On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Gilberto Simpson wrote:
> On 10/27/05, Scott Saylors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The outcome of wiping out the males of mature age (old enough to be capable
> > of bearing arms), then enslaving the women and children DID wipe them out
> > ethnically just as completely as if the women and children had been slain. I
> > would submit you do not know if they continue to exist as a people because
> > they do not.
>
> I'm not going to pretend like I'm some scholarly expert. I've read
> alot about religion but I don't want to set myself up as an authority.
> And this might sound bad... but if you just now are getting the
> group's name correct, then I don't think you are in ANY position to
> speak so confidently about whether or not the group still exists. You
> have no basis for saying what you are saying.
>
> It is better to just say, that you don't know.
>
>
Your arguments, if one can call them "arguments", are amzing. What are you
saying?
Just produce someone from banu-Qurayzah and end the discussion. If you
can't, then just say nothing. Your above comment is totally rubbish and
meaningless, Gilberto. And you know it.
>
> There is a famous saying in philosophical circles that says you can't
> go from an Is to an Ought. Moral values aren't things that you can
> measure emprically. So in particular, you can't look at history and
> find evidence that moral values have changed. You might be able to
> find evidence that people's beliefs about morality have changed, gone
> up and down like hemlines. But not the values themselves.
>
Another nonsense comment.
> Peace
>
> Gilberto
>
>
>
Iskandar
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