Surely it’s obvious. When will the US government wake up and smell the coffee.
It’s time to arm the pupils. Armed pupils will act as a deterent to anyone who thinks they can run amock in a school killing kids.
It seems to have worked in other walks of life in the states. Oh, no….
Written by exmonkey on October 3rd, 2006 with
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gilesbooth
#2.
October 5th, 2006, at 8:46 PM.
It’s very hard to dislike the Amish. They are peaceful, humble people - literally ploughing their own furrow. But I did get annoyed hearing an Amish girl on the radio saying that the girls’ time had come, that if he hadn’t killed them God would have taken them another way. Er, I don’t think so. They died a horrible, terrifying death far too young. Still, I suppose it’s one way of coping with something so incomprehensibly awful.
exmonkey
#3.
October 6th, 2006, at 9:43 AM.
That’s the thing with the Amish; I both envy and respect their chosen way of living. It just bugs me that they are driven by a belief in what is, when all is said and done, a fringe version of a much publicised ghost story.
Why can’t people build grand, morally centred communities without resorting to a desert culture’s superstitions to give them cause and reason.
Ally
#4.
October 7th, 2006, at 10:59 PM.
I was listening to Melvin Bragg on radio four the other night, and a discussion about philosophers in the Islamic culture in Spain in the 11th century (I think). They held that only a small percentage of people (them, oddly enough) were able to understand truth per se. Most people were only capable of understand truth presented as Revealed Text and some people could understand various levels inbetween. I suppose it’s still the same now.
Although I’m not sure what ‘truth’ actually is. And I admire the Amish for being so steadfast in walking their talk.
exmonkey
#5.
October 7th, 2006, at 11:23 PM.
I think it’s often easier to see what the truth isn’t than what it is.
Ally
#6.
October 8th, 2006, at 11:06 AM.
Yes, absolutely. And IMO, as soon as something becomes enshrined in dogma, it’s no longer ‘a truth’.
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graybo
#1. October 4th, 2006, at 4:37 PM.
Careful now - some wingnut might actually take you seriously!