Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-21 Thread nessie
-Caveat Lector- Ah, virtual slavery. We are all ANYTHING at SOME level or another. No. We are not. This is sophmore logic. We are not virtual slaves; we are slaves. Period. If you can tell someone else what to do, you're an actual slavemaster. Not necessarily. You could be merely a higher

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-21 Thread Ric Carter
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: nessie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ric carter wrote: Ah, virtual slavery. We are all ANYTHING at SOME level or another. No. We are not. This is sophmore logic. We are not virtual slaves; we are slaves. Period. Incorrect. Mistaking the virtual for

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-18 Thread Das GOAT
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-07-18 00:45:07 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But would the GOAT smoke it or eat it? Or wear it, or use it as fuel, or feed cattle with it, or apply it as fertilizer? -- if it's HEMP we're talking about here. Sure would, if not for Big Oil's anti-hemp

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-18 Thread Prudence L. Kuhn
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/17/1999 2:57:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The horror of the middle passage...the packing of human beings into the holds of ships...much of the misery associated with American-style slavery was a direct result of the American

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-18 Thread Ric Carter
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nothing in Sobran's article said that slavery was good or that anyone other than the slaves and slavers had any regard for it. Man's inhumanity to man takes many forms. Slavery does not

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread Prudence L. Kuhn
-Caveat Lector- A really interesting posting. Thanks. It lets me view Aristotle ina whole new light. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread Prudence L. Kuhn
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/17/1999 1:37:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, so because Africans enslaved each other, Americans should feel no pain about our national heritage of enslaving/slaughtering/exploiting others? Does not compute. Just because

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread Bill
-Caveat Lector- And then you have the instance of numismatic slavery whereby ALL of America is enslaved, insidiously, covertly, by a money system written from a religious sourceSLAVES OBEY YOUR MASTERSthe company store of that great Pawn Shop The Federal Reserve is nothing more than a

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread nessie
-Caveat Lector- Deepdude, You are quite shallow Now, now. Let's be civil. After all, the poor guy is just doing his job. Just because he is working against us doesn't mean he's not a fellow worker. He's just working for the wrong side, that's all. We should strive to convince him of the error

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread nessie
-Caveat Lector- The ownership of human beings also takes many forms. Slavery is just the one that can be most clearly observed. For the real bird's eye lowdown on the history of slavery in Africa, check out Dahomey. In some ways the Dahomians were ahead of their time. They had, for example,

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread William Hugh Tunstall
-Caveat Lector- Slavery was not a cultural institution unique to Africa or to the Americas. Slavery was an integral feature of the ancient world (Greece, Rome, the Assyrian Empire, the Egyptian civilizationand it was practiced by a variety of different groups throughout

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread Das GOAT
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-07-17 07:43:47 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A really interesting posting. Thanks. It lets me view Aristotle ina whole new light. You should read Aristotle's essay on "democracy" (ha) as the Greeks understood it, in which existence of a non-"citizen"

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread TenebrousT
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 7/17/99 7:49:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nothing in Sobran's article said that slavery was good or that anyone other than the slaves and slavers had any regard for it. Man's inhumanity to man takes many forms. Slavery does

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread Bill
-Caveat Lector- HEAR what the goat is saying! These days its all in the mind...its elemental...T4F...a major means of divorce (Intellectually, Spiritually, Physically) from the things that are can be accomplished by discounting and escaping the violently prevalent religious beliefs of today.

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-17 Thread Tenorlove
-Caveat Lector- --- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The total legalization of cannabis hemp will be a wonderful first step in righting the wrongs caused by forsaking that which gave us birth. I hope we still have time. But would the GOAT smoke it or eat it?

[CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-16 Thread Bard
http://www.uexpress.com/ups/opinion/column/js/text/1999/06/js9906152413.html THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY | Joseph Sobran | June 15, 1999 WASHINGTON -- Conventional textbook history teaches that white Europeans created slavery and imposed it on black Africa. This myth is designed to make white

Re: [CTRL] THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY in Nigeria - by Joseph Sobran

1999-07-16 Thread Kris Millegan
-Caveat Lector- Deepdude, You are quite shallow and your continual postings of this claptrap shows your mettle. MHO Om K In a message dated 7/16/99 8:42:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.uexpress.com/ups/opinion/column/js/text/1999/06/js9906152413.html THE LEGITIMACY OF SLAVERY |