Re: OT: Historical Amnesia

From: operator jay (none_at_none.none)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:52:00 -0500

"tadchem" <tadchemNOSPAM@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "West Coast Engineering" <westcoastengineering@westcoastengineering.com>
> wrote in message news:lc4mn0l4uqc7aoop6cfo2ert5kp6somt6q@4ax.com...
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> <snip>
>
> > It has to do with the huge number of totally ignorant, supertisious,
> > stupid human beings who are total, complete and un-redeamable assholes
> > and who don't realize we are all the same.
>
> Blame evolution. Humans are hard-wired to notice the differences between
> two very similar specimens. Given that there are *always* differences
> between people, no matter how similar they may be to 'outsiders', they
will
> eventually come to disagreements over the differences. History and the
> present teach us the bitterest disputes arise when the opposing parties
are
> most similar:
> Northern and Free Irish, North and South Koreans, Union and Confederate
> soldiers, North and South Vietnamese, Palestinians and Israelites, and so
> on.
>
> The closer 'we' get to being the same as 'them' the harder 'we' fight
> 'them.'
>
> > Assholes like Hitler, Kim-Il-Sung, Joe Stalin, Plo Pot, Napolean
> > Bonapart, Kaiser Wilhelm (fill in at least another 1000+ names from
> > history).
>
> As an example of how people notice small differences in things, there are
no
> less than 5 'unconventional spellings' in your brief list of names that
> practically leapt out at me when I scanned your post.
>
> > Life is short. Everything biological dies and returns to its base
> > elemental components. We are born, we live, we get sick and we die.
>
> "Life sucks, then you die,." - The Fools, 1985
> http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/misc/funny/life_sucks.txt
>
> > There is no proof that anyone of us is superior in an absolute sense.
> > There is no proof that there is a GOD or GODS.
>
> In my experience, each of us has a more or less individualized definition
> (and therefore understanding) of the term "God" (or, if you prefer,
"god").
> Thus the question of the existence of God becomes idiosyncratic, depending
> upon (A) what you individually define the term to mean, and (B) whether
you
> personally accept the existence of something that satisfies your personal
> definition of the term. Because the term is so highly idiosyncratic, the
> concept of "proof" is supplanted by the concept of "acceptance."
>
> The existence or non-existence of God cannot ever be proven because the
> proof must be transferable to others, while the definition cannot be.
>
> > There is no proof of
> > life after death.
>
> Life is a plateau with an unscalable precipice above a fog-shrouded depth.
> The only way to find out what lies below the fog is to step off (which we
> all must do eventually), and nobody has ever been seen climbing back up.
>
> > The assholes amongst us try to deny these simple
> > facts and try to obtain immortality by leaving their imprint on
> > history by doing really nasty things to the rest of us.
>
> I am working on an operational definition of "evil." So far I have worked
> out that "evil" appears to be the willingness to inflict death, pain,
> suffering, or other losses on other people to advance one's personal
agenda.
> The selfish motive appears to be essential, and the cost paid
involuntarily
> by *others* is also essential.
>
> The difference between the use of chemical weapons to kill thousands of
> people from a neighboring population that annoys you is different only in
> degree from the firing of an entire office of established and experienced
> workers to provide a few job opportunites for your firends. Both are
evil.
>
> > Funny thing is, in some untold million's of years, we are all going to
> > be fossils and if space aliens don't land and discover us, we will
> > just be a fart, dissapating in the nebulous clould left when our sun
> > goes to its Red Giant phase and vaporizes the inner four planets.
>
> From the perspective of a planetary object billions of years old and with
> tens of billions of years more to go, "life" is just a temporary skin
> disease. Humanity is just one more zit on planet earth. Extinct species
> are zits that have healed.
>
>
> Tom Davidson
> Richmond, VA
>
>

Budding nihilist or deep thinker?

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