| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Religious meetings at the Natural Cafe | |
| Posted by: | Roland Gilmore | |
| Date/Time: | 30/05/07 10:01:00 |
| Alan, Another valiant effort but your gentle reasoning and advice is evidently not getting through. I do not know what other angle you could highlight to help Julia to look from a different perspective and understand the recent history of Ulster. As long as certain British people persist in believing the propoganda they have read or heard from self-serving politicians and media over the decades, (that the troubles were a religious war) there is little hope that they will contribute to a lasting peace and justice for all but will sadly insist on remaining a part of the problem and be prey to opinion formers in other areas of conflict in the future. Julia's responses remind me of the Harry Enfield character (Ruddy Hell..; BBC2) who finds it impossible to admit his pronouncements contain errors. By repetition of the mistake (ever more forcefully and hysterically), he believes it makes him MORE right; avoiding difficult adjustment to his beliefs and behaviour. Julia's "simple" question is obviously meant to be rhetorical but her reasoning infers that she has censored her children from nursery rhymes and fiction of all kinds. Would that have broadened their minds or narrowed them? |