All Apologies

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_Yong Xi
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bcspace wrote:
Some days it is more difficult than others to forgive myself for being born Mormon.


Aren't you the least bit grateful you weren't born in say, a farm in rural China?


One of my daughters (Yong Xi is her name) was born on a farm in rural China, for which I am very grateful.
_moksha
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bcspace wrote:I'd be willing to bet that if sock puppet were born on a farm in rural China with the knowledge of what life is like here in the USA, he would be most unhappy.


However, if he was a rural Chinese farmer adopted into, for instance, the Romney family, I bet he would have a winning smile and a love for Grey Poupon Mustard.
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_sock puppet
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moksha wrote:
bcspace wrote:I'd be willing to bet that if sock puppet were born on a farm in rural China with the knowledge of what life is like here in the USA, he would be most unhappy.


However, if he was a rural Chinese farmer adopted into, for instance, the Romney family, I bet he would have a winning smile and a love for Grey Poupon Mustard.

Why, of course.
_ludwigm
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Post by _ludwigm »

The attributes of US' nationals I supremely like are their modesty and humbleness.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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