If I'm fat/thin/ginger/some other problem group that the government wants to tax into health, and have ten times the chance of catching some disease, some disease that we all agree is awful, should I worry?
That rather depends on what my likelihood of catching it is without any external factors. If it's 1 in a hundred I may worry, if it's one in a billion, then...
I want you think about one thing: how many of us have ever died because of a terrorist act? Is it worth the suffering, pain and the rather-casual racism that has become OK to stop such a very few deaths? And has caused so many more dead...[I have a good metaphor, but the world being the world .and me not being brave...think of the ground-space that the two towers occupied.]
I was brought up as a pacifist, I'll never go to war, rather easy now-a-days. We need another generation, the word that they will be called has not been coined, but I know what they will do: they won't go to war, and they won't let others go to war in their name.
I always tell myself that we will win. My job is to help that happen...
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I wasn't brought up a pacifist (I can never spell that word) but discovered it on my own. Peace is the best way. Apart from when you're trapped in a corner (which is rare thankfully, at least for me) Peace out. The end of Haebius Corpus: the dreaded 'terrorism' bill. Peace man. Peace. The best way. ( and I'm not even 5T0N3D writing this!) I genuinely believe in the power of Peace.New comment
Now I Know that I'm right.
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Peace out Neil!New comment
I can't help it, I've got a burning inside which makes me want to teach the next generation how to make peace- and I believe so passionately that leading by example is the best way! Maybe 'cos I've personal experience of that 'preach what you don't practise' mantra...
I've been given the impression my whole life, by the whole of the society that I live in, that my my empathy is my weakness. I wish I could go back and tell the child-me, that it is my almost superhuman strength!
Peace out to my fellow peace seekers, seek hard enough and you will find- well that's what I believe and have found to be true, every step of the way. xxx
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Lead by example and teach by example.
Having said that, I will stand and fight, but it has to be the last resort not the first one.....
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Whats unhealthy about being ginger may I ask
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Unfortunatley I'm from a family where I have Army lads as relatives and both my parents were In the RAF, I was brought up to fight and if I wasn't ill I would have gone in the RAF and done my bit, unfortunately they don;t excpet anyone in my condition and even after my transplant they still won't. it also probably doesn't help that both my parents were in the Falklands war.
I'm all for peace but theres also a point where we have to fight. Like World War Two I do not believe peace would have worked out well for us then
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Stacie
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@ Chris, nothing, it's just that I've always found it odd that people who have red hair come in for flack. @Stacie, I'm not saying that it's wrong to fight for what you believe in; I think that it's right-and-proper given the world that we live in. I just think that often we fight for the wrong reasons at the say-so of the wrong people. @all, this post might have been better left unposted; I did it late at night, without much thought, I'm sorry... neilNew comment
Very true Neil!
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