tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215926314312539949.post3618701194504257362..comments2023-11-28T16:35:05.948-08:00Comments on Post-it Notes from Hades: Facebook fablePersephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15560178981320189795noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215926314312539949.post-33356896761714354042011-04-16T13:10:24.445-07:002011-04-16T13:10:24.445-07:00She's a wee bit more than a Facebook friend, R...She's a wee bit more than a Facebook friend, Rob, see my comment to Vol-E. We've known each other for more than twenty years. This is not an argument over which I wish to lose her friendship. If I'm going to choose my battles, I'll choose an area in which I am more knowledgeable. Given my range of expertise, this should, theoretically, lead to a much more peaceful life for me....Persephonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15560178981320189795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215926314312539949.post-51330176144937261782011-04-16T12:28:26.169-07:002011-04-16T12:28:26.169-07:00I disagree: friends who would desert you for donat...I disagree: friends who would desert you for donating money to charity to help disaster victims, whatever the charity, are not friends you should take trouble to keep. It's not as though you were donating the money to an Islamic charity and marking it "By the way, if there aren't too many needful Muslims right now, spend it on Semtex and RPGs for killing Jews".<br /><br />As for suppression of the story of the Itamar murders, one of our MPs recently wrote an article complaining that the BBC had "suppressed" it, in the course of which she mentioned that she'd found the story in two different places on the BBC news site. A strange kind of suppression.<br /><br />It is a sad fact that some people, convinced that the world is full of antisemites, see it everywhere they look. Take the matter of the anaesthesiologist and the Israeli music: the surgeons admitted that their anaesthesiologists in Israel didn't like their choice of music, but that it helped them relax. Yet somehow that's brought in by the journalist as evidence against MSF. It's entirely possible that the Dutch volunteers didn't like the Israeli surgeons, not because they were Jews, but because they were a**holes - or some of them at least. Again, some of the Israelis themselves seemed not to think the bad feelings were occupation-related.<br /><br />Those who shriek "antisemitism" whenever their co-workers fail to massage their egos sufficiently (and surgeons, wherever they are from, have BIG egos) do not deserve to be taken seriously. And neither does your FB friend.<br /><br />Sorry.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04181616393829854686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215926314312539949.post-67751355536576937212011-04-16T12:13:11.498-07:002011-04-16T12:13:11.498-07:00I think that was the shock, Vol-E; I've known ...I think that was the shock, Vol-E; I've known her for years and she's not a soap-boxy nor a blinkered sort of person. She is, as I've mentioned, a very generous and compassionate person (and a very happy one, I believe). These Middle East tensions are billowing out like shock waves, I guess. She did serve briefly in the Israeli army in her youth, which would colour her world-view. I don't pretend to be an expert; I just want fairness, is all.Persephonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15560178981320189795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215926314312539949.post-55085759424078296982011-04-16T06:21:59.690-07:002011-04-16T06:21:59.690-07:00I guess everybody's got a soapbox that they dr...I guess everybody's got a soapbox that they drag out from time to time, but in some cases, the soapbox is so tiny (i.e. narrow) that the person standing on it becomes preoccupied with maintaining their position and not falling off. Their focus narrows to the contact between their feet and the box. They fail to see other people nearby on their soapboxes (some of which are more generous, with graduating levels and steps up and down, and room to make adjustments), and the entirety of the common ground on which all the boxes stand. Because of the tension and discomfort, such people are rarely happy.Vol-Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12540700805961806596noreply@blogger.com