Re: OT: Leaving early

Not flaming as far as I know.

I found out a long time ago, that if someone calls your a mean
or nasty name or uses a word when talking to you in a nasty way,
that is designed to get you angry. Who is empowering things,
they for calling you the word, or you the one being called it
and getting angry?

Oddly it is you who is empowering it, so if someone calls you
something, laugh at them and grin.. And in this, you do not let
them gain power, but making you do what they want you to do.

Example, someone calls me a Mick, yes, I am 1/4 Irish, so I
might find it offensive, but I know they are using it, or likely
using the word to get me angry and to react badly, but instead,
I say, yes I am.

Okay, for an example of an Oxymoronic, or so the often comment
about the Irish place in things.

I am a Sober Irishman. Why, well, for one a recovering
alcoholic, but it took a while, why? Well, several dead friends
helped.. But just got tired of drinking.. Sorry AA makes me
depressed and want to drink..

I do have problems with the drink called an "Irish Car Bomb" but
maybe cause I find the use of cars and bombs to be
brutal/cowardly/etc, as well as the perception  that the Irish
are terrorists or even connected to them offensive or that a
drink is called by that name.

But missed getting blown up in 1981, why? I passed by the El Al
(Airline of Israel) office five hours before it got BLOWN UP by
a Car Bomb.. But after some 20 years military service, I find
war to be a pain and wish people would stop waging them.   But
they do..

People forget to think about all that Ireland gave to Europe,
from the Missionary activities of St. Patrick, Columba and
Augustinian as well as others, and the monasteries they and
their followers formed in placed like Cluny (France). and the
hard work on trying to get Europe back to reading and writing
again, and to relearn the laws of Rome and to push back the
darkness.

The Clunic reformation came about, why, cause of problems with
priests not knowing how to read/write/speak Latin (the bible was
in Latin at this time). Also having no real knowledge or even
understanding of their jobs as priests, and too many were
marrying and having kids and the priest hood was becoming
hereditary, with no real calling to be a priest other than the
land and power.

Holocaust happened, and it was brutal and sadly the Germans was
not the only supporters, the US Amerikan Bund Movement was proof
of that. Those in the 1930/40s who allowed it to happen are just
as guilty.. So? Hope it never happens again.. But sadly it will
happen again. Peoples memories are short and often very biased
and worse..

Wow, some of you got to get out of the class rooms and get a
life..  See the world some and I hope do better than to many in
US today, who can not find Iraq on the map.

Weird, this discussion, cause on another list, they was
commenting on how left wing many college professors are. Cause
many seem to have never served in the military, and they often
use their positions as a platform for their political views and
not as a forum for teaching, or so it seems to those on the
other list.. That their professing their views and not teaching,
they show how ignorant and illogical their views are, cause they
do not even seem to allow for free form debate, but "This is how
it must be" and if you do not believe how they say it, you will
fail?

Most of the college teachers I have had, had more problems with
my programming skills than my grammar, spelling or even subject
matter. Which is funny, cause the last time I checked, my GPA
was like 3.6 or higher.

But not done college in a while, was too busy working, serving
my country, keeping people alive while working as a ambulance
driver and helping raise kids, keep friends alive from killing
themselves and other fun stuff.. Let alone spreading my genes
and learning some Inupiaq (We call them Eskimos, but cause there
is several groups/dialects/sub-languages). But yes, the term
comes from the Cree for "eater of raw flesh" or something like.

But heh, I still love a poetry reading I once went to, and
hearing college students saying how evil the war Iraq is/was and
its all about oil.  I can support that, but heh, Congress does
the declaring, and the Infantry does the dying!  But as they
drove away in their GAS GUZZLING parent supplied SUVs, and I an
Infantry Soldier drove away in my 33MPG car.. I wondered, who is
doing more for the cause to not go to Iraq and who will likely
gain more for the service there?   But heh, I wonder if Karl
Marx when he was pissed at his merchant father for cutting him
off from his majoring in beer drinking and wenching (old use of
the term, still used, but in cruder company), so he wrote the
Communist Manifestor and Das Kapital.

Myself, got out finally but ... Will be here to welcome buddies
back and see how they are doing when they get back from the Iraq
or Afghanistan/etc.. And ask them, was it worth it?  On that
note, have a nice day, enjoy the freedom of speech, cause I do
enjoy it..

PS: Some of my best friends are Jewish and Muslim and even some
Christians and Wiccans.. And if you must know the priest, who
married my parents, converted to Catholicism while in the camps
(not sure which one). Auschwitz, Sorbebor, Triblinka, Dackhoi
(sp) damn I forget the others..  There was too many.

Also, for fun, last time I checked my manner of speaking and
usage of words and grammar, on a computerized test, I ranked
above average. I love playing with words and how they are used.
And I have a fun sense of humor..

My poetry, I write for more than just meter and such, but more
for content and how I was feeling when I wrote it, even if
sometimes I was thinking of a play of Shakespeare when I wrote
it and some have said I can even do things in Iambic Pentameter
or do a fun Haiku..

PSS: Any one can be made to look a fool, when taken out of
context.. Or as someone said to me, if you reply to something,
try to keep the same subject header, as well as the last post in
the thread you are replying to, hum.. Grin.. Have a nice day..

Mike Adams

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