hi all At 21:25 2000/12/24 -0600, joan wrote: >I can't believe that a post with: >The placard had F.U.C.K. > * (Fornication Under Consent of the King) > * on it. Now you know > * where that came from. >as part of the posting gets very few comments >posted and I'm no prude at all.... >BUT... >a post about Santa Claus & Jesus gets >axed by the politically correct!! >WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE??? my guess is that some of the recent "bitterness" and "sniping" on the list has made us a tad tetchier than normal and this season with its overlay of expectations realistic or manufactured can only exacerbate that tetchiness in all of us regardless of how we are currently 'coping' with our 'lot in life' however you and camilla and jerry and cyberdad have all just communicated your thoughts and feelings to me via the miracle of our time i feel always and ever blessed by that miracle and refuse to throw out the baby with the bathwater [how's that for metaphor mangling?] regardless of the scientific and/or historic details the message contained in the words "love your neighbour as yourself" is universal and eternal but we have to learn to love ourselves first and that may be the toughest part of all if we know ourselves to be lovable and therefore loved we will know ourselves to be beyond attack and therefore incapable of attacking i wish peace and love and joy for us all janet janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now /44 dx cd / 43 onset cd /41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/