tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post116017124527386447..comments2024-02-14T23:28:11.026-08:00Comments on FORGOTTEN PROPHETS: Arguing about WordsJack Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599425185005999225noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-20304344945689849672007-07-23T05:05:00.000-07:002007-07-23T05:05:00.000-07:00I suppose the operative word would be "most". Mos...I suppose the operative word would be "most". Most gracious. It's really a minor point, though. What is the commonality, in your example? A British heritage. I say it as a non-Anglo-Saxon. One might adduce the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Hardly any genocide, to speak of. But that was pure colonialism -- not population transfer. <BR/><BR/>I expect my point stands.<BR/><BR/>JJack Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04599425185005999225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-50478744477460428702007-07-23T04:51:00.000-07:002007-07-23T04:51:00.000-07:00"What I used to tell my son is that of all the con..."What I used to tell my son is that of all the conquering peoples, Americans are most gracious. What other indiginous people has rights that are respected? The Picts? The Avars? Extinct."<BR/><BR/>What about the Maori in New Zealand, or the Inuit in Nunavut Territory, Canada?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-1160255934644480602006-10-07T14:18:00.001-07:002006-10-07T14:18:00.001-07:00G -- a very pragmatic view. I think you may have o...G -- a very pragmatic view. I think you may have overstated your position. When you are old and cannot protect yourself or hold your land, you depend on law and morality and the civility of your neighbors and society. It's when cultures come into conflict that ownership becomes a problem. Cultures with different laws and different conceptions of ownership are distined for conflict. That's pragmatic, too. <BR/><BR/>What I used to tell my son is that of all the conquering peoples, Americans are most gracious. What other indiginous people has rights that are respected? The Picts? The Avars? Extinct. Those who will not adapt and assimilate, are lucky to have reservations. Not nice, for them. But reality sucks.<BR/><BR/><BR/>JJack Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04599425185005999225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-1160227049167212932006-10-07T06:17:00.000-07:002006-10-07T06:17:00.000-07:00Jack, the land has always belonged to whoever coul...Jack, the land has always belonged to whoever could take it and keep it. Possession is 9/10s of the law and I reject anyone's 'moral' claim to any land. If they could not defend it then they lost it and any claim to it. I make no claims that this is right....or wrong...just that this is the way it is. <BR/><BR/>The point is that we in the USA have taken this land and made it properous. Now we are in the process of losing it because we have lost the will to fight to keep it and base that loss of will on our 'morality'. If we lose it because we were afraid to fight to keep it then we didn't deserve to keep it. Only the strong can win and keep a land and most of the time for only a few hundred years at a time.GUYKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02365709988592687239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-1160196588997515302006-10-06T21:49:00.000-07:002006-10-06T21:49:00.000-07:00Oh git along with you. I'm in charge of self-effa...Oh git along with you. I'm in charge of self-effacement around here, and there's just no more to spare. I use it all up. Well, it's understandable. After all, I have an IQ of 106! Pretty intimidating, eh? <BR/><BR/>I kid.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the kind words. We do our little parts, toiling in the fields of the Lord. Some sew, some reap. And afterwards, we gather round and sing songs.<BR/><BR/>JJack Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04599425185005999225noreply@blogger.com