h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

it would almost have to be a combination of all of those things, any one of them being the proverbial straw.

Yes. How poopy!!!

::hugs everybody here and takes a nap, probably still holding on to someone, as she is very tired!!!!::

WELL!!! My nap was three hours at least!!!!

And the Avs lost... POOPY!!!

But my foot massager is nice...

Well, at least your feet feel good, right?

I don't like Mondays...

Hope y'all get to feeling better, Serg.

..but it's Sunday Sgt.

i think this has been the first time i've ever logged off, come back twelve hours later and still been on the same led in d's fanclub.

hmmm.

d

...it was written about a school shooting in the 60s(? or 70s)...

...is that a good thing, broe!?? Am I to understand you will soon be an Archangel!???

If that's a secret I never said a word!!!

Crazy Man
Sgt
Ex-Rambling
Mistadrong
Broelan

But, Dragonfly, this is a public forum, and secrets cannot be kept here because people can find it...

...but I'll keep the secret, and I'm sure the others will as well

::giggles::

well... i'm the new herald which gives me access to the arch's, but i don't understand enough of the heirarchy to say that makes me an arch.

thanks!
mom

and no, it's not a secret, the sainting ceremony was yesterday

Oh, yes.... which no one seemed to attend, sadly...

::looks at her Book Review Guidelines::

This is one of the dorkiest essays I have ever been assigned: is: "Three-quarters of a page to one page: a summary of the work's story-line.... One page to one-and-one half pages: an assessment of the work's historical context..... Three-quarters of a page to one page: a statement of what you learned about history from reading the work...."

Just cheesy to me, I guess... Bleh...

Bleh....

A. Dragonfly, writer of astonishing essays ... never cheesy.

A. Washcloth, Esquire...

Thank you!!! I am cheesecakey at times, though!!!

The professor also wants us to "staple all pages together in numerical order", two times, obviously, since it's on the sheet twice... oh!!! MAYBE HE DIDN'T PROOFREAD!!!

I'm a little peeved, after a dinner conversation where Mother believes that "anyone who looks like an Arab" coming into the country should be sent "back home". Really annoys and hurts me. A lot.

And my grandmother seems to only focus on her own nation's history, which I guess isn't the worst thing in the world, but when I try to tell women of her generation how lucky our nation is, by and large, compared to other bigger nations, they make me feel very guilty for not knowing enough about American involvement in WWII. I'm thinking, "WWII was great for us. It got us out of the Depression. It provided us with jobs. Yeah, we lost lives, but didn't just about everyone!?? At least our nation was never INVADED, we didn't lose the 20 million that Russia did, and... we never had to live in our subway system while our capitol city was bombed by Nazis...."

But I don't make all those points. I am made to feel extremely guilty for having a world view, which seems to make U.S. sacrifices insignificant when compared to Europe and Asia. I don't like that feeling, especially when it comes from women, inside my family our out, who I should have profound respect for...

I wrote this onsite earlier: I think the women who I am meant to "look up to" in my family are anglo, pro-U.S, anti-immigrant, anti-poor people. It's really depressing. At least not all of them believe that there's only one path to God... I'd have to disown them if they were as narrow minded about spirituality as they seem to be about the foreign-born....

I'll probably get over this... ::sigh:: It's not really THAT bad, just on my mind. These women seem to me so sheltered and ignorant of all the contributions the foreign-born have made to the U.S....

*Sigh*
So many times I've heard that. It isn't just the women, D. Many of the WW2 generation feel this way about the U.S.'s involvement in WW2. They buried their loved ones, or their mothers did, and they grew up without fathers, because of that war. To you, it's years ago. To them, it's personal.
Yes, others lost more than we did as a nation, but when Daddy, or your best friend's Daddy, doesn't come home, or comes home in a wheel chair, it isn't about suffering as a nation. Whether these women know it or not, it is remembered fear, and a personal loss. By saying that our country suffered less, you invalidate that, and they will respond with anger. It isn't a question of who suffered more. It isn't a contest. Loss is loss. I hope this helps you to understand why women who were alive during the 40's feel strongly about that war.
They also heard the anti-foreign stuff and the old "Pull yourself up by the bootstrap" stuff growing up. You have to let them have their opinions, and walk away. Arguing solves nothing. Let them be wrong, when they won't let you be right.
Remember, if every one from earlier generations agreed with the anti-poor, anti-foreign nonsense, then things wouldn't have changed.
When your Grandmother comes up with a line like that one, just walk away. Hopefully, there are other things about her that you can love and respect.

you just have to let sleeping dogs lie

Hey. I do basically keep quiet. I haven't made the arguments IRL that I made in my last post here. I'm just annoyed at how people believe that the Americans were the great rescuers in WWII. In many ways you can say we were, but we waited what!?? Three years to become "really" involved!??

And then we put our Japanese Americans in internment camps...

:;sigh::

I guess everyone wants to and deserves to think the very best about their nation... I just keep seeing what buttheads the anglos of this country have been, and I would like to cry.

I need to ammend my previous statement about the States never being invaded. Manifest Destiny was an invasion.

YEAH!!! There's good about the U.S. too. Somewhere.