Dear TRTL,

Thanks for your kind words.

As I wrote in the thread that Individual
submitted about including our ages with
our usernames on OLO:

"... We don't grow, chronologically...
We grow sometimes in one dimension -
and not in another; unevenly.
We grow partially...we're mature in
one realm, childish in another, the past,
present, and future mingle and pull us
backward, forward, or fix us in the present...
We're made up of layers...."

Anyway, I saw a bumper-sticker on a car
that I liked:

" MY KARMA RAN OVER YOUR DOGMA!" :-)

Hasbeen,
The original Forrest Gump said it best.
"Evil thinks, evil sees"

Foxy naive? depends on your stance.

There is a vast difference between some one who sees good in every one and someone who spits (bile) and runs.
Perhaps, just perhaps it isn't in her nature to easily charge in with out any real knowledge, understanding and facts expressing what is a clear definition, of prejudices.

Or she's comfortable enough in herself not to need to impose unsupportable prejudices on others.

NB
Facts are proveable, testable and measurable. Indisputable

An hypothesis is one based on facts and letting the facts show the conclusion.

Opinions are base on some facts and related issues but to arrive at a (personal)reasoned conclusion usually harming attacking no one.

Prejudices have none of the above. Have their basis in feeling threatened.
A good test of this is to ask

"how often does the individual ask questions leaving the answer open to elicit answers or ask questions?"
"How often willing is the person to explain back it up references etc?"

Foxy definitely isn't in the last (prejudices) category.

Look back on your own responses do you pass the tests?
Hmmmmm?

Interesting Belly you are willing to overlook and defend the Labour party on the basis that they only have a few bad apples and then you slander the church on the basis of one or two bad apples you came across. Seems typical of those who want their prejudices confirmed. Seems to me you must have been looking for a reason to reject truth. I agree that their are rotten eggs in all organizations which is the reason why the world's only non rotten egg is our only hope of salvation. By the way, I think I will take Christ at His word rather than you when it comes to heaven.

runner I am not the right person to debate the rights and wrongs of your God with.
However I do remember why I once believed and wanted always to.
I thought then and now all men/women should be truely equal.
Now up the thread a wise contributor challenged you to name a church, any one, and he/she would give you a list of its wrongs, you did not do so.
Find any group of humans, any runner, and they will have bad apples, even vile members.
But you sit in your ivory tower using your faith, to judge whole party's, the God I once clung to said judge not least you be judged.
I except your insult and in truth hasbeen dislike, but look at my post history, you are far from first to say I support pedophilia.
runner in cold blooded truth I would without hesitation take the knife to those who commit such crimes, every one of them.
steers do less harm.
And my party has at least as many grubs as any your church may well have too.
I constantly question my own actions and words, do you ever truly consider yours?

Whilst the Constitution of Australia mandates that all women remain
under permanent male supervision, which naturally falls to middle-aged
men through a male predisposition to hierarchy, it can be said that
Labor's middle-aged men have encouraged women to acquire the skills
to eventually supervise their own through the women's legislature of
an equal rights republic, in contrast to the Liberal's middle-aged men
who have preferred predominantly to indulge in the politics of fear
which is largely repugnant to women. http://2mf.net

I can't help but wonder if the negotiations
between both political parties regarding
the Emissions Trading Scheme that the PM
wants to place on the table in Copenhagen
will succeed. Will the amendments that
the Opposition is proposing be accepted,
and if they are will the Opposition vote
in favour of the scheme?

As the author Tor hundloe points out in
his book, "From Buddha to Bono: Seeking
Sustainability,":

"Humans are slow learners...many still
believe the answers to our environmental
problems are not to be found in science...
Rather they seek the support of the supernatural,
yet the same people would not forgo the benefits
of modern medicine. The inconsistency is dramatic.
These people have come to realize that witchcraft
does not cure the ill. Why won't they accept that
only good science will help save the world?"

We can only hope that the politicians will put
politics aside for once and support the PM
in this matter.