a safe and happy july 4th to all our neighbors to the south.
a toast to the usa .
cheers!!!!
Don't be so angry, jelly, it doesn't fit such a nice little girl like you. Please bear over with us poor non-Americans, we don't know any better, we haven't seen the Glory.
But OK, I'll join it, to show my good will - Have A Really Nice 4th of July! (Said the former Maoist and hard-core communist). Just don't take it out on the rest of the world ...........
i am the lone ex-jw in my otherwise loyal jw household.
the change in myself in finally becoming part of the human race has made me realize some amazing things when it comes to july 4.. all the adults in my household (5) could not answer my simple independence day trivia question.
what is independence day a celebration of.
Of course I agree, Amazing, I just can't help it; Americans are so funny to tease ....... But there is a nationalism which we have problems understanding, when we for example see flags in the class-rooms and working places, the waving of flags after the September attack - there is a flag-waving which arouse in many of us the sentiments we had during the Viet Nam war, Bay of Pigs, etc. Large parts of Europe quite simply is Anti-American. Just look at France. You won't make a Frenchman speak English; they just ousted a business leader who was also into movie making, because he said he enjoyed Hollywood movies. Many of us Europeans feel like being treated like inferiors to the USA, and if USA do not start treating Europe more like an equal, those sentiments will only grow.
By the way, I don't quite understand why I should put flowers in my hair - I am a MAN!
a safe and happy july 4th to all our neighbors to the south.
a toast to the usa .
cheers!!!!
God Save The One And Only Nation On Earth That Is Worth Saving, And May All The Rest Of The World, Communists And Terorists As They Are, Rot In Hell!
i am the lone ex-jw in my otherwise loyal jw household.
the change in myself in finally becoming part of the human race has made me realize some amazing things when it comes to july 4.. all the adults in my household (5) could not answer my simple independence day trivia question.
what is independence day a celebration of.
Yep, Dakota Red, but it is very easy to see what happens on this board too, if someone dares to raise a tiny bit of critisism against the US way of life or way of dealing with foreign peoples or nations not walking 100 % hand-in-hand with them. It seems to be so very easy at once to call out they are terrorists and Bib Laden - sympathisers and socialists and communists and who knows what. Because of the size and the power of USA, and the way they so often have acted as the World Police, US nationalism is not exactly regarded with the greatest amount of sympathy in the rest of the world. I remember I once dared to tell a US citizen I did not think the way Reagan treated the Sandinista government of Nicaragua was the best way to treat a foreign government, and he responded with "reporting me to the CIA as a communist terrorist" as he put it. Uncle Sam so quickly sends of his boys in blue to all parts of the world, but it seems to be so much easier to shoot that to try to find the reasons, and to try to heal and mend and point to the path for the future. Let the boys in blue stay for a year or so, and them call them back, and pretend everything will work out all right.
i am the lone ex-jw in my otherwise loyal jw household.
the change in myself in finally becoming part of the human race has made me realize some amazing things when it comes to july 4.. all the adults in my household (5) could not answer my simple independence day trivia question.
what is independence day a celebration of.
Yeah, long live Nationalism - it hasn't created ANY problems down thru the centuries ......
a few weeks ago my former mother-in-law (gwenny james) died.
bowel cancer, so i suppose it was painful.
and my former wife (anita), has apparently taken it rather hard.. when i heard the news, i couldn't help remembering the days when we were new jws.
Perhaps we should go get ourselves one huge pile of bear cans and start crying at each other's shoulder?
my boss is a jehovah witness and today informed me that although he respects the american flag he does not pledge allegiance to it - he pledges allegiance to god - therefore i cannot display an american flag in my work area.
can someone please explain this to me?
thank you.
Ah! That self-evident fact never occured to me!
a few weeks ago my former mother-in-law (gwenny james) died.
bowel cancer, so i suppose it was painful.
and my former wife (anita), has apparently taken it rather hard.. when i heard the news, i couldn't help remembering the days when we were new jws.
Amen to that, my friend, amen to that.
Said a sister to me 20 years ago, "My father told us how we should play with elephants and lions after Armageddon" (meaning that this sister would still be a child when it happened), " - and now I am telling my own children the same thing!" - And, might I boldly add, now this sister's children are telling THEIR children the very same story .................
My own children are growing up, I look at them and realise that now they are too "grown up" to fancy playing with elephants or lions. PCs and boys are better .........
The hippie idealism of a better world, free from the evils of capitalism, where everybody would lay in the grass, smoking strange things and looking at even stranger things - vanished, as heroin and other mind-killers came around and capitalism proved to be the stronger force after all. These days, the Early Days' Witness Idealism is fading just as much, and the everyday going to and from work, going to sleep and realizing "the end didn't come today, either", and suddenly realise one is not preparing for entering The New World, but preparing for funerals and last wills - how quickly it all passed away.
"Teach your children well" - yeah, but being taught by a depressed father they are.
my boss is a jehovah witness and today informed me that although he respects the american flag he does not pledge allegiance to it - he pledges allegiance to god - therefore i cannot display an american flag in my work area.
can someone please explain this to me?
thank you.
What I do not understand, is this: Why the **** would anyone like to display a FLAG in one's work area?
norway to defy ban, resume whale exports to iceland.
by inger sethov .
oslo (reuters) - norway said friday it would defy an international ban on commercial whaling and resume exports of whale meat to iceland after a 14-year break.
Was this about whales?
