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To: savagesusie
Just a note to be fair to Ludwig Wittgenstein: I think the most we can say about his sexuality is that he was "not heterosexual." But that does not mean he was one of the flaming Cambridge gays.

John Maynard Keynes invited him to join the Cambridge Apostles, and Wittgenstein left it as soon as he perceived that it was essentially an intellectual sodomite society.

His student and later close colleague, G.E.M. Anscombe, was convinced that Wittgenstein became a strict ascetic and celibate after his military service in the First World War, when he gave away all his money (an incredible fortune, one of the largest in Europe) and rejected "luxuria" in both the sense of lust and luxury.

He was tormented by emotional attachments to certain male friends for most of his life, but as he abstained from sexual contact and self indulgence, I don't think he should be classified with a fertig pederast like Keyes.

15 posted on 08/18/2013 10:27:15 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("No one on earth has any other way left but -- upward.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Well, you are correct (again).....I was just being a little lazy. Keynes was such an evil b*stard—that to associate any name with his—unless they are as evil as an obama, Hillary or Jerry Brown—really Satanic people-—is really not fair at all.

The prevalence of homosexuality with wealth/power was the point I was trying to make. Elites were the ones who targeted the young boys—had access to the young boys. Wittgenstein and his brothers were victims, actually.

I like Wittgenstein, a lot -—his concepts on Language are brilliant (he is a true genius) and his education in Mathematics/Logic-—really appeal to me—I always thought that was why he remained a “conflicted” person— He could never eject Reason completely, and understood the perverse “feelings” in a Rational way-— unlike Keynes who embraced depravity/perverion/Satanism (irrationality).

It is said that he attempted suicide also-—but not successfully like three of his brothers. He came from a very dysfunctional family—maybe because of extreme wealth. They always become targets of evil people.....who flock around money, power and boys.


19 posted on 08/18/2013 9:32:55 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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