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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8403429, member: 128351"]I did not clearly understand what was the problem with this forum. I have seen there had been arguments here on non-numismatic issues, and I must confess I just left it aside and did not pay much attention to it. Maybe I should have, but I am fed up with this kind of debate. I didn't come on this forum to talk politics, religion or such great principles. As long as I am not banned - it happened once - I'll come here from time to time.</p><p>People are different from one another and it is always intellectually profitable to be in touch with people who do not think the way we do. Our times are getting ugly. People seem to be more divided than ever. Topics such as secularism, freedom of speech and even of thought, human equality, birth control, even democracy and rule of law are now being seriously questioned in the name of partisan or religious interests. In USA of course, but also in Europe - and we usually say that what appears in America shall reach Europe some time after. I used to naively trust the pillars on which modern civilized societies were founded, but in our Western world they are more and more shaken, people are increasingly separated from each other and locked in their own ideological fortress.</p><p>It reminds me a Greek Orthodox joke. A Greek Orthodox is the only survivor of a sunken ship and swims to an uncharted desert island. What is the first thing he will build there? Answer : two churches, the one he will go to and the one he will not. </p><p>Is it the right moment to secede, to decide there are people with which we shouldn't talk?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8403429, member: 128351"]I did not clearly understand what was the problem with this forum. I have seen there had been arguments here on non-numismatic issues, and I must confess I just left it aside and did not pay much attention to it. Maybe I should have, but I am fed up with this kind of debate. I didn't come on this forum to talk politics, religion or such great principles. As long as I am not banned - it happened once - I'll come here from time to time. People are different from one another and it is always intellectually profitable to be in touch with people who do not think the way we do. Our times are getting ugly. People seem to be more divided than ever. Topics such as secularism, freedom of speech and even of thought, human equality, birth control, even democracy and rule of law are now being seriously questioned in the name of partisan or religious interests. In USA of course, but also in Europe - and we usually say that what appears in America shall reach Europe some time after. I used to naively trust the pillars on which modern civilized societies were founded, but in our Western world they are more and more shaken, people are increasingly separated from each other and locked in their own ideological fortress. It reminds me a Greek Orthodox joke. A Greek Orthodox is the only survivor of a sunken ship and swims to an uncharted desert island. What is the first thing he will build there? Answer : two churches, the one he will go to and the one he will not. Is it the right moment to secede, to decide there are people with which we shouldn't talk?[/QUOTE]
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