Joe Sambou,

I could not have said it better. I was begining to think that i was perhaps
crazy and everyone else is sane. thank you for echoing something that can
only be positive for us as a people.

Jabou Joh

In a message dated 7/16/01 12:56:23 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> Why are we so thin skinned?  Are we so full of ourselves that we can't
> accept fallibility?  How come we have a group of individuals who agree with
> everything that a member of the group says, even if the idea is the most
> backward?  Talk about not thinking for one's self.  Folks, it's normal to
> say you do not know when you do not know.  It's normal to disagree with
> your friends and agree with your opponents when your opponents have a point
> and your friends don't.  It's abnormal to agree with someone ALL the time
> and disagree with others all the time.  I see the group members struggle to
> address a member for misstatements even though they know we all know what
> they are doing.  Let's learn to tell the truth regardless of who is
> affected and stop the hypocrisy.  This is really becoming standard practice
> for some in this forum.  You cannot disagree with anything they say and
> they are willing to throw at you all they got including the kitchen sink to
> have the last word on anything.  This madness needs to stop and people need
> to realize that they cannot control anybody or insult them to submission.
> There is nothing you can say to anybody that they cannot haul back at you
> and then some.  No one has all the answers all the time and you can agree
> to disagree with your oponents or divergent views. Just a thought from a
> knucklehead from Sere-Kunda.
>
>
>
> Chi Jaama
>
>
>
> Joe Sambou
>
>

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