From: tgpedersen
Message: 58736
Date: 2008-05-21
>Are you proposing we evaluate ideas according to the perceived moral
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> >
> > ===========
> >> 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
> =========
> 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. madeNo one said it was. So banning ideas is OK?
> >> 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