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Skriven 2006-08-20 07:30:00 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av NATHALY BORISOVA(SJ)
Ärende: CELEBRATION!
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Hello Nathaly,

>LL>Face it, Bob.  Harry S Truman was a mass murderer.  The Japanese high
>LL>command had offered to surrender a full month *before* the atomic
>LL>bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Now please explain your logic (if
>LL>there is any) as to how those atomic bombings "probably saved a lot of
>LL>Japanese troops and civilians also." After all, hundreds of thousands
>LL>of innocent men, women and children died as a result.  And many more
>LL>died later, in great pain, from radiation poisoning.

>NB>Yes, that was.

>LL>"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon
>LL>on the Mount." - General Omar Bradley, former Army Chief of Staff

>NB>DifferAnce.Deconstruction.

>LL>"There are only two powers in the world -- the power of the sword
>LL>and the power of the spirit.  In the long run, the sword will always
>LL>be conquered by the spirit." - Napoleon

NB>Paraphrasing Joyce - is the Pen mightier than the Sword?... O, I don't know
NB>what figures of spirit are on you...Somehow I could interpret Napoleon as th
NB>General also...

Napoleon crowned himself Emperor.  :)

>NB>Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

>LL>Soit casser la pipe, ou n'est pas casser la pipe.
>LL>That is the question.  ;)

NB>But if the pipe is the same pot... I mean, play..or "copy"... Or how could
NB>know the difference between the image and "reality"?

Oh, that's easy.  Don Quixote has the answer -

"I have lived nearly 50 years, and I have seen life as it is.  Pain,
misery, hunger, ... cruelty beyond belief.  I have heard the singing
from the taverns and moans on the streets.  I have been a soldier and
seen my comrades fall in battle. ... I have held them in my arms at the
final moments.  These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died
despairingly.  No glory, no gallant last words ... only their eyes
filled with confusion, whimpering the question: Why? I do not think they
asked why they were dying, but why they had lived. Perhaps life itself
seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical
is madness.  To surrender dreams -- this may be madness. To seek
treasures where there is only trash.  Too much sanity may be madness.
And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."
- The Man of LaMancha

--Lee


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