Re: how to say "god does not exist" in arabic?
From: Harlan Messinger (h.messinger_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/16/04
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:41:30 -0400
"Christopher A. Lee" <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:29:58 GMT, Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Christopher A. Lee wrote:
> >> It's thought control by language. When the words to describe a concept
> >> don't exist, the concept no longer exists.
> >
> >We need a word for this.
>
> Orwellian newspeak. Which is actually two words.
>
> From the appendix to 1984:
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Do you also think that sleep indoctrination works, just because Aldous
Huxley conceived that it would in "Brave New World"? Or that the Martian
atmosphere can be made easy to breath by planting thousands of tree seeds on
it and watching them grow overnight with the first rain, just because Ray
Bradbury imagined it that way in "The Martian Chronicles"?
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