... Quite right. I told you what his premises were. That was not enough for you. He means to convince even those to whom his rhetoric does not appeal. ... ...
* [Taffy:] You missed the *sarcasm* involved in my direction of your attention to the profound refutation of your point implicit in Churchill's actions. ...
* [Taffy:] 4) Soviet moves westward prompted the Germans to preemptively attack [the SU] in the belief that war was inevitable, whatever their own intentions. ...
JSM; I think we are bored with the Madonna:- "Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! Also for...
... intensification' demonstrates a complete lack of understanding and a poverty of culture. A little learning is a dangerous thing. You may be right. You...
johnstewartmoore wrote: You haven't made your case though, and I don't care much. Does anyone else? I forgot to mention seventh heaven. MOODY; You have...
johnstewartmoore <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: So what was Nietzsche's use of 'types'. A way of talking about Naopleon withut meaning Napleon? MOODY;...
... 'higher type'", and says that "the *type* is hereditary" [WP 684]. ... as used in Nietzsche [e.g., BGE 262]. ... popular image, but rather Napoleon as the...
johnstewartmoore wrote: I think it is a good thing that Britain has now become almost officially 'post-Christian'. MOODY; "Officially"? The Church of England...
johnstewartmoore wrote:I use the word type. MOODY; Yes but in a different sense to Nietzsche who talked of a "higher type etc.," as his texts demonstrate. To...
... now become almost officially 'post-Christian'. ... British state the last time I looked. And while most British people don't go to church [what's new?],...
... of the archaic period where a 'type' of heroic figure is portrayed, rather than a specific person. ... indeed, Alexander, for example, thought himself to...
hic niger est "Whiteness" is at the root of Nietzsche's philosophy; his 'Superman' must be understood as the ultimate 'Whiteman'. All the characteristics of...
... Whiteness is an accident of melanin. This sort of stuff is crude and offensive. Didn't Nietzsche have a lot of praise for Asia? Didn't he praise Islam...
... Your spotty "learning" is continually on display. Originally, the Sphinx was *male*. The Greeks, so profoundly indebted to Egypt, performed a sex change as...
... More myth ... http://www.nmia.com/~sphinx/egyptian_sphinx.html The name itself derives from the Greek word "sphingo," to strangle, or "sphingein," to bind...
... *Big yawn* There is an inherent level of "background noise" for each communication medium, but I'm having a hard time figuring out if this post qualifies...
... Myth? Are you denying that the face of the Great Sphinx, for several millenia anyway, is male in form? Let's stick to the facts here, please. "...In...
... Just got off the phone with an Egyptologist at UCLA. There is *no* controversy about the gender of the present form (for ~5 millenia) of the Great Sphinx:...
... come up ... To some extent a category error, but never mind. Philosophy has a way of worming its way into politics, obviously. The politician does not need...
2) Hitler refused to believe that Soviet capability was as great as reported, because he correctly believed that the Communist regime was incompetent. He did...
... A little badly digested "Platonism" above all. As a remedy, I should like to prescribe for our 'noble' male-rapist manqué(?) that he become acquainted...
* [Taffy:] Thickie-pie seems to know nothing of the demands of higher command, which involve making decisions as to the veracity and substance behind...
... of the archaic period where a 'type' of heroic figure is portrayed, rather than a specific person. Archaic period (8th to early 5th century BC) ...
For those who care, I have come up with a good definition of Nietzsche's use of his own phrase "seventh solitude"[7Sol], and also what the other "six...
johnstewartmoore wrote: Whiteness is an accident of melanin. MOODY; And some would say that life in itself is an "acccident" - so what does that prove? That...
