Rick, Thanks for the reminder, but do you really think that my flaming an apologist for evil would be out of line? Surely, it cannot be merely the use of swear words that you're warning me about.
Additionally, I believe I laid out my reasons for why it might be a view of some heft that Curtis is, indeed, deserving my, well, let's call them for what they are: poetic words that attempts to nutshell something so wrong about a person's core POV that it amounts to being a menace to culture. My exaggerations are merely my way of showing my emotional response. Posters here often are intellectually dishonest, and my emotions are one way to snap them to attention, or at the least, underline for all here about the depth of my stance. Not that I can prove Curtis to be anything but a, well, all around good guy, but if I could, if I had more than just his weaselyassed avoidance of morality here, would you let me then? To put a harsh light on it as I'm wont to do too often, just suppose there was a headline in the Fairfield Ledger announcing the conviction of someone here for a crime we'd all consider to be repugnant. Would you allow me to flame a pedophile, a dog-fight promoter, murderer, etc.? One thing I can tell ya, Rick, I'd be putting out my best hate literature on suchlike, and be proud of it even if I got kicked out of here for doing so. What does it take to get one to start acting-out? For me, not much, but I think everyone here will act out at some point -- depending on their identification with a POV. Like my previous post, who will be able to keep their emotions hidden if someone says they'll vote for any war monger, predator, or ???? We have all prided ourselves, as Americans, that the Germans who killed the Jews were so aberrant in personality as to be labeled evil, and we imprisoned many who never actually shoved a person into a gas chamber. I was raised to feel SOOOOO superior to those Germans, and in fact, if I were to tell anyone here, even now, that I was living as a German in the town of Auschwitz, why, there'd be no end of the hatred sent my way by everyone here for the crime of my denial -- it being an enabling of the actual killers. When do we start thinking about the guards at Guantanamo and Abu Graib this way? They're just following orders, right? Same deal with Curtis and Turq refusing to discuss their own personal styles when it comes to "practical morality." It is just their attitude towards morality that allowed so many to turn a blind eye to the concentration camps. Evil is a very subtle dynamic and is not limited to actions only, but to whole cultures sometimes. What do we think of the average German in 1944 -- they supported a lot of evil, right? What do we think of clitorectomies in Arabia? We propagandize against their whole culture for this obscenity alone. Not that everything any culture does is evil, remember the Maharishi Effect -- same deal for evil -- only need the square root of one percent of the population to be evil for the whole culture to be skewed that way. Stand up and be counted folks. The powers that be have taken their stance. If you don't stand up against evil in the subtle manifestations, you're doomed to seeing the emerge as war, etc. where you WILL BE powerless to mitigate, but on individuals, you have a chance to sway them -- with reason, emotion, or, in the case of Turq, a big two-by-four across the face by an angry "traditional" father. Edg --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 9-11 -- The Inside Job was merely a blip > (snip .... thought police) > > > > On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Duveyoung wrote: > > Fuck you Curtis...Fuck you, you enabling bastard...you cowardly spin-master > for evil... your immorality...cold-heartedness... try to besmirch me and my > essay...I condemn you...evil's apologist....What a disappointment, what joke > for a personality,what a sell out... How you manage to still love anything > is astounding... > > > Still committed to elevating the dialog and cleaning up the place, I see. :) > > Careful, Edg, or Bronte might swoon when she sees your latest rap. > > Sal > > Ahem. Etiquette police here. Please tone it down a bit Edg. > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.12/1097 - Release Date: 10/28/2007 > 1:58 PM >
