Re: X-files makes Diane wonder

At 12:34 AM 7/23/96, you wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:09:53 -0500, Thomas E. Bedwell wrote:


Gabriel - Please notice that Tom Bedwell did not write anything about German
death camps.
I will not post poetry and I will not write about Nazis.

Tom



>>>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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