--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:27 AM, merudanda <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Ah aircondition and tel line are off BUT INTERNET WORKS!lets make use of it > > in the middle of the night... > > BTW wouldn't you agree,most of the Priest-Minister-Rabbi jokes in which > > the Rabbi provides the punchline are downright flattering: usually the Jew > > cleric is presented as being witty, shrewd, and full of common sense--and if > > he's a little less than selfless and contrite, it's because he knows you > > need to have "chutzpah" to do fend for yourself in a" gentile world". Anyone > > who seriously finds these anti-semitic(you made it clear Madame J, you > > didn't!) can't be too familiar with the kind of jokes and stories for > > example Ashkenazi Jews tell about themselves, which are often far less > > gracious. > > Watch a staple of Eastern Europeans humour in general to cast people as > > compromised, miserly and petty vis-Ã -vis the noble ideals they set out for > > themselves (e.g. The Good Soldier Å vejk, or Bohumil Hrabal's I served the > > King of England, or Ephraim Kishon, or a thousand and one other examples.) > > The bottom line is always that people are lovable in all their petty > > transgressions and misdeeds, who would (want to) think otherwise. > > > > > Who would be offended and judgemental? Women, of course. Then the kind of > women RD and JS are. Physically and verbally abused for 16 years, spending > much of my time shaking like a leaf, hiding in the closet less I be beaten > again by Mom, fighting for my life as she held me down in the bathtub trying > to drown me or belittled me to the point I wanted to just curl up and die. > Trying to dodge that butcher knife at 5 years old. Thrown out in the snow, > naked, because I had gotten mud on my shoes. In a very rural area but > nowhere to seek shelter because neighbors didn't want to get involved with > the craziness. Only one woman I've told my story to, my now deceased wife, > God rest her soul, didn't give me the litany that being on the lam from my > parents, not caring if they lived or died or where they were, was a terrible > thing to do, because in womanthink "but they're you're parents". So it's > all about racism, sexism. It's not about real life and real people. It's > not about the hate I experience every day from blacks, like my ancestors > weren't slaves the same time their ancestors were. It's all about the > liberal bent, the "everything is coming up roses" approach for RD and JS, > who, It's all about the heart. JS and RD's heart go out to people they make > sure don't live or work near where they live and work. In their miserable > lives of theory, they want us to believe as they believe, but only in > theory, and to toe the line to what they pronounce. That's who would be > offended and judgemental.
Tom Pall, I had no idea the excruciating pain and suffering you have been through. Had I known what I read here, I would have ignored your criticisms of me, and just sent good thoughts towards you. I find what you have endured to be quite unbelievable, so in any case, an apology is in order here. Given what has happened to you growing up, I think you quite restrained and fair-minded. And I do think there is something to be said anyway in your judgment of my writing (the non-sequitor thing). I hope you will feel, or can feel, the sincerity of my words here. RWC
