On May 3, 5:45 pm, TheInquirer <alw...@ask.questions> wrote:
> On 4/05/2012 5:32 AM,
bmo...@nyx.net wrote:
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> > On May 3, 12:02 pm, TheInquirer<alw...@ask.questions> wrote:
> >> On 4/05/2012 1:03 AM,
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> >>> On May 2, 10:09 pm, TheInquirer<alw...@ask.questions> wrote:
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> >>>> have you considered looking at things from their point of view?
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> >>>> have you considered how the American maddafakkas (esp. the government
> >>>> and CIA) appear from Iranian and North Korean point of view?
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> >>> Yes. They're not realistic.
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> >> so this is a point of view of ... you from their point of view
> >> or is this a point of view from your point of view of your point of view
> >> of them? i'm a little confused here.
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> > My POV is that they are crazy, so their POV is invalid.
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> so you use your POV to invalidate their POV? aren't you thinking like
> the Baldeagle? don't you have a better i-piss-them-all-logical basis?
If my POV is incorrect, then I will be wrong. Some things really are
true.
> >> When asked about his golf score, Kim Jong
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> >>> Il used to say that it was 18 - a hole in one on every hole.
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> >> a hole in one on every hole is not possible?
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> > Every time? No one in the history of golf has had a hole in one on
> > every hole.
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> But Kim Jong used-to-be-Ill-but-now-Dead could!!! hey! maybe he used
> my maths?!? casting out nines?
Yes, that's a very useful golf trick. As long as long as your score is
a multiple of 9 it is zero. I guess he left a few nines so that he
didn't look silly :-)
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> >>> Iranian president denies that the Holocaust happened.
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> >> what if the Holocaust never really happened?
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> > You could say that about anything. Japan never really tried to
> > subjugate Asia. The Rape of Nanking is a myth.
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> if anybody could say that about anything, then what is the truth?
> who determines the truth?
There's no "who" to determine the truth for everyone. But there is a
truth.
> > I am certain that both the Holocaust and the Rape of Nanking really
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> >> truth is socially
> >> constructed, right? history is written by the victors, right?
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> > There is still a real history of what really happened, even if it is
> > elusive. There is a real truth that reasonable people (if any exist)
> > could agree on. All the revisionism is post-processing distortion.
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> how are these different from pre-processing distortion?
Interesting point. Bottom line, the truth is elusive.
> >> what about the Red Indian holocaust, and the Australian Aborigine
> >> holocaust? why nobody seems to talk about them?
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> > Maybe because they were further in the past. They were bad, too.
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> > Anyway, some governments are crazy, and they are very hard to deal
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> and what if the actions of these "very hard to deal with" governments
> are the product of the actions of your own "very hard to deal with"
> government?
It depends if the actions are reasonable. If I say hello to someone
and he yells at me, one could say my action precipitated his but since
my action was reasonable the blame lies not with me.
There are 2 parties in every discussion, but there is such a thing as
an very unreasonable person that it hard for a reasonably reasonable
person to deal with.
The US and China have their agendas, but they realize that they have
to show some respect to the other side. The kooks don't seem to
understand this.