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[Vistanoob]

Oh yeah, I understand how some things that others do or some customs or ways of thinking can be strange. I've heard of practices in other cultures that go beyond strange, to my way of thinking, but that is the point, I think it is all a matter of perspective. From which side the matter is viewed. I think that to any person, their way is right from their own perspective. Now i'm on a tangent, but you know what I mean.

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

Anwser me this would you ever use the words "My Mother fears for her mortal soul" to mean my " My Mother fears dieing?"

[Vistanoob]

....Ummmm... no. Those words have never been spoken by me, nor would they.
I understand what you meant by strange for sure.

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

Anyone got any suggestions?

[ProCookie]

Thats why i don't use chartrooms anymore, i used to get a lot of strange things most related to religion and stuff.

One time i was talking to a lady form USA and she was talking about her husband and how its her duty to cook and clean for him, i dunno why but that kinda made my angry how she thought it was her "duty". I thought America was ment to be the land of the free but why did she feel she had to do this for her partner?

I thought the days of stereotyping men and woman were long gone and i know over here its common for men to cook and clean, in fact all the best chefs are men.

Anyways i don't use chat for reasons just like the ones above. Theres a hundred other situations i have been in like that and most of them are not pleasant.

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

I have had an American friend on AOHell who was very Nationlist and to some extent racist I stopped chatting to him right off.

[ProCookie]

yeah and to be fair its like that all over the globe too, but i think there just a minority i don't think a whole nation can have the same views, if they do theres something wrong.

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

Very true BTW read your life outside of computer blog your wrong about the Crown Jewels. Tell you more later

[Vistanoob]

Both of you have an admirable and enlightened attitude. I think it's wonderful. Looking forward to checking out your blog Ant.
Checked it out, loved it! Great photos!

[felix8406]

Coming from an educational background (I taught aircraft related courses for over 10 years) I can tell you that there are three main things you should never discuss in a classroom: religion, politics and race. People have their own opinions and a mild conversation may turn to a heated argument very easily. For the most part, we see what we want to see or what we believe to be correct, according to our paradigms and those paradigms may never change.

Paradigms are something I learned from the book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey. Here’s a short version: A man get in the train accompanied by two kids and he let the kids run wild, bothering other passengers. Stephen paradigm is that as a father, this man should control his kids. Finally, he decides enough was enough and confronted the man, to which the man replied, “You are right, sir. But we just came from the hospital where their mother just passed away, so I guess they don’t know how to handle it and neither do I.”

This of course creates a paradigm shift, where Stephen is no longer upset, but now feels guilty and sympathetic towards the man. Sometimes what we think is real, is only real for us, but not for someone else. We might need to step back and look at the situation through different set of glasses.