From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I think you're from the stock of lazy cowards who at the first sight of
hard times jumped on a ship and ran away. Better to run away than to fight
for your freedom. Now how's that for a stupid spin, eh?


Antti Kurenniemi
(you really are not even very good at firing up the conversation, because
you go so far off the board)

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:41158e1d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Yes but we are from the European stock that was willing to risk everything
> including their lives to get a chance at making a better more free life
for
> their children and descendants.  The current Europeans are from the stock
> that said, he it gets wet on a boat ride and we might catch our death.
> Better to stay here and keep plowing the master's fields than take a
chance
> on being free and successful.
>
> Gary
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:41156155$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Dying for your beliefs makes you a dead believer - what good is that?
> >
> > The idea is to fight for one's beliefs at all costs -- it's a slightly
> > different concept.
> >
> > But anyway, what good is living if you have to give up all that's
> important
> > to you?  I would fight and if necessary die for what I believe in
without
> a
> > second thought.
> >
> > It looks like we have a real and tangible difference in attitude between
> the
> > U.S. and Europe -- we're (the U.S.) are far more like the Arabs than we
> are
> > you.  (Not saying that's bad btw, just very curious, since a good
portion
> in
> > the U.S. are of European stock.)
> >
> > - Bob Comer
> >
> >
> > "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message
> > news:411555e3{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > "Mark"  wrote in message
> news:411537d1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > >> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> > >> news:4115330c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > >> > Pretty interesting stuff.  I guess we Americans
don't have to start
> > >> quaking
> > >> > in our boots any time soon about Adam's vaunted EU
juggernaught.
> > >> LMAO!!!!
> > >>
> > >> This statistic is very surprising to me: "Fewer
than a fifth of
> > >> Britons say they would be willing to die for their
> > >> beliefs, compared with 71 per cent of Americans."
> > >
> > > I'm not British, but I have a possible explanation as for myself at
> least:
> > > Beliefs schmeliefs, I mean, what the hell, I'll
"believe" anything to
> stay
> > > alive. Hello, I'll believe something else tomorrow, after whatever
> > > threatens
> > > me is gone. I think it's just too vague of an idea to die for
"beliefs",
> > > and
> > > I also think that the 71 percent of Americans who say they'd die for
> their
> > > beliefs have not really thought about what it means.
> > >
> > > Dying for your beliefs makes you a dead believer - what good is that?
> > >
> > >
> > > Antti Kurenniemi
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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