P_Trembath: As for forgiving the English, forgiveness in itself is an empty gesture until the transgressor admits they have done something that requires forgiveness.
That isn't forgiveness it sounds more like an ultimatum or a swap. Forgiveness is not a deal, its a gift, and one that gives back many times more.
This is true I believe of groups and individuals.
Be well
Freako Mbiko
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[quote=sharon]Some Buddhist you are, look at the amount of negativity in you post...[quote]
Dharma is realism, not pessimism or optimism
[quote=sharon]Where do you see this hate, I would say that I am pretty active in and understanding of the Cornish situation...I don't see the hate you speak of, just good honest truthful people who are getting s**t on...
Ask the men who got wrongfully arrested about forgiveness you might learn what it really means...
So you think its Ok to build 70k houses in the dilution process do you?[quote]
I dont think its OK at all, none of that. I want to see Cornwall as an autonomous region that can control its laws and governance in line with the EU and control its own finances, across the board.
I want Cornwall to be something like The Ilse of Mann, only better.
I belive there is only one path to this goal. And that is the gradual promotion of Cornish independence and its benefits to Cornwall and the people who live here.
It will probably take decades.
There are a few other ways that my dream cornwall might happen.
1) Revolution. Dubious
3) Terrorism. I have a sneaking suspension that no Government would ever give in to any terrorist.
2) Legal Wranglings. This just cannot possibly work. Can you imagine it went to Europe in a very serious sense, if Europe said yes to Cornwall reclaiming its ancient right (Which I would love to see!!!!), imagine the shedload of other possible cases from all over the continent, its a precedent that could never be set, at least in this New Europe.
3) Public Opion, Just Swaying It. Perhaps a petition, maybe if everyone on the Cornish electoral role said yes to independence they would have to give it to us, I'm not sure??? But swaying public opinion is a key part of the slow political approach, anyways. [quote]
[quote=sharon]The mere fact that you say I am a Buddist makes you not one... [quote]
Ummm Ok , I guess I haven't got to that bit yet :/
Freako Mbiko
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Charlie got Camilla to bang up a plaque in a school in Exeter as a Duchess of Cornwall name promo. Of all the schools in Britain she went to the "West of England School and College for young people with little or no sight."
Expect a Duchess in Cornwall in the near future, at a place with England or South West in its name.
Just as an aside, and I apologize for going off topic, but what do you believe the Tibetans would be given back if they were to forgive the Chinese for what they have done?
Kernow Kensa!
Our day will come!
"Everyone has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something."
As HH The Dalai Lama has readily acknolwedged, there is no way China is going to withdraw it's "occupation".
I think that the invasion and occupation of Tibet is a huge world-crime that has been going on for 5 decades. I don't think the fact Cornwall has been variously subsumed into England over centuries is even remotely comparable
Freako Mbiko
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I have never said that the two situations are, at present comparable, other than they both have been transgressed against, and therefore have something to "forgive". The question was what would the Tibetans achieve by forgiving the Chinese?
Kernow Kensa!
Our day will come!
"Everyone has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something."
I am not talking about conspiracy, but for the record, my specific focus on the Cornish Paradox is in showing its direct relationship to 'genocide'.
The point that I am seeking to make is that not having read the book, you can prejudge it as "biased". Since everything we read is inherently "biased", I am suggesting that you were arrogantly presenting 'that opinion' (for public consumption) to place it into a negative context.
I could offer something, but I can do no better, at this stage, than point you towards the book 'in question', which provides much more substantive evidence.
Arrogantly opinionated on some things, perhaps, but never a *****.
The existence of divergent views occur because the lies and deception have a more profoundly negative, and contrived, consequence for the Cornish people than for anyone else within this island.
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