bye-bye Fidel!!!!!

What in the world is going on?
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e_dog
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Post by e_dog » February 22nd, 2008, 2:34 pm

What's that Truth to Power business?

explain that jimbo, pleas?
I don't think 'Therefore, I am.' Therefore, I am.

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Post by Arcadia » February 24th, 2008, 8:58 pm

I have some books to burn, my own! too many!

that´s good & a totally different thing: it´s your choice. You also can be less messy and donate them to a library (I´m joking!) :wink:

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Post by stilltrucking » March 14th, 2008, 9:07 am

e-dog asked
What's that Truth to Power business?



Here are some links that might help
Speak Truth to Power, taken from a charge given to Eighteenth Century Friends, suggests the effort that is made to speak from the deepest insight of the Quaker faith.
http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0112/011204.htm
and this one

Speaking Truth to Power on Iran

“speaking truth to power” is a Quaker saying, I think, which has become popular recently. “What is the truth?” is the usual retort, so maybe “speaking facts to power” would be a better expression nowadays in a world of truthiness

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/06/5659/
And this one
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http://links.jstor.org/

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Post by jimboloco » March 18th, 2008, 8:56 am

amen
bye bye fidel
bye bye raul
you had a long run
better than batista
better than the king of spain
[color=darkcyan]i'm on a survival mission
yo ho ho an a bottle of rum om[/color]

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