July 2, 2016 at 2:43 pm
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July 4, 2016 at 2:51 am
I feel kind of bad because my last posts here was not very positive. I need to check myself every now and then because I tend to fall into a black mood.
Today, however, no black moods and interesting that you spoke about your independence day holiday, here in South Africa we had a few holidays that people will actually come together and celebrate.
The first was 16th December we celebrated the victory of the Boers (Afrikaner farmers) over the Zulus at Blood River. One Afrikaner stood up before the battle and made a vow to God that they would build a Monument in God's honour and commemorate the day 16 December if He would give them victory over the Zulus. Their faith in God was rewarded as a small band of Boers fought against hundreds maybe over a thousand Zulus. We always used to pull up together and commemorate this day. It started to wane in later years. Today there is still actually people that do that but to lots of them it is a political stance they take.
Manie Verster
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Johannesburg
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July 4, 2016 at 6:20 am
First of all I would like to wish everyone "All the Best on Independence Day"!
There are rumours that the UK will have its own Independence Day as a result of the referendum to leave the EU (23rd June). The result worries me because it was so close and also the facts were not presented well prior to the vote - two totally opposing sides that could not have grown up articulate debates. We are already seeing some effects from the result from some people trying to inspire hatred against Eastern Europeans to shopkeepers hiking prices because we have left the EU. It's all quite depressing!
July 4, 2016 at 7:38 am
Happy Independence Day to our American members!
July 4, 2016 at 7:38 am
Also to the Canadians for last Friday.
July 4, 2016 at 8:35 am
To everyone here who, like me, is a US citizen, happy Independence Day!
To everyone else who is a citizen of another country, I hope you have a great July 4th as well. 🙂
Rod
July 5, 2016 at 6:52 am
I had a great weekend. My daughter got married.
July 5, 2016 at 7:35 am
Congratulations
July 5, 2016 at 7:46 am
Congratulations, Iwas!
Rod
July 5, 2016 at 9:20 am
If you're going to have a national holiday, it should commemorate an event or concept that practically all citizens can rally behind. Commemorating the outcome of a recent partisian referendum or a civil war battle seems devisive. I want to take part in celebrations where folks are pointing their fireworks up in the sky, not across the park at each other...
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
July 5, 2016 at 11:53 am
Iwas Bornready (7/5/2016)
I had a great weekend. My daughter got married.
Congrats
July 6, 2016 at 6:49 am
While the count for the EU referendum was close in percentage terms , by constituency the vast majority in england and wales voted to leave - certainly the "elites" and the Media were upset and continue to find "bad luck" stories to promalgate their meme - immigration was only one of many drivers to vote out - in fact it was the same desires (ironically) for freedom and control over their lives that drove people to vote leave as did inspire the American revolutionaries .
November 15, 2016 at 6:15 am
mjh 45389 (7/4/2016)
First of all I would like to wish everyone "All the Best on Independence Day"!There are rumours that the UK will have its own Independence Day as a result of the referendum to leave the EU (23rd June). The result worries me because it was so close and also the facts were not presented well prior to the vote - two totally opposing sides that could not have grown up articulate debates. We are already seeing some effects from the result from some people trying to inspire hatred against Eastern Europeans to shopkeepers hiking prices because we have left the EU. It's all quite depressing!
We still haven't left. We haven't even committed to leaving yet.
When I was about 15 (circa 1986) I was discussing the European Economic Community (later to become the European Community [1993] then the European Union [2009]) with my Mother over dinner. I predicted that the EEC would expand beyond all manageability and end by disolution before 2050 or end by war before 2150.
I was reading a lot of Sci-Fi at the time including geo-political Sci-Fi so was heavily influenced by that. Some of what I read are likely to have been metaphores for the big power blocs of the time (USA, Western Europe, Soviet Bloc, China etc.) so I probably can't even claim it as much of an original idea.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
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