tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post5923133254949784167..comments2024-03-10T10:36:09.923+00:00Comments on Gem of The Ocean: Tear Down this Wallgemoftheoceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post-45587696585985934512009-11-12T12:49:30.288+00:002009-11-12T12:49:30.288+00:00Hi
On a side-note, I have been reading some of y...Hi <br /><br />On a side-note, I have been reading some of your posts, and was wondering what is your preferred form of government? (This is a general question not linked to a specific post). <br /><br />Thank you. John.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post-44089881571442962292009-11-12T02:25:42.270+00:002009-11-12T02:25:42.270+00:00John, thank you for the reminder. That was a terr...John, thank you for the reminder. That was a terrible revolution. This last year I have been going to the EF mass quite a bit, and I was struck, in particular, by the amount of French women, in particular, who were martyrs for the faith in that awful time. And the Franco anti-clericalism seems to persist in a big way in France to this day---if not by killing the priests and nuns, by too often contempt, or mockery.<br /><br />IT surprised me that even quite otherwise religious Catholics in France seemed shocked at the idea of NOT having a ceremony at the local town hall which is what really counts legally -- a church wedding isn't enough to do it, as in most countries.<br /><br />France had a rotten system to begin with, but their revolution made it worse.<br /><br />What fear must have been sweeping the convents in France in the late 1800s again with fear of repressive anti-clerical government.gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post-37984033343023746142009-11-11T14:59:12.408+00:002009-11-11T14:59:12.408+00:00Also 1989 is exactly 200 years since the French re...Also 1989 is exactly 200 years since the French revolution started. Remember its the one that underpins marxist idiologies. Yes Heaven has a way of dealing with atheist governments, they swept away in the fullness of time. I suspect they will all be gone by the 300th aniversary,- just a thought.<br />JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post-31278627164434227972009-11-09T22:25:59.574+00:002009-11-09T22:25:59.574+00:00Yes, good Catch, Mac -- I posted jsut as I broke b...Yes, good Catch, Mac -- I posted jsut as I broke back from lunch and hadn't had time to proof -- I'll correct in a second.<br /><br />I was thinking of you, too, when I wrote this, because I knew your mom was from Germany and wondered if you were similarly affected.<br /><br />I might add a few more detials to this post -- like a picture of Reagan. BTW, I always thought Ronaldus Magnus and the Pope shared a special bond of those who'd been shot at and survived. Tell me the hand of God wasn't in on those two -- both nearly died.<br /><br />Packrat: so true -- they have NO IDEA the presence the Cold War was.<br /><br />I think they look at all that like it was "no big deal" the "natural course of things." No, it was the west standing firm -- I'm also going to put a plug in for Boris Yeltsin. It was a few years after, but him standing on the tank the day the Russian officers refused to fire on their own people was one of the greatest days in history, ever.<br /><br />Sadly, That May had also been the season where the Chinese lovers of freedom had been overrun and gunned down in cold blood because the Government could not tolerate the protests and the impromtu construction of a replica of the Statue of Liberty.gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post-58855378697680922662009-11-09T21:48:10.906+00:002009-11-09T21:48:10.906+00:00What a fantastic post! You remember a lot more de...What a fantastic post! You remember a lot more details than I do, but I rejoiced when the wall was broken. The idea of people getting shot for trying to escape from East Germany was one of my biggest childhood "fears". I, too, prayed for the families that were split from each other. Sadly, most of the young people of this country have no idea what it was even about.Packrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02986387347283221427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post-40597326915116910082009-11-09T21:35:35.381+00:002009-11-09T21:35:35.381+00:00Didn't you mean November 9th?
I was watching ...Didn't you mean November 9th?<br /><br />I was watching on TV, while I, my mother, my aunt and my grandmother were phoning each other up (no email or text messaging) to discuss what was happening.<br /><br />My grandmother was originally from Konigsberg (it was Prussia, but was taken over) and had lost relatives to the Russians...Mulier Fortishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01186202810919174492noreply@blogger.com