01-19-2009, 10:50 AM
Kathy,
Why do you keep telling me that I wasn't at lunch with you and John and it's none of my business, when you detailed the conversation here? You made a comment, I took the time to read it and try to offer a response. It is only an exchange of ideas.
I have no idea of your motivations except what you've said here, and really, it's irrelevant to the situation. People can't just get credit for their intentions, and if they aren't satisfied with their salary picking grapes, they can try another job. Anyone who feels that the grape-picker is underpaid could always go to the farmers market and offer double for everything.
You continue to classify people on this board, that those who can accept reality are 'judgers', or that they haven't suffered also. You talk about "high moral tone of those who didn't get caught up in it". Have I ever disclosed my losses? How can one tell if any of the other authors here haven't gotten caught up in it? What would make you think I haven't lost? If you're interested, I think I've lost more than the average home cost in, just the past 3 years. I think many people have lost that much. What good is it going to do to complain and blame everyone else? I haven't judged you or put you down. I don't know you and from what other people have written, I could only guess that you are a decent person. It's irrelevant again.
All the things that happened are blind to motivations and personality. Anybody who had anything to lose has lost. There is no point is arguing that certain people deserve sympathy and others who also lost, do not.
And to equate this to genocide? People are trying to help you understand what has happened and that's what they are labeled?
And compassion, . . . my compassion makes me wish that this would never happen again to anyone. Best wishes.
Why do you keep telling me that I wasn't at lunch with you and John and it's none of my business, when you detailed the conversation here? You made a comment, I took the time to read it and try to offer a response. It is only an exchange of ideas.
I have no idea of your motivations except what you've said here, and really, it's irrelevant to the situation. People can't just get credit for their intentions, and if they aren't satisfied with their salary picking grapes, they can try another job. Anyone who feels that the grape-picker is underpaid could always go to the farmers market and offer double for everything.
You continue to classify people on this board, that those who can accept reality are 'judgers', or that they haven't suffered also. You talk about "high moral tone of those who didn't get caught up in it". Have I ever disclosed my losses? How can one tell if any of the other authors here haven't gotten caught up in it? What would make you think I haven't lost? If you're interested, I think I've lost more than the average home cost in, just the past 3 years. I think many people have lost that much. What good is it going to do to complain and blame everyone else? I haven't judged you or put you down. I don't know you and from what other people have written, I could only guess that you are a decent person. It's irrelevant again.
All the things that happened are blind to motivations and personality. Anybody who had anything to lose has lost. There is no point is arguing that certain people deserve sympathy and others who also lost, do not.
And to equate this to genocide? People are trying to help you understand what has happened and that's what they are labeled?
And compassion, . . . my compassion makes me wish that this would never happen again to anyone. Best wishes.