tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165628.post112117783123185756..comments2023-10-23T12:47:33.578-07:00Comments on Contemplative Activist: Ulster MuslimsContemplative Activisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708953084541297892noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165628.post-1121291742742449162005-07-13T14:55:00.000-07:002005-07-13T14:55:00.000-07:00(re-posted with a correction)Hi, Contemplative Act...(re-posted with a correction)<BR/>Hi, Contemplative Activist:<BR/><BR/>15th Street Meeting in NYC wants to send a letter to all the local Friends Meetings in London. Could you send me or point me to a list of these meetings and their addresses?<BR/><BR/>I am using this comment to contact you, at the risk of clogging your blog, because I don't have your e-mail address ready at hand. You can feel free to delete this comment once you've read it.<BR/><BR/>As for getting back to me, I think you have my e-mail address, but if not feel free to post a comment on <A HREF="http://brooklynquaker.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow"><STRONG>Brooklyn Quaker</STRONG></A>. <BR/>- - Rich Accetta-Evans<BR/><BR/>P.S. I've been getting lots of comments at Brooklyn Quaker on my recent post "What Is It with the Quakers and Jesus Christ?", but most of it comes from people who more or less share my theological beliefs. Why not come over and offer a contrasting perspective?Rich in Brooklynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589780733691616974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165628.post-1121268691412314232005-07-13T08:31:00.000-07:002005-07-13T08:31:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Rich in Brooklynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589780733691616974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165628.post-1121202166664164342005-07-12T14:02:00.000-07:002005-07-12T14:02:00.000-07:00PS My father... who was radical, not liberal, and ...PS My father... who was radical, not liberal, and radically progressive... said to me mum, that his greatest fear was that his kids would marry Catholics. He had the good graces never to say ANYTHING like that in front of my brother or I, so I did, of course... marry a Catholic ( Genie, sigh :).... oh yes, what was I saying.... ) and my brother married a Catholic girl... twice, really two Catholic girls, one at a time... Me ol'da in fact, when Genie turned me down... proposed that she should marry me... good ol' dad... then she did... hopefully more than just to please the old boy.<BR/><BR/>:)<BR/>lorLorcanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208822060675734892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165628.post-1121195462859972002005-07-12T12:11:00.000-07:002005-07-12T12:11:00.000-07:00Dear CA:I fully endorce the sentiment of your post...Dear CA:<BR/><BR/>I fully endorce the sentiment of your post... however, I would say that there was, before the sease fire, support among the Republican ( some Protistants in that number... ) for the Irish Republican Army to a larger degree, than we assume there is support for terrorism among British Muslims. In point of fact a majority of the voters in the town of Derry were Republican, hence the jerimandering, where one third of the voters where given two thirds of the voting power.<BR/>In Belfast the late Robert Sands MP, was elected to Parliment while on hunger strike in the H Bloks of the Maze. Forced immagration of Catholics during the seventies and eighties made much of the support for the IRA an exile community in the United States. Contrary to the myths in the papers, the driving force behind support of Republicanism in Ireland was not from old established Irish American families, but recent ex-patriots, some of whom had been granted Political Asylum by American Courts.<BR/><BR/>To be fully nutral in such things takes an effort and I know many in the Republican community who forgive the effort of many who did not grow up under the stresses of being Catholic or Nationalist in the northern counties of Ireland. I know that the emotions of this struggle makes sesitivity hard. I lost several dear dear friends to the conflict, and have known loving and caring people of both loyalist and nationalist, and nuetral political persuasions in the six counties. I also happen to know that you CA, are an example of the great new hope for peace in that part of Ireland that I love so much and where I recieved such wonderful welcome on both sides of the divide. ( I also love the storries of your father and his transending the point of view of his community! I really love the story of him at the immagration museum... )<BR/><BR/>Slan go foil, a chara deas, <BR/><BR/>le meas, <BR/>lorLorcanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208822060675734892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165628.post-1121193950564392772005-07-12T11:45:00.000-07:002005-07-12T11:45:00.000-07:00I think I'll bring Tim home first - I doubt his re...I think I'll bring Tim home first - I doubt his reception will be too warm then - something like "hello, pleased to met you, have you ever seen a shotgun? Come and I'll show you mine..." (not that he has a gun... yet!). Plus all the mousetraps he'll put in front of the spare room's door! Never mind me bringing home a black Catholic! (Although it would be hilarious!)<BR/><BR/>I intend on studying in mainland - I really don't want to go to Queens! I can't wait for all the different people etc at uni! It doesn't really sound patronising - don't worry. Besides, I'm used to it.<BR/><BR/>You think "darkies" is bad? I'm sure there is worse my dad comes out with!<BR/><BR/>Rachxx<BR/><BR/>PS. I'd like to state for the record that I am not responsable for the welsh flag as my picture (changed now I think) It wasn't me - I'd only own a welsh flag to burn it. The person will be dealt with shortly - NI style of course.Rachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02482687493950331137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165628.post-1121185739132523132005-07-12T09:28:00.000-07:002005-07-12T09:28:00.000-07:00Rach,I would love to see you bring home a black Ca...Rach,<BR/><BR/>I would love to see you bring home a black Catholic to meet your dad! Please can I come to watch?<BR/><BR/>BTW - if you come over to the mainland to study, you'll not be long in getting to know lots of other races and religions. I think you'll love it - you're already very open minded and aware for someone in NI - I certainly didn't have your understanding at your age. (Oh, that is horribly patronising isn't it - sorry!)<BR/><BR/>PS. People prefer the term black to coloured ;). (Don't worry, my uncle - the one who has a Zimbabwean man living with him, calls black people darkies...I could die of embarrassment!) And no, that is not the worst of it!Contemplative Activisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708953084541297892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165628.post-1121184692617688622005-07-12T09:11:00.000-07:002005-07-12T09:11:00.000-07:00My dad is unbelievably un-PC! One thing he has sai...My dad is unbelievably un-PC! One thing he has said to me is I'd be better bringing home a coloured man or a woman than a Catholic - I'd love to bring home a coloured Catholic woman to see him pass out.<BR/><BR/>It's unbelievable. I'm now going into lower sixth. Only now are first years (this is the first year with the new course) being told about other faiths - and it's one week at the end of the summer term. I must admit I struggle differentiating (I struggle with it in maths too, of course) between different religions purely because I have been brought up in a country in which you are either Catholic or Protestant and that's the end of it.<BR/><BR/>I hope in a few years, on one of my flying visits to NI, to see NI more cosmopolitan in both race and religion and no longer a place when unionists and nationalists/catholic and protestants unite only to pick on those with diferent skins. It'll take some work and a few years but hopefully the country will get there.<BR/><BR/>RachxxRachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02482687493950331137noreply@blogger.com