Condolences

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 9432
Date: 2001-09-13

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Speaking in my capacity as this list's co-moderator: please drop
the subject, especially if you have already apologised. Don't make me
moderate your postings, OK?
>
> Piotr
>
>
Yes, boss, whatever you say.

I wanted to say something to express my sympathy, but whatever I
think of comes out sounding stupid.

The were dancing in the streets here Tuesday. We now
have 15.000 of them and growing fast. We are 5.5 million. Suddenly we
have 400.000 Moslem. Today I am able to express the condolences and
sympathy of the Danish people. In fifty years that will not
necessarily be so, according to the government statistical office: A
third of the population here will be Moslems. Or New Danes, as they
are officially called here.

A reader had sent a quatrain from Nostradamus to Berlingske Tidende:


In God's city there is a great thunder.
The great leader will perish.
Two brothers will be torn part by chaos.
...
The third great war will begin
when the great city burns.

I am ashamed that I feel this way. I was once a hippie and travelled
in that great country and believed in peace and love between all
races and religions. Since Tuesday I can never be a hippie again. I
don't think I should say what I feel and fear for the future in this
august forum. I will take time out.

Is this the fall of Rome?

Self-moderated, lest I be moderated. If I should be thrown off the
list for this, so be it.

Torsten