Replying to LO27497 --
Thank you John
I have been searching for van de Post's writing on this. You have
provided it.
Today was Remembrance Day in the UK. For the first time since 1915 --
when the 11th hour on the 11th day of November was to be our nations' time
to stop, to stay still for 2 minutes .. and think about those who made it
possible for us to do just that -- for the first time, the US Ambassador
to the Court of King James .. as his official title is, was invited to be
part of the official party .. our Royal family, our senior politicians and
service heads, etc -- and share our time of remembering and thanking those
who died in world wars and the 88 conflicts we have been involved in since
1945.
Even in our unease of what is happening in Afghanistan, you are special in
our hearts.
Let us hope we can also take to heart van de Post's teaching.
Roy Greenhalgh
John SCOTT wrote:
> "In any case, I did not believe then, as I do not believe now, that you
> could punish whole peoples or even solitary individuals into being better
> persons. This seemed a renegade, discredited and utterly archaic concept.
> It has been tried throughout history. Far from being an instrument of
> redemption, which is punishment's only moral justification, it is an
> increasingly self-defeating weapon in the hands of dangerously one-sided
> men.
> ...snip...
> Laurens Van Der Post
> The Night of the New Moon, pg 123
> 1970
--Roy Greenhalgh <rgreenh@attglobal.net>
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