Quote from Rainer: "I had NEVER encountered such a reaction in my whole life... and I have seen many things, places and people in my life so far."
Rainer,
I see that you genuinely don't understand what happened. I'll try to explain in nicest possible terms, OK?
You are a philatelist - therefore, by definition, you are able to concentrate, to be patient, and to think methodically. In order to understand this particular conflict, you would have to really open your mind, to think out of the box -- if only for a moment.
You've seen much of the world, granted - but as a corporate functionary, as a state official. I also lived and worked in many countries (Muslim ones included). But I always have been a loner, an independent contractor, or a dissident persecuted by the state. I despise authority. I never had a boss. I never wear a tie, except as a musician on the stage. A thought of working for some corporation in a permanent position for the sake of security and/or benefits is repulsive to me. The very idea of working under a contract with Saddam's murderous regime or of collaborating with North Korean vampires would be unthinkable to me. I refuse to visit San Francisco, leave alone China!
You symbolize everything that I fought against all my life, and keep fighting: state, establishment, socialism, mandatory compassion, tolerance toward dictators and dictatorships, helping the weak, the sick, and the wicked, punishing the strong, the able and the noble, mocking and denigrating heroism, talent, and individual achievement, perverting harmony, liberty and beauty, exalting mediocrity, bureaucracy and coercion.
New environmental state religion that hes nothing to do with reality but everything to do with the UN power grab, with the triumph of irresponsible, irrational corruption of feeding frenzy over the rotting corpse of a hapless taxpayer, over the pitiful ruins of scientific truth and logic -- it is a part of my deadly enemy, I will not tolerate it's presence, and I will not give it an inch.
Now you see? Our backgrounds are not only incompatible, they are explosively mutually exclusive. Something that seems a natural, normal assumption to you brings a storm of insult and suffering to me. Something that you call "tolerance" is "persecution" to me. Something "progressive" to you is "obscurantism" to me. Something you think of as "greater good for greater number of people" to me is triumphant fascism in emperor's new clothes.
I don't hope to change your mind or to convince you in anything. I doubt that you will understand that I am not an American patriot -- such as me can't be a patriot of anything. I only hope that you would be careful not to assume, from now on, that everybody on this planet belongs to your cultural species. There be tigers in the jungle, there be wolves in the woods -- always -- if only to keep the obedient sheep on their guard...
Aside from all that, you are, probably, the friendliest possible person, a square guy all around.
Sei mir gegrüßt!
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on Nov-18-07
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I'm a catalog queen, expert and philatelist - whoopee!!
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on Nov-18-07
at 12:00:03 PST
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on Nov-18-07
at 09:36:30 PST
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