From: "Robert Comer" 

> It's fairly irrelevant. Do you recognise Taiwan or does it not exist?
> According to your gov it doesn't exist & yet you ship it weapons which
> is odd.

As an official country, no, does it exist, yes, it's a specific place,
Palestine is a much more nebulous concept with no clearly defined borders.
As a people, the Taiwanese are Chinese.

> Yup. The first thing is to remove political violence as a tool of state.
> That sure as heck will take a while as after all war is simply foreign
> policy by other means. In Europe we've managed this but in many other
> places people still like the boast about how powerful their killing
> organizations are.

That'll happen most places eventually.

> Oh OK so a simple loose use of language.

Yep, you've known me a long time and you know I'm not one of the most
eloquent of writers. 

> Hey I never mentioned revelations.

Nope, but you described just what Revelations did, I found the parallel
"interesting," so I mentioned it.

> Next you'll be quoting from the Gospel of Mary.

Probably never.

--
Bob Comer


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:446abf83{at}w3.nls.net...
> Robert Comer wrote:
>>> Huh? talk about twisting in the wind.
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>>> A) There is no state of Israel as far as Hamas & many
Palestinians are
>>> concerned, there's only occupied Palestine. Merely because some
>>> outsiders
>>> say they recognise it is immaterial.
>>
>> That's irrelevant, Israel is recognized as a state world wide. We (your
>> country and mine) made it so.
>>
>
> Shrug. We also recognised Yugoslavia & the Soviet Union. Right now we
> recognise a state called Iraq, 3 years from now we might be also
> recognising a state called kurdistan.
>
> It's fairly irrelevant. Do you recognise Taiwan or does it not exist?
> According to your gov it doesn't exist & yet you ship it weapons which
> is odd.
>
>
>
>>> B) Wrt blowing themselves up, you've been saying how one act of violence
>>> is the same as any other & people acting on your behalf have been
>>> killing
>>> people all over the globe.
>>
>> Yep, I know that, but it doesn't mean I support it.  It depends on just
>> why
>> there's killing -- there's just wars and then there's not.  If I had my
>> way
>> we'd never kill anyone again, but that's not likely to happen because
>> everyone would have to want the same thing.
>>
>
> Yup. The first thing is to remove political violence as a tool of state.
> That sure as heck will take a while as after all war is simply foreign
> policy by other means. In Europe we've managed this but in many other
> places people still like the boast about how powerful their killing
> organizations are.
>
>
>>> Nope it's very different.
>>
>> Er, I know what I meant...
>>
>
> Oh OK so a simple loose use of language.
>
>>> Nah that woz a nutty greek hermit & is the devils laugh at
christians.
>>
>> Whatever -- you're the one who brought the scenario up...
>>
>
> Hey I never mentioned revelations.
>
> Next you'll be quoting from the Gospel of Mary.
>
> Adam

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