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Sometimes I don't receive an answer to my request to publish a letter
and I don't know how to interpret it. So I've decided to simplify things
and not oblige readers to answer. WM
A Solution?..., Dumbing...,
Vagabond..., Holocaust...,
Some Who Linked...
William,
I forget what the name of the article was but...
The speakers call for the establishment of non-profit organizations as a means to contribute to global peace and love is basically only a call for return... (with, of course improvements in procedure..I mean haven't we learned some in one hundred years) return to the community as caretaker? As it is, the national government caretakers have no feel for each separate person.
Susan
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are. Syrus
ssing@waterw.com
Well said.
Stanton McCandlish mech@eff.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/~mech
(Translated from French)
I don't know if you can measure the point to which what you said in this article is true and gives me pleasure. Especially when one lives in these countries called Third World, where the press is still stuttering and totally limited on the informative level. Everything revolves around France and still only concerns topics which are diplomatically acceptable. As far as I am concerned, looking from here it's not my business to be focused on one country or another in particular and even less to be "dumbed" by political, interior quarrels from there. On the other hand, to be able to go outside your enclave, intellectual solitude and the immense under information or misinformation is the best thing that can happen; perhaps the only way to allow dynamic, intelligent people from here to stay and not be obliged to leave. Thanks to Internet, we are just beginning to have access to true freedom of information. It is still limited to an extremely small minority. Buying power here doesn't even permit one to nourish a family; even less to send all one's children to school. So the telephone and, indeed, the computer is beyond dreaming. Still, at least there are young people who start to understand and even a cybercafe has opened. So hopes are finally awakening for the coming generation or for the most dynamic among them. It's so important.
The free press doesn't exist here in spite of an impressive number of papers. Either they are oriented toward the power or sneezing of the President or they are religiously blinded by opposition to power, or clearly idiots and mercantile. Summing up, it's really difficult, even impossible to get information which is serious, neutral, free and well done. Hope keeps us alive.
M.P.N.
Dakar
Hello,
Thanks for prompting me to your publication. I read a couple of your essays
and I cannot but say I've become your fan in a couple of minutes (or pages).
I can certainly see a pattern in your writings, common to those writers of European origin, and East European for that matter - same concerns, same way of approaching the issues. I'm actually wondering whether it is because of the cultural roots or because there's something inherent to the European spirit.
I'm also thinking about the fate of the European who immigrates to North America and how this actually changes or influences his writings (a notable example: Saul Bellow - he's so East Europe - Jewish, yet the whole setup of his books is so American).
Anyway, thanks again and sorry for my poorly written comments.
Regards,
Serban Tatu
statu@cs.sfu.ca
Thank you for steering me to the excellent Vagabond "dumbing down" piece and indeed to your whole collection.
Having looked at your pages, maybe it's time for me to freshen up my format. It was good to see your clean gray pages although I just gave in and added a background to my homepage yesterday.
You may enjoy some of my other pieces as well.
They are collected from a link on the ModemJunkie site below.
Best.
Len
Leonard Grossman
Len@LGrossman.com
Reflections of a ModemJunkie -- http://www.LGrossman.com/
You sir have some interesting ideas, unfortunately you do not have all
the information, to put it together and see the whole picture.All I can
say is to keep up the good work keep looking and hopefully you will understand
it all. You can use my name if you want too
Craig V. Hewitt
prophecy@ctaz.net
Cool! (I thought we killed this word in the 60's, but it's back in.) I bookmarked your page. You probably didn't get my page over the News groups, so I include something you might find of interest.
'Anti-gravity' device gives science a lift
By Robert Matthews and Ian Sample
Electronic Telegraph 09/01/96
(...)
Please feel free to write. You do it well.
John Sefton john@router.petcom.com
http://www.petcom.com/~john
Dear William,
I have great respect for the Jewish religion, people and all jewish issues.
I am facinated by the jewish religion, the ceremonies and their meanings.
I am always seeking information from my jewish friends, we have friends
from Russia that are jewish.
There are no words to describe what the Nazi's did to the jews, and it is a part of history that no one should forget.
However, I feel that by remembering the holocaust, we should also remember all of the Christians that perished due to Hitler. Have you ever considered that almost as many Polish Catholics died in concentration camps as the Jews. In my religion we have a saint called Saint Maxamillain Kolbe. He too was sent to a concentration camp and suffered along with all of the others. In the end when he was to be executed along with his jewish conterparts, one jewish man started crying, he said that he had a wife and children.
Saint Maxamillain Kolbe asked for this man with the family to be spared and Saint Maxamillian took his place. Saint Maxamillian was starved to death in a concentration camp.
By no means am I trying to diminish the effect Hitler had on the jews as well as the torment they have gone through for centuries. As I've stated above, I have the greatest respect for the jewish religion. Our Pope John refers to the jewish people as "our older brothers and sisters".
I just ask you to consider the christians killed by the Nazi's as well as the jews.
Kelly Connell-Franckowiak
kelly franckowiak 73624.122@compuserve.com
This Revisionist has missed the point; I didn't write about the Holocaust to please the Jews as I didn't write about the Serbian martyrdom to please the Serbs.
The correspondent is also misinformed. The prisoner whose life was saved by St. Maximillian Kolbe was a Polish Christian, not Jewish. All the prisoners who starved to death with St. Maximillian Kolbe were Polish, not Jewish. WM
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