So you mention the famine when we talk about Jews as a way of saying me too, or I feel your pain. That's fine. It's the way you throw it out that I kept feeling you were saying "stop whining it happened to my people too" or the holocaust was nothing compared to the famine. Now don't go nutzo on me, it's hard to read your intentions when I can't see your facial expression or hear your tone of voice. It was the timing in both cases that made we wonder. I'm sorry but glad I misread you.
Now for Soc's, that old whino from Greece. "realize that he also said that he felt he had to drink the hemlock because he had lived as a citizen of Athens and therefore should live by the law of Athens." Wow that's veeeery veery deeeeep. Did you hurt your brain thinking that much? I need to rest my head just thinking about it.... That's better. Like I said it was ten years ago but what I remember from it was his desire to find the perfect government but he failed. He felt democracy was the best system but it was flawed. His agreeing to the death sentence was not due to his thinking "well I live here so gotta do what they say", he felt they were the best laws available and respected them. The flaws in democracy are that people that know nothing about politics can choose politicians. Yet the people that voted him to death were politicians and they were qualified. He respected their decision. (Although they were voted in by unqualified people....) Anyway, he wasn't falling in line like a good little soldier following orders. He respected an order decided by a method he had approved of. If he was ordered to murder five random people or something else that didn't make sense I'm sure he would have refused. Anyway, I was in jury duty way back and reading another of Plato's books, can't remember which one. I was 3/4 through and this old English ( 800 :) teacher sitting next to me said "isn't it like listening to a bunch of old farts sitting around with a few gallons of wine arguing about nonsense". I said "no way" but couldn't read anymore without thinking she had a point. Ruined me she did. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:32:01 -0700, Dana wrote: > a bunch of nonsense that the line monster gobbled ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:146010 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
