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To: Tax-chick

"A devout Quaker or Mennonite wouldn't engage in fistfighting over girlfriends, either. I wonder if this machito makes a habit of principled nonresistence in his personal life? (/sarcasm)"

My father was a quaker and, supposedly a pacifist but I know dang well if you took his cigars and tv (for football) away from him you'd pay dearly with a beating....:)

I guess in his case pacifist meant he would pass his fist into your face if you pissed him off enough....:)


53 posted on 09/29/2005 12:00:55 PM PDT by fizziwig
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To: fizziwig
Maybe he considered that "child discipline" rather than "violence"?

It's a lot of work to live nonviolence consistently. Not many so-called "peace" activitists seem to manage it.

54 posted on 09/29/2005 12:12:39 PM PDT by Tax-chick (When bad things happen, conservatives get over it!)
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