alistair, i will not defer to anyone to tell me what my own history is. that is like saying - cut up a thousand history books and throw the parts you don't like in the river.
No, Susan, it's more like saying that you won't defer even to the most distnguished American historian to the extent of accepting that the said historian knows more of that subject than you do (and who would reasonably expect otherwise?).
which parts are those? the parts that speak about God and His part in the destiny of nations. it started, actually, with abraham's promise. the promise that his seed would spread the gospel to the entire world. does anyone care? no. because we deny God.
Many commentators have been selective about history when writing as they do; this includes politicians, historians and all sort of other people. When Henry Ford (one of your country's citizens) famously declared that "history is bunk", he undermined it greatly and, it could be argued, sought to draw a veil over the endlessly varied interpretations that people have put upon various histories ever since human history began. Sorting out the truth from the interpretations is never easy. Furthermore, "history" is not some kind of idée fuxe; it is in fact an indicator of the very thing about human activity which tagore encapsulated in the phrase
"Everything is driven
By the ceasless movement of change;
This is but the law of time".
Your own personal selectivity about American history apparently involves invoking Abraham non Lincoln and dragging God into it as though He had some direct responsibility for the formation of the American nation. What do you actually know about the history of what is now your country during Biblical times? And what does that tell you about anything?
you all can believe what the uni's tell you about any countries history. they always say - 'the winners determine how history is written.' that's partially true - but also corroborated by the losing country's lack of saying anything about atrocities. why do you think some people believe the holocaust never happened? because they blindly believe what others tell them.
There are plenty of other sources of historical information and misinformation besides the universities. Of course there are people who blindly believe what others tell them - but are you not one of those people to some extent? Blind belief seems, after all, not to be entirely outside your own terms of reference...
also, i believe that it is too late to wait until an invasion of a country to warn that it could happen. that is why churchill - THREE YEARS before hitler was elected to power - warned that he was dangerous. he wrote books and told people what hitler's ideals were about. nobody listened. so what happened? people laugh now - because they don't remember 50 years ago.
People laugh, do they? I don't - and I've not heard any Briton or German laughing about that either. Whatever kind of company do you keep? Anyway, WWII began not 50 but 68 years ago...
it's 'impossible' to happen again. but is it? why isn't the UN helping countries that are in genocide conditions. that's what they were created for. they are hypocrites and planning to attack USA and britian under the guise of peacekeeping and 'helping the world.' what kind of help is that?
As I said before, the UN has no nation status and, as a consequence, no armed forces, so even if it wanted to attack US and Britain (an absurd notion in itself, for which there is no evidence as far as I am aware), it would have no means to do so.
ok - it hasn't happened yet. should we wait. should we give our economy to a bunch of thugs. pull out and don't buy a single euro. they want world domination and nothing else. at the expense of any country who will not submit to their 'human rights' which actually take AWAY rights. have you read the last 'right.' nobody can say anything about the short list of human rights. is there anything there at all about property? about banking? about freedom to gather for religious purposes? about free speech - even if it doesn't agree with the UN's ideals? no. they are a flimsy organization with basically no framework for their laws as with the US constitution. NO CHECK AND BALANCES. what does this say? that they will be dictators? YES.
Utter fatuity piled on top of more utter fatuity. Sorry, Susan, but that's what it is. No, "it" hasn't happened. And won't (at least not in the way you predict it). NO one is asking that the Americans or British "give their economy" away to anyone; in any case, we don't have economies to give away, really, because we are both - like almost every other notion on earth, too grossly indebted to be able to have one to give away. Of course we do not yet know what the future has in store for us, other than that "ceaseless movement of change", but your vision seems to be one that admits of little else besides a kind of militaristic paranoia.
do you think you will have the right to own a gun? hmmm. that's kind of the first basic right of a country to protect itself and it's BORDERS.
As a matter of fact, Susan, I am proud of the fact that I have a right NOT to own a gun. Show me a country that can protect itself by means of its ownership of a single gun. No, you're talking about individuals, of course (so you should have made that clearer).
and, alistair, britian is not buying into the euro or UN so much because it sees the writing on the wall. too bad scotland won't see it until later. i think scotland, ireland and britain will all be ousted when the time comes.
What writing? What wall? And what's this "Scotland, Ireland and Britain" nonsense? Scotland and part of Ireland are, for the time being, part of Britain!
why? because the royal line of David is IN the isles. and, as you say - we don't help the freedom of the world currently because the 'commonwealth' of britain and the islands and channels that they and america once owned are now 'common property.' that is why freedom is being changed for another ideal. it's very MUCH like the roman empire if you want to compare it because people supposedly can work and be just as they were before...with one difference. they are under a different government. when they break the laws of the new government - there isn't a lot they can do. they will have INTERNATIONAL courts. of course, sidestepping this a little is the inner 'mafia' which exists in all countries now and is bringing about a connection of all countries to each other. people are oddly dying every day for no seeming reason. for what purpose are people randomly shot.
Susan - go practise the piano. Please.
Best,
Alistair
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