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"Dave Nelson" <wehicanno@spambellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<vIWB8.170979$tt4.11284907@e3500-atl2.usenetserver.com>...
> That was put forth so eloquently.  Mispelled words and all.
> 
> What caught my notice, though, was the reference to the Holocaust and guilt,
> etc.  I can understand a people's resentment to attempts at their
> extermination, and the advantages to using such to advantage.  I'm sure the
> Philistines and others would do the same if they were still around to
> enlighten the world.  Great example of using leverage.
> 
> Here is another great example of using leverage to ones advantage.
> 
> All surviving Western religions are derived from the very same event.  A
> goat herder came in from the desert one day and said God talked to him, and
> chose him and his heirs to be masters of the earth.  So this goat herder,
> with his uncommonly beautiful wife, headed for the largest kingdom around.
> When he gets there, he tells his wife "Tell them you are my sister.".  So
> she did, and because of her looks, she gets a job in the big honchos' harem.
> Understand this guy had his pick of millions.
> 
> After a period of time, the goat herder comes knocking on the Pharoah's
> door, acting all hurt that Pharoah was screwing his old lady.  Pharoah
> expressed surprise, and exclaimed that he didn't know, and why didn't he(the
> goat herder) apprise his(Pharoah's) employment agent of such.  To which the
> herder replied that he thought he would be killed.  To this Pharoah replied
> that was BS, no such thing would have happened, now he understood where the
> diseases came from, and take this money and get the hell out of my country.
> Perhaps giving wealth was cheaper than killing, or Pharoah appreciated a
> good snookering.
> 
> So this herder, with his new found and very substantial wealth, packs up and
> leaves for the next kingdom.  With his wife.
> 
> Thinking hard at how well that worked out, when they arrived at the border
> of the next kingdom he turned around to his old lady and said "Tell them you
> are my sister".
> 
> The rest is history.

Well, the rest may prove more interesting:
Up to here.... I have to say I've read
better fairy tales.
 
> Dave Nelson
 
Ricky was more likable. Sorry.

