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From: "Karl Carlile" <joseph@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 18:28:56 +0000
Karl: It is interesting to observe all these apparent lurkers coming
out of the woodwork to make their glib snipe.
It is all quite amusing but not very productive.
> On Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:09:53 -0500, Thomas E. Bedwell wrote:
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> >>When people were tortured and killed in the German death camps by the
> >>Nazis during the second worl war we only think that this is what happened.
> >>It is merely our subjective way of experiencing "reality". It is not
> >>objective. Indeed there are reactionary historians who claim that there
> >>never were concentration camps: "an ideological construct" developed by
> >>certain interests.Ya know!
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> There's an old net proverb that says that the merit of a thread is inversly
> proportional to the number of times the Nazi regime is mentionned in it.
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> To be more specific, when someone is attacking a *philosophical* argument
> by mentioning the Nazis the implication, whether she meant it or not, is that
> doubting whatever has been
> put to doubt is illegitimate, that it condones a crime. Should I consult a lawyer
> before making my philosophy?
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> more specifically, what Nazis get to do with the nature of reality?
> I first learned about the holocaust from my Grandma; can I built
> a metaphysical system on her back? Let me try: '*She* was there, therefore,
> *I* am right, and you'd better keep silent, otherwise, I will call upon her memory
> to silence your voice. '
> Isn't that undisputable?
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> Gabriel Ash
> Notre-Dame
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Yours etc.,
Karl
