--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, Dove, you gave Judy a ten and me a nine.  So my
> answer to your fear question should also get a nine
> and Judy's answer should get a ten.
> 
> She is right in absolute terms.  
> In relative terms, she is dead wrong.  When America
> started torturing people, it was time to be afraid. 
> It always starts with the torture of people who are
> far away and somehow different from us.  Sooner or
> later, it's your neighbor.  And then it's you.




Yes, Angela, torture is indeed a slippery slope.

That's how I feel about the tax system.




> 
> But in terms of the Absolute, there is nothing to
> fear, ever.  And some people are able to live that way
> and make it real in their lives.  My grandfather was
> such a man.  He stood in front of a firing squad
> completely unafraid.  
> 
> 
> 
> --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung
> > <no_reply@> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Another 9-11 would do, but riots in every big city
> > would do the 
> > > trick too.  Blam, Martial Law, suspension of the
> > vote, and jack 
> > > boots on every corner -- and every night, gunfire
> > across the land. 
> > > 
> > > Please, someone talk me out of this!
> > 
> > No point in even trying. You're projecting inner
> > fears that you don't want to look at onto external
> > situations, which you can examine and talk about
> > openly. But they aren't what you're really afraid
> > of. Only you can get to the bottom of your real
> > fears.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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