Where are you from?
Where are you from?
Select the region or country where you originally come from.
Last edited by Stiphan on Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:14 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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Know right from wrong — and their consequences — and act accordingly, always doing your very best.
The Path begins with the acknowledgement of Truth; it ends in Freedom; and in between is a huge amount of Effort.
Meanwhile, care about others.
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Re: Where are you from?
Born in Germany, but to American parents (military) so I put U.S.
I once met a Vietnamese-American who was born on the Pacific Ocean. His mother came over with the so-called "boat people" after the Vietnam War and gave birth to him while the ship was still at sea in the middle of the Pacific.
What would he put? Perhaps, Asia, but what if the ship was right on the international dateline directly between Asia and North America?
I once met a Vietnamese-American who was born on the Pacific Ocean. His mother came over with the so-called "boat people" after the Vietnam War and gave birth to him while the ship was still at sea in the middle of the Pacific.
What would he put? Perhaps, Asia, but what if the ship was right on the international dateline directly between Asia and North America?
Re: Where are you from?
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
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Re: Where are you from?
An excellent novelPeter wrote:Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
Im from Wales, UK
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Re: Where are you from?
Because at first I made this poll for an English-language learning site, and there many people are from the UK... So I wanted to discern native speakers from non-native ones... And then I just copied the poll here. Have I made myself clear?clw_uk wrote:Why is UK and Europe Seperate?
Call me Stephen, please. May you be well and happy.
Know right from wrong — and their consequences — and act accordingly, always doing your very best.
The Path begins with the acknowledgement of Truth; it ends in Freedom; and in between is a huge amount of Effort.
Meanwhile, care about others.
Know right from wrong — and their consequences — and act accordingly, always doing your very best.
The Path begins with the acknowledgement of Truth; it ends in Freedom; and in between is a huge amount of Effort.
Meanwhile, care about others.
Re: Where are you from?
Stefan wrote:Because at first I made this poll for an English-language learning site, and there many people are from the UK... So I wanted to discern native speakers from non-native ones... And then I just copied the poll here. Have I made myself clear?clw_uk wrote:Why is UK and Europe Seperate?
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Re: Where are you from?
I am from the British Isles so put UK but not from there, or europe
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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Re: Where are you from?
Hi Stefan
For future reference...
Oceania is so 'conceptual' as a geograpic region that its existence borders on the fictitious.
I've never met anyone who has identified themselves as Oceanian, nor have I been able to identify any social, economic, political, cultural or linguistic commonalities that bind the people over the vastness of the purported area as one.
Metta
Ben
For future reference...
Oceania is so 'conceptual' as a geograpic region that its existence borders on the fictitious.
I've never met anyone who has identified themselves as Oceanian, nor have I been able to identify any social, economic, political, cultural or linguistic commonalities that bind the people over the vastness of the purported area as one.
Metta
Ben
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Learn this from the waters:
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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Re: Where are you from?
Exactly Ben!
Australia is a continent in itself - and maybe ought to have a category of its own.
No partiality here!
metta
Chris
Australia is a continent in itself - and maybe ought to have a category of its own.
No partiality here!
metta
Chris
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Re: Where are you from?
Hello Ben and Chris. Please forgive my ignorance regarding the terms about Oceania. It's just that it is listed as one of the regions of the world here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:R ... _the_world" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; . I could have written 'Australia' or 'Australia and New Zealand', but that would exclude all those funny little islands in the Pacific, which actually is not a big deal...
Call me Stephen, please. May you be well and happy.
Know right from wrong — and their consequences — and act accordingly, always doing your very best.
The Path begins with the acknowledgement of Truth; it ends in Freedom; and in between is a huge amount of Effort.
Meanwhile, care about others.
Know right from wrong — and their consequences — and act accordingly, always doing your very best.
The Path begins with the acknowledgement of Truth; it ends in Freedom; and in between is a huge amount of Effort.
Meanwhile, care about others.
Re: Where are you from?
Oops. I wanted to rename Oceania to "Australia and New Zealand" and I messed the whole poll up... 
So sorry...
So sorry...
Call me Stephen, please. May you be well and happy.
Know right from wrong — and their consequences — and act accordingly, always doing your very best.
The Path begins with the acknowledgement of Truth; it ends in Freedom; and in between is a huge amount of Effort.
Meanwhile, care about others.
Know right from wrong — and their consequences — and act accordingly, always doing your very best.
The Path begins with the acknowledgement of Truth; it ends in Freedom; and in between is a huge amount of Effort.
Meanwhile, care about others.
Re: Where are you from?
Well done, Stefan!
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: ben.dhammawheel@gmail.com..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: ben.dhammawheel@gmail.com..
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Re: Where are you from?
Greetings Chris,
Metta,
Retro.
Does that mean that since Tasmania is not geographically connected (above sea level) to the continent of Australia that we can finally declare that Tasmania is not part of Australia?!Chris wrote:Australia is a continent in itself - and maybe ought to have a category of its own.
Metta,
Retro.
"Do not force others, including children, by any means whatsoever, to adopt your views, whether by authority, threat, money, propaganda, or even education." - Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
"The uprooting of identity is seen by the noble ones as pleasurable; but this contradicts what the whole world sees." (Snp 3.12)
"One discerns wrong view as wrong view, and right view as right view. This is one's right view." (MN 117)
"The uprooting of identity is seen by the noble ones as pleasurable; but this contradicts what the whole world sees." (Snp 3.12)
"One discerns wrong view as wrong view, and right view as right view. This is one's right view." (MN 117)
Re: Where are you from?
Hmm I didn't see karma listed
So I guess that I will just have to choose 'Asia'
So I guess that I will just have to choose 'Asia'
Re: Where are you from?
New Zealand first equal? I'm sure it won't last... 
Mike
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Re: Where are you from?
Typical north-islander!retrofuturist wrote:Greetings Chris,
Does that mean that since Tasmania is not geographically connected (above sea level) to the continent of Australia that we can finally declare that Tasmania is not part of Australia?!Chris wrote:Australia is a continent in itself - and maybe ought to have a category of its own.
Metta,
Retro.
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: ben.dhammawheel@gmail.com..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: ben.dhammawheel@gmail.com..
Re: Where are you from?
Yes, typical Aucklanders --- oops wrong country ----Ben wrote: Typical north-islander!
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Re: Where are you from?
Was the UK option removed from the poll?
Re: Where are you from?
I guess you're Europe - like it or not...Mawkish1983 wrote:Was the UK option removed from the poll?
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