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Interesting! I didn't know that history about maps.
posted by
adnohr
on September 13, 2014 at 3:21 AM
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I too feel sick and when I find myself not happy, as last night in a restaurant sitting next to a muslim women with two young children and I ask myself where is her husband? Is he in Syria...Then I know it is time I went back to my animals and the quiet of home and pull myself togther. I have praid for peace all my life, marched for peace when I was young, many things and have always rfused to just see one side of a fight...perhaps I am better never to watch any news not even the headlines.
posted by
Kabu
on September 11, 2014 at 4:52 PM
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PatB
I am sick right along with ya, seems all of a sudden that the othr side will be better just as we like to think. Deep dark thoughts love. God Bless us all.
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posted by
WileyJohn
on September 11, 2014 at 11:28 AM
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I somehow think the best times have gone Pat and they seemed pretty tough. At least there was harmony if only because we did not know what was happening else where.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 11, 2014 at 11:18 AM
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Pat
As so often, I agree with you, though not completely. The ‘dragons’ and the fact the world has shrunk aside, when you say ‘we’, taking the bird’s eye view of the human species, a position I am very familiar with since I’ve spent a lot of time there, LOL, you’re right.
But when you come down from that perch and adopt another ‘we’ position, that of a civilized humanism, as I have, you must admit there are important differences between us and those who revere a sadistic, blood-thirsty (and of course non-existent) ‘deity’…
Which is not to deny our own shortcomings and crimes… 
posted by
Nautikos
on September 11, 2014 at 9:31 AM
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It is sad what is going on in the world today.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 11, 2014 at 8:43 AM
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Take some comfort...
...that there are still places in the world empty of humankind, even though where we gather, we gather in hordes. On the whole, I agree: we are a dysfunctional species that pollutes our own nest and lives in intolerably crowded and impoverished conditions that drive us mad.
We don't have the power to destroy the Earth, but we do certainly have what it would take to make it uninhabitable for ourselves, or at least, unbearable for each other.
Some days, I want to go to those empty spaces, and be a hermit.
posted by
Ciel
on September 11, 2014 at 6:36 AM
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