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

From: Holden (nothx_at_ihatespam.com)
Date: 08/17/04


Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:04:37 -0500

Harlan Messinger 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"?

You know that whooshing sound you heard as you read his post? That was the
sound of his point going over your head.