SDR 
 
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> "S D Rodrian" <sdr@sdrodrian.com> wrote in message
> news:bf7b874e.0205071122.7600c280@posting.google.com...
> > "saurus" <saurus@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> > news:<8YPB8.5322$b5.17732@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
> > > Sorry for asking,
> >
> > No need for apologies: If you do not ask
> > I will not be able to improve your ignorance.
> >
> > > but what relevance has physics.sdrodrian.com with your
> > > post?
> >
> > 1) physics.sdrodrian.com = my web site
> > 2) post authored by me = my post
> >
> > 1 + 2 = 4  (Okay, I was never good at math
> >                but please note term "my" above)
> >
> > > I am surprised as physics is a real science.
> >
> > Somebody pulling your leg (off: look around the room
> > for it... while you're searching for the comma you ate):
> >
> > Modern physics is BOTH science and delusion...
> > honesty and trickery... technology & sleigh-of-hand:
> >
> > Many people who think they're scientists speculate
> > away "their entire lives the whole day long" on what
> > physical attributes "time" might yield (when "time" only
> > has existence inside the human head and not physic-ally):
> >
> > The universe is composed of any number of (very, very
> > loosely) related individual "motions" and over the years
> > humans have gotten into the habit of "timing" one "motion"
> > against  "another motion" ... and "another motion" ... and
> > "another motion" (just to complicate matters and drive
> > each other crazy). But you can see that what significance
> > the differences in velocities between a couple of "motions"
> > here & there across the universe might have to the whole
> > universe... is rather of insignificant significance at best!
> >
> > And yet there are entire physics departments even now
> > rather unpenuriously engaged in coaxing the effects that
> > "time" may have on "space" (which is not the mere absence
> > of matter, mind you)... coaxing them out of sacred numbers
> > with all the straight-faced earnestness with which the ancient
> > Egyptian priesthood once tried to do exactly the same thing
> > and for exactly the same purpose (namely, so they wouldn't
> > have to do any "real" work in this world, God bless them).
> >
> > Some of them are actually trying to "figure" out techniques
> > for testing the pros/cons of "time-travel" when I have time
> > and time again explained to them that in a universe NOT of
> > "time" but of "motions" (that's "changes" by any other name):
> > the Past, the Present, and the Future are all Right Here Now
> > (all they are is different "con-figure-ations"). [Even the entire
> > lifetime of a hydrogen atom is ONE motion, recognized as
> > such by this definition. And "The Past" is no more than one
> > shape of the Tinkertoy bones... which, had we the memory,
> > tools, and dexterity... anybody could reproduce at any time
> > ... and thereby "travel back" TO whatever time "be wished."]
> >
> > But, no: The Great Apes of the modern physics establishment
> > yet insist on speculating over exactly how to travel back IN
> > time... in spite of the fact that all they really need to do is to
> > ask Superman to fly around the earth against its rotation and
> > BANG! fetch them a dinosaur or some other pet from the past!
> >
> > "Yes," they tell me: "But Superman isn't real, is he, old boy."
> > ... all the time by poor head goes into a spin of double-takes:
> >
> > "And TIME is?" I ask, dumbfounded... and quite dizzy.
> >
> > "Of course, old boy," they insist: "All we have to do is bend
> > space and we'll be zipping back/forth through Time in no
> > time at all, you know! Simplest thing in the world."
> >
> > "Just a matter of taking hold of space and bending it, eh?"
> > Say I.
> >
> > "Now you're hit the hammer right on the nail, old boy!"
> > Say they.
> >
> > "Say," I say: "Exactly how much are you guys pulling down
> > on this job?"
> >
> > "We'd really hate to tell you. Let's just 'say' that the pile of
> > lettuce is... bigger than a bread box. And leave it at that."
> >
> > >One can not denay law of action
> > > and reaction.
> >
> > One can denay anything one wants two.
> > (Ooooops, I misspelled a word there.)
> > As long as one is willing/able to pay the fine.
> >
> > > I am not sure you do.
> >
> > Yes. I am sure I do 2.
> >
> > > Regards
> >
> > Funny you should say that.
> > (I find humor where I find it.)
> >
> > S D Rodrian
> > poems.sdrodrian.com
> > physics.sdrodrian.com
> >
> > re:
> >
> > > "S D Rodrian" <sdr@sdrodrian.com> wrote in message
> > > news:bf7b874e.0205062153.23435c65@posting.google.com...
> > > > "John Anderson" <arar@iname.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:<ab6606$d46$00$1@news.t-online.com>...
> > > > > S D Rodrian <sdr@sdrodrian.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:bf7b874e.0205051806.17ca84a4@posting.google.com...
> > > > >
> > > > > > Truthfully, I do not know for a fact whether it is
> > > > > > the Americans or the Europeans who are better informed.
> > > > > > But I do know (for a fact) that the Holocaust WAS
