Hello Cindy.

02 Nov 06 13:26, you wrote to me:

 CH>> It is this. The Xtain Orthodox priest (and the same is true for
 CH>> Orthodox Rabbi's (Jews) IIRC): Wearing a full untrimmed beard
 CH>> avoids vanity. The Buddhist monks as you all may well know shave
 CH>> their heads and faces to avoid vanity.

 CH>> BOTH faiths see a totally opposing view on how to avoid vanity.
 CH>> :) Yet happily they seem not to make war over this. They co-exist
 CH>> in peace.

 JS>>      

 CH>  GOod for you (pataternally speaking).  or WELCOME the fork back
 CH>  here old boy! (super extra too friendly mode).

 JS>>      I think people(s) can often have the same attitude or belief
 JS>> but express it in different ways. That way may appear different
 JS>> and people will often not look deep enough to see that the
 JS>> underlying belief isn't really that different after all.


 CH>  Thank you. Bless you for 'getting' what I was trying to say. Thank
 CH> thank you thank you.

 CH>  I've got a hunch as to why some won't get this. It's because if they
 CH> did they'd have to give up their hold on 'what makes us different' ;
 CH> wha SETS us apart... What can I hate them for?" that sort of sad
 CH> thing.


     Some people seemingly need to feel different even if their basic
beliefs are simular. They may dislike you and need to look at you as
different to make them feel better abot themselves. I try to look first
at what I may have in common with someone instead of looking first for
what may be different.


 CH>> ..........

 JS>>      Too newsworthy I guess. Bad news is so much more profitable
 JS>> and entertaining to report than good news. Can you sense that I
 JS>> have a rather dim view of a large percentage of the news media?
 JS>> 


 CH>   Yea. I've noticed my local newsapaper's headlines on the front page
 CH> are more often local bad news, rare good news like rain, or about
 CH> sports... What ever happened to the world news being on the front
 CH> page? Now unless is singing arrows or praises to the war lord, it's
 CH> buried down amid ads somewhere.
 CH> ......................


     The actual news is less profitable to report. Papers and television
news media make a point of emphasizing the news that will make them the
most revenue. Reporting good news doesn't make them money. What really irks
me about television media is the way that they will color the news and
occasionally create the news and shape it as needed to try to portray
themselves as better than the competition. I remember instances where the
network news media would keep pushing the same questions over and over
until they would get the answer that they wanted. The facts or the matter
were the priority. It was how the media wanted the news to look like.

 CH>... Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is.


 JS>>      Tried Exlax but found Draino works much better. 

 CH>  bad.. Exlax was a favorite prank back in High School...

      I always thought my fellow students were full of something. 

 CH> Cindy


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Jeff

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