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Life in the 1500's & I didn't know that!
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31/01/2002 19:37:22
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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31/01/2002 12:20:22
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Doug, thanks for the diverse clarifications.

Hilmar.

>Hilmar,
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>Apparently not all of this is to be believed as per Bruce's message.
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>>I found that quite interesting. Especially the detail about tomatoes!
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>>Doug, I wanted to comment on your dynamic signature:
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>>"A man is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep for that which he cannot lose."
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>>What does this refer to?
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>Jesus said, What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul."
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>Essentially, it's a call to proper life's priorities.
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>
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>>"Isn't it odd that thos who clamor for 'diversity' always seem to be the same group promotining 'One World'?"
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>>I don't see a contradiction here. People can be different, even have different customs, and still live together in harmony. Our Sacred Writings (the Writings considered as sacred by bahá'ís) speak about "Unity in Diversity".
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>Well, it's an ironic reflection on the hypocricy of many who claime to be 'tolerant' and promoting 'diversity' who at the same time exhibit more bigotry and close-mindedness than those they think (and claim themselve at times) to be superior to.
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>For example: Jesse Jackson being a self-appointed 'black leader' telling kids to be sexually responsible while at the same time employing a mistress.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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