This thread is interesting to witness, much like a visiting anthropologist from another more morally and spiritually evolved planet or dimension would experience. Comprehension skills or the very lack thereof, often due to misguided values willfully cultivated forever in search of either or both predatious impostor victimization flauntulosis tenaciously dependent upon perpetual condescensions from "others", and/or the willful cultivation of ignorance to secure a nonaccountability for ones own actions or participation within cultivation or responsibility within a group, surfing the aires of social presumptuousness with delusional lofty condescions falsely presenting themselves as liberal. Ture liberality, ture liberalism is most certainly not condescending.
I have as much as witnessed the wife of a world leader speak her first words with another person commenting on the beautiful sunset they are both witnessing, met with agreement by the other person with the remark "yes, this is a magnificent planet", nothing more, after which she traipsed off to her husband to remark that this person she'd just spoken with was a communist, and that they should not be allowed to the christian wedding of their relative, preparation for which was why all these people were in the same place at this moment. This person she referred to as "communist", who did nothing more than agree with her about the sunset, was not only well liked by most everyone else there but had facilitated many people over the years in getting their businesses off the ground, gave freely of their time to those less advantaged and was part of a program offered in high schools through the JayCees to help kids better understand how to conduct and start small businesses. Communist, eh.
Purposefully ignorant, selectively applied cannibalistic opportunistism in psycho-social realms -- a burgeoning malignant carcinoma on the body of humanity attempting to camouflage itself by facilitating a presumption of ubiquity as a state of mind and/or social convention within society.
We've come into this human form to transcend such beastiality, we must make the most of this exceedingly rare human birth, bereft of siuch primitively tribalistic factionalism with most every thought. Such is NOT dharma.
Flourishingly,
Dharma Mitra
Of all that anyone leading or teaching has to convey, the most valuable thing to cultivate and convey to others is a moral conscience. Only such persons deserve to lead others, in any capacity. Anything less is a menace to society.
Dharma Mitra
Of all that anyone leading or teaching has to convey, the most valuable thing to cultivate and convey to others is a moral conscience. Only such persons deserve to lead others, in any capacity. Anything less is a menace to society.
On 4/14/06, authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"
<shempmcgurk@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , "authfriend" <jstein@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002"
> > > > <markmeredith@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > From The Onion April 12, 2006 | Issue 42•15
> > > > >
> > > > > MUMBAI—Air India, the subcontinent's largest airline,
> announced
> > > it
> > > > > will offer upgraded Business Caste seating on all flights
> > > starting in
> > > > > July. "More legroom, wider seats—and no need to associate
> with
> > > the
> > > > > manual laborers," a spokesman for the airline said
> Tuesday. "Our
> > > > > business travelers must have lived good past lives to
> deserve
> > > this."
> > > > > Air India still ranks at the bottom of the airline industry
> in
> > > > > customer satisfaction, with a high volume of complaints
> about
> > > cooking
> > > > > fires in the climate-uncontrolled cabins, wandering cows
> that
> > > flight
> > > > > attendants refuse to remove, and the "Untouchable" Coach
> Caste,
> > > which
> > > > > is towed behind Air India jetliners in a giant burlap sack.
> > > >
> > > > Does this strike anybody as just a wee bit racist?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Um, did you see the byline, Judy?
> >
> > Yup, that's why it surprised me.
>
> It's supposed to be a SATIRE.
Yes, Shemp, I'm aware of that, thanks. But The Onion
doesn't usually do racist satire.
And isn't the impression that you got
> was that it was satiring racism and discrimination? In the form of
> the discrimination system called the caste system????
It was satirizing discrimination, not racism.
As I said in another post, it was the bits about
the cows and the cooking fires that I found
offensive; that wasn't caste-related, it was a
gratuitous slam at Indians, suggesting that they
were primitive and not terribly bright.
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