Author Topic: The Far East (Read 10867 times)

Elizabeth · « **Reply #20 on:** December 05, 2012, 12:24:06 PM »

Who knew that Stalin made HORSES ILLEGAL???

sedetrad · « **Reply #21 on:** December 05, 2012, 01:26:27 PM »

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Who knew that Stalin made HORSES ILLEGAL???

That is odd.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #22 on:** December 05, 2012, 01:32:15 PM »

The poor people lost their ability to function without this noble animal. It seems to have been replaced with vodka.

sedetrad · « **Reply #23 on:** December 05, 2012, 01:41:52 PM »

I wonder if Stalin was a student of American protestant relations with Native Americans and how the Protestants addicted entire tribes to whiskey.

Lighthouse · « **Reply #24 on:** December 05, 2012, 05:17:13 PM »

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No offense, but given everything I've said on this forum, I think that this statement of yours just sounds like paranoid silliness.

Well, I'd rather be inclined to paranoid silliness than pompous silliness. Do you think of the Index or the Holy Office as being somehow "paranoid seriousness"? Holy Mother Church has always been solicitous of her children wandering away from salvation, so certain guidelines were established.

I've admitted that perhaps I just don't understand where you are coming from. I'm not trying to be argumentative. But I've never heard any one claim on an internet forum that it would be necessary to follow their whole body of work on the forum to get an idea what they are talking about.

I threw in Merton because he seemed to be the predominant example of what too great an enthusiasm for the Far East might lead one. But, perhaps, you are not familiar with his tragic life story and fall from grace.