1,000 celebrate peace activist's 100th birthday in Halifax

A happy birthday to this fine woman.

It's funny how someone who claims to support the cause of peace, actually goes out of his way to be one of the biggest instigators of conflict, using the peace movement itself, or his presentation of it, to intentionally stir things up.

C.S Lewis wrote beautifully on the subject in The Screwtape Letters (where Screwtape is a major demon providing advice to a minor demon on how to corrupt the human soul of a "patient" .

Screwtape directs his minor demon to "thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know" (such as the victims of war in Afghanistan). But of course, as the patient has never met any of these victims, the benevolence is largely melodramatic and mythical. At the same time, Screwtape instructs Wormwood to "direct the malice to [the patient's] immediate neighbours whom he meets every day."

Lewis brilliantly concludes: "The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."

Thus you end up with the delicious situation (from a demon's point of view) whereby the patient believes completely in his largely mythical benevolence while he is actively malicious to those around him.

I like the Horse and his Boy best.

The Screwtape Letters is an excellent read. I still think is my favorite of his books, however.

Oh, and happy birthday to the lady. May see have as many more as she shall wish.

I'm sure she's a nice enough person but she's silenced by these latest dorks.



Sorry.. you talk of the anti-war protesters but these are the goofs that come to my mind. No thought or reasoning, just selfish arogance. This is the face of the anti-war moveent for me. Spoiled brats who don't have a clue about the past and are too self centered to care.

Its as wrong to blame those clowns (assuming they were real anti-war protestors instead of just drunk morons) as you guys say it is to blame all soldiers when a few act up. In fact its always wrong to do that regardless of the circumstances.

I would agree with you when the media draws that line.. but neither of us will live that long.

Draws what line? I don't see the media blaming entire groups. If I assume you mean the media "blames" all soldiers when it reports unflattering news. I don't see them blaming anybody but the people involved if at all.

We also get loads of good stories as both sides quote papers like the TO Star about the war.

Bullshit. All soldiers get lumped into the pile when something bad happens. If you don't believe that, try telling youreself that "they were operating outside their ROE, SOP", etc.. before you break up giggling. The military command has become a punching bag that can't do right in the press or public eye. If you don't believe that, review the airborne fiasco and tell me that wan't a huge over reaction.
If you want to prove a point, join us wheh Scape posts another "all sodiers are evil" thread.

SCAPE posts "all soldiers are evil"? I call BS on that. Remember this is the guy you gave positive reps to in his debate with me concerning the afghan war in which he posted favourably for it. So what, he things the afghan war is righteous and moral but its being fought by soldiers who are all evil?

I don't think so.

In addition, we were discussing mostly in terms of the media labeling all soldiers as evil which I disputed.

The Military command was not a punching bag. While I disagree with the disbanding of the airborne given the hateful position of its members (and the military in general it seems) towards the ruling Liberal party I can't say it wasn't a case of just deserts. Also, Martin certainly didn't treat them badly in the least. Of all the Liberals he was the most pro-military and put lots of money in.

Seems to me that if people can attack a political party with as much hatred as the Liberals got and abuse them as punching bags as they were their entire tenure then you should be able to take it.

I thought it read Streaker and I was going to let it slide, but Scape is too classy for that nonsense.

Maybe he meant Streaker?