RE: World's oldest computer may be older than previously thought

['Chris de Morsella' via Everything List]

 

 

 

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The suffering in much of western asia is elective. These guys trample over each 
others heads to get to heaven, or Janah, a paradise of girls, with wine 
drinking permitted there. Its unnecessary, but the payoff promised is far, too, 
great, to stop. Theres no incentive to stop, because jihad is the way upwards. 
They do have truces, used to re-arm, called a hudna, but its designed not to 
last. Janah is the eternal home for those loyal to Allah, so they sacrifice 
this world, for the much, better, next one.

 

That is your opinion. As someone, who, unlike you has actually visited and 
lived in that (and other) regions I see your views regarding the existential 
attitudes of other people as being stereotypical and rooted in your ignorance. 
History is long and swings back and forth on the matter of who currently holds 
the mantle of the most shocking barbarity… let us not forget the level of 
European and American brutality is quite remarkable, as evidenced by history… 
the poison gas trench warfare of WWI, the gas ovens of the Nazis, the 
fire-bombing of Dresden. That is recent… haven’t even gotten medieval on you 
yet. You should read sometimes, just how incredibly murderous and cruel some of 
our illustrious ancestors were. 



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On 12/7/2014 4:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

We are better for the survival, but we might be astonished for the quality of 
life, even of the poors. It is very hard to judge. We have much more depression 
and suicides, we have much more elderly people abandoned by their family. We 
have much more fake conviviality and superficial happiness. We have new fears 
and new subject of despair (like atomic bombs, pollution, prohibition, ...). I 
just mean that I am not completely persuaded that the technological progresses 
made us more happy.


Of course there's not much depression and suicide in Syria - because there's so 
much grief and homicide.

 

Having lived in a war zone I can affirm that the Syrian people have been deeply 
traumatized by their recent experiences. I am sure that the people of Syria are 
suffering immensely, and that they have been psychologically damaged and that 
their society will be experiencing PTSD after-shocks – resulting from the 
extreme trauma of brutal sectarian war -- for decades to come.

I feel so bad for anyone whose life becomes imprisoned in such a hell of hate 
and death that is the inevitable result of a state of war. I can close my eyes 
and still picture the soul dead eyes of the victims of war.. too numbed by 
their anguish, grief and pain to show any outward signs of life…. Their bodies 
burned, broken and maimed by the industrial scale technology of death visited 
upon them and their villages from the sky.

I am positive that there is and will be a massive uptick in clinical depression 
and other psychological trauma such as uncontrollable outbursts of PTSD driven 
rage and so forth, in Syria over the next four or five decades as a result of 
this horrible sectarian war. Even if it is not diagnosed as being clinical 
depression and remains closeted in the unreported regions of the visible 
reported society as we outsiders can view it… it is there right now latent and 
locked up in all the unbelievable grief that so many Syrians must be feeling 
right about now.

War is terrible, as anyone who has seen it (and is not a blood lusting 
psychopath) will say. War leaves behind masses of human wrecks, both physical 
wrecks, broken maimed, burned bodies.. and psychological wrecks. War is hell, 
and the costs of war continue to accrue long after the war has “ended”.

-Chris



Brent
We are all happy, if we but knew it.
      --- Dostoevski

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