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To: the long march; Borges
hmm, I'll respond one more time.

At least I know that you protect yourself from anything that is perceived by you as eveil and bad... As I recall folks used to burn books they didn’t agree with.

With all due respect, you are being intellectually dishonest. I have a right to my reading preferences and standards. This does not mean I believe others are not entitled to theirs.

I think it's vital for people to read modern writers such as Nietzsche to better analyze the amount of damage "thinkers" like him have wrought upon the human mind and soul, not to mention upon civilization as a whole.

Your implied accusation can be likened to the lies people spread about Palin, saying she banned books from her local library.

46 posted on 03/05/2010 2:33:23 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege (When I survey the wondrous cross...)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I wasn’t making the accusations the other poster is making but I will say that your take on Nietzsche is sort of a popular misconception. He was descrbing what he saw as the contemporary condition not advocating. He was also writing in parables so you can’t take everything literally. Not to mention the fact that a lot what people used to think was Nietzsche was actually his vile sister’s forgeries.


49 posted on 03/05/2010 3:00:00 PM PST by Borges
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Oh please. You protesteth too much.

You are the one who started by giving a very forceful opinion about works you had not read. That is the height of intellectual dishonesty. You formed your opinions based on some ethereal version of what you think Lewis Carroll’s works are about.

You would not answer direct questions. And then to compare yourself to Sarah Palin —— too over the top.

Sit down before you hurt yourself


69 posted on 03/08/2010 12:17:01 PM PST by the long march
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