Col,

I'll take your response to mean that I hit the truth right on the button.

Baygon:”Hence my suggestion that it may well be the true test of human poverty - our inability to consistently act with charity and compassion to one another regardless of what we may personally think about their views.”

Shuddup.

Nah kidding. I have come across a lot of compassion, David F is over on another thread defending Col. Freaked me out completely, I suspect Col is actually bullet proof.

See you can tell face to face if you are being heard and if someone is being deliberately obtuse or some emotion has taken over any clear thoughts. Difficult on line to judge, I lose track quite badly of where I am at times and am often guilty of reading through a message too quickly and reacting more than replying.

The 100 poor has confused me the more I read about the definitions one could apply.

Runner is making sense to me though... but I will go back now and check I read it properly.

RobP “I'll take your response to mean that I hit the truth right on the button.”

No

I said “Are you implying I have suggested ethnically cleansing anyone RobP?

If you are, say it and debate the point”

And your response has hardly “hit the button”

Obviously, I was right, you lack the courage to debate and prefer to simply hide behind innuendo and cheap side-swipes.

BAYGON “The poverty of understanding, empathy and compassion.”

Because someone does not come forth with immediate offers of materail support and succor does not imply a lack of “understanding, empathy or compassion”

It might just mean the application of the concepts of understanding empathy and compassion are considered to be achieved in other, better ways, means and mediums.


I often find it contradictory that so many people suggest for Africa


"Showing a man how to farm and feed his family is a better solution, versus giving him food rations,"


Whereas when the "man" happens to be in Australia,


we seem to follow the concept of give him a handout, so he can have a lifestyle equal to everyone else.


I know which one will eventually work (although we seem to spend a lot of effort on training African farmers to no avail).


Maybe we need to retrain the politicians too (but in Australia as well as Africa).


We also need to retrain the do-gooders, so they can stop pretending that a society based on handouts produces any “sustainable solution”.


And TPP.. yes.. I have a charmed life..

on that other thread someone suggested I had superhuman skills..

that could be so and I might modestly observe, one of them might have made me “bullet-proof” :-)

"I said “Are you implying I have suggested ethnically cleansing anyone RobP?"

Col,

I know - I didn't answer because you were trying to change the question. But if you must have an answer, I don't remember you ever saying anything about ethnic cleansing - I made an association between the energy and views you exhibit and that activity. After all, I said originally that you REMINDED me of it not that you actually did it. Not that I could possibly know from a blog.

Re courage: the easiest thing in the world for me to do would be to mould an argument that agreed with you. Safe as houses, I'd be. It actually takes more courage for me to disagree with your view. And, I'll help the down-and-outs before you as it's them who need it more.

On the second page of this topic Col Rouge asks "why?", in response to davidf saying "I would like to see a feature telling about the 100 poorest people".

In the first post here davidf wrote 4 paragraphs. In the last 2 of those 4 paragraphs we see that davidf had already answered Col Rouge's question, "Why?". I've been reading a few of Col Rouge's posts these past few days, and the one thing that particularly stands out is that Col Rouge often doesn't comprehend what others write. He then replies, often in a combative manner, not to what the other poster actually said, but to what Col Rouge would prefer others to think what the poster really meant. Col often attempts to do this in a sarcastic and clever way, which shows 2 things (1) he's sarcastic (2)he's NOT particularly clever. Col seems to lack human empathy and personal insight, 2 of the main ingredients towards what makes us more intelligent than other species. Col, from his posts, seems to think that he's clever and smart. I actually have formed a different opinion, I think he's one of these people who gets off on "battle" and I don't thinks he's particularly smart at all. For a while I even thought he might be antiseptic, as they share very similar behaviours here on this forum. I realise antiseptic pretty much attacks women only, and that Col Rouge attacks both men and women, but that would be a pretty good cover I guess. But I'm not so sure now that Col Rouge is antiseptic, despite their remarkable similarities when they descend into juvenile sarcasm. Col Rouge needs to actually properly read, and try to understand, what others are actually saying. He often doesn't do that, unless the other poster is in total agreement with him........ and by not doing that he's certainly leaving by the wayside that higher intellect he believes he possesses. The fact is of course, he doesn't possess what he thinks he possesses in this regard.

Col Rouge
I will never be “poor”.
Are you sure that you are not poor in social sensitivity and understanding?
Are you sure you are not poor in social solidarity and social support?
Are you sure that you are not poor in understanding the social and economic, political privileges?
Are you sure you are not poor in understanding the social, economic and political discriminations and barriers?
Do you know persons with high IQ, maturity, responsibility or productivity stack on the bottom and other with very low IQ, lazy, immature or irrisponsible jumped on the top?
Did you ever interested to see how the system of equal opportunities work?
Did you ever interested to see how many barries there are who control the trafic to rich or poor, succes or fail?
Did you see professors to clean the floors and IDIOTS TO BE MANAGERS?
This world is not fair and logical at all.
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide