I think his wingtips are there, they're just folded under.
Ya think? The edge looked like scar tissue to me. It might be folded under, but it is still a freaky image with or without wing tips.....lol.
I work really hard, to bring up my children that we are all equal beings.
Ooooh. Time for ANOTHER argument now. We haven't had enough yet. Here in these united states, we operate (supposedl) under the idea that all men (masculine includes females when grouped together - nothing sexist meant) are created equal. I believe that to be true. However, most people don't actually think about what that means. Some say it means we all have equal chances to improve. Some say it means in the eyes of "the" lord. Some say it means we aren't judged by the sins of our fathers. et alias. I believe all that to be true, but I also believe mose people cue in on the world equal and forget the other word: created.
The idea is that we start off equal. Where you go from there depends upon you. This ideal doesn't say all of us ARE equal - it means we were CREATED equal. I am not the equal of a child murderer. I am better than him/her. I know that with every fiber of my being. I belive it completely just like I believe we were created equal - that horrible predator just took the wrong turns that I did not. Even the law recognizes that people are NOT equal. If they were, then preventing felons (once they pay their debt) from voting or owning a firearm wouldn't be a justifiable regulation. In fact, those people are legally considered "not good enough to vote any more." Their choices have made them unequals - if only in the voting booth and nowhere else.
Notice: black or white, tall or short, male or female, masculine of femine, or whatever - it doesn't matter. We are created equal.
What we MAKE of ourselves from there is what makes us better or worse. The idea that I am equal to a murderer or a rapist is something I can not accept. They ARE lesser because of their choices even though they started off equal with equal chances to become a good person. Money and such obviously do NOT make a person "better" than anyone else. What makes someone "better" in our eyes is likely different from one person to the next. I admit that.
However, being created equal is NOT the same as being equal.
That is more like it! With cherry.
I really honestly have no other interpretation other than it being a spade like a shovel.
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This however is nothing like the "lynching" word, because I don't think you can honestly say you had no idea of it's racial connotation.
To quote you (but with "its" corrected) in return, "I don't think you can honestly say you had no idea of its [i.e., spade's] racial connotation." Wether you did or did not, I can't comprehend that you didn't know what I'm talking about now. To answer you, no. Sure, I know blacks were lunched. So were whites and anyone else a mob disliked for the day. My mind might associate it with the KKK some only because they did it, but they lynched (i.e., mob violence culminating in a hanging or hangings) lots more than blacks. When I hear lynch, I think of a LYNCH MOB. The image I get is a western where they are (usually) lynching a cattle rustler or horse thief. That is the connotation I get - white on white. If any other race is involved, it is likely hispanic - not black.
That doesn't matter. You might have the connotation. Someone else might not. Because that spade comment is highly insulting here, does that mean YOU are wrong for using it? No. not if you didn't meant it that way. So, if you are not wrong for using spade even though it is offensive to some, why is someone else automatically wrong for using the word "lynch" if they don't mean it in a racial way. If you can use a word with racial connotations without meaning those connotations, why can't someone else?
I'm not defending Susan. I might have, but it is hard to do now with added comments. Her choice to say it if she wants, but before that I had NO echos of racial connotations in my mind to the word. I don't mean race when I say lynch. If you do when you read them, then the problem is in your head if you get upset. Just like spade. I understand the word MIGHT have different meanings to different people, but you don't seem to comprehend that words might mean different things than the meanings YOU (plural - not just Micheal) assign to them in your head.
Again, you use the spade comments, but it is OK because you didn't mean them even though that IS a racially charged statement....but lynch can never be used and can never have non-racial charged meanings. Hogwash. One or the other. A word is racially charged and "wrong" whether you mean it that way or not - or it is not. Either the user of both terms is wrong or the user of both terms has the potential for not using them racially. One or the other, but this game of "me ok" and "you bad" just doesn't sit right with me.
KJ
