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To: DannyTN
If you are never confused, you will always be wrong. Certainty of the type that you possess is only held in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary by those that have "faith." Again, if you wish to cure yourself of this malady try Eric Hoffer's "True Believers."

Your claim that Toynbee is discredited and a "Jew Hater" because you have read one sentence about him (which you didn't understand) is clearly evidence of neurosis.

"Being well read, doesn't necessarily make you smarter. If you don't discriminate about your sources, it just makes you confused." -- DannyTN

Perhaps you get confused. Most people past the age of twelve are pretty capable of handling a diversity of opinions and information without confusion. Not so with True Believers who use mental compartmentalization in order to avoid mixing disparate facts that might lead them to doubt their faith. The mental effort (largely subconscious) required to maintain the compartments often leads to an impaired intelligence. Mixing, after all, is what intelligence is all about.

66 posted on 11/03/2003 8:04:42 AM PST by Vercingetorix
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To: Vercingetorix
"Mixing, after all, is what intelligence is all about. "

While your "mixing" you might want to try mixing in a little "discernment" in your pot.

67 posted on 11/03/2003 8:11:43 AM PST by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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