Re: how to say "god does not exist" in arabic?

From: Harlan Messinger (h.messinger_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:45:57 -0400

"Christopher A. Lee" <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:4v24i01cn502kdqrot1hkkmug84j6gi7ro@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:31:56 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> >Christopher A. Lee wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:41:30 -0400, "Harlan Messinger"
> >> <h.messinger@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >"Christopher A. Lee" <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message
> >> >news:a452i0lbi855htcsq3p5bcn0e07pm9k2mi@4ax.com...
> >> >> 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:
> >> >
> >> >[text snipped]
> >> >
> >> >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"?
> >>
> >> Where did I ever say that? Hint: I didn't. Are you really this stupid,
> >> or just pretending?
> >>
> >> However linguistic thought control is a fact of life.
> >
> >And that claim is why Harlan posted his list of other fantasies found in
> >well-known works of fiction.
>
> Duh. WHILE 1984 WAS FICTION, THE APPENDIX WASN'T IT WAS THE
> BACKGROUND,

LOL. Yeah, it was background--as *part of the story*. It wasn't a quotation
from a scientific journal or anything like that. It wasn't a newspaper
report. It was *fiction*. Good grief.

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