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Posted: 24th Jul 2007
indeed it does ben, thanks

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Posted: 25th Jul 2007
wow, that really opened my eyes, thankyou so much, i'm definatly going to appreciate my bed now!

ummmm...........anybody have any suggestions as to what i can put here?!

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Posted: 25th Jul 2007
Thanks for sharing Ben

.All things are beautiful if we take the time to look.

Posted: 26th Jul 2007
wow, I had no idea.

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Posted: 27th Jul 2007
What a shocker
apparently I'm wealthy but you wouldn't know it if you looked at my pay packet.

May my balls of fire set your balls on fire

Posted: 27th Jul 2007
I liked the music

that really doesn't take into account relative poverty and situational wealth.

While it can be depressing that alot of people are dying because rich countries have stolen their resources or manipulated themand refused to share things like that can exagerate certain aspects.

What if you live in a society that works on a bartering system or if you grow your own food and are completly self sufficient. Then you don't need any money at all.

To my mind i also find that alot of so called charaties are hegemonic and controlling, comminuties may seem impoverished and uneducated to us but is it right to destroy their culture by inforcing our lifestyles upon them just so that they live a bit longer? i'm not saying all charaties are like that but that seems to be the message they send in their ads, why do african children need to go to school and learn to read and write (most likely english) If for thousands of years they could be perfectly happy with the culture they had now we decide that thats not good enough and we need to upset them by showing them everythign they didn't know was possible making them unhappy because they don't have it.

I'm not completly against charaties, i just wish they'd focus on differnt things, like people in need closer to home. I live in Australia and there are aboriginal communities that have next to nothing and due to poor mangement and lack of resources are suffering under alcoholism, gambling and other addictions, abuse and lack of eduction and healthcare and yet they are no more than a couple of hours from the nearest state capital city.

I have almost never seen a charaty trying to rais money for them, all the chairaties i've seen want to send my money more than 12 hours away.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2007
Seen that one before but in an email format. Very interesting indeed

Uchi

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