Sorry, Erminia. I truly had no idea what you were talking about before.
At 09:15 AM 9/26/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>My point:? What is it? I think I expressed it in the smoothest fashion
>possible....(see line beginning with (Although I believe....)
>
>The quality of the language used in the list posted (see list
>below: "Relevant statistics") with its inventory of “none”. "none", "none"
>(Pope message: none, etc) did not sound to my taste serious enough, but
>rather as a disguised anti-American provocation.
>
>I find objectable that the question of starvation is raise to prove the
>responsibility of USA in the recent terrorist attack. I think that issues
>of such severity do not deserve to be raised rhetorically.
>Is this clear now, Mark?
>
>
>
> I would want the certainty that those people using these kind of
>statistics at this very moment are seriously involved in the task of
>alleviating the painful realities of starvation: it is not difficult to
>find employment in the Red Cross or in any organizations trying to help
>saving these children: they make daily appeals for people to go and fight
>on their side.
>
>These statistic, if we really care, should be our DAILY preoccupation.
>
>You cannot raise from the grave of forgetfulness those dead children when
>it is convenient to strengthen one’s point on the otherwise blanc page.
>
>Then, I call it the Easter flagellation, a symbolic act of reinforcing
>the wrong order of things. Empty rhetoric.
>
>
>Had one been honestly voted to solve the question of starvation, such
>issues of world development and intercultural dialogue would have been
>one’s daily practice, our jobs. But each of us, (with the due exception
>of those of you who are reading and who are playing a part actively as
>social workers, socialist activists and doctors in the Third World) in the
>western world, is busy in solving one’s problem of making money and being
>part of the capitalist system.
>
>Unless, proved otherwise.
>
>Therefore, the catalogue in question, “Relevant Statistics”, is to me a
>mockery of any real concern.
>Sorry.
>I call it the call from the religious community to make the Parish Priest
>buy stronger iron gates for the local Church once it has been robbed of
>all its golden sacramental garments and furnishings.
>
>
>
>On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:22:11 -0700, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>What's your point? That it's foolish to care about them or that no one else
>>does?
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>At 11:59 PM 9/25/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>>>> According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
>>>about 35,615 children died from conditions of starvation on September 11,
>>>2001
>>>
>>>RELEVANT STATISTICS:
>>>
>>>>* Victims: 35,615 children (source: FAO)
>>>
>>>>* Where: poor countries
>>>
>>>>* Special TV programs: none
>>>
>>>* Newspaper articles: none
>>>
>>>* Messages from the president: none
>>>
>>>* Solidarity acts: none
>>>
>>>* Minutes of silence: none
>>>
>>>* Victims mournings: none
>>>
>>>* Organized forums: none
>>>
>>>* Pope messages: none
>>>
>>>* Alert level: zero
>>>
>>>>* Military mobilization: none
>>>
>>>
>>>The real Mystics.
>>>
>>>Ah, the self-flagellating Western consciousness....which we managed to
>>>achieve through centuries of intestine wars and Papal interventions. We
>>>too are ruled over by promises of future Paradises in our decision-
>making,
>>>our restrained actions.
>>>
>>>So we blame our own ancestors, our philosophy, our Economy, so we make a
>>>systematic vivisection of our faults, we espose our sinnful chests, we
>>>weep, feel self-repulsion, repent and flagellate our flesh to punish and
>>>mortify our vicious mind.
>>>
>>>Although I believe we have not completely failed in making our communities
>>>and single individuals sensible towards the Third World ‘s poverty, and
>>>even if our children in school are thought these matters in full respect
>>>of all the new humanitarian syllabuses, at present these statistics still
>>>represent, in my knowledge, a concern of mainly social workers, socialist
>>>activists and doctors.
>>>
>>> All those children dying of starvation have really almost nobody (a part
>>>the Red Cross) fighting for them.
>>>
>>>
>>>Erminia
>>>
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