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No, they should not be forgotten
posted by
mejustme
on September 16, 2008 at 12:14 PM
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Re: Thank you for bringing me treasure from far away places
My pleasure, mademoiselle mystery.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 9, 2008 at 2:22 PM
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You'll have to put in much more effort if you are trying to irritate me. Come on! Give it your all!
I hope you're not representative of the whole Episcopal endeavor. I was beginning to think that the Anglican Catholic approach seemed fairly realistic and open to intelligent conversation about religion and science. Have I got it wrong? Perhaps you were just looking for somewhere to vent your frustrations. Either way, there is lots of space on my blogs for you to engage in playful taunting or ferocious harassment. You choose!
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 9, 2008 at 2:20 PM
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Re: Rageltjie de beer
I would love to have such a book available for my kids since my memory of these are fading and I think they deserve to have as much of our heritage available to them as possible. Just like many other tribes/nations there are stereotypes about us Afrikaners too and often not very comforting and far from realistic. If we compare our history of race relationships with the other tribes we encountered on our exodus into Africa with that of America and Australia we look much better in the long run. Given the fact that we have previously tried to preserve our own traditions by keeping apart, and being condemned for that by the international community, we never attempted to exterminate indigenous people and their own traditional ways as has been the case in other parts of the world under colonial rule.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 9, 2008 at 2:11 PM
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Re: Thanks for sharing the story ...
I'm sure if we dig a little we'll find many stories lived relatively recently in all the cultures in the world that has the same transformative power towards a more sharing and caring humanity. I think they all deserve to be kept alive.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM
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Oops, I thought you were someone else...
posted by
CAMOE
on September 8, 2008 at 2:27 AM
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Why would I waste my time around Blogit? I have real work to do... writing a Best-Selling novel is not child's play, you know. Now... back to work.
. Good blog, good blog. Bravo. Bravo. Who cares what any of us thinks?... Dost thou not understand satirical language when one sees it? I love you baby. You're doing great. This is not the only venue for writing you know. If I walk away from this, do you think I've failed and I've given up? Hardly. My real working life will go on. There's much better money to be made in freelancing you know - while I'm wriiting those Best-Seller
s... there's more than one of those in me you know. Have a fine day. A fine day.
Have I irritated you, yet? Good, I meant to.
posted by
CAMOE
on September 8, 2008 at 2:22 AM
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Thank you for bringing me treasure from far away places
beautiful
posted by
mysteria
on September 6, 2008 at 8:36 PM
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Rageltjie de beer
I can't agree with you more! Being an South African myself it is these stories that made me proud to be a South African. But today the children only learn about the previously disadvancetiged (pardon the spelling, my dictionary is lost in action) people. I agree their history is an important part of SA but it should not exclude the Afrikaners' history. I have a book with all these wonderful stories and is making sure my son knows were he comes from and were he is going.
posted by
Oosthuizen
on September 6, 2008 at 2:31 AM
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Thanks for sharing! What a great gift of love! sam
posted by
sam444
on September 5, 2008 at 8:23 PM
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Thanks for sharing the story ...
... it's a great one ... an important, as you said: should be kept alive and told to children ... but, in fact, also to adults living today, they forsure need stories like that (but I know they don't "take it in") - - genio
posted by
ggXpress
on September 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM
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