"but Jim and Keith, you have to take it outside somewhere else. You hijack threads with your same old nonsense."
I agree that our arguments get out of hand (have decided to wash my hands of Keith, but the fact that he posts as persistently as he does makes that difficult)
Will try to do better in the future - I really don't enjoy these set-tos
I resent bitterly having my arguments described as "the same old nonsense"
I believe these discussions need to be more than deserved laments for the dead and have to be dealt with in depth if they are going to have any value.
As far as I am concerned, they are the work of fanatics whose religion-driven rationale (a contradiction in terms?) it totally beyond me, but I also believe that the root cause of the support they are getting lies much closer to home and the behaviour of our politicians and financial bodies play a large part in what is happening.
Brushing that fact under the carpet is only going to lead to more bloodshed and more disaffection.
Our politicians speak on our behalf so we become the targets - they have their R.S.Gs to scurry into if the worst comes to the worst; we don't.
Jim Carroll