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, [log in to unmask] writes: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------