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From my holiday in India and Nepal some five years ago, I will never forget seeing those beautiful girls from Rajasthan who were working on the building sites of Delhi and Khatmandu who had been sold into bonded labour by their parents. I believe the standard term was (is) 10 years. Buy the end of that time, after carrying 16, or sometimes 20, bricks on a mortar board on their heads and climbing up bamboo scaffolding, I imagine that their backbones become compressed and they were fairly unfit for normal life at the end of their bonded time. As I walked into these building sites I began to feel physically afraid for my safety as I notcied the eyes of the foremen upon me. Does it continue? Probably.
Is it the Fourth Comandment that commands:
Honor thy father and mother.
(Odeipus did not want to kill his parents -- he went into voluntary exile to try to keep from hurting them. But Oedipus's parents had hired a hit man to kill *him* -- albeit the man did not fully fulfill the terms of his contract.)
\brad mccormidk
Keith
Alexander the Great died at Babylon, And Louis Kahn died in a men's room in Pennsylvania Station (returning from Bangaladesh).
\brad mccormick
-- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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