> > > > > > an European and not an American phenomenon. Make of that
> > > > > > what you will.
> > > > >
> > > > > As I was still unborn when the Holocaust occurred,
> > > > > I can make very little of
> > > > > that.
> > > >
> > > > Incredible how every firstgrader on the planet
> > > > shares the identical excuse for their Fs in history!
> > > > (Upon reaching the second grade they usually
> > > > switch to: "Who killed Lincoln?" ... "I have an alibi."
> > > > Say, exactly how young are you? Oh, well... since
> > > > you may be too young to have a library card, here
> > > > are just a couple of URLs which might bring a tiny
> > > > sparkle of enlightenment into your dark little mind:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.holocaust-trc.org/samuels.htm
> > > >
> > > > http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?010312onar_on-line_gross
> > > >
> > > > > In addition I come from a country that was later specifically
> > > > > commended by the government of Israel for its impeccable WW II
>  policy
> > > > > regarding the Jews.
> > > >
> > > > Well, since the Israelis recently commended GERMANY
> > > > for facing up to its citizens' role in the Holocaust... I am
> > > > not surprised they might've also praised many other countries
> > > > ... Peru?... Uganda?... Argentina--?...
> > > >
> > > > > The Holocaust was a Nazi German-Austrian, not a European
> > > > > phenomenon.
> > > >
> > > > Millions of Polish Jews who are not here today
> > > > might disagree with you (most of them turned over
> > > > to the SS by Poles). This is also true in "most, most
> > > > liberal" France. And in Italy, most of all in Austria, no
> > > > less than in most of the low countries, and to some
> > > > extent up in your neck of the northern archipelago,
> > > > horrifically so in the EUROPEAN parts of the former
> > > > Soviet Union... where many locals actually joined
> > > > the SS in hunting down Jews--To this day many
> > > > commentators remain puzzled over what could have
> > > > kept Spain's Franco from participating/cooperating
> > > > in the European Holocaust. Frankly, I really don't know
> > > > which toilet you've managed to have lived your whole
> > > > life up to now with your head plunged into it, but... do
> > > > try to pluck it out of there: It's never too late, you know.
> > > >
> > > > > At least we Scandinavians repudiate all guilt.
> > > >
> > > > You are in good company, trust me: Most former
> > > > SS and Nazi-sympathizing Europeans found, to their
> > > > dying day, that there really was nothing to be ashamed
> > > > about... over their roles in the European Holocaust
> > > > --which apparently was all carried out by a single person:
> > > > der Fuhrer personally, and apparently with no help from
> > > > even G�ring (... well, perhaps Himmler drove the get-
> > > > away car).
> > > >
> > > >  [The story(ies) of Europeans who risked their lives
> > > >   to save handfuls of Jews here and there (very few of
> > > >   them in Germany/Austria, I'm sorry to say because I
> > > >   have some German ancestors)... stand out primarily
> > > >   for their uniqueness, their utter, utter rarity. ]
> > > >
> > > > Rather, mull this thoroughly: "All that is required for
> > > > Evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." This is,
> > > > or well damn ought to be, the best (and probably the
> > > > ONLY) argument really needed to fully explain the
> > > > 20th Century European Holocaust of Jews and others.
> > > >
> > > > > And although I'm
> > > > > no particular friend of the Teutons, I think it's about time to stop
> > > > > accusing post-war Germans of a crime that a very small fraction of
>  their
> > > > > grandfathers' generation actually committed.
> > > >
> > > > "Those who forget the lessons of history
> > > > are condemned to repeat them." --George Santayana
> > > >
> > > > > Of course the Holocaust must
> > > > > *not* be forgotten, but stop blaming a whole continent's present
>  population
> > > > > for it!
> > > >
> > > > It's always a nifty quip, yours. However, the sad truth is that
> > > > it's usually applied to those of us who raise the occasional
> > > > protest to... those who criminally claim that the Holocaust
> > > > was "just some little incident perpetrated by a couple of
> > > > bad boys--over there" (even as you yourself have now done
> > > > in this very post) or that it never really happened at all... even
> > > > when it occurred in a "modern" era when documentation was,
> > > > in historical terms as well as any other terms one would care
> > > > to frame this: staggering (and that's putting it mildly).
> > > >
> > > > S D Rodrian
> > > > poems.sdrodrian.com
> > > > physics.sdrodrian.com
> > > >
> > > > > J A'son
> > > > >
> > > > > P.S. I skipped the original subject line due to its lack of meaning
>  and
> > > > > relevance ('Finally Israel is going to kill the Palestinian
>  Authority')
> > > >
> > > > Meaning: The murdering Palestinian Authority, which
> > > > like all unrepentant murders ought to be killed.
> > > >
> > > > Relevance: I believe that's what we were talking about.
> >
> > ***