8 months -- the song kept cropping up, as did my sweet ex-lover.  A world where roses grow.  They could grow in the Middle East, if tended with love and care.  We need to care for all living species in the world, including humankind.  I believe in love, doggoneit.

                                                           CM 
 

posted by LadyCeeMarie on July 25, 2006 at 7:08 AM | link to this | reply

wonder which is the best part?

posted by marieclaire66 on July 23, 2006 at 11:59 PM | link to this | reply

What you have is plenty MC--French language, history and frenchkissing

but seriously, I have lived (unfortunately) under apartheid and early in my life, I was forced to read and learn form other nations and philosophies. Hence, my search and love for the US Founding Fathers.

posted by salem8 on July 22, 2006 at 8:28 PM | link to this | reply

I have so much to learn.

posted by marieclaire66 on July 22, 2006 at 8:23 PM | link to this | reply

Hi Decshak - thanks for your visit. How's the French classes going?

I saw my comments distorted on their blog, and a question asked about everything but the compliment I had given the writer. If 4/5 sentences are ignored, and people are so serious they refuse to be lighthearted --especially when they write about the local weather somewhere on the planet -- I did not think it would be useful to hash and rehash. I know that person is unfair--but I pray for all, myself, and those with whom I differ. I just prayed for Israel's safety and success, and fasted (from sugar) for the safety of Lebanese folk

GIVING IS RECEIVING--so far only I benefit by giving forgiveness and pos+ thoughts; Lebanon agonizes in this holocaust of liberal democractic values.

posted by salem8 on July 22, 2006 at 7:27 PM | link to this | reply

One dangerous alternative is to go ahead and tell them what you think

of them, since that is what they did to you.  Blocking seems a bit more civilized.  I guess it depends on whether or not you think you can reach them intellectually....

posted by Decshak_ on July 22, 2006 at 7:19 PM | link to this | reply

Glad you stopped by Avant-Garde. Yes, language of love is forgiveness.Jesus

taught it, as well as other prophets. So if we demand forgiveness from our Lord, it behooves u sto give what we so desire for ourselves, lest the lord will tell us, "I know thee not!"  shalom my brother

posted by salem8 on July 22, 2006 at 6:04 AM | link to this | reply

YPunday

I think there must be a point at where forgiveness is the only option. We are in a cycle of reaction that leads to more perpetration and reason to defend and attack others.

posted by avant-garde on July 22, 2006 at 3:52 AM | link to this | reply

Ariel, you give me hope that dialgo may occur. Rabbi M. Lerner wrote

"THE LEFT HAND OF GOD" and does not support Israeli militarism, colonialism and human rights atrocities.Another Rabbi, who knows Jewish tradition, Marc Gopin is also an international mediator who thinks Arafat really wanted peace. But Gopin reveals that "eaxamination of the soul" or BEHINAT HA-nefesh "is a critical componenet of moral growth" which leads to lifelong "TESHUVAH"> The christians traditions of peace, namely Mennonites and Quakers, emphasize 'individual discernment'. But Marc Gopin - more than any other teacher - says how we behave at home tells us how wwe will behave in th world. Finally, also from him, a Rabinic adage teaches: "Who is a true hero? He who can make an enemy into a friend."  If showing off with merican made weapons is manhood, well---India, Pakistan, North Korea all have nuclear arsenals, and Japan taught the west a thing or two in WW2. But North Korea has no oil and few coevted resources, so we can talk about talks when they shoot missiles. Next, Chosen Ones.....shalom

posted by salem8 on July 21, 2006 at 2:33 PM | link to this | reply

YPunday

 

I began to read your post with interest, but I soon discovered that you too, like GlennB show a tendency to reduce extremely complex historical and current  issues to simple black and white. Altho' I hasten to add that you evince none of GlennB's rabid racism.

One can argue ad infinitum the rights and wrongs of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, but since then the brutal truth is that there is no clear cut right and wrong in affairs in the Middle East. there is no black and white, only shades of grey.

As regards blocking people ; I've only ever blocked one person, and that simply in retaliation

posted by ariel70 on July 21, 2006 at 11:51 AM | link to this | reply