GingerBe Forum Posts (3,106)

RE: love hurts

Love just is. What hurts can be many things, usually people's behaviour, but that's nothing to do with love. It's just people.

RE: Can you love a man/woman who is not kind to you

It's possible for some, but not for me.

RE: Multiculturalism has 'failed

Good synopsis I'd say.

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I wouldn't want to live in any time in the past, human sacrifices, etc...I'd have been first on the list.

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Thanks Bam.

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The source, had you read on, was "Source: Herring, Hubert. A History of Latin America From the Beginnings to the Present.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962."

RE: Multiculturalism has 'failed

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It is a state of mind. If you think you have no chance in this world, then you probably won't. If you think everyone is out to get you, perhaps that will happen too. I've seen it over and over.

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I would never do that. I said many. I know there are successful people in all races, who got there by their own merits, or struggles.

My point was, that the Irish (whom he was having a go at), as opposed to white/caucasian people in general, have worked hard for anything they got.

Every race has successes and failures, but it due to the individual attitudes of those looking to get ahead, that these problems are solved.

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Exactly Conrad.

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That was very funny Bam.

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Go for it then!

RE: has anyone that you went to school with gone on to be famous?

Many people from my county, who are may age, but didn't go to my school, went on to be famous, and even some were infamous.

RE: Promises

Depends on how sincere the person making them is, and the circumstances.

RE: Multiculturalism has 'failed

In the workplace mostly it is so. Irish people tend to be colourful with the English language in a general sense though. We actually added quite a bit to the language. Partly because it was foisted on us.

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I'm a great believer in "if the shoe fits". This is multiculturalism on a normal day.

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Good post. More people should be thinking this way. Unfortunately that is not so though.

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You misunderstood me. I was saying that you respond to the person's point of view, (subject matter), and not to the person, on a personal level, (trading insults). It is in the rules of the site.

Hope this clears things up for you.

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Everything is about the written or spoken word. Countries rise and fall on it. One example........Peace TALKS, when countries get in trouble. Thoughtyou knew that.

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Much earlier for me, but same opportunity for lessons on here.

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Go back to sleep then, to reload your brain for tomorrow.

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Nothing against you, but it doesn't work that way. You respond to the person's point of view, not the person. That way no personal insults, and people can stick to the subject. It doesn't matter then, if you don't like the messenger, you can still say if you like, or dislike the subject.

As to English not being your first language, then it is understandable that you might mis-interpret what I said, and even my answers. It is my first language, and I am quite a literal person, a published writer and poet in fact. I never read into what a person might mean by saying something, I actually look at the words, and take them literally.

I bet you find that having many languages is useful. I have learned a few myself in my travels, and bits of some others, enough to get by. No one was criticising you or Boban for that. It is commendable.

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Dog eat dog, it seems. A culture of, if people can't have things for themselves, they point the finger at someone else as the problem, and if they sound a bit different or look a bit different, all the better.

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So true. You should have been a diplomat.

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I know your thoughts on this , which I why I questioned it.

I think that citing someone talking particularly about Muslims mightn't have been so well thought out though. Do you agree?

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That was why I wondered at him doing this thread. Talking about multiculturism is one thing, but singling out a religious group is entirely another, even if he was citing someone else.

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Hi Jan. Thank Heavens somebody else brought up this point.

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Typos. Old arthritic fingers getting tired.

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I understand. I meant you none either.

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Its the same nearly everywhere in the world.