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marions ghost

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4. Many people can't handle change

Reply to 2banon (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2014, 01:36 PM

Sep 2014

--we certainly see it in this country. They will wait and suffer and wait and suffer--til way past the point that it would be easier to accept change--the kind of change that would help them.

So you have that working against any move to reconstruct the system. And we all know systems, like cars and bodies, need reconstructive surgery at times...

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Finding The Other Side of Sorrow (A poem for Scotland) [View all] 2banon Sep 2014 OP

Beautiful. djean111 Sep 2014 #1

Yes, indeed. Simply Incomprehensible independence went down to defeat. 2banon Sep 2014 #2

defeated because the majority of people didnt buy the propaganda? or did buy it nt msongs Sep 2014 #3

When 44% of the voters in a country vote to leave, that, IMO, is significant. djean111 Sep 2014 #5

Cameron seems like any other tool for the 1% - they're not in the habit of making good on promises 2banon Sep 2014 #9

As Alasdair put it: 2banon Sep 2014 #7

Many people can't handle change marions ghost Sep 2014 #4

Well Said.. 2banon Sep 2014 #8

Here's a piece Alasdair wrote several years ago: Theme for Scotland 2banon Sep 2014 #6

Wow that Theme for Scotland is just marions ghost Sep 2014 #10

I agree.. What he attempted to capture and express in this piece 2banon Sep 2014 #11