12-22-2011, 04:36 AM
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Dear Erthona:
I put "truth" in quotes as I meant it ironically. (Notice that I also put
"reality" in quotes as well.) "Truth" is overrated. I guess I might be more
of a Sophist (pun intended) than a Platonist. Though, since I'm non-profit,
I guess I'm more of a Socratic Sophist (no pun intended). Though if you
get right down to it, I'm a dialectical evolutionist/materialist that loves
a good dialectical discussion, but, oddly enough, one who prefers
didactic criticism.
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt!
Ha, yes! I'm about 7/8's German. The dark cosmic joke, of course, is that half
of them were Nazis or Nazi sympathizers (good Lutheran Christians all) and the
other half were German-Czech Jews. I can just imagine what the family reunions
over on the continent would have been like had any of the latter survived.
(Most of my Jewish relatives came over to the USA between 1860 and 1930.)
"The Germans now too
Have God on their side."
Oddly enough (or maybe the part of your brain that controls Freudian slips is
working overtime), rbl's poem ("August spits and holds") shares a common theme
with Dylan's "With God On Our Side".
Here's a mnemonic for anyone not acquainted:
"I've learned to hate Russians all through my whole life
If another war comes, it's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them, to run and to hide
And accept it all bravely with God on our side"
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Dear Erthona:
I put "truth" in quotes as I meant it ironically. (Notice that I also put
"reality" in quotes as well.) "Truth" is overrated. I guess I might be more
of a Sophist (pun intended) than a Platonist. Though, since I'm non-profit,
I guess I'm more of a Socratic Sophist (no pun intended). Though if you
get right down to it, I'm a dialectical evolutionist/materialist that loves
a good dialectical discussion, but, oddly enough, one who prefers
didactic criticism.
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt!
Ha, yes! I'm about 7/8's German. The dark cosmic joke, of course, is that half
of them were Nazis or Nazi sympathizers (good Lutheran Christians all) and the
other half were German-Czech Jews. I can just imagine what the family reunions
over on the continent would have been like had any of the latter survived.
(Most of my Jewish relatives came over to the USA between 1860 and 1930.)
"The Germans now too
Have God on their side."
Oddly enough (or maybe the part of your brain that controls Freudian slips is
working overtime), rbl's poem ("August spits and holds") shares a common theme
with Dylan's "With God On Our Side".
Here's a mnemonic for anyone not acquainted:
"I've learned to hate Russians all through my whole life
If another war comes, it's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them, to run and to hide
And accept it all bravely with God on our side"
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