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

From: Harlan Messinger (hmessinger.removethis_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:19:40 -0400

"Holden" <nothx@ihatespam.com> wrote:

>Harlan Messinger wrote:
>> As I said in another post, that's a laugh riot. In case you didn't
>> notice, the appendix is written from the perspective of 1984, and
>> goes on about a political movement called English Socialism, or
>> IngSoc. Are you under the impression that the appendix was actually
>> written in 1984, or that there really was a political movement called
>> IngSoc? Of course not. It was all part of the *work of fiction*.
>>
>> I wonder if you think the Three Laws of Robotics are real too (the
>> background to I, Robot). Or that a monolith actually appeared in the
>> past to a tribe of pre-humans (the background to 2001: A Space
>> Odyssey).
>
>"Orwellian Newspeak" is a contemporary term that has it's roots in the
>excerpt of 1984 he posted. Do you know the difference between a common term
>derived from a source and the source itself?
>
>You really have missed the entire point; this sort of semantic nonsense
>isn't productive. Orwellian newspeak is the term that has come into common
>use to describe this behavior,

None of this alters the falsehood of the proposition that people's
thoughts are restricted to those concepts for which they have
terminology, which is the proposition that I was addressing. 

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