Guest guest Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 In the Welsh Mabinogion epic there is the mysterious episode of the hero Peredur. He meets a lovely maiden in a wood n she gives him a stone [Philosopher's?] and then: And he came towards a valley, through which ran a river; and the borders of the valley were wooded, and on each side of the river were level meadows. And on one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other side a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated one of the black sheep would cross over and become white; and when one of the black sheep bleated one of the white sheep would cross over and become black. And he came towards a valley, through which ran a river; and the borders of the valley were wooded, and on each side of the river were level meadows. And on one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other side a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated one of the black sheep would cross over and become white; and when one of the black sheep bleated one of the white sheep would cross over and become black. --------------------- Not unlike Eshu motif n lovely 'Ebony n Ivory' song. It seems as if every Israeli needs to imagine truly what it is like to be a Palestinian and every Palestinian needs to spend the same length of time imagining what it is like to be an Israeli! I can remember my son ,age 9, coming home from school troubled by the news of Palestinian refugees. He is now 61 n nothing has changed! And then u think of the centuries of suffering of the Jews in the Diaspora........... Dr Stan Grof interrogated patients in Prague in the 40's/50's using then legal LSD to regress them n found several cases where an A persecuted a B, he was born in another life a B to suffer at the hands of the A's. As Scripture has it "He who kills by the sword will die by the sword." And was it the Roman Cincinnatus who when he came back from governing turned his weapons into a ploughshare? At 86 am getting a mite rusty....... -------------- I used the analogy of shoelaces w/kids who got mad at each other. I made them take off a shoe and had the laces go up the sides instead of crossing over. The shoes fell off! So when Obama suggests a dialogue w/an enemy, it's like crossing the laces, or the black/white sheep. Love Very Silly Old Woman ao A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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