If repurposing the obelisk can further balance our demonstrated duality, let’s go for it! Unity Tower sounds good and right.
— Gabriele Rainey Asheville
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4 thoughts on “Letter: An excellent way to repurpose the obelisk”
Enlightened Enigma
Unity is the antithesis of diversity.
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Peter Robbins
Or in the original Latin: e pluribus unum icksnay.
DreadT
Enlightened Enema, unity does not mean conformity. Diversity does not mean opposition. They are similar to Ying-Yang, one does not exist without the other.
James
Should we put up monuments to the 9/11 hijackers or the people who bombed Pearl Harbor as well to achieve “unity” with those people who killed American troops, too? Your premise is based on the belief that yo9u find nothing wrong with people who killed 120,000 American troops in defense of enslaving, torturing and killing people based on their race. Let me guess… you agreed with Benedict Donald that there were “fine people on both sides” in the attack that killed that woman…
Unity is the antithesis of diversity.
Or in the original Latin: e pluribus unum icksnay.
Enlightened Enema, unity does not mean conformity. Diversity does not mean opposition. They are similar to Ying-Yang, one does not exist without the other.
Should we put up monuments to the 9/11 hijackers or the people who bombed Pearl Harbor as well to achieve “unity” with those people who killed American troops, too? Your premise is based on the belief that yo9u find nothing wrong with people who killed 120,000 American troops in defense of enslaving, torturing and killing people based on their race. Let me guess… you agreed with Benedict Donald that there were “fine people on both sides” in the attack that killed that woman…