From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58734
Date: 2008-05-21
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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>> Cybalist should rule out any mail talking about or hinting at OIT,
>> which has the same level of junk status as
>> Atlantide, or the Martians building Egyptian Pyramids,
>> There is a rule precluding pseudo-science
>> OIT falls in that category,
>
>In what sense? I can see that it's either OIT or AIT, no third option
>is possible, or linguistics doesn't matter, but why ban one possible
>option beforehand?
> Torsten
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Indeed, we have a lot of hypotheses about PIE origin,
Some of them obviously clash with evidence and data,
For example,
- the north Pole,
- Egypt
- a Paleolithic (-35 000) expansion in Europe
- OIT
We need not discuss or hear about these ones.
Especially if the propagators of these theories are highly unrecommendable
persons.
Arnaud
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>> As regards the word Nazis, Haven't you noticed that M. K.P. made a
>> clear pledge to burn all western people, whom he considers as
>> racist, colonialist, etc without any distinction.
>>
>Are you sure that's the comparison you want to use? The Nazis also
>burned those books which contained ideas they didn't like.
>Torsten
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I think that killing and burning people is a much more serious action
than burning books
even though I _also_ disagree with intellectual and cultural "mutilations",
like autodafes or bombing out buddhist statues in Alghanistan.
It's not the same thing to slap somebody in the face or cut his hand,
and it's not the same to burn somebody or to burn a thing.
Arnaud
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