Poets (and stories) for Peace

Someone made a comment as to my using 'We' on the list of questions a few posts back. I used the word we in reference to we, as the human race! This is a semantic disagreement. It was 'We' not leaving myself out. If I say, "How long is the human race going to", it is a bit cold, depersonalized and it is sounds like I am leaving myself out. I then could be accused of thinking myself superior. If I would say, "How long are the the Jews or the Muslims or the Christians," it is separating myself from them. Now, think about this in reference to religious works that were written hundreds and hundreds of years ago, which we expect to translate literally and were often times written in poetic language. If you add to this that we are all in human form and the consciousness of spirit has to filter down through a mind of certain time period's knowledge and experience, even in saints, and then add to that, holy books were often written way after the ...

This is just a sample of the craziness that is out there today with companies outsourcing their customer service. This would be funny, if it were not so sad!!! It is my experience with considering to buy a Magic Jack from a company (which tries to hide their name, address and telephone numbers) that, tells their 24 chat reps not to give out any information about how to get to the company by phone or their address. The reps say they are in Fla., but none of them speak English, even close to fluently. Since the Magic Jack can be used in any country and comes with a U.S. phone number, the person can look like they are in the U.S., but be anywhere in the world. Here is the conversation that I had. I wanted to put the whole conversation here with the research I did online, while talking with two of their 24hr chat people. If you get bored with this or know it all too well, skip down to my comments at the end. If this kind of thing is not abuse of power, I don't know what is? Ho...